Chapter Summaries

After Kizaru reported Gern’s return and Kuma’s appearance to Sengoku, Gern finished preparing at G-10 and sailed toward the G-1 Branch Base, openly setting his course for Mary Geoise. Garp, Kuzan, and Kizaru waited at G-1 while the Marines tried to disguise the brewing crisis as a routine internal dispute.

• Kizaru backed down when Gern held Eight Desolations to his throat, then fled and secretly reported Gern and Kuma to Sengoku.
• Gern waited several days while Tesoro coordinated G-10’s supplies, ammunition, and ship maintenance.
• Gern and the Calamity Faction boarded a single warship and sailed toward the G-1 Branch Base, the official route to Mary Geoise from the New World.
• Garp, Kuzan, and Kizaru waited casually at G-1 as they discussed whether Gern would come through the base.
• Garp warned that he would stop Gern if necessary, while Kuzan and Kizaru doubted the three of them could actually do so.

Admiral Gern forced his way into the Marines’ G-1 Branch after claiming he needed to protect the Celestial Dragons, then defeated Vice Admiral Strawberry and took command of the base. G-1’s Marines accepted his authority, leaving Gern in control of the gateway to Mary Geoise.

• Vice Admiral Strawberry refused Gern’s demand to pass through G-1 and ordered the harbor guns to target his fleet.
• Gern ordered his ships to force a landing, and Dracule Mihawk and Toritoma cut the incoming cannonballs apart with flying slashes.
• Gern led his powerful forces onto the pier, where Strawberry tried to block their advance and warned him to leave.
• After telling Strawberry that he was a Marine, not a dog, Gern overpowered him and smashed him into the pier, leaving him unconscious.
• Gern declared that he was taking control of G-1’s defenses, and the Marines saluted and accepted his command.

Gern refused Garp’s offer to investigate Enel’s death and unleashed his space-shattering power against Garp, Kuzan, and Kizaru at the G-1 Branch elevator. The Calamity Faction’s core fighters arrived to support him as he threatened to kill anyone who tried to stop him.

• Garp urged Gern to stop and promised to investigate Enel’s death, but Gern rejected his offer.
• Garp prepared to fight Gern, who gripped the air and shattered space with two punches, sending a devastating shock wave at Garp, Kuzan, and Kizaru.
• Garp blocked the shock wave, Kuzan raised an ice wall that cracked, and Kizaru retreated as golden light.
• Dracule Mihawk, Bartholomew Kuma, Douglas Bullet, Tesoro, Lipo, Enel, and Toritoma arrived as the Calamity Faction’s core fighters.
• Gern warned everyone in the passage to be ready to give their lives.

Kuzan, Garp, and Kizaru faced Gern and his allies, but Kizaru deliberately missed with his attacks while the others appeared reluctant to stop him. Gern reached Mary Geoise and confronted Saint Figarland Garling, whose son Shamrock began to suspect the humiliating rumors about his father were true.

• Kuzan stood with Garp and declared that Marine Headquarters had ordered him to stop Gern.
• Kizaru unleashed Yasakani no Magatama but aimed his light bullets around Gern's group, making his attack look fierce while doing little harm.
• Saint Figarland Garling waited at the elevator entrance with Shamrock, confident that Garp, Aokiji, and Kizaru would prevent Gern from reaching them.
• Gern emerged through the mist unharmed, his Haki scattering it as he mocked Garling about their past fight.
• Garling grew furious at Gern's taunts, while Shamrock wondered whether the rumors about his father's defeat were true.

At G-1, Kuzan, Kizaru, and Garp fought to a standstill against their opponents. In Mary Geoise, Gern unleashed his full Conqueror’s Haki and sent Saint Garling crashing through a wall with one slash, then turned toward Shamrock.

• Kuzan was pinned down by Toritoma and Mihawk while Tesoro and Lipo remained frozen in ice.
• Enel and Kuma pressured Kizaru, who evaded their attacks and maintained an apparent stalemate.
• Bullet and Garp fought evenly at G-1.
• Gern released his full Conqueror’s Haki, forcing Shamrock to his knees and staggering Saint Garling.
• After Garling insulted Gern’s subordinate, Gern struck him with Godfall, shattering his sword and blasting him through a wall.
• Gern sheathed Eight Desolations and turned his attention to the kneeling Shamrock.

Gern continued into Mary Geoise after sending Saint Figarland Garling flying, and confronted two Holy Knights who tried to stop him. He overwhelmed the Sheep-Skull-Masked God Knight with Black Quake: Star-Piercer, leaving the sniper God's Knight watching from a distance.

• The Sheep-Skull-Masked God Knight and the sniper God's Knight saw Saint Figarland Garling defeated and realized Gern was heading toward Pangaea Castle.
• The Sheep-Skull-Masked God Knight attacked Gern with his scythe, but Gern's body rippled and rejoined after the blade passed through it.
• The Sheep-Skull-Masked God Knight used shadow movements to strike from multiple angles while claiming he could see through Gern's attacks.
• Gern revealed that he had let the knight see what he wanted, locked him in place with Haki lightning, and struck him with Black Quake: Star-Piercer.
• The shock wave shattered the platform and pulverized the Sheep-Skull-Masked God Knight's body.

Gern killed the Sheep-Skull-Masked God Knight and tied his head to his waist as he continued toward Pangaea Castle. He also defeated the last sniper God Knight, discovering that neither enemy had the immortality he expected.

• Gern shattered the Sheep-Skull-Masked God Knight's mask with vibration energy and beheaded him with Eight Desolations.
• Gern tied the God Knight's head to his sash and continued toward Pangaea Castle.
• The remaining sniper God Knight fired a Seastone Bullet at Gern, but Gern stopped it with a vibrating barrier.
• Gern appeared behind the sniper God Knight, pierced his head and body with Eight Desolations, and destroyed him with Conqueror's Haki.
• Gern turned toward Pangaea Castle with another head to add to his belt.

Sengoku confronted the Five Elders over their actions against G-10 and used Gern’s assault on Mary Geoise to secure sweeping autonomy and recognition for the Marines and G-10. The Five Elders accepted his demands, but rejected his request for Jewelry Ginny, prompting Saint Saturn to leave and confront Gern himself.

• Saint Mars demanded that Sengoku explain why Garp, Kuzan, and Borsalino had failed to stop Gern.
• Sengoku warned the Five Elders that Gern’s conflict with the World Government could destabilize the New World, then rebuked them for attacking G-10 without consulting him.
• The Five Elders recognized that Sengoku was using the threat of Gern’s destructive powers to force concessions, and Saint Shepherd Ju Peter asked him to end the crisis.
• Sengoku demanded Marine operational autonomy, self-government for G-10 under Gern, recognition of Gern as the New World’s Fifth Power, compensation, and an end to covert attacks on Marine officers.
• The Five Elders accepted Sengoku’s conditions, but Saint Saturn refused his demand to hand over Jewelry Ginny and left to deal with Gern himself.

Gern slaughtered the forces sent against him in the Celestial Dragons’ residential district until Jaygarcia Saturn Saint confronted him over Bartholomew Kuma’s Buccaneer blood. Gern refused Saturn’s demand that Kuma’s people remain enslaved, and the two prepared to fight as Saturn transformed into his Gyuki hybrid form.

• Gern continued cutting down CP0 agents, guards, and Celestial Dragon soldiers, noting that the World Government had not sent the Holy Knights back.
• Jaygarcia Saturn Saint appeared and told Gern that Bartholomew Kuma had Buccaneer blood and was destined to be a slave.
• Gern asked whether Saturn intended to surrender Kuma and the others, then rejected Saturn’s claim that the Buccaneer Tribe did not deserve freedom.
• Gern removed his cloak and shirt, gathered vibrating white particles in his left hand, and armed his Black Blade: Eight Desolations with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Saturn recognized the blade and transformed into his Mythical Zoan Gyuki hybrid form as Gern readied himself to attack.

Gern fought Saint Saturn in his Ox Demon form, using Haki and vibration attacks against the Elder’s psychic powers, venom, and rapid regeneration. Gern dodged the Evil Eye and severed Saturn’s spider legs with a concentrated slash, but Saturn’s limbs began growing back.

• Gern charged Saint Saturn, clashing blades with his horn and striking his belly with a vibration sphere that failed to stop his regeneration.
• Saint Saturn attacked with a spider leg and venom, but Gern used a vibration recoil to evade both and resumed his assault.
• Gern dodged Saint Saturn’s Evil Eye through Observation Haki, surprising the Elder and creating an opening.
• Gern used Tremor Flash to appear behind Saint Saturn and cut off all his spider legs with Divine Mind Slash.
• Saint Saturn crashed to the ground as black mist enveloped his wounds and his severed legs began regenerating.

Gern used his vibration powers and Observation Haki to overcome Saint Saturn’s venomous assault and inflict devastating wounds, but Saint Saturn struck back and sent him crashing through ruined walls. Saint Saturn then leaped toward the place where Gern had fallen, intent on killing him.

• Saint Saturn regenerated his spider legs and unleashed a storm of venomous thrusts, but Gern dodged them by sensing their trajectories.
• Gern repelled Saint Saturn’s attack with Eight Directions Quake Wall, then plunged Black Blade: Eight Desolations into his abdomen and unleashed Eight Desolations Flow.
• Saint Saturn’s body split with eight massive fissures as the vibration tore through him, but he blasted Gern away with black mist.
• Saint Saturn’s partly repaired spider leg swept into Gern, striking his waist and sending him through several ruined walls.
• Saint Saturn gathered his strength, leaped toward Gern’s landing place, and slammed down while declaring that Gern would die.

Gern badly wounded Saint Saturn with a series of vibration attacks and destroyed his gyuki head, but Saturn transformed into his full beast form and faced Gern with even greater power. The fight continued as the true gyuki emerged in the ruins.

• Saint Saturn offered to let Gern leave the Holy Land, but Gern laughed and called him weak.
• Gern pierced Saturn’s chest with Air Quake: Finger Pistol, then struck his body with eight Heavenquake: Eight Extremes Jade blasts.
• Gern used Heavenquake: Crying Light to pierce Saturn’s evil eye and explode his gyuki head.
• Saturn’s headless body erupted with Haki and black mist, then transformed into his full-beast Gyuki form.

Gern battled Saint Saturn in his Ox Demon form and used a devastating vibration attack to crush him. Elsewhere in Mary Geoise, Fisher Tiger climbed the Red Line and launched his liberation campaign against the Celestial Dragons.

• Saint Saturn transformed into the Ox Demon and attacked Gern with enhanced strength, speed, venom, and an evolved Evil Eye.
• Gern escaped the Evil Eye’s mental assault by dispersing into vibrating particles and reassembling above Saint Saturn.
• Gern unleashed Heavenquake: Star Ring, crushing and tearing at Saint Saturn’s massive body while Saint Saturn recognized the attack’s power.
• Fisher Tiger climbed the Red Line to Mary Geoise and vowed to begin the road to liberation.
• Fisher Tiger charged toward the Celestial Dragons’ district.

As Gern pinned Saint Saturn in the north, Sengoku used the crisis to press the Five Elders for greater power. A report that Fisher Tiger had started a slave uprising in the south left the Elders with no forces to spare, while Sengoku refused to involve the Navy.

• The Five Elders watched Gern's Star Ring grind down Saint Saturn's Ox Demon form as Sengoku offered to hold peace talks with Gern.
• The Elders realized Sengoku was using the crisis to bargain for influence and that they had lost their control over him.
• A Den Den Mushi report said Fisher Tiger had broken into the Land of the Gods, freed the slaves, and caused Celestial Dragon casualties.
• The Five Elders looked to Sengoku for help because the Holy Knights and CP0 were tied down in the north.
• Sengoku said Fisher Tiger had nothing to do with the Navy, leaving the Elders to face the uprising without its support.

Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro forced Sengoku to accept a deal, then headed north to confront Gern while ordering CP0 to reinforce the south and crush the slave uprising. Nusjuro reached Gern and attacked, but Gern split his slash, leaving the two to face off.

• Saint Nusjuro agreed to Sengoku's demands and told him to come north to meet Gern Reginald Sigma.
• Saint Nusjuro ordered Saint Marcus Mars to withdraw CP0 from the northern defenses and send them south to suppress the slave uprising.
• Gern prepared to add another Heavenquake Star Ring to restrain Saint Saturn when Nusjuro's slash cut through the Star Ring and nearly struck him.
• Gern used Heavenquake: Underworld Rend to split Nusjuro's slash, whose severed halves froze and annihilated everything they struck.
• Saint Nusjuro appeared in his awakened centaur form, and he and Gern faced each other.

Gern and Sengoku staged a clash to end the confrontation with Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro, but Sengoku mistook Gern for the mastermind behind Fisher Tiger’s raid on the Celestial Dragons. Gern realized Tiger’s liberation of the slaves had happened independently, while Nusjuro watched the Navy’s apparent performance with anger.

• Gern challenged Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro’s First Generation Kitetsu after Nusjuro returned to his human form and stopped attacking.
• Gern saw Sengoku arrive with the rescued Ginny, then attacked Nusjuro and the area behind him with Air Quake.
• Sengoku transformed into his Golden Great Buddha form and blocked Gern’s shockwave, while the two pretended to fight fiercely.
• Sengoku quietly accused Gern of arranging a diversion that let Fisher Tiger raid the Celestial Dragons’ stronghold, but Gern denied planning Tiger’s actions.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro watched the controlled clash and recognized that the Navy officers were acting, but held back his anger.

Gern struck Sengoku to help disguise their cooperation and buy Fisher Tiger and the escaping slaves time, while Sengoku played along by angrily condemning him. Saint Saturn and Saint Nusjuro tried to prevent the confrontation from turning into Gern’s outright rebellion against the Navy.

• Gern learned that CP0 planned to withdraw south and crush Fisher Tiger’s uprising, then apologized to Sengoku before abruptly attacking him with Black Quake Piercing Drill.
• Gern’s strike sent Sengoku crashing into the buildings, shocking Saint Saturn and Saint Nusjuro and making them question whether Sengoku had been trying to stop Gern.
• Sengoku realized Gern had attacked him to make their cooperation look genuine and draw attention away from Fisher Tiger, though he suspected Gern had also taken the chance to settle a personal grudge.
• Sengoku loudly accused Gern of betraying the Navy, but Saint Saturn and Saint Nusjuro hurried to calm him and insisted Gern’s attack did not amount to betrayal.

Gern and Sengoku staged a fierce battle that drove deeper into the Land of the Gods, then unleashed attacks so powerful that Saint Nusjuro and Saint Saturn had to intervene. The Elders stopped the clash but realized Gern and Sengoku had deliberately used them as shields while trying to harm each other.

• Gern and Sengoku continued their staged fight, steering their battle toward the heart of the Land of the Gods and forcing Saint Saturn and Saint Nusjuro to step in.
• Gern unleashed Heavenquake: End at Sengoku, who answered with a full-strength shock wave, bringing both attacks toward a devastating collision.
• Saint Nusjuro intercepted Gern's slash and diverted it, while Saint Saturn blocked Sengoku's shock wave with his Ox Demon form.
• Saint Nusjuro and Saint Saturn suffered severe injuries as they stopped the attacks and realized Gern and Sengoku had expected them to intervene.

Sengoku defused the confrontation with the Five Elders by promising disciplinary action against Gern, then left the Holy Land with Gern and Ginny. Saint Nusjuro concluded that Gern had become an Emperor and ordered the World Government to treat matters involving G-10 as a top-level emergency.

• Sengoku ended his staged argument with Gern and promised Saint Nusjuro that the Navy would discipline Gern.
• Saint Nusjuro accepted Sengoku's promise, and Gern sheathed his blade before Sengoku helped Ginny up and led her away with him.
• Saint Saturn insisted that Buccaneer Tribe members were destined to be slaves, while Saint Nusjuro argued that Kuma had only moved into a larger cage.
• Saint Nusjuro explained that the World Government, Navy, and G-10 now formed a fragile balance of power, and declared that Gern had surpassed Admiral level and was already an Emperor.
• Saint Nusjuro ordered World Government organizations, affiliated nations, and Celestial Dragon families to report G-10-related matters immediately and forbade independent action without unanimous approval from the Five Elders.

Gern returned to G-1 and found Kuzan had frozen the Calamity officers after a fierce battle. Sengoku declared the mission over, while Ginny recognized Kuma among the ice sculptures and realized he had come to rescue her.

• Gern entered the frozen underground harbor and saw Mihawk, Kuma, Bullet, and the other Calamity officers trapped in ice.
• Kuzan explained that Mihawk and Bullet had been especially difficult to freeze, with help from Garp and Kizaru.
• Garp demanded that Sengoku let him visit his grandson, then asked Gern if the mission was over.
• Sengoku solemnly declared that it was over, bringing the upheaval in the Holy Land to a temporary halt.
• Ginny recognized Kuma and rushed to his ice sculpture, sobbing with relief as she understood that he had come to save her.