Chapter Summaries

Sengoku weighed the risks of recruiting from the Land of Grass and praised Hiruzen, Danzo, Homura, and Lady Koharu as new Navy talents before assigning Kuzan a plan to sow discord. At the Land of Grass Navy’s live-combat training, Kusana introduced an unexpected group from Navy Headquarters led by a cigar-smoking figure who greeted Kuzan.

• Sengoku decided that Navy Headquarters should be cautious about poaching recruits from the Land of Grass and admired the four former Konoha leaders Danzo had recruited.
• Sengoku told Kuzan to carry out the next stage of the plan to sow discord.
• Kusana inspected the Land of Grass Navy’s assembled recruits and praised Kuzan for training them well.
• Kusana told Kuzan that a senior had come to help with the live-combat training and summoned a group in Navy Headquarters uniforms.
• A cigar-smoking figure at the head of the group approached Kuzan and greeted him after a long time.

Kuzan joined the Land of Grass Navy as its Fleet Admiral and sailed with its recruits on their first open-sea operation, while Smoker questioned his loyalties and asked about Navy Headquarters’ plans. Kuzan told Smoker to stay out of the operation, but the fleet stopped to camp with several hundred kilometers still to go.

• The Land of Grass Navy set sail on its first open-sea operation, accompanied by Kuzan, Smoker, and Tashigi aboard a Navy Headquarters warship.
• Smoker confronted Kuzan about joining the Land of Grass, and Kuzan hinted that his reasons were already known to the people who needed to know.
• Smoker explained that cooperation with the Land of Grass could help Loguetown and nearby islands, and Kuzan told him to do as he pleased while reminding him to follow his justice.
• Smoker asked about Navy Headquarters’ plans and whether to report the King of the Land of Grass, but Kuzan said the operation concerned a search for Sky Island and ordered him not to intervene.
• A Marine reported that the Land of Grass Navy had decided to camp despite being three islands, and several hundred kilometers, from their destination.

Kusana’s group searched for the Knock Up Stream while Kusana tried to recruit Nami to the Land of Grass, and Tobirama questioned whether the Grass Ninja Navy could withstand the Navy. Meanwhile, Kuzan and Smoker found a newly built fortress where the Grass Ninja Navy had stopped, and Kuzan demanded to know why they were there.

• Kusana’s group reached the sea region where the Knock Up Stream was supposed to appear, but the sea remained calm and Nami complained about being made to search for it.
• Kusana offered to fund Nami’s dream of drawing a nautical chart, prompting Nami, Vivi, and Robin to suspect he was trying to trick her.
• Tobirama asked whether Kusana feared the Navy would destroy the Grass Ninja Navy, and Kusana replied that Tobirama did not understand Grass Ninja.
• Kuzan and Smoker arrived at the Grass Ninja Navy’s station and saw a crude fortress that a Navy soldier claimed had appeared moments earlier.
• Kuzan wondered whether the Grass Ninja Navy had uncovered his secret mission, then asked why they had stopped there.

Kuzan questioned why the Land of Grass Navy had stopped short of its target, then discovered they had already devised a cautious plan and captured the pirate captain. The chapter left him baffled when the soldiers claimed their ruthless tactics came from the Spirit of Grass and said he had not studied it deeply enough.

• Kuzan found the Land of Grass Navy setting up camp before reaching their destination and challenged them about delaying their mission.
• The soldiers explained that they feared an ambush and refused to rely on Iron Body alone, citing the dangers of pirates and possible spies.
• The Land of Grass Navy revealed plans to infiltrate the pirates, capture their captain, threaten the crew, and use advanced weapons if needed.
• A Den Den Mushi call confirmed that the soldiers had already captured the pirate captain, stunning Kuzan and Colonel Smoker.
• The soldiers told Kuzan their tactics came from the Spirit of Grass and insisted he had not studied the book deeply enough.

While undercover as a Marine Admiral, Kuzan watched the Land of Grass Marines capture the Prisoner Pirate Group through an unorthodox operation, then learned the fight had disrupted the Navy's original plan. He left the chapter suspecting that the Marines had read a different version of Spirit of Grass than he had.

• A Land of Grass warship dragged the Prisoner Pirate Group's captain behind it while a Marine taunted the pirates pursuing them.
• Kuzan denied training the Marines to fight this way, while Issho and Kisame Hoshigaki refused to interfere and Kisame insisted the tactics matched Spirit of Grass.
• The Land of Grass Marines quickly captured the pirate crew, seized its wealth, and planned to exchange the captain for his bounty.
• The Marines credited Kuzan with teaching them their methods, and he told them not to claim he had taught them this.
• Kuzan reported to the Navy that the pirate group had already been defeated, disrupting the original plan involving the Donquixote Family and Beasts Pirates.
• Kuzan blamed his underestimation on the Marines' Spirit of Grass and wondered whether they had read a different version.

Fleet Admiral Sengoku considered denying the Land of Grass Navy its bounty money until Danzo persuaded him that paying them could help turn pirates against the Land of Grass. Meanwhile, Kusana and his crew spotted an updraft that could lead to Sky Island, and Madara carried their boat into the sky with Susanoo.

• Fleet Admiral Sengoku learned from Kuzan that the Land of Grass Navy had captured pirates and planned to claim their bounties, and he considered forbidding the Navy Branches from paying them.
• Danzo invoked Konoha's destruction to explain his hatred of the Grass bandits, then argued that bounty money could lure the Land of Grass into conflict with pirates.
• Fleet Admiral Sengoku agreed to seek the Gorosei's instructions about allowing or raising the bounties, while Danzo prepared another plan to divide the Land of Grass and the pirates.
• Kusana sensed that he might soon get rich just as a powerful updraft appeared, and Nami recognized it as a possible route to Sky Island.
• Kusana asked Madara to use Susanoo to carry the boat into the sky, prompting Nami to complain that he could have done so earlier.

Kusana and Robin finished stripping the Golden Land while Gan Fall warned them about Enel’s power. Madara and the others defeated Enel with ease, and Gan Fall offered to lead them to the rest of Enel’s gold.

• Robin and Kusana surveyed the ruined Golden Land as Robin used her powers to move its gold into Obito’s space.
• Kusana dismissed Robin’s concerns about Enel, and Gan Fall emerged from the sky to warn that the Thunder God was overwhelmingly powerful.
• Kusana took Nami’s sack of gold and claimed he would keep it safe for her, then asked Gan Fall to repeat his warning.
• Madara, Hashirama, and their companion landed after defeating Enel, whom Madara said could not break Hashirama’s Wood Release.
• Gan Fall silently regarded the unconscious Enel, then offered to show Kusana and the others where Enel had hidden more gold.

After taking Sky Island and the Ark Maxim, Kusana learned that the Land of Grass Navy’s training had captured a slave ship tied to Donquixote Doflamingo and claimed a bounty for one of his men. Kusana decided the Donquixote Family would pay for challenging the Land of Grass, while Sengoku’s attempt to recruit Doflamingo into a plan against Kaido was derailed when Doflamingo learned the Land of Grass had declared war.

• Kusana and his companions secured Enel and the Ark Maxim, and Gan Fall became governor of Sky Island under the Land of Grass.
• Nami complained about Kusana taking her money, while Vivi said Kusana only liked married women.
• Robin told Kusana the Land of Grass Navy had captured a Donquixote Family slave ship, killed an officer, and been refused a bounty because the family was a Shichibukai force.
• Kusana said the Donquixote Family would have to suffer for taking the Land of Grass’s Devil Fruit and bounty.
• Sengoku tried to persuade Doflamingo to help draw the Beasts Pirates into a conflict, but Doflamingo told him the Land of Grass had already declared war.
• Doflamingo cursed the Land of Grass after Sengoku hung up on him.

Doflamingo learned that the Land of Grass had destroyed his pirate crew and killed Gladius, and he prepared the Donquixote Family for a confrontation. Meanwhile, Trafalgar Law arrived to offer help against the Donquixote Family, but the Land of Grass Navy focused on the fact that he was a pirate.

• Trebol told Doflamingo that Gladius had been sacrificed, the crew had been wiped out, and the Land of Grass had taken the plunder and the Slippery-Slippery Fruit.
• Doflamingo suspected Navy Headquarters had set up the encounter, but Trebol said the Land of Grass had ignored their warnings and captured the family’s negotiators.
• Doflamingo ordered the World Government to address the trouble and told the family to seal off Dressrosa and prepare for battle.
• Trafalgar Law arrived at the Land of Grass Navy fleet and offered to help destroy the Donquixote Family.
• The Land of Grass soldiers learned that Law was captain of the Heart Pirates, called him another Shichibukai, and treated him with disgust.

The Land of Grass rejected Trafalgar Law’s attempt to share intelligence about the Donquixote Family and sent him away for forced labor, while the Navy plotted to use Doflamingo’s likely death to provoke a war with the Beasts Pirates. The chapter ended with Danzō and three others aboard a Navy ship bound for the New World, uncertain what to do next.

• A Grass ninja dismissed Trafalgar Law’s request to meet Leader Mang and dragged him off to be sent to the East Blue for reform and brick-hauling.
• Kuzan warned the King of the Land of Grass about Donquixote Doflamingo’s importance, but the King repeatedly compared the danger to a Celestial Dragon’s death and told Kuzan he had spoken too much.
• At Navy Headquarters, Sakazuki berated Sengoku over the trouble surrounding the Land of Grass and Doflamingo.
• Danzō proposed letting Doflamingo die, or making it appear that the Land of Grass had killed him, to provoke the Beasts Pirates into fighting the Land of Grass.
• Sengoku deferred the decision to the World Government and suggested Danzō could be promoted to vice admiral.
• The next morning, Danzō and three others sailed from Marineford toward the New World, and one man asked Danzō what they should do.

As Doflamingo prepared Dressrosa for the Land of Grass’s attack, he sought help from Kaido and the World Government, making costly promises to secure their support. He then learned that the Land of Grass’s king had answered Caesar Clown’s Den Den Mushi and was already sinking Caesar into the sea.

• Doflamingo rallied Dressrosa’s citizens against the Land of Grass while privately worrying about its power.
• Doflamingo agreed to deliver five times the goods to Kaido, who demanded the scientist behind him and threatened to take him after Dressrosa fell.
• Trebol told Doflamingo that Navy Headquarters had sent a fleet led by Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Homura, and Utatane Koharu.
• Doflamingo called Caesar Clown and demanded Artificial Devil Fruit materials and a newly developed large-scale weapon.
• The Land of Grass’s king answered Caesar’s Den Den Mushi and told Doflamingo that Caesar was getting sunk into the sea.

On Punk Hazard, Kusana’s forces captured Caesar Clown and Kuzan chose to remain with the Land of Grass as Smoker departed with the rescued children. Robin revealed that Navy Headquarters had sent Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu, leaving the ninja speechless.

• Kusana’s Grass Navy reported that Caesar Clown was still alive, and Caesar tried to bargain for his life by offering his scientific research.
• The Grass ninja extracted a Devil Fruit from Caesar and removed his head to claim his bounty.
• Smoker told Kuzan that Navy Headquarters wanted them to put the bigger picture first, and Kuzan told him he was now the Land of Grass’s Fleet Admiral.
• Smoker left with the children and Marines, while Vigo remained tied up behind on Punk Hazard.
• Robin revealed that Navy Headquarters had sent Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu, prompting a stunned silence.

Kuzan spoke with Sengoku about the Navy’s mission and then joined the Land of Grass crew as they relaxed aboard ship, despite the coming battle. In Dressrosa, Doflamingo struggled with the loss of Caesar and Vigo until Trebol reported that Navy reinforcements had arrived, prompting him to welcome them.

• Kuzan told Sengoku that the Land of Grass knew the Navy was sending reinforcements, and Sengoku ordered him to secretly assist Danzo and the other major generals.
• Kuzan asked whether the four major generals might be Land of Grass spies, but Sengoku dismissed the suspicion and warned him to remain vigilant.
• Kuzan found Kusana relaxing aboard the ship while Nami and the Alabasta princess danced, and he eventually joined them after Kusana pointed out that Doflamingo should be the one worried.
• Doflamingo realized that losing Caesar and Vigo had jeopardized his production promises to Kaido and feared the Beasts Pirates’ reaction.
• Trebol told Doflamingo that the Navy reinforcements had reached Dressrosa’s port, and Doflamingo ordered that they be welcomed.

Hiruzen, Danzo, Homura, and Koharu met Doflamingo in Dressrosa, where his plan to involve the Beasts Pirates had run into trouble because of Kuzan. As Danzo offered a plan to Doflamingo, Kuzan received a call from him requesting help with an important mission.

• Violet welcomed Hiruzen, Danzo, Homura, and Koharu to Dressrosa and escorted them to Doflamingo’s palace.
• Doflamingo told the four Rear Admirals that he had drawn the Beasts Pirates into the conflict, but Kuzan’s actions had caused an accident.
• Doflamingo demanded that the World Government send a large force and threatened to reveal its secrets if it abandoned him.
• Danzo stepped forward and told Doflamingo that he had a plan.
• Kuzan answered a call from Danzo, who identified himself as a newly promoted Rear Admiral and asked Kuzan to assist Doflamingo.

Kuzan relayed Shimura Danzō’s plan for the Donquixote Family to pay the Land of Grass to keep Punk Hazard’s secrets, and the King of the Land of Grass negotiated the price up to six billion Beli. Doflamingo agreed to pay but then asked Danzo for another solution because the family could not raise the money quickly.

• Doflamingo told Kuzan that Navy Rear Admiral Shimura Danzō had proposed paying the Land of Grass to keep Punk Hazard from being exposed.
• Danzo took over the call and persuaded Kuzan to ask the King of the Land of Grass about the deal while he was undercover.
• The King of the Land of Grass rejected Doflamingo’s offer of one billion Beli and demanded at least five billion, refusing to return Caesar or stop the declaration of war.
• The King of the Land of Grass raised the price to six billion Beli and threatened to reveal that Caesar was dead to Kaido if Doflamingo did not pay within an hour.
• Doflamingo agreed to transfer the six billion through an underground bank, then asked Danzo for another idea because the Donquixote Family could not produce the money in time.

Danzō persuaded Doflamingo to seek advance payment from the Beasts Pirates by framing it as a production deposit and a way to secure their protection. Doflamingo agreed to try, then offered Danzō a place in his family, but Danzō reaffirmed his loyalty to the Navy.

• Doflamingo asked the Navy officers to find a way to obtain six billion Beli, but Hiruzen, Danzo, Homura, and Koharu refused to borrow it from the World Government.
• Danzo proposed that Doflamingo demand a deposit from the Beasts Pirates for their unusually large order, arguing that the money could also make them more likely to protect him.
• Doflamingo accepted Danzo's reasoning and decided he needed to borrow money from the Beasts Pirates to survive.
• Doflamingo offered Danzo the position of deputy head of the Donquixote Family, but Danzo rejected the offer and declared his loyalty to the Navy.

Kusana and Kuzan discussed the Land of Grass’s next move after receiving six billion from the Donquixote Family, while Doflamingo prepared to use the Navy and Beasts Pirates to protect his family. The chapter ended with Doflamingo ordering the four Navy Rear Admirals killed and Danzo separately reaching the same conclusion about Doflamingo.

• Kusana regretted asking the Donquixote Family for too little money, while Kuzan warned him that the Land of Grass faced the Navy and Beasts Pirates.
• Doflamingo told Trebol that the Donquixote Family had borrowed ten billion from Kaido and planned to use its connections to deter the Land of Grass.
• Doflamingo ordered his family to prepare ships in case they had to flee Dressrosa and considered trading the four Navy Rear Admirals to the Land of Grass.
• Doflamingo ordered the four Navy Rear Admirals killed after Danzo refused to join him.
• Danzo checked that his resting area had no listening devices, then told his old friend that they could only let Doflamingo die.

Danzo refused to return to the Land of Grass and planned to make the Beasts Pirates blame it for Doflamingo’s death. Meanwhile, Kusana’s group reached Dressrosa, where Kuzan’s frequent restroom visits prompted a Marine to suggest he seek medical treatment.

• Hiruzen asked Danzo if he would return to the Land of Grass, but Danzo refused and declared that he would not live beneath another.
• Danzo said they should ensure the Land of Grass killed Doflamingo before the Beasts Pirates arrived, provoking a lasting feud between them.
• Kusana felt a sudden chill while Robin massaged him, and Kuzan denied using his powers or causing it.
• Kuzan repeatedly went to the restroom, and Issho and Kusana remarked on how often he had been going.
• A Grass ninja announced that Dressrosa was ahead, and Kusana and the others disembarked before Kuzan returned to the deck.
• A Land of Grass Marine asked Kuzan about his health and advised him to see the Land of Grass doctors for a possible men’s ailment.

Kusana's group arrived on Dressrosa and questioned the island's apparent affection for Doflamingo, while Kusana warned that appearances were deceptive and identified a strange ability as their main concern. Doflamingo learned that Sugar had been knocked unconscious and abducted just as disturbances erupted outside.

• Kusana's group landed on Dressrosa and debated whether the civilians' apparent gratitude toward Doflamingo was genuine.
• Madara Uchiha eagerly prepared to fight Kaido or one of the Beasts Pirates' All-Stars, while Tobirama Senju urged caution.
• Kusana said they needed to watch out for one person's strange ability and spotted a toy soldier approaching.
• Doflamingo asked Shimura Danzō what to do while they waited for the Beasts Pirates to arrive, then secretly considered using Sugar against the Land of Grass.
• A Donquixote Family officer reported that a pitch-black man had knocked Sugar unconscious and taken her away.
• Doflamingo threw the officer aside as chaotic noises came from outside, and the Donquixote Family realized they were already too late.

Kyros warned Kusana and the Land of Grass about Doflamingo’s powers and asked them to rescue Rebecca, but the toy-manipulating ability was broken and the forgotten citizens reunited with their families. Just as Kusana learned they might not need to intervene, another call came through from Doflamingo.

• Kyros warned Kusana that Doflamingo was dangerous, explained that people had been turned into toys, and pleaded with him to take Rebecca away.
• Kusana and his companions believed Kyros immediately and reacted with curiosity to the power that had transformed him.
• Kyros jumped back, discovered he had regained his human body, and saw Dressrosa’s citizens remember and reunite with people they had forgotten.
• Kusana asked what they should do next, but a call from Danzo led him to say they might not need to act.
• Kusana’s Den Den Mushi changed into one wearing a pink feather coat, and Doflamingo addressed him as the King of the Land of Grass.