Chapter Summaries

Dracule Mihawk challenged Red-Haired Shanks to a sword duel and discovered that Shanks’s swordsmanship, strengthened by Shin’s guidance, far surpassed his own. After Mihawk’s strongest techniques failed, he gathered his Haki and sword intent for one final strike.

• Dracule Mihawk challenged Shanks, but Shanks’s condensed sword intent broke through Mihawk’s attack and pushed him back in their first clash.
• Mihawk declared himself the future world’s greatest swordsman, while Shanks introduced himself as the pirate who would rule the Grand Line.
• Shanks defeated Mihawk in another exchange and sent him flying into the seawater.
• Mihawk attacked from beneath the water with Sword of Wind, but Shanks struck the center of the blade net and stopped it.
• Mihawk recognized that he could not win normally, then coated his sword in Armament Haki and concentrated all his sword intent for his strongest strike.

Shanks defeated Dracule Mihawk with a lightning-fast slash, and Mihawk disappeared beneath the sea. Three days later, Mihawk woke on a giant leaf beside a mysterious black-robed figure.

• Shanks overwhelmed Mihawk's strongest strike with a slash he called Sword Qi Thunder Sound, leaving Mihawk with a severe wound.
• Mihawk fell into the sea, and Shanks let Mihawk's boat drift away rather than try to save him.
• Roger's final words sparked a wave of new pirates, while Warring States Period struggled to manage the growing chaos and could not find Garp.
• Mihawk regained consciousness three days later and discovered he was standing on a huge emerald-green leaf floating on the sea.
• Mihawk noticed a black-robed figure whose movements blended so naturally with the leaf and waves that he had initially overlooked him.

Dracule Mihawk woke on a leaf at sea, where Uchiha Shin had rescued and treated him after Shanks wounded him. Mihawk asked Shin to teach him swordsmanship, and Shin’s first lesson was to cook a fish, leaving Mihawk pondering how to start a fire on the leaf.

• Uchiha Shin caught a fish and gave it to Mihawk, whose stomach growled as he recovered from his sword wound.
• Mihawk recognized Shin as the God of Time and Space, and Shin explained that Shanks had used a sword technique he had taught him.
• Mihawk knelt and asked Shin to teach him swordsmanship, saying he had no money to pay.
• Shin told Mihawk that his first lesson was to cook the fish and test his heat control.
• Mihawk realized he had no fire and worried that lighting one might burn through the leaf, then wondered whether this was part of Shin’s test.

Dracule Mihawk cooked for Shin while the two drifted across the sea on a strange leaf, hoping to earn swordsmanship lessons. After three months, Mihawk’s wounds had healed and his body had grown stronger, but he had become an accomplished chef without receiving any promise of training.

• Dracule Mihawk caught a deep-sea fish and grilled it over a fire on the leaf while wondering about Shin’s abilities and the impossible straight-hook catch.
• Shin rejected Mihawk’s first grilled fish, so Mihawk caught another and focused intently until Shin approved it.
• Mihawk asked Shin to teach him swordsmanship, but Shin said he had never agreed to be his teacher and assigned Mihawk responsibility for three meals a day with no repeats.
• Over two months of drifting past empty sea and barren islands, Mihawk improved his cooking while the leaf’s faint vitality healed his injuries and strengthened his body.
• After another month, Mihawk had mastered identifying and preparing sea fish, though he still had no assurance that Shin would teach him swordsmanship.

After three months of cooking for Shin, Dracule Mihawk was told to catch fish with Shin’s straight-hook fishing rod instead. Mihawk failed to catch anything, while Shin summoned a fish for dinner and ordered Mihawk to cook it without eating any.

• Shin praised Dracule Mihawk’s fish soup and told him he no longer had to dive for fish every day.
• Dracule Mihawk expected Shin to begin teaching him swordsmanship, but Shin gave him the straight-hook fishing rod and assigned him to fish.
• Shin warned Dracule Mihawk that he would get no dinner if he failed to catch a fish.
• Dracule Mihawk fished for three hours without a catch as the sun set.
• Shin summoned a fish from the sea and told Dracule Mihawk to cook it, but not to eat any.

Mihawk endured a cold, hungry night before Shin woke him and ordered him to fish for breakfast. After Mihawk failed again and cooked Shin’s fish instead, he questioned whether Shin’s hook could catch anything at all.

• Mihawk woke hungry and cold, reflected on his damaged sword and his devotion to swordsmanship, then tried to sleep.
• Shin woke Mihawk at dawn and gave him two hours to catch fish or lose breakfast.
• Mihawk failed to catch anything, and Shin ate grilled fish that Mihawk had cooked.
• Mihawk asked Shin whether his hook could really catch fish.

Shin taught Dracule Mihawk to quiet his heart and use Observation Haki while fishing, linking the lesson to becoming the world's greatest swordsman. Mihawk finished the day without catching a fish, and Shin resumed his mysterious meditation as Mihawk asked what they would eat for dinner.

• Shin told Dracule Mihawk that he needed to listen and sense the life in his fishing rod and hook, then forbade him from eating until he caught a fish.
• Shin advised Dracule Mihawk to extend his Observation Haki and reflect on the saying, “Let the heart be like drifting clouds, ever free; let the mind be like flowing water, free to move east or west.”
• Shin withdrew into meditation, sending his consciousness toward a dark, unknown domain filled with negative emotions.
• Dracule Mihawk calmed himself and fished through the day, suppressing his irritation and hunger despite catching nothing.
• At sunset, Shin praised Dracule Mihawk's calmness, dismissed his sense of progress as an illusion, and heard him ask what flavor of fish they would have for dinner.

Dracule Mihawk spent weeks learning to listen to the sea and catch a fish with a straight hook, discovering how to harmonize with the leaf and the ocean. After he finally succeeded, Shin told him to leave the boat, saying Mihawk had already entered the Sword Dao.

• Dracule Mihawk endured hunger for days while trying to understand the voices of all things, but made little progress.
• Dracule Mihawk noticed the leaf moving in perfect rhythm with the sea and realized he had to harmonize with it rather than treat it as a boat.
• Dracule Mihawk imitated Uchiha Shin and used Observation Haki to listen to the sea, gradually improving at fishing.
• A month later, Dracule Mihawk caught a fish with the straight hook, and Shin praised his talent before telling him to get off the boat.
• Dracule Mihawk protested that he had not learned swordsmanship or 'Sword Qi Thunder Sound,' but Shin said he had already entered the Sword Dao.

Shin ended Dracule Mihawk’s training and demonstrated the advanced sword art Sword Threading before leaving him on an island. Mihawk could not yet comprehend the technique, but Shin believed that mastering even a fraction of it could make him invincible in this world.

• Shin told Dracule Mihawk that his training was over and that he had to forge his own path in swordsmanship.
• Mihawk thanked Shin and recognized that his defeat to Shanks had stemmed from a gap in their understanding of the sword.
• Shin demonstrated Sword Threading, a sword strike that split the sea and stirred a massive storm.
• Mihawk failed to remember or comprehend the technique, and Shin advised him to ponder it for years and find a better sword.
• Shin and Mihawk reached an island, where Shin said goodbye and left Mihawk behind.

After parting from Dracule Mihawk, Shin used the Satan Fruit to travel beyond the pirate world and locate the Endless Abyss. He reached its boundary and considered how to enter without attracting the attention of its powerful inhabitants.

• Dracule Mihawk thanked Shin, vowed to train hard, and stayed on the island to cultivate his swordsmanship.
• Shin sailed away on his leaf, relieved to be alone and ready to pursue his next goal.
• Shin transformed the leaf into a towering tree over the sea and used the Satan Fruit to send his consciousness beyond the pirate world.
• After crossing the void between planes, Shin found the Endless Abyss and reflected on the danger of entering without being noticed.

Shin entered the Abyss to scout the plane and assess its potential as a source of power for his distant battle against Light Gaia. In Nevas, the Burning City, he spotted a human caravan from a magical plane and began investigating its origins.

• Shin decided to explore the Abyss while concealing his true body and used the Satan Fruit's Abyssal aura to enter.
• Shin arrived in Nevas, the third layer of Hell, and observed its burning steel city and devils tormenting souls.
• Shin wondered where to go next when he noticed a caravan of humans crossing the city without being attacked by the local demons.
• Shin recognized the caravan's robes as those of mages and used Dark Gaia's ability to examine their causal threads and discover where they came from.

Shin investigated a caravan from Tiamas and learned that its mages had come to trade with the devils of a surface layer of Hell, ruled by the Duke of Flames, Collinsir. He followed them to the ruler’s iron tower, where the caravan leader went inside to meet the Duke.

• Shin used his ability to trace the caravan’s causality and learned that its members belonged to the Sehanhert High Magic Council.
• Shin discovered that the mages came from Tiamas to trade for Hell’s resources and that Collinsir, the Duke of Flames, ruled this layer.
• Shin silently joined the caravan, unseen by its members, as it traveled with two devils toward the layer’s iron tower.
• One of the red-skinned devils announced that the Duke of Flames was waiting for the goods, and the legendary mage entered the tower alone.
• Shin vanished soundlessly when the caravan stopped at the tower.

Lucifer awakened in the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons after sensing Shin enter the abyss through a resonance of his power, and he sent part of his consciousness to investigate. Meanwhile, Shin explored the Steel Tower in Nevas and headed toward powerful energy deep underground.

• Lucifer opened his eyes in the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, and Mammon asked why he had awakened.
• Lucifer told Mammon that someone had entered the abyss by resonating with his power in another plane.
• Lucifer decided to send part of his consciousness to the abyss’s surface layer, and Mammon withdrew.
• Shin wandered through the Duke of Flames’ Steel Tower and assessed the Legendary Mage’s strength.
• Shin saw through the tower’s spatial maze and descended toward powerful energy underground.

Shin infiltrated the Abyss to search the Duke of Flames’s treasury, using Dark Gaia’s authority to evade its guards. After killing a powerful crimson Satyr, he reached a massive bronze gate.

• Shin suppressed his presence and used causality to pass the increasingly powerful devils guarding the route to the treasury.
• Shin spotted a crimson Satyr guarding a devil lord’s territory and considered the unusual presence of a demon there.
• The Satyr noticed Shin and attacked him, but Shin froze the area and killed it without leaving a wound.
• Shin continued down the corridor and arrived before a massive bronze gate.

Shin broke into Flame Duke’s treasury and took a sphere containing the laws of time, provoking the duke and drawing the Legendary Mage into the confrontation. The chapter ended with Shin stopping Flame Duke’s punch with one finger.

• Shin entered the treasury, ignored its defensive barrier, and gathered its treasures into a newly made spatial pocket.
• Shin found a silvery-white sphere containing the laws of time and touched it, causing the tower to shake.
• Flame Duke sensed the intrusion while meeting with the Legendary Mage, then broke through the tower floors to reach the treasury.
• The Legendary Mage followed Flame Duke to help identify the intruder and distance his group from suspicion.
• Shin claimed he had traveled with Flame Duke’s caravan, then placed the sphere in his spatial pocket as Flame Duke threatened him.
• Flame Duke charged and punched at Shin, who stopped the blow with one finger.

Shin overwhelmed the Flame Duke and a legendary mage in Burning Hell, revealing power beyond what they could counter. The mage died, while the wounded Flame Duke struggled to contain his injury.

• The Flame Duke realized Shin had effortlessly blocked his full-strength punch, and the narration placed Shin at Demon god level.
• Shin released a surge of power that blasted the Flame Duke and the legendary mage backward and destroyed the tower at Burning Hell's center.
• The Flame Duke asked the legendary mage to help kill Shin in exchange for any materials or rewards he wanted.
• The legendary mage attacked with Frost's Fury as the Flame Duke summoned the power of Burning Hell to unleash countless fireballs at Shin.
• Shin sent two beams of silver light through the Flame Duke and the legendary mage, killing the mage while the Flame Duke struggled to stop his wound from spreading.

Shin confronted Flame Duke in the Abyss when Lucifer arrived and revealed that he knew Shin was Dark Gaia. After Lucifer wiped out every devil in the layer to keep Shin’s identity secret, he implied he had come for Shin, who challenged him to explain.

• Shin taunted the wounded Flame Duke, who tried to gather his remaining power while secretly looking for a way to escape.
• The Abyss trembled under the arrival of Lucifer, forcing every devil in the layer, including Flame Duke, to kneel.
• Lucifer introduced himself to Shin as a ruler of the Abyss, and Shin deliberately invoked Lucifer’s past as the Angel of Morning Light.
• Lucifer used Hell Cataclysm to turn every devil in the layer to dust without damaging the Abyss itself.
• Lucifer told Shin he had come because Shin was Dark Gaia, and Shin asked what he would do if he denied knowing why.

Shin confronted Lucifer in the Abyss and learned that Lucifer had sensed his arrival through a resonance tied to their names. When Lucifer revealed that he wanted to take Dark Gaia’s origin and become Gaia himself, Shin attacked, leaving their confrontation underway.

• Lucifer explained that he alone had sensed Shin enter the Abyss because Shin’s concealment resonated with Lucifer’s name.
• Shin described how powerful beings spread their names across the multiverse to extend their influence.
• Lucifer said he wanted to seize Dark Gaia’s origin and become Gaia rather than help Shin replace Light Gaia.
• Shin warned Lucifer that he had only sent a fragment of consciousness and questioned whether he could suppress Dark Gaia or take its origin.
• Lucifer rejected Shin’s warning, and Shin launched a sudden silver strike at him.

Shin fought Lucifer’s consciousness in the abyss, using his control over time, space, and a newly formed world to suppress him. Lucifer unleashed the Fire of Eternal Calamity as Shin’s attack gained the upper hand.

• Lucifer absorbed Shin’s silver energy attack and struck back with the Light of Hell, which strained Shin’s spatial shield.
• Shin used the Sword of Time to slow Lucifer, but Lucifer shattered the altered laws with a demonic sword strike.
• Shin created the Void Realm to sever Lucifer’s connection to his true body and the abyss.
• Lucifer tried to destroy the unfinished world, but Shin surrounded him with copies and a barrage of sword auras.
• Lucifer released the Fire of Eternal Calamity, turning dark energy into flames that could devour space.

Shin used the laws of his Void Realm and his immortal essence to suppress Lucifer and attack him with Heaven Burial. After Lucifer broke out of the Void Realm, Shin caught him before he could reconnect with the Abyss and unleashed One Sword Creates Myriad Laws.

• Shin transformed his power into immortal essence and used twelve streaks of sword qi to attack Lucifer.
• Shin contained the Fire of Eternal Calamity in folded spaces, then used the Void Realm's laws to suppress Lucifer and sever his connection to his true body.
• Shin unleashed Heaven Burial, but Lucifer countered with Oblivion Hell and forced the sword qi to collide with his destructive energy.
• Lucifer used Hell Cataclysm to break the Void Realm, sending both fighters back to Burning Hell.
• Shin matched Lucifer's elevated dimension and struck before Lucifer could return to the Abyss's node.
• Shin's sword qi multiplied into dense sword formations around Lucifer, who recognized the technique as One Sword Creates Myriad Laws.