Chapter Summaries

Blackbeard became the Whitebeard Pirates’ successor but grew ambitious after learning about Laugh Tale and the Ancient Weapons. Li Xiao defeated him in a challenge arranged by Li Dayong, crushing his ambition and leaving him to remain with the crew as a slacker.

• The Charlotte Family’s growing alliances and Ace’s decision to join Bartholomew Kuma’s New Revolutionary Army left Blackbeard as the Whitebeard Pirates’ uncontested successor.
• Blackbeard used an international organization to help search for the Poneglyphs, hoping to learn the secret of Laugh Tale before the Charlotte Family could widen its lead.
• At Laugh Tale, Blackbeard learned that Pluto could not reach its full power and that defeating Uranus required Poseidon, while Mousse and his allies already held the advantage.
• Li Dayong arranged for Li Xiao to challenge Blackbeard, and she beat him unconscious despite her doubts about why she had to fight him.
• Blackbeard abandoned his ambition and stayed with the Whitebeard Pirates, whose crew was spared the turmoil that might have followed his departure.

After the discoveries at Laugh Tale sharpened the divide between Monkey D. Dragon and Bartholomew Kuma, Mousse tried to prevent their political conflict from turning into war. Kuma agreed to consider waiting a few years after Mousse reminded him of the importance of “productive forces.”

• Monkey D. Dragon urged Bartholomew Kuma to abandon his uncompromising plans, but Kuma became more determined in his beliefs.
• As the old and new Revolutionary Armies moved toward armed conflict, Mousse went to the East Blue and persuaded Kuina and Zoro not to join the fighting.
• Mousse confronted Monkey D. Dragon in the Goya Kingdom and promised to help him if Kuma refused to listen, prompting Dragon to yield.
• Mousse traveled to the South Blue and urged Bartholomew Kuma to delay implementing comprehensive public ownership, warning that the policies were ahead of their time.
• Bartholomew Kuma asked what a few years of waiting would change, and Mousse reminded him of the “productive forces” he had discussed before.

Mousse’s perpetual-motion technology transformed the world, helping establish public ownership and unite much of the Pirate World under the “One Sea, One Nation” vision. As the West Blue teetered toward chaos after Li Dayong’s death, Li Xiao’s show of strength against Katakuri only made his former brothers more determined to eliminate him.

• The new generation of Perpetual Motion Machines enabled abundant automated production, giving people greater freedom to refuse poor working conditions and accelerating social change.
• Backward rulers who forced civilians into labor were overthrown, and Monkey D. Dragon lost support for resisting the radicals led by Bartholomew Kuma.
• Luffy sailed around the world three times, while Nico Robin recorded the upheavals in her book 1080° Around-the-World Voyage.
• The New Revolutionary Army unified the South Blue and the adjacent first half of the Grand Line, while Whitebeard’s death and Blackbeard’s surrender allowed the New World to unite.
• Reiju seized power in Germa 66, after which Mousse supported the unification of the North Blue.
• After Li Dayong died, Li Ya turned against Li Xiao, who defeated Katakuri to intimidate his former brothers but instead made them more determined to kill him.

Mousse rescued Li Xiao from Li Dayong’s sons and disciples, then fought him atop the Red Line to test their strength. After revealing his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki and explaining his vision of a society where everyone could become powerful, he left Li Xiao struck by how closely their ideals aligned.

• Mousse arrived as Li Xiao faced four S-rank opponents, knocked them down with Conqueror’s Haki, and stopped Li Xiao from taking revenge.
• Li Xiao left the Flower Kingdom with Mousse, who learned that Li Xiao had used electric currents in his training and challenged him to their long-promised match.
• Mousse and Li Xiao fought atop the Red Line, where Mousse used calculations and Observation Haki to counter Li Xiao’s attacks.
• After Li Xiao broke through Mousse’s defenses, Mousse ended the fight with a punch that broke several of Li Xiao’s ribs and demonstrated his superior Conqueror’s Haki infusion.
• Mousse explained that his training proved ordinary people could narrow the gap with exceptional physiques, and Li Xiao recognized that Mousse shared the vanished man’s ideal of “Everyone like a Dragon.”
• Mousse described how widespread strength and the removal of survival pressures could prevent selfish leaders from overturning a society built on public ownership.

Mousse’s world transformed through communal child-rearing, public ownership, scientific progress, and full automation until material scarcity disappeared and society expanded into space. He remained convinced that extending his life had been necessary to protect the changes, and the story ended with him having achieved his ideal world.

• Mousse’s communal child-rearing system produced more successful children than traditional families, and marriage and family life faded away.
• Vegapunk retired as a new generation of rigorously trained scientists expanded research across the Pirate World.
• Under Mousse’s control, public ownership accelerated technological and productive growth while preventing a return to private ownership.
• Robots began manufacturing robots, and the matter generator eliminated material scarcity, leaving human contributions in science and art as the basis of status.
• Mousse saw the Red Line transformed into habitable land and learned that extraterrestrial colonization had begun.
• Mousse reflected that his extended lifespan had allowed him to purge the old era’s influence and secure his ideal world.