Chapter Summaries

Tsugikuni Yoriichi woke in a young boy’s body inside a cold cave, realizing he had crossed over again after living a second life as a demon slayer. He examined his strange surroundings and a powerful black sword, then woke at dawn still accepting his new reincarnation.

• Yoriichi woke in a cave wrapped in a beast hide and realized he had crossed over again.
• Yoriichi recalled his first life as Taichi and his second life as Tsugikuni Yoriichi, when he fought demons and later retired to the mountains.
• Yoriichi inspected the cave, found primitive tools and food, and discovered a black longsword marked with the character "Exterminate."
• Yoriichi swung the sword and cut a deep slash into the cave ceiling, then decided to explore outside after resting.
• Yoriichi dreamed of a peaceful seaside town and woke at dawn, reflecting that he had crossed over again.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi explored the island where he had awakened and encountered enormous beasts in its primeval forest. After killing a giant tiger, he discovered his new body had extraordinary strength and wondered if he had arrived in a cultivation world.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi left his cave and followed a mountain path into the forest to search for food.
• A giant tiger attacked Tsugikuni Yoriichi, who awakened the Transparent World and killed it with Sun Breathing—First Form—Dance.
• A monstrous bird swooped down and carried away the tiger's corpse before Tsugikuni Yoriichi could inspect it.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi examined the severed tiger legs and suspected the island might be part of a cultivation world.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi lifted a tiger leg without strain and realized his new body possessed immense strength.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi secured food and found a stream, but discovered it was tainted by blood from a massacre on Dragon Roar Island. After seeing the slaughtered town, he named his black blade Dawnbreaker and unleashed a terrifying aura, which Vice Admiral Garp sensed while heading to the island.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi brought back tiger meat, ate some, and began smoking the rest to preserve it.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi found a stream, noticed its water had turned red with blood, and followed it upstream.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi discovered hundreds of Marine and civilian corpses near a ruined town, with blood flowing into the stream.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi searched the devastated town, found a dead woman in a house, and concluded that humanity's cruelty rivaled demons'.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi named his black blade Dawnbreaker and released a powerful aura that forced the nearby waves back.
• Vice Admiral Garp sensed the Conqueror's Haki aboard his Dog-head Warship and ordered his Marines to maintain their course toward Dragon Roar Island.

Garp arrived at Dragon Roar Island and knocked Tsugikuni Yoriichi unconscious after mistaking him for a threat. The Marines rescued the island’s surviving women and children, and Garp brought Yoriichi back to Marineford.

• Garp spotted Tsugikuni Yoriichi on the sea cliff, leaped from his warship, and struck him down despite Yoriichi’s claim that he was a civilian.
• Garp examined Yoriichi and the battlefield, then carried the unconscious boy and his sword back to the Marine force.
• Garp ordered Bogard and the Marines to collect their dead, search the island for survivors, and investigate the town.
• The Marines found and rescued the bound women and children of Dragon Roar Island after Garp’s forces defeated the pirates.
• Garp’s warship returned to Marineford with Tsugikuni Yoriichi aboard.

Garp brought Tsugikuni Yoriichi to Marine Headquarters and entrusted him to Zephyr, who made Yoriichi his disciple and officially enlisted him in the Marines. Zephyr decided Yoriichi was too young for the Marine Academy and would train him personally until he came of age.

• Garp brought Tsugikuni Yoriichi to Zephyr's office and asked Zephyr to take him in.
• Yoriichi introduced himself to Zephyr and served tea while Garp teased him about speaking loudly.
• Garp left Yoriichi with Zephyr after warning the boy not to disappoint him.
• Zephyr accepted Yoriichi as his disciple and officially welcomed him into the Marines.
• Zephyr judged Yoriichi too young for the Marine Academy and chose to train him personally until he came of age.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi settled into Zephyr’s home and went with him to see the Marine Academy, where he reaffirmed his determination to become a Marine and change the world. Zephyr explained the academy’s demanding training and revealed that applicants needed a Doriki Value above eighty.

• Yoriichi woke early in Zephyr’s home and thanked him for preparing a clean room that had once belonged to Zephyr’s child.
• Zephyr offered to care for Yoriichi and suggested he did not have to join the Marines, but Yoriichi insisted he wanted to change the world.
• Zephyr brought Yoriichi to the Marine Academy and showed him cadets completing a forty-kilometer warm-up run.
• Zephyr explained that the academy trained cadets in subjects including navigation, firearms, combat, and Marine history.
• Zephyr told Yoriichi that only people with a Doriki Value above eighty could enroll, while an ordinary adult man typically had a value of ten.

Zephyr showed Tsugikuni Yoriichi around the Marine Academy and brought him to its kendo hall to test his strength. Their spar began with Yoriichi using Mist Breathing to launch a surprise attack, leaving Zephyr assessing the strange technique.

• Zephyr proudly explained the Marine Academy’s strict Doriki requirements and training facilities to Tsugikuni Yoriichi.
• Yoriichi asked to see the kendo hall, and Zephyr agreed to test his Doriki there and spar with him.
• Zephyr and Yoriichi entered the large dojo, where Yoriichi accepted Zephyr’s invitation to spar.
• Yoriichi warned Zephyr that he would go all out, then transformed his aura and vanished into an illusory mist.
• Zephyr spread his Observation Haki as Yoriichi emerged at his right and swept a bamboo sword toward his abdomen with Mist Breathing—Still Water Slash.

Zephyr tested Yoriichi in the dojo and effortlessly blocked and disarmed him, concluding that his disciple was still too weak and slow. After Victor arrived, Zephyr introduced Yoriichi and took him to have his Doriki tested so he could plan his training.

• Yoriichi opened with a Mist Breathing strike, but Zephyr casually blocked it.
• Yoriichi attacked with Sun Breathing and tried to follow up with a kick, but Zephyr caught his bamboo sword and countered, forcing Yoriichi to retreat disarmed.
• Yoriichi unleashed a rapid assault aimed at Zephyr's weak points, but Zephyr blocked every strike and knocked his sword through a wall.
• Zephyr praised Yoriichi's swordsmanship while criticizing his strength and speed, then told him to train without slacking.
• Victor entered the dojo, and Zephyr introduced him to Yoriichi as the Marine Academy's swordsmanship instructor.
• Zephyr declined to enroll Yoriichi at the academy and took him to test his Doriki and prepare a training plan.

Zephyr tested Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s Doriki and discovered that his sword strike scored over 5,000, then demonstrated his own strength and began showing Yoriichi around Marineford. The chapter ended with Yoriichi sitting outside his room at night, looking up at the stars.

• Zephyr explained the Doriki testing device and demonstrated a score of 1,213 with a light tap.
• Yoriichi punched the Seastone wall for a score of 520, then struck it with Sun Breathing and scored 5,333.
• Zephyr showed his strength by sending the wall flying, breaking the device, and told Yoriichi to train under him.
• Zephyr introduced Yoriichi to people around the Marine Academy and Marineford while downplaying his score as merely over 5,000.
• Yoriichi returned home that night and gazed at the stars from the corridor outside his room.

Kong, Tsuru, Sengoku, and Zephyr reviewed Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s background and found no clear threat, though his sword and Conqueror’s Haki raised questions. Kong ordered Zephyr to keep Yoriichi in Marineford and withhold Marine secrets from him for five years.

• Sengoku reported that Tsugikuni Yoriichi was twelve, had grown up on Dragon Roar Island, and had disappeared two years earlier before Garp found him.
• Zephyr defended Yoriichi’s history and rejected the suspicion raised by his sword and awakened Conqueror’s Haki.
• Kong ordered that Yoriichi remain in Marineford for five years and that Zephyr teach him basic knowledge while withholding Marine secrets, Haki, and the Six Powers.
• Sengoku left to return to Rosinante, while Tsuru assured Kong that Yoriichi’s background was clear and Zephyr could guide him.
• Kong worried about Monkey D. Dragon’s disobedience and increasingly unpredictable movements.

Zephyr made plans to teach Yoriichi and arranged a dojo at his home, though the books he brought were mostly World Government-approved history. Yoriichi began studying while waiting to train, and Rosinante arrived as his assigned teacher.

• Zephyr told Yoriichi to study navigation and other knowledge, then promised to teach him when he had time.
• Zephyr hired craftsmen to build a dojo at his residence and brought Yoriichi a large stack of books selected by Kong.
• Yoriichi recognized that the Marines still distrusted his unknown origins but began reading World History to learn about the world.
• Rosinante arrived at Zephyr's home, introduced himself to Yoriichi, and said he would be his teacher.

After Zephyr completed Yoriichi’s dojo, Yoriichi sparred with Rosinante and effortlessly defeated him, then decided to train him so he would become stronger. Rosinante gave up after repeated losses, while Yoriichi resolved to bring him along in future training.

• Rosinante visited Yoriichi on the day Zephyr’s new dojo was ready and challenged him to a swordsmanship match.
• Zephyr refereed as Yoriichi and Rosinante entered the dojo with bamboo swords.
• Yoriichi deflected Rosinante’s opening attack and tapped him in the chest with a precise counter.
• Yoriichi repeatedly defeated Rosinante in single exchanges until Rosinante dropped his sword and gave up.
• Yoriichi decided he would include Rosinante in his training so the boy would grow stronger.

Rosinante endured a morning of sparring under Zephyr’s reprimands, then Garp returned and tested Yoriichi’s progress. Garp decided to take Yoriichi to sea on his next voyage, and Zephyr revealed he had wanted Garp to intervene.

• Zephyr rebuked Rosinante for giving up, and Rosinante repeatedly charged Yoriichi through a morning of exhausting sparring.
• Rosinante complained about his soreness and worried the training would stunt his growth while eating lunch with Yoriichi.
• Garp returned from pursuing Roger, joined Zephyr, Rosinante, and Yoriichi for lunch, then challenged Yoriichi to show his improvement.
• Garp caught Yoriichi’s bamboo sword and criticized Zephyr for not teaching him the Marine Six Styles or Haki.
• Garp declared he would take Yoriichi to sea next time, and Zephyr let him leave before admitting he had wanted Garp to take Yoriichi.

Garp took Tsugikuni Yoriichi aboard the Dog-head Warship to pursue Roger despite Kong’s objections, and the ship set sail with Yoriichi enjoying the freedom of the sea. Kong worried that Garp would mishandle the talented young Marine, while an unidentified figure joined Yoriichi on deck.

• Garp arrived at Zephyr’s house and insisted that Yoriichi accompany him to sea, then carried him to the Naval Port.
• Kong, Zephyr, and Sengoku confronted Garp at the Dog-head Warship, but Garp argued that Yoriichi needed to grow stronger at sea.
• Kong let Garp take Yoriichi but warned him to take responsibility, and the Dog-head Warship departed the port.
• Kong told Sengoku that Yoriichi had awakened Conqueror’s Haki and criticized Garp’s ability to train him.
• Yoriichi enjoyed the sea breeze on deck until a tall figure came to stand beside him and asked whether he liked the sea.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi met Colonel Aokiji aboard Garp’s warship and began training in the Marine Six Styles. Their first exchange revealed Yoriichi’s exceptional speed and instincts, while Aokiji demonstrated Soru and blocked his strikes with his ice body.

• Aokiji introduced himself to Yoriichi and explained that Garp had assigned him to teach Yoriichi how to fight at sea.
• Aokiji said Marine Headquarters had arranged for him to study under Garp before his promotion to commodore.
• Eager to train, Yoriichi asked Aokiji to begin teaching him the Marine Six Styles through combat.
• Yoriichi rushed Aokiji with a Sun Breathing thrust, but Aokiji’s Logia power turned his chest to ice and nullified the strike.
• Aokiji used Soru to move behind Yoriichi, but Yoriichi anticipated him and slashed at his waist, which Aokiji hardened with ice.
• Yoriichi appeared behind Aokiji and remarked that Soru was not difficult, surprising the colonel.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi copied Aokiji’s Soru during their spar, then lost his sword to Aokiji’s Ice-Ice Fruit. Aokiji discovered Yoriichi’s extraordinary strength and offered to continue sparring without using his Devil Fruit.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi copied Aokiji’s Soru after seeing it once and struck at him, but Aokiji turned his body to ice and froze Yoriichi’s sword.
• Yoriichi let go of his sword and retreated, while Garp told Bogard that Yoriichi had never learned Soru before and praised his talent.
• Aokiji explained that his frozen body came from the Ice-Ice Fruit, not Tekkai, and realized Yoriichi’s strike had broken through his Tekkai.
• Yoriichi said his full-strength Doriki Value was over five thousand, shocking Aokiji.
• Aokiji told Yoriichi to ignore Zephyr’s claim that he was weak and proposed another spar using martial arts without his Devil Fruit.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi sparred with Aokiji and quickly learned the Marine Six Styles, using his Transparent World to understand their techniques. After Tekkai protected him from Aokiji’s counterattack, Garp decided Yoriichi was ready to stop practicing the Six Styles and begin learning Haki from Bogard.

• Aokiji demonstrated the Marine Six Styles while sparring with Tsugikuni Yoriichi, who grasped and replicated the techniques through his bodily control and Transparent World.
• Yoriichi considered how the Six Styles could improve his swordsmanship, especially Soru, Tempest Kick, and Tekkai.
• Marines gathered to watch Yoriichi’s smooth attacks force Aokiji to defend, and they remarked on how much stronger he had become since East Blue.
• As Yoriichi tired, Aokiji found an opening and struck him in the abdomen, sending him crashing into the warship’s mast.
• Yoriichi recovered without injury and praised Tekkai, while Garp told Bogard to teach him Haki starting the next day because he had already mastered the Six Styles.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi mastered Flying Slash during training with Aokiji, but damaged Garp's warship and had to repair it alongside Aokiji. While they worked, Yoriichi explained his wish to protect people from ruined towns and tragic deaths, and Aokiji reflected on their shared good fortune aboard Garp's ship.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi launched his first Flying Slash at Aokiji, who used his Devil Fruit power to avoid injury as the slash tore through the warship's railing.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi fired two more Flying Slashes, damaging the railing and deck before Garp hit him and ordered him to repair the ship with Aokiji.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi repaired the railing while Aokiji patched the deck, and Aokiji asked Yoriichi to call him Kuzan.
• Aokiji said he had joined the Marines to uphold justice, while Tsugikuni Yoriichi said he wanted to prevent towns from being ruined and innocent people from dying.
• Aokiji told Tsugikuni Yoriichi that his ambition would be difficult to achieve and said they were lucky to be aboard Garp's ship, before Garp shouted at them to get back to work.

After Garp’s warship entered the New World, Yoriichi learned about the Roger Pirates and realized that Shanks and Buggy’s ages placed him before major upheavals. Bogard then took over Yoriichi’s instruction and prepared to teach him Haki.

• Yoriichi slept in a hammock beside Aokiji aboard Garp’s warship and woke as it prepared to sail from an unnamed New World port.
• Over breakfast, Aokiji explained the Roger Pirates’ crimes, their history, and the known members of their crew.
• Aokiji told Yoriichi that Shanks and Buggy were aboard Roger’s ship and were around his age, helping Yoriichi estimate the current point in the timeline.
• Bogard informed Yoriichi that Garp had ended his Marine Six Styles training and ordered him to begin learning Haki.
• Aokiji went to find Garp while Bogard led Yoriichi toward the deck for training.

Bogard began teaching Yoriichi Observation Haki aboard the warship, but Yoriichi effortlessly blocked his attacks while blindfolded. Garp and Aokiji suspected that Yoriichi had already developed the ability, and Bogard was left wondering whether he was cheating.

• Garp told Bogard to teach Yoriichi Haki, and Bogard explained its three types before starting him on Observation Haki.
• Bogard blindfolded Yoriichi and told him to sense and evade his attacks.
• Yoriichi blocked two of Bogard’s bamboo-sword strikes with precision, surprising Bogard and Garp.
• Aokiji said Yoriichi seemed able to predict attacks, while Garp watched more closely from the lookout tower.
• Yoriichi said he could not see anything, leaving Bogard stunned and wondering whether he was cheating.