Chapter Summaries

After Yas revealed that he had awakened Armament Haki, Zephyr explained Haki’s types and levels before challenging him to train. Yas clarified his core will and began combining Armament Haki with his Lightning Release Chakra Mode, leaving Zephyr and Garp stunned as he prepared to attack.

• Garp discovered the black sheen of Armament Haki on Yas’s fist, and Zephyr summoned Yas to the special training ground.
• Zephyr demonstrated Armament Haki and explained Observation Haki, Armament Haki’s applications, and Conqueror’s Haki.
• Zephyr urged Yas to focus his will and attack, while Garp encouraged him to strike Zephyr with his full strength.
• Yas identified his core will as decisive violence, trading injuries, and protecting his own, and his Haki proficiency increased.
• Yas activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode and began fusing Armament Haki with his lightning armor, shocking Zephyr and Garp.

Yas fused Lightning Release Chakra and Armament Haki into a powerful new form, overpowering Zephyr in a direct clash. As he prepared to fight again, he instinctively dodged Garp’s surprise attack after perceiving its path, leaving Garp to wonder if Yas had awakened Observation Haki.

• Yas evolved Lightning Release Chakra and Armament Haki into a stable blue-black layer over his fist.
• Yas’s punch cracked Zephyr’s Armament Haki defense and drove him into the alloy floor, forcing Zephyr to acknowledge his defeat.
• Yas’s Haki proficiency increased, and his Lightning Release Armament mode achieved initial stability; he then challenged Garp and Zephyr to fight again.
• Garp launched a surprise kick at Yas, but Yas dodged it before the attack began by sensing its trajectory.
• Garp asked in disbelief whether Yas had awakened Observation Haki at the same time.

Yas awakened Observation Haki, which fused with his Chakra Sensing into Mantra Haki and let him evade Garp’s rapid attacks. He then combined Armament Haki with his Raijin Armor and challenged Garp to test the new defense against his strongest punch.

• Garp and Zephyr reacted in shock when Yas awakened Observation Haki after already mastering Armament Haki’s advanced applications.
• Yas discovered that Observation Haki had fused with Chakra Sensing into Mantra Haki, giving him a five-hundred-meter perception range and glimpses of opponents’ movements and emotions.
• Garp attacked Yas with more than a hundred rapid punches, but Yas dodged every blow using Mantra Haki.
• Yas formed an armor of blue lightning and black Armament Haki, then challenged Garp to strike him with his strongest punch.

Yas challenged Garp to strike his Lightning Release Armament, eager to test his absolute defense against the Marine Hero’s strength. Garp’s punch failed to damage him, and Yas mocked him as the fight stood ready to escalate.

• Yas challenged Garp to hit him while Zephyr feared the punch would cripple him.
• Garp agreed to test Yas with a warm-up punch at thirty percent strength, and Zephyr stepped aside.
• Garp appeared before Yas and struck his armored face with a powerful straight punch.
• Yas’s armor absorbed and neutralized the force, leaving him completely unharmed.
• Yas mocked Garp for hitting too softly and urged the fight onward.

Yas and Garp escalated their sparring into a devastating battle, with Yas enduring Garp’s strongest attacks and adapting through his Haki and combat instincts. Enraged and unable to defeat Yas with speed or technique, Garp unleashed Galaxy Meteor, leaving Zephyr fearing Yas would die.

• Garp struck Yas with a Haki-coated Love Fist, and Yas met it head-on with his Lightning Release Armament.
• The collision shook Marineford, but Yas’s fist quickly healed while Garp’s Haki was damaged, astonishing the Navy hero.
• Garp switched to speed and technique, attacking Yas with the Six Powers, while Yas used Mantra Haki to predict and counter his moves.
• After ten minutes of fighting, Garp realized Yas was improving by using him as a sparring partner and grew furious.
• Garp gathered his full strength and unleashed Galaxy Meteor as Zephyr warned that the move would kill Yas.

Yas unleashed Three-Finger Nukite against Garp’s Galaxy Meteorite, piercing Garp’s strongest Armament Haki and defeating him at the cost of severe injuries. As Marineford’s Rear Mountain lay in ruins and Sengoku rushed toward the blast, Yas taunted the battered Garp.

• Yas concentrated his remaining Lightning Release Chakra and Haki into three fingers and attacked Garp’s Galaxy Meteorite with Three-Finger Nukite.
• Yas pierced Garp’s Armament Haki and fist, causing Garp to scream as his Galaxy Meteorite collapsed.
• Yas’s attack triggered a massive explosion that destroyed the Rear Mountain and sent Marineford’s alarm to its highest level.
• Sengoku saw the mushroom cloud above Zephyr’s Special Training Ground and raced toward the Rear Mountain.
• Yas and Garp faced each other across the crater, both badly wounded, with Garp unable to continue fighting.
• Yas taunted Garp, saying his fists were not much after all.

After Yas seriously injured Garp in a sparring match, Marine leaders debated whether the uncontrollable prodigy was a threat or an asset. Sengoku proposed making Yas the leader of a rule-free special unit, while Garp asked for Yas to be promoted so their next fight would be less embarrassing.

• Sengoku arrived at the crater and learned from Zephyr that Yas had overwhelmed both him and Garp during what was meant to be training.
• Garp praised Yas as a monster before collapsing, and Yas fell unconscious after releasing the breath he had been holding.
• Sengoku briefed Fleet Admiral Kong, Tsuru, and Zephyr on Yas's unprecedented Haki abilities and his battle with Garp.
• Kong questioned whether Yas could be trusted, while Sengoku argued that the Marines should guide him and revise their rules.
• Sengoku proposed a special forces unit answering only to Kong, with Yas as its leader.
• Garp, newly conscious, said he wanted to fight Yas again and suggested promoting him first.

Sengoku secured Yas an unprecedented promotion to colonel, command of a five-hundred-member fleet, and authority to act first against pirates with bounties below one hundred million Beli. As Yas recovered from his fight with Garp and unlocked Black Lightning, he learned his first assignment would take him to the New World, where an emergency report revealed the Rocks Pirates might be trying to resurrect an ancient demon.

• Sengoku persuaded Kong to promote Yas outside normal regulations and grant him command of a special fleet with limited authority to act first against pirates.
• Three days after fighting Garp, Yas awoke in the Marineford infirmary and received a system reward that raised his Third Raikage Template fusion to 45% and unlocked Black Lightning.
• Sengoku gave Yas his colonel's appointment and a top-secret dossier, then told him his first assignment would be in the New World.
• A wounded intelligence officer reported that the undercover agent Bluebird had gone missing on Hachinosu after transmitting footage of the Rocks Pirates conducting a sacrificial ritual with captured Devil Fruit Users.
• The officer said the Rocks Pirates appeared to be trying to resurrect an ancient demon, and Sengoku asked what they intended to resurrect.

After learning that Rocks was gathering over a hundred Devil Fruit users for a ritual to resurrect an ancient demon, Marine leaders realized they had no way to stop him. Yas recovered and volunteered to hunt Rocks, and Fleet Admiral Kong approved his mission.

• An intelligence officer reported that Rocks had captured over a hundred Devil Fruit users and planned to resurrect an ancient demon, while the Marines had lost contact with their operative at Hachinosu.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, Garp, and the others discussed Rocks's strength and the danger posed by his crew, including Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Big Mom, and Kaido.
• Kong pointed to Yas on the screen as the Marines' remaining option, and Yas woke, heard about the ritual, and asked whether Rocks was tougher than Garp.
• After Garp confirmed that Rocks was the toughest man he had fought, Yas pulled free of his life-support tubes, healed rapidly, and demanded to know where Rocks was.
• Kong approved Sengoku's proposal and ordered Captain Yas to hunt Rocks.

Fleet Admiral Kong sent Yas and a newly assembled elite fleet aboard the Leviathan to Barterila, where they were to intercept Rocks' crews and recover intended sacrifices. As the ship headed for the New World, Yas clashed with his skeptical adjutant Brannew over command, and the chapter ended with Yas threatening to punish him for defiance.

• Kong ordered Yas to lead five hundred Marines to Barterila and hunt down Rocks' subordinate crews carrying captives back to Hachinosu.
• Garp showed Yas the Leviathan, a heavily armed Poseidon-class warship, and Yas met his crew, including Bullet and executive officer Brannew.
• Brannew doubted Yas' ability to command the fleet and took charge of navigation and battle preparations as the Leviathan sailed for the New World.
• Brannew urged Yas to consult him on plans, but Yas rejected his advice and had Bullet declare that the fleet followed Yas' will and orders.
• Brannew condemned Yas' command style as a dictatorship, and Yas raised his hand and challenged him to discover the consequences of defying him.

Yas forced Brannew and the five hundred Marine elites to submit by demonstrating Black Lightning’s erasure power, establishing his absolute authority aboard the Leviathan. When the Bloodjaw Pirate Crew appeared ahead, Yas ordered the fleet to ram their ship.

• Yas told Brannew that he was the law aboard the Leviathan and erased a special-alloy weight plate with Black Lightning.
• Brannew knelt, apologized, and pledged his obedience, and the elite soldiers followed his example.
• Yas explained that the erasure technique consumed substantial chakra and Haki and decided he needed to grow stronger.
• A lookout spotted the Bloodjaw Pirate Crew, and Brannew identified its leader, Bloodjaw Carlos, as a notorious pirate backed by a senior officer of the Rocks Pirates.
• Yas ordered the Leviathan to battle stations, target the enemy ship, and ram it.

Captain Yas ordered the Leviathan to ram the Bloodjaw Pirate Crew’s flagship, the Razor, despite Brannew’s objections and the crew’s fear. As the ships neared collision, Yas appeared at the Leviathan’s prow, dismissed the pirates as too weak for his Three-Finger Nukite, and vanished.

• Yas ordered Brannew to maintain course and prepare the Leviathan to ram the Razor, and Brannew reluctantly relayed the command.
• The Leviathan’s recruits panicked, while Bullet rallied them by praising Yas’s past feats.
• Bloodjaw Carlos mocked the approaching Marines and urged his pirates to attack and capture the Leviathan.
• As the ships closed in, Yas stepped through the bridge window and appeared at the Leviathan’s prow.
• Carlos taunted Yas, who called the pirates too weak for his Three-Finger Nukite and then vanished.

Yas boarded the Razor in an instant and slaughtered its pirates with One-Finger Nukite, leaving only Bloodjaw Carlos alive. As Carlos launched a desperate club attack, Yas unleashed a surge of black lightning.

• Yas vanished from the Leviathan's bow and appeared on the Razor's deck as the two ships collided.
• Carlos rallied his panicked pirates with a reward, and they charged Yas from every direction.
• Yas used One-Finger Nukite and his lightning-fast movement to kill the pirates, leaving only himself and Carlos standing.
• Carlos backed against the captain's cabin, then made a final attack with his spiked club.
• Yas let the club descend and unleashed destructive black lightning as he asked Carlos if he was done talking.

Yas annihilated Bloodjaw Carlos and the pirates aboard the Razor with Black Lightning, then discovered a Devil Fruit user among the captives. The boy attacked Yas with the Chain-Chain Fruit, and Yas answered with an ordinary punch whose force began to ripple through space.

• Yas unleashed Black Lightning, erasing Carlos, his weapon, and the pirates on the Razor’s deck.
• The Marines watched the attack on the Leviathan’s screen, and Brannew ordered them to board the enemy ship and support Yas.
• Yas judged that he had wasted most of Black Lightning’s power and resolved to hone his control through combat.
• Yas sensed survivors in the Razor’s hold and found captives in seastone cages, including a boy with the Chain-Chain Fruit.
• The boy attacked Yas with chains, but Yas dismissed the assault and threw an unarmed punch that sent ripples through space.

Yas freed the captives aboard the Razor with a single punch that destroyed the Chain-Chain Fruit user's trap, shattered a Seastone cage, and tore through the ship. As the survivors escaped to the Leviathan, Yas sensed a powerful threat approaching through the fog and faced Iron Whip Garseron, a Rocks Pirates officer, who offered him a choice between slavery and death.

• Yas's punch pulverized the Chain-Chain Fruit user's chains and arms, blasted through a Seastone cage, and opened a huge hole in the Razor.
• Brannew was injured by the shock wave, then followed Yas's order to rescue every living captive and bring them to the Leviathan.
• Yas returned to the Razor's deck as the ship began sinking and detected a cold, malicious presence approaching through the fog.
• Garseron's enormous ship emerged, and Brannew identified him as the Rocks Pirates' Eighth Division captain with a 130 million Beli bounty.
• Garseron revealed a Smoke-Smoke Fruit user and demanded that Yas either kneel as his slave or be torn apart.

Iron Whip Garselon ordered Smoker to capture Yas, confident that the Smoke-Smoke Fruit made him invulnerable. Yas effortlessly struck Smoker through his Logia form, and as Smoker engulfed the sea in poisonous smoke, Yas charged in with a two-finger attack.

• Garselon taunted Yas and ordered Smoker to capture him alive for his collection.
• Smoker attacked Yas with smoke snakes, but Yas coated his fist in Armament Haki and struck him out of his smoke form.
• Yas told Smoker that his abilities and reactions were too weak, while Smoker struggled to understand how Yas had hit him.
• Smoker unleashed Smoke Prison, filling the area with poisonous smoke that drained the oxygen.
• Yas revealed that he could see through the smoke and charged into it with Hell Stab-Finger Nukite.

Yas killed Smoker by piercing his body and destroying the Devil Fruit essence within him, then faced the last surviving enemy, Garseron. After Garseron attacked with a living snake whip, Yas trapped him and his ghost ship inside a vast black lightning net and began to crush it.

• Yas used Two-Finger Nukite to pierce Smoker through the smoke and destroy the Smoke-Smoke Fruit, killing him.
• Garseron and the Marines aboard the Leviathan watched in shock as Smoker died; the Marines hailed Yas, and Brannew ordered the gunports aimed at the enemy flagship.
• Yas declared Garseron the last enemy, and Garseron chose to fight rather than flee.
• Garseron revealed his King Cobra snake whip and unleashed Ten Thousand Snakes Strangulation at Yas.
• Yas cast Black Lightning: God's Cage, surrounding Garseron, his snake phantoms, and the ghost ship in a vast net, then contracted it.

Yas erased Garseron, his Ghost Ship, and its crew with Black Lightning: God's Cage, leaving the Navy stunned by his power. After returning to the Leviathan, he singled out a captured Devil Fruit user and demanded information about the New World, Rocks, and the Sacrificial Ritual.

• Yas's Black Lightning: God's Cage erased Garseron's venomous snake phantoms and destroyed the Ghost Ship, killing Garseron and the pirates aboard.
• Brannew canceled the naval bombardment and ordered the crew to remain silent as they welcomed Yas back.
• Yas returned to the Leviathan and ordered the soldiers to separate the captives whose auras marked them as pirates.
• Yas confronted the captured Bison-Bison Fruit user and demanded information about the New World, Rocks, and the Sacrificial Ritual, threatening to search his soul.

Yas used Soul Search on a captured Bison-Bison Fruit user and learned that the Rocks Pirates planned to awaken an ancient weapon called “God” with a Sacrificial Ritual on Hachinosu. He ordered his ship to Midas Island to seize Captain John’s treasure and left the other prisoners facing a grim choice.

• Yas ignored the bison user’s pleas and used black lightning to tear through his soul and extract his memories, killing him.
• Yas learned that Rocks planned to sacrifice the souls and fruit essences of over a hundred ability users to awaken an ancient weapon codenamed “God.”
• Yas discovered that Captain John’s fleet maintained a major treasure base on Midas Island and ordered Brannew to sail there at full speed.
• Yas declared Captain John’s treasure his own and told the remaining prisoners to choose between becoming fuel for his ship or sacrifices for the ritual.

Yas forced three captured Devil Fruit users into service under Chakra-Suppressing Collars and ordered the rest killed before taking the Leviathan to Midas Island. He claimed Captain John’s golden vault as his own, and Gildo ordered the island’s defenses to open fire.

• Yas killed most of the captured Devil Fruit Users, spared the Silent-Silent Fruit, Sticky-Sticky Fruit, and Heal-Heal Fruit users for his fleet, and had Bullet fit them with control collars.
• Yas ordered Brannew to provide information about Midas Island and calculate the fastest route there.
• The Leviathan reached Midas Island, where Brannew warned Yas that the island’s defenses were active and heavily fortified.
• Gildo, the Gold-Gold Fruit user commanding Midas Island, threatened the Navy crew and demanded their ship for Captain John.
• Yas declared that Captain John’s vault belonged to him, and Gildo angrily ordered his men to fire on the Leviathan.