Chapter Summaries

After Dragon left Revolutionary Army headquarters to go to the East Blue, Karasu questioned the Revolutionary Army’s methods and ideology as he compared them with the Liberator Organization. He ordered a ban on a collection of the Liberator Organization’s books, though he had spent more than ten days reading them himself.

• After reading the news of Garp’s death, Dragon left Karasu in charge of headquarters and departed for the East Blue.
• Karasu reflected on Dragon’s decision to bide his time rather than rescue Ginny and compared the Revolutionary Army’s limited gains with the Liberator Organization’s growing power.
• Peter brought Karasu a list of books the World Economy News Paper had secretly sold, and Karasu ordered him to bring all the sample copies to his office.
• Karasu spent more than ten days reading Five Volumes on Slaying Dragons and Quotations from Noah while Peter criticized the books alongside him.
• Karasu ordered Peter to draft a notice banning members of headquarters and all five branches from buying or reading the listed books.

Karasu and Peter secretly spread the Liberator Organization’s books through the Revolutionary Army, deepening doubts about Dragon’s reformist ideas. In the East Blue, Dragon told Luffy that Garp had died and urged him to leave before the Liberator Organization reached the Goa Kingdom; Luffy, Ace, Sabo, and Dadan agreed to go with him.

• Karasu and Peter covertly helped banned books circulate among Revolutionary Army members, while Karasu’s faction grew more convinced that Dragon’s reforms protected the feudal order.
• Dragon returned to Foosha Village after more than a week of travel and found Luffy, Ace, and Sabo training in the mountains.
• Dadan warned the brothers away from the junkyard because she feared they would learn of Garp’s death from discarded newspapers.
• Dragon arrived at Dadan’s hideout, revealed that he was Luffy’s father, and said he had come to take Luffy away from the East Blue.
• Dragon showed Luffy the news of Garp’s death, and Luffy unleashed Conqueror’s Haki in grief and rage.
• After Dragon explained the threat posed by the Liberator Organization, Luffy and Ace agreed to leave with him, Sabo asked to join the Revolutionary Army, and Dadan decided to leave as well.

Moria defeated Doflamingo and took control of the Donquixote Family on Noah’s orders, turning another Shichibukai to the Liberator Organization’s side. The chapter ended with Moria collecting four Devil Fruits and instructing Doflamingo to keep expanding in West Blue alongside Bege.

• A pirate crew planned to sell the Mirror-Mirror Fruit to the Donquixote Family in exchange for protection from the Capone Family.
• Trebol told Doflamingo about the fruit and the pirates’ offer, and Doflamingo agreed to accept it.
• Moria confronted Doflamingo, subdued him and Trebol with shadow soldiers and Seastone needles, then removed Doflamingo’s frontal lobe and brought the Donquixote Family under his control.
• The chapter revealed that Bege had asked Noah to stop Doflamingo from disrupting the Liberator Organization’s plans in West Blue, so Noah had sent Moria to act.
• Doflamingo handed over three Devil Fruits, and Pica brought Moria the Mirror-Mirror Fruit, giving him four fruits to collect.
• Moria ordered Doflamingo to keep expanding in West Blue and take control of one or two countries when possible, with Bege’s cooperation.

Tesoro searched for the Liberator Organization, hoping to join it and gain a chance to oppose the Celestial Dragons. After Enel and Mary screened him, Pica revealed that the Donquixote Family had become a branch of the organization, and Tesoro chose to join.

• Tesoro asked his subordinates to investigate the closed Donquixote auction house and search for the Liberator Organization.
• A masked man subdued Tesoro and his subordinates, then Enel questioned Tesoro while using Observation Haki to detect his hidden thoughts.
• Enel and Mary approved Tesoro's preliminary security screening and sent him and his subordinates to the Donquixote Family's secret base in the West Blue.
• Pica gave Tesoro his file and explained that the real Doflamingo was dead and the Donquixote Family now served as a branch of the Liberator Organization.
• Tesoro chose to join the Liberator Organization, even if doing so meant risking his life.

Noah strengthened the Donquixote Family and outlined the Liberator Organization’s plans to seize control of the Blues and prepare for a decisive war against the World Government. After Kuro warned that Hell Valley Island threatened the New World, Noah approved a plan to secretly repair the damaged underground strata and ley line nodes.

• Noah assigned Tesoro to the Donquixote Family, where he would receive ideological education and physical training before eating the Gold-Gold Fruit, and added Mikita and Carina to strengthen the family.
• Noah and the General Staff Department planned how the Liberator Organization would take control of the Blues and divide responsibility for the coming battle across its forces.
• Mary told Noah that Tesoro had an acceptable character but was consumed by hatred, and then left to vet new immigrants.
• Kuro presented a proposal to repair the New World’s unstable underground rock layers and restore the destroyed ley line nodes, reducing the threat posed by Hell Valley Island.
• Noah assigned Lilian and Blazing Sun to help Vic and Pica suppress underground magma activity, and warned Kuro to avoid the Dressrosa princess’s ability and distract other factions with a commotion elsewhere.

After Dragon returned to White Soil Island with Luffy and his brothers, Karasu struggled with Luffy’s ambition to become a pirate and the prophecy surrounding him. Champagne revealed clues linking the Sky Empire to the Kingdom of Dawn, leaving Karasu shocked by the implications.

• Dragon returned to White Soil Island with Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Dadan, and the others, and told Karasu that Luffy wanted to become a pirate while Sabo wanted to join the Revolutionary Army.
• Peter revealed to Karasu that she was Champagne, a Nine-Tailed Fox user and the Liberator Organization’s New World intelligence chief, and told him that Luffy had eaten the Nika Fruit.
• Karasu rejected the idea that a pirate could be the prophesied savior, then returned to Dragon and offered to persuade Luffy to join the Revolutionary Army.
• Luffy told Karasu he would become the Pirate King, and the declaration troubled Karasu for the following week.
• Champagne reminded Karasu that prophecy did not guarantee an outcome and mentioned Wano Country, leading him to suspect that the Sky Empire was the Kingdom of Dawn.

Champagne revealed that Shiki had become Noah's Apostle and tested Karasu with her cards, defeating him after a long fight. Karasu agreed to join the Liberators and set things right within the Revolutionary Army, with Champagne promising support.

• Champagne demonstrated the Float-Float Fruit's power with a card and told Karasu that Shiki's soul had been altered into one of Lord Noah's Apostles.
• Champagne brought Karasu to a secret training island and used her cards and Devil Fruit powers to fight him.
• After more than two hours, Karasu admitted defeat and learned that the cards worked best when backed by the user's own strength.
• Karasu agreed to join the Liberators, and Champagne told him he did not need to leave the Revolutionary Army because he could become its leader and remove opportunists from its ranks.
• Karasu worried that Dragon and his loyal allies would oppose him, but Champagne promised that the Liberators would help.

Karasu passed the Liberator Organization’s loyalty test, while its leaders planned to remove Dragon’s supporters and install Karasu in Dragon’s place. At G-5, Vergo staged an arms-ship interception and sent separate intelligence about White Soil Island and the Revolutionary Army to Akainu and Spandine, setting off an unknown chain reaction.

• Mary and Enel examined Karasu on the secret training island, and he passed the loyalty test before returning to White Soil Island with Champagne.
• Kuro, Mary, Tomani, and Enel planned to replace Dragon with Karasu by targeting Ivankov and Morley, and Noah approved their plan.
• Doflamingo gave Vergo an assignment, and Vergo led a patrol that intercepted an arms transport ship near White Soil Island.
• After the prisoners died from poison, Chelsea found arms, an Eternal Pose to White Soil Island, and letters linking the transport to the Revolutionary Army.
• Vergo directed Chelsea to send the White Soil Island intelligence to Akainu and sell the Alabasta intelligence to Spandine, then shared the payment with the Marines.
• The intercepted intelligence reached Akainu and Spandine, while the thrown bodies were swallowed by a shadow and returned to the Black Shadow Kingdom.

Sakazuki persuaded the Five Elders to secretly authorize an attack on the Revolutionary Army, while the Liberators learned of the plan and evacuated many people from White Soil Island. Dragon remained on the island with 436 people, unaware that an attack was coming and uneasy as Karasu and Champagne departed.

• After learning that White Soil Island was a Revolutionary Army stronghold, Sakazuki bypassed Sengoku and Tsuru and asked the Five Elders to approve an attack.
• The Five Elders assigned the Special Mobile Unit to lead the secret operation with Sakazuki's assistance, while Spandine reported Ivankov's presence in Alabasta and was ordered to pursue him.
• Karasu and Champagne exchanged intelligence showing that the attack would come within days, then completed plans to relocate Revolutionary Army members to the North Blue and establish an underground network.
• Karasu left with 1,736 people, and Champagne took 311 people to build the New World intelligence network, leaving 436 people on White Soil Island.
• Dragon watched Karasu and Peter leave and felt uneasy, but assumed he was worried about whether the relocation plan would succeed.

Dragon tried to protect White Soil Island and evacuate Luffy, Ace, and Sabo after Marines and World Government forces discovered his location. The brothers reached the underground harbor, where Borsalino had already arrived and confronted the Revolutionary Army.

• Dragon sensed a pirate ship chasing a merchant ship and drove both away from White Soil Island, but the pursuers recognized his presence and attacked.
• Dragon ordered Luffy, Ace, and Sabo to flee to the underground hidden harbor, and the brothers hurried through the passages.
• Borsalino and Sakazuki attacked Dragon, while Sakazuki’s magma killed Revolutionary Army members on the island.
• Saint Saturn and Saint Mars arrived with three CP0 agents and tried to keep Dragon occupied as Borsalino sensed the hidden harbor and the agents went underground.
• Borsalino reached the hidden harbor and confronted the Revolutionary Army members; Luffy, Ace, and Sabo arrived as the frightened group faced the Admiral.

Borsalino and Kuma crushed the Revolutionary Army forces on White Soil Island, and Dragon surrendered after negotiating amnesty for its members. The Revolutionary Army was dissolved, Dragon was sent to Impel Down, and Sakazuki’s attacks left the island volcanic.

• Borsalino destroyed the submarines and knocked Luffy unconscious, while Kuma killed Ace, Sabo, and Revolutionary Army members before taking three survivors to the Five Elders.
• Kuma struck the unconscious Luffy and threw the three brothers into the sea, then brought the remaining Revolutionary Army members to Saint Saturn.
• Dragon resumed fighting the World Government forces, but after more than two hours of battle, Kuma urged him to surrender and dissolve the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon agreed to surrender if the Five Elders stopped pursuing the other Revolutionary Army members, but Saint Saturn refused to spare Ivankov.
• Dragon announced the Revolutionary Army’s dissolution and received Saint Saturn’s promise of amnesty for its members, then Borsalino escorted him to Impel Down.
• Sakazuki’s magma attacks turned White Soil Island into a highly active volcanic island.

Karasu took control of the Revolutionary Army after Dragon and Ivankov were captured, while Kuma secretly brought Luffy, Ace, and Sabo to Sabaody Archipelago. He left the three boys with Rayleigh and asked him to train them.

• Kuma told Karasu that Dragon and Ivankov had been captured and that Dragon planned to announce the Revolutionary Army's disbandment.
• Karasu agreed to secretly investigate a traitor, then declared himself acting commander-in-chief; Kuma accepted his decision.
• Kuma considered the sleeping Luffy, Ace, and Sabo, then sent them toward Paradise and followed them himself.
• Three days later, Kuma brought the three boys to Shakky's bar on Sabaody Archipelago and used his Conqueror's Haki to knock out the pirates inside.
• Rayleigh recognized the straw hat Kuma had brought, and Kuma identified Luffy, Ace, and Sabo before asking Rayleigh to train them; Kuma left the boys at the bar.

After Kuma left Luffy, Ace, and the other children with Rayleigh, Shakky arranged for Rayleigh to take them to a deserted island near Amazon Lily. News of Dragon’s capture and the Revolutionary Army’s dissolution spread, while Sengoku learned that Sakazuki had acted without his approval and faced the certainty that Sakazuki would succeed him as Fleet Admiral.

• Rayleigh and Shakky agreed to send the children to a deserted island near Amazon Lily, and Rayleigh set out with them by boat.
• Shakky received news that Dragon had been captured and had announced the dissolution of the Revolutionary Army, then inferred that Kuma had rescued Luffy, Ace, and the others.
• Sengoku learned that the Five Elders had kept him uninformed about Dragon’s capture and that Sakazuki had reported directly to them.
• Tsuru told Sengoku that Kuzan could not become Fleet Admiral because he had lost a leg, leaving Sakazuki as the leading candidate.
• Kizaru arrived at Marineford with Dragon, and Tsuru went to meet the prisoner while Sengoku stayed behind.

Tsuru visited Dragon before Borsalino delivered him to Impel Down, where Ivankov was already imprisoned. In the Skeleton Hell, Anduin’s group secretly harvested Devil Fruit users while postponing any attempt to capture Dragon and Ivankov.

• Tsuru spoke with Dragon aboard Borsalino’s warship, then left without trying to free him.
• Borsalino delivered Dragon to Impel Down, and Shiryu took custody of him after Borsalino warned the wardens not to let him escape.
• Lust monitored Ivankov in the Freezing Hell, while Anduin considered recruiting her and Dragon as Minor Arcana Apostles.
• Anduin’s group secretly replaced imprisoned Devil Fruit users with living-dead soldiers and harvested nearly all such prisoners from the third and fifth levels, except Ivankov.
• Anduin’s group avoided targeting powerful prisoners in the sixth-level Infinite Hell and planned to wait while strengthening the Skeleton Hell’s members.

After Dragon’s arrest, Karasu consolidated control of the Revolutionary Army and replaced him as its leader. Karasu and Champagne began steering the army toward the Liberator Organization while leaving Dragon’s supporters unaware of their full plans.

• Karasu united the North, West, Paradise, and New World Armies, won Lindbergh’s support, and called a vote to choose a new leader.
• Betty agreed to the election after Karasu offered to handle the army’s supply transportation, and the commanders elected Karasu to replace Dragon.
• Karasu reorganized the Revolutionary Army, appointing Giron, Peter, and Dub Bo to army command positions while retaining Lindbergh and Betty in theirs.
• Karasu and Champagne urged trusted cadres to change the army’s ideology gradually, spread new ideas among lower ranks, and avoid alarming Betty and other Dragon loyalists.
• Karasu gave the Salt-Salt Fruit to Giron, the Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: Lynx to A Bing, and the Spring-Spring Fruit to Kadi.
• Champagne arranged for Distillery agents to infiltrate Spark, as the Liberator Organization expanded its covert influence over the Revolutionary Army.

In early 1512, Noah reviewed the results of modifying the Sky Empire’s New World territory, including calmer weather, newly discovered mineral deposits, and treasure recovered from shipwrecks. He approved a narrower geological reinforcement plan and decided to expand seabed exploration, beginning with the North Blue.

• Robin reported that geological modifications had reduced extreme weather and presented recommendations to limit further work, which Noah accepted.
• Robin showed Noah a revised plan to connect stable islands with underground geological reinforcements, and Noah approved it.
• Robin gave Noah records of hundreds of mineral deposits, including Seastone and Dyna Stone, discovered beneath the Sky Empire.
• Robin presented the treasure recovered from shipwrecks and ruins, including eighteen Devil Fruits that brought the Liberator Organization’s stockpile to fifty-eight.
• Noah called for more seabed exploration, and Robin said she had arranged for the Sky Empire to survey the North Blue’s seabed.

Vic and his companions discovered Pure Gold inside a giant lanternfish and rescued Olga and Dr. Acier. Noah analyzed the metal, reproduced it with his magnetic powers, and explained that its life-extending effects came with a cost: those exposed could no longer grow or become stronger.

• Vic trapped an enormous lanternfish in a stone forest and found Pure Gold inside its lure.
• Pica brought Olga and Dr. Acier out of the lanternfish, and the group used gestures and drawings to communicate with them.
• Noah arrived with Robin and discovered how Pure Gold produced light that stabilized telomeres in living creatures.
• Noah used magnetic fields to synthesize more than a hundred kilograms of Pure Gold.
• Noah covered most of the Pure Gold with iron sand and warned Robin that its effects prevented the body from growing or getting stronger.

Noah brought Pure Gold to the Moon Palace City surgical laboratory so Luo could study how it might be combined with human cryopreservation to extend life. Noah and Luo also considered the risks of using Zoan Devil Fruit information to achieve immortality, while Noah concluded he had no need to wear Pure Gold yet.

• Noah sent the lanternfish to live in the Sky Empire under orders not to attack human ships or islands, and sent Dr. Acier and Olga to the moon.
• Noah brought Dr. Acier to the new materials laboratory and took most of the Pure Gold to the surgical laboratory for Luo to examine.
• Luo confirmed that Pure Gold could grant eternal youth and immortality but prevented cells from dividing, stopping the wearer from growing stronger.
• Noah explained that he hoped to combine Pure Gold with human cryopreservation to greatly extend a person's lifespan.
• Noah and Luo discussed using the Op-Op Fruit to fuse Zoan Devil Fruit information with a user's soul, but Noah suspected the recipient would need to have awakened their fruit to avoid becoming a mindless beast-man.

Noah visited the City of Light and watched students organize support for the Kingdom of Dawn’s war and compete in martial arts. At Carnegie Comprehensive College, he spotted promising fighters as he considered selecting elite prospects to receive Devil Fruits.

• Noah visited the City of Light without notifying its administrators and watched students promote military recruitment and support for the war against the World Government.
• Ann told her friend she had signed up for the fleet pilot assessment so she could help liberate her hometown from the nobles.
• Noah watched an experienced student support group persuade newly arrived students to contribute to the Kingdom of Dawn’s war effort.
• Noah went to Carnegie Comprehensive College to observe a martial arts competition for students who might continue training at Dawn Military Academy.
• Bai Lang defeated the physically stronger Ruru by using tactical attacks, and Noah recognized him as a promising prospect for Devil Fruit training.

Noah reviewed the Liberator Organization’s military strength as its moon-based factories produced Mecha Warriors and a new class of Devil Fruit-powered Mecha Beast Kings. He concluded that Vegapunk’s Seraphim and Pacifista posed little danger, while satellites could help locate the more serious Mother Flame research before it matured.

• The Donquixote Family grew rapidly under Carina, codenamed Mirage, and Tesoro, whom Noah gave the Gold-Gold Fruit.
• Tesoro quickly developed his Gold-Gold Fruit abilities and approached elite Vice Admiral strength.
• The World Government accelerated Vegapunk’s Seraphim project using blood samples collected from the Shichibukai.
• The Liberator Organization deployed hundreds of thousands of Mecha Warriors and developed seven awakened Zoan-powered Mecha Beast Kings.
• Noah judged that mass-produced Mecha Beast Kings could overwhelm the Seraphim and Pacifista, while the Mother Flame remained the real threat.
• Noah relied on more than three hundred satellites to detect high-energy reactions and eventually pinpoint Vegapunk’s experiments.