Chapter Summaries

Nara Dan overwhelmed the Five Elders with another devastating Tailed Beast Bomb, forcing them to retreat and summon Lord Imu. Imu appeared in the Holy Land and swallowed the attack with an enormous gate, confronting Nara Dan directly.

• Long-Beard Elder used the Degree-Degree Fruit to stretch the distance between himself and Nara Dan’s first Tailed Beast Bomb, but the effort left him exhausted.
• Nara Dan launched an even stronger Tailed Beast Bomb, and Long-Beard Elder admitted he could not stop another attack.
• The Five Elders chose to flee the ruined Pangu Castle and notify Lord Imu rather than risk fighting Nara Dan.
• A thousand-meter-tall gate appeared and swallowed the Tailed Beast Bomb as the Five Elders escaped.
• Imu emerged from an ornate gate, and Nara Dan recognized him as the hidden ruler of the World Government.

Nara Dan confronted Imu at Pangu Castle and discovered that Imu controlled Pluton, which took the form of powerful combat armor. The chapter ended with Pluton’s devastating beam carving a vast canyon through the Red Line, while the Five Elders realized the weapon had not yet reached its full power.

• Imu warned Nara Dan to leave, but Nara Dan mocked him and inspected his impressive abilities with the Cheat System.
• Imu attacked Nara Dan with lasers, but Nara Dan stood unharmed and challenged him to reveal Pluton’s power.
• Nara Dan rushed Imu, who used Conqueror’s Coating to repel him before appearing in Platinum White Armor powered by Pluton.
• Imu’s armor fired a beam that split around Nara Dan and cut through Pangu Castle and the Red Line, creating a canyon ten thousand meters deep.
• The Five Elders watched the destruction and noted that Pluton’s power had not yet reached its limit.

Nara Dan battled Imu, who used the Pluton Armor to match Dan’s overwhelming strength and tear apart much of the Red Line. The armor remained intact, but it drained Imu’s life force, leaving Dan to question how long Imu could survive.

• Dan survived Pluton’s direct hit, healed, and attacked Imu, shattering his energy armor and driving him into the Red Line.
• Dan’s blows collapsed mountains and shook the continent, while Rayleigh and Shakky watched from a safe distance and wondered what enemy had forced the World Government to use Pluton.
• Imu ordered Pluton to take control and activate Kill Mode, allowing the armor to block Dan’s punch and counterattack with enhanced speed and strength.
• Dan and the Pluton Armor traded devastating blows across the sky and the Red Line, overturning half the continent.
• Dan struck the armor with a hundred-plus Flying Thunder God: Light-Speed Fists, leaving the armor unharmed but causing Imu to cough blood and nearly pass out.
• Dan realized Pluton’s battle mode was draining Imu’s life force and asked how long the Immortality Surgery could keep him alive.

Nara Dan gained the upper hand against Imu and damaged the Pluton Armor with his Startling Immortal Finger, forcing Imu to spend more life force. Imu then unleashed Pluton: Final Weapon, which appeared to kill Nara Dan, and relaxed as the armor began to heal.

• The Five Elders watched as Nara Dan fought the Pluton Armor on equal terms and realized Imu's life force was running low.
• Nara Dan worked out how Imu's Immortality Surgery and Pluton’s life-force drain interacted, then used a resonant-frequency technique to slow the armor.
• Nara Dan struck the Pluton Armor’s chest with Divine Gang: Startling Immortal Finger and left a crack in its surface.
• The damaged armor drained more of Imu’s life force, visibly aging him as Nara Dan prepared to strike again.
• Imu used the World Origin’s power to immobilize Nara Dan and fired Pluton: Final Weapon, engulfing him in light until only ashes remained.
• Imu deactivated Pluton’s Full Auto Mode, recovered as his wrinkles faded, and watched the armor’s cracks slowly heal.

After Imu claimed Nara Dan had died to Pluton's ultimate weapon, the Five Elders ordered a cover-up and increased their security. Nara Dan recovered and planned to seek the remaining Gaia's Authority, while Sengoku suspected the Holy Land had been attacked by a powerful enemy and considered how the Navy might respond; he did not know Nara Dan was already near Marine Headquarters.

• Imu told the Five Elders that Nara Dan had died beneath Pluton's ultimate weapon and ordered them to search for a Devil Fruit and possible accomplices.
• The Five Elders decided to investigate Nara Dan, recall CP0's best fighters, strengthen Holy Land security, and conceal the battle.
• Nara Dan revealed he had survived by recovering in the Void Realm Sea, recognized Imu's attack as a use of Gaia's Authority, and resolved to find the remaining authority.
• Sengoku feigned anger at the Five Elders for withholding information, then inferred that Pluton may have been deployed against an extraordinary enemy.
• Sengoku considered whether the attacker had survived and saw the incident as a possible beginning of change, unaware Nara Dan was near Marine Headquarters.

Nara Dan raided Marine Headquarters for Devil Fruits, absorbed their World Origin energy, and grew stronger while considering how to challenge the World Government. Meanwhile, Monkey D. Dragon identified Nara Dan as the likely attacker of the Holy Land and saw a chance for the Revolutionary Army to learn the World Government’s secrets through the surviving girl close to him.

• Nara Dan stole eight Devil Fruits from Marine Headquarters and concluded he needed to expand the Vinsmoke Family’s influence to find more.
• Nara Dan theorized that a hidden rule prevented any power from collecting every Devil Fruit, but believed the restriction did not apply to him as a hunter.
• Nara Dan converted dozens of Devil Fruits into World Origin energy, grew to nearly twelve meters tall, and judged that his strength had increased several times over.
• Nara Dan considered that he still needed a lost Gaia Authority to confront Imu’s power directly, then disappeared.
• Monkey D. Dragon studied intelligence and photographs of Nara Dan and Meru, identified Nara Dan as the likely Holy Land attacker, and recognized his connection to the Vinsmoke Family.
• Monkey D. Dragon decided the Revolutionary Army could use the surviving girl close to Nara Dan to uncover the World Government’s secrets.

After slaughtering everyone at the North Sea auction house, Meru warned Vinsmoke Gaji that Nara Dan was alive and that the Vinsmokes must obey him. She then spotted and captured a large albatross that had watched her from high above.

• Meru collected the auctioned Devil Fruit and two wounded ability users from the bodies while Gaji ordered Androids to gather the auction house's valuables.
• Meru confronted Gaji about doubting Nara Dan's survival and threatened to kill his entire family if he disobeyed her.
• Meru sensed a watcher nearly ten thousand meters above the ground and flew up to pursue him.
• Meru impaled the fleeing watcher with her antennae and discovered he was a large, humanlike albatross.

Meru spared Morgans after Gaji vouched for his usefulness, then returned to await Nara Dan’s instructions. Nara Dan found Zunesha and demanded its Road Poneglyph, but Zunesha refused to let him take it and roared in defiance.

• Meru stopped herself from killing Morgans after he offered to spread news for the Vinsmokes and her companions, and Gaji agreed he could be useful.
• Meru returned to wait for Father God’s next instructions, while Gaji warned Morgans to keep his head down and pointed toward the Holy Land when Morgans asked who he meant.
• Nara Dan found Zunesha, the giant elephant carrying the Mink Tribe’s home of Zou, and approached it to take something from its back.
• Nara Dan told Zunesha he had come for the Road Poneglyph, which he wanted to learn how the Ancient Kingdom controlled the Gaia Authority and World Origin Power.
• Zunesha refused to let Nara Dan take the Road Poneglyph and bellowed, shaking the sea and air around them.

Nara Dan confronted Zunesha and stopped the elephant’s attack with one hand before using its own trunk to strike its chest. As Zunesha staggered and the Minks lost their footing, Nara Dan reflected on the relationship between powerful beings and the worlds—and inhabitants—they carried.

• The Minks noticed Zunesha calling out and an old Mink realized that Zunesha feared Nara Dan.
• Nara Dan faced Zunesha as the elephant swung its enormous trunk at him.
• Nara Dan stopped Zunesha’s trunk with one hand, leaving the Minks astonished by his strength.
• Nara Dan seized the trunk with both hands and hurled it into Zunesha’s chest, injuring the elephant and shaking the Minks on its back.
• Nara Dan considered how his World Tree Clone might one day carry a world and opened the Cheat System.

Nara Dan found the Road Poneglyph in Whale Forest and convinced Duke Dogstorm that he was not working for the World Government. After learning that the Voice of All Things could reveal the Poneglyphs’ contents, Nara Dan chipped the supposedly indestructible stone and discovered it was made from naturally formed material.

• Nara Dan examined Zunesha’s Giantification Surgery Talent and teleported to Whale Forest to find the Road Poneglyph.
• Duke Dogstorm confronted Nara Dan and asked why he wanted the Poneglyph, preparing to fight if he served the World Government.
• Nara Dan said he opposed the World Government and was interested in the Ancient Kingdom, so Dogstorm escorted him to the Poneglyph.
• Dogstorm explained that people with the Voice of All Things could understand Poneglyphs by listening, and Nara Dan connected this ability to Roger’s success.
• Nara Dan pressed his fingers against the Poneglyph, caused a tremor, and chipped off a thin layer of stone.
• Dogstorm stared in shock as Nara Dan concluded that the Poneglyph was made from naturally formed material.

Nara Dan used his spiritual power to break the Poneglyph’s seal and uncover the Ancient Kingdom’s secrets about One Piece and the Gaia Authority. He concluded that controlling the world’s collective will was key to wielding that power, and resolved to pursue unification despite the long conflict with Imu it would require.

• Nara Dan used the Voice of All Things and his spiritual power to break the Poneglyph’s information seal.
• Nara Dan learned that One Piece, called God’s Treasure by the Ancient Kingdom, could enable extraordinary technologies and powers through the Gaia Authority.
• Nara Dan discovered that the Gaia Authority drew on the faith and will of living beings, and that the Will of D. could unite people around freedom and equality.
• Nara Dan concluded that the World Government divided the world to prevent a shared ideology from forming and threatening its rule.
• Nara Dan decided he would need to unify the One Piece World and wage a long campaign against Imu to obtain the Gaia Authority.

Nara Dan killed Buggy to claim the Bara Bara no Mi’s World Origin Power, then returned to the Vinsmoke stronghold and ordered Gaji to seize the North Blue’s Non-Member States. Gaji revealed that a similar bid to unify the region twenty years earlier had failed, beginning an account of the Vinsmoke Family’s past.

• Nara Dan found Buggy’s ship in the East Blue, killed Buggy, and reclaimed the Bara Bara no Mi’s World Origin Power.
• Nara Dan returned to the Vinsmoke stronghold, where Meru greeted him and Gaji presented three Devil Fruits and five captured ability users.
• Nara Dan reclaimed the World Origin Power from the collected Devil Fruits and ability users, then asked Gaji about the family’s expansion and Android forces.
• Nara Dan ordered Gaji to take control of all the North Blue’s Non-Member States, and Gaji said the World Government was not the main obstacle.
• Gaji recalled that twenty years earlier he had tried to unify the North Blue using Android soldiers, weapons, and political connections, targeting Non-Member States.

Gaji explained that Dragon’s intervention against the Vinsmokes had helped drive him from the Marines, and worried the Revolutionary Army would oppose their expansion into the North Sea’s Non-Member States. Nara Dan empowered the Vinsmokes with Samehada Bio-Armor, and they prepared to occupy the states while he ordered Morgans kept alive.

• Gaji told Nara Dan that Dragon had once defied Marine orders to stop the Vinsmokes’ war, forcing the family to abandon its plans to rule the North Sea.
• Gaji warned that the Revolutionary Army was active in the Four Seas and might intervene if the Vinsmokes occupied the Non-Member States, but Nara Dan told him to proceed without fear of either it or the World Government.
• Nara Dan implanted Samehada Bio-Armor in Reiju and the Red-Yellow-Blue Three Brothers, greatly increasing their strength and giving them powerful Tailed Beast Cloaks.
• Gaji promised that the Vinsmoke android forces would occupy all the North Sea’s Non-Member States within ten days, and Nara Dan dismissed the family to their duties.
• Meru told Nara Dan that she had captured a white bird who had been spying on her and offered to spread news; Nara Dan recognized him as Morgans and ordered that he be kept alive.

The Vinsmoke Family conquered the North Sea’s Non-Member States, and Ichiji fought a Masked Swordsman while using power granted by Samehada. Ichiji defeated the swordsman, but Reiju warned that holding the conquered territory would be far harder than taking it.

• The Vinsmoke Family’s Artificial Human Soldiers seized nearly all the North Sea’s Non-Member States in a week, and Ichiji complained that the fighting was too easy.
• Reiju urged Ichiji to finish Lord Dan’s task, and Ichiji encountered a Masked Swordsman who refused to join the Vinsmokes.
• Ichiji called on Samehada and used its Chakra to empower his attacks, while the Masked Swordsman countered with powerful sword techniques.
• Ichiji’s Tailed Beast Cloak absorbed the swordsman’s slashes, and Ichiji defeated him after a prolonged battle.
• Reiju warned Ichiji that the Vinsmokes would face suspicion and resistance as they tried to occupy the conquered lands.

The Five Elders discussed Meru’s connection to That Man and Vinsmoke’s takeover of the North Sea’s Non-Member States, then chose to avoid confronting them directly. They left Meru under observation and arranged for Underworld bounty hunters and the Revolutionary Army to test the threats while Vinsmoke’s occupation neared completion.

• The Five Elders reviewed evidence linking Meru to the same race as That Man and noted Vinsmoke’s role in occupying the North Sea’s Non-Member States.
• The Five Elders decided not to attack Meru or Vinsmoke, fearing Meru might possess power comparable to That Man.
• The Five Elders agreed to observe Meru, keep her existence from Lord Imu and the Navy, and place a bounty on her through the Underworld.
• The Five Elders planned to let the Revolutionary Army confront Vinsmoke and Meru rather than risk the World Government’s forces.
• Vinsmoke’s occupation of the North Sea’s Non-Member States neared completion with Nara Dan’s strength and its Artificial Human Soldiers.

Nara Dan and Meru created seven powerful Chimera Ant Guard Squad members to strengthen his forces, while the Vinsmoke siblings advanced their conquest of the North Sea. The chapter ended when an unknown cloaked figure stopped Yonji’s spinning iron gate with one hand.

• Nara Dan had Meru transform human embryos in the Vinsmoke laboratory, and he nourished them with Life Essence until seven Guard Squad members emerged.
• Nara Dan named the most human-looking female Zero and ordered the others to choose numbers for themselves.
• Nara Dan sensed that someone had taken his bait and left with Meru using Flying Thunder God.
• The Vinsmoke siblings prepared to seize the last North Sea country outside World Government territory, while Yonji charged the palace and attacked its defenders with a spinning iron gate.
• A cloaked figure stood in Yonji’s path and stopped the gate with one hand, leaving Yonji stunned and asking who it was.

Monkey D. Dragon confronted the Vinsmokes over their attempt to occupy the North Sea, defeating Yonji and challenging the family to fight him. The Vinsmokes attacked together, but Dragon revealed his Logia transformation and re-formed in the sky as they faced the difficulty of fighting him without Haki.

• Dragon caught the iron gate Yonji threw, and Yonji covered himself in Samehada Chakra before attacking with Winch · Spinning Kill.
• Dragon sent Yonji crashing into the palace floor, and Reiju, Ichiji, and the other Vinsmokes arrived as Yonji warned them that Dragon was their strongest opponent yet.
• Dragon questioned why the Vinsmokes had returned to conquer the North Sea and declared they would have to get past him first.
• Reiju ordered the Vinsmokes to attack, but Dragon used Armament Haki to repel Niji and endured Yonji's restraints, Reiju's poison, and Ichiji's flames before vanishing into the gale.
• Reiju recognized that Dragon had a Logia Devil Fruit, and the Vinsmokes realized their attacks would be difficult to land because they lacked Haki.

Dragon overwhelmed the Vinsmoke brothers in a battle that left them nearly unable to fight. As he confronted them, a mysterious figure plunged from the sky and landed between Dragon and the family.

• Dragon unleashed a wind-made dragon claw, but the Vinsmoke brothers combined their powers and briefly matched its force.
• Dragon used Conqueror’s Coating to smash the brothers into a crater, though all three survived the attack.
• Reiju checked on her brothers, and they said they could hold out for about half an hour; she told them Dan had sent Meru as backup.
• The brothers charged Dragon again, but ten minutes later they lay battered and exhausted after he exploited their lack of Haki.
• A figure dropped from a thousand meters above and landed between Dragon and the Vinsmokes.

Meru fought Dragon and gradually unlocked her immense strength, but he relied on his Logia body to avoid her attacks. The battle shifted when Meru unexpectedly manifested Armament Haki and seized Dragon's real arm.

• Meru arrived and challenged Dragon, who sensed her bloodlust and recognized her as a dangerous opponent.
• Meru and Dragon clashed, with her speed and strength increasing as she grew accustomed to her power.
• Dragon used Kami-e and his Logia intangibility to evade Meru's attacks, while explaining that her lack of Haki left her unable to hurt him.
• Meru unleashed the Chimera · Ten Thousand Jun technique, battering Dragon's air form and devastating the island around them.
• Meru's attacks briefly faltered before she seized Dragon's real arm with an unrefined but powerful coating of Armament Haki.

Meru learned Haki with startling speed and used Future Sight to suppress Dragon’s Observation Haki, gaining the upper hand in their fight. Dragon turned to his Gale-Gale Fruit and unleashed Dragon’s Breath as Meru charged to meet him.

• Meru mastered Haki during her battle with Dragon and called him a weakling reliant on technique.
• Meru used Future Sight to bypass Dragon’s Observation Haki and snapped off his right arm.
• Meru overwhelmed Dragon with close-range attacks while he struggled to predict her movements.
• Dragon summoned a giant Wind Dragon with his Gale-Gale Fruit and launched Dragon’s Breath.
• Meru charged Dragon’s attack with her fist coated in Armament Haki, and their blows collided.