Chapter Summaries

Noah investigated the Rum Kingdom’s harsh laws and discovered that its impoverished atoners were being exploited despite the kingdom’s wealth. He and his companions raided Minister Powell’s residence, captured him, and transported him to a cave.

• Noah questioned a waitress in Sugarcane Town and learned that Minister Powell controlled local trade while poor lawbreakers were forced into labor as atoners.
• Anthony gave Noah a business report showing the Rum Kingdom earned far more than it needed to pay its Heavenly Tribute, and Noah’s tarot cards revealed the prophecy, “False scales, the sin of greed.”
• Mary confirmed that the atoners were suffering and feared their families would starve if they stopped working.
• Noah, Mary, and Lilith traveled to Rum City and located Minister Powell’s residence.
• Noah incapacitated the people inside, bundled Powell into a quilt, and took him through a wormhole to a cave.

Noah interrogated Minister Powell and learned that the king’s harsh policies began after Barton became commander. He lured Barton to an uninhabited island, where Barton offered him treasure and a place in the kingdom before Noah revealed he knew Barton was Sith.

• Noah’s group questioned Powell, and Lilith’s venom forced him to admit the king had ordered the excessive taxes.
• Powell described the succession and the purges that followed Barton’s appointment as army commander, prompting Noah to suspect a scheme.
• Noah sealed Powell in a card and arranged for a letter to reach Barton, who left for Sucrose Town with five armed subordinates.
• Barton met Noah on an uninhabited island and offered him treasure and a noble title, then promised 300 billion Beli if Noah helped him become king.
• Noah called Barton “Your Excellency Sith,” and Barton’s expression hardened as he demanded to know how Noah had figured it out.

Noah and his allies ambushed the Money Pirates on a deserted island, using seawater, fire, and black fog to divide and attack them. Several pirate officers fell, while the battle continued with two swordsmen confronting Joseph and Vic.

• Noah attacked Barton and the Money Pirates with a flood of seawater, then scattered graphite powder across the island to conceal the battlefield.
• Mary used her Smooth-Smooth Fruit to kill Greatsword Grom beneath the sea after explosives destroyed the pirates’ warship.
• Noah’s blue flames burned sniper Trick Gun Troy to ashes.
• Lilith and Ray drowned Cat Claws Brian with a torrent of seawater, and Lilith ordered Anthony and Tomani to recover him with Mary.
• Joseph and Vic ambushed two Money Pirates swordsmen in the mountains, where Joseph clashed with One-Eye using his armored hybrid form and Haki-coated axes.

Vic, Joseph, Ray, Lilith, and Jay defeated the remaining Money Pirates officers while Noah overcame Barton with seawater and silt. Noah captured Barton and gathered with Jay at the shore, where Cat Claws Brian was also being held.

• Ray and Joseph joined forces against One-Eye, while Lilith poisoned Hook Sword and Vic killed him.
• Ray, Joseph, and Lilith overwhelmed One-Eye, killing him with bullets, poison, a water blade, and a boulder.
• Jay captured the fleeing dwarf officer with graphene threads after the dwarf surrendered and offered to reveal where Barton’s money was hidden.
• Noah triggered bombs beneath the hillside and used silt and seawater to weaken Barton, who lost the fight and was captured.
• Noah sealed Barton and the dwarf in cards, then met Jay at the shore, where Anthony held Cat Claws Brian in a seawater-filled barrel.

Noah interrogated Ludan and learned how Barton had used the Swap-Swap Fruit to exploit the people of the Rum Kingdom. After finding Barton's loan-sharking operation, Noah killed Ludan to keep its secrets and left Mary and Lilith to bring the lenders under control.

• Noah returned to the underground cavern on Rum Island with his companions, then questioned Ludan about Barton and the Swap-Swap Fruit.
• Ludan explained the fruit's exchange rules and revealed how Barton had drained the Rum Kingdom's people of money and life force.
• Lilith injected Ludan with poison, and Mary later sensed that he had exaggerated his knowledge of Barton's hidden money.
• Noah, Lilith, and Ludan raided the underground loan-sharking operation and recovered its documents.
• Noah killed Ludan and dissolved his body in the Pool of Aqua Regia, then left Mary and Lilith to control the lenders.
• The fake king remained unaware that Barton was defeated, while Noah returned to the cavern and released the unconscious Cat Claws Brian.

Noah used a lobotomy and the power of his tarot card to turn Brian into the first Card Apostle, a loyal servant who retained Brian’s memories and abilities. He realized that creating Apostles for all 78 tarot cards could awaken the Card-Card Fruit, but finding suitable Devil Fruit Users would be difficult.

• Ray opened a wormhole in Brian’s forehead, and Noah removed Brian’s prefrontal lobe.
• Brian awoke without emotions, and Noah explained to Mary why he showed no sympathy for pirates who preyed on civilians.
• Noah used the Page of Wands card to transform Brian into an Apostle who obeyed him and could use Haki and the Cat-Cat Fruit.
• Noah tested the Apostle’s resistance to Conqueror’s Haki and determined that creating Apostles for all 78 tarot cards could awaken the Card-Card Fruit.

Noah turned Barton into The Devil: Pan Barton and used Barton's stored vitality to heal his hidden injuries. He took control of Barton's plan to seize the Rum Kingdom and replaced the fake king with Uncle Joseph, preparing to transfer the king's memories.

• Noah made Barton a Major Arcana Tarot Card Apostle, and Barton sold him vitality that healed his injuries and eased his fatigue.
• Noah gathered the group and rejected Barton's plan to kill the fake king because Marines, the World Government, and the kingdom's nobles could foil it.
• With Barton's palace agents' help, Lilith and Ray drugged the fake king and brought him to Noah's underground laboratory.
• Noah and Ray removed the fake king's frontal lobe, then Barton swapped faces with him and transferred the fake king's face and his own Life Return mastery to Uncle Joseph.
• Uncle Joseph used Life Return to match the fake king's appearance, and the group prepared to transfer the fake king's memories to him.

Noah and his allies eliminated the fake king’s surveillance network and staged a purge that transferred control of the Rum Kingdom to the Noah Family. The kingdom’s people came to see King Rum VIII and Barton as saviors, while Powell became the scapegoat.

• Ray and Lilith discovered the fake king’s recording and exposed his plan to leave evidence with three slave watchers, then destroyed the Den Den Mushi and Vivre Cards at their hideouts.
• Noah exchanged the three former pirate slaves’ vitality for a silver coin, eliminating them, while Uncle Joseph ordered the nobles to attend a farewell banquet in Sucrose Town.
• At the Honey Palace, Noah disguised as Powell accused the nobles with records of misdeeds and led the punishment knights and Lilith in killing them as Joseph pretended to resist.
• Barton arrived and fought Noah, then slaughtered the punishment knights after Noah pretended to be dead, leaving the decent nobles alive.
• Barton revealed the palace recording, and King Rum VIII announced tax relief, employment, and a crackdown on loan sharks, turning public opinion against Powell and securing the Rum Kingdom for the Noah Family.

After the Marines escorted Rum VIII and other kings away, Noah’s group began consolidating its secret control over the Rum Kingdom. Noah kept his plans hidden from the World Government while preparing to expand the Noah Family’s strength.

• Bogard told Garp that a minister had colluded with pirates and slaughtered nobles in Sucrose Town, but Garp focused on delivering the kings and Heavenly Tribute to Mary Geoise.
• Noah watched the Marine fleet depart and rejected any thought of recruiting Garp or his family into the Noah Family.
• Noah’s group established an underground base in northeastern Rum Island and arranged for Ray to leave a spatial coordinate point there.
• Ray, Vic, and Anthony left for the Oykot Kingdom to search for the Sound Wave-Sound Wave Fruit, while Noah’s group stayed to strengthen its hold over Rum.
• Mary used her emotion-sensing Observation Haki to help identify spies, who were quietly reassigned, while the Noah Family purged Sugarcane Town and Mackerel Town.
• The Noah Family took control of Barton’s hidden funds and used them to create jobs and provide relief, while keeping its changes inconspicuous and paying the Heavenly Tribute.

After a volcanic eruption unleashed a massive tsunami, Noah and his allies worked to weaken it before it reached Rum Island. The island’s residents evacuated safely, while the tsunami continued onward with its remaining force.

• Anthony spotted a volcanic eruption from the merchant ship and ordered Ray and Vic to teleport the crew to Mackerel Town.
• Noah gathered the Rum Kingdom members, sent Barton to evacuate the southwestern coast, and went with Jay, Lilian, and Ray to an island in the tsunami’s path.
• Jay built a V-shaped graphite breakwater, while Lilian vaporized seawater to create a hollow that weakened the approaching waves.
• Noah made more hollows by sealing seawater in cards, then released the stored water onto the tsunami as Lilian attacked it with flames.
• The tsunami struck the breakwater at less than twenty meters high, and it reached Rum Island after the coastal residents had evacuated.

Lilian explored the newly formed volcanic island to study radioactive material deep in the magma and advance her Flame-Flame Fruit. She failed to achieve Elemental Decay Mode but developed new ideas for Flame God Mode and steam-based techniques before returning to the Rum Kingdom, while Ray, Vic, and Anthony reached the Oykot Kingdom.

• Noah sent Lilith and Lilian to the undersea volcano’s newly formed island so Lilian could study the magma and radioactive material.
• Lilian descended into the magma and used her Thermal Sensing Observation Haki to locate substances releasing heat, but she could not simulate elemental decay.
• Lilith warned Lilian not to push herself toward Elemental Decay Mode before her body was strong enough to handle it.
• Lilian spent more than half a month studying the magma and devised preliminary concepts for Flame God Mode and the Steam Dragon Series.
• Lilian and Lilith returned to the Rum Kingdom, while Ray, Vic, and Anthony arrived in the Oykot Kingdom.

Anthony and his companions searched Oykot Kingdom for the Sound Wave-Sound Wave Fruit, eventually finding it on North Wind Island and having Anthony eat it. As they prepared to leave for the Organ Islands, a bespectacled man tried to assassinate Anthony but was easily subdued.

• Anthony, Ray, and Vic planned to search Oykot Kingdom’s inhabited islands first and spread word that they would buy unusual plants.
• After several days of searching, Ray and Vic bought a Zoan Snake-Snake Fruit, Model: Rattlesnake, and sent it to Noah for identification.
• Anthony and his companions searched across Oykot Kingdom for more than three months before buying the Sound Wave-Sound Wave Fruit from a farming household on North Wind Island.
• Anthony ate the Sound Wave-Sound Wave Fruit and prepared to sail with Ray and Vic toward the waters north of the Organ Islands.
• A bespectacled man entered Anthony’s cabin at night and attacked him with ten blades, but Anthony’s neck stopped the weapons and he incapacitated the would-be assassin.
• Anthony told Vic to have Mary assess the captive for modification and to let him return to nature if he had no value.

Nearly three years after Noah’s rebirth, the Noah Family had grown stronger, richer, and more organized, while Joseph pushed the Rum Kingdom’s reforms after witnessing the horrors of Mary Geoise. Noah planned to use the kingdom as a temporary staging point before taking some family members to Paradise in June 1504 to seek a safer base.

• Joseph returned from Mary Geoise, where what he had seen convinced him to intensify the Rum Kingdom’s reforms and train harder.
• Nearly three years after Noah’s rebirth, Noah and the ten other core members of the Noah Family had grown substantially in strength and established their roles within the family.
• The family had recruited more than two hundred young orphans and over two thousand peripheral members, and its funds and Rum Kingdom tax revenues could support its growth for years.
• Noah decided the Rum Kingdom was unsuitable as the family’s permanent base because it was a World Government affiliate with limited land and rising-sea risks.
• Noah planned to regroup in the Rum Kingdom until June 1504, then take some family members to Paradise, where he judged their chances of survival to be good.

Noah reviewed Kuro’s interrogation report and sent him to the Noah Family’s secret training camp for reform and assessment. Kuro began grueling training and classes, realizing the camp’s lessons could make him a target of the World Government.

• Noah read Mary’s report on Kuro and approved giving him B-level treatment while keeping him away from the family’s secrets and monitoring whether he changed.
• Noah rejected Lilith’s suggestion to kidnap scientists, insisting the Noah Family maintain its principles despite operating in secret.
• Kuro arrived at Torrent Bay’s training camp, where Brian secretly observed him under Noah’s instructions.
• Kuro joined the trainees for a forty-kilometer run, ate sea beast meat, and used vitality-infused ointment to recover from the day’s exertion.
• Kuro attended general education and science classes, then panicked when he saw the Book of Dragon Slaying and understood the danger of anyone learning what he had studied.

Anthony discovered that the Golden Lion had moved Barak Island into the sky and alerted Noah, who devised a plan to capture him. Noah and Ray then sent Lilith to lure the Golden Lion, who began to believe she could serve as his navigator after she demanded a Celestial Dragon’s head.

• Anthony read that Sakazuki had killed the Wild Beast Pirates’ Steel-Steel Fruit user.
• Anthony and Ray found that Barak Island’s Eternal Pose pointed northeast, and Anthony identified the island among the clouds as a floating base moved by the Golden Lion.
• Anthony used a coded call to summon Noah, who consulted his tarot cards and planned a capture attempt.
• Noah and Ray brought Lilith to a nearby deserted island, where she disguised herself as a pirate and sailed alone to attract the Golden Lion.
• The Golden Lion capsized Lilith’s boat and grabbed her, but she claimed she would navigate for him only if he brought her a Celestial Dragon’s head.

Lilith helped Noah infiltrate Golden Lion’s floating islands and put Golden Lion to sleep, allowing Noah and his allies to defeat the pirates and capture the island’s officers. Noah then hesitated over how to handle Golden Lion’s head injury and powerful Devil Fruit, since the Op-Op Fruit was unavailable and his divination showed no chance of success with immediate modification.

• Lilith used her knowledge of Golden Lion’s weakness to poison him and put him to sleep, then opened a wormhole for Noah and Ray.
• Noah, Ray, Mary, Jay, and Anthony attacked the floating islands; Noah knocked out and sealed away Indigo, while the group began clearing the pirates.
• Noah defeated Scarlet by disabling his injured knee with an Armament Haki-coated card and striking him with internal destruction.
• Ray and Jay defeated the Fish-Man swordsman and the remaining pirates on the beast islands.
• After securing the islands, Noah considered the IQ Plants and research data but worried that Golden Lion’s condition could not be safely treated without the Op-Op Fruit.
• Noah used tarot cards to divine the result of modifying Golden Lion and, seeing no chance of success, chose a more conservative approach.

Noah relocated the IQ Plants, villagers, beasts, and floating islands to Sikasis Island, where Lilith and Mary began building a community and defenses. Sikasis Island became a more self-sufficient stronghold, while Anthony and Vic found the Paste-Paste Fruit in the Domini Islands.

• Noah opened his secret base on Sikasis Island, brought over the IQ Plants and feathered villagers, and sealed Golden Lion’s modified beasts and floating islands in cards.
• The feathered villagers accepted the Noah Family’s rule, and Lilith and Mary captured Sikasis Island’s strange birds.
• Lilith formed a two-hundred-member aerial cavalry and began researching how IQ Plants might increase the birds’ size.
• Lilith subdued the Hell Black Ants and planned a food exchange between them and the feathered villagers.
• Lilith established hidden sentry posts and a subterranean labyrinth, while Noah filled Sikasis Island’s small beaches with pieces of floating islands.
• As Sikasis Island’s initial remodeling neared completion, Anthony and Vic found the Paste-Paste Fruit on a deserted island in the Domini Islands.

After Kuma ate the Steel-Steel Fruit and massacred Red Maple Town, Noah sent Lilith and Ray to hunt down the Poker Pirates. They killed the crew, captured Kuma, and Noah turned him into a Card Apostle, leaving him with three Devil Fruit abilities represented by cards.

• Kuma ate the Steel-Steel Fruit and slaughtered the villagers of Red Maple Town before the Poker Pirates sailed away.
• Noah learned that the Poker Pirates had resupplied on Alidu Island and sent Lilith and Ray to find them, ordering them to spare only Kuma.
• Lilith and Ray caught up with the Poker Pirates, defeated the crew, and knocked Kuma into the sea.
• Ray retrieved Kuma, and Lilith paralyzed him before they returned with him to Rum Kingdom through a wormhole.
• Noah used a tarot card to transform Kuma into [King of Wands: Kuma], bringing his total to three Card Apostles.

Noah and Ray built a secret tunnel through the Red Line from the East Blue toward the North Blue, using the concealed cliffs of the Tidal Sea as their entrance. After more than a hundred days, Ray reached the far side and found calm waters that were unsuitable for the tunnel’s exit.

• Noah brought Ray to Starfish Island, and they secretly traveled to the Red Line to find a route into the North Blue.
• After surveying dangerous coastal areas, Noah chose the secluded Tidal Sea and had Ray dig a tunnel into the Red Line cliffs.
• Noah planned oxygen and supply stations and laid stone tracks for electric trains to support ordinary family members using the tunnel.
• Noah installed defenses and self-destruct devices at Tidal Base, while Ray established a wormhole coordinate point there.
• After more than a hundred days of digging, Ray reached the North Blue side and opened a small passage in a cliff above calm water.

Noah and Ray finished concealing a tunnel exit in the dangerous Coral Sea and searched the North Blue for the Op-Op Fruit. In Flevance, they found Trafalgar Law and Lami suffering from Amber Lead Syndrome, and Noah offered their father, Doctor Andy, two ways to deal with the disease.

• Noah and Ray moved their tunnel exit to the Coral Sea, using its acid-producing coral and hazardous mists to conceal it.
• Noah and Ray searched North Blue islands for Devil Fruits, then reached Barclay Island and discovered neighboring countries were preparing to destroy Flevance.
• Noah and Ray observed Doctor Andy trying to encourage Flevance's despairing residents and followed him to Trafalgar Hospital, where Law, Lami, and other children were ill.
• Andy and Mirei worried over Law and Lami's worsening Amber Lead Syndrome, and Noah arrived at their research room offering two ways to deal with it.