Chapter Summaries

Imu stopped the black light after Blackbeard’s darkness absorbed it, then ordered the demonized fighters to attack everyone who had not been bound by the contract. As Rock Island descended into chaos, Jack asked Kaido whether the transformed subordinates would still get their year-end bonuses, and Kaido answered with a furious Thunder Bagua.

• Kizaru, Ryokugyu, Fujitora, Sengoku, Garp, Kaido, Jack, and Blackbeard resisted Imu’s black light with their abilities and Haki.
• Blackbeard used his Modified Black Hole-Darkness Devouring Sky Curtain to absorb the black light and shelter his officers.
• Imu dismissed the magic circle, ended the black light, and ordered the demonized creatures to attack.
• Demonized fighters and Zoan officers charged the unbound survivors, plunging Rock Island into a chaotic battle.
• Jack fought former underlings and asked Kaido whether they would still receive year-end bonuses.
• Kaido shouted that they would not and unleashed Thunder Bagua: Clear the Field.

Allen tried to rescue the demonic Rayleigh, but Imu had used the Five Elders’ release of the sealing array to lure him into a trap. Imu froze Allen in space, revealed a Demon Sword, and thrust at him.

• Allen fought off demonized marines while planning to knock out Rayleigh and take him away.
• Pits Saint, Nasjuro, and Saint Mars dismissed the sealing array, freeing Rayleigh and letting his demonic power surge.
• Despite suspecting a trap, Allen teleported behind Rayleigh and prepared to knock him unconscious and use Kamui.
• Imu froze Allen and revealed that Rayleigh had been possessed, then summoned a Demon Sword from a spellbook.
• Imu declared that Allen’s journey would end and thrust the Demon Sword at him.

Imu used Rayleigh to stab Allen to death, then withdrew from Gunko and ended the demonization across the battlefield. As the survivors recovered and Rayleigh broke down over killing his nephew, Sengoku ordered the Marines to attack the Blackbeard Pirates.

• Imu repeatedly stabbed Allen with the Demon Sword until his life signs and space-time presence vanished.
• Imu withdrew from Gunko, ending the contracts and demonization that had controlled the battlefield.
• Rayleigh recognized Allen's mutilated body and realized that Imu had forced him to kill his nephew.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to treat the wounded and attack the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Akainu launched a Great Eruption at the Blackbeard Pirates.

Allen revealed that he had survived his apparent death and escaped with Rayleigh, then Kaido fled with Jack while the Navy was left amid the wreckage. Blackbeard lost consciousness after Allen vanished, leaving the battered battlefield behind.

• Garp struck Blackbeard and broke his arms while Rayleigh attacked Akainu and Kizaru in grief and fury.
• Allen suddenly stood up unharmed, shocking everyone who had believed him dead.
• Allen used Kamui-suction to pull Rayleigh away, then vanished from the battlefield.
• Kaido scooped up Jack and flew away, taunting Sengoku that he would pay for the damage.
• Blackbeard lost consciousness as the Navy surveyed the wreckage and the Blackbeard Pirates reeled from their losses.

Imu learned that Allen had revived after being stabbed seventeen times and ordered Teach imprisoned in Infinite Hell for his Dark-Dark Fruit. Meanwhile, Hachinosu Island remained engulfed in battle, with Bullet fighting Warcury and Big Mom battling five Human Weapons.

• Imu examined Allen’s bounty poster and reflected on Allen refusing his invitation to become a god.
• Nusjuro reported that Allen had revived on Rock Island and taken Silvers Rayleigh with him.
• Nusjuro told Imu that the captured Marshall D. Teach possessed the Dark-Dark Fruit, which could suppress and possibly steal other Devil Fruit abilities.
• Imu ordered Teach taken to Infinite Hell and kept alive under tight guard.
• On Hachinosu Island, Douglas Bullet traded powerful blows with Saint Warcury.
• Near the harbor, Big Mom fought five coordinated Human Weapons with Zeus, Napoleon, and Prometheus.

The Red Hair Pirates, Fisher Tiger, Jinbe, and their allies fought the World Government’s forces and Big Mom’s crew across the battlefield while the fully demonized Shanks remained a source of worry. The clashes stayed deadlocked, with no decisive outcome shown.

• Big Mom unleashed her Homies’ attacks on the Human Weapons, destroying two before the remaining three recovered and charged again.
• Ben Beckman exchanged calculated gunfire and sword strikes with Garling atop a ruined tower.
• Yasopp and Lucky Roo fought to protect their crew as Fisher Tiger and Jinbe battled Shamrock and the New God Knights.
• Tesoro attacked Katakuri with goldenized terrain and blazing fists, while Katakuri evaded and countered with awakened mochi.
• Crocodile, Moria, Nana, Perona, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and the Imperial Guards fought Big Mom’s officers, Homies, and other enemies amid the chaotic battle.

Allen appeared through a space-time portal just in time to kick the corrupted Shanks away from Robin, then arrived with Yamato, Pluto Rayleigh, Ace, and Sabo as reinforcements. The allies prepared to face the enemies across the devastated Hachinosu Island.

• Demonic Shanks destroyed the five Human Weapon Mark I units and charged toward Robin on the Command Platform.
• Robin formed a Thousand-Hand Shield, but Shanks’s sword broke through it and threatened to kill her.
• Allen opened a space-time vortex and kicked Shanks through several buildings into a rock wall.
• Allen stepped out of the portal and stood between Robin and the dust and shock waves.
• Yamato, Pluto Rayleigh, Ace, and Sabo emerged from the expanding portal and joined the battlefield.

Allen returned to Hachinosu with Marco, the Whitebeard Pirates, and elite Imperial Guards, reviving the allied forces’ morale. He unleashed overwhelming Conqueror’s Haki to expel the World Government’s immortal fighters to Mary Geoise and purify Shanks, while Saint Warcury and Garling remained in his sights.

• Marco, Jozu, Vista, Izo, and elite Imperial Guards arrived behind Allen and Robin, and the allied forces rallied.
• Allen identified Shanks, Saint Warcury, Garling, Shamrock, Big Mom, and the New God Knights as key threats and declared that the fight would end.
• Allen’s Conqueror’s Haki darkened the sky over Hachinosu, incapacitated weaker fighters, and formed six lightning dragons that targeted his enemies.
• The dragons sent the two New God Knights back to Mary Geoise and shattered Shamrock’s sword before expelling him there as well.
• Allen’s lightning stripped the abyssal corruption from Shanks and knocked him unconscious.
• Saint Warcury and Garling felt Allen’s Haki bearing down on them and reacted with fear.

Allen forced the Five Elders and God's Knights to retreat with his newly strengthened Conqueror's Haki, then attacked Big Mom and demanded her submission and Totto Land's loyalty. After she refused and struck back, he pierced her heart with a space-time sword and pulled the Soul-Soul Fruit's power from her body.

• Garling and Saint Warcury ordered a retreat, and Allen sent the World Government forces away with his Conqueror's Haki.
• Allen joked about growing stronger by dying, and Rayleigh scolded him for risking his life.
• Big Mom froze in shock as Allen confronted her and demanded her loyalty and control of Totto Land.
• Big Mom refused to submit and attacked Allen with Elbaf Spear, but he dodged her strike.
• Allen pierced Big Mom's heart with a space-time energy sword and forcibly extracted the Soul-Soul Fruit's power.

Allen killed Big Mom, took her Soul Orb, and forced the Charlotte Family to submit, changing control of Totto Land. As Hachinosu Island began rebuilding, Shanks woke and started remembering his rampage.

• Allen took Big Mom's Devil Fruit ability with the Soul Orb and killed her, then offered Katakuri the choice to submit or die.
• Katakuri knelt and surrendered the Charlotte Family and Whole Cake Island to Allen, asking to take Big Mom's remains home for burial.
• Allen allowed the family to leave with Big Mom's body but ordered them to clean up the battlefield before sailing away.
• Hachinosu Island's forces began clearing rubble and treating the wounded while Allen heard reports from the leaders of the allied forces.
• Shanks regained consciousness with his hair standing in a smoking afro, and Allen teased him about his appearance.
• Shanks began recalling that he had gone berserk, caused destruction, and attacked Robin, then blushed with shame.

Shanks revealed that Imu had hidden an Abyss Mark in his left arm, which could make him transform and threaten his allies. Allen extracted the mark with the Heavenly Demise Sword, leaving Shanks free of its influence and grateful, though Allen kept him at arm’s length.

• Shanks explained that Imu had secretly concealed the Abyss Mark in his left arm after pretending to remove it.
• Robin warned that Imu could activate the mark again, and Yamato proposed cutting off Shanks’s arm.
• Shanks panicked as Yamato chased him with her Glazed Sword, while the others reacted to the chaos.
• Allen stopped them and used the Heavenly Demise Sword to draw the purple-black mark out of Shanks and absorb it.
• Shanks felt the mark’s influence disappear, thanked Allen, and tried to hug him, but Allen held him back.

After Allen removed Shanks's Abyss Mark, he demanded payment for the five Human Weapons Shanks had destroyed. Imu welcomed the defeated World Government forces back, set his sights on Allen, and planned to turn Teach into a vessel for the Primal Shadow, while news of Big Mom's death spread and Sakazuki became Fleet Admiral.

• Allen called the removal of Shanks's Abyss Mark free after-sales service but demanded compensation for the five destroyed Human Weapons.
• Nasjuro, Warcury, Garling, Shamrock, and two New God Knights returned to Imu's hall battered and defeated.
• Imu praised Allen as a greater variable than Joy Boy and planned to fuse Teach with the Primal Shadow.
• Newspapers announced Big Mom's death and Allen's victory, prompting reactions from Dragon, Kaido, pirates, and Allen's cheering subordinates.
• After the battle on Rock Island, Sengoku resigned as Fleet Admiral, and the Five Elders appointed Sakazuki as his successor.

Akainu erupted in fury after receiving a report that Gion, known as Momousagi, was involved with Gol D. Allen, and Sengoku learned from Tsuru that Allen said Kuzan was safe and would return after the cleanup of the World Government. The story then shifted to Allen’s hidden villa in Kamui Space, overlooking Hachinosu’s reconstruction.

• An intelligence officer gave Akainu a report alleging that Gion had an intimate relationship with Gol D. Allen, and Akainu burned the document and damaged his office in rage.
• Sengoku adjourned the emergency meeting as the officers fled Akainu’s burning office.
• Sengoku asked Tsuru whether she had known about Gion’s relationship, and Tsuru relayed Allen’s message that Kuzan was alive and would return after the World Government cleanup.
• Sengoku absorbed the news about Kuzan and worried over Allen’s ambitions and knowledge of Marine affairs.
• Hachinosu’s reconstruction continued outside Allen’s hidden Kamui Space villa, which served as his home base and refuge.

Allen escaped the chaos of his companions and, haunted by Imu’s attack, decided to seek revenge. He contacted Dragon, interrupting a mysterious conversation amid the sound of heavy machinery.

• Nana, Hancock, and Yamato crowded Allen while Robin teased Gion about an embarrassing past incident, and Hiyori tried to calm everyone down.
• Allen used his Space Ability to escape to the ruins, where memories of Imu stabbing him reignited his anger.
• Allen took out an encrypted Den Den Mushi disguised as a dancing banana and called Dragon.
• Dragon answered Allen as noisy voices and the rhythmic clanking of machinery continued in the background.

Allen recruited the Revolutionary Army, Kaido, and Shanks for a coordinated assault on Holy Land Marijoa one month later, then went to seek Whitebeard’s support. Whitebeard welcomed him aboard the Moby Dick, leaving Allen’s proposal to the Whitebeard Pirates still to come.

• Allen and Dragon agreed that the Revolutionary Army would join Allen’s plan to attack Holy Land Marijoa in one month and outlined their respective roles.
• Allen went to Onigashima, where Kaido agreed to fight the World Government and ordered King and Queen to prepare for war.
• Allen visited Shanks aboard the Red Force, and Shanks accepted the plan while Beckman put the crew on combat readiness.
• Allen approached the Moby Dick and requested permission to board, and Whitebeard laughed and told Marco to let him aboard.
• The Whitebeard Pirates stopped to watch Allen arrive as Whitebeard looked toward the sky and recalled the past.

Allen returned to the Moby Dick and used three Life Springs to restore Whitebeard’s health and strength. With Whitebeard recovered, Allen proposed an assault on the Holy Land Marijoa to overthrow Imu and the Celestial Dragons.

• Whitebeard remembered Allen as the mischievous child who once stole his wine and welcomed him onto the Moby Dick.
• Allen offered to help Whitebeard by removing the IV lines and showed Marco three Life Springs.
• Whitebeard swallowed the Life Springs, rapidly regained his vitality, and ripped out his IV lines.
• Whitebeard tested his restored strength with a punch that sent a powerful air cannon across the sea, and his crew celebrated his recovery.
• Allen invited Whitebeard to join an operation against Imu and the Celestial Dragons at the Holy Land Marijoa in one month.

Allen secured Whitebeard’s support for an assault on Mary Geoise and rallied the scattered Roger Pirates to join him. He then invited Zephyr to take part, but Zephyr rejected Allen’s proposed alliance and condemned his reliance on pirates and former Marines.

• Whitebeard agreed to commit the Whitebeard Pirates to Allen’s plan to attack Mary Geoise and overthrow Imu and the Celestial Dragons.
• Allen visited Rayleigh at Shakky’s bar and invited him to join the assault; Rayleigh welcomed the plan and said Gaban and other Roger Pirates would rally to it.
• Encrypted messages reached Roger’s scattered former crew, and Gaban, Crocus, and other Roger Pirates agreed to join Allen.
• Allen appeared at Zephyr’s NEO Marines base and urged him to join the attack and help establish a just new order.
• Zephyr rejected Allen’s invitation, denounced his alliance with pirates and Momousagi Gion, and insisted that the NEO Marines’ mission was to eliminate every pirate.

Allen defeated Zephyr with his control over space and time, persuading the NEO Marines to join the coming war. He then proposed using Time Law to rejuvenate the gathered legends, and they entered his alternate space for a twenty-day trial.

• Allen trapped Zephyr in an alternate space and easily overcame him by manipulating space and time.
• Zephyr accepted Allen’s offer for the NEO Marines to join the war, while demanding that Allen establish a fair and just order afterward.
• Allen welcomed Zephyr into the Table Flip Alliance and considered restoring the gathered veterans to their condition from twenty years earlier.
• Allen opened a special alternate space and invited the legends to spend twenty days inside while he attempted to reverse their bodies’ aging.
• Whitebeard, Rayleigh, Shakky, Gaban, Crocus, the former Roger crew members, and a reluctant Zephyr entered the alternate space.

Allen used his time and space powers to rejuvenate the old-era legends for the coming battle, while the Marines and World Government prepared for war. The legends stabilized at the peak of their physical strength, ready for the decisive conflict.

• Allen used Time Law to reverse the legends’ aging, urging them to endure so they could fight Imu.
• Whitebeard, Rayleigh, Shakky, Zephyr, Gaban, and the others grew younger, and Roger’s crewmates began sparring noisily.
• Akainu ordered Marine Headquarters into full combat readiness, while Dragon’s Revolutionary Army gathered its forces for the final war.
• Imu ordered the activation of some of the National Treasure’s permissions and the awakening of more reserves as Marijoa strengthened its defenses.
• The time reversal ended with most legends stabilized in their forties or fifties, their restored strength and Haki ready for battle.

Allen restored the old veterans to their prime and gathered life force for the coming assault, with only five days left until Table Flip Day. Meanwhile, Garp, Sengoku, Tsuru, and Fujitora spotted the long-vanished Oro Jackson, leaving them to wonder whether it was real or an illusion.

• Allen finished restoring Whitebeard, Zephyr, Rayleigh, Shakky, Gaban, and the Roger Crew to their youth and announced that five days remained until the all-out assault.
• Allen used the Heavenly Demise Sword to drain a Sea King and channel its life force into the Life Spring, despite the strain on his body and mind.
• Garp complained about Sakazuki and enjoyed the Marine patrol while Sengoku reviewed paperwork, Tsuru relaxed, and Fujitora sensed the sea.
• A lookout reported that the Oro Jackson had appeared ahead, and Garp rushed to inspect it while Sengoku, Tsuru, and Fujitora considered whether it was a replica or an illusion.