Chapter Summaries

Shining and Perona encountered Saint Charlos in Sabaody's amusement district, where Charlos tried to claim Perona and shot a CP Agent who warned him against provoking Shining. Shining killed Buffalo in retaliation and left with Perona, while Rosward and Shalria watched without stopping him.

• Shining and Perona headed toward the Haunted Castle, but Shining stopped when he sensed a familiar presence approaching.
• Charlos arrived riding Buffalo and demanded that Shining trade Perona to him as his thirteenth wife.
• After a CP Agent urged Charlos to consult Rosward, Charlos shot the agent for questioning him.
• Shining killed Buffalo with a beam, saying that Charlos had killed one of his men and he would kill one of Charlos's.
• Rosward and Shalria arrived, but Shining refused to explain further and left with Perona, telling the Celestial Dragons to complain to the Five Elders.

Shiryu, Mad Monk, and other Road Island members arrived in Sabaody to pursue Drake, while Shining warned Hina, Kalifa, and Perona about their presence. The chapter ended when a drunken informant claimed Drake had stolen Bondrewd's Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, setting off an uproar in a bar.

• Shiryu, Great Sake Barrel, and Mad Monk arrived at Sabaody and split up to carry out the Alliance Leader's commission.
• Shiryu called Catarina, who reported that her group had reached No. 21 and would pursue Drake while holding back.
• Hina and Kalifa went shopping with Perona and the Bunbu robots until Shining arrived and warned them that Road Island officers were nearby.
• Shining told Hina, Kalifa, and Perona to stay away from No. 66 and contact him if they ran into trouble.
• At a bar in No. 21, Apoo questioned a drunken informant, who claimed Drake had stolen Bondrewd's Mythical Zoan Fruit.

Shiryu searched for Drake at Grove 55, while Drake hid with his crew in Grove 5 and was confronted by Urouge instead of the expected Smoker. Smoker fought Apoo, and Onigumo learned that the Marine operation had changed as Momousagi ordered him to Grove 5.

• Shiryu attacked the pirates guarding the Free Deer at Grove 55, learned that Drake was absent, and found that the ship held none of Drake's core crew.
• Drake and his disguised subordinates moved through Grove 5 to wait for their real ship's coating to finish, expecting Smoker to attack them.
• Urouge confronted Drake in the Lawless Zone, and they began fighting as their crews clashed around them.
• Smoker encountered Apoo in Grove 3, and their fight kept Smoker from reaching Drake.
• Onigumo waited aboard a patrol boat in Grove 6 for the planned operation, then received Momousagi's order to go to No. 5 immediately.

Shining joined the fighting in Sabaody, quickly defeating Drake and Urouge while searching for an object taken from Bondrewd. Brook faced Great Sake Barrel, and Onigumo began a fierce duel with Shiryu at the No. 6 wharf.

• Shining warned Brook that Road Island officers had arrived and told him to meet Hina and the others, but Brook encountered Great Sake Barrel and fought him alone.
• Shining arrived between Drake and Urouge in No. 5 and demanded the object Drake had taken from Bondrewd.
• Shining struck down Urouge and Drake, then noticed a Medicine Box on one of Drake's subordinates and suspected it held the object.
• Shiryu confronted Onigumo at the No. 6 wharf, and the two exchanged rapid sword attacks.
• Shiryu broke through Onigumo's pressure with a powerful Armament Haki slash and forced him back.

Diamante was driven into a frenzy at the Grove No. 1 auction and died when his explosive collar detonated, after which pirates kidnapped Rosward and his family. Momousagi was ordered to abandon her pursuit of the Devil Fruit and go support the Celestial Dragons.

• Diamante's anger was amplified by a Brainwave Interferer, and he tore at his explosive collar while Rosward shot him.
• Diamante's collar exploded, and Shalria fired several more shots into his motionless body.
• An elderly pirate seized Shalria while Road Island employees surrounded the Celestial Dragons and captured Rosward's family.
• The pirate told Rosward that he knew him as an Elixir of Immortality.
• Momousagi received Tsuru's order to go to Grove No. 1 after Rosward and his family were kidnapped.

Drake escaped toward Dock No. 58 while Shining reunited with his companions and gave Kalifa the genuine Mythical Zoan Harpy fruit. After Hina received word that Saint Rosward and his family had been kidnapped, Shining went to the auction house, where Marines and Vice Admiral Smoker were waiting outside.

• Drake led his Blade Unit subordinates through Sabaody, reasoning that Shining taking the fruit had spared them from one of Bondrewd’s suspicious gifts, and hurried toward the coated ship at Dock No. 58.
• Shining returned to the café balcony on a Mechanical Flying Sword with Brook, explained that he had taken the Harpy fruit from Drake, and revealed the real fruit from the aircraft’s storage compartment.
• Shining gave the Mythical Zoan Harpy fruit to Kalifa, who ate it and transformed her arms into wings.
• Hina received Kada Kongbo’s call reporting that Saint Rosward and his family had been kidnapped at the auction house, and Shining left to investigate.
• Outside the auction hall, Momousagi and the Marines maintained a blockade as Smoker arrived and reported that he had driven off Sea Roar; Momousagi said Onigumo had been badly injured after fighting Shiryu.

The Marines and Shining converged on the auction hall after pirates captured the Celestial Dragons, while Bondrewd appeared to honor the pirates’ deal. When Charloss begged Shining for help, Bondrewd transmuted him into a red gemstone, leaving the hall in shock.

• The Crescent Moon Hunter called Sea Roar to demand the promised elixir, and learned Bondrewd would make a house call as the pirates’ first customer.
• Bondrewd appeared onstage through a staged teleportation, terrifying the hostages and Celestial Dragons.
• Kizaru arrived at Sabaody, bombarded the Great Battleship, and knocked down its 180-meter form with a kick.
• Shining arrived outside the auction hall, criticized Kada Kongbo’s inaction, and disabled the armed pirates as he entered.
• Shining confronted Bondrewd in the hall, but Bondrewd transmuted Charloss into a red gemstone after Charloss pleaded for rescue.

Bondrewd demonstrated apparent rejuvenation at the auction, then escaped with Rosward and Crescent Moon Hunter after Kizaru and Shining tried to stop him. Shalria survived but demanded the guests and Marines be executed, while Kizaru took control of the aftermath and Shining left.

• Kizaru arrived at the auction hall and found Bondrewd protected by an invisible barrier, with Rosward and Shalria still alive after Charloss's death.
• Bondrewd transformed Crescent Moon Hunter, disguised as an old pirate captain, to make it appear that he had restored the captain's youth.
• Kizaru offered a hostage exchange for Great Sake Barrel and Great Battleship, but Bondrewd refused to trade away the fruits of Crescent Moon Hunter's labor.
• Kizaru and Shining attacked as Bondrewd tried to leave; Shining severed Bondrewd's dragon tail and freed Shalria, but Bondrewd escaped with Rosward and Crescent Moon Hunter.
• Shalria demanded that the guests and Marine soldiers be killed, but Kizaru ordered everyone arrested pending instructions from the Five Elders, and Shining left the scene.

After the Sabaody Incident, the Marines struggled to contain the fallout while the Whitebeard Pirates debated seeking Babylon’s help against Weevil. Bondrewd rejuvenated the Red Count with a Sage’s Stone and gathered his allies, leaving the Red Count young again and Caterina promised the reward she had earned.

• Akainu, Kizaru, and Staff Officer Tsuru discussed the deaths and abduction at Sabaody, the effort to silence witnesses, Drake’s mission to infiltrate Kaido, and the coming worldwide Marine draft.
• Marco told the Whitebeard Pirates’ commanders that Weevil was still attacking their territory, while the Straw Hat Pirates continued training on Sphinx Island.
• Namur returned the Whitebeard flag from Fish-Man Island and revealed that the Ryugu Kingdom had accepted Babylon’s protection in exchange for his Eighth Division’s allegiance and Murakumogiri.
• Ace agreed to let the Whitebeard Pirates vote on whether to give up Murakumogiri, saying Whitebeard would have chosen to do so.
• Bondrewd used the Sage’s Stone to restore the Red Count’s youthful appearance, then brought him to meet Urouge, Apoo, Shiryu, and Caterina.
• Bondrewd told Caterina she could request the Sage’s Stone as her reward, and she thanked him while privately wondering about its possible side effects.

Bondrewd briefed Road Island’s allies on the captured crew members, the Red Count’s rejuvenation, and a fabricated feed of Shining’s movements. Sephiroth returned to Heaven’s Gate Town, where Kalifa showed him her new Harpy form.

• Apoo asked about the captured Great Battleship and Great Sake Barrel, and Bondrewd advised rescuing them when feasible while insisting death was not a final outcome.
• Bondrewd described the Paper-Paper Fruit’s flight and pseudo-elementalization abilities, then showed the allies a fabricated first-person feed supposedly following Shining in Babylon.
• Bullet arrived to greet the rejuvenated Red Count, and Bondrewd directed him to spar at Shiki’s place before ending the meeting.
• Sephiroth left Road Island and returned to Heaven’s Gate Town, where Kalifa told him Perona, Brook, and Hina had gone out for the evening.
• Kalifa transformed into her Harpy form and drew Sephiroth onto the sofa, where they kissed.

On Babylon’s first workday of the New Year, Uta visited Sephiroth and discussed the Navy’s search for new admirals and Issho’s decision to refuse their offer. Yamato then came to say goodbye before returning to Wano, asked to join Sephiroth if he acted against the Whitebeard Pirates, and stayed for lunch.

• Uta arrived at Sephiroth’s office, where he and Baby 5 teased her before she brought up her band’s new-year album plans.
• Uta learned that Issho had turned down the Navy’s invitation to join its World Military Draft, and she and Sephiroth discussed the Navy’s recruitment of new admirals.
• Yamato and Ulti visited Sephiroth, and Yamato asked whether he was getting involved in the matter with the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Yamato asked to help if Sephiroth acted against the Whitebeard Pirates, and he agreed to contact her when the time came.
• Sephiroth invited Yamato and Ulti to stay for lunch before returning to Wano.

Sephiroth discussed the Beasts Pirates’ changes with Yamato before meeting Kuzan to explain his ideas for a new political order. He outlined two imperfect systems and began introducing a third option, the “Sea of Stars.”

• Yamato told Sephiroth that Drake had displaced Sheepshead as a Headliner and asked whether she should act; Sephiroth told her to stay put and contact him if anything seemed wrong.
• Sephiroth saw Yamato and Ulti off, then Zephyr, Ain, and Kuzan came to meet him at the Babylon Temple.
• Kuzan asked Sephiroth how his plans differed from the Revolutionary Army’s, and Sephiroth argued that both their efforts and the World Government’s system had strengths and serious shortcomings.
• Sephiroth described a Philosopher King monarchy and a system of checks among powerful fighters, explaining why each could fail.
• Sephiroth asked Kuzan whether he had heard of the “Sea of Stars” and conjured a sun in his hand.

Sephiroth presented his far-sightedism proposal, arguing that abundant energy and expanding civilization could help the world move beyond resource conflicts and overthrow the World Government without an apocalyptic war. After imagining humanity’s future in space, he took a break and visited Shyarly at her new Mermaid Cafe, where he hinted at an interesting plan.

• Sephiroth demonstrated a palm-sized sun and claimed he commanded energy on a planetary scale, alarming Kuzan and Zephyr.
• Sephiroth explained that increasing productive capacity could transcend resource conflicts, and Zephyr revealed how many Navy members had joined the Babylon Faction.
• Sephiroth said Babylon had enough military reserves to overthrow the World Government without triggering an apocalyptic war.
• Sephiroth proposed expanding human civilization into space, inspiring Kuzan and exciting Uta and Ain.
• Sephiroth left the Temple and visited Shyarly’s Mermaid Cafe at Angel Beach, where he joined her in a private room and hinted at an interesting plan.

Sephiroth learned that Namur planned to take public blame for the Whitebeard Pirates' Eighth Division joining Babylon, then saw the announcement in the newspaper the next day. He planned to visit Sphinx Island in a couple of days, with Yamato accompanying him.

• Shyarly told Sephiroth that Namur had secured the Whitebeard Pirates' agreement and wanted Morgans to publish the Eighth Division's departure for Babylon as his own act of disloyalty.
• Sephiroth spent the evening with Shyarly and stayed at the Mermaid Cafe through dinner.
• The next afternoon, Sephiroth read that the Marines had recruited Aramaki as Admiral Ryokugyu, and he discussed the new admiral and Kuzan with Isabella and Robin.
• Sephiroth, Isabella, Robin, Nami, and Carina read that the Whitebeard Pirates' Eighth Division had joined Babylon and recognized that Namur had taken responsibility on himself.
• Sephiroth said Lilith had prepared Babylon's official response and announced that he would visit Sphinx Island with Yamato in a couple of days.

Sephiroth organized a voluntary expedition to Sphinx Island to fulfill his promise to Namur, gathering companions with personal reasons to join. Two days later, he arrived in Wano Country to collect Yamato, Ulti, and Page One before setting course for Whitebeard's hometown.

• Isabella wanted to join the expedition, but Sephiroth reminded her she had to handle start-of-year work and Princess Vivi's upcoming birthday visit; Baby 5, Nami, and Carina volunteered, while Robin declined.
• Sephiroth said Yamato would join and explained that they would stop in Wano Country to pick her up; Robin teased him about the formidable appearance of their group.
• Issho sparred with Tashigi, who used her Smooth-Smooth Fruit to launch fast, unpredictable low attacks but lost after exhausting herself.
• Tashigi heard that Sephiroth was going to Sphinx Island to fulfill his promise to Namur and asked to join the expedition; Sephiroth agreed.
• Two days later, the Silent Ship arrived at Amigasa Town, where Sephiroth, Baby 5, and Precious went to greet Yamato, Ulti, and Page One.
• Yamato, Ulti, and Page One boarded the Silent Ship, and Sephiroth told Yamato to call Whitebeard by his proper name on his home turf.

Sephiroth and his allies traveled to Sphinx Island to help the Whitebeard Pirates deal with Weevil, while a suspicious scheme involving an impostor on Food Valten came to light. After Ace explained the pirates’ losses and Cavendish’s sudden strength, the group considered whether Bondrewd was behind the campaign.

• Precious reported that someone impersonating Fossa had extorted Food Valten before Weevil drove the impostor away and claimed the island for the New Whitebeard Pirates.
• Sephiroth, Yamato, and the others arrived at Sphinx Island, where Ace, Marco, Namur, and Izo welcomed them.
• Ace asked Sephiroth to help defeat Weevil, explaining that the Whitebeard Pirates could not reclaim their lost territories and that Ace could not outlast Weevil.
• Marco revealed that former Shichibukai Cavendish had become much stronger and could fight him to a draw.
• Sephiroth told Ace and Marco about the Food Valten impersonation, and Marco suggested Bondrewd might be behind the scheme.

Sephiroth organized Babylon’s defense of the Whitebeard Pirates’ remaining islands while they waited for Weevil to appear. Three days later, Precious reported that Weevil had been spotted near Waterwheel Island, and Yamato prepared to respond.

• Sephiroth assigned six Shipboard Knights Order tactical units to garrison nearby islands, with Namur coordinating their deployment.
• Sephiroth ordered Reiju and Tashigi to defend Sphinx Island, while Yamato, Ulti, and Page One stood by to pursue Weevil; Nami and Baby 5 patrolled and charted nearby waters.
• Ace invited the group to a banquet and brought Reiju to visit Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates, while Marco arranged for Tashigi to meet Vista.
• The Whitebeard Pirates and Babylon held a lively banquet with the Straw Hat Pirates, then Nami and Baby 5 continued reconnaissance over the following days.
• Precious appeared aboard the Silent Ship and reported that Weevil had appeared near Waterwheel Island, prompting Yamato to leap up eagerly.

Yamato and Ulti raced to Waterwheel Island while Sephiroth responded to Cavendish’s approach at Apricot Island. Yamato and Ulti joined the fighting, and the chapter ended with Yamato facing Weevil and Ulti helping Whitey Bay.

• Yamato took the Iron Cavalry to Waterwheel Island, while Sephiroth arranged for Ulti to join her and Tashigi to prepare backup.
• Sephiroth met Ace and Marco, then learned that Cavendish’s ships were approaching Apricot Island and teleported there to assist Haruta.
• Sephiroth found Haruta preparing the island’s defenses and said he would handle the possible Bondrewd plot personally.
• Yamato descended from the Iron Cavalry and struck Weevil with Thunder-Bagua, then told Blenheim and Doma to leave the fight to her.
• Ulti landed among the enemy pirates and joined Whitey Bay and the Babylon Knights in battle.

Yamato fought Weevil at Waterwheel Island while the Babylon Knights and Whitebeard's allies battled the pirates around them. Buckin empowered Weevil with her Devil Fruit ability, and the chapter ended with Yamato and Weevil clashing again at full strength.

• The Babylon Knights used Sky Island equipment and an Iron Cavalry Fighter to support Whitebeard's forces against the pirates.
• Yamato and Weevil exchanged powerful blows until Yamato questioned whether he was really like Whitebeard.
• Miss Buckin arrived, declared Weevil Whitebeard's son, and used her Lipstick Mark ability to increase his confidence and strength.
• Empowered Weevil overwhelmed Yamato with a rapid assault, but Yamato used her hybrid form, Freezing Gas, and combat skill to counter him.
• Yamato froze Weevil, struck him with Himorogiri, and then met his next attack with Thunder-Bagua.

Sephiroth destroyed Cavendish’s attacking fleet at Apricot Island and captured him, learning that a masked man named Carmel had impersonated Cavendish using the Copy-Copy Fruit. Sephiroth identified Carmel as the mastermind, while the real Carmel flew toward Sphinx Island unaware that his identity had been exposed and that he might be in the wrong place.

• Sephiroth warned Haruta to prepare to capture the approaching pirates, then fired five beams from the lighthouse and sank all five ships.
• The stranded pirates surrendered, and Sephiroth intercepted Cavendish as he tried to flee; Cavendish quickly surrendered too.
• Cavendish told Sephiroth and Haruta that a masked man who called himself Chameleon had copied his appearance, Devil Fruit ability, and swordsmanship, then recruited him to target the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Sephiroth identified the impostor as Carmel, a former Whitebeard Pirate with the Copy-Copy Fruit, and explained that Carmel’s ability could not copy subjective qualities such as Haki or mastery.
• The real Carmel, transformed into Cavendish, flew toward Sphinx Island to create a diversion and wondered why he saw an enormous lump of iron near the docks.