Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• On Oatfee Island, Adrian meets Nan Riri, a Razor Gang member selling handmade toilet paper. Nan reveals a strange Paramecia ability that lets him slice open his abdomen and pull out rolls of paper without bleeding.
• Nan recognizes Adrian’s connection to Razor Gang boss Tommy Shelby. Adrian then appears unexpectedly in Tommy’s office. Tommy demonstrates his Bomb-Bomb Fruit vigilance, but greets Adrian respectfully.
• Adrian asks Tommy to assemble the gang’s “Undying Drifters”—the players affiliated with the Razor Gang. A high-ranking quest appears on their panels, drawing hundreds to the gang’s headquarters.
• Adrian reveals the purpose behind the recruitment: the players must eventually survive the World Government’s coming Buster Call on Ohara, where they are assigned to take the place of the island’s original inhabitants.
• The quest’s final reward is the coveted Life Return skill for survivors; players who fail receive Eagle Finger as consolation. Adrian quickly advances the crowd through the first quest stage, then tells them to lie down for the second.
• He uses his Dream Ghost ability to put the players to sleep, and Lumi transports their unconscious bodies into Adrian’s pocket castle. Adrian tells Tommy he will borrow the players for a few days, then flies back to Ohara, arriving at the Tree of Knowledge Islet near noon.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian remains pragmatic and mischievous, turning a lethal historical disaster into a game quest to recruit players for his plan. He also reflects on their eccentric reactions to the Life Return reward.
• Nan Riri is revealed to possess an unusual, apparently low-combat-power Devil Fruit ability. His manic sales performance contrasts with his indignation when Adrian fails to appreciate it.
• Tommy Shelby is now a capable gang leader and Bomb-Bomb Fruit user. His loyalty to Adrian remains strong, and his instinctive offer to kill the supposedly immortal players highlights his readiness to act ruthlessly.
• The players eagerly pursue the quest’s experience rewards, joking about its instructions and reacting with excitement to the promised skills.

Significant themes

• Game mechanics and real danger: Players treat the coming Buster Call as a quest, while Adrian understands its real, catastrophic stakes.
• Power used for recruitment and control: Adrian exploits quests, rewards, and his abilities to gather and move a large group.
• Dark comedy: Toilet-paper powers, suggestive player jokes, and Tommy’s sincere willingness to kill the unconscious players offset the impending destruction of Ohara.

Plot points and events

• Before Ohara’s destruction, Adrian and Mrs. Penelope use Dr. Clover’s standing in the community to move many islanders into Lumi’s castle for safety. The Tree of Knowledge’s archaeologists refuse to hide there, determined to witness whether the World Government will attack.
• The chapter celebrates Robin’s perfect score on her doctoral examination. Dr. Clover officially welcomes her as an archaeologist and gives her a historian’s badge; Adrian also brings her a gift of rubbing sheets.
• Robin reveals she has discovered references to the Void Century and knows the scholars secretly study the Poneglyphs. Dr. Clover is alarmed, but Adrian argues the secret can no longer be kept—and that an important visitor is approaching.
• Adrian senses Jaguar D. Saul, a giant Marine vice admiral who has defected, washing ashore. The scholars go to the beach, where they find Saul unconscious and badly injured. After he awakens, they lead him to fresh water.
• Saul thanks them, then says he intends to leave once his foot heals, explaining that he knows giants bring trouble to ordinary people. Adrian meets him at eye level in his enlarged ghost form and responds that Saul’s presence is more a source of misfortune than luck for Ohara.

Character developments

• Robin receives rare public affection and recognition. Becoming an archaeologist gives her a stronger sense of belonging, while her interest in the Void Century shows her growing intellectual independence and courage.
• Dr. Clover acts as Robin’s mentor and protector, celebrating her achievement while remaining cautious about the danger surrounding the scholars’ research.
• Adrian takes an increasingly active role in protecting Ohara and guiding events. He shields Robin from dust, reassures the scholars about Saul, and shows his unusual power by matching the giant’s size.
• Saul is introduced as vulnerable despite his immense strength. His decision to defect and his concern about endangering ordinary people suggest a compassionate, independent sense of justice.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and its cost: The scholars treat history as humanity’s shared treasure, but investigating the Void Century places them in mortal danger.
• Belonging and recognition: Robin’s celebration contrasts with the suspicion and isolation she usually faces.
• Protection and sacrifice: Adrian and Mrs. Penelope shelter the islanders, while the scholars choose to stay and face the threat rather than abandon their work.
• Justice beyond authority: Saul’s defection and Adrian’s description of him frame justice as a personal conviction, not simply obedience to the Marines.

Character interactions

• The scholars warmly celebrate Robin, with Dr. Clover formally welcoming her into their community and Adrian offering a personal gift.
• Robin challenges the adults’ secrecy by revealing what she has learned; Adrian then openly acknowledges the risks they face.
• Adrian introduces the scholars to Saul and reassures them that he is not an enemy of Ohara.
• Saul thanks his rescuers but assumes his presence will endanger them; Adrian responds directly, establishing a connection between the two.

Key plot points and events

• Saul, an injured giant and former Marine Vice Admiral, mistakes Adrian for a threat. Adrian reveals his White Ghost identity and uses a Negative Hollow to temporarily knock Saul down.
• After learning he has washed up on Ohara, Saul warns the scholars that a World Government and Marine Buster Call is on its way to destroy the island.
• Dr. Clover confirms the threat is real. Adrian explains that Ohara’s vulnerability comes from pursuing forbidden history without the strength or protection to withstand the Government’s retaliation. Though he disapproves of their recklessness, he has chosen to help them resist.
• The scholars refuse to abandon Ohara. Dr. Clover offers Saul aid but tells him he must leave when he can.
• The next morning, a Marine ship arrives, as Adrian predicted. The historians gather at the Tree of Knowledge Library.
• Nico Olvia returns to Ohara. Robin recognizes her mother and begs her to acknowledge her. Olvia initially denies knowing Robin, fearing that revealing their relationship would endanger her daughter, but breaks down and embraces the truth emotionally.
• Adrian watches their reunion from the shadows. The chapter ends as a red gleam flashes in his eyes and he issues a warning.

Character developments and interactions

• Saul is shown to remain protective and dutiful despite his injuries: he offers to defend the scholars and urges them to flee. Once he understands where he is, his concern shifts to the imminent destruction of Ohara.
• Adrian treats Saul with controlled force and reassures Robin warmly, but speaks bluntly about Ohara’s choices and vulnerability. His decision to stand with the scholars contrasts with his harsh judgment of their risk-taking.
• Dr. Clover calmly accepts the danger and supports the scholars’ decision to stay, while withholding Adrian’s arrangements for protecting ordinary residents from Saul.
• Robin and Olvia share the chapter’s emotional center. Robin’s longing and tears overcome Olvia’s attempt to distance herself, exposing her love and guilt.
• Robin is also comforted by Adrian, who praises her smile and discourages her from copying Saul’s laugh.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and danger: Pursuing forbidden truths can bring devastating consequences when those seeking them lack the means to defend themselves.
• Courage and stubbornness: The scholars choose to remain with their work and home despite the approaching Buster Call; Saul recognizes their resolve as akin to that of Giants.
• Protection and sacrifice: Saul tries to shield the scholars, Adrian commits to helping Ohara, and Olvia’s initial rejection of Robin is motivated by a desire to protect her.
• Family and emotional honesty: Robin’s reunion with Olvia shows how grief, longing, and love can break through even a determined façade.

Plot points and events

• CP9 chief Spandine arrives at Ohara with government agents. He admits the World Government is using a tenuous suspicion of Poneglyph research as a pretext to destroy the island and intimidate scholars elsewhere.
• Agents raid the Tree of Knowledge Library, arrest the scholars, and announce an evacuation for ordinary residents. The disguised players receive their fourth-stage mission: escape as far as possible from danger without exposing their identities.
• Spandine orders the Tree of Knowledge blown up. A call from agents in an underground chamber then confirms they have found a Poneglyph-like stone and research materials, giving the government a pretext for a death sentence.
• Dr. Clover demands to speak to the Five Elders and explains Ohara’s theory: the Void Century ended alongside the World Government’s founding, and the forbidden records point to a powerful, erased kingdom. As he is about to name it, an Elder orders Spandine to kill him.
• Adrian intervenes, stopping Spandine’s bullet with his sword. Clover names the kingdom the Moon Clan Kingdom. Adrian then takes the Den Den Mushi and addresses the Five Elders as the “White Ghost,” startling them. They realize their intelligence service has failed to track his rise in the West Blue.

Character developments

• Spandine is revealed as ambitious and self-serving: he treats Ohara’s destruction as a route to promotion, not as a search for truth.
• Dr. Clover remains composed and committed to scholarship, openly challenging the World Government’s authority and risking death to share Ohara’s findings.
• Adrian shifts the confrontation dramatically by protecting Clover and confronting the Five Elders directly, demonstrating both his power and his growing notoriety.
• The players split over whether to escape to the evacuation ship or remain on the island, interpreting the mission’s wording differently.

Character interactions

• Spandine intimidates and orders his agents, while dismissing Clover’s objections during the raid.
• Clover and the bearded Elder debate whether investigating history is dangerous or a fundamental pursuit of knowledge.
• The Five Elders order Clover’s execution through Spandine; Adrian’s intervention prevents it.
• Adrian’s presence unsettles the Elders and exposes a major gap in the government’s intelligence.

Significant themes

• Control of history: The World Government suppresses research that could undermine its legitimacy.
• Knowledge versus power: Clover sees historical inquiry as humanity’s right, while the government frames it as a threat.
• Institutional hypocrisy and ambition: CP9 presents its mission as justice, but Spandine’s motives are personal advancement.
• Survival amid catastrophe: The players’ mission forces them to choose how—and whether—to flee a rapidly escalating danger.

Plot points and events

• The Five Elders confront Adrian (“White Ghost”) over his interference at Ohara. When he jokes that the Celestial Dragons may be connected to the name “Moon Clan,” their alarm gives away that he has touched on a forbidden secret.
• The Elders order Spandine to launch a Buster Call and kill everyone at Ohara. Spandine tries to force Adrian’s surrender by threatening the captured scholars, but Adrian reveals they are Mimic Ghosts.
• Adrian kills Spandine and defeats the CP agents. He explains that the island’s residents were replaced by respawning players, while the real historians—and their books—were hidden in safety. Dr. Clover had refused to leave the ancient records behind, hoping to witness the Government’s response.
• Adrian activates the Golden Den Den Mushi, triggering the ten-ship Buster Call and an S-rank mission to save Ohara. Marines begin bombarding the island.
• The players complete their escape mission and receive major rewards, then get a new mission: survive.
• Saul arrives and urges Adrian to evacuate the scholars. Adrian confirms they are safe, but warns Saul that his size makes him an easy target. After Saul says his sense of Justice now conflicts with the Marines’, Adrian leaves him to choose his own course.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian remains defiant toward the World Government and acts decisively to protect Ohara, though he is pragmatic rather than personally attached to its people. He also tests Saul’s willingness to fight the Marines.
• Spandine shifts from threatening Adrian to pleading for mercy, but is killed before he can escape.
• Dr. Clover remains committed to confronting the truth about ancient history, even at great personal risk. Adrian ultimately puts him to sleep and has him carried to safety.
• Saul shows concern for the scholars but hesitates to state outright whether he will attack the Marines. His declaration that his Justice has diverged from theirs signals a break with the institution.
• The players benefit from Adrian’s plan, completing their mission without having to fight and receiving powerful rewards.

Significant themes

• Justice versus authority: The Government labels a mass killing an act of Justice, while Saul recognizes that true Justice can no longer align with the Marines.
• Censorship and forbidden knowledge: The Buster Call is meant to erase Ohara’s research into history, underscoring the Government’s fear of what the past might reveal.
• Deception and protection: Adrian uses substitutes, hidden records, and misdirection to thwart the Government while keeping the real scholars safe.

Plot points and events

• Adrian returns to Ohara and confronts Vice Admiral Kuzan, who is preparing to act amid the Marines’ Buster Call. Kuzan immediately challenges him, asking whether he intends to stop the bombardment.
• Kuzan attacks with ice weapons, but Adrian’s Ghost Body lets them pass through him harmlessly. Adrian explains that his ghostly nature makes Kuzan’s freezing powers largely ineffective.
• The two clash at close range. Kuzan coats his ice blades in Armament Haki, but Adrian blocks and breaks them, then forces Kuzan back with Nidai Kitetsu.
• Kuzan defends the Marines’ actions as necessary, arguing that Ohara’s scholars broke the law. Adrian counters that he is fighting to protect the island.
• Kuzan unleashes increasingly powerful ice attacks, including Ice Time Capsule and Ice Age. His vast freezing wave extinguishes Ohara’s fires and turns the island into a frozen landscape.
• Adrian is unaffected by the cold. He wounds Kuzan with a powerful slash; Kuzan uses his Devil Fruit to reform after being shattered, then freezes the wound to slow the bleeding.
• The chapter ends as Adrian fires a massive beam of azure Ghost Energy at Kuzan. The outcome is not shown.

Character developments

• Adrian is confident and provocative, but frames his intervention as a defense of Ohara rather than simple opposition to the Marines. He understands Kuzan’s abilities and exploits the way his own powers counter them.
• Kuzan appears as a passionate, competitive young Vice Admiral, far more fervent than the lazy figure he will later become. He sincerely believes the Buster Call is justified, and his determination drives him to use the full reach of his Devil Fruit.

Character interactions

• The confrontation is both ideological and physical: Kuzan invokes law and the Marines’ duty, while Adrian challenges the justice of attacking Ohara and calls out the harm being done to its people.
• Their exchanges are openly antagonistic. Adrian mocks Kuzan’s attacks and calls him an oversized block of ice; Kuzan responds with anger and renewed force.

Significant themes

• Justice versus law: Kuzan treats obedience to the law as necessary for the world’s future, while Adrian questions whether that makes the attack on Ohara right.
• Power and its counters: Kuzan’s battlefield-wide control is formidable, but Adrian’s Ghost Body makes his usual advantage ineffective.
• Changing convictions: The chapter foreshadows Kuzan’s future shift from passionate “Burning Justice” toward “Lazy Justice,” suggesting that Ohara will become a turning point in his beliefs.

Plot points and events

• Kuzan barely avoids Adrian’s surprise Ghost Energy Cannon by turning his body into ice. The blast devastates Ohara, revealing the scale of Adrian’s power.
• Marine lookouts identify Adrian as White Ghost, causing panic among the Buster Call forces. Vice Admiral Sakazuki orders the Marines to destroy an evacuation ship, determined to prevent any Ohara scholars from escaping.
• Adrian challenges Kuzan over the Marines’ “justice.” Kuzan is disturbed by the attack on the civilians, while Sakazuki arrives and immediately confronts Adrian.
• Sakazuki unleashes Meteor Volcano, covering Ohara in magma. Adrian dodges with Future Sight and counters with a Ghost Energy Cannon, stopping Sakazuki’s Great Eruption—evidence that Adrian has become much stronger since their previous fight.
• Sakazuki warns Kuzan that Adrian’s Ghost attacks can be resisted with Armament Haki. Though sickened by Sakazuki’s actions, Kuzan joins him because they face a dangerous enemy; the two Vice Admirals coordinate their ice and magma attacks.
• Adrian fills the battlefield with White Hollows and conceals himself among them. Kuzan and Sakazuki use Armament Haki to fend off the Hollows, but struggle to find an opening to attack Adrian.
• Adrian summons a colossal Thousand-Hand Buddha-like figure and unleashes thousands of Ghost Energy Cannon blasts. The bombardment engulfs both Marines and devastates Ohara, leaving their fate uncertain.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian displays dramatically improved power and tactical versatility, combining Future Sight, concealment, Emotion Ghosts, and overwhelming ranged attacks. He needles Sakazuki but remains focused on the fight.
• Kuzan shows moral unease over the destruction of the evacuation ship. He objects to Sakazuki, yet suppresses his disgust to fight beside him.
• Sakazuki remains uncompromising, treating the possibility of a scholar’s escape as justification for destroying the ship. His history with Adrian makes him cautious about the Ghost attacks, and he warns Kuzan how to counter them.
• The partnership between Kuzan and Sakazuki is tense but effective: they set aside their disagreement and coordinate against Adrian, who taunts them as “sparring partners.”

Significant themes

• Conflicting ideas of justice: Sakazuki’s ruthless pursuit of absolute security clashes with Kuzan’s concern for innocent lives.
• Power and growth: Adrian’s ability to stop an attack that once overwhelmed him highlights how far he has advanced.
• Cooperation under pressure: Kuzan and Sakazuki’s personal and moral differences must yield, at least temporarily, to the immediate threat.
• The human cost of “justice”: The evacuation ship’s destruction underscores how civilians are sacrificed in the name of preventing even a possible escape.

Key plot points and events

• As the Buster Call devastates Ohara, Vice Admirals Yamakaji, Momonga, and Strawberry discuss whether to join the fight. Momonga and Strawberry conclude they would only hinder Sakazuki and Kuzan against Adrian, the “White Ghost.”
• The Ghost Energy Cannon barrage ends. Kuzan emerges exhausted after protecting himself and Sakazuki with layers of Haki-coated ice. Sakazuki is unharmed and leaves Kuzan behind to attack Adrian alone.
• Adrian unleashes another barrage of Emotion Ghosts and Ghost Energy Cannons. Sakazuki protects himself with Armament Haki and pushes through, aiming not for Adrian but for the airborne Thousand-Armed Buddha statue that is bombarding the battlefield.
• Sakazuki destroys the statue with his Haki-coated Meteor Volcano. Believing the threat gone, he heads back toward Ohara.
• Adrian’s voice catches him off guard. Sakazuki’s attack misses, and the statue’s scattered fragments reassemble into a smaller Buddha before exploding. The blast badly injures Sakazuki.

Character developments

• Yamakaji is troubled by the conflict between the Marines’ claim of justice and the destruction of Ohara. Having known Adrian before his rise to infamy, he wonders whether Adrian will still live by his own creed of justice.
• Momonga and Strawberry show sound judgment and restraint, recognizing that joining the fight would make them liabilities.
• Kuzan uses his powers defensively to save Sakazuki, but the effort leaves him unable to continue.
• Sakazuki demonstrates tactical thinking by targeting Adrian’s aerial weapon rather than charging directly at him. His determination, however, leaves him vulnerable to Adrian’s trap.
• Adrian remains merciless toward his enemies and uses misdirection as well as overwhelming firepower to turn Sakazuki’s apparent victory into a counterattack.

Significant themes

• Conflicting ideas of justice: Yamakaji questions whether the Buster Call can truly be called justice, while Adrian’s actions are framed by his own conviction that his deeds are just.
• The cost of duty and combat: Kuzan exhausts himself protecting Sakazuki, and Sakazuki’s relentless advance leaves him exposed.
• Strategy versus brute force: Sakazuki correctly identifies the Buddha as a major threat, but Adrian’s decoy and explosive follow-up show that destroying an apparent target may not end the danger.

Character interactions

• Yamakaji’s past acquaintance with Adrian shapes his concern about what the Marines’ pursuit has made of him.
• Momonga and Strawberry caution Yamakaji against entering a fight where they could burden Sakazuki and Kuzan.
• Kuzan shields Sakazuki during the barrage; Sakazuki carries him out, then leaves him to continue the fight.
• Adrian and Sakazuki exchange attacks and taunts, with Adrian anticipating Sakazuki’s strategy and ultimately catching him in a concealed counterattack.

Plot points and events

• Adrian nearly severs Admiral Sakazuki’s right leg with Nidai Kitetsu, but a mysterious Air Door pulls Sakazuki to safety. Adrian destroys the severed portion, leaving Sakazuki badly maimed.
• Sengoku emerges from the door with Vice Admiral Tsuru and a CP0 agent named Doru. Tsuru is asked to use her Wash-Wash Fruit to remove Adrian’s influence from the Ghosts.
• Doru dismisses the danger and attempts to test Adrian. Using Future Sight, Adrian predicts where Doru will appear, places a Negative Hollow there, then swaps places with it and kills the stunned agent.
• Sengoku and Tsuru realize Adrian has mastered Future Sight and recognize him as an increasingly dangerous opponent.
• Adrian activates an S-Rank challenge against Sengoku, though its reward is reduced from their previous encounter. Sengoku attacks with a powerful Buddha shockwave; Adrian counters with Elbaph Spear: Ikoku Sovereignty, matching Sengoku’s attack.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian displays greater combat precision and confidence, combining Future Sight, his Hollow abilities, and swordsmanship to defeat Doru almost instantly. He also reveals that he has learned a signature Giant technique.
• Sengoku takes Adrian seriously and attacks at full strength, but is startled by Adrian’s mastery of Ikoku Sovereignty. Their familiar rivalry resumes.
• Tsuru identifies Adrian’s Future Sight and worries that the Marines helped drive such a formidable fighter into opposition.
• Doru underestimates Adrian and is killed before he can complete his test.
• Sakazuki escapes death through the Air Door, but loses much of his right leg.

Significant themes

• Adaptability and escalating power: Adrian’s unusual combination of abilities lets him counter even secret-agency and Admiral-level opponents.
• Overconfidence and miscalculation: Doru’s confidence proves fatal, while the Marines struggle to anticipate Adrian’s capabilities.
• Rivalry and recognition: Sengoku sees Adrian as a potential legendary pirate, and their renewed clash highlights the growing scale of Adrian’s threat.
• Game-system progression: The challenge panel offers rewards for fighting major opponents, but Adrian discovers that repeat challenges yield diminishing rewards.

Plot and events

• Adrian, empowered by Dragon Power, meets Sengoku’s charge head-on. Their attacks collide in a spectacular exchange: Adrian’s Ghost Energy shockwave against Sengoku’s powerful Buddha Fist.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru is surprised to find Adrian far stronger and more capable of direct combat than Marine intelligence had suggested. She leaves the aerial battle to check on the wounded Marines.
• Tsuru finds Kuzan exhausted and Sakazuki missing the lower part of his right leg. She comforts Kuzan and explains that the Marines have no known way to regenerate the limb; she suggests a prosthetic from Vegapunk.
• Once Dragon Power fades, Adrian returns to his usual hit-and-run style. He uses his White Buddha construct to wear down Sengoku, who struggles to keep pace with Adrian’s mobility.
• Adrian secretly creates a Mimic Ghost, swaps places with it, and appears over the Marine fleet. He summons the sea’s vengeful souls to unleash Ocean Ghost: Raging Sea Waves, wrecking the warships before escaping.
• Aboard the submerged Nether Abyss, Adrian confirms his mission is complete and receives 1.8 billion experience points. His random ability reward choices are disappointingly weak, ranging from basic combat skills to Armament Haki.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian demonstrates both immense strength and tactical flexibility: he can fight Sengoku head-on while empowered, then quickly shift to evasive attrition tactics when his boost expires. He also prioritizes a final strike against the Marine fleet before retreating.
• Sengoku remains a formidable opponent, but Adrian’s flight, speed, and endurance tactics prevent him from forcing a decisive close-range fight.
• Tsuru shows compassion toward Kuzan and Sakazuki while maintaining her firm view of Justice. She sees the two, along with Borsalino, as the Marines’ future leaders and hopes this defeat will strengthen rather than break them.
• Kuzan sets aside his anger over Sakazuki’s attack on the evacuation ship and expresses concern for his injured comrade.
• Sakazuki responds to his injury with anger and pride, rejecting the idea of a prosthetic leg. Tsuru warns him that refusing practical help could also affect his ability to serve.

Significant themes

• The cost of defeat: Tsuru frames setbacks as lessons that can prepare the next generation for worsening dangers.
• Justice and its consequences: Tsuru believes Ohara’s threat to world stability justifies its destruction, while her regret that Adrian might once have served the Marines hints at the human cost of the government’s choices.
• Adaptability over brute force: Adrian’s changing tactics allow him to contend with Sengoku even after his temporary power boost ends.
• Pride versus practical recovery: Sakazuki’s refusal of a prosthetic shows how his uncompromising nature may hinder his recovery and future strength.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Adrian selects Advanced Hand-to-Hand Combat as the reward for completing his challenge mission, after dismissing several other options.
• He submits the S-rank “Buster Call: Ohara” faction mission. The panel confirms that he rescued Ohara’s scholars, civilians, and library materials; defeated Vice Admirals Sakazuki and Kuzan; challenged Sengoku; and destroyed ten Marine warships.
• The mission earns him 3 billion EXP, plus a 200% bonus for an “Incredible” rating and four random rewards:
  • Five skill points
  • Frost Affinity, which improves ice resistance and ice-based skill effects
  • Zoro’s future sword technique,

One Sword Style: Great Shock

• A Devil Fruit Fusion Card, which lets someone possess two Devil Fruit powers, provided the fruits are not too incompatible.
• Adrian is unimpressed by Frost Affinity and the sword skill, but becomes excited by the fusion card. He considers combining it with the three fruits he already holds—the Swamp-Swamp, Paste-Paste, and Swordfish fruits—then rejects them as poor matches for his Hollow-Hollow Fruit.
• He instead weighs potential unclaimed fruits, especially the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Dark-Dark Fruit. He notes that the former may overlap with his existing abilities, while the latter’s gravity, power-nullification, and extraction effects make it especially tempting.
• Adrian also rules out ordinary and Ancient Zoans, deciding that only Mythical Zoans interest him. The chapter ends as he considers two possibilities: the Nine-Tailed Fox and Tanuki forms.

Character developments

• Adrian’s completion of the Ohara mission marks a major victory, reflected in its exceptional rating and substantial rewards.
• His reactions reveal his irreverent, competitive personality: he grumbles about disappointing rewards, envies more useful abilities, and treats even extraordinary powers as objects to evaluate and collect.
• The fusion card gives him a new strategic goal: finding a second Devil Fruit power that complements his Hollow-Hollow abilities rather than merely adding strength.

Significant themes

• Power, compatibility, and trade-offs: A second Devil Fruit could be immensely valuable, but the fruits must work together.
• Luck versus planning: Adrian acknowledges that his luck is poor and prefers relying on the panel and careful choices.
• Destiny and exceptional individuals: He reflects on Blackbeard and Luffy as figures apparently tied to uniquely powerful Devil Fruit abilities.
• Utility versus novelty: Adrian judges rewards by how well they serve his existing powers, dismissing abilities that seem impressive but poorly suited to him.

Character interactions

• The chapter contains little direct interaction between characters. Its focus is Adrian’s internal commentary and his engagement with the game panel.
• His thoughts about Kuzan, Sakazuki, Zoro, Enel, Blackbeard, and Luffy show how he measures his own rewards against other fighters’ abilities and reputations.

Key plot points

• Adrian weighs possible Devil Fruits to combine with his Hollow-Hollow Fruit. He considers the Bat-Bat Fruit: Vampire Form, several powerful Paramecia, and especially the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, which may complement his existing powers. He rules out Yamato’s future Mythical Zoan and notes that some desirable fruits are already eaten or hard to locate.
• At Marine Headquarters, senior officers discuss the defeat of Vice Admirals Sakazuki and Kuzan by White Ghost in a two-on-one fight. Sakazuki has lost part of his right leg.
• Borsalino needles Sakazuki about losing, prompting a tense exchange, until Garp arrives and lightens the room’s mood.
• Garp confronts Sakazuki not over his injury, but for ordering an evacuation ship full of civilians shelled during the Ohara operation. Sakazuki defends the decision by saying there could have been archaeologists aboard.
• The chapter also reveals Garp’s recent movements: after Roger’s execution, he secretly stayed in the South Blue, entrusted baby Ann to Dragon and baby Ace to mountain bandits in the Goa Kingdom, then returned to Marine Headquarters. A “Devil’s Heir” arrived in Foosha Village shortly afterward.

Character developments

• Adrian is pragmatic but undecided, weighing strength, availability, and compatibility with his current fruit.
• Sakazuki remains rigid in his interpretation of justice and stands by his order despite its civilian casualties.
• Kuzan is increasingly troubled by the Ohara incident; his sense of “Burning Justice” has been shaken, and Garp’s criticism validates his unease.
• Garp shows a serious moral side beneath his humor, drawing a firm distinction between the risks of battle and the deliberate killing of innocents.
• Borsalino uses teasing humor to provoke Sakazuki, while Kong tries to keep the meeting controlled.

Significant themes

• Justice versus morality: The Marines’ competing views of justice come into sharp focus over the shelling of the evacuation ship.
• The cost of power and duty: Sakazuki’s severe injury and the officers’ losses underscore the danger of fighting White Ghost.
• Choice and compatibility: Adrian’s search for another Devil Fruit reflects the challenge of gaining power without undermining what he already has.
• Secrecy and inherited legacies: Garp’s hidden role in arranging Ace’s and Ann’s care hints at the consequences of the children’s identities and the events to come.

Character interactions

• Borsalino provokes Sakazuki, who insists his defeat was due to carelessness and refuses to discuss his strength while injured.
• Garp’s arrival lifts the room’s oppressive mood, but he soon directs its attention to Sakazuki’s conduct at Ohara.
• Kuzan responds emotionally to Garp’s condemnation, revealing his own unresolved doubts.
• Sakazuki and Garp clash over whether the possibility of archaeologists aboard justified killing the evacuation ship’s passengers.

Key events

• Marine Headquarters debates the failure of the Ohara Buster Call: although the island was destroyed, White Ghost may have helped the scholars escape. Garp and Zephyr criticize the attack on civilians, prompting Fleet Admiral Kong to restore order and redirect the meeting to White Ghost.
• Tsuru reports that White Ghost fought Whitebeard for at least half an hour and apparently completed a rookie’s challenge against him. She also reveals that the Whitebeard Pirates have found Edward Newgate’s biological son, shocking the officers.
• The Marines assess White Ghost’s varied abilities and rapid growth. Tsuru notes that he behaves more like a criminal hunter than a conventional pirate, but Kong dismisses the point.
• Kong approves a 1.68-billion-Beli bounty, marked “Dead or Alive,” and orders Garp and Borsalino to pursue White Ghost in the West Blue, with Cipher Pol and Marine investigators helping locate him.
• The next day, the World Government’s official account of Ohara’s destruction and White Ghost’s wanted poster circulate worldwide.
• Several days later, Adrian—White Ghost—sees the poster aboard the Nether Abyss. He is pleased by the bounty increase and considers whether it could help him advance his [Supernovas] profession.

Character developments and interactions

• Garp openly questions whether White Ghost let the scholars escape and joins Zephyr in criticizing the Buster Call. He is also comically floored by the revelation of Whitebeard’s biological son, then tries to avoid discussion of his own estranged son, Dragon.
• Zephyr backs Garp’s criticism, emphasizing that civilians should not be shelled without first searching the evacuation ship.
• Tsuru provides crucial intelligence and advocates a substantial bounty, while acknowledging White Ghost’s unusual restraint and apparent opposition to criminals.
• Kong maintains control of the fractious meeting, prioritizes the World Government’s orders, and assigns the pursuit despite Borsalino’s objections.
• Borsalino resents the assignment and the World Government’s recent dealings involving Celestial Dragons. He points out that White Ghost can fly, making him difficult to track, but ultimately accepts the order.
• Adrian treats the bounty as recognition and a marker of pirate status, joking about how long his accomplishments went unrewarded. He begins connecting the bounty to his next profession upgrade.

Significant themes

• Conflicting ideas of justice: Marines disagree over whether obeying orders can justify mass killing, exposing deep divisions within the organization.
• Government power and propaganda: The World Government presents Ohara’s destruction as a necessary defense against forbidden history and Ancient Weapons, while suppressing the possibility that scholars escaped.
• Reputation versus conduct: White Ghost is officially branded a dangerous pirate despite often acting against criminals and government abuses.
• Ambition and status: Adrian’s reaction highlights how bounties function as measures of recognition and standing, even when they offer no direct reward.

Key plot points and events

• After accumulating over 17 billion experience from major battles and the Buster Call at Ohara, Adrian maxes out his [Supernova] profession. The advancement boosts his stamina, strength, and skill points; he puts the new attribute points into Intelligence.
• Reaching the profession’s maximum level triggers the [Disaster] upgrade quest. Adrian meets its bounty requirement and expects to meet its combat requirement, but the final task—destroying a country—conflicts with his principles. He decides to postpone the quest.
• Adrian continues toward Oatfee Island, seeking a safe home for Ohara’s displaced civilians. Since the West Blue is under scrutiny after the Buster Call, he plans to use the Razor Gang’s connection to the Donquixote Family to relocate them to the North Blue.
• At Oatfee, Adrian slips ashore unseen and encounters Razor Gang members who are players, enthusiastically training the Eagle Finger technique.
• Adrian meets with Razor Gang leader Tommy Shelby. Tommy is relieved to learn that Penelope and Little Pepe survived Ohara. Adrian asks Tommy to escort a group of people to the North Blue and says he will provide a letter for Doflamingo.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian’s growing power is offset by a clear moral boundary: despite having a quest that rewards destruction, he refuses to destroy a country.
• He continues taking responsibility for Ohara’s survivors, seeking practical help rather than leaving them in his fortress indefinitely.
• Tommy shows genuine concern for Penelope, partly out of gratitude for her recommendation. Though he feels uncertain about Adrian’s hands-off leadership, he remains loyal and accepts the relocation task.
• Adrian regards Tommy as a dependable leader and sees the Razor Gang as a potentially useful local force for maintaining order.

Significant themes

• Power versus conscience: Adrian can pursue a dark profession, but will not commit an atrocity to advance it.
• Responsibility and refuge: Saving people requires securing their long-term safety, not merely rescuing them from immediate danger.
• Order outside official institutions: Adrian believes a gang can serve its community responsibly if governed by clear rules.
• The cost of secrecy and persecution: Ohara’s survivors must leave their home sea to avoid attracting the World Government’s attention.

Key plot points and events

• Adrian asks Tommy about the Undying Drifters, who completed their Razor Gang mission and returned to the island. Tommy mentions their strange talk of “huge profit” and “no loss”; Adrian dismisses it as their unusual way of communicating.
• Adrian summons Dr. Moe, the Bandage-Bandage Fruit doctor he once rescued on Drum Island. Moe’s social anxiety has worsened, but he has become highly skilled with his powers and now uses bandages to display written messages.
• Adrian asks Moe to examine the ordinary Ohara residents who have been kept asleep. Moe finds most are unharmed, though a few are weak and need careful care.
• Adrian awakens Dr. Clover, Olvia, Robin, and Penelope to discuss Ohara’s destruction and their future. He explains that the World Government would hunt any survivors if it learned they remained alive.
• Adrian proposes relocating the survivors. Clover suggests Visalia—“Little Sky Island”—as a safe place for the historians. Adrian agrees and plans to establish it as a base in the Grand Line.
• Olvia insists on continuing her research into history, despite Robin’s distress. Penelope wants a peaceful life with the young Pepe, and Adrian includes them in the plan to go to the sky island.
• The commoners are awakened and told that Ohara was destroyed by a Buster Call. Many struggle to accept the news; some choose to leave or rejoin relatives in West Blue, while only a few agree to travel to North Blue. Adrian puts Tommy in charge of arranging their settlement.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian acts as protector and organizer, balancing concern for the survivors with respect for their choices. He trusts Moe to provide medical care and assigns Tommy responsibility for resettlement.
• Dr. Moe has grown more capable as a doctor, though his trauma-induced stutter remains severe. His bandage-written messages let him communicate fluently and humorously contrast with his anxious speech.
• Dr. Clover accepts Ohara’s destruction and recognizes the historians’ responsibility for the danger that befell civilians. He chooses Visalia as a place where the scholars might continue their work.
• Olvia and Robin are reunited but divided by Olvia’s determination to keep pursuing history. Robin fears losing her mother again, while Olvia expresses guilt and pain but does not change her decision.
• Penelope shows affection for Robin but refrains from interfering in the mother-daughter conflict. Her priority is a quiet life with Pepe.
• Tommy continues to serve as Adrian’s trusted aide, first arranging Moe’s visit and later overseeing the survivors’ relocation.

Significant themes

• The cost of pursuing knowledge: Ohara’s scholars pursued forbidden history, but ordinary people paid the price.
• Survival and displacement: Survivors must accept the loss of home and make difficult choices about where to rebuild their lives.
• Family and sacrifice: Olvia’s commitment to history conflicts with Robin’s need for her mother, while Penelope offers Robin affection without claiming to replace Olvia.
• Trust and responsibility: Adrian relies on people he trusts to protect the vulnerable and gives survivors room to choose their own futures.

Key plot points and events

• Before departing Oatfee Island, Adrian instructs Tommy to let the travelers choose their destination if they have a good reason, avoid questioning their identities, and keep Tommy’s own identity hidden on the way to North Blue.
• Adrian flies to Shimotsuki Village to report what he learned in Wano Country to Koshiro. He warns that Wano may fall under Orochi and Kaido if Oden does not change course.
• Worried for his relatives in Wano, Koshiro asks Adrian to rescue the Shimotsuki Family before the country descends into chaos. The game panel offers a new quest: bring family members to the East Blue within three years, with 10 million EXP and the Black Blade Forging Method as rewards.
• Adrian cautions that the family may refuse to leave because of its loyalty to the Kozuki clan. He suggests that persuasion may fail and that he may have to take them by force. Koshiro reluctantly accepts this possibility, and Adrian takes the quest.
• After leaving the dojo, Adrian decides to visit the Goa Kingdom. He notes that he has heard nothing about Bullet being captured and imprisoned.

Character developments

• Adrian is candid about the risks of the rescue and prioritizes saving lives over respecting the family’s wishes. He also lets Koshiro call him Adrian rather than Tao Ya, acknowledging that his increasingly famous “White Ghost” identity makes his old alias difficult to maintain.
• Koshiro shifts from asking for information to taking responsibility for his Wano relatives. Though troubled by Adrian’s proposed use of force, he agrees that the family must be saved.
• Tommy is left in charge of carrying out Adrian’s instructions while keeping his identity concealed.

Significant themes

• Duty versus survival: The Shimotsuki Family’s loyalty to the Kozuki rulers may prevent them from escaping impending danger.
• The ethics of rescue: Adrian argues that force can be justified when it is the only way to save lives; Koshiro struggles with the moral cost.
• Family and inherited loyalty: Koshiro feels bound to help his Wano kin, while the family’s service to the Kozuki clan shapes its likely choices.
• Foreboding and preparation: The warnings about Wano’s political crisis set up a future rescue and conflict with Orochi and Kaido.

Character interactions

• Adrian and Koshiro reconnect warmly, but their conversation quickly turns serious as Adrian recounts Wano’s danger.
• Koshiro asks Adrian to rescue the family; Adrian both explains why they may resist and bluntly proposes carrying them away unconscious.
• Koshiro questions whether that is right, and Adrian frames it as a necessary choice to preserve lives.

Plot points and events

• Adrian reaches Foosha Village and senses Douglas Bullet near Dadan’s mountain hideout.
• Bullet is holding the newborn Ace, whom Garp has left in Dadan’s care. His intimidating presence terrifies Dadan and her bandits; one bandit faints when trying to address him.
• Dadan cautiously asks Bullet to return Ace. He eventually offers the infant back, awkwardly unsure how to hold him.
• Adrian arrives, identifies Bullet, and shields Dadan from Bullet’s overwhelming Haki. He reminds Bullet that a baby is present and warns that Ace’s connection to Roger must remain hidden.
• Bullet insists that the matter is none of Adrian’s concern, then demands Ace back from Dadan and prepares to take him away.
• As Bullet holds Ace, the baby wakes, cries, and soils Bullet’s pristine glove. Adrian finds the mishap hilarious.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian is alert to the danger around Ace and steps in to protect Dadan, while also challenging Bullet and probing his motives.
• Bullet is formidable and emotionally guarded, but his careful handling of Ace suggests a concern he refuses to acknowledge. His claim that Ace is none of Adrian’s concern clashes with his decision to come for the child.
• Dadan is terrified of Bullet yet shows courage and compassion, shielding Ace and prioritizing the baby’s safety over her own.
• Ace, though only a newborn, disrupts Bullet’s imposing image with an untimely sneeze, cry, and mess.

Significant themes

• Protection versus secrecy: Ace’s safety is tied to concealing his heritage as Roger’s son.
• Contradictions beneath tough exteriors: Bullet’s careful behavior hints at concern beneath his hard, dismissive manner.
• Power and vulnerability: Bullet’s Haki overwhelms the bandits, while Dadan’s determination—and Adrian’s intervention—protects the helpless infant.

Key plot points and events

• Adrian persuades Bullet not to take Ace away from Foosha Village. Though he cites the danger of provoking Garp and the Marines, his real motive is to keep Bullet and Garp competing as rival father figures for Ace.
• Adrian jokes that, because Ace is both Garp’s grandson and Roger’s son, Garp has somehow gained seniority over the entire Roger Pirates. He urges Bullet to challenge Garp, framing their rivalry as a contest over Ace’s future.
• Adrian leaves the East Blue, deciding that provoking Bullet further could cause him to flee with Ace and spoil the rivalry.
• He flies across the Calm Belt toward Jaya Island, hoping to use it as a landmark for finding a Sky Island.
• In Mock Town, a chain of violent encounters shows how casually the pirate town treats death: a blond man kills a stranger, then Basaka—a pirate with a 31.1-million-Beli bounty—kills the blond man. A seemingly ordinary weapons-stall owner swiftly kills Basaka, takes his head for the bounty, and leaves the crowd to scavenge.
• Adrian reaches Jaya Island and lands on its coast, relieved to be back on solid ground after traveling alone.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian reveals his mischievous, long-range interest in shaping Ace’s upbringing. He wants Bullet’s influence to balance Garp’s and enjoys the prospect of the two men competing.
• Bullet remains proud and stubborn, but Adrian’s taunts make him recognize Garp’s supposed scheme and fuel his anger toward him.
• Garp is absent, yet Adrian casts him as the rival in a future struggle over Ace’s loyalties and upbringing.
• The Mock Town sequence introduces an unnamed weapons-stall owner whose calm manner contrasts with his lethal skill. The town’s spectators are equally shaped by its lawless culture, quickly turning from witnesses into scavengers and combatants.

Significant themes

• Influence and upbringing: Ace’s future is presented as a contest between competing mentors and legacies.
• Family and generational ties: The complicated connections among Ace, Garp, Roger, and the Roger Pirates become a source of humor and rivalry.
• Lawlessness and survival: Mock Town operates by violence and opportunism, where strength determines who lives and who claims the spoils.
• Adrian’s playful manipulation: He disguises personal amusement and curiosity behind arguments about what is best for Ace.

Key plot points and events

• Adrian rests on Jaya Island, where the Fierce Bear Pirates fire cannonballs at him. He cuts the shots apart and slices the ship’s masts, then defeats the crew’s bear-fruit-using captain and kills the remaining pirates with his Ghost ability.
• The game panel awards Adrian only one trial point, though the bounty-to-experience system grants him about ten million experience. He regrets losing the pirates’ potential bounty money and wonders how to collect bounties.
• Adrian visits Mock Town and is disgusted by its violence and squalor. He abandons his plan to try its famous Cherry Pie and heads elsewhere on the island.
• He finds Mont Blanc Cricket and asks about Sky Island. Cricket dismisses it as fiction, but Adrian reveals that the Golden Land is real and currently lies in the sky.
• Cricket recognizes Adrian as the “White Ghost” and eagerly asks to accompany him. This triggers the Golden Land quest: take Cricket to Sky Island for two million experience and an unknown reward.

Character developments

• Adrian shows overwhelming strength and confidence, but is unimpressed by his newly learned “Great Shock” technique, judging it useful mainly against weak opponents. He is also practical and reward-minded, thinking about experience, trial points, and bounty money.
• Cricket shifts from distrust and defensiveness to hope when Adrian treats Noland’s story seriously. He quickly seizes the chance to prove his ancestor was not a liar.

Significant themes

• Truth and inherited disgrace: Noland’s descendants have endured generations of ridicule for a claim that was true.
• Power and its limits: Adrian easily overwhelms the pirates, yet questions the value of a technique that frightens more than it harms.
• Adventure and possibility: The quest turns the supposedly mythical Sky Island into a real destination and offers Cricket a chance at vindication.

Character interactions

• Adrian responds to the pirates’ attack with decisive violence, destroying their ship and crew.
• He avoids engaging with the miserable inhabitants of Mock Town, instead choosing to leave.
• His respectful confirmation of Noland’s story earns Cricket’s trust and prompts Cricket to ask to travel with him to Sky Island.

Plot and key events

• Adrian accepts a quest to find the Golden Land. He puts explorer Mont Blanc Cricket to sleep, brings him along, and flies from Jaya Island up through the White Sea to the White-White Sea.
• He reaches the sky-borne half of Jaya Island, now a lush island surrounded by clouds. Its land is especially valuable to Sky Island’s inhabitants, where scarce territory has fueled centuries of conflict.
• Adrian discovers the ancient, gold-filled ruins of Shandora and wakes Cricket there. The dramatic change in altitude leaves Cricket coughing and unwell, prompting Adrian to realize that ordinary visitors—and possibly the scholars he hopes to bring from Ohara—may need time to acclimatize.
• Cricket recognizes the ruins as the Golden Land his ancestor Mont Blanc Noland described. Overcome with emotion, he declares that Noland was telling the truth and was unjustly executed. Adrian’s quest panel confirms completion and offers him an unclaimed reward.
• Before Adrian can claim it, he senses a giant snake near the golden bell. He flies off to confront it, lets its venomous bite pass harmlessly through his Ghost Body, and defeats it with a sword technique that breaks its will rather than injuring it. The snake submits, and Adrian rides it back toward the ruins.

Character developments and interactions

• Adrian shows curiosity about Shandora and concern for Cricket’s health, but remains composed in danger. He also considers how high altitude might affect the Ohara scholars he plans to bring to the sky. His victory over the snake reveals a possible use for his swordsmanship: subduing intelligent creatures.
• Cricket moves from physical distress to overwhelming joy and grief. Finding Shandora vindicates his ancestor’s account and gives him emotional proof that Noland was an honest explorer and botanist, not the liar history made him out to be.
• Adrian and Cricket share the discovery, though Adrian leaves Cricket with a ghost guard when danger appears. Adrian spares the snake because of its connection to Shandora’s people and Noland, but still disciplines it.

Significant themes

• Truth and historical injustice: Shandora’s survival proves Noland’s story was true and exposes the injustice of his execution.
• Legacy and vindication: Cricket’s search is driven by his ancestor’s reputation; the discovery finally gives him the confirmation he longed for.
• Adaptation and physical limits: The high altitude is a serious obstacle for ordinary people, even as Adrian’s ghostly nature lets him ignore it.
• Power and restraint: Adrian can overpower the snake, but chooses to spare it and subdue it rather than kill it.