Chapter Summaries

Rodney built Aviledon into a prosperous arms hub while Ace rose to command in the Whitebeard Pirates, and the approaching Summit War loomed over his plans. The chapter ended with Revolutionary Army leader Monkey D. Dragon meeting Rodney and praising his leadership.

• Rodney refused Whitebeard's offer to become his son, and Ace left with the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Rodney completed the Weapons Factory, bound its scientists to secrecy, and expanded AK production and sales through Doflamingo and Tesoro.
• Rodney built connections in the underworld over six months as Ace became the Whitebeard Pirates' Second Division Commander.
• Sabo and Koala arrived in Aviledon with Dragon, who went to meet Rodney while they explored the city.
• Dragon greeted Rodney and said Aviledon's residents praised him as a true leader.

Dragon visited Aviledon to buy weapons from Rodney, who offered them at cost and gave him a ledger identifying warmongering arms buyers. Dragon also warned Rodney that Isabella was spying for the World Government, but Rodney revealed that he already knew and proposed putting on a show.

• Dragon praised Rodney for creating a peaceful, prosperous home where children could smile.
• Rodney agreed to sell weapons to Dragon at cost because Garp had treated him well, and Robin brought Dragon a ledger of the company's customers.
• Rodney explained that the ledger marked the butchers who started wars, giving Dragon targets for the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon thanked Rodney and warned him that Isabella was a spy notifying the World Government of Dragon's arrival.
• Rodney said he already knew Isabella's identity and suggested they put on a show.

Isabella reported that Rodney had contact with Dragon and was ordered to get closer to him to gather intelligence. After Rodney staged a bitter dispute with Dragon and Robin, he asked Isabella for advice on how to make Robin feel better.

• Isabella told her contact that Rodney trusted her and had taken an interest in her, and agreed to become his woman if she got the chance.
• Rodney argued with Dragon over weapon prices, while Robin urged him to offer a discount; Rodney insulted them both and the deal fell apart.
• Isabella watched the argument without revealing herself, then entered Rodney’s room with financial statements showing possible theft at Aviledon First Hospital.
• Rodney ordered Isabella to investigate the hospital’s suspected embezzlers and send the guilty to labor reform or execute them.
• Rodney asked Isabella how to comfort Robin, and she suggested buying her something she liked or asking Lester to cook her a meal.

Dragon secretly arranged for Rodney to supply the Revolutionary Army with weapons and a valuable roster, while publicly pretending their negotiations had failed. A month later, after hearing that Teach had killed a Whitebeard Pirates division commander and fled, Rodney took Robin to seek a Poneglyph and promised to protect her.

• Dragon laughed after returning to the ship and told Sabo and Koala that Rodney had secretly sold the Revolutionary Army weapons at cost and given them a roster of their enemies.
• Dragon explained that he and Rodney had staged their dispute to avoid drawing the World Government's suspicion, and he told Sabo and Koala to collect the supplies.
• Dragon warned Sabo and Koala to treat Rodney as a friend while remaining cautious, then said he would return to the East Blue.
• A month later, Rodney learned that Marshall D. Teach had killed a Whitebeard Pirates division commander and fled, while Ace pursued him.
• Rodney told Robin he would take her to a Poneglyph, and she agreed to go with him after he promised to protect her.

Rodney took Robin to Demon Valley Town to recruit a skilled sniper and gather Mission Points by wiping out its pirates. After his clones cleared the town, he found a wounded pirate with the Blocker Fruit and waited for its power to reappear in an apple.

• Rodney visited Shakky, learned that Straw Hat Luffy had entered the Grand Line and was in Alabasta, and left for Demon Valley Town with Robin.
• Rodney and Robin crossed the sea with a Sea King towing their boat and reached Jaya Island after half a month.
• Rodney created Shadow Clones that spread through Demon Valley Town and killed its pirates, then burned their bodies in the central plaza.
• A Shadow Clone brought Rodney a pirate who had ambushed and defeated one of his clones, and Rodney identified him as the Blocker Fruit user.
• Rodney placed an apple on the wounded pirate's chest and waited for the Blocker Fruit to transfer into it.

Rodney recruited Van Augur and prepared to reach Sky Island to defeat Enel for his Jonin promotion mission. He summoned the giant eagle Haster and flew upward with Robin, leaving Jaya Island behind as they began their ascent.

• Rodney defeated the pirates in Demon Valley Town, recruited Van Augur by force, and announced his plan to reach the Golden Land in the sky.
• The Jonin Exam began, tasking Rodney with defeating Enel and offering powerful rewards, including a random Tailed Beast if he won within three hours.
• Rodney bought Uchiha Sasuke's eagle summoning contract and summoned Haster, confirming that the giant eagle could carry him and Robin to Sky Island.
• Rodney summoned Haster again, carried Robin onto its back, and began flying upward from Jaya Island.
• Robin leaned against Rodney during the ascent and reflected that choosing him had been the right decision.

Rodney and Robin reached Sky Island and found the ruined city of Shandora, where Robin headed to investigate its history and the Poneglyph beneath the Golden Bell. Rodney stayed behind to confront Enel, who arrived to punish the intruders.

• Rodney and Robin entered Sky Island through Heaven's Gate after paying Amazon the entrance fee, then rode an Express Shrimp to the upper island.
• Rodney led Robin through Angel Island to the ruins of Shandora and said the records she sought lay beneath the Golden Bell.
• Robin went ahead to examine the city while Rodney stayed behind after sensing someone approaching.
• Enel arrived and threatened Rodney, who entered Sage Mode and challenged the Sky Island god.

Rodney used Armament Haki and Sage Mode to injure Enel, who had believed his Logia body made him untouchable. Enel continued attacking as Rodney summoned Big Slug Sister to supply Natural Energy for an ongoing fight.

• Enel offered Rodney a chance to attack, but Rodney struck him with an Armament Haki-coated punch and sent him crashing through Shandora’s ruins.
• Enel recovered, questioned how Rodney had touched him, and learned that Haki could counter Logia abilities.
• Rodney attacked Enel with Huazhou, Sage Art: Lightning Release: Divine Lightning Armor, and a Great Fireball Jutsu while Enel tried to evade and retaliate.
• Rodney summoned Big Slug Sister, who climbed onto his back and began absorbing Natural Energy to help him maintain Sage Mode.

Rodney and Enel fought across Skypiea, trading Haki, lightning, and Sage Art attacks as Enel insisted he was a god. After Enel blasted Rodney and Big Slug Sister’s clone away, Rodney healed with Creation Rebirth and challenged him to keep fighting.

• Enel struck his Thunder Drum to send a thunderbird and a thunder beast at Rodney, who cut them down and used shadow clones to confuse Enel.
• Rodney attacked Enel with Sage Art techniques, while Enel countered with a Thunder Dragon and a 100 Million Volt discharge.
• Rodney used Lightning Release Chakra Mode and Earth Release to evade Enel, then burst from underground with clones to attack him at close range.
• Enel transformed into lightning and exploded, blasting Rodney away and destroying Big Slug Sister’s clone.
• Rodney activated Creation Rebirth to heal his wounds, rejected Enel’s claim to godhood, and challenged him to continue the fight.

Enel unleashed his strongest lightning attacks, but Rodney awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan while protecting Robin and used Susanoo to defeat him. Enel lay battered in a crater, unable to believe that Rodney had overcome him.

• Enel transformed into the Thunder God and unleashed Maxim Lightning across Shandora.
• Rodney rushed through the lightning, found Robin sheltering in a house, and shielded her from the attack.
• Rodney awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and summoned Susanoo to protect himself and Robin.
• Rodney used Amaterasu and his right-eye ability against Enel, then blocked Maxim Lightning with Susanoo.
• Rodney infused Susanoo’s sword with Senjutsu Chakra and battered Enel until he returned to human form and collapsed in a crater.

Rodney defeated Enel but collapsed after awakening and overusing his Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving Robin worried about the risk of blindness. While Rodney rested, Robin reached the Poneglyph beneath the Golden Bell and discovered it recorded information about Poseidon.

• Rodney beheaded Enel, and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s power failed to reincarnate in the apple he had set aside.
• Rodney completed his promotion mission, became a Jonin, and summoned Big Slug Sister, then collapsed from Chakra exhaustion after using the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Big Slug Sister warned Robin that continued Mangekyō Sharingan use could make Rodney blind unless he obtained the Eternal Mangekyō or stopped using the power.
• Robin felt regretful about Rodney’s injuries and asked Big Slug Sister how he could obtain the Eternal Mangekyō; she explained that it usually required a sibling’s Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Big Slug Sister helped Robin reach the Poneglyph beneath the Golden Bell, where Robin found a record concerning Poseidon and noticed a line of tiny writing below it.

Robin and Rodney left Sky Island after hearing Shandora’s Golden Bell ring, but their descent brought them to the Straw Hat Pirates’ ship. Rodney recognized Zoro and asked whether Nami was aboard.

• Robin deciphered that Roger’s words suggested the Poneglyphs’ information led to Laugh Tale, then used her powers to ring the Golden Bell.
• Big Slug Sister left after handing the unconscious Rodney to Robin, and Robin cared for him until he woke a day later.
• Rodney ate a Chakra Fruit to recover enough strength to summon Hastur, then he and Robin flew down from Sky Island.
• As Rodney weakened and Hastur’s contract grew unstable, Robin spotted a ship and guided Hastur toward it.
• Zoro mistook the newcomers for possible enemies, while Rodney recognized the Straw Hat Pirates’ ship and asked if Nami was aboard.

Rodney returned to the Going Merry after an exhausting battle and fell asleep, leaving Robin to explain his condition to the Straw Hat Pirates. Chopper examined him and confirmed that rest and nourishment were all he needed.

• Haster landed on the Going Merry, and Robin brought Enel aboard while Rodney followed before Haster vanished.
• Rodney told Robin he needed to sleep, and she asked the crew for a room for him.
• Robin recognized Sanji as Reiju’s brother and told him that Reiju was with their captain in Aviledon.
• Nami came out angrily, recognized Rodney, and ordered Zoro to take him to an empty room and Sanji to fetch Chopper and Luffy.
• Chopper examined Rodney and found no serious injuries, only weakness from exhaustion, and said he would recover with rest and nourishment.

Rodney recovered aboard the Straw Hat Pirates' ship after exhausting himself in a fight, while Luffy repeatedly challenged him. The crew reached Jaya, and after Rodney regained his strength, the others urged him to accept Luffy's challenge.

• Luffy woke Rodney by demanding a fight, so Rodney blasted him into the sea with a Water Dragon Bullet and Zoro rescued him.
• Robin told Nami that Rodney had praised her navigation skills, and Nami explained how his desalination technology had earned him a good reputation in Alabasta.
• Robin warned the Straw Hat Pirates that the New World was full of powerful dangers as their ship arrived at Jaya Island's Demon Valley Town.
• Robin called Van Augur over, and he boarded the Straw Hat Pirates' ship while Blackbeard Teach avoided confronting Rodney.
• After resting for two days and one night, Rodney recovered and ate Sanji's cooking; Robin and Nami encouraged him to accept Luffy's challenge.

Rodney tested Luffy and Zoro in combat aboard the Going Merry, defeating them quickly and explaining that Haki could hurt Devil Fruit users. He refused to teach Luffy Haki but told him to seek out his own teacher at Sabaody Archipelago, leaving Luffy determined to reach the New World.

• Luffy attacked Rodney with his Gomu Gomu no Gatling and Gomu Gomu no Ono, but Rodney dodged and knocked him into the sea with Armament Haki.
• Zoro challenged Rodney, who disarmed him with Shusui and gave him the Good Fast Sword Fifty Work Flower Continent.
• Rodney explained Armament Haki to Luffy and the crew after Luffy asked how he had been hurt.
• Luffy demanded that Rodney teach him Haki, but Rodney refused and warned him that the New World was too dangerous for him and his crew.
• Rodney told Luffy to find the old man who had taught him Haki at Sabaody Archipelago, while Luffy insisted he would go to the New World.

Rodney urged the Straw Hat crew to replace the Going Merry’s weak materials before sailing into the New World, and Iceburg proposed a complete overhaul that preserved the ship’s structure. The crew accepted after Usopp was persuaded, while Rodney settled in Water Seven to recover and considered using his Mangekyo to control Hashirama Cells.

• Rodney warned Luffy and the Straw Hat crew that the Going Merry’s ordinary materials could not withstand the New World and recommended a shipyard he knew.
• Luffy and Usopp insisted they would not abandon the Going Merry, and Luffy said they would sail her to the end.
• Iceburg offered to replace every hull material while preserving the Going Merry’s overall structure, and Usopp eventually accepted the overhaul.
• Nami bargained with Iceburg until the crew secured the work at almost cost price.
• Rodney found a house to recuperate in and wondered whether his Mangekyo could keep Hashirama Cells from consuming his body.

After Robin was captured and taken to Enies Lobby, Rodney summoned and controlled the Three-Tails, Isobu, to race across the sea and catch up with the Straw Hats. He headed for Enies Lobby determined to rescue Robin and punish anyone who had harmed her.

• Chopper told Rodney that Robin had been captured by Galley-La shipwrights and that Luffy and the others had already taken the sea train to Enies Lobby.
• Rodney summoned the rampaging Three-Tails, Isobu, and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to bring it under control.
• Rodney and Chopper rode Isobu across the sea toward Enies Lobby, following the sea train's route.
• Rodney told Chopper that he would kill anyone who had harmed Robin, despite the risk to his Shichibukai position.
• Chopper mentioned that a captured pervert had also been taken to Enies Lobby, and Rodney suspected it was Franky but remained focused on rescuing Robin.

Rodney sealed Isobu inside himself with Adamantine Sealing Chains and the Eight Trigrams Seal, becoming the Three-Tails Jinchuriki and gaining a powerful tailed-beast form with Ice Release. He raced toward the Justice Tower with Chopper and announced that he planned to destroy Enies Lobby, while Luffy and the others remained determined to rescue Robin.

• Rodney used Sage Mode to locate Robin in the Justice Tower and found Luffy and the others across the waterfall.
• Rodney bound Isobu with Adamantine Sealing Chains, sealed the Three-Tails inside himself, and awakened its Chakra cloak and Ice Release.
• Rodney grabbed Chopper with a Chakra arm and raced toward the Justice Tower, warning that he would destroy the island.
• Chopper landed among the Straw Hat Pirates and told them that Rodney had become a monster and intended to destroy Enies Lobby.
• Nami urged Luffy and the others to leave, but Luffy insisted they see their rescue mission through, and Sanji reaffirmed that he wanted to save Robin.

Rodney arrived at Enies Lobby to rescue Robin and confronted Rob Lucci and CP9. After freeing Robin from her Seastone Handcuffs, he prepared to settle the score with her captors.

• Rodney's ice wolves attacked Rob Lucci and Kalifa as Robin recognized that he had come for her.
• Rodney revealed himself, reunited with Robin, and told her he would punish her for leaving after dealing with CP9.
• Rob Lucci warned Rodney that the World Government would strip him of his Shichibukai title, but Rodney declared that everyone who saw him there would die.
• Rob Lucci tried to seize Robin as a hostage, but Rodney moved her to his side before Lucci could reach her.
• Rodney used coral-shaped Chakra to unlock Robin's Seastone Handcuffs and turned to confront CP9.

Rodney defeated Rob Lucci, learned that Spandam had ordered Robin’s capture, and reassured Robin that he could protect her from the Buster Call. He demonstrated his new Three-Tails power by destroying the Justice Tower and much of Enies Lobby before leaving with Robin and Franky.

• Rodney used his Mangekyō Sharingan to make Rob Lucci reveal that Spandam had ordered Robin’s capture and was in the Justice Tower.
• Rodney learned Robin had left because she feared the Buster Call, then promised he would protect her and explained that he had become a Three-Tails jinchūriki.
• Rodney controlled Rob Lucci and sent him to release Franky, who was being held captive.
• At the seaside, Rodney transformed into the Three-Tails and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at the Justice Tower.
• The blast destroyed the Justice Tower and engulfed Enies Lobby, while Rodney shielded Robin and caught Franky before carrying them out to sea.