Chapter Summaries

The Four Emperors debated how to unite their forces against Aaron Ball and the World Government, eventually agreeing to a rotating leadership system and a shared military structure. Whitebeard took the first term as leader and assigned each Emperor a role, while finances remained unresolved.

• Red-Hair urged the Four Emperors to accelerate their integration, and Whitebeard warned that their failure to unite would leave them vulnerable to Aaron Ball and the World Government.
• Kaido and Linlin resisted accepting another Emperor as leader, so Whitebeard proposed that leadership rotate every two years and took the first term.
• Whitebeard outlined each Emperor's contribution: his territory would recruit troops, Linlin's would serve as the economic center, Kaido's would supply weapons, and Red-Hair's would provide intelligence.
• Linlin proposed that Totto Land manage the alliance's finances as a central bank, but Whitebeard postponed the financial decision.
• Whitebeard established himself as Supreme Commander, named Kaido Vanguard Commander, Linlin responsible for logistics and defense, and Red-Hair commander of the Reserve Force and intelligence.

Boer spent seven days expanding Fish-Man Island’s bubble while merchant ships hurried toward the island and slavers withdrew after learning he and two Marine Admirals were there. When the new outer bubble held, Fish-Man Island celebrated, and Boer ended the chapter preparing to sleep after Carina kept him company.

• A merchant convoy mistook the new blue framework around Fish-Man Island for cracks, then recognized Boer’s land-creation project and continued toward the island while slavers fled the area.
• Neptune worried that Boer had gone days without eating or drinking, but Carina reassured him and took Shirahoshi out with her guards.
• On the seventh morning, Boer and Aramaki completed the expanded bubble, which withstood the returning seawater without breaking.
• Fish-Man Island celebrated its larger home, Neptune and Fukaboshi thanked Boer, and the island’s radicals backed away from their hostility toward him.
• Boer sat with Carina on the palace roof and said he needed to sleep for a whole day.

After sleeping for a full day, Boer woke from a dream in which he became Aaron Ball, ruler of the world, and was confronted by the Fish-Man princes. He resumed discussing the island’s plans with Fukaboshi, then shared a meal with him and agreed to visit a hot spring together.

• Carina kissed Boer’s forehead and left him sleeping, while he dreamed of Red-Hair taking him to a ship where he was hailed as emperor and received an imperial seal from Big Mom.
• Boer woke from the nightmare, and Fukaboshi reassured him that the princes were guarding his rest and offered to arrange food.
• Boer told Fukaboshi that replenishing Eve’s resin would take three days and that expanding the double-layer bubble might take until the middle of next year.
• When Fukaboshi proposed a statue in his honor, Boer asked for one depicting a grieving mother shared between human and merfolk, moving Fukaboshi to tears as he remembered Queen Otohime.
• At dinner, Fukaboshi told Boer that Carina had taken Shirahoshi to distribute food in the Fish-Man District; Boer called Fukaboshi his friend and suggested they bathe together after eating.
• Fukaboshi agreed to take Boer to a hot spring, and Boer continued his meal with Fukaboshi keeping him company.

As tensions and violence grew among the pirate crews gathered on Hachinosu, rumors and provocations pushed the Emperors toward confrontation. Kaido demanded an explanation from Whitebeard after a Headliner was killed, while Linlin kept secret evidence that Shanks was a Figarland Family direct descendant.

• Ulti overheard a Whitebeard pirate claim that Yamato was Oden's child and killed him after he insulted Kaido.
• Squard warned Marco that Whitebeard's men feared a future clash with the other crews and questioned whether they should remain involved in the nation-building effort; Marco told him not to spread the talk.
• Yasopp told Lucky Roux he worried about Usopp's safety, then left a tavern rather than fight Kaido's drunken Headliners.
• Kaido received Jemira's corpse and a Den Den Mushi recording of the Headliners' insults, then ordered the recording sent to Whitebeard and demanded an explanation.
• Katakuri showed Linlin a photograph identifying Shanks as a direct descendant of the Figarland Family, and Linlin decided to keep the information secret until the right moment.

As Hachinosu grew calmer after the Four Emperors purged suspected informants, Sengoku presented the Five Elders with plans to weaken their alliance and prevent them from establishing a nation. The World Government resolved that it could not recognize or allow such a nation to exist, while the Emperors remained gathered on Hachinosu.

• Whitebeard, Kaido, Big Mom, and the Red Hair Pirates each tightened discipline in their crews, reducing open fights across Hachinosu.
• Sengoku presented the Five Elders with plans for food blockades, economic sanctions, military deterrence, and internal destabilization.
• Sengoku explained that charging the other Emperors more than Red-Hair for supplies could plant suspicion without requiring them to believe he had betrayed them.
• The Five Elders and Sengoku discussed how military pressure and rumors might widen divisions among the Four Emperors without provoking them into uniting faster.
• Saint Garling outlined the political demands the Emperors could make if they became heads of a nation, and Sengoku declared that the World Government could not allow that nation to be established.

Boer completed Fish-Man Island’s expansion and celebrated its rebirth with the fish-men, but he remained troubled by the limits of his past reforms and Imu’s vision of a monitored world. After visiting Carina and Shirahoshi, he proposed a slow voyage by ship with Sakazuki and Aramaki, who agreed to go with him.

• Boer completed Fish-Man Island’s expanded land and reinforced double bubble, while the World Economy News Paper reported on the project and its impact.
• Neptune toasted Aaron Ball at a celebration, and Boer told the fish-men that humans were not all bad before disappearing from the square.
• Boer reflected on persistent poverty and discrimination, the failures of his earlier reforms, and his rejection of Imu’s plan to control humanity with the Electromagnetic Heaven Net.
• Carina read to Shirahoshi and shared Moonlight Fruit with her, Lulu, and Maru in Ryugu Palace.
• Boer met Sakazuki and Aramaki, said he would stay on Fish-Man Island another month and travel by ship, then invited them to join him; they agreed.

Boer’s Marine ship headed for Alabasta, leaving Carina anxious about his reunion with Robin, while Crocodile halted Baroque Works’ operations in the face of Boer and two Admirals. Robin reflected on why she had ended her relationship with Boer, and Boer admitted to himself that he loved Robin and liked Carina.

• Boer confirmed that the ship was heading to Alabasta, and Carina grew uneasy as she thought about Robin and her place in Boer’s life.
• Crocodile learned that Boer, Sakazuki, and Aramaki were coming to Alabasta, judged that he could not oppose them, and ordered all Baroque Works operations suspended.
• Robin cleaned an ancient stone slab at the Funerary Temple and realized she had ended her relationship with Boer out of fear that she was unworthy of his love.
• Carina recalled Nami warning her that Boer would not belong to her alone, then worried that she could not match Robin’s abilities or importance to Boer.
• Boer acknowledged that Robin remained in his heart and that he genuinely liked Carina, and decided to talk things over with her in Alabasta.

Boer brought Sakazuki to an island for a martial arts contest while Aramaki prepared a seat and refreshments for Carina. Sakazuki opened the fight with a powerful punch that Boer blocked with his forearm.

• Lulu and Maru carried an apple from Apple Tree Grandpa toward the castle kitchen.
• Boer invited Sakazuki to spar on a nearby island, and Aramaki joined them to watch.
• Aramaki made Carina a vine chair and table with fruit and nectar water while Boer and Sakazuki prepared to fight.
• Boer and Sakazuki agreed to use martial arts, and Aramaki cheered Sakazuki on.
• Sakazuki charged and struck Boer’s raised forearm, and Boer praised his punch.

Boer and Sakazuki fought an intense hand-to-hand duel on an island beach, testing each other’s speed, reactions, and defenses. After Sakazuki finally landed a sequence that sent Boer flying, Boer recovered and challenged him to continue.

• Boer and Sakazuki traded rapid punches, blocks, and kicks as Carina and Aramaki watched their fight.
• Sakazuki caught Boer’s ankle during a flying kick and punched him into a crater, but Boer escaped before Sakazuki’s follow-up blow landed.
• Boer used a feint to strike Sakazuki in the face, and the two charged at each other with Soru before exchanging another series of blows.
• Boer’s speed and reactions let him evade most of Sakazuki’s attacks, while Sakazuki’s Armament Haki made him difficult to injure.
• Sakazuki changed tactics, blocked Boer’s front kick, and countered with a kick and punch that sent Boer flying more than ten meters.
• Boer steadied himself, brushed off the sand, and called for Sakazuki to attack again.

Boer and Sakazuki fought until Boer ended their spar and announced he was heading to Elegia to obtain a girl’s Devil Fruit ability. After Boer left Carina with the others and set Alabasta as his return destination, Aramaki told Sakazuki that Elegia had once seemed eerily silent.

• Boer overwhelmed Sakazuki with a series of kicks, forcing him backward, before Sakazuki landed a full-power Armament Haki punch on Boer’s cheek.
• Boer declared that he was done playing, took everyone from the beach to the castle garden, and asked Sakazuki to arrange an Eternal Pose for Elegia.
• Boer teased Carina about bringing her a little sister, then told her he needed a girl’s Devil Fruit ability and would return after going to Alabasta.
• Aramaki carried Sakazuki down to the warship, then told him he had visited Elegia long ago and found it unnaturally quiet.

Boer found Uta singing among the ruins of Elegia and asked her to join him in bringing her songs to the world. After Uta’s World of Song failed to contain him, Boer entered her body and separated the Demon King of Song from her consciousness, then offered to talk over dinner.

• Boer crossed the ruins of Elegia and found Uta singing alone by the bay.
• Boer introduced himself as Aaron Ball and asked Uta to join him, but Uta tried to pull him into the World of Song.
• Uta discovered that Boer had entered the World of Song and watched him explore it as he examined the Demon King of Song within her.
• Boer entered Uta’s body, enclosed the Demon King of Song with Magnetic Lines, and withdrew without disturbing it.
• Boer conjured food and offered Uta orange juice, and Uta accepted it and asked who he was.

Uta walked with Boer and teased him after he admitted he wanted her to be his girlfriend. Gordon prepared a steamed pear for Uta, then met Boer, whom he recognized as Aaron Ball, and welcomed him into the palace side hall.

• Uta relaxed as she walked with Boer and admitted to herself that she found him handsome and gentle.
• Boer told Uta he wanted to trick her into being his girlfriend, and she teased him by calling him an old man.
• Gordon prepared a steamed pear for Uta and remembered Red-Hair abandoning her amid the burning Royal City.
• Uta told Gordon that a strange guest had arrived, and Gordon hurried outside to find her laughing with Boer over food and stories about Luffy.
• Gordon recognized Boer as Aaron Ball and invited him inside, while Boer reminded Uta to be polite.

Boer invited Uta to travel to Alabasta and use her singing to help build a utopia, but Gordon refused and tried to hide the truth about Elegia’s destruction. When Boer revealed that the Sing-Sing Fruit’s previous user, not Shanks or Uta, had caused it, Uta began transforming as the Demon King of Song emerged.

• Boer explained his land-reclamation work and invited Uta to join him in Alabasta to help build a utopia and share her singing with the world.
• Gordon refused Boer’s proposal, arguing that Uta’s ability depended on her staying awake and that she was too young to bear such responsibility.
• Boer urged Gordon to let Uta choose her own path and revealed that an ugly creature was sealed inside the World of Song.
• Gordon tried to drive Boer away, but Boer said the previous user’s consciousness in the Sing-Sing Fruit had caused Elegia’s destruction, not Uta.
• Uta asked Gordon whether she had caused the disaster, and the Demon King of Song began consuming her and the room as Boer used his magnetic-field power to restrain it.

Boer battled the Demon King of Song after it emerged in the physical world and then invaded Uta’s mental world when it retreated inside her. He weakened it with Conqueror’s Haki, but the demon transformed into a new form, leaving Boer ready to continue the fight.

• Boer sent Gordon to the beach, then confronted the Demon King of Song as it held Uta captive on its shoulder.
• The demon attacked with black flames, sound waves, demon soldiers, and a crushing palm, but Boer blocked or dissolved its attacks and pierced it with beams and spears.
• The Demon King of Song withdrew into Uta’s mental world, and Boer followed it there.
• Boer struck the demon with Conqueror’s Haki, freeing some of the tormented faces within it and shrinking its body.
• The demon transformed into a four-armed, winged tyrant with a ruby-studded crown, and Boer prepared to fight it.

Boer rescued Uta from the Demon King of Song and destroyed its body and consciousness in the World of Song. After Uta awoke in Elegia, Gordon agreed to accompany her and Boer into the outside world while Boer continued destroying the demon king’s remnants.

• Boer formed a greatsword with Conqueror's Coating, cut apart the Demon King of Song, and freed Uta from its threads.
• Boer trapped the demon king’s fragments in an electromagnetic field and struck the black swamp with Conqueror's Haki, scattering its consciousness.
• Uta awoke in Elegia and told Gordon that Boer was destroying the Demon King of Song.
• Boer explained that destroying the remaining emotional amalgamations could take several months and said Uta would have to travel with him.
• Gordon agreed to accompany Uta and Boer, and Uta looked forward to seeing the outside world.

Boer brought Uta to his flying castle, where she explained her World of Song and asked to visit Luffy. In Cocoyasi Village, Uta reunited with Luffy, sang for him and the others by a bonfire, then asked Boer to take her back.

• Boer folded the magnetic sense lines to fly his castle, and Uta met Carina, Lulu, Mary, and Mr. Slow there.
• Uta told Carina that her ability created a World of Song, which Boer was helping her clean and improve.
• Carina asked Boer to take them to the East Blue so Uta could see Luffy and she could talk to Nami.
• Uta reunited with Luffy in Cocoyasi Village, where Boer brought a Sea King and the group gathered to grill it.
• Uta sang for Luffy and the others until the bonfire dwindled, then covered the sleeping Luffy with his straw hat and asked Boer to take her back.

Alabasta prepared to welcome Aaron Ball, whose arrival brought cooler air and the Marine Admirals Sakazuki and Aramaki. Princess Vivi approached Boer and deliberately or accidentally fell into his arms, leaving Carina and Uta watching from the sky castle.

• Crocodile, Cobra, Vivi, and rebel leader Doto waited at Nanohana Port, each wondering how Aaron Ball would affect Alabasta.
• Boer used his magnetic field to soften the sunlight and cool the port as his warship approached, while he confirmed Robin was absent.
• Pell announced Aaron Ball's arrival, and Aaron came ashore with Marine Admirals Sakazuki and Aramaki.
• Vivi left Cobra and walked toward Boer with desert roses, then tripped on her dress and fell into his arms.
• Boer steadied Vivi and told her to regain her balance, while Uta told Carina that Vivi had fallen on purpose.

Boer arrived in Alabasta, where Cobra welcomed him and Vivi was assigned to oversee his stay. As Boer headed to the palace, rebel Koza knelt and begged him to witness Alabasta’s suffering, but Boer told him to come along and eat first.

• Vivi escorted Boer to Cobra, and Boer healed Cobra’s heart and kidney ailments with electromagnetic pulses.
• Vivi offered to arrange Boer’s stay and the supplies for Carina’s castle, while Boer said he preferred simple arrangements.
• Crocodile greeted Boer, told him Robin had gone to Water 7 with Paula, and offered him a residence in Rainbase, but Boer walked away.
• Koza and several Rebel Army members knelt beside the red carpet, and Koza begged Boer to look at Alabasta’s suffering.
• Boer stopped and told Koza to come along so they could eat first.

King Cobra hosted Lord Boer at a formal Alabastan banquet, while Koza watched uneasily from a stool at the end of the table. When Koza began to kneel before Boer, Boer stopped him, leaving Vivi to apologize in alarm.

• Cobra seated Boer in the place of honor and arranged for Koza, a rebel, to sit on a stool at the end of the table.
• Cobra welcomed Boer with a toast, and Vivi attended to Boer by washing his face, serving coffee and dates, and asking about his drink preferences.
• Boer asked Cobra to keep the occasion natural and said he looked forward to Alabasta's food, while Aramaki eagerly drank coffee and wine.
• Servants served a lavish spread of Alabastan dishes, and Vivi carved roasted meat for Boer as Koza watched the gathering.
• Koza stood and began to bend his knees toward Boer, but Boer dropped his dinner knife and said, "No kneeling."
• Vivi turned sharply toward Boer and apologized, insisting that Koza had not meant to interrupt the meal.

At a banquet in Alabasta, Boer challenged Cobra, Vivi, Koza, and Crocodile over the suffering caused by the drought, the heavenly tribute, the rebellion, and Crocodile’s schemes. He left them condemned as part of a cycle of oppression, but said killing them would change nothing.

• Boer questioned Sakazuki about whether killing pirates at Reverse Mountain would make the world better, then argued that poverty and the World Government’s rule would produce more pirates.
• Boer asked Cobra whether the rebels were truly evil, and Vivi defended her father, describing his efforts to help Alabasta during the drought.
• Boer reminded Vivi that Alabasta continued paying heavenly tribute, leaving her unable to deny that the World Government’s demands had worsened the people’s hardship.
• Boer confronted Koza over the Rebel Army’s violence against civilians, and Koza silently recalled his deputy murdering a child during a grain raid.
• Boer accused Crocodile of helping cause the drought and rebellion, then declared that all three sides deserved death while arguing that killing their leaders would not end oppression.
• Sakazuki urged Cobra to drink and warned Boer that Cobra upheld the World Government’s system, while Boer said he did not care to kill them because replacements would continue the cycle.