Chapter Summaries

Yota defeated Enel by swallowing his Thunder God form with black mist, then released Enel without his Rumble-Rumble Fruit and explored Sky Island with his companions in disguise. After several days of sightseeing and shopping, they learned that the Sky Islanders were growing tense over the valuable soil from Jaya Island.

• Enel transformed into his Thunder God form and attacked Yota, but Yota engulfed him in black mist and took away his Devil Fruit powers.
• Yota returned Enel to the Sky Islanders, who celebrated Yota as a divine beast, then flew away with Charlotte Pudding and the others.
• Yota's group used the Transformation Technique to blend in, and Charlotte Pudding and Violet bought souvenirs across Sky Island.
• After touring Sky Island for several days, Yota and his companions learned that the Sky Islanders were tense because the Jaya Island fragment held precious soil.

After Enel’s defeat, the Sky Island people and Jaya Island’s natives stood on the brink of war over Jaya Island. Yota proposed moving the island fragment back down to the Blue Sea and taking Shandora’s gold as payment, leaving the group eager to act.

• The Sky Island people exiled Enel and drove his priests into the Sea of Clouds, leaving Jaya Island contested by them and its native inhabitants.
• Gan Fall mediated between the two sides, but Violet, Kyros, Charlotte Pudding, and Yota discussed how difficult it would be to prevent another war.
• Yota said Noland had not lied and that the City of Gold had truly existed on Jaya Island.
• Yota proposed returning the fragment of Jaya Island to the Blue Sea to prevent the conflict and taking the gold as payment.
• Violet and Kyros accepted that the gold could endanger Jaya Island’s residents, while Charlotte Pudding urged the group to gather it.

Yota lifted the Shandora fragment of Jaya Island and promised its people he would return it to the Blue Sea. The island landed beside Mock Town, where Mont Blanc Cricket and his crew narrowly escaped being crushed.

• Yota considered ways to improve artificial Devil Fruit research, then flew to the Shandora fragment as Jaya Island residents argued with Sky Islanders.
• Yota blew the Sky Islanders away, split the central vine tree, and lowered the palace containing the Golden Bell.
• Yota took the Poneglyph and lifted the entire island fragment with Flame Cloud.
• Yota told Wyper and the people of Shandora that he would send Jaya Island down to their homeland in the Blue Sea.
• Mont Blanc Cricket and his crew saw the fragment descending and rowed out of its path before it landed beside Mock Town, joining their half-house to its other half.

Yota returned Jaya Island to the sea, took most of its gold, and celebrated with the Shandora people and Montblanc Cricket. Before sailing away, he strengthened the island’s defenses and left the Golden Bell with its people.

• The falling City of Gold’s waves wrecked the salvage crew’s ship, but its swimmers survived.
• Yota collected most of the island’s gold while leaving the Golden Bell and the Shandora people’s personal possessions untouched.
• Yota told the Shandora people he had returned Jaya Island in exchange for its gold, and they invited him and Montblanc Cricket to a banquet.
• Cricket wept with joy after learning the City of Gold was real and that his ancestor Noland had not been a liar.
• Before leaving, Yota turned the Lord of the Sky into a Homie and gave the Spring Fruit to Shandora’s great warrior to protect the island.
• As Yota and his companions sailed away aboard the Azure Dragon, they heard the Golden Bell ringing behind them.

Yota set course for Amazon Lily to seek the Snake-Snake Fruits eaten by Boa Hancock’s sisters, while considering the danger of Hancock’s Love-Love Fruit. His flying Azure Dragon reached the island, but Hancock and her sisters were away raiding at sea.

• Yota told Charlotte Pudding that he planned to visit Amazon Lily and obtain its two Snake-Snake Fruit users’ powers.
• Yota worried that Boa Hancock’s beauty and Love-Love Fruit might overcome his resistance, and expected a clash with her.
• Yota’s crew used the upgraded, flying Azure Dragon and Violet’s vision to locate Amazon Lily without a Log Pose.
• Yota and Violet spotted Amazon Lily and found that Hancock and her sisters were absent because Hancock was away raiding.

Yota and his companions arrived at Amazon Lily seeking Hancock, but the island’s warriors attacked their ship, so Yota subdued them with Wood Release. After landing, he confronted the former queen while the island’s fighters remained weakened.

• Yota learned Hancock was away at sea and decided to wait for her on Amazon Lily.
• Amazon Lily’s warriors attacked the Azure Dragon with bows and arrows as it approached.
• Yota used Wood Release: Tree World Descent to capture the island’s warriors and drain their stamina.
• Yota and his companions landed on Amazon Lily, where the weakened warriors fell from the trees as the branches withdrew.
• The Former Queen of Amazon Lily confronted Yota, and Charlotte Pudding pointed out that the island’s warriors had attacked first.

Yota confronted Gloriosa on Amazon Lily and revealed that he was waiting for Boa Hancock’s sisters, whose Devil Fruits interested him. As Hancock’s ship approached, she sensed trouble and found the island in ruins, with its residents down on the ground.

• Yota told Gloriosa he would leave her and the others unharmed if they did not resist, then admitted he was interested in Hancock’s younger sisters’ Devil Fruits.
• Gloriosa recognized Yota as the Marauder and asked whether he had come for Hancock’s Love-Love Fruit.
• Violet spotted the returning Kuja Pirates’ ship, and Yota used his Observation Haki and electromagnetic abilities to detect it approaching.
• Boa Hancock felt increasingly uneasy and ordered her crew to hurry back to Amazon Lily.
• Hancock and her crew saw the island’s ruined landscape, and Hancock leaped ashore to find residents lying on the ground.

Boa Hancock returned to Amazon Lily and found Yota’s group occupying her palace and examining its treasures. Her Love-Love Fruit failed to affect them, and the chapter ended as Hancock attacked Charlotte Pudding.

• Boa Hancock and her sisters found Amazon Lily’s warriors unconscious and followed Hancock’s Observation Haki to the palace.
• The sisters learned that an unknown group had arrived aboard a flying ship and used rapidly growing trees to overwhelm the island.
• Hancock entered the palace and found Yota, Kyros, Charlotte Pudding, and Violet among the island’s treasures while Gloriosa presented them with boxes of valuables.
• Hancock used Love-Love Mellow, but Yota’s group resisted its effects, and her sisters recognized Yota as the Plunderer.
• Hancock fired Slave Arrow at Yota’s group, but Pudding blocked the arrows with growing trees; Hancock then leaped toward Pudding and kicked at her head.

Charlotte Pudding defeated Boa Hancock and her sisters by combining her Devil Fruit powers with her Mangekyo Sharingan. After Yota extracted the sisters’ Devil Fruits, he noted that the Eight-Headed Dragon had fused with five Devil Fruits.

• Charlotte Pudding aged Boa Hancock with Soul Extraction and Essence Absorption, but Hancock insisted she remained the world’s most beautiful woman and attacked with Perfume Femur.
• Hancock’s sisters broke free of Memory Deletion and restrained Charlotte Pudding’s Susanoo, but Hancock’s arrows petrified it before Charlotte Pudding emerged unharmed.
• Charlotte Pudding used Tsukuyomi to make Hancock relive her enslavement, knocking her unconscious, then incapacitated both of her sisters with her Sharingan.
• Charlotte Pudding asked Yota for his judgment, and he told her to train before challenging Charlotte Linlin and taking control of the Charlotte Pirates.
• Yota extracted the Devil Fruits from Hancock’s sisters and said the Eight-Headed Dragon had now fused with five Devil Fruits.

Hancock woke after Yota’s Tsukuyomi and discovered that he had removed the Celestial Dragon hoof mark from her sisters and, with her consent, from her as well. After paying him with Amazon Lily’s treasures, she learned that Yota wanted her help identifying Amazon Lily people he had rescued from Mary Geoise.

• Hancock woke beside Salome and feared that Yota and the three-eyed woman had learned about her past through the illusion.
• She found her sisters giving Amazon Lily’s treasures to Yota and angrily accused them of being controlled.
• Her sisters revealed that Yota had cured them, and Hancock realized he had removed the marks on their backs.
• Yota removed Hancock’s mark in exchange for the treasure, and she saw that her back was smooth and scar-free.
• Yota asked Hancock about the Amazon Lily people he had rescued from Mary Geoise.

Yota told Boa Hancock that he had helped free slaves from Mary Geoise and challenged her to confront the fear the Celestial Dragons had left in her. By the next morning, Hancock seemed more composed and had begun facing her trauma, though she had not yet overcome it.

• Hancock was astonished when Yota revealed that he had helped rescue slaves from Mary Geoise and that his battle had created the slope up the Red Line.
• Yota asked Hancock to help the freed slaves and suggested that the Revolutionary Army might assist them too.
• Yota compared Hancock's fear of the Celestial Dragons to a grown elephant still bound by a rope it could once have broken.
• Hancock cried as Yota asked whether she would kill the Celestial Dragon who had enslaved her, and she admitted she did not know.
• The next morning, Yota noticed that Hancock seemed more composed and had begun facing her fear.

Yota answered Ryuma’s desperate call for help in the East Blue and discovered that Golden Lion Shiki had carried Ryuma into the sky. After learning that Ryuma’s fear of heights had undermined his fight, Yota set out to search for Shiki.

• Ryuma called Yota for help from the East Blue and urged him to use the Den Den Mushi to reach him.
• Yota used the Flying Thunder God Technique, appeared high in the sky, and caught Ryuma as he fell.
• Ryuma explained that he had been swept into the sky when Golden Lion Shiki lifted an island, then challenged Shiki and was thrown off.
• Yota realized Ryuma was afraid of heights, let him fall briefly, and pulled him back up with Universal Pull.
• Yota offered to handle Shiki and scanned the open sky with Observation Haki and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

Yota brought Ryuma to Golden Lion Shiki’s floating islands and defeated Shiki by exploiting the Float-Float Fruit’s weakness to gravity. Afterward, Yota released most of the captured islands and sent Shiki’s research materials and personnel to Punk Hazard, while keeping the Float-Float Fruit for his own fusion.

• Yota brought Ryuma to Shiki’s islands, where Ryuma resumed fighting the wounded Golden Lion.
• Yota broke through Shiki’s earthen lion attack and used Black Hole - Chibaku Tensei to absorb Shiki and his floating islands into Dark Space.
• Ryuma escaped the gravity’s range but panicked when the ground vanished beneath him, and Yota later reassured him that the island residents were still alive.
• Yota released most of Shiki’s islands in a suitable area and sent Shiki’s research materials and technical personnel to Punk Hazard.
• Yota claimed the Float-Float Fruit as a valuable addition to his planned Devil Fruit fusion.

After finishing his work at Punk Hazard, Yota returned to the Azure Dragon and stopped at Little Garden Island to trade with its two dueling Giants. As the crew headed for Drum Island, they noticed an unflagged ship following them, unaware its crew wanted Yota’s help.

• Yota turned the healed Golden Lion into a bodyguard and sent him with the researchers and materials to Punk Hazard.
• Yota returned to the Azure Dragon, where Violet explained that the crew had taken a shortcut through Little Garden Island.
• Yota and the crew watched the two Giants duel, then traded repairs to their weapons for provisions.
• The Azure Dragon left Little Garden Island without incident, carrying a large supply of food.
• Violet spotted an unflagged ship following them, and Yota chose to ignore it unless it showed hostile intent.
• The pursuing ship belonged to people who knew about the Azure Dragon and wanted Yota’s help.

Princess Vivi and Igaram fled Baroque Works and sought help from Yota, but their fear of his reputation made them hesitate. After Baroque Works pursued their ship, Yota brought them alongside the Azure Dragon and demanded to know why they had come.

• Vivi and Igaram argued over whether they could trust Yota and decided to put off seeking his help.
• A Baroque Works ship pursued Vivi and Igaram, so they raised a white flag and sped toward the Azure Dragon.
• Yota used his Float-Float Fruit ability to bring the ships together and recognized Vivi and Igaram.
• Vivi mistook Yota for the perverted demon described in rumors, and Yota's roar frightened her and Igaram into silence.
• Vivi told Yota that Brook had sent them to him after they met at Whiskey Peak.

Yota agreed to help Princess Vivi against Baroque Works and captured Miss Valentine, extracting her Devil Fruit power and memories. After Vivi explained that Baroque Works might be causing Alabasta’s drought, her ship was destroyed, and Yota rescued its guards aboard the Azure Dragon.

• Yota saw Miss Valentine floating above the ship and used Universal Pull to seize her.
• Miss Valentine accidentally snapped her own neck while trying to increase her weight, but Yota restored her and removed her Light-Light Fruit power.
• Charlotte Pudding examined Miss Valentine’s memories and confirmed Baroque Works was working to annex Alabasta.
• Vivi told Yota that Baroque Works might be using Dance Powder to cause Alabasta’s drought and asked him to save the country.
• Vivi’s ship exploded and began to sink, so Yota used gravity to pull its guards aboard the Azure Dragon.

Yota defeated Baroque Works agents Miss Valentine and Mr. 5, took their Devil Fruits, and learned little from Princess Vivi about the organization. He restored Vivi’s ship and sent her toward Alabasta with a Flying Thunder God Den Den Mushi, while his Azure Dragon continued toward Drum Kingdom.

• Charlotte Pudding revealed that Mr. 5 had bombed the ship, and Miss Valentine warned him that Yota was a Great Pirate with a billion-berry bounty.
• Mr. 5 attacked Yota, who used Dust Release to destroy his arm and extracted the Bomb-Bomb Fruit and Light-Light Fruit from the two agents.
• Yota asked Princess Vivi about Baroque Works, but she knew almost nothing beyond what he already remembered about Crocodile and Nico Robin.
• Baroque Works’ ship fled, and Yota chose not to pursue it because most of its lower-ranking members were bounty hunters rather than true villains.
• Yota salvaged and repaired Vivi’s ship, put the two powerless agents aboard, and sent Vivi toward Alabasta with a Flying Thunder God Den Den Mushi while he continued toward Drum Kingdom.

Yota returned to Drum Island with his crew and found Chopper, whom he invited to join research on artificial Devil Fruits at Punk Hazard. Chopper learned he would be the test subject and was horrified as Charlotte Pudding teased him about being his researcher.

• Yota arrived at Drum Island with Charlotte Pudding and the others, and praised King Dalton for making the island prosperous through medicine.
• Violet located Chopper in a mountain village, where he accidentally burned himself while preparing medicine and rolled down a snowy slope into Yota.
• Yota healed Chopper and told Dr. Kureha he had come to invite Chopper to participate in research.
• Yota explained that the research at Punk Hazard involved artificial Devil Fruits and that Chopper would be the test subject.
• Chopper panicked and hid behind Charlotte Pudding, who picked him up and pretended to be his primary researcher.

Yota revived Kuina using Impure World Reincarnation after Koshiro begged him to bring his daughter back. Kuina learned that she had been dead for years and that Yota might be able to restore her to life completely.

• Pudding frightened Chopper until he passed out, and Yota later reassured him that they were only taking blood for research.
• Ryuma contacted Yota, and Koshiro begged him to revive his daughter, Kuina.
• Yota agreed, found no sign of Zoro in Shimotsuki Village, and decided to leave a Wood Clone behind to patrol the East Blue.
• Koshiro opened Kuina's grave, and Yota used her remains and a White Zetsu to perform Impure World Reincarnation.
• Kuina awoke, learned that she had died years earlier, and heard from Ryuma that Yota could potentially revive her completely.

Yota revived Kuina with the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit, then returned to Drum Kingdom before Vivi called for help from Alabasta. He brought Violet and Kyros to her rescue, where Kyros stepped forward to face Mr. 1 of Baroque Works.

• Yota gave Kuina the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit, and she ate it after Koshiro agreed.
• Yota released the Impure World Reincarnation, and the fruit restored Kuina to life before he extracted it again.
• Kuina said she would teach Zoro a lesson for taking Wado Ichimonji and going to sea.
• Yota left a clone in the East Blue and returned to Drum Kingdom, where Vivi soon called for help from Alabasta.
• Yota took Violet and Kyros to Alabasta, where Mr. 1 struck him with a hand blade and identified himself as a Dice-Dice Fruit user.
• Kyros stepped forward to fight Mr. 1 and show him a swordsman's true strength.