Chapter Summaries

Aramaki overwhelmed the Charlotte family’s defenders on Whole Cake Island and killed Cracker, while Oven arrived to confront him. Elsewhere, Charlotte Linlin and Garp continued their fierce battle, ending with Linlin unleashing Zeus’s lightning at Garp.

• Aramaki’s Woods-Woods Fruit drained Cracker’s Biscuit Soldiers and spread vines across Whole Cake Island as Cracker used them to evacuate his siblings.
• Perospero trapped Aramaki’s vines in hardened syrup and ordered a retreat, but Aramaki pierced Cracker and drained his strength until he died.
• Oven arrived with a scalding sea attack that withered Aramaki’s vines, but Aramaki summoned enormous tree men to pursue the fleeing Charlotte children.
• Charlotte Linlin and Garp exchanged powerful blows, and Garp lifted Linlin overhead and hurled her toward the ground.
• Linlin summoned Zeus’s lightning and unleashed Fulgora at Garp as she fell.

The Marines and the Four Emperors continued their devastating war across the New World as Carol reported the battles to Sakazuki, who ordered the Revolutionary Army watched. Luffy set sail early, and the Five Elders decided to ask Lord Imu to act against the Revolutionary Army.

• Charlotte Linlin and Garp exchanged powerful attacks as their battle continued, while Kuzan and Hale Nock's clash left Hobro Island sunk and its surrounding sea divided between boiling water and ice.
• Carol recovered the Devil Fruit Reclaimer from Uta's execution platform and reported the war's progress to Sakazuki, including heavy Marine losses against Kaido and the ongoing clashes with the other Emperors.
• Sakazuki replaced the Red Hair Pirates' flag on Subbi Island with a Marine flag and ordered Carol to closely monitor the Revolutionary Army.
• Makino told the village chief that Luffy had set sail, and Luffy rowed away from Foosha Village more than a year earlier than in the original story.
• The Five Elders discussed the war and the Revolutionary Army's possible movements, then decided to ask Lord Imu to act after narrowing the location of the Revolutionary Army Headquarters to eight possibilities.

Sabo and Dragon prepared to declare war on the World Government in seven days, but a mysterious attack struck Dragon while Imu erased suspected Revolutionary Army bases. Bonney’s grandmother’s Vivre Card turned to ash, and Sabo rushed her toward the Sorbet Kingdom.

• Sabo and Dragon agreed that the Revolutionary Army could conquer the Four Blues and planned to declare war on the World Government in seven days.
• Dragon’s Den Den Mushi showed shock and then went silent after a thunderous roar interrupted their call.
• Bonney’s grandmother’s Vivre Card burned to ash, and Sabo carried the distraught Bonney toward the Sorbet Kingdom.
• A dark shape appeared over the World's Forgotten Land and unleashed a blast that engulfed the island.
• Imu marked seven islands with red crosses, and those islands vanished from the world.

Vegapunk's team discovered that the World Government had used an unknown weapon to erase Revolutionary Army bases, including the Sorbet Kingdom, leaving Dragon and Bonney searching for survivors. Sakazuki ordered Vegapunk to build Pluton's original main cannon and vowed to confront the enemy's power.

• Vegapunk and his satellites studied the final footage from surveillance devices as Revolutionary Army islands were destroyed by blasts of unimaginable energy.
• Bonney and Sabo found only open sea where the Sorbet Kingdom had stood, while Dragon escaped the attack and reached Slu Island to contact the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon stabilized communications across the Four Blues and told Sabo to meet him on Slu Island.
• Sakazuki asked Vegapunk whether Pluton's main cannon could match the attacks, and Vegapunk said it could fire once without a limitless energy source.
• Sakazuki ordered Vegapunk to melt down the current cannon and build Pluton's original version, then left with Carol after declaring that their enemies would die.

Sakazuki kept the Marines’ plans in place despite the World Government’s island-erasing weapon, while the Five Elders responded to the Revolutionary Army’s losses by planning to collect tribute and wait for a chance to destroy Dragon. Dragon survived the destruction of seven Revolutionary Army bases, but the deaths and devastation left him choosing to suppress the catastrophe’s impact.

• Sakazuki told Carol to keep the Marines’ plans unchanged and ordered the Four Blues branches to stock supplies and adopt a defensive posture.
• The Five Elders learned that Dragon had survived the destruction of the Revolutionary Army’s Sorbet Kingdom headquarters, though many senior officers had died.
• The Five Elders ordered the Four Blues’ heavenly tribute collected early and planned to destroy Dragon after the Revolutionary Army absorbed the affiliated nations.
• Dragon recovered in Slu Island and learned that seven bases had been erased and more than a hundred thousand people had died.
• Dragon chose to suppress news of the catastrophe to prevent the Revolutionary Army’s morale from collapsing and the World Government from gaining more power.

Dragon declared an all-out Revolutionary Army offensive against the World Government as war spread across the Four Blues. At Fruit Island, Vice Admiral Hubert sacrificed himself in a final attack that broke the island’s defenses, but he was killed in action.

• Sabo reported that Bonney had cried herself unconscious and mourned their fallen comrades as Dragon ordered the Revolutionary Army to prepare for battle.
• Dragon declared war on the World Government and sent Revolutionary forces advancing across all Four Blues.
• Sakazuki learned of the declaration and ordered Dr. Vegapunk to contact Dragon and offer support as the Revolutionary Army approached the Grand Line.
• After a day and night of fighting at Fruit Island, Vice Admiral Hubert pulled a sword from his abdomen, took the Navy’s Berserk Drug, and ordered his forces to attack again.
• Hubert activated a device aboard his ship, and the resulting explosion destroyed Fruit Island’s defenses; Hubert died in action.

Sakazuki directed the Navy’s war against the Four Emperors, explaining why he needed to grind down their huge forces rather than simply defeat their leaders. Zephyr and Morris arrived with drafts of three books and frowned as they examined the Navy’s deployment map.

• Carol reported the Navy’s progress against Charlotte Linlin, Kaido, Shanks, and Hale Nock, and Sakazuki ordered Sote to follow the original plan.
• Sakazuki considered how the Navy needed to wear down the Four Emperors’ rank-and-file forces to prevent more than a hundred thousand pirates from disappearing among civilians.
• Sakazuki focused the Navy’s advances on Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, hoping to gather the pirates in one place and seize the initiative.
• Zephyr and Morris visited Sakazuki with the initial drafts of three books and asked him for an assignment.
• Morris and Zephyr studied the sand table showing the Navy’s offensives pressing into Charlotte Linlin’s and Kaido’s heartlands, and they frowned.

Sakazuki kept Zephyr and Morris out of the fighting while assigning them to revise military booklets, promising they could join once the task was done. Meanwhile, Sote secretly altered the island evacuation plan to save civilians, leaving Dyna Stones in place as a trap for the Pirates.

• Morris questioned Sakazuki about the Navy’s deep advance, and Sakazuki said concentrating on one enemy was best until an opportunity arose to draw in all four Emperors.
• Sakazuki praised Zephyr and Morris’s booklets, asked them to revise them, and said they could join the war after the work was complete.
• Morris pulled Zephyr from Sakazuki’s office and explained that finishing the assignment quickly would let them return to the battlefield.
• Zephyr admitted he could not accept staying behind while former students died in the war.
• Sote told Ain he feared Sakazuki would blame him for changing the island operation to spare civilians.
• Sote carried residents unwilling to evacuate away on uprooted mountains and planted Dyna Stones in the abandoned pits and Pirates’ gathering places.

On the fifth day of the war, Sakazuki ordered an assault on Charlotte Linlin’s third defensive island chain while Sote’s airborne fleet headed for the battlefield. Enel and Bullet continued battling the battered Red Hair Pirates until Enel sensed an approaching threat, and a huge island-formed lion’s head began falling toward the Red Force.

• Carol reported that the fleets were in position, and Sakazuki ordered them to destroy the third defensive island chain.
• Sote learned that Sakazuki accepted his decision to evacuate residents and continued toward the battlefield with Ain.
• After days of fighting, Shanks, Yasopp, and the Red Hair Pirates remained severely wounded and exhausted against Enel and Bullet.
• Enel urged Shanks to retreat, but Shanks refused, and Bullet and Enel prepared to keep fighting.
• Enel sensed something, rose above the clouds with Bullet, and left the Red Hair Pirates puzzled.
• A massive lion’s head made from joined islands plunged toward the Red Force, and Shanks ordered the crew to focus their attacks on one point.

Bullet, Enel, and Sote drove the Red Hair Pirates beneath the sea with a massive island attack, then left to reinforce Borsalino and Issho against Kaido. Bullet struck Kaido with a mountain-sized meteor hammer, beginning a clash of Conqueror’s Haki as the Navy’s advantage grew.

• Red-Hair Shanks and his crew combined their attacks against the descending lion’s head, but it crashed down and forced their ship beneath the sea.
• Enel, Bullet, and Sote concluded that the Red Hair Pirates had been driven back and split up, with Bullet and Sote heading to Kaido while Enel returned to defend their position.
• Borsalino and Issho continued fighting Kaido above the remains of Ellen Port, and Borsalino recognized that reinforcements had arrived.
• Kaido transformed into an Azure Dragon and halted his fall with flame clouds, but Bullet appeared overhead with a Conqueror’s Haki-coated meteor hammer.
• Kaido unleashed Rising Dragon: Flame Bagua as Bullet swung down, and their Conqueror’s Haki clashed across the sky.

Kaido and Bullet fought a savage aerial duel while Issho and Borsalino watched, and Sote left to carry out his mission at Whole Cake Island. After receiving news that Red-Hair had withdrawn and Kaido was fighting Bullet, Sakazuki wondered what Charlotte Linlin would lose.

• Kaido and Bullet clashed in the sky, grievously injuring each other as Bullet broke one of Kaido's horns.
• Issho and Borsalino stayed outside the battle, and Sote arrived with Sakazuki's order for Borsalino to reinforce Kuzan.
• Borsalino departed, while Sote agreed with Issho to discuss their Devil Fruit abilities after completing his mission.
• Sote flew toward Whole Cake Island, and Carol reported the latest battle developments to Sakazuki.
• Sakazuki examined a sand model of Whole Cake Island and wondered what Charlotte Linlin would lose.

Sote destroyed Whole Cake Island’s remaining land and escaped with its Poneglyph, abducting Pudding as the Marines withdrew. At New Marineford, Sakazuki praised Pudding’s third eye before forcibly removing it.

• Sote crashed into Whole Cake Island and used his power to lift the remaining half into the sky, exposing the Poneglyph.
• As the island shattered and fell, Sote seized the Poneglyph and escaped Charlotte Linlin’s attack while Garp and Aramaki withdrew.
• Katakuri intercepted Sote, but Sote distracted the pursuers with the Poneglyph and abducted Pudding before flying away.
• At New Marineford, Carol reassured the shackled Pudding, and Sakazuki called her third eye beautiful.
• Sakazuki pierced Pudding’s forehead and removed her third eye.

Sakazuki seized the Poneglyph and turned it into a public challenge, announcing that pirates could come to Marine Headquarters to claim the route to the One Piece. His real aim was to use the captured Pudding, the only known potential Poneglyph reader besides Robin, as leverage against the pirates.

• Sakazuki subdued Pudding, had Carol take her for treatment, and destroyed the eyeball he had been holding.
• Sakazuki embedded the Poneglyph in the Execution Platform and ordered soldiers to spread the news that Marine Headquarters possessed a signpost to the One Piece.
• Newspapers around the world revealed that four Poneglyphs were needed to reach Laugh Tale and dared pirates to come take the stone from the Marines.
• Carol praised Sakazuki's announcement, while recognizing that it would not sway the Four Emperors or Charlotte Linlin, who might already know the Poneglyph's contents.
• Sakazuki privately considered publicly executing Pudding, hoping the threat to Charlotte Linlin's sole potential Poneglyph reader would provoke the pirates.

Sakazuki ordered more Marines shifted toward Whole Cake Island and Wano Country, pursuing his hidden plan to gather and wear down the New World’s pirates before trapping them in the center. Meanwhile, Kaido learned of Big Mom’s losses and called to mock her, leaving her furious as he proposed they work together.

• Sakazuki ordered Vice Admirals and fleets reassigned to Garp and Borsalino to attack toward Whole Cake Island and Wano Country.
• Sakazuki’s objective was revealed: to mobilize the New World’s pirates, grind down their numbers, and eventually force them into the center for a decisive assault.
• Kaido, recovering from his fight, heard from King that the Marines had withdrawn from Wano and that Big Mom had lost Whole Cake Island and her Poneglyph.
• Kaido called Big Mom to taunt her and suggested they work together, prompting her to roar in anger.

Charlotte Linlin refused Kaido’s offer to cooperate in finding the One Piece, while Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates struggled with the aftermath of their battle and Sakazuki’s capture of a Poneglyph. Shanks remained confident that the man he had staked everything on would change the tide, but Luffy was adrift in a barrel and starving in the East Blue.

• Charlotte Linlin rejected Kaido’s proposal to combine their Poneglyph rubbings and seek the One Piece together, keeping Pudding’s capture secret.
• Kaido, unable to understand Linlin’s refusal, told King to gather everyone.
• Shanks waited at the hospital while Yasopp underwent emergency surgery, and Beckman reported that Charlotte Linlin’s Poneglyph was on display at Marine Headquarters.
• Shanks said the Red Hair Pirates should prolong the war and trusted that something would turn the tide, thinking of the man he had staked everything on.
• Luffy drifted in a barrel for his third day after losing his food, capsizing in a storm, and getting lost at sea.

Luffy was rescued at sea by Zoro and learned that Shanks had become the World's Greatest Swordsman. Meanwhile, Sakazuki prepared a lethal spore weapon for Kaido, and Kaido realized one member of the Flying Six was missing without understanding why.

• Luffy woke aboard Zoro's ship, ate the crew's meat, and fought Zoro after announcing that he was a pirate.
• Luffy took a sword slash to retrieve Shanks's straw hat, and Zoro stopped attacking when he learned Luffy knew Shanks, now the World's Greatest Swordsman.
• Vegapunk showed Sakazuki the Seraphim experiments, and Sakazuki planned to use Whitebeard II's deadly spores against Kaido in six months.
• Baby 5 and Sugar returned from a mission near Wano, where they used their abilities to ambush pirates and turn them into toys.
• Kaido summoned his officers at Qibu Island, counted the Flying Six, and demanded to know why only five were present.

Kaido discovered that the Flying Six roster listed Page One, whose existence had been erased from everyone’s memories, and Ulti’s grief triggered those memories to return. On Vice Admiral Tsuru’s warship, Sugar recovered from the frightening incident with Page One, while Sakazuki summoned her to Marineford and sent Carol to fetch someone from Water 7.

• Kaido noticed an extra seat in the meeting room, checked the Flying Six roster, and realized Page One’s name was missing from everyone’s memories.
• Ulti cried out for Page One, and the people present began to remember him.
• Baby 5 explained to Vice Admiral Tsuru that Page One had survived the shredder briefly before dying, and Tsuru ordered the machine reinforced and upgraded.
• A Marine reported that Sakazuki had ordered Sugar back to Headquarters, and Tsuru told Sugar and Baby 5 to rest while she checked with him.
• At New Marineford, Carol told Sakazuki that the modified Mihawk was watching the target, then used his ability to appear outside a bar in Water 7.

Carol and Sakazuki captured Blueno in New Marineford to secure the Door-Door Fruit for the coming decisive battle. On Egghead Island, Lilith’s first attempt to extract the ability from a toy fused with the Jinbe Seraphim failed, but Vegapunk promised they would find a way before the battle.

• Carol teleported the sleeping Blueno from Water 7 to New Marineford, where Sakazuki crushed his bones and Carol shackled him with seastone.
• Carol explained that Blueno’s ability would be useful in the final battle, and Sakazuki ordered that Blueno’s face be covered before the experimenters arrived.
• The Franky House members forgot what they had planned to do after leaving their home in Water 7.
• Carol brought a horned doll to Egghead Island, where Lilith fed it to the modified giant bear to fuse it with the Jinbe Seraphim.
• Lilith’s experiment produced black vapor and failed, but Shaka encouraged her to continue trying to extract the Devil Fruit ability.
• Vegapunk assured Carol that they would extract the ability before the decisive battle and use it to open a gate large enough for dozens of warships.

Carol reported that Vegapunk was still researching the experiment, while Sakazuki reviewed his plan to wear down the Four Emperors and let the Revolutionary Army and World Government weaken each other. Several days later, Sakazuki descended toward Qibu Island to confront Kaido’s forces.

• Carol returned from Egghead Island and told Sakazuki that Vegapunk expected the experiment to succeed before the final battle.
• Sakazuki explained that Carol’s secret Teleportation Fruit would let the Marines overwhelm the Four Emperors, while he planned to conceal their advantage and prolong the war.
• Carol reported that the Revolutionary Army was rapidly capturing the Four Blues, and Sakazuki ordered it to receive technology for warships that could cross the Calm Belt.
• Sakazuki knocked over Kaido’s flag on the sand table and called Kaido a miserable dog for overturning his plans.
• At Qibu Island, Ulti led repeated attacks on the Marines while Kaido gathered troops and prepared a counteroffensive after Page One’s death.
• Sakazuki appeared above Qibu Island, then plunged toward it like a burning meteor.

Sakazuki attacked Kaido’s forces on Qibu Island, destroying the island and killing nearly all of the pirates gathered there. After Sakazuki used Ulti as a shield against Kaido’s strike, Kaido sent him flying toward the surviving Who’s-Who.

• Kaido and Sakazuki collided in the sky above Qibu Island, and Kaido warned everyone to flee.
• Sakazuki’s lava meteor struck the island, splitting it apart, and his Lava Burst Orb engulfed it in magma.
• Sakazuki seized the injured Ulti and killed her by forcing her into Kaido’s Hassaikai strike.
• Kaido struck Sakazuki with Hassaikai, sending him flying toward Who’s-Who, who saw a chance to advance to the All-Stars.