Chapter Summaries

Sakazuki ambushed Kaido on the Bacchus Islands and seized him with a colossal lava giant as Kaido prepared to attack. Elsewhere, Kozuki Oden decided to set sail, while Garp defeated Chinjao in their arranged duel.

• Sakazuki learned that Kaido had appeared in the Bacchus Islands and redirected his warship there.
• Kozuki Oden read his father's world map and resolved to set sail to explore the world.
• Garp and Chinjao clashed on Carli Island, and Garp crushed the tip of Chinjao's conical head.
• Chinjao ordered the Happo Navy to retreat, and Garp let them go because they were an official organization of a World Government Member State.
• Sakazuki struck Kaido and King with a magma boulder, then used a towering lava giant to restrain Kaido as he charged an attack.

Kaido and King fought Sakazuki, but Sakazuki overwhelmed them and pursued Kaido after blasting King with magma. Carol then attacked the wounded King with a storm of Sword Aura slashes.

• Kaido blasted apart the Magma Giant's head, but it regenerated and pinned him down before punching him.
• King severed three of the Magma Giant's arms, and Kaido broke free and shattered its upper body with Flame Bagua.
• Sakazuki emerged unharmed, and Kaido charged him in anger while King pursued.
• Sakazuki overpowered Kaido in a club clash, then caught King and struck him with Great Eruption.
• Sakazuki pursued the recovering Kaido as King escaped the magma, but Carol appeared and attacked King with One Sword Style: Storm Rain.

King fought Carol while trying to reach Kaido, but Sakazuki subdued Kaido and prepared to take him to Punk Hazard. King escaped beyond the horizon as Sakazuki turned his attack on the fleeing Beasts Pirates.

• King and Carol traded powerful attacks, and King’s earlier injuries worsened during their fight.
• After their fire and sword dragons collided, King used the explosion to race toward Kaido.
• Sakazuki pinned Kaido with Haki-coated magma spears and prepared to strike King with Cliff-Splitting Sword.
• Kaido hit Sakazuki’s magma sword with Bolo Breath and warned King to run, but Sakazuki knocked Kaido unconscious with his Spiked Club.
• King escaped beyond the horizon, and Sakazuki secured Kaido with magma chains and ordered Carol to bring more Seastone chains for the trip to Punk Hazard.
• Sakazuki unleashed Meteor Volcano against the Beasts Pirates fleeing out to sea.

Sakazuki taunted Kaido with the story of his betrayal by the Vodka Kingdom, then delivered him to Vegapunk at Punk Hazard as experimental material. Kaido woke in the research facility and tried to resist, but Sakazuki suppressed him and ordered him to behave like a specimen.

• Sakazuki recited how the Vodka Kingdom sold Kaido to the World Government for experiments, provoking Kaido into a furious outburst.
• Sakazuki mocked Kaido and said he would now contribute to the Navy as experimental material, then knocked him unconscious with his magma club.
• Sakazuki brought Kaido to Punk Hazard, where Vegapunk welcomed him and took him to the research facility.
• Vegapunk examined Kaido's cells and remarked on their exceptional vitality before Kaido's Conqueror's Haki triggered the facility's alarms.
• Kaido woke and tried to rise, but Sakazuki pressed him down with Conqueror's Haki and ordered him to behave like a specimen.

Sakazuki helped Vegapunk restrain Kaido in Dragon-Locking Valley so the scientists could collect samples, but Kaido escaped with Queen after Sakazuki was called away. After the incident brought only minor punishments, Sakazuki returned to his warship and asked Carol whether spring recruitment had begun.

• Sakazuki drugged Kaido and took him to an uninhabited valley, where he bound the transformed dragon with magma chains so Vegapunk's team could collect samples.
• Vegapunk and the scientists finished collecting samples, while Kaido secretly regained his senses and planned an escape.
• After Sakazuki left, Kaido broke free, seized Queen, and fled, firing a Bolo Breath toward a populated area to distract Sakazuki.
• Sakazuki intercepted the attack, then returned to the valley to rescue the fallen scientists after Kaido had escaped.
• The Five Elders issued Sakazuki a three-year pay forfeiture and doubled Vegapunk's research assignments, and Sakazuki later asked Carol whether spring recruitment had begun.

The Roger Pirates saw a newspaper report about a samurai from Wano Country, and Roger decided to recruit him. At Marine Headquarters, Enel discovered how Rosinante’s sound-blocking Devil Fruit could help conceal their movements and tested it on Borsalino.

• Roger knocked a News Coo from the sky with his Conqueror’s Haki, and Rayleigh retrieved the newspaper while leaving the bird money.
• Roger spotted a Two-Sword Style samurai in the newspaper and told Rayleigh he wanted to make him a crewmate; Rayleigh insisted they sail to Drum Island so Roger could get his cough examined.
• Enel visited Sengoku’s home and learned Rosinante had eaten a Devil Fruit that could block out sound.
• Enel realized Rosinante’s power could conceal the sound of his lightning attacks and ran with him to test their combination.
• Enel and Rosinante approached sleeping Borsalino under the sound-blocking dome, but Borsalino sensed danger and escaped before Enel could strike.
• Borsalino wondered how Enel and Rosinante had approached without him sensing them.

King struggled to find news of Kaido, who abducted Queen and hired him to create replacement lungs. Garp found Kuzan and forced him aboard his ship to discuss joining the Marines, while Sakazuki began asking Carol about organized files.

• King threatened a subordinate and ordered his men to spend their treasure buying information about Kaido.
• Kaido brought Queen to a restaurant, woke him by dunking him in liquor, and asked whether his technology could replace lungs.
• Kaido offered Queen anything he wanted, including living people for experiments, in exchange for making lungs suited to his body.
• Garp spotted Kuzan on Yowennan Island, punched him into an alley wall, and carried him toward his warship after Kuzan asked to discuss the benefits of joining the Marines.
• Sakazuki returned to his office with Carol, took a newspaper from her, and asked whether she had finished organizing the files.

Carol reported on the New World's major powers, and Sakazuki planned to strengthen Marine branches across the Four Seas while continuing to monitor Ohara. Meanwhile, Hale Nock crushed Longfellow's refusal to join the Steam Sea Pirates and slaughtered the Black Mist Pirates on Nankesha Island.

• Carol told Sakazuki that the Big Mom Pirates, Golden Lion's Flying Pirates, and Steam Sea Pirates controlled most of the New World, while smaller crews held scattered territories.
• Sakazuki postponed plans to station troops in the New World, ordered continued surveillance of Ohara, and directed Carol to place trained soldiers in every Four Seas branch.
• Hale Nock arrived at Nankesha Island and offered Longfellow a chance to join the Steam Sea Pirates while keeping his territory.
• Longfellow refused and attacked Hale Nock, but Nock transformed into a gigantic steam figure and overwhelmed him with Steam Execution.
• Hale Nock killed the wounded Longfellow with superheated steam and relished the slaughter of the Black Mist Pirates.

After Roger encountered Golden Lion, the Marines debated the Shichibukai proposal, and Sakazuki supported it with strict controls. Dragon received orders to capture the Ohara researchers near Jaya Island, while Sakazuki secretly observed the assignment and hinted that the time had come.

• A clerk reported that Roger had made contact with Golden Lion in the Edd War waters, and Garp hurried off to join the pursuit.
• Fleet Admiral Kong asked for opinions on the Shichibukai proposal, and Sakazuki supported it while insisting the pirates be tightly controlled and used against the New World powers.
• Kong approved Sakazuki's proposal and ordered Leopold to find the nearest Marine unit to Jaya Island and capture the Ohara group.
• Garp tried to join Sengoku's mission against Shiki, and Sengoku shouted at him to return.
• Dragon received orders to capture the forbidden researchers near Jaya Island and frowned when he read that one was a historian.
• Sakazuki used Observation Haki to monitor the communications room and quietly reflected that the time had come.

Roger refused Golden Lion’s offer to join forces and fought him at Edd War while the Oro Jackson crew and nearby Marines watched the clash. As the battle’s shockwaves unleashed towering waves, Rayleigh warned everyone to retreat and Roger’s crew scrambled to hold on.

• Buggy begged Roger’s crew to stop the fight, but Crocus said Roger was in excellent shape and Rayleigh reminded Buggy that Roger would not be talked out of his decisions.
• Roger rejected Golden Lion’s offer to rule the world together, and the two captains began fighting as Golden Lion’s fleet and beasts attacked.
• Garp and Sengoku sensed the battle from nearby warships while Sakazuki traveled underground through magma toward the fight.
• Rayleigh beheaded a giant beast, sensed danger, and ordered the crew back to the Oro Jackson.
• A thunderous collision between Roger and Golden Lion sent enormous waves toward the crew, and Rayleigh shouted for everyone to grab hold of something.

On Jaya Island, Dragon investigated the scholars’ deaths, discovered CP0’s involvement, and took a booklet titled “Oppression and Resistance.” Elsewhere, Sakazuki sent Bullet’s squad to attack Golden Lion’s forces while preparing fake newspapers to spread a false account of Golden Lion’s defeat.

• Sakazuki erased the deserted island crime scene by forcing its magma into the sea, then flew to rendezvous with Bullet.
• Dragon arrived on Jaya Island with Navy forces and learned from Spandine that they had been ordered to arrest a group of scholars.
• Dragon found a house where a masked CP0 agent had destroyed documents, then gathered the scraps and took a booklet titled “Oppression and Resistance.”
• Carol told Sakazuki that his suit had blocked Observation Haki and that Dragon had not spotted him, then left Jaya Island.
• Sakazuki ordered Bullet and the Roaring Assault Squad to destroy Golden Lion’s subordinate forces and withdraw within three days.
• Bullet led his squad toward a Golden Lion stronghold as Sakazuki carried fake newspapers away to spread a fabricated report of Golden Lion’s defeat.

Bullet’s squad slaughtered a Golden Lion gathering place, while Dragon secretly read a booklet about revolution during the search on Jaya. As Big Mom set out to confront the attacks on her territory, Sakazuki faced Hale Nock on Galna Island and transformed into an enormous magma giant.

• Bullet and his Six Powers soldiers wiped out the pirates at a Golden Lion gathering place, then withdrew toward the next island.
• Dragon read a booklet about revolution on Jaya, hid it when a soldier approached, and ordered the search to continue.
• Phil De dismissed the search for historians aboard his warship and recalled an arrest from three years earlier.
• After learning that islands in both her territory and Golden Lion’s had been attacked, Charlotte Linlin ordered Perospero and Katakuri to gather the others and sailed toward the borderlands.
• Sakazuki attacked Hale Nock’s hall on Galna Island with a magma bomb, but Hale Nock deflected it and grew into a five-hundred-meter steam giant.
• Sakazuki transformed into an eight-hundred-meter Eight-Armed Magma Giant and prepared to fight Hale Nock.

Sakazuki fought Hale Nock in their giant forms, overpowering the steam giant and surviving Hale Nock’s ultimate attack. The chapter ended with Sakazuki’s Haki-coated magma body smashing into Hale Nock as he tried to flee.

• Hale Nock attacked Sakazuki with steam fists and a greatsword, but Sakazuki pinned him to the ground and battered his giant form.
• Hale Nock began charging an explosive attack, so Sakazuki hurled him into the sky and launched himself after him.
• Hale Nock reformed and attacked Sakazuki with steam bomb giants and Perilous Steam Slaughter, surrounding him with a huge cloud of explosions.
• Hale Nock retreated after his ultimate attack failed, but Sakazuki pursued him as a Haki-coated magma mass.
• Sakazuki’s magma mass broke through Hale Nock’s steam shields and slammed into his back.

Sakazuki forced Hale Nock to attack Big Mom’s territory in exchange for his life, while secretly steering the Steam Sea Pirates to seize the Golden Lion’s lands. The Golden Lion learned his territories were under attack and rushed to stop the rumor, as Charlotte Linlin headed toward Hale Nock’s forces.

• Sakazuki defeated Hale Nock and revealed that the Navy wanted him to attack Big Mom’s territory so it could return to the New World.
• Hale Nock signaled his crew to assemble and ordered sleeper agents to attack Big Mom’s islands, while his two trusted men discovered a message telling them to seize the Golden Lion’s territory.
• The Golden Lion learned that his lands were under attack by the Steam Sea Pirates and accelerated his fleet toward them.
• Charlotte Linlin learned that Hale Nock had attacked O'Neill Island and flew toward Tachis Island to confront him.
• On O'Neill Island, Sakazuki let a frightened pirate leave, and Hale Nock killed him with a steam bullet.

Sakazuki manipulated Hale Nock and Charlotte Linlin into fighting, then helped Hale Nock land a Seastone dagger strike on Charlotte Linlin before escaping. The chapter left Charlotte Linlin weakened and furious as she turned her attack on the fleeing Hale Nock.

• Charlotte Linlin attacked Hale Nock, who fought back with steam giants while Sakazuki waited for an opening.
• Sakazuki charged at the falling Charlotte Linlin, but Hale Nock revealed his betrayal and attacked Sakazuki with a Seastone dagger.
• Sakazuki and Charlotte Linlin fought Hale Nock together, and Sakazuki urged Hale Nock to help kill Charlotte Linlin by suggesting the Golden Lion was still alive.
• Hale Nock agreed to pin Charlotte Linlin down, and Sakazuki used magma spears to hold her as Hale Nock sent the Seastone dagger into her body.
• Sakazuki suddenly fled instead of attacking Charlotte Linlin, who recovered enough to blast the escaping Hale Nock with Fulgora.

Sakazuki learned that Hale Nock had lost territory to Big Mom, Golden Lion, and the rising pirates, while he ordered the Marines to keep monitoring Dragon and the escaped scholars. Meanwhile, young Marshall D. Teach planned to seek the Munch-Munch Fruit, Garp went looking for Dragon, and Dragon arrived at a North Blue kingdom whose peaceful appearance concealed widespread bodily mutilation.

• Carol reported that Big Mom and Golden Lion had devastated Hale Nock's territory, while new-generation pirates seized the central lands and operations as a buffer zone.
• Sakazuki ordered Carol to monitor Dragon and the scholars, plant artificially aged papers, use Enel to track magnetic fields, and report pirates with a D in their names.
• On Snow Island, young Marshall D. Teach remembered the laboratory and his sisters, then resolved to find the Munch-Munch Fruit and set sail.
• Garp asked Fleet Admiral Kong for leave to search for Dragon, who had been missing for months, and hurried out of Marine Headquarters.
• Dragon arrived at a peaceful-looking kingdom in North Blue and was shocked to discover that almost no one there had an intact body.

Dragon traveled to Pado Island to deliver Norman Brian’s belongings to his grandmother, recalling how Brian had entrusted them to him before sacrificing himself to protect the History Scholars. Dragon left the scholars’ fate and Brian’s family behind him as he stood outside the courtyard gate beneath the ginkgo tree.

• Dragon asked a man in a deck chair where Norman Brian lived and learned that Brian’s home was in the northwest corner of town, beside a huge ginkgo tree.
• Months earlier on Jaya Island, Dragon met the wounded Norman Brian, who explained that his search for the truth was driven by the government’s and Celestial Dragons’ abuses against his people.
• Brian gave Dragon a box for his grandmother, Mary Candice, and asked him to tell her that he would not be coming home.
• Brian drew the soldiers away from the History Scholars, and Dragon later used a fierce wind to carry the scholars away after they boarded their ship.
• Dragon arrived at Brian’s courtyard on Pado Island and raised his hand toward the closed gate.

Borsalino defeated Cyclone Nigel at Ligal Island while Crocodile set sail after reading about a major battle. Dragon left Brian’s home without telling the old woman the truth, and the chapter ended as Fleet Admiral Kong began a meeting about trialing the Seven Warlords of the Sea system.

• Borsalino fought and defeated Cyclone Nigel, destroying the pirates’ ship and leaving Nigel barely alive.
• Crocodile read a newspaper report about a major battle and ordered his crew to set sail.
• Dragon gave Brian’s mother money, concealed Brian’s belongings beneath a ginkgo tree, and left without revealing Brian’s death.
• Brian’s mother wept after Dragon left, then rocked beneath the tree beside the buried belongings.
• Borsalino tried to call through a Den Den Mushi but could not connect.
• Fleet Admiral Kong opened a Marine Headquarters meeting about the trial implementation of the Seven Warlords of the Sea system.

Fleet Admiral Kong approved Crocodile as the first Shichibukai candidate, and Sakazuki went to confront him at Sabaody. Bullet charged through Crocodile’s sand attacks and struck him, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Fleet Admiral Kong explained Crocodile’s qualifications and the limits of the Shichibukai’s privileges, and the senior officers accepted the plan.
• Sakazuki agreed to approach Crocodile and said he would teach him a lesson.
• Sakazuki learned that Crocodile was in the Sabaody Archipelago under Cipher Pol surveillance and ordered his vessel to speed up.
• Crocodile killed two disguised Cipher Pol agents and unleashed a sandstorm against four more agents in the Lawless Zone.
• Sakazuki arrived with Bullet and Enel, and Bullet entered his Demon Aura form and charged Crocodile.
• Bullet smashed through Crocodile’s massive sand blade and crashed into him.

Bullet defeated Crocodile and brought him before Sakazuki, who offered him a chance to serve the Marines and seek revenge on Hale Nock. The chapter ended with Sakazuki crushing Crocodile underfoot and overwhelming him with Conqueror’s Haki.

• Crocodile attacked Bullet with enormous sand waves and compressed him inside an eroding sand sphere.
• Bullet burst out of the sand sphere, broke Crocodile’s limbs, and carried him through the Lawless Zone monument toward Sakazuki.
• Crocodile tried to strike Bullet with sand weapons and drain his moisture, but Bullet’s Demon Aura mode thwarted him.
• Sakazuki offered Crocodile a chance to become the Marines’ subordinate and someday take revenge on Hale Nock.
• Crocodile mocked Sakazuki, who stomped his head into the ground and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki.