Chapter Summaries

Gigue anticipated that Dragon was about to act and stayed awake, then caught him stealing the Celestial Gold to fund a rebellion against the World Government. The chapter ended with Gigue confronting Dragon as he prepared to escape.

• Spandine praised Gigue, who dismissed him with a promise of a reward, and Ginny and Lucia showed their affection for Gigue before leaving to bathe together.
• Suspecting Dragon would make a move, Gigue stayed awake and used his Vampire Fruit powers to hide in the darkness.
• Dragon silently incapacitated the guards, took the Celestial Gold, and resolved to leave the Marines and build an organization to overthrow the World Government.
• As Dragon prepared to escape with the treasure, Gigue emerged from the darkness and accused him of being a thief.

Gigue attacked Dragon aboard the ship carrying Celestial Gold, but Garp intervened and fought him in the sky above the sea. Gigue accused Dragon of stealing the gold and wanting to defect, while his clash with Garp continued.

• Gigue pierced Dragon’s shoulder and nearly killed him before Dragon shouted for Garp to save him.
• Garp rushed from the cabin and blocked Gigue’s attack, while Lucia, Ginny, Spandine, and the others joined the fighting aboard the ship.
• Gigue ordered Lucia to watch Dragon and Ginny to handle Garp’s men, then carried Garp away from the ship to fight above the sea.
• Gigue told Garp that Dragon had stolen Celestial Gold and wanted to defect, but Garp rejected the accusation.
• Gigue struck Garp into the sea, then endured Garp’s next punch with only a slight sway.

Gigue defeated Garp by using the Vampire Fruit to age him and leave him helpless, then flew back toward the ship. Dragon remained badly wounded and cornered by Lucia, still expecting Garp to rescue him.

• Garp tried to knock Gigue into the sea, hurled him into the water, and rushed back toward the ship to help Dragon.
• Gigue emerged from the sea unseen, stabbed Garp through the chest, and drained nearly twenty-five years of his lifespan.
• Gigue spared the incapacitated Garp, explaining that he had deliberately let Garp believe the sea had defeated him, then carried him toward the ship.
• Lucia continued attacking the wounded Dragon while Ginny and the others dealt with most of Garp's personal guards.
• Dragon struggled to escape Lucia and relied on the belief that Garp would return and save him.

Lucia nearly killed Dragon, but Garp arrived and sacrificed himself to hurl his son to safety before Gigue captured him. Gigue returned to Marineford with Garp’s bound guards, leaving Tsuru and Sengoku to suspect that something had happened to Garp and Dragon.

• Lucia wounded Dragon severely and nearly killed him, but Gigue arrived carrying Garp.
• Dragon charged at Gigue, and Garp suddenly rose, knocked Gigue away, and hurled Dragon into the sky with Fist Bone Meteorite.
• Gigue subdued Garp, had him bound, and drew him into the Dark Bible; he then set out for Marineford with the captured guards.
• Gigue delivered the Celestial Gold to Mary Geoise before returning to Marineford, where Kong and the other high-ranking officers welcomed him.
• Tsuru questioned Sengoku about Garp, Dragon, and the missing soldiers, then recognized Garp’s personal guards among the bound prisoners escorted from the ship.

Gigue brought Garp back to Marineford and accused him of helping Dragon escape after Dragon attempted to steal the Celestial Gold. Kong confirmed Garp’s guilt, and after the World Government ordered Garp exiled to Impel Down, Kong realized Gigue had defeated him.

• Gigue brought five bound guards and released a battered Garp from the Dark Bible, prompting Sengoku and Tsuru to move toward him.
• Gigue blocked Sengoku and Tsuru, and Kong stopped the confrontation before it turned into a fight.
• Gigue said Garp had obstructed his arrest of Dragon and helped Dragon escape; Garp’s silence confirmed the accusation.
• Kong rebuked Garp for putting his family before the Marines, then sent him to the hospital for treatment.
• The World Government ordered Kong to exile Garp to Impel Down, and Kong agreed.
• Kong reflected on Gigue’s record and realized that Gigue had defeated Garp.

After Dragon’s defection and attempted theft of the Celestial Gold, Garp was stripped of his Marine positions and sent to Impel Down under Gigue’s guard. At the prison, Gigue confronted Shiryu for smoking and violently punished him.

• Dragon’s defection and attempted theft of the Celestial Gold became public, and he received a 350 million Beli bounty.
• Garp lost his Headquarters positions and was appointed Chief Jailer at Impel Down after Gigue restored ten years of his lifespan.
• Gigue escorted Garp to Impel Down, where Deputy Warden Magellan greeted them and explained that Warden Columbus was still asleep after drinking.
• Gigue told Shiryu to put out his cigar, then dragged him over, slammed him to the floor, and crushed the cigar into his mouth.

Gigue brought Garp to Eternal Hell, where the prisoners learned that Garp had become the chief jailer. He punished inmates who mocked Garp, then promised Count Red a chance to fight him while leaving him imprisoned.

• Gigue intimidated Shiryu and continued with Magellan to Eternal Hell, where he reunited with the chained Count Red.
• Magellan announced that Garp would guard the prison as its chief jailer, prompting other inmates to mock him.
• Gigue attacked the mocking prisoners with Muramasa, leaving them crippled and aged by its Vampire Fruit power.
• Gigue told Garp to stop bringing shame to the Navy, and Garp lowered his head and said he understood.
• Gigue passed through Count Red's Seastone cell door and whispered that he would give him a chance to fight later.

Roger reacted with concern to news that Garp had been defeated by Black Dragon and imprisoned, while Shanks and Buggy argued about Black Dragon and their own ambitions. Roger suffered a sudden episode of chest pain, but Crocus said it had passed, and Rayleigh proposed a party.

• Roger stared gravely at a newspaper reporting Garp’s demotion and imprisonment, and Shanks learned that Black Dragon had defeated him.
• Shanks marveled at Black Dragon’s strength, while Buggy suggested Black Dragon had saved Shanks because they looked alike and insisted on staying near him.
• Shanks and Buggy argued over whether freedom or treasure was a pirate’s ultimate pursuit.
• Roger suddenly clutched his chest, and Shanks supported him while Buggy fetched Crocus.
• Crocus examined Roger and said the episode had passed, and Rayleigh invited the crew to bring out drinks for a party.

Gigue returned to Mary Geoise after learning Gurando was close to losing control of the Blood-Blood Fruit. He confronted Gurando in his blood-soaked Royal Chamber, where Gurando emerged to greet him.

• Kong assigned Gigue to take over Garp’s missions, including pursuing the Roger Pirates, after Garp became Impel Down’s warden.
• Gigue asked Garling to replace Impel Down’s current warden, and Garling said he would raise the matter with Saturn.
• Garling warned Gigue that Gurando’s Blood-Blood Fruit was close to causing him to become an emotionless monster, so Gigue left Marineford for Mary Geoise.
• Garling explained that Gurando had drained slaves’ blood for strength, absorbing their negative emotions until he neared mental collapse.
• Gigue and Garling entered Gurando’s chamber, which was filled with corpses and blood, and Gigue called Gurando out.
• Gigue’s attack stirred a pool of blood, from which Gurando emerged and welcomed him home.

Gigue fought Gurando in the ruins of the Royal Chamber, revealing his Vampire Fruit and overwhelming his father with his powers. Garling declared that Gigue was carrying out Gurando’s execution, then ordered the crowd evacuated as the battle continued.

• Gigue transformed and clashed with Gurando, draining his blood and revealing that he had eaten the Vampire Fruit.
• Gigue unleashed his other powers, blasted Gurando apart, and evaporated his blood mist, but Gurando reformed from a drop of blood and claimed he could not be killed.
• Gigue trapped Gurando in darkness, and the two collided with enough force to wreck the Royal Chamber.
• Garling told Saturn and the gathered Celestial Dragons that Gurando’s Blood-Blood Fruit was nearing a loss of control and that Gigue had decided to execute him.
• Garling refused the Divine Knights’ offer to help, declared the matter an internal Figarland Family affair, and ordered the crowd evacuated.

Gigue and Gurando fought as Garling and the Five Elders watched, and Gigue learned Conqueror’s Haki Infusion during their sword duel. After Gigue struck Gurando with his new technique and shattered his body, Gurando’s blood spread across the ground and produced numerous copies of him around Gigue.

• Gurando refused Saturn’s demand for an examination and taunted Gigue about absorbing his blood.
• Gigue attacked Gurando with his Dark-Dark Fruit and Muramasa, but Gurando blocked the sword strike with Haki-coated blood and fought back.
• Gurando defeated Gigue with Nation Suppressing, but Gigue comprehended Conqueror’s Haki Infusion after recovering.
• Gigue used his new technique to slash through Gurando, saying Gurando would be the first to test his blade.
• Gurando’s body shattered, and as Gigue tried to draw in the scattered blood, multiple copies of Gurando emerged from the blood-covered ground and surrounded him.

Gigue fought Gurando and his blood clones, but Gurando's awakened Blood-Blood Fruit gave him a decisive advantage. After Gigue wounded him with ultrasound and absorbed one clone, Garling warned that Gurando was about to lose control, leaving the brothers facing off.

• Gigue used Muramasa and his darkness ability to destroy most of Gurando's clones, but ten stronger clones survived by merging with the bloody throne.
• Gigue absorbed two clones and had Muramasa devour another before using Infernal Fire Realm to vaporize five more.
• Gurando attacked Gigue at overwhelming speed, and his two remaining clones helped smash Gigue into the ground.
• Gigue recovered, switched to Lunarian speed mode, and used ultrasound to destabilize Gurando and his clones, cutting them in half and absorbing one clone.
• Garling warned Gigue that Gurando was about to lose control, while Gurando sneered at his younger brother for wanting him dead.

Gurando pushed the Blood-Blood Fruit to the brink of losing control, but revealed that he could prevent it by taking the body of a close relative. After absorbing Garling’s blood, he briefly regained clarity and claimed their father had spared Garling because he valued him most.

• Gurando merged with his last clone, causing his strength and bloodlust to surge as he neared losing control.
• Gurando lunged at Gigue, but Gigue used Kamui to phase through him and evade his attacks.
• As his body became covered in blood-red skin and blisters, Gurando attacked Garling and demanded to borrow his body.
• Gurando revealed that taking the body of a close relative could stop the Blood-Blood Fruit’s loss of control, and Garling was shaken enough to take Gurando’s punch.
• Gurando absorbed Garling’s blood and briefly regained clarity, then told him their father had never considered taking his body because he valued Garling most.

Gurando tricked Gigue into taking the Blood-Blood Fruit’s possession into his own body after Garling regained his senses. As Gurando began seizing Gigue, Garling shielded him from Saturn and chose to stand by his nephew, even if it meant dying alongside him.

• Gurando revealed that his father had intended to take over his body and admitted that Garling had originally been his target.
• Gurando used the blood mist to trick Gigue into absorbing him, freeing Garling from the possession.
• Gurando took control of Gigue’s body and taunted Garling while Gigue struggled against him.
• Saturn transformed and attacked Gurando, but Garling blocked Saturn and insisted that Gigue was still alive.
• Garling refused to let Saturn strike Gigue, saying he would die alongside his nephew if Gurando took over completely.

Figarland Gigue gave up resisting Figarland Gurando’s attempt to seize his body and entered the dark space, but Ancestor Saint Cassius awakened through the Demonic Sword: Muramasa and saved him. Gigue regained control and learned that Cassius’s lingering will had destroyed Gurando; afterward, Cassius asked about the Figarland Family and the Dark-Dark Fruit.

• Gigue entered the dark space and dropped his defenses, allowing Gurando to take over his body.
• Muramasa emerged and awakened Ancestor Saint Cassius, who entered Gigue’s body and used King's Command: Darkness Baptism.
• Gigue regained control, devoured Gurando’s consciousness, and thanked Cassius for saving him.
• Cassius asked Gigue’s name and learned that the man inside him had been Figarland Gurando.
• Gigue explained the Figarland Family’s conflict over the Blood-Blood Fruit, and Cassius learned that no one in the family had obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit for over eight hundred years.

Gigue returned from the darkness after Saint Cassius saved him from Gurando's corruption and helped him kill Gurando. He reunited with Garling and revealed that Saint Cassius's will had survived within Muramasa, leaving Warcury fearful of the sword's power.

• Saint Cassius explained that Muramasa was suppressing the purified energies within Gigue, and that the Blood-Blood Fruit's source power could help awaken Gigue's Vampire Fruit.
• Saint Cassius opened an exit for Gigue, then faded away while hoping Gigue could accomplish what he had failed to do and wondering where Joy Boy's successor was.
• Gigue emerged from the darkness and crashed into Garling, who recognized him and realized Gurando was dead when Gigue showed him the Blood-Blood Fruit.
• Gigue told Saturn and the others that Saint Cassius had saved him and explained that the ancestor's will remained in Muramasa and had used his body to kill Gurando.
• Warcury became frightened and backed away from Muramasa after Gigue implied that Saint Cassius's power could still threaten him.

Gigue pretended to consult Cassius, then unleashed a fraction of Cassius's power, plunging the world into darkness for several seconds. The Five Elders accepted that Cassius remained present through Gigue, and Nusjuro offered to host a victory banquet in the Holy Land.

• Garling asked Gigue about his bloody face and crimson arm, and Gigue said they were gifts from his ancestor, Cassius.
• Warcury asked to meet Cassius, but Gigue claimed Cassius needed to recuperate and could not appear casually.
• Gigue invoked Cassius's power, covering the sky and much of the planet in darkness and making the Red Line tremble.
• Roger and the Roger Pirates confronted the darkness, while Whitebeard, Big Mom, and other powerful figures also sensed its danger; the darkness vanished within seconds.
• Gigue admitted privately that he had used a fraction of Cassius's remaining power and that the experience had strengthened his control over darkness.
• Warcury accepted Gigue's claim that Cassius had acted through him, and Nusjuro offered to hold a victory banquet for Gigue in the Holy Land.

After leaving a banquet celebrating his execution of Gurando, Gigue examined the power Cassius had transferred into him and considered the risks of merging the Blood-Blood Fruit with his Vampire Fruit. He planned to offer the Float-Float Fruit to Ginny once he returned.

• Warcury praised Gigue at the Mary Geoise banquet for executing Gurando, and the gathered Celestial Dragons celebrated him.
• Gigue complained to Garling about the banquet, then left for his Royal Chamber alone.
• Gigue examined the red veins spreading from his right arm and waited for Gurando's absorbed power and the Blood-Blood Fruit's Source Power to merge with him.
• Gigue recalled that Cassius had explained how the Source Powers of superior and inferior Devil Fruits could merge, and that he had given Gigue the Blood-Blood Fruit power to test the theory.
• Gigue decided to keep the incomplete Blood-Blood Fruit for someone talented and planned to ask Ginny whether she wanted the Float-Float Fruit.

Gigue told Garling the truth about Saint Cassius and the Dark-Dark Fruit before going to Vegapunk’s laboratory to wake Stussy. Stussy awoke and recognized Gigue as her master.

• Gigue shared breakfast with Garling, then explained that Saint Cassius had saved him through his last trace of will and that his claim about Muramasa had been meant to intimidate Warcury.
• Gigue told Garling that Saint Cassius had speculated the Dark-Dark Fruit’s power was incomplete and showed him his arm while discussing the Blood-Blood Fruit’s Source Power.
• Vegapunk contacted Gigue to say Stussy was close to waking, and Gigue used Kamui to reach the laboratory.
• Gigue and Vegapunk watched as the recovery equipment released Stussy from her glass container and revived her.
• Stussy stumbled into Gigue’s arms and called him “Master.”

Gigue tested Stussy’s obedience, gave her the Blood-Blood Fruit, and discovered that its power made her body respond to his control. The chapter left Vegapunk suspecting that the fruit itself was causing Stussy’s growing attachment to Gigue.

• Gigue choked Vegapunk to test whether Stussy would help him, and Stussy offered to kill Vegapunk for her master.
• Gigue promised Vegapunk ten billion Beli, then ordered Stussy to kill herself to test her obedience.
• Stussy’s Authority Chip forced her to obey, but Gigue stopped her before she could harm herself and declared that she belonged to him.
• Gigue gave Stussy the Blood-Blood Fruit, and she ate it despite its terrible taste.
• Stussy lost control of her blood-based body and tried to flow into Gigue, who repelled her and discovered he could manipulate her transformed body.
• Vegapunk watched Stussy respond to Gigue’s control with attachment and suspected that the Blood-Blood Fruit was responsible.