Chapter Summaries

Imu tried to force a contract inscription into Vic’s soul, but his Law of Space delayed it while he fought back. Imu threatened Luffy and the others as her forces overwhelmed them, leaving Vic torn between protecting them and battling Imu directly.

• Vic told Imu he was close to perfecting the Law of Space, prompting her to attack him with a contract inscription.
• Vic used layered spaces to stall the inscription, but it continued tracking him and could not be diverted.
• Vic attacked Imu with his blade, but her perfected Law of Immortality let her recover from the blow.
• Imu secretly ordered the Five Elders and God's Knights to finish their opponents, increasing the pressure on Luffy and the others.
• Garp was surrounded, and Imu threatened to mark Vic’s companions unless he accepted her contract.
• Vic sensed his companions were in danger but hesitated to intervene, knowing Imu could mark them and wondering whether to join the old man in a final battle.

Vic's Thunder God Pirates arrived aboard the Thor as Imu continued attacking the battlefield without restraint. The reinforcements defended themselves, but Imu answered Vic's attempts to deter her by unleashing a larger barrage, leaving the battle escalating.

• Rebecca brought the Thor and the Thunder God Pirates down through Nami's thunderclouds, with Barnett, Kuina, Yamato, and the others aboard.
• Imu attacked the ship with her arrow-tipped tail, and Kuina intercepted the strike.
• Zoro became distracted watching Kuina and took a punch from his opponent, while Hawk-Eye reflected on her rapid rise as a swordswoman.
• Vic killed one of Imu's original demons to try to make her stop targeting his companions, but she ignored the loss.
• Kuina, Yamato, Frodeku, Bullet, and Fisher Tiger blocked Imu's attacks on the Thor.
• Vic killed another demon, and Imu escalated by borrowing Devil Fruit powers through the Laws of Contract and unleashing a massive barrage.

Vic used the Law of Space to protect Rebecca and the others while fighting Imu, then banished her to another dimension. Imu returned through the Demon World and confronted Vic again.

• Imu's hidden tail attack vanished into a spatial rift, and Vic revealed that it had struck one of her own demon servants instead.
• Vic told Rebecca and the others to help Luffy's forces, while Rebecca explained that she, Yamato, and Barnett had decided to come without receiving his order.
• Rebecca and the others joined the battle, easing the pressure on Luffy's outnumbered allies as Tsuru purified transformed demons and Garp fought primordial demons.
• Vic used Dimensional Banishment to send Imu into another dimension, but she returned through the Demon World using her pentagram formation.
• Imu faced Vic again and claimed she could have escaped the hostile dimension even without the Demon World.

Imu used her Contract Laws to turn Vic into a demon and tried to make him her servant, but Vic resisted with the Law of Lightning and recovered through his Haki. After Garp struck Imu, Vic returned to normal and faced her, leaving her puzzled by his resistance and healing.

• Imu made her Contract Inscription attack Vic’s soul, leaving his body motionless as she approached him.
• Imu pierced Vic’s chest with her trident and transformed him into a demon while Rebecca and the others watched in alarm.
• Imu ordered demonized Vic to kill Garp, but Vic did not obey, and Garp struck Imu with Fist Bone Impact.
• Vic suppressed the inscription with the Law of Lightning, used his Haki to dispel the demon form, and healed his chest wound.
• Vic told Garp to leave Imu to him, while Imu questioned how Vic had resisted her Contract Inscription and recovered.

Imu used her book to summon a host of mythical beasts and sent them after Vic, threatening to turn them against the battlefield below if he relied on the Law of Space. Vic evaded the beasts with the Law of Speed and Slowness and appeared beside the Azure Dragon, preparing to strike.

• Imu summoned a huge Azure Dragon from her book, and Kaido recognized its aura as that of a true mythical beast.
• Imu summoned a Phoenix, prompting Buggy to tease Marco about how much more majestic it looked than his form.
• Imu called forth a group of other mythical beasts and surrounded Vic with them.
• Imu warned Vic that she would send the beasts to attack the battlefield below if he used the Law of Space again.
• Vic activated Speed Domain, moved beside the Azure Dragon's head, and used Dragon Slayer.

Vic slaughtered Imu’s summoned mythical beasts, but they revived through the Law of Immortality. Imu summoned a Western dragon and then three figures from her book, including Whitebeard, Roger, and another figure whom Garp recognized as the chapter ended.

• Vic beheaded the Azure Dragon and Kirin, then swiftly killed the other summoned mythical beasts.
• The mythical beasts’ corpses began reassembling as Imu’s Law of Immortality brought them back to life.
• Vic challenged Imu to fight him herself, but she summoned a Western dragon from her book.
• Usopp recognized the dragon as resembling their kind friend Xiao Guai, while Nami insisted it could not be him.
• Imu summoned three figures from the book, and Marco, Big Mom, Akainu, and Garp recognized Whitebeard, Roger, and the third figure.

Imu summoned Roger, Whitebeard, and Rocks to fight Vic, while their appearance stirred memories in Garp, Smoker, Ace, Kaido, and Katakuri. Vic survived their coordinated attacks and concluded that Imu’s creations possessed the originals’ abilities and fighting instincts, though not their memories or emotions.

• Garp recognized Roger, while Smoker reflected on the difference between the old Pirate King and Luffy; Ace, Kaido, and Katakuri also recognized the resurrected figures.
• Vic challenged Imu’s claim to rule the world, and Imu sent Whitebeard, Roger, and Rocks to attack him.
• Whitebeard’s shockwave shattered Vic’s body, but Vic reassembled himself using his mastered Law of Lightning.
• Rocks charged Vic with his saber as Roger’s slash curved around Rocks and cut Vic in two, but Vic recovered again.
• Vic realized Imu’s creations had the legendary fighters’ techniques, abilities, and instincts, but lacked their memories and emotions.

Vic battled Imu’s legendary illusions and mythical beasts, overwhelming the three revived legends before surviving the Western dragon’s powerful blast. As he fought back against the beasts, the dragon slowed and stiffened his movements with an icy effect, then attacked him with ten massive wind blades.

• Vic kicked Rocks into Luffy, and Luffy and Ace joined forces to fight him, reminding Garp of the God Valley Incident.
• Vic punched Whitebeard into Akainu, and Whitebeard struck Akainu with a Tremor-Tremor Fruit-powered punch.
• Vic sent Roger flying toward Garp, while Imu ordered her mythical beasts and the Western dragon to attack him.
• The Western dragon blasted Vic into a huge crater, but Vic emerged with no visible injuries and noted that its power exceeded the mythical beasts’.
• Vic dodged the beasts’ attacks and overwhelmed them, but the Western dragon slowed him with an icy chill and launched ten enormous wind blades at him.

Vic endured the western dragon’s combined elemental attacks and recognized the creature’s unusual strength. Loki and Elbaf’s giant warriors arrived in the valley, lifting the battlefield’s spirits and joining the fight alongside Luffy’s forces.

• The western dragon’s freezing cold and wind blades drove Vic into a mountainside, though he remained unharmed.
• Vic sensed powerful auras and identified the giant with horns as Loki.
• Loki led the New Giant Warrior Pirates and veteran Giant Warrior Pirates into the valley.
• The giants’ arrival raised the hopes of the battlefield, though some questioned Elbaf’s allegiance because of King Harald’s past ties to the World Government.
• Luffy welcomed Loki’s arrival, and Sai celebrated as Hajrudin and the rest of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet joined them.
• Usopp recognized Dorry and Brogy, who had come to fight despite Brogy’s unusable severed hand.

Loki arrived in the battle and struck down a retired Five Elder before sending Imu crashing through a mountain. As Luffy and Loki fought the World Government’s forces, Shanks arrived, bringing all four New World Emperors together.

• Loki smashed one of the retired Five Elders into the ground, then struck Imu with a lightning-wreathed hammer and sent her flying into a mountain.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, and Garp discussed Loki’s strength, Elbaf’s warriors, and Harald’s past dealings with the Marines.
• Luffy reminded Loki that Imu had an immortal body, and Loki recalled the tragedies that had marked their previous encounters.
• Shanks entered the valley, and onlookers recognized his powerful aura as the Four Emperors had all arrived.

Loki’s Giant Race warriors and Shanks’s group, including former Roger Pirates, arrived at the battlefield as the war’s opposing sides paused to take notice. Shanks reunited with Luffy and reflected on how he had brought the Gum-Gum Fruit to the East Blue and guided Luffy toward piracy.

• Vic sensed the arriving groups with Observation Haki and returned to the battlefield as Loki and Shanks entered the valley.
• Shanks, Rayleigh, Shakky, Gaban, and Crocus surveyed the devastation, while Rayleigh and the others recalled Roger’s sacrifice and their reasons for witnessing the historical moment.
• Buggy worried about the older Roger Pirates, while Luffy joyfully greeted them and remembered how each had helped the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Shanks praised Luffy for becoming a fine pirate and recalled meeting him at Makino’s bar after bringing the Gum-Gum Fruit to the East Blue.
• Shanks reflected that he had waited for the fruit’s chosen person, grown fond of Luffy, and guided him with stories before Luffy ate the fruit.

Luffy returned the straw hat to Shanks, who acknowledged Luffy and his crew as he gave the hat back to the Pirate King. Garling then tried to recruit Shanks to the Celestial Dragons’ side by invoking their family ties.

• Luffy reached Shanks and offered him the straw hat, saying he was ready to fulfill their promise.
• Shanks accepted the hat, acknowledged Luffy and his crew, then returned it to Luffy as the new Pirate King.
• Luffy happily put the straw hat back on his head and thanked Shanks.
• Garling asked Shanks whether he remembered who his father was and urged him to side with the Celestial Dragons.

Shanks confronted his father, Garling, who urged him to join the Celestial Dragons, but Dragon revealed that Garling had murdered Shanks’s mother. After Garling admitted it without remorse, Shanks vowed to kill him and avenge her.

• Garling urged Shanks to return to Mary Geoise and fight alongside the Celestial Dragons, but Dragon warned him not to trust his father.
• Dragon told Shanks that Garling had killed his mother, an ordinary woman from God Valley, after she gave birth to Shanks and Shamrock.
• Shanks questioned Garling, who admitted killing his wife because she had tried to stop him from taking their sons to Mary Geoise.
• Vic condemned Garling’s cruelty, while Shanks unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki and vowed to avenge his mother by killing him.

Shanks rejected his Celestial Dragon family and fought Garling and Shamrock, while the allied forces resumed battle against Imu and the Holy Land. Vic stayed with Rayleigh and Shakky, where they traded boasts and jokes about beauty, handsomeness, and Vic’s relationships with women.

• Shanks swore to kill Garling for his mother’s murder and said he would kill Shamrock if he stood in his way.
• Garling disowned Shanks, and Shanks responded that the rejection made it easier to kill him.
• Garling and Shamrock charged at Shanks, who answered with a Divine Departure as Luffy, Dragon, and their allies joined the renewed fighting.
• Imu returned to face Loki and dismissed the giant’s hammer blows as ineffective against an immortal body.
• Vic approached Rayleigh, Shakky, and the older legends, then asked Rayleigh whether Shakky had been more beautiful than Hancock.
• Rayleigh and Shakky argued over their past and Vic’s looks, while Vic joked that women had urged him to share his charms with everyone.

Imu stopped Loki’s powerful hammer strike with Armament Haki, then placed a Contract Inscription on the thunderclouds and turned them against him and Nami. Vic secretly diverted the lightning away from Nami, while Loki was left badly injured.

• Gaban praised Vic for conquering powerful women, and Shakky mocked Gaban for his relationship with a Giant woman.
• Loki attacked Imu with a hammer wrapped in lightning and Conqueror’s Haki, but Imu halted it with Armament Haki Emission and sent it flying back.
• Imu drew a Contract Inscription that entered the thunderclouds, cutting off Loki and Nami’s control of the lightning.
• Imu summoned more than a hundred lightning bolts from the clouds, striking Loki and sending several toward Nami.
• Vic redirected the bolts aimed at Nami, while Loki endured the lightning and nearly collapsed from his injuries.

Loki challenged Imu in a clash of Conqueror’s Haki, but Imu overwhelmed him and sent him crashing into a mountain. As Loki’s allies reacted to his defeat, Imu dismissed him and identified Roger, Garp, Vic, and Luffy as the opponents she truly feared.

• Loki revealed his Conqueror’s Haki as Imu answered with an even more overwhelming display, alarming Rayleigh, Gaban, and Vic.
• Loki charged Imu with his hammer, and their weapons and Conqueror’s Haki collided, unleashing a shock wave that tore through the valley and split the thunderclouds.
• After a three-second deadlock, Imu overpowered Loki and hurled him into a mountain, leaving him badly injured.
• Loki’s friends and family cried out in alarm as Imu dismissed him as an opponent with fixed limits.
• Imu reflected that she feared Roger, Garp, Vic, and Luffy because they could grow stronger through setbacks.

Vic confronted Imu after the other fighters failed to match her power, then turned her lightning against her forces and began cutting down the summoned creatures and legendary pirates. He beheaded the western dragon and appeared before Whitebeard just as Whitebeard swung a vibration-charged fist at him.

• Vic told Luffy to comfort Loki and stop him from challenging Imu again, then went to face Imu himself.
• Imu summoned a storm of lightning against Vic, but Vic redirected the bolts into her forces and disabled her control of the thundercloud.
• Imu ordered the mythical beasts and the trio made real from illusion to attack Vic.
• Vic moved behind the western dragon, dodged its destructive beam, and killed it with a single sword slash.
• Vic teleported in front of Whitebeard as Whitebeard attacked him with a vibration-charged fist.

Vic fought and killed the Whitebeard puppet, then urged Marco and the others to stop clinging to the past. A copy of Roger attacked Vic as the battle continued.

• Vic cut through Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit defense and severed half his palm, but Whitebeard counterattacked and sent him crashing through the ground.
• Vic recovered, saw Whitebeard regenerating, and decided the puppet was only a fake.
• Vic used his Speed Domain and Conqueror's Haki to smash Whitebeard's head, killing the puppet.
• Marco cried out over Whitebeard's death, and Rayleigh and Vic urged him to accept that the real Whitebeard was gone.
• Roger's copy charged Vic with Ace and swung a powerful slash at his waist and abdomen.

Vic defeated Roger, Rocks, and Imu’s summoned mythical beasts and legendary pirates, then confronted Imu in the air. Imu dismissed the fight as mere entertainment, leaving her true intentions and strength uncertain.

• Vic dodged Roger’s attack and cut down his copy with a single swing.
• Vic clashed blades with Rocks, then struck him with two deep chest wounds and sent him falling into the crater.
• Vic explained that Rocks’s Haki had not matched Garp’s and charged into the recovered mythical beasts, killing them all.
• Vic rose to face Imu and asked whether she would revive her summoned fighters for another attempt.
• Imu said there was no need to try again because she had only sent the fighters to play with Vic.

Vic and Imu argued over whether she could kill him before he mastered the Law of Space, and Vic challenged her to act before he became an even greater threat. The chapter ended with Vic launching a lightning-fast kick at Imu’s face, which she could not dodge.

• Vic concluded that Imu’s Laws seemed focused on support and questioned whether she could fight directly.
• Imu claimed she had defeated Joy Boy after countless battles and warned that she could show Vic a god’s wrath if he forced her to fight seriously.
• Vic told Imu that his approaching mastery of the Law of Space would eventually overcome her immortal body, so she needed to kill him first.
• Imu threatened Vic through his family and friends, but Vic countered that her Five Elders and God's Knights would die if the conflict continued.
• Vic charged at Imu with a lightning-fast kick, and Imu could not evade the blow aimed at her face.