Chapter Summaries

The Whitebeard Pirates captured a Navy base while the Navy’s senior officers were away, worsening the Navy’s loss of control in the New World. As Sengoku convened a Shichibukai meeting, Hancock and Kuma failed to attend, deepening his suspicions about their ties to the Revolutionary Army; Doflamingo’s Den Den Mushi rang.

• Marco led the Whitebeard Pirates in taking a Navy base and ordered the Marines captured for ransom.
• The Four Emperors’ attacks left the Navy driven out of the New World, increasing pressure on Sengoku.
• The World Government called a Shichibukai meeting as the Four Emperors waited to see the Navy’s response.
• Sengoku learned that Hancock had refused the summons because she was on her honeymoon and that Kuma had not been seen.
• Sengoku reconsidered CP0’s intelligence as Hancock and Kuma’s absence seemed connected to Smoker and Hina joining the Revolutionary Army.
• Doflamingo’s Den Den Mushi rang during the meeting.

Doflamingo learned that the Revolutionary Army had attacked Dressrosa and asked the Marines to help defend his territory, but Sengoku refused. The Revolutionary Army then broadcast its operation in Dressrosa, introducing Sabo and former princess Violet as it prepared to denounce the Shichibukai system.

• Doflamingo received a call reporting that the Revolutionary Army had attacked Dressrosa and forced his forces to retreat to the royal palace.
• Doflamingo asked Sengoku and the other Shichibukai to join him in defending Dressrosa, but Sengoku refused to send Marine forces.
• Doflamingo left the meeting and hurried back to Dressrosa.
• A Marine showed Sengoku and the remaining Shichibukai a Revolutionary Army broadcast from Dressrosa.
• Sabo introduced himself as the Revolutionary Army's Chief of Staff and announced that the group was uprooting the Shichibukai system.
• Sabo introduced former Dressrosa princess Violet as a victim for an interview.

Leo undermined the Marines’ plan by targeting the Shichibukai system, while Doflamingo abandoned his appeal for help and returned to his base. During a live broadcast, Violet exposed the Donquixote Family’s crimes, and Sabo pressed her on whether the World Government had known about them.

• Leo refused to attend the Marines’ gathering and moved to weaken the Shichibukai system instead.
• Doflamingo failed to secure Marine support and flew back to assist his base.
• The King of News recognized the importance of Sabo’s live broadcast and set off to find the Revolutionary Army.
• Violet broke down in tears as she described the Donquixote Family’s cruelty and its actions in Dressrosa.
• Sabo asked Violet whether the World Government had known what the Donquixote Family was doing, making Sengoku tense.

Leo exposed how the World Government had enabled Doflamingo to secretly usurp Dressrosa, shaking other nations’ faith in its protection. The Revolutionary Army prepared to drive Doflamingo out, leaving Sabo to face him as a test of his ability to stand on his own.

• Leo explained that Dressrosa’s usurpation made rulers fear the World Government could secretly replace them, and he predicted the broadcast would have explosive results.
• Lafitte infiltrated Doflamingo’s factory, hypnotized Sugar, and brought her to Violet, the former king, and the old ministers, who realized how completely they had been deceived.
• The former king and ministers joined the Revolutionary Army and asked it to drive out or kill Doflamingo rather than restore the king.
• Dragon and Sabo oversaw the battle as Hachi, Clara, Zoro, Tashigi, and others held back the enemy officers while Leo controlled the operation.
• Doflamingo approached to eliminate Violet and confront Sabo, making the battle a test of whether Sabo could defeat him with the Storm Fruit.

Leo used Sabo’s fight with Doflamingo to give the Revolutionary Army a public face and show its ideals to ordinary people. After Pica’s defeat, Sabo confronted Doflamingo and stopped his attack with advanced Haki emission.

• Sabo ended the broadcast before facing Doflamingo, while Leo’s reasoning revealed that he wanted Sabo to serve as the Revolutionary Army’s public image.
• Doflamingo demanded to know why Violet had betrayed him, and Violet challenged him over what he had done to Dressrosa.
• Pica formed a giant stone body to block the Revolutionary Army, but two swordsmen split him into four pieces.
• Sabo moved Violet aside, drew his metal pipe, and challenged Doflamingo to fight.
• Doflamingo attacked Sabo with a Haki-coated kick, but Sabo blocked it with his blackened pipe, prompting Doflamingo to recognize his advanced Haki emission.

Sabo used his Storm Fruit and advanced Haki to withstand Doflamingo, who became convinced the Revolutionary Army could extract Devil Fruits from people. Doflamingo abandoned caution and charged at Sabo, determined to capture him.

• Doflamingo realized Sabo and the other Revolutionary Army fighters were stronger than he had expected, while Sabo steadily gained the advantage in their fight.
• Doflamingo trapped Sabo with Parasite Threads, but Sabo turned into a breeze and escaped using the Storm Fruit.
• Doflamingo deduced that Sabo had the Storm Fruit and suspected the Revolutionary Army had technology for extracting Devil Fruits.
• Doflamingo recalled how Law had betrayed him and imagined using the extraction technology to obtain the Op-Op Fruit and eternal life.
• Doflamingo charged at Sabo, intent on capturing him.

Doflamingo fought Sabo in hopes of learning how the Revolutionary Army transferred Devil Fruits, but his greed and impatience left him outmatched. After Sabo exposed his weakness, Doflamingo rejected his former life and awakened as the Clown Emperor.

• Doflamingo abandoned his family and attacked Sabo to capture him and learn the Revolutionary Army's Devil Fruit transfer method.
• Sabo exploited Doflamingo's sloppy movements, countered his strings, and landed a powerful Dragon Claw strike.
• Sabo criticized Doflamingo's unstable mentality and questioned what he had to be proud of.
• As he was battered, Doflamingo reflected on his life and recognized his own weakness.
• Doflamingo laughed at the absurdity of his past and unleashed a shocking aura, transforming into the Clown Emperor.

Zoro stayed behind to fight Pica while Tashigi led the others toward Doflamingo’s palace and the Donquixote Family’s secrets. Along the way, Great Bay Blade William confronted Baby 5, whose weapon powers were countered by his Rust-Rust Fruit.

• Zoro told Tashigi to lead the others onward while he fought Pica alone, and she agreed.
• Tashigi led the group out of the battlefield as Zoro attacked Pica with Three Sword Style: Pencil Blade.
• The Revolutionary Army pressed toward Doflamingo’s palace to uncover the Donquixote Family’s business records, secrets, and money.
• Baby 5 attacked the advancing soldiers, but Great Bay Blade William stayed behind to face her and rusted away her weapons.

The Revolutionary Army officers fought the Donquixote Family’s forces on the way to the royal palace, where Doflamingo’s secret ledgers were kept. They aimed to capture the enemy officers alive to pass their examination, while Dragon watched without intervening.

• Zoro held Pica back, while William intercepted Baby 5 as the Revolutionary Army advanced.
• Buffalo arrived to help Baby 5, who transformed into a great cutlass, but William faced them both.
• Nojiko reversed the Art-Art Fruit’s effects with her bubbles and took on the old woman, while Mr. 1 Daz Bones confronted Lao G.
• Hachi struck the Swim-Swim Fruit user with Fish-Man Karate, and Koala knocked Monet out of her elemental form with an Armament Haki-coated punch.
• The Revolutionary Army officers fought toward the palace, seeking to capture the Donquixote Family officers alive, as Dragon observed without helping.

The Revolutionary Army overwhelmed the Donquixote Family as the family’s fear and uncertainty undermined its strength, while Doflamingo’s state of mind changed. Doflamingo declared that he was tired of playing Mafia and wanted to kill someone to celebrate his rebirth, then challenged Sabo.

• Baby 5 was rusted and defeated by William, and Buffalo was knocked down when he charged at William.
• Nojiko used her Bubble-Bubble Fruit to counter Jora and beat her into defeat.
• Zoro cut through Pica’s stone armor and Armament Haki, killing him and crushing the Donquixote Family’s hopes.
• Inazuma severed Diamante’s limbs, and Kuhar exposed and defeated Trebol, while Lao G continued to hold the upper hand against Daz Bones.
• Sabo tried to unsettle Doflamingo by pointing out that his Family was being destroyed, but Doflamingo laughed and said he was tired of playing Mafia house.
• Doflamingo said he wanted to kill someone to celebrate his rebirth and challenged Sabo.

Sabo fought Doflamingo and realized that his strength and Haki had sharply improved. Doflamingo caught Sabo with threads erupting from the ground and rose to meet him, laughing.

• Sabo charged Doflamingo, but Doflamingo blocked his Haki-coated pipe and countered with threads.
• Sabo dodged Doflamingo’s attacks with the Storm Fruit and flew out of reach.
• Sabo provoked Doflamingo, noting how much stronger he had become.
• Doflamingo trapped Sabo’s legs with Armament Haki-coated threads, flung him into the air, and flew up to meet him.

Doflamingo savagely beat Sabo while rethinking his desire to destroy the world, and Dragon eventually rescued Sabo through a door created with the Door-Door Fruit. Dragon took the badly injured Sabo home, who broke down in tears.

• Doflamingo bound Sabo with Armament Haki-coated threads and battered him with fists and kicks.
• As he beat Sabo, Doflamingo realized he wanted to destroy the world rather than preserve the kingdom and foundations he had inherited.
• Sabo struggled to defend himself but feared he would die as Doflamingo continued the beating.
• Dragon opened a door and rescued Sabo after observing his crushing defeat.
• Dragon told Sabo it was time to go home, and Sabo began to cry.

Sabo returned to the Revolutionary Army badly injured after losing to Doflamingo, and the group prepared to leave Dressrosa by submarine. Sabo explained that they had withdrawn because they distrusted the Marines’ silence and wanted to see the country’s future without a ruler, while assuring King Riku that Doflamingo would have to flee.

• Koala and Ivankov treated Sabo’s injuries, and Sabo admitted that he had underestimated Doflamingo and asked for food.
• Dragon and the others prepared to descend in their modified submarine to escape the Donquixote Family’s reach.
• Leo’s plans for attacking Marine-held locations were discussed, but Sengoku’s priorities had left no opening for a raid on the Underwater Great Prison.
• King Riku questioned why the group had left without defeating Doflamingo, and Sabo apologized before explaining their reasons for withdrawing.
• Sabo told King Riku that Doflamingo had lost his backing and would have to flee or face the Marines as well as the Revolutionary Army.

Doflamingo embraced the ruined Dressrosa, turned Dellinger into a puppet, and vanished while the world believed the Revolutionary Army had killed him. As the Navy retreated from the New World and the balance of power shifted, Morgans arrived to greet Leo at Sabaody.

• Doflamingo found Dellinger trapped beneath rubble and took control of him with his strings, forcing a smile onto his face.
• The Donquixote Family disappeared, and the world believed Doflamingo had been killed by the Revolutionary Army.
• The Revolutionary Army’s victories and the Four Emperors’ advance drove the Navy out of the New World, intensifying the turmoil across the seas.
• Leo watched the residents of Sabaody from his ship and reflected on how his knowledge and influence were growing.
• Morgans landed on the ship, introduced himself to Leo as the News King and his loyal admirer, and offered his greetings.

Morgans explained how he deduced Hancock’s ties to the Revolutionary Army and Leo’s identity, then revealed he had sought Leo out to offer his services. Leo left Morgans’s fate and role in his hands, while keeping control over how he appeared in the news.

• Morgans used his intelligence network to infer that Hancock had joined the Revolutionary Army and that Leo was aboard her ship.
• Leo explained that the Marines had been caught off guard after the destruction of Enies Lobby and suggested Morgans’s News Birds served as his eyes and ears.
• Leo deduced that Morgans had built the World Economic News Paper’s global network and that it might decline without him.
• Morgans said he had come to pledge himself to Leo after seeing his new method of spreading news.

Leo explained that Morgans had recognized live television as a threat to newspapers and had come to offer his services to the Revolutionary Army. Morgans asked Leo to accept his loyalty, leaving Leo’s response unstated.

• The Kuja Pirates wondered why Morgans was flattering Leo so shamelessly and suspected he might be hiding an attack.
• Leo praised Morgans for recognizing the potential of live broadcasts and their threat to the newspaper industry.
• Leo explained how control of media and public opinion could help the Revolutionary Army challenge the World Government.
• Morgans considered joining the Revolutionaries while keeping open the option of switching sides if they failed.
• Morgans bowed and offered Leo his loyalty and service.

Leo welcomed Morgans into the Revolutionary Army’s circle despite his dubious morals, recognizing the News King’s influence over public opinion. Morgans eagerly agreed to help Leo and flew off to bring the World Economic News Paper headquarters to him.

• Leo welcomed Morgans, explaining that the News King’s control of information made him a valuable ally.
• Ran used her Slow-Slow Fruit powers to slow Morgans’s speech and thoughts while Rindou, Marigold, and Sandersonia questioned whether he could be trusted.
• Leo reassured the Amazon warrior women that he knew what he was doing and accepted Morgans despite his private morality.
• After Ran lifted the slow effect, Morgans asked what he could do to help Leo.
• Leo asked Morgans to bring the World Economic News Paper headquarters to him, and Morgans flew off to fetch it.

Leo took control of the World Economic News headquarters and ordered Morgans to prepare a global broadcast network for his speech. The chapter ended with Morgans eager to support Leo as the Revolutionary Army moved to reach audiences across the world.

• Leo and the Amazon warriors arrived at the World Economic News headquarters, a Sky Island staffed by about a hundred thousand News Birds.
• Morgans shot two editors and announced that the news agency was switching sides to join the Revolutionary Army.
• Morgans introduced Leo to the editors as the Revolutionary Army’s second-generation Commander-in-Chief.
• Leo asked how many Den Den Mushi the agency could deploy, and Morgans said it had fewer than twenty.
• Leo ordered Morgans to obtain fifty Den Den Mushi within three days and send them to major cities worldwide within a week so he could give a speech to the world.

Leo planned to broadcast the Revolutionary Army’s image to the world and draw powerful allies out of hiding. As the World Economic News Paper’s Sky Island approached Jaya Sky Island, the Marines imprisoned there mistook it for a rescue force, then saw it was filled with armed Amazon warriors.

• Leo explained to Morgans that the Revolutionary Army needed a visible presence so ordinary people and powerful fighters would learn what it stood for.
• Leo and Morgans steered the World Economic News Paper’s Sky Island toward the Sky Island above Mock Town to meet the Revolutionary Army’s officers and core members.
• The Marines captured from Enies Lobby continued searching for a way to escape, but their attempts to descend from the Sky Island had failed.
• The imprisoned Marines spotted the approaching Sky Island and hoped it was a Marine rescue force.
• The Marines rushed toward the docking area and saw that the newcomers were fully armed Amazon warrior women.

Leo introduced himself to CP9 as the Revolutionary Army’s second-generation Commander, then passed through their ranks without being challenged. Rob Lucci concluded that Leo’s presence had left CP9 and the Marines unable to move, and the group feared what would have happened if they had attacked.

• The Marines and CP9 recognized Hancock, Morgans, and the Kuja Pirates, and Rob Lucci questioned whether Hancock and Morgans had joined the Revolutionary Army.
• Morgans defended his decision to support Leo, while Kalifa called him a bootlicker.
• Leo introduced himself as the Revolutionary Army’s second-generation Commander and walked toward CP9.
• Leo passed Rob Lucci and patted his shoulder, but CP9 and the Marines could not move until he was gone.
• Kalifa, Bruno, and Kaku wondered whether Leo had used Conqueror’s Haki, but Rob Lucci said it was merely presence and judged Leo to be as powerful as a Four Emperor.