Chapter Summaries

Yas forced his fleet to choose between dangerous evolution training and dismissal, then demanded fifty thousand young Marines from Sengoku and offered to cover all costs. Sengoku directed him to obtain approval from Zephyr, whom Yas regarded as a perfect partner, and Yas ordered Brannew to find Zephyr’s training base.

• Yas challenged his soldiers to choose between remaining weak and risking death for a chance to evolve, and Bullet, Brannew, and over eighty percent of the fleet chose evolution.
• Yas contacted Sengoku and demanded personnel records for fifty thousand fit Marines aged fifteen to twenty-five from across the Marine forces and recruit camps.
• Yas offered five hundred billion Beli to pay for the recruits’ training, equipment, ships, salaries, and death benefits, and gave Sengoku three days to provide the list.
• Sengoku said Yas needed approval from chief instructor Zephyr, and Yas reacted with interest when he learned Zephyr’s identity.
• Yas ordered Brannew to locate Zephyr’s training base so they could meet.

Yas arrived at Demon Island and recruited Zephyr to train an army for his campaign to end the Great Pirate Era. Zephyr accepted, and Yas announced that the soldiers would first receive a baptism from him.

• Zephyr learned that Yas’s Divine Punishment fleet was approaching Demon Island and ordered the island’s defenses to prepare without firing.
• Yas appeared before Zephyr and overwhelmed him with his presence before explaining that he wanted Zephyr to train his army.
• Zephyr criticized Yas’s brutal methods, but Yas condemned Marine justice and invoked the pirates who had killed Zephyr’s family and escaped punishment.
• Yas offered Zephyr power, money, and an army, and Zephyr accepted while warning that his training would be hell.
• Yas said the soldiers would receive a baptism from him before Zephyr’s training began, leaving Zephyr confused.

Yas used black-and-red lightning to baptize Navy soldiers, forcing their bodies to evolve despite the deadly risks. After Brannew survived and displayed immense new strength, the soldiers eagerly lined up for the transformation, and Yas challenged Zephyr to begin his training.

• Yas announced that his baptism could kill thirty percent of its subjects or leave survivors mentally impaired, but the soldiers chose to proceed.
• Bullet urged the soldiers to face the danger, and Brannew volunteered to be baptized first.
• Yas sent black-and-red lightning into Brannew, subjecting him to three minutes of agony as his body was destroyed and rebuilt.
• Brannew survived with greatly increased strength, speed, senses, and thinking ability, and demonstrated his new power with a punch that produced fist pressure.
• The soldiers rushed to Yas for baptism, while Zephyr called the transformed troops a Demon Legion and asked what Yas was creating.
• Yas agreed with Zephyr's description, claimed the title of Demon King, and challenged him to begin the training.

Yas revealed that he was building a Demon Legion and challenged Zephyr to train its first three hundred recruits. After Zephyr’s usual exercises proved effortless for the newly empowered soldiers, Yas crushed them beneath ten times gravity and forced them to continue, leaving Zephyr to witness Yas’s brutal idea of daily evolution.

• Yas confirmed that he was the Demon King commanding the three hundred newly baptized soldiers and invited Zephyr to begin training them.
• Zephyr ordered the soldiers to run one hundred laps carrying one hundred kilograms, but they treated the task as a warm-up and stunned him with their strength and speed.
• Yas increased the island’s gravity to ten times normal and ordered the soldiers to complete Zephyr’s exercises under the crushing pressure or die.
• The soldiers struggled forward despite broken bones and severe injuries, refusing to quit as Zephyr watched in horror.
• Yas called their ordeal evolution, told Zephyr it was only the first day, and questioned whether he was qualified to train them.

Yas assigned Zephyr to turn the soldiers into killers and ordered them to hunt pirates at night, using the hunts to select his elite Divine Punishment Espada. The soldiers began forming squads under a ruthless competition, while Zephyr wondered what kind of world Yas intended to create.

• Zephyr accepted that conventional training would not work and vowed to teach the soldiers killing techniques.
• Yas ordered Brannew to announce daytime evolution training and nighttime pirate hunts led by Zephyr.
• Yas ordered the soldiers divided into thirty squads, each required to return before dawn with a target’s head or face elimination.
• Yas named his ten strongest agents the Divine Punishment Espada and promised the top squads a deep Baptism while threatening the lowest-scoring squad with elimination.
• Yas released the gravity field and gave the soldiers an hour to form squads before the first hunt began.
• Zephyr watched the soldiers regard one another as rivals and wondered what kind of world Yas wanted to create.

Brannew led the newly empowered Divine Punishment Squad on a mission to kill Blood Axe Morton, but their infiltration plan collapsed when the pirates spotted them. After the squad massacred the pirates, Morton nearly struck Brannew with a concealed Seastone cannon, but an unseen force deflected the shot, leaving Morton terrified and searching the night sky.

• Brannew briefed his nine squad members on Morton's arms deal and ordered them to follow an infiltration plan, but Rezo and the others pushed for a direct attack.
• A pirate lookout spotted the approaching Marines, so Brannew ordered a frontal assault focused on taking Morton's head.
• The ten recruits charged into the pirates and slaughtered nearly half of them in minutes, while the rest fled and the squad pursued them.
• Morton transformed into his bison form and charged Brannew with a battle-axe that concealed a Seastone cannon launcher.
• Morton fired a Haki-coated Seastone cannonball at Brannew, but an unseen force deflected it into a distant mountainside, and Morton shouted into the night demanding to know who was there.

Brannew killed Blood Axe Morton after Yas secretly deflected the cannonball that would have struck him. As the seventh squad faced annihilation, Yas refused to send reinforcements, but a torrent of magma suddenly engulfed the pirates.

• Yas deflected Morton's Seastone cannonball from dozens of nautical miles away, giving Brannew an opening to kill Morton with one punch.
• Brannew credited Yas with saving him and vowed not to disappoint him.
• Zephyr questioned Bullet about the intervention, but Bullet denied helping, and Zephyr realized Yas had acted from the Leviathan.
• The seventh squad reported that over five hundred pirates from the Long Spear Pirate Crew had ambushed them, and Zephyr ordered reinforcements.
• Yas refused to rescue the squad, insisting they must face despair, while the squad's captain fell protecting his comrades.
• Magma poured into the canyon and burned the pirates, as an unknown figure declared that Absolute Justice would eradicate all evil.

Sakazuki and Borsalino arrived after Squad Seven defeated a pirate detachment, then condemned the squad’s brutal methods as contrary to Marine justice. Yas challenged the two future Admirals to compete against his newly trained men in a hunt for Kurozumi Dom, with their transfer to his command as the prize if he won.

• Sakazuki and Borsalino emerged from the magma-filled battlefield and questioned Squad Seven about its black Tyrannosaurus flags.
• Sakazuki accused the surviving soldiers of enjoying violence, and the one-armed acting captain defended Yas’s teaching that all pirates deserved death.
• Yas spoke through the soldier’s Den Den Mushi, mocked Sakazuki and Borsalino as Zephyr’s students, and revealed that Kurozumi Dom’s main force was on Black Gold Island.
• Yas challenged Sakazuki and Borsalino to see who could bring back more pirate heads, wagering that they would transfer from Zephyr’s training camp to his command if he won.

Yas wagered that his recruits would kill more of Charcoal Dom’s pirates than Sakazuki and Borsalino before dawn, with the losers facing his terms. After the recruits wiped out Dom’s subordinate crews and presented their heads, Yas challenged Sakazuki and Borsalino to account for the thousands of pirates they had left on Black Gold Island.

• Yas challenged Sakazuki and Borsalino to a wager: whoever killed more of Charcoal Dom’s pirates before dawn would win, and the losers would face his conditions.
• Sakazuki accepted after Yas taunted his confidence, and he and Borsalino flew to Black Gold Island while Yas ordered the surviving seventh squad to join the first squad.
• Sakazuki and Borsalino attacked Black Gold Island, killing most of its pirates before fighting and killing Charcoal Dom.
• Brannew led the first squad and the surviving seventh squad through five pirate outposts, where they killed more than three thousand pirates in a single night.
• At dawn, Brannew and his squad arrived with piles of pirate heads, and Yas reminded Sakazuki and Borsalino that they had only killed Dom while thousands of his men on the island remained.

After Yas’s forces won the wager on Black Gold Island, Sakazuki and Borsalino were made to escort them to Demon Island, where Yas subjected the future Admirals to a brutal Devil’s Baptism. He then began baptizing tens of thousands of Marine recruits with destructive lightning, aiming to create Divine Punishment’s first Lightning Legion.

• Borsalino admitted that he and Sakazuki had lost the wager, and warned Sakazuki that Yas had used it to demonstrate a more effective and terrifying path to justice.
• Yas ordered Brannew and the others to return to Demon Island for a second stage of evolution, while Sakazuki and Borsalino were told to escort them.
• On Demon Island, Yas declared the two future Admirals reserve members of Divine Punishment and subjected them to ten minutes of black-and-red lightning, which left them unconscious but strengthened.
• Yas ordered the unconscious Sakazuki and Borsalino into a tenfold-gravity chamber, then addressed the tens of thousands of recruits gathered on the island.
• Using energy from the Leviathan, Yas unleashed a vast lightning storm over the recruits, declaring that they would either die or be reborn as Divine Punishment’s first Lightning Legion.

Golden Lion Shiki saw a newspaper report about Yas and the Divine Punishment Fleet and decided to attack them with the dangerous creatures he had raised. As his experimental island Calamity moved toward G-5, a sentry spotted it looming overhead.

• Shiki angrily read the newspaper praising Yas for recruiting Zephyr, Bullet, Sakazuki, and Borsalino, and vowed to crush his claim to usher in a new era.
• Shiki asked Dr. Indigo about the creatures he had developed, and Indigo reported that the latest Hellhounds and Wings of Destruction were more vicious than before.
• Shiki ordered Indigo to move the experimental island Calamity above G-5 and unleash its uncontrolled specimens on Yas's fleet.
• Calamity traveled through the clouds toward G-5 as its creatures roared across the island.
• A Marine sentry at G-5 saw the massive dark island descending and froze, unable to raise the alarm.

Golden Lion Shiki's monsters attacked the G-5 Branch, overwhelming Vergo and the Navy as the base fell into ruin. Yas refused to send help until the distress signal ended, then appeared before his recruits and prepared to demonstrate his power against the natural disaster.

• Vergo recognized Golden Lion Shiki's floating island and ordered the G-5 Branch to battle stations as monsters descended on the base.
• The monsters broke through the Navy's defenses, killing soldiers and destroying the G-5 Branch while Vergo requested reinforcements.
• Sakazuki and Borsalino asked Yas to let them fight, but Yas said the G-5 Branch's soldiers were not worth saving.
• The G-5 Branch's distress signal cut off as a nine-headed beast approached the command center, leaving the bridge crew in despair.
• Yas addressed his recruits from the Leviathan's bow and announced that he would show them how feeble a natural disaster was before a true god.

Yas erased every monster attacking G-5 Base with a vast ocean of purifying lightning, leaving the Marines unharmed. As the fleet reeled from his power, he launched himself toward Golden Lion's floating island to confront the one responsible for the monsters.

• Yas vanished from the fleet and appeared high above G-5 Base as the monsters turned their attention toward him.
• Yas snapped his fingers and summoned black-and-red thunderclouds that covered the island.
• Yas unleashed an ocean of lightning that erased every monster without harming the surviving Marines.
• Zephyr, Bullet, Borsalino, and Sakazuki watched in horror, and Sakazuki questioned the justice and strength he had believed in.
• Yas used Geppo to rocket toward Golden Lion's floating island, intending to deal with the one sending the monsters.

Yas shot into the sky using Geppo to confront Golden Lion Shiki on Merveille, while the Marines and recruits below watched in awe. Shiki ordered his fleet to fire on Yas, but a black-and-red lightning layer appeared around him just before the barrage struck.

• Bullet and Zephyr watched Yas ascend and realized he was going alone to judge Golden Lion Shiki.
• Sakazuki questioned his idea of Absolute Justice, while Borsalino remarked that Yas seemed inhuman.
• The Divine Punishment recruits cheered for Yas and embraced their role as his followers.
• Yas used Geppo to soar through the sky and found Merveille and Golden Lion Shiki.
• Shiki mocked Yas and ordered the fleets surrounding Merveille to fire thousands of cannonballs at him.
• A thin layer of black-and-red lightning appeared around Yas just before the cannon barrage hit.

Yas overwhelmed Golden Lion Shiki's attacks, destroying the floating islands Shiki hurled at him and leaving the pirate stunned. Shiki then charged with his signature sword technique, while Yas prepared to stop it with a finger charged with black-and-red electricity.

• Yas's black-and-red energy erased Golden Lion Shiki's barrage of shells, prompting Shiki to recognize him as a serious threat.
• Golden Lion Shiki unleashed his Conqueror's Haki and used the Float-Float Fruit to surround Yas with floating islands.
• Yas destroyed a mountain-sized island with one punch, then dismantled dozens more with bare-handed strikes as the Divine Punishment fleet watched.
• Yas taunted Shiki for being too slow and weak, driving the pirate into a rage.
• Golden Lion Shiki attacked with Lion's Might: Thousand-Cut Valley, and Yas faced the strike without dodging, extending a finger charged with black-and-red electricity.

Yas overwhelmed Golden Lion Shiki with powers that erased his sword slashes, scattered his seawater lions, and trapped him in a vast lightning web. Yas launched Thunder Burial at Shiki, ending the battle with a lethal storm of lightning spears.

• Yas used Black Coffin to swallow and destroy Shiki’s sword slashes, shocking Shiki with an unfamiliar power.
• Shiki raised seawater from across the ocean and shaped it into hundreds of giant lions to attack Yas.
• Yas unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, dispersing the seawater lions and blasting Shiki backward, leaving him injured.
• Yas spread a vast web of black-and-red lightning around Shiki and pursued him with lightning serpents when he tried to escape.
• Yas activated Thunder Burial, sending millions of lightning spears converging on Shiki.

Yas defeated Golden Lion Shiki’s desperate final charge with One-Finger Nukite, shattering the swords that served as his prosthetic legs. Shiki’s weapons broke apart in the sky, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Yas’s Thunder Burial overwhelmed Golden Lion Shiki and left him badly burned and near death.
• Golden Lion Shiki refused to accept defeat and launched a final Float-Float Fruit: Lion Rush attack with Sakura Ten and Kogarashi.
• Yas met Shiki’s charge with One-Finger Nukite, stopping both swords before they reached his chest.
• Yas’s fingertip cracked and shattered Sakura Ten and Kogarashi into metal fragments.

Yas crippled Golden Lion Shiki and destroyed the energy nodes keeping Merveille afloat, sending the continent plunging toward the sea. Shiki survived the fall and launched one final attack on Yas, whose Lightning Armor had begun to solidify.

• Yas shattered Shiki’s swords and used destructive energy to cripple his legs, leaving him unable to stand.
• Shiki lost control of the Float-Float Fruit and fell from the sky as Yas turned toward Merveille.
• Yas fired Five-Finger Nukite: Star Collapse at Merveille’s five pseudo-floating cores and destroyed them.
• Merveille began falling toward the sea, while surviving pirates cried out in despair.
• Shiki survived on a small floating island, crawled toward Yas, and attacked him with Haki-coated fists.
• Yas stood still as the black-and-red lightning around him formed into a more solid Lightning Armor.

Yas erased Golden Lion Shiki, then halted the collapsing continent of Merveille before it could trigger a catastrophic tsunami. The chapter ended with Zephyr and the others watching Yas apparently stop the falling landmass with his raised hands.

• Golden Lion Shiki struck Yas with his remaining strength, but Yas's lightning armor absorbed the attack and erased Shiki from existence.
• Yas turned toward the collapsing Merveille and prepared to erase the continent and the pirates on it.
• Zephyr warned Yas that Merveille's fall would unleash a tsunami that could kill millions and devastate nearby islands.
• Yas decided the sea would not be Merveille's resting place and thrust his hands upward.
• Zephyr, Sakazuki, Borsalino, and the others watched as the falling continent stopped in midair.

Yas stopped the floating continent of Merveille from crushing the G-5 Branch, then pulverized it into dust with gravity. As the world watched in shock, Sengoku learned that Morgans had broadcast the event everywhere, setting off a global crisis.

• Yas halted Merveille less than a thousand meters above the sea, saving the surviving Marines at G-5, including Vergo.
• Yas compressed Merveille with gravity until the continent crumbled into dust and vanished into the sea.
• Whitebeard, Garp, and Sengoku watched the feat in stunned silence.
• A senior intelligence officer told Sengoku that Morgans had broadcast Yas's actions to the entire world.