Recaps

Norton learned that Mayor Polido’s town planned to capture his crew, while Kuro confronted Polido’s son Boli in the woods. The chapter ended with Norton heading back toward the banquet as an unexpected fleet appeared in the fog and Kuro killed Boli.

• Funing told Norton their ship had been burned, and Mayor Polido and his daughter secretly planned to capture the crew and lure in their companions.
• Mayor Polido sent Boli after Kuro, who left town despite warnings about the Luhanna.
• After the townspeople tried to get the crew drunk, a boy warned Norton that the townspeople were former pirates who imprisoned visitors and stole their treasure; Norton refused to flee.
• Norton learned the boy did not recognize him because News Coos could not reach the island, then headed toward the Banquet House as its door burst open and figures tumbled outside.
• Men who had burned the ship reported to Polido that a fleet had appeared in an unnatural fog offshore, and Polido hurried back inside the castle.
• Kuro dodged Boli’s attack, discovered his Diamond Body resisted the Cat Claws, and killed him with a strike to the crotch.

Norton’s crew defeated Mayor Polido, seized the pirate town’s wealth, and prepared to leave immediately. After Nami found a Log Pose that was already set, the crew learned they could depart before the Snow Disaster arrived.

• Norton ordered the townspeople kept alive and called Sanosuke’s fleet ashore while Zoro prepared to face Polido.
• Polido used smoke and his Diamond Body to attack Zoro, but Zoro cut him down with One Sword Style: Lion’s Song.
• Norton ordered the fleet to secure the town and loot its valuables, and Nami counted their haul at about three billion Beli.
• Bodo revealed that her family’s Diamond Body technique caused hair loss, and Norton had Sanosuke take her away.
• Norton ordered Kuro to separate pirates from non-pirates and release the warning boy and his mother.
• Nami brought Norton a set Log Pose and said the crew could leave before the Snow Disaster arrived.

Norton hunted Luhanna with Nami and Funing, then tamed a herd and brought it back to Birch Town. He recruited a former World Economy News Paper employee to build an intelligence network and contacted Morgans to arrange a deal for intelligence and Log Poses.

• Norton found a Luhanna in Deadwood Forest, killed it, and told Nami to keep the pirates hunting in groups while he captured more alive.
• Zoro killed a Luhanna but became lost in the forest, where he saw a group of tribal people emerge from beneath a Dead Birch Tree.
• Norton returned to Birch Town with a tamed herd of Luhanna and ordered Buchi and Sham to take them aboard the ships.
• Norton questioned the town's non-pirate residents, found a former World Economy News Paper employee, and offered him a place in the Norton Pirates to help establish an intelligence network.
• The former employee called the World Economy News Paper headquarters, and Norton spoke with Morgans about trading for intelligence and Log Poses.

Norton learned that the Awenji People were Birch Island’s indigenous inhabitants, driven into conflict with Birch Town over the dead birch trees needed to survive the recurring snow disaster. When over a thousand Awenji warriors attacked Birch Town, Norton struck down their leader and ordered his officers to fight without killing them, saying he needed the Awenji People.

• Norton made a partnership with Morgans, who promised to provide a Drum Kingdom Eternal Pose on Bellchime Island, and appointed Roy Field to lead the Norton Pirates’ intelligence department.
• Zoro returned from the dead forest with a cut and warned Norton that armed Awenji People were hiding in tree hollows.
• Birch Town’s officials explained that their ancestors had settled on the island three hundred years earlier and that conflict over dead birch trees had driven the Awenji People from their homes and left many to die in the snow disaster.
• Hundreds of Awenji warriors attacked Birch Town, and Norton punched their scarred leader through a birch tree after the pirates began to lose ground.
• Norton ordered his officers to fight the Awenji without killing them, and their arrival turned the battle in the pirates’ favor.

Norton gave Gin the Mythical Zoan Qiongqi Fruit, and Gin demonstrated its powers as Nestadt Town rapidly expanded into a city. The chapter ended with Norton announcing the establishment of the Norton Kingdom during an exclusive interview.

• Enel returned with a patterned Devil Fruit, and Morgans's appraisal identified it as the Cat-Cat Fruit, Qiongqi Model.
• Norton gave the fruit to Gin, who ate it and displayed his ability to fly, create earthquakes, and wield powerful flames.
• Pirates and workers accelerated the town's expansion, and Norton renamed the settlement Naisitad City after its population reached one hundred thousand.
• Darren Smith arrived from the World Economy News Paper to interview Norton at the new council hall.
• Norton announced the establishment of the Norton Kingdom, defined its territorial waters around Naisitad City, and welcomed anyone willing to obey its laws as a citizen.

The Five Elders ordered the Marines to blockade Demon King Island and sink every ship trying to reach the Norton Kingdom, crippling its trade and frightening away civilians. Norton sent Steel Hand, Jinbe, and Enel to attack the nearest Marine base and demand that the decree be revoked, and Steel Hand began fighting Vergo at G-5.

• The Five Elders unanimously ordered Sengoku to blockade Demon King Island and sink ships carrying pirates, merchants, or civilians to the Norton Kingdom.
• Sengoku and Tsuru accepted the order, and more than sixty Marine warships surrounded the island’s shipping routes and destroyed approaching vessels.
• Funing, Kuro, Steel Hand, Nami, and Chopper reported the blockade’s effects to Norton as ships, supplies, trade, and public confidence dwindled.
• Norton sent Steel Hand, Jinbe, and Enel to destroy the nearest Marine Branch and told them to demand that the World Government revoke its decree or face war.
• Steel Hand, Jinbe, and Enel attacked G-5 Branch, where Vergo met Steel Hand and began fighting her with the Six Powers.

Steel Hand captured Vergo after destroying the G-5 Branch and told Sengoku that Norton demanded the blockade be lifted or war would follow. Doflamingo submitted to Norton to secure Vergo’s eventual release, and the World Government ordered a fleet ten times the size of a Buster Call to attack Demon King Island as Marine ships gathered offshore.

• Steel Hand defeated Vergo at the G-5 Branch, and he surrendered after Jinbe and Enel arrived.
• Steel Hand informed Sengoku that Norton demanded the blockade be lifted or war would follow, then revealed Vergo’s ties to Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo sailed to Demon King Island and knelt before Norton, submitting to him in exchange for Vergo’s eventual return.
• Morgans reported Doflamingo’s submission, and the Five Elders stripped four Shichibukai of their titles and unanimously ordered a fleet ten times the size of a Buster Call to attack.
• Sengoku received the mobilization orders as Akainu urged an attack, while Garp and Kizaru expressed concern about fighting Norton.
• Norton watched Marine reconnaissance ships circling Demon King Island as Kuro noted that only Hancock, Mihawk, and Kuma remained outside the Norton Kingdom.

The World Government fleet arrived at Naisitad City to destroy the Norton Kingdom, and Norton organized the evacuation before the battle began. After the Marines opened fire, Norton and his officers stopped the bombardment, and Norton declared that the battle had begun.

• Kuro counted more than ninety-five approaching warships, and Norton ordered civilians and merchants evacuated to the eastern caves.
• Nami helped direct the fleeing civilians while Steel Hand warned Funing that defeat would leave no future.
• The Marine fleet, led by Akainu and Aokiji, demanded the Norton Pirates surrender, but Norton refused.
• Akainu ordered the fleet to fire, and Zoro, Gin, Enel, Jinbe, Moria, Doflamingo, and the other officers intercepted the cannonballs.
• Norton blocked the remaining barrage with a shock wave, drawing cheers from his pirates before declaring the battle had begun.

The Norton Pirates and Marines began a full-scale battle after Akainu's Meteor Volcano and Norton's Serious Punch transformed the sea into a frozen battlefield. As both sides fought across the ice, Sanosuke saw the pirates losing ground and confronted Vice Admiral Howard.

• Kuro ordered the Norton Pirates to charge the Marine fleet, and both sides exchanged devastating cannon fire at close range.
• Akainu unleashed Meteor Volcano, but Norton shattered the lava meteors with Serious Punch and sent a tsunami toward the Marines.
• Aokiji froze the tsunami and the surrounding sea, stranding both fleets on the same ice field.
• Pirates and Marines leaped from their ships and clashed across the ice while Sanosuke surveyed the battle and saw most pirate fighters losing.
• Sanosuke attacked Vice Admiral Howard to protect three defeated pirate captains, then fought him in a clash of sword and Armament Haki-coated fists.

Norton shattered Akainu’s magma attacks and smashed him through a warship, but Akainu resurfaced and joined Aokiji in confronting him. As the Admirals attacked Norton together, Morgans brought his hot-air balloon closer to capture the battle for the World Economy News Paper.

• Akainu attacked Norton with Hell Hound and Great Eruption, but Norton stopped the magma fist and punched apart both molten projectiles.
• Akainu unleashed Dog Biting Crimson Lotus, and Norton’s punch scattered the magma hounds and sent Akainu crashing through a warship into the sea.
• Aokiji raised three ice walls between Norton and the wreckage, and Akainu erupted from the sea and returned to the battlefield.
• Akainu and Aokiji attacked Norton together with magma and ice, while Norton stood his ground and called them to come on.
• Morgans and his photographer captured Akainu being struck and the Admirals confronting Norton, then lowered their balloon closer to the battle.

After Norton’s victory over Akainu and Aokiji, news of the Marines’ defeat spread worldwide, forcing rival powers to reconsider their response. Meanwhile, refugees began arriving in Nystad Port, and Kuro, Chopper, Nami, and Funing struggled to expand the Norton Kingdom’s facilities and care for them.

• Three days after the battle, newspapers reported that Norton had defeated Akainu and Aokiji and that the Marines had suffered enormous losses.
• Sengoku, Whitebeard, Kaido, Big Mom, Shanks, and the World Government reacted to Norton’s victory, with Big Mom deciding to send gifts to Demon King Island.
• Seven days after the war, Kuro registered the first shipload of refugees arriving at Nystad Port.
• Chopper and Nami worked to treat the wounded and organize medical supplies and rations for the newcomers.
• Funing told Kuro that the harbor needed more piers as arrivals overwhelmed its docks, and Kuro said they needed to keep the people who would not flee.