Summary:
Whitebeard decided to stay in Marineford alone and destroy everything, as well as sink the island into the sea and sacrifice himself in the process. All the pirates try to evacuate while Whitebeard holds all the marines back by himself. Meanwhile, the visual Den Den Mushi wakes up and Buggy restarts the broadcast and prepares to take Whitebeard’s head. At the same time, Jinbe also decides to stay back to help Whitebeard and evacuate the pirates. While Ace is on his way to freedom, Akainu provokes him into returning by insulting Whitebeard. Enraged, Ace confronts Akainu, but Ace ends up being burned by Akainu’s Magu Magu no Mi powers. Ace then learns the hard way that Akainu’s fruit with the power of magma is a natural enemy and is superior to Ace’s fruit with the power of fire. Luffy tries to go to Ace’s aid, but ends up losing his strength and ties himself up, dropping Ace’s Vivre card. While Luffy is down, Akainu tries to finish him off, but Ace gets hit, allowing Akainu to punch through his body instead of Luffy. The chapter ends with Ace’s Vivre card being shown to have burned up with very little left intact as Luffy and the Whitebeard Pirates look on stunned.