Chapter Summaries

Gern arrived at Amazon Lily, used his overwhelming power to force the Kuja to hear him out, and revealed that he had come for the ailing Snake Princess. After offering her a chance at treatment through the World Government, he declared that he intended to take her away himself.

• Gern summoned a massive tsunami and shook Amazon Lily to compel Torch Lily and the Kuja warriors to let him speak.
• Gloriosa learned that Gern had come to recruit the Kuja into the Shichibukai, while Torch Lily discovered that her sister was leaving with him.
• Gloriosa told Torch Lily that Gern could help cure the Snake Princess and that the Kuja had no power to refuse him.
• Gern visited the Snake Princess and offered treatment from Vegapunk in exchange for Amazon Lily joining the Shichibukai and publicly supporting the Navy.
• The Snake Princess questioned Gern’s true motive, and he swept her into his arms and said he had come to steal her away.

Gern left Amazon Lily aboard the White Gull with the recovering Snake Princess, while Torch Lily grieved and confessed her envy to Gloriosa. Three days later, Gern asked the Snake Princess to choose to help him as a companion, and she smiled as he turned toward their next destination.

• Gern sailed away from Amazon Lily with the Snake Princess, Tesoro, and Lipo aboard the White Gull.
• Gloriosa told Torch Lily that her sister had needed to leave, and Torch Lily admitted she envied her sister for being taken away by a man who loved her.
• Three days later, the recovered Snake Princess teased Lipo and flirted with Gern aboard the White Gull.
• Gern told the Snake Princess that he needed her help because he was in a precarious position in the Marines, then clarified that he wanted her as a companion, not merely as a fighter.
• Gern said the Snake Princess had to choose for herself, and she smiled as he walked toward the bow.

Gern took the White Gull and his crew to Jaya in search of Sky Island, then created a Knock Up Stream that carried them into the sky. They landed on the White Sea, where Snake Princess discovered that Gern had taken a picture of her disheveled appearance.

• Tesoro questioned whether Sky Island was real, but Gern pointed out a distant Knock Up Stream and said he would create one himself.
• Gern used his powers to form a massive whirlpool and launch the White Gull skyward with a powerful current.
• Gern caught Snake Princess as she nearly fell overboard, while the crew clung to the ship during its violent ascent.
• The White Gull broke through the clouds and landed on the White Sea, astonishing Tesoro and Lipo.
• Snake Princess realized Gern had carried her beneath his arm and photographed her disheveled state, then shouted at him.

Gern and his companions searched the White-White Sea for Angel Island but encountered Sky Island Warriors who mistook them for intruders. After the Snake Princess defeated the warriors without injuring them, Gern demanded to meet Gan Fall and hinted that they could replace him as ruler.

• Lipo asked whether the White Gull was lost as Gern searched the vast sea of clouds, and Tesoro found the Log Pose useless.
• Four Sky Island Warriors confronted the crew, declared that they had entered Gan Fall's Land of God, and demanded to know their business.
• Gern recognized Gan Fall as Sky Island's current ruler and recalled that Enel would not take power until years later.
• The Snake Princess challenged the warriors, then used Kuja Style: Morning Glory, Evening Forgetfulness to split their Wavers and weapons without hurting them.
• Gern told the shaken warriors that he wanted to question Gan Fall, while the Snake Princess threatened to give the Land of God a new ruler if he refused to cooperate.

Gern and his companions invaded Upper Yard and forced Gan Fall to reveal where Birka was. After Gern demonstrated overwhelming power, the group left for the island while Gan Fall remained kneeling amid the ruined temple.

• A Sky Island warrior agreed to guide Gern and his companions to Gan Fall, and Tesoro later threw the guide from the warship.
• Gern and his companions reached Gan Fall's temple, where Gern's Conqueror's Haki incapacitated the guards.
• Gan Fall attacked Gern with his lance, but Gern's Haki forced him to his knees and left him unable to move.
• Gern demanded directions to Birka, and Gan Fall said it lay southeast of the Land of God.
• Gern warned Gan Fall not to send pursuers, then unleashed his Haki and pulverized the temple before departing with the Snake Princess, Tesoro, and Lipo.

Gern and his companions arrived on Birka and drew the attention of its new ruler, Enel, who had taken over the island with his lightning powers. Enel confronted them, and Gern invited him to join him.

• Gern, Tesoro, Snake Princess, and Lipo found Birka eerily quiet, and Gern said its ruler already knew they had arrived.
• Enel killed three priests who lied to him, celebrated his power, and used Observation Haki to listen to thoughts across Birka.
• Enel sensed Gern listening back and flew into a rage before transforming into lightning and heading toward the group.
• Snake Princess split Enel’s lightning strike, but it formed a cage around the group as Enel descended from the clouds.
• Gern greeted Enel by name and invited him to join him.

Gern confronted Enel and showed that Enel’s lightning and claims of invulnerability could not withstand stronger Haki and combat skill. After Gern’s body recovered from Enel’s spear, Enel wondered if Gern was a god too.

• Enel attacked Gern with lightning, but Gern remained unharmed and explained that Enel’s Mantra was not strong enough to hear his thoughts.
• Enel claimed he was invulnerable and sat still, so Gern called on Lipo to test him.
• Lipo struck Enel with an Armament Haki kick, sending him crashing into a distant building.
• Enel erupted in rage and launched a 60 Million Volt Thunder Dragon at Gern, who dispersed it with his Haki-coated hand.
• Enel pierced Gern with his reshaped spear, but Gern’s body recovered, leaving Enel to ask if Gern was a god too.

Gern confronted Enel in Birka, overwhelmed him with Conqueror’s Haki, and urged him to join his crew. Enel awakened his own Conqueror’s Haki in response but collapsed unconscious after Gern declared him the “Thunder” among his Calamities.

• Gern showed Enel his Tremor power and mocked his claim to godhood as he headed toward Birka’s Divine Palace.
• Gern unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki and forced Enel to his knees, then invited him to see the real world and become a true god.
• Enel rejected Gern’s invitation and declared that he was already a god.
• Enel awakened Conqueror’s Haki, and Gern’s companions recognized that Gern had provoked the awakening.
• Gern and Enel’s Haki clashed until Gern’s pressure overwhelmed Enel, who collapsed unconscious after Gern named him the Thunder among his Calamities.

Gern challenged Enel to touch him while he ate, effortlessly evaded and endured Enel’s attacks, and exposed the limits of his Observation Haki and combat skills. Enel transformed into a towering Thunder God, but Gern remained unfazed and asked if that was what Enel called getting serious.

• Enel awoke beside Gern and accused him of sparing him out of contempt, and Gern agreed that Enel was weak.
• Gern offered to let Enel attack for ten minutes while he ate, promising Enel a win if he could touch him once.
• Enel unleashed a series of lightning attacks, but Gern evaded them or let them pass through his vibration-particle form while criticizing Enel’s Observation Haki and physical combat.
• Enel summoned thunderclouds and struck Gern with El Thor, but Gern remained unharmed and continued eating.
• Enel transformed into a giant 200 Million Volt Thunder God and threatened Gern, who finished his fish and asked whether Enel was getting serious.

Gern defeated Enel and offered him a place in his group as the embodiment of God's Justice. Enel accepted, eager to descend to the Blue Sea and impose his divine rule.

• Gern evaded Enel's lightning attacks with Tremor Flash and criticized his undeveloped combat skills.
• Gern shattered Enel's Thunder God Form with Black Quake: Star-Piercer and explained that he needed a god.
• Enel recognized Gern's strength but, still unwilling to submit, challenged him and then conceded after awakening his own Conqueror's Haki.
• Gern defined God's Justice as absolute divine judgment, and Enel embraced the role, threatening to rule the Blue Sea and even destroy Gern if he grew stronger.
• Gern tossed Enel an apple, and Enel followed Gern, Lipo, the Snake Princess, and Tesoro toward the Blue Sea.

Enel destroyed a small pirate ship to demonstrate his power while the White Gull waited for a ride back to Marineford. Garp arrived to pick up Gern, and Enel attacked him only to be knocked unconscious on the deck.

• Enel struck a pirate ship with El Thor, destroying it and its crew.
• Lipo praised Enel’s attack and grabbed his earlobe, prompting him to complain and punish her for frightening him.
• Gern told Enel that stronger pirates awaited in the Grand Line’s second half and that they were waiting for another warship to take them to headquarters.
• Garp arrived aboard a Dog-Head Warship and leaped toward the White Gull.
• Enel charged at Garp, who knocked him unconscious with a single impact.
• Gern told the puzzled Garp that Enel was merely sleeping because young people were healthy.

Gern and his companions joined Garp aboard his warship, where Garp knocked Enel unconscious twice and then took him into the cabin. The chapter ended with Gern finding Enel sickened by a suspicious green liquid Garp had made him drink.

• Garp arrived to pick up Gern, Toritoma, Tesoro, Enel, and the others, and Gern introduced Toritoma and Enel to him.
• Enel woke and challenged Garp, who knocked him out with a Fist of Love after Gern warned him he was outmatched.
• Garp took Enel to the cabin for senbei, while Toritoma frightened Marines who had been staring at her.
• Lipo told Gern that Garp had made Enel drink a lot of strange liquid, and Gern found Enel slumped in a chair with green liquid at his mouth.

Garp asked Gern whether he and Kuzan could avoid fighting, but Gern explained that the World Government feared his influence and ambition more than his rank. Garp accepted that Gern would fight Kuzan and encouraged him to do so, while warning him not to cripple his former pupil.

• Garp met Gern on the warship and asked if he and Kuzan were truly going to fight.
• Gern told Garp that the World Government wanted him suppressed because his influence and understanding of justice threatened its power.
• Gern revealed his ambition by unleashing vibration particles that violently shattered the sea around the ship.
• Garp recognized how powerful Gern had become and warned him that the Navy must remain the Navy.
• Garp told Gern to fight Kuzan if the World Government wanted to watch, but warned him not to cripple him.

Enel rose rapidly through Marine training, earning a lieutenant colonel rank and a reputation as a powerful, arrogant rookie. Gern then brought him to Sny Island to oversee a blockade targeting possible survivors of Roger’s bloodline.

• In 1499, Lipo Hope and Gild Tesoro were promoted, while Toritoma joined the Marines as a rear admiral under Gern’s direct command.
• Enel dominated his training intake, mastered basic Armament Haki under Zephyr, and graduated early as a lieutenant colonel.
• The World Government launched a Marine and CP0 blockade of twenty-four islands to find and kill any possible child of Roger, with Gern commanding the operation.
• Gern arrived at Sny Island with Enel and discussed Gecko Moria’s defeat and Enel’s training.
• Marine recruits praised Enel’s strength and recounted how he had defeated trainees and sunk a Big Mom Pirates ship with Mamaragan.

Gern defied the World Government’s order to kill the pregnant women and infants on Sny Island, declaring that the Marines’ justice prevailed there. Enel killed the CP Agents, leaving Spandine defeated and the Marines emboldened.

• CP Agents registered eighty-nine pregnant women and twenty-two infants, and Spandine told Gern that the World Government had ordered them all killed.
• Gern questioned whether the screening had missed anyone, then told Spandine to carry out the order, prompting the CP Agents to aim their weapons at the crowd.
• Enel struck the ground with lightning to stop the CP Agents, while Gern clarified that he had not meant for Spandine to obey the World Government.
• Gern ordered the Marines to escort the women and children home and declared that the flag on Sny Island stood for Marine justice.
• Enel struck down the CP Agents with lightning, leaving their bodies charred as Gern told Spandine that Marine justice would remain on the island.

At the blockaded island, Gern ignored Sengoku’s orders while protecting civilians and killing CP Agents. In Marineford, Kong revealed he intended to grant Gern independent autonomy as a counter to the World Government, leaving Sengoku alarmed at the power and risks that would bring.

• Gern killed CP Agents at the island port, and ignored an urgent message from headquarters to continue his plan.
• Sengoku complained to Kong that Gern’s mission would worsen tensions with the World Government, but Kong said the conflict was necessary.
• Kong explained that Gern’s Calamity faction could serve as a buffer between the Marines and the World Government.
• Kong revealed he would grant Gern subordinate independent autonomy after Gern’s duel with Kuzan, prompting Sengoku to angrily condemn the decision.
• Kong said the World Government was weakening the Marines and argued that Gern could disrupt its schemes, leaving Sengoku responsible for deciding how to wield that power.

Spandine discovered that Ohara scholars were secretly researching the Void Century, while Gern and Kuzan began their high-stakes battle on Sakapachi Island. Their clash left both men battered but determined to continue fighting seriously.

• Spandine found an Ohara expedition ship and learned that its scholars were secretly researching the Void Century.
• Kong, Sengoku, Garp, Zephyr, and other observers gathered near Sakapachi Island as Gern and Kuzan prepared to fight.
• Gern chose to fight Kuzan with his fists, recalling their training under Garp, and Kuzan answered by unleashing his ice powers.
• Gern and Kuzan exchanged attacks with ice and vibration powers, neither gaining a clear advantage.
• Gern and Kuzan collided in a final exchange of punches, flew backward, and shouted at each other to start taking the fight seriously.

Gern and Kuzan fought across a frozen island, trading powerful attacks that tested Gern’s vibration and Haki against Kuzan’s ice. They continued charging at each other, neither gaining a decisive advantage.

• Kuzan froze Gern, but Gern broke free and rushed him with a vibration-charged punch.
• Kuzan froze the island with Ice Age and attacked with ice spears, but Gern shattered them with his vibrations.
• Kuzan’s Frozen Capsule chilled Gern so deeply that his blood nearly froze, but Gern collapsed the ice field with Heavenquake: Treading the Stars.
• Kuzan countered with Ice River: Prism and an ice storm, while Gern defended and destroyed a wave of spears with Heavenquake: Earthsong.
• Gern and Kuzan exchanged close-range attacks, then sprang apart and charged at each other again.

Enel watched Gern and Kuzan's distant battle and saw their power as a goal he could surpass, then froze in midair and crashed onto the warship's deck. The chapter left Tesoro lamenting Enel's decision to show off by flying.

• Enel excitedly asked Tesoro whether Gern had shown his full strength, and Tesoro said the battle was not to the death.
• Enel laughed, unleashed his lightning, and declared that he would someday surpass Gern and Kuzan.
• Kong, Garp, and Zephyr discussed Enel's Rumble-Rumble Fruit, potential, and reckless personality.
• A stray wave of Kuzan's freezing air encased Enel in ice and sent him plummeting onto the deck.
• Tesoro looked at the fallen ice sculpture and complained that Enel did not need to fly just to show off.

Gern and Kuzan fought a devastating battle on Sakapachi Island, trading quake-powered attacks and ice techniques. Kuzan remained standing despite his injuries and praised Gern as a true monster.

• Gern used Heavenquake attacks and tracking vibration spheres to break through Kuzan's ice defenses, while Kuzan answered with powerful ice techniques.
• Kuzan and Gern exchanged a clash that sent both flying across the ice, then Gern unleashed Heavenquake Falling Star and Black Quake: Star-Piercer.
• Gern's Tremor Flash and Instant Inferno nearly struck Kuzan, but Kuzan escaped with an ice substitute and trapped Gern in an icy coffin.
• Kuzan attacked with Divine Spear Forest and an ice blade, wounding Gern before Gern shattered the blade and struck him with Supreme Wave Fist.
• Kuzan rose with cracked ice armor and blood at his mouth, then called Gern the kind of monster he admired.