Chapter Summaries

Ace and the others realized that a CP0 agent had taken over Big Mom's body and confronted her as she tried to escape. The Three Sweet Commanders were held back by Issho, but Katakuri charged at him.

• Issho noticed that Big Mom's words and behavior suggested she had lost her memories, and the others suspected someone had possessed her.
• Ace ordered Kyros and Jozu to step back and asked who was inside Big Mom's body.
• The nun revealed that she had parasitized Big Mom to use her body and now wanted to escape and recover from her fatal injury.
• Pedro urged the others to reclaim Mama's body, but Issho drew his sword and warned the Three Sweet Commanders not to advance.
• Katakuri charged at Issho with half his body formed and his mouth exposed.

Issho defeated Katakuri with a spatial sword attack but spared his life, leaving the Big Mom Pirates terrified of fighting him. The nun then tried to bargain with Ace by offering Big Mom’s surrender and her own service in the new Navy.

• Katakuri faced Issho, prepared to die, but Issho sheathed his sword and praised his boldness before a spatial slash broke Katakuri’s body into pieces.
• Issho explained that distorted space had displaced Katakuri’s body parts and warned the Big Mom Pirates that he might not spare them if they attacked.
• The Big Mom Pirates despaired at Issho’s power and the pressure of facing him.
• The nun addressed Ace and offered Big Mom’s surrender and her own service as an admiral in the new Navy.

Ace rejected the nun’s offer to join the Revolutionary Army and ordered Big Mom killed, while Ace and Kyros attacked her. Issho cut down Cracker, leaving the Big Mom Pirates facing the overwhelming strength of their opponents.

• Ace concluded that accepting Big Mom would alienate the Whitebeard Pirates and declared that Big Mom had to die.
• Ace ignited his fist and Kyros formed a sword of light as they attacked the badly wounded Big Mom.
• The Big Mom Pirates intervened, with Pedro hurling a mountain of candy toward Issho and Cracker charging in a biscuit puppet.
• Issho cut Cracker’s hidden real body in half, leaving him mortally wounded.
• The Big Mom Pirates watched in despair as they realized neither Cracker nor Katakuri could withstand the enemy’s strength.

At Zephyr’s funeral, Leo announced the Revolutionary Army’s victories against the Big Mom and Whitebeard Pirates and declared the Great Pirate Era was nearing its end. As the mourners buried the fallen beneath a monument on Sky Island, the Navy prisoners—including Sengoku, Akainu, and Aokiji—reflected on their defeat and the Navy’s choices.

• Leo attended Zephyr’s funeral, where the Revolutionary Army honored Zephyr and the countless fallen soldiers with a monument and urns of ashes.
• Leo told Sabo and the mourners that the Revolutionary Army had defeated the Big Mom Pirates and that its expeditionary force had helped bring down the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Leo announced that Whitebeard had died, Big Mom had been eliminated, most of her crew had surrendered, and most of Whitebeard’s crew had joined the Revolutionary Army.
• The Navy prisoners listened in shock, while Sengoku asked Akainu whether he had once cared too much about the Celestial Dragons’ orders; Akainu and Aokiji watched Leo without answering.
• Leo declared the burial begun, and the Revolutionary Army members knelt and placed the heroes’ urns into their graves.

Garp observed how the Revolutionary Army differed from the Navy, while Leo concluded that the Revolutionary Army needed to change direction. After recalling his rejection of being treated as a savior, Leo suddenly realized what he should write.

• Garp wandered around Sky Island and recognized the Revolutionary Army as the army he had always wanted the Navy to be.
• Leo reflected on how the World Government constrained the Navy and how the Revolutionary Army had challenged its rule.
• Leo told Hancock that the Revolutionary Army needed to change direction as he held her hand.
• Hancock remembered Leo’s angry rejection of the army’s claims that he was a savior.
• Leo leaped from his chair and announced that he knew what he should write.

Leo led Hancock home, where Robin cared for their young daughter, Zoya, and helped Leo prepare to write articles. Hancock wondered what work he would produce next.

• Leo brought Hancock to his treehouse home on Sky Island, which the Sky Islanders had built with help from Trafalgar Law.
• Leo had rejected rumors portraying him as a saint and vowed that his descendants with Hancock would not become Celestial Dragons.
• Robin cared for Zoya by the fireplace until Leo called her into the study to help write articles.
• Hancock took Zoya and strawberries to the kitchen, then watched the study with anticipation as she wondered what Leo would write.
• Hancock reflected that Leo had helped reform people's habit of not reading books and newspapers.

Leo drafted a political article arguing that a regime’s legitimacy came from the people’s support, which depended on the material quality of their lives. He left the article’s central claim focused on whether a government could improve citizens’ lives and incomes.

• Nico Robin entered Leo’s study, lit the fireplace, and sat beside him to take notes as he wrote.
• Leo began drafting a political manifesto and explained that he needed to refine a long-form argument into a clear article.
• Leo stated that a regime’s justice came from recognition by the people, and that the World Government lost legitimacy when the people rejected it.
• Leo argued that people’s material conditions shaped their loyalty and support for a regime.
• Leo concluded that a government’s justice depended on whether it could improve citizens’ lives by helping them increase their incomes, then crossed out the first line in his notebook.

Leo explained to Nico Robin why people had tolerated unsafe lives under the former nations and World Government, and warned that the Revolutionary Army would face new demands once people forgot how hard-won their safety was. Robin asked whether the Revolutionary Army could avoid making promises about security and prosperity, leaving Leo’s response unresolved.

• Nico Robin asked Leo why people had obeyed rulers and the World Government despite their failure to protect basic survival.
• Leo explained that people judged their safety against the widespread violence of the Great Pirate Era and accepted limited local harm when danger was worse elsewhere.
• Leo described how trade and commerce gave people material wealth even when their lives were insecure.
• Leo warned that after about ten years, people might take safety for granted and demand greater material abundance from the Revolutionary Army.
• Nico Robin asked whether the Revolutionary Army could use its military strength to refuse promises and keep its plans unspoken.

Leo explained to Nico Robin why the Revolutionary Army had to educate the masses and help them recognize their common humanity with those in power. He argued that a country must remain adaptable and that the people should learn to think as clearly as he did, leaving Robin wondering whether a world of people like Leo would descend into conflict.

• Leo reflected that people were easily misled but could be awakened by being told the truth.
• Leo argued that political systems had to adapt over time and that countries needed firm moral limits.
• Leo told Robin the Revolutionary Army had to unite the masses by freeing them physically and mentally from the nobles’ control.
• Leo explained that the Revolutionary Army had to show people that Celestial Dragons, rulers, and future leaders were no different from ordinary people.
• Robin asked whether educating everyone to reach Leo’s level would lead them to tear the world apart.

Leo explained to Nico Robin that skills people took for granted had taken generations of survival and education to develop, and that people would likewise need time to learn who their friends and enemies were. Robin estimated that this political understanding might take hundreds of years to spread.

• Leo argued that a society’s achievements came from its people and the deep accumulation of education and culture.
• Leo asked Nico Robin how to make fire without tools, and she described using a bow made from her hair to drill wood.
• Leo compared fire-making, once an extraordinary skill, to the challenge of teaching people to distinguish friends from enemies.
• Nico Robin guessed that people might need a few hundred years to learn that skill, and Leo suggested the process could take even longer.

The Revolutionary Army and the Whitebeard Pirates anticipated Leo’s unreleased book, and Ace explained why Leo’s writing impressed the Revolutionary Army. Marco questioned whether Leo’s apparent foresight came from using the Revolutionary Army’s power to make his ideas real, and Ace invited him to join and judge for himself.

• News of Leo’s new book spread through the Revolutionary Army, and Issho looked forward to reading it.
• Ace and Marco discussed why the Revolutionary Army was excited about Leo’s work while the pirates struggled to get timely information through their intelligence networks.
• Ace said Leo’s views had repeatedly proven correct, crediting the Commander-in-Chief’s foresight.
• Marco wondered whether Leo used the Revolutionary Army’s resources to make his ideas come true.
• Ace told Marco he could find out for himself by joining the Revolutionary Army.

After Big Mom's defeat, Marco and Jozu pushed the Whitebeard Pirates to cooperate with the Revolutionary Army, and the survivors traveled to its headquarters on Jaya Island. There, Ace and the others learned that Leo still had not updated his writing.

• The Revolutionary Army kept captured Big Mom Pirates alive, angering some Whitebeard Pirates who opposed joining the Revolutionary Army.
• Marco and Jozu argued that the Revolutionary Army's strength and expanding influence made joining it the best course, and Marco used his authority to get the Whitebeard Pirates to follow its arrangements.
• The Whitebeard Pirates counted their losses and, after Whitebeard's funeral, set sail with the Revolutionary Army for Jaya Island.
• Ten days after the decisive battle, Ace and the others arrived at Jaya Island and discovered that Leo still had not written an update.

When the Whitebeard Pirates visited Jaya Island, Ace explained how the Revolutionary Army’s Credit System had transformed merchant trade by establishing verified identities, credit, and trust. Marco recognized that merchants’ confidence in the Revolutionary Army’s certification was so strong that they would lend it money or supplies, leaving the pirates to conclude that it could not be defeated.

• The chapter described how the Revolutionary Army’s Credit System rewarded merchants for transactions and let them use verified credit as a sign of status and a means of payment.
• Merchants initially resisted the system because it exposed their dealings and made them pay taxes, but they came to value the trust and security it provided.
• A merchant extended goods on credit to another merchant after the Revolutionary Army verified his reputation, and the two later repaid the debt, joined forces, and founded a major chamber of commerce.
• As Marco, Jozu, Vista, and Ace explored Jaya Island, Jozu praised the merchants’ honesty, but Marco said the Credit System—not their character—had made their trade possible.
• Marco realized that merchants trusted the Revolutionary Army’s certification so completely that they would lend it money or grain, and he concluded that the Revolutionary Army could not be defeated.

Marco and Ace showed the Whitebeard Pirates how the Revolutionary Army’s merchant connections and vast supplies could make it difficult to defeat, then toured a diverse city with strong security and a bustling marketplace. Marco wondered whether the abundance of merchants and goods had made prices unbearably high.

• The Whitebeard Pirates realized that the Revolutionary Army could recover from repeated defeats by buying supplies and building ships, and understood why Marco had chosen to work with them.
• Marco explained to the Whitebeard Pirates how merchants bargained over small price changes because those margins multiplied across large quantities.
• Ace described the city’s diverse residents, while Namul asked whether so many different people threatened public security.
• Ace explained that Revolutionary Army snipers patrolled the city and that crimes committed there were strictly punished.
• Marco asked whether the city’s many merchants and goods had driven prices unbearably high.

Ace explained to the Whitebeard Pirates how transport costs, risk, and competition shaped prices in a city under the Revolutionary Army’s protection. The crowd then knelt and greeted Lord Leo.

• Ace tasted a sour fruit sold by a bearded merchant, and the merchant explained that it was used in drinks and could help prevent scurvy.
• The merchant revealed that he had bought a basket of fruit for two hundred Beli and sold it for up to twenty Beli each, shocking the Whitebeard Pirates’ commanders.
• Ace pointed out that the Revolutionary Army had reduced the merchant’s risks and costs, making twenty Beli a fair price in the city.
• Ace explained to Marco that city goods could be cheaper than rural goods because merchants had reliable buyers in cities, while rural goods could remain unsold.
• The crowd suddenly knelt and cried out, “Lord Leo!”

Leo arrived at the grand marketplace with Hancock and his daughter, where merchants and others worshipped him as the God of Commerce. He told the tax officers to have everyone stand, then greeted the Whitebeard Pirates and the merchant Ace had been speaking with.

• Merchants and bystanders knelt when they recognized Leo, while Ace stopped the big-bearded merchant from kneeling.
• Leo’s disabled veteran tax officers saluted him, and he ordered them to remind the crowd that the Revolutionary Army did not need anyone to kneel.
• The tax officers told everyone to stand, and Leo approached the Whitebeard Pirates and Ace’s merchant companion.
• Marco introduced himself as the Whitebeard Pirates’ first mate, and Leo shook hands with the captains and the merchant alike.

Leo questioned Basca about West Blue and reassured him that the people there would prosper, then went with Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates to a tavern to talk. There, Leo explained that his public support for Basca was meant to encourage other merchants not to kneel.

• Leo asked Basca the price of his fruit, and Zoya bit into one before Hancock gave her an ice cube to soothe the sourness.
• Leo asked Basca about West Blue's specialties, crops, climate, and strong winds, then encouraged him to work hard.
• Leo invited Marco to a bar to talk, and Marco agreed as the Whitebeard Pirates questioned Leo along the way.
• Leo explained that his pats would protect Basca from bullying and attract business, prompting Izo to challenge him about rewarding the merchant.
• At the tavern, Leo told Izo that he was encouraging other merchants not to kneel.

Leo explained the Revolutionary Army’s gradual approach to educating and guiding the public, then revealed that it had intended to avoid war with the Marines until Sengoku forced a confrontation. As the Whitebeard Pirates considered Leo’s reasoning, Marco asked how Leo planned to deal with them.

• Leo told Izo, Marco, and Jozu that examples and practical benefits could gradually change people’s habits, while newspapers and education would help guide them.
• Leo compared governing a country to carefully preparing soup, saying lasting change required multiple approaches and patience.
• Marco asked why the Revolutionary Army had fought the Marines, and Leo said Sengoku had discovered its plans and forced it to attack Marine Headquarters.
• Leo said he had expected to avoid direct conflict with the Marines until after dealing with the Four Emperors, but Sengoku had broken their tacit understanding.
• Marco asked Leo how he intended to deal with the Whitebeard Pirates.

Leo explained that the Whitebeard Pirates would be integrated into the Revolutionary Army as individual personnel and would no longer fight as a unified pirate force. He outlined the division of their assets, and Marco accepted the terms after explaining that half would repay their past plunder while the other half could be shared among the crew.

• Leo told the Whitebeard Pirates that they would be assigned separate posts and would have fewer chances to gather, prompting the Division Captains to confront him.
• Marco asked why the pirates could not remain a unified combat force, and Leo said their ships and tactics were outdated and their strength would be distributed among Revolutionary Army units.
• Marco asked about the pirates' wealth, and Leo proposed that half would go to the Revolutionary Army while the rest would be divided between captains and crew.
• Leo declared that the Revolutionary Army would continue eliminating piracy, including the Four Emperors, and Marco recalled Leo making the same threat to Whitebeard.
• Vista objected to Marco calling the terms fair, so Marco explained that the Revolutionary Army would take half as repayment for plunder while allowing the pirates to keep the half derived from taxes.

Leo negotiated with the Whitebeard captains to surrender half their wealth in exchange for a clean slate in the Revolutionary Army. The gathering ended in celebration after Ace revealed that his crew had destroyed Blackbeard Teach’s pirates, leaving Teach presumed dead.

• Leo explained that the Whitebeard captains could clear their past crimes by handing over half their wealth, and Marco agreed to the deal.
• Leo asked where Blackbeard Teach was, and Jozu said Teach had left the Whitebeard Pirates with two divisions.
• Ace revealed that his crew had destroyed a pirate band they found nearby, which turned out to be the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Marco and the captains toasted Blackbeard and his men, believing them dead, while Leo kept the Dark-Dark Fruit from Teach.
• Leo left with his companions and told Ace that the Logistics Department would reimburse the captains’ expenses.
• Ace stayed behind to drink and sing with the Whitebeard captains.