Chapter Summaries

Ye Mu told Shiki about the child of destiny and revealed that Kozuki Toki had traveled from eight hundred years in the past to reach this era. He explained that Shiki would eventually become an obstacle to that child, then challenged Shiki to a final battle as he pursued his dream of changing the world.

• Ye Mu told Shiki that Roger was not the child of destiny and described a future hero who would defeat anyone standing in his way.
• Ye Mu explained that Kozuki Toki used the Time-Time Fruit to travel from eight hundred years ago, and Shiki concluded she had come to await the child of destiny.
• Ye Mu said the child of destiny would soon be born in East Blue and would defeat Shiki, along with other powerful figures, if Ye Mu had not intervened.
• Ye Mu invited Shiki to give the sea a worthy final curtain call through their battle and said he would use the Float-Float Fruit to complete his dream of Paradise.
• Shiki accepted the challenge and told Ye Mu to show him how dazzling a curtain call he could give.

Shiki confronted Ye Mu and demonstrated how a great swordsman wielded Haki, leaving Ye Mu with a new understanding of swordsmanship. Shiki then prepared to show why his swordsmanship had earned him the name Golden Lion.

• Shiki asked Ye Mu about his swords and learned that Rayleigh had taught him Haki and swordsmanship during three days with the Roger Pirates.
• Shiki tested Ye Mu’s slash, split it with one stroke, and criticized Ye Mu’s swordsmanship as an ordinary swing.
• Shiki explained that a great swordsman brought physical strength, black blades, technique, and Haki to their limits.
• Shiki’s Lion: Thousand Slice Valley split the island into four, and Ye Mu realized that Haki was central to a great swordsman’s slash.
• Shiki explained that his name came from his ferocious swordsmanship, then summoned a colossal black lion Phantom behind him.

Ye Mu endured Shiki’s Lion God slash and studied how its advanced Armament Haki pierced his Demon Coil defense. As he began grasping the technique, Shiki’s smugness gave way to astonishment.

• Shiki unleashed Lion Style: Secret Art: Lion God at Ye Mu.
• Ye Mu protected himself with Demon Coil but was swallowed by the slash and wounded as it broke through his Haki.
• Ye Mu used Observation Haki to examine the needle-sharp Armament Haki within Shiki’s attack.
• Ye Mu realized Shiki’s advanced Haki destruction could complement Demon Coil and resolved to learn it through battle.
• Shiki watched Ye Mu struggle beneath the slash, then became astonished within moments.

Ye Mu survived Shiki’s relentless sword assault and rapidly improved his swordsmanship and Armament Haki Internal Destruction as their battle continued. After a day of fighting, Shiki learned how the future remembered him and offered to teach Ye Mu Conqueror’s Haki Infusion in exchange for Ye Mu destroying the future fate Shiki despised.

• Shiki recognized that Ye Mu had learned to use Armament Haki Internal Destruction from his slashes and continued attacking him.
• Ye Mu unleashed a Haki-infused slash that made Shiki dodge, then began trading blows with him in close combat.
• Dr. Indigo and Lililu watched the battle and wondered why Shiki was fighting Ye Mu only with swordsmanship.
• Shiki ended the day’s battle and asked Ye Mu how Roger, Newgate, and Shiki himself were remembered in the future.
• Ye Mu told Shiki he would lose to a straw-hat boy who had not mastered Haki, and Shiki angrily rejected that fate.
• Shiki offered to teach Ye Mu Conqueror’s Haki Infusion if Ye Mu would destroy the future fate Shiki despised, regardless of who won their battle.

Shiki explained his hatred of a world where people bearing D. seemed destined to become kings while others served as stepping stones, and Ye Mu accepted his wager to build a world that rejected that fate. Shiki began teaching Ye Mu Conqueror's Haki Infusion, setting the stage for their decisive battle.

• Shiki told Ye Mu that Rocks had been the strongest person he had faced, with only Roger and Garp at their peaks able to compare.
• Shiki connected the D. names of Rocks, Roger, Garp, and Ye Mu's child of destiny, then condemned a world that seemed to privilege them over everyone else.
• Shiki declared that he would plunge the world into war to destroy its destiny and said Ye Mu had to become strong enough to be worth killing.
• Ye Mu accepted Shiki's wager and promised that the nation and world he built would not let such a fate be written again.
• Shiki unleashed his Conqueror's Haki, and Ye Mu met it with his own as the sky and sea erupted around them.
• Shiki drew Oto and Kogarashi and began demonstrating Conqueror's Haki Infusion, telling Ye Mu to sense the technique before they decided the true victor.

Ye Mu watched Shiki demonstrate Conqueror's Haki Infusion and realized Armament Haki could control Conqueror's Haki. He then manifested his own infusion, leaving Shiki astonished at how quickly he had learned it.

• Ye Mu struggled to understand why Shiki's Conqueror's Haki seemed to move like Armament Haki, while Shiki let him observe without explaining the technique.
• Ye Mu saw Shiki's Conqueror's Haki form a lion and realized Armament Haki might be able to catch and control it, as it did Logia elements.
• Ye Mu sensed concealed Armament Haki within Shiki's Conqueror's Haki and understood that the two powers combined made Conqueror's Haki Infusion.
• Ye Mu's Haki began to flow, and a dragon wreathed in red-black lightning appeared opposite Shiki's lion amid surging waves and parting clouds.
• Shiki was shocked that Ye Mu had comprehended Conqueror's Haki Infusion.

Ye Mu and Shiki began their decisive battle after Ye Mu mastered Conqueror's Haki Infusion. Their clash left both standing their ground as enormous waves enclosed them, and Shiki acknowledged Ye Mu as a worthy rival.

• Shiki realized Ye Mu had learned Conqueror's Haki Infusion and declared that their real battle had begun.
• Ye Mu and Shiki infused their twin swords with Conqueror's Haki and charged at each other.
• Ye Mu unleashed Dragon God while Shiki attacked with Lion God, and their Haki constructs collided with enough force to blast apart the clouds and crater the sea.
• Lililu, Ayala, and the Golden Lion pirates watched in stunned silence as Ye Mu and Shiki continued clashing without either retreating.
• Shiki acknowledged Ye Mu's qualifications to become king of the sea, and Ye Mu called Shiki his strongest enemy and promised to fulfill his dream after killing him.

Ye Mu and Shiki continued their life-or-death battle, trading Devil Fruit powers and sword strikes as each tested the other's weaknesses. Shiki held the advantage in body, martial arts, and Haki, but Ye Mu's awakened fruits helped him compensate, and his unrevealed fused-fruit ability left the outcome uncertain.

• Shiki controlled a towering wave with his Float-Float Fruit, but Ye Mu froze and shattered it with a slash before attacking him.
• Shiki kicked Ye Mu into an ice-and-snow lion and tried to crush him inside it, but Ye Mu burst free with flames and sent a fire dragon at Shiki.
• Shiki dodged Ye Mu's fire dragon, only to be caught off guard by Ye Mu's approach and sent flying by a slash.
• Ye Mu and Shiki clashed again, with Shiki's physical strength, martial arts, and Haki giving him an edge while Ye Mu's awakened Flame-Flame and Hot-Hot Fruits helped make up the difference.
• The battle remained unresolved as both fighters endured the other's attacks, and Ye Mu still had his fused-fruit ability in reserve.

Ye Mu and Shiki fought for three days, until Shiki’s Haki began to fail and Ye Mu offered to withdraw their wager and recruit him. Shiki rejected the offer, tore the rudder from his head, and revealed that he too had awakened his Devil Fruit power as their duel continued.

• Ye Mu and Shiki battled across the sea for three days, exhausting themselves and shaking the surrounding waters with their clashes.
• Ye Mu’s golden attack overwhelmed Shiki’s weakened slash, but Ye Mu stopped before pressing his advantage and acknowledged that victory was tipping toward him.
• Ye Mu offered to withdraw their wager and asked Shiki to join his pirate crew, but Shiki rejected the idea of serving beneath another captain.
• Ye Mu thanked Shiki for improving his swordsmanship and Haki, then prepared to end the duel with his strongest state.
• Shiki pulled the rudder from his head, endured the resulting torrent of blood, and declared that he would teach Ye Mu a pirate’s lesson with his final strike.
• Shiki revealed that Ye Mu was not the only one who had awakened the power of a Devil Fruit.

Shiki used his awakened Float-Float Fruit to raise a vast stone forest and trap Ye Mu in a massive stone sphere, but his failing body could not stop Ye Mu from breaking free. Shiki collapsed and accepted defeat, comparing himself to Roger as Ye Mu emerged from the flames.

• Shiki raised stone pillars across the sea and launched them at Ye Mu with Earthburst Burial.
• Ye Mu answered with Secret Art: True Mahavairocana, melting the incoming pillars with a massive golden sun.
• Shiki wrapped the pillars in seawater to counter Ye Mu’s flames and pressed his attack despite the backlash from his failing body.
• Shiki forced himself through the pain and formed the pillars into a huge stone sphere, which he dropped toward the sea.
• Ye Mu burst out of the sphere in golden flames, and Shiki collapsed, admitting that he had lost and that he was never as good as Roger.

After defeating Shiki, Ye Mu stayed with the dying pirate until sunrise, accepting Shiki’s wish to pass on the Float-Float Fruit. A call from Queen offered a Mythical Zoan to replace the fruit Ye Mu had promised Garlan Annu, just as dawn broke.

• Ayala and Lililu reached the ruined battlefield and found Ye Mu wounded and Shiki still alive; Ayala treated Ye Mu while Shiki’s subordinates arrived.
• Shiki accepted his defeat and said he would soon join Roger, but Ye Mu insisted that their fight’s outcome had been affected by Shiki’s old injury.
• Ye Mu told Shiki he would wait for sunrise before taking the Float-Float Fruit, and Shiki said he regretted that Ye Mu was already a Devil Fruit user.
• Ye Mu accepted Shiki’s wish to inherit the Float-Float Fruit, despite having promised it to Garlan Annu.
• Queen called Ye Mu and offered the Bird-Bird Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nue, in place of the Yamata no Orochi Fruit; the sun rose as the call ended.

Freya worked tirelessly to feed the thousands of people aboard the Marine warships, then worried that her life as a pirate was changing her and pulling her away from her dream of creating the world’s best cuisine. Rouge visited with baby Ace and asked Freya about her recent unhappiness.

• Kuja warriors brought supplies to the Marine warships, where the large group of pregnant women, infants, and crew members had gathered.
• Freya finished preparing food for more than eight thousand people and left the kitchen helpers to serve the meals while she went to rest.
• While bathing, Freya wondered why she had become a pirate and reflected that she was beginning to resemble her father despite once joining Ye Mu’s crew to prove him wrong.
• Rouge visited Freya with baby Ace, and Freya tried holding him before he cried and settled again when he saw his mother.
• Rouge told Freya she had noticed her seeming unhappy lately and had come to ask about it.

Rouge comforted Freya, who felt lost and unlike her former self, by recounting how she met and fell in love with Roger. She left Freya with the thought that love and extraordinary dreams were inseparable from the ordinary necessities of daily life.

• Freya told Rouge she felt lost and worried that she had changed into someone she no longer recognized.
• Rouge shared that she had once hated men because of how people treated her and described meeting Roger while he was selling fish.
• Roger returned fish Freya had forgotten to take, then disappeared from the market after people ostracized him because of her.
• Rouge revealed that Roger saved her when she tried to end her life, and that she pursued him despite learning he had little time to live.
• Rouge thanked Freya for helping Ace be born without bearing the burden of Roger's bloodline, and Freya said Rouge had done nothing wrong by wanting a child.
• Rouge reflected that even love and great dreams depended on ordinary daily life, which she connected to Freya's father's Life Cuisine.

Ye Mu returned to the Twin Goddesses and promised the refugees they would reach a new nation the next day. He reunited with Freya, made plans to send Reiju and Ace to Sky Island, and gathered the crew and Kuja representatives to introduce new companions.

• Rouge advised Freya to speak openly about her feelings, and Freya hurried to the deck after Kurota announced Ye Mu had returned.
• Ye Mu promised the people aboard that he would take them to a new nation the next day, then reunited with Freya and checked on his injuries.
• Ye Mu met Reiju and Ace and offered to send them to Sky Island, where they could live safely.
• Ye Mu assembled the Sky Pirates and Kuja representatives on the Twin Goddesses and said he would explain where he had been.
• Ye Mu introduced Dr. Komi as the crew's chief scientist, Doug Rice as a swordsman, and Dr. Indigo and Scarlet as new companions.

Ye Mu arranged roles for his new companions and learned that Mr. Tom would remain in Water 7 until he built the Sea Train. He approved plans to recruit Water 7’s shipwrights and expand into shipping, then revealed a huge bundle of Devil Fruits that astonished the crew.

• Ye Mu made Dr. Indigo Ayala’s teacher and assigned Doug Rice to work with Eric as they prepared to form a pirate crew.
• Ye Mu placed Dr. Komi and the four Kuromu brothers in a Science Unit under his direct command.
• Eric reported that Mr. Tom had refused to leave Water 7 until he built a sea-crossing train and helped save the city.
• Eric told Ye Mu that Tiger planned to recruit Water 7’s shipwrights, and Ye Mu tasked Tydas Feis with studying the shipping industry and approved the recruitment despite possible World Government spies.
• Kuromu brought out a large bundle of Devil Fruits, and Feis explained to A-Ming that each fruit was worth at least a hundred million berries.

Ye Mu distributed several powerful Devil Fruits and offered five more to the Kuja in exchange for their future help against the World Government and Marines. The Kuja had yet to respond to his proposed deal.

• Ye Mu explained that he had acquired twenty-six Devil Fruits, including the Float-Float Fruit, the Mythical Zoan Model: Nue, and the More-More Fruit.
• Ye Mu apologized to Annu for not giving her the Float-Float Fruit, then recommended the Model: Nue fruit, which Annu accepted.
• Ye Mu assigned the More-More Fruit to Tiger and gave Feis the Black Panther fruit and A-Ming the Owl fruit.
• Ye Mu set aside the Barrier-Barrier Fruit and offered five Zoan fruits to the Kuja as payment for their future support against the Marines and World Government.

Ye Mu divided the Devil Fruits among his allies and arranged for his group to travel to Wenmi Gudan Island. He named the nation he hoped to build the Rainbow Kingdom, a country open to every race.

• Garlan Annu agreed to Ye Mu's deal, but Ye Mu asked her to wait until he returned from the New World before giving a final answer.
• Ye Mu assigned the remaining fifteen Devil Fruits to Eric, Enel, and Tiger, then split the group between a trip to Wenmi Gudan Island and a journey to Water 7.
• Two days later, Ye Mu traveled toward Wenmi Gudan Island aboard a flying warship with Feis, A-Ming, and displaced families.
• Ye Mu demonstrated his ability to control and transform objects, while Feis and A-Ming described how their Devil Fruits had strengthened them.
• Ye Mu asked Feis and A-Ming to work with Princess Dana and Modelin to develop policies for the new nation.
• Ye Mu named the nation the Rainbow Kingdom and explained that he wanted it to welcome people of every race.

Dana and Modelin completed a freshwater pipeline and prepared housing and supplies for the people Ye Mu was bringing to Wenmi Gudan Island. Ye Mu arrived with the newcomers from Baterilla Island, welcomed them to the Rainbow Kingdom, and introduced their leaders so they could begin settling in.

• Dana and Modelin celebrated the successful pipeline that carried lake water to the harbor city, and Dana urged the Harrot Tribe to keep working toward food self-sufficiency.
• Dana confirmed that houses, food, water, and infant supplies were ready for the newcomers.
• Ye Mu arrived by flying warship with Feis, A-Ming, and the people from Baterilla Island, who marveled at the island and learned it would be their new home.
• Ye Mu introduced Tidas Fis and Saranoyo Minsen to Dana and Modelin and asked them to arrange housing for everyone before dark.

Ye Mu helped settle the new arrivals from Baterilla Island and used the Rainbow Tree to make the Float-Float Fruit into Ye Mu No. 3, restoring his power. At dinner, Feis identified three problems the Rainbow Kingdom needed to address: its name, Ye Mu’s title, and the lack of a concrete construction plan.

• Fis arranged housing for the new arrivals from Baterilla Island, and they moved into their new homes before sunset.
• Ye Mu sent Ye Mu No. 1 and Ye Mu No. 2 into Heaven and Lion Maru, ate the Float-Float Fruit, and used the Rainbow Tree to create Ye Mu No. 3.
• Dana, Modelin, Fis, A-Ming, and Gaos gathered with Ye Mu for dinner beneath the Rainbow Tree.
• Ye Mu said the nation would truly be established when the island stayed brightly lit at night and asked what needed to be done first.
• Feis told Ye Mu that people did not know the nation’s name or Ye Mu’s title, and that the island’s construction lacked a concrete plan.

Feis explained that Rainbow Kingdom should establish order from the top down and advised Ye Mu to define the country’s name, his title, and its plans. The group confirmed the name Rainbow Kingdom and began discussing a title that would distinguish Ye Mu the king from Ye Mu the pirate.

• Feis argued that Rainbow Kingdom’s resources and strength made top-down governance the best way to build order.
• Dana admired Feis’s wisdom and decided to learn from him, while Ye Mu felt relieved to entrust him with the work of building the country.
• Ye Mu proposed the name Rainbow Kingdom, and Modelin, Feis, and the others approved it.
• Feis said Ye Mu needed a title that united citizens and separated his royal identity from his pirate identity.
• Feis warned that calling Rainbow Kingdom a nation of pirates could deter people from joining, and Ye Mu agreed before asking for title suggestions.