Chapter Summaries

Gern confronted Dragon in the revolutionary square, rejected Dragon’s invitation to join the Revolutionary Army, and delivered Garp’s message about his son’s marriage. Dragon remained committed to the revolution and ordered his troops to continue toward the palace as Gern prepared to use force.

• Dragon recognized Gern’s strength and prepared to retreat or fight while protecting the civilians.
• Dragon urged Gern to join the Revolutionary Army, but Gern questioned whether overthrowing the old order would create a better one.
• Gern struck Dragon with the Supreme Sandal on Garp’s behalf for getting married without inviting his father.
• Dragon refused to abandon the revolution and ordered his troops to advance toward the palace before sunset.
• Garp shouted at Dragon through a Den Den Mushi, then told Gern to beat him with the sandal; Gern put the call away and prepared to use physical persuasion.

Gern confronted Dragon on Garp’s behalf, beat him while Dragon refused to fight back, and then left the Revolutionary Army alone. The chapter ended with Gern’s group departing after arranging a report that blamed the country’s king, while Dragon accepted that they might become enemies in the future.

• Ivankov attacked Gern, but Tesoro knocked him down and bound him with gold.
• Dragon began to summon his Conqueror’s Haki, but Gern threatened him with the Black Blade, so Dragon chose not to fight back.
• Gern repeatedly slapped Dragon while claiming to deliver Garp’s fatherly lesson, and Dragon endured the beating for the sake of the Revolutionary Army.
• Gern stopped beating Dragon and explained that his mission was only to carry out Garp’s assignment, not to arrest the Revolutionary Army.
• Gern, Lipo, and Tesoro left after deciding to use the evidence against the king in their mission report, and Dragon thanked Gern before warning they might meet as enemies.

Gern took a merchant ship back from his mission so he could relax with Tesoro and Lipo, but their quiet voyage was interrupted by pirates. After the Kuja Pirates destroyed the Dars Pirates’ ship, Gern recognized their second-in-command as Amazon Lily’s Snake Princess, Toritoma.

• Gern explained to Tesoro and Lipo that he had chosen a merchant ship to avoid a new assignment and enjoy some downtime.
• A crewman warned that the Dars Pirates were approaching, and Gern went to confront their captain, Dars.
• The Kuja Pirates fired on and destroyed the Dars Pirates’ ship before Gern could attack.
• Tesoro identified the approaching crew as the Kuja Pirates, and Gern recognized their second-in-command as Toritoma.

Marine Vice Admiral Gern Reginald Sigma confronted Toritoma and the Kuja Pirates after they sank the Dars Pirates, intending to make sure they left a merchant ship alone. Toritoma’s infatuation with Gern overwhelmed her, and she fainted in his arms, leaving the Kuja warriors convinced he had attacked her.

• Toritoma sensed someone watching her after the Kuja Pirates destroyed the Dars Pirates, but the presence vanished.
• Gern appeared atop the Sea Serpent and warned Toritoma that robbing the merchant ship would cause him trouble.
• Toritoma identified Gern as the Marine Vice Admiral known as “Heavenquake,” then denied that the Kuja Pirates wanted the merchant ship.
• A Kuja warrior fired an arrow at Gern, but his vibration power stopped it and broke it apart.
• Gern approached Toritoma, who blurted out “I do!” and fainted as he caught her.
• The Kuja warriors mistook Toritoma’s collapse for an attack and aimed their weapons at Gern.

Toritoma, Amazon Lily’s Snake Princess, recalled how seeing Gern Reginald Sigma crush a Celestial Dragon made her fall hopelessly in love with him. When they met again, she struggled to hide her feelings while fighting him, and Tesoro watched from a distant ship, mistaking their flirtatious clash for a scandal.

• Toritoma remembered despising love until she saw Gern crush a Celestial Dragon at Sabaody three years earlier, after which she obsessively collected information about him and tried to limit her daydreaming.
• A sea serpent delivered Gern to the Kuja ship, where Toritoma clung to him and woke from her lovestruck daze only to blush at his appearance.
• Toritoma drew her sword and attacked Gern, revealing herself as a Great Swordsman, but her close-quarters moves seemed more like flirtation than a serious fight.
• The Kuja warriors watched in confusion as Toritoma kept pressing against Gern while he tried to fend her off.
• From a distant merchant ship, Lipo worried that Gern had been kidnapped, and Tesoro used a spyglass to see Toritoma’s unusually intimate attack before joking that Gern needed Admiral Sengoku’s conduct lectures.

Gern ended his duel with Toritoma after realizing she would not strike him, then used Conqueror's Haki to overwhelm the Kuja Pirates before returning to the merchant ship. Toritoma remained infatuated with him and planned to pursue him later.

• Toritoma formally challenged Gern, offering to return to Amazon Lily with him if he lost.
• Gern sensed Toritoma's racing heartbeat and let her blade stop just short of his throat, saying he knew she would not strike.
• Gern released Conqueror's Haki that knocked out the Kuja crew, warned Toritoma of his strength, and re-formed aboard the merchant ship.
• Lipo and Tesoro teased Gern about Toritoma's advances, while Tesoro warned that the Great Swordsman would be difficult to brush off if she got serious.
• Toritoma watched Gern leave and told her crew she would give him time to catch his breath before pursuing him.

Kong and Sengoku learned that the Roger Pirates had disbanded and Roger had vanished, prompting an emergency Marine response. Gern ordered Tesoro and Lipo to return to headquarters without him, revealing that he had been waiting for this moment.

• A World Government agent told Kong that the Roger Pirates had disbanded on Baterilla and Roger had disappeared after leaving Laugh Tale.
• Kong and Sengoku suspected Roger had uncovered a dangerous secret, called an emergency meeting, and ordered a search for him.
• Sengoku reported that most of the Marines' strongest fighters were away, so Kong ordered Gern to return to headquarters and report on his mission.
• Tesoro told Gern that the Marines had confirmed the Roger Pirates' disbandment and ordered them back to headquarters.
• Gern instructed Tesoro and Lipo to take a warship back to headquarters without him and to tell everyone he was aboard, saying he had waited a long time for this day.

Roger hid on Baterilla Island with Rouge, concealing his terminal illness while preparing to leave and turn himself in. Gern confronted him at the shore and offered to lead him there, revealing that he had been waiting for this moment.

• Roger coughed blood outside his home but hid his illness from pregnant Rouge and decided to leave in a week to turn himself in at Loguetown.
• Roger shared dinner with Rouge and treasured their time together, knowing he might not live to see their child born.
• Several days later, Roger met Gern on Baterilla Island and thanked him for keeping CP Agents from discovering Rouge.
• Roger and Gern discussed fate and justice, and Roger told Gern that the coming stage was not his yet.
• Gern recognized that Roger was near death and planned to return to Loguetown to surrender, then offered to lead him there.
• Roger realized Gern had been waiting for the moment and called him a lunatic.

Gern confronted Roger, then challenged him on a deserted island and condemned his decision to leave Rouge and their unborn child behind after his death. Roger, enraged by Gern’s accusations, prepared to fight.

• Gern revealed that he intended to make capturing Roger a stepping stone to future promotions, and Roger attacked him without drawing Ace.
• Gern and Roger left the reef and traveled by boat to Biyax Deserted Island to continue their confrontation.
• At Marine Headquarters, Kong and Sengoku questioned Tesoro about Gern’s whereabouts before an intelligence officer reported unusual movements among the remnants of the Roger Pirates.
• Gern revealed that he knew about Rouge’s pregnancy and accused Roger of endangering her and their unborn child.
• Roger rejected Gern’s accusations, coated Ace in Armament Haki, and prepared to attack.

Gern and Roger fought at full strength across a devastated island, trading powerful Haki-infused attacks as Roger’s terminal illness began to weigh on him. They remained locked in a fierce standoff, with Gern now able to match the Pirate King in battle.

• Gern and Roger clashed blades, unleashing a shock wave that blasted them apart and left both eager to continue their final battle.
• Gern summoned twelve rings that bombarded the island with pillars of light, while Roger countered with Divine Departure and Gern answered with Supreme Wave Fist.
• Roger used his speed and Observation Haki to press Gern, while Gern reassembled his body, attacked with tremor slashes, and deflected Roger’s charge with a shock-wave shield.
• Roger stopped Gern’s Black Quake: Bone Vortex with his knee and counterattacked, but Gern collapsed the ground beneath him and pursued him with his blade.
• Gern and Roger exchanged close-range attacks until Roger’s illness strained his breathing and Gern’s uniform was cut; they separated across the ruined battlefield still facing each other.

Gern unleashed increasingly powerful quake attacks against Roger, culminating in a spatially destructive slash that Roger blocked after seeing the attack coming. Their swords and Conqueror’s Haki clashed above the ring-shaped lake, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Gern devastated the island with quake-powered attacks, while Roger countered his falling boulders and powerful sword strikes.
• Gern vanished and struck Roger with a Black Quake punch and kick, sending him crashing into the island and reshaping the surrounding land.
• Gern summoned Black Blade: Eight Desolations and unleashed Void Rend, tearing spatial fractures across the island and sea.
• Roger said he had seen the attack coming and blocked Void Rend with his sword.
• Roger and Gern met in a clash of swords and Conqueror’s Haki as the lake, sea, and earth shook around them.

Roger overwhelmed Gern with Haki and a devastating slash that split Gern and the island, then prepared to leave as Gern’s Logia Awakening transformed the surrounding sea and space into a vast destructive domain. Gern rose from the abyss and declared that their battle was not over.

• Roger overpowered Gern’s blade with Haki, drove him back, and unleashed a series of attacks culminating in Ara Mitama.
• Roger’s final slash cut through Gern and split the island, sending Gern falling toward the sea.
• Roger, badly wounded, began to leave the reef after the battle, but strange vibrations shook the surrounding ocean.
• Gern awakened his Logia powers, creating a vast waterless abyss and warping the sea, sky, and space around him.
• Gern rose from the abyss and turned the awakened domain into a weapon, telling Roger that the battle was not over.

Gern unleashed the full force of his awakened Tremor-Tremor Fruit against Roger, filling the battlefield with vibration, ice, fire, and black lightning. Roger endured Gern’s attacks and wounded him in a sword clash, but their duel continued as Gern unleashed another space-warping technique.

• Gern used his awakened powers to halt Roger’s Divine Departure and trap him in a cage of vibrating pillars and ice.
• Roger broke Gern’s cage with Conqueror’s Haki, then cut through Gern’s Ice-Fire Purgatory and faced his Heavenquake Dome: Heavenly Punishment.
• Roger’s Observation Haki let him predict Gern’s Tremor Flash, but Gern struck him with Heavenquake: Instant Prison and opened a wound across his chest.
• Roger and Gern resumed their sword duel, clashing Ace against Black Blade: Eight Desolations and trading rapid attacks.
• Gern used Heavenquake: Prison: Eclipsing Moon, which twisted and devoured light around his blade.

Gern used his awakened Tremor-Tremor Fruit powers to trap Roger in a Heavenquake Domain and unleash Star Collapse, an arrow that attacked from within his body. Roger countered the spreading quake rings with Soul Suppression, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Gern activated Space Dominion: All Things Disintegration, and Roger resisted its effects with Haki as they clashed across the battlefield.
• Gern unleashed Heavenquake: Ring: Quake God Dance, and Roger answered with Divine Departure: Break, taking damage from the shock waves.
• Gern expanded successive quake rings, forcing Roger to dodge while Gern formed a vibrational bow and fired Star Collapse.
• The arrow split into thousands of quake rings that invaded Roger's body, cracking his skin and turning his blood to mist.
• Roger plunged Ace into the ground and used Soul Suppression to disperse the quake rings attacking him from within.

Gern and Roger pushed their battle to the brink with attacks that shattered space across the battlefield. Both exhausted, they launched one final clash, with Roger declaring that the stage and era now belonged to Gern.

• Gern compressed his Heavenquake Domain into nine Godfall Star Rings, then unleashed three Heaven's Judgment slashes that tore open space around Roger.
• Roger countered with Divine-Wrath, striking the weak points in the spatial fissures and colliding with Gern's attack in an explosion that devastated the battlefield.
• After space repaired itself, Gern and Roger landed on tiny surviving patches of ground, both badly injured and near their limits.
• Gern said his era and future needed this battle, and he and Roger mustered their remaining strength for one final strike.
• Roger attacked with Divine-Departure and announced that the stage and era belonged to Gern, who answered with Divine-Fall.

Garp returned to Marine Headquarters, where Sengoku told him the Roger Pirates had disbanded and ordered him to find and kill Roger. Garp agreed to search for Roger and Gern, though he doubted Roger was plotting against the world.

• Garp returned to Marineford and read Sengoku's report that the Roger Pirates had disbanded.
• Sengoku said the World Government suspected Roger had learned a dangerous secret and ordered the Marines to find him and kill him on sight.
• Garp agreed to help find Roger but said his gut told him Roger was not a power-hungry schemer.
• Garp asked to take Gern along, and Sengoku explained that Gern had disappeared after pretending to be aboard the returning warship.
• Sengoku suspected Gern was somewhere in the Grand Line or the Four Blues and told Garp to throw him into the sea if he found him trying to secretly court the Snake Princess of Amazon Lily.
• Garp prepared to leave, while Sengoku reminded him to eat the senbei and get moving.

Tesoro asked Garp to take him and Lipo along, warning that Gern might be hunting Roger, and Garp realized Roger was likely headed home to the East Blue. Two days after Gern and Roger’s clash at Biaks Island, the Marines learned the battle had devastated the surrounding waters and stopped without a confirmed victor, prompting an urgent search for Gern near Loguetown.

• Tesoro asked Garp to let him and Lipo join the pursuit of Roger because he suspected Gern was already hunting him, and Garp agreed.
• After Tesoro left, Garp recalled Gern’s remark about Roger going to the South Blue and deduced that Roger intended to return to his East Blue hometown.
• Three days after Garp left headquarters, Kong, Sengoku, and Zephyr received word that Gern and Roger had fought at full strength on Biaks Island in the Skara Waters.
• The Marines learned that the battle had warped space, caused a colossal tsunami, sunk three islands, and left the surrounding waters inaccessible, but they could not determine who had won.
• The officers discovered that Garp was bound for Loguetown and that CP Agents believed it was Roger’s final destination, so Zephyr ordered an immediate search for Gern.

After Gern returned to Loguetown with Roger in Seastone cuffs, Roger and Garp shared a final laugh as the town marked the end of an era. The chapter revealed that Gern had lost their three-day battle but had persuaded Roger to let go of his sword, and the fight’s aftermath created the Godfall Ruins.

• After waiting three days, Lipo and the Marines saw Gern return to Loguetown aboard a battered ship, carrying Eight Desolations.
• The fog cleared to reveal Roger, wounded and in Seastone Handcuffs, aboard the ship behind Gern.
• Roger laughed at Garp, and Garp laughed back through his tears as Loguetown’s bell rang.
• Big News Morgans photographed Roger and Garp’s farewell, with Gern at the bow as a witness to the moment.
• Gern revealed that Roger had defeated him in their three-day battle, but his quiet words made Roger stop his blade and release Ace into the sea.
• The battle’s aftershocks warped the surrounding sea into a forbidden zone later known as the Godfall Ruins.

The world learned that Vice Admiral Gern had arrested Roger after a catastrophic battle, and the Marines announced Roger’s public execution in Loguetown. As the Roger Pirates accepted their captain’s final order, Shanks vowed to become the next era’s king, while Whitebeard recognized Gern’s rise and dared him to come.

• The World Economy News Paper reported Roger’s arrest, the three-day battle with Gern, and the creation of the Godfall Ruins, while the Marines announced Roger’s execution in one month.
• On the Oro Jackson, Rayleigh told Shanks, Buggy, and Gaban that the Roger Pirates had disbanded on Roger’s final order and that they must not interfere.
• Rayleigh said Gern had been coming for the age of kings and reminded the crew that Roger had said he would not die.
• Shanks vowed to carry on Roger’s will and become the king of the next era.
• Aboard the Moby Dick, Whitebeard recalled Gern’s earlier feat, acknowledged that he had made his name known, and challenged him to come.

Gern returned to Marine Headquarters as the celebrated Marine who had captured Roger, while Roger revealed to Garp that he had allowed the capture and asked him to protect his unborn child. The chapter left Garp departing Impel Down with Roger’s request and warnings about Gern on his mind.

• Marines celebrated Gern’s capture of Roger as he walked through Marineford and raised his arm in a cry of “Justice,” while Kong recognized his growing influence.
• Three days later, Garp visited Roger in Impel Down and asked why he had let Gern arrest him.
• Roger said he had intended to turn himself in and suggested that Gern’s power could end the current era, though he denied that he had made Gern a legend.
• Roger told Garp that the blade would never choose the wrong master, referring to Gern and Rocks.
• Roger revealed that he was going to be a father and asked Garp to protect his child, and Garp left without turning back.