Chapter Summaries

Ye Mu obtained the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia from Judge and agreed to Judge’s request to recruit Reiju. He refused to separate Reiju from her mother, instead giving her a Transponder Snail and letting her return home until she was grown and ready to join the Sky Pirates.

• Ye Mu examined the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia and learned it contained 689 pages, though Judge said it was only a portion of the Devil Fruits the Vinsmokes had collected.
• Ye Mu accepted the encyclopedia and offered to fulfill Judge’s request in exchange.
• Judge asked Ye Mu to let Reiju join the Sky Pirates, explaining her enhanced body and ability to control toxins.
• Ye Mu agreed to recruit Reiju but condemned Judge for trying to give her away without her mother’s knowledge.
• Ye Mu gave Reiju his unique Transponder Snail and told her to grow up with her mother before contacting him if she chose to join later.

Ye Mu searched the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia and found the Gum-Gum Fruit, whose description seemed ordinary until Lililu revealed that Rocks had considered it an extremely special fruit. Her explanation led Ye Mu to suspect that the Gum-Gum Fruit had a different true name and that other Paramecia fruits might be similarly misidentified.

• Ye Mu reviewed the Logia, Paramecia, and Zoan sections of the encyclopedia, noting how many fruits each contained.
• Ye Mu found the Gum-Gum Fruit entry and studied its description, wondering whether the fruit had anything unusual about it.
• Lililu joined Ye Mu and said she would follow him as his Young Master, becoming a member of the Sky Pirates.
• Lililu told Ye Mu that Rocks had called the Gum-Gum Fruit extremely special because rubber did not appear in this world's historical records from eight hundred years ago.
• Ye Mu concluded that the Gum-Gum Fruit might not be its true name and wondered whether other Paramecia fruits had been misidentified too.

Ye Mu questioned whether Devil Fruit abilities could change and whether the fruits possessed their own wills, learning that their power was tied to the user's will and that Charlotte Linlin might know more. Lililu revealed that Ye Mu’s awakened Hot-Hot Fruit could be given a soul through her Death Domain, potentially making him the world’s first dual Devil Fruit user.

• Ye Mu asked whether Devil Fruit abilities were fixed, and Lililu explained that growth, awakening, and unusual powers made change impossible to define.
• Lililu said Devil Fruit power had a great connection to the user's will, and Ye Mu asked whether a fruit could possess its own will.
• Lililu suspected that the Devil Fruit inside Ye Mu had awakened its will and said Charlotte Linlin could provide answers, but she refused to reveal her master's secrets.
• Ye Mu showed Lililu that Heaven contained the awakened Hot-Hot Fruit, and Lililu connected it to her Death Domain and the souls of conscious beings.
• Lililu offered to help Ye Mu become the world's first dual Devil Fruit user.

Big Mom’s tea party gathered powerful figures from across the world, and Doflamingo met with underworld emperors while discussing the Sky Pirates with Morgans. Ye Mu and the Sky Pirates arrived at the banquet, drawing every guest’s attention as Ye Mu greeted Morgans.

• Guests arrived at Whole Cake Island, where Charlotte Perospero welcomed them and Charlotte Oven and Charlotte Daifuku guarded the banquet hall.
• Doflamingo entered with Donquixote Rosinante and Diamante, then confronted Umit and Du Feld over their business rivalry.
• Doflamingo and Morgans discussed the Sky Pirates’ recent news and the coming transformation of the era while Umit questioned Morgans’s loyalties.
• Stussy noticed Ye Mu and the Sky Pirates arriving, and Charlotte Amande led them across the hall as the guests watched.
• Ye Mu greeted Morgans when the Sky Pirates reached the group.

Ye Mu attended Charlotte Linlin and Valba’s wedding, where Linlin revealed that she planned to use him as the grand finale of the celebration. After Ye Mu refused her demand, Linlin threatened the fox she held captive, but the fox appeared on Ye Mu’s shoulder before she could act.

• Ye Mu reunited with Morgans at Charlotte Linlin’s tea party and watched Linlin marry Valba while sharing flirtatious remarks with Freya.
• Linlin embraced the nun’s photograph and said she would never be alone again before inviting Ye Mu and other prominent guests to her table.
• Linlin asked Ye Mu whether he had changed his mind about her planned show, which would test the soul of a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit user.
• Ye Mu refused Linlin’s demand, and Linlin ordered Perospero to have Katakuri bring the fox so she could drain its lifespan in front of Ye Mu.
• The fox emerged from swirling flames and landed on Ye Mu’s shoulder, telling Linlin it had come on its own.

Ye Mu confronted Charlotte Linlin after she discovered Lililu, but her rage subsided when he saved the nun’s photograph from falling. Linlin took Ye Mu to the treasure room and began explaining a secret from twenty-two years earlier, starting with Rocks D. Xebec asking whether she believed in fate.

• Charlotte Linlin summoned Katakuri after seeing Lililu, and Katakuri admitted he had never noticed the fox leave his watch.
• Linlin struck Katakuri aside and unleashed her Conqueror’s Haki, but Ye Mu remained unfazed and caught the nun’s photograph before it fell.
• Linlin hugged the photograph, told Perospero to put it away, and led Ye Mu to the treasure room while Lililu followed.
• Linlin offered Ye Mu another chance to marry her daughter and serve her, but Ye Mu drew Heaven and demanded answers instead.
• At Lililu’s suggestion, Linlin began recounting how Rocks D. Xebec had asked her twenty-two years earlier whether she believed in fate.

Charlotte Linlin revealed that the man behind the White Plan created the Azure Dragon Devil Fruit and sought to give Devil Fruits souls using her Soul-Soul Fruit. She told Ye Mu that his true name was Rocks D. White, a blank Devil Fruit brought to life, and left him to ask the fox for the remaining answers.

• Ye Mu wondered whether destiny could be escaped as Charlotte Linlin recounted the man's questions and beliefs about fate.
• Charlotte Linlin said the man showed her a Devil Fruit he had created, the Zoan-type Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Beast model, Azure Dragon, which she later gave to Kaido.
• Charlotte Linlin explained that the man wanted to create conscious Devil Fruit life and enlisted her because of her Soul-Soul Fruit, offering Poneglyph knowledge and a Devil Fruit in exchange.
• Charlotte Linlin revealed that the plan was called the White Plan and told Ye Mu his true name was Rocks D. White.
• Charlotte Linlin explained that Ye Mu was meant to be a blank Devil Fruit without an ability, said his existence was a miracle, and told him the fox knew more before leaving for her wedding.

Lililu explained that Ye Mu was created from Charlotte Linlin’s Lineage Factor and Rocks’s heart as part of Rocks’s attempt to obtain new life. The chapter ended with the revelation that Rocks’s plan had failed, though he had succeeded in creating Ye Mu.

• Lililu told Ye Mu that Charlotte Linlin’s unusual body and Lineage Factor had made her the model for Rocks’s creation.
• Lililu explained that the Lineage Factor constrained life and Devil Fruit powers, and that Ye Mu inherited the Soul-Soul Fruit’s power to awaken Devil Fruit wills through Linlin’s Lineage Factor.
• Lililu said Ye Mu’s blood of D. came from Rocks’s heart, while Linlin’s Lineage Factor formed the rest of his body.
• Lililu explained that Rocks had attacked God Valley to obtain the Op-Op Fruit and arrange his own transfer into Ye Mu, but the plan had not succeeded.
• The author added a note explaining an earlier version of the story’s setup and asked readers to add the book to their bookshelf.

Ye Mu returned to the Twin Goddesses with Lililu and reassured the people he had secretly freed from Big Mom’s book that they would soon leave Totto Land. With their homes far away, they agreed to seek temporary shelter on Slog’s tribe’s island in the New World.

• Ye Mu left Big Mom’s banquet without taking rubbings of the Poneglyphs and returned to the Twin Goddesses with Lililu.
• Dorantoya and the other freed captives asked Ye Mu if they could leave, and he promised they would depart in about half an hour and that he would protect them from Big Mom.
• Gabara thanked Ye Mu and offered to pray for him after returning to the Tainakaina Kingdom.
• Ye Mu explained that he could not take the captives home soon and offered to settle them somewhere until he returned to the first half of the Grand Line.
• Slog offered to bring everyone to his Longleg Tribe’s island, and Ye Mu accepted after the group agreed.
• Ye Mu turned to the final representatives, the Tontatta brothers Ron and Gaos.

Ye Mu accepted Ron and Gaos into the Sky Pirates after Ron explained that he wanted to protect the Tontatta Tribe from the Donquixote Family. The brothers offered their abilities to the crew, and the Sky Pirates returned as the banquet ended.

• Ron asked Ye Mu to let him and Gaos join the Sky Pirates so they could help protect the Tontatta Tribe.
• Ron explained that Doflamingo's attack revived his fear of the Donquixote Family, which had enslaved the Tontatta Tribe 900 years ago.
• Ye Mu welcomed Ron and Gaos into the crew, and they bumped fists with him and called him Captain.
• Ron offered to learn shipbuilding and described how his and Gaos's powers could provide insects for fighting, scouting, carrying cargo, and repairs.
• Ron offered the Tontatta Tribe's plant-growing skills, while Gaos could control bees to make honey.
• Ye Mu promised to provide what the brothers needed, and the Sky Pirates returned as the banquet ended.

After Big Mom’s tea party ended, Doflamingo watched as more than fifty pirate crews confronted the Sky Pirates, hoping to see how Ye Mu’s 2.2-billion-Berry bounty compared with his own. Ye Mu and Enel unleashed their combination attack, Raigo, and the descending thundercloud engulfed the battlefield in blinding light.

• Big Mom left her tea party after Stussy asked about Ye Mu’s fox, and Perospero rejected Doflamingo’s offer to cooperate.
• Doflamingo decided to raise his bounty by stirring up a major incident, then took Rosinante and Diamante to watch the battle gathering at sea.
• More than fifty pirate crews surrounded the Twin Goddesses, while Doflamingo, Morgans, Stussy, and the Vinsmoke Family watched from nearby.
• Ye Mu transformed into a fire dragon and heated the sky, causing dark clouds to gather above the fleet.
• Enel channeled lightning into an island-sized thundercloud and called down Raigo, swallowing the battlefield in blinding radiance.

At Marine Headquarters, Fleet Admiral Kong convened senior officers to discuss the Sky Pirates’ clash with Umit and Du Feld’s fleet. The Marines learned that Enel’s devastating thunder attack could destroy Marineford, leaving the officers alarmed.

• Kong arrived at the headquarters meeting and ordered it to begin.
• A Marine rear admiral described the Sky Pirates’ crimes and listed their 2.724 billion berries in total bounties.
• The rear admiral explained that Umit and Du Feld had assembled eighteen pirate crews, with a combined bounty near five billion berries, to attack the Sky Pirates.
• The Marines saw an image of a massive black thundercloud formed during the battle.
• The rear admiral reported that Enel’s attack destroyed the fifty-ship fleet in five minutes and could wipe Marineford off the map.

At Marine Headquarters, Kong organized a major operation to destroy the Sky Pirates after learning the scale and mechanics of their devastating attack. Meanwhile, Ye Mu’s crew trained and developed their abilities aboard the Twin Goddesses as they sailed away from Shamantola Island, and Ye Mu decided to give them a goal for the future.

• Kong explained that the Sky Pirates’ thundercloud attack relied on the Flame-Flame Fruit and Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and said Kuzan’s Ice-Ice Fruit could prevent it.
• Kong appointed Zephyr and Tsuru to lead a special force of twenty thousand Marines and eight warships, with Kuzan joining them and Borsalino and Sakazuki assigned to G-1 and G-5.
• Three days later, Kong discovered that the Navy’s operation plan and personnel list had appeared in the newspaper, though Ye Mu had supplied the information to Morgans.
• Aboard the Twin Goddesses, the crew trained, sparred, tended the growing garden, and experimented with their Devil Fruit abilities as they left Shamantola Island.
• Ye Mu watched the crew work hard and decided it was time to give them a goal for the future.

Ye Mu proposed that the Sky Pirates build a nation where different races could live in peace and where their dreams and wills could endure. The crew agreed to pursue the goal, and Ye Mu laid out plans to find a scientist, challenge the Marines, and later visit Impel Down for Devil Fruits.

• Ye Mu asked the crew what becoming the One Piece would accomplish and proposed building a nation where people of different races could live freely.
• Ye Mu connected the nation to Tiger’s dream for fish-men, the Flevance survivors’ need for refuge, the Kuromi Four Brothers’ Dream Kingdom, and the crew’s hopes for a home.
• Eric pledged to help build the nation so his child could grow up without discrimination, and the rest of the crew joined Ye Mu in committing to the goal.
• Ye Mu said the Marines and World Government would oppose a pirate nation, so the crew should give the Marines a defeat that would deter them from interfering.
• Ye Mu planned to visit Alchemy Island to seek a scientist and the creator of Pure Gold, with Punk Hazard as a fallback, and said the crew would later go to Impel Down for Devil Fruits.

Queen received three successfully extracted Devil Fruits from the Sky Pirates and agreed to report their demands to the Beasts Pirates. Meanwhile, Zephyr and Tsuru learned that Queen had met the Sky Pirates, giving the Marines their first lead in their search.

• Queen's crew worried that following the Sky Pirates could draw the Beasts Pirates into the Marines' campaign, but Queen said he was obeying Kaido's order.
• Eric gave Queen a box containing three Devil Fruits and relayed Ye Mu's demand for the Beasts Pirates to deliver two requested fruits.
• Queen accepted the terms and returned to report, while Eric predicted they would meet again under a different identity.
• Zephyr and Tsuru continued searching the New World with eight Marine warships and ordered their intelligence personnel to find the Sky Pirates.
• Gion told Zephyr and Tsuru that a CP9 agent had reported Queen meeting Sky Pirates members in the Gariman Sea Area ten days earlier.

Zephyr and Tsuru planned a Navy search for the Sky Pirates, while Ye Mu’s crew reached Alchemy Island to try to catch Bonbori and obtain Pure Gold before the Marines arrived. When their first search failed, Ye Mu sent baby-5 and Ayala to offer food to the old man at the lighthouse.

• Gion told Zephyr and Tsuru that CP9 had delayed reporting the Sky Pirates’ suspected alliance with the Beasts Pirates, and their trail had gone cold after the Gariman Sea Area.
• Tsuru used a sea chart to predict the Sky Pirates’ route and proposed a fan-shaped search from the Gariman Sea Area.
• Ye Mu and the Twin Goddesses reached Alchemy Island, where an old man and a small white dog watched them from beneath the lighthouse.
• Ye Mu ordered Enel to fish with a golden rod, Tiger to search for Bonbori, and Ayala to prepare anesthetic while the crew set up camp.
• After Tiger failed to locate Bonbori, Ye Mu sent baby-5 and Ayala to bring food and drinks to the old man and his dog.

Ye Mu waited for the giant lanternfish Bonbori but learned from Doren that searching with gold was pointless. Doren explained Bonbori’s origin and revealed he had returned to the island to fulfill his parents’ last wish.

• Ye Mu extended the crew’s stay on the island by three days after Tiger failed to find Bonbori, while warning everyone to stay alert for the Navy.
• Doren came down from the lighthouse and told Ye Mu that Bonbori could distinguish gold from Pure Gold and had not appeared since swallowing Alchemy Island two hundred years earlier.
• Doren introduced himself and his dog Bobo, then criticized Ye Mu for making Baby-5 and Ayala pirates; Ye Mu explained their backgrounds and why piracy was their best option.
• Doren recounted how alchemical waste changed Bonbori into a fish that eventually swallowed the island, then said he had returned there as an old man to carry on his parents’ last wish.

Ye Mu told Doren that he wanted to build a nation where all races could live as equals, and Doren responded by giving him detailed New World sea charts. Ye Mu left with a possible way to find an island where he could begin making his dream a reality.

• Doren explained that he had missed the chance to build a family while he was away at sea, and Ye Mu said he had become a pirate for freedom.
• Doren asked why Ye Mu sought Pure Gold, and Ye Mu said he wanted more ways to protect himself and change the world.
• Doren recalled how Marines and World Government agents had repeatedly devastated Alchemy Island while searching for Pure Gold.
• Ye Mu told Doren he hoped to build a nation without class oppression or racial discrimination, where people of every race could live as equals.
• Doren said he and Bobo would come if Ye Mu succeeded, then gave Ye Mu detailed sea charts of the New World.

Doren gave Ye Mu valuable nautical charts and a Devil Fruit, which Ye Mu entrusted to Ayala after identifying it as the Lucky-Lucky Fruit. Ye Mu named Baby-5 Erza and prepared to leave Alchemy Island after the girls thanked Doren.

• Doren gave Ye Mu charts of remote islands and a Devil Fruit he had kept for years.
• At daybreak, Ye Mu told the crew how Doren had given him the gifts and showed them the charts and fruit.
• Ye Mu identified the fruit as the Lucky-Lucky Fruit and gave it to Ayala, who accepted it with determination.
• Ye Mu named Baby-5 Erza, and she cried with happiness at finally feeling she had a family.
• Ye Mu asked Freya to take Ayala and Erza to thank and spend time with Doren before the crew sailed that afternoon.

The Sky Pirates used Ayala’s Lucky-Lucky Fruit to hunt for the Cloud-Cloud Fruit, which Ye Mu wanted for Enel, and to scout possible sites for their future nation. After half a month of following Ayala’s intuition, they reached an island where two New World powers were already fighting.

• Tsuru and Gion learned that Ayala had touched several pirate crews before they suffered bizarre misfortunes, and Tsuru suspected the Sky Pirates had the Lucky-Lucky Fruit.
• Ye Mu chose the Cloud-Cloud Fruit as a second target, hoping to combine it with Enel’s Rumble-Rumble Fruit so Enel could use Raigo without relying on Ye Mu’s power.
• The Sky Pirates studied Doren’s New World charts to identify possible locations for their future nation, with Ayala’s luck expected to help them choose.
• Ayala followed her intuition to guide Tiger and the Twin Goddesses toward the Cloud-Cloud Fruit, and after roughly half a month they reached an island’s waters.
• Ye Mu spotted two New World powers fighting with their pirate ships and remarked on their unexpected presence.