Chapter Summaries

Sabo mastered Ryuo after Rayleigh guided him through a training fight, while Ace responded to falling behind by punching a rock wall until his hands bled. The chapter left Ace exhausted and questioning Roger as Sabo bandaged him, with their confrontation against Crocodile still ahead.

• Rayleigh slowed his movements so Sabo could read his Haki, and Sabo unleashed a punch through the air that cracked a rock wall.
• Rayleigh praised Sabo for mastering Ryuo, while Ace walked away and began punching a rock wall with his bare hands.
• Kahn dismissed Ace’s self-destructive training as Tony prepared repairs for Ace’s Gravity Bracelet, and Luffy returned from climbing the cliff fifty times to demand meat.
• Ace continued punching until he collapsed, then stared at the pirate-flag fragment on his arm and wondered what kind of person Roger had been.
• Sabo bandaged Ace’s injured hand, and Ace admitted his loss without excuses as Sabo reminded him that Crocodile, not each other, was their enemy.

Rayleigh told Ace that Roger begged Garp to protect Rouge and their unborn child, then showed Ace a photograph of his parents, leaving Ace to cry alone by the sea. The next morning, Ace trained with Rayleigh while Tony and JARVIS observed his unusually high muscle output and chaotic brain waves.

• Sabo told Ace that fear of Roger’s shadow was keeping him from releasing his full power, and Ace said he would become stronger regardless of whose power he used.
• Rayleigh told Ace that Roger had knelt before Garp to ask him to protect Rouge and their unborn child.
• Rayleigh showed Ace an old photograph of Roger and Rouge, and Ace broke down crying as he looked at his parents.
• Kahn watched Ace grieve from the reef above but chose not to disturb him.
• Tony put on his repainted Mark Armor, and JARVIS reported that Ace’s muscle output had risen while his reaction speed had fallen.
• Ace sparred with Rayleigh on the beach at Twin Cape the next morning.

Kahn interrupted Rayleigh's brutal training when Rayleigh forced Ace to confront whether he deserved to live, then pushed Ace to prove himself through strength. Ace recovered his resolve, and Kahn turned to test Tony's armor by beating him.

• Rayleigh knocked Ace down and asked whether he thought he deserved to live, leaving Ace unable to answer as Sabo and Luffy watched in alarm.
• Kahn landed between Rayleigh and Ace, shattered Rayleigh's wooden stick, and told Ace that his fists—not anyone else's judgment—would determine whether he could survive.
• Kahn challenged Ace to train his Armament Haki and Ryuo until he could punch through Kahn's skin, and Ace regained his resolve.
• Kahn told Tony it was his turn and began testing his armor in a fight, while Tony asked JARVIS to raise the shields and protested about his face.

Kahn pushed Tony through dangerous armor tests while Ace, Sabo, and Luffy trained at Twin Cape. That night, Kahn told Rayleigh he cared only about who dared block his path, then questioned whether everyone truly sought the One Piece.

• Kahn repeatedly struck Tony’s armor, forcing him to record combat data while warning that he had held back nearly all his strength.
• Ace regained his resolve after watching Kahn pummel Tony and resumed fighting Rayleigh, while Sabo joined the sparring and Luffy continued his cliff-climbing training.
• After training ended, Tony ordered new titanium alloy materials, and Kahn absorbed faint cosmic radiation as he sat atop the lighthouse.
• Rayleigh asked why Kahn was pushing the others toward a fight with Crocodile, and Kahn dismissed Crocodile as a failed opponent unworthy of Eclipse.
• Rayleigh warned that Kahn’s actions would unite the world against him, and Kahn said he cared only about who dared block his path.
• Rayleigh asked whether Kahn sought the One Piece or the World Government’s overthrow, and Kahn questioned whether everyone who went to sea truly wanted to find Roger’s treasure.

Kahn told Rayleigh he intended to impose absolute rules on the world and destroy anyone who defied them, including the World Government. The next morning, Rayleigh resumed training Ace and Sabo as Kahn watched and Tony recorded their rapid improvement.

• Kahn rejected Roger's legacy and condemned Rayleigh's generation for leaving the sea in chaos, declaring that he would remake the world by his own hands.
• Rayleigh asked when Kahn would attack the World Government, and Kahn said he would go to Mary Geoise and destroy the Empty Throne once he had grown up.
• Rayleigh asked whether Ace and the others might oppose Kahn, and Kahn said they would have to obey his rules as long as they could not defeat him.
• Tony scanned Kahn and Rayleigh from the beach, then went to sleep while the two men remained on the lighthouse.
• The next morning, Ace showed signs of Armament Haki as he fought Rayleigh, while Sabo joined in and the pair pushed Rayleigh to fight harder.
• Tony recorded Ace and Sabo's rising combat abilities, and Kahn said willpower could amplify the body's potential at the edge of life and death.

Rayleigh told Ace that Roger had been terrified of dying and had looked toward the East Blue before his execution, hoping to find his son. The revelation drew out Ace’s strongest punch yet, and the chapter ended with Kahn and Rayleigh arguing over Ace’s potential.

• Rayleigh told Ace that Roger had suffered terribly during his final years and had turned himself in because he feared burdening his companions.
• Rayleigh revealed that Roger had looked toward the East Blue before his execution and had asked him to name a son Ace.
• Ace reacted to the revelation by coating his arms in Armament Haki and punching Rayleigh, forcing him to slide half a step back.
• Rayleigh praised Ace as beginning to look like Roger’s son, while Tony reported that Ace’s punch exceeded his previous peak kinetic output by 345 percent.
• Kahn called Ace only a decent fighter, and Rayleigh and Tony challenged Kahn’s harsh standards and extraordinary comparison.

Tony told Luffy, Sabo, and Ace how Kahn had destroyed an alien invasion with a punch equivalent to a tactical nuclear bomb. The next morning, Rayleigh began the final lesson of their eighteenth day of special training, promising to reveal their limits within three moves.

• Tony described how Kahn had fallen into his world, incinerated alien attackers with his eye beams, and smashed a giant beast with a nuclear-bomb-level punch.
• Luffy declared that he would surpass Kahn, while Ace silently vowed not to fall too far behind his older brother.
• Rayleigh ordered Luffy, Sabo, and Ace to sleep because their training would be doubled the next day, then asked Tony whether his story was true.
• Tony said Kahn could absorb Stellar Energy endlessly and would be invincible as long as a sun existed, while Rayleigh predicted Kahn would eventually turn the sea upside down.
• On the eighteenth day of training, Rayleigh announced that his final lesson would use no wooden sticks and only thirty percent of his strength, and that three moves would show Ace and Sabo their limits.

Rayleigh tested Ace and Sabo in a three-move sparring session, defeating them with overwhelming Haki. After both youths lost consciousness, Rayleigh declared the month’s special training over and told Tony to summon a doctor.

• Rayleigh removed his coat and faced Ace and Sabo on the beach as Tony recorded the training.
• Rayleigh countered Sabo’s staff strike with one finger, then flicked Sabo into a crater.
• Ace attacked Rayleigh with a Haki-coated punch, but Rayleigh’s advanced Haki shattered his defense and badly injured his arm.
• Ace and Sabo charged Rayleigh together, but his Conqueror’s Haki and true Ryuo knocked them unconscious.
• Rayleigh ended the special training, and Tony noted that Ace and Sabo had suffered at least three broken ribs each.

Kahn discovered that the Mythical Zoan inside Luffy was absorbing nearly all his nutrition and suppressing his growth so its host would not collapse before awakening. Since the fruit refused Kahn’s attempt to rouse it, Kahn ordered Tony to give Luffy extreme training instead.

• Crocus treated the unconscious Ace and Sabo after Rayleigh’s training, while Kahn and Tony assessed their progress.
• Kahn noticed Luffy’s growth was unusually slow, and Tony’s data showed that nearly all of Luffy’s enormous daily calorie intake disappeared inside his body.
• Kahn used Super-Vision to find the Gum-Gum Fruit’s power throughout Luffy’s cells and a dormant mass of white energy intercepting his nutrition.
• Kahn touched the white energy with Stellar Energy, but the fruit’s will calmly resisted and conveyed that it was not ready to awaken.
• Kahn let the fruit remain dormant and ordered Tony to make Luffy a 500-kilogram gravity bracelet, requiring him to run a hundred laps around the island each day to earn food.

Kahn pushed Luffy through punishing training while Ace and Sabo recovered and prepared for their final week before Alabasta. During a rest day at Twin Cape, Luffy, Tony, and Sabo shared their dreams, and they asked Ace to reveal his.

• Kahn ordered Luffy to run a hundred laps carrying five hundred kilograms, while Rayleigh remarked on Kahn's investment in him.
• Ace and Sabo woke from their injuries, and Kahn warned them to win before they went to Alabasta or die trying.
• Tony relaxed at Twin Cape while JARVIS reported that Stark Industries' board and Pepper Potts wanted to hear from him.
• Luffy asked Tony about his dream, and Tony said he wanted everyone in the world to live beneath a safe roof.
• Sabo said he wanted to record the world's true history and document the day the Red Line was torn down.
• Luffy asked Ace what his dream was, and Ace opened one eye without answering.

Ace decided he wanted to follow Roger’s road and discover what lay at its end, while Kahn and Rayleigh watched over the youngsters at Twin Cape. A call from Garp ended with him demanding to know who had spoken beside Kahn.

• Ace told Sabo he wanted to find out what Roger had sought and see what lay at the end of his road, and Luffy declared he would become the One Piece.
• Laboon blasted Luffy into the air, and he crashed onto Ace while Sabo laughed and Tony asked JARVIS to lower the boys’ intelligence assessment.
• Rayleigh and Kahn watched the youngsters from the lighthouse and reflected on Ace’s change in outlook, with seven days remaining before their departure for Alabasta.
• Garp called Kahn, complained that Kahn’s bounty had drawn pirates to East Blue, and demanded to know where Kahn had taken Ace, Luffy, and the others.
• Rayleigh remarked on the wine within earshot of Garp, who fell silent and then asked Kahn who had been speaking; Kahn called Rayleigh a retired lighthouse keeper.

Kahn hung up on Garp after Garp discovered Rayleigh was training Luffy, Ace, and Sabo, prompting Garp to change course for Twin Cape. As the boys continued their intensified training, Kahn prepared to leave for Alabasta in seven days and dismissed Tony’s concerns about Luffy’s dangerously low body fat.

• Garp recognized Rayleigh’s voice on the Den Den Mushi and demanded that Kahn bring his grandsons back to the East Blue.
• Kahn told Garp the boys were under his care, challenged him to come to Twin Cape, and hung up.
• Garp ordered Bogart to redirect the Dog-Head Warship from Loguetown to Twin Cape.
• Kahn said Garp would arrive too late and told Rayleigh the group would leave for Alabasta in seven days.
• Tony increased the Gravity Bracelet settings while Luffy, Sabo, and Ace continued their strenuous training.
• Tony warned that Luffy’s body fat had dropped to three percent, but Kahn said D’s vitality would keep him alive.

Garp arrived at Twin Cape and tested Kahn with a powerful punch, which Kahn stopped without effort. Garp then faced Ace to see how the brothers had changed after their training, while Tony prepared to record their sparring match.

• JARVIS detected a high-speed object descending toward Twin Cape, and Garp arrived by Geppo with a punch aimed at Kahn.
• Kahn caught Garp's punch with one hand, and the two exchanged greetings after Garp landed in the crater.
• Garp confronted Rayleigh about leading his grandson astray, but Kahn redirected him to inspect Ace, Sabo, and Luffy.
• Garp noticed Ace's newfound confidence and Haki, and Ace challenged him to a fight.
• Kahn told Tony to record the match, and Tony activated JARVIS's high-frame-rate recording mode.

Garp challenged Luffy, Ace, and Sabo to fight him without Haki, testing their progress after Rayleigh’s training. Ace’s Ryuo-infused punch made Garp take half a step back, and Garp praised the boys as having reached the threshold of the New World.

• Garp removed his Justice cape and invited the three brothers to attack him in hand-to-hand combat without Haki.
• Luffy stumbled under the weight of his Gravity Bracelets and face-planted into the sand while Garp laughed at him.
• Sabo used Observation Haki and Shave to attack Garp with his staff, but Garp stopped it between two fingers.
• Ace followed Sabo’s feint with a Ryuo-infused punch, striking Garp’s forearm and forcing him to step back half a pace.
• Garp praised Ace and Sabo for their progress, and Luffy finally crawled out of the sand pit.

Kahn revealed to Garp that Luffy had eaten the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Nika Form, rather than an ordinary Gum-Gum Fruit. Garp realized Luffy’s hidden power could make him the World Government’s target, and asked how he should train him.

• Garp mocked Luffy for struggling to stand in his five-hundred-kilogram Gravity Bracelet and compared him unfavorably with Ace and Sabo.
• Kahn told Garp that Luffy was stronger than he imagined and tapped Luffy’s forehead, sensing the power within him.
• Kahn reminded Garp of Imu and the Empty Throne, then revealed that the World Government had hidden the true identity of Luffy’s fruit.
• Kahn explained that Luffy had eaten the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Nika Form, and that awakening it would make him the Drums of Liberation.
• Garp understood that Luffy’s fruit made him a major threat to the World Government and asked Kahn how Luffy should be trained.

Kahn explained that Luffy’s power needed to be pushed to its limit to awaken, while Garp confronted Rayleigh for learning the secret of Nika. Kahn stopped Garp and introduced Tony Stark, then revealed he had spent the year away in a universe called Marvel.

• Kahn told Garp that Luffy’s five-hundred-kilogram Gravity Bracelet was only the beginning of his training toward awakening.
• Garp threatened Rayleigh for hearing the secret about Nika, but Kahn intervened and said Rayleigh was an Eclipse employee who could not be touched without his permission.
• Tony detected Garp and Rayleigh’s enormous energy, while Garp approached Tony’s armor and mistook him for a Pacifista.
• Tony introduced himself as Tony Stark and explained that his armor was made through science and technology, not a Devil Fruit.
• Kahn told Garp that he had disappeared to a universe called Marvel.

Kahn explained how he had traveled to another universe, returned with Tony and the Space Stone, and made Tony Eclipse’s chief scientist. He declared his intention to overthrow the World Government and establish absolute freedom, while Garp warned him that the East Blue had become chaotic during his absence.

• Kahn told Garp, Ace, Sabo, Luffy, and Rayleigh that a Super Solar Storm had let him shatter space and fall into another world.
• Kahn recounted defeating an alien fleet, taking the Space Stone, learning from a bald mage, and bringing Tony back to his own world.
• Kahn appointed Tony Eclipse’s chief scientist and said he would crush anyone who blocked his path, including the Five Elders and Imu.
• Tony backed Kahn’s plan to build a new order, while Garp questioned his ambitions.
• Garp told Kahn he had come to drag him back to the East Blue, where pirates searching for Kahn had caused chaos and Garp had been serving as Eclipse’s security guard.

Garp confronted Kahn at Twin Cape and tried to take Luffy back to East Blue, but Kahn protected the brothers’ training and learned they planned to go to Alabasta to kill Crocodile. The chapter ended with Ace vowing to defeat Crocodile himself despite Garp’s warning about the Shichibukai’s power.

• Garp argued with Kahn over the pirates drawn to East Blue by Kahn’s bounty, but Kahn insisted that handling them was the Marines’ job.
• Garp tested Ace and Sabo, knocking them back as they showed the gains from their training, then scolded Luffy while he struggled under his Gravity Bracelet.
• Kahn stopped Garp from hitting Luffy and warned that he would turn hostile if Garp disrupted the boy’s training.
• Sabo told Garp that the brothers were going to Alabasta to slaughter Crocodile, who had injured Sabo and whose men had hijacked an Eclipse arms ship.
• Garp warned that Crocodile was a powerful Shichibukai and Logia user, but Kahn declared that he would kill anyone who harmed his people, even a Celestial Dragon.
• Ace vowed to roast Crocodile himself without needing Kahn’s help.

Ace and Sabo insisted on facing Crocodile as a trial, while Kahn backed their resolve and confirmed he would train Luffy to awaken the Nika Fruit. Garp left for Marineford, and Kahn prepared to depart with the boys.

• Ace and Sabo stood their ground against Garp and said they would settle their scores with Crocodile themselves.
• Kahn supported the boys, and Rayleigh said their special training had prepared them to learn through real combat.
• Garp warned that Crocodile's death would anger the Five Elders and destabilize the balance of the seas, but accepted that he could not stop the boys.
• Garp questioned Kahn about awakening Luffy's power, and Kahn vowed to push Luffy until he could beat the Drums of Liberation and kill Imu if he came.
• Garp urged Kahn not to let the boys die, then used Geppo to leave for Marineford.
• Sabo asked when they would leave, and Kahn answered that they would depart immediately.

Crocodile saved Nanohana from Bloodhand Barton’s pirates, earning the gratitude of King Nefertari Cobra and the civilians. In Rainbase, he revealed that he was secretly driving Alabasta toward civil war to seize Pluton and build a military empire.

• Bloodhand Barton and his pirates attacked Nanohana, looting the city and overwhelming the Royal Army’s defenses.
• Crocodile destroyed the pirate flagship with Desert Spada and drained Barton into a mummy, ending the attack.
• The civilians hailed Crocodile as Alabasta’s guardian, while Cobra thanked him and Vivi remained frightened of him.
• At Rain Dinners, Crocodile reviewed the armies’ positions and said the drought, Dance Powder distribution, and Rebel Army’s anger had brought his plan close to success.
• Crocodile planned to spark an all-out war between the Royal Army and Rebel Army so he could claim Alabasta and find Pluton, then challenge Whitebeard.