Chapter Summaries

Yas accepted the Heavenly Tribute escort mission because it promised a chance to fight powerful pirates, then reached Sabaody and frightened Saint Charlos unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki. As the fleet prepared to depart, Yas spotted Ochoku and Silver Axe leading a vast pirate force toward them.

• Yas asked Rob Lucci whether the escort mission would attract powerful enemies, and Lucci revealed that the tribute included a legendary Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit.
• Yas ordered his crew to sail for Sabaody Archipelago, where Saint Charlos waited with the tribute fleet and angrily whipped a navy captain for Yas’s lateness.
• Yas arrived aboard the Leviathan and refused to kneel to Saint Charlos, then knocked him unconscious with a precise burst of Conqueror’s Haki.
• Yas asked Rob Lucci to begin the escort, but his Mantra Haki detected hundreds of approaching pirate ships led by Ochoku and Silver Axe.

Ochoku and Silver Axe attacked the Marine escort fleet to kill Yas, whom they saw as a future threat to “God.” Yas’s enhanced Marines fought back, and he confronted the two pirate officers as they launched a combined attack on the fleet.

• Yas spotted Ochoku and Silver Axe approaching, while their crews panicked at the legendary pirates’ arrival.
• Ochoku ordered his fleet to focus its fire on the Leviathan, explaining that killing Yas was their mission.
• Brannew ordered the Marines to inject Tyrannosaurus Serum, and the Leviathan’s laser cannons destroyed most of the incoming shells.
• Bullet and the enhanced Marines charged the pirate fleet, turning the battle into a fierce, evenly matched fight.
• Silver Axe leaped toward the Leviathan as Ochoku raised a massive island from the seabed to crush the fleet.
• Yas vanished as the two attacks closed in and declared that he, not the treasure, had been their true target.

Yas swiftly defeats Silver Axe and overwhelms Ochoku, but stops before killing him when Captain John appears and a far more formidable presence emerges from the fleet. The chapter ends with the unidentified man in a shabby Marine uniform recognizing Yas and praising his strength.

• Yas vanishes from Silver Axe and Ochoku’s sight, then breaks Silver Axe’s spine with a single punch and sends him crashing into the island.
• Yas appears before Ochoku and shatters the enormous island beneath him with a stomp, leaving Ochoku badly injured and unable to fight back.
• Yas prepares to kill Ochoku, but senses a deadly threat and turns toward the fleet as Captain John arrives on an ancient three-masted ship.
• Ochoku calls to Captain John for help, while Yas senses an even greater pressure coming from the fleet’s flagship.
• A middle-aged man in a shabby Marine uniform steps out beneath a plain black flag and recognizes Yas as the fighter Whitebeard called “one tough hedgehog.”

Zephyr used overwhelming pressure to freeze the battlefield, then attacked the Celestial Dragons’ flagship to test Yas. Yas intercepted the strike, but Zephyr prepared to escalate the fight.

• Zephyr’s godlike pressure subdued the pirates and Marines, though Yas remained unaffected and grew eager to fight him.
• Zephyr flicked an Armament Haki shock wave toward the flagship carrying Saint Charlos.
• Yas rushed in and blocked Zephyr’s Finger Pistol with his armored fist, cracking the Black Lightning Demon Armor on his right arm.
• Zephyr showed surprise at Yas’s defense, then raised both fists and challenged him to withstand more punches.

Yas ordered the escort fleet to withdraw, then stood alone against Zephyr and the Rocks pirates to protect the Marines behind him. As Yas charged Zephyr with his Black Lightning Demon Armor at full power, Captain John launched a surprise attack at his back.

• Rob Lucci panicked and ordered the fleet to retreat, but Yas refused to withdraw from the fight.
• Yas ordered Brannew and Bullet to take command and pull the escort fleet twenty kilometers away from the battlefield.
• Zephyr recognized Yas's resolve as reminiscent of Garp and Sengoku, but declared Yas would be a sacrifice for the coming new era.
• Zephyr charged Yas, who activated his Black Lightning Demon Armor and rushed forward to meet him.
• Captain John appeared behind Yas and thrust his golden sword toward Yas's back while Zephyr attacked from the front.

Yas fought off Captain John’s ambush with the Black Lightning Demon Armor, then met Zephyr’s full-power Crusher Impact head-on. Both fighters were driven back, and Zephyr discovered that Yas had dented his mechanical arm.

• Captain John attacked Yas from behind, but the armor’s automatic black-lightning counterattack burned him and hurled him into the sea.
• Zephyr struck Yas with his full-power Crusher Impact, and Yas answered with a black-lightning-charged punch.
• Their fists collided and forced the sea down before a towering wave scattered the escort and pirate fleets.
• The impact drove Yas back and cracked his armor, while Zephyr landed on the sea with a dent in his Crusher.
• Zephyr stared at the damage and confronted Yas with killing intent.

Zephyr used Armament Haki’s Internal Destruction to gravely injure Yas and seemed poised to finish him. Yas survived, understood the technique, and copied it into a Black Lightning attack that he launched at Zephyr.

• Zephyr revealed Internal Destruction and struck Yas through his armor, devastating his internal organs.
• Yas crashed into the sea as the marines despaired and Zephyr’s pirates celebrated.
• Zephyr prepared to deliver a final blow, but Yas rose from the water, badly wounded and exhilarated by what he had learned.
• Yas compressed his remaining Black Lightning into a destructive vortex and named the technique Black Lightning Secret Technique Collapse.
• Yas crossed the distance to Zephyr and drove his vortex-wrapped fist toward the older man’s heart.

Yas gravely wounded Zephyr with a Black Lightning-enhanced internal-destruction punch, then used his last strength to erase Silver Axe when he charged in. The battlefield was left stunned by Yas’s devastating power as Ochoku watched in fear.

• Yas struck Zephyr with Black Lightning Secret Technique Collapse, badly damaging his internal organs and sending him crashing across the sea.
• Yas’s Black Lightning armor crumbled, leaving him exhausted and gravely injured, while Zephyr remained wounded nearby.
• Silver Axe injected himself with a drug that greatly amplified his strength at the cost of burning through his life force.
• Silver Axe charged at Yas, ignoring Zephyr’s warning, and Yas gathered his remaining Black Lightning into one finger.
• Yas used One-Finger Nukite to strike Silver Axe between the eyes, disintegrating him completely into black ash.
• Ochoku and the other witnesses stared in terror at Silver Axe’s erasure.

Yas forced Zephyr to withdraw after erasing Silver Axe, despite having almost no strength left. As Yas finally collapsed, the awakened Saint Charlos shouted at him, and Yas asked whether he was speaking to him.

• Ochoku was paralyzed by fear after Yas erased Silver Axe, while Yas challenged the wounded Zephyr to continue their fight.
• Zephyr recognized Yas as a rapidly evolving monster but decided not to risk his life and ordered Ochoku to withdraw with John.
• Ochoku's men retrieved the unconscious John and fled with the surviving Rocks Pirates, leaving the Heavenly Tribute and Mythical Zoan Fruit behind.
• Yas watched the retreat without pursuing, concealing that only his will kept him aloft.
• Zephyr promised to crush Yas in their next encounter and sailed away; Yas then began to lose consciousness.
• Saint Charlos woke and shouted at Yas to come down and kneel, and Yas asked, "Are you talking to me?"

Yas used his Conqueror’s Haki to reduce Saint Charlos to an idiotic state, then collapsed from exhaustion. As the Leviathan took control of the escort fleet and returned to G-5, Rob Lucci requested that Yas’s threat level be raised above the Four Emperors.

• Saint Charlos insulted Yas and ordered him to lick his shoes, while Rob Lucci pleaded with him to stop.
• Yas pierced Saint Charlos’s mind with killing intent, frightening him into idiocy.
• Yas collapsed, and Bullet caught him as Brannew ordered the Marines to seize the escort fleet, its Heavenly Tribute, and its Mythical Zoan Fruit.
• The Leviathan led the fleet back toward G-5 with Saint Charlos aboard, while Rob Lucci watched without resisting.
• Rob Lucci called to request that Yas’s threat level be raised above the Four Emperors, and the person on the other end asked what Yas had done.

After waking from three days of unconsciousness, Yas learned that he had been promoted to Vice Admiral and named a Navy Hero, but he focused on the Marines lost in battle and the limits of his Haki. He began developing a technique that fused Conqueror’s Haki with Black Lightning, which he named Divine Punishment.

• Rob Lucci told Sengoku that the New World now had five Emperors of the Sea instead of four.
• Yas woke in the G-5 Branch hospital after three days and learned that he had been promoted to Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral and awarded the title of Navy Hero.
• Brannew reported that 312 Marines had died and 864 were seriously wounded, and Yas ordered tenfold death benefits, stronger Tyrannosaurus Serum, and triple training intensity for Bullet’s troops.
• Yas analyzed his battle with Zephyr and concluded that his Haki skills lagged behind those of veteran fighters despite his immense strength and defenses.
• Yas conceived a way to fuse Conqueror’s Haki with Black Lightning and named the technique Divine Punishment.

Yas attempted to fuse Conqueror's Haki with Black Lightning and discovered that his kingly will could devour the lightning's source energy, creating a new power he called Divine Punishment. Seriously injured by the backlash, he ordered Brannew to find a remote island where he could train in seclusion.

• Yas concentrated his Conqueror's Haki around his body and tried repeatedly to fuse it with Black Lightning, but the powers violently rejected each other.
• Yas realized that he might need to conquer Black Lightning with his will rather than blend the two powers together.
• Yas unleashed his Conqueror's Haki to devour Black Lightning, briefly creating a new source power and suffering severe injuries as the energies clashed.
• Yas pressed the emergency call button and ordered Brannew to find the largest, toughest, most deserted island so he could enter seclusion.

Yas secluded himself on the Tomb of the Giant God to transform his will and body, then fused his Conqueror’s Haki and Black Lightning into a new power called Divine Punishment. Just as he awakened it, Garp urgently ordered him to Marineford, reporting that Rocks had attacked God Valley.

• Brannew located the lifeless Tomb of the Giant God, and Yas ordered the Leviathan’s crew to retreat one hundred kilometers before beginning his seclusion.
• Yas repeatedly tempered his soul with Conqueror’s Haki until his will transformed into something as resilient as steel.
• Yas used Black Lightning Secret Technique Collapse to erase the island, then repeatedly subjected his own body to Internal Collapse until it could withstand the destructive power.
• Yas fused his transformed will with his Black Lightning essence, creating Divine Punishment and forcing the storm clouds to gather around him as the Marines aboard the Leviathan fell to their knees.
• Garp called Yas on the Golden Den Den Mushi and ordered him to return to Marineford immediately, warning that Rocks had attacked God Valley.

After Rocks attacked God Valley, Garp urged Yas to join the war effort, but Yas revealed a frightening new power and refused to help save the Celestial Dragons. He decided to test Divine Punishment on the storm above the sea before heading to God Valley to face Rocks.

• Garp called Yas to warn him that Rocks had attacked God Valley and that the Marines were mobilizing for war.
• Yas’s divine presence overwhelmed Garp through the Den Den Mushi, and Yas said he had only gotten a little stronger.
• Garp invited Yas to join him and Roger at God Valley, but Yas refused to help the Celestial Dragons and said he wanted to fight Rocks.
• Yas descended to the sea and examined Divine Punishment, which he had formed by fusing his Conqueror’s Haki with Black Lightning.
• Yas chose the thunderclouds as his first test and imagined shaping his power into a divine spear.

Yas forged the Divine Punishment Spear and erased the Devil Sea’s ancient thunderstorm with a single strike. Monkey D. Garp arrived and confronted Yas, stunned by the scale of his power.

• Yas shaped his black-and-red lightning into a spear and named it the Divine Punishment Spear.
• Yas threw the spear into the thunderclouds, erasing the storm and revealing a clear sky over the Devil Sea.
• Yas judged the attack’s power insufficiently precise and decided he needed to develop his Conqueror’s will further.
• Yas sensed a powerful figure approaching and recognized the presence as Monkey D. Garp.
• Garp crashed into the sea near Yas, saw the vast hole left in the sky, and asked if Yas had caused it.

Yas challenged Garp’s strength and met the Navy hero’s full-force punch with his own Divine Punishment. After Yas effortlessly neutralized Garp’s Haki, he called the old man’s power weak and launched a counterattack.

• Garp was astonished by Yas’s ability to erase a vast circular void, then said Yas was strong enough to fight alongside him at God Valley.
• Yas rejected Garp’s offer to test him, provoking Garp into attacking with Armament Haki and Conqueror’s Haki.
• Yas met Garp’s punch barehanded, while Brannew, Bullet, and the Navy soldiers watched from the Leviathan.
• Yas’s black-and-red lightning swallowed and annihilated Garp’s Haki, leaving Garp horrified.
• Yas criticized Garp’s scattered force and weak energy, then drove his fist forward in a counterattack.

Yas struck Garp with Divine Punishment, sending him crashing into a distant island and unleashing a devastating tsunami, but Garp survived and was thrilled by Yas’s power. Garp warned Yas that the Holy Knights and their supreme commander, Saint Figarland Garling, would also be at God Valley.

• Yas unleashed Divine Punishment against Garp, severely injuring his arm and blasting him into a distant island.
• The clash’s shock wave annihilated the surrounding sea and triggered a massive tsunami that threatened the Leviathan.
• Yas admitted he had failed to control Divine Punishment’s power and said he needed more combat experience.
• Garp emerged from the split island, badly injured but exhilarated by Yas’s strength.
• Garp warned Yas that the Holy Knights, led by Saint Figarland Garling, would be at God Valley alongside Rocks and the Celestial Dragons.

Garp warned Yas that Saint Figarland Garling, Supreme Commander of the Holy Knights, might be stronger than Rocks D. Zebek, but Yas eagerly welcomed the prospect of fighting him at God Valley. After Garp named Yas an Admiral Candidate, the Leviathan headed for Marineford, where the Five Elders contacted Yas directly and offered him an opportunity to become a god.

• Garp told Yas that Saint Figarland Garling was a fearsome fighter who might surpass Rocks D. Zebek, and Yas said he wanted to slaughter gods.
• Garp declared that Yas had become Marine Headquarters' fourth Admiral Candidate, prompting the Leviathan Fleet to erupt in cheers.
• Yas ordered Brannew to take the Leviathan at full speed to Marineford, eager to reach God Valley.
• The Five Elders contacted Garp through an encrypted Golden Den Den Mushi and demanded to speak with Yas, whom they called a variable.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro offered Yas an opportunity to become a god and asked whether he wanted it.

The Five Elders offered Yas the chance to become a god, but he rejected their premise and declared them unworthy of standing beside him. They ordered him to leave the God Valley battlefield and test his power by bringing down the brutal kingdom of Sparta.

• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro offered Yas an opportunity to become a god, leaving Garp and the Marines stunned.
• Yas calmly mocked the Five Elders and asked whether they thought they were worthy of standing alongside him.
• Saint Marcus Mars praised Yas’s mettle, while Saint Nusjuro ordered Garp to keep Yas away from the chaotic battlefield at God Valley.
• Saint Nusjuro assigned Yas to deal with Sparta, whose king enslaved his people and colluded with pirates in the slave trade.
• The Five Elders challenged Yas to accept the test and show them the power of his so-called Divine Punishment.

Yas accepted the Five Elders’ test and set course for the Sparta Kingdom, where he planned to train his new Divine Punishment power. At Marine Headquarters, Steel Bone Kong learned of the assignment and condemned it as a betrayal of Marine justice.

• Yas accepted the Five Elders’ challenge, dismissed Garp’s objections, and said he needed targets to train his new power.
• Brannew reported that the Sparta Kingdom was ruled by Iron Fist Bach, who enslaved workers and supplied the Giant Warrior Pirates with ore and slaves.
• Yas called the kingdom’s forces too weak and ordered the Leviathan to head there at full speed.
• Steel Bone Kong learned the Five Elders had sent Yas away from the coming battle at God Valley and smashed his desk in anger.
• Steel Bone Kong called Garp and demanded to know why he had agreed to the assignment.