Chapter Summaries

Ginny arrived in Bernia as the Revolutionary Army’s envoy to establish cooperation with the Steel Heavy Industry Consortium, and revealed that the Age-Age Fruit let her control her body’s age. Boer agreed to have her coordinate with Robin, and Ginny later used her ability to temporarily alter Robin’s appearance for a private evening with Boer.

• Ginny arrived at Bernia’s docks, where Baron Darenshi attempted to court her before retreating after she mentioned Aaron Ball’s invitation.
• Boer and Robin welcomed Ginny and invited her into a soundproof carriage to discuss the Revolutionary Army’s proposed cooperation with the consortium.
• Ginny proposed joining the consortium to coordinate supply channels and trade, while Boer questioned her apparent age.
• Ginny revealed that she had eaten the Age-Age Fruit and could control her body’s age, resolving Boer’s doubts about her youth.
• Boer put Robin in charge of coordinating with Ginny, and the two women agreed to work together on supplies and contact arrangements.
• Later, Robin told Boer that Ginny had temporarily changed her appearance with her ability, and Boer embraced and kissed her.

Boer confronted Rob Lucci and the other Cipher Pol 9 agents, who had come to avenge Miriam, and defeated them while revealing that Miriam had killed herself after infiltrating his estate. As the battered agents withdrew, Monkey D. Garp arrived at the port and challenged Boer with a barrage of Haki-coated cannonballs.

• Robin teased Boer about Ginny, then took Ginny on a tour of the Silver Capital while Boer headed to the port for business.
• Rob Lucci and his Cipher Pol 9 companions arrived disguised as merchants, and Lucci attacked Boer in a rage over Miriam's death.
• Boer quickly defeated Lucci, Blueno, Kaku, Jabra, Fukurou, and Kumadori, then told Lucci that Miriam had bitten through her own poison capsule after infiltrating his estate.
• Blueno begged Boer to spare the group, and Boer let them leave after warning Lucci to return only when he was strong enough.
• Monkey D. Garp arrived aboard a Dog-Head Warship and fired Haki-coated cannonballs at the port, which Boer deflected with magnetism.
• Lucci and Blueno dragged their unconscious companions away as Boer turned to face Garp.

Aaron Ball welcomed Monkey D. Garp to Bernia, evaded his attacks, and used a generous donation to win over the Marines accompanying him. He then confronted Garp with Nico Robin about Ohara, and Garp left the story having personally apologized to her for the massacre and its aftermath.

• Aaron Ball dodged Garp's powerful punches on the Dog-Head Warship and showed off his magnetic-field abilities.
• Aaron offered money to the Marines accompanying Garp, then brought Garp to a tearoom for food.
• Aaron asked Garp to acknowledge the injustice done to Nico Robin and the people of Ohara, and Robin joined them.
• Garp condemned the indiscriminate bombardment of Ohara and the pursuit of Robin, admitting that the operation had gone too far.
• Garp bowed his head and apologized to Robin for Ohara's destruction, her lost family and home, and her years of fear and loneliness.

The Five Elders classified Aaron Ball as a high-risk variable and chose surveillance and cautious cooperation over direct provocation. After Garp warned Boer to protect Robin from Cipher Pol, Boer revealed his ties to the Revolutionary Army, and Garp pretended not to hear.

• The Five Elders reviewed reports on Aaron Ball’s power and influence, then voted to monitor him and prepare contingencies without provoking him.
• Robin left the tea room after Garp apologized, and Garp told Boer that Sengoku had eased pressure on them but Cipher Pol was still watching.
• Garp warned Boer not to give Cipher Pol evidence against him or Robin, then asked Boer to make weapons from special alloy samples.
• Boer revealed that he was cooperating with Monkey D. Dragon and that Emporio Ginny was coordinating Revolutionary Army supplies and a new West Blue base in his territory.
• Garp reacted with shock and anger, then pretended he had heard nothing, while Boer refilled his tea and let the matter drop.

Garp returned to Marine Headquarters with the news that Aaron Boer and Nico Robin were dating, after Boer had brought Robin to him and demanded an apology for Ohara. At the Earl’s Estate, Chloe warned Allison that the Kent sisters’ position was precarious and urged her to win Boer’s favor as a means of survival.

• Garp arrived at the senior officers’ conference room carrying gifts, and Sengoku, Tsuru, and Zephyr noticed his unusual gloom.
• Garp told Sengoku, Tsuru, and Zephyr that Boer had brought Robin to him, demanded an apology for Ohara, and appeared to be dating her.
• Sengoku agreed that the Marines would act as though they knew nothing about Robin as long as Boer did not openly involve her in the Poneglyphs or publicize their relationship.
• Garp described the money Boer had given Marine personnel and praised the Brass Knuckles Boer had made for him, while Sengoku and Garp resumed their familiar bickering.
• Chloe told Allison that Boer’s new assistant was gaining his trust and warned that the Kent sisters could be discarded if they failed to prove useful.
• Allison recalled her family’s decline and her mother’s reaction to her return, then listened as Chloe admitted the family had pressured her to make Allison please Boer.

Dracule Mihawk crossed the Red Line and Calm Belt before reaching the West Blue, where he set course for the Kingdom of Bernia. The Marines learned he was heading toward Aaron Ball and chose to observe rather than intervene, leaving the impending clash to unfold.

• Dracule Mihawk launched his coffin boat over the Red Line and guided it down into the Calm Belt with precise sword strikes.
• Mihawk evaded a giant Sea King, then killed it with a single cut without looking back.
• Mihawk entered the West Blue, killed pirates attacking a merchant ship, and demanded passage to the Kingdom of Bernia.
• Rear Admiral Raymont reported Mihawk's arrival in the West Blue to Marine Headquarters.
• Sengoku decided the Marines would monitor the situation rather than intervene, while Tsuru ordered the West Blue branches to warn Aaron Ball through unofficial channels.

Dracule Mihawk dueled Hokushin Ichiteru on a metal platform off Bernia, testing the older swordsman’s unusual techniques and overwhelming him with increasingly powerful slashes. After Mihawk wounded him and criticized his traditional style, Hokushin unleashed the Bandage-Bandage Fruit’s complete release and revealed his eight-sword form, leaving the duel poised to intensify.

• Boer arranged for Mihawk to duel Hokushin Ichiteru on a metal platform and shielded the port spectators from Mihawk’s stray slash.
• Hokushin used Azure Abyss and Silk-Winding Force to surprise Mihawk, and the two swordsmen traded blows until both were wounded.
• Mihawk unleashed nine enormous Flying Slashes, which Hokushin countered with Sea and Sky in One Line and Azure Wave · Circular Rotation.
• Mihawk overwhelmed Hokushin with a prolonged torrent of Sword Aura and inflicted a grievous wound across his chest.
• Hokushin released the Bandage-Bandage Fruit’s power, forming six additional sword-bearing arms and revealing his Eight Desolations and Six Directions Sword.
• Mihawk welcomed Hokushin’s transformation and stepped forward to continue the duel at full intensity.

Hokushin Ichiteru and Hawk-Eye fought to a near-fatal draw until Boer intervened, treated them, and heard Hawk-Eye explain that Shanks had sent him to investigate Boer's weapons. At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku tried to order Hawk-Eye killed, but Saint Saturn ordered his protection and escort to Mary Geoise, revealing the Navy could not act against him.

• Hokushin Ichiteru and Hawk-Eye unleashed their ultimate techniques, devastating the platform and leaving both gravely wounded before Boer stopped Hokushin's final thrust.
• Boer rebuilt the platform, sealed Hawk-Eye's wound, and fed Hokushin a Sea King's life essence to restore his damaged body.
• Hokushin admitted defeat in swordsmanship, and Hawk-Eye told Boer that Shanks had sent him to investigate the weaponsmith rumored to make weapons rivaling a Black Blade.
• Boer explained that Marine Headquarters had prohibited his mass-producible Pseudo-Black Blade technology, and Hawk-Eye accepted the news before joining the banquet.
• Sengoku ordered Raymont to kill the wounded Hawk-Eye, but Saint Saturn ordered the Navy to protect him and escort him to Mary Geoise.
• Sengoku canceled the assassination mission and ordered Raymont to escort Hawk-Eye, then raged over the Navy's subordination to the Celestial Dragons.

Aaron Ball met Vinsmoke Judge of Germa and considered an alliance, but Judge’s offer of cloned women forced Aaron and Robin to confront the moral cost of treating people as commodities. The chapter ended with Aaron promising Robin he would not become like Judge and asking her to keep him mindful of humanity.

• Elena delivered Germa’s invitation, and Aaron agreed to meet Judge at Bernia’s port.
• Aaron and Robin welcomed Germa’s giant snail fleet, then discussed trade and a strategic alliance with Judge.
• Judge showed Aaron his genetically modified children and clone soldiers, while Aaron noticed Sanji and encouraged the boy’s dream of becoming a chef.
• Sanji ran off with Aaron’s gifted knife, and Judge offered Aaron twelve cloned women as collateral for Germa’s loyalty.
• Aaron accepted the clones but arranged for them to die peacefully in sedated sleep, and he told Robin to remind him if he ever stopped seeing people as people.

Boer fought the drunken Kaido away from Bernia, using electromagnetic attacks and a plasma blast to wound him before exploiting his weakness to seawater. Kaido invited Boer to join him in Wano Country, but Boer refused, and Kaido departed while Boer returned toward the damaged capital, aware of how much stronger he still needed to become.

• Kaido crashed into Bernia’s harbor and fired a Bolo Breath, but Boer deflected it out to sea, saving the city while the harbor suffered extensive damage.
• Boer lured Kaido away from the city and used lightning and magnetic attacks, but Kaido healed quickly and struck back with wind blades.
• Boer created a plasma explosion in the sea that badly burned Kaido, forcing him to change into his Dragon-Man form.
• Kaido overwhelmed Boer in close combat, but Boer used Black Seam and a magnetic-boosted stomp to knock Kaido into the sea, weakening him.
• Kaido invited Boer to join his crew in Wano Country, but Boer declined, and Kaido left for the New World.
• Boer headed back toward Bernia, wounded and reflecting that he remained far weaker than the Four Emperors.

After Kaido’s attack devastated Bernia, Boer abandoned cooperation and ordered the kingdom into indefinite reconstruction while preparing a retaliation. He obtained Wano Country’s location from Doflamingo and flew there to begin his counterattack against Kaido.

• Boer, Robin, and the others surveyed Bernia’s ruined port, where at least three hundred people had died and the kingdom faced enormous losses.
• Boer declared that Bernia would suspend foreign trade, diplomacy, and contracts, then told Robin to take Ginny and the core personnel to secret bases in the West Blue.
• Boer rejected Robin’s plea not to become like their enemies and flew toward Dressrosa to obtain Wano Country’s coordinates.
• Boer demanded Wano Country’s location from Doflamingo, who gave him a Vivre Card and encouraged him to cause havoc.
• Reports of Boer’s departure reached Sengoku and Saint Saturn as Boer flew toward Wano Country, vowing that the rules had changed.

Aaron Ball spent seven days sabotaging Wano Country’s geological weak points, forcing Kaido to seek help and warning the Marines and underworld that he would retaliate if Wano fell. The world reclassified Aaron as an Emperor-level threat, and he left for the West Blue after Kaido and others stopped treating him as a pawn.

• Aaron used his electromagnetic perception to map Wano’s fragile foundations and began precisely damaging key geological nodes across the country.
• King and Queen confronted Aaron, but he escaped and left them unable to stop his campaign; Kaido learned that Wano could suffer widespread collapse if it continued.
• Kaido called Sengoku and Doflamingo, threatening mutual destruction if they failed to address Aaron’s attacks.
• Morgans’s report prompted the Marines, World Government, Doflamingo, Dragon, and Shanks to reconsider their approach to Aaron, while the World Government shelved its plan to use Moria.
• Aaron received renewed cooperation proposals from Sengoku, a mediation offer from Doflamingo, and a warning from Kaido to leave Wano; he then headed back to the West Blue to see Robin.

Boer returned to Purple Iris Manor, reunited with Robin, and heard about the challenges of compensating victims and rebuilding the port. He explained his deal with Kaido and the Marines, including Robin’s freedom from her bounty, before Robin led him upstairs to demonstrate her new cloning ability.

• Boer arrived at Purple Iris Manor, where Robin embraced him and Ginny, Hokushin Ichiteru, Thatch, and Roland welcomed him back.
• Robin briefed Boer on compensation disputes, fraud by a security company, nobles’ complaints, merchants demanding payment for port warehouse goods, and the need to rebuild the port.
• Boer told Robin that he had pressured Kaido by damaging Wano Country’s foundations, prompting Kaido to seek help from Fleet Admiral Sengoku.
• Boer explained that Bernia would join a seastone-processing chain with Kaido and Doflamingo, and that Sengoku had offered political support, an honorary West Blue Inspector title, and the revocation of Robin’s bounty.
• Robin led Boer upstairs and revealed that she could now create clones, teasing him with a second version of herself.

At Bernia’s ruined port, Boer surveyed the seabed, rejected the conservative plans, and began building foundations with his magnetic powers. After killing two insect-themed assassins who ambushed him, he completed the difficult underwater foundation work and left the crews to continue construction, troubled by how rarely power was used to build rather than destroy.

• Boer used Extrasensory Vision to inspect Bernia’s seabed and told Stanford to expand the port plans, promising to handle underwater obstructions and foundation piles.
• Dragonfly and Ground Beetle, hired by a mysterious intermediary, attacked Boer with high-temperature venom, but Boer evaded the shot and killed Ground Beetle by extracting his heart.
• Boer used a plasma beam to kill Dragonfly, then suspected an insider or a larger scheme had revealed his location.
• Boer used magnetic forces and electricity to clear a coastal hill, form reclaimed land, and create dozens of reinforced foundation piles in the seabed.
• As construction crews arrived, Boer reflected on his desire to use his powers for building and improving lives before flying away.

After Boer learned that the Wilson Family had arranged an assassination, fear for Robin drove him to consider killing the entire family. Robin persuaded him to punish them without slaughter, and Boer promised not to become like Kaido before seeking comfort in her arms.

• Robin told Boer that trade and traffic in Bernia’s Shadow Port District had increased since his return from Wano Country, and he explained that his reputation for strength had drawn business.
• Boer revealed that two Devil Fruit Users had tried to assassinate him at the Old Port and said he would stay near Robin while Locke investigated.
• Locke reported that Viscount Wilson had poisoned himself and confessed to hiring the assassins, but investigators could not trace how he contacted them.
• Boer called for the Wilson Family to be killed, but Robin objected; they instead ordered confiscation of its assets, stripping of its title, exile of its leading branches, and disbandment of its private troops.
• Robin urged Boer not to become a monster like Kaido, and he promised before pulling her onto the sofa to rest with her.

Aaron Ball pressed Vinsmoke Judge to hurry Germa 66’s Seastone project, then accepted the Donquixote Family’s apology while rejecting its offers of slave trading and drug dealing. After Hel Migaro asked him to fight the Fierce Tyrant Pirates, Ball refused her proposed payment but invited her to return with suitable terms, leaving him intrigued by the crew and eager for a challenging fight.

• Aaron Ball called Vinsmoke Judge and urged him to speed up Germa 66’s delivery and research for the Seastone project.
• Buffalo apologized on behalf of Doflamingo, offered compensation and further business, and Aaron Ball declared the dispute settled while rejecting slave trading and Wonderland Spores.
• Buffalo introduced Hel Migaro, who asked Aaron Ball to defeat the Fierce Tyrant Pirates in exchange for money, their plunder, and a week with her.
• Hel Migaro described the pirates’ powerful crew and officers, including the mutated Ancient Zoan captain Sado, but Aaron Ball dismissed her offer as inadequate and gave her his contact information.
• Hel Migaro stormed out and Buffalo followed; Aaron Ball considered the crew’s unusual abilities and decided formidable opponents could help him overcome his training bottleneck.

Boer told Robin and Ginny that he was considering taking a commission to meet the Fierce Tyrant Pirates, hoping to strengthen himself through combat despite Robin’s fears. After reassuring her that he would prepare carefully, he privately resolved that he had to go.

• Robin and Ginny visited Boer, and he explained that a client had offered rewards for help dealing with a New World pirate crew.
• Robin urged Boer not to risk himself, but he admitted that he wanted to meet the Fierce Tyrant Pirates to gain the strength needed to face the Four Emperors and the Navy’s strongest fighters.
• Robin embraced Boer and pleaded with him to avoid the danger, recalling how frightened she had been while he was in Wano Country.
• Boer promised Robin that he would weigh the risks carefully and protect his life, while Ginny reminded him that his choices affected many people.
• Ginny led the embarrassed Robin away to shop, and Boer privately concluded that he had to make the trip for power.

Visbo and the idealistic Whispering Pirates challenged Aaron Ball in Bernia, where Ball effortlessly defeated them but spared the crew and gave them money to leave. Watching them sail away, Ball decided the New World offered the opponents he needed, though he worried about the forces and people he would leave behind.

• Visbo brought the Whispering Pirates to Bernia and publicly challenged Aaron Ball, but the residents defended Ball and drove the crew into an alley.
• Hokushin Ichiteru escorted the pirates to Ball’s Training Ground, where Visbo attacked Ball with powerful sound-based strikes that failed to injure him.
• Ball caught Visbo by the throat and repelled the crew’s desperate attacks, but released their captain after hearing the pirates declare their faith in his dream.
• Ball ordered Thatch to give the crew ten million Beli, refund their port fees, and escort them out of Bernia.
• After the Whispering Pirates sailed away, Ball resolved to seek stronger opponents in the New World while considering the dangers to Bernia and Robin if he left.

Aaron Ball attacked Giant Tooth Island and fought the Fierce Tyrant Pirates, defeating their captain Sado after killing vice-captain Aeros. He then reported the crew’s destruction to Sengoku, who arranged to verify the island and its surviving slaves.

• Aaron Ball used Conqueror's Haki and bioelectric suppression to incapacitate most of the pirates at Giant Tooth Island, then struck the remaining officers with lightning.
• Aeros transformed into a Quetzalcoatlus and attacked Aaron Ball, who shattered his beak, severed his wings, and pursued him through the sky.
• Sado and Aeros attacked Aaron Ball together, but Aaron Ball redirected Aeros's claws into Sado and trapped both men in a storm of lightning.
• Sado hurled Aeros into Aaron Ball's falling white sphere to survive its blast, then fought Aaron Ball until his awakened Ancient Zoan body could no longer rise.
• Aaron Ball told Sengoku that he had destroyed the Fierce Tyrant Pirates and left the surviving slaves on Giant Tooth Island for the Marines to handle.
• Sengoku agreed to send Deep Sea Shipping to verify the island and reflected that Aaron Ball was becoming increasingly difficult to control.

Aaron Ball returned to the underground quiet room and reunited with Nico Robin, who worried that her past put him in danger. As they discussed the consortium’s Seastone-processing research, their affection eased her fears, and they remained together before heading home.

• Aaron Ball bypassed the office and went to the underground quiet room, where Nico Robin’s original body rested on a sofa.
• Robin’s double finished chairing the end-of-day meeting while sensing Ball embrace her original body, then dissolved into petals after the meeting ended.
• Robin awoke in Ball’s arms and cried as she worried that her history as an Ohara orphan and the Devil Child had made his life more dangerous.
• Ball comforted Robin, and she reported that the research team had begun three priority projects for processing Seastone.
• Robin described cold-processing, energy-field processing, and melting-purification-recrystallization proposals, including the use of all the samples Ball had brought back.
• Ball kissed Robin, then agreed to hold her a little longer before they went home to Elena’s dinner.