Chapter Summaries

The Straw Hat Pirates stayed on Kamizuki Yu’s island after witnessing his overwhelming power, then Vegapunk arrived and asked to study him. Kamizuki Yu and Vegapunk exchanged knowledge and began designing a new weapon called Shin-ei.

• The Straw Hat Pirates stayed on the island, where they watched Jack and Cracker settle into its peaceful routines.
• Vegapunk broke through the island’s barrier in his aircraft and hurried to Kamizuki Yu, asking to study his chakra.
• Kamizuki Yu agreed and created a futuristic laboratory for Vegapunk.
• Kamizuki Yu demonstrated Yin–Yang Release and other abilities while Vegapunk presented his research on the Seraphim, Pacifista, Green Blood, and Lunarian Tribe genes.
• Kamizuki Yu and Vegapunk began designing Shin-ei, a weapon combining Pacifista technology, Seraphim genes, Cursed Seal markings, and an Impure World Reincarnation soul core.

Kamizuki Yu and Vegapunk activated Shin-ei, a powerful, regenerating Kuma clone, and planned to mass-produce it to replace the Marines and CP. As Divine Hidden Island advanced peacefully, Marshall D. Teach decided to seize its World Tree and divine power, sending the Blackbeard Pirates to hunt a god.

• Kamizuki Yu ordered Shin-ei to fight a wooden Kaido, and the clone demonstrated immense speed, a powerful laser, Wood Release, and rapid regeneration before obeying the order to stop.
• Vegapunk agreed to mass-produce Shin-ei units for maintaining order and replacing the Marines and CP.
• On Divine Hidden Island, Sanji cooked alongside a Big Mom Pirates chef, Nico Robin uncovered another side of the Void Century, Chopper collaborated with a medical satellite, and Franky worked with Vegapunk on upgrades.
• At Hachinosu, Marshall D. Teach declared that Kamizuki Yu was wasting world-changing power on peace and claimed it should belong to him.
• Van Augur identified the World Tree of Divine Hidden Island as their target, and Marshall D. Teach ordered the Blackbeard Pirates to set sail.

Blackbeard planted doubts about Kamizuki Yu’s Dawn Plan in Kuzan, while Robin deciphered that Laugh Tale could be reached through Nika’s awakening. Her discovery awakened Laugh Tale, setting the stage for a final battle over the world’s secrets.

• Shiryu disguised himself among survivors of a harbor explosion as rumors blamed Kamizuki Yu and the Shin-ei.
• Blackbeard showed Kuzan fragments of the Dawn Plan and urged him to join forces against Kamizuki Yu, but Kuzan left to investigate for himself.
• A White Zetsu clone reported Blackbeard and Kuzan’s conversation to Kamizuki Yu, who watched the unrest with interest.
• Robin concluded that Laugh Tale was a state opened by Nika’s awakening and the Drums of Liberation, while Nami reported chaos at the World United Conference.
• Robin’s conclusion caused Poneglyph rubbings to glow and sent an ancient resonance across the world; Shanks and Benn Beckman sensed Laugh Tale awakening.
• Kamizuki Yu saw Laugh Tale and Joy Boy’s throne through his Rinnegan, received a check-in prompt, and anticipated Blackbeard’s final attempt to seize the secret.

Shanks and Blackbeard reacted to the world-shaking resonance by setting separate plans in motion, with Blackbeard targeting Divine Hidden Island while pursuing the ultimate treasure. Kamizuki Yu learned of the attack and activated the island’s Sky Net defenses, leaving Divine Hidden Island revealed as a war fortress.

• Shanks ordered the Red Force to sail for Divine Hidden Island to investigate Kamizuki Yu and the changing era.
• Blackbeard split his forces, leading one group toward the final island while sending Shiryu and Sanjuan Wolf to Divine Hidden Island as a sacrifice for his dark-domain trap.
• Blackbeard planned to use the colossal life sacrifice to suppress Devil Fruit powers and chakra, keeping Kamizuki Yu occupied until he claimed the ultimate treasure.
• A White Zetsu clone informed Kamizuki Yu of the Blackbeard Pirates’ plan, and he told Vegapunk to activate the Sky Net system.
• Vegapunk activated the island’s turrets, drone network, and energy barrier, revealing Divine Hidden Island as a fortified stronghold.

Blackbeard's attack on Divine Hidden Island was halted by its Sky Net defenses, but Shiryu sacrificed Sanjuan Wolf to unleash Black Sky Descent and suppress the island's powers. Teach reached the final island while Kamizuki Yu and the Straw Hats were trapped in darkness.

• Teach headed toward the final island, while Shiryu led Blackbeard's fleet toward Divine Hidden Island.
• Sky Net's chakra beams annihilated most of Shiryu's fleet as the Straw Hats watched from behind the island's energy barrier.
• Shanks observed the battle from the Red Force and sensed Kamizuki Yu beyond the barrier.
• Shiryu used a black stone to sacrifice Sanjuan Wolf and unleash Black Sky Descent, which swallowed Divine Hidden Island and suppressed Devil Fruit powers.
• Teach announced that he had reached the final island and left Kamizuki Yu trapped in his domain of darkness.

Kamizuki Yu countered Black Sky Descent by awakening the Straw Hat Pirates to natural energy, letting them fight despite their Devil Fruit powers and technology being suppressed. As they battled Shiryu and Catarina Devon, Yu destroyed the ritual altar beneath the sea, destabilizing the darkness but setting off a greater energy storm.

• Black Sky Descent swallowed Divine Hidden Island, suppressing energy, Devil Fruits, technology, and Haki perception while Vegapunk's systems failed.
• Kamizuki Yu urged Luffy, Robin, and the others to draw on natural energy flowing through the World Tree's roots, and the Straw Hats gained new forms and abilities.
• Sanji kicked Shiryu away from a resident with his new Saint Flame Hoof, while Zoro cut Catarina Devon despite having his eyes closed.
• Kamizuki Yu sent a World Tree root through the Ghost Submarine, piercing Avalo Pizarro and destroying the ritual's core.
• Sanjuan Wolf's petrified body cracked, the darkness began flickering, and a greater energy storm gathered at its center.

Kamizuki Yu stopped the Blackbeard Pirates' collapsing energy singularity by feeding it stable energy, then claimed the resulting crystal. Shanks decided to intervene personally and set course for Divine Hidden Island.

• The destroyed ritual array triggered a collapse that dragged the Blackbeard Pirates' officers and the Straw Hat crew toward the energy singularity.
• Kamizuki Yu ordered Vegapunk to recalibrate the SkyNet system and inject stable energy into the singularity.
• Vegapunk synchronized the energy, and the turrets' golden streams calmed the singularity and condensed it into a black crystal that Kamizuki Yu claimed.
• The dark canopy vanished, Sanjuan Wolf's body crumbled to ash, and Shiryu, Catarina Devon, and the other officers lay defeated.
• Shanks drew Gryphon, sent a Conqueror's Haki signal skyward, and ordered the Red Force to head for Divine Hidden Island.

Shanks arrived alone at Divine Hidden Island, where Kamizuki Yu had defeated but spared the Blackbeard Pirates. After Yu stopped Vasco Shot from taking Usopp hostage with an unexplained power, Yu turned to Shanks to discuss why he had come.

• Shanks left the Red Force offshore and climbed through the air to meet Kamizuki Yu on the World Tree platform.
• Kamizuki Yu released Shiryu, Catarina Devon, and the other Blackbeard Pirates, explaining that living enemies were more useful to him than the dead.
• Vasco Shot seized Usopp and threatened to kill him, prompting Luffy, Sanji, Zoro, and Shanks to prepare to act.
• Kamizuki Yu raised a finger and made Vasco Shot's blood flow backward, leaving him unconscious and Usopp unharmed within seconds.
• Shanks sensed that Yu's power operated like a law, and Yu asked to discuss the real reason Shanks had come.

Kamizuki Yu explained to Shanks that history, not Luffy, was the true key to the new era, and revealed the purpose of the Poneglyphs and Laugh Tale. He left Shanks with the knowledge that Blackbeard intended to hijack the awakening, while Yu planned to clean up the obstacles before Luffy unlocked it.

• Shanks said he had placed his hopes for a new era on Luffy and called Yu the era’s greatest variable.
• Yu said Luffy was only the person suited to unlock the key, then made Robin’s Poneglyph rubbings form a star map above the World Tree.
• Yu explained that Laugh Tale was a broadcast station for encoded history, which Luffy could use to awaken the hidden potential of people bearing or inheriting the will of D.
• Yu revealed that Blackbeard wanted to capture Luffy and hijack the broadcast to awaken destructive instincts in the D. bloodlines.
• Shanks asked what Yu wanted, and Yu said he would clean up the world’s obstacles before Luffy unlocked the history.

Kamizuki Yu dismissed Shanks and erased the Blackbeard officers he had called trash, while Shanks returned to his ship knowing an unpredictable era had begun. On Hachinosu, Marshall D. Teach sacrificed his wealth, Devil Fruits, and himself to awaken Glutton, an ancient weapon meant to devour gods, and vowed to return for Kamizuki Yu.

• Kamizuki Yu told Shanks that the world needed rules rather than more face, then scattered the star map and ended their conversation.
• Marshall D. Teach watched the Vivre Cards of his subordinates burn and laughed, convinced their defeat had shown him how to slay a god.
• Teach revealed a black stone coffin unearthed from an ancient ruin and cut his palm, feeding his blood to its strange patterns.
• Teach ordered Van Augur, Lafitte, and the other officers to throw the Blackbeard Pirates' treasure and Devil Fruits into the coffin.
• Teach used Black Hole and Shockwave to pour energy into the coffin, awakening Glutton and shaking Hachinosu.
• Teach merged his body and soul with Glutton, calling it the ultimate weapon of D and promising to return and devour Kamizuki Yu's island and divine throne.

Kamizuki Yu received a call from Monkey D. Dragon, who revealed that Imu and the Five Elders had begun a secret plan called Ark while Blackbeard’s ritual involved an ancient weapon opposed to Joy Boy. Kamizuki agreed to share intelligence with the Revolutionary Army and demanded all information about Ark, leaving him contemplating the plan’s unknown destination.

• The Red Hair Pirates remained near Divine Hidden Island, appearing to guard it as the world’s intelligence agencies watched.
• Monkey D. Dragon told Kamizuki Yu that Imu and the Five Elders had activated Ark to relocate the world’s foundation.
• Dragon said Blackbeard’s ritual was connected to an ancient weapon that destroyed the Great Kingdom and represented a force opposite to Joy Boy.
• Dragon proposed that the Revolutionary Army and Kamizuki share intelligence and confront Blackbeard and Imu together.
• Kamizuki agreed to cooperate on the condition that Dragon provide every detail and possible location connected to Ark.
• After the call ended, Kamizuki looked out toward the sea and reflected on Ark’s unknown destination.

Kamizuki Yu learned from Zunesha that Blackbeard’s ritual had disrupted the New World’s routes, leaving Zunesha and the final Road Poneglyph lost. He took the Straw Hat Pirates aboard a giant wooden dragon to rescue Zunesha, while secretly planting a mind-control seed in Shiryu.

• Zunesha sent a sorrowful message that reached the people on Divine Hidden Island, and Kamizuki Yu understood that Mokomo Dukedom and the final Road Poneglyph were on its back.
• Kamizuki Yu explained that Blackbeard’s ritual was warping the New World’s routes and magnetic fields, preventing Zunesha from reaching its destination.
• Kamizuki Yu summoned a wooden dragon from the World Tree and led the Straw Hat Pirates aboard it.
• Kamizuki Yu had the captured Shiryu, Catarina Devon, and the others brought onto the dragon, then planted a logical seed in Shiryu that would direct his thoughts toward a set of coordinates.
• The wooden dragon grew a path of vines through the air and sped into the New World to find Zunesha and obtain the final Poneglyph.

Marshall D. Teach completed his fusion with an ancient stone coffin and became a colossal monster that embodied the Dark-Dark and Tremor-Tremor Fruits. Kamizuki Yu identified a vulnerable core in Teach’s new form, then led the Wood Dragon through a storm to reach Zunesha and Zou.

• Teach transformed into a giant creature that devoured matter and wielded composite resistances from other powers.
• Shiryu, Catarina Devon, and the other prisoners saw Teach’s transformation through Kamizuki Yu’s Izanami seeds and screamed in terror.
• Kamizuki Yu explained to Robin and Luffy that Teach had become a singularity of laws, but depended on a vulnerable core.
• Teach’s consciousness noticed the spiritual link and severed it, leaving the prisoners collapsed but alive.
• Kamizuki Yu sent the Wood Dragon through the magnetic storm, and the group reached Zunesha as Luffy called out that they had come to help.

Kamizuki Yu healed Zunesha and received its memories, learning the origin and purpose of the Will of D. Zunesha then granted him its life force, and the system unlocked Laugh Tale as his final check-in destination.

• Kamizuki Yu and the Straw Hat Pirates reached Zunesha, where Yu healed the elephant with life energy from the World Tree.
• Zunesha shared memories with Kamizuki Yu, revealing Joy Boy and the ancient kingdom's creation of the Will of D as a seed to awaken freedom and break down walls.
• Kamizuki Yu learned that the final Road Poneglyph contained instructions for awakening the Will of D's power of dawn and dreams, while Blackbeard had followed its destructive path.
• Zunesha gave Kamizuki Yu an ancient origin of life, which his Sage Body and World Tree bloodline absorbed.
• The system unlocked Laugh Tale as the ultimate check-in location, and Kamizuki Yu nodded to Robin as he looked toward its marked destination.

Kamizuki Yu deployed his Shin-ei machines to trap Blackbeard’s Glutton form while he prepared to travel to Laugh Tale. The chapter left Yu and the others speeding toward the island to reclaim something he said belonged to them.

• Vegapunk reported that the first hundred mass-produced Shin-ei were ready, and Kamizuki Yu sent fifty to Wano and fifty to Blackbeard’s coordinates.
• Kamizuki Yu ordered the fifty Shin-ei to form a Law Interference Field and immobilize Blackbeard without attacking him.
• The Shin-ei trapped Glutton in a vast formation that neutralized his attacks and contained his roar, while intelligence agencies around the world watched.
• Dragon and Shanks contacted Kamizuki Yu, and Shanks agreed to watch over Blackbeard until Yu returned.
• Kamizuki Yu boarded the Wood Dragon with Luffy and the others and set course for Laugh Tale.

As Kamizuki Yu’s Divine Guard Army restrained Blackbeard, the World United Conference erupted into fear that Yu was becoming a new ruler. Monkey D. Dragon intervened, exposed King Ilisia’s deception, and warned the kings that they had to choose between Yu’s absolute order and Blackbeard’s destructive chaos.

• The kings panicked at the sight of Kamizuki Yu’s fifty silver giants surrounding Blackbeard, and Cobra and Riku urged them to trust Yu.
• King Ilisia accused Yu of strangling his country’s trade, while other rulers complained that Yu’s new standards threatened their economies and privileges.
• Vivi defended Yu’s system and challenged King Ilisia to explain how his people had fared under the Celestial Dragons’ tribute.
• Monkey D. Dragon appeared on the conference screens, explained that Ilisia’s trade orders had been transferred and compensation paid, and asked whether Ilisia had helped his people with the money.
• Dragon warned the kings that the world faced Yu’s absolute order or Blackbeard’s chaos, and said the Revolutionary Army fought for freedom between them.
• The screens went dark, leaving the kings to realize they had become pieces in a conflict, as Cobra sat beside the silent Vivi and recognized that the old era had ended.

Shanks tested whether Luffy could rely on his own will and Haki as a member of the D clan. He defeated Luffy's strongest conventional attack without moving, leaving Luffy stunned by the gulf between them.

• Shanks told Beckman that following the arrangement was his own choice, then challenged Luffy to attack him with his strongest move.
• Shanks ordered Luffy to rely on his own will and Haki instead of his incomplete Nika power.
• Luffy transformed into Gear Fourth Boundman and struck Shanks with Rhino Schneider.
• Shanks's invisible Emperor's Domain stopped the attack and reflected its force, sending Luffy crashing into the mast.
• Luffy returned to normal and realized how far he stood from the power of a Four Emperor.

Luffy awakened the drums of liberation during Shanks's trial, briefly touching the power of Nika and passing the test. Shanks sent Luffy to witness the answer brought back from the end of the world, then set course to confront Blackbeard in the sea trapped by the Divine Guard Army.

• Luffy reflected on his inability to hit Shanks and listened to the strange rhythm within himself.
• Luffy awakened a white aura and the drums of liberation, lifting the spirits of everyone aboard the Red Force.
• Luffy embraced Shanks, and Shanks let his Emperor's Domain dissolve before Luffy's liberating will.
• Shanks ended the trial, told Luffy to witness the answer from the end of the world, and ordered the Red Force to sail toward Blackbeard.

The Wood Dragon Ark entered the uncharted Sea of Illusions, where the crew and their prisoners were trapped in visions of their deepest fears. Kamizuki Yu shattered the sea’s ancient spiritual force field, freeing them as an island appeared through the fog.

• Nico Robin read the chart’s warning as the Log Pose spun uselessly in the strange sea.
• Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Usopp, Franky, and Brook faced illusions drawn from their painful memories, while Luffy and Kamizuki Yu remained unaffected.
• Shiryu and Catarina Devon were overwhelmed by visions of poison and their own appearance.
• Kamizuki Yu used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to see the spiritual network behind the illusions and shattered it with his will.
• The illusions vanished, and an island appeared in the fog as Kamizuki Yu pointed the crew onward.

The Straw Hat Pirates reached Laugh Tale, where Robin read the true history and Gol D. Roger’s lingering will revealed what One Piece meant. After thanking Kamizuki Yu for overturning the World Government, Roger’s will vanished, and Yu led the crew back to the Wood Dragon Ark.

• The Straw Hat Pirates landed on Laugh Tale and followed Robin to its enormous stone monument.
• Robin read the complete history of the ancient kingdom, Joy Boy, the D. Clan, and the war against the Twenty Kings.
• Gol D. Roger’s will appeared, greeted Luffy, and questioned Kamizuki Yu about his origins.
• Kamizuki Yu showed Roger the fall of Mary Geoise, and Roger thanked him for giving the world a future.
• Roger explained that One Piece was a plan to unite the wills of those seeking freedom, then urged Luffy to share the story and throw a worldwide banquet.
• Roger’s will disappeared, and Kamizuki Yu led the Straw Hat Pirates toward the Wood Dragon Ark.