Chapter Summaries

Nagato drove off Chaton’s Marines and rescued Hancock and her sisters, who asked him to take them home to Nine Dragon Island. Three days later, they arrived at the Empire, where Hancock and Morgans were stunned by its enormous ironclad ships.

• Nagato confronted Chaton, who ordered his Marines to ignore Nagato’s ship and continue on their way.
• Nagato took Hancock and her sisters aboard, and Hancock learned his name was Uzumaki Nagato.
• Deidara told Hancock that Nagato already had someone in his heart, but she remained hopeful and asked to return to Nine Dragon Island.
• Kakuzu offered to take the sisters home after the group reported its mission, and they agreed.
• Three days later, Hancock and her sisters saw the Empire’s giant ironclad ships, while Morgans was shocked by the harbor’s transformation.

Nagato brought Morgans and Hancock with her sisters to meet Hane, where Morgans learned the Empire’s strength and was invited to join its propaganda department. Hane arranged an Empire escort for the sisters’ return to Amazon Lily and proposed diplomatic relations.

• Nagato led Morgans and Hancock with her sisters through the palace grounds, where Morgans was unsettled by the Empire’s powerful guards and learned about its captains and vice-captains.
• Hane welcomed Nagato’s group while encouraging Small World to practice walking, and Nagato introduced Morgans and the Amazon Lily heirs.
• Hane invited Morgans to join the Empire’s propaganda department, but Morgans declined and offered closer cooperation through the World Economy News Paper.
• Hane offered to send a warship and diplomats with Hancock and her sisters to Amazon Lily to establish initial diplomatic relations, and Hancock eagerly agreed.

Hane announced that the Empire would make its arrival known by attacking Marine Headquarters, and he planned to lead the Imperial Navy himself. As the fleet set out from Nameless Island, the navy learned that the Empire's ironclad warships were heading for Marineford.

• Hane told the Imperial officials that the Empire would target Marine Headquarters and personally lead the naval expedition.
• Hiashi led the gathered officials in wishing Hane a triumphant return.
• Imperial troops and supplies moved through Nameless Island to the harbor as residents cheered for the Uchiha and spies reported the Empire's mobilization.
• At Marine Headquarters, Steel Bone Kong told the officers that the navy had lost contact with the World Government, and Garp urged them to prepare and uphold order.
• A navy soldier reported that the Empire's ironclad warships were sailing toward Marineford.

Hane led the Imperial fleet to Marine Headquarters, where it overwhelmed the Marines’ defenses with a devastating bombardment. As the fleet advanced toward the shattered fortress, Hane planned to cripple the World Government’s trump card and bring the Marines under his command.

• Hane and Mei Terumi approached Marine Headquarters with dozens of Imperial ironclad warships.
• Steel Bone Kong ordered the Marines to fire the fortress cannons at the approaching fleet.
• Mei Terumi ordered the Imperial ships to evade and return fire, and their shells tore through Marine Headquarters’ walls and defenses.
• Hane ordered the Imperial fleet to continue toward the ruined fortress, intending to seize the Marine force for his command.

Hane led the Imperial Fleet to Marineford and offered the Marines submission or defeat, prompting Garp to defend the Justice Gate. After their clash, Hane overwhelmed Garp and sent him crashing into the fortress wall.

• Garp leaped down to block the Justice Gate, and the Marines rallied at the sight of their hero.
• Hane halted the Imperial Fleet and demanded that the Marines join his Empire or submit by force.
• Steel Bone Kong rejected Hane's offer, and Hane challenged the Marines' claim to justice before Garp attacked him.
• Hane stopped Garp's powerful punch with one finger, and their collision battered Marineford and scattered the fleet's warships.
• Garp continued attacking, but Hane's counterattacks injured him before Hane struck his chest and hurled him into the fortress wall.

Hane overwhelmed the Marines at Marine Headquarters, defeating Kizaru and Steel Bone Kong after already bringing Garp to his knees. Aokiji abandoned his attack as Hane remained unchallenged.

• Kizaru attacked Hane at the speed of light, but Hane vanished behind him and flicked him into a rubble wall with a Brain Crash.
• Steel Bone Kong transformed into a fifty-meter-tall, Haki-coated gorilla and struck at Hane with a flaming punch.
• Hane stopped Steel Bone Kong’s punch with one hand, crushed his fist, and slammed him repeatedly into the ground.
• Garp tried to rescue Steel Bone Kong, but Hane hurled him into Garp, and both crashed through buildings into a massive statue.
• Aokiji saw Hane’s strength and withdrew the ice arrow he had prepared to attack with.

Hane forced Steel Bone Kong and the Marines to choose between surrender and annihilation by summoning a massive meteorite over Marineford. Steel Bone Kong surrendered to save his forces, and Hane effortlessly reduced the meteorite to dust.

• Mei Terumi dressed Hane in a cloak while Garp and Kong emerged from the ruins, shaken by their defeat.
• Hane demanded Steel Bone Kong's submission and offered to recognize the Marines' independence if they survived one final test.
• Hane summoned an enormous meteorite over Marineford, sending the Marines fleeing toward the sea.
• Steel Bone Kong knelt and announced that the Marines would submit to Hane to save his troops.
• Hane blew a black gale that turned the meteorite to dust, shocking Garp, Steel Bone Kong, and the others with the extent of his power.

Hane accepted Steel Bone Kong and the Marines’ surrender, then brought their leaders aboard an Imperial warship and introduced them to the Empire’s forces and technology. The Marine officers watched the Imperial Navy destroy a pirate ship with radar-guided artillery, realizing naval warfare had changed.

• Steel Bone Kong accepted defeat and asked Hane whether Sengoku and the other captured Marines were safe; Hane assured him the Empire treated prisoners fairly and ordered him to report to headquarters.
• Hane used the ocean to rescue the Marines struggling in the sea, stunning Steel Bone Kong, Garp, and the others with his power.
• Steel Bone Kong led Garp, Aokiji, Kizaru, and other Marine officers aboard the Imperial warship, where Hane assigned them to serve under Marshal Mei Terumi and told them to address him as Your Majesty.
• During the voyage, Imperial Navy officers showed the Marines the warship’s rapid-fire guns and radar, which could detect vessels within one hundred nautical miles.
• After radar detected nearby pirates, the Imperial Navy deployed drones to identify their ship and destroyed it with a cannon shot, leaving the Marine officers stunned by the new era of naval warfare.

The Navy joined the Empire, which expanded its territory, drove pirates from its waters, and divided the Grand Line. Sengoku grew to support the Empire, but he and Garp were ordered to investigate a Navy officer who had helped a slave ship slip through Imperial territory.

• Imperial warships destroyed pirate ships, and an Imperial Navy rear admiral persuaded a Marine Headquarters rear admiral that the Empire would eliminate piracy.
• At the beginning of the sixth year of the Great Pirate Era, the Navy pledged allegiance to the Empire, which annexed surrounding lands and issued a worldwide pirate prohibition order.
• Sengoku’s experience serving in the Imperial Navy changed his view of the Empire, and he resolved to build up its Navy.
• Garp told Sengoku that Chief Minister Hiashi had reprimanded the Navy after the Intelligence Department uncovered a Navy officer’s role in sending a slave ship toward the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Sengoku and Garp vowed to find the officer responsible after Rear Admiral Ao intercepted the ship and saved hundreds of slaves.

The Five Elders tried to persuade Doflamingo to return to the Celestial Dragons, but an Empire crackdown and an unexpected visitor interrupted their negotiations. The Five Elders abandoned Doflamingo and feared the Empire’s power and its possible discovery of the Celestial Dragons’ origins.

• The Five Elders sent Cipher Pol 0 to meet Doflamingo and urged him to reclaim his Celestial Dragon status, threatening that Rosinante could take his place.
• A Donquixote Family member reported that the Empire had seized their slave-hunting ship, arrested its crew, and dismantled their undercover network in the former navy.
• Doflamingo realized the Empire was moving against his family just as a cold voice sounded from the hall’s shadows and pale-blue spiral eyes appeared.
• The Five Elders ended their call and cursed Doflamingo for provoking the Empire, then agreed to abandon him and let Rosinante inherit the family branch.
• The Five Elders recalled Imu’s warning that beings from the stars possessed power greater than the Sky Dragons and feared the Empire would uncover their origins.

Nagato confronted Doflamingo over slave trafficking, but Doflamingo agreed to abandon his criminal businesses and bring the Donquixote Family into the Empire. Nagato accepted them as a subordinate unit of the Special Operations Office and took the group to explore the country and gather intelligence.

• Nagato confronted Doflamingo and Cipher Pol 0, demanding that Doflamingo come quietly to answer for slave trafficking.
• Doflamingo offered to bring the Donquixote Family into the Empire and give up drug trafficking and slave trading, and Nagato accepted the family into a subordinate department of the Special Operations Office.
• Nagato ordered Doflamingo to share what he knew about Underworld forces and show him around the kingdom, which the Empire planned to target next.
• Deidara questioned why Doflamingo was following Nagato, and Nagato announced that Doflamingo was a new member of Akatsuki.
• Kakuzu initially lamented losing Doflamingo's bounty, then warmly welcomed him after Nagato said the new member would increase future rewards.
• Nagato told Akatsuki to follow Doflamingo, learn about the country, and gather intelligence while taking a break from missions.

Nagato and the Akatsuki members visited an auction house in the Prodence Kingdom, where they killed the attendees and took a Devil Fruit. Doflamingo mistook the slaughter for evidence that the Empire allowed anything beyond its laws, and Nagato left without correcting him.

• Nagato condemned the Prodence Kingdom’s gladiatorial violence as Doflamingo explained how the Great Pirate Era had revived its arenas.
• Nagato and the Akatsuki members attended the island’s grand auction, where nobles bid fifty million Beli for a painting of a tortured slave from the Celestial Dragons’ collection.
• The auction’s finale was a yellow Devil Fruit, which Nagato and the others recognized as a source of abilities they regarded as Kekkei Genkai.
• Kisame filled the auction venue with fog, and the Akatsuki members killed the nobles and pirates before Nagato took the Devil Fruit.
• Doflamingo laughed at the attack and assumed the Empire permitted anything not forbidden by law, while Nagato told the group to leave without explaining his misunderstanding.

Six months earlier, Tsunade and Jiraiya led the Hancock sisters toward Amazon Lily as peace envoys, crossing the Calm Belt and learning about its dangers and customs. Tsunade reached the island’s vicinity with a new understanding of the Empire’s power and growing frustration that she could not awaken Conqueror’s Haki.

• Tsunade warned Jiraiya not to compromise the Empire’s reputation, while the Hancock sisters privately called him lecherous and greasy.
• The Imperial warship crossed the boundary into the Calm Belt, where the sudden shift from stormy skies to calm weather amazed the passengers.
• Hancock asked Tsunade to pose for a photograph with her and her sisters, while Tsunade shoved Jiraiya aside when he tried to join them.
• Sea Kings attacked the ship, but its cannons drove them away, and Tsunade captured several with her Monstrous Strength to feed the crew.
• Hancock explained Amazon Lily’s custom of women seeking men at sea and raising daughters on the island, while Tsunade questioned the children’s family lives.
• After discussing Haki, Tsunade learned that Conqueror’s Haki required the potential to become a king and angrily wondered why she could not awaken it.

The Kuja Pirates encountered an ironclad warship in the Calm Belt while still grieving the disappearance of Hancock and her sisters. When the Amazon Lily Empress recognized the ship’s golden flag, she realized it belonged to the Empire that had destroyed Mary Geoise.

• Tsunade learned that an approaching ship had been detected, and Hancock and her sisters hoped it came from Amazon Lily.
• The Kuja Pirates discussed their guilt over losing the Hancock sisters and then argued about finding men to father strong children.
• A lookout spotted a massive iron ship without sails or oars approaching through the Calm Belt, and the Kuja Pirates alerted their Empress.
• The Amazon Lily Empress watched the warship approach and recognized its flag as the symbol of the Empire that had destroyed Mary Geoise and slaughtered the Celestial Dragons.

Gloriosa reunited with Hancock and her sisters aboard the Imperial warship, then rejected Tsunade’s offer to establish diplomatic relations and incorporate Amazon Lily into the Empire. The sides parted peacefully but warily, with Tsunade warning that Amazon Lily might regret refusing.

• Gloriosa brought Amazon Lily’s ship alongside the Imperial warship and boarded it, where Hancock and her sisters rushed to greet her.
• Hancock explained that Nagato had rescued them, and Gloriosa thanked Tsunade and Jiraiya before learning the Empire wanted formal relations with Amazon Lily.
• Tsunade proposed peacefully incorporating Amazon Lily into the Empire, but Gloriosa refused and unleashed her Conqueror’s Haki, which the Imperial soldiers withstood.
• Hancock tried to ease the confrontation, but Gloriosa warned her against siding with the Empire or developing feelings for her male rescuer.
• Tsunade accepted Gloriosa’s refusal for the moment and warned that Amazon Lily might regret it; Gloriosa returned to her ship apprehensive about the Imperial battleship.

Hancock argued that Amazon Lily should ally with the Empire, but Empress Gloriosa dismissed her warnings about its strength. When a Super Giant Sea King attacked the Imperial warship, the Empire’s fleet, Tsunade, and Jiraiya killed it, leaving Gloriosa and the warriors stunned.

• Hancock urged Empress Gloriosa to establish diplomatic relations with the Empire, but Gloriosa refused and accused the Empire of endangering Hancock for its own purposes.
• Gloriosa and the female warriors insisted that men were untrustworthy and that the Calm Belt’s Super Giant Sea Kings made the Empire’s ships vulnerable.
• A Super Giant Sea King rose from the sea along the Imperial warship’s route, and Gloriosa pointed to it as proof of the Calm Belt’s danger.
• The Imperial warship fired more than a hundred armor-piercing shells at the Sea King, while Jiraiya and Tsunade attacked its eyes and severed its tentacles.
• The Imperial Fleet finished off the Sea King, and Gloriosa and the female warriors stared in disbelief at how quickly it had been defeated.

Hancock persuaded Empress Gloriosa that Amazon Lily should establish diplomatic relations with the Empire, arguing that its power made resistance futile and that Hane might solve the island’s reproduction problem. After Tsunade asked Hane about the claim, he confirmed he could create water that would eventually allow women to conceive.

• The Kuja Pirates watched the Imperial warships depart, and Hancock described the Empire’s strength and urged Gloriosa to accept that Amazon Lily could not evade its rule.
• Hancock reassured Gloriosa that the Empire would respect Amazon Lily’s customs, then proposed asking Hane to provide a way for the women to have children.
• Hancock recalled how Hane had used his Way of Creation to bring a flower spirit to life, convincing her that he could create a Mother-Child River.
• Gloriosa agreed to establish diplomatic relations on the condition that Hane solve Amazon Lily’s reproduction problem, so Hancock called Tsunade.
• Tsunade relayed Hancock’s request to Hane, who confirmed he could create water that women would need to drink for a year before they could conceive naturally.

Tsunade and Gloriosa established diplomatic relations between the Empire and Amazon Lily, then brought Imperial guests to the island despite its taboo against men. After Gloriosa explained the Empire’s promise to solve Amazon Lily’s reproductive crisis, Hane arrived and drew the islanders’ eager attention.

• Tsunade confirmed that Gloriosa had agreed to diplomatic relations, and the Imperial warships turned back to meet the Kuja Pirates.
• Gloriosa welcomed Tsunade aboard and, after learning more about the Empire’s power, asked when Hane could create a Mother-Child River for Amazon Lily.
• The ships reached Amazon Lily, where Granny Sha initially objected to men entering but accepted the Imperial guests after recognizing the Empire’s strength.
• Gloriosa told Granny Sha that Hane might solve Amazon Lily’s reproductive problem, and Granny Sha was shocked by the possibility.
• After the banquet, Tsunade called Hane, who used Spatial Great Shift to arrive on Amazon Lily and attract the women’s attention.

Hane created a River Spirit to gather life force for Amazon Lily’s women to conceive, then set his sights on the New World as the Empire’s next target. At Sabaody Archipelago, Silvers Rayleigh read news of the Empire’s latest conquest and worried that history was repeating itself.

• Hane asked Gloriosa to lead him to Amazon Lily’s river, then used his power to create a River Spirit that would signal when women could conceive.
• Hane explained that the River Spirit would sustain the river by gathering life force and warned the Empress and Granny Sha to protect it.
• Hane returned to the Empire, counted Amazon Lily’s alliance as a gain in Fortune, and prepared to focus the Empire’s conquests on the New World.
• At Sabaody Archipelago, Silvers Rayleigh read that the Empire had conquered the Prodence Kingdom and wondered whether it would create a unified kingdom like the one from eight hundred years earlier.

The Imperial Navy arrived at Sabaody Archipelago under Momousagi’s command, destroying pirate ships and launching a crackdown on crime. The Navy began restoring order as Rayleigh watched the island descend into chaos.

• Rayleigh watched pirates flee a tavern after hearing that the Imperial Navy was approaching.
• Momousagi ordered the fleet to destroy pirate ships along the coast, and the bombardment wiped them out.
• Momousagi ordered troops ashore to arrest people connected to slave trading, human auctions, gangs, and other crimes.
• Imperial Navy soldiers killed thugs robbing and attacking civilians, then escorted a frightened young mother home.