Chapter Summaries

Xia Chen and the Straw Hats encountered Lilith and Shaka on the future island, where Xia Chen revealed that they were Vegapunk's satellites. Shaka began guiding the group, but Xia Chen sensed Luo nearby.

• Sanji rushed to greet Lilith and was kicked away, while Nami challenged her claim to be Vegapunk.
• Lilith fired her laser gun at Xia Chen, but it had no effect, and he warned her to stop attacking.
• Xia Chen recognized Shaka as Vegapunk, and Shaka offered to guide him and the Straw Hats around the island.
• Xia Chen explained Vegapunk's satellites to Franky and the others, surprising Shaka and Lilith with how much he knew.
• Xia Chen sensed a presence and identified it as Luo.

Law arrived on Egghead Island gravely wounded after CP0 killed his crew, and he told Xia Chen and the others that Kuma had sent him there. Shaka suspected Kuma had a reason connected to Law’s Op-Op Fruit, so he led the group to ask Vegapunk’s main body.

• Xia Chen used his power to lower the injured Law in front of the group, and Law recognized Xia Chen and confirmed that the World Government had attacked him.
• Law used a green glow to heal some of his wounds and learned from Shaka that he was on Egghead Island.
• Law explained that CP0 had defeated his crew on Soro Island, killed his crewmates, and left him badly wounded with one arm missing.
• Law said Kuma had appeared during the attack and sent him to Egghead Island, though Law did not know why Kuma had saved him.
• Shaka suggested Kuma’s decision might be related to Law’s Op-Op Fruit, then led everyone to meet Vegapunk’s main body for answers.

Kaido learned that Edward Weevil, who claimed to be Whitebeard's son and had once cut off Zephyr's arm, wanted to join the Beasts Pirates. He went to meet Weevil, vowing to fight the World Government and Marines and turn the world upside down if they left him no place in it.

• King told Kaido that a powerful newcomer named Edward Weevil had arrived to join the Beasts Pirates.
• King said Weevil was as strong as he was, had cut off Zephyr's arm, and claimed to be Whitebeard's son.
• Kaido grew interested in Weevil and picked up his spiked club to meet him and test his strength.
• Kaido unleashed his Conqueror's Haki, knocking out most of the pirates outside the castle and drawing Jack and Queen's attention.
• Kaido vowed to kill any Marines who came after him and avenge Big Mom before declaring he would turn the world upside down if it had no room for him.

Imu ordered the Five Elders to begin slaughtering civilians worldwide, and they reluctantly agreed. On Egghead Island, Usopp explored ancient ruins and climbed onto a rusted robot, which began shaking beneath him.

• In the Flower Room, Imu said he was close to gathering the aura of evil and still needed the aura of good before his plan could succeed.
• Saturn questioned whether Imu intended to destroy the world, but Jupiter silenced him.
• The Five Elders discussed Imu's order to indiscriminately kill civilians worldwide and recognized the damage it would do to the World Government.
• Venus told the others to obey Imu and ordered a large-scale slaughter of civilians across the world.
• On Egghead Island, Usopp explored ancient ruins, found a rusted robot, and climbed onto it before it began trembling violently.

Usopp followed an ancient robot after it identified Luffy as Joy Boy and set off to find him. In Vegapunk’s control room, the Straw Hats learned that Kuma’s implanted program had brought Law to the island, and Vegapunk began explaining the Great Kingdom as Robin recalled Ohara’s forbidden research.

• The ancient robot scanned Usopp, found him non-hostile, and announced that Joy Boy had returned before walking off to find him.
• Usopp recognized that the robot meant Luffy and followed it to see what it would do.
• Shaka led the group to the central control room, where Luffy, Chopper, and Vegapunk were waiting.
• Vegapunk explained that an implanted program had directed Kuma to bring the Op-Op Fruit user to him, though Kuma’s consciousness had been erased.
• Vegapunk asked whether anyone knew of the Great Kingdom, and Robin revealed that Ohara had been destroyed for researching its history.
• Vegapunk warned that the World Government forbade research into the Void Century and would eliminate anyone who pursued it.

Vegapunk revealed that the Great Kingdom had been ruled by Joy Boy and that the World Government was preparing for a world destined to sink beneath the sea. He said human actions could hasten the sinking, and Xia Chen suspected the World Government’s worldwide slaughter of pirates was involved.

• Robin reaffirmed that she would uncover the true history even if it cost her life, and Vegapunk said Xia Chen’s strength made that safer.
• Vegapunk explained that Joy Boy led the Great Kingdom, which the twenty kingdoms defeated before erasing the Void Century and becoming the ancestors of the Celestial Dragons.
• Vegapunk revealed that the world’s islands would eventually sink beneath the sea, with Mary Geoise on the Red Line falling last.
• Vegapunk insisted the sinking was certain rather than a mere prophecy and said human intervention could accelerate it.
• Xia Chen asked whether the World Government’s slaughter of pirates around the world was speeding up the disaster.

Vegapunk explained that Imu planned to destroy pirates and then ordinary civilians to destabilize the world and escape its limits. He revealed that he had learned of the plan from Joy Boy, while its timing and Imu’s method remained unknown.

• Vegapunk told a story about a powerful “big brother” disrupting the world’s balance to escape “Mother,” and Xia Chen identified the figures as the World Government, Imu, and pirates.
• Vegapunk clarified that the World Government intended to slaughter all pirates, then ordinary civilians, which shocked Robin, Jinbe, and the others.
• Jinbe challenged the idea that the World Government would kill civilians, but Vegapunk argued that balance had already been broken by the pirate slaughter.
• Xia Chen asked when the civilian massacre would happen, how Imu would transcend the world, and how Vegapunk knew about the plan; Vegapunk said he did not know the first two answers.
• Vegapunk revealed that he had once met Joy Boy.

Vegapunk revealed that a consciousness projection of Joy Boy had told him about the world’s fate and Imu, prompting Xia Chen to wonder how Joy Boy knew about the World Government. An ancient robot began attacking the building, and the chapter ended with it declaring that it would get Joy Boy out.

• Vegapunk explained that he had found Joy Boy’s preserved consciousness projection, which had told him about the world’s fate and Imu.
• Xia Chen wondered how Joy Boy had known about the World Government and began to form a theory.
• An ancient robot outside the building began striking it, surprising Vegapunk, who had believed it was out of commission.
• Shaka activated a defensive shield that stopped the robot’s next punch from shaking the building.
• The robot raised its fist again and declared, “Joy Boy, I’ll definitely get you out!”

Xia Chen stopped Emeth’s attack and learned that Usopp had accidentally awakened the ancient robot. Emeth recognized Xia Chen as someone familiar but could not understand who he was, so Xia Chen asked Luffy to transform into Nika to explain.

• Vegapunk said Emeth no longer had enough power to break through the barrier, and Xia Chen went outside to prevent the robot from wasting its remaining energy.
• Vegapunk ordered Shaka to open an exit, and Xia Chen carried Luffy through it before asking Shaka to lower the barrier.
• Emeth’s fist struck Xia Chen’s raised palm, but Xia Chen stopped the blow without moving.
• Xia Chen asked Usopp whether he had awakened Emeth, and Usopp explained that he had climbed onto the robot before it woke and headed toward them, calling out for Joy Boy.
• Xia Chen told Emeth they were not enemies, and Emeth asked why Xia Chen knew his name.
• Xia Chen told Luffy to transform into Nika so he could show Emeth who he was.

Luffy transformed into Gear 5, and Emeth realized that the aura he had mistaken for Joy Boy’s belonged to Luffy. After Xia Chen summoned Vegito, Emeth reacted with urgent recognition, while Vegapunk and Shaka watched the giant robot arrive in astonishment.

• Luffy transformed, and Emeth recognized Joy Boy’s aura in him before realizing Joy Boy was dead and asking Luffy’s name.
• Luffy told Emeth that the Pirate King was the freest person in the world, and Emeth recalled Joy Boy sharing a similar dream of freedom.
• Xia Chen claimed Joy Boy had told him Emeth’s name, then asked Emeth whether he knew Vegito.
• Emeth reacted urgently to Vegito’s name, so Xia Chen summoned him; Vegito’s enormous landing made two craters.
• Vegapunk and Shaka saw Vegito on a projection and learned he was an ancient robot from Noah, while Emeth stared in shock.

Emeth recognized Vegito, explained that Joy Boy had altered Vegito’s memories, and offered to restore them. He revealed a purple crystal that Vegito had given him long ago: Vegito’s original body core.

• Emeth recognized Vegito, but Vegito had lost most of his memories and did not recognize him.
• Emeth explained that Joy Boy had modified Vegito’s memory chip to protect him, changing his personality in the process.
• Emeth was surprised to learn that Vegito had a new master, Xia Chen.
• Vegito eagerly accepted Emeth’s offer to help him recover his memories and potentially increase his strength.
• Emeth opened his chest and showed Vegito the purple crystal he identified as Vegito’s original body core.

Vegito restored his body core, regained his memories, and revealed that the Great Kingdom’s prophecy of the world sinking beneath the sea described an inevitable event. He began measuring the strange energy to estimate the time remaining, but his shocked reaction left the deadline unknown.

• Emeth told Vegito that his body core held his memories and that Vegito had once given it to him.
• Vegito put the core into his chest, triggering a transformation that turned him into a white-and-gold robot a hundred meters tall.
• Vegito remembered everything and told Xia Chen he needed to act for the Great Kingdom and the world.
• Vegito tried to share what he knew about the world sinking beneath the sea and its other secrets, but Xia Chen and Luffy had already heard those stories.
• Vegito said the strange energy could reveal how much time remained before the world sank, then cried out in horror as he sensed its concentration.

Vegito learned that Imu’s massacres were raising the world’s energy concentration and revealed a secret plan to find the Sea-Calming Heavenly Pillar before the world sank beneath the sea. After Xia Chen let him leave to search, Vegito challenged Luffy and quickly overwhelmed him with his upgraded power.

• Vegito panicked over the rising energy concentration until Xia Chen explained that Imu was carrying out massacres around the world to fulfill the prophecy.
• Vegito revealed that the Sea-Calming Heavenly Pillar could stabilize the oceans if placed at the world’s sea eye, and said he would search for it.
• Xia Chen let Vegito go, then Vegito challenged Luffy to a fight.
• Vegito struck Luffy and sent him flying, then pursued him at great speed.
• Xia Chen realized Vegito had become highly proficient in Observation Haki Killer and predicted that Luffy was in trouble.

After Vegito defeated Luffy in their spar, he explained that Luffy’s Nika fruit could awaken a second time, though Luffy needed to grow much stronger first. Xia Chen then warned that even a second awakening would not make Luffy stronger than Imu.

• Vegito used his machine core to overpower Luffy and explained that it had greatly increased his strength.
• Vegito told Luffy that the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika could undergo a second awakening once Luffy’s mind and body had grown enough.
• Vegapunk admitted he had not researched the fruit deeply because the World Government had erased its history, and Xia Chen praised Vegapunk’s scientific talent.
• Xia Chen confirmed that Luffy had a long way to go before a second awakening and said Imu would still be beyond Luffy’s strength.
• Vegito asked whether Xia Chen meant Imu, and Xia Chen confirmed it and warned that Imu was not as simple as Vegito thought.

Xia Chen explained that Imu had absorbed Zeus and Athena’s powers, making her far more dangerous than a second-awakening Nika could handle, and revealed his past battles with her and his absorption of Hades’s power. After sensing a new provocation from Imu, Xia Chen left the group in anger and told them to meet him at Elbaf if he had not returned by the time the Log Pose finished gathering magnetism.

• Xia Chen told the group that Imu had absorbed Zeus and Athena’s powers, and Vegapunk recalled ancient records of three world-destroying gods, including Hades.
• Xia Chen explained that he had fought Imu’s avatars and her past-era self, and that he had absorbed Hades’s power during six months of training on Eternal Night Island.
• Luffy wondered how Ace, Sabo, and the others were doing, while Xia Chen kept their deaths secret from him.
• Xia Chen sensed that Imu had provoked him, summoned the Flying Nimbus, and told the group to head to Elbaf if he had not returned before the Log Pose finished gathering magnetism.

Vegito left to search for the Sea-Calming Heavenly Pillar, while Vegapunk asked Law for blood to study the Op-Op Fruit’s Eternal Youth Surgery. Xia Chen rushed to Amazon Lily after discovering the World Government’s forces had attacked, where Hancock and the Kuja warriors faced the unexpected arrival of Red Hair and a bandaged woman.

• Vegito promised to find the Sea-Calming Heavenly Pillar and flew away, leaving Emeth hoping his old friend would succeed.
• Vegapunk asked Law to provide blood so he could research the secret of the Op-Op Fruit’s Eternal Youth Surgery.
• Xia Chen arrived above the burning island and knocked out many World Government personnel with his Conqueror’s Haki.
• Hancock told the Kuja warriors to avoid needless casualties and wait for Xia Chen to arrive.
• Hancock and the Kuja warriors watched a bandaged woman and a red-haired swordsman emerge from the forest, and Hancock recognized the man as Red Hair.

Figarland Shamrock revealed that he was Red-Haired Shanks’s twin brother and led the Holy Knights’ attack on Amazon Lily to avenge his father’s death at Xia Chen’s hands. As Gunko prepared to strike Hancock, Xia Chen’s overwhelming Conqueror’s Haki arrived, leaving the attackers trembling.

• Shamrock introduced himself as the commander of the Holy Knights, son of Figarland Saint Garling, and Shanks’s twin brother.
• Shamrock declared that he intended to kill people connected to Xia Chen and blamed Shanks for failing to save their father.
• Shamrock unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, knocking out many Kuja warriors while Hancock and a handful of others remained standing.
• Gunko attacked Hancock with black arrows, and Hancock petrified the first arrow with her Slave Arrow technique.
• Gunko gathered a stronger attack, but Xia Chen’s Conqueror’s Haki swept in and made Shamrock and Gunko tremble as Hancock recognized his arrival.

Xia Chen arrived at Amazon Lily and quickly killed Gunko and Shamrock after learning the World Government had sent troops to his territory. He reassured Hancock that he had arrived in time, while warning that Imu and the World Government would face the same fate.

• Shamrock and Gunko were terrified when Xia Chen appeared, and Xia Chen struck Shamrock hard enough to send him flying.
• Xia Chen shot Gunko through the heart with a laser, killing her.
• Shamrock tried to flee, but Xia Chen appeared before him and confronted him for attacking Amazon Lily.
• Xia Chen encased Shamrock in black ice and shattered him into pieces, while revealing that Imu and the World Government would be punished too.
• The Kuja warriors cheered Xia Chen as he reached Hancock and said he had arrived in time.

The Five Elders discussed the near-completion of their pirate extermination campaign and worried about Shamrock’s mission to Amazon Lily, but they dismissed the threat of Xia Chen because Imu had emerged. Their confidence collapsed when Xia Chen’s enormous meteor appeared above Mary Geoise, and they combined their powers to attack it.

• Jupiter reported that the pirate forces had nearly been wiped out, though the war had cost the World Government heavily, and that the civilian massacre plan had destroyed a dozen kingdoms.
• Saturn worried that Shamrock’s mission against Amazon Lily would provoke Xia Chen because Hancock was close to him, but Venus and the others insisted they could rely on Imu.
• The Five Elders celebrated the chance to retaliate against Xia Chen, then noticed the hall darken and looked outside.
• Saturn and the other Elders saw a vast continent-like meteor filling the sky above Mary Geoise and realized Xia Chen had summoned it.
• The Five Elders transformed into Mythical Zoan forms and fused their five energy attacks into one wave, which struck the falling meteor.

Xia Chen confronted Imu in her Athena form after she destroyed the Five Elders and threatened Mary Geoise. Imu revealed she had absorbed Athena’s and Zeus’s powers, and Xia Chen launched an attack as their fight began.

• The Five Elders were blasted into Mary Geoise, where their impact formed five enormous craters.
• A figure protected the Celestial Dragons by destroying the falling meteor and shielding Mary Geoise from its shock wave.
• Xia Chen met Imu, who confirmed her identity and explained that her current appearance was Athena’s.
• Imu questioned whether Xia Chen had eaten the Hades Fruit, and Xia Chen said he had never claimed to have it.
• Xia Chen surrounded himself with golden flames and sent an enormous pillar of fire toward Imu.