Arc 15From Oblivion to Rogrim

The Straw Hat Pirates and Allen freed Wapol Island and Vista, preserved Akasha, repaired the spacetime rift, and encountered the Primordial Melody on Tonali. The crew reached Rogrim, where Steel Breaker Bal introduced the challenge of climbing Unyielding Peak.

  • Allen stopped King Wapol’s purification attack, defeated him, and helped free Wapol Island before the Straw Hat Pirates sailed on.
  • On Vista, Allen discovered Doma was harvesting emotions to awaken Baburon and erased the collector, restoring the islanders’ genuine feelings.
  • The crew explored Akasha’s memories, and Allen stabilized the island outside the flowing timeline so its history would not vanish.
  • Allen led the Straw Hat Pirates through the spacetime rift at Shattered Cape and sealed its Point of Void, restoring the sea and sky.
  • On Tonali, the crew joined the All Things Harmony Festival, and Brook and Allen connected with the Primordial Melody while Allen sensed a distant dissonance.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates left Tonali for Rogrim and docked amid violent seas, where Steel Breaker Bal explained the challenge to reach Unyielding Peak.
Chapters 351–375 Vol. 4 Read

Ch. 351A Torrent of Steel and the King's Purification

The Straw Hat Pirates fought off Wapol Island’s heavy combat robots, but King Wapol then unleashed a city-threatening attack from his powered armor. Allen erased the energy sphere with his ability and confronted the king, leaving Wapol stunned.

  • Wapol Island’s forces surrounded the Straw Hat Pirates with combat robots and armed drones, threatening to execute a purification protocol.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates and Ace destroyed the machines in the alley and nearby streets.
  • King Wapol appeared above the palace in energy-powered exoskeleton armor and prepared to destroy the area with a dark purple sphere.
  • Allen appeared before King Wapol and made the sphere vanish by touching it with his Absolute Darkness.
  • Allen asked King Wapol whether that was all his purification amounted to.

Ch. 352The truth of order and a king's downfall

Allen defeated King Wapol and destroyed the armor sustaining his rule, ending the island’s oppressive control. As the people celebrated their freedom, the Straw Hat Pirates and Ace prepared to move on.

  • Allen identified fear as the foundation of King Wapol’s so-called order and condemned the suffering it caused.
  • King Wapol began charging his Ultimate Purification Program, but Allen stopped him with Spacetime Imprisonment.
  • Allen destroyed King Wapol’s armor, and the king fell unconscious in the palace square.
  • The island’s force field and propaganda systems shut down, and its people emerged to cheer and mourn.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates welcomed the island’s freedom, and Ace congratulated Allen.

Ch. 353Farewell to steel, sailing toward an unknown celebration

After Wapol fell, the Straw Hat Pirates rested while the people began rebuilding their kingdom and restoring its warmth. The crew sailed away to a new destination, an island known for year-round celebrations and competitions.

  • The citizens dismantled Wapol’s surveillance and propaganda systems, while Old Hunter’s ramen stall became a gathering place and the crew explored the recovering kingdom.
  • Allen declined the citizens’ council’s offer to become an adviser or leader and sensed the island’s life magnetic field growing chaotic and lively again.
  • The people gathered at the docks to thank the Straw Hat Pirates, and Old Hunter sent them off with broth, dough, and a ramen recipe book.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates sailed from the harbor aboard the Thousand Sunny, leaving the revitalized kingdom behind.
  • Nami read the Log Pose and charted a course toward an island of celebrations and competitions, exciting the crew.

Ch. 354Carnival beat! Landing on Vista, the island of carnival!

The Thousand Sunny reached Vista, an island celebrating its annual Dream Carnival, and the Straw Hat Pirates eagerly joined the festivities. As Allen followed them into the crowds, he sensed a faint discordant rhythm beneath the island’s cheerful atmosphere.

  • Usopp spotted colorful Vista, and Nami identified it as the island of carnival.
  • The Thousand Sunny entered Vista’s decorated harbor, where Pierrot welcomed the crew and announced the Dream Carnival.
  • Pierrot explained that winners of carnival competitions could earn Joy Medals and qualify for the Summit Championship and its mystery grand prize.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates rushed into the festivities, each eager to enjoy the carnival or compete.
  • Allen followed the others through the streets and briefly sensed a discordant rhythm beneath the laughter and music.

Ch. 355The golden horn and whispers in the shadows

The Straw Hat Pirates and Ace enjoyed Vista Island’s carnival, winning contests and medals while Allen sensed that the island’s joy was unnaturally uniform. Doma watched the revelers as an energy-collecting machine gathered their emotions for a scheme to awaken a hidden entity.

  • Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, Nami, Sanji, Zoro, Franky, Brook, Jinbe, Robin, and Ace entered carnival contests and won medals or prizes.
  • Allen strolled through the celebration and sensed that the crowd’s happiness was too consistent and seemed programmed.
  • Doma monitored the island from the central building and identified the Straw Hats and Ace as especially valuable sources of joy.
  • Doma watched emotional energy gather in a machine above an ancient stone platform and revealed that he intended to use it to awaken “that one.”

Ch. 356The tide of emotion and the silent Torch Dragon

Allen detected that Doma was harvesting the islanders’ joy and infiltrated the Hall of Laughter to stop him. He reached the control room, where Doma’s mental defenses failed to affect him, and confronted Doma over the emotional energy collector.

  • Allen sensed the island’s joyful emotions being drawn toward the Hall of Laughter and noticed revelers briefly becoming mentally drained.
  • He slipped away from the Straw Hat Pirates and bypassed the hall’s mental barrier by blending his presence into the flow of emotion.
  • Doma detected an intruder and activated the Emotional Labyrinth, but Allen resisted its attacks and continued toward the control room.
  • Allen appeared before Doma and the collector, condemning Doma’s harvesting of the islanders’ laughter.

Ch. 357The laughing mask and the ancient demon god

Allen stopped Doma from using stolen emotions to awaken Baburon, the Lord of Feasts, and the false celebration on Vista Island ended. With Baburon sealed more deeply and the islanders freed from the emotional field, Allen rejoined Luffy, Ace, and the others.

  • Doma revealed that the emotional energy collector would awaken Baburon and tried to overwhelm Allen with a mix of joy and sorrow.
  • Allen resisted Doma’s attack and erased the collector and stone platform with his power of silence, forcing Baburon back into a deeper slumber.
  • The emotional field vanished, ending the island’s manipulated revelry and restoring the islanders’ genuine feelings.
  • Allen confronted the defeated Doma and told him that real happiness did not depend on his machine.
  • Luffy, Ace, and the others entered the control room, and Allen told them the celebration was over.

Ch. 358Genuine smiles and a new course

After exposing Doma’s scheme, the Straw Hat Pirates helped Vista Island recover its genuine emotions and set sail for their next destination. The Log Pose led them toward Akasha, the fogbound Island of Oblivion, where Allen sensed a strange distortion tied to time and memory.

  • Vista’s residents learned the truth about Doma, dismantled his emotional-energy devices, and imprisoned him to await trial.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates helped the island recover, and Allen declined the residents’ request that he become their leader.
  • Vista’s residents thanked the crew and saw them off as the Thousand Sunny departed.
  • Nami identified Akasha, the Island of Oblivion, as the crew’s next destination, prompting the others to speculate about its dangers and mysteries.
  • Allen sensed an abnormal fluctuation connected to time and memory within the thickening fog around Akasha.

Ch. 359The fog's boundary and lost echoes

The Thousand Sunny crossed into the memory-filled fog surrounding Akasha, where Allen sensed a powerful consciousness absorbing fragments of the past. The crew reached the island’s deserted docks, beginning their exploration without knowing that forgetting could be more dangerous than remembering.

  • Nami warned the crew to stay together as dense, strange fog obscured the sea and interfered with the Log Pose.
  • Allen sensed fragments of memories and time in the fog and identified it as a graveyard of memories.
  • The crew heard and glimpsed fragmented echoes from the past as the fog thinned and revealed an ancient, apparently deserted city.
  • Allen sensed lingering sorrow and a powerful, dormant consciousness at the island’s center, which he described as the past itself.
  • The Thousand Sunny reached Akasha’s docks, causing the island’s glowing moss to briefly brighten.

Ch. 360The silent city and echoes of the past

The Straw Hats and Allen explored Akasha Island’s abandoned city and discovered that objects there released memories and emotions from its lost inhabitants. Allen sensed a faint response from a collective consciousness at the city’s center, where the source of the city and the mist might lie.

  • The crew landed on Akasha Island and found a silent, ruined city lit by glowing moss.
  • Allen explained that the inhabitants’ consciousnesses had faded, but their memories and emotions had become part of the city and its mist.
  • Robin touched a star-chart carving, activating a memory of ancient people studying the stars, and Luffy triggered a fearful vision of the mist swallowing a fleeing crowd.
  • The crew activated more memories, but their chaotic emotions left Usopp, Chopper, Nami, and Sanji feeling unwell.
  • Allen sensed a faint fluctuation in the city’s collective consciousness and said the source of the city and mist was likely at the center.

Ch. 361The Core of the Past and the sorrowful Watcher

The Straw Hat Pirates reached Akasha City’s center and learned from its collective consciousness how the city was trapped in the past after its scholars tampered with time. Allen challenged the old man’s claim that the city’s fate could not change, pointing out that the present had remembered it.

  • The Straw Hat Pirates endured the city’s growing mental pressure as they followed the memories toward its center.
  • At the Core of the Past, Akasha’s collective consciousness appeared as an old scholar and asked why they had disturbed the city’s slumber.
  • The old man explained that Akasha’s scholars had tried to build an ark through time, drawing the Guardians of Temporal Order and a fog that sealed the civilization outside the present.
  • Robin asked about the Guardians, and the old man said Akasha’s people had been forgotten and could neither escape nor be restored without vanishing completely.
  • Allen argued that the Straw Hat Pirates’ presence showed that forgetting was not absolute.

Ch. 362To be remembered is to exist: the Torch Dragon rewrites the past

Allen used the Torch Dragon’s power to reconnect Akasha Civilization to the present as a remembered historical relic, giving its dead peace without restoring them to life. The island became a monument to its past, and the Straw Hat Pirates’ adventure in Akasha came to an end.

  • Allen explained to the old man that the Straw Hat Pirates’ arrival and memories had anchored Akasha to the present, breaking its absolute oblivion.
  • Allen used the powers of space, time, light, and darkness to preserve Akasha as a historical relic without returning it to the flowing timeline.
  • The fog over Akasha Island cleared, the Core of the Past stabilized, and the old man thanked Allen and the Straw Hat Pirates for remembering them.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates and Ace reacted to Akasha’s transformation, while Allen withdrew his power, exhausted but satisfied.

Ch. 363The Dust of History and a New Bearing

The Straw Hat Pirates left Akasha Island after restoring peace to its history and honoring its departed inhabitants. The Log Pose led them toward Shattered Cape, a dangerous sea where space and time were said to behave unpredictably.

  • The Straw Hat Pirates explored Akasha Island as Robin studied its memories, Nami recorded its location, and the others gathered souvenirs and paid their respects.
  • Allen reflected on his ability to restore order to time and space while recovering his mental energy.
  • The Log Pose began trembling, and Allen sensed spatial separation and temporal disorder ahead.
  • The Thousand Sunny departed Akasha Island, and Nami identified their destination as the hazardous Shattered Cape.
  • The crew sailed into increasingly strange waters as the Log Pose's shaking intensified.

Ch. 364Shattered Gorge: A kaleidoscope of space and time

The Thousand Sunny entered Shattered Cape, where space and time overlapped and distorted the sea, sky, and passing apparitions. Allen warned the crew about a spatial trap and destroyed a false beach that had nearly pulled them in, leaving them to navigate the dangerous waters with the Log Pose pointing wildly in every direction.

  • The Thousand Sunny encountered overlapping scenes from different eras and possibilities as the crew struggled through warped space and currents.
  • Nami and Robin recognized that the apparitions reflected fractures in space and time, while Allen warned the crew not to touch them.
  • A clear, peaceful beach apparition attracted the Log Pose and began dragging the Thousand Sunny toward it.
  • Allen sliced through the apparition, breaking the trap and stopping its suction just before the ship was pulled inside.
  • The crew faced the chaotic waters ahead as the Log Pose continued to tremble and point in countless directions.

Ch. 365The Anchor of Time: The core of the shattered waters

Allen and the Straw Hats found the stable core of the Shattered Cape Waters and discovered an ancient device sustaining it. The Anchor of Time continued to operate, but its purpose remained unknown.

  • Nami noticed the Log Pose’s shaking needle was converging on one point, and Allen confirmed that the spacetime turbulence led toward an anchor point.
  • The crew followed the vortex of spacetime fragments into a tranquil region at its center.
  • The Thousand Sunny entered a white-lit sanctuary where an ancient compass floated, sending threads of light into the surrounding space.
  • Allen identified the device as the Anchor of Time, and Robin explained that it was a legendary stabilizer capable of affecting spacetime.
  • Allen began examining the Anchor of Time, whose purpose and connection to the chaos remained uncertain.

Ch. 366Stability and Its Price: The Truth of the Anchor of Time

Allen discovered that the Anchor of Time was irreversibly consuming itself to contain a spacetime rift, and learned that the civilization that built it had sacrificed itself to buy later generations time. The Straw Hat Pirates decided to close the rift at its source, and Allen prepared to lead them beyond the spatial barrier.

  • Allen determined that the Anchor of Time had only a few decades left before its field collapsed and unleashed the contained turbulence.
  • Franky said the Anchor's fundamental decay could not be reversed with current technology.
  • The Anchor sent the crew a final record showing how its creators had used their civilization's last embers to stabilize the rift.
  • Luffy agreed to fix the danger, and Allen said the rift had to be closed for the present and future generations.
  • Allen gathered spacetime power and told the crew to prepare to cross the barrier into the far side of spacetime.

Ch. 367Beyond Spacetime: The Realm of Chaotic Laws

Allen led the Thousand Sunny into the chaotic realm beyond the spatial barrier and found the void point causing the rift. When chaotic entities attacked the ship, he left its protective barrier and used his own laws to erase one of them.

  • Allen opened a passage through the spatial barrier and guided the Thousand Sunny into the realm of chaotic laws.
  • The crew struggled as the chaotic realm disrupted their senses, abilities, and equipment, while Allen maintained an adaptive barrier around the ship.
  • Allen located the pulsing void point at the center of the distortions and recognized it as the source of the rift.
  • The void point produced twisted entities that attacked the ship, resisting Luffy's, Zoro's, and Ace's conventional attacks.
  • Allen left the barrier and fixed one entity in place with the law of constancy, then erased its existence.

Ch. 368Mending the Scar of Creation: The Torch Dragon's Great Feat

Allen mended the Scar of Creation with his control over spacetime, stopping the chaotic void and restoring the waters around Shattered Cape. The Straw Hat Pirates left the collapsing void as the Anchor of Time settled into dormancy and their Log Pose pointed toward their next destination.

  • Allen used his power over laws to erase the guardian entities and weave a stable Spacetime Barrier over the Point of Void.
  • The Point of Void released a burst of white light, and the Scar of Creation disappeared as the surrounding chaos began to collapse.
  • Nami celebrated the repair, while Usopp and Chopper wept with relief aboard the Thousand Sunny.
  • Allen returned to the deck exhausted, and Jinbe steered the Thousand Sunny toward the exit.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates returned to the core region and saw Shattered Cape's sea and sky restored as the Anchor of Time dimmed.
  • The Log Pose steadied and pointed toward the crew's next course.

Ch. 369A peaceful voyage home and fragments of prophecy

After recovering from mending the spacetime rift, Allen received fragments of prophecy that hinted at a larger cosmic threat. The Thousand Sunny left the Shattered Cape Waters and set course for Harmony Island.

  • Allen rested aboard the Thousand Sunny as the crew enjoyed the calm waters and celebrated their victory.
  • Robin gave Allen the remaining fragments she had recorded from the Anchor of Time, which repeated phrases about the alignment of the stars, the Awakening of the Abyss, the Key, and the final trial.
  • Allen warned that the fragments might point to threats beyond the otherworldly invasion and told Robin to keep them safe.
  • The Thousand Sunny left the Shattered Cape Waters and entered the normal waters of the Grand Line.
  • Nami announced that the Log Pose pointed toward Tonali, or Harmony Island, and the crew looked forward to its musical civilization.

Ch. 370The sea of melodies: landing on Harmony Island Tonali

The Straw Hat Pirates arrived at Harmony Island Tonali, where music flowed through the island and its people. Elder Melody welcomed them and invited them to the All Things Harmony Festival, whose climax might help Allen and Brook on their journey.

  • The Thousand Sunny approached Tonali as music seemed to fill the sea, sky, and island.
  • Allen sensed currents of energy beneath the island that resonated with its melodies.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates entered Tonali’s harbor and met Elder Melody, who recognized Brook as a soul singer and sensed a movement of life aboard their ship.
  • Elder Melody invited the crew to the All Things Harmony Festival and explained that its climax would seek to resonate with the Primordial Melody in the Eternal Sound Gap.

Ch. 371All things have spirits, and all are music

The Straw Hat Pirates explored Tonali Island and learned how its residents used music to communicate with nature. After Elder Melody invited them to perform at the All Things Harmony Festival in three days, the crew began choosing instruments, while Allen grew more curious about the Primordial Melody.

  • The Straw Hat Pirates explored the island and watched residents use music in farming, fishing, crafting, and communicating with animals and nature.
  • Chopper, Franky, Brook, Robin, Nami, Sanji, Zoro, Jinbe, Ace, and Luffy each responded to the island’s musical customs in their own way.
  • Allen sensed that local music resonated with the world’s underlying rules and suspected the Primordial Melody was close to their source.
  • Elder Melody told the crew that the All Things Harmony Festival would take place in Resonance Valley in three days and invited them to perform.
  • Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper volunteered to play instruments, while Zoro reluctantly agreed to provide percussion.

Ch. 372The All Things Harmony Festival! A pirate rhapsody

The Straw Hat Pirates joined Tonali’s All Things Harmony Festival, blending their instruments into the island’s symphony. As the festival reached its climax, the gathered music surged toward the Eternal Sound Gap in an attempt to resonate with the Primordial Melody.

  • Elder Melody opened the festival in Resonance Valley as Tonali’s residents and the sounds of nature began a vast symphony.
  • Nami, Sanji, Franky, Jinbe, Robin, Ace, Zoro, Usopp, and Chopper added their instruments to the music.
  • Luffy pounded his drum wildly, but the surrounding harmony absorbed his chaotic rhythm and made it part of the symphony.
  • Elder Melody and the Guardians of Melody poured their power into the Resonance Stone Platform, sending a rainbow-colored torrent of sound toward the Eternal Sound Gap.

Ch. 373The Primordial Rhythm-The Heartbeat of the World

The Straw Hat Pirates and Tonali’s musicians awakened the Primordial Melody, which gave Brook and Allen profound insights. Allen also detected a distant dissonance that he connected to the Abyss, leaving the festival ended and a greater cosmic threat looming.

  • The island’s musicians and the Straw Hat Pirates sent their music into the Eternal Sound Gap, causing the Primordial Melody to emerge.
  • Brook’s soul resonated with the melody, while Allen perceived the world’s fundamental laws and refined his Power of Zhulong.
  • Allen heard a distant, chaotic dissonance and wondered whether it was the Abyss foretold in Robin’s deciphered prophecy.
  • The Primordial Melody faded, and Elder Melody thanked Brook and Allen for helping the group connect with it.
  • The All Things Harmony Festival ended as the Straw Hat Pirates reflected on their insights and the threat Allen had detected.

Ch. 374Lingering Resonance, the Trial Ahead

After several peaceful days on Harmony Island, the Straw Hat Pirates received gifts from Elder Melody and set sail. Their Log Pose pointed toward Rogrim, the harsh Island of Trials, where Allen sensed an oppressive force awaiting them.

  • Brook began composing a new piece called “Eternal Echo,” while the crew spent several days enjoying and learning from Tonali’s music and culture.
  • Elder Melody gave Nami a Harmony Beacon pendant and Robin a booklet about the Sounds of Law as the Thousand Sunny prepared to leave.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates sailed out of Tonali after receiving a musical farewell from the island’s residents.
  • Nami identified their next destination as Rogrim, the Island of Trials, and the crew reacted with excitement, worry, or anticipation.
  • Allen sensed a sharp, oppressive presence in the direction of Rogrim and wondered if the trials were what they needed.

Ch. 375Warrior Cape-the roaring sea of furnaces

The Straw Hat Pirates sailed through violent waters and arrived at Rogrim, an island where strength and deadly trials governed life. After a guide explained the island’s rules and the challenge of reaching Unyielding Peak, the crew faced their next test.

  • Nami and Jinbe steered the Thousand Sunny through increasingly violent seas as the crew struggled to stay aboard.
  • The crew spotted Rogrim, a rugged island surrounded by stormy seas, and docked in a sheltered harbor.
  • The Straw Hat Pirates saw the island’s inhabitants training in dangerous conditions and noticed the oppressive atmosphere.
  • Steel Breaker Bal introduced himself as a guide and explained Rogrim’s rules, including the challenge to reach Unyielding Peak.
  • Bal said those who reached the summit could challenge the Peak Master or receive the answer to one question.
Arc 15 of 21
Arc 15 of 21