Chapter Summaries

Rocks rampaged through the battle, fighting Roger, Garp, Kong, and a member of the Five Elders until their combined attacks badly wounded him. After regaining his senses, he searched for a way to escape, while Sakazuki sensed the island's temperature rise on the distant coast.

• Rocks charged the fighters and clashed with Roger before Garp struck him.
• Rocks grabbed Garp and drove him into the ground, creating a vast crater as they struggled over his blade.
• Kong and a burly member of the Five Elders attacked Rocks together, forcing him to release Garp and evade them.
• Roger broke Rocks's sword and slashed him, while a member of the Five Elders pierced his chest with a Haki-coated strike.
• Rocks blasted Roger and the Elder away, regained his senses, and searched for an escape as Sakazuki noticed the temperature rising.

As an underwater volcano threatened to erupt beneath the island, Sakazuki warned the officers to evacuate while Sengoku relayed the danger to the battlefield. The Five Elders chose to keep fighting and planned to drive Rocks into the deep pit at the source of the heat.

• Sakazuki recognized the growing presence of magma and ordered everyone to board their ships and evacuate.
• Vice Admiral Morris contacted Sengoku, who confirmed the danger and rushed to warn the combatants.
• Sengoku joined the battle and struck Rocks with a Buddha Shockwave, but Rocks fought back against Roger and Garp.
• After hearing that the island was about to be destroyed, the sword-wielding member of the Five Elders ordered them to bring Roger's men and force Rocks into the deep pit.

Sakazuki stayed behind with the Buster Call fleet to watch the island while Rocks was overwhelmed by Roger, Garp, and the others. Rocks sacrificed his life in a final outburst that triggered a catastrophic volcanic eruption, leaving the surrounding sea and island in ruin.

• Sakazuki asked Vice Admiral Morris to let him remain behind to pick up the others, and Morris agreed before leaving with the fleet.
• Rocks was driven to the edge of the deep pit by Kong, the Five Elders, Roger, Garp, Sengoku, Rayleigh, and Gaban.
• Rocks admitted defeat, warned Roger to watch himself, and burned through his life while proclaiming his name.
• A vast explosion and volcanic eruption shattered the island, sent enormous waves across the sea, and filled the sky with ash.

After the destruction of God Valley, Sakazuki rescued Sengoku and the others and reported the Marines’ heavy losses. Roger’s crew found a sleeping red-haired child hidden in a chest, while the Marines later portrayed Garp as a hero; Sakazuki volunteered to patrol the Four Seas.

• Sakazuki used enormous lava hands to carry his warship across the magma and pick up Sengoku, Garp, Kong, and the two Five Elders.
• Roger’s crew returned to the Oro Jackson with stolen treasure, and Roger discovered a sleeping red-haired child inside a chest that blocked Observation Haki.
• Sakazuki reported that several Rocks Pirates had escaped and that the Marines had suffered extensive casualties, including the loss of seven warships.
• A member of the Five Elders ordered Kong to list the fallen and provide their families with increased death benefits.
• In 1484, the Marines concealed certain individuals’ involvement in God Valley and celebrated Garp as a hero, while Sakazuki volunteered to patrol the Four Seas and hunt pirates.

Sakazuki patrolled the North Blue to stop defeated New World pirates from recruiting and terrorizing their homelands, while reflecting on the devastation caused by D.’s ideals and the Great Pirate Era. When pirates were spotted attacking the next resupply island, he ordered the warship to speed up.

• The narration described how defeated Rocks Pirates and other New World pirates returned to the Four Blues, recruited young people, and preyed on communities.
• Sakazuki’s patrols had reduced the pirates’ recruitment and violence in the Four Blues.
• The narration linked the Great Pirate Era and the Revolutionary Army to the suffering caused by the ideals of Joy Boy, Roger, and Dragon.
• A sailor reported pirates on the resupply island ahead, which was already burning and shrouded in smoke.
• Sakazuki ordered the warship to pick up speed.

Sakazuki ordered his warship to destroy four pirate ships, forcing the pirates to flee ashore. The pirate captain sent men to seize children and killed one of his own crew to frighten the others.

• The pirates spotted Sakazuki’s approaching warship and warned their captain, who ordered them to load the cannons.
• Sakazuki ordered the Marines to fire, and their cannon volleys wrecked the pirate ships.
• The pirates returned fire, but their cannonballs fell short, so the captain ordered his men ashore with his treasure.
• The captain sent four pirates to grab children from the town the crew had slaughtered.
• The captain confronted a fleeing pirate and killed him with a single slash, intimidating the others.

Sakazuki’s Marines drove the pirates into a close-combat battle and overwhelmed them on the beach. As the remaining pirates begged for mercy, their captain seized four captured children and used them to force the Marines to stop.

• Sakazuki nodded, and the adjutant ordered the Marines to cease fire and prepare for close combat.
• The Marines suppressed the pirates’ attempt to fire from behind a boulder, then charged ashore with swords.
• The Marines killed or wounded nearly half the pirates, and a field officer urged his soldiers to finish the fight.
• As the battle turned into a rout, the pirate captain spotted four captured children and ran to seize them.
• The captain held a sword to one child’s shoulder and ordered everyone to stop.

Sakazuki led the Marines in rescuing survivors from a pirate attack and let the townspeople execute the captured pirates. A young boy whose parents and community had been killed asked to join the Marines so he could kill every pirate in the world.

• Sakazuki ordered the Marines to disarm the pirate captain, rescue the child he held, and finish capturing the pirates.
• Sakazuki directed his soldiers to extinguish the town’s fires, rescue civilians, and distribute the pirates’ supplies to the survivors.
• Sakazuki gave the residents blades and let them kill the captured pirates; when a boy hesitated, Sakazuki guided his hand to stab the captain.
• Sakazuki prepared to leave for the next assignment, but the boy ran after him, bowed until his forehead bled, and asked to join the Marines.
• The boy told Sakazuki he wanted to kill every pirate in the world.

Sakazuki learned that he had been promoted to Vice Admiral and celebrated with the children and Marines aboard his warship. The chapter also outlined the rising powers among the Marines and pirates in Sea Circle Calendar Year 1486.

• Sakazuki watched the children he had rescued train aboard his warship.
• Vice Admiral Morris told Sakazuki to return to headquarters for his Vice Admiral inauguration.
• Sakazuki ordered intensified training and a banquet, and his crew cheered the promotion.
• The chapter recounted Zephyr's promotion to Admiral, Smoker's birth, and the expanding forces of the Golden Lion, Whitebeard, Charlotte Linlin, Kaido, Roger, and Garp.

After two years of fighting pirates and strengthening trust in the Marines, Sakazuki returned to Marineford and was promoted to Vice Admiral. His appointment was announced across the seas, while he privately looked ahead to his ultimate goal and the plans he had set in motion.

• Sakazuki met with Fleet Admiral Kong, who praised his service and told him he would be appointed Vice Admiral in two days.
• Sakazuki vowed to uphold his justice until death and left the meeting excited about his early promotion and the seeds he had planted in Marine branches across the Four Seas.
• News of Sakazuki's promotion spread through Marineford, astonishing former classmates who had advanced far less than he had.
• Marine Headquarters held Sakazuki's appointment ceremony as reporters and News Coos carried his name and image around the world.
• People Sakazuki had rescued celebrated his promotion, and newspapers printed his portrait alongside his vow to bear the world's justice until his dying breath.

Sakazuki sparred with Vice Admiral Morris, overpowering him in both hand-to-hand combat and swordsmanship. Morris revealed he had given up on becoming an Admiral and planned to train future Marines, and Sakazuki handed him a booklet titled “Faith and Justice.”

• Sakazuki and Morris fought on the Marineford training grounds, where Sakazuki’s strength sent Morris crashing into a stone wall.
• Morris asked to test Sakazuki’s swordsmanship, and Sakazuki formed a magma blade and overwhelmed him in a fierce exchange.
• Morris ended the sparring match, saying Sakazuki’s strength rivaled that of the Giants.
• Morris told Sakazuki he had applied to become an instructor after accepting that he would never become an Admiral.
• Sakazuki gave Morris a booklet titled “Faith and Justice.”

Sakazuki gave Vice Admiral Morris a booklet explaining faith, justice, and the Navy’s duty to protect civilians, inspiring Morris. The next morning, Sakazuki’s warship prepared to depart Marineford with all personnel aboard.

• Morris read Sakazuki’s booklet and was deeply moved by its explanation of faith and justice.
• Sakazuki presented the booklet to Morris as a gift for his appointment as an instructor and urged him to guide the Navy’s future.
• Morris thanked Sakazuki and agreed that one day the Navy’s justice would reach the ends of the world.
• The next morning, supplies were loaded onto Sakazuki’s warship at Marineford.
• After the roll call confirmed everyone was present, Sakazuki ordered the ship to set sail.

Sakazuki demonstrated the advanced stages of Armament Haki and ordered his soldiers to train while the warship underwent repairs in the Calm Belt. At night, an arrow struck the deck, and Sakazuki crushed its head before ordering the ship to prepare for battle.

• Sakazuki demonstrated External Release and Internal Destruction by blasting open a Sea King's head, then told the soldiers to master full-body coating through pair fights.
• Sakazuki learned that the warship was about twenty-four nautical miles inside the Calm Belt and ordered repairs to be completed quickly.
• Sakazuki's exhausted soldiers ate in the dining hall while he stood on deck at sunset.
• Sakazuki used Shave to intercept an arrow, crushed its iron head, and ordered the crew to prepare for battle.

Eilinsna led the Kuja Pirates toward Sakazuki’s warship, while Sakazuki prepared to counter their ranged attacks. As the ships neared attack range, Eilinsna ordered a probing volley against the Marines.

• Eilinsna ordered the Kuja Pirates to close in on the warship and blanket it with attacks.
• The adjutant explained the Kuja Pirates’ tactics and history to Sakazuki, who ordered the Marines to keep their distance and defend against arrows with Haki.
• Sakazuki used Observation Haki to sense the people aboard the approaching pirate ship.
• Eilinsna released Conqueror’s Haki, disrupting Sakazuki’s perception, then ordered one probing volley after learning they had a powerful fighter aboard.
• The Kuja Pirates’ cannons opened fire.

The Kuja Pirates attacked Sakazuki's warship, but his magma techniques devastated their fighters and set their ship ablaze. Eilinsna charged Sakazuki and met his punch in midair, where their clash sent one of them crashing into the Sea King’s corpse.

• The Kuja Pirates bombarded the warship with Haki-coated arrows, while Sakazuki shielded the Marines from the worst of the attack.
• Sakazuki raised a magma wall, then fired magma rounds that transformed into giant tigers and slaughtered many Kuja fighters.
• Eilinsna used her Conqueror's Haki to disrupt the tigers, but their exploding bodies spread magma across the Kuja ship and burned the giant snakes pulling it.
• Eilinsna leaped toward the warship, and Sakazuki flew to meet her above the sea.
• Eilinsna's Conqueror's Haki-coated foot clashed with Sakazuki's Armament Haki-coated fist, and one of them was sent crashing into the Sea King's corpse.

Eilinsna fought Sakazuki in a devastating battle at sea, but his superior strength forced her to concede and offer the Kuja Pirates’ treasure. Sakazuki ignored her surrender and closed two enormous magma palms around the Kuja Pirate Ship.

• Sakazuki attacked Eilinsna with magma techniques, and she countered with Haki-coated sword strikes that split the Sea King’s corpse into chunks.
• Sakazuki and Eilinsna clashed repeatedly in the air and atop the floating flesh until he sent her crashing into the Kuja Pirate Ship.
• Eilinsna stood injured and pale, then rushed out of the cabin and sliced apart Sakazuki’s enormous magma fist before it struck the ship.
• Eilinsna told Sakazuki that the Kuja Pirates conceded and offered him all the treasure aboard their ship.
• Sakazuki declared that the Marines were not playing pirates, joined his palms, and transformed the magma fist’s halves into giant hands that closed around the Kuja Pirate Ship.

Sakazuki destroyed the fleeing Kuja Pirates by raining magma fists across the sea, leaving Eilinsna and the other survivors to perish amid the devastation. After several days of emergency repairs, his warship’s engine room was restored, and the adjutant reported it to him.

• Sakazuki returned to his warship, ordered the injured soldiers to rest, and unleashed Meteor Volcano into the sky.
• Eilinsna and the surviving Kuja Pirates fled underwater on a giant serpent, but Sakazuki’s magma fists boiled the sea and killed their mount.
• Eilinsna covered herself in Haki and tried to escape as magma struck the survivors and a colossal Sea King surged past her.
• After the sea eventually grew calm, Sakazuki’s warship completed several days of emergency repairs near the Calm Belt.
• The adjutant told Sakazuki that repairs to the engine room were complete.

Sakazuki received news of Byrnndi World while his warship approached an island, then intervened in a battle between Marines and Scythe Dobin’s pirates. After Sakazuki killed Dobin, he learned the Marine captain’s name was Monkey D. Dragon.

• A News Coo delivered a newspaper to Sakazuki, whose attention was drawn to Byrnndi World’s 200,000,000 Beli bounty and history.
• Sakazuki ordered his warship to change course toward a nearby clash between a Marine warship and a pirate ship.
• Monkey D. Dragon fought Scythe Dobin and protected the Marines from Dobin’s attacks and his flying mantis.
• Sakazuki killed the mantis and crushed Dobin’s head when they threatened the ordinary Marines.
• Dragon greeted Sakazuki and introduced himself as Monkey D. Dragon, a captain stationed at Marineford.

Six months after meeting Dragon, Sakazuki and his crew found ancient wreckage near Jaya and a boy hiding nearby. The boy identified a gold ritual plate as proof that his ancestor Mont Blanc Noland had not lied, and Sakazuki believed him.

• Sakazuki left Dragon to lead the Marines in clearing the battlefield and then departed aboard his warship.
• Near Jaya, Sakazuki's crew investigated old shipwreck debris and discovered a gold artifact.
• Sakazuki called out a boy hiding behind a small boat, and the boy identified the artifact as a four-hundred-year-old Shandia ritual plate.
• The boy revealed that his ancestor was Mont Blanc Noland and angrily insisted Noland had never lied.
• Sakazuki put a hand on the boy's head and told him he believed him, making the boy burst into tears.

Mont Blanc Cricket told Sakazuki and the soldiers the truth about his ancestor, Noland, and they listened without mockery. Sakazuki helped Cricket see how a Knock Up Stream could have carried the city of gold into the sky, leaving Cricket stunned by the possibility.

• Cricket cried as he recalled the generations of pain endured over his ancestor’s reputation, then introduced himself to Sakazuki.
• Cricket told Sakazuki and the soldiers about Noland, and they listened as he described his ancestor’s adventures.
• When dinner interrupted their conversation, Sakazuki asked Cricket if he wanted to join the Navy, but Cricket said he still needed to prove Noland was no fraud.
• Sakazuki showed Cricket a chart of Jaya and connected Noland’s sighting of gold in a skull’s right eye to the island’s shape.
• Sakazuki traced a skull on the chart and explained how a powerful Knock Up Stream could have sent the city of gold into the sky, leaving Cricket shocked.