Chapter Summaries

Wright met King Ymir in Elbaf to investigate whether Shanks could use a passage through Treasure Tree Adam to reach Marine Headquarters. Ymir’s refusal to disclose the secret confirmed Wright’s suspicions, and Shanks revealed himself from behind the throne.

• Dorry returned to Elbaf and confirmed Wright’s claims to King Ymir, who agreed to receive Wright alone.
• Brogy learned from Hajrudin, Stansen, Road, Goldberg, and Gerd that Wright’s account was true, and the group reported Dorry’s return to Elbaf.
• Wright arrived at Elbaf’s royal court and asked Ymir whether Treasure Tree Adam led to the White White Sea and how Shanks had become Elbaf’s ally.
• Ymir refused to disclose either secret, leading Wright to conclude that his suspicions were correct.
• Shanks emerged from behind Ymir’s throne and admitted he had expected Wright to uncover him.

Wright told Shanks and King Ymir that Carmel Nun had secretly trafficked children for the World Government and that Charlotte Linlin had been one of her intended sales. He revealed that Carmel disappeared on the same day six-year-old Linlin gained the Soul-Soul Fruit, leaving Shanks and Ymir shocked by what might have happened.

• King Ymir admitted he could not deny Wright’s suspicions under Elbaf’s god’s gaze, and Shanks greeted Wright as an old drinking companion.
• Wright explained that the Marines had investigated Carmel Nun’s disappearance and that the World Government had long coveted the giants’ power.
• Wright connected the World Government’s Human Gigantification research to its desire to obtain giant strength, mentioning Kuma’s destruction of a laboratory and the development of Pacifistas.
• Wright revealed that Carmel had worked with the World Government, founded Lamb House, and sold talented orphans to Cipher Pol, including Charlotte Linlin.
• Wright told Shanks and Ymir that Carmel had possessed the Soul-Soul Fruit and that Linlin gained its power on the day Carmel disappeared.

Wright proposed that the Marines, Shanks, and Elbaf cooperate to eliminate Big Mom and eventually confront the World Government. Shanks agreed to join the war if it was not a doomed battle, and King Ymir pledged Elbaf’s warriors to the alliance.

• Wright explained that the World Government’s corruption made him determined to purify the Marines and pursue true justice.
• Wright proposed that Shanks and Elbaf cooperate with the Marines against Big Mom and warned that the World Government might retaliate if the balance of power shifted.
• Shanks clasped Wright’s hand and agreed to join the coming war as long as it was not certain to end in death.
• King Ymir vowed that Elbaf would take part in the sacred war of vengeance against the World Government.
• King Ymir revealed that Shanks served as Elbaf’s Judge, helping resolve ordinary disputes and reducing the need for duels.
• King Ymir invited Wright to see Elbaf’s military strength.

Wright observed Elbaf’s giant warriors with Shanks and King Ymir, recognizing their immense strength and their reliance on brute force over Haki. Afterward, he invited Shanks and King Ymir to join Dawn Watch, explaining that he was preparing for a final war beyond the Marines.

• King Ymir showed Wright and Shanks the giant warriors training and introduced his son Loki, who hoped to learn from Dorry and Brogy.
• Wright assessed the giants’ combat abilities and saw that their strength and Elbaf’s techniques compensated for their limited use of Haki, though the tribe lacked peak fighters.
• Shanks explained that Elbaf valued strength above other combat techniques, making its warriors a formidable force despite that limitation.
• Wright invited Shanks and King Ymir to join Dawn Watch and said the Giant Tribe only needed to provide a legion for the final war.
• Wright said the alliance would not involve the Giant Tribe or Shanks in dealing with Big Mom, because the final war was their shared goal.

Light secured an alliance with Elbaf through Shanks and named the Giant Tribe’s legion Silver Hand. Back at Marineford, Vegapunk reported that the Sky Fortress for Kuina’s Azure Sky Song legion was complete, while another surprise was in the works.

• King Ymir agreed to ally with Light, trusting Shanks and accepting Light’s revelations about Carmel Nun.
• Light told Ymir and Shanks the story of Tyr and proposed naming Elbaf’s legion Silver Hand.
• Light returned to Marineford after finalizing cooperation with Elbaf and Shanks.
• Vegapunk told Light that the Sky Fortress for the Azure Sky Song legion had been completed.
• Light planned to have Kuina test the Sky Fortress and learned Vegapunk was preparing another surprise.

Drake rose to become a new All-Star of the Beasts Pirates and received a mission to escort a treasure from Dressrosa for Kaido. At Marine Headquarters, Wright assigned Fujitora to handle a matter after discussing his recent meeting with Vegapunk.

• Drake sent Wright secret information and reported that he had defeated his rivals to become a new All-Star.
• Drake reflected on his years undercover and on the threat posed by Quinn’s Ice Demon plague weapon.
• Kaido ordered Drake to travel to Dressrosa and escort a treasure offered by Donquixote Doflamingo.
• King and Quinn argued over the mission and warned Drake about the danger of encountering Wright.
• Wright spoke with Fujitora at Marine Headquarters and left a matter in his hands.

Wright and Issho prepared to move against Doflamingo in Dressrosa, prioritizing civilians and the royal family while limiting the Marines’ commitment. Meanwhile, Drake’s Beasts Pirates approached Green Bit to collect a shipment from Doflamingo’s forces.

• Wright told Issho that the Marines had nearly gathered evidence of Doflamingo’s crimes and planned to remove him as a Shichibukai.
• Wright warned that Doflamingo might use Dressrosa’s people as hostages, and set rescuing the royal family and protecting civilians as the Marines’ priorities.
• Issho agreed to accompany Rosy to Dressrosa and take down Doflamingo if possible.
• Drake learned that his ship would reach Dressrosa in an hour and ordered his crew to stay alert while landing at Green Bit.
• The narration explained that Drake had strengthened the Beasts Pirates with revised Marine training methods while keeping command dependent on himself.

Drake met Doflamingo on Green Bit to receive a mysterious treasure for Kaido, but Admiral Issho arrived with Marines and demanded Doflamingo clarify whether he was cooperating with pirates or would fight them. The chapter ended with Doflamingo forced to choose his response as Drake prepared to face Issho.

• Drake confronted Doflamingo for mentioning Fleet Admiral Wright, while Doflamingo presented a treasure intended to increase the Beasts Pirates' combat power.
• Issho appeared with a Marine force, interrupting the transaction and alarming Drake and Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo recognized Issho and suspected Wright had arranged the Marine intervention.
• Issho acknowledged Drake's growth since their time aboard the Holy Light, and Drake prepared to face his former instructor.
• Issho asked Doflamingo whether he was violating Shichibukai regulations by cooperating with Drake or would fulfill his duties and attack the Beasts Pirates.

Issho confronted Doflamingo over his deal with Drake, forcing Doflamingo to flee while Drake and Monet delayed the Marines. Drake handed Issho the important chest and withdrew, while Tashigi defeated Monet and Issho was left with the mysterious chest.

• Doflamingo refused to submit to Issho, ordered Drake to hold the Admiral back, and escaped into the sky with Baby 5 as Monet covered his retreat.
• Monet raised a snow wall and blizzard, while Tashigi volunteered to fight her and Issho pursued Drake.
• Drake transformed into an Allosaurus, ordered his men to summon Kaido or King, and tossed the chest to Issho before retreating.
• Monet exposed herself while protesting Drake’s withdrawal, and Tashigi struck through the blizzard with a fiery slash.
• Tashigi used Nine Illusions · Phantom Spirit Flash to defeat Monet with one slash, while Issho caught the chest.

Tashigi and Issho rescued the Tontatta princess Mansherry, who revealed that Doflamingo had deceived her people and that King Riku and Princess Violet had also been imprisoned. Issho headed for Dressrosa while Tashigi took Mansherry to find the Revolutionary Army, and Doflamingo ordered his officers to prepare for a Marine assault until Kaido arrived.

• Tashigi opened Doflamingo’s treasure chest and freed Mansherry, whom Doflamingo had kidnapped and bound.
• Mansherry told Tashigi and Issho that Doflamingo had tricked the Tontatta Tribe into working for him and planned to hand her to a pirate.
• Mansherry offered to guide Tashigi to the Revolutionary Army in the Tontatta Kingdom and revealed that King Riku and Princess Violet had also been imprisoned.
• Issho flew toward Dressrosa to rescue King Riku and the others, while Tashigi set out with Mansherry to find the Revolutionary Army and protect civilians.
• Doflamingo told Baby 5 to alert his officers, gather Dressrosa’s citizens in the inner city, and prepare to fight the Marines until Kaido arrived.

Issho flew toward Dressrosa to stop Doflamingo and protect Princess Mansherry, whose Heal-Heal Fruit could provide extraordinary healing and restoration. As Issho entered the Birdcage and headed for the palace, Violet and King Riku feared for Mansherry until a mysterious voice claimed it could stop Doflamingo.

• Issho recognized Mansherry’s Heal-Heal Fruit as a power that could rival Wright’s healing and feared what would happen if Kaido gained it.
• Issho saw Doflamingo’s Birdcage spread across Dressrosa and decided to defeat its user from inside the barrier.
• Violet told King Riku that Mansherry had been taken away and worried Doflamingo planned to exploit her power.
• Violet explained that Doflamingo had imprisoned her and King Riku while she stalled for time, unable to use her Glare-Glare Fruit because of her Sea Stone Handcuffs.
• A strange, layered voice told Violet and King Riku that it and its allies could stop Doflamingo.

Rosinante, Cavendish, and Ain rescued King Riku and Violet from the palace and explained the Marines’ plan to bring down Doflamingo. After Violet confirmed Rosinante’s loyalty with her ability, the group prepared to find and rescue other imprisoned Dressrosans.

• Rosinante, Cavendish, and Ain infiltrated the palace and freed King Riku and Violet from their Sea Stone Handcuffs.
• Rosinante told King Riku and Violet that the Marines had evidence of Doflamingo’s crimes and had deployed an Admiral to stop him.
• Rosinante revealed that Doflamingo was his biological brother and asked Violet to use Mind Peeking to verify his intentions.
• Violet read Rosinante’s thoughts, learned the truth, and assured King Riku that the Marines could be trusted.
• Rosinante asked Violet to help locate the imprisoned officials and civilians so the Marines could rescue them and act against Doflamingo.

Rosinante helped King Riku and Violet lead the imprisoned people toward safety, then confronted Diamante and the Donquixote Family officers. Meanwhile, Admiral Issho cornered Doflamingo in the royal palace as the Birdcage remained active.

• Rosinante told King Riku that the Birdcage blocked escape and urged him to protect the civilians while they held off the Donquixote Family officers.
• Diamante and the officers confronted Rosinante, Cavendish, and Ain, insisting they would carry out Doflamingo’s orders and wait for Kaido.
• Rosinante revealed that Issho had entered Dressrosa, Princess Mansherry had been rescued, and Drake had been defeated, then led Ain and Cavendish into battle.
• Doflamingo crashed through a floor after fighting Issho and cursed that the Admiral had entered the Birdcage.
• Issho sensed the civilians reaching the Sunflower Field and prepared to fight Doflamingo without restraint, demanding that he dismiss the Birdcage or be knocked unconscious.

After Doflamingo’s defeat, the Birdcage vanished and Tashigi’s forces prepared to rescue prisoners and secure the underground port. Issho revealed that Kaido had traded Doflamingo’s bargaining chip to ensure his own group’s safety, leaving Doflamingo to be taken to Impel Down.

• Tashigi and the forces outside Dressrosa watched the Birdcage disappear, then learned from Issho that Doflamingo had been defeated and the citizens were gathering beneath King's Plateau.
• Tashigi ordered her Marines to capture the pirates and joined Kyros and the others in heading for the underground port to rescue prisoners.
• Drake reported Doflamingo’s defeat to Kaido, who admitted he had refused to help and planned to take over Doflamingo’s arms-trading channels.
• Issho told the injured Doflamingo that Kaido had handed over his bargaining chip in exchange for his group’s safe departure.
• Issho told Doflamingo to come quietly to Impel Down because he had failed.

Wright reflected on Doflamingo’s downfall and the shifting balance among pirates after Kaido abandoned him. On the prison ship bound for Impel Down, Doflamingo questioned Sengoku and Tsuru about the evidence against him and wondered what his capture would change at sea.

• Wright reviewed Issho’s report and anticipated that Doflamingo’s voluntary surrender of his Shichibukai title would make the World Government’s response less embarrassing.
• Wright concluded that Kaido had abandoned Doflamingo because Drake could control the channels Kaido needed and Doflamingo had lost the ability to produce SMILE.
• Doflamingo was escorted to Impel Down by Sengoku, Tsuru, Fujitora, and Rosinante, and he mocked the former Marines while noting Kaido had not come to rescue him.
• Tsuru told Doflamingo that his fate had been sealed when he secretly took control of Dressrosa, while Sengoku credited Wright’s foresight with anticipating his crimes.
• Doflamingo asked how the Marines had gathered enough evidence to move against a Shichibukai, and Issho asked what changes his capture would bring to the seas.

Doflamingo explained his belief that Wright’s Marines would defeat the pirates and eventually overthrow the Celestial Dragons, then spoke privately with Rosinante about their painful past and the choices that had kept them apart. As Doflamingo prepared to be sent to Impel Down, he asked Rosinante to keep him informed of the world’s future.

• Doflamingo declared that Wright’s Marines would eliminate pirates and then target the Celestial Dragons, while Sengoku, Tsuru, Issho, and Rosinante listened.
• Rosinante stayed behind with Doflamingo after Tsuru and the others left, and explained how Wright’s actions had prevented Doflamingo from becoming even worse.
• Doflamingo recalled their childhood, his revenge against the Celestial Dragons, and how he had treated Law as a substitute for the little brother he had lost.
• Doflamingo revealed that he had planned for Rosinante to eat the Op-Op Fruit and spared him because he hoped Rosinante could perform the Ageless Surgery.
• Doflamingo told Rosinante that giving the Op-Op Fruit to Law had forced him to kill his last true family member, and lamented that Wright had saved Rosinante.
• Doflamingo accepted that he was being sent to Impel Down and asked Rosinante to send him newspapers so he could follow how far the Marines would go.

Ain brought Wright intelligence about Patrick Redfield and the rising activity of the Worst Generation. Wright ordered Redfield’s threat level raised after recognizing that his tanuki companion, Padon, was a powerful Devil Fruit user, and he concluded that the Marines needed to grow stronger to meet the new threats.

• Ain delivered reports to Wright, including intelligence that Patrick Redfield had been traveling to places with ancient ruins and eerie legends.
• Wright spotted a report describing Redfield’s tanuki pet and ordered Redfield’s threat level raised to second only to the Four Emperors, with close surveillance of both him and the tanuki.
• Wright identified the tanuki as Padon, a fountain pen that had eaten the Mythical Zoan Dog-Dog Fruit and could create leaves that transformed into people or objects.
• Ain briefed Wright on the Worst Generation’s growing activity and on Marco’s increased strength as he fought to protect the Whitebeard Pirates’ remnants.
• Wright reflected that pirates would continue to pursue their dreams and said the Marines had to become strong enough to redefine what a pirate meant.

Five people, including Momonosuke, reappeared at Oden Castle twenty years after they vanished, confirming Lady Toki’s prophecy. Yasuie and Denjiro suspected that Orochi had been warned by a traitor among the Red Scabbards, and the chapter left the four returning retainers under suspicion.

• Kin'emon, Raizo, Kikunojo, Kanjuro, and Momonosuke appeared at the ruins of Oden Castle, unchanged after twenty years.
• A messenger told Shimotsuki Yasuie that birds had flown from the castle ruins toward the Flower Capital, despite birds having vanished from Wano for years.
• Shimotsuki Yasuie ordered the Revolutionary Army to watch the five without contacting them while he investigated whether the prophecy and their return signaled a new betrayal.
• Denjiro received the report at the Flower House and restrained himself from rushing to the returning retainers, noting that Orochi had shown sudden fear.
• Shimotsuki Yasuie and Denjiro’s investigation had ruled out several Red Scabbards as traitors, leaving the four who had vanished twenty years ago under suspicion.

Denjiro and the Revolutionary Army examined the Red Scabbards for a possible traitor and concluded that Kanjuro was the most suspicious, while Orochi and Kaido reacted to the time travelers’ arrival. The chapter ended with Orochi praising an undercover agent he believed had remained loyal to the Kozuki family.

• Denjiro recalled why Kin'emon, Kikunojo, and Raizo seemed unlikely to be Orochi's informants, while Rosinante's observations made Kanjuro suspicious.
• Denjiro and Senior planned to monitor the time travelers and Momonosuke while keeping Denjiro's identity hidden from Kin'emon and the others.
• Orochi told Kaido that five people had traveled twenty years into the future and ordered his servants to patrol the coast for anyone trying to leave Wano.
• Kaido warned Orochi not to kill the Kozuki remnants, while Orochi laughed and praised an undercover agent for appearing to be a loyal Kozuki retainer.

Wright sent Rosinante to Wano Country to investigate the suspected traitor and prepare for the fight against Kaido, while warning that Marine support depended on the Kozuki heir’s willingness to cooperate. Law and Bepo reached Zou, where news of the surviving Wano allies and Marine assistance stirred Inuarashi and Nekomamushi to consider the coming struggle.

• Wright told Rosinante to take charge of Marine affairs in Wano Country and arranged for Ace and Kuina to watch the G-5 Branch.
• Wright and Rosinante discussed the Marines’ preparations against Kaido and decided they would help Wano only if the samurai sought their support.
• Law and Bepo traveled to Zou to learn about Bepo’s brother Zepo and Pedro, whose lifespan Big Mom had taken.
• Law used his medical skills to earn the respect of the Mink Tribe and helped train doctors in its hospital.
• Law summoned Inuarashi and Nekomamushi with news that Yasuie, Denjiro, Ashura Doji, Hiyori, and Kawamatsu were alive and that the Marines had secretly aided Wano’s forces.