Chapter Summaries

Lind reunited with Redfield at a North Blue karaoke club and recruited him to join Shiki’s Flying Pirates, hoping he would help pressure the World Government and learn from Shiki’s breakthrough. Redfield accepted the mission, and Lind promised to support his training and expenses while they waited for Shiki to act.

• Lind and Redfield recognized each other at a karaoke club and moved to a private suite to talk.
• Redfield told Lind that he had made little progress toward becoming a Supreme Great Swordsman, and Lind offered him access to potions and merit-point missions.
• Lind revealed that Shiki had become a Supreme Great Swordsman and planned another move against the North Blue, then asked Redfield to join the Flying Pirates.
• Redfield accepted Lind’s mission, hoping that fighting alongside Shiki would help him find a path to his own breakthrough.
• Lind promised to cover Redfield’s potions and North Blue expenses, and said Black Bird would contact him when Shiki was ready to act.

Lind arranged for Adolf to experience another version of his life, then turned his attention to the Red Line Tunnel project and visited Allison and Liana after the war. He sent his wives home to recover and guide their children, while Axel recommended Bullet to lead the tunnel project.

• Lind instructed the Intelligence Department to prepare a plan based on Redfield's arrangements and arranged for Adolf to experience a modified life in a dream.
• After seven days, Lind watched Adolf shoot himself in the dream and returned to Oran Island, where Fia showed him the West Blue Merchant Alliance's tunnel contract.
• Lind demanded that the Oran Empire hold a majority share in the tunnel, then learned Allison and Liana had suffered only minor injuries in the battle at Marineford, where Zhang Liang had defeated Saint Saturn.
• Lind visited Allison and Liana in the hospital, and they agreed to recuperate at home and help steer their children away from Buggy and Shanks's influence.
• Fia contacted the project officials to organize a discussion about the tunnel, while Axel declined to lead it and recommended that Bullet take charge for experience.

Lind trained Buggy, Shanks, Zeta, and the other children as the first trainees at the Oran Empire Royal Training Camp, while Buggy secretly practiced his destructive Devil Fruit ability. The chapter ended with Lind agreeing to attend the next day’s groundbreaking ceremony for the West Blue-South Blue First Tunnel and bring the children along.

• Fia and Axel agreed to recommend General Bullet to oversee the joint training project, with Axel serving as its nominal director.
• Lind secretly recognized Buggy’s powerful Devil Fruit ability and gave him special, punishing training while hoping his destruction energy could eventually counter the Five Elders.
• Buggy practiced his destruction energy on a doll bearing Lind’s photograph, then arrived early the next morning for training and breakfast.
• Lind put Buggy, Shanks, Zeta, and the other children through training, urging them to represent Oran Elementary School against the Celestial Dragons Noble School.
• Fia told Lind that the West Blue-South Blue First Tunnel’s groundbreaking ceremony would take place the next day, and Lind agreed to attend and bring the children.

Lind arrived on Roya Island with his family, students, and allies for the groundbreaking ceremony of the tunnel between the West Blue and South Blue. The worldwide broadcast began as the construction fleet departed the harbor, with the presenter introducing the Oran Empire’s powerful machinery.

• Lind and his companions flew to Roya Island aboard his advanced private aircraft and met Bullet and members of the West Blue Merchant Alliance.
• Lind introduced his wives, children, and students to the assembled guests, then led everyone toward the harbor.
• Lind allowed the children to tour the construction vessels while Morgans prepared to keep them out of the live broadcast.
• The Oran Empire began broadcasting the ceremony worldwide as the fleet sailed from the harbor.
• Presenter Mo Bing introduced the Earthsplitter X3 Excavation Vessel, whose huge drill bit impressed viewers and drew interest from pirates.

Lind brought Aileen and Ai Yao to the West Blue-South Blue Tunnel groundbreaking, then took them to Gourmet Island to visit Pande Lia. The chapter ended as Lind’s party arrived at a restaurant where Pande Lia and Charlotte Linlin were competing in an eating contest.

• Mo Bing introduced the tunnel-boring machines and explained the West Blue-South Blue Tunnel as the construction fleet reached the Red Line.
• Bullet ordered the construction work to begin, and the Earthsplitter X3 drilled into the Red Line while Aileen and the others watched in amazement.
• Aileen suggested visiting Pande Lia, and Fia said her sister was likely on Gourmet Island with Charlotte Linlin.
• Robert gave Lind a supreme VIP card for Gourmet Island, and Lind invited Robert and his three companions to join the visit.
• Lind recognized Charlotte Linlin’s presence near Pande Lia and learned that the two women were competing in an eating contest.
• Lind brought Aileen’s group to the restaurant, where they saw Pande Lia and Charlotte Linlin competing.

Pande Lia won Charlotte Linlin’s Diamond VIP Card in an eating contest, then joined Lind and the children as they ate their way through Gourmet Island. Robert’s arrival brought news of a restaurant with a chef from the Flower Country’s Imperial Kitchen, and Lind summoned everyone to try it.

• Pande Lia won Charlotte Linlin’s Diamond VIP Card after Charlotte conceded their eating contest.
• Lind introduced Buggy, Shanks, and Zeta as disciples he was training, and they backed up his claim.
• Lind, Pande Lia, and the children visited restaurants across the street while Lind’s group ordered signature dishes at one restaurant.
• Robert arrived and recommended a restaurant whose chef had worked in the Flower Country’s Imperial Kitchen.
• Lind used Telekinesis and Secret Art of Remote Voice Transmission to call the eight diners back so they could try the Imperial Kitchen chef’s food.

Lind met Hong Fugui, the Flower Country’s renowned imperial chef, after tasting the meal he had prepared at the Delicacies Pavilion. Lind and Hong Fugui began a private culinary exchange over Dao Enlightenment Tea, while the others stayed behind to enjoy the food and await their own tea.

• Lind learned from Robert that Hong Fugui, a powerful master chef who had once guided Liu Mao Xing, had prepared the meal especially for him.
• Lind asked Robert to introduce Hong Fugui, and they greeted each other warmly and agreed to exchange culinary ideas.
• Lind asked Fia to bring Dao Enlightenment Tea and left the private dining room with Hong Fugui for a discussion.
• Aileen persuaded Liana to let Fia bring extra tea for the group, and Liana reminded Buggy, Shanks, and Zeta to make the most of its benefits.
• Lind brewed Dao Enlightenment Tea for Hong Fugui, who praised its fragrance and felt moved by Lind’s hospitality.

Shiki tried to recruit Adolf into the Flying Pirates by promising him control of the North Blue, and Adolf left the meeting considering the offer. Meanwhile, Lind and Hong Fugui exchanged culinary knowledge on Gourmet Island until Fia informed Lind that Shiki had met Adolf.

• Shiki urged Adolf to join him in overthrowing the World Government, but Adolf refused to betray Darren or the North Blue.
• Shiki argued that Darren could not fulfill Adolf’s ambitions and offered to leave the North Blue and its Parliament under Adolf’s administration if he joined the Flying Pirates.
• Adolf asked for time to consider, and Shiki warned him not to tell Darren before leaving him shaken and uncertain.
• Lind and Hong Fugui discussed Flower Country cooking, and Hong Fugui broke through to the Great Swordsman realm after Lind’s guidance and the effects of Dao Enlightenment Tea.
• Lind suggested that Hong Fugui visit Wano Country to study its sword-intent traditions and considered creating a Special Cuisine Research Institute.
• Fia told Lind that Shiki had met with Adolf.

Adolf joined Shiki and Judge’s Sky Empire partnership and ate an unidentified Devil Fruit that gave him the powers of an undead summoner. He discovered he could summon and create powerful skeleton warriors, leaving the group eager to build his abilities into an undead army.

• Adolf met Shiki and Judge at the Germa Kingdom base and agreed to become their partner.
• Shiki gave Adolf an unidentified Devil Fruit, which Adolf ate and identified as the Human-Human Fruit-Mythical Zoan-Undead Summoner Model.
• Adolf discovered the fruit had awakened his mana and improved his mental aptitude, though his power differed from telekinesis.
• Adolf summoned five skeleton soldiers, each with a Doriki value of 100, and explained his current limits.
• Judge supplied sea beast bones, and Adolf used Bone Reanimation to create more than a dozen skeleton warriors before exhausting himself.

Adolf, Shiki, and Judge built up their forces in secret while considering how to gain control of the North Blue, and they agreed to capture Darren and hold him under house arrest. Lind learned of their plans and decided to push events forward.

• Adolf reached his current limit of five hundred controlled skeleton warriors, while Judge's costly Terminator Legion and Shiki's recruitment efforts also faced obstacles.
• Shiki, Adolf, and Judge agreed to keep a low profile and secretly strengthen their forces rather than start a war in the North Blue.
• Judge proposed killing Darren to destabilize the North Blue, but Shiki suggested capturing him and placing him under house arrest instead.
• Adolf agreed to Shiki's compromise despite his respect for Darren, and Shiki hoped they might eventually recruit him.
• Lind received intelligence about the trio's forces and plan to target Darren, then decided to add fuel to the fire.

Darren agreed to join Shiki’s planned Sky Empire and was named prime minister of its Military Affairs Institute, while Adolf proposed using political parties to build its influence in the North Blue. The group began shaping a stable political base to challenge the World Government.

• Shiki, Adolf, and their allies confronted Darren and asked him to join their plan to overthrow the Celestial Dragons.
• Darren revealed that he had known about their secret operations and had helped cover them up, prompting Shiki and Adolf to believe he meant to join them.
• Shiki welcomed Darren into the Sky Empire and appointed him prime minister of the Military Affairs Institute, while Reinhardt was set to become imperial Grand Fleet Admiral.
• Darren greeted Adolf, Reinhardt, and Redfield, then revealed that Black Crow and the Brocade Guard had gathered intelligence on them.
• Darren argued that the North Blue needed a stable government modeled on the Oran Empire, and Adolf proposed keeping the parliament while recruiting supporters through political parties.

Adolf proposed creating a political party to organize support across the North Blue and eventually secure its independence from the World Government. He and the others established the North Blue Freedom and Progress Party’s initial leadership and platform, and the chapter ended as they began discussing its symbols.

• Adolf explained his plan for a party that would recruit across the North Blue and preserve the independence movement for future generations.
• Darren and Shiki disputed who should lead the party, then accepted Adolf’s compromise of a public party led by Darren and a hidden core led by Shiki.
• The group named the public organization the North Blue Freedom and Progress Party and gave its hidden core the name North Blue Freedom and Independence Party.
• Adolf and the others established the party’s principles, organizational structure, and short-, medium-, and long-term goals, including a future war against the World Government and formation of a North Blue Federation.
• The group agreed that Shiki’s proposed Sky Empire would give way to the North Blue Federation, then turned to choosing the party’s flag and emblem.

After Darren joined Shiki’s North Blue Freedom and Progress Party, he revealed his undercover role to Sengoku and asked for Navy support to take control of the organization. Lind also pledged extensive Oran Empire assistance and offered to strengthen Darren with a powerful Devil Fruit, leaving the spy’s loyalties and future power uncertain.

• Adolf drafted most of the North Blue Freedom and Progress Party’s materials, convincing Darren and Shiki that the organization could become a serious force.
• Darren secretly told Sengoku that he had joined Shiki’s ranks, then admitted he supported the party’s ideals and wanted to become its true leader.
• Sengoku agreed to support Darren with forces under his control and ordered him to turn the party into a Navy rear base after Shiki’s death.
• Darren warned Sengoku that Shiki had grown much stronger, but Sengoku told him to focus on expanding his control over the party.
• Lind promised to send Spark Project members to the North Blue and offered to strengthen Darren by giving him a powerful Devil Fruit.

Darren traveled to Oran Island to grow stronger, where Lind welcomed him with a special feast and introduced him to the Gravity Chamber. Back in the North Blue, Darren’s party continued expanding without him, while Shiki reflected on the strength of organized states and the World Government’s plans for the other seas.

• Darren left the North Blue in the hands of Krillin and Yamcha and arrived on Oran Island, where Lind welcomed him.
• Lind treated Darren to specially prepared dishes that boosted his body and abilities, then took him to the Science Institute’s Gravity Chamber.
• Darren eagerly entered the chamber as Lind prepared to increase the gravity, while Darren’s subordinates kept the North Blue running and recruiting for the party.
• Adolf saw Darren’s influence in the North Blue, and Shiki grew wary of his organizational power and reflected on the Oran Empire’s strength.
• The World Government prepared to reclaim the South Blue and move against the Revolutionaries and Kaido, while Charlotte Linlin and Kaido’s factions remained unaware of the approaching danger.

The Revolutionary Army and Beasts Pirates clashed in the East Blue while the Marines arrived, turning the sparring match into a larger battle. Pande Lia badly injured Kizaru, then faced Marine swordsmen Shimotsuki Koshiro and Amatsuki Xiangling.

• Pande Lia joined the Revolutionary Army at New Onigashima to challenge Kaido, while Ginny, Kuma, and the others watched.
• Dragon, Borsalino, and Kuzan arrived with Marine forces, and both sides prepared to fight.
• Kuzan charged Kaido, while Pande Lia fought Kizaru and struck him with Excalibur before he blocked her next Curry Stick with Yasakani no Magatama.
• Pande Lia and Kizaru clashed with their swords until she saw through his style and sent him flying, then told Kuma and Ivankov to take over.
• Pande Lia met Marine swordsmen Shimotsuki Koshiro and Amatsuki Xiangling, learned their ties to Wano Country, and challenged them to show their skill.

Pande Lia and the others withdrew from the East Blue after their clashes with Kaido’s forces, while Lind reflected on how the powerful factions had transformed the Four Blues. He then gave Darren a mysterious fruit intended to help him experience Conqueror’s Haki and awaken it.

• Pande Lia tested Shimotsuki Koshiro and Amatsuki Xiangling’s swordsmanship while Kizaru, Kuma, and Ivankov fought without trying to kill one another.
• Kaido battled Kuzan until Kuzan used Ice Age, then Dragon and the Marines escaped under cover of storms and Logia attacks.
• Kaido remained stuck in an East Blue stalemate and focused on training Abel and Shayna, who had not yet developed their Mythical Zoan fruits.
• Pande Lia left with Ginny and the others and sent Lind her recent experiences in exchange for cultivation resources.
• Lind considered how the major powers had made the Four Blues safer but left unaffiliated pirates with little room to survive, and decided not to intervene in the East Blue.
• Lind gave Darren a prepared fruit and told him to feel his Conqueror’s Haki before eating it in hopes of awakening Darren’s own.

Darren awakened Conqueror's Haki, chose the Magnet-Magnet Fruit, and rapidly developed its abilities under Lind's guidance. After recovering from Lind's training blow, Darren traveled with Lind to the Myriad Magnet Continent to explore its legacy.

• Darren awakened Conqueror's Haki while enduring Lind's pressure, then chose the Magnet-Magnet Fruit from Lind's selection.
• Lind and Darren fought, and Darren used magnetism, electromagnetic beams, and radar in combat as he improved his fighting methods.
• Lind demonstrated peak early Overlord strength with a sword strike that severely injured Darren, so Lind kept him on Oran Island to recover.
• Darren recovered within a week while Lind studied electromagnetism, and Lind decided to take him to the Myriad Magnet Continent.
• Lind and Darren arrived at the center of the Myriad Magnet Continent, where Darren began sensing something unusual.

Darren absorbed his predecessor’s insights on the Myriad Magnet Continent and developed Magnetic Field Control, which let him form a domain that greatly enhanced his combat abilities. After spending seven days in contemplation, he recovered and began training at the continent’s edge, while Ariel guarded him and read romance novels published by the North Blue Times Press.

• Lind took Darren to Ariel’s training ground, then left to review the Myriad Magnet Continent’s development with Ariel.
• Darren absorbed his predecessor’s legacy, developed Magnetic Field Control, and formed a Magnetic Field Domain that let him dominate the training ground’s magnetic field.
• After contemplating for seven days and nights, Darren woke weak and hungry, drank nutrient solution, and went to the cafeteria before returning to train.
• Darren went with Ariel to the edge of the Myriad Magnet Continent to study the violent collision between its magnetic field and the world’s magnetic field.
• Ariel gave Darren nutrient solution before he began contemplating, then stood guard and read romance novels published by the North Blue Times Press.

Darren gained control over atomic magnetic fields through Lind’s enhancement, then returned to the North Blue to oversee the Publicity Department. He discovered that Nightingale had published an embarrassing novel based on him, and he and Adolf confronted her as they worried Shiki might join them.

• Darren refined his Magnetic Field Domain, learned to control planetary magnetic fields, and decided to preserve the Myriad Magnet Continent’s magnetic field for a future breakthrough.
• Darren asked Lind to enhance his Magnet-Magnet Fruit so he could control atomic magnetic fields, and Lind’s enhancement gave him that ability.
• Lind urged Darren to return to the North Blue because the Publicity Department was preparing something significant, so Darren went back and questioned Nightingale.
• Nightingale denied having any special plans, but on December 25, Year 1495, Darren read her novel, "The King of the North Blue and His Little Pirate Wife," and realized it portrayed him in an embarrassing way.
• Darren and Adolf went to confront Nightingale, then worried that Shiki might arrive and complicate matters.

Lind sent Sakazuki away from Oran Island to gain combat experience, while considering changes to the Oran Empire’s military structure and future plans. Sakazuki set sail for the East Blue, eager to meet Borsalino, Dragon, and Kuzan.

• Darren and Adolf ended their dispute with Nightingale by docking her bonuses for three years and warning her.
• Lind dismissed Morgans’s concerns about the North Blue Times Press’s success and suggested other romance novels for the World Economy News Paper, while forbidding stories about himself.
• Lind urged Sakazuki to leave the National Defense Force and grow stronger abroad, and Sakazuki agreed to join Fleet Admiral Lia and seek out the East Blue’s rising fighters.
• Sakazuki rejected Lind’s joke about arranging a fiancée, handed his Fleet Admiral duties to Kite, and left for the East Blue on January 8, Sea Circle Calendar 1496.
• Lind considered integrating the Lind Pirates into the Oran Empire and revisiting plans for a martial arts tournament and Dao Enlightenment Tea event.