Chapter Summaries

Ren continued fighting the Marines at No Return Island after Dragon rescued Garp from his attack. Garp kept trying to stop Ren despite his injuries, while Sengoku and Tsuru joined the struggle, and Whitebeard urged Tsuru to respect Garp’s choice.

• Dragon sent a Divine Dragon to clash with Ren’s Daytime Tiger and swept Garp to safety beside Tsuru.
• Ren transferred his injuries to a Cipher Pol member, killing him, and then returned to the battlefield to order his side to keep fighting.
• Garp stood in Ren’s way again, so Ren punched him into an iceberg, but Garp emerged and continued trying to stop him.
• Sengoku attacked Ren with Buddha Palm, and Patrick Redfield intercepted the strike to protect his captain.
• Tsuru blocked Ren, but he passed her, and Whitebeard told her to stop interfering with Garp’s choice.

Ren continued his assault on the World Government forces at No Return Island as Dragon rescued his father, Garp, and withdrew from the war. Ren’s meteors and tsunami were challenged by powerful Cipher Pol agents and Marines, while Sengoku ordered the Government forces to unleash everything.

• Dragon intervened when Ren attacked Garp, knocked his father unconscious, and flew away with him, promising Ren a favor.
• Ren surveyed the battle at No Return Island and summoned a meteor toward the World Government forces.
• Lacey used the Crush-Crush Fruit to hold back Ren’s meteors, while Cipher Pol agents attacked Golden Lion.
• Ren summoned a tsunami, but Qing Zhi froze it with Ice Age, and a Cipher Pol agent transformed into a Behemoth to attack Ren.
• Sengoku ordered the Cipher Pol agents to abandon their plans and unleash everything as the war turned against the World Government.

The World Government revealed an army of rare Ancient and Mythical Zoan users, turning the battle on No Return Island against Ren and the pirates. As Ren fought four Mythical Zoan opponents, Baraggan transformed and unleashed a gigantic skeleton built from his own bones.

• Cipher Pol agents revealed their Ancient and Mythical Zoan transformations, shifting the battle in the World Government’s favor.
• Ren fought Behemoth, Titan, Hellhound, and other Mythical Zoan users while Kaido, Big Mom, Whitebeard, Baraggan, and the other pirates faced reinforcements.
• The Five Elders discussed Ren’s disruption of Sengoku’s plan and the World Government’s exposed Devil Fruit reserves as the world watched the battle.
• Ren continued battling the Mythical Zoan users across the devastated, ice-covered island while many fighters on both sides died.
• Baraggan became a skeleton, commanded his bone-built pirate ship to disassemble, and reassembled it into a gigantic skeleton.

Ren turned the battle against the Ancient and Mythical Zoan users after Baraggan and a Cipher Pol Cloud-Cloud Fruit user killed each other in a massive explosion. He destroyed the Titan Python and Behemoth with a Titan-packed Air Cannon, then declared that it was time to end the fight.

• A Cipher Pol Cloud-Cloud Fruit user entered Baraggan's body as mist and filled it with thunderclouds, killing them both in a lightning-filled explosion.
• Ren redirected the blast's shockwave and struck the Titan-Titan Fruit user, but Behemoth swung the Titan Python at him.
• Ren severed the Titan's head with a compressed water blade, then condensed the Titan's body into a blood-red Air Cannon.
• Ren forced the Air Cannon into the Titan Python's jaws and detonated it, killing the Titan Python and Behemoth and catching Nine-Tailed Fox in the blast.
• Ren watched the blood-red gale sweep across the battlefield and said it was time to end this.

Saint Raphael detonated himself and unleashed a deadly virus storm, but Ren gathered the viruses and threatened to release them in Mary Geoise. As the Five Elders considered attacking Ren, the Revolutionary Army invaded Mary Geoise, leaving the war on No Return Island still raging.

• Saint Raphael released his viruses in a black-sphere explosion, killing Marines and spreading a deadly storm across the battlefield.
• Ren pulled the spreading viruses together to protect his subordinates and contain the disaster.
• Ren said he would save the viruses for a future attack on Mary Geoise, while Whitebeard praised the idea and Sengoku and Tsuru condemned him.
• The Five Elders decided Ren had to be eliminated, but an official reported that the Revolutionary Army’s twelve founders had invaded Mary Geoise, destroyed its coliseum, and freed the slaves.
• The Five Elders went out to confront the Revolutionary Army while the battle on No Return Island continued.

Ren used his Direction Fruit to capture the Yamata Fruit agent and reshape the battlefield while the exhausted forces continued fighting. He unleashed a world-shaking attack that shattered the sky and sent fighters plunging into the sea, then reversed the gravity of the twelve falling spheres.

• A World Government agent transformed into the eight-headed Yamata no Orochi, but Ren trapped him in rising seawater and had his subordinates lock him in a Seastone cage.
• Ren used gravity to gather wreckage, seawater, and other debris into twelve enormous spheres as Qing Zhi froze the sea and the battle continued.
• Ren dropped the spheres toward Lacey and the Cerberus user, who attacked them with Lacey’s Crush Fist and Cerberus’s Hellfire.
• Ren struck the air with the force of the battlefield, shattering the sky and sending a massive shockwave across No Return Island and the surrounding sea.
• The shockwave blasted Cerberus into a vast cavity in the sea, and Ren reversed the gravity pulling the twelve spheres together.

Ren recovered his stamina with a pill and unleashed an attack that dragged the sky and everything in it down onto the sea, devastating No Return Island and the surrounding ocean. The battle ended with the pirates victorious at immense cost, while Ren alone remained clearly in control of the aftermath.

• Sengoku and Tsuru wondered how Ren could still fight after Garp’s forbidden technique had drained his stamina, and Ren recovered using a modified Soldier Pill.
• Ren seized the sky and gathered clouds, rain, dust, winds, lightning, and meteors into a massive force above the sea.
• Ren hurled the gathered sky toward the ocean, forcing the combatants to retreat as the attack descended.
• The attack destroyed No Return Island and devastated a vast expanse of sea with explosions, tsunamis, tornadoes, and lightning.
• The world watched Ren standing in golden armor as the pirates’ victory became clear, though both sides had suffered heavy losses.
• Ren sensed that his nine battleships had survived, while violent seas and storms continued to rage around him.

After Ren’s final attack devastated both the World Government and the pirates, survivors learned that the old powers had been swept away and new recruits were flooding into the world. Ren rejoined his crew and ordered them to seize every territory in the second half of the New World.

• Tsuru reported that nearly seven hundred thousand Marines had died, while the Revolutionary Army had attacked Mary Geoise and killed more than fifty Celestial Dragons.
• A government official told Sengoku that fewer than a tenth of the New World’s pirates remained and that Ren, Whitebeard, Kaido, Big Mom, and Red-Hair were the only great pirates left.
• Sengoku returned to Marine Headquarters after realizing that Ren had intended to clear space for newcomers by crippling both the World Government and the pirates.
• Ren rejoined World and his crew, bringing captured CP0 Mythical Zoan users aboard and ordering them locked up so their fruits might be recovered.
• After hearing that Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom had lost most of their forces, Ren ordered his crew to claim every territory in the second half of the New World.

Ren learned that the Revolutionary Army’s attack on Mary Geoise had exposed the Celestial Dragons’ powerful hidden fighters and Ancient Weapons, leaving Dragon’s forces devastated. After advising his crew to recover and grow stronger, Ren entered the Trash Station and saw a battle between Shi Yi and another fighter from Perfect World.

• Dragon told Ren that the Revolutionary Army had suffered heavy losses invading Mary Geoise, where powerful Celestial Dragons and Ancient Weapons forced them to retreat.
• Dragon said the Revolutionary Army planned to abandon West Blue and move to the New World, and Ren warned him to stay away from the Ren Pirates’ territory near Laugh Tale.
• Ren told Shiryu, Bing Jieke, and the others that the crew should focus on recovery and strengthening themselves.
• Ren woke after gaining strength from the war and entered the Trash Station, where it explained that his Haki and Devil Fruit abilities had improved.
• Ren watched a screen show Shi Yi fighting a powerful opponent in Perfect World and recognized how far their strength surpassed his own.

Ren endured Shi Yi’s gaze piercing through the Trash Station and triggering an evolution in his eyes, gaining Golden Double Pupils. After collecting a heavy medicine cauldron from the debris of Shi Yi and Shi Hao’s battle, he prepared to leave, but the Trash Station asked whether he would abandon the soil.

• Shi Yi’s Double Pupils pierced the vortex and struck Ren’s eyes, causing him intense pain.
• The Trash Station explained that Shi Yi’s gaze could stimulate Ren’s Tenseigan and Reincarnation and help his eyes evolve into Double Pupils.
• Ren endured the pain as the forces within his eyes collided and merged, then opened his eyes with newly formed Golden Double Pupils.
• The Trash Station said Ren’s Double Pupils enhanced his Conqueror’s Haki and Observation Haki.
• Ren searched the debris from Shi Yi and Shi Hao’s battle, found a heavy medicine cauldron, and stored it in his Amethyst Ring.
• As Ren prepared to leave the Trash Station, it asked whether he would abandon the soil.

Ren learned that Spirit Soil could cultivate Devil Fruits and began testing the idea in his New World base. As Red-Hair approached, Ren prepared to plant a Devil Fruit by burying a captured CP0 agent with a Mythical Zoan fruit in Spirit Soil.

• The Trash Station explained that Spirit Soil could provide the energy needed to grow Devil Fruits, so Ren collected the soil.
• Several dozen days later, Wolf and Dorry continued gathering islands to build Ren a continent-sized base, while Ren learned Red-Hair was returning to the New World.
• Ren visited his Spirit Soil garden, where Shiryu complained about digging and guarding a pit, then credited the soil with helping his injuries heal.
• Ren and Olvia prepared an experiment, and Ren ordered guards to remove the Seastone restraints from a captured CP0 agent with a Cerberus fruit.
• The agent transformed and attacked Ren, but Ren stopped him with Haki, crushed his throat, and threw him into the pit to be buried alive.

Ren discovered that Spirit Soil could cultivate a Devil Fruit from a buried Devil Fruit user, then learned that Issho had escaped from prison with help from the world's greatest thief. Ren refused to pursue Issho for now and vowed to destroy him if he returned.

• Ren watched the buried CP0 member die as a black tree grew from the Spirit Soil and produced the Hell Three-Headed Dog Fruit.
• Olvia reported that the Spirit Soil's energy had been depleted and the CP0 member's body had been consumed; Ren harvested the fruit and told her to store it.
• Ren ordered his crew to bring in the CP0 member who had eaten the Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit, but said Issho should be recruited rather than buried.
• Crewmen reported that someone had broken Issho out of prison and left a letter; Ren learned that the world's greatest thief had rescued him during the battle on No Return Island.
• Ren gave Shiryu the thief's treasure map as an apology gift and said he would destroy Issho if Issho came back.

Ren used his awakened power to fuse a newly brought island into his growing continent, then learned Red-Hair had invited Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom to meet in his territory. As the great pirates set sail, Sengoku ordered the Marines to avoid the gathering and tighten their hold on the routes into the Grand Line.

• Ren harvested a Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit and told Olvia to store it while seeking valuable Devil Fruits to cultivate in the scarce Spirit Soil.
• Ren fused a newly arrived island into his continent with his awakened power over the earth's crust.
• Bing Jieke told Ren that Red-Hair had returned to the New World and was contacting Whitebeard and the others instead of coming directly to Ren.
• Red-Hair and Benn Beckman arranged a meeting with Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom in Ren's territory, and all three accepted the invitation.
• Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom prepared to sail toward Ren's territory, alarming the world with the prospect of another war.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to monitor the gathering, avoid joining the fight, establish a G-1 Branch, and suppress pirates entering the Grand Line.

Ren redirected his crew’s focus toward the New World and the Road Poneglyphs, then faced four powerful pirates who arrived at his harbor. The five kings’ Conqueror’s Haki collided, leaving the gathered pirates awed by Ren’s overwhelming presence and Golden Double Pupils.

• Ren told Bing Jieke to abandon their interests in West Blue and focus on securing New World territory and finding the Road Poneglyphs so he could reach Laugh Tale.
• Ren assigned Kuina the Wano Country Poneglyph, and Ryder reported that Golden Lion had proposed attacking Marine Headquarters together.
• A messenger told Ren that Red-Hair, Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom had arrived in his waters, so Ren led his officers to the harbor.
• Red-Hair and Whitebeard’s crews released their Conqueror’s Haki as Ren approached, and all five kings’ Haki collided, unleashing violent winds and shattering mountains.
• Red-Hair, Whitebeard, and Hawk-Eye reacted to Ren’s Golden Double Pupils and the immense authority of his Conqueror’s Haki.

Ren hosted Red-Hair, Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom after the No Return Island War, and rejected Red-Hair’s proposal for an equal alliance. To avoid a war that would benefit the World Government, they agreed in principle to divide the New World and unite against outside attacks, but had not yet settled the borders.

• Ren and the four pirate leaders clashed with Conqueror’s Haki before entering his palace for a banquet.
• Whitebeard asked Ren to answer for the devastation of the No Return Island War, and Red-Hair proposed an alliance among their five crews.
• Ren argued that the other crews were too weakened to stand as his equals, provoking Whitebeard and Kaido, while Red-Hair urged them to avoid a war that could let the World Government destroy them.
• Ren ruled out both war and a formal alliance, and Red-Hair proposed dividing the New World, respecting borders, and joining forces against the Marines or World Government.
• Whitebeard and Kaido agreed to discuss dividing the territory, while Big Mom insisted that Totto Land remain hers.

Ren and the other New World pirates divided territory and formed the One Emperor, Four Emperors alliance, prompting the Marines to plan a counterforce. On Sabaody, Kalpo announced he would abandon his past, protect Ace, and seek revenge on the World Government.

• Ren claimed the islands nearest Laugh Tale, while Big Mom, Kaido, Red-Hair, and Whitebeard accepted their own territories.
• Ren named their agreement One Emperor, Four Emperors, and the five pirates pledged to cooperate against the Marines and World Government.
• Sengoku and Tsuru discussed sending pirates into the New World and forming the Shichibukai to make pirates fight pirates.
• Rayleigh and Shakky discussed the chaos of the New Era and whether Rayleigh should return to action.
• Kalpo told Rayleigh and Shakky he would protect Ace, leave behind his identity as a Roger Pirate, and take revenge on the World Government.

Ren visited Rayleigh at the Sabaody Archipelago and learned that Roger had hidden the Ancient Weapon Uranus, while Rayleigh refused to reveal more about Laugh Tale or the Road Poneglyphs. Ren departed for Sky Island as Kalpo’s anger over Rouge and Roger’s past threatened to stir trouble.

• Kalpo argued with Rayleigh about Roger’s treatment of Rouge, then refused Ren’s offer to discuss revenge.
• Ren met Rayleigh at the Rip-Off Bar and asked about Laugh Tale, the Road Poneglyphs, and the Ancient Weapons.
• Rayleigh said Roger had reached Laugh Tale through the Voice of All Things and revealed that Roger had found and hidden Uranus.
• Ren left the Sabaody Archipelago aboard his ship and ordered World to take the crew to Sky Island.
• Shakky warned Rayleigh that Kalpo was likely to act recklessly, while Rayleigh said Kalpo cared deeply about Rouge.
• The Marines reported Ren’s visit to Sengoku, who worried about his meeting with Rayleigh.

Sengoku learned that Kalpo had attacked a Marine base and declared war on the Navy and World Government, while Ren helped Kalpo gather allies to weaken the Celestial Dragons and seek information about Uranus. As Ren continued toward Sky Island, Doflamingo tried to rob his ship and found himself facing Ren’s overwhelming Conqueror’s Haki.

• Tsuru and Sengoku discussed Kalpo’s possible revenge, then received word that he had destroyed G-15 Base and vowed to destroy the Navy and World Government.
• Sengoku ordered Garp back from the East Blue to deal with Kalpo, and Garp agreed to return.
• Ren refused to join Kalpo’s war but told Bing Jieke to give Kalpo Golden Lion’s contact information, then asked Ryder to get close to Kalpo and learn where Uranus was hidden.
• Kalpo gathered rookie pirates, Golden Lion joined him, and Ryder secretly helped as their forces attacked Marine bases and World Government members.
• Ren predicted that the Celestial Dragons would eventually act against Kalpo, who knew about Uranus, and expose some of their hidden strength.
• Doflamingo approached Ren’s ship to steal its treasure, but Ren confronted him with Conqueror’s Haki, overwhelming Doflamingo.

Doflamingo tried to rob Ren’s ship, only to be forced into a fight between his officers and World’s First Division and surrender Devil Fruits. Ren also claimed the children aboard Doflamingo’s ship, while his crew approached Sky Island and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

• Doflamingo discovered Ren aboard the ship he had planned to rob and surrendered to Ren’s overwhelming Haki.
• World explained that he had left the Ren Pirates’ flag down and displayed treasure to lure pirates into battles for First Division training.
• Ren ordered World to decide Doflamingo’s punishment, and World demanded fights against his officers and Devil Fruits.
• Jace defeated Machvise despite breaking his own arms, and Doflamingo’s officers continued to lose to World’s crew.
• Doflamingo asked to stop the fights and offered more Devil Fruits, and Ren agreed but also claimed the children aboard Doflamingo’s ship.

Ren brought Baby 5 into his crew and discussed assigning Doflamingo’s Devil Fruits to World’s division while they arrived at Sky Island. After World shattered an attack from Enel, Ren identified the lightning user as a target, and Gan Fall approached with questions about why the crew survived.

• Ren chose Baby 5 from Doflamingo’s gathered children and took her into his crew.
• Ren and his crew arrived at Sky Island, where Baby 5 served him wine and World discussed the nine Devil Fruits Doflamingo had provided.
• Ren told World to distribute the Zoan Fruits to his division and reserved the three Paramecia Fruits for himself.
• World punched apart lightning aimed at Ren and sensed that its attacker, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit user, was nearby.
• Ren identified the attacker as Enel and decided to reclaim the Rumble-Rumble Fruit rather than recruit him.
• Gan Fall flew over on a red bird and asked why Ren’s group had survived Enel’s lightning, and Ren told World to let him land.