Chapter Summaries

Whitebeard struggled to choose between Ace and Teach as his heir while both grew into renowned powers. On Emperor Island, Ren learned that Luffy had set sail and discussed the extraordinary backgrounds of his planned crew, then ordered some people’s memories to awaken.

• Whitebeard reflected on Ace’s and Teach’s strength and remained uncertain about which of them should inherit his position.
• Ace survived relentless Navy hunts in the Grand Line and returned to the Whitebeard Pirates, while Teach’s exploits helped make the crew’s three emperors the strongest force among the Five Emperors.
• Ryder told Ren that Luffy had set sail from Foosha Village and already found his first crewmate, prompting Ren to wonder whether Roger’s plan could continue after Ren had taken some of its pieces.
• Ren learned that Nami was Charlotte Linlin’s biological daughter, born through the Pregnancy-Pregnancy Fruit, and that Rayleigh had stolen her as an infant before Ren took her away.
• Ren and Ryder discussed how Ren had also taken Robin from Luffy’s planned crew, and Ren decided to watch Luffy rather than interfere with Rayleigh’s protections.
• Ren ordered some people’s memories to awaken, and Ryder said it was time for his Zero Division to awaken as well.

Ren opened a new Trash Station drop and found it was drawing in people and objects from the Death God World. After he destroyed Baraggan Louisenbairn, Muramasa absorbed Baraggan’s remains, while Aizen’s sword strike crossed into the station through the increasingly shortened Spacetime Tunnel.

• Ren entered the Trash Station to collect a new batch of trash after finally gaining control over his evolving power.
• The station’s screen showed Baraggan Louisenbairn fighting Aizen in the Death God World as a Distortion vortex swallowed Baraggan and the surrounding area.
• Baraggan emerged in the station as bones and deathly aura, but Ren used his Double Pupils and Conqueror’s Haki to shatter him.
• Muramasa absorbed Baraggan’s Spirit Particles, turning blackish-red and gaining the presence of death alongside its slaughter.
• A streak of Aizen’s sword light shot through the vortex, and the Trash Station explained that its Spacetime Tunnel had shortened as it improved with Ren’s strength.

Ren attacked Aizen and Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni through a spacetime vortex, provoking the Death Gods and Arrancar to destroy it. The vortex’s overflow of Spirit Particles then strengthened the Devil within Ren’s Devil Fruit, revealing a path beyond Awakening.

• Ren sent Sword Aura through the vortex and struck at Aizen, then unleashed One Sword of Zhu Xian toward Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni.
• Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni countered Ren’s blade radiance with Zanka no Tachi as Aizen and the other Death Gods marveled at Ren’s physical Sword Aura.
• Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni ordered everyone to attack the shrinking vortex, and the Death Gods and Arrancar joined forces to bombard it until it vanished.
• The vortex released Spirit Particles and attacks into the Trash Station, where Ren cut down the incoming techniques until they broke apart.
• Spirit Particles drifted into Ren’s body and strengthened the Devil within his Devil Fruit, which Ren realized could help him progress beyond Awakening.

Ren absorbed the Death God World's Spirit Particles, strengthening his soul and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit before Muramasa recognized him as its master. He then used the energy to awaken Nami's Gold-Gold Fruit to its peak, leaving the palace and castle transformed into gold.

• Ren learned that Spirit Particles could strengthen souls and develop Devil Fruits, and his soul and Rumble-Rumble Fruit grew stronger as he absorbed them.
• Muramasa flew toward Ren, who caught it and sensed that the sword had accepted him as its master.
• Ren summoned Nami and Bing Jieke, and Nami arrived with Hancock while planning a treasure hunt.
• Ren passed Spirit Particles into Nami through a kiss, causing her Gold-Gold Fruit to awaken.
• Nami turned the palace floor, the palace, and the surrounding castle into gold with her awakened fruit.

Nami awakened her Gold-Gold Fruit, prompting Ren to arrange the Golden Ship’s construction and protection. Kuina prepared to travel to the East Blue, while Shiryu entrusted Zoro with two Kitetsu swords and asked Ren to forge him a new blade.

• Nami awakened her Gold-Gold Fruit and turned the castle gold, then Ren warned her that going beyond Awakening could be dangerous.
• Ren ordered Bing Jieke to begin building the Golden Ship and monitor news about Luffy and Whitebeard’s ship.
• Kuina decided to travel to the East Blue to challenge Hawk-Eye, and Ren asked her to give Koushirou his regards.
• Ren assigned Shiryu and the Second Division to protect Nami and the Golden Ship.
• Shiryu gave Kuina Sandai Kitetsu and Nidai Kitetsu for Zoro, asked her to tell him about his origins and his father’s death, and requested that Ren forge him a new sword.
• Ren explained Shiryu’s ambition to Kuina, then kissed her and passed energy that sharpened her understanding of the sword.

Ren learned from Iceburg that Zou Island might be the remains of the First Pluton, an ancient weapon built on an island. Iceburg could not confirm where the remains were hidden, leaving Ren to consider the island’s connection to the elephant and other ancient mysteries.

• Hancock’s awakened Love-Love Fruit petrified boats and seawater, and she told Ren that her ability had reached the peak of Awakening.
• Bing Jieke contacted Ren using a secure signal and passed the call to Iceburg, who reported finding old documents about Pluton in Water 7.
• Iceburg told Ren that the documents identified an island associated with Water 7 eight hundred years ago and that the island still existed as Zou Island in the New World.
• Iceburg explained that Zou Island stood on an elephant’s back and might conceal the First Pluton’s remains, perhaps inside the elephant.
• Ren considered how Zou Island, the Hayate Clan, Noah, and the ancient weapons might be connected, but he had no definite answer about Pluton’s hiding place.

Ren ordered a secret investigation of Zou Island and the Moonlight Clan, while Ryder went undercover and Ren arranged for the Marines to develop. In the East Blue, Kuina arrived to challenge Hawk-Eye as he cut Krieg's warship apart and looked over the people at the sea restaurant.

• Ren told Iceburg to keep building Pluton secretly and said he planned to fire it at Mary Geoise once it was finished.
• Ren ordered Bing Jieke to gather secret intelligence on Zou Island and the Moonlight Clan, and sent Ryder there in disguise with a sword empowered by the Blood-Blood Fruit.
• Ren instructed Bing Jieke to focus the World Government infiltration on intelligence and told him not to interfere with the Marines' development.
• Kuina reached the East Blue and headed toward the sea restaurant to challenge Hawk-Eye.
• As Luffy prepared to attack Krieg's pirates, Hawk-Eye cleaved Krieg's warship in two and then looked over Zoro, Luffy, and an old man.

Kuina arrived to challenge Hawk-Eye, but Zoro insisted on facing him first. After Kuina gave Zoro Nidai Kitetsu and Sandai Kitetsu and revealed that Shiryu had killed his father, the blades reacted to Zoro’s blood, prompting Hawk-Eye to suspect Zoro was descended from the Kitetsu family.

• Kuina emerged from the icy mist, condemned Krieg for insulting Ren’s Cloth, and challenged Hawk-Eye for the title of World’s Greatest Swordsman.
• Hawk-Eye accepted Kuina’s challenge, but Zoro interrupted and insisted that he had challenged Hawk-Eye first.
• Kuina gave Zoro Nidai Kitetsu and Sandai Kitetsu, explaining that Shiryu had killed Zoro’s father and hoped Zoro would grow strong enough to challenge him.
• Zoro drew the Kitetsu blades, which released black mist and made him seize a blade and cut his palm; the swords drank his blood.
• Hawk-Eye suspected Zoro had Kitetsu Clan blood, while Kuina recognized the old man from Water 7 and realized she needed to tell Ren about Pluton.

Zoro's blood awakened a connection to the Kitetsu blades, which took control of him and unleashed powerful sword techniques against Hawk-Eye before Zoro passed out. The story then shifted to Kuina preparing to duel Hawk-Eye, with Ren broadcasting the fight to the Five Emperors as Kuina challenged for the title of World's Greatest Swordsman.

• The Nidai Kitetsu and Sandai Kitetsu absorbed Zoro's blood, and Hawk-Eye realized Zoro carried Kitetsu Family blood and wanted to train him.
• Hawk-Eye challenged Zoro, whose Kitetsu blades controlled him as he attacked with Demon Aura Shura and a fused threefold Sword Aura.
• Hawk-Eye's attack engulfed Zoro, but Zoro unleashed scarlet Sword Aura that shattered it and split the clouds before he passed out.
• Kuina explained that the swords had controlled Zoro and agreed with Hawk-Eye that he might master them someday; Hawk-Eye then invited Kuina to follow him for a duel.
• Ren arranged a live broadcast of Kuina's duel with Hawk-Eye, and Red-Hair and Ben Beckman wondered whether Kuina was truly ready to challenge for the title.

Kuina challenged Hawk-Eye with Moonlight, a blade forged by Brother Ren, and vowed to defeat him and make Moonlight a Supreme Grade Blade. Their duel left Hawk-Eye battling both Kuina’s swordsmanship and the blade’s intense cold.

• On Whitebeard’s ship, Ace said Kuina’s challenge to Hawk-Eye inspired him to work harder, while Whitebeard guessed that Kalpo’s wish had motivated her.
• Hawk-Eye noticed Kuina had replaced Wado Ichimonji with Moonlight, and Kuina explained how Brother Ren forged the blade from meteors and tempered it in space.
• Kuina declared that she would defeat Hawk-Eye, sever Yoru, and earn the title of World’s Greatest Sword Master with Moonlight.
• Hawk-Eye and Kuina clashed on a deserted island, and their Sword Auras ravaged the ground and froze the island.
• Kuina’s icy attacks chilled Hawk-Eye and froze his body, but he tore apart her icy tornado with a condensed Sword Aura shaped like a shark.

Kuina and Hawk-Eye fought a duel that ended with both severely injured and the island and surrounding sea frozen over. Kuina survived, while Hawk-Eye was found frozen beside Night.

• Hawk-Eye unleashed his beast-shaped Sword Aura, but Kuina froze it with her Third Dance—Moonflowers Fill the Sky.
• Hawk-Eye used his ultimate technique, Night, and Kuina answered with her Final Dance—Moonlight, sending their attacks crashing together.
• Their clash split the island and ocean and froze the surrounding waters, leaving the duel’s outcome unclear to the watching crew.
• Kuina’s vice-captain contacted Ren, who said Moonlight’s ability to absorb cold meant Kuina could not have frozen.
• Ren told Robin that Kuina and Hawk-Eye had likely suffered severe injuries, and Kuina was found standing on the ice while Hawk-Eye was frozen beside Night.

Kuina and Hawk-Eye ended their duel in a draw, with Kuina refusing the title of World's Greatest Swordsman and promising to fight him again. Ren then learned that Big Mom's secretive marriage alliance involved Charlotte Lola, whose past proposals to Red-Hair, Buggy, and Kaido surprised him.

• Hawk-Eye and Kuina agreed their duel was a draw, and Kuina refused the title of World's Greatest Swordsman.
• Swordsmen and the crews of Red-Hair and Whitebeard reacted to the duel, while Ace and Teach's followers argued over who had truly lost.
• Kaido and Buggy watched Kuina's duel and dismissed reports that Big Mom was arranging a marriage alliance.
• Bing Jieke told Ren that investigators had been killed while probing Big Mom's secretive marriage arrangement.
• Ren learned that the prospective bridegroom had chosen Charlotte Lola, known as Proposal Lola, and laughed when Bing Jieke recounted her rejected proposals to Red-Hair, Buggy, and Kaido.

Ren investigated the identity of Lola’s political marriage partner, while Red-Hair celebrated her wedding and then reunited with Rayleigh and Shakky. Shakky tormented Red-Hair as Buggy arrived, and the group prepared to discuss a serious matter.

• Ren recalled Lola’s connection to Big Mom’s failed political alliance and ordered Bing Jieke to investigate her intended partner.
• Red-Hair’s crew celebrated Lola’s wedding, and Red-Hair admitted to Lucky Roux that Lola frightened him.
• Rayleigh and Shakky arrived aboard Red-Hair’s ship, and Shakky teased Red-Hair about their reunion.
• Shakky grabbed Red-Hair and made him cry out in pain while Rayleigh revealed that Buggy was also coming.
• Buggy arrived from Death Island after leaving Kaido and leaped onto Red-Hair’s deck, eager to see what was happening.

Rayleigh, Shakky, Shanks, and Buggy discussed a hidden group planning to break its agreement with Roger and emerge into the world. Shakky revealed that the group planned to ally with Big Mom through Lola, and the chapter ended with Shanks identifying them as the D. Family and vowing to settle things with Teach.

• Buggy arrived to find Shakky restraining him and Shanks, while Benn Beckman marveled at her Haki and speed.
• Rayleigh warned that hidden people might soon emerge, and Shanks and Buggy discussed how Ren’s upheaval could encourage them to act.
• Shanks explained that Teach had already left the hidden group and that his encounter with Teach had helped drive him forward.
• Shakky revealed that the hidden group planned a marriage alliance with Big Mom using Lola, then joked that Shanks or Buggy could marry her instead.
• Rayleigh and Shanks said the group was supposed to wait for Luffy’s arrival, while Buggy warned that its younger generation might ignore Roger’s agreement.
• Shanks identified the hidden group as the D. Family and vowed to settle things with Teach.

Shanks, Buggy, Rayleigh, and Shakky discussed the surviving D. Family, its royal lineages, and its possible support for Luffy, Teach, or Ace. Ren learned their history by listening through a royal Den Den Mushi and discovered that two of the three items the D. Family sought were already in his possession.

• Buggy listed the four D. Family royal families and warned that the elders might favor Teach or Ace over Luffy because of the Gum-Gum Fruit's limitations.
• Shanks, Buggy, Rayleigh, and Shakky discussed the D. Family's agreement with Roger and named the Airflow-Airflow Fruit, Muramasa, and the remains of the First Pluton as the three items it wanted.
• A miniature Den Den Mushi on the Red-Hair Pirates' deck secretly transmitted their conversation to Ren.
• Bing Jieke brought Ren a golden royal Den Den Mushi, which replayed the conversation and revealed Teach's origins and the D. Family's history.
• Shanks argued that Luffy could grow strong through Haki and the support of Garp, Dragon, and Roger's arrangements.
• Ren realized he had the Airflow-Airflow Fruit and Muramasa, while the remains of the First Pluton remained unfound.

Rayleigh explained Muramasa’s history and why the D. Family wanted it to restore its power to kill Devils, while Shanks argued against their plan to use slaughter to awaken Devil Fruits. Ren recognized the coming Age of Conquest as a struggle for the throne of the King of the World and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki across Emperor Island.

• Rayleigh recounted how Muramasa’s curses and soul-devouring power helped the Stalin Family develop Devil Fruits Beyond Awakening, before Stalin D. Eli took the blade to Sky Island and it later disappeared.
• Shanks grew angry at the idea of restoring Muramasa through mass slaughter and proposed gathering old comrades to confront the D. Family, but Rayleigh warned that doing so could start a world war.
• Shakky said Luffy was key to the coming Age of Conquest, and Ren agreed that the era’s real prize was the throne of the King of the World.
• Ren crushed his wineglass and released a surge of Conqueror’s Haki that swept across Emperor Island, startling Bing Jieke, Shiryu, and Nami.
• World rallied the First Division to roar in response to Ren’s Haki while a visitor who had come to deliver a Devil Fruit regretted arriving.

Ren’s Conqueror’s Haki stirred the New World, while the Navy debated the coming upheaval and sent Momousagi to pursue her revenge. At a gathering of Ren’s division captains, Robin reported progress on ancient geography, and Bing Jieke said he was monitoring Red-Hair.

• Ren unleashed Conqueror’s Haki, prompting the divisions of his crew—including giants and Oars Tribe members—to roar, while Diamante watched in terror.
• Sengoku and Tsuru discussed the uncertain intentions of Buggy, Red-Hair, and Ren, and Tsuru urged the Navy to reinforce the New World.
• Momousagi volunteered to go to the New World, intending to confront Ren, while Tsuru speculated that their hostility might turn into affection.
• Tsuru warned Sengoku and Garp that the Navy would have to choose a side amid growing conflict involving the Five Elders, the Celestial Dragons, pirates, and the D. Family.
• Momousagi set sail for the New World, vowing revenge on Ren.
• Ren asked Robin about her deductions from eight hundred years ago; she said she was making progress, and Bing Jieke reported that his divers were tracking Red-Hair.

Ren helped Robin awaken the Flower-Flower Fruit, giving her the power to create petal clones and control her surroundings as petals. The next day, Ryder reported that Zou Island’s flooding revealed fragments of a hidden map that might lead to the Pluton Remains, and Ren ordered him to investigate the elephant and complete the map.

• Ren assigned his crew their duties, including having Shiryu protect Nami while the Golden Ship was built.
• Ren infused Robin with energy, awakening her Flower-Flower Fruit and enabling her to form petal clones and turn nearby surroundings into petals.
• Nami persuaded Ren to let her visit the beach, and he allowed it as long as she stayed on Emperor Island.
• Ren contacted Ryder, who reported that water sprayed by the elephant beneath Zou Island revealed pieces of a hidden map.
• Ren ordered Ryder to search the elephant thoroughly and assemble as much of the map as possible.

Ren learned that Big Mom and the Secret Tribe were caught up in a dispute over Proposal Lola and the stolen Pregnancy-Pregnancy Fruit, then ordered his forces to prepare for an attack on his waters. Teach led the Whitebeard Pirates into the Emperor Sea after the thief, while Namur questioned why the fruit mattered so much.

• Ren decided to investigate the elephant on Zou Island and seek the Moonlight Clan, while Ryder continued gathering information about the elephant.
• Ren examined Muramasa and resolved to find test subjects before using the altered blade to strengthen his subordinates' Devil Fruits.
• Bing Jieke told Ren that the Secret Tribe rejected Big Mom's substitute bride, Charlotte Chiffon, and fought over Proposal Lola.
• Bing Jieke reported that the World's Greatest Thief stole the Pregnancy-Pregnancy Fruit from Big Mom's Treasure Pavilion, prompting Big Mom and the Secret Tribe to pursue him.
• Wolf and Dorry warned Ren that the Big Mom Pirates and Whitebeard Pirates were entering his waters, so Ren ordered his forces to prepare for battle.
• Teach led the Whitebeard Pirates into the Emperor Sea to chase the thief, and Namur asked why the Pregnancy-Pregnancy Fruit was so important.

Teach and Big Mom pursued the thief who stole the Pregnancy-Pregnancy Fruit into the Emperor Sea, drawing the Ren Pirates’ forces and threatening to ignite a war among the New World’s emperors. Red-Hair and Buggy were forced by Shakky to head there too, while the Marines warned that a clash could engulf the world.

• Teach pursued the fast-moving thief into the Emperor Sea with Van Augur, while Big Mom entered in a fury to reclaim the Pregnancy-Pregnancy Fruit.
• Wolf, eighteen Demon Oars, and the three thousand Giants led by Dorry and Brogy confronted the intruders as Big Mom vowed to kill the thief.
• Red-Hair, Buggy, Shakky, and Rayleigh discussed giving the fruit to the Hidden Tribe in exchange for the Airflow-Airflow Fruit, but Red-Hair and Buggy feared that joining the conflict would draw in Kaido and trigger a worldwide war.
• Shakky crushed Red-Hair and Buggy with Armament Haki, forcing them to agree to go to the Emperor Sea.
• At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku and the admirals discussed the growing crisis, and Tsuru learned from Fujitora that the thief had rescued him from Ren and that Ren might have a hidden force capable of spreading war.