Chapter Summaries

Shanks and Enel fought to a standstill in the sky, with Shanks exploiting a moment of disrupted perception to wound Enel before both withdrew. Back aboard the ships, Bullet ordered the Red Hair Pirates to keep their fighters out of battles between the rank and file, and Shanks grew troubled by Bullet’s warning and the information about Sakazuki.

• Shanks pursued Enel through the storm clouds, endured Enel’s lightning attacks, and landed several blows after disrupting Enel’s perception.
• Enel escaped Shanks’s Haki and launched more attacks, but Shanks’s concealed slashes wounded his neck and threatened his heart, prompting both fighters to end the clash.
• Shanks returned to the Red Force and demanded that Bullet release Yasopp and Dege, while Bullet warned him to keep his crew from interfering in battles between the rank and file.
• Bullet returned to the warship and told Enel that he had issued a notice rather than negotiated, while Enel observed Bullet’s injuries.
• Shanks watched Dege tend to Yasopp, recalled the information Bullet had revealed, and worried that Sakazuki’s warning meant they faced more than ordinary trouble.

The Red Hair Pirates discovered that the Marines had abandoned the remaining End Point islands and that Sakazuki had turned the buried bombs into leverage against the Four Emperors. Meanwhile, a Marine draft recruit arrived at Dieppe Island, and the chapter ended with Bach sacrificing himself to detonate a Dyna Stone during a pirate attack, wondering whether his letter had been mailed.

• Beckman explained that Sakazuki had made the End Point islands a trap that would let him blame pirates for the New World's destruction, while Shanks proposed gathering the Four Emperors to discuss a response.
• A huge man who caused flowers and grass to sprout approached the Marine Recruitment Office on Dieppe Island and asked to enlist.
• The Navy sank Alvida's pirate ship with cannon fire, and Commander Norris worried that Marines sent to the New World would never return; Captain Archie urged him to keep faith in Sakazuki.
• After surviving a battle on Dahra Island, Bach wrote a letter to Big Brother Archie and Norris and asked Dick to mail it to East Blue Branch 117.
• A Lion Beastman pirate attacked the Marines on Dahra Island and crushed Rear Admiral Karamy, who died without revealing that Bach had reached the Dyna Stone.
• Bach detonated the Dyna Stone, killing himself and illuminating the night as he wondered whether his letter had been mailed.

Sakazuki declared the Marines ready for a decisive war against the Four Emperors, while Marine recruitment brought in powerful candidates and Bonney founded a pirate crew to pursue revenge for Kuma. The chapter ended with Sakazuki planning to lure more free-roaming fighters into the Marines’ reach.

• Carol reported that Marine forces had completed their strategic deployment in the New World and revealed the Vinsmoke Family’s collusion with Hale Nock, prompting Sakazuki to order their kingdom destroyed.
• Sakazuki rallied the Marines worldwide to prepare for war, and Sengoku told Issho that he had been promoted to admiral under the code name Fujitora.
• Hale Nock, Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, and Shanks discussed how to respond to the Marines, but the meeting ended sourly after Hale Nock refused to share his Red Line-crossing technology.
• Bonney founded the Bonney Pirates to conceal her plan to kill Sakazuki, then confronted Sabo over Kuma’s death before insisting on seeking revenge alone.
• Sakazuki asked Carol about the fighters recruited through the World Military Draft and ordered the campaign expanded so more powerful candidates could be drawn out.

Carol used a Seraphim replica to impersonate Sakazuki while the Navy fought Kaido’s forces at the Briana Archipelago. After Luo forced a temporary ceasefire with Queen’s poison attack, the chapter ended with the false Sakazuki assigning Aramaki a mission against the Vinsmoke Family.

• Carol brought a Seraphim replica of Sakazuki into the Fleet Admiral’s Office as the Navy forces departed for battle.
• Queen and Jack fought the Navy at the Briana Archipelago, where Queen used seastone powder and poison against Luo and the fleet.
• Luo healed his severed arm, identified Queen’s poison, and redirected the deadly mist before teleporting Drake away from it.
• Luo called a temporary ceasefire, while Queen dispersed the remaining poison and ordered Jack to keep attacking.
• Sengoku told Issho to wait for the other newly appointed Admiral, while Borsalino finished testing Aramaki and headed to New Marineford.
• Carol, speaking through the Sakazuki replica, welcomed Aramaki to the Marines and ordered him to kill the Vinsmoke Family except for Judge.

The author explained the world’s political and military situation, with most publicly known top-tier fighters gathered in the New World as the Navy and pirates faced an uncertain conflict. The wider struggle was set to involve the Revolutionary Army and the World Government, while the story’s eventual course and outcome remained undecided.

• The author described how the Navy and major pirate forces had concentrated their strongest fighters in the New World, where neither side held an overwhelming advantage.
• The author outlined the strength of Big Mom, Kaido, Hale Nock, and other forces, noting that Kaido had nearly a hundred ability users in this story.
• The author explained that the New World conflict would take two or three years to escalate and that Luffy had not yet set sail.
• The author stated that Dragon’s Revolutionary Army had conquered most non-member countries in the Four Blues and was driving them toward industrialization.
• The author summarized the World Government’s 170 member nations, hidden forces, Five Elders, and Lord Imu, and divided the overall war into the Navy-pirate battle and the Revolutionary Army–World Government struggle.
• The author said the two eventual victors would fight a final battle, but the process and outcome had not been planned.

As the Marines and pirates struggled to control the New World’s buried bomb, the Revolutionary Army protected Bonney while the Five Elders prepared to hunt its headquarters. Aramaki then attacked a giant-snail fleet near the Red Line, denouncing its members as traitors to the gods.

• Carol continued handling Sakazuki’s work while keeping the Seraphim impostor’s presence hidden from Marine officers.
• On Saiken Island, Shanks and Hale Nock concluded that scientists could not disarm Vegapunk’s bomb, so Shanks decided to ask Charlotte Linlin about her daughter’s Mirror-Mirror Fruit.
• Sabo followed Dragon’s orders to protect Bonney and guide her toward Alabasta, where she would meet Nico Robin.
• The Five Elders decided to intensify their search for the Revolutionary Army’s headquarters and strike once they narrowed the suspected locations to ten.
• Aramaki flew to the Red Line and attacked a fleet of giant snails, calling them traitors to the gods.

Aramaki destroyed the Vinsmoke fleet and killed Judge’s children, leaving Judge alive to be taken away. At New Marineford, Sakazuki returned from regulating the earth veins and hinted that the Navy still controlled a crucial part of the pirates’ plans.

• Judge watched the fleet rise and reflected on the gains he had made through his alliance with Hale Nock, while Reiju worried that cooperation with pirates would end badly.
• Aramaki attacked the Vinsmoke fleet with vines, draining its soldiers and destroying the ships and cloned troops.
• Aramaki killed Judge’s children, drained Judge’s strength, and carried him toward the Sabaody Archipelago.
• At New Marineford, Carol welcomed Sakazuki back after several months away regulating the earth veins.
• Sakazuki told Carol that pirates would be shocked to learn the Navy still held the button that could disrupt their plan to destroy two islands.

Sakazuki sent Carol to investigate the Rommel Kingdom, where Carol killed Cavendish after mistaking his murderous alter ego for an unusual ability. Carol then watched Kid and four other teenage gang leaders discuss going to sea, deciding their plans made it a good time to act.

• Carol gave Sakazuki records of rare Devil Fruit users, and Sakazuki ordered him to recover certain Paramecia fruits and investigate the Rommel Kingdom.
• Cavendish's murderous alter ego hunted people in the Rommel Kingdom, prompting the Navy to request reinforcements.
• Carol confronted Cavendish and killed him with a Blue Bird sword attack.
• In the South Blue, Kid and four other teenage gang leaders discussed setting out to sea after the Revolutionary Army took control of their island.
• Carol secretly listened to their discussion and decided the timing was perfect.

Kid and his crew tried to steal a ship and escape the island, but Carol ambushed and killed Kid, Killer, and Druyanaka, while Heat and Wire were left dead in the harbor. Later, Robin reported Rain Dinners’ mounting losses to Crocodile, warning that the casino might go bankrupt even if his plan remained on track.

• Kid decided to use the Revolutionary Army to seize a ship and ordered his crew to prepare to leave at dawn.
• At the harbor, Carol captured Kid and killed him as the Revolutionary Army soldiers opened fire on the crew.
• Heat and Wire were killed in the harbor, while Killer and Druyanaka escaped ashore and ran toward town.
• Carol caught up with Killer and Druyanaka, killed both of them, and kept the Devil Fruit Reclaimer he had taken from Kid.
• In Rainbase, Robin brought Crocodile the monthly cash-flow figures and warned him that Rain Dinners was in the red and could go bankrupt.

Crocodile put his long-planned operation on hold as he anticipated a world-shaking conflict between the World Government and the Revolutionary Army, while Robin warned that Sakazuki might summon him before the Marines and pirates fought. On Saiken Island, Katakuri thanked Shanks for rescuing Brûlée and discussed the Marines’ advances, as new admirals Issho and Aramaki arrived at New Marineford to join Sakazuki.

• Crocodile told Robin to stop using dance powder and preserve their operations until the coming clashes created an opportunity to seize what he wanted.
• Katakuri reunited with Brûlée on Saiken Island, thanked Shanks for securing her freedom, and gave him a chest containing Devil Fruits and treasure.
• Katakuri told Shanks that the Marines had breached Totto Land’s first defensive line and were threatening the second, while Brûlée trained to absorb a bomb with her mirror.
• Issho and Aramaki arrived at New Marineford and sensed Sakazuki’s immense power as they approached the headquarters.
• Sakazuki welcomed Issho and Aramaki to the Marines at the harbor.

Sakazuki defended his ruthless leadership to Issho and Aramaki, arguing that the Navy had to weigh civilian lives against its soldiers and the wider world’s future. He declared that he would bear the war’s sins and make the hard choices needed to crush the source of suffering.

• Sakazuki welcomed Issho and Aramaki to his office and asked what they thought of the Navy.
• Issho criticized Sakazuki’s harsh methods, citing the innocent people killed when the Navy destroyed the Germa Kingdom, while Aramaki objected.
• Sakazuki acknowledged that his decisions caused civilian casualties and argued that protecting Navy soldiers and ending piracy required considering the wider consequences.
• Sakazuki asked why so many people had joined the Navy after the world military draft, and he and Issho identified hope of eliminating pirates as a key reason.
• Sakazuki told Issho and Aramaki that the Navy’s justice had become the world’s hope and vowed to choose between civilians and soldiers and bear the resulting sins himself.

Sakazuki sent Issho and Aramaki to the main fronts while the Emperors discussed the Navy’s relentless pressure and its investigation into their pasts. Shanks feared Uta’s identity had been exposed, and Carol confirmed that the girl was his daughter.

• Issho thanked Sakazuki for opening his eyes, though he regretted that he was already blind.
• Charlotte Linlin and Kaido pressed Shanks for progress against the Navy, and Shanks promised to act within six months before Kaido demanded results in three.
• Charlotte Linlin warned the Emperors that the Navy was investigating their pasts, prompting Shanks to worry about Uta after the call ended.
• Charlotte Linlin contacted Stussy to investigate the Emperors’ pasts.
• Carol told Sakazuki that the Navy had identified Uta as Shanks’s daughter, who had disappeared after Elegia was destroyed.

Sakazuki learned that the Navy had captured Uta and Gordon and decided to make Uta’s execution public, while Shanks and the Five Elders discovered she had disappeared. The chapter ended with Sakazuki setting the execution for two months later as the Navy prepared for war in the New World.

• Sakazuki reviewed the reports on Uta’s powers and approved keeping her capture secret until deciding how to use it.
• Beckman searched Elegia, found Uta and Gordon missing, and told Shanks they had likely been taken by the Navy.
• Charlotte Linlin learned that Shanks had a daughter and suspected her disappearance gave someone leverage over him.
• The Five Elders asked Sakazuki whether the Navy had captured Shanks’s daughter, while Shanks listened on a connected Den Den Mushi.
• Sakazuki realized Shanks would know the Navy was responsible and ordered Uta’s public execution in two months.

Red-Haired Shanks learned that the Marines had captured his daughter Uta and would execute her at New Marineford, while Dragon prepared the Revolutionary Army for war. As Sakazuki began publicly accusing Uta of helping conceal Shanks’s massacre of Elegia, the broadcast left her pinned to the platform and Shanks racing against time.

• Lucky Roux brought Shanks the newspaper announcing Uta’s execution, and Shanks erupted in fury when he realized the execution was imminent.
• Dragon watched the broadcast from Revolutionary Army headquarters and ordered every base to prepare for war.
• Luffy saw Uta on the broadcast in Foosha Village and demanded to know where she was and why she was covered in blood.
• Sakazuki arrived at the Execution Platform and told the world that Uta was Shanks’s daughter.
• Uta denied being Shanks’s daughter and insisted that Gordon was her father, but Sakazuki accused her and Gordon of concealing Shanks’s massacre of Elegia.

Sakazuki accused Uta of destroying Elegia as a child and publicly condemned her while the world watched. He then killed her on the execution platform and threatened Red-Hair and the other Four Emperors.

• Sakazuki told the world that Uta had caused Elegia’s destruction, prompting people across the islands to demand her death.
• Sakazuki claimed that nine-year-old Uta’s Devil Fruit ability had slaughtered tens of thousands, while the Red Hair Pirates and King Gordon concealed the truth.
• Sakazuki accused Uta of knowing what happened and blaming Red-Hair, while Uta denied it and erupted in anger.
• Sakazuki pinned Uta with his Conqueror’s Haki, taunted her and Shanks, then lifted her by the neck.
• Sakazuki snapped Uta’s neck, killed her, and warned Red-Hair and the other Four Emperors that the Marines would target them one by one.

After executing Uta, Sakazuki broadcast Shanks’s grief and declared that the Navy would make the Four Emperors suffer as they had made others suffer. Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, and Hale Nock’s forces faced Navy attacks as the first great battle began.

• Sakazuki executed Uta, then broadcast footage of Shanks raging over her death and addressed pirates across the world.
• Sakazuki declared that the Navy was coming, prompting cheers from civilians who supported the Navy.
• Kaido transformed into a dragon and flew toward the Navy base assigned to oppose him.
• Charlotte Linlin flew to meet Garp while Aramaki confronted the Sweet Commanders and other pirates on Whole Cake Island.
• On Hobro Island, Hale Nock’s forces attacked the evacuating Navy fleet, and the Navy answered with Ice Age as the battle between top fighters erupted.

The Navy’s Aerial Fleet ambushed the Red Hair Pirates’ ships near Subbi Island, where Sote and Ain killed the pirate leader Wallis before the forces clashed at sea. Meanwhile, Shanks and Bullet fought aboard the Red Force until a lightning spear descended from the storm clouds as reinforcements arrived.

• Sote ordered the Aerial Fleet to bombard the pirate ships sailing from Subbi Island, and Wallis used his bubbles to shield the fleet as the ships scattered.
• Sote led a dive toward the surviving ships with Ain, then broke through Wallis’s defenses while Ain’s power left Wallis unable to control his body.
• Sote killed Wallis, and the remaining pirates attacked him while Ain interfered in the fight.
• The Navy’s warships crashed into several pirate ships, and Navy officers and soldiers charged into battle against the stunned pirates.
• Shanks and Bullet continued their fierce fight aboard the Red Force, and a lightning-wrapped spear fell from the storm clouds.

Bullet and Enel fought the Red Hair Pirates, and Bullet severed Yasopp’s arm during their clash. Enel destroyed the arm with lightning, while Shanks stepped in to face the two Navy fighters as the battle continued.

• Red-Hair, Beckman, Yasopp, and the other Red Hair Pirates attacked Enel and tried to stop Bullet from reaching Yasopp.
• Bullet broke through the crew’s attacks and tore off Yasopp’s arm in close combat.
• Enel struck the severed arm with lightning, burning it to ash before Dege could save it.
• Shanks drove Bullet back with a slash, then stood before the injured crew and confronted Bullet and Enel.
• Enel mocked the Red Hair Pirates by calling them the “Severed Arm Pirates” as thunder rolled overhead.

Kaido attacked Ellen Port while Borsalino and Luo tried to protect the evacuating marines and soldiers. As Kaido’s flaming dragon plunged toward Luo, Issho launched a gravity-powered strike at him from the sea.

• Borsalino intercepted Kaido’s Bolo Breath and wind blades while Luo transferred personnel and supplies to the warships.
• Kaido unleashed Tornado Demolition Gust, destroying nearly half the island, as Borsalino bombarded the storm with Yasakani no Magatama.
• Kaido emerged from the storm as a fire dragon and began diving toward the island with Flame Dragon Torch: Rising Dragon: Flame Bagua.
• Kaido locked onto Luo with his Conqueror’s Haki, so Luo ran to the island’s edge and attacked him with Piercing Shockwave.
• Kaido crushed Luo’s sword and continued toward him, but a Laser Beam shot from the sky and Issho sent his Gravity Blade: Fierce Tiger toward Kaido.

Kaido attacked a Marine-held island and battled Fujitora and Kizaru while Luo evacuated the surviving personnel. The island continued to collapse as the three fighters faced off, with meteorites descending overhead.

• Kaido’s surprise attack devastated the island, and Luo, Fujitora, and Kizaru arrived too late to prevent heavy losses.
• Fujitora told Luo to evacuate the survivors, and Luo used his ability to carry the fleet away over the sea.
• Kaido transformed into his dragon-human form and clashed with Fujitora, who drove him back with his gravity powers.
• Kizaru struck Kaido with a laser and helped send him toward Fujitora’s gravity-laden sword attack.
• Kaido escaped Fujitora’s attack and charged at Kizaru, but Fujitora’s Hell’s Journey pulled him down into a crater.
• Kaido rose unharmed as meteorites descended toward the collapsing island, and he prepared to continue fighting Fujitora and Kizaru.