Chapter Summaries

The Straw Hats and their allies fought five Demon Lords across separate battlefields while Allen struggled to keep the spacetime lock intact. They found openings against some enemies, but all five battles remained unresolved as Allen neared collapse.

• Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji attacked the Incineration Demon Lord's energy circuits, while Zoro blocked its magma blast to create an opening for Luffy and Sanji.
• Ace and Jinbe purified a vast area of the Dead Sea with Ace's Flame Orb, but the Tidal Demon Lord retaliated by forming a massive whirlpool.
• Sabo and Robin located the likely main body of the fungal growth, but the Shadow Demon Lord attacked Robin and vanished before Sabo could strike it.
• Franky, Brook, Nami, Usopp, and Chopper kept the Demon Lord of the Gravity Abyss occupied, and Franky's purification ray briefly shook its gravitational field.
• Allen's spacetime loop weakened as a claw from the rift tore at the divine chains, leaving him badly injured and struggling to hold on.

Ace helped defend Iron Shield Fortress from an organized demonic assault, then began an Admiral-level duel with a dark-red monster commander. The battle continued as the demonic tide kept pouring toward the fortress.

• Siegebreaker beasts battered Iron Shield Fortress, and monsters breached the western wall as the scarred Vice Admiral led reserves to fight them.
• Ace arrived at the breach, destroyed dozens of monsters with Prairie Fire, and purified the Vice Admiral's wound.
• Ace unleashed the World-Purifying Lotus, clearing a large area and forcing the siegebreaker beasts to retreat.
• A dark-red Admiral-level demonic commander confronted Ace, and the two clashed as the assault continued.

Sanji and the Sky Island warriors fought off the Rift Demons’ aerial assault to protect the transport fleet and the defensive line’s flank. After destroying a wave of monsters, Sanji organized the defenders as a larger, coordinated attack began.

• A Sky Island scout reported that three purple Sky-Ravaging Bats had broken through toward the transport fleet, and Sanji intercepted them.
• Sanji killed all three bats with purifying-flame kicks aimed at their vital points.
• Sanji dodged the Rotten-Winged Dragon’s energy breath and destroyed the Admiral-level monster with a purifying-flame strike.
• Sanji landed on a Sky Island Waver, and his victory raised the aerial force’s morale.
• A second wave of monsters attacked in dense formations, and Sanji ordered the defenders to hold formation and target the commanders.

Jinbe and the defenders of Icebound Harbor fought off a vast sea-monster assault as the Sea-Shaking Demon Chief emerged from the depths. Jinbe battled the Admiral-level beast offshore while the harbor’s survival hung in the balance.

• Abyssal Predators battered Icebound Harbor’s iceberg defenses as smaller sea monsters surged toward shore.
• Jinbe struck an Abyssal Predator with Fish-Man Karate while pollution hampered the Fish-Man warriors.
• A Fish-Man warrior warned Jinbe that a huge creature with a dark red energy signature was approaching underwater.
• The Sea-Shaking Demon Chief burst from the sea, and Jinbe leaped in to stop it from reaching the harbor.
• Jinbe used Ocean Current Shoulder Throw and Buraikan to fight the Demon Chief, while the Marine warships, Fish-Man warriors, and Pluton defended the harbor.

Roronoa Zoro defended Silent Hill from Rift Demons and tracked an Admiral-level commander through the forest. He confronted the Forest Abyss Walker, and their duel escalated when Zoro unleashed Nine-Sword Style: Asura: Piercing Might.

• Zoro used Three-Sword Style: Black Rope Dragon Twister to save a squad of scouts from Shadow Blade Leopards and directed them east along the creek.
• Zoro detected and burned a camouflaged Strangling Demon with One Sword Style: Flying Dragon Blaze.
• Zoro recalled defeating a purple-grade Thousand-Faced Demon Spider, though it had left a shallow burn on his waist.
• Zoro found the Forest Abyss Walker in a corrupted clearing and parried its attacks despite its afterimages and mind-eroding bone sword.
• Zoro used Three-Sword Style: Leopard Harp Ball to expose the Forest Abyss Walker’s true body, then charged with Nine-Sword Style: Asura: Piercing Might.

Nami coordinated Pluton's support across the battlefields, then detected a red-level threat rising offshore from Icebound Harbor and prepared the main cannon to intercept it. Brook sent his soul toward the waters to guide the shot as the threat emerged.

• Nami directed Pluton's Genesis cannon to disperse monsters threatening Iron Shield Fortress.
• Nami ordered Pluton's secondary batteries to intercept the Venom Stinger Bees attacking Sanji's defensive line.
• Robin warned Nami that a red-level target was surfacing offshore from Icebound Harbor, putting Jinbe in danger.
• Nami ordered Genesis charged to maximum power and instructed Robin and Chopper to prepare for the blast and its possible tsunami.
• Brook left his body and drifted toward the threat to guide Pluton's cannon fire.

Portgas D. Allen used his body and the world’s accumulated fortune to trap the red entity in near-eternal stasis, severing its control over the battlefield. Sanji caught Allen as he fell, leaving the allied forces with a chance to counterattack while Allen’s fate remained uncertain.

• Portgas D. Allen’s Spacetime Closed Loop began to fail as the red entity battered the barrier and his body suffered severe backlash.
• The battlefield’s river of fortune flowed into Allen, restoring the loop and strengthening his Torch Dragon power.
• Allen performed the Torch Dragon Secret Rite: Eternity in an Instant, sealing the red entity between space and time.
• The monsters’ assault faltered when the loop nearly severed their connection to the rift, and the allied forces launched a fiercer counterattack.
• Sanji caught Allen as he fell, while the battlefield’s fighters watched with concern for his uncertain fate.

Ace arrived at Iron Shield Fortress as its defenses crumbled, healed a wounded colonel, and used the Flame of World Purification to clear a path through the monster tide. After battling and seriously injuring a Rift Demons Marshal, Ace collapsed from exhaustion as defenders rallied to protect him and the monster assault continued.

• A colonel led soldiers to reinforce a breach at Iron Shield Fortress after a Siege Beast attack destroyed the west tower.
• Ace struck the monsters with Prairie Fire Blaze, healed the colonel, and told him to reorganize the defensive line.
• Ace unleashed World-Purifying Lotus, dissolving monsters and Siege Beasts and briefly lifting the defenders' morale.
• A Rift Demons Marshal attacked Ace, and they fought a fierce duel that left Ace wounded and part of the fortress wall collapsed.
• Ace used Twin Flame Piercing Kill to break the marshal's shield and badly injure it, then dropped to one knee from exhaustion.
• Defenders formed a human wall to protect Ace as monsters surged forward and the battle of attrition continued.

Sanji fought to defend the skies above Iron Shield Fortress, destroying powerful flying monsters before the enemy’s interference attacks pushed the aerial force into chaos. Nami and Franky supported the defenders with Pluton’s Purification Pulse and guns, allowing Sanji to lead a counterattack, though the aerial war remained far from over.

• Sanji intercepted three Sky-Ravaging Bats and destroyed them with his Flame of World Purification.
• Sanji dodged the Rotten-Winged Dragon’s energy breath and killed the Admiral-level monster with a purifying kick through its head.
• Floating Ghost Mother Nests disrupted communications and aircraft while their mental contamination caused some warriors to lose control.
• Sanji redirected an allied Waver and ordered the aerial units to target the Floating Ghost Mother Nests.
• Nami activated Pluton’s Purification Pulse, clearing the interference and mental contamination, while Franky’s guns destroyed the clustered monsters.
• Sanji led the aerial force in a counterattack, but the defenders knew the battle would continue as long as the rift remained open.

Jinbe fought off the Sea-Shaking Demon Chief at Icebound Harbor, wounding it and then driving it into the deep sea with his ultimate Fish-Man Karate technique. Exhausted afterward, he faced the still-attacking Abyssal Dragon Viper as the harbor remained in danger.

• Jinbe defended Icebound Harbor from the rift-tainted sea monsters and fought the Sea-Shaking Demon Chief when it emerged from the water.
• Jinbe used Buraikan to grievously wound the Demon Chief's eye, but its counterattacks left him seriously injured.
• An Abyssal Dragon Viper ambushed Jinbe while he battled the Demon Chief, and the harbor's water cannon and Pluton's shells briefly disrupted the attackers.
• Jinbe unleashed Sea God's Advent and shattered the Demon Chief's bone armor, hurling it into the deep sea.
• Jinbe sank into the water, drained of strength, as the Abyssal Dragon Viper broke free and lunged at him again.

The world's fortune restored Allen after his body was shattered, awakening a stronger power over spacetime. With the rift's seal expected to weaken within three days, Allen and the allied leaders decided to take the fight into the unstable gap beyond it.

• Sanji carried the dying Allen to a watchtower, where the world's concentrated fortune healed him and transformed his power and eyes.
• Allen awoke, sensed that the sealed enemy remained alive, and warned Sanji that the real crisis was still ahead.
• At Iron Shield Fortress, Allen told the allied leaders the seal could loosen within three days and proposed attacking the enemy in the gap around the Spacetime Closed Loop.
• Luffy, Ace, Sanji, Jinbe, Sabo, and Law agreed to the offensive, with Allen estimating a seventy-percent chance of stabilizing the battlefield.
• Sabo assigned Ace to select the strongest fighters, ordered Nami and Franky to ready Pluton, and told the remaining forces to defend the fortress as the enemy struck the seal harder.

As the expedition into the spacetime interstice approached, the allied fighters trained and prepared Pluton while the entity sealed inside the rift began probing Allen’s seal. Allen and Luffy, Ace, and Sabo pledged to face the coming battle together, leaving the expedition set to begin at dawn.

• Luffy sparred with Allen, who used his new spatial perception to evade and slow Luffy’s attacks, while advising him to sense the folds in space.
• Ace and Sanji trained their attacks, Jinbe worked on controlling his water energy, Law tested his ROOM against demonic creatures, and Sabo planned for the expedition.
• Nami and Franky recalibrated Pluton’s Purification Pulse, shields, and targeting systems for the interstice’s chaotic spacetime.
• The entity inside the Spacetime Closed Loop slowly eroded Allen’s seal and sensed the threatening, enticing aura of the Torch Dragon.
• Allen met Luffy, Ace, and Sabo atop the watchtower, and the four clasped hands and vowed to fight side by side.

Allen opened a passage into the Spacetime Crevice, and Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Sanji, Jinbe, and Law entered with him. The group encountered Admiral Candidate-level monsters in the chaotic realm, where their first battle began.

• Sabo rallied the allied army to defend their home while the expedition entered the Spacetime Crevice.
• Allen transformed into his Torch Dragon Awakening Form and reversed the closed loop, opening a passage through the rift.
• Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Sanji, Jinbe, Law, and Allen plunged into the passage, which sealed behind them as Allen's power weakened.
• The team entered the chaotic Spacetime Crevice, where Allen's silver-purple glow shielded them from the turbulent laws and their abilities were disrupted.
• Dark-red monsters attacked the expedition, and Sabo and Ace prepared to fight as the first battle in the crevice erupted.

Allen and the allied fighters battled and defeated powerful monsters in the gap between space and time, gaining unusually rich fortune but struggling against the chaotic environment. As they regrouped, the red world-destroying behemoth arrived, and its terrifying presence threatened to break Allen’s protective halo.

• Luffy, Ace, Sanji, Jinbe, Law, and Sabo coordinated their attacks to defeat the Admiral Candidate-level monsters while Allen maintained the team’s protective halo.
• The fighters noted that the monsters were more difficult to fight in the gap between space and time, but their destruction granted them purer and greater fortune.
• Sabo urged the team to adapt to the environment and use the battles as an opportunity to improve.
• Allen sensed a vastly more powerful presence approaching and warned the team to prepare.
• The red world-destroying behemoth’s projection appeared before the expeditionary force, its will causing Allen’s halo to ripple violently.

Allen and his allies fought the world-destroying projection, whose Emperor-level power overwhelmed their first attack. They barely stopped its destructive sphere, but the projection identified Allen as its main obstacle and prepared to target him.

• The world-destroying projection appeared in the spacetime rift, and Allen shielded his allies while ordering them to search for a weakness.
• The projection’s roar shattered the Spacetime Barrier, but Allen held the attack long enough for Luffy, Ace, Sanji, Jinbe, and Law to strike.
• The projection’s destruction field blunted the allies’ attacks, leaving them with almost no effect.
• The projection launched a black sphere at the group, and Law failed to teleport them clear because its gravity interfered with ROOM.
• Allen slowed time and folded space around the sphere, allowing the allies to combine their attacks and detonate it, though the effort depleted him.
• The projection suffered damage to its claw, then focused its fury on Allen as the greatest obstacle to its arrival.

Allen held off the world-destroying projection with a Spacetime Fault while the allied force damaged its claw, then clashed with its ultimate attack and was left nearly powerless. As the projection prepared to finish him, Nami fired Pluton’s Purification Nova-fire through the Spacetime Crevice, striking its wounded head and turning the battle into an uncertain new stage.

• The world-destroying projection focused its attack on Allen, who trapped its descending claw in a Spacetime Fault and called for the team to strike.
• Luffy, Ace, Sanji, Jinbe, and Law attacked the projection’s claw and damaged its joints and energy nodes.
• The projection gathered energy for a dark singularity, and Allen countered it with Spacetime’s Return to the Void, leaving both Allen and the projection badly weakened.
• As the projection prepared to attack the exhausted Allen, Nami fired Pluton’s Purification Nova-fire through the barrier and struck its wounded head.
• The projection roared as purifying light and destructive energy engulfed it, while the expeditionary force gained a brief chance to recover.

Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Sanji, Jinbe, Law, and Pluton destroyed the world-destroying projection, and the fortune released by its core pushed Allen through a major breakthrough. Sanji took the projection’s final attack meant for Allen, leaving Allen to vow to kill its true body as the decisive battle began.

• Pluton’s purifying light and the allies’ concentrated attacks destroyed the projection, releasing a vast surge of fortune that mostly flowed into Allen.
• The fortune healed Allen and advanced his Torch Dragon Fruit ability, while Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Sanji, Jinbe, and Law also gained strength and insight.
• The projection’s remaining destructive will fired a dark-red beam at Allen, and Sanji threw himself in its path and was pierced through the chest.
• Law moved Sanji to his side but could not remove the destructive will without worsening his condition.
• Allen completed his breakthrough to Four Emperor-level strength, froze Sanji’s injuries and the erosion temporarily, and vowed to kill the projection’s true body.

Sanji remained critically wounded by the destructive will, and Law could only keep his condition stable while Allen failed to reverse the injury. Allen carried Sanji through the unstable passage toward the rift’s source, leaving Luffy and the others to defend the outside.

• Law determined that removing the destructive will would kill Sanji and that only powerful purification or time reversal could save him.
• Allen said he could not reverse the wound because the will resisted temporal interference, while Sanji murmured about Zoro and his cooking.
• Allen resolved to destroy the source of the will and asked Law to keep Sanji stable as long as possible.
• Allen refused to let the others accompany him, saying his Zhulong power made him the only one able to enter the unstable passage.
• Allen carried Sanji into the passage, leaving Luffy, Ace, Sabo, and the others behind to hold the defensive line.

Allen carried the unconscious Sanji into the source lair of the destruction and confronted the ancient will at its heart. He survived their first law-level clash with a slight advantage, but Sanji’s protection was weakening and Allen still needed to find the source’s core.

• Allen traversed the residual energy passage while protecting Sanji with his Power of Zhulong and Law’s ROOM.
• Allen emerged into the source lair and sensed the true body of the destruction sleeping at its deepest point.
• The source of destruction attacked Allen by disrupting space and time, so Allen sealed Sanji in spacetime crystal and established his Order Field.
• The source formed the Light of Guixu, and Allen countered it with his Torch Dragon Ultimate Art: Creation of Heaven and Earth.
• Allen’s attack cracked the destruction’s enormous eye and dimmed its energy, but Allen was injured and Sanji’s protections began to falter.

Allen found the Heart of Destruction and used all his remaining power in a final attack against it. The resulting clash shattered Allen and left Sanji falling defenseless as the cracked Heart of Destruction continued to pulse.

• Allen used the Power of Zhulong to find the Heart of Destruction deep within the nest.
• The Heart of Destruction gathered the nest's energy and began pulling Allen's spacetime domain apart, while Sanji's protection cracked and his life signs weakened.
• Allen abandoned his defenses and poured his remaining power into a final strike, the Spacetime Singularity Big Bang.
• The Heart of Destruction fired the Scar of the End, and the two attacks collided in an explosion of opposing laws.
• The resulting ripples shattered Allen, destroyed Sanji's protection, and left Sanji falling as the Heart of Destruction remained cracked but pulsing.