Chapter Summaries

Vegapunk learned that Kozuki Hiyori had stolen and eaten his experimental Imitation Soul-Soul Fruit, and he decided to find her in the Florian Triangle and recover her for research. Stussy frightened Kozuki Toki by threatening to make her help experiment on Hiyori, and Toki entered Vegapunk’s room to serve him.

• Vegapunk gave Kozuki Toki an Oral Chakra Seed and learned from Stussy that Kozuki Hiyori had defected from Umbrella Corporation with the Imitation Soul-Soul Fruit.
• Stussy explained that Hiyori had overcome the fruit’s defects, escaped, and grown powerful, and that she was now in the Florian Triangle seeking Gecko Moria.
• Vegapunk decided to go with Stussy to find Hiyori and recover her as a rare test subject, while Kozuki Toki begged him to spare her daughter.
• Stussy described gruesome experiments to Kozuki Toki and threatened that Toki might be made Hiyori’s laboratory assistant, leaving Toki terrified.
• At the palace, Stussy taunted Kozuki Toki outside Vegapunk’s room, and Toki entered and offered to serve him.

Kozuki Hiyori read about the Red Line disaster, then went to investigate trouble at Hogback’s clinic and found Cavendish waiting there. She wondered why he had returned after she had beaten him before.

• Perona showed Hiyori a newspaper reporting that a massive earthquake had collapsed much of the Red Line and damaged Mary Geoise, which Hiyori suspected was a cover story for an attack.
• Hiyori prepared to train with Ame no Habakiri and Shusui, whose spirits and swordsmanship memories aided her, while reflecting on her hatred of Kaido and her training with Moria’s shadow powers.
• Hiyori heard roars from Hogback’s clinic and found stitched beasts and Homies creatures beaten across the ground.
• Hiyori entered the clinic and was surprised to find Cavendish, the White Horse Prince whom she had previously defeated, sitting inside.

Vegapunk defeated Kozuki Hiyori and reunited with her while she failed to recognize him in his altered body. Hiyori discovered Vegapunk’s group had captured Gecko Moria and pressed them for news of her mother, but Hancock’s Conqueror’s Haki overwhelmed her before Vegapunk stopped her.

• Vegapunk knocked Hogback unconscious, then dodged Kozuki Hiyori’s sword attacks and paralyzed her with an electrical attack.
• Hiyori recovered, washed, and returned to find Vegapunk’s group had subdued Gecko Moria and Perona while extracting something from an invisible man.
• Hiyori recognized Hancock, Nico Robin, and Stussy from Vegapunk’s Research Base and demanded to know where Vegapunk was and how her mother was.
• Hancock confronted Hiyori over her betrayal and used Conqueror’s Haki to bring her to the brink of collapse.
• Ame no Habakiri and Shusui helped Hiyori resist the pressure, and Vegapunk told Hancock to stop before Hiyori looked at him in shock and suspicion.

Vegapunk captured Kozuki Hiyori after she attacked him and reunited her with her mother, Kozuki Toki, at Dream Star. He made Hiyori his experimental subject to repay the stolen Artificial Devil Fruit and implanted a new Kotoamatsukami imprint in her brain.

• Vegapunk revealed himself to Kozuki Hiyori, subdued her with Sea Stone Handcuffs, and had Hancock knock out Gecko Moria and Perona when they resisted.
• Stussy brought the prisoners and Kozuki Hiyori to a ship, where Hiyori reunited with Kozuki Toki and pleaded for her mother's safety.
• Vegapunk took them through a Space Gate to Dream Star, and Stussy explained that the World Government had investigated Vegapunk's apparent death before accepting it.
• Vegapunk confronted Hiyori over the stolen Artificial Devil Fruit, and she offered to do anything if he spared her mother.
• Vegapunk declared Hiyori his experimental subject and implanted a new Kotoamatsukami ninjutsu imprint in her brain.

Vegapunk learned that Kotoamatsukami had weakened on the chakra-less Kozuki Hiyori, while he and his allies expanded Dream Star and assessed their growing army. After discovering a shortage of Sea Stone Factor, Vegapunk agreed to attack Kaido’s Beasts Pirates for their Sea Stone and assigned Stussy to lead the operation.

• Vegapunk explained that Kotoamatsukami was less effective without Chakra, while Kozuki Hiyori demanded that he free Kozuki Toki and Stussy reminded her they had no leverage.
• During the nearly two months since Vegapunk left, robots rebuilt Dream Star, developed its interior city, and began mining the moon.
• Nico Robin reported that Dream Star could produce about one million combat robots in a year, but Vegapunk lacked enough Pyrobroin Factor to equip them.
• Stussy proposed seizing Sea Stone from Kaido’s Beasts Pirates, whose forces had raised prices and withheld supplies from Umbrella Corporation.
• Vegapunk ordered Stussy to lead the assault and gave her access to Dream Star’s forces and the Beasts Pirates’ Artificial Devil Fruit users, reserving Kurozumi Orochi, Kaido, and King for his experiments.

Stussy told Kozuki Hiyori that Vegapunk planned to seize Wano Country for its Sea Stone and threatened to destroy the island and exploit its people unless Hiyori helped her. Several hours later, Hiyori went to Vegapunk's room, where suggestive sounds left her flustered and unaware of a familiar voice among them.

• Stussy promised Vegapunk she would use Dream Star's test subjects to wipe out the Beasts Pirates.
• Kozuki Hiyori trained in Dream Star's Gravity Room and reflected on her limited strength and dependence on Vegapunk's power to avenge Wano Country.
• Stussy told Hiyori that Vegapunk intended to take Wano Country for its Sea Stone, then described a plan to pulverize the island and profit from rescuing its people.
• Hiyori pleaded with Stussy not to destroy Wano Country, and Stussy offered a way to save its people; hours later, Stussy left smiling while Hiyori sat with a hand over the sealing markings on her abdomen.
• That night, Hiyori entered Vegapunk's room and blushed at the suggestive sounds, failing to recognize a familiar voice among them.

Kozuki Hiyori received a command key from Stussy and joined the mission to fight the Beasts Pirates, while Kozuki Toki also boarded the Floating Battleship. As the ship reached Wano Country, Kaido remained unsettled by an unseen observer and brutally beat Yamato before ordering King to take her for treatment.

• Stussy teased Kozuki Hiyori, then gave her a command key that let her control ten thousand combat robots for the coming battle.
• Kozuki Hiyori boarded a Floating Battleship and discovered that Kozuki Toki was aboard too, embarrassing her as she watched her mother attend to Vegapunk.
• The Floating Battleship teleported above Wano Country and concealed itself while Kaido complained that he felt watched.
• Yamato attacked Kaido, but he overpowered her and demanded that she abandon her admiration for Kozuki Oden and help him conquer the world.
• Yamato refused, so Kaido beat her until King intervened and then ordered King to take her for treatment and lock her up.
• Kaido told King that the feeling of being watched had grown stronger, and King remained wary of the mysterious Observer.

Ace attacked Onigashima, intending to take Kaido’s head, but King defeated him after challenging him with the Beasts Pirates’ strength. King ordered his men to capture the wounded Ace and target Ace’s companions and Amigasa Village.

• Ace set fire to the harbor and fought off the Silverback Gorilla and other Beasts Pirates who tried to stop him.
• Vulture and three surviving Artificial Devil Fruit users joined the fight before King appeared and questioned whether Ace had been watching Kaido.
• Ace said he had only learned Kaido was in Wano a few days earlier, and King challenged him with an attack combining fire and ice.
• King offered Ace a place in the Beasts Pirates, but Ace refused and fought on despite being outmatched.
• King transformed using the Mythical Zoan Great Serpent Wolf Fruit and defeated Ace with Icefire Guardian Dragon Emperor.
• King ordered the Beasts Pirates to capture Ace and send men after his companions and the people of Amigasa Village.

Ace woke in a Beasts Pirates prison and met Yamato, Kaido’s daughter, before his captured crew and the villagers of Amigasa Village were brought in. Queen infected Tama with a deadly virus and threatened to infect the others, leaving Ace trapped and desperate to save them.

• Ace discovered he was imprisoned in Sea Stone restraints and met Yamato, who explained her ambition to become Kozuki Oden.
• Yamato shared her special meal with Ace, but Ace recognized Deuce, Tama, and the villagers of Amigasa Village among newly captured prisoners.
• Queen explained that the villagers had hired Ace to attack the Beasts Pirates and threatened him with a virus he had developed.
• Queen injected Tama with the virus and warned Ace that he would infect the rest of the prisoners if Ace resisted.

Kozuki Hiyori asked Vegapunk to help rescue Ace and the others from the prison, where Queen was poisoning Tama to force Ace to join the Beasts Pirates. Vegapunk cured Tama and revealed his identity to Queen, who ordered his men to attack as Vegapunk left the grunts to Hiyori.

• Kozuki Hiyori watched Queen torment the prisoners and asked Vegapunk for permission to rescue them.
• Vegapunk agreed to go with Kozuki Hiyori, gave her a Sea Stone Factor radiation-protecting collar, and left Kozuki Toki behind.
• Queen threatened Ace with Tama's poison, while Ace and the prisoners refused to submit to the Beasts Pirates.
• Vegapunk and Kozuki Hiyori appeared in the prison, where Queen flirted with Hiyori and she rejected him.
• Vegapunk used an antidote to cure Tama and restore her injured body, then Queen recognized him as the Vegapunk who had once employed him.
• Queen ordered his men to seize Vegapunk and Kozuki Hiyori, and Vegapunk told Hiyori to handle the charging grunts.

Vegapunk freed the prisoners at Onigashima and prepared to lead them out while Queen fled and warned Kaido about his arrival. He freed Yamato from her explosive Sea Stone handcuffs, then used a hidden effect in her Artificial Devil Fruit to make her feel intensely attached to him.

• Kozuki Hiyori defeated the prison guards, and Vegapunk opened every cell.
• Ace reunited with the revived Tama, while Vegapunk examined her Dumpling Fruit and prepared to evacuate the prisoners.
• Yamato asked to join Vegapunk, who identified her handcuffs as containing Dyna Stone and opened them with his electromagnetic ability.
• Vegapunk activated a hidden program that made Yamato feel close to him, and she agreed to become his subordinate.
• Vegapunk led Kozuki Hiyori and Yamato out of the prison as Queen sent cannon fodder to block them and warned Kaido that Vegapunk had arrived.

Vegapunk trapped the Beasts Pirates on Onigashima and weakened their Devil Fruit users with a disruptive field, then Kozuki Hiyori and Yamato confronted Kaido. After Kaido battered them, Vegapunk stepped in, and Kaido suspected he had modified his own body.

• Kaido gathered his forces and flew toward Onigashima's prison after learning Vegapunk had appeared there.
• Vegapunk activated a sealing array and Devil Fruit Ability Disruptor, trapping the island and weakening most of Kaido's Devil Fruit users.
• Kozuki Hiyori attacked Kaido, and Yamato joined her in declaring they would save Wano Country.
• Kaido fought the two women, overpowering them despite their combined assault and leaving them injured.
• Kozuki Hiyori asked Vegapunk for help, and he stepped between them and Kaido, who suspected Vegapunk had modified his body.

Vegapunk used his machines and Ninja techniques to disable and capture the Beasts Pirates while keeping Kaido restrained. After King freed Kaido and Vegapunk escaped with Kozuki Hiyori and Yamato, Kaido fought through the robots and entered their Teleportation Array to escape.

• Vegapunk surrounded the Beasts Pirates with Mechanical Warriors and revealed that their Devil Fruit users had been weakened by the Sea Stone Factor.
• Vegapunk caught Kaido with the Shadow Imitation Technique while his machines defeated the pirates’ grunts and captured the weakened Devil Fruit users.
• King freed Kaido with Ice-Fire Grand Explosion, and Kaido attacked Vegapunk, who blocked him with his Electromagnetic Ability.
• Vegapunk escaped through a Wormhole with Kozuki Hiyori and Yamato, leaving Kaido to face the robots.
• Kaido, worn down by the Sea Stone Factor and the robots, charged into their Teleportation Array.

Vegapunk captured Kaido and the Beasts Pirates, then handed Wano Country’s restoration to Kozuki Hiyori in exchange for its Sea Stone. Hiyori became shogun, while Ace stayed to train and Queen surrendered to Vegapunk.

• Vegapunk sent Kaido into a sealed Space Bubble prison and explained that he would keep him alive as a test subject.
• The mechanical forces captured the Devil Fruit users and King, while Yamato took charge of the surrendered Beasts Pirates and their Artificial Zoan soldiers.
• Vegapunk left Wano Country’s affairs to Kozuki Hiyori in exchange for its Sea Stone, and Hiyori led a robot army to overthrow Kurozumi Orochi.
• Denjiro captured Orochi, and Hiyori sent him to Vegapunk as a test subject before restoring the Kozuki family to power.
• Ace and the Spades Pirates stayed in Wano Country to train, while the captured Queen surrendered to Vegapunk and became his experimental assistant again.

Vegapunk sent WarGreymon to fight the starving Kaido, who destroyed the robot but was left badly injured and exhausted. Yamato knocked Kaido unconscious and dragged him out, and Vegapunk prepared him for cloning and continued absorbing the Beasts Pirates and developing his forces.

• Vegapunk refused Yamato's request to fight Kaido and sent WarGreymon into the gray space instead.
• Kaido fought WarGreymon for three hours, destroyed it, and was left severely injured and nearly out of stamina.
• Vegapunk allowed Yamato to enter the prison, where she knocked Kaido unconscious and dragged him out.
• Vegapunk ordered Kaido taken to Laboratory 15 and injected with a concentrated Sea Stone agent so he could be used for cloning.
• Over the following months, Vegapunk integrated the Beasts Pirates, enhanced his mechanical dragon beasts with cloned Kaido flesh, and expanded his Sea Stone weapons and forces.

Vegapunk installed a secure permanent portal in Wano Country and learned that the World Government planned to use the Charlotte Pirates to probe his forces. He decided to defeat Charlotte Linlin and subdue her crew, while Stussy prepared to lure her to Wano Country.

• Kozuki Hiyori woke beside Kozuki Toki, then registered her fingerprints, iris, and blood for Vegapunk’s new portal in the Castle Keep.
• Vegapunk explained that the World Government would notice the Beasts Pirates’ disappearance and that the portal would let him support Wano Country if it came under threat.
• Stussy told Vegapunk that the World Government had ordered her to negotiate with Charlotte Linlin and direct her toward Wano Country.
• Vegapunk decided that defeating Charlotte Linlin could let him win over the Charlotte Pirates, whose family bonds were stronger than their fear-based loyalty to her.
• Stussy proposed inviting Charlotte Linlin to Wano Country with its unusual desserts, expecting the resulting conflict to draw in the Charlotte Pirates.

At Charlotte Linlin’s tea party, Stussy gave her a huge supply of Wano Country Sweet Red-Bean Soup, delighting Linlin and angering members of the Charlotte Family. Stussy then suggested the Charlotte Pirates could obtain more chefs by going to Wano Country, prompting them to reconsider whether the territory was safe to seize after Kaido and the Beasts Pirates disappeared.

• Charlotte Linlin welcomed the underworld bosses to her tea party, where they presented gifts and Stussy brought out Wano Country Sweet Red-Bean Soup.
• Charlotte Linlin eagerly drank the soup, while Katakuri and Perospero worried that keeping her supplied with it would cause trouble.
• Stussy told Perospero that she had risked offending the Charlotte Pirates to find Linlin a suitable gift, and Linlin warned Perospero not to act as though he controlled the crew.
• Stussy suggested that the Charlotte Pirates obtain chefs from Wano Country, noting that Kaido seemed to be in trouble and the Beasts Pirates were gone.
• The Charlotte Family considered whether the force that defeated the Beasts Pirates had left Wano Country and whether they could seize the territory.

Hancock confronted the Charlotte Pirates at Wano Country’s Waterfall Barrier, intending to defeat them through her overwhelming combat strength rather than her Devil Fruit. The chapter ended with her insulting Charlotte Linlin, leaving the two Empresses poised for battle.

• Vegapunk and Hancock discussed how the Charlotte Pirates had taken Stussy’s bait and planned to use Hancock’s victory to bring the crew under their command.
• Katakuri warned Charlotte Smoothie that his Observation Haki sensed an immense danger awaiting them in Wano Country.
• Charlotte Linlin used Zeus to lift the Queen Mama Chanter over Wano Country’s Waterfall Barrier.
• Hancock appeared above the ship and barred the Charlotte Pirates from entering Wano Country, which she said belonged to Vegapunk.
• Hancock landed on deck and revealed her power through her presence, alarming Charlotte Linlin and overwhelming Katakuri.
• Hancock called Charlotte Linlin a fat pig, and the frightened crew fell silent as Charlotte Linlin faced her.

Hancock defeated Charlotte Linlin with a devastating attack, forcing the Charlotte Family to surrender and destroying the Homies that resisted. Back in Wano, Vegapunk planned to find Linlin for research and claimed Whole Cake Island as his territory, allowing the Charlotte Pirates to remain if they followed his rules and supplied him with resources.

• Hancock struck Charlotte Linlin with an infused Eight Gods Vacuum Attack, sending her flying and devastating the Queen Mama Chanter and the Charlotte Family.
• Hancock demanded the Charlotte Family surrender, and Perospero, Katakuri, Charlotte Smoothie, and the others yielded while the Homies attacked.
• Hancock annihilated the ordinary Homies and froze Zeus into ice, then returned to Wano with the surrendered Charlotte Family.
• Vegapunk lamented that Linlin’s location was unknown and explained that he wanted to study her body, while Hancock playfully called herself his little maid.
• Katakuri deduced that Vegapunk was the supposedly dead scientist and feared he would experiment on the Charlotte Family.
• Vegapunk declared Whole Cake Island his territory and allowed the Charlotte Pirates to keep managing it if they obeyed his rules and provided resources.

Vegapunk tasked Stussy with hiding his presence in Wano and used Charlotte Linlin’s Vivre Card to search for her. Linlin had crashed into Dressrosa, where Doflamingo secretly treated her, and she regained consciousness the following evening.

• Vegapunk ordered Stussy to conceal his and Hancock’s existence from the World Government while Kozuki Hiyori became Wano’s public ruler.
• Vegapunk began building detection machines with Charlotte Linlin’s Vivre Card to locate her.
• Charlotte Linlin fell from the sky and devastated part of Dressrosa, so Doflamingo returned and ordered his officers to keep her identity secret.
• Doflamingo considered exploiting Linlin’s injuries but abandoned the idea of killing her because he feared the Charlotte Pirates’ retaliation.
• Doflamingo used Haki-coated threads to treat Linlin’s severe injuries, then force-fed her Nutrient Solution as she recovered.
• Charlotte Linlin opened her eyes and regained some awareness the next evening.