Chapter Summaries

Senior grieved over his dying wife Lucian and followed Wright after learning he might be able to save her. Wright offered to heal Lucian and spare Senior if he repented and abandoned evil, leaving Senior to face the choice of atonement.

• Wright reported his mission complete to Vice Admiral Tsuru and delayed his rendezvous after seeing Senior's family tragedy.
• Senior tried to bring smiles back to unconscious Lucian by wearing their dead son Gimlet's clothes and hat, and she briefly smiled at him.
• Senior followed Wright to a bar after Wright passed him and hinted that they could have a Gimlet together.
• Wright confirmed that he had saved Rosinante and confronted Senior about his regrets and willingness to die for the family.
• Wright offered to heal Lucian and spare Senior if he atoned for his sins and abandoned evil.

Wright used Holy Light to restore Lucian’s brain and awaken her from her coma. Lucian opened her eyes in the hospital, while Wright welcomed her back to reality.

• Wright asked Senior to seek information about the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, hoping it could grant Lucian eternal youth.
• Wright cleared the hospital room and used Eternal Fire and Holy Light on Lucian.
• Wright sensed Lucian’s consciousness awakening and signaled Senior to leave the room.
• Lucian remembered her son’s death, discovering that her husband Picca was a pirate, and being struck by a carriage in the rain.
• Lucian woke in the hospital and heard Wright greet her.

Wright healed Lucian and revealed that Senor Pink had caused her tragedy while undercover, though he had come to love her. Lucian agreed to go to Marine Headquarters for protection, while Senor Pink stayed behind to atone through service and keep his identity hidden.

• Wright healed Lucian and explained that she had been injured in a landslide caused by his subordinate, Senor Pink.
• Lucian mistook Senor Pink for a pervert and struck him with a teacup before learning he was the man she knew as Picca.
• Wright told Lucian that Senor Pink had fallen in love and started a family during his mission, violating Marine discipline, and that he had worn the baby outfit to awaken her.
• Senor Pink admitted his deception and declared that he had never regretted falling in love with Lucian.
• Senor Pink asked Wright to take Lucian to Marine Headquarters for protection while he redeemed himself through meritorious service, and Lucian agreed.
• Wright left Sea Swallow Island with Lucian and arranged for Vice Admiral Tsuru to protect her.

After returning to Marineford, Wright met with Sengoku and Rosinante, who discussed his decision to spare Señor and the damage to the Donquixote Family. Wright explained the Hobby-Hobby Fruit’s horrific powers, leaving Sengoku and Rosinante alarmed about what Doflamingo could do if he obtained it.

• Tsuru withdrew her forces for the World Meeting after the Marines had crippled much of the Donquixote Family’s North Blue network, and Wright returned to Marineford with Rosinante.
• Wright visited Sengoku’s office, where he joked with Sengoku and Rosinante before they discussed Wright’s actions and the Family’s losses.
• Sengoku praised Wright for acting according to his principles and said the Marines’ intelligence operation had only slowed Doflamingo, not stopped him.
• Wright said Señor’s information about the Hobby-Hobby Fruit would be important and explained that it stopped its user from aging and transformed touched people into obedient toys.
• Wright revealed that the fruit also erased its victims from everyone’s memories, and Rosinante feared Doflamingo would use it to turn Dressrosa into a hellish world.

Wright learned that the Hobby-Hobby Fruit would soon reach the Donquixote Family and raced to seize it before Doflamingo could obtain it. He overwhelmed the pirates guarding the fruit and demanded to know where it was.

• Wright told Sengoku and Rosinante that the Hobby-Hobby Fruit would appear in the North Blue, and explained that he had used Vergo’s intelligence to prevent Doflamingo from acquiring it.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru returned to Marineford with Lucian, who had joined the Marines and believed her husband Senior was an undercover Marine agent.
• Senior passed Wright the location of the Hobby-Hobby Fruit after the Donquixote Family learned that a pirate crew had obtained it.
• Wright flew to the island and struck the pirate crew’s base with Holy Storm, scattering the pirates.
• Wright asked the defeated pirates where they were keeping the Devil Fruit.

Wright seized the Hobby-Hobby Fruit from Doflamingo’s pirates and waited for Doflamingo to arrive. They clashed over the theft, and Wright’s Holy Light defenses frustrated Doflamingo as their fight began.

• Wright defeated the pirates, pinned their captain, and took the Hobby-Hobby Fruit from a safe.
• Wright sensed Doflamingo approaching and stayed at the camp instead of flying back to his warship.
• Doflamingo confronted Wright, who taunted him about Rosinante and admitted he had come to disrupt the Donquixote Family’s business.
• Doflamingo attacked Wright with strings, but Wright blocked the attacks and countered with Holy Light techniques.
• Doflamingo’s descending string attack struck another Holy Light Wall, prompting him to complain that Wright fought like a turtle.

Wright defeated Doflamingo in their fight and learned that Holy Fire hurt people with evil hearts more severely. Back at Marine Headquarters, Wright, Rosinante, and Sengoku decided to hide the Hobby-Hobby Fruit on the seabed in the Calm Belt, with Garp likely to be sent to bury it.

• Wright used Holy Light to evade Doflamingo’s attacks and cut him with a blade infused with Armament Haki and Holy Fire.
• Wright explained that Holy Fire inflicted greater damage on targets whose evil opposed his sense of justice, and Doflamingo retreated after warning Rosy about traitors.
• At Marine Headquarters, Wright told Sengoku and Rosinante that Doflamingo had been testing Rosinante and had not fought with his full strength.
• Sengoku proposed sealing the Hobby-Hobby Fruit in a Sea Stone box and burying it on the seabed of the Calm Belt.
• Sengoku considered sending Garp to bury the fruit, while Garp at the G3 Branch suspected Sengoku was plotting against him.

Wright, Garp, and Rosinante completed a secret mission in the Calm Belt, where Rosinante used his Silence-Silence Fruit to conceal Garp’s underwater work. Sengoku then sent Wright to the East Blue to investigate Germa 66’s arrival and suspected plans to start wars.

• Wright fought off gathering Sea Kings while Garp and Rosinante worked underwater aboard a coated vessel.
• Rosinante explained that his Silence Field could stop vibrations from escaping its area, even within the coated bubble, and Wright noted that it could not yet halt a bullet or Whitebeard’s full destructive force.
• Wright flew Garp and Rosinante out of the Calm Belt, towing the coated vessel and escaping the pursuing Sea Kings.
• Sengoku told Wright and Garp that Germa 66 had crossed the Red Line into the East Blue and might be planning to start several wars.
• Sengoku ordered Wright to investigate Germa 66’s objective, while Garp warned him that the East Blue was the Symbol of Peace.

Wright infiltrated Germa 66 after it conquered Kokia Kingdom and confronted Vinsmoke Judge in his room. He trapped Judge inside a Holy Light barrier, leaving the outcome of their encounter unresolved.

• Sengoku told Wright that Germa 66 had conquered Kokia Kingdom but suffered losses, and Wright set course to intercept its regrouping army.
• Vinsmoke Judge dismissed the Marines’ objections and declared that Germa’s status as a World Government Member State protected it from them.
• Wright disguised himself as a Germa clone soldier and secretly entered Germa’s Central Royal City.
• Wright trapped Judge inside a golden Holy Light barrier and announced that he intended to negotiate with him physically.

Wright trapped Vinsmoke Judge in a golden barrier, fought him, and forced him to explain Germa’s mission in the East Blue. After learning the World Nobles had ordered the campaign, Wright condemned Judge’s crimes and prepared to use a new method against him.

• Judge recovered from Strike of Sanction and demanded Wright identify himself, then attacked him with his spear and Combat Suit techniques.
• Wright dodged Judge’s attacks, countered with Armament Haki and Strike of Sanction, and contained their fight inside the golden barrier.
• After dozens of blows, Judge accepted that Wright had the advantage, and Wright asked why Germa had come to the East Blue.
• Judge revealed that the World Nobles had directly ordered Germa’s mission and promised a generous reward for its completion.
• Wright confronted Judge over his wars, research, and modifications to his children, then said he would spare Judge because one of his sons had left him.
• Judge panicked when Wright demonstrated knowledge of his secrets, and Wright told him to repent and embrace the Holy Light.

Wright defeated Vinsmoke Judge and used a Holy Light ritual to purify his evil impulses, granting him Holy Light Power and a resolve to protect his family and others. Judge asked Wright to perform the ritual on his children, and Wright agreed to help them.

• Wright revealed that he had impersonated Judge to mislead the guards, then defeated Judge in a single strike.
• Wright performed the Light Binding Ritual on Judge, implanting a Holy Light Seed and guiding his desire toward atonement.
• Judge awoke remorseful for his treatment of his wife and children, thanked Wright, and gained the ability to wield Holy Light.
• Wright tested Judge’s new power and confirmed that Judge had awakened Guardian Power, including protective abilities such as Holy Light Wall.
• Judge asked Wright to perform the ritual on his children, and Wright agreed to help them.

Wright performed the Light Binding Ritual on the Vinsmoke brothers, restoring their human emotions, then subjected Reiju to the Lightforging Trial. Reiju passed and became the first Lightforged.

• Judge summoned Iji, Reiju, Niji, and Yonji to meet Wright, who insisted that the brothers undergo the ritual before Reiju.
• Wright used the Light Binding Ritual on Iji, Niji, and Yonji, and they awoke with restored emotions and Light Binding Marks.
• Wright told Reiju that her father had stripped her brothers of their emotions and asked her to help guide them.
• Wright used the Lightforging Trial on Reiju, confronting her with memories of her family and Sanji's escape.
• Reiju passed the trial and received a golden sigil, becoming the first Lightforged.

Wright helped Reiju and Judge’s three modified sons awaken Holy Light Powers, then proposed combining the power with Germa technology. Judge worried about his missing son Sanji, and Wright reassured him they would meet again someday.

• Reiju passed the Lightforging Trial, awakened Healing Power, and discovered she could borrow Wright’s Holy Light Power for an attack.
• Judge told Wright that Reiju and Iji, Niji, and Yonji had been freed from their behavioral shackles, and that his three sons had awakened Punishment Power.
• Wright assigned Reiju to teach her brothers and encouraged Judge not to despair over Sanji, who had fled during the war with the Kokia Kingdom.
• Wright and Judge discussed using Holy Light Power to enhance Germa Combat Suits and weapons, and Wright asked Judge for information about his employer.
• Wright warned Judge to finish the initial research and leave the East Blue before Garp came after Germa, then hinted that they would discuss the World Nobles next.

Wright and Judge discussed repurposing Germa’s technology and secretly preparing to overthrow the Celestial Dragons in pursuit of World Peace. They founded Dawn Watch, with Wright as Highlord and Judge leading the Holy Fire Emblem legion, and named their next initiative the Dawn Plan.

• Wright told Judge that Germa could preserve existing cyborgs and clones while redirecting its research toward Devil Fruits, weapons, Combat Suits, and medical technology.
• Wright explained that eliminating the Celestial Dragons would require transforming the Marines and gaining support from like-minded people.
• Judge pledged Germa’s support and vowed to atone for its past sins.
• Wright established Dawn Watch, named himself Highlord, and assigned Judge to lead the Holy Fire Emblem legion’s Battle Suit and medical research.
• Wright warned Judge that the World Government concealed terrifying secrets and said they must prepare in secret for a future final battle.
• Judge promised to oversee the next research stage, and Wright named the initiative the Dawn Plan.

Wright reported Germa’s ties to the World Nobles to Sengoku, then helped Judge develop a Holy Light-powered teleportation device. After successfully testing the Lightforged Beacon, Wright gained the ability to teleport between beacons and considered how they could improve his mobility.

• Wright told Sengoku that Germa had likely destroyed the Kokia Kingdom on Charlmak Saint’s orders and warned that Germa might be connected to dark dealings with the World Government and World Nobles.
• Wright kept Dawn Watch’s existence secret from Sengoku and Garp while continuing his investigation of Germa.
• Judge told Wright that his team had discovered spatial properties in Holy Light Power, prompting Wright to join the research.
• Wright and Judge developed a first-generation Lightforged Beacon and successfully teleported Wright from the laboratory to a beacon in the plaza.
• Wright found that the beacons consumed substantial energy, but he could sense their locations and teleport between them without assistance from the device he was standing in.

Wright left Germa after completing his investigation and went to Dawn Island to meet Garp, who was investigating Shanks’s appearance in the East Blue. Wright found Garp in Foosha Village confronting young Luffy, whose stretched arm revealed that he had eaten a Devil Fruit.

• Wright finished the Germa investigation, and Sengoku told him that Shanks had appeared in the East Blue near Garp’s hometown.
• Wright contacted Garp, who told him to meet at Dawn Island, then left Germa for the island.
• Aboard the Red Force, Shanks and his crew recalled Wright and joked about Shanks losing an arm, which Wright’s healing ability could not restore without the original limb.
• Wright arrived at Garp’s warship and learned that Garp was waiting at a tavern in Foosha Village.
• Wright entered the tavern and saw Garp trying to pull young Luffy away from a table as Luffy’s arm stretched.

Wright helped Garp realize that Luffy had eaten the Gum-Gum Fruit and learned why Shanks had been in Foosha Village. The chapter ended with Wright introducing himself to Luffy, who declared that he would become the Pirate King.

• Garp panicked when he thought Luffy was hurt, then discovered that Luffy had eaten the Gum-Gum Fruit.
• Garp learned that Shanks had lost an arm while saving Luffy and angrily blamed him for encouraging Luffy to become a pirate.
• Wright asked the village chief about the Red Hair Pirates’ time in Foosha Village, and Garp learned that Shanks had stayed there for over a year.
• Wright and Bogart discussed why Garp kept his Marine identity and influence away from Foosha Village.
• Luffy approached Wright, who introduced himself as a Marine, and Luffy announced that he would become the Pirate King.

Wright reunited with Garp and Luffy in Foosha Village, where Garp explained how he had recruited Wright into the Marines and villagers celebrated Wright as East Blue’s benefactor. Garp then assigned Wright a difficult mission: watch over Luffy and his other grandson for several months while Garp pursued Shanks.

• Garp punched Luffy for declaring that he would become Pirate King, and Wright healed the bump on Luffy’s head.
• Wright warned Luffy not to praise pirates in front of Garp, then Garp punched Wright for criticizing him and revealed why he had recruited Wright into the Marines.
• Bogart told Wright that Garp had brought him into the Marines to protect East Blue’s reputation and that Bogart had accurately read Wright’s intentions.
• Villagers crowded Makino’s tavern to thank Wright for his past deeds, and Garp realized how beloved Wright was in East Blue.
• Garp told Wright to look after Luffy and his other grandson for several months while he tracked down Shanks.

Garp left Luffy and Ace in Dadan’s care on Mount Colubo and asked Wright to train them secretly. After Wright helped Luffy follow Ace through the forest, Luffy reached the Unconfirmed Terminal Station and learned that Ace and Sabo planned to become pirates.

• Garp brought Luffy to Dadan’s home and left him there with Ace, while Wright agreed to train the boys without revealing himself to Dadan and the bandits.
• Wright watched over Luffy and Ace, while Luffy spent a week lost in the forest after Ace ran away from him.
• Luffy kept pursuing Ace through the forest, and Wright secretly made the dangerous obstacles easier for him to pass.
• Luffy reached the Unconfirmed Terminal Station and overheard Ace and Sabo counting their savings for a pirate ship.
• Luffy announced that he wanted to become a pirate too, startling Ace and Sabo.

Wright intervened in the growing friendship between Luffy, Ace, and Sabo, then offered to train them at Garp’s request. After seeing his strength, the three boys accepted, and Wright began by healing their injuries.

• Ace and Sabo tied up Luffy after he discovered their secret, but they could not bring themselves to kill him and eventually let him go.
• Luffy told Ace that he wanted him to stay alive because he would be lonely without him, easing the tension between the boys.
• Wright revealed himself to Luffy, Ace, and Sabo and offered to instruct them for the next few months.
• Wright crushed a rock with his bare hands and split a mountain peak with a sword strike, convincing the boys to accept his training.
• The boys arrived at the forest lake the next morning with injuries from fighting wild beasts, and Wright healed them before starting their training.