Chapter Summaries

Franky tried to rescue Iceburg from CP9, but Lucci and his agents overpowered them and the Franky Family. Roy arrived, stopped Blueno from escaping, and challenged Lucci and the others, who prepared to fight him.

• Franky broke into Iceburg's room and confronted Lucci, but Jabra wounded him and CP9 took Iceburg away.
• Kaku, Jabra, and Kalifa defeated the Franky Family, and Kaku knocked Franky down when he tried to fight back.
• Roy appeared and struck down Blueno as he attempted to escape.
• Roy challenged Lucci and the other CP9 agents, dismissing their threats and giving them a chance to attack.
• Lucci transformed into a humanoid leopard and prepared to fight Roy.

Roy defeated Lucci and the other CP9 agents in Water 7, crippling them while keeping them alive so he could use them as test subjects. As Roy prepared to deal with the Marines arriving outside, he decided to fight them and settle the score for the Impel Down Sea Incident.

• Lucci and the other CP9 agents attacked Roy and tried to escape with Iceburg and Franky, but Roy crushed their attacks and swiftly defeated them.
• Roy freed Iceburg and Franky, then turned his attention to Lucci and dismissed his threats about the World Government.
• Lucci unleashed Rokuogan, but Roy overpowered him and shattered both of his beast-transformed arms, leaving him unconscious.
• Roy explained that he intended to capture the CP9 agents alive and planned to visit Enies Lobby for items that had belonged to Spandam.
• Captain T-Bone arrived with Marines, accused Roy of harming civilians, and challenged him to bring him to justice.
• Roy welcomed the Marines and resolved to fight them, hoping to settle the score for the Impel Down Sea Incident.

Roy fought the Marines who had mistaken him for the killer of Water 7’s shipwrights, killing Captain T-Bone and slaughtering the soldiers who charged him. Iceburg and Franky arrived too late to explain, and Roy ended the remaining Marines with a slash.

• Roy confronted the Marines outside Iceburg’s company while Captain T-Bone accused him of killing Water 7’s civilians and ordered him to surrender.
• Captain T-Bone charged Roy, who shattered his sword and killed him with a single punch.
• More than a thousand Marines attacked, and Roy killed half of them in thirty seconds, leaving the survivors in despair.
• Iceburg and Franky came out, but Iceburg only asked whether there had been a misunderstanding between Roy and the Marines.
• Roy dismissed Iceburg’s question and used Ordinary Slash: Dismantle to kill the remaining Marines.

Roy slaughtered the Marines at Water 7 and answered a call meant for Captain T-Bone, learning that Garp and Kuzan had survived. After Roy revealed himself, Sengoku angrily demanded to know why he had T-Bone’s Den Den Mushi.

• Roy cut down the Marine Soldiers, then prepared to leave for Enies Lobby.
• A ringing Den Den Mushi from Captain T-Bone’s corpse stopped Roy, and he answered Sengoku’s call.
• Sengoku told Roy, whom he believed was T-Bone, that Garp had awakened and received a mechanical arm, and that Kuzan was also alive.
• Roy imitated T-Bone and questioned Sengoku about Garp and Kuzan before Sengoku realized the caller was not T-Bone.
• Roy revealed his identity, and Sengoku erupted in anger and demanded to know why Roy had Captain T-Bone’s Den Den Mushi.

Roy told Sengoku that he had killed Captain T-Bone, mocked the Fleet Admiral, and left to pursue his plans at Enies Lobby and then find Moria. At Marine Headquarters, Sakazuki openly campaigned to replace Sengoku as Fleet Admiral, and Sengoku confronted him as the meeting rallied behind him.

• Roy admitted to Sengoku that he had killed T-Bone after the Marine captain falsely accused him, then ended the call while Sengoku cursed him.
• Roy left Iceburg and Franky behind and planned to collect items at Enies Lobby before finding Moria.
• Sengoku raged over Roy's provocation, while Staff Officer Tsuru reminded him that their plan to pit pirates against each other had caused civilian deaths.
• Tsuru told Sengoku that Sakazuki had returned, and the two heard him argue that the Marines needed an iron-fisted Fleet Admiral.
• Sakazuki declared himself the best candidate for the Fleet Admiral position, and Sengoku kicked open the conference-room door to challenge him.

Sakazuki and Onigumo challenged Sengoku’s leadership during a Marine Headquarters meeting, using recent disasters to argue that he should step aside. Onigumo proposed that Sakazuki become acting Fleet Admiral, claiming the World Government and Saint Saturn had approved.

• Sengoku and Tsuru arrived as Sakazuki convened a meeting about pirates and choosing a new Fleet Admiral.
• Sakazuki accused Sengoku of letting Marine Headquarters fall into crisis, while Tsuru criticized Sakazuki for disobeying orders and gathering allies.
• Onigumo defended Sakazuki and turned Tsuru’s accusation against Sengoku by questioning the private gatherings of Sengoku’s faction.
• Onigumo provoked Momousagi into silence by implying that her faction might be conspiring against the World Government.
• Sengoku urged Sakazuki to postpone their dispute, but Onigumo listed the Marine’s recent defeats and called for Sengoku to step down temporarily.
• Onigumo proposed that Sakazuki serve as acting Fleet Admiral and claimed the World Government and Saint Saturn had approved the move.

Sakazuki tried to force Sengoku out as Fleet Admiral, but Kong and Saint Saturn intervened and kept Sengoku in office. The Five Elders decided to give Sengoku one last chance to handle the Sabaody Archipelago incident, while Shanks sought their help in eliminating Roy, Bullet, Red, and the others.

• Onigumo revealed Sakazuki’s plan to take Sengoku’s position, and Sengoku’s Den Den Mushi and Sakazuki’s rang.
• Kong asked the Five Elders to spare Sengoku, and Saint Saturn refused to remove him but warned him to deliver results at Sabaody.
• Sakazuki left the meeting dissatisfied, while Onigumo vowed that the Hawk Faction would help make him Fleet Admiral.
• Staff Officer Tsuru urged Sengoku to stay wary of Sakazuki, and Sengoku vowed not to give up his position.
• The Five Elders discussed why they supported Sakazuki and revealed that Shanks had asked them to help eliminate Roy, Bullet, Red, and the others at Sabaody.

The Five Elders agreed to let Shanks pursue Roy and Dragon, while Bullet formed the Irregular Pirates and arrived at Sabaody, stirring fears of a major battle. Roy received a call from Red, who asked where to find the item he sought after Sleepywood proved fruitless.

• The Five Elders discussed Roy and Dragon and tacitly agreed to Shanks’s request to eliminate them.
• Bullet announced the formation of the Irregular Pirates and led his crew of more than five hundred pirates into the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Bullet sent First Division Commander Mel and Second Division Commander Siro to meet Loya and the others while he went to see an old rival.
• Spies reported Bullet’s arrival and strength, and the tense Sabaody Archipelago braced for a major battle.
• Roy answered Red’s call near Thriller Bark, where Red said Sleepywood had no item he wanted and asked Roy where it was.

Roy told Red that the Bat-Bat Fruit, Model: Vampire, was not in Sleepywood and directed him toward Torrance Town after he met a Mythical Zoan user there. Red rescued the raccoon dog, named him Pat, and set out with him, while Roy continued toward Thriller Bark to take Moria’s Shadow-Shadow Fruit.

• Red offered Roy two favors in exchange for the fruit’s location, and Roy asked whether Red had encountered a raccoon dog before directing him to Torrance Town.
• Red heard pirates attacking Sleepywood and rushed to the town, where he found an injured Mythical Zoan user trapped in a cage.
• Red cut down the invading pirates, freed the raccoon dog, and named him Pat.
• Pat agreed to travel with Red, who planned to treat his injuries before sailing to Torrance Town.
• Roy explained that Sleepywood had guided Red to Pat and hoped Red would gain strength, then continued steering toward Thriller Bark to take Moria’s Shadow-Shadow Fruit.

Roy arrived at Thriller Bark to confront Moria and gain a new ability by fusing the Shadow-Shadow Fruit with the Ten Shadows Technique. In the graveyard, he encountered Brook and the zombie Ryuma, defeated Ryuma’s attack, and left him in pieces.

• Roy reached Thriller Bark, ignored the shadowless pirates who hoped he might defeat Moria, and headed toward the island’s center.
• Roy heard Brook challenging the zombie Ryuma in the graveyard and entered after Ryuma defeated him.
• Roy asked whether Moria was still on Thriller Bark, and Ryuma challenged Roy to a spar after learning he was a Great Swordsman.
• Roy shattered Ryuma’s slash with a single strike and sent him crashing to the ground, cutting his dilapidated body to pieces.

Roy defeated Zombie Ryuma, received the Black Blade Shusui, and made Brook lead him toward Gecko Moria. As Roy approached Thriller Bark’s Giant Castle, Moria gathered his companions and urged them to flee, but they chose to stand by him.

• Zombie Ryuma vanished after entrusting Shusui to Roy, who picked up the blade and tested it with a slash that shattered a wall.
• Roy threatened to use Brook for experiments unless Brook guided him to Moria, and Brook led him toward the Giant Castle.
• Moria told his gathered companions that Calamity Roy was approaching and said anyone could leave rather than face him.
• Perona and Absalom refused to abandon Moria, saying he had saved them and they would face Roy with him.
• Moria recalled losing his former crew after fighting Kaido and feared watching his companions die again, while Absalom suggested Roy had knowingly let him return.

Roy confronted Moria at the Giant Castle, cut through Moria’s zombie forces, and wounded him in their first clash. Moria summoned Demon Oars to continue the fight, leaving Roy facing the ancient giant’s attack.

• Hogback urged Moria, Perona, and Absalom to send zombie animals against Roy, but Roy’s arrival at the castle ended their discussion.
• Moria led Perona and Absalom toward the door as Roy and Brook waited outside the Giant Castle.
• Roy cut down the charging zombies with Black Blade Shusui and absorbed the shadows they released.
• Moria confronted Roy in a giant shadow-enhanced form, but Roy’s slash shattered his shadow bats and wounded him.
• Moria gathered shadows and summoned Demon Oars, who charged at Roy and smashed the ground with his fist.

Roy defeated Oars the Demon and pushed Moria to gather the shadows around him, hoping to take the Shadow-Shadow Fruit’s power at its peak. After Roy struck Moria with Haki Slash: Dismantle, Moria found himself back in Wano Country on the night before his battle with Kaido.

• Roy stopped Oars the Demon’s punch with one hand and shattered him with a single slash.
• Roy attacked Moria, severed his right arm, and demanded that he show his full strength.
• Moria used Shadows Asgard and gathered more than a thousand shadows into his enormous body.
• Roy dodged Moria’s powerful punches before meeting his next attack with Haki Slash: Dismantle.
• Moria found himself back in Wano Country before his battle with Kaido and realized he needed to stop his companions from dying.

Roy defeated Moria, who relived his past and accepted his death after Roy acknowledged his care for his companions. Although Moria's death seemed to free the stolen shadows, Roy reclaimed them to fuse the Shadow-Shadow Fruit with his Ten Shadows Technique, leaving over a thousand people to confront him.

• Moria revisited his defeat by Kaido, remembered his fallen companions, and heard Roy acknowledge how much he cared about them.
• Roy revealed that he knew Moria had stalled to let his companions escape, then assured him they were not his targets; Moria accepted his death and forgave Roy.
• Roy killed Moria with a single blow, and his stolen shadows began returning to their owners, prompting the hidden survivors to celebrate.
• Roy used the system to extract Moria's Shadow-Shadow Fruit and fuse it with the Ten Shadows Technique, forcibly pulling the escaping shadows back into Moria's corpse.
• Roy admitted he never planned to return the shadows, and more than a thousand people emerged from hiding as he waited to see what they would do.

Roy rejected Lola and the other shadowless people’s demand for their shadows, then killed Lola and nearly a thousand who had joined her in pressuring him. Perona and Absalom learned that Moria had died and heard his final request not to avenge him, while Bullet reached a bar in Sabaody Archipelago.

• Lola asked Roy to return the stolen shadows and offered the group’s service, invoking her connection to Big Mom.
• Roy mocked the group for failing to resist Moria and rejected Lola’s offer and threats.
• Roy cut Lola in half and killed nearly a thousand people who had joined in pressuring him.
• Perona and Absalom woke aboard a ship and realized Moria had knocked them out to protect them.
• Doctor Hogback told Perona and Absalom that Moria was dead and had asked them not to avenge him.
• Bullet arrived at a bar in Sabaody Archipelago.

Bullet met Rayleigh at Shakky’s bar and declared that he would enter the New World, while warning that Roy was even more dangerous than he was. As Bullet’s arrival stirred the forces gathered at Sabaody, Shanks prepared to defend his blockade and revealed that he had sought help from a family he once despised.

• Bullet arrived at Shakky’s bar in Area 13 and reunited with Rayleigh, reminiscing about their time with the Roger Pirates.
• Bullet announced that he intended to challenge the Four Emperors and enter the New World, warning Rayleigh not to underestimate Roy.
• Rayleigh and Shakky discussed the many powerful forces now rising across the world and feared for Shanks as chaos approached.
• Shadowy forces learned of Bullet’s meeting with Rayleigh, while Benn Beckman reported it to Shanks aboard the Red Force.
• Shanks insisted that Rayleigh would not join Bullet and said he would stop Bullet, Roy, and Red from entering the New World.
• Shanks privately revealed that he had sought help from a family he once despised, and three days passed as the forces at Sabaody prepared for conflict.

Bullet sent Mel and Siro with the Surprise Force Pirates to confront Shanks in Area 55, while Marine forces moved to monitor the growing crisis. The encounter escalated into a battle between the two pirate crews, with the wider conflict in the Sabaody Archipelago still looming.

• Bullet's forces defeated the pirate crew in Area 27, took the area as their headquarters, and grew to two thousand pirates.
• Bullet sent Mel and Siro with five hundred pirates to challenge Shanks, while he arranged for Ailuo to follow with another thousand and Yake and Loya gathered their forces.
• Kizaru ordered Sentomaru and the Marines to go to Area 55 and maintain order as the crews approached.
• Mel accused Shanks of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, then proposed a contest between officers and half-divisions.
• Siro and Yasopp exchanged shots, and Shanks ordered his officers and five hundred Red Hair Pirates to fight the Surprise Force Pirates.
• The two crews clashed without rules, and a pirate was killed almost immediately.

The Surprise Force Pirates fought the Red Hair Pirates to a bloody draw in the field, winning narrowly despite Siro losing his duel with Yasopp. The defeat damaged the Red Hair Pirates’ reputation, while Shanks remained determined to stop Bullet’s crew and doubted that other new pirates could match their strength.

• The Surprise Force Pirates and Red Hair Pirates fought for half a day in Sabaody Archipelago’s Area 55, with nearly one hundred casualties on each side.
• Siro and Mel held off Yasopp and Lucky Roux, though Yasopp gained the advantage over Siro and left him with two bullet wounds.
• The battle report declared the Surprise Force Pirates the winners: they lost 180 pirates, while the Red Hair Pirates lost nearly 200, and Lucky Roux and Mel drew their duel.
• News of the defeat shocked the other Four Emperors’ crews and prompted factions to mock Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates.
• The Red Hair Pirates complained that they had not committed their full forces, while Shanks argued that Bullet’s crew had gained strength through years of fighting and said he doubted other new pirates were equally strong.

After the Surprise Force Pirates clashed repeatedly with the Red Hair Pirates at Sabaody, Bullet stood firm despite the crew’s disadvantage and invoked Roy and Red as possible reinforcements. Meanwhile, Roy completed his breakthrough on Thriller Bark, becoming a king-level fighter and preparing to change the balance of power.

• Over the three days after the first clash, the Surprise Force Pirates and Red Hair Pirates fought several smaller battles, with the Red Hair Pirates’ deeper roster giving them the advantage.
• Shanks warned Bullet that a full-scale war would overwhelm the Surprise Force Pirates and urged him to abandon his route to the New World.
• Bullet replied that if Benn Beckman used his strength against weaker fighters, he would call on Roy and Red, prompting an uproar at Sabaody.
• On Thriller Bark, Brook witnessed darkness, lightning, roaring beasts, and a kingly aura surrounding Roy as he emerged from several days of contemplation.
• Roy revealed that fusing his abilities had unsealed and strengthened his Shikigami, returned their abilities to him, and helped him advance his Conqueror’s Haki before declaring that he had become a king.

Roy fused the Ten Shadows Technique with the Shadow-Shadow Fruit to gain the powerful Myriad Shadow Technique and its Shadow Clone domain. After refusing Brook as a direct companion but directing him to Yake’s group, Roy and Brook were attacked by a huge bear-like figure.

• Roy’s system announced that his Shikigami had been unsealed and enhanced, and granted him the Shadow Clone domain, which could create shadow clones from enemies within its closed domain.
• Roy withdrew his Shikigami and headed for the Sabaody Archipelago, while Brook congratulated him on reaching King Level.
• Brook asked to follow Roy, but Roy refused, saying he trusted only himself.
• Roy told Brook that Yake had built a force in the Sabaody Archipelago and suggested Brook join them; Brook agreed.
• As Roy and Brook moved through the castle, a huge bear-like figure appeared and fired an Air Cannon at them.