Chapter Summaries

After Yas defeated Golden Lion Shiki, Morgans’s newspaper made his power famous around the world, alarming the World Government and changing how the Marines viewed him. The chapter ended with Fleet Admiral Kong ordering Yas to return to Marine Headquarters immediately.

• News Coos spread Morgans’s report showing Yas shattering Shiki’s swords and holding up the falling continent of Merveille.
• Shanks and his crew read the report, and Shanks wondered whether Yas was the monster Roger had foreseen and called him a form of justice pirates could never defeat.
• The Five Elders discussed Yas’s growing public support, ordered his file classified and his bounties revoked, and decided to use his reputation while secretly advancing a plan to create controllable power.
• Aboard the Leviathan, the Divine Punishment recruits worshipped Yas, while Borsalino questioned Sakazuki about Yas’s justice and Sakazuki wondered if it represented the ultimate Absolute Justice.
• Marine Headquarters contacted Yas with an urgent order from Fleet Admiral Kong to return to Marineford immediately.

Fleet Admiral Kong confronted Yas over the destruction caused by his battle with Golden Lion Shiki and his disregard for Navy comrades, then announced his exceptional promotion to Admiral Candidate. The chapter ended with Sengoku asking Yas to choose an official code name.

• Kong criticized Yas for destroying Merveille, failing to save the G-5 soldiers, and revealing his overwhelming power to the world.
• Yas defended his actions, dismissing the pirates and soldiers as weak and saying that being feared was better than being ignored.
• Garp defended Yas's results, while Sengoku scolded Garp for undermining Navy discipline.
• Yas turned to leave, but Kong stopped him and explained that the Navy needed his strength while fearing his unchecked power.
• Kong announced that the World Government and Marine Headquarters had promoted Yas to Admiral Candidate.
• Sengoku told Yas that he still needed an official code name and asked what name he wanted.

Yas chose the codename “Azure Thunder,” which Fleet Admiral Kong officially approved and ordered announced. Granted a month of leave, Yas decided to return to East Blue to visit the couple who had given him a home.

• Sengoku and Garp argued over possible codenames for Yas, but Yas dismissed their suggestions as too loud.
• Yas chose “Azure Thunder,” and Kong signed the codename into the official document and ordered it announced to the world.
• Kong granted Yas one month of leave in recognition of his service and battles.
• Yas said he would go to East Blue, remembering the village and the couple he had left nearly ten years earlier.

Yas returned to Foosha Village after ten years away, reuniting with his parents and learning that pirates and corrupt Marines had been terrorizing the East Blue. He vowed to eliminate every pirate in the sea.

• Yas's Marine warship encountered the Fang Pirate Crew, and Yas killed its members with a single terrifying glance.
• Yas arrived in Foosha Village and returned to his parents' home, where they shared a meal together.
• Yas's parents told him that Buggy had recently threatened the village and that Arlong and Captain Nezumi were oppressing Cocoyasi Village.
• Yas promised his parents that he would leave no pirates in the East Blue.

Yas used his Observation Haki and Azure Thunder to erase every pirate in the East Blue, including Buggy, Arlong, Don Krieg, and Kuro. He then sensed Gol D. Roger in Loguetown and set out to confront him.

• Yas detected 314 pirate bases and 9,762 pirates across the East Blue and unleashed his Azure Thunder judgment.
• Buggy and his crew were reduced to ash in Orange Town, and Buggy was killed as he tried to escape.
• Arlong, Captain Nezumi, and the Fish-Men under Arlong's command were erased in Cocoyasi Village.
• The same attack destroyed the Krieg Pirates, Kuro's Black Cat Pirates, and every other pirate gang in the East Blue.
• After sensing Gol D. Roger's powerful Conqueror's Haki in Loguetown, Yas flew toward the town to confront him.

Yas met the dying Pirate King Gol D. Roger in a Loguetown tavern, where Roger questioned his power and motives. Roger pressed Yas to reveal what he was truly waiting for.

• Roger and Silvers Rayleigh waited in a Loguetown tavern for Yas, whom Roger wanted to meet before visiting his Marine friends.
• Yas entered the tavern, and his overwhelming presence frightened everyone as he approached Roger’s table.
• Roger greeted Yas and asked whether he could see that Roger was nearly finished; Yas noticed Roger’s fatal illness.
• Roger said he had sensed the ripples from Yas’s erasure of the East Blue pirates and remarked that such power made him jealous.
• Roger coughed blood, then challenged Yas to explain what he feared and what he was truly waiting for.

Yas rejected Roger’s vision of freedom and declared that his justice served only himself, while promising to purge the World Government and Celestial Dragons after dealing with pirates. Roger challenged Yas to wager whether the next era would choose freedom or submit to order.

• Roger asked Yas what he was waiting for, and Yas said he created order and purified those he judged evil.
• Roger explained that he had started the Great Pirate Era to shatter the old order and create possibilities for a new world.
• Yas condemned Roger’s era as an excuse for pirates to inflict suffering and called him a selfish madman.
• Rayleigh attacked Yas with Conqueror’s Haki after Yas insulted Roger, but Yas’s force field nullified it and Roger told Rayleigh to sit down.
• Roger questioned whose interests Yas’s justice protected, and Yas answered that he protected himself and would eventually clean out the World Government and Celestial Dragons.
• Roger challenged Yas to wager whether the next era would choose Roger’s freedom or Yas’s order.

Yas rejected Roger’s wager and declared that their ideals could only be settled through strength. Roger unleashed his final Conqueror’s Haki, but Yas’s overwhelming Haki split the sky and began to suppress him as Yas prepared to end the confrontation.

• Yas dismissed Roger’s wager, saying Roger had no right to stake the future of a new era.
• Roger decided words were useless and unleashed his remaining life force in a final burst of Conqueror’s Haki.
• Roger’s Haki destroyed the tavern, knocked out the civilians, and shook Loguetown as black clouds gathered overhead.
• Yas released his own Haki and met Roger’s force above the tavern’s ruins, splitting the sky between them.
• Roger realized Yas’s Haki was suppressing and devouring his own as blood escaped his mouth.
• Yas called the clash a farce and slowly raised one finger toward Roger.

Yas effortlessly erased Roger’s Haki and the rift in the sky, leaving Roger physically and spiritually broken. As Rayleigh helped him flee, Roger declared that Yas was the rules of the world in human form and urged the survivors to unite and kill him.

• Yas swept one finger across the sky, erasing Roger’s Haki and sealing the rift.
• Roger collapsed, and Yas dismissed him and Rayleigh before vanishing.
• Rayleigh supported the devastated Roger, who admitted they had been wrong from the beginning.
• Roger warned Rayleigh that Yas was the rules themselves wearing human skin and that their era was over.
• Roger ordered Rayleigh to find Whitebeard and the other survivors and unite them to kill Yas before he enslaved everyone.

After killing Roger in Loguetown, Yas returned to his warship and headed for the New World. The Underworld placed an S-rank bounty on him, and Yas ordered the ship onward to confront those responsible.

• Yas returned to his warship after Roger's final roar and ordered the crew to turn toward the New World.
• At Marine Headquarters, Kong, Sengoku, and Garp learned of the strange celestial phenomenon over Loguetown, and Garp sensed that Roger had died there after meeting Yas.
• A Five Elder told Sengoku that Morgans and the Underworld had issued their highest-level wanted notice for Yas.
• Yas's crew received a newspaper announcing an S-rank bounty on him, with a divine position as the reward for taking his head.
• Yas rejected the major's suggestion to request support and ordered the ship to sail at full speed toward the Underworld.

Yas and the Marine warship sailed into the New World as Underworld powers mobilized to hunt him. When attackers finally struck from sea, sky, and below the ship, Yas caught and crushed Van Augur’s cursed Seastone bullet, then found the sniper hiding above.

• Yas’s Marine soldiers swore to fight for him, and the major ordered the warship at full speed toward the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Van Augur prepared a cursed Seastone bullet, Stussy and Doflamingo plotted to capture Yas, and Vinsmoke Judge ordered a genetic sample obtained for Project “Devil.”
• After three eerily quiet days, the warship detected Germa torpedoes, a Sky Island assault squad, hull-clinging biological shells, and Du Feld’s fleet closing in.
• Yas stayed calm as the major ordered the Azure Thunder barrier activated, then caught Van Augur’s Truth Bullet between two fingers.
• Yas crushed the bullet to dust, and Van Augur saw him look up and silently say, “Found you.”

Yas killed Van Augur and stopped a massive assault on his warship by manipulating gravity, then prepared to turn the attackers’ weapons against the golden fleet. Before he could finish the attack, a woman approached him with poisoned water, and Yas revealed that he had recognized her deception.

• Yas erased Van Augur and his rifle, Truth, with a thread of azure lightning.
• Yas ordered the warship’s barrier lowered and used gravity to halt the torpedoes, shells, commandos, and biological weapon while crushing the golden fleet’s ships.
• Yas invoked Banshō Ten'in to gather the attackers and wreckage into a huge ball above the warship, then prepared Super Shinra Tensei.
• A pink-haired woman appeared behind Yas and offered him a cup of water, pretending it was the only clean water she had left.
• Yas told the woman that her acting was better than her poison, seized her chin, and ordered her to open wide.

Yas exposed Stussy’s assassination attempt, drank her poison without harm, and killed her when she threatened him with the World Government. As he prepared to destroy the remaining attackers, Du Feld rallied them to rob Yas’s ship instead, leaving Yas confused by their claim that he had women.

• Yas restrained Stussy, drank her Flavorless Tears poison, and explained that his lightning-powered body had broken it down harmlessly.
• Stussy tried to save herself by revealing her CP0 identity and invoking the World Government, but Yas evaporated her with azure lightning.
• Yas turned toward Du Feld’s fleeing fleet and prepared to erase the attackers and their ships.
• Du Feld urged the surviving pirates to abandon the failed assassination and rob Yas’s warship instead.
• The pirates cheered and shouted about taking Yas’s women, prompting him to wonder what women they meant.

Yas turned the pirates’ attempted robbery into a one-sided spectacle, stripping gold from Du Feld’s fleet and gathering it into a massive weapon. As Yas prepared to crush the survivors, Du Feld begged for his life and claimed he knew who was behind the conspiracy involving the fake “Divine Position” bounty.

• Du Feld urged the failed assassins and pirates to rob Yas’s warship, and they launched another barrage.
• Yas reversed the incoming projectiles, sent the Jet Dials troops crashing into the sea, and hurled a Biological Weapon into Du Feld’s Golden Flagship.
• Yas stripped the gold from the fleet’s ships, leaving them to fall apart, and combined the gold with wreckage into a gigantic Golden Garbage Ball.
• Yas threatened to drop the mass on the survivors, but Du Feld pleaded for his life and revealed that the “Divine Position” bounty was fake and part of a larger conspiracy.

Yas stopped short of killing Du Feld when he claimed the bounty for the Divine Position was fake, then annihilated the assassins who attacked. Du Feld revealed Captain John of the Rocks Pirates was behind the plot, leaving Yas intrigued and asking where John was.

• Du Feld claimed the Divine Position bounty was fake and said a larger conspiracy was behind it, so Yas paused to hear him out.
• Yas appeared before Du Feld and terrified him into silence as the surrounding assassins attacked.
• Yas released an azure lightning domain that erased the assassins and left Du Feld alone on the deck.
• Yas lifted Du Feld by the neck and demanded to know who had sent him to hunt Yas.
• Du Feld named Captain John of the Rocks Pirates, and Yas asked where John was.

Du Feld revealed that Captain John had orchestrated the Hunt of the Gods to lure Yas into an assassination plot, then gave Yas a cursed map to Treasure Island. Yas killed Du Feld and raced toward the island as lightning, leaving the Marine major stunned.

• Du Feld confessed that Captain John had recruited the Underworld emperors to help assassinate Yas, with Umit arranging the Seastone array, Stussy handling the close-range attack, and Du Feld providing the fleet as bait.
• Du Feld gave Yas a human-skin Vivre Card that he called the Cursed Map, which pointed toward Captain John's Treasure Island.
• Yas purified the curse on the map, then killed Du Feld with a tiny spark of azure lightning despite his plea for mercy.
• Yas ordered the Marine major to watch the ship and launched himself toward Treasure Island as a massive bolt of lightning.
• The Marine major watched Yas vanish across the sky and wondered whether a human could move that fast.

Yas crossed Captain John’s deadly defenses on the Island of the Dead and reached the treasure cavern. He appeared beside John before the pirate could finish taunting him.

• Yas flew to the Island of the Dead and walked unharmed through its poisonous swamp and bomb-flower minefield.
• Yas destroyed the island’s undead army with Conqueror’s Haki and blasted a passage through its traps and terrain with one punch.
• Yas crushed the obsidian gate with his will, revealing Captain John atop a vast treasure hoard.
• Captain John mocked Yas, but Yas instantly appeared beside him and asked if he was done talking nonsense.

Yas effortlessly defeated Captain John and seized control of his treasure, leaving John maimed and despairing. As Yas sent him away with a warning for his captain, John claimed that Rocks was still alive and would return.

• Captain John attacked Yas with his poisoned scimitars and grudge Haki, but Yas’s invisible domain stopped the blades.
• Yas snapped Captain John’s scimitars with two fingers, leaving John injured and unable to fight.
• Yas used gravity to lift and scatter John’s treasure into a glittering orbit around himself.
• When Captain John reached for the treasure, Yas severed his outstretched arm with azure lightning.
• Yas ordered Captain John to crawl back and deliver a message, and John warned that Rocks was alive and would return.

Yas compressed Captain John's enormous treasure hoard into a small sphere, then left John behind after killing him before he could finish a warning. On a hidden island, Rocks ordered his surviving family recalled to make the world fear his name again, while Yas received an urgent summons back to Marine Headquarters.

• Yas used his gravity law to compress Captain John's treasure and Ancient Weapons into a fist-sized Treasure Core, then flew away with it.
• Captain John tried to warn the Rocks Pirates through a Den Den Mushi, but Yas killed him before he could finish his message.
• Rocks learned the plan had failed and ordered his surviving family recalled to restore fear of the Rocks name.
• Yas wondered why he had sneezed, then answered his Golden Den Den Mushi when Sengoku urgently ordered him to return to Headquarters.

Yas confirmed that he had killed Captain John and kept the treasure, while Sengoku warned him that Morgans’s reports had thrown the world into turmoil and Whitebeard had declared the Marines and Yas his enemies. As Marine leaders discussed Yas’s threat to the world’s balance and signs of a returning danger, Yas’s latest public declaration appeared, claiming all the world’s treasure for himself.

• Yas told Sengoku he had left Captain John’s Island of the Dead, killed Captain John, and taken the treasure as spoils of war.
• Sengoku reported that Morgans’s sensational stories had made Yas famous, inspired celebration in the East Blue, and frightened pirates across the New World.
• Sengoku told Yas that Whitebeard had recalled his captains and declared the Whitebeard Pirates mortal enemies of Yas and the Marines, but Yas dismissed him as trash to be cleared away.
• At Marineford, Kong, Garp, and Sengoku discussed Whitebeard’s declaration, the Five Elders’ concern about controlling Yas, and secret reports that vanished names were moving again.
• A Marine soldier delivered a new extra edition showing Yas’s photograph and his declaration that all the world’s treasure would bear his name from then on.