Chapter Summaries

Ruidio deployed to the Kuja sisters’ task and found Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold imprisoned aboard a slave ship, where he began cutting his way through the crew. He reached Saint Shepherd Sommers on deck and confronted the Holy Knight, leaving the sisters’ escape unresolved.

• After Ruidio returned to Mount Colubo, Ace ambushed him, but Ruidio overpowered him and vanished again.
• Ruidio deployed to the Kuja sisters’ task and found the young Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold shackled in a cage aboard a ship.
• Ruidio freed himself from the cage, questioned a jailer, and learned the vessel was a slave ship connected to a Celestial Dragon.
• Ruidio killed the jailer and cut down the slave traders and helmsman as he made his way toward the deck.
• Ruidio found Saint Shepherd Sommers, a Holy Knight, and slashed off his left arm and across his chest.
• Sommers turned toward Ruidio and demanded to know who was there.

After Saint Shepherd Sommers nearly killed Ruidio with a single blow, Ruidio recovered on Mount Colubo and explained Devil Fruit types to Ace and Luffy, revealing that Luffy had eaten the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika. He warned Ace about the dangers of being Roger’s son, then used Satoru Gojo Mode to heal himself and demonstrated a powerful attack.

• Saint Shepherd Sommers struck Ruidio with overwhelming force, sending him flying across the sea until he returned to Mount Colubo.
• Ruidio awoke badly injured, repaired Malevolent Shrine with the system, and created a feast that Ace and Luffy ate with him.
• Ruidio explained the three Devil Fruit categories and told Ace that Luffy had eaten the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, not the Gum-Gum Fruit.
• Ruidio warned Ace that the Marines and ordinary people would target him as Roger’s son, and said he would need to surpass Roger to live freely.
• Ruidio activated Satoru Gojo Mode, healed his injuries with Reverse Cursed Technique, and combined Blue and Red into a powerful attack.

Ruidio traveled back to the slave ship and attacked Saint Shepherd Sommers, trying to draw out Imu and test the limits of the God's Knights' contract. After returning to Mount Colubo, Ruidio set off again and found himself in a red palace, where women's voices came from behind drapes.

• Ruidio returned to the slave ship, killed its guards, and confronted Sommers on deck.
• Ruidio broke Sommers's thorn attacks, blasted him across the sea, and demanded that he summon his master, Imu.
• Ruidio submerged Sommers and waited for Imu to possess him, then pulled out and tried unsuccessfully to crush Sommers's beating steel heart.
• Ruidio returned to Mount Colubo, where Luffy saw him soaking wet and Ace inspected the trench left by Ruidio's attack.
• Ruidio left again and appeared inside a red palace, where he followed women's voices behind pink drapes.

Ruidio took Hancock and her sisters back to the night they were enslaved, where Hancock freed them and confronted Saint Shepherd Sommers. The mission failed before they could return to Amazon Lily, leaving Ruidio and Hancock back in the empress's hall.

• Hancock used her Devil Fruit power to break the sisters’ chains and led Sandersonia and Marigold out of their cell.
• Hancock and her sisters attacked the slave ship’s crew, and Ruidio shattered Saint Shepherd Sommers’s petrified chest, revealing a beating steel heart.
• Ruidio and the Boa sisters escaped aboard a small boat, where Hancock told him how she and her sisters had been captured and blamed herself for their fate.
• Ruidio listened as Hancock shared her pain, but the system declared the mission failed and returned them to the present in Kuja Castle.

Ruidio treated Hancock’s wound and comforted her over the Celestial Dragons’ brand, then accepted her request to help her sisters. After deploying with Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold into their past selves, he found the other captive girls still trapped aboard the ship.

• Ruidio noticed that Hancock’s wound from the spacetime mission had carried over into reality and applied medicine to it.
• Ruidio examined the Celestial Dragons’ brand on Hancock’s back, comforted her, and asked her to teach him Haki.
• Hancock asked Ruidio to soothe Sandersonia and Marigold’s emotional trauma, and he accepted the mission while requesting that a crew member join the Haki lessons.
• Ruidio hired Sandersonia and Marigold, then deployed with the three sisters into their past selves.
• Ruidio searched the ship and found the other twenty captive girls still chained inside their cell.

Ruidio returned to Amazon Lily with Hancock’s two sisters and fourteen rescued slave girls, then examined his new Poké Ball reward. Hancock treated him as her equal among the Kuja and led him into the jungle to begin teaching him Haki.

• Ruidio arrived at Kuja Castle with Hancock, Sandersonia, Marigold, and fourteen rescued girls, then conjured a feast so they could eat.
• Ruidio learned that his Poké Ball could be copied and spent 8,000 Essence to make ten copies.
• Ruidio entrusted the rescued girls to Sandersonia and Marigold, then asked Hancock to teach him Haki.
• Hancock introduced Ruidio to Kuja Warriors as someone they should respect as they did her, and he wondered whether he had become Kuja’s vice emperor.
• Hancock knocked out several jungle beasts with Conqueror’s Haki and ordered Marguerite to keep others away from the trial grounds while she and Ruidio trained.

Hancock explained Haki and its training to Ruidio, then tried to help him awaken Observation Haki. When her gentle attacks failed, Ruidio proposed using her Armament Haki on his hand as a training stimulus, and she cautiously began.

• Hancock demonstrated Observation Haki and the three stages of Armament Haki, explaining how Haki differed from physical strength.
• Ruidio realized that Haki could compensate for differences in natural strength, while physical training could still strengthen a person's convictions.
• Hancock struggled to attack Ruidio during Observation Haki practice, so he could not properly stimulate his senses.
• Ruidio tried to capture a Sea King with a Poké Ball, but it broke free, and he gave Hancock five balls to capture smaller Sea Kings for the island.
• Ruidio suggested that Hancock wrap his hand in Armament Haki so he could sense it and develop his own control, and she cautiously began.

Ruidio trained with Hancock until he awakened Armament Haki, then returned to Mount Colubo and invited Ace aboard his ship. Ace accepted the offer to sail with Ruidio, while Luffy stayed behind.

• Hancock carefully channeled her Armament Haki into Ruidio for hours, and the system recorded his first glimpse of Armament Haki.
• Ruidio checked the system’s updated strength details and continued training with Hancock until evening, sensing slight progress.
• Ruidio returned to Mount Colubo and told Ace about Whitebeard, the Four Emperors, and the great pirates of the sea.
• Ruidio summoned the Black Cat Ship at the shore and invited Ace to come aboard; Ace accepted, insisting he would be captain.
• Ruidio tried to hypnotize Luffy with a pocket watch, but the attempt failed, and he sailed away with Ace while Luffy waved from shore.

Ruidio brought Ace to Amazon Lily so the Kuja could train him in Haki, while encouraging him to give his life meaning and pursue strength. As Ace began brutal training with Sandersonia and Marigold, Ruidio continued practicing Haki with Hancock.

• Ruidio told Ace that his mother, Roger, and Garp had chosen to bring him into the world and urged him to make his existence known.
• Ruidio said he wanted to fulfill his crew’s dreams and reach Laugh Tale, then decided to take Ace to Shimotsuki Village after preparing him for the Grand Line.
• Ruidio used his ability to bring Ace to Amazon Lily, where Ace met Hancock and learned that Sandersonia and Marigold would teach him Haki.
• Ruidio revealed that Ace was the Pirate King’s son, shocking Sandersonia and Marigold.
• The Kuja began training Ace by attacking him to awaken his Observation Haki and teach him Armament Haki, while Ruidio trained with Hancock.

Ruidio killed a Celestial Dragon while pursuing a system mission, gained Observation and Armament Haki with Hancock’s help, and watched Ace’s training progress. On day eight, Hancock summoned Kuja warriors and children to the arena to sort them by Haki ability.

• Ruidio found a system mission to make Manmeya Speed’s chosen South Blue island the venue for the Celestial Dragons’ gathering.
• Sandersonia and Marigold reported that Ace was training hard, and Ruidio brought back and discarded a Celestial Dragon’s head after questioning him about the gathering.
• Ruidio gained Observation Haki and asked Sandersonia and Marigold why they looked different from Hancock; they explained that the sisters had once looked alike and that beauty had brought them misfortune.
• Ace continued training against Sandersonia and Marigold, sometimes anticipating their attacks and dodging them.
• Hancock helped Ruidio master beginner Armament and Observation Haki in the bath, and they embraced after she had heard about his killing of a Celestial Dragon.
• Hancock summoned Kuja warriors and children to the arena, where Rindou and Kikyo sorted them into groups according to their Armament and Observation Haki.