Recaps

Bright read a newspaper that accused Fish-Man Island of taking control of the sea route and considered how the Immigration Bureau could use the resulting pirate attention to establish its reputation. As he prepared to recruit workers for Neptune’s mining company, a merchant named Donald asked him to arrange protection for human trading ships, leaving Bright to consider the proposal and the wrapped package Donald dropped.

• Bright fought alongside Alexander in the deep sea, and they promised to keep growing stronger together.
• Bright read a World Economic News article about the Immigration Bureau and worried that it would provoke pirates to challenge Fish-Man Island.
• Kaila reported another port battle and told Bright that Neptune wanted him to begin recruiting workers for the mining company.
• Donald met Bright and offered to organize merchants to supply Fish-Man Island, then requested protection for their ships in exchange for hardship pay.
• Bright said he would consider Donald’s request, and Donald dropped a small wrapped package on his way out.

At Fish-Man Island, Bright launched the Fish-Man Island Mining Company and recruited workers from Fish-Man District to mine iron ore for the island’s development. Mark joined the first crew as a minor leader and uncovered the company’s first piece of ore.

• At Marineford, Kong ordered a commendation for Jinbe and sent investigators to Fish-Man Island because Jinbe’s recent silence seemed suspicious.
• Bright announced that the Fish-Man Island Mining Company would prioritize hiring residents of Fish-Man District and invest its earnings in developing the island.
• Mark publicly backed Bright, and about two thousand residents were selected as the first group of miners, with Mark named a minor leader.
• Bright led the trained miners to an undersea rift with a large iron ore deposit, where they began mining.
• Mark found a reddish stone, and Bright congratulated him on mining the company’s first piece of ore.

Donald met Bright on Fish-Man Island and agreed to open sales channels for its newly discovered iron ore in exchange for transporting supplies. After returning safely to the Sabaody Archipelago, he showed the ore to his merchant friends and pitched them on joining the trade.

• Donald followed a fish-man soldier to a harbor warehouse, where Bright discussed his proposal alongside Arlong and Shark Star.
• Bright asked Donald to prove he could support the partnership by finding buyers for Fish-Man Island's high-quality iron ore.
• Donald bought a batch of ore and sailed safely to the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Donald showed samples to his merchant friends and explained that Bright would sell them ore at low prices in exchange for transporting supplies.
• Donald urged his friends to seize the opportunity, emphasizing the ore's quality and its origin on Fish-Man Island.

Donald recruited merchants to trade Fish-Man Island’s high-quality Iron Ore, while Bright prepared for war after learning pirates were gathering on the Sabaody Archipelago. The chapter ended with two pirate captains rallying others to attack Fish-Man Island and defeat Jinbe.

• Donald recruited his friends and other merchants by claiming Fish-Man Island soldiers would escort them through the deep sea, then added the wealthy newcomer Tesoro to the group.
• Bright watched merchant ships depart and told Shark Star and Arlong that preparations for war were needed after showing them a newspaper headline about pirates gathering to target Fish-Man Island.
• On the Sabaody Archipelago, a saber-wielding pirate captain fought a lean pirate and learned that his crew was heading for the New World.
• The lean pirate persuaded the saber-wielding captain to help attack Fish-Man Island, defeat Jinbe, and seize its mermaids.
• The saber-wielding captain worried that their two crews were not enough, and the lean pirate said other pirates were ready to join a force led by them.

As Radley and Aurell’s pirate fleet began its attack on Fish-Man Island, Bright and Jinbe prepared the Immigration Bureau’s forces to defend it. Bright led the assembled fighters out to meet the pirates, while Donald followed the fleet hoping to profit from the conflict.

• Neptune worried that Radley and Aurell had recruited pirates for a major assault, but Bright and Jinbe assured him Fish-Man Island could defeat them.
• Bright ordered Arlong to watch the Sabaody Archipelago, barred pirates and suspicious merchant ships from entering Fish-Man Island, and increased patrols.
• After Queen Otohime calmed the residents, Bright promised the gathered people that the Immigration Bureau would win.
• Bright joined Jinbe, the Sun Pirates, five patrol squads, and nine sea beasts at the island gate, and they set out to confront the attackers.
• Radley and Aurell led their fleet beneath the sea toward Fish-Man Island, while Donald followed with another fleet, expecting to profit from the battle.

Bright led the Fish-Man Island forces to intercept a pirate fleet in the deep sea, where he destroyed its ships with a massive ocean current. As the fish-men closed in on the scattered pirates, Bright welcomed them to the deep sea.

• At the Mermaid Cafe, the mermaids worried about Bright, while Shyarly refused to reveal what her prophecy had shown.
• Bright and Arlong set out with the Fish-Man Island forces, and a scout reported a second fleet descending behind the pirates.
• Jinbe split off with the Sun Pirates to confront the second fleet while Bright stayed to face the main force.
• Tesoro’s merchant fleet approached the battlefield, and Tesoro sensed a powerful presence nearby.
• Bright ordered his forces to attack the pirate fleet, while Radley and Black Flag’s pirates coated themselves in bubbles and charged into the sea.
• Bright unleashed a colossal current that shattered the pirates’ ship coatings and swept through their fleet, then welcomed the survivors as the fish-men advanced.

Bright and the fish-men overwhelmed the pirate fleet at the entrance to the undersea cavern, destroying ships and defeating the pirates. Bright killed Aurell, while Jinbe escorted merchants toward Fish-Man Island and expected to return for the final cleanup.

• Donald told Jinbe he had brought supplies to support Fish-Man Island, though he hoped to profit from the war.
• Jinbe led the merchants, including Tesoro, toward Fish-Man Island, saying he would return in time for the final cleanup.
• Bright’s Ocean Current Shoulder Throw shattered the pirates’ formation, and the fish-men and nine sea beasts tore through the fleet.
• Radley attacked Bright with a flying slash, but Bright blocked it and destroyed Radley’s ship with a Water Strike.
• Aurell attacked Bright with controlled blood, but Bright dodged his strikes and killed him with a powerful punch.

Bright and the Immigration Bureau defeated a massive pirate fleet, then welcomed Donald and his merchant companions as prospective partners. Bright recognized the unusually capable Tesoro among them and invited him to discuss cooperation on Fish-Man Island.

• Bright watched the Fish-Men finish off the pirates, then told Hyouzou to begin further training and encouraged him to practice cutting steel.
• Arlong celebrated the battle, and Bright reminded him that killing enemies was a means rather than a goal before ordering the wounded treated and the battlefield searched.
• Donald and his companions arrived to find the pirate fleet destroyed, and Bright agreed to cooperate with the merchants.
• Bright greeted Jinbe and recognized Tesoro as someone with an extraordinary aura; Donald introduced Tesoro as a wealthy man seeking cooperation.
• Bright proposed that they return to Fish-Man Island and talk, leaving Tesoro wondering whether Bright was watching him.

After returning victorious from the battle against the pirates, Bright led Fish-Man Island into a trade and security agreement with human merchants. Tesoro then approached Bright separately, offering access to advanced technology and proposing an alliance against their common enemy.

• Bright's victorious soldiers returned to Fish-Man Island, where Neptune and the residents welcomed them as heroes.
• Bright and the merchants led by Donald agreed to trade Fish-Man Island's ore for necessary goods and arranged paid escorts for merchant ships.
• Bright asked the merchants to bring technology and machinery, but Donald warned that advanced technology was tightly restricted.
• After the meeting, Tesoro returned and offered to provide Fish-Man Island with advanced technology in exchange for a deeper alliance.
• Tesoro told Bright that they shared the same enemy and could become steadfast allies.

Bright and Tesoro agreed to trade Fish-Man Island’s ores and technology and to explore a fish-man logistics business. After the victory banquet, Bright found Shyarly asleep at the Mermaid Cafe and began learning to make coffee from her; the next morning, a newspaper labeled him “The Deep Sea Disaster from Fish-Man Island.”

• Bright and Tesoro agreed to support each other, trade ores for technology and technicians, and have fish-men transport Tesoro’s goods.
• Bright told Jinbe about the deal, and they discussed building a logistics company and acquiring more sea beasts to pull ships.
• Tesoro returned to Tanaka and celebrated the new partnership, then resolved to gain enough wealth to avenge Stella.
• Neptune, Jinbe, and Bright discussed starting a logistics company at the victory banquet, while Bright later found Shyarly asleep at the Mermaid Cafe.
• Bright made coffee for Shyarly, who offered to teach him, and the next morning a mermaid lady showed Bright a newspaper calling him “The Deep Sea Disaster from Fish-Man Island.”

After Bright’s identity and battle against the pirates appeared in the newspaper, he and Jinbe tried to fend off the Navy’s scrutiny by denying the reports. The news spread across the seas, drawing reactions from figures in the New World and Marineford, where Navy leaders investigated Bright’s past and questioned Jinbe’s explanation.

• Bright saw a newspaper photograph of himself fighting pirates and realized Morgans had exposed his identity.
• Jinbe warned Bright that the Navy would investigate, and Bright told him to deny the reports stubbornly.
• Whitebeard and Namiul discussed Bright’s actions and the possibility that Fish-Man Island could change.
• Jack and Queen read about Bright in Wano, while a mermaid in Totto Land wished she could visit Fish-Man Island.
• A girl on Foresight Island cried with relief when she saw that Bright was safe.
• Kong and Sengoku reviewed evidence linking Bright to the Sun Pirates and doubted Jinbe’s claim that Bright had returned to Fish-Man Island by accident.

Bright and Jinbe prepared Fish-Man Island for possible retaliation after Bright’s actions, while the Navy debated how to respond without starting a war. The chapter ended with Kong ordering a covert operation to capture Bright.

• Bright told Jinbe that Fish-Man Island needed to prepare for the World Government’s response, and Jinbe agreed to contact Whitebeard and speak with Neptune.
• At Navy Headquarters, Kong and the others discussed their lack of evidence and the risks of attacking Fish-Man Island.
• Sakazuki reported that the Whitebeard Pirates had begun moving toward the New World, further complicating the Navy’s plans.
• Sakazuki proposed sending a covert squad of non-Devil Fruit users who were not famous Marines to capture Bright.
• Kong ordered a decapitation operation to capture Bright.

The Five Elders approved the Navy’s plan to capture Bright, hoping to use him to pressure Jinbe, while Whitebeard’s protection gave Fish-Man Island temporary reassurance. As trade grew and Shyarly foresaw prosperity, a covert Navy team infiltrated the island and began planning to seize Bright.

• The Five Elders agreed to let the Navy target Bright and use his ties to Jinbe as leverage, while warning the Navy to keep the operation secret.
• Jinbe thanked Whitebeard for protecting Fish-Man Island, and Whitebeard told him to call if trouble arose.
• Bright remained uneasy about the Government’s silence, but Shyarly foresaw Fish-Man Island entering an age of prosperity and reassured him.
• More merchants and capital arrived on Fish-Man Island, bringing the island’s market back to life.
• A Navy team led by an old man and Bastille infiltrated Fish-Man Island disguised as merchants and gathered information about Bright.
• The team learned Bright often visited the Mermaid Cafe and planned to track his movements until a ship with a hidden compartment arrived.

Bright continued developing his Armament Haki while training with Alexander and visiting Shyarly’s café. On his way back to the Fish-Man District, he uncovered a Navy ambush and prepared to fight a powerful Haki user.

• Bright suspected the Navy and World Government were secretly plotting against him, but decided not to worry and went to spar with Alexander.
• Bright asked Alexander about his Haki progress, and Alexander said he had sensed the power within himself and wanted to fight Bright again once he drew it out.
• Bright ate at Shyarly’s café, where she said his coffee-making lessons would only be paid off when he made coffee that satisfied her.
• While swimming through the Sea Forest toward the Fish-Man District, Bright encountered Bastille and several men pretending to be injured merchants who needed help.
• Bright tricked Bastille and struck him with a Current Drive—Shark Tile Straight Punch, then exchanged a powerful punch with an old man whose Armament Haki overwhelmed him.
• Bright recognized the group’s ambush, warned them they would not leave after seeing him, and began transforming as the old man ordered him to surrender.

Bright transformed into a red Dragon Human and defeated Vice Admiral Barian and the Marines who had come to capture him. After overwhelming Barian with lightning, fire, and punches, Bright left the fight poised to finish him.

• Bright transformed into a red Dragon Human, and the disguised old man realized he could swim despite possessing a Devil Fruit-like ability.
• Bright attacked the Marines, evaded Barian's punch, and engulfed him in a pillar of lightning.
• Bright shrugged off two Marines' attacks, electrocuted them, and killed another with Heat Breath.
• Bright blasted the Marines with a tornado of lightning and fire, but Barian emerged and continued fighting.
• Bright read Barian's punches with Observation Haki, bound him with his tail, and struck him with lightning and fire.
• Bright dislocated Barian's wrist with Current Drive—Ogre Tile Straight Punch, then launched Current Drive—Giant Shark Hundred-Rending Fist.

After Bright killed a Marine team sent to capture him, he and Jinbe investigated the covert operation and chose to wait for Shyarly’s prophecy while preparing for trouble. Tesoro arrived with medicine-production information and shipping plans, then explained that the Government’s priorities differed from the Marines’, leaving Bright to consider whether cooperation could continue.

• Bright told Jinbe that Marines, including a possible Vice Admiral, had attacked him, and they agreed to investigate while avoiding open escalation.
• Bright and Jinbe’s forces tracked the surviving Marine to a suspicious ship, but the captured men denied being Marines and claimed they were pirates seeking revenge.
• Bright, Jinbe, and Neptune decided to stay calm and respond to events as they came, while Bright returned to work.
• Tesoro visited Bright with medicine information, equipment designs, marine-plant research, and a proposal to transport goods using Bright’s people.
• Bright warned Tesoro that conflict with the Marines might force him to flee, and Tesoro explained that the Government valued usefulness even when the Marines opposed someone.

Bright confronted the Five Elders over the Marines’ failed attempt to capture him and learned that the Government was willing to pardon him if he accepted future summons. He offered to make a deal by sharing access to Fish-Man Island’s enormous iron mine, leaving the Government’s response pending.

• Bright reconsidered the Government’s motives and went with Jinbe to ask Neptune to arrange a call with the Five Elders.
• Jinbe threatened to leave the Shichibukai, and Neptune threatened to withdraw the Ryugu Kingdom from the World Government unless the Five Elders explained the Marines’ attack.
• Bright challenged the Five Elders over the attempted capture, while they denied responsibility and warned that the Government could launch a campaign against him and Fish-Man Island.
• Bright let Bastille tell the Five Elders that Bright had defeated him and killed Vice Admiral Barian and the other Marines sent to ambush him.
• The Five Elders offered to pardon Bright if he accepted future summons to assist Jinbe, and Bright countered by offering a deal involving Fish-Man Island’s enormous iron mine.

The World Government set aside its dispute with Fish-Man Island after learning that its undersea mineral deposits could meet major demand, and Bright expanded mining and trade while developing the island. In Marineford Calendar 1512, Neptune announced the opening of Fish-Man Island’s first steel mill.

• The Five Elders learned from Vegapunk that undersea mineral deposits were vast and decided to build closer ties with Fish-Man Island while pursuing ways to give humans fish-man traits.
• Bastille returned to Navy Headquarters with the remains of his comrades after his failed operation, while Sakazuki and Sengoku protested the Government’s decision to shelve the deaths of Hag and Barian.
• Kong told Sengoku and Sakazuki that Fish-Man Island had become an important Government partner because of its mineral output, and he left the matter to Sengoku as he accepted a promotion.
• Bright expanded the Fish-Man Island Mining Company, welcomed merchants and technologies brought by Tesoro, and began planning industrial facilities.
• Neptune announced the establishment of Fish-Man Island’s first steel mill as Bright watched the island’s development reach a new milestone.

Bright saw how Fish-Man Island’s new industries, trade, and living conditions had transformed the island and improved relations between its residents and humans. Back in Fish-Man District, Mark told Bright he was getting married and asked him to be a witness.

• Bright toured the new steel mill and saw how bubble technology supported the island’s expanding industries.
• Bright returned to the Immigration Bureau, where he noted its growth, the crowded harbor, and increased contact between fish-men, merfolk, and humans.
• Bright visited Shyarly at the Mermaid Cafe, then took the Waterway back to the increasingly developed Fish-Man District.
• Bright met Mark on the street and learned that Mark was getting married.
• Mark asked Bright to serve as his witness, and Bright agreed.

Bright spent the day managing Fish-Man Island’s affairs and training before fighting Alexander, who had learned Armament Haki. After Alexander sensed trouble at sea, Bright went to confront Vander Decken as the pirate prepared to attack a merchant ship with Wadatsumi.

• Bright visited Jinbe’s training session, learned that the steelworks had smelted its first batch of steel, and returned to handle Immigration Bureau work.
• Bright fought Alexander, whose new Armament Haki made him a stronger opponent, and used a speed-focused style to help him train for Observation Haki.
• Alexander sensed a battle nearby, and Bright went ahead to investigate while telling him to hide.
• Vander Decken threatened a merchant ship guarded by Fish-Men and ordered Wadatsumi to smash it.
• Bright appeared just as Wadatsumi raised his fist, and the Fish-Man warriors recognized the Immigration Bureau director.

Bright defeated Vander Decken and his pirates, then brought Wadatsumi to Jinbe for guidance. The next day, Tesoro arrived with a warning that the Sea Transport King was dissatisfied with Bright.

• Bright used an ocean-current technique to overwhelm Vander Decken's pirates and threw Wadatsumi onto the seabed.
• Vander Decken tried to mark Bright as a target, but Bright crushed his wrist and killed him with a punch.
• Bright had the surviving pirates taken into custody and brought the unconscious Wadatsumi to Jinbe, who agreed to guide him.
• Tesoro arrived the next day and warned Bright that the Sea Transport King was dissatisfied with him.

Bright learned that Tesoro’s fish-man shipping operation had angered Umit, the Sea Transport King, but he and Jinbe chose to wait and see rather than attack first. After two quiet days, Bright heard that a mermaid had gone missing.

• Bright realized Tesoro’s use of fish-men and deep-sea currents had drawn Umit’s hostility.
• Tesoro proposed killing Umit to obtain his shipping data, but Bright declined to commit before consulting Neptune and Jinbe.
• Bright watched Jinbe train Wadatsumi and promised to protect him if he fought for Fish-Man Island.
• Jinbe agreed with Bright that Fish-Man Island should wait to see whether Umit would make a move.
• After two peaceful days, Bright learned that a mermaid had gone missing.

Bright learned that four young mermaids had been kidnapped and taken to a human auction house, so he set out alone to rescue them at the Sabaody Archipelago. He left Jinbe behind to protect Fish-Man Island and contact the World Government, while resolving to make humans fear buying mermaid slaves.

• Bright questioned the missing mermaids' parents and learned the girls had wanted to visit the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Donald told Bright that a human auction house was selling four mermaids that day, confirming they had been kidnapped.
• Bright asked Donald to delay the auction, identify who had sold the girls, and find out who bought them if the sale went ahead.
• Bright told the parents he would bring their children back, then refused Jinbe's offer to accompany him and asked him to keep Fish-Man Island safe and warn the World Government about the Celestial Dragons.
• Bright traveled alone through the sea and arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago, determined to stop humans from buying mermaid slaves.

Bright went to Sabaody Archipelago to rescue the captured mermaids and unleashed a powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki at the auction house. After finding the children behind the stage, he was approached by Pluto Rayleigh as he tried to figure out how to remove their explosive collars.

• The Five Elders decided to keep the Navy from interfering with Bright's actions against the human trafficking house.
• Bright reached Sabaody Archipelago, killed a man who approached him, and forced another to lead him to the auction house.
• Bright told Donald to leave the auction house, then crashed through its roof and killed the auction host.
• Overwhelmed by the suffering he sensed, Bright released Conqueror's Haki and knocked out the people in the auction venue.
• Bright covered an unconscious woman with his clothes, found four captive mermaids backstage, and realized their collars could explode.
• Pluto Rayleigh appeared behind Bright and offered to help.

Bright freed four young mermaids and the other captives at the human auction house, then destroyed the building before heading to confront the slave traders. He found the criminals in a tavern, while Rayleigh and Donald stayed behind with the children.

• Rayleigh recognized Bright, freed the four mermaids by removing their explosive collars, and agreed to talk with him after they left.
• Bright unlocked the other slaves’ restraints and sent the freed captives away.
• Bright and Rayleigh left the auction house in disguise, and Donald arrived with news about the slave traders.
• Bright demolished the human auction house with a lightning-and-water technique, then asked Rayleigh and Donald to watch the mermaids while he went after the criminals.
• Bright reached the tavern in Area 21 where the slave traders were celebrating, and entered through the doorway they had ripped off.