Chapter Summaries

Lorne crushed Klein’s estate on Black Reef Island and survived the underground armory’s explosion. He carried Klein high into the sky and began a devastating dive toward the manor headquarters as the surviving gang members watched in terror.

• Lorne used Haymaker to destroy the manor and kill most of Klein’s elite subordinates.
• Klein activated the estate’s self-destruct mechanism, detonating explosives and special shells beneath the ruins.
• Lorne endured the explosion with Armament Haki and regenerative power, then seized Klein and leaped a hundred meters into the sky.
• Lorne locked his arms around Klein and began a headfirst descent toward the manor headquarters with the force of Smash.
• The surviving gang members saw Lorne and Klein falling like a burning meteor and realized they could not escape.

Lorne destroyed the Gang on Black Reef Island, recovered its vast fortune, and rewarded his soldiers for their losses and loyalty. Three days later, his strengthened Special Vanguard Team set sail for deeper waters in the Grand Line.

• Lorne killed Klein and obliterated the Gang's headquarters, then discovered and broke into a hidden underground vault.
• Lorne found more than eight hundred million Beli in cash and treasure and returned to the Navy Base with cases of money.
• Lorne ordered Ethan to recover the vault's contents and told Ryan and Bakel to retrieve the five fallen marines and increase their families' compensation fiftyfold.
• Three days later, Ethan reported that the fallen families had received compensation, each surviving soldier had received five million Beli, and the repaired warship was stocked and armed.
• Lorne ordered the Special Vanguard Team to weigh anchor and sail deeper into the Grand Line.

Lorne and his Marines confronted the Giant Axe Pirates, and Lorne charged aboard their flagship to face Harris. After shrugging off Harris’s strongest axe strike, Lorne sent him crashing through a cabin wall and attacked the surrounding pirates.

• Lorne chose Harris and the Giant Axe Pirates as the Marines’ target and ordered Ethan to sail at full speed.
• During the three-day voyage, Lorne put Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina through intense training.
• The Marines spotted the Giant Axe Pirates’ four ships, and Lorne assigned Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina to engage the escort ships while he took the flagship.
• Harris ordered his ships to fire on Lorne’s warship, but Lorne crossed the sea with Geppo and landed on the flagship.
• Harris struck Lorne with an Armament Haki-coated axe, but Lorne’s Iron Body and Haki stopped the blow without injury.
• Lorne shattered Harris’s breastplate with a punch, sent him through a cabin wall, and slammed dozens of pirates together with Crushing Blow.

Lorne and the Special Vanguard Team crushed the Giant Axe Pirates and spent the next month sweeping the first half of the Grand Line. Their victories earned Lorne the feared nickname “Sett Rear Admiral,” while Marine leaders discussed his growing strength and reputation; the team ended the chapter celebrating on a beach.

• Lorne destroyed the Giant Axe Pirates’ flagship and killed their captain, Harris, while Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina defeated the pirates aboard the three escort ships.
• The Special Vanguard Team spent the next month hunting pirates across the first half of the Grand Line, killing or capturing notorious captains and forcing survivors to surrender.
• News Coos spread reports of Lorne’s victories, and frightened pirates gave him the nickname “Sett Rear Admiral.”
• At Marineford, Sengoku and Staff Officer Tsuru discussed Lorne’s effectiveness and the World Government’s concerns about his violence, while Garp praised him.
• Garp said Lorne’s strength, recovery, and explosive power marked him as a future admiral or greater, and the Special Vanguard Team celebrated their month of victories on a beach.

Lorne's marines celebrated their victories on Nameless Island while Jack the Drought ordered the Mammoth to hunt Lorne in the first half of the Grand Line. As Jack's warship charged toward the island, Lorne sensed its bloodthirsty presence and Ethan warned that it was bearing down on their defenses.

• The marines celebrated their victories, and Lorne encouraged Kuina and Ryan as they trained and prepared to keep fighting pirates before heading to the New World.
• On Onigashima, Jack learned that Lorne had killed Baroque and that the Donquixote Family had lost Diamante, then vowed to kill Lorne himself.
• Jack ordered his crew to set sail aboard the Mammoth and attack Lorne in the first half of the Grand Line.
• At the Nameless Island camp, Lorne sensed a savage killing intent approaching the shore, and Kuina, Ryan, and Bakel reacted to the warning.
• Ethan reported that a huge warship was charging toward the harbor and showed no sign of slowing before it reached the defensive line.

Jack the Drought attacked the harbor and challenged Lorne over Baroque’s death and the stolen Devil Fruit. Lorne sent the Vanguard Squad away and fought Jack alone, matching his blades with his reinforced fists as their battle shook the island.

• Lorne ordered the Marines to prepare for battle, but Jack’s Mammoth crashed into the harbor and destroyed ships and defenses.
• Jack came ashore, demanded Lorne, and threatened to kill every Marine on the island.
• Lorne ordered Ethan to retreat with the Vanguard Squad and stood alone to face Jack.
• Jack attacked with his shotels, but Lorne blocked both blades with his reinforced fists and refused to give ground.
• Lorne struck Jack with Decimating Smash, staggering him across the beach.
• Jack unleashed another two-blade attack, and Lorne met it with his raised fist, sending a shock wave through the island.

Lorne overpowered Jack in a fierce battle on the beach, using his speed, Haki, and powerful attacks to batter the Beasts Pirates All-Star. As Battlefield Valor drove Lorne’s Grit higher, Jack forced him back and vowed to kill him.

• Lorne knocked Jack back with a punch and stunned the pirates aboard the Mammoth by overpowering their All-Star.
• Jack unleashed Savage Dance, but Lorne used Kami-e: Flash to evade the barrage and read Jack’s attacks.
• Lorne used Crushing Blow to pull Jack off balance, then struck him with a Haki-coated knee and a barrage of Decimating Smash punches.
• Kuina noticed Lorne’s golden aura intensifying as Battlefield Valor rapidly increased his Grit, while Ethan watched with lingering concern.
• Jack swept his twin blades to force Lorne back, then vowed to kill him as blood dripped beneath his mask.

Jack transformed into his mammoth form and overwhelmed the Marines with his powerful defenses and attacks. After Jack injured Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina, Lorne ordered them to retreat and flew up to meet Jack’s descending trunk head-on.

• Jack transformed into a mammoth, charged at Lorne, and destroyed a nearby hill with a blow from his trunk.
• Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina attacked Jack, but their Haki strikes and sword slash failed to pierce his hide.
• Jack swept Ryan and Bakel away with his tail and sent Kuina flying before raising his foot to stomp her.
• Lorne intervened, ordered Kuina to retreat with Ryan and Bakel, and faced Jack alone.
• Lorne wrapped himself in golden flames and charged upward to meet Jack’s trunk attack.

Lorne endured Jack’s relentless mammoth attacks and stomp, then stood back up laughing as his Battlefield Valor recovery ability activated. Jack was left stunned by Lorne’s survival.

• Lorne met Jack’s trunk strike with Decimating Smash and forced it back.
• Jack unleashed Mammoth Sledgehammer Barrage, while the Marines at the camp watched anxiously and trusted Lorne to endure.
• Jack drove Lorne into the bedrock with the barrage and finished with Mammoth Stomp.
• Lorne rose from the crater, laughing, as Battlefield Valor activated and his recovery grew more powerful at critically low health.

Lorne's Battlefield Valor healed the damage Jack inflicted and converted it into greater strength, leaving the Marines and pirates stunned. After his Grit overflowed and he prepared to fight seriously, Lorne dodged Jack's charge and used Crushing Blow to pull the massive mammoth off its feet.

• Lorne recovered from Jack's attacks, revealing regeneration that astonished Jack and the onlooking Marines and pirates.
• Jack repeatedly attacked Lorne, but Battlefield Valor healed his injuries as his Grit continued to build.
• Lorne's golden aura erupted when his Grit overflowed, and Kuina explained that his bloodline constitution turned damage into greater strength.
• Ethan ordered the Marines to retreat another thousand meters as Lorne and Jack prepared for their decisive clash.
• Lorne avoided Jack's charge and used Crushing Blow to warp the space around them and drag Jack's mammoth body toward him.

Lorne used Garp’s technique to strike Jack with a devastating punch, shattering his Haki and sending him into the sea. The surviving Beasts Pirates fled the island, leaving Jack’s fate uncertain.

• Lorne pulled Jack toward him and prepared a powerful punch using grit, Armament Haki, and Garp’s teachings.
• Lorne struck Jack with Haymaker, Fist Bone: Impact, breaking through Jack’s Haki and crushing his chest.
• Jack flew across the sea and sank beneath the water after Lorne’s blow.
• The remaining Beasts Pirates panicked, abandoned their companions in the water, and fled aboard the Mammoth.
• Lorne withdrew his fist and remarked that Jack was not much to speak of.

Lorne allowed Benny to publish footage of his battle with Jack, exposing his unusual abilities to the world. After Morgans made the footage front-page news, Sengoku warned that every faction might target Lorne, while Big Mom received the newspaper.

• Lorne ordered Ryan to bring Benny, a World Economy News Paper reporter, out from behind the rocks and learned that Benny had filmed his entire battle with Jack.
• Lorne returned Benny's camera and told him to let the footage be published, asking Morgans not to portray him as a monster.
• Morgans used the footage to publish headlines about Lorne defeating Jack and speculated that Lorne was an unknown Mythical Zoan user or the descendant of an extinct race.
• Sengoku and Staff Officer Tsuru discussed the news at Marine Headquarters, and Sengoku ordered the intelligence department to monitor the world's factions because Lorne had become a target.
• Perospero showed the day's newspaper to Charlotte Linlin, Big Mom, at Whole Cake Island.

Big Mom became fixated on Marine Rear Admiral Sett Lorne’s unknown bloodline and ordered Perospero to capture him alive. Meanwhile, the Five Elders discussed Lorne’s recent victories and the danger of Kaido’s retaliation.

• Linlin saw Lorne’s photograph in the newspaper and decided to make him her husband so she could add his bloodline to the Charlotte Family.
• Linlin ordered Perospero to take an elite fleet to the first half of the Grand Line and bring Lorne back alive.
• Perospero dispatched the First, Third, and Seventh Fleets toward Lorne’s island and declared that anyone who resisted could be killed.
• Lorne sat on a reef at sunset, unaware that Big Mom’s forces were closing in on him.
• Saint Nusjuro and the other Five Elders reviewed Lorne’s defeats of Doflamingo and Jack and discussed the risks of Kaido retaliating.

The Five Elders arranged to recall Lorne to Marineford under the pretext of securing the Reverie, hoping to keep him from upsetting the sea’s balance. Lorne agreed to return for rest and supplies but left his participation in guarding the kings undecided.

• Saint Nusjuro and the other Five Elders discussed the threat Lorne posed and the danger of Big Mom’s fleets seeking to capture him.
• Saint Peter proposed invoking a Reverie security regulation to recall independent Marine officers of rear admiral rank and above, and Saint Saturn ordered an official notice sent to Marine Headquarters.
• Sengoku and Tsuru recognized the notice as a way to restrain Lorne after his victories over Doflamingo and Jack.
• Sengoku told Lorne about the mandatory recall, and Lorne suspected the Five Elders wanted to stop him from upsetting the balance of power.
• Lorne said his injured crew needed rest, supplies, and ammunition, and agreed to return to Marineford while leaving his Reverie security assignment undecided.

Lorne and the wounded Vanguard Squad returned to Marineford after receiving orders tied to the Reverie. Their ship was trapped by pink sugar in the sea and surrounded by Big Mom’s fleet, leaving Lorne facing a slender figure on the flagship’s lookout.

• Lorne ended his call with Sengoku, then told his subordinates they would return to Marineford because all rear admirals on assignment had been recalled for the Reverie.
• The Vanguard Squad boarded the Fearless at dawn and sailed away from Nameless Island toward Marineford.
• After roughly two hours at sea, the crew discovered that solidifying pink sugar had encased the Fearless and stopped it from moving.
• Lorne identified the substance as sugar and sensed hundreds of people nearby as Big Mom’s pirate flag appeared through the fog.
• Three of Big Mom’s fleets surrounded the trapped Fearless, and Lorne fixed his gaze on a slender figure atop the largest flagship.

Charlotte Perospero intercepted Lorne and demanded that he join the Charlotte Family as Charlotte Linlin’s forty-fourth husband. Lorne refused and faced Perospero’s forces alone at the bow of the Fearless as golden flames flared around him.

• Perospero announced that Charlotte Linlin had prepared a wedding and ordered Lorne to return to Totto Land as her forty-fourth husband.
• Ethan, Ryan, and Kuina defended Lorne, while the Vanguard Squad drew weapons and refused to retreat.
• Lorne ordered his subordinates to fall back and rejected Perospero’s offer, challenging him to try to kill him.
• Perospero turned the sea and the Fearless’s deck into candy and declared that he would take Lorne to Totto Land by force.
• Lorne burned away the candy, unleashed Golden Grit, and challenged Perospero as the Marines watched from the stern.

Lorne shattered Perospero’s Candy Wave and charged alone into Totto Land’s fleet, surviving its cannon fire and poisoned arrows through Battlefield Valor and his powerful recovery. He landed aboard a warship, defeated its captain, and continued fighting the surrounding pirates as his strength grew.

• Perospero ordered the fleet to fire on Lorne and attacked him with Candy Poison Arrows.
• Lorne charged through the barrage, pulled out the poisoned arrows, and healed his injuries while purging the poison.
• Lorne blocked a pirate captain’s Haki-coated cleaver with his arm and blasted the captain through a cabin with Decimating Smash.
• Lorne charged through the surrounding pirates, enduring their attacks as Battlefield Valor strengthened him and healed his wounds.

Lorne fought through Totto Land’s forces, tore Perospero’s Candy Dragon apart, and broke free of a Seastone net without being weakened. Perospero realized Seastone could not counter Lorne and wondered whether he belonged to an extinct ancient race.

• Pirates tried to pull Lorne down with barbed chains, but he yanked them toward him and smashed them together with Crushing Blow.
• Perospero summoned a Candy Dragon to attack Lorne, who survived the impact and tore the dragon in half with his strength and golden Grit flames.
• Ethan, Kuina, Ryan, and Bakel discussed Lorne’s unusual ability to grow stronger as he recovered from injuries and decided to guard their warship instead of interfering.
• Lorne charged into a formation of Armament Haki-coated spears, trapped them with his muscles, and snapped them, sending the pirates flying.
• Pirates bound Lorne in a Seastone net, but he remained unaffected and tore it apart with his bare hands.
• Perospero saw that Seastone could not weaken Lorne and speculated that he came from an extinct ancient race.

Lorne tore through Perospero’s Candy Army and destroyed his Ultimate Castle from within with a single punch. Perospero watched him emerge unscathed and began to fear that Totto Land could not defeat him.

• Perospero summoned hundreds of Candy Soldiers, but Lorne shattered them and slammed a Candy Giant into a warship, splitting it in half.
• Ryan and Ethan praised Lorne’s strength while Kuina urged the squad to stay alert, and Bakel and the others fired the Fearless’s cannons to support him.
• Perospero used Candy Craft: Ultimate Castle to trap Lorne inside a huge candy fortress filled with poison gas and deadly traps.
• Lorne let Battlefield Valor build his Grit as the syrup and poison harmed him, then used Haymaker to blast apart the castle with one punch.
• Lorne emerged unscathed, and Perospero’s confidence collapsed as he wondered whether Totto Land could defeat him.

Lorne defeated Perospero, destroyed Totto Land's flagship and crippled its capture fleet, then took Perospero prisoner and ordered the Marines to return to Marineford. The Independent Vanguard Squad looted the damaged ships before the Fearless set sail, while Lorne dismissed Kuina's warning that Big Mom would retaliate.

• Perospero attacked Lorne with enormous syrup hands, but Lorne smashed through them and shattered Perospero's ten candy shields before grabbing him by the neck.
• Lorne used The Show Stopper to drive himself and Perospero into Totto Land's flagship, destroying it and badly damaging the surrounding fleet.
• Lorne ordered Ethan to bind the unconscious Perospero with Seastone chains and lock him in the deepest hold.
• Lorne told Ryan and Bakel to search the damaged ships, and the Marines looted treasure worth over five hundred million Beli.
• Kuina warned Lorne that Big Mom would retaliate, but Lorne said he was ready and ordered the Fearless to sail for Marineford.