Chapter Summaries

After returning to Kirigakure, Araki helped decide how to integrate the former Amegakure ninjas into the village. Karatachi Yagura then asked Araki to become the Fifth Mizukage, and Araki agreed.

• Araki chose Xiu Bing, head of the Yuki Clan, to represent Kirigakure in the Land of Fire.
• Karatachi Yagura proposed testing former Amegakure ninjas and assigning them ranks based on their abilities, while directing older or weaker members to mining and the Sea Train.
• Yagura warned Araki that Nagato’s Rinnegan could defeat the Three-Tails, and Araki assured him Nagato would support their plans for unification.
• Yagura said Araki’s strength and reputation made him the only suitable candidate for Mizukage and proposed that Araki take the title while he became an elder.
• Araki agreed to become the Fifth Mizukage.

Araki became Kirigakure’s new Mizukage while the village prepared for his inauguration, but he focused on his next challenge in the Consciousness Space. He summoned a sinister swordsman who introduced Shiki the Golden Lion, and the chapter ended as Shiki attacked him.

• Karatachi Yagura announced that he was passing the Mizukage position to Araki, and the jonin accepted the decision without objection.
• Kirigakure postponed Araki’s inauguration for a month as other nations and smaller countries arrived or helped prepare for the ceremony.
• Araki entered the Consciousness Space and reviewed his abilities before opening the next page of the golden book.
• A sinister old swordsman appeared with his tanuki Pat and summoned a leaf-made image of Shiki the Golden Lion.
• The old swordsman sent Shiki, wielding Oto and Kogarashi, to attack Araki with Slash Wave: Thousand-Cutting Valley.

Araki defeated Red Count Redfield’s illusion of Shiki the Golden Lion, then faced a lineup of legendary swordsmen summoned by Redfield. Whitebeard opened the next assault with a space-shattering strike, and Araki countered with Secret Sword: Eternal Sun.

• Araki overpowered Shiki the Golden Lion in a sword clash and defeated him, leaving only a leaf behind.
• Red Count Redfield summoned Whitebeard, Red-Hair, Hawkeye, a green-haired swordsman, and a pirate captain to challenge Araki.
• Araki mocked Redfield for relying on the swordsmen instead of believing in his own potential, angering him.
• Whitebeard attacked Araki with Quake, combining his swordsmanship, Haki, and Devil Fruit power to fracture space.
• Araki gathered his strength into Yachiru and unleashed Secret Sword: Eternal Sun.

Araki was sent flying by Roger’s Divine Departure after clashing with Whitebeard, then awakened his full power through Kenpachi and transformed Yachiru with scarlet spiritual pressure. He began round two by overpowering Roger’s Divine Departure and tearing apart the domain Roger had joined with heaven and earth.

• Whitebeard’s attack sent Araki flying, and Roger seized his brief opening with Divine Departure.
• Hawkeye, Zoro, and Shanks launched sword slashes at Araki, who escaped Roger’s domain and dissolved their attacks with his Bloody Mist.
• Araki called on Kenpachi, unleashed his full spiritual pressure, and turned Yachiru blood-red.
• Araki charged Roger and met Divine Departure with his own attack, tearing apart the heaven and earth Roger had joined with his blade.

Araki shattered Roger’s Conqueror’s Domain, then used shadow clones to break through Redfield’s phantoms and attack Redfield directly. Redfield met him with his sword, relying on his ability to hear thoughts and anticipate attacks.

• Araki destroyed Roger’s Conqueror’s Domain, horrifying Roger and Shanks, who sensed that he had erased a piece of the world.
• Redfield learned through his Observation Haki that Araki’s power had overcome Roger and continued summoning phantoms to attack him.
• Araki decided to bypass the phantoms and created shadow clones to hold them off.
• Araki flew through the battlefield and aimed his sword at Redfield, who guessed that the clones came from a Clone Fruit.
• Redfield thrust his Bat Umbrella Sword at Araki, trusting his passive thought-reading to predict his movements.

Araki defeated Redfield in the Consciousness Space and gained his Haki and Voice of All Things, but the new ability overwhelmed him with the thoughts of people nearby. The next day, Araki became the Fifth Mizukage and won over the gathered crowd with his declaration and Conqueror’s Haki.

• Araki killed Redfield in the Consciousness Space and inherited his Three-Color Haki experience and Voice of All Things.
• After awakening his own Haki, Araki heard the thoughts of people throughout Kirigakure and used Clear Mirror Still Water to keep from being overwhelmed.
• Araki told Kana he had emerged from seclusion and would attend the succession ceremony.
• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to scatter Kirigakure’s fog, and Araki ascended the platform to become the Fifth Mizukage.
• Araki unleashed controlled Conqueror’s Haki, impressing foreign ninja representatives and inspiring the Mist Village’s clans and shinobi to pledge their support.

After taking office as Mizukage, Araki left Kirigakure to inspect its ocean exploration work while Obito and Zetsu plotted to use Impure World Reincarnation to summon Madara. Araki reached an exploration base and headed toward a distress signal.

• Araki assigned Kirigakure's projects to his staff, gave Kana the task of designing a defensive barrier, and sailed alone to inspect the exploration teams.
• Obito learned that Nagato had defected and that Kirigakure held eight tailed beasts, while Black Zetsu warned that the other nations were unlikely to unite against the village.
• Black Zetsu introduced Hiruko and explained that his knowledge of Impure World Reincarnation might let them summon Madara to attack Kirigakure.
• Araki arrived at Kirigakure's Ocean Exploration Forward Base and heard that the teams had found islands suitable for farming and one rich in minerals.
• A distress flare appeared on the horizon, and Araki set off with the base's person in charge to investigate.

Araki investigated a super-dense fog at sea after Hua Bing and Guren were sucked into a strange white whirlpool. Recognizing it as a possible portal, he flew into it to discover where it led.

• Mei Terumi and Zabuza Momochi told Araki that a white vortex had pulled Hua Bing and Guren underwater, while the two of them escaped after being thrown clear.
• Araki sensed that Hua Bing and Guren were still alive and decided to investigate the foggy sea alone.
• Araki created a Flesh Clone for safety and propelled his boat deeper into the fog, which darkened as he traveled.
• Araki found a white whirlpool that reminded him of the portal near the Moon Landing Tunnel and guessed it led somewhere else.
• Araki sprouted wings, left his boat behind, and flew into the white whirlpool.

Araki arrived in the Devil’s Triangle and recognized the island-sized pirate ship as Thriller Bark while Hua Bing and Guren fought their way toward its central castle. Moria sent Absalom and the Zombie Generals to confront them as Araki watched from above and another ship approached.

• Araki emerged from the White Hole above a dark, mist-covered sea and followed his bloodline’s pull to an island-sized pirate ship.
• Araki recognized the ship, its zombies, and the sunless sea as Thriller Bark.
• Hua Bing froze and shattered zombies while Guren used Crystal Release: Telescope Technique to locate the central castle.
• Guren led Hua Bing toward the castle, and the pair broke through the zombie encirclement.
• Moria dismissed a report of intruders and told a zombie to have Absalom handle them.
• Absalom learned that two women had invaded and summoned the Zombie Generals as Araki watched from overhead and a sunflower-figurehead ship approached.

Araki watched Hua Bing and Guren on Moria’s island before detecting Bartholomew Kuma and the Straw Hat crew nearby. Kuma decided to keep watch over Luffy, while Hua Bing and Guren confronted Absalom and his Zombie Generals.

• Araki judged that Hua Bing and Guren could handle the island’s dangers and observed Absalom’s approach.
• Araki spotted Bartholomew Kuma gliding toward the island, then met him and explained that he had come to retrieve his lost subordinates.
• Kuma left Araki and secretly watched Luffy and his crew, choosing to protect Ryu’s son instead of immediately pursuing his mission against Moria.
• Hua Bing and Guren encountered Absalom and his Zombie Generals, recognized him, and launched their breathing techniques.

Hua Bing and Guren fought Absalom and the zombie army, using ice and crystal attacks before retreating to recover their chakra. Araki approved of their tactics, while Kuma grew suspicious that the two girls might be connected to secret government weapons and decided to test them.

• Hua Bing’s snowflake blades wounded and slowed Absalom, exposing him despite his invisibility.
• Guren used a focused Ray of Light to pierce several Zombie Generals, but the dim Florian Triangle weakened the attack.
• Hua Bing froze the zombies in place, and Guren trapped and shattered many of them with Crystal Release, though the toughest Zombie Generals survived mostly unharmed.
• Hua Bing and Guren retreated to recover chakra after realizing they could not defeat the zombie army in one assault.
• Araki watched the retreat and approved of the girls’ tactics, while Kuma suspected their powers might relate to hidden government plans and resolved to test them.

The Straw Hat Pirates split up after seeing the hailstorm that reminded them of Aokiji, while Araki reunited with Hua Bing and Guren on the island. Araki then confronted Gekko Moria and claimed his ship.

• Robin and the Straw Hats panicked at the sight of ice, and Luffy decided to continue searching for Brook while Robin, Nami, Sanji, and the others returned to the ship.
• Zoro chose to accompany Luffy, splitting the Straw Hats into two groups.
• Araki found Hua Bing and Guren, who had escaped the zombies, and told them the island was a valuable enclosed sea region.
• Hua Bing and Guren reported encountering a man they thought was from Konoha, and Araki explained that he was neither from Konoha nor using Transparent Escape.
• Araki, Hua Bing, and Guren flew to Gekko Moria's castle, broke into his bedroom, and Araki announced that he was requisitioning Moria's ship.

Araki and his companions confronted Moria and offered him a place among them, but he attacked and mistook them for Marines. After Araki shattered Moria’s shadow spear with a Haki-coated strike, Moria relived his defeat by Kaido, absorbed hundreds of shadows, and attacked Araki as a giant.

• Moria attacked Araki’s group with shadow bats, which Guren trapped in crystal.
• Hua Bing slashed Moria, but he escaped the blow by swapping places with his shadow clone.
• Araki revealed that he knew Moria’s plans and warned him that his subordinates and Oars would not help him.
• Moria hurled his Brick Bat at Araki, who destroyed it with a Haki-coated finger strike.
• Moria cried out Kaido’s name, absorbed five hundred shadows, grew to thirty meters tall, and punched at Araki.

Araki defeated the enraged Gekko Moria but kept him alive because he wanted to use Moria’s Seven Warlords of the Sea identity as a step toward seizing Wano Country. He claimed that he and his companions had escaped Wano and asked Moria to join them against Kaido, leaving Moria stunned.

• Moria grew enormous and attacked Araki while roaring for Kaido, and Araki prepared a Haki-coated blade.
• Araki cut through Moria’s Shadow Ball and Shadow Shield, then wounded him so severely that the shadows he had swallowed escaped and his body shrank.
• Araki spared Moria because he wanted to borrow his Seven Warlords of the Sea identity and use it to advance a plan to seize Wano Country.
• Moria demanded to know who Araki was and how he was connected to Kaido.
• Araki claimed that he and his companions were swordsmen who had fled Wano under Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi’s rule, then invited Moria to ally with them.

Araki reminded Moria of the Kaido defeat that had destroyed his old crew and challenged him to trust Araki instead of relying on zombies. Moria accepted a bet involving Oars and the Straw Hat Pirates, while Araki prepared to watch the coming battle.

• Moria recalled how Kaido had annihilated the Thriller Bark Pirates in Wano, leaving Moria unwilling to risk losing companions again.
• Araki taunted Moria about his fear of Kaido and urged him to put his faith in Araki rather than his zombie army.
• Araki proposed betting on Oars against a crew of rookie pirates, and Moria accepted.
• Luffy and Zoro searched Pirate Forest for Brook while Perona's zombies drove the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates deeper into the island ship.
• Araki, Hua Bing, and Guren set up a projection of the battle so they could watch the outcome.

Moria fought Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates on Thriller Bark, but after Kuma arrived and sent the crew away, he agreed to attend a government summons. The chapter ended with Kuma revealing that the Marines planned to execute Ace at Marineford and that Blackbeard had been selected to replace Crocodile as a Warlord.

• Moria accepted defeat after Araki intervened, but Luffy demanded that he return Brook and the others' shadows, so Moria absorbed five hundred shadows and resumed the fight.
• Moria's overwhelming strength put Nightmare Luffy at a disadvantage, until Bartholomew Kuma arrived and sent Zoro and Sanji, then the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates, away with his Paw-Paw Fruit.
• Luffy charged Kuma to protect his friends, but Kuma defeated him and sent him away as well.
• Kuma told Moria that the government had chosen Marshall D. Teach to replace Crocodile as a Seven Warlord of the Sea.
• Kuma announced that Ace would be executed at Marineford and that the Seven Warlords had been forcibly summoned; Moria agreed to attend.

Araki secured his position as Moria’s vice-captain and began preparing to use the Summit War as cover for an attack on Kaido and the conquest of Wano Country. He offered Moria his blood to help him withstand the backlash of Shadows Asgard as they planned their next move.

• Araki claimed to be the vice-captain of the Thriller Bark Pirates, and Moria accepted the arrangement while Kuma left to report the mysterious swordsman to Dragon.
• Moria introduced Araki to Perona, Hogback, and Absalom as his vice-captain, but Araki stopped Perona’s Negative Hollow with Haki and Reiatsu.
• Araki ordered the zombies to search for a white whirlpool so he could bring manpower from the Land of Water.
• Araki told Moria they could exploit the Summit War to lure Kaido away from Wano Country and defeat him.
• Araki offered Moria a drop of his blood, saying it could help share the backlash when Moria used Shadows Asgard.

The outside world prepared for a coming clash between the navy and Whitebeard after Blackbeard captured Ace, while Dragon considered how the conflict could benefit the Revolutionary Army. Araki gathered new-generation Mist Village ninjas in the Florian Triangle, rebuilt the Thriller Bark Pirates, and set sail for the New World after learning of Ace’s public execution.

• Blackbeard’s betrayal of the Whitebeard Pirates and capture of Ace stirred the sea and set the stage for a clash between Whitebeard and the navy.
• Dragon discussed using the coming conflict to rescue Ivankov and others from Impel Down, and considered a report that a great swordsman had joined Moria.
• Araki sent Hua Bing through the vortex with a letter, and new-generation Mist Village ninjas arrived in the Florian Triangle over the following month.
• Araki organized the expanded Thriller Bark Pirates into eight Divisions, with Tailed Beasts helping anchor their strength.
• After reading that Ace would be publicly executed at Marineford, Araki ordered the enormous ship to leave the Florian Triangle for the New World.

Araki and Moria reached the Sabaody Archipelago aboard Thriller Bark as they prepared to attend the World Government’s summons and later confront Kaido. Moria headed for Marineford while Araki stayed behind to arrange ship coating.

• Utakata explained that the Kirigakure ninja could all use the Hidden Mist Technique, delighting Moria with its usefulness for his zombie army.
• Araki advised Moria to attend the Seven Warlords meeting and later request permission to intercept Kaido in the New World.
• Thriller Bark’s arrival at Sabaody Archipelago terrified the people gathered at the dock, including the Marines.
• Araki told Moria to go to Marineford while he handled coating, and Moria departed in a smaller ship with zombie sailors.

Araki found Silvers Rayleigh on Sabaody Archipelago and recruited him to coat the Mist Ark. Rayleigh agreed to the job, but was horrified when Araki showed him the enormous island-ship.

• Araki used Observation Haki to locate Silvers Rayleigh in a Sabaody slave auction house.
• Araki freed Rayleigh from his cell and persuaded him to coat the Mist Ark.
• Araki and Rayleigh left the auction house unnoticed under Araki's illusion.
• Rayleigh said coating a ship usually took about three days, and Araki led him to the harbor.
• Araki revealed the Mist Ark, and Rayleigh exclaimed that the job would work him to death.