Chapter Summaries

Sakazuki killed World and secured the More-More Fruit for his plan, then returned to Marineford and encouraged Morris to let Enel pursue strength at the Navy Academy. Three years later, Sakazuki's warship docked at Derrick Island, where its arrival set a boy on a different path.

• Sakazuki killed World in the fruit storeroom, found the More-More Fruit among the scattered fruit, and concealed it inside his magma body.
• Cipher Pol spies joined the returning warship with World's corpse, while Sakazuki headed to the Navy Academy and learned Morris had been away for several days.
• Sakazuki found Morris playing hide-and-seek with Enel and urged Morris to give the boy room to train at the academy.
• Enel told Morris he wanted to become strong enough to protect everyone, and Morris agreed to stop sheltering him.
• Sakazuki buried the More-More Fruit beneath his home's floor, then resumed patrolling the seas and hunting pirates.
• Three years later, Sakazuki's warship docked at Derrick Island, changing the course of a boy's life.

Douglas Bullet confronted the Wheel Pirate Crew after they robbed a tavern, and the battle ended when Marines killed their captain, Puss Scri. After Bullet risked himself to protect a little girl, Marine officer Carol explained why he had saved him, stirring Bullet’s buried longing.

• Douglas Bullet left a dessert shop and went to investigate cries from a tavern.
• Puss Scri ordered the Wheel Pirate Crew to loot the tavern and attack Bullet.
• Bullet defeated the pirates in the tavern and fought Scri, enduring severe injuries as Scri attacked in giant-wheel form.
• Scri charged toward a little girl, and Bullet rushed to shield her.
• Carol and two other Marines arrived, and Carol killed Scri before explaining to Bullet that Marines protected the people of the world.
• Bullet listened to Carol and felt his long-frozen heart begin to thaw.

Bullet decided to join the Navy, and Douglas Gray reconciled with him and supported his choice. As Bullet departed with Sakazuki and Carol, Sakazuki received an urgent call from Vice Admiral Morris and launched himself from the warship after checking a nautical chart.

• Douglas Gray worried that Bullet's growing fame could threaten his position and considered putting a plan into action.
• Bullet told Gray he wanted to join the Navy to find trustworthy comrades and protect what he had, and Gray agreed to support him.
• Gray and Bullet shared a warm meal, and the next morning Bullet found his parents waiting to see him off at the door.
• Bullet sailed away with Sakazuki and Carol, and Sakazuki decided to train him in Haki.
• Vice Admiral Morris called with an urgent message, so Sakazuki checked a nautical chart, gave Carol instructions, and launched into the sky as magma.

Pirates raided Tanli Island to find and kill Zephyr’s purple-haired child, murdering the child’s mother and capturing him. Enel arrived just before the pirate captain could kill the boy, but the captain remained unharmed as Enel attacked.

• Pirates searched the merchant ships for Zephyr’s child, and the child’s mother hid him in a barrel before drawing the raiders away and sacrificing herself.
• The pirates discovered the two-year-old boy, carried him onto the deck, and posed with him beside his mother’s corpse for a photograph.
• As the pirate captain prepared to crush the child’s neck, Enel appeared in a lightning strike and killed the other pirates on the ship.
• The pirate captain taunted Enel while holding the child, and Enel used Shave to rush forward and swing his staff at the captain’s wrist.

Enel rescued Admiral Zephyr's child and wiped out the pirates attacking him. When a powerful swordsman arrived, Sakazuki intervened and killed him.

• Enel blinded the pirate captain, cut off his arm, rescued Admiral Zephyr's child, and sent the child skyward on a miniature Ark Maxim.
• Enel unleashed his lightning and killed the pirates, including the wounded captain, before a stronger swordsman arrived seeking his younger brother.
• The swordsman attacked Enel and awakened Conqueror's Haki, but Sakazuki arrived and overwhelmed him with his own Haki.
• Sakazuki tore off the swordsman's arms and legs, then ripped open his skull and killed him.

Sakazuki and Enel rescued Zephyr’s son and brought him to Tanli Island, where Zephyr reunited with his wife’s body and their sleeping child. Several years later, Borsalino arrived at Marine Branch 194 and sought to join the Marines as a Glint-Glint Fruit user.

• Sakazuki called Zephyr and told him that his child was safe.
• Sakazuki and Enel brought the merchant ship ashore and waited for Zephyr on Tanli Island.
• Zephyr arrived injured, grieved over Dilia’s body, and took his sleeping son into his arms.
• At Marine Branch 194, Jorison learned that Borsalino wanted to join the Marines and possessed the Glint-Glint Fruit.

After Whitebeard attacked the G4 Branch to rescue Theodore, Sakazuki and Sengoku arrived to confront him. Sakazuki rescued Kweel, then activated Red Lotus Mode and struck at Whitebeard’s crew, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• After Zephyr withdrew from duty following his family's tragedy, Kong granted him leave and ordered a residential district established at Marineford for officers' families.
• Whitey Bay told Marco that Theodore had been captured while covering the crew's retreat, and Whitebeard led the Moby Dick toward the G4 Branch to rescue him.
• Kweel dumped sacks of severed heads before Whitebeard, who attacked the fortress while his crew stormed inside and fought the Marines.
• Sengoku and Sakazuki arrived at the ruined G4 Branch and found Whitebeard holding Kweel, whose limbs had been broken.
• Sakazuki launched Great Eruption, then rescued Kweel from the falling magma and threw him to Sengoku before activating Red Lotus Mode.
• Sakazuki charged into Whitebeard's crew and unleashed Lava Burst Orb.

Sakazuki and Whitebeard fought across the island as Marco and Sengoku were caught up in the battle. Whitebeard shattered the island and dropped massive blocks of seawater onto Sakazuki, but Sakazuki detonated the magma beneath Whitebeard in a colossal eruption.

• Sakazuki's magma engulfed Whitebeard's children, and Whitebeard met Sakazuki in a clash of Haki-coated blades that split the island.
• Whitebeard rescued Marco from Sengoku's attack, then ordered him to flee to Wiko Island.
• Sakazuki attacked Marco with Hell Hound, but Whitebeard cut through the magma arm and Marco escaped in his phoenix flames.
• Whitebeard shattered the magma gathering beneath the island and broke the land into enormous sections.
• Whitebeard raised giant blocks of seawater and sent them crashing toward Sakazuki, who flowed through the magma beneath the ground.
• Sakazuki erupted the magma beneath Whitebeard in a column a thousand meters thick, destroying everything on the island.

Whitebeard and Sakazuki fought across a collapsing island, trading devastating attacks until Sakazuki raised the Cliff-Splitting Sword from the ground. The island solidified into a towering lava blade, leaving the two men facing each other atop its split peaks.

• Whitebeard disrupted Sakazuki's magma eruption with tremor force, but the island collapsed and magma surged back up to cover it.
• Sakazuki rode several magma dragons into battle and clashed with Whitebeard, forcing him down onto the island as magma swallowed the remaining land.
• Whitebeard and Sakazuki traded blows in a stalemate until Sakazuki detonated his magma body to escape Whitebeard's crushing tremor attack, leaving Whitebeard with a severe abdominal wound.
• Whitebeard raised thousand-meter waves and attacked from above, while Sakazuki transformed the ground into the Cliff-Splitting Sword and drove it skyward.
• The waves cooled the enormous lava blade into solid rock, and Whitebeard and Sakazuki faced one another atop its two split peaks.

Sakazuki and Whitebeard continued their fierce duel above the ruins of the G4 Branch as Sengoku reported the crisis to Fleet Admiral Kong. Roger, Shiki, and Charlotte Linlin moved toward the Sgrily Sea, while Marineford mobilized and Garp joined the battle against Roger; Sengoku left Kweel with a doctor and charged back into the fight.

• Sakazuki and Whitebeard clashed inside a vast cloud of smoke and ash as the remains of the Cliff-Splitting Sword crumbled around them.
• Sengoku told Fleet Admiral Kong that the G4 Branch had fallen, Kweel was weakening, and Roger had arrived, prompting Kong to alert Marineford and seek government help.
• Roger rescued the badly injured Marco, learned that Whitebeard needed help, and turned the Oro Jackson toward the G4 Branch; Shiki summoned his pirate fleet and called Charlotte Linlin, who also set course for the Sgrily Sea.
• Roger and Garp reached the ruined G4 Branch, where Roger attacked Sengoku with a Haki-coated slash and Garp shattered it before charging at Roger.
• Sengoku delivered Kweel to the doctor aboard Garp's ship, then hurried back toward the battle.

Roger and Garp clashed while Sengoku fought Rayleigh and Gaban aboard the Oro Jackson, and Whitebeard and Sakazuki endured a massive explosion at Broken Peak. As the Golden Lion headed for the Sgrily Sea, Navy reinforcements and Enel also set out, and Kong and Zephyr arrived at the G4 Branch to join the battle.

• Roger intercepted Garp to protect the Oro Jackson, then charged toward Sakazuki and Whitebeard as Garp pursued him.
• Sengoku blasted the Oro Jackson with a shock wave, injuring its crew and cracking the hull, before driving Rayleigh and Gaban into the seabed with a golden energy pillar.
• Whitebeard tried to escape Sakazuki's volcanic ash cloud, but Sakazuki ignited it, and Whitebeard survived the explosion by shielding himself with repeated tremor strikes.
• Whitebeard and Sakazuki re-formed and stared each other down amid their injuries as the remains of the Cliff-Splitting Sword collapsed.
• The Golden Lion sent dozens of floating pirate ships toward the Sgrily Sea, while the Navy dispatched warships and Enel traveled toward the New World with Carol.
• Kong and Zephyr arrived above the Navy's G4 Branch and joined the battle.

Garp and Fleet Admiral Kong battled Roger at sea while Zephyr attacked the Oro Jackson and killed Sickal. Roger sensed a companion’s presence vanish and tried to return, but Garp and Kong forced him onto the defensive.

• Garp turned Roger’s enormous sword slash back on him, while Roger redirected sword waves toward Kong, who counterattacked with Armament Haki air bullets.
• Zephyr landed on the Oro Jackson, broke Sickal’s arm, and killed him after the crew rushed to defend the ship.
• Zephyr killed Sambel after blocking his trident strike and crushing his skull against the deck.
• Rayleigh and Gaban turned toward the Oro Jackson, but Sengoku stopped them with a massive golden Buddha attack.
• Roger sensed a companion’s presence vanish and blasted Garp and Kong away, but they caught up and forced him onto the defensive.

Sakazuki and Whitebeard resumed their fight at the Cliff-Splitting Sword, each trying to exploit the other's injuries and weaknesses. Whitebeard sank the island beneath the sea, but Sakazuki erupted from underwater and launched a barrage of enormous magma fists at him.

• Sakazuki and Whitebeard recovered briefly before attacking each other again.
• Sakazuki formed a vast field of solid ground and sent countless lava giants after Whitebeard, who fought them off until one wounded his neck.
• Whitebeard shattered the air around Sakazuki's projectile and summoned towering waves, then realized Sakazuki depended on underground magma.
• Whitebeard drove the Cliff-Splitting Sword downward and shattered the island beneath the sea as Sakazuki fled deep underground.
• Sakazuki erupted from the sea in a massive column of magma and rained enormous magma fists down on Whitebeard.

Whitebeard and Sakazuki resumed their clash as the battle spread across the sea and the Oro Jackson. After Sengoku killed Gaban and Roger was surrounded, Shiki intervened to help Roger reach his ship, while Mike Frank headed toward the battlefield in a growing snow cloud.

• Whitebeard reversed Sakazuki's rain of magma with a punch, injuring his own arm, then charged Sakazuki and clashed with him again.
• Zephyr killed Taro, knocked Sambel into the sea, and drove Rayleigh backward in a fierce sword fight aboard the Oro Jackson.
• Sengoku trapped Gaban underwater and blasted a vast crater into the sea, leaving Gaban dead on the surface.
• Roger broke free from Kong and Garp's approach and charged toward the Oro Jackson, but Sengoku, Kong, and Garp formed an encirclement around him.
• Shiki disrupted Sengoku's attack with seawater lion heads, giving Roger an opening to wound Sengoku and race toward the ship while Shiki engaged Kong and Garp.
• Mike Frank transformed into a growing snow cloud and flew from the edge of the Sgrily Sea toward the battlefield.

Zephyr, Roger, Sengoku, Garp, Kong, Golden Lion, Sakazuki, and Whitebeard fought across the Oro Jackson and the sea battlefield. Golden Lion joined Sakazuki and Whitebeard’s battle as Garp and Kong closed in, and the chapter ended with a massive lion head crashing toward Whitebeard amid Sakazuki’s magma waves.

• Zephyr killed Sambel by redirecting the Fish-Man Karate strike into his chest, then was driven off the Oro Jackson by Roger’s flying slash and charged back toward the ship.
• Golden Lion fought Kong and Garp in midair, broke away from them, and flew toward Whitebeard and Sakazuki.
• Sakazuki attacked Whitebeard with magma dragons and then unleashed Lava Burial, sending enormous waves of magma crashing down on him.
• Whitebeard shattered the atmosphere to tear apart the magma waves, while Golden Lion used Earth Roll to form six giant lion heads from the ground.
• Garp smashed through four lion heads, and Golden Lion sent the final one straight toward Whitebeard.

Whitebeard and Golden Lion fought Garp, Kong, and Sakazuki, then reunited in the sky and gained Blizzard Frank as an ally. Golden Lion and Sakazuki unleashed enormous attacks against their opponents, leaving the battle raging across the divided fields of snow and magma.

• Garp struck Whitebeard, breaking several ribs, but Whitebeard countered with a tremor and flew back to Golden Lion.
• Kong pursued Golden Lion, who fought back with his blades and floating lion heads before Kong drove him into a crater.
• Sakazuki turned Golden Lion's black rock into magma and trapped him with erupting spears, but a shock wave split the fighters apart.
• Whitebeard and Golden Lion reunited, flew into the sky, and faced Kong, Garp, and Sakazuki below.
• Golden Lion announced that the battle was three against three as Blizzard Frank joined him amid the falling snow.
• Golden Lion sent enormous snow lion heads at the three men while Sakazuki formed an eight-armed magma giant that launched its arms at them.

On the third day of the battle at Sgrily, Sakazuki devised a trap that let Kong and Garp help him strike Whitebeard with a magma spear. Just as Sakazuki prepared to attack again, the Big Mom Pirates arrived and hit him with a laser.

• Sakazuki used Life Absorption to recover, then shared meat with Kong and Garp and explained his plan.
• Sakazuki launched Meteor Volcano, forming the falling Molten Rock Fists into a Haki-coated net around Golden Lion, Whitebeard, and Frank.
• Kong and Garp rode magma pillars into the sky and engaged Golden Lion, Frank, and Whitebeard, holding Whitebeard in place.
• Sakazuki pierced Whitebeard's back with a Conqueror's Haki-coated Magma Spear, leaving its compressed magma tip embedded in him when the spear snapped.
• A woman at the bow of the arriving Big Mom Pirates fired a Maser Cannon that engulfed Sakazuki.

Whitebeard and Sakazuki knocked each other unconscious in a devastating clash as Golden Lion and Garp rescued them. Elsewhere, Charlotte Linlin joined the battle, while Garp's warship turned back toward the Big Mom Pirates and an approaching Marine fleet.

• Sakazuki's magma spearhead burned through Whitebeard's chest, but Whitebeard shattered it and fought back against Garp and Sakazuki.
• Whitebeard and Sakazuki exchanged a final clash that produced a massive explosion, leaving both unconscious as Golden Lion and Garp caught them.
• Rayleigh and Roger continued fighting Sengoku and Zephyr, while Charlotte Linlin arrived and attacked Sengoku before heading toward Golden Lion.
• Rear Admiral Keane spotted the Big Mom Pirates blocking Garp's warship's escape and ordered the ship to turn back toward them.
• Cracker and a scarf-wearing figure prepared for the approaching warship and spotted the enormous Marine fleet nearing the area.

During the seventh day of the Battle of Sgrily, the Marines and pirates suffered catastrophic losses as Whitebeard died unleashing a world-shaking attack. Half a year later, Sakazuki woke from his coma at Marine Headquarters Hospital, transformed, and was greeted by Enel.

• Rear Admiral Keane and the surviving Marines rammed Golden Lion's fleet with Garp's burning warship, then detonated its ammunition magazine, destroying themselves and a pirate vessel.
• The Marines regrouped on Sakazuki's lava landmass and planned to occupy Charlotte Linlin, Golden Lion, Rayleigh, Frank, and Roger while Fleet Admiral Kong tried to kill Roger.
• Whitebeard left his sickbed, entrusted Marco to Roger, and unleashed his final attack before dying with a smile.
• Whitebeard's awakened strike overturned the sky and sea, uprooted islands, and devastated both fleets; the battle's aftermath included the deaths of Whitebeard's crew and thousands of Marines, while Zephyr resigned and Sakazuki fell into a coma.
• Half a year later, Sakazuki woke at Marine Headquarters Hospital as an ancient, savage aura burst from him, and Enel arrived through the window.

Sakazuki returned to Marineford after six months away, caught up on changes in the Marines and the pirate world, and tested Enel’s training before deciding to guide the Elite Class instead of setting sail. The next day, he departed on patrol with his men and challenged Bullet to spar.

• Carol reported that the Sgrily Naval Battle had caused heavy losses, Zephyr had resigned as Admiral, Sengoku was missing, and Garp had gone to search for him.
• Carol told Sakazuki that pirate activity had quieted after Whitebeard’s death and the destruction of much of Golden Lion’s fleet, while several pirate crews recovered and weak nations sought World Government protection.
• Sakazuki asked Vice Admiral Morris whether Zephyr’s changed beliefs would influence Marine soldiers, and Morris said they would not affect the wider forces.
• Sakazuki challenged Enel to show his training, then grew furious when Enel mocked him in a flippant imitation of Kizaru; Carol and Morris joined Sakazuki in cornering the boy.
• Sakazuki postponed his patrol and planned to visit the Marine Headquarters Academy’s Elite Class, where Borsalino had grown stronger after training with him.
• The next day, Sakazuki departed from Marineford as soldiers cheered, then invited Bullet to spar aboard the ship.