Chapter Summaries

Ye Mu accepted Big Mom’s invitation to attend her Tea Party in Totto Land, while the Big Mom Pirates speculated about Mama’s unusual interest in him. As the ships sailed together, Charlotte Katakuri sensed a dangerous presence approaching and Charlotte Perospero recognized the man behind it.

• Charlotte Perospero invited Ye Mu and the Sky Pirates to Big Mom’s Tea Party on December 15th, and Ye Mu accepted.
• The Big Mom Pirates escorted the Twin Goddesses toward Totto Land as Charlotte Oven, Charlotte Daifuku, and Charlotte Galette discussed Ye Mu.
• Charlotte Perospero recalled Big Mom’s eagerness to meet Ye Mu, while Charlotte Katakuri suspected the matter was connected to events from sixteen years ago.
• Charlotte Katakuri sensed a dangerous aura approaching from dark clouds, and Charlotte Perospero recognized the man as a dragon roared across the sea.

Kaido appeared before Ye Mu and demanded the method for extracting Devil Fruits from their users, threatening to destroy him if he refused. After Ye Mu rejected the offer, Kaido attacked, and the chapter ended as Big Mom arrived to defend her sons.

• Kaido emerged from the storm and blocked the Big Mom Pirates' ship from reaching the Twin Goddesses.
• Charlotte Katakuri and Charlotte Perospero confronted Kaido, but he said his target was Ye Mu.
• Kaido demanded Ye Mu's Devil Fruit extraction method and offered him a place in the Beasts Pirates; Ye Mu refused.
• Kaido unleashed Bolo Breath, and Charlotte Katakuri and Charlotte Perospero blocked it with their Haki-coated mochi and candy walls.
• Big Mom's voice rang out as she accused Kaido of bullying her sons.

Ye Mu transformed his evolved Flame-Flame Fruit power into a fiery dragon and fought Kaido’s Azure Dragon form. After his flames burned Kaido, the battle continued as Ye Mu prepared a dragon-breath attack of his own.

• Big Mom told Kaido she would not stop him from fighting Ye Mu, then laughed as Ye Mu challenged Kaido’s strength.
• Ye Mu sent Tiger to move the Twin Goddesses to safety and transformed into a crimson fire dragon.
• Kaido’s Bolo Breath struck Ye Mu, but the fire dragon absorbed the flames and grew larger before striking Kaido with a flaming fist.
• Kaido was burned by Ye Mu’s unusually hot flames, while the Big Mom Pirates watched and Perospero began recording the fight for Big Mom.
• Kaido blew the flames away with hurricanes, recovered from his burns, and faced Ye Mu’s Fire Dragon’s Roar as the battle continued.

Ye Mu and Kaido clashed with their dragon breath attacks, whose explosion devastated the surrounding sea and stunned the Big Mom Pirates. As Kaido acknowledged Ye Mu’s strength, Ye Mu considered the Devil Fruits in Wano Country and proposed cooperation instead of fighting.

• Ye Mu explained that the Flame-Flame Fruit had gained self-awareness and now responded to his intent, then fired its Fire Dragon's Roar at Kaido’s Bolo Breath.
• The attacks collided in a massive explosion that cleared the clouds and engulfed nearby ships, while two distant pirate crews fled the blast.
• The Big Mom Pirates survived behind mochi and candy walls, and Charlotte Katakuri told them why Big Mom valued Ye Mu.
• Kaido recognized Ye Mu as a monster but warned him not to mistake his strength for permission to provoke him.
• Ye Mu considered the powerful Devil Fruits in Wano Country and asked Kaido whether he would be interested in cooperating.

Ye Mu offered Kaido a partnership to obtain Devil Fruits, but their negotiations turned into a fierce clash over their strength and terms. The chapter ended with Kaido attacking Ye Mu with Thunder Bagua.

• Ye Mu proposed that Kaido supply Devil Fruit users while Ye Mu extracted their abilities, warning that extraction could fail, especially for Zoan fruits.
• Ye Mu demanded the Snake-Snake Fruit, Mythical Model: Yamata no Orochi, and the Barrier-Barrier Fruit from Wano Country as proof of Kaido's sincerity.
• Kaido threatened Ye Mu, but Ye Mu asserted that he could take the fruits himself and challenged Kaido's authority.
• Ye Mu and Kaido clashed with their Conqueror's Haki, and Ye Mu's Haki appeared to overpower Kaido's.
• Ye Mu and Kaido fought with their weapons, damaging the deserted island, until Kaido charged with Thunder Bagua.

Ye Mu endured Kaido’s Thunder Bagua and answered with a powerful slash that split a deserted island in two. At Onigashima, King and Queen watched Kaido crash through the roof with a fresh saber scar on his chest, revealing that his encounter had gone badly.

• Kaido struck Ye Mu with Thunder Bagua, sending him through a mountain, but Ye Mu walked out and said the attack had not defeated him.
• Ye Mu used Heaven: Flame Inferno Dragon Slash, splitting the deserted island with a single blow.
• The chapter described Wano Country’s regions, defenses, and growing conflict between the Beasts Pirates and Kozuki Oden’s samurai.
• Kaido secretly left Wano Country to pursue information about extracting Devil Fruits from their users.
• King and Queen waited at Onigashima, expecting the Beasts Pirates to claim Wano Country and its resources.
• Kaido crashed through the roof and landed on his throne with a new blood-red saber scar on his chest, shocking King and Queen.

Kaido agreed to cooperate with Ye Mu after being wounded by him, hoping to use Devil Fruit extraction to secure control of Wano Country for the Beasts Pirates. He ordered Queen to test Ye Mu’s technology and told King to begin training Yamato as a future shogun.

• King and Queen rushed to Kaido, who emerged from the wreckage with a sword scar and told them he had reached a cooperation agreement with Ye Mu.
• Kaido explained that Queen had to capture three Zoan Devil Fruit users and send them to Ye Mu to verify that Devil Fruit extraction worked.
• Kaido outlined the proposed terms, including Devil Fruits and Seastone, and said he could not defeat Ye Mu yet, then ordered the Beasts Pirates to monitor ability users across the New World and Grand Line.
• Yamato arrived and worried about Kaido’s injury, but he asked whether she had finished her training.
• Kaido ordered King to start teaching Yamato how to become shogun, leaving her frightened about the harsher training ahead.

Ye Mu and the Sky Pirates arrived at Whole Cake Island, where Big Mom’s children welcomed them and escorted them toward her castle. On the way, Ye Mu learned several familiar figures would attend the tea party and decided he should prepare a gift.

• The Twin Goddesses entered Totto Land, where Charlotte Perospero and Charlotte Katakuri guided Ye Mu and the Sky Pirates through the islands toward Whole Cake Island.
• Perospero’s crew offered the visitors sweets, and the Sky Pirates put their ship into the Door-Door Fruit’s alternate space after Ye Mu explained they had secrets aboard.
• Ye Mu warned Perospero that they had put away the ship’s mirrors, revealing he knew about Brûlée’s ability and making the Big Mom Pirates regard the Sky Pirates as more mysterious.
• Perospero told Ye Mu that Doflamingo, Morgans, Umit, Du Feld, and Vinsmoke Judge would attend Big Mom’s tea party.
• Ye Mu decided that arriving without a gift would be impolite, then chess soldiers brought carriages and ordered everyone except Perospero and Katakuri to return home.

Ye Mu and his companions traveled through Totto Land, where Charlotte Perospero described Big Mom’s protection of different races and her many marriages. They reached the cake castle, where Charlotte Linlin appeared and challenged Ye Mu to enter.

• Ye Mu observed Totto Land’s residents and considered what kind of industry the Sky Pirates would need for their territory.
• Charlotte Perospero told Ye Mu, Tiger, and Freya that Big Mom welcomed all races and had thirty-one husbands, with her thirty-second wedding to Valba approaching.
• The group arrived at the cake castle and learned that Big Mom was asleep, leaving Perospero and Katakuri nervous about waking her.
• Charlotte Linlin woke, entered the room, and roared at Ye Mu to come inside.

Ye Mu met Charlotte Linlin on Whole Cake Island, where she hinted that a man connected to his origins had succeeded in some way. As she began revealing what she knew, she concluded that the man had not completely succeeded.

• Charlotte Linlin welcomed Ye Mu and the Sky Pirates, then reacted angrily when Ye Mu complimented her appearance while criticizing her desserts and age.
• Charlotte Linlin said she recognized Ye Mu as a child she had seen years earlier and planned to reveal his origins at her tea party and wedding.
• Ye Mu asked whether the mysterious man was Rocks, then explained that Rocks D. Xebec had ruled the seas before Roger and Garp defeated him at God Valley.
• Charlotte Linlin said she had been wrong: the man had not succeeded, or at least had not completely succeeded.

Charlotte Linlin revealed that her book contained beings sealed by Mont-d'Or’s Devil Fruit, including a Cloud Fox with a Mythical Zoan. The fox introduced herself as Rocks D. Liliru and called Ye Mu her young master, leaving him stunned.

• Charlotte Linlin showed Ye Mu and the others her collection book, which held trapped creatures unable to age or die.
• Tiger recognized Fish-Men in the book, and his goodwill toward Linlin turned to disgust.
• Linlin revealed a seemingly empty cage, then summoned the invisible Cloud Fox inside it.
• The Cloud Fox transformed and explained her Mythical Zoan abilities, including entering the Death Domain beyond Observation Haki’s reach.
• The Cloud Fox named herself Rocks D. Liliru and called Ye Mu her young master.

Ye Mu questioned Lililu about Rocks D. Xebec’s plan and learned that she had been ordered to send him to Sky Island, though she did not know his origins or why the plan had failed. Charlotte Linlin offered to explain more after her tea party, but demanded that Ye Mu marry one or more of her daughters in exchange for Lililu.

• Lililu called Ye Mu her Young Master, prompting Ye Mu to ask whether he was Rocks’s son, but she said she did not know.
• Lililu explained that she had hidden on God’s Island before taking Ye Mu to Jaya Island and waiting for the Knock Up Stream to carry him to Sky Island.
• Lililu revealed that Rocks’s hometown was on Jaya Island and that Greens D. Le Xuan had handed Ye Mu to her while he was not alive.
• Lililu said Rocks’s final plan had failed and vanished in flames, leaving Ye Mu to ask Charlotte Linlin for the remaining answers.
• Charlotte Linlin promised to tell Ye Mu more after her tea party and agreed to hand over Lililu if Ye Mu married one or more of her daughters.

Ye Mu refused Charlotte Linlin’s offer to join her crew and demanded Lililu’s return, so Linlin gave him forty-eight hours to rescue her before the wedding. After the Sky Pirates were placed under surveillance, Ye Mu began planning their next moves.

• Charlotte Linlin offered Ye Mu a place under her banner and any of her daughters as a wife, but he refused and said he would take Lililu himself.
• Linlin set a forty-eight-hour deadline, threatening to take all of Lililu’s remaining lifespan as the wedding’s finale.
• Perospero escorted Ye Mu and the Sky Pirates to lodgings in the castle, where they found themselves under close watch.
• Ye Mu told the crew that he understood Charlotte Linlin well and instructed Enel to map the castle and find the treasure vault, Lililu, and the Poneglyph.
• Ye Mu asked Kuromu to test whether the Door-Door Fruit could access the alternate space made by the Mirror-Mirror Fruit.

Charlotte Linlin ordered Katakuri to guard the treasure room and the book imprisoning Lililu while revealing why she considered Ye Mu so important. She explained that Rocks had gathered the Road Poneglyphs but needed Ye Mu as the key to reach Laugh Tale.

• Charlotte Linlin visited the treasure room and ordered Katakuri to guard it and the book imprisoning Lililu.
• Katakuri reported that the Sky Pirates had stayed in their rooms, though their knowledge of Brûlée's ability and Kuromu's spatial power complicated surveillance.
• Katakuri questioned why Ye Mu mattered so much to Charlotte Linlin, and she revealed that her and Kaido's Road Poneglyphs had come from Rocks's ship.
• Charlotte Linlin told Katakuri that Rocks may have gathered all four Road Poneglyphs but had needed Ye Mu as the key to open the way to Laugh Tale.

Charlotte Linlin revealed to Katakuri that Ye Mu was a key connected to Laugh Tale, and that she wanted to secure him for her ambitions. After the Sky Pirates learned what she had said, Ye Mu accepted that his existence might be part of the answer to the world’s mysteries and urged his crew to follow him.

• Charlotte Linlin told Katakuri that Roger had turned himself in, that Laugh Tale held answers to every question, and that Ye Mu was a key she needed to obtain.
• Charlotte Linlin warned Katakuri that if Ye Mu refused to join her, she would not let anyone else have him, and Katakuri promised not to repeat what happened with Roger.
• Enel relayed Charlotte Linlin and Katakuri’s conversation to the Sky Pirates, and Tiger recognized that Ye Mu gave the crew an advantage on the road to Laugh Tale.
• Freya asked Ye Mu whether his body was the key to the treasure, and he said its connection to Laugh Tale might only become clear when they reached it.
• Ye Mu recalled telling Rayleigh he might be one of several correct answers for the world, then urged the Sky Pirates to follow him and turn the world upside down.

Ye Mu’s crew tricked the triplet brothers into believing everyone was in their rooms while Ye Mu and his companions secretly entered Big Mom’s library. There, Kuromu began using the Door-Door Fruit to free the living creatures imprisoned in the books without damaging them.

• Cadenza and his brothers delivered late-night desserts and tried to check that the Sky Pirates were in their rooms, but the crew refused to let them in.
• Charlotte Counter entered one room after Ye Mu invited him, then heard Ye Mu speaking from the bathroom and left reassured.
• Enel revealed that he had used a Tone Dial to imitate Ye Mu’s voice, and the triplet brothers left believing the Sky Pirates were accounted for.
• Ye Mu emerged from an air door in the dark library with Kuromu, Tiger, Freya, and Ayala, and told the group to search for interesting books while he and Kuromu worked on the prisoners.
• Ye Mu handed Kuromu a massive book, and Kuromu activated the Door-Door Fruit against its cover.

After months of training, Ye Mu tested whether Kuromu could enter spaces inside a book and discovered Ron, a Tontatta warrior trapped in one of them. Ron thanked Ye Mu but immediately set out to find his younger brother.

• The Kuromi Four Brothers advanced their Devil Fruit abilities, while their work on third-generation Munch-Munch Metal stalled without a scientist to help.
• Ye Mu had Kuromu open a door into the space on page fifty of a giant book.
• A tiny armored creature attacked Ye Mu, broke free from his grasp, and flew into the air.
• The creature mistook Ye Mu for someone rescuing Big Mom's captives, and Ye Mu let him believe he was there to save companions.
• The creature introduced himself as Ron, a Tontatta warrior who had eaten the Bug-Bug Fruit, Ant Form, then changed back into his human form.
• Ron thanked Ye Mu and said he needed to find his younger brother.

Ye Mu and his companions began rescuing imprisoned creatures from Big Mom’s library, while Ron discovered that his brother Gaos was missing. Ye Mu agreed to help find Gaos, but said they still had to finish their current plan first.

• Ayala asked about the Tontatta Tribe, and Tiger explained that they lived on Green Bit.
• Ye Mu told the group to rescue a limited number of creatures and have Kuromu send them through the Mirror World.
• Ron returned from searching the library and said he could not find the mark his brother had left behind.
• Ron explained that Doflamingo had captured him and Gaos and traded them to Charlotte Perospero, and he suspected Big Mom had imprisoned Gaos elsewhere to produce honey.
• Ye Mu agreed to help Ron rescue Gaos, then said the group still had more to do in the library.

Katakuri discovered that Ye Mu’s apparent presence during the night’s surveillance might have been an illusion and rushed to the Sky Pirates’ residence. As he arrived, Ye Mu appeared in the garden, while an unseen intruder opened an air door behind the treasure-room book.

• Brûlée brought Katakuri doughnuts and tea, but he refused to eat while she was present.
• Charlotte Counter told Katakuri that the Sky Pirates had tolerated the triplets’ harassment and that Ye Mu had not been seen during their visits, though they had heard his voice.
• Katakuri realized something was wrong and ordered the triplets to remain in the treasure room before rushing to the Sky Pirates’ residence.
• An air door appeared behind the enormous book in the treasure room, and a hand pressed against its back cover.
• Katakuri arrived at the Sky Pirates’ residence and saw Ye Mu standing in the garden in his pajamas.

Ye Mu hosted Charlotte Katakuri and the Sky Pirates on Whole Cake Island, then invited Vinsmoke Judge to meet him. Judge brought the Devil Encyclopedia Ye Mu had requested, and Ye Mu opened it.

• Ye Mu relaxed in the garden with the Sky Pirates while Katakuri arrived and arranged meat and fruit for Enel.
• Freya asked Katakuri to show her the dessert-ingredient facilities, and Ye Mu agreed that the group would visit them.
• A Chess Soldier announced that Vinsmoke Judge had arrived and wanted to meet Ye Mu, so Ye Mu invited him over.
• Judge arrived with his young daughter, Vinsmoke Reiju, and Reiju handed Ye Mu a large box.
• Ye Mu offered Reiju sweets, then opened the box and found a thick red-covered book titled Devil Encyclopedia.