Arc 47The Fall of the Holy Knights

The Straw Hats and their allies defeated the God's Knights and primordial demons across the battlefield, while Garp, Bullet, and Shanks confronted enemies tied to their pasts. The battles ended with Shanks defeating Garling and Luffy returning to face Mars and the remaining demons.

  • Kaido and Big Mom unleashed Hakai against Yeti, and they believed the attack had killed him when no body or aura remained.
  • Garp defeated Ju Peter and the primordial devil, while Bullet learned the World Government had engineered Galzburg’s wars and killed the deer-headed God's Knight.
  • Aokiji and Zoro overcame Shura’s poisonous illusions, and Zoro killed him with Purgatory Oni Giri.
  • Barnett drained Luck’s Haki with a feigned struggle, then killed him with Cycle of Life and Death.
  • Ace defeated Jiringomu after fighting dream-made images of Roger and Whitebeard, while Rebecca destroyed Mura with Haki-infused flying swords.
  • Loki killed Shamrock, and Kuina subdued Gunko before Brook restrained her with Seastone Handcuffs and recognized her as someone from his childhood.
  • Shanks rejected Garling’s appeal to reunite, defeated him with Divine Departure, and felt free of the shackles of his birth.
  • Luffy returned to Mars’s battlefield, grew to more than fifty meters tall, and crushed a Primordial Demon before Mars flew back to fight him.
Chapters 1154–1178 Vol. 12 Read

Ch. 1154Invincible Defense

Kaido and Big Mom attacked Yeti, whose petrified body endured their blows and whose grip trapped Napoleon. Kaido discovered that Yeti could merge with the island to strengthen himself and that his stone ability was beginning to petrify Kaido’s arm.

  • Kaido dispersed Yeti’s Haki attack with a punch, while Yeti caught Big Mom’s flaming Napoleon in his other hand.
  • Kaido struck Yeti with Ragnarok, knocking him away from Napoleon and into Imu’s leg; Imu kicked him back onto the battlefield.
  • Yeti threatened Kaido and Big Mom, but Kaido charged and found that Yeti’s feet had merged with the island, anchoring him in place.
  • Yeti counterattacked and sent Kaido rolling across the ground, then left bluish-gray stone spreading over the arm Kaido had used to block.

Ch. 1155Hakai: The Deadly Finisher

Kaido and Big Mom joined forces to unleash Hakai against Yeti, whose Assimilation ability had made him a dangerous opponent. The attack left a vast crater and no trace of Yeti, and the exhausted pair began recovering while remaining on guard.

  • Kaido broke the stone covering his forearm with Haki, while the fragments failed to damage Yeti’s petrified skin.
  • Kaido asked Big Mom to combine their strength, and she agreed to use Hakai with him.
  • Kaido and Big Mom unleashed Hakai, and Yeti fled as the destructive attack pursued him.
  • The attack struck Yeti and left a huge crater, but no body or aura remained.
  • Kaido concluded that Yeti was dead, and Big Mom told them to recover without lowering their guard.

Ch. 1156The Might of the Iron Fist

Garp battled Saint Shepherd Ju Peter and a primordial devil, refusing to accept the World Government’s claim that it had spared him at God Valley. After Ju Peter launched a lightning-fast attack, Garp prepared a powerful counterstrike.

  • Ju Peter joined Garp’s fight against a primordial devil and attacked him with a stream of corrosive black wind.
  • Garp drove back the black wind with the force of his punch and rejected Ju Peter’s claim that the World Government had shown him mercy at God Valley.
  • The primordial devil attacked Garp with its claws, but Garp dodged while reflecting on why he had stayed in the Marines after God Valley.
  • Ju Peter condemned Garp’s defiance and charged at him with his worm body, combining Armament Haki and Conqueror’s Haki.
  • Garp blocked Ju Peter’s charge with his palm, then braced the creature’s head and raised a Haki-coated fist for a counterattack.

Ch. 1157Frail as a Reed

Garp defeated Ju Peter and the primordial devil with overwhelming punches, then killed Ju Peter after fear left him unable to recover. The battle shifted to Bullet, who faced a God's Knight transformed into an enormous prehistoric rhinoceros.

  • Garp crushed Ju Peter's head with Fist Bone: Star Shatter and sent him crashing into the ground.
  • Garp met the charging primordial devil in midair and punched through its skull, heart, and dantian, killing it.
  • Ju Peter watched the primordial devil die, lost his will to fight, and was killed by Garp with a punch to the head.
  • Garp left the devastated battlefield and headed toward another fight.
  • Bullet watched the deer-head-masked God's Knight transform into a giant rhinoceros and focused on its horn as a potential weapon.

Ch. 1158The Secret of a Race

Bullet fought the transformed deer-headed man, then learned that his homeland, Galzburg, had been subjected to endless wars by the World Government because its people had sided with Joy Boy 800 years earlier. The deer-headed man revealed that Bullet belonged to the Evil Oni Tribe and that his strength showed his bloodline had reached full mastery.

  • The deer-headed man charged Bullet, who used the rhinoceros horn as a pivot to flip him onto his back and mocked him.
  • The deer-headed man asked whether Bullet came from Galzburg, also known as the Endless War Country, and Bullet's expression changed at the name.
  • The deer-headed man revealed that a plan had targeted Galzburg because its ancestors, a special race, had fought alongside Joy Boy and lost.
  • Bullet concluded that the World Government had caused the wars that tormented his homeland, and the deer-headed man confirmed it.
  • The deer-headed man identified Bullet's people as the Oni and said Bullet's imposing build and strength marked him as an Evil Oni whose bloodline power had reached full mastery.

Ch. 1159The Power of a Single Punch

Bullet learned that the World Government had orchestrated Galzburg’s destruction and redirected his hatred toward them. He killed the deer-headed Celestial Dragon after defeating his rhino form and overpowering his strongest form in a clash of Haki.

  • The deer-headed man revealed that the World Government had schemed to destroy Galzburg and had pursued Bullet after he fled.
  • Bullet thanked the deer-headed man for telling him the truth and challenged him to take his strongest form before dying.
  • The deer-headed man insulted Bullet and transformed into a towering, armored warrior wielding a death scythe.
  • Bullet and the deer-headed man clashed with their Haki-infused attacks, and Bullet’s fist shattered the scythe and crushed the man’s head.
  • The deer-headed man’s headless body fell to the ground as Bullet stood over him.

Ch. 1160My Name Is Shura

Bullet killed the deer-headed man with a single punch after learning the truth enraged him, then turned his hatred toward a more distant target. Elsewhere, Aokiji and Zoro confronted Shura, whose poison gas Aokiji had frozen, and Zoro’s taunt about Shura’s height provoked a threat of a gruesome death.

  • Bullet killed the deer-headed man by smashing through the Death Scythe with one punch.
  • Bullet’s hatred surged as he fixed his gaze on a more distant target.
  • Aokiji froze Shura’s illusion poison in an iceberg before it could reach Zoro.
  • Shura praised Aokiji’s ability but dismissed Zoro as insignificant.
  • Zoro mocked Shura for being short, and Shura threatened to kill him in the cruelest way possible.

Ch. 1161Utterly Deranged

Zoro and Aokiji faced Shura, whose poisonous mist corroded Zoro’s Haki-imbued sword slash and threatened to overwhelm them. As the mist pursued them, both fighters armored themselves with Haki and ice to test whether they could withstand its effects.

  • Zoro attacked Shura with a Conqueror’s Haki-infused Two-Sword Style: 72 Pound Phoenix, but Shura’s poisonous mist devoured most of its force.
  • Aokiji identified the mist’s corrosive properties, and Shura claimed it could cover the valley and kill everyone inside.
  • Aokiji challenged Shura to pit his ice against the poison, while worrying that Zoro’s fighting style depended on Haki.
  • Shura sent waves of poisonous mist after Zoro and Aokiji, who retreated before deciding to hold their ground near the other battles.
  • Zoro covered his body in Armament Haki, and Aokiji formed translucent ice armor over himself.

Ch. 1162Surging Poison Waves

Aokiji and Zoro fought Shura inside his poisonous mist, landing devastating attacks that his regeneration quickly healed. Shura then unleashed Surging Poison Waves, flooding the battlefield with stronger poison and forcing Aokiji and Zoro to retreat as they realized they had to stop him quickly.

  • The poisonous mist engulfed Aokiji and Zoro, but their defenses kept it from spreading toward their allies.
  • Zoro used Two-Sword Style: Rashomon to slash Shura, and Aokiji pierced him with a poison-filled ice spear, but Shura regenerated both wounds.
  • Aokiji noted that Shura’s internal green poison could corrode ice, while Zoro insisted they could still defeat him.
  • Shura unleashed Surging Poison Waves, flooding the ground and air with stronger poison.
  • Aokiji and Zoro leaped back from the advancing poison, and Aokiji urged them to take Shura down quickly.

Ch. 1163Poison of the Mind

Aokiji and Zoro were caught in Shura’s illusion-inducing poison, which attacked their bodies and minds. Aokiji broke free and froze Zoro’s poisoned arm to stop the toxin spreading, but the two still had no cure for the venom.

  • Aokiji froze Shura and the poison wave while Zoro charged in and struck the ice sculpture with Lion’s Song.
  • Aokiji realized the apparent victory and his attempt to drain poisoned blood had been an illusion, while Shura was gripping his arm and poisoning Zoro.
  • Aokiji froze Zoro with Ice Age to halt the poison’s spread, then sent cold into his mind to wake him.
  • Aokiji freed Zoro from the ice shell but kept his poisoned arm frozen, and told him to cut into it so he could remove the contaminated blood.

Ch. 1164Master of Both Brawn and Brains

Aokiji purged the neurotoxin from Zoro and used the frozen battlefield to launch a surprise attack on Shura. As Aokiji pressed the fight, Zoro gathered his Sword Qi and Haki for a powerful strike.

  • Aokiji drew the poisoned blood from Zoro’s arm, healed the wound, and warned him that Shura’s neurotoxin caused hallucinations.
  • Aokiji traveled through the battlefield’s ice and struck Shura by surprise, then broke his arm with a second punch.
  • Shura accused Aokiji of using a sneak attack and tried to counter with poison needles, but Aokiji’s ice armor blocked them.
  • Zoro remained out of the fight and gathered his Sword Qi and Haki as a death-god phantom appeared behind him.

Ch. 1165King of Hell and Lock-On

Aokiji and Zoro defeated Shura, with Zoro’s sword strike splitting the enormous iceberg that Aokiji had used to trap him. The battle continued elsewhere, where Barnett struggled against an enemy whose attacks seemed to lock onto him and could not be dodged.

  • Aokiji seized on Shura’s panic, froze him inside a towering iceberg, and trapped himself alongside him.
  • Zoro cut through the iceberg with King of Hell Three-Sword Style: Purgatory Oni Giri, killing Shura and narrowly avoiding Aokiji.
  • Aokiji emerged from the split iceberg and cursed Zoro for striking through both of them.
  • As allies supported the remaining battlefields, Barnett continued fighting despite a deep wound across his chest.
  • Barnett concluded that his opponent had a powerful target-locking Devil Fruit ability that made every attack hit its mark.

Ch. 1166Time Reversal

Barnett fought Luck, whose Lock-Lock Fruit attacks could track their targets, while Barnett used the Replenish-Replenish Fruit to reverse time and heal his injuries. Barnett exploited Luck’s belief that he had an immortal body and charged back into the fight, ending with a powerful sword strike aimed at Luck’s head.

  • Luck repeatedly wounded Barnett, but Barnett’s Time Reversal restored his body and clothes, making him seem immortal.
  • Barnett recognized that Luck’s tracking ability made the fight difficult and reasoned that Luck could still be killed.
  • Barnett and Luck clashed swords, and Luck mocked Barnett for wielding a famous sword without spreading its name.
  • Barnett told Luck that a sword was merely a weapon, enraging Luck into unleashing a barrage of tracking slashes.
  • Barnett blocked most of the slashes but took several wounds, then reversed time to restore himself and rushed at Luck with both swords aimed at his head.

Ch. 1167The Birth of a Master Actor

Barnett defeated Luck by pretending to struggle and drawing out his opponent’s Haki until it was nearly gone. After cutting Luck in two, Barnett revealed that he had planned the battle around his ability to restore his Haki to full strength.

  • Luck dominated the sword fight and taunted Barnett, believing his superior devotion to swordsmanship would win the battle.
  • Luck used Observation Haki to parry Barnett’s increasingly frantic attacks as both fighters’ Haki reserves dwindled.
  • Barnett launched Dazzling Eyes: Cycle of Life and Death, making Luck believe he was attempting a desperate final attack.
  • Luck tried to block Barnett’s strike, but his exhausted Haki failed him, and Barnett cut him in two.
  • Barnett explained that he had acted like an inferior swordsman to drain Luck’s Haki before restoring his own strength with Time Reversal.

Ch. 1168Summoning His Own Father

Ace fought Saint Jiringomu, whose dream-based power summoned creatures and people to battle for him. After Ace destroyed Jiringomu’s attackers, Jiringomu summoned Gol D. Roger from an old man’s dream, and Ace attacked the phantom without hesitation.

  • Barnett killed Luck with his concealed Cycle of Life and Death technique and vanished into the smoke.
  • Ace burned the primordial demons to ash and faced Saint Jiringomu as his last opponent.
  • Jiringomu summoned beasts and human fighters from unconscious people’s dreams, but Ace defeated them with his flames and Haki.
  • Jiringomu found Roger in an old man’s dream and summoned the Pirate King, while Garp remained unreachable behind an invisible barrier.
  • Ace recognized Roger as his father, then struck at his head with a white-flamed, lightning-wreathed fist.

Ch. 1169Flames Burn the Heavens

Ace defeated Jiringomu by trapping him in white flames after overcoming his hesitation to fight a puppet resembling Whitebeard. On another battlefield, Rebecca continued struggling to land a blow on an elderly female Holy Knight.

  • Ace struck the summoned Roger puppet while using his Logia transformation to avoid the blade, then faced a Whitebeard puppet summoned by Jiringomu.
  • Ace hesitated to attack the Whitebeard puppet because it reminded him of his adoptive father, but he defended himself as Jiringomu joined the fight.
  • Ace used Conqueror Flame Emperor to engulf Jiringomu in white flames, killing him and causing the Whitebeard puppet to vanish.
  • Ace bid farewell to the image of Pops as the flames condensed and disappeared.
  • Rebecca angrily challenged her elderly female opponent for dodging her flying swords, and the woman mocked her fighting ability.

Ch. 1170Mind Reading

Rebecca fought Mura, whose Read-Read Ability let her read Rebecca’s thoughts and dodge her flying swords while her immortal body healed her wounds. After the sword attacks failed, Rebecca switched to close combat, and the chapter ended with their blades clashing.

  • Rebecca challenged Mura’s claim to superiority, but Mura mocked her for lacking Future Sight.
  • Mura used her Read-Read Ability to read Rebecca’s plans and evade her flying swords, while her immortal body healed the cuts she sustained.
  • Rebecca trapped Mura inside a spherical formation of flying swords and launched a dense attack, but Mura dodged or deflected the blades.
  • Rebecca recalled the flying swords and charged with Aizen, thrusting at Mura’s throat before turning the missed strike into a slash.
  • Mura blocked Rebecca’s slash with her longsword, and the two blades clashed.

Ch. 1171Instinct Once More

Rebecca realized that Mura’s supposed Future Sight depended on reading her thoughts, then used Haki-controlled flying swords to overwhelm her. Mura was reduced to blood mist, leaving Rebecca victorious.

  • Rebecca and Mura exchanged over a hundred sword strikes, with Mura parrying Rebecca’s attacks.
  • Rebecca recalled how instinct had helped her defeat Kanbo and realized she could counter Mura by keeping her intentions unreadable.
  • Rebecca unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin, coating the flying swords in Armament and Conqueror’s Haki.
  • Rebecca charged Mura while the flying swords curved around Rebecca and pierced Mura from every direction.
  • The Haki-infused swords destroyed Mura despite her undying body, scattering her as blood mist.

Ch. 1172Squirrel Iron Thunder

Rebecca killed Mura with her flying swords, then struggled with embarrassing memories of Vic. Elsewhere, Loki continued overpowering Shamrock with Iron Thunder, his giant squirrel companion transformed into a hammer.

  • Rebecca's erotic memories disrupted her concentration as Mura's flying swords filled the sky, but she directed them around herself and toward Mura.
  • Rebecca reduced Mura to ashes and blamed Vic for her lingering desire for him.
  • Loki struck at Shamrock with Iron Thunder, while the narrator explained that Shamrock's Assimilation Fruit and Loki's strength made them formidable opponents.
  • The chapter revealed that Iron Thunder was a squirrel who ate the Hammer-Hammer Fruit and had guarded Elbaf's National Treasure for decades before becoming Loki's weapon.
  • Shamrock recognized that he could not match Loki, even after summoning helpers, and saw that few of his forces remained.

Ch. 1173Shamrock

Loki defeated and killed Shamrock in a devastating clash, ending the battle between them. With Shamrock dead, the Holy Knights were nearly wiped out, while other fights across the island continued with no clear overall outcome.

  • Loki smashed Shamrock into a mountainside and taunted him by comparing him unfavorably to Shanks.
  • Shamrock recovered from the blow and bitterly blamed Shanks for deceiving the Holy Land and escaping before completing the Soul Contract.
  • Loki and Shamrock charged their weapons with Haki and collided in an attack that shook the island and shattered a mountain peak.
  • Loki sensed no life from Shamrock and concluded that he had killed him without needing to transform into his mythical beast form.
  • Shamrock's death marked the destruction of the Holy Knights, apart from Gunko and several trainee God's Knights, as battles elsewhere continued.

Ch. 1174Loss of Will

Kuina fought Gunko in a deadly duel, testing the Holy Knight’s Arrow-Arrow Fruit abilities while conserving her Conqueror’s Haki. After Gunko briefly diverted Wado Ichimonji with a curved arrow, Kuina unleashed her Haki and struck back, sending Gunko flying without landing a decisive wound.

  • Kuina engaged Gunko in close combat, matching her swordsmanship against the Holy Knight’s versatile Arrow-Arrow Fruit powers.
  • Gunko used an arrow to shift sideways and narrowly evade Kuina’s lunging strike, but Kuina pursued her immediately.
  • Gunko formed a curved arrow that bent Kuina’s downward slash away from its intended path and briefly disrupted her control of Wado Ichimonji.
  • Kuina released Conqueror’s Haki, regained control of her sword, and slashed at Gunko’s neck.
  • Gunko was sent flying by Kuina’s counterattack, but Kuina did not cut off her head or draw blood.

Ch. 1175Memory Fragments

Kuina fought Gunko and sensed that something was wrong with her memories and mind. After Gunko’s strength and fighting style shifted under what Kuina suspected was Imu’s control, Kuina failed to reach her and prepared to fight in earnest.

  • Kuina blocked Gunko’s attack with her arrow bandages and asked whether she had been forced to become a killer.
  • Gunko said killing had become enjoyable after she joined the God's Knights, then struggled to recall her past as Kuina questioned her.
  • Gunko collapsed as fragmented memories surfaced, but a commanding voice and a pair of emotionless eyes suppressed them.
  • Gunko suddenly attacked Kuina, whose arm was grazed as she defended against the assault.
  • Vic shouted at someone in the distance, and Gunko’s fighting ability returned to its previous level while she continued attacking.
  • Kuina suspected Imu was controlling Gunko and, unable to awaken her, resolved to eliminate her before her own stamina and Haki ran out.

Ch. 1176Spare Her Life

Kuina defeated Gunko but spared her after Brook urgently begged her to, then helped him uncover Gunko’s face. Elsewhere, Shanks faced his father, Saint Garling, who tried to persuade him to abandon his rebellion while invoking Imu’s power.

  • Kuina overwhelmed Gunko and struck her with a killing blow, but Brook cried out for her to spare her.
  • Kuina confirmed Gunko was still alive, and Brook restrained the unconscious woman with Seastone Handcuffs.
  • Kuina removed Gunko’s face coverings, and Brook said she resembled a girl he had known as a child.
  • Shanks confronted Saint Garling after defeating his allies, and Garling urged him to join the Celestial Dragons again by claiming Imu could still protect them.

Ch. 1177Avenging His Mother

Shanks fought Garling over Garling's murder of Shanks's mother and rejected his attempt to use their father-son bond to escape. After Shanks sent Garling flying with Conqueror's Haki, he remained in place as blood-red lightning gathered around Gryphon, leaving Garling overwhelmed by its aura.

  • Shanks wounded Garling with Gryphon and exposed the gap in their strength and speed.
  • Garling pleaded with Shanks by claiming he had tried to raise and reunite with him, but Shanks said Roger and the Roger Pirates had protected him and vowed to avenge his mother.
  • Garling declared that Shanks would die, healed his chest wound, and attacked with a scorpion-venom-coated rapier.
  • Shanks dodged Garling's thrust and follow-up strike, then blasted him away with Conqueror's Haki.
  • Garling recovered and realized Shanks was gathering blood-red lightning around Gryphon, which made Garling's movements sluggish and his breathing difficult.

Ch. 1178Settling the Past

Shanks defeated Garling and severed his ties to his past, while Luffy continued battling Mars and the Primordial Demons. Luffy recovered his strength, crushed one demon, and began overpowering the remaining enemies.

  • Shanks struck Garling down with Divine Departure and said that everything tying them together was severed.
  • Shanks realized that Shamrock's presence had vanished and felt free of the shackles of his birth.
  • Luffy ran through the air to catch his breath, saw that the other battles had ended, and regained his energy as his heartbeat sounded.
  • Luffy returned to Mars's battlefield, grew to over fifty meters tall, and crushed a Primordial Demon with Conqueror's Haki.
  • Luffy slapped Itsumade away and stomped several Primordial Demons into the ground while Mars flew back to fight him.
Arc 47 of 49
Arc 47 of 49