Chapter Summaries

Maud reunited with Sunny and learned that the Revolutionary Army was heading to Alubarna to witness Alabasta’s coming conflict. Days later, Doflamingo blamed Ace for Pica’s death, while Ace left the Straw Hat Pirates in Rain Country to investigate reports of the Blackbeard Pirates.

• Betty urged Maud and Sunny to stop catching up, and Dragon revealed that the Revolutionary Army was going to Alubarna.
• Sunny told Maud she had given the Clear-Clear Fruit to Sabo, and Maud said he would find her another Devil Fruit with similar abilities.
• Dragon’s group left for Alubarna, and Betty concluded that he had waited so Sunny could meet Maud.
• Maud returned to the outskirts of Yuba, where Luffy complained about the sandstorm and Vivi stood puzzled beside an elderly man.
• Pica’s men found his burned, desiccated corpse, and Doflamingo suspected that Ace had killed him after learning Ace had appeared in Nanohana.
• Ace sneezed repeatedly in Rain Country, then parted ways with Luffy to investigate reports that the Blackbeard Pirates were in Alabasta.

Maud entered Rain Dinners while the Straw Hat Pirates ran into Smoker, who captured Luffy and Chopper. Maud intervened, defeated Smoker, and cowed Tashigi into lowering her sword.

• Maud left the Straw Hat Pirates to visit Rain Dinners with Perona and Beli, while the others went to find supplies.
• Luffy, Usopp, Bartholomew, and Chopper crowded around Smoker's motorcycle, and Smoker confronted them outside the restaurant.
• Maud reached Rain Dinners, but an explosion and a rising cloud of smoke drew his attention back toward the street.
• Smoker bound Luffy and Chopper with solidified smoke as Tashigi and the other Straw Hat Pirates arrived.
• Maud kicked Smoker into a house, freeing Luffy and Chopper, then faced Tashigi as his aura overwhelmed her will to fight.

Maud overwhelmed Smoker and Tashigi in Alabasta, leaving the Straw Hat Pirates shaken by the gap in their strength. Ace and Robin also considered Maud’s unexpected presence as events pointed toward the next confrontation.

• Tashigi dropped her sword under Maud’s intimidating presence, while Smoker recovered from Maud’s kick with one arm broken.
• Maud seized Smoker by the neck and explained that his status as a Shichibukai was the reason Smoker was still alive.
• Tashigi charged Maud to defend Smoker, but Maud cut Shigure in half with Chidori and hurled Smoker into her, sending them both through a restaurant wall.
• Luffy began wondering whether the Straw Hat Pirates could defeat Crocodile, and Zoro recognized Maud’s sword strike as Iron Cutting.
• Ace, who had come to the scene, confirmed Blackbeard was not there and turned his thoughts toward the next island.
• At Rain Dinners, Robin wondered why Maud was in Alabasta and failed to notice a shadow approaching behind her.

Maud secretly entered Rain Dinners and confronted Robin, offering a deal in exchange for information on Baroque Works’ High-ranking Operatives. Robin rejected his offer of one chance to call for help and asked him for protection instead, leaving Maud to challenge her about what she could offer in return.

• Robin decided to alert Crocodile that Maud had come to Alabasta, but Maud appeared behind her and bound her with his shadow.
• Maud revealed himself and explained that he had used a shadow left at Rain Dinners to switch places and enter Robin’s room.
• Maud asked Robin to provide accurate information about Baroque Works’ High-ranking Operatives in exchange for one chance to call for help.
• Robin said she wanted Maud to shelter her, and Maud replied that her offered information was not enough for that protection.
• Maud pulled Robin into his arms with his shadow and asked if she meant to offer something like that, startling her.

Maud rejected Robin’s attempt to join his crew but gave her a gecko that could summon him in an emergency in exchange for intelligence. After leaving Rain Dinners, he planned to collect Devil Fruit experience during the coming battle and reunited with Perona at the restaurant, where Smoker and Tashigi were recovering.

• Maud refused to let Robin join his ship, then gave her a shadow-bound gecko as a way to call him for help and arranged to collect her intelligence in two hours.
• Robin reported Maud’s appearance to Crocodile, who decided he would have to meet him, but casino commotion interrupted them.
• Maud planned to observe the coming battle and collect Devil Fruit experience rather than fight directly.
• Maud returned to the restaurant and found Perona, who said Luffy and the others had gone to the casino and had used money from two Marines for food.
• Maud and Perona entered the restaurant to eat, while the owner, Smoker, and Tashigi reacted tensely to Maud’s arrival.

Maud collected Robin’s intelligence on Baroque Works’ Devil Fruit users and traveled toward Alubarna. He met the Straw Hat Pirates on the way, learned Luffy had stayed behind to face Crocodile, and promised Vivi that Alabasta would be fine.

• Beli stole Smoker and Tashigi’s money, and Maud kept them bound while he ate before leaving for Rain Dinners.
• Maud retrieved Robin’s reports, entered the agents’ abilities and names into Hunter’s Notebook, and found Crocodile, Robin, and the Straw Hat Pirates absent.
• Maud left Rain Dinners with Perona and Beli and headed across the desert toward Alubarna.
• Beli’s battle tank encountered the Straw Hat Pirates, who joined Maud and explained that Luffy had stayed behind to hold Crocodile back.
• Maud declined to openly oppose Crocodile, but assured Vivi and the others that Alabasta would be fine.

Maud brought the Straw Hat Pirates to Alubarna after the fighting had begun, then left them to reach the battlefield while he sought a high vantage point. At the clock tower, he killed Baroque Works agents Eiko and Iku and discovered Crocodile’s timed bomb, which had thirty minutes left before it exploded.

• Maud and the others reached Alubarna and saw the dead and wounded on the staircase leading to the capital.
• Vivi ran toward the battlefield with the Straw Hat Pirates, while Maud told Usopp to protect himself and stayed behind with Perona.
• Maud and Perona made their way through deserted streets toward the royal palace square, where the battle was raging.
• Maud used Geppo to reach the clock tower and killed its guards, Eiko and Iku, with gunfire.
• Maud found Crocodile’s special bomb behind the clock face and saw that its timer had thirty minutes remaining.

Maud watched the Straw Hat Pirates clash with Baroque Works’ senior agents from the clock tower while preparing fruit in hopes of attracting a Devil Fruit’s demonic soul. As Vivi was cornered by a crowd of Baroque Works agents, Maud secretly shot them down, and she realized he had come to her aid.

• Maud gathered many kinds of fruit in a bag, hoping a Devil Fruit’s demonic soul would inhabit a matching fruit, while Perona rested nearby.
• Maud used Observation Haki to track the Straw Hat Pirates and Baroque Works agents, noting that Luffy was absent and might have been killed by Crocodile.
• Zoro faced Daz, Nami confronted Bora, Bartholomew faced Mr. 3 and Marian, Usopp took on Jem and Mikita, Chopper faced Dorothy, Beb, and Hagakure, and Sanji collapsed after Bon Clay transformed into Nami.
• Vivi ran toward the plaza but was blocked by more than a hundred Billionaire Elders.
• Maud shot the Billionaire Elders from a hidden position, and Vivi recognized his marksmanship and understood that he was helping her.

Maud rescued Vivi from the Billionaire Elders, then watched Zoro struggle against Daz while preparing to intervene. Zoro awakened the ability to cut steel and struck Daz down, leaving Maud to honor the decision he had made to let Zoro fight.

• Maud shot down over a hundred Billionaire Elders, allowing Vivi to escape toward the plaza.
• Maud watched Zoro lose ground against Daz and prepared to step in after Daz gravely wounded him.
• Zoro recalled Maud's swordsmanship and explanation of Haki as he searched for a way to cut steel.
• Zoro awakened a black ripple along Wado Ichimonji and used One Sword Style, Lion Song to slash Daz across the chest.

Zoro awakened Armament Haki and defeated Daz, but collapsed from his wounds before Maud secretly killed Daz and sent Perona to carry Zoro to Chopper. Maud then shot Lasso and Mr. 4 to save Chopper, while Miss. Merry Christmas and Chopper remained bewildered by the unseen sniper; a woman’s voice called out from a nearby street corner.

• Zoro awakened Armament Haki, defeated Daz, and collapsed unconscious from his injuries.
• Maud killed Daz with a shadow bullet, collected his rewards, and ordered Perona to take Zoro to Chopper.
• Maud watched Sanji and Chopper struggle against their opponents and decided Chopper needed help.
• Maud shot and killed Lasso and Mr. 4, leaving Miss. Merry Christmas and Chopper shocked by the unseen attacker.
• A relieved female voice called out from the corner of the street.

Perona revealed that Maud had killed Miss Valentine, while Chopper treated Zoro and the other Straw Hat Pirates defeated Baroque Works agents. Luffy arrived in Alubarna on Bellamy’s back and diverted to rescue Sanji, as Dragon watched him from a hidden corner.

• Perona told Miss Valentine that Maud had fired the shots, and Maud killed her as she tried to escape underground.
• Chopper examined Zoro’s many sword wounds and hurried to stop his bleeding.
• Bartholomew defeated Mr. 3 and Miss Goldenweek, and Maud shot Mr. 3 after Bartholomew left.
• Usopp defeated Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine without being injured, and Maud killed both of them from afar.
• Luffy arrived on Bellamy’s back, spotted the badly injured Sanji, and changed course to rescue him.
• Dragon and the Revolutionary Army saw Luffy fly into Alubarna, while Dragon kept his connection to Luffy secret.

As Crocodile prepared to force Cobra to reveal the location of Pluton, Vivi and the Straw Hat crew raced to find the bomb before it destroyed the plaza. Maud appeared in the clock tower holding the timer-based bomb and asked Vivi whether she wanted to stop the disaster.

• Crocodile told Cobra that the bomb would destroy the plaza in ten minutes and demanded information about Pluton.
• Vivi recalled that the clock tower's minute hand had stopped at twenty-five past and hurried toward it, suspecting the bomb was inside.
• Nami and the others reunited with Vivi near the clock tower, and Bartholomew, Sanji, and Bon Clay launched Vivi up a barrier staircase toward it.
• Maud opened the clock face with the bomb in her hands and told the crew she had killed the gunner, but the timer would still trigger the explosion.
• Vivi flew into the clock tower as Maud asked whether she wanted to stop everything.

Maud saved Vivi and the Straw Hat Pirates from the bomb by throwing it into the sky and shooting it apart, but the King's Army and Rebel Army kept fighting. He decided to make the rain needed to calm them himself and set off with Perona.

• After Vivi reached the clock tower, Maud asked whether she wanted to stop the explosion and the war, and she tearfully begged him to stop both.
• Maud hurled the enormous bomb into the sky, but Usopp spotted that it had not exploded.
• Maud fired his Armament Haki-wrapped bullet into the sky and detonated the bomb, sending a shockwave over the plaza.
• The King's Army and Rebel Army resumed fighting despite the explosion, leaving Vivi distraught.
• Maud said only a downpour could quell the soldiers' rage, then walked along the Shadow Skywalk and called Perona to join him.

Maud intervened in the battle between the King's Army and the Rebel Army, using a new application of Conqueror's Haki to knock out tens of thousands of fighters. The battlefield fell silent, with everyone mistaking the unconscious soldiers for dead.

• As Luffy and Crocodile's auras met in the royal tombs, Maud watched the fighting below and considered killing Crocodile himself if needed.
• Nami urged Sanji and the other Straw Hat Pirates to stop the war, and they rushed into the battle to save whoever they could.
• Maud asked Perona to use her Negativity Ghosts to weaken the fighting forces, then dropped into the middle of the battlefield.
• Maud imagined Hakoku's form and guided his Conqueror's Haki outward, causing tens of thousands of King's Army and Rebel Army fighters to collapse unconscious.
• The surviving soldiers, Vivi, Perona, and the Straw Hat Pirates stared at Maud as the fighting stopped and the plaza fell silent.

Maud awakened his Conqueror’s Haki and ended the fighting in Alubarna, while Luffy defeated Crocodile but collapsed from poison. Maud then appeared in the royal tombs, where Crocodile was about to kill Luffy and Robin.

• Maud’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked tens of thousands unconscious, prompting the King’s Army and Rebel Army to surrender.
• Perona, the Straw Hat Pirates, and the Revolutionary Army reacted to Maud’s power, while Dragon observed that the war would end without his intervention.
• Luffy continued fighting Crocodile in the royal tombs and finally sent him crashing into a wall, but then collapsed from poison.
• Robin realized Luffy needed an antidote but could not help him because of her own injuries, and Cobra remained unconscious.
• Crocodile rose and approached Luffy, claiming Alabasta as his own, but Maud appeared at the entrance to the chamber.

Maud found Robin, Luffy, and Crocodile in the hidden chamber beneath the royal tomb, killed Crocodile, and gained enough experience to raise his Devil Fruit ability to six stars. He gave Robin a reason to live by warning that her death would erase the last traces of Ohara, while Luffy remained unconscious and poisoned.

• Maud used Robin's Shadow Mark to find the hidden chamber, where Luffy had been defeated and Robin had given up hope of surviving.
• Crocodile attacked Maud from behind with his poisoned hook, but Maud caught and broke it with his bare hands.
• Maud restrained Crocodile with Armament Haki and stabbed him through the heart with Shusui, killing him and advancing his Devil Fruit ability to six stars.
• Robin gave Maud an antidote for Luffy's scorpion venom, and Maud asked whether she was seeking death.
• Maud urged Nico Robin to stay alive so the world would not forget Ohara, leaving her visibly shaken as he turned toward the Poneglyph.

Maud left Robin to choose whether to use the Shadow Mark, while she gave Luffy the antidote and collapsed. After the battle ended, Robin awoke in the royal palace, and a group of Marines approached Alubarna.

• Maud tossed Robin the antidote, then left her to crawl toward Luffy and chose not to interfere when she refused to use the Shadow Mark.
• Maud hid his role in Crocodile’s defeat by burying Crocodile’s body in rubble, while Robin gave Luffy the antidote and fainted.
• Luffy awoke, found Robin unconscious beside Crocodile’s body, and carried her and Cobra out to the plaza as Vivi thanked Maud.
• Maud and Perona left the plaza, and Maud retrieved the famous sword Kashu from a corpse behind the city council hall.
• Robin awoke in the royal palace, thanked Chopper for treating her, and a group of Marines headed toward Alubarna.

During the palace banquet, Maud decided against sailing with the Straw Hat Pirates and worried about getting back to Sabaody Archipelago. When Hina and her Marines forced their way into the hall, Maud subdued them and demanded that Hina give him a ride.

• Maud considered how to return to Sabaody Archipelago and rejected traveling with the Straw Hat Pirates because he did not want the trouble and delay.
• Chopper told the banquet guests that Robin had regained consciousness but needed to rest, and Sanji learned Vivi had already arranged food for her.
• Hina led Marines into the banquet hall to capture a major criminal, prompting Cobra to order his guards to drive them out.
• Perona's Negativity Ghosts incapacitated most of the Marines, while Maud's shadow restrained Hina.
• Maud asked Hina to take him to Sabaody Archipelago.

After knocking out Hina and the other Marines, Maud stayed at the palace as the Straw Hat Pirates enjoyed Cobra’s hospitality. He later gave Zoro two famous swords and decided to leave that night by taking control of Hina’s warship.

• Maud restrained Hina, knocked her unconscious, and then used his shadows to knock out the other Marines.
• Cobra had the guards move the unconscious intruders, and the banquet continued before Maud stayed overnight at Vivi’s invitation.
• Zoro challenged Maud to a fight after learning Armament Haki, but his wound reopened and left him too weak to continue.
• Maud told Zoro he had a long way to go, then gave him Kashu and Chidori and asked him to pass a message to Usopp.
• Maud changed his mind about staying and headed toward the Marines, intending to take them aboard Hina’s warship.

Maud transported Hina and the other Marines from Alubarna to their warship, then confronted Smoker when he arrived with reinforcements. Smoker challenged Maud over the failed arrest mission, and Maud forced him to kneel as the other Marines drew their weapons.

• Maud used his Shadow Puppet technique to move the unconscious Hina and the other Marines out of the palace, while Perona mistakenly thought he had killed them.
• The Straw Hat Pirates fell from the bathhouse wall when a scream rang through Alubarna, and the palace grew noisy as the night went on.
• The next day, Smoker's warship joined Hina's vessel, where Maud sat on deck with Perona and Beli beside the unconscious Marines.
• Smoker confronted Maud about Hina's mission to arrest the Straw Hat Pirates and Nico Robin, and Maud admitted he had incapacitated the Marines.
• Maud used his shadow to immobilize Smoker and force him to kneel, prompting Tashigi and the other Marines to draw their weapons.
• A Den Den Mushi began ringing from inside the cabin as the confrontation escalated.