Chapter Summaries

News of Ren’s escape from Impel Down spread, and the Marines concluded that he had planned the prison break using a spatial ability and left them badly weakened. The Five Elders then learned that Ren had also taken Olvia, prompting them and Sengoku to demand his capture.

• Rayleigh, Shakky, Hancock, and Whitebeard reacted to Ren destroying Impel Down and escaping with prisoners, while Shakky urged the girls to return to Amazon Lily.
• Tsuru reported that Ren had healed himself, freed the prisoners in Infinite Hell, supplied them with food, and used them to inflict heavy losses on the Marines.
• Sengoku ordered Garp to capture Ren, but admitted that the Marines did not know his location and needed time to rebuild their strength.
• Kong demanded that Sengoku capture Ren quickly because the escape had damaged the Marines’ and Government’s authority.
• The Five Elders asked about Olvia, and Tsuru revealed that Ren had destroyed her escort ship and taken her.
• Sengoku and the Five Elders vowed to capture or kill Ren after learning he had taken Olvia.

After the mass jailbreak, Ren regrouped his forces on an island in the Calm Belt while the Marines issued him a one-billion bounty and the New World descended into chaos. Ren questioned Olvia about the Void Century, learned that she had cloned Robin, and offered Olvia a place in his crew in exchange for helping her find Poneglyphs.

• Sengoku issued Ren a one-billion bounty, while Tsuru warned that the New World was about to descend into chaos.
• Ren told World and the others to recover, train their divisions, and prepare their island base before entering the New World.
• Ren summoned Olvia and asked her about Devil Fruits, lost martial arts, powerful figures, and the Void Century.
• Olvia explained that she had cloned Robin from her own cells to create a child with the intelligence needed to read Poneglyphs.
• Ren invited Olvia to join his crew and said he knew the locations of three Poneglyphs, giving her hope of continuing her research.

Ren gathered his crew and set sail from the Calm Belt for the West Blue, with Olvia aboard and Ohara as their likely destination. Sengoku learned of Ren’s move and called on Garp to intervene, but Garp refused to go.

• Ren recruited Olvia and made Bing Jieke his crew’s intelligence officer.
• Bing Jieke reported that escaped prisoners, including Saint Raphael and Baraggan, were wreaking havoc as the Navy struggled to contain a surge of piracy.
• After Olvia asked about Ohara, Ren ordered his crew to sail for the West Blue aboard the Gurosea D.
• Sengoku told Garp that Ren was heading toward Ohara with Olvia, and Garp refused to join the response.

Ren pursued a route to Sky Island and ordered Olvia to research Devil Fruits as his fleet crossed toward the West Blue. After learning that Dragon had attacked Mary Geoise, Ren reached Ohara’s waters and confronted Dragon when he appeared before the ship.

• Garp refused Sengoku’s request to attack civilians, so Sengoku and Tsuru left the matter to the World Government’s intelligence agencies.
• Olvia reported that Sky Islands existed but that the Knock-Up Stream could not carry Ren’s warship, and Ren ordered her to study Devil Fruits and how to extract them from their users.
• Bing Jieke told Ren that Dragon had escaped Mary Geoise after killing Celestial Dragons and fighting one of the Five Elders, and Ren ordered him to contact the Revolutionary Army.
• After half a month, Ren’s fleet reached the West Blue, where Bing Jieke reported that Marines and the GP Organization were heading to Ohara.
• Ren ordered the ship to sail at full speed toward Ohara, sensed someone nearby, and drew the Baleful-Slaying Sword as Dragon appeared before him.

Ren met Dragon, who sought help deciphering a Poneglyph and proposed trading with the Ren Pirates. Their shared destination of Ohara disrupted the Marines’ plans, prompting Sengoku to send Garp to West Blue to stop them.

• Dragon told Ren that he had uncovered secrets about the Void Century and wanted to find a Poneglyph reader at Ohara, while Ren refused to let him take Olvia.
• Bing Jieke warned Ren that the Marines were already moving toward Ohara, and Ren ordered the warship to full speed.
• Dragon proposed trading Devil Fruits, famous blades, and island information for Ren’s weapons, machinery, supplies, and intelligence; Ren rejected broader cooperation but agreed to consider a trade.
• Marine officers learned that Dragon was aboard Ren’s ship and heading to Ohara with him, disrupting Akainu and Aokiji’s plan against the Ren Pirates.
• Sengoku ordered Garp to go to West Blue and stop Ren and Dragon, but Garp initially claimed he was busy catching pirates.

The Navy ambushed Ren and his crew near Ohara, using hidden warships, Hawk-Eye, and Doflamingo to hold Ren back and attack his subordinates. Ren ordered his crew to fight as the Navy soldiers charged across the ice.

• Sengoku and Tsuru decided to send Hawk-Eye and Doflamingo to help attack the Ren Pirates after Garp refused to get involved.
• Ren and Bing Jieke found that the Navy had disappeared, while Dragon sensed that the Navy was approaching.
• The Navy surfaced from beneath the sea and surrounded Ren's fleet, and Dragon recognized that they meant to target Ren's subordinates while delaying Ren.
• Hawk-Eye blocked Ren's sword strike, and Aokiji froze the sea, the Gurosea D, and the Navy warships.
• Doflamingo appeared with Hawk-Eye as the Navy fired cannonballs and soldiers charged across the ice.
• World used his ability to speed bullets into the incoming cannonballs, and Ren ordered his crew to attack.

Ren's forces battled the Marines as Shiryu faced Hawk-Eye and World attacked Doflamingo. Ren confronted Akainu while Dragon warned him about the Marines' hidden plans, and Ren unleashed Conqueror's Haki powerful enough to crush incoming cannonballs and magma.

• Ren's former Impel Down prisoners charged into battle against the Marines, while Shiryu drew Nidai Kitetsu to fight Hawk-Eye.
• Ren grabbed Doflamingo's thread, but Doflamingo severed it before World rushed in and smashed through his defenses with a punch.
• Dragon warned Ren that the Marines might have other measures in reserve, including Garp being in the East Blue, and Ren agreed to rely on Garp's help.
• Akainu attacked Ren with Great Eruption, and Ren countered with the Baleful-Slaying Sword as Dragon offered to handle Qing Zhi.
• Ren charged Akainu, who unleashed Meteor Volcano and a barrage of cannonballs, but Ren's Conqueror's Haki crushed the cannonballs and began crumbling the magma arms.

Ren used compressed Conqueror’s Haki and his Killing Fist to overpower Akainu, but Akainu erupted into a vast lake of magma and attacked again. Dragon stopped Qing Zhi from interfering, leaving Ren facing Akainu’s Dogtooth Red Lotus.

• Ren formed a Conqueror’s Haki Domain and charged Akainu through an explosion of magma and air.
• Ren struck Akainu with Killing Fist—Killing Heart, blasting apart much of his body as he began restoring himself with magma.
• Ren moved to finish Akainu with the Baleful-Slaying Sword, but Qing Zhi sent an ice spear at him.
• Dragon crushed Qing Zhi’s attack with a hurricane and told him not to interfere with the fight.
• Akainu unleashed Volcanic Eruption, turning the warships into a lake of magma, then shaped it into Dogtooth Red Lotus and sent the magma beast after Ren.

Ren defeated Akainu’s Magma Giant and struck him into the magma, then used Conqueror’s Haki to devastate the Marines as Qing Zhi realized the battle was lost. The chapter left Dragon and Qing Zhi still fighting while Ren disappeared from the battlefield.

• Ren condensed the Zhu Xian Sword Aura into a giant Demon Sword, shattered Akainu’s Magma Giant, and punched Akainu into the magma.
• Ren unleashed Conqueror’s Haki across the battlefield, causing many Marines to faint and leaving them vulnerable to his subordinates.
• Qing Zhi recognized that the Marines were losing and exchanged attacks with Dragon using an ice bird and a Wind Dragon.
• Qing Zhi realized his side had overestimated Hawk-Eye and Doflamingo and could not avoid defeat even if Akainu and he had fought Ren together.
• Ren vanished as Qing Zhi sensed something was wrong, but Dragon stepped forward and stopped Qing Zhi.

Ren rejected Sengoku’s offer to withdraw and ordered his pirates to wipe out the Marines, but Garp intervened and clashed with him. Their powerful fists met evenly, leaving Ren stunned by Garp’s strength.

• Ren took the Marine officer’s Den Den Mushi and taunted Sengoku, saying he had mastered Armament Haki and defeated Akainu.
• Sengoku admitted the Marines had lost and asked to withdraw, but Ren refused and vowed to kill every Marine.
• Ren ordered his men to attack, and the pirates overwhelmed the already faltering Marines.
• Garp launched a Haki-coated cannonball at Ren, then challenged him to a fight.
• Ren and Garp exchanged their strongest punches, unleashing a clash of Conqueror’s Haki that split the frozen sea.
• Ren was blasted backward while Garp staggered, and Garp praised Ren’s strength.

Ren agreed to end the battle after Garp intervened, and the Marines withdrew while Ren claimed West Blue for the Ren Pirates. As Ren’s crew headed for Ohara, Spandine lost access to the Buster Call and ordered his agents to kill the scholars and retreat.

• Dragon fled when Garp confronted him, and Garp ordered Qing Zhi to stop the fighting and rescue the wounded.
• Ren agreed to let the Marines withdraw but declared that West Blue belonged to the Ren Pirates, while Sengoku promised Garp three hundred packs of donuts.
• Garp kicked the gravely injured Akainu, who recovered enough to melt the ice and let the Marine ship depart.
• Ren ordered his crew toward Ohara, tasked Bing Jieke with negotiating West Blue’s control, and demanded that Doflamingo pay for helping the Marines.
• Spandine failed to activate the Buster Call after Sengoku refused to authorize it, then ordered his agents to kill the scholars and retreat.

Ren and the Ren Pirates defeated the World Government forces at Ohara, where Ren captured Spandine and took control of the Tree of Omniscience. Several days later, news of the West Blue battle spread while Ren stayed behind to study the library’s books.

• World and Shiryu confronted Spandine and the Cipher Pol spies, and Shiryu told World that Ren wanted them captured alive.
• Ren arrived with the Ren Pirates, handed Spandine to Olvia, killed a CP9 member who attacked him, and ordered the remaining spies captured.
• Ren entered the Tree of Omniscience, left the scholars to Olvia, and began searching its books for information useful to him.
• Sengoku blamed Cipher Pol for the West Blue defeat, while reports of Ren’s exploits spread and Ren remained in West Blue studying.

Ren rejected the Five Elders’ demand to destroy Ohara and kill its scholars, then declared war on the World Government. A year later, the Ren Pirates and Revolutionary Army had toppled ten West Blue nations, while other pirates also began declaring war and the World Government struggled to respond.

• Ren studied records of the Direction Fruit and spoke affectionately with Robin before Bing Jieke told him the World Government had called again.
• One of the Five Elders demanded that Ren destroy Ohara and kill its scholars in exchange for government recognition, but Ren refused and declared war on the World Government.
• Ren ordered Bing Jieke to contact Dragon and target the World Government’s member nations in West Blue; Bing Jieke agreed and left.
• The Five Elders chose not to retaliate against Ren, then learned that the Ren Pirates and Revolutionary Army had overthrown a tenth affiliated nation and driven other West Blue members to consider withdrawing.
• Over the following year, Saint Raphael and Baraggan formed pirate forces, conquered nations, and declared war on the World Government, while Marines eliminated weaker crews that made similar declarations.

Ren's crew used Olvia's Gene-Gene Fruit to restore Bing Jieke's health, then learned that the Hyria Kingdom had acquired the Direction Fruit. Ren ordered his forces to assemble and set out to conquer the kingdom before it could hand the Fruit to the Celestial Dragons.

• Olvia injected Demon Oars's genes into Bing Jieke, restoring his body and greatly increasing his strength.
• Ren hoped Olvia's research would eventually let him enhance his soldiers and fuse Saiyan genes into his own body.
• Shiryu reported that the Hyria Kingdom's royal family had claimed the Direction Fruit and planned to offer it to the Celestial Dragons.
• Ren ordered his crew to assemble and announced that he would conquer the Hyria Kingdom.

Ren gathered the Ren Pirates and sailed for Hyria to seize the Direction Fruit, while the World Government and Marines were too occupied with the New World to intervene. The warship reached Hyria, where its frightened soldiers prepared to defend the kingdom.

• Ren ordered Shiryu to summon Wall and Wolf to Hyria, and Wall left Dragon’s revolutionary campaign to join the attack.
• Doflamingo learned that Ren was targeting a Devil Fruit, while the Five Elders identified it as the Direction Fruit and decided they could not stop him.
• Ren ordered his spies in Hyria to prevent anyone from eating the Direction Fruit and urged the ship to reach the kingdom quickly.
• The Ren Pirates’ warship landed at Hyria, and Shiryu drew Nidai Kitetsu as the kingdom’s terrified soldiers faced them.

Ren and Shiryu confronted Issho, who tried to stop the Ren Pirates from taking the Direction Fruit from Hyria Kingdom. Shiryu engaged Issho while Ren reached the royal palace, where he faced the kingdom’s ministers.

• Shiryu’s Sword Aura collided with Issho’s Gravity Blade—Raging Tiger, and Ren recognized the swordsman as the future Fujitora.
• Ren sent Shiryu to fight Issho and headed for the palace to retrieve the Direction Fruit.
• Issho launched Gravity Light and dropped a meteor toward Ren, but Ren shattered it with an Armament Haki-coated punch.
• Shiryu kept Issho occupied, allowing Ren and World to reach the palace.
• Ren knocked out the surrounding soldiers with Conqueror’s Haki and walked inside to confront Hyria’s King and ministers.

Ren took the Direction Fruit from Hyria’s king, ate it, and discovered how its power worked before destroying the royal capital with a hurricane. Fujitora confronted Ren over the royal family’s deaths, and Ren answered his attack with an Airquake.

• Ren seized the Direction Fruit from Hyria’s king, ate it, and redirected a Seastone bullet back into the king, killing him.
• Ren sensed special threads within his body merge into a black dot that entered his heart, then used the Direction Fruit to make a cloud and gather wind into a sphere.
• Ren unleashed a gale that became a tornado and swept through Hyria’s palace and royal capital.
• Fujitora blamed Ren for killing the Hiriya Royal Family and attacked him with Gravity Blade—Fierce Tiger while fighting Shiryu.
• Ren formed a white sphere around his fist and used Airquake to shatter the air and clash with Fujitora’s gravity attack.

Ren used the Direction Fruit to imitate Whitebeard's seismic powers and fought Fujitora, escalating their battle with lightning, meteors, and a Water Dragon. The chapter ended as Ren unleashed a massive Airquake against Fujitora's meteor attack.

• Ren explained that he gathered tiny vibrations with the Direction Fruit to create seismic attacks, then clashed with Fujitora and destroyed the noble district.
• Fujitora and Ren moved their battle away from Hyria Kingdom as Ren pursued him and filled the sky with lightning.
• Ren formed a Thunder Dragon and attacked Fujitora, who countered by lifting debris and hurling it into the lightning.
• Shiryu told Ren that Fujitora had overwhelmed him, while Ren speculated that Fujitora had kept a low profile.
• Ren sent a Water Dragon at Fujitora, who dispelled the storm with a meteor shower and launched gravity-enhanced meteors at Ren.
• Ren gathered vibrations around his fist and unleashed Airquake, shattering the atmosphere before him.

Ren defeated Fujitora and imprisoned him after he refused to join the Ren Pirates, then sailed back toward Ohara. News of Ren’s power spread, and Doflamingo wondered how Ren had replicated the Tremor-Tremor Fruit’s effects.

• Ren’s devastating impact shattered Fujitora’s meteors, destroyed Hyria, and sent Fujitora into the sea.
• Shiryu rescued the gravely injured Fujitora, and Ren offered him a place in the Ren Pirates.
• Fujitora refused to join, so Ren ordered his crew to lock him in a Seastone cage under constant guard.
• Ren sailed toward Ohara while spies recorded the battle and reports spread among the world’s forces.
• Doflamingo watched footage of Ren’s attack, and he and Pica discussed how Ren had produced an earthquake-like effect.

After Ren's Direction Fruit power awakened further, the Trash Station linked to Saint Seiya World and delivered a Gold Cloth along with ancient stones. Ren recognized the box's value and rushed into the fallen ruins to retrieve it.

• Doflamingo decided to keep trading Devil Fruits with the Ren Pirates, while Sengoku and Tsuru worried about Ren's new power and Whitebeard watched him use an Airquake.
• Ren trained with the Direction Fruit, learning to change the course of moving objects and drawing black threads into his heart to strengthen his ability.
• The Trash Station announced that Ren's growth qualified him for precious trash and linked to another plane.
• The Trash Station pulled ancient stones and a box containing a Gold Cloth from Saint Seiya World during a battle.
• Ren called the Trash Station a Robbery Station, approved of its methods, and rushed into the fallen ruins.