Chapter Summaries

Carol explained to Robin that Ohara and the erased islands were treated as insignificant by those who did not suffer their destruction, while challenging Robin’s hatred of Sakazuki. He left her considering that Sakazuki’s influence—not the Four Emperors or most pirates—would shape what future generations remembered.

• Robin fled the office after Sakazuki’s words shook her convictions, and Carol brought her water at the fortress rampart.
• Carol asked whether Ohara had cared about the islands erased by the World Government and argued that Ohara’s scholars had likewise treated their suffering as insignificant.
• Carol told Robin that Ohara had been destroyed for breaking the World Government’s laws and argued that her dead relatives’ grievance against Sakazuki had ended with them.
• Robin accused Carol of brainwashing, and Carol said Sakazuki had taught him to persuade others.
• Carol revealed that Sakazuki wrote The Industrial Revolution and Oppression and Resistance and authorized Vegapunk’s technological aid to the Revolutionary Army.
• Carol called the Four Emperors sturdier weeds and said future histories would remember pirates such as Roger because they had stood against Sakazuki.

Kuzan fought Hale Nock at Paris Port as the pirates launched attacks against the Marines’ key defenders, and Kuzan was killed in battle. As Headquarters reeled and Enel went missing, Sakazuki calmly crushed the enemy-marked islands on his sand table and declared that the Marines were coming.

• Carol reassured Robin that the world’s future rested with a few key people, then left her to stay quietly at Headquarters.
• Hale Nock and Red-Haired Shanks advanced against the Marines’ flanks while the Marines retreated and fought a war of attrition.
• Hale Nock attacked Kuzan at Paris Port, while the Red Hair Pirates mobilized to surround and kill Enel.
• Hale Nock unleashed Steam Vapor Massacre against Kuzan as black mist spread across the island below them.
• Headquarters received confirmation that Hale Nock had killed Kuzan, and Intelligence reported that Enel could not be reached.
• Sakazuki crushed the islands marked with Hale Nock’s and Shanks’s flags on his sand table and said the Marines were coming.

After Kuzan died during Hale Nock’s attack on Paris Port, the Marines and World Government assessed the consequences as the New World war intensified. At a call with the other Emperors, Hale Nock denied killing Kuzan.

• Marine intelligence reported that Paris Port and everything on it had vanished, and suspected Lamb Leonard’s Dark-Dark Fruit had helped cause Kuzan’s death.
• Garp tried to leave to kill Hale Nock, but Zephyr stopped him and warned that they were at war.
• The Five Elders discussed Kuzan’s death and feared Sakazuki would retaliate before the World Government could spare resources to intervene.
• Carol returned to New Marineford with two Devil Fruit Reclaimers and told Sakazuki that Enel had escaped Kaido and Red-Hair with Bullet’s help.
• The Four Emperors held a video call, and Hale Nock told them he had not killed Kuzan.

Hale Nock told the other Emperors that Bullet had taken Kuzan, but a massive eruption then destroyed pirate-held islands across the New World. By morning, the Five Elders learned that at least hundreds of thousands had died, and Sakazuki’s ruthless operation had begun.

• Hale Nock told Charlotte Linlin, Red-Haired Shanks, and Kaido that Bullet had taken Kuzan and Lamb Leonard, while a false report blamed him for Kuzan’s death.
• Red-Haired Shanks and Kaido questioned how Bullet could have appeared in two places, and Hale Nock warned the others to stay cautious of Sakazuki.
• The Visual Den Den Mushi feeds for Red-Haired Shanks and Hale Nock went dark as Hale Nock’s island began to shake and erupt.
• Hale Nock watched magma annihilate his island and realized Sakazuki was destroying everything around him.
• The Five Elders watched the fires from Mary Geoise, and an intelligence officer reported that forty-three islands occupied by Hale Nock and Red-Haired Shanks had been reduced to ashes, killing at least hundreds of thousands.

The Five Elders realized Sakazuki had planned to destroy the New World’s pirate forces, while the Revolutionary Army began its assault on Mary Geoise and the remaining Emperors braced for a final battle. At New Marineford, Sakazuki prepared to announce a public execution and the launch of total war the following day.

• The Five Elders studied Sakazuki’s map, recognized that he had lured the pirates into a final encirclement, and ordered attacks on the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon ordered the Revolutionary Army to advance through Reverse Mountain and across the Calm Belt toward Mary Geoise.
• Hale Nock and Red-Haired Shanks asked the other Emperors for a plan, but Kaido ended the call and ordered preparations for the final battle.
• Robin questioned Sakazuki about the destruction of the islands, and Sakazuki said the fear of the world’s rulers mattered more than ordinary people’s fear.
• Carol told Sakazuki that the equipment for the Execution Platform was ready, and Sakazuki ordered a worldwide announcement of total war, the execution of the last member of the Three-Eye Tribe, and the destruction of the Poneglyph.

Carol brought Robin to meet Pudding, the imprisoned last member of the Three-Eye Tribe, and explained how the Navy planned to crush the pirates’ hopes before the coming battle. Pudding faced her execution with calm acceptance, and at noon Sakazuki appeared on the Execution Platform before the watching world.

• Robin questioned whether the Navy should hold a public conversation with the pirates, and Carol and Sakazuki revealed that they intended to use it to humiliate them.
• Carol told Robin that Pudding represented the pirates’ last hope of deciphering Poneglyphs and described the Navy’s plan to make pirates suffer as their victims had.
• Carol and Robin visited Pudding in prison with desserts, and Pudding broke down over being treated kindly despite being a pirate with a despised third eye.
• Pudding ate the desserts, reflected on the life she might have had with Lola and on Robin’s good fortune, and went to sleep ready to die.
• At noon, Pudding was chained on the Execution Platform beside the Poneglyph-destroying device as reporters and viewers watched.
• Sakazuki appeared on the Execution Platform, his arrival silencing the crowd and the worldwide broadcast audience.

Sakazuki announced that the Great Pirate Era was over, launched a Poneglyph into space, and executed Pudding to destroy the pirates’ last chance of deciphering the remaining stones. Meanwhile, Sote captured Luffy and carried the bound Straw Hat Pirates toward the Red Line.

• Carol left Robin at a house atop Reverse Mountain and teleported away as Sakazuki began his broadcast.
• Sakazuki declared the Great Pirate Era over and sent a Poneglyph into space with a Navy launcher.
• Sote attacked the Going Merry, knocked Luffy unconscious, and used his Devil Fruit Ability to bind the Straw Hat Pirates and carry them toward the Red Line.
• Sakazuki revealed Pudding’s importance as the last person able to decipher Poneglyphs and killed her on the Execution Platform.

Sakazuki ordered a Buster Call to erase the Sabaody Archipelago, then used the Four Emperors’ appearance on the broadcast to taunt them before rallying the Marines to begin an all-out war. As Carol transported key figures toward the battlefield, Yixiao decided to leave the Marines after the war.

• Sakazuki launched a live Buster Call against the Sabaody Archipelago, and Marine warships began burning the islands and destroying every vessel that tried to escape.
• Sakazuki summoned Hale Nock, Charlotte Linlin, Red-Hair, and Kaido to the broadcast, while Vegapunk’s satellites traced their locations through their Den Den Mushi connections.
• Carol teleported Issho away from a warship, and Sengoku told Jinbe that Issho had been reassigned to guard Fish-Man Island after disagreeing with Sakazuki’s sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of lives.
• Carol arrived at Fish-Man Island, revealed that he had recovered the Teleportation Fruit, and teleported Sengoku away after explaining that the Marines had acquired the Four Emperors’ coordinates.
• Yixiao told Jinbe he would leave the Marines once the war ended because he could not accept Sakazuki’s methods.
• Sakazuki silenced the Four Emperors during the broadcast, then rallied the Marines to begin a war intended to crush the pirates of the New World.

Sakazuki and his allies tracked down Hale Nock in the New World and killed him after Bullet and Sengoku immobilized him. Sakazuki then prepared to continue the Marines’ full-scale encirclement of the pirates.

• Sakazuki ordered a full-scale encirclement of the pirates and told Garp, Borsalino, and Aramaki to stand by.
• Sakazuki, Bullet, Sengoku, and Carol teleported to Hale Nock’s location using Vegapunk’s tracker.
• Bullet and Sengoku combined their powers to suppress Hale Nock and prevent him from turning into steam.
• Sakazuki pierced Hale Nock’s chest with Hell Hound, fatally wounding him.
• Bullet seized Hale Nock’s head and struck his body, scattering it into a mist of blood.

Carol delivered the unconscious Luffy to Vegapunk’s laboratory to be matured with the Ripe-Ripe Fruit, then took Enel to confront the Red Hair Pirates. Sakazuki, Bullet, and Sengoku massacred Shanks’s crew and killed Shanks, leaving the Red Hair Pirates’ fate in ruins.

• Sote carried Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates through the sky, and Carol ordered him to take the crew to the flying fleet and prepare to attack Mary Geoise alongside Dragon’s fleet.
• Carol brought Luffy to Egghead, where he ordered Shaka to use the Ripe-Ripe Fruit and nutrient fluid to mature him under seastone restraint.
• Carol teleported with Enel to the Red Hair Pirates’ ship, where Enel attacked and Sakazuki, Bullet, and Sengoku arrived.
• Shanks ordered his crew to flee, but Bullet and Sakazuki captured and killed Lucky Roux, Beckman, Dege, and the remaining officers.
• Shanks unleashed powerful Conqueror’s Haki and sword attacks, but Sengoku and Bullet restrained him while Sakazuki crushed his chest and strangled him to death.

Sakazuki prepared to finish the war against the Four Emperors while the Revolutionary Army advanced toward Mary Geoise. After ordering Carol to teleport Borsalino and Aramaki to Egghead, Carol and Enel trapped them in a seawater prison and began extracting their Devil Fruits.

• Sakazuki discarded Red-Haired Shanks's head, took Griffin, and left for a meeting before the coming battle against Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.
• At Egghead, Shaka stopped the nutrient-fluid infusion into Luffy when his readings showed that the restraints might not hold him.
• Dragon told Karasu that the Revolutionary Army would disband and establish kingdoms if they died attacking Mary Geoise.
• Sakazuki assigned the Navy's forces to battle the Four Emperors and ordered Carol to take Borsalino, Aramaki, and Enel back to Headquarters.
• Carol teleported Borsalino and Aramaki into Egghead's seawater prison, where mechanical arms began extracting their Devil Fruits.

Sakazuki launched an assault on Whole Cake Island, where he killed Perospero and Katakuri before joining Bullet, Garp, and Sengoku to defeat Charlotte Linlin. With the island reduced to a lava hell and Linlin dead, Sakazuki handed her head to Carol and moved on to the next target.

• Sakazuki ordered the gathered forces to move out and attack Whole Cake Island.
• Katakuri sensed danger as Garp, Bullet, Sengoku, and Sakazuki arrived, and Charlotte Linlin fled through the palace roof.
• Sakazuki engulfed Whole Cake Island in fire and magma, killed Perospero, and crushed Katakuri’s head.
• Bullet, Garp, and Sengoku surrounded Charlotte Linlin and pinned her down while Sakazuki killed her with magma.
• Sakazuki gave Charlotte Linlin’s head to Carol and said they would move on to the next target.

Sakazuki and his allies ambushed Kaido at Wano Country’s central defense line, killing King and Yamato in front of him. Kaido remained pinned beneath Bullet and Sengoku as Sakazuki declared that he had only deceived himself into believing he had conquered fear.

• Sakazuki ambushed King at Wano Country’s eastern defense line with a magma attack that destroyed the island and left King unconscious.
• Sakazuki, Bullet, and Garp appeared before Kaido, and Sakazuki tossed the injured King toward him.
• Bullet and Sengoku transformed into giants, seized Kaido in his dragon form, and pinned him to the ground.
• Carol threw Yamato into Kaido’s mouth, where an explosion blasted her out and left her unconscious.
• Sakazuki crushed Yamato’s head beneath his foot, then killed King with a Finger Pistol while Kaido struggled helplessly.
• Sakazuki told Kaido that he had only deceived himself into thinking he had conquered fear.

Sakazuki forced Kaido to watch Wano Country be poisoned and destroyed, then revealed that Pluton had been buried beneath the island. Kaido attacked in fury, but Sakazuki and the others killed him, ending the pirates’ bid for supremacy.

• Sakazuki showed Kaido footage of Carol releasing a poison weapon over Wano Country, killing its inhabitants and destroying the island with the Jinbe Seraphim’s self-detonation.
• Sakazuki revealed that Pluton had been buried beneath Wano Country and taunted Kaido for never discovering it.
• Kaido erupted in rage and attacked Sakazuki, but Garp struck his head and Bullet and Sengoku restrained him.
• Sakazuki entered Kaido’s body and repeatedly detonated Lava Burst Orbs, blowing apart the Azure Dragon.
• Bullet caught Kaido’s severed head as the pirates’ struggle for supremacy ended.

After the Four Emperors were killed, Carol returned to New Marineford and displayed their heads at Headquarters, while Sakazuki prepared for the final battle in Mary Geoise. The Marines celebrated the end of the Great Pirate Era as photographs of the executions spread worldwide.

• Carol and the others teleported back to New Marineford with Kaido's remains.
• Sakazuki told Garp and Sengoku that Borsalino and Aramaki had gone to retrieve Vegapunk, while keeping his plans for the Marines' final battle to himself.
• Carol impaled Hale Nock, Shanks, Charlotte Linlin, and Kaido's heads on spikes atop the Execution Platform.
• Carol shouted “Justice,” and the soldiers answered that justice would prevail.
• Photographs of the four dead Emperors spread around the world, and the Great Pirate Era was declared over.

The Marines began closing their encirclement around the remaining pirates, but Charlotte Oven and Charlotte Daifuku ambushed a fleet, killing its commanding vice admiral and capturing ships. Isaac died in the attack after trying to report Fleet 57's capture; on Kegesi Island, his mother briefly regained her senses as Alya read the news and Isaac's letter.

• Onigumo ordered the Marines to complete their encirclement, and Morris asked for volunteers to form the dangerous inner defensive line; Doberman and other officers stepped forward.
• Isaac told Elton that he wanted to go home and invited him to visit Kegesi Island after the war, but an attack from Charlotte Oven and Charlotte Daifuku knocked them unconscious.
• Charlotte Oven and Charlotte Daifuku broke through the Marine fleet, killed its commanding vice admiral, and led the escorted pirates in seizing ships.
• Alya learned that the Four Emperors were dead and read Isaac's letter to her mother, who briefly recovered her memories and called Alya by name.
• Isaac woke amid the wreckage, reached a Den Den Mushi, and tried to report that Fleet 57 was under attack before pirates killed him; command then detonated the warships, and his medal sank into the sea with his severed arm.

The Charlotte Family remnants tried to escape Totto Land as the Marines’ encirclement closed in. Doberman led the attack against Oven and Daifuku, killing them in a deliberate explosion and leaving the Marine fleet to rout the pirates.

• Oven and Daifuku returned to find Whole Cake Island buried in magma and learned that the Marines had likely killed Big Mom, Katakuri, and other Charlotte Family members.
• Daifuku ordered the surviving Charlotte siblings to evacuate, conceal the news, and gather pirates to help them break through the Marine blockade.
• Sengoku warned Garp that Sakazuki seemed unsettlingly driven, while Sakazuki’s preparations for the coming war continued at Marineford.
• Oven and Daifuku led dozens of pirate ships toward a weak point in the blockade, but an eagle-headed man warned them that Wano Country had been destroyed and Marines blocked every route.
• Doberman prepared six Dyna Stones, called Onigumo to request a memorial stone, then led his fleet into battle against Oven and Daifuku.
• Doberman seized Oven and dragged him toward Daifuku before the Dyna Stones exploded, killing all three and scattering the fleets; the Marines then resumed their assault and routed the pirates.

The Marines tightened their encirclement of the New World while the Five Elders prepared to confront them, and Dragon launched the Revolutionary Army’s assault on Mary Geoise. As the battle began, Sakazuki kept the Marines back and ordered Carol to take the awakened-ready young man to Sote with Red-Hair’s head.

• Morris and Tsuru reviewed the Marines’ heavy losses and ordered Gion, Tokikake, Momonga, Dalmatian, Bastille, Luo, and Drake to advance independently.
• The Five Elders learned that all forty-seven suspected Revolutionary Army islands were decoys and summoned Kong to choose a side as they anticipated a Marine attack.
• Dragon and Karasu gathered hundreds of Revolutionary Army ships beneath the Red Line and used Dragon’s storm to carry them toward Mary Geoise.
• Dragon led the assault on Mary Geoise, where the Five Elders met the Revolutionary Army’s flying ships and thunder dragon with a counterattack.
• Garp and Sengoku left Marine Headquarters for Mary Geoise while Sakazuki stayed behind and told them the battle had only begun.
• Carol brought an unconscious young man in a straw hat to Sakazuki, who ordered him taken to Sote with Red-Hair’s head.

Carol took Luffy and Red-Hair’s head from the execution platform as Sakazuki disappeared into the island to draw on the New World’s magma. Jack discovered that Wano Country was gone and considered destroying the last End Point Island, while Vice Admiral Hilber’s fleet pursued the Beasts Pirates; Hilber reflected on his lost hometown and his hopes for his children.

• Sakazuki told Carol to go, then melted into the island to channel magma from deep underground.
• Jack and the surviving Beasts Pirates reached Wano’s former location and found only ocean, leading Jack to conclude that Wano, King, and Kaido were gone.
• Jack asked his navigator about the last End Point Island and ordered him to confirm that destroying it would kill the Marines in the New World.
• Hilber ordered his fleet to change course once Command Center sent the coordinates and pursue the Beasts Pirates’ remnants.
• Hilber told Zephyr about his young son and daughter and explained that he had transferred to the New World to protect them from pirates.
• Hilber recalled his destroyed hometown and lost comrades, hoping his children would never lose the home and safety he had lost.

Zephyr learned that Sakazuki had secretly rendered the final End Point harmless and reconciled with Ain as she called him father, leaving him ready to fight without regrets. Far below the sea, Issho tried to save Fish-Man Island from Sakazuki’s hidden magma, but the island and its inhabitants were destroyed.

• Hilber told Zephyr that Jack the Drought’s fleet was heading for the final End Point, which Sakazuki had already made harmless, and Zephyr resolved to fight without holding back.
• Zephyr accepted Ain calling him father and reflected that Sote had found a wonderful wife, leaving him with no regrets about his impending death.
• Ancient sea kings sensed that their sovereign was in danger as magma spread beneath Mary Geoise and Fish-Man Island.
• Madame Shyarly foresaw Fish-Man Island engulfed by magma, urged its residents to flee, and died from the pain of her vision.
• Issho lifted Fish-Man Island and sealed its magma fissures while Jinbe tried to calm the residents, but magma swords pierced the island and the sea kings carrying it.
• Issho was swallowed by the flooding sea as Fish-Man Island was destroyed, and Sakazuki sensed every presence vanish within the magma.