Chapter Summaries

Madara defeated the Revolutionary Army leader after exposing his selfish ambition, then returned to the inn and joined Esdeath and Kaguya. The Holy Church expanded across the Empire as revolutionary remnants found little support among people whose lives were improving.

• Madara used Tsukuyomi on the Revolutionary Army leader, saw his ambition to become emperor, and killed him with a kunai.
• Madara returned to the inn, where Esdeath welcomed him and he learned Hashirama had not come back.
• Madara scolded Kaguya for giving Hashirama money and urged her to go shopping with Esdeath.
• The Holy Church expanded rapidly across the Empire without further resistance.
• Revolutionary remnants tried to organize against the Holy Church, but villagers alerted the Holy Light Clerics and the people refused to support them.

Night Raid prepared to travel with Tatsumi to the Shinobi World as the Holy Light Clerics withdrew, leaving the Empire to govern itself. Tatsumi reunited with Yi Yong, met Archpriest Le'er, and joined the departing procession toward the Holy Church Portal.

• Najenda burned the aristocratic faction's plea for help, and Night Raid agreed to leave its fate to the Holy Church's trials.
• Najenda told Night Raid they would travel to the Shinobi World with Tatsumi, whose identity as their world's Child of Holy Light and future Archbishop had been revealed.
• Iron Hammer assured Najenda that the Empire's new generation of clerics could govern independently and that the Shinobi World would support them if needed.
• Najenda and Iron Hammer exchanged farewells as Night Raid greeted the departing Holy Light Clerics.
• Tatsumi reunited with Yi Yong, who introduced him to Archpriest Le'er as a future ally.
• The villagers of Tata Village and local clerics saluted the departing pioneers as the group headed for the Holy Church Portal.

Night Raid arrived in the Shinobi World and learned that the Holy Church’s apparent city was a military base equipped with overwhelming technology. Yi Yong showed them the Star Ring encircling the world, leaving Madara shaken by the scale of the Holy Church’s power.

• Night Raid entered the Shinobi World, and Akame reassured Kurome that Pope Ria would cure her illness.
• Yi Yong explained that they were at a military base, and Shayi used the Great Enlightenment Technique to teach Night Raid the world’s language.
• Yi Yong guided the group through the base and described its vehicles, mecha, and Sky Carriers, explaining that the Holy Church had needed only ground forces to defeat the Imperial Capital’s reactionary forces.
• Kaguya asked whether the Holy Church planned to counterattack the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and Yi Yong said it would prevent them from harming the Shinobi World again.
• Yi Yong pointed out the Star Ring, and Madara used his Rinnegan to see its vast habitat and the spacecraft surrounding the Shinobi World.

Night Raid traveled aboard Mothership A15 to the Holy Church’s city of light, marveling at the Shinobi World’s technology and comforts along the way. The chapter ended with the group gazing down at Holy Light City and imagining what their own world might become.

• Night Raid boarded Mothership A15 at the Aerospace Port, where navigator Yu Mu welcomed them and gave Yi Yong her contact information.
• The women aboard showed Tatsumi and Yas to their rooms, making Sayo jealous, while Mine and Sheele bathed and the group later enjoyed the ship’s restaurant.
• Kurome shared Octopus Balls with Akame, who protested when Kurome led her away from the food to the observation deck.
• Night Raid looked down at Holy Light City’s towers, Light Curtains, and hovercars, and Najenda compared the Empire unfavorably with it.
• Tatsumi declared that their world could develop into a similar city, and Leone teased him until Sayo punched him and the group laughed.

The Holy Church welcomed Night Raid from another world with a grand ceremony, honoring its members and appointing Tatsumi as a bishop. As the ceremony celebrated the spread of the Holy Light, Li Ming used faith from Akame's world to absorb a new rule and began planning to create Noble Phantasms.

• Ria prepared for the audience with Meli and welcomed Night Raid at the Holy Church.
• Axel greeted Night Raid and escorted them through the church as clerics applauded their arrival.
• Ria presented each Night Raid member with a Medal of Courage and announced Tatsumi's appointment as a bishop.
• Tatsumi addressed the crowd, promising to lead his world in supporting its allies and spreading the Holy Light.
• Li Ming absorbed a rule formed through faith from Akame's world and decided to use it to create Noble Phantasms.

Ria prepared the Holy Church for a journey to a powerful new world after Holy Light created Gold Cloths and a Holy Grail to help the Church enter it. She entrusted Axel with the Grail and the task of changing the new world’s law so the Church’s legions could follow.

• Ria gave Night Raid Holy Light Seeds, learned Akame wanted treatment for Kurome, and sent Meli to help while collecting Night Raid’s Imperial Arms for modification.
• Holy Light gave Ria thirteen Gold Cloths, including one for her, and a Holy Grail that could distort a law resembling Holy Light in another world.
• Li Ming modified Night Raid’s Imperial Arms to make them compatible with Holy Power and strengthened their abilities.
• Ria gave Gold Cloths to the twelve Legion Commanders and ordered them to prepare for the Church’s next mission.
• Ria entrusted Axel with the Holy Grail and instructed him to use it upon arrival in the new world so the Church’s legions could enter safely.

Axel crossed through the Holy Light Teleportation Array into a garbage-strewn world, where the world's repulsive force nearly killed him before the Holy Grail cleared the storm and allowed him to remain. Ria ordered the portal secured, while Sabo and Luffy convinced Ace to investigate the light pillar near the garbage dump.

• Ria sent Axel through the Holy Light Teleportation Array after warning him to return if the world's repulsive force became too strong.
• Axel was crushed by the world's force, but the Holy Grail blocked the lightning and scattered the clouds; Kizaru briefly noticed that his Glint-Glint Fruit powers had become unresponsive.
• Ria saw the Portal's warning light turn white and sent the Holy Light Clerics Legion through; Kumata found Axel injured and brought him back to Ria, who healed him.
• Ria ordered the Holy Armored Ones to fortify the portal into a tightly defended military base.
• Sabo and Luffy told Ace about the pillar of light near the garbage dump, and Ace grabbed a crowbar and went with them to investigate.

Kumata ordered the Holy Light Clerics to clear the garbage around the Portal, help the displaced people, and secure the area for a military base. Ace, Sabo, and Luffy attacked two clerics who tried to take them to safety, but the clerics restrained them and carried them toward a temporary shelter.

• Kumata ordered the Holy Light Clerics to relocate nearby people, clear the garbage with Holy Flame, and forbid entry within ten kilometers of the Portal.
• The Holy Light Clerics gave the displaced people food, clean tents, and clothing, while bathing and caring for the children.
• Ace, Sabo, and Luffy watched the clerics at work and decided to follow them to learn where they were taking the people.
• Two Holy Light Clerics approached the boys and invited them to leave the dangerous area, but Ace shouted for the trio to attack.
• Ace and Sabo struck the clerics with crowbars, and Luffy hit one with his stretched fists, but their attacks failed against the clerics' armor.
• A Holy Light Cleric used Slowness to stop the boys, and the clerics carried them to the temporary shelter.

Ace, Sabo, and Luffy attended lessons at the Holy Church after repeated escape attempts failed, and their teacher asked them about their dreams. The chapter left Sabo inspired to become like the teacher and help protect others’ hopes.

• Ace asked whether the Holy Light Clerics would teach their skills, and the teacher said anyone could learn if they believed in the Holy Light.
• Sabo defended the Holy Church for feeding, clothing, and educating the children, while Ace and Luffy argued over a bowl of milk.
• The teacher invited the class to share their dreams, and Luffy said he wanted to become King of the Pirates while Ace said he wanted to break free of someone’s shackles.
• The teacher urged Ace and Luffy to pursue their dreams without hurting others, and told Luffy that his vision sounded more like an adventurer than a pirate.
• Sabo asked whether he could become someone like the teacher, and she encouraged him to follow that goal without wavering.

Sabo chose to become a Holy Light Cleric, while Ace and Luffy continued learning from their teacher and received protective charms before heading home. After the Holy Light Clerics burned the garbage dump, Kumata ordered an immediate attack on the city.

• Sabo told Ace and Luffy that he had decided to become a Holy Light Cleric, and they celebrated his choice.
• Ace, Luffy, and Sabo learned a Body Tempering Technique and attended lessons that deepened their respect for their teacher.
• Ace and Luffy revealed that Curly Dadan had adopted them, and their teacher gave the three boys Peace Charms before they left for home.
• The Holy Light Clerics evacuated the displaced people and set the garbage dump ablaze with Holy Flame.
• The city's soldiers failed to extinguish the white fire, while the clerics watched the response through drone footage.
• Kumata decided the Holy Light Clerics would attack the city and ordered his troops to capture it immediately.

The Holy Light Clerics Legion stormed the Goa Kingdom’s city, defeated its defenders, and occupied the palace. The king and prince were taken away as the Legion prepared to judge the rulers for their treatment of the people.

• The Holy Knights smashed through the city gate, killed the transformed general, and defeated Deji after he attacked their charge.
• The city’s soldiers surrendered when the Holy Knights offered to spare them, and the Legion assigned guards to prisoners while Priests healed the wounded.
• At the palace banquet, the king and prince heard fighting outside, and the prince went to investigate.
• A Holy Light Cleric kicked the prince down as the Legion entered the palace and declared the city occupied by the Holy Church.
• The king invoked the Celestial Dragons and World Government, but the Regiment Commander ordered the rulers taken to the Judgment Hall.

Ria ordered the Holy Church’s legions to launch a major operation while the Church expanded its preparations across the Shinobi World and the Pirate World. In the Goa Kingdom, its soldiers abolished noble privileges and issued reforms, and a newspaper editor and reporter prepared to meet them.

• Ria ordered Axel to lead four army groups out after Kumata reported that the forward base was secured.
• The Holy Church’s mobilization sparked a surge in Shinobi World manufacturing as merchants competed to supply its needs.
• In the Pirate World, the Holy Church began developing a navy and ordered shipyard machinery to build warships.
• Holy Armored Ones occupied the Goa Kingdom, escorted the king and nobles from the city, and issued decrees abolishing noble privileges and relieving refugees and taxpayers.
• Kumata ordered a press conference to introduce the Holy Church, while a reporter and her editor went to meet the soldiers who had arrived at their newspaper office.

President Pier accepted an invitation to a Holy Church press conference while Kumata prepared to address reporters in Goa, and Axel stayed behind to oversee construction of a military base. At the palace the next day, reporters arrived and Nanako befriended the guard Gennai before the conference began.

• A Holy Light Cleric invited President Pier and the Dawn Newspaper to the Holy Church's press conference, and Vivian urged him to accept.
• Kumata told Axel he had moved ordinary residents out of the dump to make room for a military base and arranged a press conference for the following day.
• Axel declined to attend, told Kumata to answer the reporters' questions, and promised to show videos of the Church's military strength.
• At Goa's royal palace, Vivian and Nanako arrived among the reporters, and Nanako posed beside Gennai, a guard on duty.
• Gennai showed Nanako and Vivian his digital camera, and Nanako kissed him before leaving for the meeting room.
• The reporters gathered in the meeting room and discussed the conference's purpose and what questions to ask.

At a press conference, Kumata presented the Holy Church as a faith-based organization that defended the people and rejected oppression, while promising it could withstand the World Government. He began a military exercise broadcast to show reporters the Church’s forces, leaving them watching its vast army and advanced machinery.

• Kumata introduced himself as Zhongshan Kumata, Legion Commander of the Holy Church’s Third Army Group, and explained the Church’s level-based ranks and his own combat strength.
• Kumata told Vivian that the Holy Church supported freedom of belief, stood with ordinary people, and would hold oppressors accountable.
• Kumata declared that the Church could protect the city from the World Government and asked Jianlei to notify Marshal Axel to begin a military exercise.
• Kumata showed reporters a broadcast of tens of thousands of Holy Light Clerics, giant mechanical suits, artillery-like machines, and flying craft assembled on a barren plain.
• The Holy Light Clerics began their synchronized military exercise as the reporters watched and took photographs.

After the Holy Church’s press conference inspired the people of Goa, the Five Elders ordered a Buster Call against the kingdom. Garp was sent to lead the attack, while Dragon and Shanks headed toward the East Blue.

• Kumata ended the press conference after reporters applauded the Holy Light Clerics’ resolve to fight for the people.
• Newspapers spread the Holy Church’s message across Goa and beyond, prompting ordinary citizens to cheer and the Five Elders to condemn the group.
• The Five Elders ordered a Buster Call against the Goa Kingdom, and Sengoku instructed Garp to carry it out with Kuzan while minimizing casualties.
• Whitebeard dismissed the Holy Church’s challenge as the work of ambitious schemers, while Dragon decided to go to the East Blue to meet them.
• After reading the news, Shanks ordered his crew to sail to Foosha Village so he could see Luffy.

As more than a thousand Marine warships headed for the East Blue, Shanks returned to Windmill Village and met Luffy's teacher, Mu Le, at Masno's tavern. After learning the Holy Church was prepared to resist the Buster Call, Shanks and Mu Le left to test each other's strength, while Luffy hoped they would still share a meal afterward.

• Garp asked Kuzan to prioritize killing cultists and spare civilians as the Marines advanced toward the East Blue.
• Shanks arrived at Windmill Village and learned from Masno that Luffy was studying at a school in the Goa Royal Capital.
• Shanks warned Mu Le that the World Government had issued a Buster Call and urged the Holy Church to leave the East Blue.
• Mu Le revealed she was a level 60 Radiant Priest and challenged Shanks after their powers clashed.
• Luffy asked Mu Le not to hurt his friend, and Shanks and Mu Le went outside to find a place to fight.

Mu Le defeated Shanks in a clash of Haki, swordsmanship, and holy magic, then warned him of the Holy Church’s strength. Dragon secretly watched the fight and left determined not to underestimate the organization.

• Shanks challenged Mu Le at the shore, but his Conqueror’s Haki and sword attacks failed to overwhelm her.
• Mu Le wounded Shanks with feather blades and regenerated her severed arm, revealing her Radiant Priest healing abilities.
• Shanks discovered that the feathers embedded in him pierced his soul, and he surrendered rather than risk further injury.
• Mu Le told Shanks that at least six people in the Goa Royal Capital were a whole major rank above her, then left with him to rejoin her student.
• Dragon watched from the woods, concluded that the Holy Church could not be underestimated, and vanished into the shadows.

The Holy Church mobilized its forces to intercept the Navy, while Mu Le led Shanks and the children away from the approaching combat zone. Shanks and Dragon headed toward the battlefield to witness the clash for themselves.

• Axel ordered the Holy Church’s forces to advance toward the coast, deploying fighters, vehicles, cannons, and Holy Mechas.
• Mu Le took the children and Shanks’s crew out of the tavern after Holy Sound Fighters thundered overhead.
• Shanks watched the Holy Church’s forces pass through Windmill Village and questioned Mu Le about their legacy and Malice Perception.
• Kumata warned Mu Le to evacuate the children and villagers, then scrutinized Shanks and his crew.
• Shanks decided to go see the battle, while Dragon hurried toward the battlefield and anxiously hoped his father would survive.

The Navy fleet encountered the Holy Armored Ones’ aircraft, which devastated its ships before withdrawing after dropping bombs. Garp ordered the East Blue fleets to assemble as the Navy counted its losses and prepared for a larger fight.

• Garp ordered the Navy fleet to ignore reports of flying Sea Kings, then discovered the approaching aircraft were made of iron.
• The Holy Armored Ones attacked the Navy ships with rapid gunfire, while Garp fought back with cannonballs and Aokiji launched Ice Spears.
• The aircraft dropped Holy Light Bombs and withdrew, leaving hundreds of Navy ships wrecked and thousands of sailors dead or wounded.
• Garp learned the Navy had lost four hundred ships, with another hundred and fifty unable to sail, and ordered every East Blue fleet to assemble.

The Navy’s East Blue fleet was overwhelmed by the Holy Church’s A7 Holy Armored Mecha Squad, leaving Garp and Kuzan struggling against the advance force. As the Navy’s defeat became inevitable, Dragon and Shanks discussed forcing a surrender to stop the bloodshed.

• Sengoku learned that the Navy had lost half its ships and ordered Kizaru, Akainu, and East Blue forces to reinforce the Goa Kingdom.
• More than a dozen Holy Mechas attacked the Navy fleet, shrugging off Kuzan’s ice and destroying warships with lasers and Lightsabers.
• Garp fought a Holy Mecha while Kuzan struggled against two others, and most Navy soldiers surrendered as the fleet was routed.
• Dragon and Shanks watched the Navy’s defeat and recognized that the Holy Church’s ground forces had not yet arrived.
• Dragon asked Shanks to help stop the war, and they agreed that the Navy should surrender.