Chapter Summaries

Garp brought Dragon to join the Empire, and Sengoku agreed that Dragon should enter the Political Department to strengthen the Navy’s influence. Hane approved the move and told Dragon the Empire’s ambitions extended beyond unifying the seas, toward the stars.

• Garp explained to Sengoku that Dragon had opposed the World Government, not the Empire, and Sengoku agreed Dragon belonged in the Political Department.
• After the emergency meeting, Garp brought Dragon to meet Hane and described the power of the Imperial House’s guards.
• Hane approved Dragon’s entry into the Empire and agreed to speak with the Chief Minister about placing him in the Political Department.
• Dragon asked whether the Empire would change after unifying the seas, and Hane said its journey would continue across worlds and into the stars.

Nami stole treasure from a pirate ship to save her island from Arlong, while the Imperial Navy watched her and prepared to destroy the pirates. After the ship was blasted apart, Nami fled in her escape boat, terrified that the navy might threaten her home.

• Nami drugged the pirates, stole the captain's keys, and searched the ship's warehouse for treasure.
• Nami recalled her plan to collect one hundred million Beli from the Arlong Pirates to free her island's residents.
• Major General Tsuru identified Nami as a young girl aboard the pirate ship and ordered the navy to destroy the pirates after she escaped, then invite her aboard.
• Nami escaped with five million Beli in treasure, bringing her savings to nearly twenty million Beli.
• The Imperial Navy destroyed the pirate ship with a sudden attack, and Nami rowed away in fear of leading danger back to her home.

The Imperial Navy rescued Nami at sea and learned that Arlong's pirates had killed her mother and terrorized her hometown while the local navy did nothing. John and Rear Admiral Tsuru set out to investigate and eliminate the pirates, while Imperial Navy Headquarters approved a review of the East Blue naval branches.

• Imperial Navy sailors pulled Nami from her boat and returned her treasure, which she clung to after mistaking them for a threat to her savings.
• Nami accused the navy of ignoring Arlong's pirates, who had killed her mother and demanded money from everyone on her island.
• John promised to wipe out the pirates and bring Nami's hometown into Imperial territory, then reported her account to Rear Admiral Tsuru.
• Rear Admiral Tsuru ordered an investigation into possible collusion between the local navy and pirates and called for corrupt officers to be executed publicly.
• Imperial Navy Headquarters approved Tsuru's request to have the Intelligence Department review East Blue naval personnel before they could join the Empire.

Nami led Rear Admiral Tsuru and the Empire’s Fifth Fleet toward Cocoyasi Village to confront Arlong, while Tsuru reassured and taught her aboard the warship. Arlong learned that Nami had brought reinforcements and marched his Fish-Men to meet them, still convinced humans could not threaten him.

• John delivered Rear Admiral Tsuru’s order to change course, promised Nami the Empire would save her hometown, and brought her to the captain’s quarters.
• Rear Admiral Tsuru identified Cocoyasi Village on the sea chart and explained that Arlong and his crew were defeated remnants who posed no threat to the Empire.
• The Fifth Fleet sped toward the village, and Tsuru recognized Nami’s navigation talent and encouraged her to study for the Navy.
• Momoo roared near the approaching warship, but Tsuru shouted at it and sent it fleeing into the sea.
• Hachi warned Arlong that Momoo had encountered terrifying humans aboard a huge ship, but Arlong assumed Nami had found reinforcements and led the Fish-Men to the shore.

Arlong threatened Cocoyasi Village and headed to the beach to confront Nami, while Genzo, Nojiko, and the villagers resolved to save her. Nami arrived with Granny Tsuru and a fleet of battleships, whose opening cannon barrage devastated Arlong’s forces as the villagers reached the shore.

• Arlong mocked the frightened villagers and threatened them for supporting Nami.
• Nojiko tried to leave to protect Nami, but Genzo locked her inside and went to rescue Nami himself.
• Genzo found villagers gathering to fight Arlong, and Nojiko broke out of her house to join them.
• Arlong waited at the shoreline as Nami arrived aboard a battleship fleet led by Granny Tsuru.
• Granny Tsuru ordered the fleet to fire, and its cannon barrage blasted Arlong’s Fish-Men as the villagers watched in shock.

Tsuru and the Imperial Navy defeated Arlong and began torturing him for his crimes against Nami and the village. Nami avenged Bell-mère, then broke down in grief before Nojiko comforted her as their nightmare ended.

• Arlong recovered from the cannon blast and saw that most of his Fish-Man followers had been killed or badly wounded.
• Tsuru struck Arlong down, recognized him from the Sun Pirates, and crushed his arms and leg while demanding that he abandon his claims of Fish-Man nobility.
• A ship doctor revived Arlong and used a technique that doubled his pain and kept him conscious as Tsuru continued his punishment.
• Nami laughed at Arlong's suffering, then wept because Bell-mère could not return.
• Nojiko embraced Nami and assured her that she still had her sister and the villagers who cared for her.

Tsuru and the Imperial Navy punished Arlong and his crew while villagers took revenge for Cocoyasi Village, and she encouraged Nami and Nojiko to pursue justice. Meanwhile, Hina's forces arrested Colonel Nezumi and his men for investigation, leaving Nezumi to face a public military trial.

• Tsuru broke Arlong's limbs and teeth, then let the villagers take revenge on him while Imperial Navy soldiers covered Nami and Nojiko's eyes.
• Imperial Navy soldiers shot Hachi as he tried to flee into the sea and killed him despite his pleas for mercy.
• Tsuru urged Nami and Nojiko to let go of hatred and told them the Navy would welcome them if they wanted to serve justice.
• Tsuru asked about nearby Navy troops and learned that Battleship 045 had gone to investigate them.
• Colonel Nezumi ordered his men to surrender to the Imperial Navy rather than fight its ironclad warship.
• Hina ordered Nezumi and his soldiers arrested, and Nezumi learned he would face a public trial in the Imperial Military Court.

Goa Kingdom’s nobles planned to burn Trash Mountain and scapegoat its residents to evade punishment by the Empire. After Stelly told Sabo about the impending fire, Sabo fled to save Ace and Luffy and stop the kingdom’s plan.

• The king and Goa Kingdom’s nobles rejected surrender and agreed to implicate the people of Trash Mountain in an effort to win leniency from the Empire.
• Goa Kingdom announced a public vote to clear and burn Trash Mountain, and commoners approved the plan while disregarding its residents.
• The kingdom arranged for a nearby pirate crew to help carry out the plan, while Sabo’s father confined Sabo at home and forbade him from leaving.
• Stelly told Sabo that Trash Mountain would be burned the next day, and Sabo rushed out with a steel pipe to save Ace and Luffy and stop the fire.
• Stelly watched Sabo leave and said he would inherit everything his brother had.

Sabo desperately sought help for the people of Trash Mountain, but Goa Kingdom's nobles and citizens refused to intervene as pirates set the garbage heap ablaze. After a hurricane swept away the guards at the city gates, Sabo begged Dragon to save the people, and Dragon listened in silence.

• Sabo ran through the city asking for help, but an old man dismissed the people of Trash Mountain as useless trash, and nobody else agreed to help.
• Garp finished bringing the East Blue Naval Branch under the Empire's allegiance and ordered Aokiji to take the fleet to Goa Kingdom.
• Ace and Luffy overheard pirates planning to burn Trash Mountain; the pirates caught them, knocked Ace unconscious, and planned to make the boys haul gasoline.
• The pirates ignited Trash Mountain, and the guards shut the city gates against the fleeing refugees; Sabo rushed to the gates but was beaten down.
• A fierce hurricane struck the guards, and Sabo clung to Dragon and begged him to save the people of Trash Mountain.

Dragon broke the wall separating Goa Kingdom’s city from the Gray Terminal and promised Sabo that the Empire would bring the fire’s perpetrators to justice. As Imperial soldiers used the Rain Tiger at Will Technique to extinguish the flames, Sabo saw the Empire as the force that could bring his country freedom.

• Dragon smashed the wall of Goa Kingdom and used Conqueror’s Haki to stop the commoners fighting the refugees.
• Garp’s fleet arrived, and Garp ordered the marines to rescue the people trapped in the burning Gray Terminal.
• A former Imperial Navy major proposed using the Rain Tiger at Will Technique, and Garp ordered the soldiers to carry it out.
• Imperial soldiers combined their Chakra to summon torrential rain that extinguished the flames while the nobles watched in alarm.
• Dragon carried Sabo to see the soldiers creating the rain, and Sabo marveled at the Empire’s power.

Dragon and the Imperial forces entered the Goa Kingdom as Sabo reunited with Ace and Luffy, while the old duke spread rumors to turn the city against the Empire. The Navy’s arrests sparked a riot among the city’s commoners, and hostility toward Imperial rule erupted.

• Dragon reunited Sabo with Ace and Luffy, and Sabo told his brothers he was finally free.
• The king learned that rain had ruined his plans, Gray Terminal’s residents had entered the city, and the Imperial Navy was advancing.
• The old duke urged the nobles to spread false claims that the Empire planned to slaughter the city’s people and seize their property.
• Dragon ordered Kuma to arrest the royal family and nobles connected to the incident, while rumors spread through the city.
• When a Navy soldier kicked Slit away during an arrest, Slit accused the Empire of robbing the people, and the surrounding crowd began demanding that the Empire leave.

Dragon faced a civilian uprising in the Goa Kingdom after ordering the arrest of its nobles, while rumors turned people against the Empire’s refugee policies. He ordered troops to enter the city and enforce imperial law by force if the civilians refused to disperse, leaving the Navy in a tense standoff with the crowd.

• Riots spread across the Goa Kingdom, and civilians surrounded the marines arresting nobles after rumors claimed the Empire would purge them and give their property to refugees.
• Kuma told Dragon that civilians demanded the refugees be driven from Trash Mountain and the old noble system restored, while Dragon ordered the arrests to continue.
• Hiashi instructed Dragon to enforce imperial law by force, declaring that anyone obstructing law enforcement was an accomplice.
• Dragon ordered the Seventh and Eighth Fleets into the city to deter the civilians, with warning shots possible if they refused to retreat.
• Garp sent several thousand troops into the Goa Kingdom, but civilians stood their ground after receiving a half-hour warning to return home.

An Yi confronted Dragon over his hesitation to enforce the Empire’s decrees in Goa Kingdom, and Dragon ordered Garp to suppress the civilian riot. The navy opened fire on the crowd, leaving the kingdom’s civilians facing a bloody crackdown.

• Hane sent An Yi to Goa Kingdom to pressure Dragon into carrying out the Empire’s decrees.
• An Yi rejected Dragon’s request for more time and warned that the Empire would not yield to the civilians’ resistance.
• Dragon accepted responsibility for his hesitation and ordered the navy to suppress the riot without showing quarter.
• Garp questioned Dragon’s order, but then commanded Aokiji to carry it out.
• Imperial Navy soldiers opened fire on the civilians, killing those gathered around them and sending the crowd into panic.

After Goa commoners rioted against the Empire, imperial soldiers killed about fifty thousand people, and the survivors were ordered to rebuild Gray Terminal under forced labor. Meanwhile, Robin agreed to take Shirahoshi to the Imperial Amusement Park.

• Refugees from Gray Terminal followed imperial soldiers carrying the dead and learned that Goa commoners had been killed during the riot.
• Big Bear reported to Dragon that about fifty thousand Goa commoners had died, and Uchiha An Yi ordered the bodies burned with the nobles’ remains.
• An Yi announced that commoners who had signed the agreement to burn Gray Terminal would be forced to rebuild it, and Dragon told the Revolutionary Army cadres to carry out the order.
• Robin comforted Shirahoshi, who worried about her parents returning to Fish-Man Island, and assured her the Empire would protect them.
• Robin took Shirahoshi by the hand and promised to bring her to the Imperial Amusement Park.

Hane shrank Shirahoshi to human size so she could visit the amusement park with Robin and Izumi. Meanwhile, Imu activated Uranus, and the weapon approached the Empire’s central island as Shirahoshi sensed its arrival.

• An Yi reported to Hane, who told him to summon his elder brother and the others to address the world’s greatest problem.
• Robin asked Hane to let Shirahoshi visit the amusement park, and he transformed her into a nine-year-old girl with human legs.
• Robin and Shirahoshi went to the amusement park, where Izumi joined them.
• The Five Elders urged Imu to use Uranus against the Empire, and Imu agreed to activate it.
• Uranus moved out of orbit toward the Empire’s central island, and Shirahoshi sensed the danger while playing at the amusement park.
• The sky over the central island turned black as a terrifying pressure spread across it.

Hane and the Empire stopped Uranus's attack with the Nine-Dragon Canopy, then destroyed the weapon and killed Imu. The Five Elders were left facing Hane and his Uchiha companions as they arrived on a golden dragon.

• Mei Terumi stopped Sengoku from calling Hane to evacuate and insisted that the Emperor could withstand Uranus.
• Hane went outside with Uchiha Retsuyō and the others as Uranus fired beams at the central island.
• Nine golden Divine Dragons formed the Nine-Dragon Canopy and shielded the island from the attack.
• The Divine Dragons seized and destroyed Uranus in orbit, while Imu rapidly aged and disintegrated.
• A golden dragon carried Hane and his black-uniformed companions to the Five Elders, who stared at them in fear.

Hane arrived at the Five Elders’ hidden island to eliminate the World Government’s remaining forces and take Vegapunk, while Uchiha Retsuyō attacked the Elders. Retsuyō killed the sword-wielding Elder, and the Space-Space Fruit Elder began violently twisting apart as the others tried to escape.

• Hane mocked the Five Elders and told Uchiha Retsuyō to deal with them while he headed toward Vegapunk’s laboratory.
• The sword-wielding Elder attacked Hane, but Uchiha Retsuyō crushed the sword strike with one hand.
• Uchiha Retsuyō used his golden eyes and sword to stab and kill the sword-wielding Elder.
• The four surviving Elders scattered, and the Time-Time Fruit Elder ordered Peter, the Space-Space Fruit user, to transport them away.
• Peter pleaded for help as his body twisted violently, then tore off his own head in front of the Time-Time Fruit Elder.

Uchiha Wada defeated the remaining Five Elders, who were forced to kill themselves, while Hane recruited Vegapunk for the Empire. After arriving in the Imperial Capital, Vegapunk met Orochimaru at the Imperial Research Institute, where the two began sharing knowledge.

• Uchiha Wada took on the three remaining Five Elders while Uchiha Retsuyō and the others left to find Hane.
• The three Five Elders were compelled to pierce their own hearts and died cursing the Empire.
• Hane invited Vegapunk to join the Empire, then used Universe in the Sleeve to take Vegapunk and the island back with him.
• Hane brought Vegapunk through the God Tree to the Imperial Capital, where Vegapunk was excited by the city's technology and prospects for research.
• Orochimaru told Hane that the first-generation Saiyan Gene Serum was close to success but still needed observation.
• Hane appointed Vegapunk and Orochimaru to jointly manage the Imperial Research Institute, and they immediately began exchanging knowledge.

Hane sent Kaguya to Wano Country to support the Empire’s coming invasion, promising her the next God Tree Fruit if she helped the front lines. As Akainu prepared to attack Kaido, Kaguya arrived with Black Duke and demanded to meet the commander.

• Akainu patrolled Wano Country and urged Naval Command to authorize a full-scale attack on the Beast Pirates.
• Hane caught Kaguya coveting the God Tree Fruit and offered her the next one if she aided the Empire’s forces in Wano Country.
• Kaguya agreed to go to battle and was told to bring her youngest son.
• Sengoku ordered Akainu to prepare for the Empire’s full-scale invasion of the New World, and Akainu rallied his fleet to attack Kaido.
• Kaguya arrived through the military teleportation array, corrected soldiers who mistook her for a child, and ordered them to summon their commander.

Kaguya joined Akainu’s Navy campaign against the New World, and Akainu learned that she was the progenitor of the Ninja World. In Wano Country, Queen received word that the Navy had launched a massive assault on the New World.

• Akainu welcomed Kaguya and arranged for her to rest while the naval fleets assembled for their departure.
• Black Zetsu demanded red tea and Michelin cakes for Kaguya, and Akainu agreed to provide them.
• Akainu told his adjutant that Kaguya was the Emperor’s maid and the progenitor of the Ninja World, and he anticipated the Navy would crush the New World pirates.
• Kurozumi Orochi tried to placate Queen and win his support while Queen complained about the Navy.
• A Beast Pirate rushed in to report the Navy’s massive assault, and Queen hurried out with Orochi following.