Chapter Summaries

Lind oversaw the resettlement and screening of hundreds of thousands of people transferred from Tequila Wolf to the Magnetic Sea. The Heart-Questioning Flowers revealed that most had an ugly side, and the work of sorting and assigning them continued.

• Lind's people completed the transfer of Tequila Wolf's population, and Speka and Calvin prepared to return to Oran Island.
• Lind explained that his agents would gather stranded civilians and slaves in smaller groups, while the newcomers would be screened before being considered for labor or military service.
• Lind traveled to the Magnetic Sea, where Sili reported that the arrivals were being processed and examined with Heart-Questioning Flowers.
• Lind toured the organized settlement operation, including the plaza, temporary facilities, and auditorium where the newcomers attended lessons.
• Lind visited the Heart-Questioning Room, where Allison supervised the screening and nine out of ten people exposed an ugly side of themselves.

Lind reconsidered the disturbing effects of the Heart-Questioning Flower and asked Allison to study it and protect the staff conducting examinations. After leaving the facility, he planned to improve his longtime subordinates’ Devil Fruits, while reflecting on Allison and Liana’s confirmed pregnancies.

• Lind realized the Heart-Questioning Flower amplified people’s hidden evils and decided to judge them by their actions while monitoring those with psychological issues.
• Lind told Allison to rotate examination staff and give them time to recover, and Allison confirmed that the third batch was already working in the Heart-Questioning Rooms.
• Allison warned Lind that the Heart-Questioning Flower seemed sinister, and Lind agreed to have specialists study it while considering its potential for training willpower.
• Lind left with Allison after Kite arrived to take over, then thought about using targeted mutation and high-grade Devil Fruits to strengthen his longtime subordinates.
• Lind reflected that Allison and Liana were both pregnant and joked privately about giving their children unusual names.

Lind organized a Devil Fruit tournament and mutations to strengthen his squad leaders, but the results showed how difficult it was for most of them to reach Admiral Candidate strength. Rex barely reached that level, while the others still needed time to grow.

• Lind reviewed the fruits available for his squad leaders and set aside the Frost-Frost Fruit and Cerberus Fruit as prizes for a tournament.
• Lind held the tournament, and the results largely followed the numerical order of the squads.
• Rex received the Cerberus Fruit, Phil received the Frost-Frost Fruit, and Kite, Ford, and Saiken received Ancient Zoan fruits with enhancement mutations.
• Rex barely reached Admiral Candidate strength by combining his Mythical Zoan physique with the Life Return Ultimate Technique.
• Lind realized that reaching Admiral Candidate strength was far harder than he had assumed, despite the stacked abilities of Rex, Liana, and Raditz.

Lind planned to cultivate new Devil Fruits by spreading dragon and phoenix mythology across the Oran Sea, while writing legends and manga to inspire future fruits. After Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying asked for his input on Basic Swordsmanship, Lind decided to discuss sending officers on travels to study and grow stronger.

• Lind considered the shortage of Devil Fruits and planned to spread stories of dragons, phoenixes, and their offspring across Oran Island and the Oran Sea.
• Lind spent several days writing and drawing myths and pirate-world versions of manga, hoping they would inspire corresponding Devil Fruits.
• Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying showed Lind their Basic Swordsmanship manual and explained that it needed his input to reach the standard of the official Basic Taijutsu.
• Zhang Liang asked to travel the world with Zhu Ying to study different swordsmanship schools, and Lind decided to raise the request at a meeting.
• Lind thanked Liana for notifying the officers and proposed discussing travel arrangements so they could gain experience or unwind.

Lind approved Zhang Liang’s travels and introduced leave rotations and wider patrols so his officers could adventure beyond Oran Island. Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying began their journey in the Flower Country, where they planned to visit naval forces and martial arts schools and recruit crewmates.

• Lind said Zhang Liang could leave and offered other officers the chance to travel, with deputies covering their duties.
• Lind proposed rotating officers into the Patrol Team and expanding its sailing range so more of them could explore.
• Lind and the officers approved nine additional travelers alongside Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying, while Axel stayed behind to guard Oran Island.
• Lind sent Zhang Liang and the others off, then returned to reading and writing as their adventure began.
• Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying traveled through the Teleportation Gate to the Flower Country with several elite pirates, intending to visit local forces and schools, exchange swordsmanship challenges, and recruit crewmates.

Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying gained mythical zoan Devil Fruits and awakened Conqueror’s Haki after building their reputations across the Flower Country. They planned to celebrate in the capital, and Zhu Feng arranged an imperial garden banquet in their honor.

• Zhang Liang defeated Shi Kaiyuan with basic sword techniques, bringing his and Zhu Ying’s fame in the Flower Country to its peak.
• Zhu Ying identified two mythical zoan Devil Fruits as the Sword Immortal and Golden-Winged Roc models, and he and Zhang Liang ate them.
• Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying transformed into their mythical forms and unleashed Conqueror’s Haki, revealing how much their strength had increased.
• Zhu Ying invited Fang Li, Han Yuan, and their companions to celebrate in the capital, then called Zhu Feng with the news.
• Zhu Feng celebrated the pair’s achievements and arranged a banquet in the imperial garden.

Zhu Feng hosted a lavish banquet in the Imperial Garden to celebrate Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying’s strength, while their friends and guests enjoyed the festivities. Lind ended the night by joining the performers and reciting a poem that stunned the crowd.

• Lind arrived in Flower Country ahead of Zhang Liang and the others, bringing Zhang Tong and officers from the Eight Treasures Navy.
• Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying arrived, and Zhu Feng and Zhang Tong proudly praised them as guests offered congratulations, gifts, and introductions.
• Zhu Feng welcomed everyone to the Imperial Garden banquet, where Zhang Liang, Zhu Ying, their friends, and Lind’s officers enjoyed the food and performances.
• Lind seized a pipa, joined the dancers, and recited a poem that left the guests astonished before they erupted in applause.

After Lind’s poem steals the banquet’s spotlight, he returns to Oran Island and considers how the Flower Country’s rising generation of pirates could shift the balance of power. He plans to use his growing wealth and network to prepare for coming crises, while the story leaves Kuld still hunted and Lind turning toward investments in news, shipping, and warehousing.

• Lind recited a poem at Zhu Feng’s banquet, earned the guests’ praise, and returned the pipa before going back to his seat.
• Lind enjoyed the banquet and decided to train musicians and dancers for future gatherings at Dragon Chen Garden.
• Lind returned to Oran Island while Zhang Liang and Zhu Ying planned to form a pirate crew, and Chinjao decided to set sail earlier than intended.
• Lind anticipated that many Flower Country navies and young masters would go to sea, and planned to use the Spark Project to balance the strength of pirates and Marines.
• Lind considered Kuld’s ongoing pursuit by the World Government and concluded that he should use the years before God Valley to grow stronger.
• Lind promoted the Oran Sea’s Mythology System, profited from comics, and decided to invest his wealth in land and in news, shipping, and warehousing.

Lind recruited Robert, Lazuli, and Lapis to build independent shipping, warehousing, and assassination businesses as part of the Spark Project. He assigned them their roles and urged them to begin with legitimate work while Oran Island secretly supported them.

• Lind decided to use his talented students to establish businesses under cover identities and summoned Robert, Lazuli, and Lapis.
• Lind assigned them to develop shipping, warehousing, and assassination operations independently, with Oran Island providing initial funding and personnel.
• Robert chose to lead the assassination company, naming it the Net, while Lazuli and Lapis took shipping and warehousing, naming them the Blue Route and Crimson Storage.
• Lind approved their choices and told Lazuli to support Lapis as they built their closely connected businesses.
• Lind told Robert to begin by working as a mercenary and advised Lazuli and Lapis to focus on legitimate business before handling contraband.

Lind delegated new projects to Robert, Lazuli, and Lapis, then sent them to build their influence in the chaotic West Blue. Their rapid success drew the attention of Marine leaders, who ordered the trio monitored while admitting the Marines could not control the region.

• Lind asked Liana to reduce her workload during her pregnancy and appointed Fia to train under her and coordinate the new projects.
• Fia efficiently helped Robert and the others finalize proposals, and Lind approved resources for their West Blue operations.
• Robert established the assassin organization the Net after defeating a gang, while Lazuli and Lapis acquired companies and built their reputations using their Devil Fruit powers.
• The trio gained influence in the West Blue and received the titles King of Assassins, Blue Queen, and Crimson Prince.
• Kong told the Marine leadership to monitor the three, saying the Marines were already too occupied on the Grand Line to reach the West Blue.

Robert fought Saligei, the leader of All-Kill, and used his Devil Fruit ability to overwhelm him. Harry revealed himself as an undercover agent and killed Saligei, leaving Robert ready to take over All-Kill’s legacy in the West Blue.

• Saligei confronted Robert and attacked him using the Clear-Clear Fruit, but Robert blocked his strike by sensing vibrations in the air.
• Robert overloaded Saligei’s body with oxygen, then cut off his oxygen supply and trapped him inside a compressed-oxygen wall.
• Saligei called for Harry’s help, and Harry stabbed him while Robert watched.
• Robert and Harry revealed that Harry had been an undercover agent in All-Kill, where he had risen to become Saligei’s second-in-command.
• Saligei died, and Harry urged Robert to take over his organization and become the King of Assassins.

Robert absorbed All-Kill into the Net after Saligei’s death and became known as Robert the White Garment. Meanwhile, Lazuli faced pressure from the Second Treasure Navy, whose young master Shi Da planned to visit her.

• Robert and Harry buried Saligei, held his memorial service, and announced that All-Kill would join Robert’s Net.
• Robert suppressed those who resisted the takeover and drove off factions trying to exploit the chaos, earning a reputation as the West Blue’s new king of assassins.
• Lazuli’s deputy challenged a visitor who claimed the Second Treasure Navy and the Shi Family required outsiders to pay their respects before doing business in the West Blue.
• The visitor delivered a card announcing that Young Master Shi Da intended to call on Lazuli, who accepted it and ordered Weiss to show him out.

Lind planned to destabilize the West Blue’s established powers and use the resulting chaos to expand his influence, while keeping the Marines and World Government from intervening too forcefully. After deciding to move ahead, he told Fia to arrange a meeting with his core officers to refine the plan.

• Lind reviewed intelligence showing that the Marines had taken a hands-off approach to the West Blue and considered stirring up further chaos.
• Lind planned to weaken local monopolists by sending skilled people into different industries and bringing allies into the struggle, while avoiding the overthrow of affiliated nations.
• Lind recognized that the operation would require substantial manpower and resources and that his involvement would be difficult to conceal.
• Lind decided to proceed and asked Fia to schedule a half-day meeting with Axel and his other core officers.

Lind and his officers agreed to expand their power into West Blue, where the Marines could not control the worsening situation. As Lind’s forces seized pirate ships and established footholds across the sea, West Blue entered a brief calm before a much larger conflict.

• Lind presented intelligence about West Blue and proposed sending forces there, and Axel and Liana supported the plan.
• Lind and his officers agreed to turn West Blue into a battlefield where their people could gain combat experience and build new holdings.
• The officers refined a plan to assign personnel, and Lind’s headquarters prepared funding and intelligence support for those heading to West Blue.
• Lind’s fighters arrived through Teleportation Arrays and seized pirate ships, avoiding merchant vessels to protect Oran Island’s reputation.
• Lind’s forces drove West Blue’s pirates into fear, while most newcomers established businesses and recruited personnel instead of immediately challenging local powers.
• West Blue settled into a final period of calm before greater chaos began.

Raditz challenged Chinjao to a spar and used his Saiyan transformation and Life Return to overpower him temporarily. Chinjao won once Raditz’s burst of strength ran out, then advised him to improve his Haki.

• Raditz boarded Chinjao’s ship and asked him to spar, and Chinjao agreed to fight on a nearby island.
• Raditz used his Saiyan transformation and Life Return to reach the island first and attack Chinjao.
• Raditz’s explosive strength let him take the advantage despite Chinjao’s superior Haki.
• Raditz’s stamina faltered, and Chinjao fought him to a standstill before defeating him with Hasshoken: Wutou.
• Chinjao praised Raditz and advised him to train his Armament and Observation Haki.

Raditz met Chinjao and planned to keep working toward advanced Haki, while Hilbert’s dispute with the Four Treasures Navy escalated into open conflict in West Blue. Hilbert raided a Four Treasures Navy branch, and Shi Da finally set off to visit Lazuli.

• Chinjao comforted Raditz about his Haki bottleneck and offered to introduce him to the Happo Navy.
• Hilbert clashed with Jiang Zheng over a gang’s debt, defeated him, and watched the Four Treasures Navy crew leave.
• Jiang Zheng placed an underworld bounty on Hilbert, and Robert received earnest money to pursue it.
• Hilbert decided to retaliate, attacked a Four Treasures Navy branch, captured its occupants, and took them to Oran Island.
• Shi Da finally set off to visit Lazuli.

Shi Da set out to meet Lazuli after waiting nearly a month for the upheaval in the West Blue to settle, hoping to gain a powerful ally and strengthen his position as the Second Treasure Navy’s young master. Lazuli arranged for Weiss to receive him in her place, leaving open the possibility of cooperation while avoiding a direct meeting.

• Shi Da watched the West Blue’s turmoil from a Second Treasure Navy base, then decided to visit Lazuli and seek her support.
• Shi Da planned to use the crisis to build his own power, despite his weak standing and his younger brothers’ greater strength.
• Lazuli received Shi Da’s visiting card and decided to have Weiss meet him because her Blue Route had not yet fallen out with the Second Treasure Navy.
• Lazuli told Weiss to say she was away in the New World escorting merchant ships and to offer Shi Da some Oran Island goods.
• Lazuli authorized Weiss to judge any cooperation proposal from Shi Da and report back to her.

Shi Da met with Weiss at Blue Route’s headquarters after Lazuli declined to see him, and they agreed on limited cooperation between Shi Da and the company. Shi Da tried to recruit Weiss, who stayed loyal to Lazuli and offered to share information about other companies’ managers.

• Shi Da visited Blue Route’s headquarters, where Weiss received him in Lazuli’s absence.
• Shi Da and Weiss agreed to cooperate on shipping routes, territorial disputes, and mutual defense, and Shi Da waived the Second Treasure Navy’s protection money owed by Blue Route.
• Shi Da offered Weiss a job in his organization, impressed by his diplomatic and management skills.
• Weiss declined because Lazuli treated him well and Oran Island had helped him grow stronger.
• Weiss offered Shi Da information about managers at competing companies, and Shi Da welcomed the help.

Gula killed Kuld by exploiting the Card-Card Fruit and seawater, claiming the Hunter's Heart's enormous bounty and setting off an unexpected crisis. As Gula fled with Kuld's corpse, a seabird named Oupeng secretly photographed him, leaving evidence of the killing behind.

• The World Government and the Celestial Dragons offered a 3.4-billion-Beli commission for Kuld through the Hunter's Heart, and the reward later rose to 3.7 billion.
• Gula, a novice bounty hunter who had recently obtained the Card-Card Fruit, saw Kuld's bounty and realized he could exploit Kuld's weakness to seawater.
• Gula surprised Kuld at a concert by splashing him with seawater, then shot and killed him when his Devil Fruit ability failed.
• Gula stored Kuld's corpse in a blank card and fled, hoping to find protection from the Hunter's Heart or the Navy.
• Oupeng, a seabird attending the concert, secretly photographed Gula storing Kuld's corpse and anticipated a major scoop.

After Gula killed Kuld for his 3.8-billion-Beli bounty, leaders across the world prepared for the war they expected to follow. Rocks’s forces had grown dramatically over the past year, leaving him confident as he readied the Rocks Pirates to fight the World Government.

• The World Economy News Paper reported Gula’s assassination of Kuld, prompting widespread debate and strategic reassessments.
• Lind recalled officers from the West Blue to Oran Island and ordered them to prepare and train for the coming war.
• Whitebeard turned the Moby Dick back toward his base, while Shiki celebrated the chance to test his Flying Fleet.
• Charlotte Linlin told Streusen to protect her children and take them to Oran Island if the Navy threatened Totto Land.
• Rocks praised Kaido and Kozuki Oden’s readiness and prepared to fight the World Government.
• Rocks’s forces had grown to fifteen Admiral Candidate-level fighters, including Kaido and Kozuki Oden, and he believed the Rocks Pirates could face the World Government without fear.