Chapter 576

Chapter 576 is called "The Great Pirate Edward Newgate".

Summary
After the escaped level 6 inmates/new members of Blackbeard's crew have been quickly highlighted, Whitebeard and Blackbeard begin to fight each other. Blackbeard's Yami Yami No Mi powers negate Whitebeard's Gura Gura No Mi powers but Whitebeard still gains the upper hand as he exclaims that he could never call Blackbeard, 'son', after everything he had done. We see a flashback of a conversation between Whitebeard and Gold Roger in which Roger offers to tell Whitebard how to get to Raftel to claim One Piece. Whitebeard turns him down saying treasure isn't what he's after. Roger notes that everyone is calling him Gold Roger when he is Gol D Roger. Whitebeard inquires about the D and it's meaning and Roger tells him off panel. Meanwhile as Whitebeard nearly kills Blackbeard by crushing his skull with one hand, cryptically saying that Blackbeard isn't a true D and that Roger is not waiting for him, but rather someone with the inherited will of all history's D's to challenge the world in a massive war. Blackbeard signals his crew to attack Whitebeard and he gets mauled by Blackbeard's crew. We hear another flashback conversation where a much younger Whitebeard tells an unknown pirate he isn't interested in treasure. He just wants family. He apologizes to his sons for leaving Blackbeard for them to deal with, thanks them and bids them a final farewell. Whitebeard is eulogized by the narrator listing all the injuries he had taken in this War yet his back, where his jolly roger is tattooed, bore no marks/scars of retreat as Whitebeard dies standing up.

Chapter Notes

 * The names of the pirates, that joined Blackbeard's Crew, are revealed.
 * It is revealed how Luffy and his fellow Impel Down escapees were able to pass through the Gates of Justice.
 * It is confirmed by Whitebeard that One Piece exists.
 * It is revealed that Roger told Whitebeard the meaning of the initial 'D'.
 * A gigantic war is soon to come that will engulf the entire world once One Piece is found.
 * The Strongest Man in the World, Edward Newgate also known as Whitebeard dies, making this the second death of a major character outside of a flashback.

Characters
1 : First introduction