Chapter Summaries

Rossi, controlling Luffy’s body, fought Crocodile through a devastating sandstorm and used rain to stop Crocodile from turning into sand. After defeating him, Rossi revealed that he knew Crocodile was seeking Pluton and offered to share its coordinates if Crocodile could beat him, before bringing up Uranus.

• Crocodile unleashed a vast sandstorm that swept away civilians and rebels, forcing Rossi to fight through the chaos.
• Rossi used a blade and lightning to strike Crocodile repeatedly, but Crocodile survived and believed his Haki made him invincible.
• Rossi called down rain, which collapsed the sandstorm and prevented Crocodile from turning into sand.
• Rossi defeated the rain-soaked Crocodile and told him that relying on Pluton instead of his own strength had weakened him.
• Rossi revealed that he knew Crocodile was seeking Pluton and offered to give him its coordinates if Crocodile could defeat him.
• Rossi began telling Crocodile about witnessing Uranus’s power, but the chapter ended before he explained further.

Rossi drove Crocodile away and left him questioning his strength, while the Straw Hat Pirates recovered from the battle and reunited with Vivi. In another space-time, Vegapunk showed Doflamingo his laboratory and explained his plan to connect people to a network of shared knowledge.

• Rossi told Crocodile that relying on Pluton would not make him strong, and Crocodile withdrew after promising to face Rossi as his true self next time.
• Rain fell over the desert and ended the rebels’ will to fight, while Chopper examined the injured Straw Hat Pirates and found Luffy’s wounds had healed through Life Return.
• Nami comforted Vivi, Luffy apologized to his crew, and Zoro and Sanji spoke about growing stronger after their defeat.
• Vivi invited the recovering crew to eat, and Rossi watched them from above, hoping their experience would spur them to train without damaging their foundations.
• In another space-time, Vegapunk showed Doflamingo his brain laboratory and described his plan to create a network for recording and sharing knowledge.

Doflamingo redirected his coalition toward Marine Headquarters after learning that the Revolutionary Army was moving against the Red Line, while Law briefed him on the Marines’ forces. The chapter ended with Sakazuki furious over an Admiral’s outright surrender.

• Shaka reported that Kuma had left the Revolutionary Army’s base and was under attack near Red Line Port, prompting Doflamingo to plan a pincer assault with the Revolutionary Army.
• Doflamingo changed Karai Bari Island’s course toward the Red Line as fleets from across the New World gathered to attack Marine Headquarters.
• Law briefed Doflamingo on the Marines’ Admirals, veterans, and candidates, while Kizaru listened and reacted to the report about Ryokugyu.
• Law explained that he was helping for the sake of his other-world counterpart, Lami, and the people they cared about.
• Sakazuki smashed his desk and condemned an unnamed Admiral for surrendering outright.

The Marines prepared to defend Mary Geoise and their New World fortress as the allied fleet led by Doflamingo advanced, while Imu readied herself to face Joy Boy. At the fortress, Akainu attacked the approaching island with magma, but Blackbeard’s darkness swallowed the assault.

• Sakazuki ordered the Marines to fight the allied forces, and told Garp and Sengoku to return after rescuing Koby from Hachinosu.
• Imu dismissed the Five Elders’ apologies, confirmed that an awakened Nika user had joined the allied force, and prepared to fight Joy Boy.
• A combined pirate fleet attacked the Marines’ New World fortress, but its defenders held the walls against the assault.
• A fleet detached from the battle and headed toward Red Harbor to search for the princess entrusted to them by the captain in the straw hat.
• Akainu confronted Doflamingo at Karai Bari Island and unleashed a torrent of magma, which Blackbeard’s darkness absorbed.

The Navy’s top fighters clashed with the allied forces as the rising island neared the Red Line. Hawk-Eyes cut down Ryokugyu, who regenerated and kept fighting, while Golden Lion struggled to hold back two enormous falling masses and Fujitora faced a powerful armored opponent.

• Crocodile and Tesoro used sand and Haki-coated gold to counter Akainu’s lava attack as young Doflamingo fought the Fleet Admiral with his threads.
• Ryokugyu unleashed a forest that threatened the allied forces, and Doflamingo ordered the fighters to target his real body.
• Hawk-Eyes sliced through the forest and split Ryokugyu’s giant tree form, but Aramaki regenerated from a shoot and prepared to hold him off.
• Fujitora summoned a massive meteor, and Golden Lion stopped it with his Float-Float Fruit before Fujitora brought down a second enormous mass.
• A black-armored man struck Fujitora with City Crusher, but the blind swordsman halted the punch with gravity and his blade.

The allied forces reached the Red Line as the Marines withdrew, revealing Akainu’s plan to lead a strike against the Holy Land and everyone entrenched there. Blackbeard’s forces stood before Mary Geoise, intent on confronting the hidden ruler.

• Tsuru stopped Luffy from reaching Akainu and weakened his arm with the Wash-Wash Fruit, while the allied forces gained the advantage elsewhere on the battlefield.
• Doflamingo realized the Marines were stalling, and Akainu attacked Karai Bari Island, breaking off a fragment and forcing the Marines to withdraw.
• Karai Bari Island reached the summit of the Red Line, where Akainu assembled senior Marines and ordered them to eliminate their enemies before marching on Mary Geoise.
• Akainu declared that the Marines would eradicate the Celestial Dragons and the hidden power behind them, and Fujitora accepted the plan.
• Karai Bari Island’s wreckage crashed at the edge of the Red Line, and Blackbeard urged Doffy to give the order to attack Mary Geoise.

Doflamingo’s alliance attacked the Holy City, with Byrnndi World’s enlarged explosive shell devastating the Celestial Dragons’ city but failing to damage the castle’s silver barrier. The assembled fighters began testing the barrier and realized it was governed by rules rather than ordinary strength, leaving the castle and its occupant untouched.

• Doflamingo had Luo teleport Byrnndi World to the Red Line and asked him to demonstrate his destructive power.
• Byrnndi World enlarged a cannon shell a hundredfold, and its blast killed ordinary agents and devastated the Holy City.
• The blast failed to penetrate the silver halo surrounding the castle, while the surviving fighters gathered among the ruins.
• A black-clad swordsman and a metallic-skinned fighter attacked the halo, but it resisted their strikes.
• The swordsman concluded that the barrier was governed by rules rather than hardness, and the metallic-skinned fighter stopped attacking.

The Straw Hat Pirates waited outside the castle as its gates opened and the powerful figures entered, but a mysterious woman suddenly appeared and gravely injured the crew. Luffy and Teach confronted her, and Teach realized she was Imu as her overwhelming power drove him back.

• A young man in a pink coat touched the castle’s silver halo, causing it to surge and the gates to open; he, the sword-wielding man, the burly man, and the other figures entered the darkness.
• Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates waited among the ruins, with the crew preparing for danger while the surrounding overlords remained frozen by the authority of the white-robed figures.
• A tall woman appeared among the Straw Hat Pirates and shattered Zoro’s slash, extinguished Sanji’s flames, and injured the crew with a wave of Haki.
• Luffy attacked the woman in Gear Fifth, but she caught his fist and nullified his power; Teach identified her as Imu and used Black Vortex against her.
• Imu struck Teach at close range, and their clash unleashed a black-and-white shock wave that split the Red Line as Teach struggled to withstand her strength.

Imu used her moonlight power to halt time across Mary Geoise, freezing the fighters who had attacked her. She struck Doflamingo while he was immobilized, then turned toward Mihawk.

• The man in the suit used white threads to stitch the injured Straw Hat Pirates back from the brink of death.
• Akainu unleashed a storm of magma against the pirate alliance, while the Corrupt King and the former Chief Warden began moving away in secret.
• Blackbeard, Mihawk, Doflamingo, and another fighter attacked Imu together, but she activated “Halt This Place” and froze the battlefield.
• Imu walked among the frozen attackers and punched Doflamingo in the chest, expecting the damage to destroy him when the moonlight faded.
• Imu turned toward Mihawk, who remained frozen in his sword-slashing stance.

Imu froze time and severely wounded Mihawk and Doflamingo, but Teach broke her domain with the Dark-Dark Fruit, and Doflamingo survived and healed Mihawk with a new use of his String-String Fruit. Luffy rejected Imu’s offer to rule beside her as the Five Elders and the other fighters began battling around them.

• Imu stopped time, cut Mihawk across the chest, and overwhelmed Teach until he used the Dark-Dark Fruit to shatter her frozen-time domain.
• Doflamingo redirected the Haki erupting inside him by turning his body into an infinite loop of strings, then used his strings to repair Mihawk’s wounds.
• Luffy charged at Imu, rejected her offer to rule the world together, and vowed to send her flying for hurting his friends.
• The Five Elders arrived with surviving guards, and the Straw Hat Pirates and Teach’s officers engaged them and the Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents.
• Imu revealed that her Mythical Zoan was the Human-Human Fruit, Moon God Form, and that her moonlight stopped time; Teach called on his allies to support him as darkness spread around him.

Imu froze the battlefield with Time Stop, while Luffy and Teach struggled to fight him without setting aside their blood feud. As Doflamingo from another world urged Sakazuki to join forces against Imu, the Navy’s choice remained unresolved.

• Sakazuki led Navy officers up the Red Line and declared that he would destroy both pirates and the Celestial Dragons to end the cycle of suffering.
• Imu used Time Stop to freeze the arriving Navy officers, while Teach and Luffy resisted the effect but attacked each other instead of cooperating.
• Imu knocked Luffy and Teach away and mocked them for fighting among themselves.
• Doflamingo confronted the Navy officers and proposed joining forces against Imu, but Sakazuki refused to accept his terms immediately.
• An old man atop a golden colossus shouted at Sakazuki to order the Navy to eliminate the allied forces.

Akainu openly rebelled against the Celestial Dragons as Marines and former allies turned against Imu, whose time-stopping power kept the battle near a stalemate. Imu unleashed her full Haki, and the chapter ended as an azure-lit fighter overwhelmed an opponent in a head-on clash.

• Akainu killed an elder and ordered Cipher Pol Aigis Zero, the Celestial Dragons, their servants, and the Five Elders’ forces to stop resisting or die.
• Ryokugyu attacked the agents with vines, while another fighter challenged the bald elder wielding First Generation Kitetsu with a gravity-powered slash.
• Tsuru said the returning forces were on their way, prompting Cipher Pol agents to grow cautious as the battle shifted toward preserving their strength.
• Imu used her three heads and six arms to unleash a barrage of slashes, then froze the battlefield with her time-stopping ability.
• Doffy from another world healed Kuzan and another former Admiral, allowing them to return to the fight alongside Akainu against Imu.
• Imu unleashed overwhelming Haki that disrupted space and time, then struck at a retreating figure whose azure-lit fist overwhelmed his black Haki.

Doflamingo escaped through Imu’s rift and returned to what he thought was his home world, only to discover that years had passed and he had arrived on a Sky Island. The Golden Lion confronted him and offered to explain the changes while setting boundaries around the Tontatta Tribe and Artificial Devil Fruit business.

• Imu opened a rift to another world, and Doflamingo used his threads to confirm it led to his home world before stepping through.
• Doflamingo emerged on an island and captured Wicca, then realized the land was a Sky Island rather than Green Bit.
• The Golden Lion arrived to protect Wicca and demonstrated his strength by cutting through a mountain.
• The Golden Lion told Doflamingo that he had been gone for years and that the Tontatta Tribe was under his protection and would no longer work for the Donquixote Family for free.
• Doflamingo agreed to go with the Golden Lion to learn what had happened while he was away.

Six years after the Battle of the Holy Land, Doflamingo reunited with Golden Lion Shiki and learned that the Donquixote Family had news about Rossi. Meanwhile, Luffy and his companions arrived at Mock Town, where Bellamy and the Donquixote Family confronted them over their hunt for pirates.

• Doflamingo heard Shiki recount how the Holy Land battle shattered the old balance of power and left him trapped in a tiny body.
• Shiki explained that he had taken charge of the Tontatta Tribe and used the Donquixote Family’s Artificial Devil Fruit technology to rebuild his forces.
• Doflamingo spoke with Sugar and reassured Trebol and the other Family members that he would return, but they interrupted him to say they had news about Rossi.
• Luffy’s crew landed at Mock Town, where Nami and Zoro faced frightened pirates while Luffy trained with a ten-ton weight.
• Robin reflected on her past as Franky encouraged her to keep looking ahead, repeating Rossi’s advice.
• Bellamy arrived with Donquixote Family associates and claimed control of the island, while Nami challenged him over protecting the pirates.

Luffy and his companions defeated Bellamy and the pirates who had been exploiting children in Mock Town, then accepted Cricket’s invitation to his home. In Dressrosa, Luo received permission from Lord Trebol to investigate, with orders to bring Luffy back intact because Doffy was interested in him.

• Luffy revealed that the metal block was real, then struck Bellamy and sent him crashing through a wall.
• Nami and the others rounded up the fleeing pirates, and Bellamy warned Luffy that Mock Town’s businesses operated under the Donquixote name before admitting defeat.
• Cricket invited Luffy and his companions to his home and warned that Bellamy’s defeat could bring trouble from the Family; Luffy agreed to go while promising to keep watch over the pirates.
• In Dressrosa, a girl reported Bellamy’s defeat to a room of Donquixote Family members, and Luo stopped another girl from acting without permission before going to see Lord Trebol.
• Lord Trebol allowed Luo to handle the situation and ordered him to take Monet and Ulti, bring the captives back intact, and avoid harming Luffy, whom Doffy was watching closely.

Cricket warned Luffy and his companions that the Donquixote Family might be using the detained children as bait, while he and his allies prepared to investigate the legendary Golden City above the clouds. At Mock Town, a young Donquixote agent arrived, punished Bellamy’s group for tarnishing the Family’s name, and gave Bellamy a chance to redeem himself.

• Cricket warned Luffy that the Donquixote Family was powerful and that the detained people might be bait, then urged the group to leave the island before dawn as ships approached.
• Mont Blanc Cricket explained his plan to ride a Knock Up Stream toward the sky in search of the Golden City, and Luffy’s companions agreed to join him.
• Cricket, Masira, and Monkey began modifying a black speedboat for the ascent while a dangerous visitor approached the waters.
• A Donquixote warship docked at Mock Town, and Bellamy reported that Luffy, Zoro, and a woman were with shipwreck salvagers on the other side of the island.
• The young agent severed the left arms of Bellamy and the others for tarnishing the Family’s name, then told Bellamy his future depended on how he performed.

The Straw Hats and Mont Blanc Cricket sailed into the Knock Up Stream aboard the Black Cat, while Luo and Ulti pursued them in the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo. Both ships rose toward the sky as their crews recognized each other as potential enemies, leaving the coming encounter unresolved.

• Ulti kept the severed arms so their owners might have them reattached someday, and Luo learned that Mr. Rossi’s location had been confirmed.
• Mont Blanc Cricket completed the Black Cat’s modifications, and Luffy invited him aboard as the ship departed with the Saruyama Alliance.
• Lami used seabirds to track the Black Cat, and Luo ordered the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo to pursue it.
• The Black Cat entered the giant whirlpool with Cricket and the Straw Hats, while they told Cricket they wanted to see Sky Island and the Golden City for themselves.
• Robin recognized the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo’s two-dragon flag as the rival ship drew alongside them in the whirlpool.
• The Knock Up Stream launched both ships skyward, and Luo ordered Ulti not to fire on the Black Cat because someone was watching over it.

Luo and the Donquixote Family’s young officers reached the White-White Sea alongside the Straw Hat Pirates, where Rossi confirmed that Sky Islands and Noland’s story were real. As Cricket celebrated Noland’s vindication, Ulti challenged Luffy in the hope of winning Rossi’s attention.

• Luo led Ulti, Page One, Monet, Baby 5, and Lami toward the Sky Island, while Rossi spoke through Luffy and warned both crews to hold their breath before entering the White-White Sea.
• The Black Cat and the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo broke through the suffocating cloud barrier and settled on the sea of clouds.
• Rossi explained how Sea Clouds and Island Clouds formed and confirmed that Jaya’s Golden City had been swept into the sky, proving that Noland had told the truth.
• Cricket wept and celebrated Noland’s vindication, and Luffy steadied him before he could bow.
• Ulti challenged Luffy and demanded that Rossi join her side if she won, but softened immediately when Rossi addressed her.

The Straw Hat and Black Cat crews encountered Sky Island warriors and fought a brief, destructive clash before both sides stopped and began talking. The warriors allowed the ships to travel on a Super Express Shrimp, while Lami explained her ability to communicate with creatures and apologized to Chopper for startling him.

• Nami and a swordswoman fought fiercely aboard the ships until Rossi stopped them and directed them to continue their match above the vessels.
• Wyper recognized the larger ship from the Great Demon King’s past attack on Sky Island, while the warriors witnessed the fighters’ immense power.
• A warrior fired a scorching torrent at Luffy, who canceled it with an attack of his own, and another man lowered the ships back onto the cloud sea.
• The crews exchanged words instead of continuing the fight; Nami and the green-haired Swordsman acknowledged their opponents’ skill, while Sanji served refreshments to Robin, Monet, and Baby 5.
• Luo threatened Chopper after mistaking his shout at Lami for disrespect, but Page One and Baby 5 restrained him and Chopper hurriedly called himself a raccoon dog.
• About thirty minutes later, the ships traveled atop a Super Express Shrimp, and Lami explained that her Devil Fruit let her communicate with creatures before apologizing to Chopper.

Rossi explained that he was stranded on the sun and could communicate through Luffy, while Lami could receive his signals but not understand them. He set a nonlethal contest to find Shandia’s Golden Bell, and the teams began their first test on Sky Island.

• Rossi explained that he could only communicate by sending Observation Haki signals through Luffy, and Luo suggested Lami’s Whisper-Whisper Fruit might receive them.
• Lami picked up Rossi’s signals but could not decode them, so Rossi reassured her and said he was glad she could communicate with him at all.
• Rossi admitted that he and Diamante had taken most of Shandia’s gold, but said the legendary Golden Bell might still be on Sky Island.
• Rossi challenged the two teams to find the Golden Bell first, promising to grant the winners one wish, and Mont Blanc Cricket thanked him.
• The Giant Shrimp carried the ships to an island guarded by Sky Island Warriors, where Rossi ordered the young fighters not to kill anyone.
• Ulti knocked aside the warriors without killing them, while Luffy went ahead to search for the Golden Bell and dodged a volley of arrows.