Chapter 594

Cover
Garp and Sengoku are enjoying themselves eating rice crackers. Garp is stacking them on a little table, creating a structure, and Sengoku's goat is chewing on paper.

Quick Summary
Luffy's recent actions are revealed: he infiltrated Marineford again with Rayleigh and Jinbei and rang the Ox Bell to signal his crew about something. Sengoku and Garp step down from their positions before Pan-Fleet Admiral Kong, with the Fleet Admiral recommending Aokiji as his successor. The whereabouts of many Supernovas are revealed.

Long Summary
In Mariejois the five Elder Stars are talking about Luffy's actions, though his actions are yet revealed. In the same place, Pan-Fleet Admiral Kong talks to Sengoku about the man's and Garp's "holding back" in Marine ranks. The now former Fleet-Admiral Sengoku recommends Admiral Aokiji as his successor.

In Marineford, which is being rebuilt, Aokiji and Smoker are talking first about Luffy's actions, and later about Smoker's possible new employement in a New World's Marine base, G5, which is said to be full of problem: the Commodore's wish to be transferred there stems from his will of chasing Luffy and the other rookies who have entered the second half of the Grand Line. A doctor informs Coby that what he heard during the battle was surely Haki, and it's revealed that there are many types of Haki. Finally we discover what Luffy has done from Brandnew's mouth: he came with Jinbei and Reyleigh to Marineford to ring the Ox Bell 16 times, with many photographers fixing the event on their newspapers: this deed might be considered both as an homage to the ones fallen during the war, and as a declaration of the Old Age of Pirates end, with the beginning of the new one.

In the New World, on an unnamed island adorned by strange, pointed formations, and inhabited by dark swine-like animals, Kid and his crew are talking about Luffy's behaviour. Killer specifies some details on that special bell, telling the others about the symbolical meaning it has for the Marines, being rang at the end of an year and the beginning of the next one. Outside their setting there are a lot of captured men defeated before, who are then killed and crucified by Kid, with the Supernova laughing about their low strength and their desire to come back home after their total defeat.

Somewhere else, always in the New World, Capone Bege's ship is sucked to the sky by a strange structure, similar to a dark globe, with what look like rocky formations protruding from it.

Back in the Grand Line, Luffy is travelling on a Kuja ship with Jinbei and Rayleigh, hoping that his crewmates understood the message he sent them by ringing the Ox Bell. On the various islands they where sent on, all of them apparently understand what he wanted to let them know, something we don't know yet.

In the meantime, on another unnamed island in the New World, Hawkins and his crew are confronting Brownbeard and his men. The Supernova laughs at his opponent's mumbling about his glory, and as he unsheates his word and prepares for fight, says that the shadow of death is visible on Brownbeard.

We last see Urouge and his crew, unable to dock with their ship on an island in the New World because of the continuous lightnings spilling from it. A smaller vessel approaches them, with an old man or woman offering to get them some umbrellas. The chapter ends with the narrator saying that, in comparison to the New World, the first half of the Grand Line is a paradise.

Plot points

 * Both Sengoku and Garp resign from the Marines.
 * Coby is revealed to have Haki.
 * Smoker makes request to be transferred to the G5 base in the New World.
 * Luffy's deed causing sensation on the newspaper is finally revealed, this being ringing the Marines Ox Bell.
 * Some of the Supernovas whereabout are revealed: Kid shows off his cruelty by killing and crucifying some prisoners; Bege's ship is sucked to the sky by a strange entity; Hawkins prepares to fight Brownbeard, unsheating his word for the first time, and Urouge has problems in docking on an island spilling lightnings, but an old man or woman offer to get his some umbrellas, maybe an unorthodox way to solve his problem.
 * All of Luffy's crewmembers apparently understood the mysterious message Luffy sent them with the Ox Bell's ringing.