Chapter Summaries

Maud fought Brogy, using his shadow ability and gunfire to test his combat skills, while Brogy unleashed the mighty Elbaf technique Hakoku. After Hakoku struck Maud and blasted through a volcano, Maud’s voice suddenly came from nowhere.

• Maud returned to his position by exchanging places with his shadow and dispelling the impact of Brogy’s attack.
• Maud held back instead of pressing his advantage, and Brogy rose to continue the duel.
• Maud charged Brogy and fired an Armament Haki-coated bullet, disrupting Brogy’s attack and creating an opening.
• Brogy noticed Maud’s shadows aligned behind him and unleashed Hakoku, sending a shock wave that swallowed Maud and pierced a volcano.
• As Brogy laughed over the erupting volcano, Maud’s unseen voice asked what he was so happy about.

Maud defeated Brogy with Shadow Style, Thousand Blade Whirlwind Slash and killed him to claim his strength, then met Dorry’s attack with a clash that shook Little Garden. The battle between Maud and Dorry remained underway as the island’s inhabitants fled or watched from afar.

• Maud scattered his shadow into arrows, marked Brogy’s body, and used Shadow Style, Thousand Blade Whirlwind Slash to strike him thirty-two times in less than a second.
• Maud stabbed Brogy through the heart, killing him and advancing his physique star rating to seven stars while gaining immense strength and knowledge of Hakoku.
• Dorry charged Maud but chose a horizontal slash to avoid damaging Brogy’s corpse, and Maud met the blow with Shusui reinforced by his newly strengthened Armament Haki.
• Maud and Dorry’s blades clashed with equal force, sending a shockwave across Little Garden that toppled trees, triggered volcanic eruptions, and frightened the island’s creatures and people.
• Cavendish, Philo, Jaya, and a few other spectators watched in astonishment while many others fled toward the coastline.

Maud defeated Dorry by using Hakoku, the same technique Brogy had used against him moments earlier. Dorry rose in disbelief and demanded to know how Maud had learned it, while the witnesses learned that Brogy had been killed.

• Dorry attacked Maud, but Maud matched his strength and stood his ground.
• Dorry used a more powerful two-handed strike, and Maud answered with Hakoku, blasting Dorry across the battlefield and carving a tunnel through the forest.
• Shoreline witnesses saw the destruction and learned that Maud, Dorry, and Brogy had caused the island-wide disturbance.
• People fleeing the forest reported that Maud had killed Brogy, leaving the shoreline stunned.
• Dorry rose and questioned Maud about Hakoku, and Maud assumed the technique's opening stance again.

Maud refined his use of the Hagoku starting stance and clashed with Dorry, whose sword could no longer withstand the force of their attacks. Dorry demanded to know how Maud had mastered the Giant technique so quickly, but their renewed clash ended with his long sword breaking.

• Maud realized his first full-power Hagoku starting stance had wasted stamina and Haki by spreading its force too widely.
• Maud controlled the stance's range in a second clash, and his shockwave collided with Dorry's, devastating the battlefield without harming either of them.
• Dorry noticed the cracks in his long sword and demanded to know how Maud had mastered the Hagoku starting stance.
• Maud answered Dorry's demand with another attack, and Dorry's sword broke under the force of their colliding shockwaves.

Maud defeated Dorry in a final clash of Hagoku, killing the giant after his greatsword shattered. Exhausted but recovering some strength, Maud noticed opportunists approaching and let Jaya and the others handle them.

• Maud taunted Dorry into renewing his fighting spirit, and the two warriors repeatedly clashed with Hagoku.
• Dorry’s half-length greatsword shattered after several more collisions, leaving him unable to defend himself.
• Maud used his final Hagoku to kill Dorry, then recovered slightly from the rewards of the battle.
• Jaya, Philo, and Cavendish reached Maud, who said he was only exhausted and needed rest.
• Maud sensed hostile figures approaching from the jungle and told Jaya to drive them away.

Cavendish vented his frustration by defeating the bounty hunters who tried to steal Dorry’s head, while onlookers mistakenly concluded he had joined Maud’s crew. Maud found an Elbaf Log Pose but put aside thoughts of the giants, keeping his focus on the coming Summit War.

• Cavendish rushed the bounty hunters and knocked them all unconscious without killing them.
• Several men hiding in the forest watched Cavendish fight and decided he had become Maud’s subordinate.
• Cavendish planned to travel to the New World and make a major incident that would draw the media’s attention.
• Maud searched Brogy’s body, found an Elbaf Log Pose, and put it away because he was focused on the Summit War.

On Little Garden, Maud planned his next steps toward the Summit War and made the surviving bounty hunters build him a house. At Marine Headquarters, Chaton worked to turn Maud’s defeat of Dorry and Brogy into a campaign against him, and admitted to Vice Admiral Tsuru that he hoped this might help abolish the Shichibukai system.

• Maud considered his plans for the Summit War while waiting on Little Garden, and Beli roasted a giant grub beside the campfire.
• The bounty hunters woke up, and Maud ordered them to build a house before sunset.
• Chaton learned Maud had defeated Dorry and Brogy without a scratch and planned to publicize the fight to stir resentment among giants.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru confronted Chaton about his list of Giant Vice Admirals, and Chaton said he wanted to help abolish the Shichibukai system.

Vice Admiral Tsuru considered Maud’s motives for becoming a Shichibukai suspicious and kept watch on him, while Chaton received photographs of Maud. On Little Garden, Maud let the bounty hunters go, ate with his companions, and decided to bury Dorry and Brogy rather than claim their bounties.

• Vice Admiral Tsuru told Chaton that abolishing the Shichibukai system was pointless under the current balance of power and reflected on her unease about Maud’s unknown agenda.
• Chaton received photographs of Maud and the Red Ogre, then called a newspaper office after complaining that every picture made Maud look handsome.
• Maud praised the bounty hunters for building a villa, joked about getting their contact information, and then let them leave despite their injuries.
• Maud and his companions ate a dinosaur-meat feast at the villa, where Philo asked what to do with Dorry and Brogy’s bodies.
• Maud decided to bury Dorry and Brogy instead of claiming their bounties, while Philo revealed she had already collected their blood samples for research.

Maud buried Dorry and Brogy instead of turning them into zombie warriors, then trained by firing Conqueror shock waves into the sky. The bounty hunters returned to the village after Maud released them, leaving the others shocked by their account and frightened by Maud’s training.

• Maud recovered his stamina, buried Dorry and Brogy, and told Jaya she could take as long as she needed for her plans.
• Cavendish helped Beli and Philo sort plants after Beli repeatedly called him Little Cavendish.
• After the giants were laid to rest, Maud went to train and fired Conqueror shock waves into the sky.
• The bounty hunters returned to the village, explained that Maud had captured them and released them after they helped build a house, and called him kind.
• A shock wave from Maud’s training pierced the night sky, terrifying the people gathered around the bonfires.

Maud continued training with Hakoku on Little Garden while his crew trained and Philo researched its toxins and viruses. Elsewhere, Dada raged after another news agency beat him to Maud’s latest story, and Buggy realized his ship was approaching Little Garden.

• Maud repeatedly practiced Hakoku, recovering with Jaya’s nourishing food as Beli and Cavendish joined the training.
• Philo studied antibodies, viruses, and toxins from Little Garden’s creatures, focusing on developing serums and antidotes.
• Dale brought Dada a rival newspaper reporting that Maud had killed Red Ogre and Blue Ogre, prompting Dada to smash things in his office.
• Dale decided to write a follow-up article praising Maud and began forming a headline about Maud defeating a giant with one slash.
• Buggy read the news about Maud, recognized Little Garden’s name, and froze when his crew announced they could see the island.

Buggy and the Buggy Pirates witnessed the Goldfish Island Beast swallow three ships, then found themselves targeted by the giant creature. Maud arrived on the shore and split the beast in two, leaving Buggy, his crew, and the onlookers stunned.

• Buggy hid the newspaper mentioning Bagard Maud from his excited crew as the Buggy Pirates sailed toward Little Garden.
• Buggy ordered his crew to prepare for battle when three ships approached, but the ships passed without attacking.
• Buggy and his crew watched the Goldfish Island Beast swallow all three ships one by one.
• Buggy rallied his frightened crew by boasting that he could defeat the beast with a special cannonball, but the creature then turned toward their ship.
• Maud appeared on the shore and split the Goldfish Island Beast in two, leaving the Buggy Pirates and the coastal onlookers stunned.

Maud killed the Goldfish Island Beast with a slashing-form Funeral March, freeing the people stranded on Little Garden and accidentally saving the Buggy Pirates. After recognizing Maud as the feared Shichibukai, Buggy and his crew panicked when he suddenly appeared aboard their ship.

• Maud cleaved the Goldfish Island Beast in two, and the waves from its falling corpse flooded the shore and swept away the temporary base.
• The people on Little Garden and the Buggy Pirates celebrated their survival and regarded Maud as their savior.
• Buggy and his crew recognized Maud as the 500-million-Beli Shichibukai and feared the cold-blooded pirate hunter.
• Maud examined the rounded cut left by his slashing-form Funeral March and resolved to keep improving the technique.
• Maud noticed Buggy's ship, exchanged places with his shadow, and appeared on its deck.
• Buggy and his crew screamed in terror, and Buggy's body separated under the power of his Chop-Chop Fruit.

Maud encountered Buggy and the Buggy Pirates in Little Garden, reassured them, and invited Buggy to join his crew, but Buggy refused. Maud encouraged Buggy to search for John's treasure, unknowingly convincing nearby pirates that Buggy was a powerful prospect, then arranged for Goldfish Island Beast meat to be brought to his villa.

• Maud calmed the frightened Buggy Pirates and revealed that he knew Buggy's connections to Saul, Gaban, Shanks, and Rayleigh.
• Maud invited Buggy to join his crew, but Buggy angrily refused and insisted he would become a captain himself.
• Buggy told Maud that he had come to Little Garden to search for John's treasure, and Maud falsely assured him the treasure was there.
• Nearby pirates overheard the exchange and wrongly concluded that Buggy had a bounty exceeding three hundred million and was worthy of Maud's attention.
• Maud left the ship and used his shadow to tell the bounty hunters to bring meat from the Goldfish Island Beast to his villa.

After the survivors left Little Garden, Philo gave Cavendish medicine before Maud’s group departed. Elsewhere, Marine Admiral Aokiji met Issho at a port and brought him aboard his warship.

• The bounty hunters and pirates devoured the Goldfish Island Beast, then nearly a thousand of them left Little Garden while some stayed away from Maud’s villa.
• A month later, Philo gave Cavendish improved antibodies and antidotes for the Beautiful Pirates and told him she wanted to develop a panacea.
• Maud called the group to leave Little Garden, and Cavendish kept his promise to help Philo to himself.
• Issho read an old newspaper featuring Maud at a Grand Line port until Aokiji arrived on a Marine warship to meet him.
• Aokiji brought Issho aboard the warship, where Issho asked the Marines whether they had vegetarian noodles.

After the Battle of Monsters made Maud even more famous, he put the pirates trapped near Thriller Bark to work and kept Cavendish and the crew training. Two months later, the White Horse reached the waters off the Sabaody Archipelago.

• Maud stopped Lafitte from killing the captured pirates and used their shadows to control zombies before sending them away.
• Maud told Cavendish that the group would stay at Thriller Bark for two or three more months, then defeated him in a training match.
• Maud arranged for Cavendish to spar with Brook and the others while Lafitte taught them Armament Haki.
• Maud trained his Shadow-Shadow Fruit abilities and practiced Hakoku during the two-month stay.
• The White Horse sailed into the offshore waters of the Sabaody Archipelago.

Maud brought the Beautiful Pirates to the Sabaody Archipelago, where newspaper reports suggested Ace had begun pursuing Blackbeard and the Summit War was approaching. After landing in the lawless zone, Maud approached a slave-hunting team, whose members suddenly lost control of their bodies and prostrated themselves before him.

• Cavendish and the Beautiful Pirates arrived near the Sabaody Archipelago, while Beli teased Perona about serving as a maid.
• Maud read reports about the Revolutionary Army, Ace’s pursuit of Blackbeard, and the Blackbeard Pirates’ attack on Drum Kingdom, then inferred that the Summit War was drawing nearer.
• The White Horse landed at Tree Island in the lawless zone, and Maud led the group ashore to find a coating shop.
• Maud saw slave hunters unloading enslaved people and walked toward them, prompting Cavendish and the others to watch in surprise.
• The slave hunters suddenly lost control of their bodies, knelt, and prostrated themselves before Maud.

Maud killed a group of slave traders on Sabaody Archipelago and returned to hunting pirates in the Lawless Zone. As Perona watched from beside him, Maud began shooting targets from afar using a rifle formed from Beli.

• Maud used his ability to force the slave traders to bow, then snapped his fingers and killed them by twisting their necks.
• Cavendish had his crew free the slaves, then stopped following Maud as Maud continued toward Tree Island 13 with Perona and Beli.
• Pirates and slave traders in a bar on Tree Island 26 panicked after hearing that Maud had returned to the Lawless Zone.
• A bullet killed a pirate beside the scar-faced pirate, and a second shot struck the scar-faced pirate as the bar watched.
• Maud sat on a Shadow Throne at Tree Island 13, fired a rifle formed from Beli, and called the scar-faced pirate his first target.

Maud used a rifle from afar to kill several pirates on Sabaody Archipelago, revealing that he had returned. The killings spread fear across the islands, while Cavendish recalled the Supernovas’ defeat months earlier.

• Maud shot Ferrold and other pirates inside a bar on Tree Island 26 without revealing his position.
• Edgar examined the bullets and tried to block a shot, but Maud killed him and then shot Trollope.
• Maud named his technique “Ghost Bullet,” leaving Perona confused and wary.
• News of the shootings spread across Sabaody Archipelago, and pirates realized Maud had returned.
• The Beautiful Pirates discussed the killings, and Cavendish recalled the Supernovas’ crushing defeat months earlier.

Maud’s Ghost Bullets terrorized the Sabaody Archipelago, drawing attention from the Marines and former pirates alike. As Garp and Tsuru considered the implications of Maud’s actions, Rayleigh revealed to Saul and Gaban that Maud had eaten the Shadow-Shadow Fruit.

• Over three days, Maud killed eight more pirates with Ghost Bullets, prompting many pirate crews to flee Sabaody and newspapers to dub him the Ghost Gun.
• At Marine Headquarters, Garp praised Maud for killing pirates, while Tsuru and the other Vice Admirals discussed the danger of his skills and the Marines’ reputation on Sabaody.
• Chaton reported that Maud had requested intelligence on active rookie pirates and had already killed several of them.
• On Mongmong Island, Saul excitedly showed Rayleigh and Gaban the newspaper reports about Maud’s Ghost Gun reputation.
• Rayleigh explained that Maud had eaten the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, and Saul proudly celebrated his former student’s talent.

Blackbeard dismissed the idea of targeting Maud for now, while Usopp revealed to Luffy and Nami that Maud was his master. The Straw Hats then spotted the sea restaurant Baratie.

• Blackbeard studied a newspaper report about Maud, and Oka said Maud was not a pure gunman like himself.
• Blackbeard rejected Oka’s suggestion to challenge Maud and said there was a more suitable target.
• Usopp showed Luffy Maud’s photograph and revealed that Maud was his master.
• Nami recognized Maud’s photograph and reacted with surprise when Usopp claimed Maud was his master.
• Luffy smelled food, and the Straw Hats saw the sea restaurant Baratie.