Chapter Summaries

Soren rallied the remnants of Rocks to rescue Teach from Marineford and rebuild the Rocks Pirates, while Barre began gathering Captain John's former followers to raid the Marine Headquarters treasury. The news spread through the Underworld as pirates prepared to assemble at Deadman's Bay.

• Soren rallied the remnants of Rocks, arguing that Whitebeard’s mobilization proved Teach was Rocks’s son and ordering the fleet to gather at Demon Strait.
• Soren and Blacktooth agreed to unite their ships before heading to Marineford, despite their rivalry over command.
• Barre planned to exploit the Marine and Whitebeard conflict by gathering Captain John's former followers to rob Marine Headquarters.
• Barre spread claims that Teach knew the location of John's treasure and called pirates to assemble at Deadman's Bay in three days.
• Arms dealers, Slave Traders, and information brokers across the Underworld sprang into action as news of the planned raid spread.

As Marine forces were stretched thin, pirates converged on Hachinosu to join the assault on Marineford. Soren organized the gathering fleet, but its numbers and conflicting motives kept growing as it prepared to sail.

• Pirates exploited the Marines’ depleted defenses, while rumors about Rocks’s treasure and Marineford’s wealth spread across the seas.
• Soren stopped a fight over a Hachinosu dock and proposed a route to Marineford based on records left by Captain Rocks.
• Blacktooth agreed to follow Soren’s fleet arrangements until they rescued Teach, and Soren ordered 107 ships to resupply and depart within three hours.
• Barre’s crew agreed to draw Marine gunfire in exchange for the treasury and half the armory, and Soren warned the pirate factions not to attack one another before reaching Marineford.
• More pirate crews arrived with conflicting goals, bringing the gathering fleet to over 200 ships as Soren ordered the bell rung before Marine scouts could discover them.

Pirates across the New World mobilized amid the Marines’ preparations for war, swelling the fleets heading toward Marineford. As the massed ships pressed toward the Red Line, Kaido and Charlotte Linlin received newspapers bearing the names of Rocks and Teach.

• Soren organized the ships leaving Hachinosu, while Barre and Blacktooth rallied the remnants of Captain John and Ochoku under their old flags.
• Pirates across the New World seized abandoned docks, bought weapons, attacked shipping, and joined fleets converging on Marineford.
• A Marine Branch reported that the Hachinosu fleet was absorbing pirates, but Headquarters ordered it to preserve its forces and monitor their movements.
• Marine staff estimated that more than six hundred pirate ships were converging, including Ochoku’s and Captain John’s remnants and Whitebeard’s subordinate fleets.
• After scouts reported Marineford’s Encircling Wall and the presence of the Three Admirals and Shichibukai, Soren ordered the fleet to keep moving and reach the designated waters before Whitebeard attacked.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin received newspapers bearing the names of Rocks and Teach.

Soren led a fleet of more than two hundred pirate ships from Hachinosu toward Marineford, where the pirates planned to retrieve the Young Master and plunder the Marine treasury. On Whole Cake Island, Big Mom learned that Marshall D. Teach was Rocks's son and decided to exploit the war to seize Whitebeard's territory and bring Teach into her family.

• Soren ordered the fleet to sink a Marine reconnaissance ship so it could not warn Marineford, then directed the ships to follow Rocks's route around the Calm Belt.
• Barre told the pirates that Marineford's treasury was lightly defended, while Soren urged them to rescue the Young Master and rebuild the Rocks Pirates.
• Big Mom read that Marshall D. Teach was Captain Rocks's son and mocked Whitebeard for keeping his bloodline secret.
• Katakuri, Daifuku, and Oven discussed Lorne's fight with Red-Haired Shanks and his mastery of advanced Haki.
• Big Mom declared that she would make Teach her son-in-law and use the war to take Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, territory, and wealth.

Big Mom, Kaido, and the allied forces of Rocks's remnants mobilized for Marineford as Whitebeard's fleet advanced, turning the execution into a gathering of the world's top powers. At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku recognized that the coming battle was far more than a simple execution.

• Big Mom rejected Mont-d'Or's warning about Marine Headquarters and ordered Katakuri to lead the vanguard and capture Lorne and Whitebeard.
• Katakuri, Daifuku, and Oven set out from Totto Land with its main fleet bound for Marineford.
• Kaido learned that Big Mom and Rocks's remnants were mobilizing, then declared that the Beasts Pirates would join the battle and seek a grand death.
• Kaido transformed into an azure dragon and led the Beasts Pirates' forces out of Onigashima toward Marineford.
• Whitebeard's fleet, Big Mom's fleet, Kaido's fleet, and more than two hundred ships belonging to Rocks's remnants converged on Marineford.
• Sengoku surveyed the assembled Marines and recognized that the gathering forces had made the execution into something far greater.

Sengoku prepared for the Navy’s battle against Whitebeard as Kaido, Big Mom, and Rocks’s remnants joined the fight. After defeating Beasts Pirates patrol ships, Lorne learned of the gathering forces and redirected the Fearless toward Marineford.

• A messenger told Sengoku that Kaido and Big Mom’s fleets had crossed the Red Line security perimeter, prompting the Navy to reinforce Marineford’s defenses.
• Lorne intercepted three Beasts Pirates ships, defeated Monte with one punch, and used gravity to smash the other two vessels together.
• Lorne ordered Ryan to distribute the recovered treasure to the wounded Marines.
• A newspaper reported that Whitebeard, Big Mom, Kaido, and Rocks’s remnants were heading to Marineford, and Lorne decided to join the battle.
• Lorne ordered the Fearless to change course for Marineford, and Kuina and the crew prepared to face the gathered powers.

Lorne and his crew sailed through a violent storm toward Marineford, where Teach faced execution for being Rocks’s son. Whitebeard arrived to rescue Teach and unleashed a tsunami, leaving the Marines in chaos as Kuzan moved to stop it.

• Lorne ordered the Fearless to keep sailing at full speed toward Marineford, and his crew prepared for the coming battle.
• Teach pleaded with Sengoku to release him, while Sengoku declared that Teach’s revealed identity as Rocks’s son meant his bloodline could not continue.
• Whitebeard surfaced inside Marineford’s bay aboard the Moby Dick and promised to take Teach home, insisting that Teach was his son and family.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to prepare as Whitebeard struck the air with Murakumogiri, creating two enormous tsunamis that surged toward Marineford.
• Kuzan leaped into the sky and began using Ice Age to confront the oncoming tsunamis.

Kuzan froze Whitebeard’s tsunami, but Kaido and Big Mom arrived at Marineford and joined the battle, plunging the battlefield into chaos. As the Marines fought the Emperors and Big Mom’s Homies, remnants of the Rocks Pirates attacked to rescue Teach and raid Marine Headquarters.

• Kuzan froze Whitebeard’s tsunami into two enormous glaciers, giving the Marines hope.
• Kaido appeared in the thunderclouds and declared he would help kill Whitebeard and destroy the Marines.
• Big Mom arrived, claimed Teach for her Totto Land, and sent her Homie army charging at the Marines.
• Sengoku ordered Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Borsalino to engage as Sakazuki attacked Kaido with Great Eruption.
• One-Armed Soren, Blacktooth, and Barre led the remnants of the Rocks Pirates into Marineford, launching attacks across the ice.

The Marines and the Shichibukai fought the allied pirates as the Admirals unleashed their full power, but the attackers overwhelmed the defenses. The third defense line fell, leaving the Marines struggling to hold back the advancing army.

• Momonga ordered the coastal cannons to fire as the pirates charged, and the battle became a bloody melee.
• Akainu attacked with magma, but Blacktooth challenged him before Vista intervened to fight the Admiral.
• Kizaru bombarded the pirates with light and fought Barre, while Kuzan froze a wave of Rocks remnants before Jozu charged him.
• Doflamingo controlled Marines with his strings, while Hancock, Moria, and Mihawk attacked combatants on the battlefield.
• A messenger reported that the third defense line had fallen, and Doberman, Yamakaji, and Onigumo saw the Marines being overwhelmed by the allied pirates.

The Navy’s defenses faltered as Sengoku raised the Encircling Wall, but Kaido and Big Mom smashed it open and let the pirates storm into Marineford. With the Navy near collapse, a sudden change occurred in the sky above the battlefield.

• Sengoku ordered the Encircling Wall activated despite Tsuru’s warning that it would trap Marines inside the bay.
• Kaido and Big Mom arrived, joined forces, and blasted a breach hundreds of meters wide through the Encircling Wall with Hakai.
• Soren urged the pirates to charge through the breach, and they surged toward the Execution Platform.
• Sengoku, Garp, Akainu Sakazuki, Kizaru Borsalino, and Kuzan recognized that the Navy’s defenses were on the verge of collapse.
• Teach taunted Sengoku as Marines fell and despair spread, but a sudden change in the sky interrupted the battle.

Lorne arrived at Marineford in a colossal Azure Dragon Form, commanding terrifying lightning that struck the battlefield and stunned both Marines and pirates. He landed in the middle of the battlefield, where Teach recognized him as the one who had crippled him.

• Black thunderclouds gathered over Marineford, and Garp recognized the approaching presence as his grandson Lorne.
• Lightning from the clouds vaporized several of Big Mom's Homies, while Zeus admitted he was too afraid to challenge it.
• Lorne burst through the clouds in a ten-thousand-meter Azure Dragon Form, shocking Kaido and the assembled Marines and pirates.
• Lorne ignored Teach's furious, fearful shouting and released his dragon form above the battlefield.
• Lorne crashed into the ice, creating a massive crater and sending nearby fighters flying, then stood up and calmly brushed off the dust.

Lorne arrived at the battlefield and challenged Kaido, while Big Mom demanded that he return Perospero. As thousands of Rocks Remnants surrounded him, Lorne stood unharmed after a pirate struck his shoulder, and Soren ordered the warships to fire on him.

• Lorne told Sengoku that he had come to test how many punches the strongest man in the seas could take, then exchanged greetings with Whitebeard.
• Big Mom threatened Lorne over Perospero, and Kaido claimed him as prey and demanded to know where his Azure Dragon power came from.
• Kaido ordered Jack to stand down, while One-Armed Soren rallied the Rocks Remnants and sent thousands of pirates to surround Lorne.
• A pirate's axe struck Lorne's shoulder without leaving a mark, and Soren ordered more than a dozen warships to fire their cannons at him.

Lorne endured the pirate army’s cannon fire and attacks, converting the damage into strength before tearing through the attackers with overwhelming speed and power. As the pirates fled and Lorne continued his assault, the Marines recognized that his punches could destroy even Armament Haki defenses.

• Soren’s pirates bombarded Lorne with cannonballs and struck him with weapons and Haki, but he emerged unharmed as his strength grew.
• Garp praised Lorne’s durability while Whitebeard Newgate, Sengoku, Big Mom, and Kaido watched his golden aura intensify.
• Lorne announced that it was his turn, shattered the ice with a burst of force, and shook off a storm of bullets with his Haki.
• Lorne used Decimating Smash to crush a pirate’s chest and send a shock wave through dozens of others, breaking their defenses and killing many.
• The terrified pirates scattered, but Lorne raced among them and continued attacking as Sengoku, Akainu Sakazuki, Kizaru Borsalino, and Kuzan assessed his power.

Lorne unleashed a crushing gravitational attack that destroyed the Rocks Remnants' vanguard fleet and thousands of pirates. As Sengoku ordered the Marines' strongest officers to stop him, Akainu attacked Lorne with magma.

• Lorne used Crushing Blow to drag dozens of warships and thousands of pirates together, destroying them and leaving a vast hole in the ice.
• Whitebeard Newgate and Marco assessed Lorne's strength, while Garp told Sengoku that Lorne's destructive power was beyond their control.
• Sengoku ordered Kuzan, Kizaru Borsalino, and Sakazuki to prepare to stop Lorne from destroying Marineford.
• Akainu descended toward Lorne and launched Dog Biting Crimson Lotus into the smoke.

Lorne fought Akainu and then clashed with Garp, revealing that he had drawn the Emperors and Rocks Remnants to Marineford to force the World Government to expose its hidden forces. After Garp let himself be knocked away, Lorne stood alone and turned toward the Four Emperors.

• Lorne repelled Akainu's magma attacks, and Garp leaped in to confront him.
• Garp and Lorne traded blows with Galaxy Impact and Haymaker, their Haki clash devastating the battlefield and disabling the Pacifistas.
• Garp questioned Lorne's plan to make the Marines and pirates clash, and Lorne explained that he wanted to expose the World Government's hidden forces and overthrow the Celestial Dragons.
• Garp agreed with Lorne and deliberately withdrew some of his Haki, allowing Haymaker to send him crashing through an ice wall.
• The Marines and pirates reacted in shock as Kaido and Big Mom focused on Lorne, who turned his murderous gaze toward the Four Emperors.

Kaido and Big Mom joined forces against Lorne at Marineford, unleashing their Conqueror’s Haki while he stood firm. They attacked him simultaneously with Thunder Bagua and Ikoku, leaving Lorne surrounded by their devastating strikes as he spread his arms and erupted in azure lightning.

• Lorne challenged Kaido and Big Mom, provoking them to attack him together while Whitebeard agreed not to interfere.
• Kaido and Big Mom unleashed their combined Conqueror’s Haki, forcing nearby Marines and pirates to retreat while Lorne remained standing.
• Marco, Vista, Whitebeard, Sengoku, Tsuru, and the Navy admirals watched as Lorne withstood the Emperors’ Haki without flinching.
• Kaido charged Lorne with Thunder Bagua as Big Mom launched Ikoku, trapping him between their attacks.
• Lorne refused to dodge and spread his arms as azure lightning erupted around him.

Lorne faced Kaido and Big Mom’s combined attack head-on, using his Dragonmancer Form and Decimating Smash to meet their blows. Their attacks badly wounded him, and the chapter ended with Kaido and Big Mom intensifying their assault.

• Lorne transformed with azure lightning and challenged Kaido and Big Mom to attack him.
• Kaido and Big Mom launched a combined strike, while the Navy, Lorne’s crew, and Whitebeard’s crew watched in alarm.
• Lorne refused to dodge and punched at the descending attacks with his dragon-headed fists, shouting “Decimating Smash!”
• Thunder Bagua and Ikoku struck Lorne, tearing his flesh, breaking his bones, and severely damaging his internal organs.
• Kaido noticed Lorne had caught Hassaikai with his body and urged Big Mom to use more force, so she intensified Napoleon’s flames.

Lorne survived Kaido and Charlotte Linlin’s combined attack and recovered through Battlefield Valor, turning his injuries into power. As he prepared a devastating punch, the fighters across the bay scrambled to retreat.

• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin blasted Lorne through the ice, and pirates and Marines assumed he was dead.
• Whitebeard sensed that Lorne was still alive, and a thunderous heartbeat sounded from the ruins.
• Lorne rose from the rubble as Battlefield Valor rapidly healed his wounds and restored his broken bones.
• Lorne’s second Blood Reservoir, Grit, filled with power from his injuries, surrounding him with a golden shield.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin tried to stop Lorne, but his shield blocked Kaido’s Hassaikai while Whitebeard and Sengoku ordered everyone to evacuate the bay.
• Lorne unleashed a blinding golden aura as he prepared to strike the Two Emperors.

Lorne endured Kaido and Charlotte Linlin’s combined attacks behind an unbroken golden shield, then gathered his powers into a devastating punch. Kaido and Linlin realized they could not evade the attack, and Kaido raised Hassaikai to defend.

• Kaido struck Lorne with Thunder Bagua while Charlotte Linlin attacked with Ikoku slash, but Lorne’s golden shield remained unscathed.
• Lorne told Kaido and Linlin that their attacks were adding power to his fist, while Sengoku, Garp, and the other Navy officers watched in alarm.
• Whitebeard ordered Marco to lead the Whitebeard Pirates away from the battlefield, and Kuina urged the Fearless crew to trust Lorne.
• Lorne fused his fully stacked Grit, Divine Dragon Lightning, and Conqueror’s Haki into his right fist.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin sensed that Lorne’s attack had locked onto them, and Kaido raised Hassaikai to block.

Lorne struck Kaido and Big Mom with one overwhelming punch, severely wounding them and smashing them through Marineford’s fortress. As their crews and the world watched in shock, Lorne declared that he now ruled the seas.

• Lorne unleashed a red-and-blue pillar of force that shattered Kaido’s dragon scales and pierced Big Mom’s Iron Balloon, severely injuring both Emperors.
• The impact hurled Kaido and Big Mom through Marineford’s ice walls and into the fortress, collapsing more than half of it.
• Marines and Sabaody spectators reacted in disbelief, while Sengoku, Tsuru, Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Borsalino recognized Lorne as a grave threat.
• Morgans ordered the World Economy News Paper to make Lorne’s victory its front-page headline.
• King and Queen rushed toward Kaido, while Katakuri, Daifuku, Oven, and the other Totto Land pirates watched Big Mom’s defeat in shock.
• Lorne’s body trembled as Battlefield Valor repaired his injuries, and he declared that he now called the shots on the seas before a powerful tremor erupted behind him and to one side.