Chapter Summaries

Shanks learned that the World Government still feared the Nika fruit, while Sakazuki arrived at G8 and prepared to confront Amazon Lily over its refusal to accept the Shichibukai appointment. Hancock rejected the Marines’ demand and mobilized Amazon Lily’s warriors as Sakazuki’s fleet reached the island.

• Shanks refused to leave Foosha Village after seeing Bullet’s name and photograph in the newspaper.
• The Five Elders argued over retrieving the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, and focused on unrest spreading across the seas.
• Sakazuki and Carol visited Jonathan at G8, where Jonathan warned Sakazuki that Hancock might resist the Shichibukai appointment.
• Sakazuki saw the petrified and shattered remains of more than a thousand soldiers and sailed with two warships toward Amazon Lily.
• Hancock crushed the Den Den Mushi, rejected Granny Nyon’s warning, struck her, and ordered Sonia and Gorudo to assemble the warriors.
• Granny Nyon called Shakky as Hancock and her sisters left the palace to confront the Marines.

Sakazuki arrived at Amazon Lily to deliver Hancock’s Shichibukai appointment, but Hancock attacked the warships and challenged him. After Sakazuki defeated the Kuja Pirates and captured Hancock, she refused to undo the soldiers’ petrification, so he killed Gorudo and aimed at Thonia.

• Granny Nyon asked Sakazuki to entrust Hancock’s appointment letter to her, but Hancock arrived with the Kuja Pirates and attacked the warships with Slave Arrows.
• Hancock declared the Marines trespassers and tried to petrify Sakazuki with Mero, Mero, Mero, but her power had no effect on him.
• Sakazuki attacked with Hell Hound, killing most of the Kuja Pirates, then captured Hancock as Thonia and Gorudo tried to stop him.
• Carol struck Thonia and Gorudo with Imperial Azure Dragon, knocking them down, while Sakazuki demanded that Hancock undo the petrification.
• Hancock refused to comply unless Sakazuki left the island, so he killed Gorudo and turned his finger toward Thonia.

Sakazuki crushed Boa Hancock’s resistance and left her in a vegetative state, then forced Granny Nyon to accept the Shichibukai appointment in exchange for help rebuilding Amazon Lily. As Sakazuki returned to his warship, a ringing Den Den Mushi made Granny Nyon fear that Shakky was calling.

• Granny Nyon took a blow meant for Sonia and begged Sakazuki to spare the Kuja sisters, but he killed Sonia before Hancock could undo the petrification.
• Sakazuki recalled his massacre of Eilinsna’s Kuja crew, then beat Hancock and dislocated all four of her limbs when she attacked him.
• Sakazuki told Hancock that Navy technology could keep the petrified soldiers alive as obedient machines, then crushed her cervical vertebrae and ordered Carol to keep her alive and take her to Punk Hazard.
• Sakazuki made Granny Nyon accept the Shichibukai appointment and gave Amazon Lily three years to rebuild before proving itself by hunting pirates.
• As Sakazuki headed back to the warship, a Den Den Mushi rang near the shore, and Granny Nyon feared Shakky was calling.

Sakazuki crippled Granny Nyon and overwhelmed Amazon Lily as Shakky raced to intervene. Meanwhile, Who's-Who escaped his prison after learning about Nika and realizing the government might kill anyone connected to the legend.

• Sakazuki answered the Den Den Mushi, shot Granny Nyon's injured shoulder, and crushed the snail after hearing that reinforcements were coming.
• Sakazuki subdued Amazon Lily's approaching warriors with his killing intent and Conqueror's Haki, while Shakky abandoned her speedboat and hurried toward the island.
• In Foosha Village, Luffy again asked Shanks to let him join the Red Hair Pirates, but Shanks refused.
• A jailer mocked the tortured Who's-Who by telling him to pray to Sun God Nika, and the Five Elders ordered the matter investigated and the people involved killed.
• Who's-Who realized the Nika story might be forbidden, used his hair to unlock his chains, killed a guard, and escaped wearing the guard's uniform.

Sakazuki killed Shakky after destroying Amazon Lily, then ordered Granny Nyon to rebuild the Kuja Pirates and establish defenses. He headed for Punk Hazard while Enel, traveling with Rosinante and Luo, received word to meet there.

• The Five Elders issued a secret order to hunt down Sakazuki.
• Sakazuki ambushed Shakky off the coast of Amazon Lily, told her its inhabitants had died, and snapped her neck.
• Granny Nyon revealed that Shakky had been Amazon Lily’s empress two reigns earlier, and Sakazuki gave her three years to rebuild the Kuja Pirates and defend the Calm Belt.
• Sakazuki ordered Shakky’s head frozen for later publication, sent the stone statues to the G-8 branch, and told Carol to contact Enel about meeting at Punk Hazard.
• Enel received Sakazuki’s message and teased Luo aboard his warship until Rosinante stepped in to protect him.

Rosinante visited his imprisoned brother Doflamingo and told him what had happened to the Donquixote Family, while Enel reassured Rosinante that Luo would be protected. Elsewhere, Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates departed Foosha Village for Elegia, leaving Luffy behind again.

• Enel told Rosinante not to worry about feeding Luo a Devil Fruit and said Sengoku and Sakazuki could help protect them.
• Rosinante left Luo on deck and went to the cells to speak with Doflamingo.
• Rosinante told Doflamingo that Vergo and Lao G were dead, the others were alive, and Tsuru had taken Baby 5.
• Rosinante left after promising to visit again, and Doflamingo laughed alone in his cell.
• Shanks and Uta stopped Luffy from sneaking aboard the Red Hair Pirates' ship as they prepared to sail for Elegia.
• Luffy watched the ship leave and shouted that he would get aboard next time.

Sakazuki returned to G-8 with petrified soldiers and planned to send their unconscious enemy to Punk Hazard for conversion into a Pacifista. Meanwhile, Uta accidentally summoned the Demon King of Song on Elegia, and Shanks left her with Gordon before the Marines arrived.

• Sakazuki told Jonathan he had granted the Shichibukai appointment to the entire country and ordered the statues moved so they could rush their prisoner to Punk Hazard.
• Kuzan arrived at Amazon Lily and froze the sea into a vast iceberg to divert waves of approaching sea kings.
• Uta found the ancient score Tot Musica during a banquet on Elegia and began singing from it, unleashing the Demon King of Song.
• The Demon King of Song destroyed Elegia and killed its residents before Shanks struck it with Conqueror's Haki, causing it to vanish as Uta fell from the air.
• Shanks asked Gordon to keep Uta on Elegia, conceal the truth from her, and help her become the best singer while the Red Hair Pirates drew the Navy away.

After Shanks destroyed Elegia, news of the massacre spread across the world, prompting reactions from pirates, Marines, and others. The chapter ended with the Sun Pirates heading toward Koala’s hometown as Borsalino prepared to intercept them.

• Gordon vowed to pass Elegia’s musical legacy to Uta and make her the world’s greatest singer as the Red Hair Pirates sailed away.
• News of Elegia’s destruction reached Shimotsuki Village, the Baratie, Kuzan, Whole Cake Island, and Marine Headquarters, where Koshiro, Zeff, Linlin, Kuzan, Sengoku, and Garp reacted to the massacre and Shanks’s growing notoriety.
• At Sabaody, Sakazuki rejected the claim that the Demon King of Song was responsible and blamed the destruction on Shanks, while suspecting Sengoku’s investigation.
• Borsalino learned that the Sun Pirates had turned toward the first half of the Grand Line and decided to arrest them at their destination.
• The Sun Pirates obtained an Eternal Pose pointing to Koala’s hometown.

Fisher Tiger returned Koala to her village, believing humans and fish-men could someday understand one another. Strawberry ambushed him on Borsalino’s orders, and Fisher Tiger fought back after Marines opened fire.

• Arlong argued that humans were arrogant and should be killed, while Jinbe told him that not all humans were the same and that fear came from misunderstanding.
• Fisher Tiger brought Koala to Foolshout Island, where she said goodbye to the Fish-Man Pirates and followed him toward her village.
• Borsalino ordered Strawberry to ambush Fisher Tiger and arrest him when the Sun Pirates reached their destination.
• Strawberry confronted Fisher Tiger with Marines, explaining that an informant had traded their location for Koala’s safety, then ordered his soldiers to shoot.
• Fisher Tiger endured the gunfire and countered with Fish-Man Karate: Arabesque Brick Fist, sending the bullets flying back toward the Marines.

Strawberry’s Marines attacked Fisher Tiger on Foolshout Island, while Jinbe arrived and fought Strawberry to protect the Sun Pirates. The Marines’ attempt to capture everyone was still underway as Jinbe held them back and Fisher Tiger was carried to safety.

• Strawberry ordered his soldiers to keep shooting Fisher Tiger, who continued fighting despite his wounds.
• Nine Marine warships surrounded the Sun Pirates’ ship and destroyed it with cannon fire.
• Jinbe left Arlong in charge and rushed inland with two fish-men to rescue Fisher Tiger.
• Jinbe reached Fisher Tiger and clashed with Strawberry, while the two fish-men carried Fisher Tiger away.
• Strawberry ordered his soldiers to pursue Fisher Tiger, but Jinbe stopped them with Burai Gan and Arabesque Brick Fist.

Fisher Tiger died after revealing that he had been enslaved in Mary Geoise and refusing human blood, while urging his crew to hide their hatred from the next generation. Grief-stricken Arlong attacked the Marines at Foolshout Island, where Borsalino defeated him and pinned him down.

• Jinbe returned to the warship wounded as Fisher Tiger refused a transfusion and revealed that he had once been enslaved in Mary Geoise.
• Fisher Tiger asked his crew to conceal their suffering and hatred from the fish-men, apologized to Queen Otohime, and died surrounded by his crew.
• Arlong mourned Fisher Tiger and returned to Foolshout Island intending to slaughter its humans.
• Arlong attacked the Marines aboard their warships, but Borsalino struck him with a beam of light and knocked him onto the shore.
• Borsalino appeared beside Arlong and pinned him to the ground with his foot.

Borsalino captured Arlong, while Strawberry warned him that Jinbe was the real threat. In Foosha Village, Higuma confronted Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates, and Vegapunk met Sakazuki at Punk Hazard.

• Borsalino subdued Arlong and said he would take the wanted criminal into custody after learning Fisher Tiger was dead.
• Strawberry visited Borsalino at Marine Headquarters and warned that Jinbe was far more dangerous than Arlong and the others.
• Luffy insisted he was brave enough to become a pirate, while Shanks and his crew teased him in Makino's bar.
• Higuma and his bandits burst into the bar, demanded alcohol, and smashed the bottle Shanks offered before boasting of his eight-million bounty and fifty-six victims.
• Vegapunk met Sakazuki at Punk Hazard, where Sakazuki remarked on Vegapunk's thinning hair.

Sakazuki brought the incapacitated Boa Hancock to Vegapunk, whose reaction to her Love-Love Fruit power sparked a new theory about Devil Fruit compatibility. Meanwhile, Shanks left Foosha Village after giving Luffy his straw hat, then wondered whether a fruit’s will had influenced his choices.

• Sakazuki removed Boa Hancock’s Seastone chains, and Vegapunk briefly felt her power before Sakazuki put the chains back.
• Vegapunk theorized that Devil Fruits suited particular people and that a user’s natural talents could amplify a fruit’s power, then rushed off to pursue the idea.
• Sakazuki wondered whether being a joyful boy was the key to awakening a forbidden fruit and becoming Joy Boy, and resolved that his plan would leave no one alive.
• Shanks told Luffy the Red Hair Pirates were leaving, and Luffy declared he would become a pirate and the Pirate King.
• Shanks gave Luffy his straw hat and asked him to return it once he became a great pirate, and Luffy tearfully promised he would.
• Benn Beckman asked Shanks why he had sacrificed his arm, and Shanks said he had bet everything on “it” before wondering whether a fruit’s will had influenced him.

Sakazuki brought the captured Donquixote Family to Punk Hazard and brutally injured Doflamingo while preparing to keep him alive for further questioning. The chapter ended with Doflamingo placed in a nutrient pod, where Sakazuki promised to continue torturing him the next day.

• Enel greeted Sakazuki and Carol at Punk Hazard, while Rosinante reported that his injuries had healed and brought the shackled Donquixote Family ashore.
• Sakazuki broke the necks of the captured Devil Fruit users one by one and sent them to nutrient pods as Doflamingo shouted for him to stop.
• Enel used Conqueror's Haki to counter Doflamingo's outburst and told Sakazuki he had awakened it while rescuing Rosinante.
• Sakazuki broke Doflamingo's legs, then crushed the bones in his limbs as Rosinante pleaded with him not to kill Doflamingo.
• Sakazuki placed Doflamingo in a nutrient pod and told him his injuries would heal before the torture continued the next day.

Rosinante brought Luo to Research Facility Three, where Luo learned he could study biology and bacteriology. Enel confronted Caesar over a failed virus activation, and Caesar traced the problem to the island’s freezing temperatures before ordering his researchers to develop bacteria that could multiply in the cold.

• Sakazuki reassured Rosinante that Sengoku would not blame him for giving Luo the valuable fruit and directed them to Research Facility Three.
• Enel carried Luo to the facility, where he explained that the creatures in the tanks were specimens and the human subjects were condemned criminals.
• Rosinante led Luo to meet the facility’s scientists, while Enel went to confront Caesar about the virus that had failed to spread.
• Caesar activated the Pendant and confirmed that it worked, then learned from Enel that the virus had failed because the island was below freezing.
• Caesar ordered his researchers to stop their other projects and find a way to make bacteria multiply at low temperatures.

Sakazuki met Vegapunk in a hidden underground chamber, where Vegapunk explained how Jack had gained the Stone-Stone Fruit and discussed the limits of his experiments. Vegapunk then gave Sakazuki recordings taken from the World Government Commander-in-Chief’s replaced parts, as they planned to exploit them after the Reverie and considered what to do about Kong.

• Vegapunk showed Sakazuki Jack, a mechanically modified raccoon dog that had eaten the Stone-Stone Fruit and used it to carve out the underground chamber.
• Vegapunk explained that Jack’s intelligence and loyalty were a rare genetic accident and discussed the difficulties of controlling living creatures and studying Zoan fruit consciousnesses.
• Vegapunk gave Sakazuki fifteen screws containing recordings of the World Government Commander-in-Chief’s daily activities, along with a device for playing them.
• Sakazuki and Vegapunk discussed the Commander-in-Chief’s likely retirement after the Reverie and planned to give him something stronger, despite Kong having been Sakazuki’s old superior.

Sakazuki planned to use Bullet and advanced weapons to destroy the World Government’s old order, while Luo eagerly explored Punk Hazard’s research facility. As the Reverie approached, Sakazuki was recalled to Marine Headquarters and prepared to leave Punk Hazard with a box of audio storage devices.

• Sakazuki told Vegapunk that Bullet would receive the More-More Fruit and become the Marines’ key weapon, while Vegapunk armed the Marines with new technology.
• Luo dragged an exhausted Rosinante to Research Facility Three, where he eagerly questioned the researchers.
• Enel told Rosinante that his brother remained in a Nutrient Pod after receiving electrotherapy and warned him to keep Luo safe at Marine Headquarters.
• Enel advised Rosinante not to leave Luo on Punk Hazard, where government-trained Marines and Cipher Pol agents could abduct him.
• Sakazuki received orders recalling him to Headquarters to help escort kings traveling to the Reverie.
• As his warship left Punk Hazard, Sakazuki took out a box of Screw-Shaped Audio Storage Devices, murmured about fifteen years, and called for Carol.

Carol began organizing recordings about the government while Jinbe accepted the offer to become a Shichibukai to protect Fish-Men and bring the two races closer. In the East Blue, Dragon opened an escape route through the Gray Terminal fire and invited its survivors to join the Revolutionary Army.

• Sakazuki told Carol to outline the government’s structure as he sorted through the recordings.
• Jinbe decided to accept the Navy’s offer to become a Shichibukai, hoping to protect Fish-Man Island and make amends to Queen Otohime.
• Jinbe explained to Neptune that becoming a Shichibukai could secure pardons for Fish-Man slaves and let Fish-Men return home without being hunted.
• Dragon sent storm winds through the Gray Terminal fire, extinguishing flames and clearing a path to the coast.
• Dragon invited anyone willing to fight for freedom to board his ship as the Gray Terminal residents escaped.

Dragon rescued Sabo and discussed the Revolutionary Army’s quiet expansion, while Sakazuki and the Five Elders assessed its plans and the coming conflict. Several days later, Sakazuki arrived at Mary Geoise carrying Doflamingo.

• Dragon waited for Sabo, who escaped the fire at the Gray Terminal and joined the Revolutionary Army after deciding to change the world.
• Dragon told Ivankov, Kuma, and other Revolutionary Army leaders that they would avoid acting during the Reverie and expected to be ready by the next one.
• Dragon explained that pirate activity and Sakazuki’s Court-Plowing Operation had helped the Revolutionary Army spread its ideas across the Four Blues.
• Sakazuki told Carol and Enel that Dragon would likely launch a revolution in four years, but that the Revolutionary Army would struggle against the World Government’s resources and weapons.
• The Five Elders acknowledged Dragon’s growing influence and ordered Cipher Pol to keep searching for the Revolutionary Army’s headquarters.
• Sakazuki’s warship reached Mary Geoise, and he headed for the Palace with Doflamingo in his grip.

The Five Elders questioned Sakazuki about becoming Fleet Admiral, but he said he wanted to keep hunting pirates. As the Celestial Dragons arrived in the East Blue for the Reverie, Dragon prepared to return to Baltigo, while Kong and Sakazuki discussed the coming transfer and the pirate threat.

• The Five Elders asked Sakazuki about replacing Kong as Fleet Admiral, but Sakazuki declined because he wanted to kill more pirates.
• Doflamingo told the Five Elders that they would not want the world to learn about the national treasure.
• The Celestial Dragons arrived in Goa Kingdom, where crowds celebrated and a Cipher Pol agent was ordered to watch the commoners.
• A young Moss Head trained in Shimotsuki Village as Dragon met Ivankov, explained that he had attended the Celestial Dragons' welcome ceremony, and ordered the Revolutionary Army ship to sail back to Baltigo.
• Kong told Sakazuki that he would soon be promoted and transferred to the Holy Land, and Sakazuki reaffirmed his wish to eliminate every pirate.