Chapter Summaries

Doflamingo’s attack plunged Mary Geoise into chaos, while Sancho flew through the city and raided Celestial Dragon estates for treasure. The Five Elders struggled to respond as communications failed and Sancho ignored the fleeing slaves except to free a few along the way.

• The Five Elders learned that CP0 agents had rebelled, and a masked agent reported that all Den Den Mushi had stopped working.
• The Five Elders realized Doflamingo had disabled the city’s communications and debated whether he would attack the Celestial Dragons directly.
• Sancho flew into Mary Geoise, where several Celestial Dragons demanded that their Bodyguards capture him as a mount.
• Sancho tore into a luxurious estate and carried off a huge pile of treasure, blocking a CP0 agent’s Haki-coated punch before burning him to ashes.
• Sancho continued raiding Celestial Dragon homes and struggled to choose which treasure to take, occasionally removing slaves’ chains as he searched.

Doflamingo triggered a slave revolt in Mary Geoise, where hypnotized CP0 agents attacked the Celestial Dragons and slaves began escaping. Fisher Tiger organized the freed slaves, while Kong and the army arrived to stabilize the chaos, and Sancho fled with treasure.

• Doflamingo's hypnotized CP0 agents stormed Mary Geoise, beat the Celestial Dragons, and freed slaves as the Holy Land descended into chaos.
• Doflamingo used his Observation Haki and illusionary power to help willing slaves escape and gather into a large crowd.
• Doflamingo found Fisher Tiger leading slaves in freeing others and organizing their escape.
• Kong intervened as the army arrived, stabilizing the situation in Mary Geoise.
• Sancho chose valuable treasure and flew away to hide it, trusting Doflamingo to handle the revolt.

Doflamingo confronted Commander-in-Chief Kong in Mary Geoise, where their clash revealed that Doflamingo was the Navy Vice Admiral Steve. The CP agents regained their memories of attacking Celestial Dragons and escaped through the Army.

• Kong leaped into the charging slaves and blasted them back, then challenged Doflamingo over disturbing the peace of Mary Geoise.
• Doflamingo mocked Kong’s claims of justice, and Kong answered with a powerful strike that Doflamingo deflected with Narikitsune.
• Kong recognized Doflamingo as Steve after noticing his weapon and Thundercloud Zeus, and demanded to know why a Navy Vice Admiral had committed treason.
• Doflamingo blamed the World Government agents for starting the conflict and released them from his illusion while leaving their memories intact.
• The agents realized what they had done to the Celestial Dragons, then fought through the Army and fled.

Doflamingo turned the guards of Mary Geoise against the Celestial Dragons, giving Tiger and the other slaves a chance to escape. He revealed his identity and motives to Kong, then used Observation Haki to guide the remaining slaves while avoiding interference near Pangea Castle.

• Doflamingo used an illusion to make the Celestial Dragons’ Bodyguards, CP0 Special Agents, and army soldiers hold their weapons against the Celestial Dragons.
• Doflamingo ordered Tiger to rescue the remaining slaves, and Kong stopped resisting as the guards turned against the Celestial Dragons.
• Doflamingo told Kong that the World Government was likely trying to silence him because he knew secrets, then revealed his name was Donquixote Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo explained that he had wanted to become Navy Fleet Admiral and believed the Navy would eventually clash with the World Government, while Kong dismissed the matter as Sengoku’s concern.
• Doflamingo rode Thundercloud Zeus, spoke with Kong, and used Observation Haki to guide more slaves toward escape before withdrawing it near Pangea Castle.

Doflamingo left Mary Geoise after helping the slaves escape, warning Fisher Tiger that the World Government would likely blame him for the riot. At the Red Line, Shinobu revealed that she had stolen more than a dozen valuable Devil Fruits from CP0’s stores.

• Fisher Tiger reflected on his enslavement and marveled at Doflamingo’s power to hypnotize an entire city.
• Doflamingo told Kong to warn the Five Elders not to target his crew, then departed on Zeus.
• Doflamingo found Shinobu, Sancho, and Fisher Tiger near the Red Line, where Sancho carried a huge load of treasure.
• Fisher Tiger thanked Doflamingo, and Doflamingo warned him that the World Government would probably pin most of the blame for the slave escape on him.
• Shinobu showed Doflamingo more than a dozen Devil Fruits she had stolen from CP0 headquarters during the riot.

Doflamingo gave Tiger a Devil Fruit and helped the escaped slaves descend from the Red Line. He then learned Gild Tesoro’s name and took the dying Stella and a doctor back to Mary Geoise to find medicine.

• Doflamingo urged Tiger to take one of the Devil Fruits and said he expected Tiger to help him oppose the Celestial Dragons and the World Government.
• Tiger chose and ate the Ancient Zoan Pachycephalosaurus Fruit, despite not knowing what it was.
• Doflamingo and the others used Devil Fruit abilities and captured warships to help the escaped slaves descend from the Red Line.
• Doflamingo noticed Stella near death and learned that the man pleading for her was Gild Tesoro.
• Doflamingo took Stella and a doctor aboard Thundercloud Zeus and headed back to Mary Geoise to find medicine.

Doflamingo rescued Stella in Mary Geoise and returned her to Tesorro, whose gratitude led him to accept Doflamingo’s offer. Doflamingo gave Tesorro the Gold-Gold Fruit, and Tesorro discovered he could turn his hand into gold and control the metal.

• Doflamingo used an illusion to move through Mary Geoise, obtained medicine, and brought Stella back in just over ten minutes.
• A doctor treated Stella, and her condition quickly stabilized; Tesorro tearfully thanked Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo asked Tesorro to become his subordinate, and Tesorro eagerly agreed.
• Doflamingo gave Tesorro the Gold-Gold Fruit, which Tesorro ate in full.
• Tesorro turned his hand into gold, and Doflamingo explained the fruit’s powers and how gold dust could be used in battle.

Doflamingo found a stalled elevator on the Red Line and discovered a Celestial Dragon torturing three enslaved sisters inside. After breaking in, he recognized them as the young Boa Hancock and her sisters, leaving their fate in his hands.

• Tesorro and the rescued slaves boarded the golden ship, while Doflamingo flew off to retrieve the last group.
• Doflamingo spotted the stalled elevator and decided to investigate, then sensed a Celestial Dragon inside.
• The Celestial Dragon whipped a branded slave girl while her two younger sisters lay badly injured nearby.
• Doflamingo cut open the elevator roof, ignored the Celestial Dragon’s gunfire, and confronted him.
• Doflamingo recognized the three girls as Boa Hancock and her sisters.

Doflamingo rescued the Hancock sisters from Mary Geoise and branded a Celestial Dragon with the heated Celestial Dragon Crest. He brought the injured girls and the remaining freed slaves to the Golden Ship, where the group faced the challenge of getting everyone home while anticipating the Navy’s response.

• Doflamingo recognized Hancock’s sisters, controlled the bodyguards, and took the Celestial Dragon Crest from the restrained Celestial Dragon.
• Doflamingo heated the Crest with Zeus’s lightning and branded the Celestial Dragon with it, while Hancock watched him beg for mercy.
• Doflamingo carried the unconscious Hancock sisters away on Zeus and left the punished Celestial Dragon behind.
• Doflamingo brought the sisters and the last group of slaves to the Golden Ship, treated their injuries, and reunited with Tesorro and Tiger.
• Doflamingo, Tesorro, and Tiger discussed how to return the freed slaves to their homes and considered the possibility of the Navy arriving.

Doflamingo arranged for Dragon and the Revolutionary Army to take in the escaped slaves, while Tiger planned to gather the fish-men and form their own Pirate Crew. Dragon arrived aboard a storm and revealed that his army had already overthrown three countries, leaving the slaves poised to join or return home.

• Tiger asked Doflamingo what the escaped slaves should do, and Doflamingo said someone was coming to receive them.
• Tiger said he planned to gather the fish-man slaves into a fish-man Pirate Crew and send some companions away.
• Dragon arrived atop the golden ship in a storm, and Doflamingo mocked his facial tattoo.
• Dragon told Doflamingo that the Revolutionary Army had overthrown three countries and would welcome the several thousand slaves.
• Doflamingo suspected Dragon possessed the Wind-Wind Fruit and considered the slaves valuable recruits for the Revolutionary Army.

After Doflamingo escaped Mary Geoise, the Five Elders struggled to get the Navy to pursue him and decided to enlist powerful pirates instead. They planned to offer Charlotte Linlin and Kaido research on artificial Devil Fruits and human gigantification to persuade them to attack him.

• Kong told the Five Elders that Doflamingo had beaten the Celestial Dragons but had not killed any, then deflected their questions about capturing him.
• The Five Elders called Sengoku and explained that Doflamingo had revealed his identity and helped slaves and CP agents escape Mary Geoise.
• Sengoku recognized that the World Government had tried to silence Doflamingo and angrily rebuked the Five Elders before ending the call.
• The Five Elders concluded that the Navy and CP Organization were unlikely to capture Doflamingo and discussed using pirates against him.
• The Five Elders agreed to offer Charlotte Linlin and Kaido research on artificial Devil Fruits and human gigantification in exchange for their help.

After the Celestial Dragons demanded action against Doflamingo, Sengoku sent Akainu to intercept him while keeping Aokiji away from the politically dangerous mission. Meanwhile, Hancock awoke in a golden room to find that her festering wounds had been treated.

• Sengoku told Kizaru, Akainu, and Aokiji that Steve was Doflamingo and had freed slaves and beaten the Celestial Dragons at Mary Geoise.
• Aokiji and Akainu both volunteered to go after Doflamingo, but Sengoku chose Akainu to avoid drawing Aokiji and Rosinante into suspicion.
• Akainu prepared to intercept Doflamingo, while Kizaru stayed behind and enjoyed his tea.
• Hancock woke to find her wounds treated and the smell of decay gone, then realized the room was made entirely of gold.

Hancock woke aboard Doflamingo’s golden ship and met Sancho, Tiger, and Doflamingo, who served her nourishing congee. Her sisters and the other two recovering companions also woke, leaving everyone gathered in the kitchen area.

• Hancock got out of bed and discovered that the entire ship was made of gold.
• Sancho approached Hancock, then ran toward the kitchen after smelling Doflamingo’s cooking and was thrown through the golden cabin when she tried to steal food.
• Hancock met Tiger and then followed Doflamingo’s invitation to eat Yang-Nourishing Congee.
• Hancock ate a bowl of congee, felt her strength return, and thanked Doflamingo.
• Sandersonia and Marigold emerged, and a blonde woman and an ordinary-looking man joined them as Doflamingo asked Tesorro to repair the hole Sancho had made.

Doflamingo fed the rescued women and repaired the ship, then frightened Hancock and her sisters by revealing he had once been a Celestial Dragon before reassuring them that his family opposed slavery. After learning the sisters planned to return to Amazon Lily, he comforted Hancock and encouraged her to face the world with an open heart.

• Tesorro used his Devil Fruit to repair the ship while Doflamingo served food to the rescued women and the healthy crew.
• Hancock asked Doflamingo his name, and he revealed that he had once been a Celestial Dragon, terrifying the three sisters.
• Doflamingo reassured Hancock that he had left Mary Geoise because his family opposed slavery, then asked what the sisters planned to do.
• Hancock said the sisters would probably return to Amazon Lily, feeling unqualified as warriors after their capture and enslavement.
• Doflamingo used Inspiration Art to ease Hancock's despair and told her that a true warrior should accept whatever the seas brought.

Doflamingo flew to meet Sakazuki and found the Navy fleet incapacitated by his illusion. The two discussed the rescued boy’s future, with Sakazuki planning to take him back to the Navy despite the risk of angering the Celestial Dragons.

• Doflamingo detected Sakazuki’s Navy fleet and rode Thundercloud Zeus toward it, while Tiger asked what had happened.
• Dragon appeared and offered to accompany Doflamingo, but Doflamingo told him to stay hidden.
• Doflamingo reached the Navy fleet and used an illusion that incapacitated most of the Marines while leaving them operating the ships like puppets.
• Sakazuki met Doflamingo on deck and asked whether he had rescued the boy.
• Doflamingo said the boy had bonded with Tiger’s slaves and might join the Sun Pirates, but Sakazuki planned to bring him back to the Navy.

Doflamingo and Sakazuki discussed how Williams might leave the Sun Pirates and join the Revolutionary Army, prompting Sakazuki to ask to meet Dragon. As the fleets approached, Doflamingo used an illusion to stage a devastating battle, and Dragon saw through it and recognized the danger of Doflamingo’s power.

• Doflamingo warned Sakazuki that Williams’s age and Celestial Dragon hoof made Navy recruitment difficult, while the World Government might target the Sun Pirates for taking in escaped slaves.
• Doflamingo suggested the Revolutionary Army as an alternative for Williams and explained that Dragon led it and was exceptionally powerful.
• Sakazuki agreed to consider Williams joining the Revolutionary Army and said he wanted to meet Dragon.
• The fleets sped toward each other, and the people aboard witnessed what appeared to be a clash of magma and a world-splitting Flying Slash.
• Dragon recognized the battle as Doflamingo’s illusion, went to meet him in the sky, and realized Doflamingo’s ability could deceive everyone else’s senses.

Dragon met Doflamingo and Akainu, who revealed that he planned to overthrow the World Government and reached an agreement with Dragon. Akainu decided to let Williams remain with the Revolutionary Army, saw that his son was doing well, and returned to the Navy fleet while Doflamingo headed back to his ship.

• Dragon charged through the battlefield illusions and found Doflamingo and Akainu sharing a meal atop Zeus.
• Akainu told Dragon he intended to overthrow the World Government, and the two exchanged information and reached a consensus.
• Akainu sparred with Dragon and lost slightly because he lacked Conqueror's Haki.
• Akainu decided not to take Williams away, believing the boy could grow up safely with Dragon and the Revolutionary Army.
• Doflamingo brought Akainu to see Williams, but Akainu chose not to speak to his son.
• Doflamingo staged an illusion of an even fight as Akainu returned to the Navy fleet and Doflamingo went back to his golden ship.

Doflamingo brought Hancock, her sisters, Tesoro, Shinobu, Tiger, and Stella into his Illusion Space to train them in Haki and combat techniques. After testing their resolve, he made Tiger and Hancock’s sisters face Celestial Dragon inner demons with their own strength, and Tiger was swiftly defeated.

• Doflamingo offered to teach the group, then used his illusion to make them experience a frightening fall before Sancho caught them in her dragon form.
• Doflamingo explained that the Illusion Space felt real, prevented permanent death, and let time pass much faster than in the outside world.
• Doflamingo tested everyone with Conqueror’s Haki and psychological pressure, and most of them endured enough to pass.
• Doflamingo created Celestial Dragon phantoms from Tiger and Hancock’s sisters to make them confront their inner demons.
• Tiger charged his Celestial Dragon phantom, which matched his strength and defeated him with Fish-Man Karate before Doflamingo finished explaining the challenge.

Tiger defeated Doflamingo’s Celestial Dragon puppet and felt his confidence and Armament Haki strengthen, while Hancock and her sisters were overwhelmed by their fears. After Hancock’s sisters were branded and Hancock appeared to collapse, she erupted into a furious counterattack, destroyed her puppet, and awakened Conqueror’s Haki.

• Tiger overcame his initial mistakes, defeated the Celestial Dragon puppet, and felt his Armament Haki grow more condensed.
• Hancock and her sisters struggled against puppets embodying their fear of the Celestial Dragons, leaving them unable to fight effectively.
• The puppets defeated Marigold and Sandersonia and branded their backs as Hancock watched in horror.
• Hancock’s puppet knocked her down and prepared to brand her, while Doflamingo expressed disappointment in her weakness.
• Hancock suddenly sprang up, savagely attacked the puppet, and smashed its head apart with her bare fists.
• Hancock laughed over the destroyed puppet as a powerful aura of Conqueror’s Haki erupted from her.

Doflamingo gave Hancock’s sisters another chance to defeat their inner demons after Hancock overcame hers, then trained everyone in the Navy Six Styles through transferred memories and combat. They emerged from the Illusion Space with improved techniques, Haki, and control over Tiger’s Gen-Gen Fruit.

• Doflamingo judged Hancock’s victory over her inner demon a surprising success and noted that it had awakened her Conqueror’s Haki and strengthened her other Haki.
• Doflamingo gave Sandersonia and Marigold a second chance and created the Mirror of Inner Demons for them to face their fears.
• Doflamingo began training the group in the Navy Six Styles and used Memory Transfer to let them experience his training firsthand.
• Hancock, Tiger, and Shinobu demonstrated techniques they had learned, while Tesorro and Stella lacked the physical ability to use them yet.
• Doflamingo set up combat training against stronger opponents, and the group returned from the Illusion Space with Tiger better able to use the Gen-Gen Fruit and Hancock’s Armament Haki advanced.