Chapter Summaries

Good fought Admiral Ryokugyu, whose enormous tree form repeatedly regenerated from the earth, while Cobra hurried to the battlefield to prevent the clash from becoming another war. Good ended the fight by compressing the ground, forcing Aramaki back into human form and leaving him trembling.

• Good blocked Aramaki’s wooden fist, then struck him with a powerful Haki-coated punch and blasted a hole through his tree body.
• Aramaki regenerated from a new shoot and attacked with his Thorn Forest, but Good smashed the spiked vines apart and continued fighting him.
• Workers in Aruba heard the battle, while Pell informed Cobra that Marine Admiral Ryokugyu was fighting Good near Nanohana.
• Cobra sailed with Chaka to mediate, and the royal party saw the vast forest created across Alabasta’s barren land.
• Good compressed the battlefield’s ground to about a third of its size, crushing Aramaki’s buried roots and shrinking him back into human form.

Good defeated Aramaki and forced him to plant trees in Aruba, then publicized the work alongside King Cobra. Aruba was transformed and negotiations went smoothly, leaving Good’s group with extensive control of the city as the tree-planting photograph spread through the world.

• Good crushed Aramaki’s underground roots, injured him, and made him promise to plant trees.
• Good brought Aramaki and Cobra to Aruba, where they posed for photographs while planting saplings for the press.
• Good ordered Aramaki to plant trees throughout designated areas and establish a windbreak around the city.
• Over three days, Good transformed Aruba with trees and diverted tributaries from the Sandora River.
• Cobra agreed to terms giving the Groudon Company control over Aruba for a hundred years, followed by a token annual tax.
• Good received a newspaper featuring the tree-planting photograph and headlines celebrating cooperation.

Good used the Tree of Peace publicity to strengthen support for peace and expand trade with the World Government’s affiliated nations. Half a month later, the news encouraged those nations to pursue relations with Good’s side, and the story shifted to the ambitious but impoverished Goa Kingdom.

• Aramaki learned that the press had portrayed him as a peace ambassador, and Sakazuki angrily reprimanded him over the failed mission.
• The Yibeier Peace Committee awarded Aramaki its Peace Medal, while his Marines praised him for supposedly yearning for peace.
• Good praised the newspaper coverage and decided that public opinion would help him shift conflict into economic competition.
• Good ordered Qikara to send envoys to the Affiliated Nations, promote Aruba Trade Port, and offer land-based trade funding.
• Half a month later, the peace publicity encouraged the Affiliated Nations to pursue trade, and the narration introduced the Goa Kingdom’s ambitions and need for money.

The Groudon Company’s trade drew interest from the Goa Kingdom, Water 7, and other nations, while Good urged Kuzan to recruit senior officers for the Hoenn Navy. As Aruba Trade Port took shape, envoys from more than half the Affiliated Nations arrived seeking weapons, and Good wondered why the World Government had yet to respond.

• The Goa Kingdom’s king welcomed Hoenn’s envoy and eagerly considered buying weapons and selling unwanted territory to the Groudon Company.
• Alice urged Iceburg to cooperate with the Groudon Company, and they agreed to consider making Alabasta the terminus of a new Sea Train route.
• Good told Kuzan that Saul was alive on Elbaf and pressed him to recruit officers, including Smoker, for the Hoenn Navy.
• Aruba Trade Port rapidly took shape as envoys from more than half the Affiliated Nations arrived seeking the Beasts Pirates’ weapons.
• Good watched transport ships carry the Land of Laborers’ goods along the Golden Route and questioned why the World Government had not reacted.

Good responded to the North Blue’s collapsing kingdoms by bargaining to buy Lubni and ordering Lucci to secretly support rebellions, using the unrest to pressure royal families into selling their countries. As Hoenn’s trade advantage and influence grew, the Five Elders recognized the threat, and Saint Nusjuro prepared a countermeasure.

• Good ordered Aokiji to handle Avalo Pizarro’s seizure of power and offered Lubni no more than 10 billion Beli for its kingdom.
• Good dismissed the World Government’s attempt to compete in Alabasta and directed Lucci to secretly support or start rebellions in the North Blue.
• The Lubni royal family sold its country to Hoenn and left under escort, encouraging other North Blue rulers to consider fleeing.
• The Five Elders reviewed reports showing Hoenn’s goods cost less than half as much as equivalent goods and feared losing the affiliated nations and trade revenue.
• Saint Nusjuro told the other Five Elders he had devised a countermeasure and pointed it out on a map.

The World Government imposed tolls and tariffs at Reverse Mountain to undermine Hoenn’s trade, but the Affiliated Nations kept buying from the Groudon Company, and Aruba Port’s trade flourished. Alarmed that trade would strengthen the nations, the Five Elders decided to raise tariffs further, leaving Hoenn with grounds to challenge the World Government’s policy.

• The Five Elders planned to build toll checkpoints at Reverse Mountain and punish the Lubni Kingdom for defecting to Hoenn.
• Good read about turmoil in the New World, then learned that the Notis Kingdom had agreed to be acquired by Hoenn.
• Speed told Good that the World Government was building at Reverse Mountain, and Good saw the move as a chance to oppose it on just grounds.
• The World Government imposed tolls and tariffs of up to 30% on ships passing Reverse Mountain, while threatening nations that refused to pay.
• Swok told angry envoys at Aruba Trade Port that the Groudon Company would raise prices because of the tariffs and had protested to the World Government.
• The Five Elders learned that trade through Aruba Port was growing despite the tariffs and ordered the rate raised to 50% or 70% to curb the Affiliated Nations’ development.

The Hoenn Government announced a military exercise near Reverse Mountain on the same day the World Government planned to impose steep tariffs, turning the trade dispute into a global show of force. As Marine and Revolutionary Army fleets headed toward the area, broadcasts spread worldwide, and the chapter left the standoff awaiting its first moves.

• The Five Elders welcomed the Hoenn Government's protest over Reverse Mountain tariffs, while the World Government announced a 70% tariff and a cheaper trade port at Nanohana Port.
• Good dismissed the World Government's tariff maneuver and ordered an announcement of a Hoenn Government military exercise, with Kuzan ready to take part.
• Dragon sent the Revolutionary Army to Reverse Mountain to observe the exercise and learn more about the Hoenn Government's strength.
• Brannew urged the Marines to respond, but Tsuru and Sengoku warned that attacking first would damage public opinion; Akainu ordered Ryokugyu and Fujitora to lead an exercise of their own.
• A fleet of over a hundred Marine vessels sailed toward Reverse Mountain as reporters and Hoenn Residential Communities broadcast the developing standoff worldwide.

Good and the Hoenn Navy claimed the waters around Reverse Mountain as an exercise area and ordered the Navy to withdraw from the World Government toll station. After the Navy evacuated its staff, Good confronted Aramaki and Fujitora, arguing that the toll station was an illegal structure on public land.

• Good saw that the Navy had sent Aramaki and Fujitora, then ordered the Hoenn fleet to mark off its exercise area at sea.
• A Hoenn officer warned the Navy to stay clear, and Fujitora and Aramaki decided to inspect the situation at Reverse Mountain rather than risk a larger clash.
• Antelope warned Hina that the Hoenn fleet would conduct a live-fire exercise on the toll station, prompting Hina to evacuate its staff.
• Good met Aramaki and Fujitora on the shore and said Hoenn would fully compensate the World Government for the toll station's destruction.
• Good challenged the World Government's right to build a toll station and collect transit duties in the public waters around Reverse Mountain.

Good argued that the World Government had no right to impose tariffs at Reverse Mountain and presented Hoenn’s trade port as a force for peace and prosperity. The World Government, losing control of the live broadcast, sent Saint Nusjuro and a fleet to attack the reporters as Kuzan waited for them to fire first.

• Good challenged Aramaki’s claim that the World Government could govern every region and demolish the toll station.
• Good told Fujitora and Aramaki that Reverse Mountain trade could help countries prosper, reduce wars, and feed ordinary people.
• Reporters reacted emotionally to Good’s speech, while Aramaki and the Five Elders panicked over the broadcast’s effect on public opinion.
• Saturn ordered the broadcast stopped, but learned Hoenn controlled it; Saint Nusjuro then ordered the fleet to kill the reporters and find the transmitting Den Den Mushi.
• Saint Nusjuro led nearly a hundred warships toward Reverse Mountain, and Kuzan told the Hoenn Navy to wait until the World Government fired first.

The Marines opened fire on the reporters at Reverse Mountain, triggering a battle between the Hoenn Navy and Marine Headquarters. As both sides clashed, Aramaki transformed to face Good, insisting that victory mattered more than justice.

• Saint Nusjuro ordered the Marine fleet to fire, and the shelling struck the reporters gathered on shore.
• The Hoenn Navy rescued the wounded while Speed intercepted shells, and Aokiji froze the sea to trap the Marine fleet.
• Doberman ordered thirty thousand Marines, including ten Vice Admirals and ten Pacifistas, to disembark and attack Hoenn’s forces.
• Drake charged the Marines in his Allosaurus form and attacked Kujaku and Grus when they tried to stop him.
• Saul and Jinbe joined Hoenn’s advance as both armies fought across the ice.
• Aramaki transformed into a giant tree man and told Good that winning the war mattered more than having justice on one’s side.

Good and Fujitora’s fight was interrupted when Fujitora summoned a meteor, which Good shattered over the battlefield. Aokiji arrived and froze Aramaki, leaving the Hoenn Admiral struggling to withstand his former Marine counterpart’s overwhelming cold.

• Fujitora drew his Cane Sword and summoned a meteor toward the coastal battlefield as Good prepared to fight seriously.
• Kuzan arrived, and Good leaped into the sky and shattered the meteor with a punch, sending burning fragments across the battlefield.
• Good and Aramaki blamed Fujitora for the falling debris, but Aokiji froze Aramaki’s enormous tree body.
• Aramaki escaped the ice by growing a new body and tested Aokiji’s cold with vines before attacking him at close range.
• Aokiji unleashed a freezing battlefield that overwhelmed Aramaki, while Good noticed Aokiji’s power as he fought Fujitora.

The Navy’s officers attacked the coast to destroy Hoenn’s broadcast Den Den Mushi, but Smoker blanketed the battlefield in smoke and cut the live feed. The Navy then announced Saint Nusjuro’s arrival and ordered lower-ranking Marines to withdraw as a pentagram appeared over the coast.

• Marine officers charged toward Reverse Mountain to locate and destroy the Den Den Mushi Commander, while Hoenn’s forces rushed to stop them.
• Speed defeated Vice Admiral Tosa and fought Vice Admiral Urban as the Navy struggled to break through the defenders.
• Smoker and Karula clashed while Carrot disarmed Tashigi and spared her.
• Smoker covered the battlefield and the Den Den Mushi Commander with smoke, interrupting the broadcast.
• The Navy announced that Saint Nusjuro was about to land and ordered Marines below commodore rank to withdraw without looking at him.
• A huge pentagram magic circle appeared on the coastal battlefield as Doberman repeated the warning.

Good fought Saint Nusjuro at Reverse Mountain, using his Groudon Form and powerful attacks to grievously damage the Five Elder, who regenerated from the injuries. The other four Five Elders arrived through magic circles, and their monstrous forms appeared beside Nusjuro as the confrontation escalated.

• Saint Nusjuro emerged from a magic circle and struck Good with a powerful sword slash, sending him into the Red Line.
• Good transformed into his Groudon Form and battled Nusjuro with Brick Break, Precipice Blade, Solar Beam, and Thunderbolt.
• Good's attacks left Nusjuro badly damaged, but the Five Elder regenerated, revealing that he could not easily be killed.
• Good warned Aokiji, Fujitora, and Ryokugyu to keep their distance, then focused on sensing the earth as Nusjuro contacted the other Five Elders.
• Four more magic circles opened beside Nusjuro, and black sludge formed into the monstrous shapes of a worm, a boar, a spider, and a bird.

Good fought the Five Elders in his Groudon form and reshaped the Red Line battlefield into a landscape of erupting volcanoes. He unleashed Omega: Ultimate Eruption against their combined attack, leaving the sky punched through by the clash.

• The Five Elders attacked Good from all sides, but his defensive stance let him survive their combined assault.
• Good wounded Saint Shepherd Ju Peter and burrowed underground, then defeated him with a magma-filled pillar of rock that exploded through his body.
• Good drew up the Red Line’s natural energy, raised volcanoes, and transformed the battlefield into a sea of magma.
• Good gathered his power and fired Omega: Ultimate Eruption at the Five Elders’ combined counterattack.
• The clash cleared an enormous hole through the dark clouds, stunning the naval soldiers watching below.

Good’s battle with the Five Elders ended when Dragon and the Revolutionary Army intervened, forcing the Elders and Navy to withdraw. Good then sank Reverse Mountain to create a strait, and Dragon decided to bring the Revolutionary Army into the Hoenn Government.

• Good pretended to be badly wounded while the Five Elders considered attacking him, but Dragon arrived with the Revolutionary Army and declared that he had come to stop the war.
• The Five Elders withdrew after weighing the combined strength of the Hoenn Government and the Revolutionary Army, and the Navy retreated as well.
• Good revealed that he had faked the extent of his injuries to lure the Elders into the magma pit, then decided to fill the abyss by sinking Reverse Mountain.
• Good sank Reverse Mountain, creating a strait that connected the seas and amazed viewers, the Hoenn Navy, and the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon told his officers that he wanted to lead the Revolutionary Army into the Hoenn Government.

After Good defeated the World Government’s forces and destroyed Reverse Mountain, he named the new passage the All Blue Strait and considered developing it. Two days later, Hoenn used its victory to recruit Marines and expand its influence, though seven North Blue nations still resisted joining.

• Good dragged an elephant-trunk shark ashore, and Sanji realized the new passage connecting the seas was All Blue.
• Good named the passage the All Blue Strait and considered building a town and toll stations there.
• Newspapers recast Hoenn’s victory as a joint military exercise, while the public celebrated Good as the God of the Earth.
• Good urged Kuzan to recruit talented Marines, and Kuzan revealed he had already written secret letters to potential recruits.
• Speed reported that North Blue’s Marine branches had joined Hoenn and that seven nations still refused to give up their rule.

Good prepared to return to Wano Country, arranged for Hancock to bring Rayleigh to Hoenn as a swordsmanship instructor, and allowed Yamato to go adventuring after the Fire Festival. On the voyage, the chief priest announced that her divination had revealed a route to the Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Nine-Tailed Fox, beginning with a clue about gold.

• Good told Kuzan he was returning to Wano Country and asked Hancock to bring Rayleigh to Hoenn, even by force if necessary.
• The Groudon set sail, and Good told Yamato she could go adventuring after the Fire Festival with companions and Antelope.
• Yamato excitedly hugged Good while he was fishing, causing him to lose the fish he had finally hooked.
• The chief priest rushed to Good and announced that she had drawn great fortune by divining the Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Nine-Tailed Fox.
• The chief priest said she had plucked out her tail fur as an offering and had divined gold as the clue to finding the fruit.

Good returned to Onigashima as Kaido faced Golden Lion Shiki, who sought a deal involving Hachinosu. The negotiations paused when Kaido told Shiki to wait, leaving the proposed deal unresolved.

• Good promised Guji that she could eat the Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Nine-Tailed Fox, if her divination helped them find it, and Guji fell asleep beside him.
• Shiki met Kaido on Onigashima and proposed a business deal after their clash showed Kaido's superior strength.
• Good returned to Onigashima aboard the Groudon and passed the Beasts Pirates, who welcomed him with bodybuilding poses.
• Page One told Good that Hajrudin had gone to Elbaf to challenge Dorry and Brogy for the Giant Warrior Pirates' captaincy.
• Good recognized Shiki at Kaido's gathering, where Shiki revealed that he wanted Kaido to give him Hachinosu.

Golden Lion came to Onigashima to buy Hachinosu, but Kaido left the decision to Good, whose immense bounty and influence underscored the Beasts Pirates' power. After Good mocked Shiki and showed off the crew's wealth, he learned Shiki wanted to buy the island and welcomed the offer.

• Kaido grew angry over Good's higher bounty and summoned him to the hall where Golden Lion was waiting.
• Good taunted Shiki, who explained that he needed greater military strength to pursue his ambition of ruling the world.
• Good showed off the Beasts Pirates' fighters and wealth, impressing Shiki and his crew.
• Kaido told Good that Shiki wanted to buy Hachinosu, and Good eagerly asked Shiki to confirm the offer.

Good rejected Shiki’s offer to buy Hachinosu for five billion Beli and proposed renting it for ten billion a year. Shiki’s crew sought a Devil Fruit user whose capture could raise the missing money, while Kaido questioned Good’s plan to sell the island.

• Good rejected Shiki’s five-billion-Beli offer and ordered Ulti and Little Pei to escort him out.
• Shiki asked to rent Hachinosu, and Good demanded ten billion Beli for the first year, with rent increasing by ten percent annually.
• Shiki consulted Indigo and Shiryu, who said Good was trustworthy and that they needed to find five billion Beli quickly.
• Indigo revealed information about a Devil Fruit user near Hachinosu whose capture could be worth five billion Beli, and Shiki’s crew set out to find them.
• Kaido asked Good whether he truly planned to sell Hachinosu, and Good confirmed it.