Chapter Summaries

Ye Mu asked Annu and the Kuja Pirates to shelter the women and infants he had rescued, then revealed he planned to enter Impel Down and take Shiki's Float-Float Fruit for Annu. Three days later, Marines Kadar and Gasparde sailed toward Impel Down, where Gasparde questioned their endless pursuit of pirates.

• Elder Nyon warned Ye Mu that helping him could expose Amazon Lily to the World Government, and Ye Mu asked the Kuja to protect the rescued women and infants.
• Ye Mu proposed taking Shiki's Float-Float Fruit from Impel Down so Annu could use it to protect Amazon Lily.
• Annu offered to accompany Ye Mu to Impel Down, but Ye Mu asked her to stay and guard the people while he went alone.
• Ye Mu told Annu that Rayleigh might join them in a few days, and Annu agreed to wait for his return.
• Three days later, Kadar questioned Gasparde about requesting a transfer to the North Blue as their warships sailed toward Impel Down.
• Gasparde asked Kadar when the Marines' game of catching pirates would ever end.

Gasparde and Kadar escorted prisoners through the Gates of Justice to Impel Down, while Ye Mu and his companions secretly infiltrated the prison using the Door-Door Fruit and Death Domain. Ye Mu planned to reach the fifth level and find a place to hide their large cargo, but Kuromu first needed to leave their concealed space somewhere unseen by the Transponder Snails.

• Gasparde told Kadar he had given up hope of advancing in the Marines and planned to retire in North Blue, while Kadar asked whether he wanted revenge on Ye Mu.
• Gasparde and Kadar escorted three warships through the Gates of Justice and delivered their prisoners to Impel Down.
• Kadar hoped to meet the vice wardens Magellan and Shiryu, but Gasparde ordered the crew to hurry back to Marine Headquarters.
• Ye Mu, Ayala, Kuromu, and Lililu moved unseen through Impel Down with a huge, cloud-wrapped box.
• Ye Mu said they would head to the fifth level and asked Kuromu to find a way to take them there quickly.
• Kuromu said they first needed to leave their hidden space somewhere the Transponder Snails could not see.

Chief Jailer Nicholas took an interest in the newly imprisoned swordsman Doug Rice and dismissed concerns over Impel Down’s lack of cells. Meanwhile, Ye Mu and his companions secretly descended through the prison and reached Level 5: Freezing Hell.

• Magellan and Shiryu reported to Chief Jailer Nicholas, who asked about notable new prisoners.
• Magellan identified the swordsman Doug Rice, and Shiryu recalled his reputation as a famous Grand Line swordsman.
• Shiryu and Magellan warned Nicholas that Impel Down was running short on cells, but he said the problem would soon be resolved.
• Ye Mu and his companions entered Impel Down through a hidden passage created by Kuromu and traveled downward without being detected.
• After passing through Levels 1 to 4, Ye Mu and his companions reached Level 5: Freezing Hell, where a huge circular door appeared overhead.

Ye Mu and his crew entered Impel Down’s Freezing Hell, where he revealed he knew of a hidden space between the fifth and sixth levels. He offered to consider freeing the prisoners and began choosing them for a chance at better luck.

• Ye Mu’s air bubble protected the group from Freezing Hell’s cold, and his Conqueror’s Haki drove away a pack of snow wolves.
• The prisoners recognized Ye Mu and begged him to free them, while South Blue Shalu threatened to expose the intruders.
• Ye Mu burned South Blue Shalu alive with a small flame, and the other prisoners crowded near the fire for warmth.
• Ye Mu sent Kuromu underground to search for the hidden space between the fifth and sixth levels.
• Ye Mu told the prisoners he could free them but asked why he should, then chose Ayala to go first and said high-bounty pirates might have better luck.

Ayala discovered that the prisoners in Freezing Hell still possessed abundant luck, and Ye Mu explained that many were powerful pirates who had lost rather than people born unlucky. He urged Ayala to question the world’s order and entrusted her with the future role of queen, while he planned to leave ruling behind and live peacefully with Freya and Annu.

• Ayala told Ye Mu that the Freezing Hell prisoners held abundant luck despite their desperate circumstances, and Ye Mu speculated that their power and Supernova-level bounties explained it.
• Lililu noted that the prisoners’ survival in the freezing prison showed how strong they were, and Ayala asked Ye Mu whether they should rescue them.
• Ye Mu explained to Ayala that the marines, pirates, and World Government could not be divided simply into good and evil, and identified the Celestial Dragons’ rule as the root of the world’s broken order.
• Ayala questioned whether their new order would truly be better, and Ye Mu praised her for asking before naming her the future queen of their country.
• Ye Mu told Ayala he did not want to rule and hoped to live peacefully with Freya and Annu after everything was over.

Ye Mu investigated a pitch-black cavern after Kuromu reported seeing zombies inside. He discovered that the figures were experimental subjects from human experiments, though he did not yet explain who had made them or what they were.

• Ayala accepted Ye Mu's trust and promised to seek an answer about whether their new order would be better than the old one.
• Kuromu returned through an air door and warned Ye Mu and the others that he had found a place filled with zombies.
• Ye Mu told Lililu to protect the group while he went alone to investigate the underground space.
• Ye Mu explored a vast, dark tunnel and found a cavern containing horrifying figures.
• Ye Mu returned and told the group the so-called zombies were experimental subjects created through human experiments.

Ye Mu and his companions explored the hidden underground spaces of Impel Down Level 5.5, discovering horrific living experiments and animal subjects. They found frozen prisoners who appeared to be Zoan Devil Fruit users, then Ye Mu sensed someone approaching and told everyone to hide.

• Ayala, Lililu, and Kuromu saw living, stitched-together human-animal corpses in the first underground chamber.
• Ye Mu asked Ayala and Kuromu to gather protective supplies, then explored the connected spaces with them and Lililu.
• The group found caged human-animal creatures with ringed eyes, and Ye Mu suspected the experiments were related to Impel Down's Jailer Beasts.
• They discovered frozen half-human, half-animal prisoners, and Lililu recognized them as possible Zoan Devil Fruit users.
• Ye Mu sensed someone approaching with his Observation Haki and told the others to hide.

Ye Mu and his companions followed Dr. Komi to a secret laboratory, where Nicholas pressured him to develop eternal life through Devil Fruit research. Nicholas then revealed that a new Devil Fruit had appeared outside Uranus’s control and wondered whether it was connected to the primal energy he had given Rocks.

• Ye Mu ordered Kuromu to follow Dr. Komi after the old man and his creatures left an ice coffin in the hidden chamber.
• Ye Mu, Lililu, and the others followed Dr. Komi through a stone door into a futuristic laboratory.
• Nicholas confronted Dr. Komi over another failed experiment and demanded to know when his dream of eternal life would come true.
• Dr. Komi explained that understanding Zoan consciousness and awakening was essential, while research on Paramecia and Logia fruits was even more difficult.
• Nicholas said he could not reach Uranus or Poseidon and regretted giving a portion of primal energy to Rocks.
• Nicholas told Dr. Komi that a new Devil Fruit had appeared beyond Uranus’s control and asked whether it was connected to the gift he had given Rocks.

Nicholas told Dr. Komi how Nika’s smile awakened enslaved beings, who became the Clan of D., and how Nika’s warriors sacrificed themselves to preserve the world and became Devil Fruits. He then began revealing that Joy Boy’s story involved humanity’s return to power, and that Celestial Dragons were ordinary humans.

• Nicholas explained that the Clan of Gods created life using the Twin Trees’ energy, but made their creations emotionless slaves.
• Nicholas said Nika’s smile gave the slaves their first emotion, inspiring them to resist and take the name D.
• Nicholas revealed that Nika’s liberated warriors later sacrificed themselves, becoming Devil Fruits to help preserve the world.
• Nicholas told Dr. Komi that restoring a modification to the Lineage Factor, especially by studying Zoan consciousness, could help him gain eternal life.
• Nicholas explained that humans eventually rose to rule again and told Dr. Komi that Celestial Dragons were ordinary humans, not descendants of gods or members of the Clan of D.

Nicholas revealed to Dr. Komi that Joy Boy was a god-descended youth whose plans were exploited by the ancestors of the Celestial Dragons. Lililu explained that she and Rocks had visited the moon, where they encountered Nicholas and discovered the Blueprint of Paradise, a technology linked to the creation of the Red Line; Ye Mu and the others planned to seek the moon after obtaining the Float-Float Fruit.

• Nicholas told Dr. Komi that Joy Boy was a descendant of gods whose actions were used by the Clan of D. and the Twenty Kingdoms to seize control of the world.
• Lililu recognized Nicholas and told Ye Mu that she had met him on the moon with Rocks, where he called himself a space pirate.
• Lililu revealed that Rocks found the Creator power among lunar ruins and that the moon held the Blueprint of Paradise, technology used to create the Red Line.
• Ye Mu decided the group would visit the moon after completing their immediate goal of obtaining the Float-Float Fruit.
• Lililu explained that Nicholas was a modified human able to survive the moon’s harsh environment.

Ye Mu changed his plan to seize the Float-Float Fruit by disrupting Level 6 surveillance, where Golden Lion Shiki was imprisoned. Hannyabal discovered the disturbance and went to investigate, leaving Impel Down in alarm when he announced Shiki had escaped.

• Ye Mu decided to change his approach because Level 6's surveillance and defenses made his original plan difficult.
• Hannyabal monitored the Level 6 feeds while his coworkers relaxed in the surveillance room.
• When Den Den Mushi No. 612 went dark, Hannyabal reported the malfunction and noticed the prisoners in other cells stirring.
• Hannyabal realized feed 612 watched Golden Lion Shiki's cell and hurried to Level 6 to investigate.
• An alarm sounded across Impel Down as Hannyabal announced that Golden Lion Shiki had escaped.

Warden Nicholas, Magellan, and Shiryu discovered that Golden Lion Shiki had vanished from his intact cell, and they suspected an intruder had rescued him. Nicholas gave them twenty-four hours to find Shiki before the escape ruined Impel Down’s reputation, while Magellan assigned guards to search the prison.

• Nicholas, Magellan, Shiryu, and the jailers found Golden Lion Shiki’s cell intact but empty, and Magellan ordered Impel Down sealed.
• Shiryu found Shiki’s Seastone shackles cut cleanly and concluded that a master swordsman had helped him escape.
• A jailer recalled past cases of immobile prisoners disappearing without a trace, which Nicholas said he had ordered kept quiet after unsuccessful investigations.
• Nicholas gave Magellan and Shiryu twenty-four hours to find Shiki before reporting the escape, then left the prison.
• Magellan split the search between himself and Shiryu and praised Hannyabal for discovering Shiki’s disappearance.

Shiki woke in Impel Down's hidden Level 5.5 beside Dr. Komi and learned that Lililu had returned with Ye Mu, who introduced himself as Rocks D. White and the captain of the Sky Pirates. As Ye Mu prepared to explain why he had rescued Shiki, Dr. Komi recognized something about their group as an ancient creation of the clan of gods.

• Shiki woke in a cavern, found himself bound in Seastone chains, and discovered Dr. Komi lying nearby.
• Dr. Komi identified the cavern as Level 5.5 of Impel Down and speculated that Nicholas had brought them there.
• Ye Mu, Lililu, a girl, and a fox emerged from the cave, and Lililu greeted Shiki as an old acquaintance.
• Lililu called Ye Mu her young master, and Ye Mu clarified that he was not Rocks's child and introduced himself as Rocks D. White and Ye Mu.
• Shiki asked why Ye Mu had rescued him, but Dr. Komi muttered that their appearance matched a creation of the ancient clan of gods.

Ye Mu freed Shiki from his restraints and challenged him to a deadly bet, asking him to cause chaos in Impel Down without revealing the Sky Pirates. After Shiki left, Ye Mu recruited Dr. Komi and prepared to collect Devil Fruits and recruit more prisoners.

• Dr. Komi recognized Ye Mu as the captain of the Sky Pirates and realized he planned to take Shiki's Devil Fruit.
• Ye Mu offered to let Shiki go if he caused a major uproar in Impel Down over the next day, then met Ye Mu on Shaba Island fifteen days later for a fight to the death.
• Shiki accepted the bet, and Ye Mu cut his chains before Shiki crushed his Seastone handcuffs and escaped.
• Ye Mu explained to Lililu that Shiki's rampage would draw attention while they used the next twenty-four hours to advance their plans.
• Ye Mu offered Dr. Komi freedom and a place among his crew, and Dr. Komi accepted.
• Ye Mu told Ayala to use the Luck-Luck Fruit as they collected Nicholas's Zoan Devil Fruits and targeted other Level 6 prisoners, including Byrnndi World.

As Impel Down searched for the escaped Golden Lion Shiki, Ye Mu used the chaos to oversee Devil Fruit extraction and learned more about Nicholas’s experiments. Dr. Komi revealed that the “divine creations” were primordial life made by the clan of gods, leaving Ye Mu with a new clue about the beings from Reykjavik.

• Nicholas asked Magellan whether Shiki had escaped and learned that the Lv6 prisoners had refused to talk.
• Surveillance feeds began failing across Impel Down, and Magellan deduced that Shiki was moving from Lv5 toward Lv4 before rushing after him.
• In the secret laboratory, Ye Mu watched Ayala, Lililu, and Kuromu extract Devil Fruits from test subjects while Dr. Komi marveled at the device.
• Ye Mu asked Dr. Komi to show him Nicholas’s laboratory, then left Lililu in charge of the extraction room.
• Dr. Komi explained that Nicholas wanted Devil Fruit research to make himself immortal, and Ye Mu clarified that Kuromu came from the ancient kingdom of Reykjavik.
• Dr. Komi said divine creations were primordial life made by the clan of gods, second only to Uranus and Pluton.

Dr. Komi explained to Ye Mu how Lineage Factor, primal energy, and Haki related to Divine Creations and the world’s will. Ye Mu agreed to let Dr. Komi scan his body to learn about his condition.

• Dr. Komi told Ye Mu that the Clan of Gods used primal energy and Lineage Factors to create Divine Creations, and that Nika’s power allowed them to gain independent lives.
• Dr. Komi explained that Nicholas sought to become a Divine Creation by breaking his Lineage Factor’s restraints and acquiring primal energy.
• Dr. Komi said that Lineage Factor, primal energy, and Haki represented soul, energy, and will, and that powerful will could help someone break free of their restraints.
• Dr. Komi explained that Devil Fruits also imposed Lineage Factor restraints, while the Clan of D. could break those restraints more easily because of their inherited will.
• Dr. Komi offered to scan Ye Mu’s body using a machine that detected wavelengths, and Ye Mu agreed to try it.

Golden Lion Shiki rampaged through Level 4 of Impel Down while Ye Mu underwent a test with Dr. Komi that revealed four unexplained waveforms. The chapter ended with Ye Mu agreeing to further tests, though he refused to provide a blood sample.

• Shiki feasted in Level 4, then sent two flaming lions through the prison as he searched for his swords, Cherry Wood and Deadwood.
• Shiki rejected the prisoners who begged to join him and left them to be devoured; Magellan arrived to find the destruction.
• Dr. Komi tested Ye Mu in his laboratory and found four waveforms instead of the expected number.
• Ye Mu revealed that he had eaten the Flame-Flame Fruit and the Hot-Hot Fruit, and suggested both fruits had their own consciousness.
• Ye Mu agreed to separate tests using his Devil Fruit powers and Haki but refused to give Dr. Komi a blood sample; Dr. Komi learned Ye Mu had Conqueror's Haki.

Dr. Komi’s tests revealed five sets of Lineage Factors in Ye Mu’s body, including one unlike any known species and similar in wavelength to his Devil Fruits. As Dr. Komi offered to stimulate two of Ye Mu’s Lineage Factors in hopes of strengthening him for his fight with Golden Lion, Ye Mu faced a risky gamble.

• Ye Mu underwent Dr. Komi’s tests and learned that his body contained five sets of Lineage Factors.
• Dr. Komi identified a fifth, unknown Lineage Factor whose wavelength differed from those of every known living creature.
• Dr. Komi noticed that the Flame-Flame Fruit and Hot-Hot Fruit shared similarities with Ye Mu’s fifth Lineage Factor and suspected it had altered them, allowing them to awaken and be eaten by him.
• Dr. Komi questioned whether Ye Mu was confident he could defeat Golden Lion, then offered him a gamble to stimulate two of his Lineage Factors.
• Dr. Komi explained that the stimulation might trigger an unimaginable physical change, though he could not guarantee success.

Golden Lion Shiki rampaged through Level 3 of Impel Down, clashing with Magellan and breaking the barrier between Levels 2 and 3. Chief Guard Nicholas called for Shiryu to assist Magellan and requested Navy reinforcements.

• Shiki used Lion's Majesty: Earth Bind to form a giant stone lion that attacked the guards and jailers on Level 3.
• Magellan arrived in his Venom Demon form, knocked down Shiki's stone lion, and ordered the guards and jailers to leave.
• Magellan attacked Shiki with five poison Hydras while the Venom Demon fought the stone lion, but Shiki remained unharmed.
• Shiki used Lion's Majesty: Palace Earth Bind to collapse the floor of Level 2 and break its barrier with Level 3.
• Nicholas ordered the guards to notify Shiryu and request reinforcements from the Navy.

Kong told Sengoku he had resigned and that Sengoku would succeed him as Fleet Admiral, then Golden Lion’s escape from Impel Down interrupted their discussion. At Impel Down, Shiryu and Magellan joined forces against Golden Lion’s stone lions as the prison descended into chaos.

• Kong told Sengoku that he had submitted his resignation and that Sengoku was the only candidate to take over as Fleet Admiral.
• Sengoku accepted the promotion, and Kong advised him to consider candidates for the admiral position.
• A soldier reported that Golden Lion had broken out of Impel Down, and Sengoku insisted on going to help despite Kong’s warning.
• At Impel Down, Golden Lion’s escape caused a battle between prisoners and prison staff while his stone lions attacked Magellan and Shiryu.
• Shiryu joined Magellan against the stone lions and severed their limbs, prompting Golden Lion to take their teamwork seriously.