Chapter Summaries

At Marineford, Luffy and Ace were rescued while Abona and Hawk Eyes began their sword duel, and Nova watched for hidden World Government forces. Marco asked Nova to recover Whitebeard’s body, but Nova warned him that the real war had only just begun.

• Little Steel Tooth escaped Admiral Issho’s Gravity Zone, while Abona and Hawk Eyes began testing each other’s sword attacks.
• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates rescued Luffy and freed Ace from his Seastone cuffs as Whitebeard remained standing alone nearby.
• Blackbeard told his crew to watch the battle, while Nova searched Marineford for other hidden World Government fighters.
• Marco knelt before Nova and asked him to recover Whitebeard’s body, saying the pirates would not thank him for the rescue because it had been a transaction.
• Nova told Marco that the Tru Empire was intercepting other World Government contingencies fifty kilometers away and that the real war had just begun.

Marco offered to join the Tru Empire if Nova could safely recover Whitebeard's body, and Nova agreed to find a way. As Nova placed his forces on level-one combat readiness, Sengoku and the Navy leaders watched warily, unsure what the World Government or the Tru Empire would do next.

• Marco begged Nova to bring Whitebeard's body back and offered to have the Whitebeard Pirates join the Tru Empire and leave piracy.
• Nova told Marco to get up and promised to find a way to take Whitebeard away.
• Nova ordered Enel to put all warships on level-one combat readiness and keep Pluton ready to fire.
• Enel relayed the order, and the cannons of Pluton and the steel warships aimed at Marineford.
• Garp asked Sengoku why Nova was on guard, and Sengoku concluded that the war involved hidden forces and that the Navy should avoid acting rashly.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru teased Garp about Ace and Luffy escaping unharmed, but Sengoku stopped their bickering and refocused them on the crisis.

Nova detected the World Government’s concealed fleet approaching Marineford and ordered Pluton and the Tru Empire’s warships to bombard it. The ships were revealed by the explosions, while Nova called Junhe to reinforce his forces as the battle’s next moves remained uncertain.

• Nova sensed the World Government’s hidden ships southeast of Marineford and ordered Pluton and the Tru Empire’s warships to fire at them.
• The Tru fleet unleashed a long-range saturation bombardment across the sea, surprising the Navy with its cannons’ range.
• Nova told Enel to contact Junhe and bring him over, leaving enough forces to hold off the Red-Haired Pirates.
• The bombardment exposed the outlines of at least five World Government ships, whose sea-like projection had concealed them from Observation Haki.
• Sengoku and Garp realized the World Government possessed advanced concealment technology, while Pluton’s firepower demonstrated the danger of its weapons.

The Tru Empire sank the World Government’s five warships with a barrage, openly escalating the conflict into a war between nations. As the Navy chose to stay out of the fight, Nova prepared the Endless for combat when a powerful attack struck its defenses.

• The Tru Empire’s artillery barrage sank the World Government’s five warships and shocked the witnesses with its military strength.
• Buggy and the prisoners watched as the conflict became a war between the World Government and the Tru Empire, while oppressed nations hoped the Tru Empire would win.
• Tsuru questioned Sengoku, but he, Garp, and the Admirals decided the Navy would not intervene.
• Kizaru asked Akainu whether he would help the World Government’s forces, and Akainu denied that they were the Navy’s responsibility.
• Nova ordered the Endless to prepare for combat, and a transparent sphere of compressed air struck its defenses, pushing the ship nearly fifty meters across the ice.

Nova faced Number One, a hidden World Government fighter with the Logia-type Air-Air Fruit, after revealing his own Space-Space Fruit powers. As Number Five and the wounded Little Steel Tooth withdrew from the main battlefield, Issho expressed confidence in Nova, leaving the coming clash unresolved.

• Number One appeared after striking the Endless with a powerful shockwave, and Number Five landed beside the battlefield.
• Nova rose into the air and let Number One's air cannon pass harmlessly through his body.
• Number One identified Nova's ability as the rare Space-Space Fruit, while Nova recognized Number One's Air-Air Fruit.
• Number Five checked on the wounded Little Steel Tooth, who claimed he had only wanted combat practice.
• Issho told Number Five that Nova's strength remained unknown and walked away as observers awaited the fight between Nova and Number One.

Nova used the Space-Space Fruit to knock Number One out of his Air-Air Fruit form and into a massive crater. Number One emerged unharmed and began creating a vacuum zone as he prepared to attack again.

• Number One disappeared into the air and spread himself across Pluton, intending to seize the Ancient Weapon.
• Nova used the Space-Space Fruit to slam Number One out of the air and into the battlefield, leaving a huge crater.
• Ace watched the impact in disbelief, while Buggy the Clown tried to record the battle with a Den Den Mushi.
• Number Five explained that Nova had used the Space-Space Fruit, a rare Paramecia ability.
• Number One emerged from the crater without injuries, then formed a vacuum zone around himself.

Nova and the man in the white suit faced off as the man used his Air-Air Fruit against Nova’s newly awakened Space-Space Fruit abilities. Their clash forced the Marines, Whitebeard Pirates, and Tru Empire forces to retreat, and the chapter ended with the man trying to provoke the real Nova into revealing himself.

• The man in the white suit taunted Nova after Nova’s earlier attack, and Nova provoked him in return.
• Sengoku, Marco, and Enel ordered their forces to withdraw as the danger around the two fighters grew.
• Ace urged the recovering Luffy and the escaped prisoners to leave the battlefield, while the Marines, pirates, and Tru Empire forces retreated.
• The man in the white suit approached Nova through the air he had frozen and threatened him over being kicked for the first time in forty years.
• Nova created two Mirror Clones, and the man in the white suit used Air Condensation to attack all three, but his attacks passed through them.
• The man in the white suit mocked the nearest Nova and challenged Emperor Tru to reveal his real body.

Nova effortlessly defeated the white-suited Air-Air Fruit user again and revealed that more World Government forces were hiding nearby. Fido, a winged Mythical Zoan user, arrived with an unconscious Hancock, just as the white-suited man erupted from the ruins in anger.

• The white-suited man threatened to target Nova’s subordinates, but Nova confined him with Conqueror’s Haki and dismissed his Air-Air Fruit attacks.
• Nova struck the white-suited man through Marine Headquarters, astonishing Little Steel Tooth and the others with his speed and power.
• Fido appeared with several allies and an unconscious Hancock, while Nova identified his Human-Human Fruit Fallen Angel Form.
• The white-suited man roared from the ruins, furious that Nova had dirtied his clothes again.

Fido rejected Nova’s request to release Hancock and demonstrated overwhelming power by stopping Enel, leaving the Marines, pirates, and prisoners as spectators. The Summit War had become a confrontation between the Tru Empire and the World Government, with Nova facing the mysterious T Department member.

• The disheveled man in the white suit charged at Fido, but Fido kicked him away and resumed speaking with Nova.
• Fido offered Nova a place in the World Government’s T Department, but refused to release the unconscious Hancock.
• Enel rushed to stop the gaunt man from reaching Hancock, and Fido knocked Enel down and sent him sliding hundreds of meters.
• Tsuru, Sengoku, and Garp questioned the World Government’s hidden forces as the Marines realized they could not join the fight.
• Nova calmly faced Fido while the Marines, pirates, and escaped prisoners watched the battle shift into a conflict between the Tru Empire and the World Government.

Nova rejected Fido’s offer to join the T Department and attacked the man who had been harassing Hancock. The confrontation left Fido watching Nova with interest while the World Government’s strength remained on display.

• Fido offered Nova a place in the T Department and promised protection for the Tru Empire and its allies.
• Nova questioned Fido’s confidence, and the thin man reached toward Hancock again.
• Nova used his spiritual power to overwhelm the battlefield, then bound the thin man with Adamantine Chain.
• Nova tortured the thin man with spatial blades while Fido observed without intervening.
• Another man threatened Nova with Hancock, but released her after Nova warned him about Infinite Hell.

Nova recovered the unconscious Hancock and agreed with Fido to fight elsewhere, away from the battlefield. After Sengoku declared the war over, the battered Navy and Whitebeard Pirates faced the end of the conflict while Blackbeard complained that the battle had stopped too soon.

• Nova finished killing the frail man, reclaimed Hancock from Fido's men, and sent Enel to have the ship's doctor examine her.
• Nova asked Fido about his goal, and Fido said he had come to test Nova's strength in battle.
• Nova proposed ending the Navy-Whitebeard war and fighting Fido elsewhere, and Fido agreed to seek Sengoku's approval.
• Sengoku consulted Garp and Vice Admiral Tsuru, then announced that the war was over.
• The Navy's surviving soldiers grieved or gave thanks, while Whitebeard remained standing and Blackbeard voiced his disappointment at the war's end.

After the war ended, the Whitebeard Pirates mourned Whitebeard while Nova and Fido arranged their coming duel. Nova then ordered a full retreat through the Space Gate, and the Tru Empire, Whitebeard Pirates, Luffy, Ace, and other survivors left for the South Blue.

• Marco called out to Nova, who told Fido that the Whitebeard Pirates would take Whitebeard's body.
• The Whitebeard Pirates' commanders knelt beside Whitebeard, then carefully carried his body away.
• Buggy ordered his followers to find a ship and escape before the Navy recovered.
• Nova and Fido agreed to postpone their duel until the others had left and to fight on an uninhabited island.
• Nova opened the Space Gate and ordered a full retreat; Abona challenged Mihawk to meet him in the South Blue.
• The Tru Empire's warships and Pluton entered the Space Gate, followed by the Whitebeard Pirates, Luffy, Ace, and other escapees.

After the war ended, the battered Red-Haired Pirates considered how to escape while Nova and Fido sailed toward a location near Marine Headquarters. The chapter left Nova’s destination unexplained and highlighted the World Government’s hidden power and the man in the white suit’s fear of Fido.

• Buggy escaped with people from Impel Down aboard a Marine warship, while most of the arriving Marine Admirals gathered aboard the Endless.
• Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates discussed their defeat, and Beckman explained that the Tru Empire fighters’ teamwork had made them overwhelmingly strong.
• Beckman warned that the war was over and that the Red-Haired Pirates were unlikely to accomplish anything by heading toward the battlefield.
• The war’s revelations strengthened Nova’s suspicions about the World Government’s air force and the formidable T Department.
• Nova sailed aboard the Endless with Fido, Little Steel Tooth, and other World Government personnel toward a site in the middle of the area between Judicial Castle, Impel Down, Marine Headquarters, and Mary Geoise.
• The man in the white suit recalled charging at Nova in anger, crashing into Fido, and fleeing only after Sengoku declared the war over.

Nova and Fido discussed their strength and the coming battle while their companions watched and speculated aboard the Endless. Nova discovered that his Mind-type Devil Fruit ability could not affect Fido, leaving the powerful stranger’s origins a mystery.

• Fido asked Nova what he would do if he became powerful enough to challenge the World Government, and Nova said he would simply do as he pleased.
• Fido asked whether Nova could defeat him, and the two discussed their anticipation of a serious fight after years without worthy opponents.
• Little Steel Tooth asked who would win, while Number One, Admiral Issho, Junhe, and Enel discussed the battle and prepared to watch from a safe distance.
• Enel asked Hailing to activate the ship’s strongest defenses, and Hailing said it would choose a suitable viewing distance based on the energy from the fighters.
• Nova tried to read and influence Fido with his Mind-type Devil Fruit ability but found that it could not reach him.

Nova and Fido reached the uncharted Island of Justice, where Fido explained its connection to Laugh Tale and the World Government. As they prepared to battle, the Endless and its escort retreated while the crew struggled to find a safe way to watch.

• Nova studied Fido during their journey, unable to determine the full abilities of his powerful Zoan-type Devil Fruit.
• Fido told Nova that Island of Justice had been moved from the New World eight hundred years earlier and had once been Laugh Tale.
• Nova concluded that Fido had visited Laugh Tale and that the World Government knew what was there.
• Fido spread six pairs of wings and flew to the island with Nova as the Endless and the steel warship began retreating.
• Hailing ordered the ships to withdraw two kilometers, and Junhe and Number Five complained that their Observation Haki was too weak to follow the battle.

Nova and Fido began their battle on the Island of Justice, where Nova initially gained the upper hand with Conqueror's Haki but failed to damage Fido. Fido shattered Nova's Space Mirror and forced him to reveal his real body, leaving the two facing each other again.

• Hailing activated the Apocalypse Screen, projecting the entire island onto the Endless so the spectators could watch the battle.
• Nova and Fido released their auras, stripping away the island's sparse vegetation and forcing the seawater to recede.
• Nova's Conqueror's Haki overwhelmed Fido's, and Fido's six pairs of wings expanded to cover his body.
• Nova kicked Fido with a Haki-coated leg, but Fido remained unmoved and Nova retreated more than a hundred meters.
• Fido caught up to Nova through the Space Ability and shattered the Space Mirror with a flap of his wings.
• Fido recognized that he had attacked a decoy, and Nova stepped out of a black rift to reveal his real body.

Nova and Fido fought a fist-to-fist battle, unleashing Conqueror’s Haki while avoiding their Devil Fruit abilities. As their rapid healing made the fight feel dull, Nova suggested changing things up.

• Nova appeared in person to challenge Fido and said he would no longer hold back.
• Nova and Fido vanished from sight as their clashes filled the sky and sea with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Fido spread his six pairs of wings, and he and Nova traded punches at close range, recovering instantly from their wounds.
• Admiral Issho explained that the two were keeping the fight physical to avoid the destruction their abilities could cause.
• Nova said their fast healing made the battle boring and suggested changing things up, but Fido answered with another punch.

Nova sealed the island in a spatial barrier to restrict Fido’s Angel Devil Fruit powers, cutting off the Endless’s view of their battle. Hailing’s system generated a simulation for the crew, who gathered to watch the fight’s projected outcome.

• Nova and Fido traded punches until their impact split the island, and Fido complained that Nova had hit him one more time.
• Fido unleashed a tornado, and Nova used Space Lock to seal the island and limit Fido’s abilities.
• The barrier cut off the Endless’s connection to the island, leaving the crew unable to observe the battle.
• Hailing said the system could simulate the fight from energy fluctuations, and the crew headed to the conference room.
• Hailing displayed the battle simulation, while Enel quietly explained it to the gathered crew.

Nova fought Fido for nearly six hours, then unleashed a powerful sword technique that shattered Fido’s defenses, but Fido revealed that his Angel Form could heal him completely. After the spatial barrier vanished, Nova ordered the Endless to retreat, leaving the reason for his decision unexplained.

• Nova struggled against Fido’s many wing-based abilities and summoned Demon Blade Muramasa.
• Nova used Flying Dragon Sword Style—Nine-Headed Space Dragon Flash, breaking Fido’s protective barrier and striking him with countless spatial slashes.
• Fido revealed his Angel Form and regenerated all his injuries, while Nova recognized the eyes that reminded him of the figure behind the World Government.
• After the spatial barrier dispersed, the Endless crew rushed out and saw that both fighters appeared largely unharmed.
• Nova returned to the ship and ordered a retreat, while Junhe stopped Enel from questioning him.

Fido reached Mary Geoise aboard the Endless, where his arrival left Number One and the others fearful and submissive. After the Endless departed, Nova appeared unharmed but showed signs of pain, and Admiral Issho ordered the ship to leave the Grand Line at top speed.

• Fido asked the Endless to change course for Mary Geoise, and Enel reluctantly ordered Hailing to comply.
• Fido disembarked with Number One and the others, said he wanted to visit the Tru Empire, then ordered that the old men come see him.
• Number One warned Little Steel Tooth and Number Five not to ask what they should not know, then ascended the steps to Mary Geoise as slaves pulled them upward.
• Fido stood in darkness behind the main hall, his three-ringed pupils restored, and looked down at the Five Elders kneeling before him.
• Nova opened his room to reassure the worried crew, then turned pale and shut the door after his arm tensed.
• Admiral Issho ordered Enel to have Hailing take the Endless out of the Grand Line at top speed, while Junhe handled navigation and Abona dealt with the Marine warship.