Chapter Summaries

The Five Elders consulted Lord Imu about Emperor Tru attending the World Government Conference, but received no clear instructions. Meanwhile, Shirahoshi arrived in the Tru Empire for the first time and was welcomed by Vice Admiral Molokov and his partner.

• Saint Lofted asked Lord Imu whether they should use the conference to eliminate Emperor Tru, but Lord Imu dismissed the idea and gave no further instructions.
• Saint Lofted, Siloeamia, and Jolba left to discuss what Lord Imu had meant, wary of provoking a war.
• Shirahoshi and two mermaids emerged from the Space Teleportation Gate at Mermaid Paradise and marveled at the sunlight and scenery above the sea.
• Vice Admiral Molokov introduced himself and told Shirahoshi that he and his partner would protect her during her journey.

Shirahoshi arrived at the Tru Empire’s sea base and looked forward to seeing Nova, while Nova received news that the Straw Hat Crew had reached Dressrosa and decided to deal with Doflamingo himself. The chapter ended with Nova asking about Marine Admiral Fujitora, then sending Gogoya away.

• Molokov welcomed Shirahoshi and reassured her that the sea base was safe, promising to take her to Nova the next day.
• Shirahoshi explored the base after leaving her belongings in Molokov’s care.
• Gogoya told Nova that the Straw Hat Crew had arrived in Dressrosa and that Doflamingo had revealed secrets to them.
• Nova said he would handle the matter and bring Doflamingo’s role to an end.
• Nova learned that Marine Admiral Fujitora was stationed in Dressrosa and dismissed Gogoya.

After concluding the matter in Dressrosa, Nova visited Yakle and Weimo in the Royal City and questioned them about the Celestial Dragons’ glass coverings. Yakle called them Space Suits, prompting Nova to suspect there was more to their purpose.

• Nova told an unnamed contact that the matter in Dressrosa was over and that many people no longer needed to exist.
• Nova walked through the prosperous Royal City and went to see Yakle and Weimo, who had been exploring its restaurants.
• Yakle and Weimo praised the food as Nova joined them and identified himself as Emperor Tru.
• Yakle insisted that the Celestial Dragons’ glass coverings were Space Suits and symbols of their noble status.
• Nova wondered whether Yakle’s explanation revealed a deeper truth about the Celestial Dragons’ attire.

After meeting Nova, Yakle and Weimo debated whether to leave the Tru Empire ahead of the World Government Conference. They decided to stay at least until they could see the mermaid princess, who was due to arrive the next day.

• Nova recognized the Celestial Dragon’s clothing as a spacesuit, smiled, paid the restaurant bill, and left Yakle and Weimo confused.
• Weimo praised Nova’s appearance and said she would like to marry him, while Yakle reminded her that he was already married and Celestial Dragons faced strict marriage rules.
• Weimo said she was tired of life among the Celestial Dragons, and Yakle admitted their privileged upbringing had left them lonely.
• A man in a black suit warned Yakle that the unusual World Government Conference was approaching and urged them to leave the Tru Empire.
• Weimo persuaded Yakle to stay until they saw the mermaid princess of Fish-Man Island, who was expected in the Royal City the next day.

Nova called a top-secret Space Conference after Yakle’s words and the account of Laugh Tale clarified the strange changes in the South Blue. The Tru Empire’s Admirals and senior ministers gathered, and the chapter ended before Nova revealed what he had learned.

• Nova returned to the palace and summoned the Tru Empire’s leaders to an emergency meeting before Princess Shirahoshi arrived in the Royal City the next day.
• Nova instructed the arriving Admirals to wait until everyone had gathered, then ordered Gogoya to follow the procedures for a top-secret Space Conference.
• The Admirals realized the meeting might concern a threat to the entire Tru Empire when Nova continued preparing without explaining its purpose.
• The Ministers of Commerce, the Council of Ministers, and Security arrived, completing the gathering of the Tru Empire’s highest-level officials.

Nova convened a secret Space Conference Room meeting with the Tru Empire’s highest military and political officials, warning that its subject could determine the empire’s future survival and course. He left the officials awaiting the revelations and preparations ahead.

• Gogoya opened the Space Conference Room, and the officials entered through a blue vortex.
• Gogoya explained the meeting’s strict secrecy rules and warned attendees not to record or disclose its contents.
• Nova arrived and began the meeting after the officials took their seats.
• Nova said the news was neither good nor bad and warned that it could determine the Tru Empire’s future survival and course.

Nova briefed the Tru Empire’s leaders on the Ancient Weapons and revealed that the World Government controlled Uranus, which could manipulate weather and climate. He left them preparing for the threat while Enel considered building a ship that could fly to the moon to investigate it.

• Nova asked Enel to build a ship capable of flying to the moon, and Enel said he would assess the project and report back.
• Nova told the assembled leaders that Poseidon had appeared alongside Uranus and warned them that Uranus likely caused the recent extreme conditions in the South Blue.
• Nova revealed that Poseidon was Shirahoshi, who would arrive in the Royal City the next day.
• Nova explained that Poseidon could command every Sea King, while Shirahoshi had not yet awakened her ability and remained allied with the Tru Empire.
• Nova said Uranus was likely connected to the moon, could control weather across a region, and was under the World Government’s control.

Nova briefed Tru Empire officials on the Ancient Weapons Poseidon and Uranus, then ordered preparations to protect the nation from Uranus’s attacks. The ministers agreed to organize underground spatial shelters as the empire braced for a decisive war.

• Nova explained that Pluton could be replicated, while Poseidon and Uranus wielded power beyond ordinary understanding.
• Nova ordered the Ministry of Commerce, the Security Department, and the Council of Ministers to plan underground shelters across the empire, which he would transform into spacious disaster shelters.
• The three ministers pledged to coordinate resources, security, and construction, and Nova demanded plans and rapid completion.
• Admiral Issho asked how Nova had learned about Uranus, and Nova said the Celestial Dragons’ possible spacesuits had led him to suspect a connection to the moon.
• Abona promised that the intelligence department would investigate the world’s secrets, while Junhe vowed that the Tru Empire would protect what it had built.

Nova reiterated the Tru Empire’s preparations for the approaching era and the risks that remained. The next day, Shirahoshi arrived in the Royal City, where an enormous crowd welcomed her and made her feel accepted by humans.

• Nova ordered Enel to develop ships that could fly and carry at least ten people, and called for spacesuit research, faster construction, and renewed military training.
• Citizens packed the Royal City’s waterfront to see Shirahoshi, while Yakle and Weimo waited near the waterway.
• A ship and an escort of Fish-Men led Shirahoshi into the waterway as crowds cheered her arrival.
• At Molokov’s suggestion, Shirahoshi waved to the crowd, then cried as she felt welcomed by the humans.

Shirahoshi traveled through the Tru Empire, where the peaceful welcome reminded her of her mother’s wish for humans and fish-men to coexist. At the imperial palace, Hancock came out to greet her, and Shirahoshi recognized her as the Empress of Nine Snake Island and the woman she admired most.

• Shirahoshi saw merfolk and fish-men welcomed as workers in the Tru Empire and thought that her mother’s dream of coexistence had come true.
• Yakle fantasized about taking Shirahoshi to Mary Geoise, while Weimo warned him that such a move could get him killed in the Tru Empire.
• Imperial Police arrested nearly a hundred people who entertained dangerous thoughts about Shirahoshi, including men who had recently arrived seeking a stable life.
• Shirahoshi continued toward the Tru Imperial Palace, knowing Fish-Man Island depended on the Tru Empire for protection.
• Hancock appeared at the palace gates to welcome Shirahoshi, and Shirahoshi told Vice Admiral Molokov that Hancock was the woman she admired most.

Princess Shirahoshi arrived at the Tru Imperial Palace, where Hancock welcomed her and gave her a gemstone that let her float above land. As Hancock and Gogoya escorted her inside, Gogoya described the empire’s rapid rise, and Hancock asked what life had been like before it.

• Molokov escorted Shirahoshi and her party to the Tru Imperial Palace, where Hancock and Gogoya greeted them.
• Hancock gave Shirahoshi a glowing blue gemstone that allowed her to float above land.
• Molokov promised to protect Shirahoshi and her companions throughout South Blue as Hancock invited her inside.
• Gogoya explained how the small Tru Kingdom had grown into a unified South Blue empire under its king.
• Hancock asked Gogoya what life in the country had been like before the Tru Kingdom began its rapid development.

Gogoya began telling Shirahoshi and Hancock about the Tru Empire’s past while Emperor Tru Nova explored the moon in search of Uranus. On the moon’s dark far side, Nova discovered a vast mechanical city and met a living human who had been waiting there for centuries.

• Gogoya, Shirahoshi, and Hancock reached a garden where servants prepared a banquet beside a huge pool, and Shirahoshi settled into the water.
• Gogoya began recounting the Tru Empire’s history to Shirahoshi and Hancock.
• Nova explored the moon and found that its near-surface region had oxygen, then crossed the barren landscape using his Observation Haki and Sage Body perception.
• Nova reached the moon’s far side, where a mysterious voice spoke and lights revealed a city filled with mechanical figures.
• A man in a lab coat emerged from a massive gate, and Nova asked who he was.

Nova met a bald old man who claimed to be one of many cloned versions of Vegapunk, then entered a vast moon-base filled with advanced technology and robots. The old man intended to keep Nova there as his assistant, but the Seastone handcuffs had no effect on him.

• The bald old man was surprised that Nova was not from the World Government and said he had cloned himself repeatedly, transferring his memories into new bodies.
• Nova questioned the old man's identity and realized the cloning could explain how Vegapunk might exist in the Pirate World.
• The bald man activated a vast army of robots and told Nova he could not leave, then tossed him Seastone handcuffs.
• Nova put on the handcuffs, which failed to suppress him, and followed the bald man to the base's enormous technological door.
• The door opened to reveal a vast facility filled with advanced machinery and robots, astonishing Nova.

Nova explored the moon factory and learned that its inhabitants were building Heaven's Punishment, a weapon capable of destroying a planet. After Nova broke free of his Seastone handcuffs, the bald man sent a vast army of robots to attack him, and Nova searched for their weakness.

• Nova followed the bald man to Heaven's Punishment and learned that the five-kilometer weapon had been under construction for nearly eight hundred years.
• The bald man explained that the moon's researchers developed their weapons based on Uranus and Pluton, and that Heaven's Punishment would be completed in about three years.
• Nova removed his Seastone handcuffs, surprising the bald man, who activated the robots and ordered them to attack.
• Thousands of robots swarmed Nova, while others repaired any machines he destroyed.
• The bald man watched excitedly as Nova fought the robots and tried to find their weakness.

Nova subdued the moon base’s robot army, discovered that brains in liquid-filled containers controlled the machines, and took the robots for himself. After Nova left, Fido arrived at the emptied base and found only the bald man and a massive cannon barrel.

• Nova immobilized the robots with Space Condensation and freed the bald man so he could demand information from him.
• Nova learned that the brains in the containers controlled the robots, then destroyed the brains and found he could control the machines with his Mind-type Devil Fruit power.
• Nova reactivated and stored all the robots in the base, then left without disturbing the other bases.
• Fido arrived after Nova had vanished, searched the base, and found the robots gone and the bald man lying on the ground.

Fido found his base destroyed and suspected Nova, while Nova spent a month with Princess Shirahoshi as the Straw Hat Pirates gained notoriety for the destruction of the Donquixote Family. Nova then prepared to leave the Tru Empire for the World Government Conference at Mary Geoise.

• Fido revived the bald man at the ruined base, learned that the man believed Fido had attacked, and ordered him to assess the losses.
• Nova returned and shared a dinner with Princess Shirahoshi in the royal garden.
• The Straw Hat Pirates made headlines after the Marines attributed Doflamingo’s death and the Donquixote Family’s destruction to them.
• Gogoya told Nova that preparations for the World Government Conference were complete and that Vice Admiral Molokov was returning Shirahoshi.
• Nova ordered the departure for Mary Geoise after learning Admiral Mosank was waiting aboard the ship.

Nova and the Tru Empire delegation arrived at Mary Geoise for the World Government Conference, drawing the Marines’ wary attention. After a Marine tried to enforce the weapons ban, Nova continued up the Celestial Dragons’ moving staircase with Mosank and Gogoya.

• Nova’s ship, the Endless, arrived at Mary Geoise after a comparatively quick journey, while many other kings had been robbed or killed on the way.
• Gogoya asked Nova whether they should go elsewhere before the conference, but Nova chose to head straight up and rest; Gogoya eventually followed him and Mosank off the ship.
• A Marine asked Nova to surrender any weapons, but Nova said none of them carried weapons and walked on without stopping.
• Vice Admiral Mole rebuked the Marine for challenging Nova and warned that Nova stood above the Celestial Dragons.
• Nova, Mosank, and Gogoya rode the moving staircase reserved for Celestial Dragons and sensed the slaves straining beneath it.

Nova arrived at Mary Geoise with Gogoya and Mosank and confronted a group of Celestial Dragons who tried to force them to kneel. After Nova revealed that he knew about Lord Imu, he ordered Mosank to kill anyone who blocked their way, leaving the Celestial Dragons stunned and the Five Elders alarmed.

• Nova, Gogoya, and Mosank crossed the plaza toward the main hall while noticing an unusual group of Celestial Dragons gathered outside.
• The three saw the Celestial Dragons tormenting a crowned king who was crawling and barking like a dog.
• A fat Celestial Dragon ordered Nova and his companions to stop and kneel, then pointed a pistol at Nova when they refused.
• Nova addressed the Five Elders by mentioning Lord Imu, leaving Loft and Siloeamia shocked that he knew of Imu's existence.
• Nova told Mosank to kill anyone who blocked their way, and the surrounding Celestial Dragons froze in disbelief.

Nova and his companions entered Mary Geoise after three Celestial Dragons died in the plaza, an incident that threatened to become major news. A World Government receptionist escorted them toward their prepared accommodations while Nova sensed the Five Elders watching them.

• Nova evaded a shot from a fat Celestial Dragon as two other Celestial Dragons were killed by gunfire.
• Siloeamia questioned whether the Tru Empire should intervene, but the old men could not link the deaths to Emperor Tru.
• The fat Celestial Dragon shot himself, and the king of East Blue suspected Emperor Tru was behind the deaths.
• Nova and his two companions entered the luxurious hall and asked to rest instead of completing registration.
• A receptionist offered to guide them to their accommodations, while Nova sensed the Five Elders observing them.

After arriving in Mary Geoise, Nova woke up in bed with Weimo, a Celestial Dragon, and realized he had been trapped in her home. Weimo’s heart stopped as she reacted to what happened, leaving Nova to try to save her.

• Nova rested in the villa while an unseen person’s aura spread around it.
• Weimo entered the room before nightfall, and Nova woke beside her the next morning, both of them naked.
• Nova and Weimo argued over whose home they were in, and Nova realized the villa belonged to her.
• Weimo began trembling, turned pale, and suffered a heart stoppage.
• Nova laid Weimo down and sent energy into her body to examine and treat her.