Chapter Summaries

Boer gathered Sakazuki and Aramaki for a yacht outing arranged by King Peinance, where Aidana and the selected women entertained them. Boer then used his powers to transport the yacht beside the Fishbone Pirates, giving Sakazuki a chance to hunt them.

• Boer brought Carina to the Royal Women's Academy, promised he would pick her up, and left for the Newborn Land.
• Boer recruited Sakazuki and Aramaki for an outing, and the three boarded King Peinance's royal yacht among a group of selected women led by Aidana.
• Aidana flirted with Boer while the women danced; Aramaki chatted with them, and Sakazuki withdrew to a lounger.
• Boer used his electromagnetic perception to locate the Fishbone Pirates, then teleported the yacht near their ship.
• Sakazuki ordered the yacht to charge the pirates as Boer and the women cheered him on.

Sakazuki and his companions spent the morning hunting pirate crews, rescuing civilians and entertaining the women aboard their yacht. At lunch, Aramaki quietly stopped a local gang from extorting vendors, and the three commanders toasted their intervention.

• Sakazuki attacked the Fishbone Pirates, killing the pirates with precise magma strikes while Aramaki healed the rescued civilians.
• Boer located more pirate targets, and Sakazuki destroyed their ships and crews, including one he split in half with a magma sword.
• The three men left the yacht’s female passengers on an unnamed island and went to a restaurant for lunch.
• Boer paid to clear the restaurant, and the commanders settled in to eat and drink.
• Sakazuki prepared to confront a gang extorting street vendors, but Aramaki revealed that his vines had already paralyzed and buried the gang members.
• Aramaki, Sakazuki, and Boer raised their cups in a toast after the vendors were freed from the gang’s extortion.

Boer turned a volcanic crater’s magma into a warm, caramel-scented bath, giving Sakazuki and Aramaki a rare chance to relax and reflecting on the value of ordinary pleasures. During their soak, he questioned the World Government’s history and suggested the Void Century may have involved a purge of other intelligent species, leaving both Admirals stunned.

• After a long meal and drinks with Sakazuki and Aramaki, Boer took them to a volcanic crater and transformed its magma into a warm bath.
• Aramaki eagerly soaked in the amber liquid, and Sakazuki joined him after Boer asked whether he had ever bathed in magma.
• Sakazuki admitted it was the first time in more than forty years that he had felt it might be all right not to fight, and Boer explained that people needed pleasures beyond useful work.
• Boer, Sakazuki, and Aramaki traded thoughts about women, and Sakazuki joked that the best woman was the one a man could not have.
• Boer and the Admirals discussed the Five Elders and the World Government, and Boer speculated that the Void Century might have been a purge of powerful nonhuman races.

Boer converted the stress beneath the newborn land into energy, creating a brilliant aurora and relieving the strain more efficiently. He then persuaded Sakazuki and Aramaki to use their abilities to produce building materials and crops for the people of the Prodence Kingdom, and they set off to put the plan into action.

• Boer changed his approach to releasing underground stress, turning it into harmless tremors, heat for Sakazuki’s magma work, and magnetic energy.
• Boer’s energy created a vivid aurora across the South Blue, the Grand Line, and Mary Geoise, drawing the attention of Sakazuki, Aramaki, Saint Nusjuro, and people across the region.
• Boer asked Sakazuki to produce consistent basalt building materials and urged Aramaki to ripen staple crops for the land creation project.
• Aramaki questioned whether nobles and bureaucrats would take the resources, and Sakazuki ordered Marines to distribute them directly to the people and kill anyone who interfered.
• Sakazuki and Aramaki agreed to begin the work, while Boer remembered Robin telling him that he had done a good thing.

Boer met Red-Hair Shanks, who proposed uniting the Four Emperors into the Pan-New World United States and making Boer its central ruler. Boer refused the throne but advised Shanks to join the World Government, then warned that the alliance’s internal problems and lack of governing experience left it little time.

• Boer asked Sakazuki whether an Admiral could attack pirates on his own initiative, then watched as Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates arrived.
• Boer, Shanks, Sakazuki, and Aramaki gathered on the beach, where Shanks explained that land creation, Marine pressure, and the coming abolition of slavery had undermined the Four Emperors’ power.
• Shanks invited Boer to become the central ruler of a united nation formed by the Four Emperors, but Boer declined the position.
• Boer proposed that the new country join the World Government as an influential member rather than fight it, arguing that the Government needed the Four Emperors’ territories and legitimacy.
• Boer warned Shanks that the Four Emperors lacked the experience to govern and that their alliance faced severe internal problems, then asked Sakazuki to see their guest out.

Saint Nusjuro warned the elite Celestial Dragons that their Lord valued only the Eternal Garden and demanded reforms as Aaron Ball’s power threatened Mary Geoise. Saint Garling then learned that the Four Emperors planned to unite the New World and recruit Aaron, and decided to stop the alliance and deal with Shamrock’s younger brother.

• A Charlos representative opposed abolishing slavery, while Donquixote Viola and the Mascara representative described the financial losses and violence surrounding the proposal.
• Saint Nusjuro condemned the Celestial Dragons’ resistance, revealed that some were secretly backing the Revolutionary Army, and demanded to know whether they understood their precarious position.
• Saint Nusjuro said their Lord cared only about the Eternal Garden and warned that Aaron Ball’s military power had broken the balance and made reform urgent.
• Shamrock told Saint Garling that his younger brother would invite Aaron Ball to join the Four Emperors’ planned Pan-New World United States.
• Saint Garling called the alliance a threat, insisted Aaron must remain Mary Geoise’s World Hero, and said he would handle Shamrock’s younger brother.

As the Prodence Kingdom’s land creation project neared completion, Boer and Carina imagined building a flying castle that would be their home. They shared memories and discussed Boer’s past and his other loved ones before Boer initiated another intimate moment with Carina.

• Boer admired the newly created land and held Carina as she asked when they would have a home of their own.
• Boer created a floating blue castle and added wings while Carina suggested filling it with trees, flowers, and a spacious bedroom.
• Carina joked about sharing Boer with Robin and Nami, and Boer told her that he loved her while respecting Robin’s choice to follow her own path.
• Boer recalled fighting pirates as a young man and explained that he had later helped ordinary people build homes and roads after recognizing his violent impulses.
• Boer proposed several ways to find help cleaning the castle, and Carina said she wanted all of them.
• Boer pinned Carina beneath him and suggested they continue their intimacy.

Carina visited Mary Geoise at Boer's suggestion and asked Saint Nusjuro for a castle and several special features, which he agreed to provide. After touring the Holy Land and hearing about the daughter whose castle he had never built, Carina returned to Boer, while the Five Elders arranged to fulfill her requests to keep Boer pleased.

• Boer told Carina to go to Mary Geoise alone and ask for what she wanted, assuring her that its powerful residents would bow to her.
• Carina arrived at Mary Geoise, where guards and officials knelt or stepped aside, and Saint Nusjuro welcomed her.
• Carina asked Saint Nusjuro for an electrified castle with Homies, Mink Tribe residents, Dressrosa toys, and cleaning robots, and he agreed to oversee its construction.
• Saint Nusjuro toured Mary Geoise with Carina and told her about his daughter, who had once wanted a castle but had grown up while waiting for one.
• Boer arrived to take Carina home, and she thanked Saint Nusjuro before leaving with him.
• Saint Nusjuro told the other Five Elders about Carina's requests, and they agreed to arrange the castle and toys because they wanted to keep Boer happy.

Asar returned more than seventy freed mink slaves to Zou and negotiated monthly supplies and paid employment for those who wanted to work for Boer. Meanwhile, Doflamingo arranged toys, Homies, and treatment for Whitebeard, and the World Government reported that all four requested resources were secured.

• Asar reunited the freed minks with their families and persuaded Inuarashi to allow willing young minks to take paid cleaning jobs for Boer, with monthly visits home and the option to return.
• Doflamingo agreed to provide toys for Boer and help the World Government negotiate with Big Mom in exchange for a recovery treatment made with Ryokugyu's Life Essence.
• Doflamingo delivered Life Essence and Healing Tears to Whitebeard and asked him to pass a message to Big Mom about sending Homies for Boer.
• Whitebeard accepted the treatment and agreed to tell Big Mom to send the Homies, hoping the medicine would let him live longer for his crew.
• Saint Nusjuro reported that Doflamingo had prepared the toys, Vegapunk's robots would arrive next month, twelve minks had volunteered, and Big Mom would send the Homies.

Carina welcomed a host of tiny helpers, Mink Tribe members, and Homies to the vacation house, then celebrated with Boer, Nami, Nojiko, and Luffy. The gathering ended with Carina feeling content among her friends and companions.

• Doflamingo's shipment arrived, and Carina met Lulu and Maru, two Tontattas, along with a Musician, chess puppets, a chef puppet, and a cleaner doll.
• Twelve Mink Tribe members arrived to work as cleaners, cooks, a gatekeeper, and security for Carina's new home.
• Perospero delivered Linlin's Homies, including an apple tree, a sleeping cloud, Xiaoguang, a Butter Chef, two koi, and Wind.
• Boer brought Nami, Nojiko, and Luffy from the East Blue to the evening banquet, where Carina teased Nami and invited Nojiko to stay with Boer.
• Luffy said Ace would become Pirate King and declared that he would become Pirate King too, while Nami mentioned her plan to build a soda ship and adventure with him.
• Carina shared cake with her friends and felt happy as she looked back at Boer and their new companions.

The Four Emperors arrived at Hachinosu to take the island and found Ochoku unwilling to surrender. Ace, Yamato, and Katakuri defeated him after a fierce battle, and the fleets claimed Hachinosu as their new base.

• Kaido demanded that Ochoku leave Hachinosu or join the Four Emperors in founding a nation, but Ochoku refused and unleashed his Conqueror's Haki.
• Ace stepped forward to fight Ochoku, and Yamato and Katakuri joined him as the Four Emperors watched.
• The three younger fighters combined flames, frost, and mochi attacks to wear Ochoku down, though he repeatedly countered them and refused to retreat.
• Whitebeard called for Ochoku to stop, but Ochoku insisted he had not lost and continued fighting.
• Yamato, Ace, and Katakuri trapped Ochoku and struck his sword aside, after which he smiled and collapsed in the ruins.
• The Four Emperors' fleets docked at Hachinosu, where Ochoku had fallen and the island gained a new master.

Boer and Carina visited Egghead Island, where Vegapunk showed them the technologically advanced castle he had built for them. Back in Prodence Kingdom, Carina assigned rooms and custom features to their companions, turning the castle into a welcoming home.

• Vegapunk asked Kizaru whether Aaron Ball would provide bodily tissue for his Devil Fruit research, and Kizaru suggested asking through a female satellite.
• Boer and Carina arrived at Egghead Island, where Vegapunk showed them the castle's electromagnetic core, modular design, flight capability, repair functions, and entertainment system.
• Boer and Carina returned to Prodence Kingdom with the castle, and Carina began choosing its style and assigning rooms to their companions.
• Carina recorded special requests from the castle's residents, including a garden house, a rooftop garden, a pond, and a refrigerator Butter Chef could enter.
• After the residents settled in, Carina told Boer she loved him enough to fill the whole castle, and he thanked her.

At a banquet celebrating the Prodence Kingdom’s vast expansion, Prince Manboshi presented Boer with Fish-Man Island’s treasures and invited him to the Ryugu Kingdom. Boer accepted, leaving the prospect of his next land-creation project and a new step toward human–Fish-Man peace ahead.

• King Peinance tearfully praised Boer’s creation of 64,000 square kilometers of land as envoys regretted that their kingdoms had waited to commit to the plan.
• Prince Manboshi watched Boer and hoped his work could expand Fish-Man Island and advance Queen Otohime’s wish for peace between humans and Fish-Men.
• Carina thanked the World Government and supporters on Boer’s behalf while Ryokugyu faced reporters’ questions about the project and the government’s role.
• Manboshi presented Boer with the Neptune Crown, the Eye of the Tides, and Dragon-Sheath Brocade, and Boer accepted the gifts.
• Boer mentioned his friendship with Jinbe, and Manboshi invited him to the Dragon Palace on behalf of the Neptune Family.
• Boer accepted the invitation and said he looked forward to visiting Fish-Man Island with Carina.

As Aaron Ball prepared to arrive at Fish-Man Island, Neptune ordered an elaborate reception and staked the kingdom’s hopes on his ability to create land and end its long humiliation. The island’s people lit a path to Ryugu Palace as Neptune welcomed Aaron in his thoughts.

• Ryuboshi learned Aaron Ball would reach Fish-Man Island in two hours and ordered guards to clear space for the castle he would bring.
• Neptune recalled Queen Otohime’s death during a slave-trader attack and struggled with the choice between her peaceful ideals and the kingdom’s vulnerability.
• Manboshi told Neptune that Aaron Ball was coming, and Neptune ordered Jinbe and Arlong to attend while warning Arlong to control the anti-human radicals.
• Neptune arranged for Shirahoshi to join the reception, ordered the island’s performers and guards to prepare, and told the people to light shell lamps along Aaron’s route.
• Neptune saw the lamps form a glowing path to Ryugu Palace and quietly welcomed Aaron Ball to Fish-Man Island.

Boer transported his castle and companions to Fish-Man Island, where he arrived at Ryugu Palace and eliminated Vander Decken IX before he could threaten Shirahoshi. He gave Neptune a glove containing the Mark-Mark Fruit’s devil apparition, and Fish-Man Island’s people thanked him.

• Boer rebuked King Peinance for neglecting his people, then left the banquet with Sakazuki, Aramaki, and Fukaboshi.
• Boer lifted his castle and its grounds into the air and traveled through the sea, passing enormous deep-sea creatures before reaching Fish-Man Island.
• Boer and his companions arrived at Ryugu Palace, where Neptune welcomed them and Shirahoshi watched from behind her family.
• Boer seized Vander Decken IX as he aimed his anchor at Shirahoshi, then disintegrated him and captured the Mark-Mark Fruit’s devil apparition in a glove.
• Boer gave the glove to Neptune, assured Shirahoshi that Vander Decken would never bother her again, and received the gratitude of Fish-Man Island’s people.

Boer attended a Dragon Palace feast with Carina and met Neptune, Shirahoshi, and Jinbe, while discussing his plans to expand Fish-Man Island. He left the feast underway as Fukaboshi arrived with the Marines, including Aramaki and Akainu.

• Boer asked Puniton to cancel the formal welcome and lead him and Carina to a late-night meal, then said he represented only himself and wanted to make the world better.
• At the banquet, Shirahoshi mistook Lulu and Maru for Carina's slaves, but Lulu corrected her, and the two became friendly.
• Jinbe gave Carina a giant pink pearl and offered Boer Fisher Tiger's Sun Stone, but Boer returned the keepsake and accepted Jinbe's wine instead.
• Boer told Neptune that he could probably double Fish-Man Island's size, and Neptune gratefully accepted the limit.
• Neptune and Jinbe hosted the feast as the guests ate and talked; Lulu and Maru entertained Shirahoshi, while Jinbe recounted Fisher Tiger's story.
• Fukaboshi arrived with the Marines and arranged their lodgings, while Aramaki complained that Boer had not invited him to the feast and Akainu teased him.

Neptune woke to find Arlong and frightened Fish-Men surrounding the Dragon Palace over fears that Boer would endanger their bubble. Boer demonstrated that he could destroy Fish-Man Island without touching the bubble, dispersing the crowd and leaving Neptune convinced that Aaron Ball offered the island a chance to change.

• Fukaboshi woke Neptune and told him that Arlong and the radicals had brought civilians to surround the Dragon Palace.
• Fear that a human might tamper with the bubble spread through Fish-Man Island, and Arlong explained to Jinbe that the people had demanded he stand up for them.
• Neptune admitted to the gathered Fish-Men that the royal family had invited a human to help expand the bubble but could not guarantee that it would not burst.
• Boer descended over Dragon Palace Square, pushed seawater away from the bubble, and ignited the surrounding sea to show that he could destroy the island without touching its barrier.
• Boer extinguished the fire and left, the Fish-Men dispersed, Jinbe bowed to the palace, and Neptune realized that Aaron Ball could give Fish-Man Island an opportunity to change.

Boer confronted Neptune with the truth that Fish-Man Island was an overcrowded former weapons-testing ground, and that its people were trapped in poverty and dependence on the surface. After Boer sent Neptune to investigate pillars of light that could expand their living space, Neptune thanked him for his help and Boer said he was only doing what he should.

• Carina initially found the plain noodle breakfast disappointing, but she savored the meal after learning how carefully Neptune’s chefs had made it.
• Boer used his Extrasensory Vision to survey Fish-Man Island and told Neptune that the island had originally been built as a weapons-testing ground for the Great Kingdom.
• Neptune explained that the Great Kingdom had promised the merfolk land in the New World, and admitted that at least five million Fish-Men were crowded onto the island.
• Boer challenged Sakazuki over the Marines’ failure to protect Fish-Man Island, which had turned to Whitebeard for help against pirates.
• Boer described the hardships Fish-Men endured and told Neptune to send someone beneath the pillars of light beyond the castle.
• Neptune tried to kneel in gratitude, but Boer stopped him; Neptune thanked Boer for helping the Fish-Men, and Boer said he was only doing what he should.

Boer prepared to expand Fish-Man Island’s outer bubble using resin from Sunlight Tree Eve, while Sakazuki and Aramaki agreed to guard him and keep outside orders from interrupting the work. After arranging a week of shifts, the three Navy allies joined fists and got ready to begin.

• Boer extracted golden resin from Sunlight Tree Eve and shaped it into a bubble, then outlined the three stages of the land creation project.
• Boer explained that he needed uninterrupted focus and asked Sakazuki and Aramaki to block all disturbances, including orders from Mary Geoise.
• Sakazuki agreed to maintain communications silence and arranged for himself and Aramaki to take turns guarding Boer during the week-long first stage.
• Aramaki worried about Boer working without rest, but Boer insisted he was ready and learned that Carina was spending time with Shirahoshi.
• Sakazuki, Aramaki, and Boer bumped fists and agreed to get to work.

Boer used his power to expand Fish-Man Island’s protective bubble while Sakazuki and Aramaki supported the effort. After seeing the expansion succeed and realizing Boer had worked without rest, Neptune arranged to feed him and urged the Fish-Men to show their gratitude.

• Aramaki transformed into a tree on Ryugu Palace’s terrace to guard the expansion site, while Sakazuki told Neptune that Boer had begun expanding the bubble and offered to make construction bricks for free.
• Boer fused his consciousness with the deep-sea geomagnetism, stabilized the existing bubble, and guided Eve’s resin through an electromagnetic framework to form a new outer layer.
• Boer continued monitoring and reinforcing the setting bubble after Eve’s resin supply ran out, remaining focused on the work without eating, drinking, or sleeping.
• Neptune saw Sakazuki’s bricks, Aramaki’s guard post and vegetable garden, and the bubble’s successful expansion, then grew worried that Boer had not rested.
• Aramaki told Neptune that Boer planned to work for a week without rest, and Neptune ordered the palace to check its food stores and Jinbe to tell the Fish-Man District that Boer was working for them.