Chapter Summaries

Kakarot described his crew’s extraordinary strength and revealed that a special potion could greatly accelerate training and expand physical potential. The gathered young fighters eagerly asked how to obtain it, while remaining wary of Kakarot’s intentions.

• Kakarot challenged Mihawk, Crocodile, Moria, Doflamingo, Shanks, and Buggy to compare their strength with his young crew’s.
• Kakarot said most of his companions were just over eighteen and already had Admiral-level or greater strength, astonishing the group.
• Shanks praised Kakarot’s crew, and Kakarot explained that he had ended his fight with Roger when Roger’s illness worsened.
• Kakarot explained that strong physiques supported all fighting styles and that his crew used a potion to boost training and potential.
• Doflamingo asked how they could obtain the potion, while the others weighed their desire for power against their suspicion of Kakarot’s motives.

Kakarot offered to help the pirates grow stronger so they could join his organization’s future assault on Mary Geoise and the World Government. After they accepted his support, Garp warned Sengoku that Kakarot and his companions had become so powerful that confronting them felt like facing the hidden forces in Mary Geoise.

• Kakarot told the pirates he wanted them to grow strong enough to take part in his organization’s attack on Mary Geoise and the World Government.
• Shanks asked whether Kakarot’s organization was behind the Mobile Den Den Mushi and Camera Den Den Mushi, and the pirates reacted with shock at the revelation.
• Crocodile, Moria, Mihawk, Shanks, and the others decided to accept Kakarot’s help, though Mihawk and Shanks focused on improving their swordsmanship.
• Kakarot gave each of them a Spatial Ring filled with potions for two or three years of training.
• Sengoku asked Garp whether the Marines should pursue the pirates, but Garp refused and warned that Kakarot’s group now inspired the same dread he had felt in Mary Geoise.

Kakarot took Mihawk and Shanks into the Calm Belt, where he overwhelmed the Sea Kings with his Conqueror’s Haki and made one carry their ships toward an island with powerful beasts. Witnessing his presence caused Shanks to question whether Roger’s dream and instructions still made sense.

• Kakarot parted from Doflamingo and the others in Loguetown, taking Mihawk and Shanks toward the Calm Belt while Buggy stayed behind to seek treasure.
• The ships entered the Calm Belt, where Lilith and the others saw enormous Sea Kings rise around them.
• Kakarot unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, changing the weather and knocking out the Sea Kings except for one huge creature he spared.
• Kakarot ordered the surviving Sea King to take the ships to an island with powerful beasts, and it lifted them and swam away.
• Mihawk and Shanks witnessed Kakarot’s overwhelming Haki, and Shanks began doubting Roger’s instructions and his own beliefs.

Kakarot and his companions reached a hot, humid island filled with powerful beasts after a frightened Sea King carried their ships there. They explored the forest and approached a colossal serpent watching them from a tree.

• The ships reached the island, and Kakarot dismissed the trembling Sea King, which fled underwater.
• Lilith admired the island’s air, while Kakarot speculated that a mysterious substance concentrated on untouched islands helped powerful beasts grow.
• Kakarot led his excited companions onto the island and followed a winding path east.
• Kakarot sensed a powerful, sinister presence ahead as an enormous serpent watched the group approach from a towering tree.

Kakarot and his companions followed a gigantic snake’s trail through the jungle and discovered the three-hundred-year-old Titan Python coiled around a towering tree. The Titan Python sensed their approach and watched them without hostility as the group came face to face with it.

• Lina found a huge snake scale, and Kakarot reflected on how she had become more open and lively after sharing her feelings in Loguetown.
• Lilith and the others discovered a trail twenty meters wide, which Lina identified as the Titan Python’s path.
• Vian urged the group to hurry toward the enormous snake, eager to see how powerful it was.
• The Titan Python sensed Kakarot’s group approaching and judged that, despite their great strength, they posed no clear threat.
• Kakarot and his companions reached the towering tree and saw the Titan Python coiled around it.

Kakarot and his companions encountered a colossal, intelligent python coiled around an ancient tree and learned that she was called Jörmungandr, the World Serpent. After explaining their visit, Kakarot invited her to spar with his companions, and she agreed.

• Kakarot and his companions approached an enormous tree wrapped in a giant black python whose presence rivaled Hades's.
• Jörmungandr wrote to the group with her tail, showing that she understood human speech and could communicate in writing.
• Kakarot told Jörmungandr that his party had come to explore the island, meet its Beast Kings, and invite willing ones to see the wider world.
• Jörmungandr identified herself as the World Serpent, a name humans had given her, and Kakarot agreed to call her Jörmungandr.
• Kakarot proposed that his companions spar with Jörmungandr and share food afterward, and she accepted.

Kakarot arranged a spar between Simba and Jörmungandr, and Simba transformed into his Sulong form before attacking her. Jörmungandr sent Simba flying with a powerful tail strike, but he recovered and returned to fight.

• Kakarot led the others away from the clearing, leaving Hades, Simba, Ailik, and Troius Jeno behind.
• Hades, Ailik, and Troius Jeno stepped aside, and Simba transformed into his Flame Lion Human-Beast Form and then his Sulong form.
• Simba charged Jörmungandr and wounded her with a Ryuo Haki-coated claw strike.
• Jörmungandr stopped the bleeding with her muscles and struck Simba with her Armament Haki-coated tail, hurling him thousands of meters away.
• Simba survived the impact, recovered, transformed into his Sulong form again, and returned to continue the fight.

Simba sparred with Jörmungandr, improving his Haki and physical strength before conceding when his injuries and exhaustion became too much. Ailik and Troius Jeno then took turns fighting Jörmungandr to train, while she carefully controlled her strength.

• Simba attacked Jörmungandr’s tail and sharpened his Observation Haki while his Armament Haki and body grew stronger from the clashes.
• Kakarot judged that Jörmungandr’s displayed strength equaled roughly 1.5 Admirals, and warned that Simba was nearing his limit.
• Jörmungandr sent Simba flying, and he conceded before thanking her for the spar; she agreed to spar with him again.
• Ailik asked Jörmungandr to restrain her strength and fought using only martial arts and Color Haki, withdrawing once his body and Haki reached their limits.
• Troius Jeno chose to set aside his Quick-Quick Fruit powers and began sparring with Jörmungandr to train his physique and Haki.

Hades and Jörmungandr unleashed their full power in a brutal battle that devastated the clearing and left both badly wounded. When their fighting spiraled toward madness, Kakarot stopped them with his Conqueror's Haki, and they separated with their reason restored.

• Hades transformed into his nearly two-hundred-meter Titan Giant Form and challenged Jörmungandr to test their strength.
• Jörmungandr attacked Hades with her Haki-coated jaws and body, and the two clashed with Conqueror's Haki that split the sky.
• Jörmungandr tried to constrict and bite Hades while he used six arms to hold her back and his Hellfire Demon Ant mouthparts to wound her.
• Hades and Jörmungandr continued their savage fight, bleeding and destroying the surrounding forest as their ferocity grew into madness.
• Kakarot released his Conqueror's Haki, dispelled the dark clouds, and brought Hades and Jörmungandr back to their senses.

After Hades and Jörmungandr ended their fierce battle, Kakarot invited Jörmungandr to become human with a Devil Fruit, only to learn she was already a user. Jörmungandr transformed into her Dark Night Fairy form, and Kakarot wondered whether her unusual size came from her enormous original body.

• Jörmungandr and Hades praised each other after Kakarot stopped their battle, and Hades used gravity to smooth the damaged ground.
• Kakarot invited Jörmungandr to become human with a Devil Fruit, but she revealed that she was already a Devil Fruit User.
• Jörmungandr transformed from her giant snake form into a black-haired woman with transparent, patterned wings.
• Lilith and the others approached Jörmungandr in surprise, and she told Yingyue that she had eaten the Mythical Zoan Dark Night Fairy Form Devil Fruit.
• Kakarot explained that Jörmungandr looked like a fairy because of her wings and wondered whether her size came from her enormous original body.

Jörmungandr recounted how Celestial Dragons destroyed the village where she had lived, and how she later returned to the island to grow strong. Lina and the others invited her to join their fight against the World Government, and she accepted before celebrating with them.

• Emily and Iris recognized Jörmungandr as the witch from a West Blue legend who had killed Celestial Dragons 150 years earlier.
• Jörmungandr said she had left the island with shipwreck survivors, spent more than thirty years in their village, and watched the villagers grow old while she remained unchanged.
• Jörmungandr recounted that Celestial Dragons destroyed the village and killed its people, while she escaped captivity, sank their ship, and drowned several of them.
• Jörmungandr said she returned to the island, grew strong enough to become its ruler, and Kakarot wondered whether she had forgotten a harsher truth about her past.
• Lina, Lilith, and Yingyue invited Jörmungandr to join their Revolutionary Army, and she accepted, wanting to see human society again.
• The group held a feast around a bonfire, and Jörmungandr watched their celebration as her loneliness began to fade.

After a peaceful night on Jörmungandr’s island, Kakarot learned about two powerful beasts and began investigating the mysterious grove around the ancient tree. He suspected the island might be connected to another strange island, and the group prepared to seek answers from Grandpa Turtle.

• The group slept in the branches of the ancient tree, and Bailing’s plants had covered the scorched ground by morning.
• Jörmungandr told Kakarot that Little Croc was an ancient Emperor Crocodile with formidable strength and defense.
• Jörmungandr described Grandpa Turtle, a huge, very old sea turtle who lived in the northern bay and slept for decades at a time.
• Kakarot asked about a secluded place with a strange radish-shaped plant, and Jörmungandr explained that the grove around the tree matched his description.
• Kakarot suspected a connection to another island in the Calm Belt and proposed asking Grandpa Turtle what he knew about the tree and the grove.

Kakarot investigated Jörmungandr’s memories of the giant tree and suspected that a mysterious powerhouse had planted it. He ordered Lina to contact Dragon and search the Calm Belt for similar places, then silently promised to save whatever was calling to him from the tree.

• Kakarot asked Jörmungandr whether she had visited the giant tree before eating her Devil Fruit, and she realized she had never been there despite exploring the island.
• Jörmungandr relayed Grandpa Turtle’s account of a powerful creature visiting the island, and Lilith suggested it might have planted the tree.
• Lina asked whether they should destroy the tree, but Kakarot sensed a faint plea from it and told her to wait.
• Kakarot instructed Lina to tell Dragon to search the Calm Belt for similar places, starting with islands that had powerful Beast Kings and then checking the rest.
• Kakarot reassured his companions that the Revolutionary Army would handle the danger and silently promised the tree he would save it.
• A breeze passed, and the disgust Lina, Lilith, and the others had felt toward the tree disappeared.

After a month of training, Kakarot learned that Marines and World Government CP agents were heading to the South Blue to search for pregnant women, whom they might execute. He sent the Anti-Crime Adventure Group openly to protect civilians and confront the forces arriving on the islands.

• Lina told Kakarot that Marine warships and CP ships had arrived in the South Blue and would soon search for pregnant women.
• Kakarot gathered the Anti-Crime Adventure Group and explained the threat, then announced they would act openly under their own name.
• Kakarot instructed the group to kill CP agents, but to spare Marines who treated civilians humanely and kill those who attacked or abused them.
• Kakarot assigned Jörmungandr to accompany Fenty, grouped Nasha with Tara and Tal, and grouped Fanny with Will and Wick.
• Kakarot sent the group out using spatial power to reach the islands where the Marines and CP agents would appear.

Kakarot and Lina left Little Croc behind as a worldwide livestream announced that the Anti-Crime Adventure Group was moving to stop the Navy and World Government from eliminating pregnant women in the South Blue. People across the world watched and argued over the accusation, while former slaves shared accounts of the Celestial Dragons’ crimes.

• Kakarot flirted with Lina, and Little Croc mistook their affection for mating before Kakarot and Lina departed in a flash of silver light.
• Mobile Den Den Mushi users around the world received a notification for a livestream about the Anti-Crime Adventure Group’s mission in the South Blue.
• The livestream’s shocking headline stirred anger among commoners and anticipation among pirates, while many oppressed people gathered to watch.
• World Government and Navy supporters defended them in the comments, prompting others to accuse them of serving the Celestial Dragons.
• Former slaves spent their Snail Paste and wealth to recount the Celestial Dragons’ crimes to the livestream audience.

The livestream’s comments exposed widespread oppression and drew attention from the Revolutionary Army, while the Marines remained unaware of the growing public backlash as they prepared to search the South Blue for Roger’s offspring. The livestream then shifted to a Marine warship carrying CP agents as it approached an island.

• Revolutionary Army members watched the comments reveal accounts of the Celestial Dragons’ brutality and the World Government’s corruption, and they anticipated the livestream would sway public opinion.
• The Marines focused on their South Blue search mission, while the Five Elders kept the livestream uproar from Fleet Admiral Sengoku and other senior leaders.
• People shared stories of oppression by Marines and nobles, and some pirates confessed that they had become like those who once oppressed them.
• The livestream switched from a black screen to an aerial view of a bright, calm sea, drawing viewers away from the comment debate.
• A Marine warship carrying uniformed officers, soldiers, and CP agents entered the view and sailed toward an island.

A livestream exposed a Marine and Cipher Pol operation to search the South Blue for pregnant women, after an agent ordered them all killed if Roger's child could not be identified. The authorities secretly reaffirmed the plan, and Enfis and the Cipher Pol agent sent their forces ashore to search door to door.

• A distraught man in a tavern recognized his hometown in the livestream and worried about his parents and pregnant wife, while the other patrons watched anxiously.
• A Cipher Pol agent told Rear Admiral Enfis to kill every pregnant woman if they could not identify which one carried Roger's child, and the livestream broadcast their words worldwide.
• A call publicly rebuked the agent and claimed the order was not the World Government's intention, briefly easing viewers' fears.
• Cipher Pol secretly instructed the agent to find the broadcaster and resume the plan, so he and Enfis sent their troops ashore to search for pregnant women.
• Marine and CP Agent forces across the South Blue learned of the operation, and the region fell under a tense, oppressive atmosphere.

Marines and CP agents rounded up every pregnant woman in a South Blue town to search for Roger’s child, brutalizing families and sparking outrage across the world. As Feike shot a civilian and defended the violence, Aide'er confronted him and the Marines who had abandoned the justice he believed in.

• Marines and CP agents seized more than twenty pregnant women and forced their families to watch as the broadcast exposed their brutality.
• A burly man with claw scars spotted an eight-month-pregnant woman and two unharmed elderly followers, then grew alarmed when the Marines ordered all the women aboard to check for Roger’s bloodline.
• A civilian shouted that the Marines were accomplices to tyranny, while Sengoku, Vice Admiral Tsuru, and other officers watched with grave concern.
• Garp watched silently as families rushed toward the women, and Feike shot one man in the thigh when he tried to reach them.
• Aide'er confronted Feike for attacking civilians, but Feike dismissed the families as enemies and claimed they deserved to die.

Aide'er confronted Rear Admiral Enfis over the Navy’s plan to kill pregnant women in pursuit of Pirate King Roger’s widow, condemning the massacre as a betrayal of justice. As the broadcast spread Aide'er’s argument across the seas, Lilith watched unseen from a pocket dimension, prepared to intervene.

• Aide'er challenged Rear Admiral Enfis for ordering Marines to oppress civilians and target pregnant women.
• Enfis defended the planned killings as necessary sacrifices to prevent Roger’s bloodline from producing future evil.
• Aide'er denounced Enfis and the Marines supporting him, arguing that children were innocent and that Roger’s reputation had been distorted by the World Government.
• Viewers across the seas, including Revolutionary Army members and Kakarot and the others, watched the broadcast, while the Revolutionary Army saw their effort to promote independent thought succeeding.
• Lilith observed the confrontation from a hidden pocket dimension on the island, ready to act if needed.

Aide'er refused Enfis's demand to surrender the pregnant women, while the World Government's agents and Marines prepared to use force against the civilians. The families' defiance strengthened Aide'er and his allies, leaving them ready to fight to the death.

• A Cipher Pol agent urged Enfis to arrest or kill the disobedient Marines, drawing disgust from viewers around the world as Akainu, the Five Elders, and Marine leaders watched the livestream.
• Enfis ordered more than one hundred Marines to aim their guns at Aide'er and demanded that he surrender the pregnant women in exchange for the others' safety.
• Aide'er struggled between protecting the civilians and holding to his sense of justice, while the reunited families vowed not to surrender their wives and daughters.
• The Revolutionary Army viewers recalled Mr. Lamplight's words about facing death without fear, and Aide'er drew strength from the civilians' trust.
• Aide'er and the Marines beside him stood firm and challenged Enfis to reach the civilians only over their dead bodies.