Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu easily overpowered Enel with his physical strength and Observation Haki, then urged him to join his group and pursue the New World. Enel refused and transformed into his 200 Million Volt Thunder God form, charging at Jiang Liu.

• Jiang Liu knocked Enel down with one punch, but Enel revived his heart with electricity.
• Enel attacked Jiang Liu with lightning and his Thunder Beast, but Jiang Liu dodged every attack and struck him with Tempest Kick.
• Jiang Liu explained that Enel's Mantra was basic Observation Haki and invited him to join the group, promising a world beyond Endless Vearth.
• Enel used El Thor twice, but Jiang Liu evaded both strikes and continued closing in.
• Enel released the lightning stored in his Thunder Drums, transformed into the Thunder God, and charged at Jiang Liu with a golden trident.

Jiang Liu evaded Enel’s full-powered Thunder God attacks and countered with Divine Departure, cutting through Enel’s lightning halberds and sending him flying. The battle ended with Enel’s Thunder God form fading as the onlookers watched in silence.

• Enel attacked Jiang Liu with his Thunder God body, but Jiang Liu dodged his strikes using Observation Haki.
• Enel unleashed a storm of lightning across the forest, and Jiang Liu advanced through it while evading every bolt.
• Enel summoned two enormous lightning halberds and demanded to know Jiang Liu’s identity.
• Jiang Liu introduced himself and declared that Enel would remember his name.
• Jiang Liu used Divine Departure to sever Enel’s halberds and overpower his Thunder God form.
• Enel was sent flying backward as the lightning faded and the onlookers fell silent.

After Jiang Liu defeated Enel, he invited him to join his group and promised to show him the wider world below the sky islands. Enel accepted, and Jiang Liu healed him as their new life together began.

• Jiang Liu defeated Enel with his improved Divine Departure, leaving Enel badly injured and awed by his strength.
• Jiang Liu told Enel about the vast Blue Sea and offered to help him grow stronger, and Enel accepted the invitation.
• Jiang Liu healed Enel with a touch, astonishing him with his ability.
• Crocodile brought Foxy and Hamburg to Jiang Liu and confirmed that Enel had joined the group.
• Nien welcomed Enel aboard, and Jiang Liu woke Foxy and Hamburg as Enel wondered what his new life would bring.

Jiang Liu’s crew visited Shandora to see Enel’s damaged Ark Maxim, where they found a Poneglyph and Jiang Liu revealed that he could read its ancient script. The inscriptions showed that Gol D. Roger had visited the stone and that Jiang Liu had followed him there.

• Enel told Jiang Liu that the Ark Maxim needed repairs, and Jiang Liu said the crew would use it to leave Sky Island once it was ready.
• Enel led Jiang Liu, Crocodile, and the others through Shandora, where Crocodile recognized an ancient Poneglyph.
• Crocodile explained his interest in the stone’s information about an Ancient Weapon, while Enel doubted its significance.
• Jiang Liu said he had studied the ancient script in Ohara and could tell them what the Poneglyph said.
• Jiang Liu pointed out inscriptions stating that Gol D. Roger had visited the stone and that Marine Jiang Liu had followed him there.

Jiang Liu and his companions repaired Enel’s Ark Maxim on Sky Island and set off toward the sea. After the ship landed beside a lone swordsman’s coffin-shaped boat, Jiang Liu and the Hawk-Eyed Man clashed with opposing slashes and faced each other.

• Crocodile questioned Jiang Liu about Poseidon, and Jiang Liu suggested Fish-Man Island might hold answers.
• Jiang Liu, Crocodile, Enel, Foxy, Hamburg, and the others worked together to repair the damaged Ark Maxim.
• After about a week, Enel launched the Ark Maxim and flew the group down from the White-White Sea toward the ocean.
• The Ark Maxim landed near the Hawk-Eyed Man’s coffin boat, and he struck the ship with a sword slash.
• Jiang Liu countered the Hawk-Eyed Man’s attack with a Flying Slash, and the two men stared at each other.

Jiang Liu and Dracule Mihawk met at sea and prepared to test their swordsmanship against each other. After Enel’s attack was effortlessly deflected, Jiang Liu charged Mihawk, beginning the battle.

• Jiang Liu and Mihawk recognized each other, and Mihawk said he wanted to measure his strength against the renowned swordsman.
• The two raised their fighting spirits and faced off while Foxy, Crocodile, and the others felt the pressure of their presence.
• Captain Bark’s crew spotted the Ark Maxim and sailed toward it, hoping to seize its golden treasure.
• Enel attacked Mihawk with his Golden Staff, but Mihawk’s Flying Slash narrowly missed Enel and split the clouds overhead.
• Jiang Liu charged Mihawk with his sword, and Mihawk met his attack with Black Blade Yoru.

Jiang Liu and Dracule Mihawk began a world-shaking sword fight over the sea, while the Bark Pirates tried to flee the battle. Their clash sent a lethal slash toward Bark’s ship, leaving the crew in immediate danger.

• Jiang Liu and Dracule Mihawk exchanged probing sword strikes that split the sky and sent shock waves across the sea.
• Bark ordered the Bark Pirates to turn their ship around after recognizing Mihawk and feeling the fighters’ overwhelming power.
• Jiang Liu launched a powerful slash that carved a vast chasm through the sea, drawing the attention of a man riding a bicycle across the water.
• Mihawk thrust at Jiang Liu, who redirected the Black Blade and sent its slash toward the Bark Pirates’ ship.
• Bark and his crew screamed as the incoming slash reached their vessel.

Jiang Liu and Mihawk fought a fierce sword duel aboard Bark's pirate ship, whose hull their attacks had already split apart. Their battle continued to tear through the sea and alter the sky, drawing alarmed attention from marines, merchant crews, and nearby islands.

• Jiang Liu and Mihawk's slashes split Bark's ship and sent its terrified crew scrambling for safety.
• Jiang Liu and Mihawk coated their blades in Armament Haki and resumed their duel on the broken deck.
• The swordsmen exchanged rapid, deadly blows that sent cutting force through the ship and killed pirates caught in the attacks.
• Jiang Liu remarked on Mihawk's rise to the title of World's Greatest Swordsman, and Mihawk replied that Jiang Liu had been absent too long to see how the world had changed.
• Their clash carved a chasm through the sea and opened a dark hollow among the clouds, while onlookers aboard the Ark Maxim watched in awe.
• The battle's spreading shock waves and slashes drew the attention of patrolling marines, merchant crews, and people on nearby islands.

Jiang Liu and Dracule Mihawk fought a fierce swordsmanship duel, each landing a wound before Jiang Liu healed and agreed to use his full strength. They unleashed their final attacks and stopped back-to-back after Jiang Liu used Dragon-Slaying Draw, leaving the result unresolved.

• Jiang Liu and Dracule Mihawk exchanged powerful blows until Mihawk’s hat was damaged and both swordsmen were wounded.
• Mihawk struck at Jiang Liu, who answered with Divine Departure and cut Mihawk, but Mihawk countered with a slash that opened a long gash across Jiang Liu’s body.
• Jiang Liu and Mihawk praised each other’s swordsmanship and prepared to continue their duel without backing down.
• Mihawk urged Jiang Liu to use his full strength, and Jiang Liu healed his wound and promised to unleash everything in his next strike.
• Jiang Liu and Mihawk charged at each other, and Jiang Liu used Dragon-Slaying Draw as they crossed swords and halted back-to-back.

Jiang Liu defeated Dracule Mihawk in a deadly sword duel, leaving Mihawk grievously wounded as Marine Admiral Aokiji arrived. Jiang Liu claimed he had returned as a righteous Marine, and Aokiji openly mocked him.

• Mihawk praised Jiang Liu's Dragon-Slaying Draw and said their duel had shown him the way forward.
• As ships gathered nearby, Aokiji rode his bicycle across the sea and recognized Jiang Liu as the former Admiral, Daytime Tiger.
• Jiang Liu slashed Mihawk a second time, leaving him gravely wounded, then prepared to leave the wrecked ship.
• Aokiji froze the sea and the ship, confronted Jiang Liu, and asked what identity he had taken on.
• Jiang Liu called himself a righteous Marine, but Aokiji dismissed the claim as bullshit.

River and Aokiji fought across the frozen sea, with both men showing how much they had changed since their battle twenty years earlier. Aokiji unleashed Ice Age on River, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Aokiji confronted River, called him a dangerous and unstable Marine, and attacked him with an Ice Saber.
• River blocked Aokiji's strikes, cut through his ice body, and sent him flying across the frozen sea with a powerful sword slash.
• Aokiji acknowledged River's strength and continued the duel, dodging River's Flying Slash and freezing him with Ice Time Capsule.
• River broke free of the ice, praised Aokiji's growth, and Aokiji pressed a hand to his head and unleashed Ice Age.

River survived Aokiji’s Ice Age and prepared to reenact the terror of their encounter twenty years earlier. After opening six gates and overpowering Aokiji’s ice attack, River seized him by the head, making Aokiji sense imminent death.

• Aokiji shattered River’s frozen form, but River emerged unharmed and warned that Aokiji would face the despair of their past encounter.
• A Marine Lieutenant Commander spotted the fight and ordered his Marines to report River’s identity and the battle to headquarters.
• Enel and Crocodile watched from the Ark Maxim, reacting with excitement and concern as River fought Aokiji.
• River opened six gates, surged across the ice, and punched through Aokiji’s Ice Block: Pheasant Beak.
• River reached Aokiji and clamped a hand over his head, and Aokiji felt the scent of death.

River overwhelmed Aokiji in a brutal fight across the frozen sea, leaving him badly injured but determined to continue. Their Den Den Mushi rang at the same time, and Sengoku ordered River to stop the fight, threatening to come with Garp if he hung up.

• River seized Aokiji by the head, dragged him across the ice, and slammed him into a crater, but Aokiji rebuilt his head from ice and recovered.
• Aokiji unleashed a barrage of ice spears, but River raced across them and struck him with a flaming Morning Peacock barrage.
• River shattered Aokiji's iceberg defense and battered him with a relentless series of punches until he lay severely wounded on the ice.
• Aokiji stood again and insisted the fight was not over, while River praised his resolve and prepared to attack again.
• River and Aokiji received calls from Sengoku and Garp, and Sengoku shouted at River to end the fight.

River stopped fighting Aokiji at Sengoku’s request, but challenged Aokiji’s idea of justice before leaving. As Aokiji reported the Straw Hat crew’s route to Water 7 and questioned his beliefs, Sengoku learned that River had defeated Dracule Mihawk and that Golden Lion, Shiki, had appeared in the East Blue.

• Sengoku asked River to stop fighting Aokiji, and River agreed but warned there would not be a next time.
• Aokiji urged River to understand justice, and River argued that justice could be nothing more than the victors’ will.
• Aokiji reported that the Straw Hat crew was heading toward Water 7 and wondered whether River’s justice was truly wrong.
• Sengoku learned that River had defeated Dracule Mihawk and worried that news of River’s survival would spread.
• Sengoku opened a file and discovered that Golden Lion, Shiki, had begun appearing in the East Blue.

After River defeated Dracule Mihawk and became the new World's Greatest Swordsman, news of his return reached Shiki, Whitebeard, and Shanks. The pirates recognized River as the former Marine Admiral who had vanished twenty years earlier, and Whitebeard feared his return would bring upheaval to the seas.

• Shiki read the reports of Mihawk's defeat, welcomed River's return, and declared that he would turn the quiet world upside down.
• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates identified the victor as Daytime Tiger River, the former Admiral who had clashed with the World Government and disappeared twenty years earlier.
• Whitebeard dismissed the rumors that River could not be killed, but warned that his return could cause unimaginable upheaval.
• Shanks learned that Mihawk had lost and recognized River as the man who had chased Roger around the world.

After River’s victory over Mihawk made headlines, the Five Elders discussed the threat River might pose and ordered the Marines to keep him from gaining an important post. Mihawk survived and sailed away, while River received intriguing news from Doflamingo about Golden Lion Shiki.

• The Five Elders reviewed River’s return and debated whether he might betray the Marines or challenge the World Government.
• The Five Elders ordered close surveillance of River and barred him from holding an important Marine position.
• Mihawk awakened after Aokiji’s ice had kept his wounds from bleeding, freed his Coffin Boat, and vowed to reclaim his lost throne.
• River’s crew celebrated his new title aboard the Ark Maxim, but River dismissed the fame.
• Doflamingo called River and told him he had news about the legendary pirate Golden Lion Shiki.

River learned that Golden Lion Shiki was active again on Floating Island and decided to seek him out and bring him under his command. After preparing for a possible battle, River and his crew flew the Ark Maxim toward the East Blue.

• River remembered his promise with Shiki and asked Doflamingo for everything he knew about him.
• River told Crocodile to rebuild Baroque Works and arrange for his former subordinates to return.
• Doflamingo reported that Shiki had gathered former subordinates and new pirates on Floating Island in the East Blue to pursue an ambitious plan.
• River decided that he would need to defeat Shiki in battle before the proud pirate would agree to join him.
• The next morning, Foxy announced that the Ark Maxim was heading to find Shiki, and the ship flew toward the East Blue.

Golden Lion Shiki gathered pirate captains on Floating Island and announced that he would destroy East Blue to make the world recognize his return. As the captains cheered, a mysterious golden flying ship called Ark Maxim arrived, and a black-robed swordsman landed outside the pavilion asking for Shiki.

• Pirate captains from around the world waited on Floating Island for Golden Lion Shiki to appear.
• Shiki arrived with his assistant Indigo and welcomed the gathered pirates.
• Shiki declared that the era had grown too gentle and that he would destroy East Blue to proclaim his return to the world.
• The pirate captains cheered Shiki's plan, and he grinned as he thought about taking revenge after twenty years.
• Ark Maxim appeared above Floating Island, and a black-robed swordsman leaped from it and asked whether Shiki was there.

River entered Golden Lion Shiki’s pavilion and overwhelmed the pirates with his Conqueror’s Haki. He reminded Shiki of their agreement from twenty years earlier, and Shiki welcomed the chance to discuss joining forces.

• River knocked out the pirates guarding the pavilion with his Conqueror’s Haki and walked inside.
• River continued through the hall, incapacitating pirates as Golden Lion Shiki and Indigo watched.
• River and Shiki recognized each other, and Shiki told Indigo that River was the man before them.
• River reminded Shiki that he had freed him from Impel Down twenty years earlier and that they had made an agreement.
• Shiki recalled their plan to join forces and bring chaos to the world, then ordered liquor so they could talk about working together.

River and Golden Lion Shiki drank together while each tried to recruit the other to his cause. River rejected Shiki’s offer and challenged his belief that he could still change the world, leaving Shiki furious and on the verge of a fight.

• River and Shiki met as equals in Shiki’s hall, shared liquor, and reminisced about meeting again after twenty years.
• Shiki invited River to become his right-hand man and help him claim the Pirate King’s throne and rule the world.
• River rejected Shiki’s offer and urged him to join Void Night instead.
• Shiki argued that River had faded into obscurity and promised him fame, status, and wealth if he stayed by Shiki’s side.
• River declared that the truly strong faced armies alone and reminded Shiki that he had once let him out of Impel Down to work together, not serve beneath him.
• River criticized Shiki’s age and diminished strength, and Shiki shattered his bowl in fury.