Chapter Summaries

Lorne and Kuina confronted Saint Mosti’s bodyguards in the Sabaody Archipelago, but CP0 recognized Lorne and warned the Celestial Dragon who he was. Terrified, Saint Mosti fled with his agents, leaving Lorne and Kuina unharmed as the crowd realized Lorne’s identity.

• Saint Mosti ordered his bodyguards to attack Lorne while Kuina prepared to draw Wado Ichimonji.
• The CP0 agents recognized Lorne and remembered that he had nearly killed Saint Charlos two years earlier.
• Agent A and Agent B stopped the bodyguards and warned Saint Mosti not to provoke Lorne.
• Saint Mosti panicked and ordered the agents to take him back to the Holy Land.
• The CP0 agents freed the giant slave and carried Saint Mosti’s chair away as the bodyguards fled behind them.
• The crowd identified Lorne as the discharged Rear Admiral, and Kuina asked why the Celestial Dragon had run away.

Lorne and Kuina shopped for supplies while Barton and Monte plotted to raid the Fearless, but Ryan, Bakel, and the Marines met their ambush at the harbor. Kuina joined the fight and cut through Monte’s stone barriers, while Barton ordered his men to release poison gas.

• Lorne paid a trembling fruit stallholder for apples and continued shopping for voyage supplies with Kuina as he sensed hostile watchers following them.
• Barton and Monte decided to raid the Fearless for its treasure and gathered more than four hundred pirates near the harbor.
• Ryan spotted the approaching pirates, then led Bakel and the fifty Marines off the warship to attack as Barton’s men opened fire.
• Ryan and Bakel struck down pirates while the Marines advanced in formation, and Monte raised stone barriers to block them.
• Kuina returned with the ingredients, killed a pirate captain with one sword strike, and sliced apart Monte’s stone barriers.
• Barton panicked and ordered his men to release poison-gas bombs.

After his marines defeated a harbor full of pirates, Lorne oversaw the coating of the Fearless and prepared his crew for the voyage to Fish-Man Island. The ship descended beneath the sea, where Lorne anticipated the battles awaiting them in the New World.

• Ryan and the marines dispersed Barton’s poisonous gas and slaughtered the pirates, while Ryan killed Monte and Kuina foiled Barton’s ambush.
• Lorne critiqued Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina’s fighting, then ordered the marines to clean the harbor before Rayleigh began coating the Fearless.
• While Rayleigh coated the ship over three days, he warned Lorne about the New World’s powerful rulers, and Kuina learned from his swordsmanship advice.
• Rayleigh finished the coating and warned Lorne about dangers in the deep sea; Lorne thanked him and Shakky before ordering the crew to set sail.
• The Fearless descended into the dark sea, and Ryan reported that its propulsion and air pressure were stable and that it should reach Fish-Man Island in twelve hours.

The Fearless descended deeper toward Fish-Man Island as Lorne kept the crew calm and Ryan monitored the ship. The crew admired glowing deep-sea fish until the radar suddenly erupted with warnings, leaving them facing an unknown threat.

• Ryan reported that the Fearless had reached a depth of 3,200 meters and was expected to reach the area around Fish-Man Island in eight hours.
• Masha warned Kuina that the deep sea held dangers beyond Sea Kings, while Lorne advised Kuina to relax and ordered Ryan to maintain their speed.
• Lorne rallied the nervous Marines and promised that the Fearless would not sink while he was aboard.
• The Fearless's searchlights revealed strange glowing fish, including an anglerfish, outside the portholes.
• The radar sounded an alarm, its scans turned chaotic, and red warning dots flashed as Bakel reached for his sword.

Lorne and the crew of the Fearless were surrounded by enormous deep-sea Sea Kings after the currents disrupted their radar and Observation Haki. With the ship’s fragile resin bubble vulnerable to shock waves, Lorne ordered the crew to use precise pinpoint attacks, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Ryan and Kuina found that the deep-sea currents had disrupted the radar and restricted their ability to use Observation Haki.
• Lorne used his sensitive hearing to detect a group of huge Sea Kings closing in on the Fearless and ordered the crew to prepare for battle.
• The searchlights revealed monstrous Sea Kings surrounding the ship, including a many-eyed sea serpent, a shelled creature with enormous pincers, and a giant shark.
• Ryan explained that underwater broadside cannon fire could damage the ship, while Lorne warned that shock waves could break its resin coating and expose the crew to crushing pressure.
• Lorne ordered Kuina, Ryan, and Bakel to avoid wide-area attacks and use precise, Haki-focused strikes.

Lorne taught Kuina, Ryan, and Bakel to concentrate their Haki and destroy enemies from within, and they each killed a deep-sea beast with a precise strike. As the remaining Sea Kings panicked, the largest one launched a desperate attack on the Fearless's coating, leaving the others unable to stop it in time.

• Lorne demonstrated how to contain Haki so it could pulverize a steel plate from within, then assigned Kuina, Ryan, and Bakel targets and tactics.
• Kuina pierced the sea serpent's vital spot with Wado Ichimonji, killing it without sending force through the surrounding water.
• Ryan used Finger Pistol: Divine Piercing to penetrate the shelled monster and destroy its brain, while Bakel killed a giant shark with Iron Body: Implosion Fist.
• Lorne heard the Sea Kings' terrified thoughts through the Voice of All Things, and the surviving beasts tried to flee.
• The largest Sea King lashed its tail at the Fearless's coating, and Bakel, Ryan, and Kuina realized they could not reach it in time.

Ryan, Kuina, and Bakel fought off the Sea Kings attacking the Fearless, but the blood from their wounded enemies drove the remaining beasts into a frenzy and threatened the ship’s coating. Lorne took command and ordered his subordinates back inside, leaving the crisis unresolved.

• Kuina sensed a Sea King attacking the Fearless’s mast and severed its tentacle with a precise Flying Slash.
• Ryan and Bakel blinded another Sea King with coordinated kicks, then Bakel killed it with an Armament Haki punch.
• The smell of blood enraged the remaining Sea Kings, which charged the Fearless and battered its increasingly strained coating.
• Masha urged the frightened marines to trust Lorne while Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina struggled to protect the ship.
• Lorne ordered Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina to retreat inside the Fearless, and they obeyed.

Lorne drove the Sea Kings away with a precise burst of Conqueror’s Haki, allowing the Fearless to continue toward Fish-Man Island. As the crew tried to avoid chaotic currents, Ryan sensed an unknown, heat-radiating presence approaching through the darkness.

• Lorne released Conqueror’s Haki through the coating, terrifying the Sea Kings until they fled into the depths.
• Bakel and Ryan marveled at Lorne’s precise control, and Lorne ordered the crew to keep moving.
• Kuina apologized for her imperfect slash, and Lorne praised her before urging her to train harder.
• Ryan reported chaotic currents ahead, and Lorne ordered the Fearless to go around them.
• Ryan sensed a huge amount of heat approaching despite nothing appearing on radar, and eerie green lights appeared in the darkness ahead.

Lorne and the crew of the Fearless were ambushed by Moll’s fish-man fleet near Fish-Man Island, whose poisoned spears began corroding the ship’s coating. As Moll prepared a second volley, Lorne stepped toward the sea, intending to face the crushing pressure himself.

• Ryan spotted more than a dozen submarines blocking the Fearless and identified their flags as those of fish-man pirates.
• Moll introduced himself as a Beasts Pirates assassin and ordered his fleet to attack the Fearless with corrosive poisoned spears.
• Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina intercepted many of the spears, but some struck the coating and corroded it, dropping its integrity to eighty-five percent.
• Moll prepared a second volley while Ryan and the others worried that the coating would fail, and Lorne told Ryan to watch the ship.
• Lorne covered himself in Armament Haki and golden Grit, then stepped toward the coating’s edge as Moll and both crews watched.

Lorne went outside the Fearless at a depth of ten thousand meters, enduring the crushing pressure as his allies panicked and Mor mocked him. As the pressure and poison fueled Lorne’s power, he gathered Grit, Armament Haki, and Conqueror’s Haki into his fist, making the surrounding seawater boil and terrifying Mor’s crew.

• Lorne left the Fearless and entered the deep-sea waters, while Kuina, Bakel, Ryan, and Masha struggled to keep the crew calm and the ship stable.
• Mor laughed at Lorne’s apparent vulnerability and ordered his Fish-Man pirates to watch rather than attack.
• Lorne’s Battlefield Valor turned the pain of the poison and water pressure into vitality, and his Grit reached its limit.
• Lorne concentrated Grit and Haki into his right fist, causing bubbles and heat to rise through the freezing seawater.
• Mor and his Fish-Man crew reacted in disbelief and fear as the water around Lorne began to boil.

Lorne annihilated Mor’s fleet with a single punch and returned safely to the Fearless, which continued its descent toward Fish-Man Island. The ship reached the glowing island, leaving the crew on the verge of arrival.

• Ryan, Bakel, Kuina, and Masha watched as Lorne’s power overwhelmed the Fearless’s instruments and heated the surrounding seawater.
• Lorne used Haymaker to send a vacuum column through the deep sea, destroying Mor’s flagship and the dozen submersibles behind it.
• Lorne returned to the Fearless, where Ryan reported that the coating had stabilized at eighty percent and the propulsion system remained intact.
• Lorne explained that Kaido had sent the Fish-Men to test them after Lorne injured Jack, then ordered the crew to replenish supplies at Fish-Man Island and prepare for the New World.
• The Fearless continued descending until the crew spotted Fish-Man Island enclosed in its vast bubble.

Lorne and the Fearless reached Fish-Man Island, where the crew marveled at the underwater kingdom and learned pirates had been targeting it. As the ship approached port, King Neptune and his sons prepared anxiously to receive Lorne, fearing his power.

• Ryan guided the Fearless through the bubble passage into Fish-Man Island, and Lorne ordered him to remove the ship’s coating and record the dive data.
• Bakel told Lorne that New World pirates had been targeting Fish-Man Island, and Lorne dismissed them as a threat unless they interfered with his crew.
• Ryan spotted a large crowd at the port, where Masha identified King Neptune and the three princes waiting to greet them.
• Neptune and his sons discussed Lorne’s record of attacking Celestial Dragons, killing CP0 members, and injuring Jack, and Fukaboshi warned Manboshi not to provoke him.

Lorne docked at Fish-Man Island, where Neptune and the islanders feared he had come to attack. Lorne assured Neptune he only wanted to sightsee and restock supplies, then accepted an invitation to a state banquet at Ryugu Palace.

• Neptune and his sons worried after hearing about Lorne's strength and watched the Fearless dock at the port.
• Lorne stepped ashore with Kuina, Ryan, Bakel, and fifty elite Marines, and Neptune nervously welcomed him.
• Lorne told Neptune he had come to sightsee and replenish supplies, and promised not to harm the island unless it provoked him.
• Neptune ordered a state banquet at Ryugu Palace and offered to cover the Marines' supply costs.
• Neptune guided Lorne and his companions toward Ryugu Palace while the remaining Marines began unloading crates, and Lorne told Ryan and Bakel to join him later.

Lorne and his companions traveled to Ryugu Palace for a state banquet while he learned Fish-Man Island was relying on Whitebeard’s protection. Hody Jones took Energy Steroids and rallied thousands of fish-man thugs to attack the palace and kill Lorne.

• Lorne and his companions admired Fish-Man Island’s sights as their Gondola rose toward Ryugu Palace.
• Lorne asked Neptune about recent trouble, and Neptune said Whitebeard’s flag had deterred pirates.
• Hody Jones watched Lorne’s ship from the port and declared that a human did not deserve a royal banquet.
• Hody took Energy Steroids, and his officers warned him that Lorne was powerful, but he dismissed their concerns.
• Hody gathered thousands of fish-man thugs and led them toward Ryugu Palace to attack Lorne and overthrow Neptune.

Lorne and his companions attended a banquet at Ryugu Palace, where Neptune discussed the Fish-Man Race’s vulnerability to slave traders and Lorne promised to oppose them. The celebration ended when a guard reported that Hody Jones and thousands of Fish-Man thugs had surrounded the palace.

• Neptune hosted Lorne and his companions at a lavish banquet in Ryugu Palace.
• Fukaboshi asked Lorne about his encounter with the Celestial Dragons, and Lorne said he had taught their bodyguards a lesson.
• Neptune warned that Whitebeard’s protection could not last forever and spoke of the dangers Fish-Men faced on land.
• Lorne told Neptune that Fish-Man Island needed to become strong enough to protect itself and promised slave traders would face resistance while he was in the New World.
• A crash shook Ryugu Palace, and a wounded guard reported that Hody Jones and several thousand Fish-Man thugs had surrounded it.

Hody Jones launched an uprising against Neptune and attacked Ryugu Palace, intent on killing the humans there and claiming the throne. Kuina repelled the first Fish-Man attackers, but Hody ordered his thousands of followers to storm the hall as Lorne calmly watched.

• Neptune learned that Hody Jones had broken through Ryugu Palace’s defenses with thousands of armed Fish-Men, while most of the Royal Guard was away.
• A group of Fish-Man thugs broke into the banquet hall, and Kuina cut down the attackers who charged toward the table.
• Hody Jones confronted Lorne, declared his plan to kill the humans and take Neptune’s throne, and dismissed Neptune’s warnings.
• Masha reassured Kuina that Lorne would handle the attack, while Ryan, Bakel, and the Elite Marines prepared to fight.
• Hody ordered his thousands of Fish-Man followers to rush the banquet hall as Lorne remained seated with his wineglass.

Hody Jones surrounded Ryugu Palace with thousands of fish-man thugs and threatened Lorne, while Neptune’s guards considered surrendering him. Lorne dismissed Hody’s strength, and Hody swallowed a large dose of Energy Steroids as the confrontation escalated.

• Hody Jones and his followers mocked Lorne and demanded the overthrow of Neptune and the expulsion of humans from Fish-Man Island.
• Neptune and Fukaboshi urged Hody to retreat, while a frightened guard suggested handing Lorne over to protect Ryugu Palace.
• Bakel threatened the guard, but Ryan stopped him from acting before Lorne gave an order.
• Lorne confronted Hody and dismissed his strength as drug-fueled, then silenced the guard’s suggestion to surrender him with a glance.
• Hody Jones crushed a box of Energy Steroids and swallowed all the pills despite Zeo’s warning, causing his body and aura to swell.

Hody Jones ordered his Fish-Man forces to attack Lorne, but Lorne unleashed overwhelming Conqueror's Haki infused with Golden Grit. The shock wave felled thousands of thugs and left Hody and his officers struggling under its pressure.

• Hody Jones took confidence from the Energy Steroids and commanded his men to tear Lorne apart.
• Lorne awakened his Conqueror's Haki and released a devastating shock wave intertwined with Golden Grit.
• Neptune and Fukaboshi were overwhelmed by Lorne's power as the shock wave swept through Ryugu Palace.
• Thousands of Fish-Man thugs collapsed unconscious in the square, while Zeo's invisibility broke and Daruma was blasted from underground.
• Hyouzou and Ikaros could barely move, and Hody Jones inwardly protested that he had taken the Energy Steroids and was the strongest.

Lorne overwhelmed Hody Jones and thousands of Fish-Man rebels with his Conqueror’s Haki, then warned Neptune that Whitebeard’s protection could not replace a strong kingdom. Neptune ordered Fukaboshi to arrest the rebels, while Fukaboshi vowed to reorganize the Royal Guard; a powerful presence then approached Ryugu Palace.

• Lorne’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked out thousands of Fish-Man thugs and forced Hody Jones to his knees.
• Neptune and Fukaboshi recognized Lorne’s power, and Lorne warned that the kingdom’s reliance on Whitebeard had left it vulnerable.
• Fukaboshi promised to reorganize the Royal Guard, and Neptune ordered him to arrest the rebels.
• Fukaboshi’s guards carried Hody Jones, the Fish-Man officers, and the unconscious thugs away.
• Lorne resumed eating with his companions as a powerful presence approached Ryugu Palace.

Jinbe arrived at Ryugu Palace, learned that Lorne had defeated Hody Jones’s forces, and challenged the Marine to protect Fish-Man Island. After agreeing to wager favorable supply terms against Lorne’s promise to leave the island if defeated, they moved outside to fight.

• Jinbe entered Ryugu Palace and saw the devastation and thousands of unconscious fish-men, then confronted Lorne about using excessive force.
• Neptune explained Hody Jones’s attack, and Jinbe rebuked Hody before warning Lorne that humans could not act without regard for Fish-Man Island’s rules.
• Jinbe challenged Lorne to a fight, and Lorne accepted after proposing a wager on supply prices and leaving the island.
• Jinbe and Lorne moved to the square outside Ryugu Palace as their auras collided and the battle neared its start.