Chapter Summaries

Tsugikuni Yoriichi learned from Shimotsuki Koushirou that famous blades can kill wielders they deem unworthy, and that his blade Dawn had not yet been sharpened in the blood-forging sense. Before leaving, Yoriichi invited Shimotsuki Koshiro to join the Marines, while Shimotsuki Koushirou wondered how much the Marine knew about Wano Country.

• Shimotsuki Koushirou explained that famous blades choose their masters and that Demon Blades can kill wielders they consider unworthy.
• Shimotsuki Koushirou scolded Shimotsuki Koshiro for recklessly using Wado Ichimonji, which he had kept from his son because it might kill him.
• Yoriichi asked about Dawn, and Shimotsuki Koushirou told him the blade had not been sharpened and that weapons meant for killing were sharpened with blood.
• Yoriichi invited Shimotsuki Koshiro to join the Marines and said he would remain at the harbor for one day.
• After Yoriichi, Kyros, and Issho left, Shimotsuki Koushirou muttered that the Marine knew a great deal about Wano Country.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros waited at a tavern while Issho joined a dice game and clashed with Bellemere. When Bellemere shot a gambler, the dealer transformed into a beast and Marines rushed in to arrest him, just as Yoriichi sensed someone extraordinary arriving.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi told Kyros that the commotion outside was a friendly exchange between father and son, then took him and Issho to the village tavern.
• Issho sat down to gamble despite Bellemere's protests, and the fat gambler tried to draw a weapon.
• Bellemere shot the fat gambler dead, prompting the tavern crowd to flee.
• The dealer transformed into a tusked, bristly beast and crushed Bellemere's gun as she escaped the table.
• Eight Marines entered and called on the transformed dealer, Sheep Herder Kappei, to surrender.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi sensed someone extraordinary at the entrance and put his hand on his sword.

Bellemere’s planned arrest of Sheep Herder Kappei collapsed when Issho disrupted the timing, but Kyros killed Kappei and rescued her. A young swordsman then entered the tavern, challenged Issho, and left the Marines facing a new confrontation.

• Kappei knocked away a Marine with a gambling table, while Bellemere’s dagger failed to pierce his transformed hide.
• Kappei grabbed Bellemere and began choking her as the Marines surrounded him.
• Kyros cut off Kappei’s arm and killed him with a sword thrust to the chest.
• Kyros checked on Bellemere, who realized that he and the other Marines were likely from outside the East Blue.
• A young swordsman entered the tavern, fixed his gaze on Issho, and declared that Issho would be his opponent.

Dracule Mihawk entered the tavern and challenged Issho to a duel, but withdrew after realizing Issho was not the swordsman he sought. As Mihawk tried to leave, a red-haired Marine confronted him for attacking his subordinate.

• Mihawk launched a flying slash at Kyros, and Issho stepped in to block it.
• Mihawk introduced himself and challenged Issho, then attacked him with Black Blade Night.
• Issho used his Gravity-Gravity Fruit to force Mihawk into the ground, and Mihawk escaped before conceding that Issho was not the person he sought.
• Mihawk turned to leave the tavern, but a red-haired Marine appeared behind him and blocked his blade.
• The red-haired Marine rebuked Mihawk for attacking his subordinate and trying to leave.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi confronted the young Dracule Mihawk and decisively overpowered him in their sword fight. After Mihawk fell, Yoriichi held a blade to his neck and arrested him.

• Mihawk attacked Yoriichi, who deflected his thrust and struck him through a tavern doorway.
• Yoriichi assessed Mihawk's strength as far below his own, while Mihawk rose and demanded to know the Marine's name.
• Yoriichi identified himself as Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral Tsugikuni Yoriichi and resumed the fight.
• Yoriichi switched his sword between hands to break Mihawk's defense and send him flying down the street.
• Yoriichi appeared behind Mihawk, placed his blade against his neck, and declared him under arrest.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi defeated Dracule Mihawk and turned his surrender into an order to serve aboard the Marines’ ship until he could surpass Yoriichi. Mihawk embraced the challenge and followed him, while Bellemere declined Yoriichi’s invitation to join his unit.

• After losing to Tsugikuni Yoriichi, Dracule Mihawk demanded death, but Yoriichi sentenced him to labor reform aboard the Marines’ ship.
• Yoriichi learned that Mihawk dreamed of becoming the world’s greatest Great Swordsman and promised to release him once he surpassed Yoriichi.
• Mihawk recovered his resolve, vowed to defeat Yoriichi, and agreed to follow him with Issho and Kyros.
• Yoriichi paid a Marine to compensate civilians for battle damage and told him to take credit for capturing Mihawk.
• Yoriichi invited Bellemere to join his unit, but she refused and thanked him for saving her and the other Marines.
• Mihawk followed Yoriichi from the tavern, calling him an arrogant swordsman.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi brought Dracule Mihawk aboard and welcomed Shimotsuki Koushirou into the Marines, then sparred with Mihawk while the new recruits met. The group set sail for Water Seven with Garp, where Tom was preparing designs for Yoriichi’s warship.

• Yoriichi learned that Mihawk had only been recorded as a bounty hunter and planned to make him a Marine.
• Shimotsuki Koushirou left his father and joined the Marines, saying he wanted to see the sea and someday return to Wano Country.
• Yoriichi sparred with Mihawk, disarmed him, and accidentally knocked him into the sea, where Kyros rescued him.
• Yoriichi apologized to Koushirou for pressuring him and welcomed him after Koushirou confirmed he had joined willingly.
• Garp returned to the warship, met Mihawk and Koushirou, and ordered the crew to head back to Water Seven to see Tom’s warship blueprints.

Garp’s fleet crossed Reverse Mountain on its way from the East Blue to the Grand Line while Tsugikuni Yoriichi admired the ascending current. In Water Seven, Gol D. Roger secretly visited Tom and asked him to build a boat for one final trip to the New World.

• Garp changed course so his fleet would enter the Grand Line through Reverse Mountain, and Tsugikuni Yoriichi and the others marveled at the rising seawater.
• Garp ordered the marines to prepare, and the Dog-head Warship rode the Knock Up Stream up Reverse Mountain.
• Tom returned home in Water Seven and found Gol D. Roger waiting for him with a bottle of wine.
• Tom checked that no one was watching and confronted Roger about risking a visit while the World Government was hunting him.
• Roger told Tom that he had a terminal illness and asked him to build a small boat so he could visit old friends in the New World before returning to the South Blue to die.

Roger reunited with Tom and revealed that he had a terminal illness, then urged him to use the Oro Jackson’s Adam Tree keel for Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s warship. Roger trusted that Tsugikuni and Garp were not after Pluton and left Tom convinced the young Marine would change the world.

• Roger told Tom he had only a little over a year to live, and Tom tried to take him to a doctor.
• Tom explained that Vice Admiral Garp had brought Tsugikuni Yoriichi to Water Seven to commission a personal warship.
• Tom worried that the Marines might be after Pluton, but Roger assured him they had come only for a ship and said the World Government would not get its way.
• Roger ordered Tom to dismantle the Oro Jackson and use its Adam Tree keel for Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s warship.
• Roger explained that his crew had disbanded and the Oro Jackson would attract the Marines, then declared that Tsugikuni would change the world.

After Roger left Water Seven, Tom began designing a warship for Tsugikuni Yoriichi, using the Adam Tree keel from the Oro Jackson. CP9 moved to seize the keel and arrest the shipwrights, but Yoriichi and his Marines arrived and attacked the agents.

• Roger said goodbye to Tom and sailed for the New World after the Oro Jackson was dismantled and its Adam Tree keel was taken to Water Seven.
• Tom began designing Yoriichi’s warship and added a Cannon Linkage System based on technology from Pluton’s blueprints.
• CP9 agents arrived at Dock 1, accused the shipwrights of colluding with pirates, and ordered them arrested while taking control of the dockyard.
• Tom invoked Yoriichi’s warship contract to resist CP9, but the agents killed Borton after he resisted arrest.
• Iceburg confronted CP9 over Borton’s death, and Tom shielded him from an attack until Kyros intervened and severed the attacker’s foot.
• Yoriichi arrived with Issho and the other Marines; Issho crushed the CP9 agents with gravity after Yoriichi ordered him to leave them alive.

Yoriichi and Issho intervened when CP9 killed a shipwright at Tom’s shipyard, and Iceburg exposed the agents’ abuse of authority. Yoriichi ordered the surviving CP9 agents arrested and their case taken over by the Marines, then left the shipyard to consider the consequences.

• Issho used his gravity powers to subdue the CP9 agents and killed their leader, Furu.
• Yoriichi confronted the subdued agents, and one claimed they had been investigating shipwrights for colluding with pirates.
• Iceburg accused CP9 of detaining the shipwrights without cause and killing a young man, and Yoriichi believed his account.
• Yoriichi ordered Issho to release the agents from the gravity restraint but had Kyros bind and arrest them for Marine investigation.
• Yoriichi told Tom he would return after handling the matter, then left the shipyard with his group.

After Yoriichi documented the CP9 agents’ plan to seize Tom’s Adam Tree, Garp rushed back to Water Seven and confronted him. Yoriichi explained that his confidence came from justice and prepared to show Garp the confessions and interrogation recording.

• After Kyros reported the killing of the CP9 leader, Garp turned his warship around and headed for Water Seven.
• Yoriichi and his companions interrogated the CP9 agents, who admitted they had targeted Tom’s Adam Tree for the Celestial Dragons.
• Yoriichi recorded the agents’ statements, obtained their signed confessions, and secretly filmed the interrogation.
• Garp arrived at the Marine base and attacked Yoriichi, who blocked him with a bamboo sword as their Haki collided.
• Garp used Conqueror’s Coating and shattered the ground with a punch, then asked Yoriichi whether his strength gave him confidence.
• Yoriichi said his confidence came from justice and asked Koshiro to bring Garp the confessions and Video Den Den Mushi.

After Garp confronted Yoriichi over killing CP9 agents in Water Seven, Yoriichi argued that the Marines had done the right thing and asked Garp to publicize it. Garp took the agents away and reported the incident to Morgans, whose explosive headline spread the story worldwide.

• Garp warned Yoriichi that killing CP9 agents could provoke the World Government and undo the protection he had gained after killing CP0 agents.
• Yoriichi calmly defended his actions as justice and asked Garp to contact Morgans to report how the Marines had corrected CP9's mistakes.
• Garp told Yoriichi to stay on the island until his warship was finished, promised to report the matter to Sengoku, and took the CP9 agents away.
• Garp asked Issho to keep Yoriichi from acting recklessly, and Issho agreed without revealing that he had carried out Yoriichi's order to kill the agents.
• Yoriichi and his companions repaired their base's damaged clearing after Garp left Water Seven with the CP9 agents.
• Within three days, Morgans published a sensational front-page story praising the Marines, spreading news of the Water Seven incident around the world.

After the Water Seven incident became public, Garp helped Yoriichi conceal the details while Kong and Sengoku confronted the fallout from the newspaper report. Yoriichi then reviewed Tom’s completed warship design, which Tom named the Dawn Ship.

• Yoriichi arranged compensation for Bolton’s family, and Garp agreed to keep the Water Seven events quiet for the time being.
• A newspaper report praised Yoriichi’s deeds and exposed the conflict with CP9, drawing Kong’s anger and making Yoriichi the center of public attention.
• Garp called Sengoku and defended Yoriichi while criticizing CP9, then hung up before Sengoku and Kong could question him.
• Tom invited Yoriichi and his companions to inspect the completed warship blueprints and described its advanced systems and capabilities.
• Tom named Yoriichi’s warship the Dawn Ship.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s warship Dawn was completed, and after brief sea trials and a visit to Marine Headquarters, his crew set course for the New World. The chapter ended with Mihawk cutting apart a pirate ship as Dawn sailed into the New World.

• Tom and the seven Water Seven shipyards built Dawn, incorporating Yoriichi’s gym, dojo, and library into its design.
• Yoriichi noticed a newspaper report that the World Government had burned down one of Morgans’s offices, while Marine Headquarters remained quiet about his team killing CP9.
• Tom launched Dawn, and Yoriichi departed Water Seven with his crew after thanking Tom and accepting his advice to conduct sea trials.
• Yoriichi visited Alabasta but did not encounter Crocodile, and Kong ordered him to stop wandering the first half of the Grand Line and head for the New World.
• Yoriichi visited Zephyr at Marine Headquarters and asked him to write “Pure Justice” for his office before Kong sent the crew onward.
• Mihawk sliced a pirate ship in half as Dawn entered the New World, and Yoriichi noted that they did not know the pirates’ identities to report the victory.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s crew salvaged a wrecked pirate ship and found a fortune among its treasure. The chapter left them stunned when a small chest revealed the Logia Devil Fruit, the Mera Mera no Mi.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi ordered Kyros and Koshiro to salvage the sunken pirate ship while Mihawk watched the sea.
• Kyros dove into the wreck and returned with two treasure chests, planning to recover more valuables later.
• Issho and Mihawk bet on which chest held the greater treasure until Tsugikuni Yoriichi told them to stop gambling during a mission.
• Kyros opened the large chest, revealing gold, silver, and jewels worth tens of millions of Beli.
• Kyros opened the small chest and discovered an orange-red Devil Fruit, which Tsugikuni Yoriichi identified as the Mera Mera no Mi.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi rejected the Mera Mera no Mi and offered it, along with the Smoke-Smoke Fruit, as a reward for his crew. After the Dawn departed for Dressrosa, a submarine surfaced and its occupant vowed to report the Marines and the stolen fruit to Captain Moria.

• Kyros gave Tsugikuni Yoriichi the Mera Mera no Mi, and Yoriichi considered its connection to fate and Monkey D. Luffy.
• Mihawk warned Yoriichi not to eat the fruit, while Issho supported the idea of him becoming stronger.
• Yoriichi declined to eat the Mera Mera no Mi and offered it and Zephyr's Smoke-Smoke Fruit as rewards for crew members who could last fifteen minutes against Mihawk or Issho.
• The Marines cheered at the chance to compete, and the Dawn set sail for Dressrosa after completing its salvage operation.
• A man in a submarine surfaced, complained that the Marines had taken the Mera Mera no Mi, and said he would report them to Captain Moria before diving away.

Lou Winter and his pirates raided Dressrosa, killing guards, looting homes, and leaving thousands of civilians affected before escaping into the fog. Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s warship arrived the next morning, and he recognized the devastation as the work of vicious pirates.

• Lou Winter led his crew into Dressrosa’s harbor at night and ordered them to seize women and treasure.
• Winter used his Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers to kill the guards who tried to stop his pirates and led the raid into the city.
• King Riku arrived after the pirates had fled and ordered relief efforts, then learned that most harbor guard officers had hidden rather than fight.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi, Kyros, Issho, Mihawk, and the others reached the devastated harbor, where Yoriichi judged that vicious pirates had attacked.

After learning that an unidentified pirate crew had raided Dressrosa and escaped, Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s unit found itself unable to track them. Yoriichi concluded the pirates might return to plunder the island, giving the Marines a chance to confront them.

• At Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s instruction, Kyros questioned a guard at Dressrosa’s port about the devastation.
• The guard said pirates had raided the island, harming residents from the docks to the city’s outskirts before fleeing ahead of King Riku’s forces.
• Kyros reported that the guard had no useful details about the pirate crew, leaving the Marines unable to pursue them across the New World.
• Yoriichi told Kyros that the pirates might raid Dressrosa again because the island was prosperous and they had not reached the city center during their first attack.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros arrived in Dressrosa to establish a Marine branch, but the kingdom’s officials were occupied with the aftermath of a pirate attack. Yoriichi chose the burned houses by the port as the branch site, and Kyros later spotted a dim yellow light on the foggy sea.

• Tank Lepond met Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros, doubted Yoriichi’s age, and said the Marines could establish a branch after buying land from local residents.
• Yoriichi dismissed Kyros’s frustration with Tank Lepond and explained that the branch should be built at the port so Marines could pursue pirates quickly.
• Yoriichi asked Kyros to contact the owners of the burned houses and buy them at market prices for the Dawn Marines Branch.
• Yoriichi learned that ownership of many burned houses was unclear and returned to the ship without making purchases.
• Kyros stood watch on deck at midnight and noticed a dim yellow light hidden beneath the fog at sea.