Chapter Summaries

Ye Mu ordered the Encirclement Hunt Plan and brought Ayala, Erza, Yamato, and Reiju out to witness the battle. Zephyr and Fisher Tiger displayed their immense power in clashes that devastated the battlefield, leaving the Marines wondering whether the Sky Pirates had laid another trap.

• Ye Mu activated the Encirclement Hunt Plan and told Ayala, Erza, Yamato, and Reiju to watch the battle.
• Zephyr led the Navy across the battlefield, then shattered a falling meteorite with a single punch.
• Fisher Tiger appeared before the Twin Goddesses and vowed to keep the Marines away from Ye Mu.
• Tiger used Fish-Man Karate to heave up the frozen sea beneath the Marines, sending many soldiers into the water.
• Zephyr split the glacier with a powerful blow and stopped it from overturning completely.
• The Marines saw the shattered ice and wondered whether the Sky Pirates had set another trap.

The Sky Pirates' three grand fleets emerged from beneath the sea and trapped hundreds of thousands of marines on an isolated ice island, then opened fire. Zephyr and the future admirals could not break away from their opponents to stop the slaughter.

• Zephyr sensed danger as bubbles rose around the isolated ice island, but fifteen pirate ships surfaced and encircled the trapped marines.
• The Sky Pirates' three grand fleets, flying the Rainbow Kingdom's sun divine bird alongside their own flags, bombarded the marines and inflicted devastating casualties.
• Zephyr tried to attack the pirate ships, but Fisher Tiger used the More-More Fruit to block him and send him flying before they clashed again.
• Enel exploited Borsalino's distraction and kicked him away, while their fight continued.
• Kuzan struggled against a powerful Mythical Zoan user whose Haki, strength, and flame control kept him from gaining an advantage.

Eric used the Sandai Kitetsu to unleash a powerful slash that destroyed Sakazuki’s magma attack, while the Navy realized the Sky Pirates possessed a weapon-enhancement ability. After the pirate ships finished their bombardment, the pirate fleets and Germa Army advanced on the battered Navy.

• Sakazuki targeted the Sky Pirates’ fifteen ships with Meteor Volcano, forcing Eric to defend them instead of continuing to kite him.
• Eric empowered the Sandai Kitetsu with Haki and demon aura, then used a fiftyfold-enhanced Demon Slash to cut through the falling magma.
• Sakazuki recognized the danger of Eric’s slash, while Sengoku suspected the Sky Pirates had combined Devil Fruit power with a weapon.
• Sengoku and Garp held back because Ye Mu had locked onto them with Observation Haki.
• After the ships exhausted their cannonballs, the three fleet captains and their pirates appeared, and the Germa Army charged forward as the Navy faced the next assault.

The Marines and Sky Pirates committed their main forces to a bloody battle on the frozen sea, while Sengoku sent hidden Cipher Pol forces to encircle the Sky Pirates from behind. The encirclement was revealed just as Bartholomew Kuma appeared in the Cipher Pol soldiers’ path.

• The Sky Pirates’ captains and their forces charged the Marines as the Germa Army attacked from behind, beginning a fierce ground battle.
• Five hidden Marine warships emerged near Golden Crow Island, revealing tens of thousands of Cipher Pol soldiers behind the Sky Pirates.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to attack and wipe out the Sky Pirates, believing their forces had been caught in a pincer.
• Hammond saw Bartholomew Kuma blocking the Cipher Pol soldiers’ path and asked why he was there.

Bartholomew Kuma, Emporio Ivankov, and their allies arrived to help the Sky Pirates’ rear against CP0 and its soldiers. With the battle shifting across both fronts, Ye Mu prepared to enter the decisive fight.

• Bartholomew Kuma told Hammond he had come to stop the navy, not joined the Sky Pirates.
• Emporio Ivankov arrived through Kuma’s air door and revealed that more allies were coming.
• Nearly ten thousand okama and Kuja warriors emerged, led alongside Kuma, Ivankov, Judge, Elder Nyon, Tesoro, and Leina.
• The allied army faced four CP0 members and thirty thousand CP soldiers as fifty thousand marines reinforced the forward battlefield.
• Freya told Ye Mu she would wait for his return, and Ye Mu flew up to join the battle.

Ye Mu addressed Sengoku and Garp as the war reached its climax, revealing his reasons for fighting the World Government and the future he hoped to build. His declaration inspired cheers across the battlefield, while the promised opponent for Garp remained unrevealed.

• Ye Mu rose above the battlefield, drawing everyone's attention as Sengoku and Garp prepared to fight him.
• Ye Mu reminded Sengoku that he had defeated him before, but Garp rallied the marines by challenging Ye Mu himself.
• Ye Mu told Sengoku and Garp that he had already found a suitable opponent for Garp, leaving them unsure who it could be.
• Ye Mu explained that his war was against the Celestial Dragons and the World Government, not the marines, and that he fought for fairness and equality.
• Ye Mu promised to protect his companions and future generations by breaking the old order and creating a world where every race could live equally.
• The battlefield erupted in cheers after Ye Mu finished his declaration.

Ye Mu's speech rallied his allies and unsettled the Marines, while Sengoku and Garp prepared to confront him. Dragon arrived at Ye Mu's side, shocking Garp and Sengoku, and said he had chosen to join the war himself.

• Ye Mu's promise of a better future strengthened his allies' fighting spirit and made many Marines question their cause.
• Tiger renewed his determination to defeat Zephyr, while Zephyr accepted the challenge of testing the younger generation's will.
• Sengoku and Garp agreed to face Ye Mu, and Garp declared he would fight any helper, even Whitebeard.
• Dragon appeared beside Ye Mu, revealing himself as Garp's son and leaving the battlefield stunned.
• Sengoku accused Ye Mu of using Dragon against Garp, but Dragon said he had sought out Ye Mu because he wanted to take part in the war.

Dragon joined Ye Mu and the Sky Pirates against the Marines, forcing Garp to confront his son while Ye Mu faced Sengoku. After both sides cleared the battlefield, Ye Mu began his clash with Sengoku by forming a colossal fireball.

• Dragon told Garp he opposed the World Government and was willing to help save the world, so Garp moved to fight his son while Sengoku faced Ye Mu.
• Dragon and Garp took their fight to another location, and Ye Mu offered Sengoku North Blue in exchange for the Marines' surrender.
• Sengoku transformed into a golden Buddha as Ye Mu entered his Flame Emperor Form, a clash witnessed by people around the world through TV Shell broadcasts.
• Garp prepared to stop holding back against Dragon, but Dragon stunned him by saying he had gotten married.
• The Marines and Sky Pirates cleared the ice field, and Ye Mu opened the battle with his Secret Art: True Mahavairocana.

Ye Mu unleashed the True Several Thousand Hands, battering Sengoku and destroying fifteen Marine warships as the glacier collapsed. Sengoku rallied the trapped Marine soldiers to fight, while Ye Mu ordered the Sky Pirates to begin phase one of their operation.

• Sengoku countered Ye Mu’s fireball with Buddha’s Wrath, but the clash shattered Kuzan’s glacier and sent seawater surging upward.
• Ye Mu formed the colossal True Several Thousand Hands from the seawater and sent a barrage of frozen fists at Sengoku.
• Sengoku tried to destroy the giant Buddha, but Ye Mu’s Top Transformed Buddha overwhelmed him and smashed him into the glacier.
• Ye Mu’s attacks destroyed the fifteen Marine warships on the glacier, bringing the number of lost ships to seventeen of the thirty.
• Sengoku escaped onto an iceberg and urged the trapped Marine soldiers to win the battle to survive.
• Ye Mu told the Sky Pirates to begin phase one of their operation.

The Sky Pirates unleashed the Rumble Ball, transforming their Zoan users into enormous, nearly invulnerable beasts and turning the battle against the Navy. As the Marines began to collapse, Sengoku and the others wondered what the pill was, and Ayala identified it as the Rumble Ball.

• Wiggins ordered the Thunder God Pirates to fall back and prepare to charge, leaving command to Jinbe, while Elder Nyon directed the Kuja and Kamabakka warriors.
• The Zoan users swallowed blue pills and transformed into gigantic, blood-eyed monsters.
• The transformed Zoan users smashed through the Navy lines, overpowering a vice admiral and shrugging off bullets and cannon fire.
• Jinbe and Elder Nyon reassured their allies and led them into a charge as the Marines fell into chaos.
• Sengoku, Reiju, and Yamato asked what the pill was, and Ayala named it the Rumble Ball.

Ayala explained Dr. Komi’s Rumble Ball and its dangerous, temporary awakened state to Yamato and Reiju as the Sky Pirates’ attack sent the Marines into chaos. With the Marines close to defeat, Hammond ordered the struggling CP0 agents to withdraw.

• Ayala told Yamato and Reiju that Rumble Balls altered Zoan transformations to force an imperfect awakening that drained stamina and damaged the body.
• Reiju asked why the awakened fighters attacked only Marines, and Ayala explained they had been trained to target Marine and Cipher Pol uniforms.
• Erza feared for Ye Mu, Enel, and the others, and Freya comforted her while explaining the need to win the war.
• The awakened fighters and Sky Pirates overwhelmed the Marine ranks, prompting Ye Mu to tell Sengoku they were about to win.
• Behind Golden Crow Island, Elder Nyon and the others fought Hammond’s CP0 team, and Hammond ordered his agents to withdraw.

Hammond ordered Cipher Pol to withdraw from the battle, leaving the Marines exposed as their forces began to flee. With Sengoku unable to stop the collapse, the Marines’ defeat became inevitable.

• Hammond persuaded the other CP0 agents to abandon the battlefield, and they ordered Cipher Pol’s forces to board their ships.
• Ivankov, Kuma, Judge, and Elder Nyon realized Cipher Pol had withdrawn, and Elder Nyon asked Kuma to send the six awakened fighters to the main battlefield once it was safe.
• The retreating Cipher Pol forces became visible to the Marines, and their departure triggered tens of thousands of soldiers to flee.
• Ye Mu watched the Marines’ defeat become certain and told Sengoku he no longer needed to reveal his remaining trump cards.
• Sengoku confronted Hammond over the retreat, but Hammond said Cipher Pol answered only to the Five Elders and ended the call.

As the Marines began to collapse, Dragon and Garp prepared to settle their differences while the Sky Pirates’ fighters continued their clashes with Marine officers. The battles remained unresolved, with the Marines losing ground and Zephyr, Borsalino, and Aokiji still fighting.

• Dragon told Garp that the Marines were losing because their members were divided by the World Government’s corruption, and revealed that he shared Ye Mu’s goal of overthrowing it.
• Garp challenged Dragon to prove he was qualified to pursue that goal, and Dragon took a serious fighting stance.
• Fisher Tiger and Zephyr exchanged powerful attacks over the sea, then agreed to keep fighting until their respective leaders ordered them to stop.
• Enel and Borsalino clashed at high speed as lightning and light, with neither gaining the upper hand.
• Ye Mu’s flames collided with Aokiji’s ice, creating another huge cloud of mist.

As the navy’s retreat collapsed, Sakazuki attacked fleeing soldiers in an attempt to restore discipline, but Cipher Pol continued to flee. Sengoku unleashed a powerful surge of will against Ye Mu, and Ye Mu answered with an aura of his own as their final clash began.

• Kuzan retreated from Annu and watched the navy’s soldiers flee, believing the navy’s justice had been defeated.
• Sakazuki used Meteor Volcano to block the navy’s escape route and kill fleeing soldiers, calling them deserters.
• Cipher Pol’s soldiers kept running despite Sakazuki’s attack, weakening the navy’s briefly restored morale as Eric taunted him.
• Sengoku’s Conqueror’s Haki surged with a deadly resolve, revealing a power greater than when Ye Mu had faced him in Impel Down.
• Ye Mu recognized Sengoku’s determination and unleashed his own aura, declaring that he also had a reason he could not lose.

Ye Mu and Sengoku’s Conqueror’s Haki affected the sky, earth, and sea, while Garp explained to Dragon how Haki could let people break their restraints and challenge the gods. Garp warned Dragon not to oppose powerful enemies before reaching their level and grew concerned that Ye Mu’s Haki was identical to Rocks’s.

• Ye Mu and Sengoku clashed through their Conqueror’s Haki, splitting the clouds and churning the sea as the battlefield trembled.
• Dragon asked Garp about the power on display, and Garp warned him not to stand against Ye Mu before reaching his level.
• Garp told Dragon that gods and D. had once shared the name Godd, and explained that Haki was a power that could break bodily restraints.
• Garp cautioned Dragon against treating the name D. as proof of special destiny, and Dragon accepted his father’s advice.
• Garp explained that Conqueror’s Haki could let people transcend their limits, then said Ye Mu’s Haki felt exactly like Rocks’s.

Ye Mu and Sengoku fought evenly until a strange heartbeat-like sound distracted Ye Mu and let Sengoku strike him toward Golden Crow Island. As Ye Mu entered a state of unity with the world, he realized the sound came from the world itself.

• Ye Mu and Sengoku vanished into a clash of Haki that shattered the ice and sent the battlefield’s soldiers fleeing toward Golden Crow Island.
• Ye Mu and Sengoku continued their fight as people watched through TV Shells and hoped Ye Mu would win the war for the Rainbow Kingdom.
• Lililu noticed the Rainbow Tree glowing and swaying, and recognized that the key to a new World Tree had appeared within Ye Mu.
• Ye Mu heard a heartbeat-like sound that recalled his battle with Bullet, and the sound grew louder during his fight with Sengoku.
• The sound disrupted Ye Mu’s perception, allowing Sengoku to hit him with Asura's Wrath and send him flying toward Golden Crow Island.
• Ye Mu entered a state of unity with the world and realized the sound came from the world itself.

Ye Mu awakened a terrifying power after hearing the world’s voice and overwhelmed the Marines with his Conqueror’s Haki. The Five Elders negotiated a ceasefire that gave the North Blue to Ye Mu, and both sides declared the war over.

• Ye Mu rose from the crater with his Devil Fruit power fully released and unleashed Conqueror’s Haki across the battlefield.
• Ye Mu’s Haki knocked out countless Marines, including vice admirals, and painfully disrupted Borsalino’s elementalization.
• Whitebeard recognized Ye Mu’s Haki as resembling Roger’s, while Garp concluded Ye Mu had surpassed Rocks and Charlotte Linlin celebrated him as her masterpiece.
• The Five Elders offered Ye Mu the North Blue in exchange for keeping his forces out of the other three seas, and Garp stopped Sengoku from continuing the fight.
• Sengoku saw the devastation across the battlefield, accepted the Marines’ defeat, and ended his transformed state.
• The Rainbow Kingdom and the Marines announced that the war was over, prompting cheers from Ye Mu’s side and crying among the Marines.

Twenty years later, Nami navigated a merchant ship in the East Blue while worrying about Kaya and distrusting Klahadore. The crew rescued two apparently stranded boys, and the straw-hatted Luffy announced his ambition to become One Piece.

• Nami spoke with Merry about Kaya's health and Usopp's continued attempts to visit her despite Klahadore's orders.
• The crew spotted two apparently unconscious boys drifting in a small boat and asked Nami whether they should rescue them.
• Nami checked the surrounding sea for pirates and used a telescope to inspect the boys.
• Luffy stretched his arm across the water, grabbed the ship's railing, and brought himself and the pink-haired boy aboard.
• Luffy introduced himself to Nami and declared that he would become One Piece.

Nami offered Luffy and Coby food and lodging aboard the merchant ship in exchange for work, and Luffy accepted so he could find strong crewmates before heading to the Grand Line. Nami hoped Luffy would protect the ship on its dangerous route ahead.

• Nami told Merry she planned to keep Luffy aboard as a free bodyguard because he was a Devil Fruit user.
• Coby explained that Luffy had defeated Alvida and rescued him after Coby was forced to work on the Alvida Pirates' ship.
• Nami dismissed Coby's dream of becoming a marine and offered both boys food and lodging in exchange for working on the merchant ship until they found their own vessel.
• Luffy accepted Nami's offer, explaining that he needed to find strong crewmates before going to the Grand Line.
• Nami felt relieved because she expected Luffy to help protect the ship through a dangerous stretch of sea.

Luffy, Nami, Coby, and Merry sailed toward an island where Roronoa Zoro and Marine Captain Morgan were based. After Helmeppo boarded their ship to collect a bribe, Luffy flew off toward the island, and Coby chased after him.

• Nami scolded Luffy for making noise while fishing, then went back to the cabin as Luffy continued playing with Coby.
• Merry told Coby that Nami distrusted the Marines because her mother, Bellemere, had suffered under Marine Captain Nezumi and Nami had seen Marines abuse their power.
• Merry told Luffy that Roronoa Zoro, a powerful pirate hunter, was on the island ahead, along with Marine Captain Morgan; Luffy eagerly wanted to go there.
• A day later, Helmeppo boarded the ship, took a chest of treasure from the crew, and left, allowing the ship to dock.
• Luffy suddenly flew off toward the island, and Coby hurried after him while Nami stayed behind and returned to sleep.