Chapter Summaries

Sakazuki killed Blood Ox Johnny and destroyed the Blood Ox Pirates’ ship before deciding to join the Marines. At the recruitment office, he revealed that he was a Magma-Magma Fruit Logia user, stunning the clerk.

• Sakazuki defeated Blood Ox Johnny, whose crew had massacred more than ten villages, and killed him with magma.
• Sakazuki collected treasure, marked Johnny’s bounty poster with an X, and sailed away as the pirate ship exploded and sank.
• Sakazuki reflected that he had spent two years hunting pirates and decided to join the Marines to eradicate them.
• Half a month later, Sakazuki applied at Marine Branch 194 on Windflower Island and told the clerk he was twelve years old.
• Sakazuki said he wanted to eradicate every pirate and revealed that he had eaten the Magma-Magma Fruit, making the clerk leap up in shock.

Sakazuki joined the Marines as a Magma-Magma Fruit user, and his power earned him a Marine Captain appointment and a place in the Headquarters Academy's elite class. Three years later, after crushing pirates near Reverse Mountain, he prepared to report to headquarters.

• Yor brought Sakazuki to Branch Commander Jorison, who learned that Sakazuki wielded the Magma-Magma Fruit and contacted Fleet Admiral Kong.
• Jorison told Sakazuki that headquarters had appointed him a Marine Captain and that he would train at the branch before joining the Headquarters Academy's elite class.
• Jorison recognized Sakazuki as the North Blue Demon and praised his record against pirates.
• Three years later, Sakazuki and his Marines destroyed a pirate ship near Reverse Mountain.
• Jorison told Sakazuki to return and prepare to join that year's elite class, and Sakazuki answered by unleashing Great Eruption on the silent pirate ship.

After three years of training and pirate patrols, Sakazuki left the 194th Branch for Marine Headquarters with a notebook of advice from Jorison. During the journey, he killed Savage Bone Noss and his crew with a single magma attack, terrifying the other recruits.

• Jorison gave Sakazuki a notebook about Headquarters factions and people’s personalities before Sakazuki departed.
• Sakazuki boarded the Headquarters warship, where the other elite recruits sized him up and discussed their prospects.
• After collecting recruits across the Four Blues, the warship crossed Reverse Mountain and entered the Grand Line.
• Rear Admiral Wells ordered the recruits to prepare to board Savage Bone Noss’s pirate ship, whose captain had a bounty of twenty-four million.
• Sakazuki unleashed Molten Flow Volcano, engulfing the pirate ship in magma and killing Noss and his crew.

Sakazuki arrived at Marine Headquarters with other recruits and began a week of instruction and assessment under Vice Admirals Zephyr and Garp. During his first test, he struck Captain Phil with a magma-powered attack that pierced Phil's Iron Body-Steel defense.

• Sakazuki and the other recruits arrived at Marineford and gathered in the training plaza.
• Zephyr and Garp announced that they would instruct and assess the recruits for a week before selecting candidates for three years of guided training.
• Zephyr told the recruits to obey their instructors and uphold the Marines' justice, then ordered captains to test them.
• Sakazuki was called to fight Captain Phil and warned him to be careful.
• Sakazuki used Red Lotus and Molten Burst, but Phil's Iron Body-Steel failed to stop his magma fist from sinking into his stomach.

Sakazuki fought Garp in a training arena, pushing his magma abilities and stamina to their limits. Garp emerged unhurt and invited Sakazuki to join his ship after graduation, while Zephyr stopped him and resumed the testing.

• Garp took over Sakazuki’s test after Phil’s Iron Body was broken.
• Sakazuki activated his red lotus state and traded a rapid series of punches with Garp.
• Sakazuki used underground magma eruptions to set up a Hell Hound strike that engulfed Garp.
• Garp burst free unscathed, praised Sakazuki, and invited him to join his ship after graduation.
• Zephyr rebuked Garp, told Sakazuki to fall back in, and continued the testing.

Sakazuki led Doberman and other Marines in defeating Spring Renko’s pirates, then received orders for flag officers to assemble at headquarters. Suspecting the God Valley Incident was imminent, Sakazuki destroyed the captured pirate ship and returned to base.

• Sakazuki ordered his warship to attack the pirates, and Doberman cut down their incoming cannon shells.
• The Marines boarded the damaged pirate ship, where Doberman fought Spring Renko and blinded him with a Finger Pistol.
• Sakazuki killed Spring Renko with a magma bullet and forced the remaining pirates to surrender.
• Sakazuki ordered the wounded treated and heard that all flag officers had been summoned to headquarters.
• Sakazuki destroyed the captured pirate ship with Great Eruption and ordered the Marines to return to base as the God Valley Incident began.

Sakazuki learned that the Rocks Pirates were heading to God Valley, prompting the Marines to prepare a buster call while Rocks rallied his crew to attack. Roger also turned toward the West Blue after deciding he would intervene, leaving the banquet to drink with Rayleigh.

• Sakazuki arrived at Marine Headquarters and learned from Vice Admiral Morris that the Rocks Pirates were sailing to God Valley, where Celestial Dragons and slaves were staying.
• Morris told Sakazuki that the Five Elders had authorized a buster call if the Marines could not defend God Valley, and Fleet Admiral Kong assigned the forces before departing with a masked figure.
• Rocks D. Zebek urged Shiki, Whitebeard, Charlotte Linlin, and the other Rocks Pirates to attack God Valley and begin conquering the world.
• Roger, having reached Lodestar Island, ordered the Oro Jackson to turn back toward the West Blue and discussed with Rayleigh whether to stop the Celestial Dragons or Rocks.
• Roger decided to intervene, then pulled Rayleigh back to the banquet to eat and drink.

Kong, Sengoku, and Garp learned that Rocks had attacked God Valley to claim a Celestial Dragons' Secret Treasure, while the Buster Call Fleet sailed to confront him. Seven days later, Rocks arrived at God Valley and unleashed his Conqueror's Haki as the battle began.

• Kong met with two of the Five Elders and learned that a boy who had infiltrated God Valley had joined the Rocks Pirates.
• Kong confirmed that the Buster Call Fleet had departed, while one Elder dismissed Rocks as a clown and called the attack an opportunity.
• Aboard the fleet, Sakazuki reassured Doberman that the World Government had outlasted generations of pirates and conquerors.
• After seven days, the men in the God Valley Palace sensed Rocks's arrival and walked outside as his Conqueror's Haki swept over the island.
• Rocks declared that the world would tremble and ordered his forces to kill everyone.

The Rocks Pirates attacked God Valley, overwhelming the island’s slave army and branch Marines until Sakazuki arrived with a devastating rain of magma fists. He found the Marine defenders badly depleted and began forming a Great Funeral Array from the magma.

• Golden Lion sent pirate ships crashing into God Valley’s perimeter, and Rocks led the charge toward the palace.
• Sengoku attacked Rocks’s group with a Buddha Shockwave, which Whitebeard countered with his tremor force.
• A Five Elder ordered the Buster Call fleet to attack the pirates when it reached God Valley.
• As the perimeter defenses neared collapse, Sakazuki’s magma fists rained from the sky, killing many pirates and destroying thirty percent of the attackers.
• Sakazuki arrived at the defensive line, saw that more than half the Marine soldiers were dead or wounded, and activated Great Funeral Array.

Sakazuki landed on God Valley and attacked the pirates with powerful magma techniques, then pursued the young Kaido after nearly killing him. As the battle continued, Roger and several core members arrived at the island and headed toward the fighting.

• Sakazuki launched himself from the Marine fleet and used Death Burial Formation to send magma giants charging into the pirates.
• Kaido smashed the magma giants and used Thunder Bagua, drawing Sakazuki’s attention.
• Sakazuki caught Kaido with Dog Biting Crimson Lotus and attacked him with Great Eruption.
• Kaido escaped Sakazuki’s assault by fleeing deeper into God Valley, and Sakazuki cleared more pirates with Magma Great Burial before chasing him.
• Roger and several core members disembarked from the Oro Jackson and headed toward the battlefield while others ran to plunder the palace ruins.

The battle for God Valley escalated as the pirates and World Government forces clashed across the island, while Rocks confronted two of the Five Elders and Fleet Admiral Kong inside the Palace. Roger and his crew arrived to join the fighting, and the chapter left Roger separating Whitebeard and Sengoku with Divine Departure.

• Garp smashed Golden Lion’s lion-shaped attacks and hurled Haki-coated rubble at him.
• Sengoku and Whitebeard traded shock waves and clashed directly, while Charlotte Linlin fought three CP0 agents with her Homies.
• Rocks entered the Palace and attacked two of the Five Elders and Fleet Admiral Kong with Annihilation.
• Kong answered Rocks’s sword strike with Steel Bone: Cone, and their collision produced a mushroom cloud.
• Roger, Rayleigh, and Gaban reached the battlefield and charged at the combatants.
• Roger struck the point where Whitebeard and Sengoku were locked together with Divine Departure, forcing them apart.

Roger persuaded Whitebeard and Sengoku to stop fighting so he could join the battle against Rocks, while Rocks’s forces began to lose ground. As Sakazuki incapacitated Kaido, Charlotte Linlin arrived and unleashed an attack at him.

• Roger asked Whitebeard and Sengoku to trust him and let him pass, and Whitebeard left the fight.
• Roger joined Garp against Golden Lion, who fled after launching Lion: Thousand-Cut Valley; Roger and Garp then charged toward the main battle.
• Charlotte Linlin drove back Rayleigh and CP0, but retreated when Sengoku approached; Sengoku attacked her as she escaped.
• Gaban and two explosive-collar slaves trapped Silver Axe, and Gaban killed him with his axes.
• John, Ochoku, and other Rocks pirates fled or were captured as the battle turned against them.
• Sakazuki used Life Absorption to activate Red Lotus Mode and impaled Kaido with Hell Hound, but Charlotte Linlin’s Ikoku Sovereignty attack then tore toward him.

Sakazuki survived Charlotte Linlin’s attack and escaped underground while she carried the mortally wounded Kaido toward Rocks’s ship. As Linlin tried to reach the ship, the magma Sakazuki had left inside Kaido erupted from his wound.

• Sakazuki poured his remaining energy into the magma inside Kaido, then took Charlotte Linlin’s Ikoku Sovereignty slash and was badly wounded.
• Charlotte Linlin rescued Kaido and hurried toward Rocks’s ship, while Sakazuki recognized that Rocks’s crew had begun betraying or abandoning him.
• Linlin attacked Sakazuki with Maser Cannon: Three Thousand Leagues, but he raised a magma volcano to intercept it and fled underground.
• Linlin blasted through the cabin of Rocks’s ship with Maser Saber and rushed toward it with Kaido in her arms.
• Magma inside Kaido’s wound erupted before Linlin could cover it with Armament Haki.

Charlotte Linlin sacrificed the lifespans of pirates and marines to keep Kaido alive, triggering panic and a fight to escape aboard the remaining ships. Far beneath God Valley, Sakazuki gathered the underground magma and prepared it for a catastrophic eruption, waiting for a catalyst.

• Charlotte Linlin used her Soul-Soul Fruit power to harvest the lifespans of pirates and marines and pour them into the dying Kaido.
• Charlotte Linlin carried Kaido toward Rocks's ship, harvesting more lives as terrified survivors fled and slaughtered one another to board the remaining ships.
• Sakazuki sensed the magma he had left inside Kaido erupt but continued toward the depths of God Valley.
• Sakazuki reached the underground magma, gathered it with his power, and calmed its growing unrest.
• Sakazuki said the magma still needed a catalyst, then surged upward toward the battle as the molten rock grew hotter.

Shiki arrived to rescue the pirates escaping God Valley, while Charlotte Linlin emerged from Rocks's flagship and refused to join him. After learning Kaido's left lung had been destroyed by magma and could not regenerate, Linlin unleashed her killing intent against the Navy fleet.

• The Buster Call Fleet opened fire on the escaping pirate ships, and Vice Admiral Morris organized the Navy after Shiki's sword slashes wrecked most of its warships.
• Shiki lifted several pirate ships and Rocks's flagship into the air, rescuing the pirates and calling on Linlin to join forces with him.
• Linlin refused Shiki's offer and declared that she only wanted to kill.
• The chapter revealed that Kaido's Mythical Zoan Fruit had healed his wounds but could not restore his magma-destroyed left lung.
• Linlin summoned Zeus, darkened the sky with thunderclouds, and attacked the Buster Call Fleet with Fulgora.

The Marines and pirates clashed as Charlotte Linlin’s storm battered the Buster Call Fleet, but a master swordsman Vice Admiral split the thunderstorm before it could crush the ships. Meanwhile, Sakazuki prepared a magma eruption beneath God Valley and escaped toward the shore, leaving the island’s destruction—and the buried super battleship—to come.

• Mamaragan struck the Buster Call Fleet with lightning, and a Marine Vice Admiral cleared the clouds with a sword slash while officers prepared to fight.
• Golden Lion invited Whitebeard to join him, but Whitebeard said he wanted a family, and Shiki ordered Charlotte Linlin to leave.
• Charlotte Linlin sent the compressed thunderstorm toward the fleet, and the Vice Admiral split it with his Sky Splitter technique.
• Sakazuki used Observation Haki to scout the battlefield, prepared magma eruption routes beneath God Valley, and fled toward the shore.
• Sakazuki left the island primed to erupt and destroy itself along with the numbered super battleship buried beneath it.

Sakazuki returned to the shore wounded after Charlotte Linlin drove off the pirate he had pursued. At God Valley, Rocks fought Roger, Garp, the Five Elders, and Kong, while Roger remained missing from the battlefield.

• Sakazuki reached the shore as Vice Admiral Morris organized aid for the wounded Marines, and medical officers treated Sakazuki’s injuries.
• Sakazuki told Morris that Charlotte Linlin had rescued the pirate he was chasing, and Morris realized her attack had injured many soldiers.
• Rocks exchanged blows with Roger and Garp, then clashed with the sword-wielding and burly members of the Five Elders.
• Kong struck Rocks as he was driven toward the ground, while Sengoku, Rayleigh, and others watched the battle from a distance.
• Roger did not reappear after Rocks had sent him flying.

Roger used Observation Haki’s Voice of All Things to learn the colossal battleship’s past and weakness, then struck it with Divine Departure as the Elders rushed in. He escaped the collapsing underground Palace with the Elders, leaving the battleship to shake apart.

• The cursed-sword Elder noticed Roger’s actions, ordered Kong and Garp to occupy Rocks, and rushed toward the Palace with the burly Elder.
• Roger sensed the battleship’s joy and history through the Voice of All Things, then discovered its weakest point.
• The cursed-sword Elder tried to stop Roger, but Roger struck the battleship’s weak point with Divine Departure and was hurled into a wall by the Elder’s slash.
• The two Elders confronted Roger as the damaged battleship began to collapse, then agreed to leave the underground Palace.
• Roger apologized to the battleship before leaving as its energy surged and the underground hall collapsed.

The Five Elders joined the battle and helped turn back Rocks’s advance, while their thoughts revealed that they had deliberately lured him into the fight. The sword-wielding Elder attacked Rocks, leaving the battle poised for their confrontation.

• The burly Elder caught the retreating Sengoku and helped him regain his footing.
• The sword-wielding Elder ordered Sengoku to guard the perimeter, and Sengoku returned to his post.
• The Five Elders regarded Rocks as a dangerous threat because he commanded many of the world’s strongest pirates.
• The sword-wielding Elder declared that Rocks would meet his end and swung his blade at him.

Rocks fought Garp and the Five Elders, then turned on Roger after learning Roger had destroyed the thing he wanted. As a massive pillar of energy erupted beneath the Palace, Rocks was consumed by hatred and vowed to kill everyone.

• Rocks overpowered Garp, shrugged off a sword slash, and drove the sword-wielding member of the Five Elders backward.
• Roger emerged from the underground Palace and clashed blades with Rocks, telling him he had destroyed the thing Rocks wanted.
• Rocks flew into a rage and knocked Roger away, but Garp struck him into a crater and resumed fighting him.
• A huge pillar of energy erupted from beneath the Palace, and Rocks felt his bloodline stir before roaring that everyone would die.