Chapter Summaries

Pirates attacked Zephyr’s wife and son, Yekrieg, on the Sabaody Archipelago, but Nanamo’s group stopped them and Nereus arranged aid for the injured. Zephyr learned that his family was with Nereus, leaving him alarmed.

• Zephyr’s wife brought Yekrieg to the Sabaody Archipelago while Zephyr was away on an escort mission, and escaped pirates identified the boy as Zephyr’s son.
• The pirates attacked tourists and pursued Zephyr’s family amid a growing panic and trampling incident.
• Hermes blocked the pirates, and Brook killed them while Nanamo confronted the attackers.
• Yekrieg’s mother collapsed from fright, and Nereus brought a doctor and summoned guards and medical supplies to help the injured.
• A Marine officer reported that Zephyr’s family was with Nereus, and Zephyr was nearly overcome with shock.

Nereus protected Zephyr’s wife and son from a pirate and summoned Zephyr to Sabaody. Zephyr arrived in a panic, learned his family was safe, and was left to deal with the captured attacker and his son’s demand for concert-ticket compensation.

• Nereus wondered why no Marines had arrived to collect Zephyr’s family and discussed Zephyr’s continued service on the front lines with Nanamo.
• Zephyr raced to GR 33 and landed with enough force to snap the mangrove roots, frightening his son.
• Zephyr found his wife receiving medical care and his son hiding behind Nereus, then realized the message had only said that his family had been attacked and was safe.
• Nereus explained that he had kept the family company because the Marines were too scared to approach, then had Hermes hand over the captured pirate who had targeted them.
• Zephyr thanked Nereus and appeared ready to send the pirate to Impel Down, while his son asked him to compensate Nereus’s companion for a missed concert ticket.

After the Sabaody Archipelago incident, Zephyr learned more about Nereus’s violent past and worried that his family might become entangled with him. Headquarters then ordered Zephyr to mediate a possible war between the Dole Kingdom and the Ryugu Kingdom, leaving him unsure how he could handle Nereus.

• Nanamo waited to ask Zephyr for compensation, while Yekrieg expected the Navy Admiral to pay for the ticket.
• Zephyr questioned Navy soldiers about the Sabaody Archipelago incident and decided to stay at headquarters instead of continuing the escort mission.
• Zephyr told his wife that Nereus had killed tens of thousands of Navy soldiers, and he discussed ways to protect Yekrieg and their family.
• Headquarters ordered Zephyr to mediate a likely war between the Dole Kingdom and the Ryugu Kingdom.
• Zephyr warned Marshal Kong that he could not stop Nereus alone, and Kong clarified that the mission was to mediate, not stop him.

Zephyr learned that the Navy’s role in the coming war was largely symbolic, while Nereus prepared an eight-hundred-person Neptune Army expedition against the Dole Kingdom. After explaining that the campaign aimed to free Ryugu Kingdom’s abducted people, Nereus showed his soldiers a map depicting the Dole Kingdom’s outlying regions as lawless lands where residents were treated as slaves.

• Kong told Zephyr the World Government had tacitly accepted the war and selected him to represent the Navy because of his rank and past encounters with Nereus.
• Kong said another person would escort the other kings home and that Zephyr could remain on leave until Fish-Man Island’s forces moved out.
• Nereus and Sambel finalized an expedition of eight hundred Neptune Army soldiers, selected from fifty thousand troops, and Nereus summoned them to Ryugu Palace.
• Nereus told the soldiers that the campaign was a war for Ryugu Kingdom and a liberation, not an invasion, then Nanamo projected information about the Dole Kingdom.
• Nereus explained that the Dole Kingdom treated most of its island’s regions as lawless lands and their residents as slaves.

Nereus prepared Fish-Man Island’s campaign against the Dole Kingdom’s slavery and invited Zephyr to see the kingdom before deciding whether to mediate. After entering secretly, they saw the oppression hidden beneath the country’s surface.

• Nereus told the Neptune Army that its targets were the slave masters of the Dole Kingdom and framed the campaign as a fight against discrimination and slavery.
• The Navy sent Zephyr and warships toward the Dole Kingdom, while its local forces waited for an attack that had not yet come.
• Nereus boarded Zephyr’s warship and challenged him to visit the Dole Kingdom and decide whether it deserved to exist.
• Zephyr accepted Nereus’s invitation, and they secretly entered the kingdom by landing from a cliff.
• Nereus and Zephyr saw residents in prison-like clothing forced to walk through drainage channels beneath the roads, revealing the Dole Kingdom’s hidden oppression.

Nereus hinted to Zephyr that the World Government’s rotten order needed to be uprooted, while Zephyr feared being drawn into a conspiracy. Inside the Dole Kingdom’s slave arena, a slave predicted war and liberation before an unseen figure stopped a guard from striking him.

• Nereus argued that the World Government’s order was built on exploitation and suggested that replacing it was better than preserving it, while Zephyr recognized he was being recruited.
• Nereus warned Zephyr that reporting him would make Zephyr look like a troublemaker, and Zephyr regretted visiting the Dole Kingdom.
• Shell, a nameless slave who had given himself a name, secretly gave water to a battered man in the arena’s cells.
• The man told Shell and the other slaves that war would come to the Dole Kingdom and that its instigator would become the slaves’ savior.
• A guard tried to whip the man for speaking, but a pitch-black arm seized the whip and stopped him.

Zephyr freed the slaves in the Dole Kingdom and turned against the guards, while Nereus blocked the Navy’s warships and launched an aerial assault on the kingdom. As Chaplin’s defenses collapsed, he learned that Zephyr had broken into the royal palace.

• Zephyr struck down a guard, blamed Nereus, broke open the slave cages, and told the captives to await the kingdom’s rebirth.
• Nereus left Zephyr behind and split the sea before the Navy’s fleet, warning the Marines not to cross.
• Chaplin watched Nereus’s ship from the palace, then learned that Ryugu Kingdom forces had captured the harbor from the sky.
• Flying Fish-Men launched from a catapult and overwhelmed the coastal defenses, bypassing Chaplin’s naval mines.
• Chaplin received word that Zephyr had smashed through the palace gates and entered the royal palace.

Zephyr broke into the Dole Kingdom’s palace and confronted King Chaplin, realizing that he could bend the rules while still serving in the Marines. After Chaplin refused to regret his actions, Zephyr punched him, just as Nereus’s Royal Guard entered the palace and found Zephyr had beaten them to their target.

• Zephyr reflected that he could act on his own judgment within the Marines without becoming a pirate or abandoning his beliefs.
• Zephyr smashed through the palace doors and confronted Chaplin, who accused the Marines of conspiring with Nereus.
• Zephyr asked Chaplin whether he regretted the war and the kingdom’s treatment of slaves, but Chaplin blamed the Marines and World Government.
• Chaplin claimed that stripped citizens and non-member-nation people did not count as human, so Zephyr punched him into a wall.
• Nereus’s Royal Guard broke into the palace to attack the guards and carry out their decapitation mission, then realized Zephyr had already taken down Chaplin.

Zephyr left Dole Kingdom after killing Chaplin, while Nereus’s army and the Marines ended the war and restored order. When Nereus prepared to return to his own country, the freed slaves and residents pleaded with him to stay and rule Dole Kingdom.

• Zephyr left the palace after telling the Royal Guard to pretend they had not seen him, and the guards reported his involvement to Nereus.
• Nereus reflected on his plans for Zephyr as his eight hundred soldiers broke Dole Kingdom’s defenses and the freed slaves joined the fight.
• Zephyr returned to his warship, and he and Nereus agreed that the Marines would help bring the kingdom under control.
• The Marines restored calm after Chaplin’s death, while the former Royal Army was disbanded and freed slaves struggled to decide where to go.
• Nereus prepared to return home, but Dole Kingdom’s residents asked him who would rule them if he left.

Four years after the Dole Kingdom abolished slavery, it had begun industrializing with help from the Ryugu Kingdom, and other nations had become more cautious and interested in its growing influence. At Marine Headquarters, Kong confronted Garp and Zephyr over complaints about their behavior and looked to Sengoku for the Navy’s future.

• The Ryugu Kingdom left Tiger in the Dole Kingdom to help establish a new order and prepare for the citizens to choose a representative king.
• By Sea Circle Calendar 1513, the Dole Kingdom had developed factories and metal production with equipment and assistance from the Ryugu Kingdom.
• At the Reverie, nations treated the Ryugu Kingdom with greater respect, while rising pirate activity drew interest in its insurance business.
• Kong gathered the Navy’s senior officers and complained that Garp and Zephyr had accumulated stacks of complaints.
• Garp and Zephyr brushed off Kong’s complaints, and Kong silently looked to Sengoku to lead the Navy’s future.

The Golden Lion complained to Whitebeard that the World Government had credited Nereus with events actually carried out by Harald, leaving him suspicious about Nereus’s many supposed appearances. Their argument ended with the Golden Lion fleeing Whitebeard’s anger, while Crocus noticed a resemblance between an old bounty poster and a recent newspaper.

• Kong settled on Sengoku as his successor after Zephyr became unreliable and Garp refused promotion, while the Marines’ campaign weakened several notorious pirates.
• The Golden Lion visited Whitebeard and asked why Nereus and Harald had both chosen to serve the World Government.
• The Golden Lion told Whitebeard that Harald had defeated him, though the World Government had claimed Nereus was responsible, and he wondered how Nereus could appear in so many places.
• Oden said he had met Nereus in Wano Country and thought he was easy to talk to, angering Whitebeard when the Golden Lion called him an idiot.
• The Golden Lion flew away from Whitebeard, and Crocus compared an old bounty poster with a recent newspaper and wondered if the person shown was Brook.

Roger recruited Crocus to join the Oro Jackson, and Crocus agreed so he could search for the missing Rumbar Pirates and visit Nereus on Fish-Man Island. As the ship set sail, Nereus cared for Chloe at Ryugu Palace, where she asked how he had determined she was not a Mermaid hybrid.

• Roger told Crocus that his illness left him only a few years and asked him to join the voyage.
• Crocus explained that he wanted to search for the Rumbar Pirates, who had left Laboon at Twin Capes and disappeared, and to visit Nereus on Fish-Man Island.
• Roger welcomed Crocus aboard, then tried to keep his illness secret, but Gaban and other crew members had overheard them.
• Crocus reassured Laboon that he would search for the Rumbar Pirates before the Oro Jackson set sail.
• At Ryugu Palace, Nereus looked after Chloe, whose Lunarian traits had emerged alongside her ability to breathe underwater.
• Chloe asked Nereus how he had determined she was not a Mermaid hybrid.

Nanamo helped care for Chloe while Alber used his Qilin Fruit to train Fish-Man Island’s graduates through their fears. Jinbe and his classmates visited Arlong and discovered that Arlong’s father had left him to care for his newborn half-sister, Shyarly.

• Nanamo explained that Chloe’s Lunarian flames limited who could safely care for her, leaving her family and Alber to look after her.
• Alber used the Qilin Fruit’s dream-manifesting powers to put Jinbe and the other trainees through frightening training.
• Jinbe and his classmates complained that Arlong had skipped training and decided to visit him so he could catch up.
• Jinbe kicked open Arlong’s door and found a crying baby in his messy home.
• Arlong said his father had brought him a little sister and left to seek his fortune, and the baby was revealed to be Shyarly.

At thirteen, Arlong struggled with what to do about his one-year-old sister, Shyarly, and ultimately sent her to a childcare institution. At Ryugu Palace, Nanamo and Amphitrite cared for the energetic Chloe while Nereus remained occupied with two stones.

• Arlong's classmates urged him to place Shyarly in one of King Nereus's childcare institutions because he could not raise her alone.
• Arlong worried about abandoning his little sister, but he eventually sent Shyarly to the institution.
• The chapter explained how Nereus's welfare facilities and childbirth policies supported abandoned children and addressed parents who failed to raise them.
• Nanamo kept Chloe company and tried to teach her to call her big sister.
• Amphitrite returned from training, took Chloe from Nanamo, and said Nereus was busy bonding with two stones.

Nereus used MADS's technique to make Fish-Man Island's two Poneglyphs eat the Mythical Zoan Turtle-Turtle Fruit, Model: Xuanwu, and forced the newly living weapon to submit. Vander Decken VIII brought his son to meet Nereus, but the sudden pressure made the father kneel.

• Amphitrite and her daughters discussed Nereus's fascination with Fish-Man Island's Poneglyphs as he prepared to turn them into a weapon.
• Nereus connected the red and gray Poneglyphs with a chain and used the Turtle-Turtle Fruit, Model: Xuanwu, to make them into a single living weapon.
• The Poneglyphs transformed into a stone turtle and a scarlet serpent, and Nereus subdued Xuanwu with his Haki.
• Vander Decken VIII brought Vander Decken IX to meet Nereus and boasted about his past before suddenly kneeling at the aura from inside the room.

Vander Decken VIII brought his son, Vander Decken IX, to meet Nereus, then asked whether Nereus’s new daughter might be Poseidon. Nereus sent Vander Decken VIII to test the Devil Fruit-powered Black Tortoise, and his first attack was reflected back at him.

• Vander Decken VIII sensed Nereus’s Haki and forced Vander Decken IX to kneel outside Nereus’s door.
• Nereus greeted Vander Decken VIII and met Vander Decken IX before taking Vander Decken VIII inside to talk.
• Vander Decken VIII asked whether Nereus’s daughter showed signs of Awakening as Poseidon, and Nereus said no Sea Kings had appeared.
• Nereus transformed the Poneglyph into a Black Tortoise and ordered Vander Decken VIII to test its abilities.
• Vander Decken VIII cautiously punched the Black Tortoise, but the attack sent him flying, suggesting it could reflect damage.

Nereus tested Black Tortoise’s defensive powers, then returned home to help care for his daughter Chloe. Tiger later contacted him with news that he had found Noland’s descendants.

• Nereus had Vander Decken VIII attack Black Tortoise with weapons, and its shell reflected each attack back at him.
• Black Tortoise returned to its ordinary stone form and was placed outside the gates of Ryugu Palace.
• Nereus returned to his residence and took Chloe from Amphitrite so she could rest.
• Tiger called Nereus from the North Blue and reported that he had found Noland’s descendants.

Tiger traveled to the Lvneel Kingdom and found Mont Blanc Cricket, a descendant of Noland, then brought him along toward Fish-Man Island. Meanwhile, Roger’s crew reached the Sabaody Archipelago, where Rayleigh received an unexpected request for a Ryugu Kingdom permit before coating their ship.

• Nereus ordered Tiger to find Noland’s descendants and bring them back if they were willing, and Tiger set out for the Lvneel Kingdom.
• Tiger learned that Cricket lived aboard a ship at the docks and found him there.
• Cricket initially denied being Noland’s descendant, but admitted the truth after Tiger explained that Noland was honored as a hero in a distant kingdom.
• Cricket gathered his belongings and joined Tiger on the journey toward Fish-Man Island.
• Roger’s crew arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago, where Rayleigh began preparing to coat their ship.
• Rayleigh received an unexpected request for a permit from the Ryugu Kingdom.

Rayleigh learned that the Ryugu Kingdom now regulated ship-coating materials and arranged permits for the Roger Pirates. Roger told Shanks, Buggy, and Douglas Bullet that Nereus was stronger than him in the deep sea, leaving Bullet eager to test himself against the king.

• Rayleigh discovered that buying coating resin required a Ryugu Kingdom permit and told the crew about the new regulations.
• Rayleigh and Gaban told Shanks and Buggy that Nereus was the Ryugu Kingdom's king and had once carried a five-billion-Beli Bounty.
• Roger admitted that Nereus surpassed him in strength underwater, which sparked Douglas Bullet's interest in challenging him.
• Rayleigh set out to get the crew's passes and warned Shanks and Buggy to stay aboard unless Gaban accompanied them.
• Buggy wondered how much money Fish-Man Island collected in fees, and Roger warned him that provoking Nereus in the deep sea could keep him from seeing the sun again.

Roger took Shanks and Buggy to the Ryugu Kingdom office to ask about Brook for Crocus, then sailed the Oro Jackson toward Fish-Man Island. As the ship arrived, Crocus spotted a familiar figure with an explosive hairstyle.

• Roger left the Oro Jackson and brought Shanks and Buggy to the Ryugu Kingdom office, where he asked Babel about Brook.
• Babel confirmed Brook was with Nereus and agreed to report Roger’s arrival after Roger mentioned Crocus’s Hair Growth Potion formula.
• Buggy whispered doubts to Shanks about whether the bald Crocus could really grow hair, and Shanks silenced him.
• After several days of coating preparations, the Oro Jackson descended toward Fish-Man Island with its permits and was guided through the kingdom’s expanded archipelago.
• Crocus spotted a familiar figure with an explosive hairstyle as the Oro Jackson entered Fish-Man Island’s territory.