Chapter Summaries

Lorne led the Fearless and fifty former Marines into the deep sea to seize the blueprints for Pluton, relying on the ship’s reinforced coating and his unusual affinity for seawater. At six thousand meters, CP0’s Black Shark submarines ambushed the Fearless and surrounded it with torpedoes.

• Ryan reported that the Fearless’s golden-resin coating was complete, and Lorne prepared the crew for the mission to obtain Pluton’s blueprints.
• Kuina urged Lorne to prepare for damage, so he had Ryan install flotation airbags and seastone armor on the ship.
• The Fearless left the harbor and descended, while Lorne discovered that the seawater did not hinder him because of his God Dragon Bloodline.
• At three thousand meters, Lorne used Observation Haki to scout ahead as the crew continued descending through the dark sea.
• At six thousand meters, Ryan detected abnormal currents, and Lorne sensed approaching steel constructs.
• CP0’s Black Shark submarines emerged from the darkness, surrounded the Fearless, and prepared their seastone torpedoes.

Lorne destroyed the CP0 submarine formation barehanded ten thousand meters beneath the sea and returned safely to the Fearless. The crew continued down the trench and found enormous ruins guarded by World Government warships, where a battle appeared imminent.

• The CP0 commander ordered three Seastone torpedoes fired at the Fearless, and Lorne left its coating to intercept them despite Kuina's objections.
• Lorne crushed the first torpedo with his bare hand and survived its explosion, while the blast increased his Grit.
• Lorne used Decimating Smash and Crushing Blow to collide two CP0 submarines, then destroyed the fleeing flagship with Haymaker.
• Lorne returned to the Fearless unharmed and told Ryan to continue descending because CP0's ambush suggested they were near their destination.
• Ryan guided the Fearless farther into the trench, where the crew saw enormous ruins and World Government warships docked at the entrance.

Lorne led Kuina, Ryan, and ten Elite Marines into the underwater ruins, where Marine guards were stationed and the passages were lined with highly concentrated Seastone. As the group pressed onward toward Fujitora, the Seastone began draining their stamina and Haki, though Lorne remained largely unaffected.

• Lorne ordered Ryan to bring the Fearless alongside the Marine warships, then told Bakel and Carrot to stay aboard and stand ready to retreat if the Marines attacked.
• Lorne, Kuina, Ryan, and ten Elite Marines crossed the ruins' protective barrier and found fresh Marine boot prints on the floor.
• Kuina swiftly knocked out the Marine guards who recognized Lorne and tried to raise the alarm.
• Ryan and Kuina noticed their bodies growing heavy and their powers weakening, and Lorne identified the glowing ore in the walls as an unusually pure Seastone vein.
• Lorne warned his crew that the Seastone would drain their stamina and Haki, while Ryan encouraged the Marines to keep moving toward Fujitora.

Lorne and his crew explored the passage to the Pluton slab, discussing the Ancient Weapon and erased history before confronting Admiral Fujitora. Fujitora stood in their way, and the chapter left them poised to fight over the slab while debating justice and the World Government.

• Kuina, Ryan, and Lorne examined murals depicting a warship resembling Pluton and a tall, winged race building a ship as they traveled through the passage.
• Lorne and his crew reached a circular hall where Fujitora and elite Marines guarded a black stone slab covered in Ancient Script.
• Fujitora said he would not let clues to an Ancient Weapon fall into anyone’s hands, while Lorne insisted he would take the slab.
• Lorne and Fujitora prepared to fight after neither would yield, and Fujitora acknowledged Lorne’s strength and reputation.
• Lorne denounced the Celestial Dragons and Marine justice, while Fujitora admitted the World Government was dark but said he feared greater chaos without order.

Lorne challenged Fujitora’s gentle justice and the order he defended, then endured Fujitora’s gravity attack combined with Seastone suppression. As Lorne’s Grit surged and formed a golden shield that negated both forces, the battle began to turn in his favor.

• Lorne argued that the existing order protected the Celestial Dragons and vowed to build a new order that could protect civilians.
• Fujitora used Gravity Blade: Hell's Journey, crushing the hall with overwhelming gravity while Seastone suppressed Lorne.
• Ryan and Kuina struggled to withstand the force as Marine soldiers celebrated, believing Fujitora had subdued Lorne.
• Fujitora sensed that Lorne’s strength and presence were growing despite the suppression and realized his body was adapting to the gravity.
• Lorne’s Grit reached its limit and erupted into a golden shield that blocked the gravity and Seastone suppression.

Lorne broke free of Fujitora’s hundredfold gravity despite the surrounding Seastone, relying on his overwhelming physical strength and rapid recovery. After smashing the gravity field apart, he launched a lightning-fast attack, and Fujitora drew his sword to meet it.

• Lorne’s Sett Bloodline surged as he stood against Fujitora’s gravity and the Seastone’s effects.
• Fujitora sensed Lorne’s cells healing almost instantly and warned him that the gravity could destroy his organs, but Lorne refused to stop.
• Lorne forced himself upright, and his physical presence made the Marines falter as Kuina pulled Ryan toward the passage.
• Lorne stamped the ground and unleashed a shock wave that shattered Fujitora’s gravity field.
• Lorne vanished at extreme speed and charged Fujitora, who drew his Cane Sword and used Gravity Blade: Wind Control.

Lorne sent Fujitora crashing through pillars and into a wall with a single punch, but the Admiral recovered and prepared to fight on. In hiding, CP0 commander Lone Wolf completed his collection of Lorne’s Lineage Factor data and began phase two to prevent Lorne from obtaining the stone slab and Pluton Blueprints.

• Lorne struck Fujitora with overwhelming physical strength, sending him through three pillars and into a stone wall.
• Ryan and Kuina observed that Lorne’s body grew stronger from injuries and warned their allies to stay alert for the Marines.
• Fujitora rose from the rubble, acknowledged Lorne’s strength, and drew his blade to continue defending the stone slab.
• Lone Wolf secretly recorded the battle and reported that Lorne’s vitality suggested an unknown recovery mechanism in his bloodline.
• Lone Wolf completed the Lineage Factor data collection, and his contact ordered phase two to keep the stone slab and Pluton Blueprints from Lorne.

Lorne fought Fujitora under the Seastone veins, growing stronger as his body healed, then killed Lone Wolf when the CP0 chief tried to seize the Poneglyph slab. Lorne took the slab, but his Haymaker damaged the ruins’ supports, and the hall began collapsing as seawater flooded in.

• Lorne endured Fujitora’s gravity attacks, and his regenerative bloodline healed his injuries while increasing his strength and Grit.
• Lone Wolf rushed toward the altar to take the Poneglyph slab, while Kuina and Ryan tried to warn Lorne.
• Lorne fused his Conqueror’s Haki with his full Grit and killed Lone Wolf with a Haymaker that broke through Seastone’s suppression.
• Lorne lifted the slab and challenged Fujitora, who warned that killing a World Government official would have consequences.
• Lorne’s punch shattered the ruins’ load-bearing structure, and the hall began collapsing as high-pressure seawater poured inside.

Lorne escaped the collapsing undersea ruins aboard the Fearless with the Poneglyph slab, while Fujitora abandoned the pursuit to save the Marine fleet. At Marineford, Sengoku and Tsuru discussed Lorne’s growing threat, Garp’s apparent support for him, and the Marines’ inability to spare forces for a campaign against him.

• Lorne brought Kuina and Ryan back to the Fearless with the Poneglyph slab as the ruins began collapsing around them.
• Fujitora halted the pursuit and used Gravity Blade: Wind Control to shield the Marine warships from falling rocks.
• Ryan piloted the undamaged Fearless toward the surface, and Lorne ordered the crew to leave at full speed.
• Fujitora reported his failure to Sengoku and said Lorne’s body resisted Seastone, suggesting his bloodline might hold the key.
• Sengoku and Tsuru discussed Garp’s alignment with Lorne and concluded the Marines could not spare troops to fight him in the New World.

Akainu demanded that the Navy attack Lorne, but Sengoku refused to risk the fleet and left the decision to the Five Elders. Aboard the Fearless, Lorne’s body grew stronger after his fight with Fujitora, and he tested his durability against Kuina’s swordsmanship.

• Akainu entered Sengoku’s office and demanded that the Navy activate its final plan to eliminate Lorne.
• Sengoku warned that an attack in the New World could cost the Navy its main force, and Akainu left after admitting Lorne would be difficult to defeat alone.
• Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru discussed telling the Five Elders the truth and letting them send the Holy Knights against Lorne.
• On the Fearless, Lorne felt that surviving the deep-sea pressure and fighting Fujitora had strengthened his body and increased his bloodline’s activity.
• Kuina sparred with Lorne, but he repelled her Ryuo-infused sword strike and shattered her flying slash with a punch.

Lorne’s crew learned from an ancient stone slab that Pluton needed a living core hidden in Wano Country, and they set course there. New intelligence revealed that the wounded Kaido was searching Wano for a secret medicine, giving Lorne an opening to confront him.

• Lorne decided to keep Jack and Smoothie imprisoned and asked Olsen to translate the ancient stone slab.
• Olsen discovered that Pluton needed a core called the Soul of Pluton, sealed in the Mouth of the Underworld in Wano Country.
• Lorne agreed to travel to Wano Country to claim the core and settle his score with Kaido.
• Ryan reported that Kaido was gravely wounded and was searching Wano Country for the Yamata no Orochi Secret Medicine, while his men ravaged villages for clues.
• Lorne ordered the Fearless to set course for Wano Country.

Lorne and his crew headed toward Wano Country to confront Kaido and obtain Pluton's core, while gathering information from their captives and preparing for the battle. The chapter left Lorne training Kuina and Carrot aboard the ship as they approached Wano.

• Lorne ordered Ryan to bring the ship to full speed and told Kuina and Carrot to prepare for the battle ahead.
• Lorne reviewed intelligence about Kaido's recovery on Onigashima, Orochi's search for medicinal ingredients, and the clues to the Yamata no Orochi Secret Medicine in the Kozuki Family ruins.
• Lorne visited Jack and Smoothie in the lower hold, dismissed their threats, and declared that he would defeat Kaido and take Orochi's head.
• Lorne trained the Marines on deck and explained that Kuina's Ryuo needed to penetrate beyond an enemy's surface.
• Kuina began sensing the flow of Haki, and Carrot asked Lorne how she could improve her electric shocks.

Lorne reached Wano Country, killed King, opened a path through the waterfall, and freed the chained samurai. As he headed inland to confront Kaido, the Five Elders ordered a hidden weapon to target Wano Country and prepared the Holy Knights to eliminate both fighters.

• Lorne guided the Fearless through Wano Country's dangerous waters and ordered it to charge up the waterfall despite the Beasts Pirates' defenses.
• Kuina deflected King's flaming feather blades while Lorne endured the attack, then used Crushing Blow to smash King into a Beasts Battleship and kill him.
• Lorne split the waterfall and carved a passage through the rock, allowing Ryan to steer the Fearless onto the island.
• Ryan and the Marines cut the Seastone chains binding the Wano Country samurai, and Lorne told them to return home while he went to face Kaido.
• The Five Elders watched footage of Lorne's victory, readied the Holy Knights' First Battalion, and ordered the weapon that could erase an island to target Wano Country.

Lorne and his crew reached Decayed Town and witnessed the suffering caused by Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi’s rule. Queen unleashed the Ice Oni virus, but Lorne absorbed it without harm and charged his Grit as he prepared to attack Queen.

• Lorne led Ryan, Kuina, Carrot, and the Marines into Decayed Town, where they saw starving residents and learned that polluted water and factory waste were killing people.
• Lorne ordered Ryan to distribute food and clean water while Queen arrived with several hundred Beasts Pirates and challenged him.
• Queen fired Ice Oni shells into the town, turning nearby residents and Marines into violent, virus-infected monsters.
• Lorne walked into the poison mist and inhaled the virus, but his Sett Bloodline and Battlefield Valor rapidly healed the damage and filled his Grit.
• Lorne emerged unharmed in golden light and confronted Queen, who found himself immobilized by Lorne’s killing intent as Lorne prepared to unleash his fully charged Grit.

Lorne killed Queen with a single Haymaker, then ordered Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina to finish off the remaining Beasts Pirates. After the refugees received food and water, Lorne declared that he would kill Kaido, while Kuina questioned why the World Government ignored Wano Country’s suffering.

• Lorne struck Queen with Haymaker, destroying him and leaving a scorched crater in Decayed Town.
• The remaining Beasts Pirates fled, and Lorne ordered Ryan and Bakel to kill them all as Kuina and the Marines fought the enemy forces.
• Decayed Town’s refugees thanked Lorne, and he told them to rise and said he had come to take Kaido’s life.
• Carrot handed out food and clean water, while Ryan kept the refugees from fighting over supplies.
• Kuina condemned Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi for turning Wano Country into a living hell and asked why the World Government ignored its suffering.

After Lorne’s crew prepared to rest before heading to Onigashima, Orochi ordered a Blood Sacrifice in panic over the deaths of King and Queen. Kaido learned that Queen was dead and his defensive line had fallen, and erupted in rage.

• Lorne and his crew discussed the World Government’s cruelty, celebrated King and Queen’s deaths, and planned to rest before attacking Onigashima.
• Orochi panicked over King and Queen’s deaths and feared Lorne would take his shogunate and possessions.
• Kyoshiro reassured Orochi that Kaido would recover his strength through the Blood Sacrifice, and Orochi ordered prisoners and disobedient commoners sent to Onigashima.
• After leaving Orochi, Kyoshiro revealed that he was Denjiro and hoped Lorne would destroy Kaido, while fearing for the more than thirty thousand people targeted for sacrifice.
• A messenger told Kaido that Queen was dead and the defensive line at Decayed Town had collapsed, and Kaido raged and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki.

Kaido sacrificed tens of thousands of prisoners and samurai in a blood ritual to restore his strength and transform into a monstrous Blood-Colored Azure Dragon. Lorne reached Onigashima aboard the Fearless and faced Kaido in the sky, where their battle began.

• Kaido learned that King and Queen were dead and that Lorne had reached Kuri, then ordered the prisoners and samurai in Udon Quarry sacrificed to restore his strength.
• The Beasts Pirates fed more than thirty thousand people into Onigashima’s lava pool, and Kaido absorbed the blood-colored mist to heal and transform into a gigantic Blood-Colored Azure Dragon.
• Carrot, Kuina, Ryan, and Bakel sailed the Fearless through the stormy waters around Wano Country and fought past Onigashima’s cannon defenses.
• Lorne ordered his crew to guard the Fearless, activated his [Sett · Dragonmancer] form, and flew up to confront Kaido.
• Kaido attacked Lorne with a sweeping dragon claw, and Lorne prepared to meet it with his golden Grit-coated fist.

Lorne endured Kaido’s attacks to build his strength, then faced Kaido’s final Blood Sacrifice strike above Onigashima. Protected by a golden shield, Lorne killed Kaido with Haymaker, ending the battle.

• Lorne traded blows with Kaido, deliberately taking Bolo Breath and Thunder Bagua as his wounds healed and his power grew.
• Kaido gathered Blood Sacrifice power, transformed into a blood-red dragon, and launched his strongest attack at Lorne, the Fearless, and Onigashima.
• Lorne’s golden Grit shield withstood Kaido’s strike without cracking.
• Lorne unleashed Haymaker, piercing Kaido’s defenses and destroying his head.
• Kaido’s headless body fell from the sky, bringing the clash to an end.

After Lorne killed Kaido and Denjiro executed Orochi, Lorne took control of Wano Country and accepted the samurai’s allegiance. As the World Government’s Judgment Fortress appeared above Wano, Olsen also revealed that Pluton’s core lay beneath Onigashima’s lava pool.

• Lorne killed Kaido, and Denjiro revealed himself to Orochi before executing him.
• Ryan and the Marines captured the Beasts Pirates, while Lorne’s crew began freeing prisoners and restoring Wano Country.
• Lorne ordered Ryan to use Wano’s Seastone resources and accepted Denjiro and the samurai’s pledge of loyalty.
• Sengoku, Akainu, and Shanks learned of Kaido’s death and worried that Lorne’s growing power would upset the world’s balance.
• Olsen told Lorne that Pluton’s core was sealed beneath Onigashima’s lava pool, and Lorne planned to search for it the next morning.
• The World Government’s Judgment Fortress descended over Wano Country and aimed its cannons at the island.

The World Government’s fortress prepared a devastating attack on Wano, and Lorne ordered Ryan and the others to evacuate the Flower Capital’s civilians. As Kuina worried about Lorne facing the attack alone, he calmly asked her why she thought he had made it this far.

• Lorne ordered Ryan to evacuate the Flower Capital as the World Government fortress charged its cannons, and Denjiro directed the samurai to lead civilians to safety.
• Ryan organized Marines and samurai to protect the evacuation, while Bakel rescued a fallen old samurai and Carrot guarded the passage with Mink warriors.
• Kuina destroyed a billboard with Ryuo Haki and helped fleeing civilians, then Ryan ordered the Fearless to target the fortress’s thrusters if Lorne needed support.
• Kuina asked to join Lorne against the fortress’s combined attack, but Lorne told her to protect Ryan, the others, and the civilians.
• Lorne calmly asked Kuina why she thought he had made it this far.