Chapter Summaries

Boer reunited Robin with Carina after rescuing Ace and sending him to Luffy, while the battle at Marineford continued. Robin and Carina confronted Boer over his behavior, then Robin told him she would return whenever she missed him.

• Boer led Robin away from the battlefield and used his power to send Ace to Luffy, who embraced and thanked his brother.
• Boer sent Ace to Marco, while Whitebeard and Garp prepared to fight on and Boer warned Linlin and Kaido that their crews would be targeted if they left Marineford.
• Kaido chose to stay and fight, thinking of King, Yamato, and the Beasts Pirates, while Linlin confronted Boer over his threat.
• Boer brought Robin to the castle, where Carina nervously welcomed her; Robin reassured Carina and promised to get justice for her.
• After dinner, Robin and Carina confronted Boer about his behavior, and Carina joined Robin in the reckoning.
• Later, Robin told Boer she would return when she missed him, and he understood what she had left unsaid.

Whitebeard, Kaido, and Linlin died after the Marines overwhelmed them, while Boer collected the rules of their Devil Fruits. By taking the Soul-Soul Fruit’s rules into his core, Boer opened a cycle that strengthened him through the souls in his Real World, where he offered them a contract for limited control over their surroundings.

• Whitebeard died standing in Marineford’s harbor as Marco, Ace, and the surviving Whitebeard Pirates knelt aboard their ship.
• Kuzan, Sakazuki, and Kizaru killed Kaido after Garp had exhausted him.
• Momousagi, Fujitora, and Ryokugyu brought down Linlin as she held back the pursuers and watched her children’s fleet escape.
• Boer collected the Devil Fruit rule bodies of the Azure Dragon, Tremor-Tremor, and Soul-Soul Fruits, and the Soul-Soul rules connected his core to the souls in the Real World.
• Boer used the souls’ energy to expand and strengthen his Real World, then invited its inhabitants to sign a contract granting them limited authority in exchange for their souls becoming part of the world.

Teach avoided the Battle of Marineford and went to Impel Down, where he recruited legendary prisoners and formed a loose alliance with Bullet and the Red Count. After the deaths of Whitebeard, Kaido, and Linlin, the New World entered the Post-Four Emperors Era as Boer’s Real World continued to take shape.

• Teach entered Level Six of Impel Down with Shiryu and released the prisoners, intending to recruit the survivors of a fight.
• The Red Count and Douglas Bullet ignored Teach’s recruitment plan, and Teach warned Bullet that Aaron Ball had reached the level of the one on the throne in Mary Geoise.
• Teach extracted Byrnndi World’s More-More Fruit ability and used his Devil Fruit extraction power and promise of freedom to recruit four ruthless crewmates.
• Teach left Impel Down with Bullet’s loose alliance and the Red Count temporarily within his sphere of influence.
• After the World Government declared victory at Marineford, Marco, King, Yamato, Katakuri, and Smoothie led the surviving forces of the fallen Emperors into retreat.
• Teach established the Blackbeard Pirates, while Red-Hair coordinated with Marco and Ace, and the New World came to recognize a new Four Emperors lineup of Blackbeard, Red-Hair, Bullet, and the Red Count.

Aaron Ball outlived Carina and Robin, becoming the planet’s magnetic field as the world gradually forgot his deeds and recast him as a creator god or legendary king. He remained alone but did not regret winning the gamble that let humanity build a world without Imu’s rule.

• Carina faded away after telling Boer that reaching out to her in Oykot Royal City had been the luckiest moment of her life.
• Robin comforted Boer as her own soul began to erode, thanked him for giving her a home, and told him to create his memories again if he ever lost them.
• The world treated Boer’s reshaping of the continents and other feats as natural events, while historians debated whether Aaron Ball had ever been a real person.
• Aaron Ball became the planet’s magnetic field, watching over humanity as Devil Fruits and his name faded into legend.
• Aaron Ball saw that children could run freely and ordinary people could choose their representatives, and he accepted that his victory had cost him his humanity and left him eternally alone.