Chapter Summaries

The Imperial Navy launched a coordinated assault on the Three Emperors’ territories, with Akainu’s fleet bombarding Wano Country and Kizaru preparing to attack the Big Mom Pirates. Kaido woke and answered the invasion with a fearsome display as the Imperial Navy and Beast Pirates charged toward battle.

• Hundreds of Imperial Navy battleships divided into three fleets and began clearing pirates from the waters around Wano Country.
• Chika Uchiha ordered Kizaru to destroy the Big Mom Pirates, and Kizaru vowed to fight with all his strength.
• Akainu’s fleet bombarded Wano Country’s harbor, inflicting heavy losses on the Beast Pirates while Fukurokuju and Queen waited for the navy to land.
• King woke Kaido, who roared in anger and summoned dark clouds and lightning over Wano Country.
• Akainu ordered his fleet to advance, and Imperial Navy soldiers ran across the sea toward Wano Country as Queen led the Beast Pirates to meet them.

The Imperial Navy attacked Wano Country’s forces, and Kaguya defeated Kaido after deflecting his attack and battering him out of the sky. The Beast Pirates and samurai surrendered as Akainu killed Queen, while Kaguya looked forward to returning to her master with news of her victory.

• The Imperial Navy’s rapid-fire guns massacred Wano Country’s samurai and pirates, while Akainu confronted Queen.
• Kaido arrived as a dragon and fired a powerful energy attack at the fleet, but Kaguya redirected it into the sea and calmed the resulting waves.
• Kaguya used Eighty Divine Void Strike to crush Kaido’s body, sending him into the sea, where he died.
• Queen and Akainu reacted to Kaido’s defeat, and the Beast Pirates and samurai threw down their weapons as the Navy cheered.
• Akainu pierced Queen’s chest with magma, while Kaguya planned to return to her master and seek a reward.

After learning that Kaido had been killed and the Empire was attacking Whole Cake Island, Charlotte Linlin rushed to confront the Imperial fleet. Armor-piercing shells wounded her and sent her into a rage as she prepared to attack the warships.

• Perospero learned from his Twenty-Ninth Brother that Kaido was dead and the Empire was wiping out pirates, but the call ended before his brother could escape.
• Perospero told Charlotte Linlin that Kaido had been killed by the Empire and that an Imperial fleet was approaching Whole Cake Island.
• Imperial artillery struck the harbor during Big Mom’s tea party, and Charlotte Linlin charged toward the bombardment with Napoleon.
• Kizaru ordered armor-piercing shells fired directly at Charlotte Linlin after ordinary shells failed to hurt her.
• Charlotte Linlin deflected some armor-piercing shells, but their fragments pierced her body and drew blood.
• Charlotte Linlin erupted in fury and attacked the distant Imperial warships, frightening her children as they worried she might turn on them.

Chika Uchiha intercepted Big Mom’s slash and used his Sharingan and scythe to kill Charlotte Linlin by sending her soul to Endless Hell. Her children realized she was dead when her Soul-Soul Fruit creations collapsed, and Peros recoiled in terror.

• Kizaru asked Chika Uchiha to protect the Marine fleet from Big Mom’s slash, and Chika shattered it with one swing of his scythe.
• Big Mom attacked Chika, who trapped her in an illusion of her childhood at the Sheep’s House and forced her to confront eating Carmel, her companions, and others.
• Chika judged that Big Mom had not repented and cut her soul with his scythe, leaving her body dead.
• Peros challenged Chika’s claim that his mother was dead, then saw her Soul-Soul Fruit creations collapse and became terrified.

Chika Uchiha left Whole Cake Island after ordering Kizaru to offer Charlotte Linlin’s family a fair trial if they surrendered. Uchiha Retsuyō confronted Shanks at sea and forced him to abandon piracy and register as an adventurer, bringing the pirate era closer to its end.

• Peros begged Chika Uchiha to spare his siblings, and Chika promised them a chance to reform if they obeyed the Empire’s arrangements.
• Chika Uchiha told Kizaru to spare the Charlotte family members who did not resist and give them fair trials.
• Shanks argued with Sengoku and Garp that the Empire’s unification could lead to another age of oppression.
• Uchiha Retsuyō arrived and demanded that Shanks either register as an adventurer or be arrested as a pirate.
• Shanks agreed to abandon his pirate identity, and Uchiha Retsuyō ordered Sengoku and Garp to take him to register.

Shanks arrived at the Adventurers' Guild after the Empire defeated the other Pirate Emperors, where Whitebeard and Rayleigh welcomed him into the new order. Convinced that the Empire could preserve freedom without piracy, Shanks signed the document ending his status as the last pirate, as the gathered reporters and officials celebrated the new era.

• Garp and Sengoku escorted Shanks to the Adventurers' Guild, where Whitebeard greeted him as the guild's president.
• Marco organized the reporters and invited Garp, Sengoku, and other high-ranking Navy officers into the hall.
• Shanks discovered Rayleigh was the guild's vice president, and Rayleigh explained why Roger had begun the Great Pirate Era and urged Shanks to embrace the new era.
• Rayleigh gave Shanks a document affirming the Adventurer's Oath, and Shanks signed it, becoming the last pirate to renounce piracy.
• The reporters and officials cheered for the Empire, freedom, and their Emperor as Shanks reflected on the seas belonging to everyone.

Hane fused the Pirate World with the Naruto World, gaining immense power as their rules combined and the new world changed. In the Netherworld, the Ten Yama Kings received a mysterious inheritance, and Madara tried to stop Hashirama from accepting it before learning Hashirama believed it was safe.

• Hane transformed into a giant Dharma Body and merged the Pirate World with the Naruto World.
• The worlds’ rules and life forces gathered around Hane, raising his cultivation from the Heavenly Immortal Realm to the True Immortal Realm and increasing his Rule Seeds to sixteen.
• The fused world resumed, and powerful people in both worlds sensed new power: Pirate World fighters gained Chakra, while Naruto World fighters experienced stronger Haki and physiques.
• The Netherworld expanded, and the Sage of Six Paths, Madara, Hashirama, Izuna, Tobirama, the Fourth Minato Namikaze, and Naruto received insight into reincarnation.
• Madara worried the sudden power might be a trap, found Hashirama meditating, and slapped him awake.
• Hashirama told Madara the power was the inheritance of the Hall of Yama and teased him for being worried.

The Sage of Six Paths explained that the Underworld had expanded because the Human Emperor merged the Ninja World with another world, while Madara and Hashirama displayed their new powers. As the Underworld prepared for souls from the Pirate World, monsters from Hueco Mundo invaded, and people in both worlds reacted with awe to the transformation.

• Hashirama showed Madara his Six Paths power and new Mokuton, then joined him at the Sage of Six Paths' summons.
• Senju Tobirama argued with Hashirama, Madara, and the Fourth Hokage over Madara before Naruto also urged him to set aside old grudges.
• The Sage of Six Paths told the Yama Kings that the Human Emperor had merged the Ninja World with a larger world, causing the Underworld's expansion and their new powers.
• More than a dozen Menos Adjuchas and several Menos Gillian crawled from the Underworld Rift and charged toward its center as the Bureaucracy remained unaware.
• The world fusion changed distances and erased the Red Line, replacing it with the Empire's prosperous continent, and people in both worlds revered the one in the Imperial Palace as a god.

Madara saved the Underworld Bureaucracy’s front line from a coordinated Cero attack by Menos and went to investigate the Underworld Rift. He confronted an Adjuchas to question it about the invasion.

• White Fang killed a Gillian that began charging a Cero, but hundreds of Menos then fired Ceros at the ghost officers.
• Madara used Super Shinra Tensei to bury the attacking Menos and protect the front line.
• White Fang told Madara that the monsters had emerged from the Underworld Rift, and Madara left to question them.
• Several Adjuchas hesitated over whether to keep invading, fearing Madara but craving the whole souls in the Underworld.
• Madara appeared before an Adjuchas and stared into its eyes as he prepared to question it.

Madara discovered that the Underworld had connected to Hueco Mundo and reported the new world to the Sage of Six Paths, who ordered defenses and brought the matter to Hane. Hane left his family’s marriage discussion to hear the report, and the Sage asked whether the Underworld should expand into Hueco Mundo, Soul Society, and the World of the Living.

• Madara learned from an Adjuchas that the Hollows came from Hueco Mundo, then erased the Hollows near the Great Rift with his Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Madara reported the connection to the Sage of Six Paths, who ordered Yamas to defend the Great Rift while they awaited the Human Emperor’s orders.
• Hane discussed his upcoming marriage to Izumi with Mikoto and Fugaku, then left after receiving an urgent message.
• The Sage of Six Paths told Hane that the Underworld had connected with Hueco Mundo and asked whether it should merge with Hueco Mundo, Soul Society, and the World of the Living.

Hane sent the Underworld to invade Hueco Mundo while he stayed out of the fight, and Madara led the invasion toward its forbidden center. The chapter ended when Ichigo Kurosaki clashed with Madara, who challenged him to fight.

• Hane ordered the Sage of Six Paths to let the Underworld handle the invasion, and the Sage summoned its forces to attack Hueco Mundo.
• Madara, Hashirama, Naruto, and the newly appointed Yama Gol D. Roger led the ghost envoys through the Netherworld Great Rift into Hueco Mundo.
• Madara overwhelmed a swarm of Menos and compelled an Adjuchas to guide the group toward Hueco Mundo's forbidden central zone.
• At an ash-white castle, Aizen greeted the Espada and calmly suggested they brew black tea despite the approaching enemy.
• Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, and Chad spotted Madara's group and approached to investigate.
• Madara detected the trio, caught Ichigo's Zanpakuto with his hands, and challenged him to fight.

Madara overwhelmed Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, and Chad, then Hashirama invited them to join the Underworld Bureaucracy’s march toward Las Noches. Ichigo and his friends learned that the group intended to invade Hueco Mundo, and Naruto began explaining how the Underworld Bureaucracy managed reincarnation.

• Madara suppressed Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, and Chad with Supreme King Haki and dispersed Ichigo’s Getsuga Tensho with a repulsive force.
• Uryu Ishida identified Madara’s group as ordinary humans, though he could not explain their powers or detect Reishi in them.
• Hashirama invited Ichigo and his friends to travel with the group and openly told them that it planned to invade Hueco Mundo.
• Hashirama led Ichigo, Uryu, and Chad into the Underworld Bureaucracy’s ranks, where Naruto greeted them.
• Naruto told Ichigo, Uryu, and Chad that he was a Yama and described how the Underworld Bureaucracy judged souls and assigned their next lives to one of the Six Paths.

Naruto explained the Underworld Bureaucracy’s reincarnation system and questioned Ichigo about Soul Society, while Madara declared their intention to replace an incomplete Netherworld. The group rescued Nelliel from three Menos, learned they had only been playing with her, and continued toward Las Noches after Minato promised to take her somewhere safe when the mission was over.

• Naruto told Ichigo, Uryu Ishida, and their companion that the Underworld Bureaucracy reincarnated souls and argued that Soul Society’s system left the dead vulnerable to becoming Hollows.
• Ichigo said his work as a Substitute Shinigami was to purify souls lingering in the World of the Living and send them to Soul Society, then grew wary when Naruto questioned whether they planned to invade it.
• Madara said the Underworld Bureaucracy would replace a Netherworld without a complete reincarnation cycle.
• Minato rescued Nelliel from three pursuing Menos, but Nelliel stopped the underworld envoys from attacking them and explained that they had been playing Infinite Chase.
• Nelliel and the three Menos apologized to Madara’s group, and Nelliel later followed Minato and asked him to play with her on the way to Las Noches.
• Minato told Nelliel to wait while the group completed its mission and promised to take her somewhere safe afterward.

Madara and his allies reached Las Noches, where Hashirama defeated its guardian and Madara confronted Aizen. Madara rescued Orihime and destroyed Las Noches with a repulsive force, leaving the Espada and others scattered around the crater.

• Madara ordered Hashirama to defeat Lunu Ganga, who fled from Hashirama’s Wood Human before Madara struck him down.
• Aizen and the Espada saw the invading force, and Aizen noticed Madara watching Las Noches.
• Madara sensed Orihime Inoue inside a secret chamber and went there to take her with him.
• Aizen activated Kyoka Suigetsu against Madara, but Madara resisted the illusion and unleashed a repulsive force that demolished Las Noches.
• Ichigo Kurosaki and the others found Madara standing in the crater beside the collapsed Orihime.

Ichigo reunited with Orihime after Madara saved her, but Aizen’s return forced Madara to face him in Hueco Mundo. Madara’s immense power and attacks pushed Aizen to abandon his composure and use his full strength.

• Ichigo found Orihime and embraced her, while Madara told them to leave so he could continue fighting Aizen.
• Aizen emerged from the ruins and knocked Ichigo into them when Ichigo attacked; Orihime healed Ichigo, and Hashirama stopped him from joining the battle.
• Madara released his Conqueror’s Haki, overwhelming the nearby fighters and causing Orihime to faint before Hashirama shielded her and Ichigo.
• Aizen countered Madara’s Great Fireball Technique with Danku and tried to seal him with Black Coffin.
• Madara shattered Black Coffin with Complete Susanoo and sent a slash that split a distant mountain, prompting Aizen to prepare to fight with all his strength.

Madara trapped Aizen and the Espada in Infinite Tsukuyomi, but the Hōgyoku freed Aizen and enabled him to transform and strike Madara. Madara rose in his Six Paths form, ready to continue the battle.

• Madara used Infinite Tsukuyomi on Aizen and the Espada while Hashirama and the others kept Ichigo and their companions from looking at the moon.
• Aizen and the Espada fell into the illusion, but the Hōgyoku awakened Aizen and freed him from its effects.
• Aizen transformed with the Hōgyoku and attacked Madara, sending him crashing across the ground.
• Madara stood up and answered Aizen by taking on a Six Paths form, with white Hagoromo, a Rinnegan, and six Truth-Seeking Orbs.

Uchiha Madara defeated Aizen and offered him a chance to witness a broader world of power, which Aizen accepted. Madara then erased the Espada and prepared to return with the Underworld Bureaucracy to begin its work in Hueco Mundo.

• Uchiha Madara used his black defense and Observation Haki to counter Aizen’s attacks and repeatedly wound him.
• Aizen’s injuries healed, but Madara kept striking him until Aizen’s anger and confidence crumbled.
• Uchiha Madara offered Aizen a chance to see a broader sky, and Aizen accepted after asking why Madara was so strong.
• Ichigo Kurosaki confronted Madara for sparing Aizen, but Madara challenged Ichigo to defeat Aizen himself.
• Uchiha Madara erased the Espada with his Truth-Seeking Orbs, then told Hashirama that the Underworld Bureaucracy would return to begin cleansing Hueco Mundo’s souls.

After subduing Aizen, the Underworld Bureaucracy group invited Ichigo and his companions to visit and join as Netherworld Envoys. The group reached the Underworld, where its power transformed Nelliel, and Madara led them to meet the Sage of Six Paths, leaving Aizen eager and uneasy about the forces governing this realm.

• Hashirama invited Ichigo and his companions to visit the Underworld Bureaucracy, and Naruto explained how mortal Netherworld Envoys could receive aid through Divine Descent.
• Ichigo and the others agreed to travel to the Underworld Bureaucracy, while Aizen wondered what the Human Emperor's role was in its rules.
• Hashirama used Mokuton: Super Deep Forest Emergence to raise the group up the mountain beneath the Underworld Rift and into the Underworld.
• The Underworld's soul-nourishing power caused Nelliel to grow into a young girl, surprising Minato and Aizen.
• White Fang greeted Madara, who ordered a troop handover and led Ichigo, Aizen, and the others to meet the Sage of Six Paths.

Madara explained the Underworld Bureaucracy’s afterlife process and its merit-based system of justice to Ichigo and the others as they toured the Netherworld. After seeing its judges and the Eighteen Levels of Hell, the group arrived at the Sage of Six Paths’s residence.

• Madara introduced the Gates of Hell, Yellow Springs Road, River of Forgetfulness, Bridge of No Return, Soul-Washing Soup, and Three Lives Stone to Ichigo and the others.
• Uryu Ishida asked how the Underworld Bureaucracy prevented judges from abusing their authority, and Madara explained that fair judgments earned Merit while injustice brought Karmic Force and punishment in the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Madara told the group that Merit could raise a ghost official’s rank and strength, prompting Aizen to privately decide he could become a good person to gain power.
• The group continued to the Sage of Six Paths’s residence, observing judges try criminals and learning that judgments were based on actions in life rather than purity of heart.
• Ichigo and the others saw the torment of the Eighteen Levels of Hell and arrived at the Sage of Six Paths’s residence.

The Sage of Six Paths learned that Hueco Mundo’s souls needed the Underworld Bureaucracy’s help and warned Aizen that the Hōgyoku was consuming his future. Meanwhile, Hane tried to teach Small World caution around Sea Kings during a family voyage, then vanished after sensing a familiar aura.

• Madara brought Ichigo, Aizen, and the other original souls of Hueco Mundo to the Sage of Six Paths and asked him to handle its twisted souls.
• The Sage of Six Paths told Madara he could not restore missing soul fragments alone and would report the problem to the Human Emperor.
• The Sage of Six Paths revealed that the Hōgyoku consumed Aizen’s future, then advised him to cultivate Haki if he wanted to remove it.
• Hane’s family traveled underwater as Small World admired a Sea King and Sasuke indulged her.
• Hane warned Small World that Sea Kings could eat her, making her cry before she stopped when he threatened to bring her closer to one.
• Hane sensed a familiar aura and vanished from the ship.