Chapter Summaries

Queen tried to rescue Yamato from Huayue but failed to catch him by surprise, then fought Huayue while Yamato and Hiyori ate the banquet food. Kaido and King arrived, and Huayue revealed that around two thousand Hollows were ready for a test against them.

• Queen used his invisibility to approach Yamato, but Huayue detected him and warned him off.
• Queen transformed and attacked Huayue and a mountain-sized boar, only for Yamato and Hiyori to enjoy the banquet food while he fought.
• Yamato called Huayue her big brother, and Kaido landed and scolded her before discussing the importance of Haki with Huayue.
• King arrived and challenged Queen, while the Hollows Queen had attacked regenerated and rose from the shadows around Kaido and the others.
• Queen revealed that he had around two thousand Hollows, including immortal subjects, ready for an experiment, and Kaido welcomed the challenge.

Kaido attacked Uchiha Huayue with his Fire Dragon Bagua after King and Queen fought the revived, increasingly powerful Menos Grande. Kaido believed he had killed Huayue and Yamato, but Huayue revealed that Kaido had been trapped in Genjutsu.

• Kaido smashed more than a hundred Menos Grande, but they revived and transformed into Animal-type Ability Users.
• King urged Kaido to target Uchiha Huayue, while Queen offered to recreate the Ability Users using Vegapunk's Lineage Factor.
• King and Queen attacked the Menos Grande with fire and lasers as Kaido prepared to fight Huayue.
• Kaido closed his eyes and struck at Huayue with Haki Infusion: Ascending Dragon: Fire Dragon Eight Trigrams, convinced he had pierced Huayue and Yamato.
• Huayue's voice continued after the attack, and he revealed that Kaido had been under Genjutsu.

Huayue defeated Kaido after using Queen and King’s injuries to demonstrate the danger of Kaido’s own attack, then revealed that his companion Citus had collected Lineage Factors. Wano’s people celebrated Kaido’s fall as Huayue’s forces left, while Citus moved to collect Orochi’s Lineage Factor.

• Kaido found Queen and King gravely injured and confronted Huayue, who explained that their wounds came from Kaido’s Fire Dragon Bagua.
• Kaido charged Huayue with Great Dragon Thunder Bagua, but Huayue stopped his Hassaikai with one finger and cut off one of his horns.
• Huayue revealed that the apparent Buckingham Stussy was Citus, a clone, and Kaido lost consciousness after Huayue’s blade struck him.
• Citus reported that the Lineage Factor collection was complete, and Huayue departed as Wano’s citizens celebrated Kaido’s defeat and prepared to bind him with Seastone.
• Jack wandered away in shock, while Orochi ordered Fukurokuju to wake Kaido and sent his ninja forces out.
• Citus appeared beside Orochi with a syringe and said she intended to collect his Lineage Factor.

Golden Lion Shiki escaped Impel Down after severing his own legs and reclaiming his swords, while Douglas Bullet refused to join him until he had reached his limits. A month later, Shiki appeared on Spring Island and addressed Whitebeard, whose rise to a Four Emperor had become known.

• Two guards told Golden Lion Shiki that Uchiha Huayue, Whitebeard Edward Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, and Kaido were the Four Emperors, and Shiki declared that the sea’s ownership remained undecided.
• Shiki killed the guards, reclaimed his swords from the weapons storage room, and invited Douglas Bullet to join his pirate fleet, but Bullet refused until he had reached his limits.
• Shiki escaped Impel Down by cutting off his Seastone-shackled legs and using his Float-Float Fruit power, while Shiryu refused to stop him.
• Magellan reported Shiki’s escape, and the World Economic Journal announced that he was the first prisoner to break out of Impel Down.
• A month later, Shiki met Whitebeard on Spring Island and congratulated him on becoming one of the Four Emperors.

Golden Lion parted from Whitebeard after warning him of his plans and threatening Uchiha Huayue, while Whitebeard set sail toward the World Government with his crew. At Sabaody, Shanks reunited with Rayleigh, who warned him about the Four Emperors and Uchiha Huayue as Shanks prepared to pursue Laugh Tale.

• Golden Lion told Whitebeard he intended to claim the world and threatened to cut off one of Uchiha Huayue's legs when they met again.
• Golden Lion floated away, and Whitebeard told Marco he was only going into hiding before setting sail with the Moby Dick.
• Whitebeard declared that his crew would go after the World Government to show Garp and Sengoku he was still strong.
• Shanks arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago and reunited with Rayleigh at a coating shop.
• Rayleigh urged Shanks to watch the Four Emperors and Uchiha Huayue closely, and Shanks said he would seize hope from the World Government for the right person.

After waking from his defeat by Uchiha Huayue, Kaido ordered Queen to develop an Ability User army and build the facilities needed for research in Wano Country. Queen and King began arranging the weapons factory and power plant, while Kaido planned to bring Donquixote Doflamingo into the Beast Pirates’ subordinate crews.

• Kaido woke in the Shogun's Residence, and King and Queen reflected on their defeat by Uchiha Huayue.
• Kaido demanded that Queen create the Lineage Factor of Ability Users, threatening him until Queen agreed to try if he could obtain materials.
• Kaido ordered Queen to build a laboratory rivaling Punk Hazard and declared that he would form his own Ability User army.
• Queen lamented the lack of equipment and resources in Wano Country, but King urged him to start with a thermal power plant and weapons factory.
• King told Queen that Kaido planned to recruit Donquixote Doflamingo to sell weapons, while Huayue sneezed in a rundown New World town and picked up a blood-red fruit.

Huayue recognized that events were turning toward the East Blue, where Dragon’s wife died giving birth to their son. Dragon met Garp in Foosha Village, revealed the baby was his son, and named him Monkey D. Luffy.

• Citrus showed Huayue the Bat-Bat Fruit, and he praised Vegapunk’s work while observing Yamato and Hiyori train under heavy gravity.
• Huayue learned it was May 5th and sensed that significant events were beginning in the East Blue.
• Dragon waited outside a delivery room in Goa Kingdom, but his wife died after giving birth to a healthy boy.
• Dragon took his son to Foosha Village, where Garp arrived and angrily confronted him about leaving the Marines.
• Dragon told Garp the child was his biological grandson, and Garp eventually held him and learned his name was Monkey D. Luffy.

Dragon left his infant son Luffy with Garp, who arranged for Woop Slap and his wife to raise him before departing for Whole Cake Island. At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku ordered Rosinante to infiltrate the Donquixote Pirates and spy on his brother Doflamingo.

• Dragon challenged Garp by asking whether Marines could change the World Government’s restrictions, laws, and slavery, then disappeared into the wind.
• Garp left Luffy with Woop Slap and his wife in Foosha Village, saying he would return when Luffy turned three to train him as a Marine.
• Garp ordered his warship to set sail for Whole Cake Island in the New World.
• Sengoku summoned Lieutenant Colonel Rosinante to his office and gave him documents describing Doflamingo as a future threat.
• Sengoku asked Rosinante to infiltrate the Donquixote Pirates, explaining that Doflamingo would not suspect his own brother of being a Marine agent.

Donquixote Rosinante left the Marines for half a year of pirate training, hoping to reduce the suffering caused by the Celestial Dragons. Huayue trained Yamato and Hiyori in Haki before heading out with them, while Boa Hancock and her sisters were captured by human traffickers bound for Sabaody.

• Rosinante recalled his family's persecution, his father's murder by his brother, and his own decision to protect people as a Marine before agreeing to leave for pirate training.
• Sengoku arranged for Rosinante's Marine file to be sealed and sent him to undergo half a year of pirate training.
• Huayue put Yamato and Hiyori through punishing Observation Haki training on a lightning-covered island and learned that Kurozumi Orochi's Mythical Zoan fruit granted nine lives.
• After Yamato and Hiyori collapsed, Huayue carried them away and decided they would set out without choosing a destination in advance.
• Human traffickers captured Boa Hancock, Boa Sandersonia, and Boa Marigold and headed toward Sabaody to sell them at auction.

The Boa Sisters were captured and imprisoned in a slave auction house, where they learned they were being sold to Celestial Dragons. Flame Flower searched for the missing girls and encountered someone from her past who called her Gloriosa.

• Boa Hancock, Sandasonia, and Marigold woke shackled in a cage at a slave auction house and learned their collars were Seastone bombs.
• A prisoner warned the sisters about the Celestial Dragons and repeatedly triggered his collar, but the auction staff sedated him to keep him alive for torture.
• Auction staff hurried to prepare the prisoners for an auction attended by Celestial Dragons, and their leader took a particular interest in the Boa Sisters.
• Flame Flower read about Golden Lion's escape from Impel Down and Uchiha Huayue's clash with Kaido before Amazon Lily warriors told her the Boa Sisters had vanished.
• Flame Flower searched the surrounding waters, where an enormous white cloud descended and a stranger greeted her as Gloriosa.

Uchiha Huayue met Flame Flower on Amazon Lily, collected her Lineage Factor, and agreed to look for the missing Boa Sisters. He then continued his journey with Yamato and Hiyori, leaving them puzzled by his views on trust.

• Flame Flower confronted Uchiha Huayue, who assured her the God Tree would not consume Amazon Lily and asked for her Lineage Factor.
• Flame Flower gave Huayue a blood sample and asked him to find the missing Boa Sisters, including a black-haired girl; he agreed to keep an eye out.
• Yamato and Hiyori secretly watched Huayue and Flame Flower, then teased Huayue about their relationship.
• Huayue rapped Yamato and Hiyori on the head, scolded them about their training, and told them he had never asked for their trust.
• Huayue told Yamato and Hiyori to follow him, and they set off across the sea.

Crocodile rescued Alabasta’s coast from pirates as he began laying the groundwork to gain control of the kingdom and search for an Ancient Weapon. Months later, Baroque Works began recruiting, while Rosinante returned to the Donquixote Family and quietly considered how to limit Doflamingo’s crimes.

• Crocodile decided that he needed Alabasta’s resources and support to find the Ancient Weapon, rather than simply destroying the kingdom.
• Crocodile defeated pirates attacking Alabasta’s coast, drained their captain with Sand Dune, and presented himself as the nation’s protector.
• Pell arrived after the battle and grew suspicious that Crocodile’s intervention concealed a conspiracy.
• A mysterious Baroque Works recruitment notice appeared across the four seas several months later.
• Doflamingo welcomed his mute younger brother Rosinante back into the Donquixote Family and showed him the children being trained as its future pillars.
• Rosinante resolved to make Doflamingo commit fewer sins, while his careless act of setting his feathered cloak ablaze led the family to spread rumors that he disliked children.

Sengoku learned that Uchiha Huayue had reached Whole Cake Island seeking a treasure held by Charlotte Linlin, then ordered a major Marine response. As Garp, Borsalino, Kuzan, and Sakazuki mobilized, the Marines deployed secret warships built by Vegapunk, leaving the scale of the coming conflict unclear.

• Sengoku received a routine report that the Donquixote Family remained in North Blue, then learned a strange cloud had reached Whole Cake Island and a Marine warship had gone silent.
• Uchiha Huayue answered the Marine Den Den Mushi and told Sengoku he had come for Charlotte Linlin’s treasure, refusing to confirm Sengoku’s guess that it was a Poneglyph.
• Sengoku ordered Garp to Whole Cake Island and directed Borsalino to gather vice admirals for a Buster Call against Uchiha Huayue.
• Borsalino invited Kuzan and Sakazuki to join the mission; Kuzan worried about his wounds, while Sakazuki declared he would fight.
• Fifty special steam-powered Marine warships headed for the New World, and Sentomaru explained that Vegapunk had built them for laser beams and shockwaves under the Five Elders’ orders.

The Five Elders ordered a massive World Government operation to eliminate Uchiha Huayue after Imu marked him as a dangerous variable. Meanwhile, Huayue arrived at Whole Cake Island with Hiyori and Yamato, intending to meet Big Mom and investigate her Devil Fruit ability.

• Sengoku informed the Five Elders that Uchiha Huayue was on Whole Cake Island, and they expanded the planned force to one hundred warships and eighty thousand Marines.
• Imu marked Uchiha Huayue's wanted poster with a shadow arrow and ordered the Five Elders to eliminate him.
• The Five Elders committed forces from the Marines, CP0, and Impel Down, called for Zephyr and Vegapunk's Sea Beast Weapons, and planned to attack once Huayue was exhausted.
• Huayue arrived near Whole Cake Island with Hiyori and Yamato, where Hiyori and Yamato tasted the island's sweet snow.
• Huayue said they were going to meet Big Mom and revealed his interest in her Devil Fruit ability and its possible power to help him break through a final barrier.

Uchiha Huayue arrived at Whole Cake Island with Yamato and Hiyori to meet Charlotte Linlin, alarming the Charlotte Family. After learning that Yamato was Kaido’s daughter, Linlin welcomed her and proposed that Huayue become her thirty-ninth husband.

• Huayue explained that Whole Cake Island’s food was created by Streusen and said he had come seeking the Big Mom Pirates’ Lineage Factors, especially the Soul-Soul Fruit and Eat-Eat Fruit.
• Biscuit Soldiers surrounded Huayue, Yamato, and Hiyori, and Huayue asked them to tell Linlin that an old friend from Rocks had arrived.
• Mont-d'Or recognized Huayue as one of the Four Emperors, and news of his arrival sent the Charlotte Family rushing toward Whole Cake Chateau.
• Linlin greeted Huayue and questioned Yamato and Hiyori, then learned that Yamato’s father was Kaido and unleashed her Conqueror’s Haki.
• Linlin said she had searched for Huayue after God Valley and asked him to become her thirty-ninth husband, stunning the Charlotte Family.

Charlotte Linlin proposed a marriage alliance to Uchiha Huayue, but he rejected her and insulted her appearance. Linlin flew into a rage and attacked him with her Homies.

• Charlotte Linlin invited Uchiha Huayue to marry her and unite their power to conquer the sea.
• Katakuri warned Linlin that Huayue could not be trusted, and Huayue shattered her Conqueror's Haki with azure lightning.
• Charlotte Linlin's children armed themselves after Huayue refused the proposal, while Linlin demanded to know why he had rejected her.
• Huayue said he was not interested in Linlin, her power, or her treasures, and called her daughters more attractive than her.
• Charlotte Linlin summoned Prometheus, Zeus, and Napoleon, then launched Elbaf Spear: Weiguo at Huayue.

Uchiha Huayue withstood Charlotte Linlin’s Weiguo and criticized her lack of Haki training, prompting her to unleash Zeus’s devastating lightning attack on Whole Cake Chateau. As the castle crumbled, Huayue countered with Chibaku Tensei, leaving Charlotte Linlin facing a sphere that drew the rubble toward itself.

• Charlotte Linlin’s Weiguo struck the Queen’s Chamber, but Uchiha Huayue remained seated on the throne, and she recognized his control over Zeus and other natural souls.
• Uchiha Huayue mocked Charlotte Linlin’s neglected Haki training, making her furious enough to summon Zeus and attack with Great Full Freedom Heavenly God.
• Katakuri ordered Brûlée to open the Mirror World, and the Charlotte Family fled inside as lightning engulfed Whole Cake Chateau.
• Uchiha Huayue used Sage Art: Yin Release Lightning Dispatch to meet Charlotte Linlin’s storm while telling Yamato and Hiyori to watch without fear.
• After the lightning reduced Whole Cake Chateau to ruins, Uchiha Huayue cast Chibaku Tensei, and its gravity pulled the wreckage toward a black sphere above Charlotte Linlin.

Uchiha Huayue captured two Poneglyphs and battled Charlotte Linlin, who turned his Chibaku Tensei boulder into a Homie. Huayue then unleashed a devastating white blast that left Linlin immobilized and Katakuri pinned by black rods.

• Uchiha Huayue used Kamui to take the two Poneglyphs as Chibaku Tensei dragged rocks and debris into a giant sphere.
• Charlotte Linlin gave the sphere a soul, creating a Homie that stopped the gravitational pull and drew praise from the fleeing residents and pirates.
• Charlotte Smoothie rebuked Mont-d'Or for doubting their mother, while Katakuri foresaw danger and shouted for Charlotte Linlin to flee.
• Uchiha Huayue declared the experiment complete and unleashed a brilliant white blast that devastated Cake Island and sent Charlotte Linlin crashing onto mochi, unable to move.
• Uchiha Huayue appeared behind Katakuri and pinned him with black rods, telling him he only wanted to talk.

Uchiha Huayue forcibly drew Katakuri’s Future Sight and subdued him while battling the Charlotte Family on Whole Cake Island. As Charlotte Linlin attacked, Huayue restrained her with Wood Release and attempted to take her Lineage Factor, but even a Seastone syringe could not pierce her skin.

• Huayue forced the Character Check-in draw to grant him Katakuri’s Observation Haki and revealed that he had captured Katakuri.
• Perospero, Daifuku, and Cracker tried to rescue Katakuri, but Huayue’s black flames overwhelmed them and devastated Whole Cake Island.
• Charlotte Linlin awoke, saw the destruction and Katakuri’s capture, and doubled her strength by consuming a year of her lifespan.
• Linlin attacked Huayue with Napoleon, but he restrained her and the island with Sage Art Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.
• Huayue tried to take Linlin’s Lineage Factor with a Seastone syringe, but it could not pierce her skin.

Uchiha Huayue pierced Charlotte Linlin’s Iron Balloon with Dust Release, extracted her from the battlefield using Infinite Bandit, and overwhelmed the Charlotte Family with his abilities. As Katakuri tried to help his siblings escape, Huayue paralyzed them and prepared to take their Lineage Factors.

• Uchiha Huayue used Sage Art: Dust Release: Mini Atomic Dismantling Jutsu to pierce Charlotte Linlin’s Iron Balloon and draw her Lineage Factor.
• Uchiha Huayue trapped Charlotte Linlin in a black cube with Infinite Bandit and told the Charlotte Family she would return safely in a few hours.
• Charlotte Smoothie attacked Huayue with an enormous sword aura, but he caught it effortlessly and asked about her Devil Fruit.
• Katakuri pulled out Huayue’s Chakra Black Rods and urged Brûlée to open the Mirror World so the others could flee.
• Uchiha Huayue unleashed multicolored lightning that paralyzed Katakuri and the Charlotte siblings and sealed their Devil Fruit powers.
• Uchiha Huayue approached Katakuri with a needle and said he only intended to take some of his Lineage Factor.