Chapter Summaries

Morgans published the news that Marineford had fallen and Roy had killed Saint Saturn, shocking people around the world and destabilizing the World Government. Roy then began a worldwide broadcast from Hachinosu to make an official announcement, leaving the Five Elders and Marines braced for his words.

• Morgans rushed to publish the truth about Marineford, and three days later newspapers reported the destruction of Marine Headquarters and Roy's beheading of Saint Saturn.
• Dadan cried over the report mentioning Ace and Luffy, while Rouge, Vivi, Crocus, Shanks, and others reacted to the news and Whitebeard's death.
• The four remaining Five Elders debated how to restore the World Government's authority, recognizing that Roy's killing of Saint Saturn had shattered the legend of their immortality.
• Roy and Tesoro prepared a worldwide broadcast from Hachinosu, and Roy announced that he had an official statement for the world.
• The Five Elders stood up in alarm as Sengoku smashed a conference table and Akainu glared furiously at the broadcast.

Roy declared war on the World Government, and after receiving his ten-billion-Beli bounty, he proposed publicly releasing the Six Powers and Haki training methods. He argued that empowering civilians would undermine the Marines’ monopoly and weaken the World Government’s rule.

• Roy ordered Marine warships and World Government forces out of the New World, threatened those who remained, and invited the dissatisfied to join Hachinosu.
• At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku denounced Roy’s declaration, while Garp announced his semi-retirement and nominated Kuzan for Fleet Admiral.
• Dragon saw that Luffy and Ace were alive in a newspaper and praised Roy for daring to challenge the World Government.
• A week later, Stella brought Roy the new bounty posters, which listed his bounty at ten billion Beli and gave enormous bounties to his allies.
• Roy told Hachinosu’s leaders that he planned to make the Six Powers and two types of Haki public, arguing that widespread training would produce millions of fighters and break the Marines’ monopoly on power.

Roy made Morgans publish a free manual explaining how to train in the Six Powers and Haki, spreading knowledge once monopolized by the World Government. As people across the seas began training and gaining power, the manual reached the Revolutionary Army, the Supernovas, and the Straw Hat Pirates.

• Roy’s allies unanimously approved publishing the Six Powers and Haki training methods, and Roy asked Tesoro to summon Morgans to Hachinosu.
• Roy gave Morgans the detailed training manual, and Morgans promised to publish it throughout the world within a month.
• The first twenty million manuals went on sale for one hundred Beli each, prompting people across the seas to study the methods.
• Villagers on an island in West Blue trained with the manual and later used Armament Haki to drive off a pirate crew.
• Dragon verified the manual’s contents and ordered the Revolutionary Army to train with it, while Kid, Law, and Rayleigh also examined copies.

The Five Elders failed to stop Roy’s training manual from spreading, while Roy explained his goal of ending the World Government’s monopoly on strength. After Sengoku recommended Aokiji as the next Fleet Admiral, the Five Elders rejected him and left the decision poised in Akainu’s favor.

• The Five Elders recognized that Roy’s truthful training manual could help civilians learn Haki, but they found they could not stop its spread.
• Roy told Tesoro he wanted to end rule by bloodline and let anyone become strong enough to stand at the top of the seas.
• Sengoku resigned as Fleet Admiral and recommended Aokiji, while Akainu nominated himself and called for an offensive against Hachinosu.
• The Five Elders rejected Sengoku’s recommendation and declared that the Marines needed a fighter with an iron will to lead them.
• Aokiji accepted the decision and warned Akainu that he could not defeat Roy.

After Akainu defeated Aokiji and became Fleet Admiral, he launched a massive navy expansion while Roy prepared Hachinosu’s forces to bring the New World under their control. The chapter ended with Roy assigning teams to confront the remaining neutral powers.

• Akainu defeated Aokiji after their ten-day duel on Punk Hazard, and Aokiji left the navy alone.
• Akainu became Fleet Admiral and began expanding the navy, recruiting Fujitora Issho and Ryokugyu as Admirals.
• Roy told Tesoro not to recruit Aokiji and judged that the navy would need at least two years to recover enough to fight Hachinosu.
• Roy gathered Hachinosu’s captains and ordered them to make the New World submit or eliminate those who resisted.
• Bullet, Hawk Eyes, Tesoro, Crocodile, Lucci, Kuma, Kyros, Jesus Burgess, Lafitte, and Van Augur formed teams for the campaign.

Roy’s purge brought most of the New World’s gray areas under Hachinosu’s control, but Shiki’s raids continued to frustrate Bullet. Roy then asked Kaido to seize Big Mom’s former territory, and Kaido sent the Beasts Pirates fleet to claim it.

• Roy ordered Hachinosu’s teams to eliminate resistance and enforce its rules, and within three months Hachinosu controlled most of the New World.
• Bullet smashed through the Iron Wall Kingdom’s Seastone barrier, while Hawk Eyes shattered an island-wide illusion with a single slash.
• Shiki’s Flying Pirates repeatedly raided Hachinosu’s transports and outposts, evading Bullet’s attempts to catch them.
• Roy asked Kaido to take over Big Mom’s former territory, including the portion held by Shanks, and Kaido agreed on the condition that Roy would not interfere if Shanks fought back.
• Kaido sent the Beasts Pirates fleet and all the All-Stars from Wano Country as Katakuri struggled to keep Big Mom’s former forces in order.

Kaido seized Big Mom’s former territory, forcing Shanks to retreat to Elbaf and Katakuri to submit. Roy accepted Kaido’s growing strength, trusting their shared goals and noting that Yamato remained aboard his ship.

• Kaido’s forces quickly took the first island, and Shanks ordered the Red Hair Pirates to evacuate after learning Roy backed Kaido.
• Kaido intercepted Shanks at the third island, fought him for about half an hour, and claimed the territory after Shanks conceded.
• Shanks led his crew to Elbaf, where the Giant Tribe welcomed them, and declared Elbaf his bottom line.
• Katakuri ordered Big Mom’s remaining forces not to resist, then submitted to Kaido in exchange for protection for his younger siblings.
• Tesoro told Roy that Kaido had taken Big Mom’s territory, Shanks had retreated, and Katakuri had submitted; Roy said he was willing to let Kaido grow stronger and mentioned Yamato was aboard their ship.

Two years after the Paramount War, Hachinosu had established control over more than eighty percent of the New World and built a functioning system of rule. As the Flying Pirates’ raids dwindled, Shiki remained the last major source of instability, leaving Bullet to keep chasing him.

• Roy reflected on Hachinosu’s growing dominance and inspected the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Bullet reviewed Hachinosu’s territorial expansion with Roy as the organization’s teams and governing system were described.
• Hachinosu dismantled resistance and provided reconstruction, security, and trade rules that brought kingdoms and pirate crews into its new order.
• Shiki’s Flying Pirates continued harassing Hachinosu’s ships and supply stations, while Bullet repeatedly failed to catch Shiki.
• Bullet smashed a huge rock Shiki dropped from his flying ship, but Shiki escaped, and the Flying Pirates were left with only three flying ships after two years.

Roy and Hachinosu’s strongest fighters cornered Golden Lion Shiki after he attacked their ships and outposts. Roy invited Shiki to join Hachinosu, but Shiki took the offer as an insult and erupted in anger, leaving them on the verge of a fight.

• A floating island descended toward Hachinosu’s transport ships, but Roy stopped it with a telekinetic barrier and confronted Shiki.
• Roy, Tesoro, Enel, Bullet, and Crocodile surrounded Shiki and recalled his repeated raids on Hachinosu’s ships and outposts.
• Roy asked Shiki to join Hachinosu and use his Float-Float Fruit to help overthrow the World Government.
• Shiki unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki and accused Roy of humiliating him by asking him to become a subordinate.

Roy rejected Shiki’s demand to fight and declared that he would kill him and cultivate the Float-Float Fruit himself. They began a duel in midair, where Roy held off Shiki’s powerful sword attacks and studied his technique.

• Shiki refused to become Roy’s transport captain, declaring that he would rather die fighting than serve the new era.
• Roy drew Shusui and said he would kill Shiki and cultivate the Float-Float Fruit himself.
• Roy ordered the others to stand back and faced Shiki alone as Shiki drew Oto and Kogarashi.
• Shiki attacked with Lion Slash and Lion Slash Wave, but Roy cut through the first attack and blocked the second without moving.
• Roy and Shiki fought at close range while the others watched, and Roy calmly countered Shiki’s swordsmanship while analyzing his habits and weaknesses.

Roy used his awakened Telekinesis Fruit to counter Shiki’s attacks and overpower him, then accepted Shiki’s demand for a deadly fight. Shiki charged again and launched Twin Swords Throat Lock, while Roy’s Observation Haki let him read the move.

• Shiki asked Roy who had taught him swordsmanship, and Roy said he had taught himself.
• Shiki attacked Roy with hundreds of Haki-coated cloud lion heads, but Roy stopped them with his Telekinesis Domain and sent them back.
• Roy appeared behind Shiki, wounded him with Shusui, and blasted him away with a telekinetic shockwave.
• Roy told Shiki that age and the ship’s wheel in his head had slowed him, and Shiki demanded that Roy kill him in battle.
• Shiki charged Roy again and used Twin Swords Throat Lock, while Roy discerned his movements with Observation Haki.

Roy and Shiki fought as Roy continued to hold back, while Shiki drew on his remaining strength for a final powerful attack. Shiki reflected on his rise and fall and asked Roy if he knew why he had rejected his offer.

• Roy dodged Shiki's twin-sword attack and struck him with a knee, then sent him flying with a slash that Shiki barely blocked.
• Shiki unleashed a more powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki and charged Roy with a Haki-coated Cross Slash.
• Roy met Shiki's attack with his own slash, overpowering him while remaining nearly in place.
• Shiki admitted that he had used more than half his strength in the clash, and Roy said he had not yet gone all out.
• Shiki recovered some of his Haki and recounted his past, from the Rocks Pirates and the Flying Pirates to his losses after the Edd War storm.
• Shiki asked Roy if he knew why he had turned down his offer.

Shiki refused Roy’s offer to join Hachinosu and chose to fight to the death rather than submit to the new era. Though Roy badly wounded and disarmed him, Shiki reclaimed his swords and insisted on continuing, leaving Roy conflicted by the old pirate’s resolve.

• Shiki rejected joining Hachinosu, declaring that he would rather die fighting than live on his knees.
• Roy attacked Shiki with his Mountain Suppression strike, forcing him down toward the sea and reopening the wounds in his hands.
• Roy pressed his advantage with a flurry of sword attacks, cutting Shiki’s shoulder as Shiki used Oto and Kogarashi to counter.
• Shiki’s thrust failed against Roy’s Telekinesis: Barrier, and Roy struck him in the abdomen, knocking both swords away.
• Roy returned Oto and Kogarashi to Shiki, who gripped them and declared that he would keep fighting despite knowing he would lose.

Shiki tore the ship's wheel from his skull, unleashing his full Conqueror's Haki at the cost of worsening his fatal wound. He fought Roy in a desperate sword duel, and as his strength faded, he found relief in fighting as the Golden Lion once more.

• Shiki pulled the ship's wheel from his head, releasing a powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki that collided with Roy's.
• Shiki coated Oto and Kogarashi with steady Conqueror's Haki and attacked Roy at greatly increased speed.
• Shiki drove Roy onto the defensive with a relentless series of sword strikes, and Roy admitted he could not counter him without abilities.
• Shiki and Roy fought across the sky and sea in a duel of swordsmanship and Haki as Shiki's wound bled and his body weakened.
• Shiki's attacks grew slower and less controlled, but he felt increasingly free as he fought without concern for victory or the Flying Pirates.

After removing the ship's wheel, Shiki regained his full speed and unleashed his long-suppressed Conqueror's Haki against Roy. Shiki's strength began to fail from blood loss, and Roy recognized his opponent was near exhaustion as their fight continued.

• Shiki removed the ship's wheel and attacked Roy with renewed speed and Conqueror's Haki coating.
• Bullet, Tesoro, and Crocodile watched as Tesoro explained Shiki's sudden surge and Crocodile noted that his blood loss was draining his stamina.
• Shiki unleashed Lion: Ten Thousand Blades, but Roy blocked the air blades with Telekinesis: Barrier and his spinning Shusui.
• Shiki followed with Lion: Sovereignty: True Strike, and Roy's Conqueror's Coating: Heaven Splitter split the enormous slash wave in two.
• Shiki charged again despite his worsening blood loss, then stumbled as his stamina ran out.
• Roy told Shiki he would kill him but did not want to prolong the fight until Shiki died, and Shiki laughed and insisted he would end it himself.

Roy and Golden Lion Shiki settled their final battle with a clash of Conqueror’s Haki, and Roy emerged victorious. Shiki died on the battlefield after asking Roy to care for his swords, while Roy stood over him and took out an apple.

• Shiki and Roy gathered their remaining strength and prepared to decide the fight with one final strike.
• Shiki unleashed Lion: Two Swords: Extinction, and Roy answered with Conqueror's Coating: One Thought Shura; their attacks collided above the sea and unleashed a massive shockwave.
• Roy suffered only a shallow cut, while Shiki fell unconscious, and Roy caught him before he hit the sea.
• Shiki thanked Roy for giving him a battlefield death and asked him to take care of Oto and Kogarashi; Roy agreed.
• Shiki died with a smile, and Roy reflected on his final choice before taking an apple from his clothes.

Roy recovered the Float-Float Fruit from Shiki’s remains, buried the legendary pirate on a nameless island, and returned to Hachinosu. He left the choice of who would receive the fruit for later, as Shiki’s story ended in secrecy.

• Roy trapped Shiki’s departing power in an apple, creating the Float-Float Fruit, and stored it along with Shiki’s swords, Oto and Kogarashi.
• Roy buried Shiki’s remains on the deserted island without a gravestone and flew back to the Ark Maxim.
• Bullet, Tesoro, Enel, Crocodile, and the others waited aboard the ship; Roy confirmed that he had killed Shiki and buried him.
• Roy told Crocodile that he had obtained the Float-Float Fruit, and Crocodile and Tesoro suggested finding a reliable person suited to handling Hachinosu’s logistics.
• The Ark Maxim returned toward Hachinosu, and Roy reflected with Tesoro that having his companions made him luckier than Shiki.

Roy expanded Hachinosu’s recruitment and training as kingdoms sent talented young people hoping to gain influence there. He moved four islands to create training zones while the weapons factory began mass production and mechanical soldiers neared completion.

• Roy refused Big News Morgans’s request to report Golden Lion Shiki’s death, and Shiki’s death was kept quiet.
• Roy learned that New World kingdoms were paying more than the ten-percent tax and sending over a thousand promising young people to Hachinosu.
• Roy ordered Stella to find uninhabited islands for additional training space and learned the weapons factory was producing arms and mechanical soldiers were nearing completion.
• Roy moved four islands near Hachinosu, where they became training zones for recruits assigned to a three-month basic course and specialized units.
• Hachinosu’s new recruits filled barracks and converted warehouses as the weapons factory operated around the clock.

Roy visited Dr. Gracia’s laboratory to learn whether test subjects modified with Blackbeard’s genes could wield multiple Devil Fruits. The doctor presented the sole survivor of his seventh test batch, leaving the results of the experiment still unknown.

• Hachinosu’s weapons factory prepared to produce three thousand mechanical soldiers modeled on ancient lunar machines.
• Roy reviewed New World affairs with Stella and told her Dr. Gracia’s experiment had reached a critical stage.
• Roy brought more than a dozen Devil Fruits to Dr. Gracia’s underground laboratory for testing.
• Dr. Gracia selected three Devil Fruits and summoned test subject number seven, the lone survivor of the seventh batch.
• Dr. Gracia explained that the captive had undergone a Bloodline Transplantation and had been given Blackbeard’s gene sequence and a modified heart.

Roy and Dr. Gracia tested whether a severely damaged subject could safely consume two Devil Fruits. After the test subject successfully used both the Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: Orange Cat, and the Color Fruit, Gracia concluded that Blackbeard’s ability to wield multiple fruits could be replicated.

• Roy used Telekinesis to control the test subject’s damaged nervous system and make him stand and follow simple commands.
• Roy directed test subject number seven to eat the Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: Orange Cat, and the subject transformed into a giant orange cat without complications.
• At Gracia’s urging, Roy made the subject eat the Color Fruit, and the subject’s vital signs and genetic sequence remained stable.
• Roy commanded the subject to demonstrate both fruit abilities, and the orange cat transformed smoothly while cycling through colors.
• Roy sensed that the two Devil Fruit powers occupied separate areas and did not interfere with each other.