Chapter Summaries

Bullet and Sakazuki sparred aboard the warship, where Sakazuki defended against Bullet’s relentless attacks and countered with skill. After the fight spread into a brawl among the soldiers, Bullet warned Sakazuki that he was about to use a move he could not control.

• Carol started the spar, and Bullet immediately attacked Sakazuki with rapid strikes aimed at vital points.
• Sakazuki blocked Bullet’s attacks, turned his combination against him, and kicked him into the railing.
• Bullet continued fighting Sakazuki at full strength, while the cheering soldiers began brawling among themselves.
• Carol sent for more meat as the clashes continued across the warship.
• Bullet wiped blood from his mouth and warned Sakazuki to watch out for an uncontrollable move he had once triggered on a battlefield.

Sakazuki trained Bullet to control his Demon Aura, and Bullet awakened Conqueror's Haki while suppressing its effects. Sakazuki then proposed forming an assault squad and chose the name the Roaring Assault Squad.

• Bullet transformed into a blue, mindless demon, and Sakazuki repeatedly kicked him away to keep him from attacking the soldiers.
• As his fury peaked, Bullet roared with Conqueror's Haki, then regained control and examined his transformed body.
• Sakazuki explained that Bullet had awakened Conqueror's Haki and suppressed his Demon Aura while acting on instinct.
• The soldiers celebrated Bullet's power, while Sakazuki and Carol discussed forming an assault squad around him.
• Sakazuki told Carol to select fifteen fast, enduring soldiers, and named the unit the Roaring Assault Squad.

The chapter revealed that Vegapunk secretly founded MADS, an illegal research team studying forbidden science, including the lineage factor. It ended with Cipher Pol uncovering MADS and Vegapunk’s lineage factor paper after Queen and Caesar Clown abducted villagers for experiments.

• Vegapunk secretly led MADS, a team of scientists that included Vinsmoke Judge, Queen, and Caesar Clown.
• After learning about the lineage factor, young Queen and eight-year-old Caesar Clown abducted people from nearby villages for experiments.
• Two-thirds of one village’s population disappeared in a single night, and the remaining villagers reported the incident to the kingdom and the Navy.
• Baldimore’s Navy branch alerted headquarters, which referred the suspected human experimentation to the World Government.
• Cipher Pol investigated and uncovered MADS and Vegapunk’s paper on lineage factor theory.

The Five Elders decided to recruit the scientist whose technology was centuries ahead of the world, while MADS prepared to flee its laboratory as Cipher Pol and Marines closed in. Vice Admiral Sakazuki raced toward Karakuri Island in a giant magma eagle.

• One of the Five Elders proposed recruiting the advanced scientist, and the other Elders agreed.
• Cipher Pol agents received orders to meet Marine Branch soldiers, surround the mechanical animal forest, and wait for reinforcements.
• Vegapunk berated Queen and Caesar for abducting people for their experiments, then helped pack MADS’s documents.
• Branch Commander Titus received Fleet Admiral Kong’s orders to stop MADS until Sakazuki arrived and rallied his soldiers.
• Sakazuki flew toward Karakuri Island in a vast magma eagle, melting a channel through the icy sea.

Sakazuki taught Enel that Devil Fruit abilities could determine a fighter’s upper limit, then used his magma power to stop Vegapunk and the scientists from escaping Karakuri Island. Vegapunk welcomed the island’s thaw, but Sakazuki arrested him.

• Enel joined Sakazuki, who explained that martial arts and Haki formed a foundation while Devil Fruit abilities could determine a person’s upper limit.
• Sakazuki flew to Karakuri Island with Enel and approached the sealed Mechanical Animal Forest.
• Vegapunk prepared to launch a mechanical ship with Caesar Clown and the others aboard, but Sakazuki warned him not to press the button.
• Sakazuki fired a scorching beam over the sea, melting the frozen waters and snow across Karakuri Island and leaving the scientists stunned.
• Vegapunk saw his island thawing and his buried giant furnace reemerging, then Sakazuki landed and told him he was under arrest.

Sakazuki captured Vegapunk and the researchers on Baldimore, then used his magma ability to create a dormant volcano that would warm the island for centuries. He arranged for Vegapunk to guide Enel and began preparing to transport the institute’s equipment, while Titus hesitated at the gate.

• Vegapunk gave Sakazuki the personnel records, and Sakazuki had him use a remote to drive the mechanical animals away before Enel summoned the Marines to take custody of the researchers.
• Vegapunk asked Sakazuki to keep the island warm, and Sakazuki formed a magma-filled underground cavity beneath the giant furnace to create a volcano that could burn for at least three hundred years.
• Sakazuki warned Vegapunk that the kingdom would need to build a filtration system, and Vegapunk thanked him and confirmed it would be possible.
• Sakazuki ordered the Marines to escort the scientists to the harbor and asked Vegapunk to teach Enel about machinery, electricity, and magnetism.
• Vegapunk agreed to guide Enel and show the soldiers what to pack from the institute, while Titus hesitated by the iron gate.

Aboard the ship bound for Sabaody Archipelago, Sakazuki explained to Enel why the government would spare the scientists despite their brutal experiments. The conversation ended with Sakazuki hinting that he planned to usurp the throne.

• Enel excitedly told Sakazuki that Vegapunk’s technology was centuries ahead of its time and included advanced flying-machine designs.
• Enel told Sakazuki that seeing the experiment victims troubled him and asked why the scientists would not be executed.
• Sakazuki challenged Enel to weigh the scientists’ crimes against the future benefits their knowledge could bring to the world.
• Enel reluctantly accepted Sakazuki’s reasoning, and Sakazuki promised to show him more of the world’s darkness and inequality in Sabaody.
• Enel asked whether Sakazuki was planning a rebellion, and Sakazuki corrected him, calling it usurping the throne.

Sakazuki took Enel to a human auction on Sabaody Archipelago to show him its darkness and teach him about restraint. Enel struggled with the injustice he witnessed, and Sakazuki led him toward the Marine Branch.

• Sakazuki and Enel parted from Vegapunk at Sabaody Archipelago after spending over a month studying together.
• Sakazuki disguised himself and Enel and brought him to the Human Auction House in the lawless zone.
• Enel watched nobles and pirates bid on slaves, including Loxitia, and nearly attacked the auction house before Sakazuki held him back.
• Sakazuki explained that Enel’s impulsive attack would have ruined his chance to save many more people as a Marine Admiral, leaving Enel furious and shaken.
• Sakazuki continued toward the Marine Branch on Sabaody Archipelago with Enel following him.

Sakazuki and Enel witnessed Marine Branch commander Demora and his men profiting from corruption, then Sakazuki explained why the weakened Marines tolerated corrupt but capable officers. He left Enel with a view of the Marines’ fragile position and said the balance would change once the next generation had grown.

• Sakazuki and Enel secretly entered the Marine Branch at Grove 66, where Enel used Observation Haki to sense the base.
• Demora’s soldiers reported profits from protection money, seized treasure, and trafficking in captured slaves and pirates, and Demora ordered them to divide the bribes.
• Enel condemned Demora, but Sakazuki explained that the Marines’ leadership knew about corrupt branch commanders and relied on their strength to maintain order.
• Sakazuki told Enel that the Marines were weakened by Sengoku’s disappearance, Zephyr’s retirement, and the deaths of over twenty thousand elite soldiers at the Sgrily Naval Battle.
• Sakazuki said the Marines needed time for Enel, Bullet, Borsalino, Gion, Doberman, Dalmatian, and Strawberry to mature, then said he would show Enel the so-called adventurer pirates the next day.

Sakazuki took Enel to witness a runaway pirate slave being tortured and killed by Saint Tevias. He explained the Celestial Dragons’ power and asked Enel what he would do about their injustice.

• Sakazuki gave Enel wanted posters and told him to tear up the one belonging to a brutal pirate crew.
• Sakazuki took Enel to the 10th Giant Tree, where a Cipher Pol agent stopped the enslaved pirate captain from escaping and crippled him.
• Saint Tevias shot the pirate captain, demonstrated an explosive slave collar, and cruelly promised to free him if he reached the right shop.
• The pirate captain crawled to a shop, but Saint Tevias rejected his success and detonated the collar, killing him.
• Enel condemned the Celestial Dragons, and Sakazuki described their control over the world before asking Enel what he would do.

Sakazuki ordered Enel to kill the Note Pirates, despite Enel believing they were good people, and killed the crew himself when Enel refused. In Noss Town, Sakazuki showed Enel how the pirates’ heroic reputation inspired children to admire piracy, leaving Enel to confront what it meant for pirates to be celebrated as heroes.

• Sakazuki and Enel watched the Note Pirates’ captain, Black, and Sakazuki ordered Enel to kill them despite acknowledging their good deeds.
• Enel confronted the Note Pirates but could not bring himself to attack, so Black led his crew away.
• Sakazuki killed the Note Pirates who had left the bar, then destroyed their ship when Enel tried to stop his attack on the three pirates aboard.
• Sakazuki took the burned Enel to Noss Town, where residents still celebrated Black for saving their town.
• Sakazuki showed Enel children pretending to be Black and explained that pirate heroes could inspire them to become pirates, while undermining respect for Navy soldiers.

Sakazuki taught Enel that the Navy had to fight pirates even when justice demanded harsh sacrifices, and Enel chose to fight back against impossible odds. Days later, Garp found the amnesiac Sengoku on Palini Island and restored his memory with a punch, only to face Sengoku's furious counterattack.

• Sakazuki explained to Enel that pirates had to die despite occasional good deeds, and that the Navy's pursuit of justice required difficult choices and sacrifices.
• Enel agreed to fight back against impossible odds, and Sakazuki said they would build strength before reshaping the world with decisive force.
• Garp arrived on Palini Island and found Sengoku, who had taken in Rosinante but did not recognize him.
• Garp struck Sengoku with his Falling Bone, restoring his memories but leaving him too dazed to get up.
• Garp moved to punch Sengoku again, but Rosinante stood protectively in front of him.
• Sengoku recovered, transformed into a golden giant, and attacked Garp while shouting in anger.

Sengoku suspected that Sakazuki’s influence among Marines and civilians had grown dangerously strong, though he had no evidence and resolved to test him. Meanwhile, Golden Lion began probing the Marines by attacking G-3 Branch, and Sakazuki arrived at Marineford as the officers gathered to respond.

• Sengoku told Garp that Sakazuki’s prestige seemed greater than that of any other Marine commander and worried soldiers might follow his orders over Fleet Admiral Kong’s.
• Golden Lion told Blizzard Frank that his forces would test the Marines’ response and ordered them to prepare for war.
• A Golden Lion pirate captain attacked G-3 Branch and breached its gate, prompting a combat alert at Marine Headquarters.
• Sakazuki flew to Marineford with Bullet and learned from Vice Admiral Grossa that Golden Lion’s forces had attacked G-3 Branch.

Fleet Admiral Kong sent Sakazuki with five warships to lure Golden Lion into an ambush, while Golden Lion planned to destroy Marine Headquarters. The trap was sprung as Golden Lion attacked the fleet, and he realized someone had set him up.

• Kong ordered Sakazuki to lead five warships toward the Red Line while secretly arranging for Sengoku and Garp to hide aboard.
• Golden Lion learned that Sakazuki was leading only five warships and announced his plan to destroy Marine Headquarters and conquer the world.
• Golden Lion’s fleet hid in the Lana Sea, where he planned to kill Sakazuki before crossing the Red Line.
• Sakazuki sensed Golden Lion’s presence as the five warships approached, and Golden Lion attacked by dropping islands toward them.
• Sakazuki sent two magma dragons toward Golden Lion, but the dragons’ heads suddenly exploded, making Golden Lion realize someone had set him up.

The Golden Lion fought Sengoku and Garp, but he lost his left arm and fled after collapsing his floating headquarters to cover his escape. Sakazuki and the Marines destroyed the falling fleet, and the battle ended with no Marine casualties as Sakazuki’s reputation spread.

• The Golden Lion survived Sengoku and Garp’s blows, then used his swords and Float-Float Fruit power to force them back and flee upward.
• The Golden Lion dropped his floating headquarters, ships, and giant lion-shaped debris to delay Sengoku and Garp, but both Marines fought through the falling wreckage.
• Garp caught up with the Golden Lion, who sacrificed his left arm and used his coat to drag Garp downward before escaping.
• Sengoku and Garp attacked the surviving pirates while Sakazuki unleashed a barrage of magma arms at the falling fleet.
• The Marines annihilated the Golden Lion’s fleet in the Lana Sea, and the Golden Lion escaped with one arm lost; the Marines suffered no casualties.

Sakazuki returned to Marineford as the Marines celebrated his rise as their new hero, while Vice Admiral Morris explained that the Marines were also jockeying for influence after the Commander-in-Chief announced plans to retire. The next day, Carol used a resupply stop to lure and kill the man who had leaked the Navy’s weakness to Golden Lion, then answered a ringing Den Den Mushi.

• Kong, Garp, and Sengoku watched Sakazuki arrive at Marineford to cheers, and Sengoku reconsidered his suspicions about him.
• Morris told Sakazuki that the Marines were promoting him as a new hero and competing with the other branches for the future Commander-in-Chief position.
• Morris explained that the current Commander-in-Chief had recovered from a serious illness, disrupting the other branches’ efforts to build momentum.
• Carol tempted Bullet with the island’s desserts during a resupply stop, then went alone to meet the informant who had tipped off Golden Lion.
• Carol revealed that the promised reward was only a newspaper reporting Golden Lion’s defeat, killed the informant, and answered a ringing Den Den Mushi.

Carol completed Sakazuki’s intelligence operation, and Sakazuki reflected on how unexpected events had turned his simple plan into a major victory. At Merveille, Golden Lion woke injured and began planning his revenge against the Marines.

• Carol told Sakazuki that the operation was done, and Sakazuki promised him a reward when they met.
• Sakazuki reviewed how Golden Lion’s attack, Sengoku and Garp’s return, and the Commander-in-Chief’s old injuries had changed his plan and brought unexpected gains.
• Sakazuki looked toward the sky and considered that Golden Lion was still alive, leaving a chance to obtain the Float-Float Fruit.
• Golden Lion awoke on a cliff at Merveille with one arm missing and grabbed his remaining Famous Sword, Kogarashi.
• Golden Lion rose using his sword and his own strength, then vowed to defeat the Marines and pursue his ambition to conquer the world.

After returning to Marine Headquarters, Carol read Sakazuki’s manuscript, “Oppression and Resistance,” which laid out how revolutionary ideas could spread and overthrow the ruling classes. Sakazuki ordered Carol to preserve and eventually circulate it, intending to use a powerful puppet to probe the World Government’s hidden strength, and ended by invoking Joy Boy.

• Carol returned to Marine Headquarters after more than a month at sea and went to Sakazuki’s home.
• Sakazuki finished writing a revolutionary booklet and told Carol it could change the world.
• Carol read the booklet and realized its arguments about equality and freedom could inspire uprisings across the world.
• Sakazuki explained that the revolution would need a powerful puppet to take the government’s blows and help expose its hidden resources.
• Sakazuki instructed Carol to protect the booklet, check its aging, and find the right opportunity to send it out.
• Sakazuki said the world’s strength-based order kept him from fearing a loss of control, then focused on Joy Boy and the future.

Sakazuki gave Carol Golden Lion's sword, Sakura Ten, and prepared to leave to see Enel. Elsewhere, Garp trained to focus his punches for his rematch with Chinjao, while Nico Olvia named her newborn daughter Nico Robin and wept over the danger awaiting them.

• Sakazuki gave Carol Sakura Ten, Golden Lion's sword, and Carol admired its sharpness.
• Sakazuki learned it was February sixth and told Carol they would set sail the next day.
• Garp punched through mountains as he trained to concentrate his force for his promised rematch with Chinjao.
• Nico Olvia named her newborn daughter Nico Robin and apologized to her while crying.

Enel fought Borsalino at Marine Headquarters Academy, then learned that Professor Vegapunk wanted to study Kaido, the captain of the Beasts Pirates. Sakazuki sent Carol to gather information on Kaido, who ended the chapter coughing after drinking and remembering the magma bomb Sakazuki had planted in his lung.

• Enel and Borsalino fought with lightning, lasers, and blades until Zephyr told them to leave the arena for the next students.
• Enel told Sakazuki that Professor Vegapunk wanted his help acquiring a mythical creature for research.
• Sakazuki identified Kaido as a Mythical Zoan user and recalled planting a magma bomb in him at God Valley before Charlotte Linlin intervened.
• Sakazuki ordered Carol to gather information on Kaido.
• On Skullin Island, Kaido coughed after drinking wine, touched his left lung, and shouted Sakazuki's name.