Chapter Summaries

Big Mom decided to attack Coco Island despite the danger posed by the Marines and Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s New Marines. Yoriichi launched a surprise strike on her fleet, destroying the Queen Mama Chant and dozens of ships before Big Mom confronted him at sea.

• Charlotte Perospero urged Big Mom to wait for the Marines to weaken, while Oven argued for an immediate assault on Coco Island.
• After a pirate suggested fleeing, Big Mom killed him and ordered the Big Mom Pirates to attack Coco Island that night.
• On his ship, Tsugikuni Yoriichi told Sakazuki that his failure was temporary, then ordered his forces to prepare for combat and head to Coco Island.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi flew ahead and used a powerful sword slash to split the Queen Mama Chant and open a trench that dragged more than ten pirate ships beneath the sea.
• Big Mom escaped the sinking ship on Prometheus and recognized Tsugikuni Yoriichi above the devastated fleet.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi used the sea and air to put Big Mom at a disadvantage, but she summoned Boreas, a Homie made from wind, and turned the fight around. Yoriichi wounded Big Mom and burned Napoleon's soul, while Big Mom summoned another unseen force called Notus.

• Big Mom rushed Tsugikuni Yoriichi in midair, but their clash sent her plunging toward the sea until Prometheus caught her.
• Big Mom and Prometheus attacked together, but Yoriichi dodged and destroyed Prometheus with a flurry of sword strikes.
• Big Mom summoned Boreas, halted her fall, and attacked Yoriichi with invisible wind blades and a waterspout.
• Big Mom descended through a wall of wind and struck at Yoriichi, but he caught Napoleon's blade, burned it with golden flames, and stabbed her in the chest.
• Big Mom's wound quickly closed, but Napoleon's soul faded after Yoriichi's flames burned it, and she called out to Notus.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi battled Big Mom in the sky above Whole Cake Island, adapting to her wind Homies before revealing his phoenix form and overwhelming her. After Big Mom asked whether One Piece truly existed, Yoriichi struck her into the sea and left the surviving pirates beneath a renewed shower of Golden Flames.

• Big Mom created Notus from Napoleon’s soul and used the wind Homie to fly, restrain Tsugikuni Yoriichi, and wound him.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi healed his chest wound and fought Big Mom through dozens of exchanges, gradually injuring her while she tired.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi unleashed his fully transformed golden phoenix form, and Big Mom’s Windcry Sword attack caused his golden fire to rain down on and engulf much of her fleet.
• Big Mom asked Tsugikuni Yoriichi whether One Piece existed, but he answered by invoking Roger’s name and launching a Phoenix Seal attack.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi shattered Big Mom’s greatsword, struck her into the sea, and flew away as Golden Flames fell over the fleet again.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi arrived at Coco Island after defeating the Big Mom Pirates and demanded that the Marines withdraw from Whole Cake Island, which he claimed for the New Marines. Tsuru negotiated the Marines’ withdrawal in exchange for Sakazuki’s release, and a global newspaper later announced the Big Mom Pirates’ destruction and the New Marines’ rise.

• Kuzan and Borsalino saw golden flames spreading across the sea, while Borsalino deduced that Tsugikuni Yoriichi had attacked Whole Cake Island.
• Dawn appeared above Coco Island, and Tsugikuni Yoriichi descended to the Marine command ship to announce that he had defeated the Big Mom Pirates.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi demanded that the Marines leave Whole Cake Island and declared it New Marine territory, giving them half a month to withdraw from Coco Island.
• Tsuru asked for the Poneglyph and Sakazuki in exchange for negotiating the Marines’ withdrawal, and Tsugikuni Yoriichi agreed to release Sakazuki once they left.
• Two days later, Morgans’s newspaper announced the Big Mom Pirates’ destruction and proclaimed the New Marines rulers of the New World.

Sengoku convened Marine Headquarters’ senior officers to assess the New Marines and decide how to respond to their growing power. The meeting ended with orders to avoid provoking them and keep the reason for Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s departure secret, while Sengoku and Major General Rocca privately revealed their earlier confrontation had been staged to secure that outcome.

• Brannew reported that Tsugikuni Yoriichi, Issho, and Dracule Mihawk led the New Marines, whose forces rivaled the great pirate crews and whose strength included Yoriichi’s possible match for Whitebeard.
• Rocca accused Sengoku of letting a formidable force emerge under Marine Headquarters, and Sengoku showed photographs of Celestial Dragons enslaving people to explain why Tsugikuni Yoriichi had left.
• Sengoku asked the officers how to deal with the New Marines, and Rocca proposed avoiding conflict because Marine Headquarters could not safely challenge them.
• The officers backed Rocca’s proposal, and Sengoku ordered Marines to avoid attacking the New Marines without authorization and to keep the reason for Yoriichi’s departure secret.
• After the meeting, Sengoku thanked Rocca and admitted the public dispute had helped secure support for avoiding war; Rocca warned him that exposing the Celestial Dragons’ crimes could endanger his position.

Sengoku resisted the Gorosei’s pressure to attack Tsugikuni Yoriichi, while the Gorosei shifted their focus to the Revolutionary Army and plotted to provoke Yoriichi’s forces. Yoriichi consolidated control of Whole Cake Island and began planning the New Marines’ next stage, including a new flag design.

• Sengoku warned Saint Saturn that attacking Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s forces could destroy the Marines’ front line, then challenged the Gorosei over their conflicting orders and hung up on them.
• The Gorosei decided Sengoku remained useful as long as he followed their policies, identified Monkey D. Dragon and the Revolutionary Army as a greater priority, and planned to attack its East Army Headquarters while stirring up pirates against Yoriichi.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi took control of Whole Cake Island, captured the remaining Big Mom Pirates for bounties, and sent Fish-Man Marines to salvage the sunken ships.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi posted notices, turned former minister residences into Marine branches, and arranged for recruits, headquarters, and the Marine Academy to move to Whole Cake Island.
• Issho suggested changing the New Marines’ grim black-and-red insignia, and Tsugikuni Yoriichi proposed a red flag with gold patterns.

Yoriichi addressed the New Marines’ shortage of administrators and soldiers by introducing new local governance, recruitment, education, and public-service policies on Whole Cake Island. After announcing a worldwide recruitment drive, he drew Whitebeard’s curiosity, and Whitebeard set sail for Whole Cake Island to see what Yoriichi was planning.

• Issho warned Yoriichi that the New Marines lacked enough trusted personnel to govern Whole Cake Island and their expanding territory.
• Yoriichi and Issho discussed appointing island ministers and loosening recruitment standards, while Yoriichi identified talent development and administration as priorities.
• Yoriichi organized Whole Cake Island into cities, towns, villages, and household groups, with elected grassroots leaders and Marine-appointed branch commanders overseeing them.
• Yoriichi introduced compulsory elementary schools, public Marine Hospitals, and plans to move the Marine Academy to Cake Island.
• Yoriichi released a worldwide New Marine recruitment announcement through Morgans’s media network, prompting young people to seek ways to join.
• Whitebeard read the announcement, suspected Yoriichi had a larger purpose, and ordered his crew to sail to Whole Cake Island.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi reviewed the New Marines’ salvage profits and recruitment list while Sengoku secretly planned to send carefully chosen Marine spies into the organization. The chapter ended with Kuma learning that Ginny had disappeared and pleading to return to the Sorbé Kingdom.

• Jinbe reported that the salvage operation had recovered nearly seven hundred billion Beli, and Tsugikuni Yoriichi considered how to turn the wealth into resources for Whole Cake Island.
• Sengoku and Brannew selected potential spies for the New Marines, but Sengoku removed Kujaku from consideration because of her ties to Vice Admiral Tsuru.
• Ace and Sabo read the New Marines’ recruitment announcement, and Ace grew eager to leave Mount Colubo and go to sea.
• Kuma rushed into Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s office in distress, saying that Ginny had disappeared and begging to return to the Sorbé Kingdom.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi learned that Ginny was now an Eastern Army Captain in the Revolutionary Army.

Kuma learned that Ginny had been captured by the World Government in the Tomi Kingdom, and Tsugikuni Yoriichi arranged for the New Marines to rescue her. Kuma and Mihawk set out for the South Blue while Dragon left the rescue to them.

• Kuma told Tsugikuni Yoriichi that Ginny had disappeared while supporting a revolution in the Tomi Kingdom, and Yoriichi contacted Dragon for details.
• Dragon revealed that Cipher Pol had captured Ginny and that the Revolutionary Army lacked the forces to mount a rescue.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi committed the New Marines to the rescue and asked Dragon to track the World Government vessel carrying Ginny.
• Ivankov urged Dragon to lead a rescue, but Dragon told him to leave the mission to the New Marines.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi sent Kuma and Mihawk to the South Blue, advising Kuma to stay calm and trust his companion.

Ginny remained imprisoned in a lightless cell aboard a ship while Saint Harkob Benini tried to break her will and offered her a way out. After Ginny attacked him, he left her with a painful, mineral-like object attached to her cheek.

• Saint Harkob Benini visited Ginny's cell, introduced himself as a Celestial Dragon, and asked whether she wanted to escape.
• Benini ordered Thorne and the CP6 agents to deny Ginny food, water, light, and sound while he pursued his own plan.
• After three days, Benini entered Ginny's cell with water and asked again if she wanted to get out.
• Ginny drank the water, asked what she had to do, then attacked Benini, who kicked her into a Seastone wall.
• Benini taunted Ginny and left her with a hard, sharp object attached to her cheek that she could not remove.

Ginny resisted Jakob Benin’s attempts to break her will until he used news about Kuma to make her kiss his boot, but an attack on the ship interrupted him. Kuma and Mihawk found the vessel, and Jakob emerged claiming Ginny was dead before Kuma struck back in fury.

• Jakob Benin offered Ginny information about Kuma if she fulfilled a request, and Ginny agreed to kiss his boot to learn what had happened to him.
• An explosion shook the ship, and CP6 agents warned Jakob Benin that enemies were attacking.
• Kuma and Mihawk boarded the ship, with Kuma demanding to know where Ginny was while Mihawk watched from the bow.
• Jakob Benin burst onto the deck and shouted that Ginny was dead before attacking Kuma with a pink crystal spear.
• Kuma blocked Jakob Benin’s spear, appeared behind him, and brought his paw-like hand down to strike.

Kuma and Mihawk attacked the World Government ship to rescue Ginny, and Mihawk killed Saint Harkob Benini with a single slash. Kuma found Ginny in the prison and brought her home to the Sorbé Kingdom, where she woke to his welcome.

• Kuma shattered Saint Harkob Benini, who reformed as pink crystal and ordered the CP6 agents to get Seastone weapons.
• Saint Harkob Benini lied that Ginny had killed herself, but Mihawk reminded Kuma that she had never left the ship and urged him to find her.
• Saint Harkob Benini attacked Mihawk, who cut him in half with one slash, leaving the CP6 agents panicked and Thorne hiding in the bridge.
• Kuma broke through the prison corridor and found Ginny, who recognized him before collapsing unconscious.
• Ginny woke in her old room at the church in the Sorbé Kingdom, and Kuma welcomed her home.

Kuma comforted Ginny after rescuing her, while Sengoku learned that the World Government had ordered a Buster Call on the Sorbé Kingdom, where Kuma and Mihawk might be hiding. Tsugikuni Yoriichi learned of the Marine deployment and went to the shore, where he noticed a green-haired child practicing with a wooden sword.

• Ginny embraced Kuma, and he comforted her while Mihawk quietly left them alone.
• Brannew reported that Dracule Mihawk had killed a Celestial Dragon, and Sengoku read Tensei's report connecting the incident to Ginny and Kuma.
• Spandine delivered the Gorosei's order to launch a Buster Call on the Sorbé Kingdom and strip Kuma of his Shichibukai title, and Sengoku handed over the Golden Den Den Mushi.
• Sengoku suspected Kuma and Mihawk were in the Sorbé Kingdom, while Tensei watched Marine warships assemble and memorized their unit designations.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi learned of the Marine deployment, reflected on fighting former comrades, and spotted a green-haired child practicing swordsmanship on the beach.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi found young Roronoa Zoro training dangerously on Cake Island and offered to teach him after hearing about his goal to surpass Kuina and become the world’s greatest Great Swordsman. The chapter ended as Zoro charged at Yoriichi for a lesson in swordsmanship.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi approached Roronoa Zoro as he practiced with a wooden sword amid waves on the shore.
• Zoro introduced himself as a disciple of Shimotsuki Koushirou and explained that he had come to train while the dojo was closed.
• Zoro told Tsugikuni Yoriichi that he wanted to surpass Kuina and become the world’s greatest Great Swordsman.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi warned Zoro that excessive training could stunt his growth and said that perception and the mind raised a swordsman’s limits.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi offered to teach Zoro without making him change masters, then invited him to attack.
• Zoro charged at Tsugikuni Yoriichi as Yoriichi told him to watch and learn.

Yoriichi taught Zoro to think beyond conventional swordsmanship, then promised to train him each morning. As a Marine Buster Call fleet approached Sorbé Kingdom and most residents dismissed Kuma’s warning, Zoro returned with two wooden swords, and Yoriichi agreed to teach him the Two-Sword Style.

• Yoriichi sparred with Zoro, teaching him to use every means available to land an attack and to stay alert until a fight was decided.
• After more than an hour of training, Yoriichi ended the session and offered to guide Zoro for an hour each morning; Zoro eagerly accepted.
• Yoriichi told Kuma and Mihawk about the planned Buster Call and suggested evacuating Sorbé Kingdom’s people to Bean Island, while expressing trust in their decisions.
• Kuma spread the warning, but most residents did not believe him; he used his power to send a small number of people away as the Marine fleet neared the island.
• Zoro arrived for morning training carrying two wooden swords, explained his reasoning, and Yoriichi agreed to teach him the Two-Sword Style.

Kuma defended the Sorbé Kingdom from a Buster Call by unleashing a massive tsunami that annihilated the Marine fleet, while Mihawk witnessed the attack and left. Later, at Isshin Dojo, Zoro challenged Kuina again, insisting his two-sword style would let him defeat her.

• Kuma recognized the approaching Marine fleet and deflected its test cannonball back at a warship.
• John Giant ordered the fleet to bombard the Sorbé Kingdom, and Kuma intercepted shells aimed at the island’s people.
• Kuma unleashed a vast tsunami with the Paw-Paw Fruit, which swept away the Marine fleet as Spandine and the vice admirals watched helplessly.
• Mihawk witnessed the fleet’s destruction and disappeared into the rain, while Kuma stood grieving on the shore.
• At Isshin Dojo, Kuina warned Zoro that using two swords might hold him back, but Zoro charged at her and declared he would win.

Zoro surprised Kuina with a new two-sword attack but still lost when she knocked his weapons away. Upset and confused, he went to Tsugikuni Yoriichi, who explained that hard work alone could not erase differences in physical development and urged him to build his strength step by step.

• Zoro used a series of coordinated two-sword attacks to land a hit on Kuina, astonishing the dojo students and Shimotsuki Koushirou.
• Kuina demanded another match, then overpowered Zoro and knocked both his wooden swords from his hands before Shimotsuki Koushirou stopped the spar.
• Zoro left the dojo frustrated, while Kuina went home heartbroken over her belief that she could not become the world's strongest swordsman as a woman.
• Zoro visited Tsugikuni Yoriichi's office after training, and Yoriichi prepared noodles before asking why he was upset.
• Zoro told Tsugikuni Yoriichi that he had lost to Kuina despite working hard, and Yoriichi told him to focus on steady progress, sensible planning, and building a strong foundation.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi taught Zoro Breathing Techniques while the New Marines expanded their island routes and mourned a disastrous Marine loss. The Whitebeard Pirates arrived at Milk Island, where Major Terry Black prepared to respond, and a New Marine officer attacked Marco as he left a shop.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi taught Zoro to coordinate his breathing with sword forms and expected him to master Life Return within two years.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi read that nearly three thousand Marines had died in a tsunami, while the Marine Headquarters report concealed the incident’s full details.
• Whitebeard and the Whitebeard Pirates arrived at Milk Island, prompting civilians to flee and Major Terry Black to alert headquarters and ready his forces.
• Marco visited a shop and took its supply of milk tablets without paying after the frightened shopkeeper offered them freely.
• A young man in a New Marine uniform leaped from a rooftop and kicked at Marco’s head as Marco left the shop.

Marco fought New Marines Major Terry Black after Terry accused him of taking milk tablets without paying, though Marco believed the shopkeeper had given them to him. After Marco returned to the ship, Satch listened to his account and remarked that Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s New Marines were different.

• Terry Black attacked Marco for what he believed was the exploitation of civilians, but Marco shrugged off the blows and counterattacked with his phoenix powers.
• Marco explained that the shopkeeper had told him he did not need to pay, while Terry Black’s memories of his family’s ruin under protection rackets fueled his anger.
• Terry Black charged again despite his injuries, and Marco knocked him unconscious before leaving with the milk tablets.
• Marco returned to the ship troubled by an unfamiliar feeling, and Satch listened as he recounted the encounter.
• Satch said Terry Black’s actions were unexpected and observed that Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s New Marines were different.

Marco reflected on why Terry Black had hated him, while Satch explained how Marco’s use of his status had looked like plunder to a local New Marine. As the Whitebeard Pirates began terrorizing a tavern in Cheese Town, Tsugikuni Yoriichi flew to meet them, and a red-haired swordsman appeared behind Blamenco to intervene.

• Satch explained that Marco had received goods without paying because people feared the Whitebeard Pirates, and that Whole Cake Island was unlike Whitebeard’s protected home of Sphinx Island.
• Terry Black’s subordinates found him unconscious in Cheese Town, while Tsugikuni Yoriichi ordered the New Marines to avoid contact with the Whitebeard Pirates and assembled his forces.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi learned that Terry Black had been severely injured, then flew toward the Whitebeard Pirates at increased speed.
• Blamenco smashed into a tavern, intimidated its owners, and demanded that the owner’s wife pour his drink while threatening her husband.
• A red-haired young man appeared behind Blamenco, rested a hand on his shoulder, and reached for the bottle as he offered to pour the drink himself.