Chapter Summaries

The Revolutionary Army investigated what happened to pirates who retired to their hometowns and found that none had lived out their lives in peace. Its reports exposed how local wealthy powers murdered returning pirates and seized their riches, leaving pirates across the world afraid that retirement offered no escape.

• The Revolutionary Army gathered worldwide reports on retired pirates, and its investigators found no cases of pirates peacefully reaching old age after returning home.
• Morgans printed Leo’s shocking headline about the Whitebeard Pirates, drawing attention to the fates of members who had been allowed to leave with treasure.
• The report revealed that local wealthy men drugged and beheaded Atmos after he returned home, and the Revolutionary Army prosecuted his killers.
• The Revolutionary Army published statistics from more than eighty major and over one hundred sixty smaller regions, reporting zero peaceful retirements among the pirates surveyed.
• Red-Haired Shanks and members of the Red-Haired Pirates, Sweets Pirates, and Dessert Pirates reacted with alarm as pirates feared they had no safe way to retire.

The Revolutionary Army’s interview with a captured young pirate exposed the bleak reality of ordinary pirate life, deepening pirates’ despair about their past and future. As East Blue pirate Big Liquor Cup Lewinsky struggled to drown his frustration in drink, his first mate Markov arrived with a newspaper.

• The Revolutionary Army released an interview in which a young pirate described the boredom, danger, and hardship of life at sea, and said he would rather have been a farmer.
• The interview resonated with pirates and compounded their gloom after earlier reports had already warned them about their poor prospects and retirement.
• Big Liquor Cup Lewinsky, a Barrel-Barrel Fruit user who robbed distilleries and ships in the East Blue, found himself unable to get drunk or shake his dismay.
• The Black Market town grew unusually quiet as ordinary pirates drank, cried, and lost the will to fight or rob.
• First Mate Markov staggered into Lewinsky’s tavern waving a newspaper and called for his boss to look at it.

Big Liquor Barrel Lewinsky and the pirates in a Black Market town learned that the Revolutionary Army had issued an amnesty and set out to surrender. As Lewinsky read Leo’s article, he realized the amnesty could also give him a chance to join the Revolutionary Army.

• The pirates in the tavern read news of the Revolutionary Army’s amnesty and recognized that they might have a way back to ordinary life.
• Big Liquor Barrel Lewinsky announced that his crew was disbanding, and the pirates cheered as they sailed toward the Revolutionary Army base.
• Pirate ships from the Black Market town headed for the base, while the mayor lamented that the town’s economy would decline without them.
• Lewinsky read Leo’s article explaining the roots of piracy, the amnesty’s terms, and the Revolutionary Army’s plan to recruit former pirates.
• Lewinsky decided that joining the Revolutionary Army could help him achieve the class leap he had sought by going to sea.

Commander Leo announced that the Revolutionary Army had failed to address the landlords and gentry who replaced the Celestial Dragons as oppressors, and offered pirates worldwide amnesty in exchange for surrender and labor reform. He warned that pirates who refused would be hunted down after one year and outlined compensation for surrendering Devil Fruit users.

• Leo said the Revolutionary Army had mistaken the Celestial Dragons’ defeat for the end of oppression, while wealthy landowners took their place and continued squeezing ordinary people.
• Leo explained that land annexation and heavy taxes had driven people to desperation, including toward piracy, and urged Revolutionary Army branch leaders to improve their grassroots oversight.
• Leo invited young pirates without bounties to confess at Revolutionary Army bases and offered forgiveness, with at least one year of labor reform for those who had killed and felt remorse.
• Leo asked pirates with bounties to redeem them using plundered money and serve three to ten years of labor reform according to their crimes.
• Leo warned that the Revolutionary Army would bombard pirate ships and hunt down those who refused the offer after one year.
• Leo said Devil Fruit users who surrendered would have their fruits extracted and receive compensation based on the fruit type, and could later apply to join the Revolutionary Army.

Big Liquor Barrel Lewinsky recognized that the Revolutionary Army’s amnesty and surrender policy divided ordinary pirates from the great pirates while rapidly strengthening its own forces. As the pirates reached a Revolutionary Army branch to surrender, they cheered and asked where to line up for labor reform.

• Lewinsky saw that the Revolutionary Army’s policy had persuaded ordinary pirates to surrender and turn against the wealthy landowners and powerful pirates.
• He realized that the great pirates’ ambition to become Pirate King conflicted with the interests of their lower-ranking crews, and that the Revolutionary Army’s plan would weaken the great pirates while recruiting their former followers.
• Lewinsky decided that surrendering immediately was safer than waiting until the Revolutionary Army had absorbed the pirates and grown stronger.
• The pirates sailed toward a Revolutionary Army branch, singing Binks’ Sake as the sun rose over the sea.
• The pirates docked, cheerfully told the surprised Revolutionary Army members they had come for labor reform, and asked where to line up.

After Big Mom's death, the Big Mom Pirates fractured into rival Sweets Pirates, and Katakuri decided his faction would surrender to the Revolutionary Army to protect his younger siblings. Perospero rejected the plan and tried to rally his own faction, but his siblings' indifference left him isolated.

• The Big Mom Pirates split after Big Mom's death, with Katakuri and Cracker leading one Sweets Pirates faction and Perospero claiming leadership of the other.
• Katakuri announced that his faction would surrender to the Revolutionary Army and asked its senior members to surrender their Devil Fruits and accept prison so their younger siblings could have a safer future.
• Cracker and the other senior members supported Katakuri, and the faction ordered its pirates and siblings to sail toward the Revolutionary Army's New World branch.
• Borsalino delivered Katakuri's message to Perospero, who angrily vowed to kill Katakuri for surrendering to the enemy that killed Big Mom.
• Perospero summoned his siblings to oppose Katakuri's plan, but they remained calm and showed little concern for Big Mom's death or his appeal.

Perospero’s panicked leadership fractured the Sweets Pirates as his siblings began leaving or turning toward the Revolutionary Army. Katakuri brought the Sweets Pirates and fifty thousand pirates to surrender to Issho, who sent them to the Revolutionary Army headquarters to meet Leo.

• Perospero mocked his siblings for considering joining the Revolutionary Army, and Smoothie warned him not to stop Katakuri and the others.
• Oven angrily rejected Perospero’s leadership and left, with Snack following him, and the remaining siblings departed in disarray.
• The Sweets Pirates’ fleet arrived at Issho’s Revolutionary Army branch, alarming the soldiers, who prepared their defenses.
• Katakuri announced that he had brought the Sweets Pirates and fifty thousand pirates to surrender.
• Issho reminded his soldiers of Leo’s amnesty for pirates, then directed Katakuri to take the matter to Revolutionary Army headquarters and meet Leo.

Katakuri refused to surrender to Issho’s branch and took the Sweets Pirates toward Revolutionary Army Headquarters, gathering intelligence as they traveled. They learned that pirates worldwide were surrendering in large numbers, and the World Economic Journal’s reports spread news of the Revolutionary Army’s campaign across the seas.

• Issho told Katakuri that his branch could not accept the Sweets Pirates’ surrender and directed them to Revolutionary Army Headquarters, while promising supplies and warning them not to pillage.
• Katakuri and Cracker set out for headquarters, and the Sweets Pirates defeated a pirate alliance trying to enter the New World.
• The Sweets Pirates investigated Revolutionary Army branches and learned that pirates across the world were surrendering, while the Revolutionary Army detained and investigated criminals who tried to hide their pasts.
• Leo mobilized Morgans’s reporters to photograph pirate surrenders, and the World Economic Journal published a front-page report on the growing movement.
• The Sweets Pirates surrendered to a New World branch on the seventeenth, but news of the first mass surrenders had already spread worldwide and subsequent reports appeared daily.

Katakuri and the Sweets Pirates traveled toward Revolutionary Army Headquarters, discovering that the Revolutionary Army was overwhelmed with surrendered pirates and that people outside Totto Land treated them with unexpected warmth. The chapter left Katakuri and Cracker reflecting on how different life felt beyond Big Mom’s rule.

• Morgans recognized that the World Economic Journal gave the Revolutionary Army a powerful way to shape opinion, while he focused on growing its readership.
• Katakuri learned from Daz Bones that surrendered pirates had consumed the Revolutionary Army’s manpower, and he declined Bones’s challenge before his fleet continued onward.
• Katakuri’s fleet stopped at a branch for fresh water, then sailed out of the New World after gathering information about the Revolutionary Army’s operations.
• People on smaller islands approached the fleet to trade because they mistook it for a merchant fleet, welcoming its members without suspicion.
• Cracker told Katakuri he had initially supported surrender only by instinct, and Katakuri said people here treated them more warmly than people in Totto Land had.

Katakuri and the Sweets Pirates reached Jaya Island to surrender to the Revolutionary Army, after taking a long detour to see the Grand Line beyond the New World. Lafitte guided them through the Revolutionary Army’s formidable island defenses, and they arrived at the harbor where Leo awaited them.

• The Sweets Pirates grew anxious about whether the Revolutionary Army would accept their surrender as they approached Jaya Island.
• Leo accepted Katakuri’s surrender and arranged a large welcome with reporters, while Revolutionary Army scouts discovered the pirates had been sightseeing rather than plotting.
• Katakuri and his crew were astonished by the fortified islands and massive harbor surrounding Jaya Island.
• Lafitte introduced himself as deputy director of the Revolutionary Army Intelligence Department and ordered the Sweets Pirates to follow him into the headquarters.
• Katakuri agreed to follow Lafitte, who guided the fleet past the islands’ defenses and into Jaya Island’s harbor.
• Lafitte told Katakuri to disembark with the Sweets Pirates’ officers because Leo was waiting for them.

Katakuri brought the Sweets Pirates to meet Leo, with the Revolutionary Army prepared to defend its leadership if the visitors attacked. Katakuri shocked both sides by kneeling before Leo and offering his surrender to protect his brothers and sisters.

• The Revolutionary Army positioned hidden cannons around Jaya Island as the Sweets Pirates' ships were divided among nearby ports.
• Katakuri led Cracker, Big Mom's children, and the Sweets Pirates' combatants to meet Leo, while Sabo gathered Jozu, Marco, and Sakazuki to protect him.
• Katakuri examined Leo, then half-knelt before him and announced that the Sweets Pirates had come to surrender.
• Leo calmly asked Katakuri why he was surrendering.
• Katakuri asked Leo to spare his brothers and sisters, offering his strength and pride in exchange.

Leo brought Katakuri, Big Mom’s children, and the Sweets Pirates to a Revolutionary Army labor-reform island, where they surrendered and began serving their sentences. Kuma extracted their Devil Fruits, and Katakuri realized that losing his powers also freed him and his siblings from the burden of their pirate identities.

• Leo told Katakuri that he and everyone with him would go to prison, then explained that Katakuri should never kneel to anyone; Katakuri accepted and led his siblings and crew onward.
• Leo escorted the Sweets Pirates through Jaya Island to a labor-reform island, where prisoners worked under harsh conditions but received plentiful food and shelter.
• Leo asked Katakuri to identify everyone with a Devil Fruit, and Katakuri called forward his siblings and crew members who had powers.
• Kuma used his paw to extract Katakuri’s Mochi Mochi Fruit, which transformed into a Devil Fruit while Katakuri lost his ability.
• Katakuri watched Kuma extract his siblings’ Devil Fruits and recognized that they, too, seemed relieved to shed the burdens of their pirate lives.

Katakuri and the Sweets Pirates changed into prison uniforms and saw how the Revolutionary Army ran its prison island through disciplined labor and incentives. Jozu assigned Katakuri’s men to quarrying work and led the women away, leaving the surrendered crew to begin their new lives as prisoners.

• Katakuri and his companions changed into prison uniforms in a carefully designed restroom that impressed Katakuri with its respect for privacy.
• Katakuri’s group met Jozu, now a Revolutionary Army Vice Admiral wielding Murakumogiri and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, who escorted them into the prison.
• Katakuri and his companions observed prisoners working in organized teams, competing for rewards as they helped develop the island.
• Jozu told Katakuri to lead the men in excavating stone and said the women should follow him.

Katakuri and the surrendered Sweets Pirates were assigned hard labor across Jaya, while the Revolutionary Army’s researchers on Drum Island reported a breakthrough in their Devil Fruit research. Marco’s Phoenix Fruit had provided the missing clues to understanding Zoan powers and opened a path toward investigating Logia fruits.

• Katakuri and Cracker began quarrying stone with chisels, and the other Big Mom children joined the work in teams.
• Jozu assigned Big Mom’s daughters to prepare food, where Sunmon demonstrated her strength by killing a huge pig with a fish knife.
• The Revolutionary Army integrated the Sweets Pirates into labor across Jaya’s industries and prison system.
• Sabo flew Leo and the Revolutionary Army’s leaders to Drum Island after Chopper’s research institute reported a major breakthrough.
• Ivankov and Law explained that Marco’s Mythical Zoan Phoenix Fruit had helped reveal Zoan Devil Fruit secrets and offered clues about Logia fruits.

Leo inspected the Revolutionary Army’s secure research base and the Artificial Devil Fruits made by Trafalgar Law, Chopper, and their team. The chapter ended with Leo asking how the artificial fruits’ effects compared to genuine Devil Fruits.

• Leo listened as Ivankov and Trafalgar Law reported on their research into Zoan Devil Fruits.
• Leo and the others descended to the heavily guarded mid-mountain research base.
• Ivankov opened a massive iron door, revealing rows of Devil Fruits suspended in liquid.
• Chopper told Leo that he and the research team had made all the Artificial Devil Fruits on display.
• Leo asked how the Artificial Devil Fruits’ effects compared to genuine Devil Fruits.

Chopper revealed that Devil Fruits could evolve, and Leo and Marco considered the danger of humans being used to develop them. Ivankov then showed them the Revolutionary Army’s latest experiment, ending as four more people began transforming alongside the first four.

• Chopper told Leo that the Revolutionary Army had learned to imitate ordinary Zoan Devil Fruits and discovered that Devil Fruits could evolve into more powerful forms.
• Leo questioned Chopper and Marco about their own potential evolution, and Chopper admitted he could evolve but had not chosen a direction.
• Leo warned Chopper to notify the Revolutionary Army before beginning to evolve, and Chopper agreed.
• Ivankov ordered eight staff members to demonstrate the experiment; four transformed using the Wolf-Wolf, Giraffe-Giraffe, Horse-Horse, and Bird-Bird Fruits.
• The other four staff members began to swell, startling Leo and the others.

Leo approved the Artificial Devil Fruit research and decided to establish a factory on Winter Island. The factory would expand the Revolutionary Army’s combat strength while providing local people with reliable jobs.

• Leo saw ways to use the Artificial Devil Fruits to help capable Revolutionary Army members who could not master Haki and strengthen the army’s forces.
• Trafalgar Law explained that mass production required an extremely low-temperature environment, limiting suitable sites to Winter Islands.
• Leo ordered a factory built between Winter Island’s three mountains and directed the Revolutionary Army to clear the area and provide work for locals.
• The Revolutionary Army planned to employ local residents in the factory, easing labor competition on Drum Island while ensuring a reliable workforce and protecting migrant workers.

Leo approved starting production of three types of artificial Zoan Devil Fruits and learned that Mythical Zoans were still beyond the researchers’ reach. He then told Morgans to publicize the Revolutionary Army’s progress, arguing that openly displaying its power would help it pacify the world.

• Leo approved production lines for Falcon, Bison, and Wolf artificial Devil Fruits at a ratio of three, two, and one.
• Ivankov explained that replicating Mythical Zoans would be difficult until the researchers better understood Paramecia and Logia Devil Fruits.
• Leo returned to Jaya Island and summoned Morgans to discuss the research results.
• Morgans panicked when Leo told him the Revolutionary Army could cultivate artificial Devil Fruits.
• Leo instructed Morgans to publicize the achievement, saying the Revolutionary Army had nothing to hide.

Leo reviewed the Revolutionary Army’s global needs and planned how to distribute its mass-produced Artificial Devil Fruits. After the World Economic News Paper published the news, those who had kept the secret finally revealed it.

• Morgans accepted Leo’s order and worried that mass-produced Falcon-Falcon Fruits could undermine his position.
• Leo reviewed reports from around the world and considered how Falcon-Falcon, Ox-Ox, and Wolf Form Dog-Dog Fruits would support scouts, fleet forces, and peace officers.
• Leo wrote and sketched plans for distributing the Devil Fruits as the Revolutionary Army awaited the news announcement and the Drum Island factory.
• The World Economic News Paper announced the news on its front page, and the people who knew about it finally shared the secret.

The Revolutionary Army announced its Artificial Devil Fruit production plans, driving another wave of pirate surrenders and expanding its labor force. A month later, its first batch of fruits was distributed to a formation of soldiers, who ate them together on Leo’s command.

• The Revolutionary Army publicized its ability to produce around five hundred Zoan Artificial Devil Fruits each month, intensifying fear among pirates as the amnesty deadline approached.
• Pirates surrendered in large numbers, and local Revolutionary Army branches absorbed many of them while those surrendering to headquarters were sent to work on Jaya Island’s satellite islands.
• The Revolutionary Army organized more than three hundred thousand laborers into competitive work teams that operated with little direct supervision.
• A month later, the first batch of five hundred Artificial Devil Fruits came off the production line, including more than two hundred Falcon Form fruits.
• Leo ordered the assembled soldiers to eat their assigned Devil Fruits in unison.