Chapter Summaries

Morito fled Big Mom’s relentless pursuit by steering toward Anubi Island, which belonged to Whitebeard, and the two began destroying the island in their fight. After receiving a distress signal, Whitebeard ordered his crew to sail there, treating the damage as a declaration of war.

• At Marineford, Sengoku welcomed the chaos Morito had stirred up among the New World pirates while thinking about the Navy’s eventual return to the New World.
• After three days and nights of pursuit, Big Mom and her fleet overwhelmed the ship Morito had seized, and Morito asked Difo about nearby islands.
• Morito ordered Difo to steer toward Anubi Island, despite Difo warning that it belonged to Whitebeard.
• Morito stopped using Chakra to nourish the Tenseigan and prepared to fight Big Mom in earnest.
• Marco told Whitebeard that Big Mom and Morito had reached Anubi Island and destroyed half of it.
• Whitebeard recognized the attack as a challenge to his flag and ordered his crew to set sail for Anubi Island.

Morito fought Big Mom on Anubi Island, deflecting her attack and battling her as their Haki knocked out thousands of the Big Mom Pirates. As their clash devastated the island, Whitebeard arrived with the Whitebeard Pirates.

• Morito reached Anubi Island while Big Mom and her fleet pursued him, sending the island’s residents fleeing.
• Big Mom attacked with Ikoku, but Morito repelled the slash and shielded himself from the waves with Shinra Tensei.
• Morito and Big Mom clashed with their weapons and unleashed Conqueror’s Haki, causing people near the harbor to collapse.
• Their Haki swept across the Big Mom Pirates’ fleet, knocking out thousands of its members, while Katakuri ordered the survivors to stay back.
• Morito and Big Mom fought for nearly half a day, destroying more than half of Anubi Island.
• The Big Mom Pirates spotted the Whitebeard Pirates arriving, and Whitebeard came to Anubi Island.

Morito and Big Mom's battle was interrupted when Whitebeard arrived at Anubi Island and attacked them both. Morito dodged behind Big Mom, leaving her to take the brunt of Whitebeard's Air Quake.

• Whitebeard arrived at Anubi Island and angrily confronted Morito and Big Mom over the devastation.
• Morito blamed Big Mom for the island's destruction and deflected her Ikoku slash with his Black Rod.
• Whitebeard recognized Morito's strength as Big Mom threatened to capture and punish him.
• Whitebeard unleashed an Air Quake that engulfed Morito and Big Mom.
• Morito dodged behind Big Mom, and she took Whitebeard's attack head-on while glaring at him.

Morito drained Big Mom’s strength and nearly struck her down, but her Homies protected and revived her. Whitebeard then attacked Morito and Big Mom at once, ending the chapter with a devastating slash that split the island and sea beneath them.

• Morito used the Tenseigan and a Black Rod to drain Big Mom’s strength, then aimed another Black Rod at her heart.
• Napoleon knocked Morito’s attack away, while Zeus used lightning to divert his Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Prometheus entered Big Mom and restored her strength, leaving Morito shocked by her Homies’ abilities.
• Whitebeard resumed the fight and attacked Morito and Big Mom together as all three unleashed their Conqueror’s Haki.
• Whitebeard’s powerful slash split the island and sea, leaving Morito and Big Mom in its path.

Morito used a spatial passage to attack Whitebeard and then trapped him inside a massive Planetary Devastation stone sphere. Big Mom emerged from the island’s fissure and wondered whether Whitebeard could really be defeated so easily.

• Morito used a spatial passage to appear behind Whitebeard, but Whitebeard sensed his attack and struck him with a powerful blow.
• Morito slipped away through the passage and left a black gravitational sphere beside Whitebeard, triggering Planetary Devastation.
• The sphere drew in the island’s rocks and trees until Whitebeard was trapped at its center.
• Morito watched the completed stone sphere from over the sea and wondered whether it could defeat Whitebeard.
• Big Mom flew out of the fissure on Zeus, recognized Morito’s technique, and questioned whether Whitebeard could be brought down so easily.

Morito trapped Whitebeard in a Planetary Devastation stone sphere, but Whitebeard broke free and confronted him. As Whitebeard challenged Morito, Morito wondered what his Tenseigan was still lacking, and two strange voices sounded from his soul.

• Marco flew toward Anubi Island to check on Whitebeard while Jozu stayed to watch the BIG MOM Pirate Crew.
• Katakuri refused to leave his fleet and ordered the supporting forces to withdraw from the waters around Anubi Island.
• Cracks spread across the stone sphere, and Whitebeard shattered it and descended from above the island.
• Big Mom attacked Whitebeard with Ikoku, but he countered with an Air Quake that destroyed her slash.
• Whitebeard pointed his blade at Morito and declared that his fury was far greater than what he had shown.
• Morito pondered what his half-awakened Tenseigan was missing, then heard two voices from his soul.

Morito felt his Tenseigan beginning to stir after Whitebeard’s display of power, while the three fighters paused their battle on the ruined Anubi Island. Whitebeard negotiated a truce with Big Mom and demanded compensation for the island’s damage, leaving Morito and Big Mom to accept his terms.

• Morito recognized the first signs of his Tenseigan stirring, healed his shattered shoulder with Yang Release, and decided he no longer wanted to fight.
• Whitebeard, Morito, and Big Mom sized up the risks of continuing the three-way battle, and Whitebeard concluded he could not stop either opponent from escaping.
• Marco joined Whitebeard, who told Big Mom he would let her leave but warned that her fleet around Anubi Island could be destroyed.
• Big Mom realized Whitebeard was offering a truce and asked what he wanted rather than risk her crew in an all-out war.
• Whitebeard ordered Big Mom and Morito to stay off islands under his flag and demanded that they pay for the damage to Anubi Island.

Morito negotiated an end to the battle with Whitebeard by offering a pouch of gold coins for road repairs, while insisting Whitebeard and Big Mom were responsible for destroying Anubi Island. Big Mom left after agreeing to settle her losses with the Whitebeard Pirates, and rumors spread that a new ruler had risen in the New World.

• Morito argued that Whitebeard and Big Mom should pay for the island's destruction, not him.
• Morito tossed Whitebeard a pouch of gold coins as token compensation, and Whitebeard accepted the gesture.
• Whitebeard asked Big Mom whether she would pay for Anubi Island's losses, and she agreed to comply with the Whitebeard Pirates' demands.
• Big Mom left on Thundercloud Zeus and sent Perospero and Compote to negotiate with the Whitebeard Pirates.
• The battle ended, and word spread through the New World that a new ruler was rising.

Morito left Eslepp Island with Lily Nyan and traveled to the Calm Belt to continue experimenting with the Tenseigan’s fifth gestation. He learned that Yin-Yang Release could create any form, but he had not yet figured out how to give it life.

• Whitebeard told Marco that Morito’s injuries had healed and admitted he had stopped fighting because he doubted he could kill Morito and Big Mom.
• Morito returned to Eslepp Island, warned Jinbe that the island would attract dangerous enemies, and took Lily Nyan with him while Jinbe planned to return to Fish-Man Island.
• Morito reached an uninhabited winter island in the Calm Belt, where Lily Nyan fought off packs of snow wolves outside the cave where he was working.
• Morito explained that his fifth Tenseigan gestation had awakened Yin-Yang Release and demonstrated how Yin Release could shape water into anything he imagined.
• Morito concluded that creating forms was straightforward, but he still did not know how to give them life.

Morito left his cave and fought off the snow wolves surrounding him and Lily Nyan. As two alpha wolves attacked in sync, he realized he might need to combine Yin Release and Yang Release while shaping a form, and decided to test the idea.

• Morito stopped practicing and went outside after Lily Nyan proved she could handle the snow wolves.
• Morito killed one wolf and used repulsive force to blast away several others that attacked him.
• Morito told the exhausted Lily Nyan to return to her cave and sleep.
• The two twin alpha wolves led the pack in surrounding Morito and charged at him together.
• Morito dodged their attacks, formed two Truth-Seeking Orbs, and knocked the alpha wolves into the snow.
• Morito decided to test whether he could infuse a form with life while shaping it.

Doflamingo ordered Monet and Sugar sent to Fish-Man Island after failing to find Morito and his companions. On an unnamed winter island, Morito healed two snow wolf kings and realized he needed Senjutsu Chakra to use Yin-Yang Release properly, then offered to catch a Sea King eel for Lily Nyan’s dinner.

• Doflamingo learned that Jinbe had been seen on Fish-Man Island and ordered Monet and Sugar delivered to him personally.
• Morito defeated two snow wolf kings, healed their wounds, and warned them to stay away from his area.
• Morito repeatedly tried and failed to combine Yin Release and Yang Release while shaping snow.
• After Lily Nyan woke, Morito realized Yin-Yang Release required higher-quality Senjutsu Chakra infused with Natural Energy.
• Lily Nyan asked for eel rice, and Morito went to catch a Sea King eel for their meal.

Queen Otohime returned safely to Fish-Man Island after meeting the Celestial Dragons and secured their support for the Fish-Men’s request to move to the surface. As her return inspired hope, Jinbe worried that the growing number of pirates on the island could threaten it while Morito was away.

• Otohime returned to Fish-Man Island, where her people welcomed her and learned she had secured the Celestial Dragons’ vote for their request at the next Reverie.
• Arlong argued that the Fish-Men should kill all humans, but Jinbe called him naive and recalled the Sun Pirates’ recent losses in a fight with a Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral.
• Tiger joined Jinbe at the harbor and asked about his time with Morito; Jinbe reassured him that Morito was not as cruel as the rumors claimed.
• Tiger invited Jinbe to visit Otohime, and Jinbe said he was concerned about the increasing number of pirates on Fish-Man Island.
• Tiger thanked Jinbe for protecting all of Fish-Man Island, while explaining that the Sun Pirates focused on protecting former Fish-Man slaves.

Morito and Lily Nyan returned to Eslepp Island and found it overrun by pirates after Crocodile’s flag had disappeared. After the Dragon Slayer’s reputation cleared most ships from the harbor, Morito learned from Fatty that a major event had happened on Fish-Man Island.

• Morito and Lily Nyan arrived at Eslepp Island and found the harbor crowded with pirate crews and the town gripped by violence.
• Three pirate captains considered capturing Morito and Lily Nyan to sell them, but other pirates recognized Morito as the Dragon Slayer and fled the island.
• Morito asked the remaining captains whether they had seen Enel and Jinbe, and Fatty said Jinbe was probably on Fish-Man Island.
• Fatty realized Morito did not know what had happened on Fish-Man Island and began explaining that a major event had occurred there a few days earlier.

After learning that human pirates had killed Queen Otohime and thrown Fish-Man Island into chaos, Morito traveled there with Lily Nyan. He rescued captured Fish-Men by destroying the bubbles around pirate ships, but realized his earlier warning had not stopped the human pirates’ greed.

• Fatty told Morito that Queen Otohime had been killed and human pirates had rioted across Fish-Man Island, where the King's Army and Sun Pirates were fighting them.
• Morito decided to visit Fish-Man Island and used a spatial Black Hole to travel there with Lily Nyan.
• The three captains on Eslepp Island were paralyzed by Morito's aura and abandoned their plans to kidnap him.
• Morito found Jinbe, Fisher Tiger, and the Sun Pirates at Dragon Palace City while human pirates occupied most of Fish-Man Island and captured Fish-Men.
• Morito broke the protective bubbles around the escaping human pirate ships, killing the pirates and allowing Aladdin and the others to rescue captive Fish-Men.
• Morito learned that he had rescued only a little over a hundred Fish-Men and concluded that his earlier methods had been too gentle.

Morito arrived at Dragon Palace City and used Yang Release to revive Otohime temporarily, discovering that Big Mom’s Soul-Soul Fruit had drained her lifespan. As he learned about the pirate threat to Fish-Man Island, Morito suspected Big Mom was stirring up trouble to pressure him.

• Neptune and the doctors watched helplessly as Otohime’s condition worsened, until Morito arrived with Lily Nyan and examined her.
• Morito used Yang Release to restore Otohime’s color and prolong her life, but explained that he would need to return regularly because she was not cured.
• Morito recognized that Big Mom’s Soul-Soul Fruit had drained Otohime’s soul power and considered recovering it from Big Mom or growing strong enough to restore Otohime’s lost lifespan.
• Morito asked Neptune to summon Jinbe and asked the Left Minister to explain Fish-Man Island’s situation.
• The Left Minister told Morito that pirate crews were targeting Dragon Palace City and its princess, and Morito suspected Big Mom was provoking trouble to pressure him.

Morito revealed that Big Mom’s Soul-Soul Fruit power was behind Queen Otohime’s condition and ordered Jinbe to stop pirate ships from escaping Fish-Man Island. After Jinbe rallied the Sun Pirates and the King’s Army, Morito searched the island for Big Mom’s agents and identified Cracker.

• Morito told Jinbe that Queen Otohime would not die yet, but that recovering her would require finding Big Mom.
• Morito explained that Big Mom’s soul avatar could extract souls from a distance, and Jinbe recognized that the Big Mom Pirates were stirring up trouble on Fish-Man Island.
• Morito asked Jinbe to intercept pirate ships leaving the island, then ordered him to ensure no Fish-Man was sold at the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Jinbe went to mobilize the Sun Pirates and the King’s Army while Morito prepared to deal with the stronger fighters himself.
• Morito searched the island with Observation Haki and identified a fighter he believed was the future Sweet Commander Cracker.

Arlong confronted Cracker over the trafficking of Fish-Men and mermaids, but Cracker defeated him and his crew. As Cracker tried to sail away with the captives, a mysterious voice from beneath the sea stopped the ship.

• Cracker prepared to inspect the mermaids he had bought through human traffickers when Arlong arrived and accused him of breaking their agreement.
• Cracker denied knowing Arlong, and Arlong realized he had been manipulated into helping cause chaos on Fish-Man Island and the capture of his people.
• Arlong attacked Cracker with his saw-toothed blade, but Cracker blocked the strike and pierced Arlong with his sword.
• Hachi, Kuroobi, and Arlong's other companions charged Cracker, who swiftly wounded them and ordered his men to imprison them for sale.
• Cracker ordered the ship to set sail with its captives, but a voice from beneath the sea declared that they were not going anywhere.

Morito attacked a transport ship carrying Charlotte Cracker, who had abducted mermaids, and killed him after reminding him that no one was allowed to attack Fish-Man Island. After sinking the ship and freeing its captives, Morito told Jinbe this would be the last time he intervened.

• Cracker ordered his men to bring young, beautiful mermaids to his cabin and prepared to enjoy his private Mermaid Cafe.
• Morito burst into Cracker’s cabin, seized him, drained his strength, and broke his neck for attacking Fish-Man Island.
• Morito threw Cracker’s corpse into the sea, then burst the coating bubble around the Umit-flagged ship, drowning the human pirates.
• The mermaids found the keys and freed the other Fish-Men, who gathered around Morito as Jinbe and the King’s Army arrived.
• Morito told Jinbe that this was the last time, leaving Jinbe to recognize how little he understood Morito.

Morito explained to Issho that he wanted to become the freest person in the world, describing how the Naval Academy’s strict rules had made him crave freedom and power. Issho realized that strength was only the starting point of Morito’s pursuit, though Morito had not yet fully explained what his greatest freedom meant.

• Fish-Man Island’s repaired blockade trapped pirate crews, while Morito left the Sun Pirates and King’s Army to deal with them.
• Morito gathered with Jinbe, Enel, Lily Nyan, and Issho in Dragon Palace City after Issho hurried to Fish-Man Island.
• Issho asked Morito about his dream, then said he did not believe the Pirate King should exist because pirates caused disaster.
• Morito said he wanted to be the freest person in the world and recalled how the Naval Academy’s strict schedule had felt like shackles.
• Morito explained that he had wanted strength after being caught skipping class, but insisted strength alone could not provide the greatest freedom.
• Issho realized that strength was only the starting point of Morito’s pursuit of freedom.

Issho formally joined Morito’s Dragon Slayers after accepting Morito’s vision of supreme freedom, while Morito warned him not to betray the crew. The group discussed how to deal with the pirates on Fish-Man Island, and Morito’s reaction to Monet and Sugar suggested Doflamingo had sent them for a reason.

• Issho decided to join the Dragon Slayers, and Morito accepted him while warning that he would kill him if he betrayed the crew.
• Jinbe asked what to do with the pirates left on Fish-Man Island, and Morito proposed selling them to the Navy for their bounties.
• Enel asked about Arlong, and Morito said Fish-Man Island’s people should decide what to do with him.
• Jinbe brought Monet and Sugar to meet Morito, who recognized them and inferred that Doflamingo valued Sugar’s ability.