Chapter Summaries

Gigue decided to accept Garling’s summons and traveled from the Marine Academy to Mary Geoise, despite fearing his father Gurando. Ginny and Kuma worried about him as he arrived at the Red Line and received an extraordinary welcome from the Golden Armor guards.

• Gigue nearly swallowed Spandine in his darkness while thinking about the danger of visiting Mary Geoise, then agreed to go at Garling’s request.
• Gigue tested his short-range teleportation near the dormitory before leaving the Marine Academy the next morning and promising Ginny he would return within a week.
• Ginny learned from Kizaru that the World Government had summoned Gigue, and Kuma promised to go to Mary Geoise if Gigue did not return.
• Gigue boarded the World Government ship with Spandine and reached the Red Line before the morning ended.
• Golden Armor guards knelt and welcomed Gigue when he arrived at Mary Geoise, leaving Spandine stunned.

Lucia recognized Gigue as the boy she had once served and recalled how he had been taken away for experiments. She discovered where he was held and heard his cries, leaving her past connection to him hanging over their reunion.

• Lucia introduced herself to Gigue as captain of the Third Guard Squad, and her scar reminded him of their childhood together.
• Lucia recalled how Garling had bought her as a slave and given her to Gigue, who treated her kindly until Gurando took him away at age six.
• Lucia overheard lab assistants say that Gigue was suffering after a gene injection and that Doctor Vegapunk was overseeing the work.
• Lucia followed the assistants to a white building and heard Gigue cry out for his father from inside.
• The Golden Armor guards noticed something near the flower bed, but Lucia had already fled, leaving a few drops of water behind.

Lucia told Garling what she had overheard about Gigue being tortured, and Garling went to the laboratory to confront those responsible. The chapter ended with Gigue begging Garling and Lucia to save him.

• Lucia was taken by Hissay for execution after two men in white reported that she had overheard confidential information.
• Garling stopped Hissay and learned that Lucia belonged to Gigue.
• Lucia told Garling that Gigue had been locked up and tortured, and she led him to the laboratory.
• Garling smashed open the laboratory door and found Gigue restrained on a bed, surrounded by men in white and Gurando.
• Gigue saw Garling and Lucia and begged them to save him.

Garling discovered that Gurando had been experimenting on Gigue and demanded that he hand the boy over, but Gurando used Garling’s impending fatherhood to deter him. Garling left with Lucia and arranged for her to join the guard corps so she could become Gigue’s personal guard when he returned.

• Lucia accused Gurando of using Gigue in an experiment, and Gigue erupted with electricity after seeing her injured.
• Gurando celebrated the experiment’s success, then admitted he was trying to cultivate Gigue’s body into a weapon and showed Garling his research report.
• Garling demanded custody of Gigue, but Gurando threatened to expose a secret that could prevent Garling from becoming a father.
• Garling withdrew from the laboratory with Lucia and told her to train with the guard corps until Gigue returned.

Lucia reunited with Gigue after years of training and waiting for his return to Mary Geoise. As Gigue headed to the Figarland estate, he revealed that he had joined the Navy to gain strength.

• Lucia remembered training as a guard after Garling told her Gigue had survived, and she waited years for his return.
• Gigue recognized Lucia, touched the scar beneath her eye, and told her he was back.
• Lucia formed the guards into ranks and escorted Gigue toward the Figarland estate as Celestial Dragons gossiped about his family.
• Gigue and Lucia spoke about their hardships, and Lucia embraced him and wept after learning he had spent six years in Sorbet.
• Gigue told Lucia that he had joined the Navy to gain strength.

Gigue returned to the Figarland Family estate, where Saint Garling tested him with overwhelming Conqueror’s Haki. Gigue awakened his own Conqueror’s Haki and was welcomed home by Garling, who then invited him inside to receive a gift.

• Lucia vowed to kill Gigue’s father for him, but Gigue insisted he would take revenge himself.
• At the Figarland Family residence, Saint Garling’s Conqueror’s Haki forced Lucia and the Golden Armor Guards to their knees while Gigue struggled to remain standing.
• Gigue shielded Lucia from Garling’s pressure with his darkness, but Garling shattered the tentacles and pressed the attack.
• As Gigue reached his limit, he awakened Conqueror’s Haki and formed a barrier that protected Lucia.
• Garling withdrew his Haki, welcomed Saint Figarland Gigue home, and invited him inside to receive a homecoming gift.

Garling brought Gigue to the Figarland Family’s Seastone vault and explained the danger of the Blood-Blood Fruit and why he had given it to Gurando. Gigue learned that Garling had protected him by securing Gurando’s promise, and the two opened the vault together.

• Garling led Gigue through the Seastone door’s weakening effect and explained that it could suppress Devil Fruit users.
• Garling told Gigue that his grandfather had wielded the Blood-Blood Fruit, which had driven him mad, and that Garling had killed him.
• Garling explained that he gave Gurando the fruit after Gurando promised not to interfere with Gigue.
• Gigue thanked Garling, and the two grew closer as the barrier between them disappeared.
• Garling used a golden key to open the vault’s heavy doors while Gigue wondered how he would manage them as Family Head.

Gigue explored the Figarland Family’s secret chamber with Garling, who revealed the family’s extraordinary collection of swords and led him to the tomb of the first Family Head. A mysterious black sword left Saint Cassius’s coffin and chose Gigue, revealing itself as the Demonic Sword: Muramasa and awakening familiar darkness.

• Gigue asked Garling about the family’s secret chamber and joked about becoming Family Head, while Garling hinted that his gift depended on Gigue’s qualifications.
• Gigue examined the family’s treasures and Famous Swords as Garling explained that swordsmanship was the Figarland Family’s foundation.
• Garling led Gigue to the coffins of past Family Heads and opened Saint Cassius’s coffin, revealing the skeleton holding a black sword.
• Black flames erupted from the sword Garling touched, and it flew into Gigue’s right hand.
• Garling identified the sword as the Twelve Works’ Demonic Sword: Muramasa, while black mist rose from its blade and Gigue recognized the power of darkness.

Gigue bonded with Muramasa and learned from Garling about the Figarland ancestor who wielded the Dark-Dark Fruit against Joy Boy. Garling explained the Celestial Dragons’ fear of the Nika Fruit and revealed Muramasa was meant to help the Dark-Dark Fruit’s power remain within the family.

• Gigue merged Muramasa into his right hand, and Garling explained that only someone of Figarland blood could safely become its master.
• Garling told Gigue that their ancestor Saint Cassius had developed the Dark-Dark Fruit beyond its limits and could separate its Devil’s Power.
• Garling said Saint Cassius used Muramasa to critically wound Joy Boy before dying from his own injuries.
• Garling explained that Joy Boy’s Nika Fruit might preserve his will, and that the Celestial Dragons had searched for it for eight hundred years.
• Garling revealed that Saint Cassius had infused Muramasa with part of the Dark-Dark Fruit’s power so it would remain with the Figarland Family and help Gigue develop his abilities.

Gigue visited the Figarland Family’s secret chamber with Garling, who urged him to grow stronger and restore the family’s claim to rule Mary Geoise. After choosing gifts for Lucia and Ginny, Gigue discovered that he could use his ability while touching the Seastone door.

• Garling told Gigue that the Figarland Family should have ruled Mary Geoise and warned him not to repeat the claim about Saint Imu.
• Gigue asked to take everything from the secret chamber, but Garling refused and said the inheritance would be his when he could protect it.
• Garling revealed that Lucia already had a Devil Fruit, and Gigue chose a Famous Sword for her.
• Gigue asked for a gun and women’s Battle Boots as gifts for Ginny, and Garling agreed to arrange them.
• Garling pushed Gigue through the Seastone door, where Gigue found that he could activate his Darkness Transformation without feeling weak.

Gigue emerged from the Royal Chamber with Muramasa, which Garling explained could strengthen his Dark-Dark Fruit powers and conceal his Devil Fruit aura from the sea and Seastone. After giving Lucia the sword Falling Bright, Gigue was ordered to fight her in the training hall without using his Devil Fruit, where Lucia revealed her strange flame-wreathed transformation.

• Gigue discovered that Muramasa enhanced his darkness and protected him from the effects of the sea and Seastone.
• Gigue gave Lucia Falling Bright, a twenty-one skillful-grade blade, and she accepted it after he insisted.
• Garling took Gigue and Lucia to the training hall and ordered them to fight, forbidding Gigue from using his Devil Fruit ability.
• Gigue agreed to fight Lucia after Garling grew displeased with her reluctance, sparing her from his anger.
• Lucia drew Falling Bright and revealed an ability that surrounded her with purple flames, black wings, and transformed her golden armor.

Lucia revealed her Mythical Zoan Fallen Angel form and fought Gigue, whose strength surprised her. After using her Flames of Desire to amplify her feelings for him, she embraced and kissed him, leaving Garling regretting that he had made them fight.

• Gigue praised Garling for giving Lucia a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, and Lucia transformed into her Fallen Angel form.
• Lucia attacked Gigue with Falling Bright, but he easily blocked her strike, making her cry as she worried about the hardships he had endured.
• Garling interrupted their embrace and urged them to continue fighting, so Gigue attacked Lucia with Tempest Kick: Raiton.
• Lucia used her Flames of Desire to strengthen herself and confessed that her strongest desire was Gigue.
• Gigue rushed to stop his strike, but Lucia embraced and kissed him, prompting Garling to regret making them fight.

After learning that Doflamingo had killed Saint Homing and returned with Saint Horkus’s head to seek acceptance among the Celestial Dragons, Garling prepared to discuss the matter with the Five Elders and took Gigue along. As Lucia helped Gigue dress, he asked whether she would stay by his side forever, and she told him it had always been her wish.

• Garling stopped trying to make Gigue and Lucia fight after Lucia’s Devil Fruit ability led her to kiss Gigue and confess that she liked him most.
• Saint Saturn summoned Garling to the council hall and told him that Doflamingo had killed his father, Saint Homing, and returned with Saint Horkus’s head to seek readmission among the Celestial Dragons.
• Garling agreed to bring Gigue to the meeting, and Gigue said he was interested in Doflamingo.
• Lucia took Gigue to his Royal Chamber and revealed that she had kept it clean and ordered formal coats for him every year during his absence.
• Gigue asked Lucia whether staying by his side forever would make her feel she had lost her freedom, and Lucia said it had always been her wish.

Gigue joined Garling on his way to the Celestial Dragon council chamber, where Doflamingo awaited a decision about his return to Mary Geoise. Garling introduced Gigue as his nephew, and the Celestial Dragons welcomed him while Doflamingo watched with jealousy.

• Lucia helped Gigue dress in black, and Garling praised his appearance before taking him to the council chamber with Carlos.
• Garling privately wished that another boy could be by his side as Gigue walked ahead.
• Doflamingo waited before the Celestial Dragons, and Saint Saturn told him that Garling would decide whether he could return or be executed for killing a Celestial Dragon.
• Garling and Gigue entered the council chamber, where Garling introduced Gigue as Saint Figarland Gigue.
• The Celestial Dragons crowded around Gigue and speculated that he would become the next commander, leaving Doflamingo isolated and jealous.

At a meeting in Mary Geoise, Garling introduced Gigue as the Figarland heir and let him decide Doflamingo’s fate. Saturn recognized the Demonic Sword: Muramasa in Gigue’s possession and resolved to support whatever he chose.

• Garling silenced the Celestial Dragons and redirected the meeting to Doflamingo after introducing Gigue as the Figarland Family’s sole heir.
• Garling questioned Doflamingo about killing Saint Homing, and Doflamingo recounted his family’s suffering before declaring that his father deserved to die.
• Garling asked Saint Mjosgard whether Doflamingo should return, and Mjosgard rejected him and his family from the Donquixote Family.
• Garling handed Gigue the decision to let Doflamingo leave, stay, or die, surprising the gathered Celestial Dragons.
• Saturn spotted Demonic Sword: Muramasa on Gigue’s hand and decided to support his choice because the sword could slay Nika.

Gigue offered Doflamingo a chance to join the Figarland Family if he grew strong enough, then arranged for him to leave Mary Geoise. After Doflamingo departed, Gigue told Garling that he believed Doflamingo could become a useful asset to the family.

• Gigue asked Doflamingo about his younger brother Rosinante and whether he could return to his family.
• Gigue offered to take Doflamingo into the Figarland Family, and used Conqueror's Haki to silence Mjosgard and the other Celestial Dragons who objected.
• Doflamingo pledged his loyalty to Gigue and accepted the chance to prove himself by becoming strong.
• Gigue told Doflamingo to find Spandine aboard a ship below, and Doflamingo left Mary Geoise.
• Garling asked Gigue whether he had been toying with Doflamingo, and Gigue said Doflamingo had potential as a tool for the family.

Gigue told Garling he planned to leave Mary Geoise with Lucia and revealed that Gurando had experimented on him to create a body he could seize. Garling abandoned his hope of sparing Gurando and accepted that Gigue would have to kill him.

• Gigue told Garling he planned to leave the next day and asked him to arrange an identity for Lucia so she could attend the Marine Academy.
• Garling refused to handle Lucia's arrangements himself, pointing Gigue to Spandine, and insisted Gigue train in swordsmanship before leaving.
• At dinner, Garling said Gurando spent his time in the science division and asked whether Gigue truly wanted to kill his father.
• Gigue told Garling that Gurando had been cultivating a perfect body to seize, meaning he had wanted Gigue's life from the beginning.
• Garling was furious and gave up trying to persuade Gigue to spare Gurando, while deciding Gurando's life should be taken by Gigue.
• Lucia brought word that dinner was ready, and Gigue calmed himself and asked her to serve the meal.

Garling apologized to Gigue for his past suffering, and the two shared their first meal as family. Later, Lucia’s attempt to overcome her nervousness with her Devil Fruit ability nearly led to intimacy, but Gigue stopped her, and she settled beside him for the night.

• Garling apologized to Gigue for failing to protect him, but Gigue reassured his uncle that he held no grudge and invited him to eat together.
• Lucia arranged dinner, and Gigue tried to cheer up the subdued Garling as they ate.
• After Garling left, Gigue went to bed troubled by memories of his childhood in the laboratory.
• Lucia used her Devil Fruit ability to gain courage and began undressing Gigue, but he stopped her with his Dark-Dark Fruit power.
• Lucia explained her actions and panicked at the thought of being separated from Gigue, then changed into a nightgown and curled up beside him.

Gigue faced Garling in the training room and learned the Figarland Family’s Conqueror’s Haki-based King’s Sword. Garling demonstrated its three forms and asked Gigue to master God Slaying with the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit.

• Garling attacked Gigue with a wooden sword, and Gigue used Kamui to evade before countering with Muramasa.
• Gigue split Muramasa into seven Black Blades and sent them after Garling with Floating Life Ten Thousand Blades: Seven Kill Sword.
• Garling defeated the attack with King's Sword: Imperial Extreme, leaving Gigue on one knee and explaining how the move used Conqueror’s Haki.
• Garling explained that the King's Sword had three forms: Imperial Extreme, Nation Suppressing, and God Slaying, which required the Dark-Dark Fruit to unleash its true power.
• Garling asked Gigue to show the family God Slaying’s true power someday, then offered to demonstrate the remaining two forms.

After a month of training with Garling, Gigue was released to return to the Marines, and Garling asked him to spare the child Shanks if they ever met. Gigue and Lucia traveled toward the Marine Academy, where Zephyr examined Lucia’s résumé and her Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit.

• Gigue completed a month of intensive training with Garling, who told him he could return to the Marines.
• Garling showed Gigue a photograph of the Roger Pirates and asked him to spare Shanks, whom he said was equally important to him.
• Garling arranged a ship for Gigue and Lucia, and they departed for the Marine Academy the next day.
• Gigue sensed someone watching him from the Red Line, then told Lucia about the Marine Academy during the voyage.
• At the academy, Akainu gained the upper hand against Kuma in a Haki-only spar while Kizaru and Strawberry watched.
• Zephyr studied Lucia’s résumé and noted that she had eaten the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Fallen Angel Form.