Chapter Summaries

Bakin Gom Stussy asked Oran and Vegapunk to clone Whitebeard from his DNA, hoping to create a powerful version of him who would obey her. Vegapunk and Oran considered the project but demanded payment, and Oran named Haki training methods and Charlotte Linlin’s DNA as his terms.

• Vegapunk recognized Bakin Gom Stussy as a former member of the Rocks Pirates, and she invited him and Oran into a cabin to discuss a commission.
• Bakin asked MADS to clone a human and presented a DNA sample, initially claiming it belonged to someone she loved.
• Vegapunk exposed Bakin’s identity and demanded honesty, so she revealed that the sample belonged to Edward Newgate and that she wanted a new Whitebeard who would obey her.
• Vegapunk agreed that human cloning would be an interesting challenge and asked Bakin for blood so he could also clone her.
• Oran demanded Haki training methods and Charlotte Linlin’s DNA as his terms for helping with the project.

Oran secured Bakin’s cooperation, including Charlotte Linlin’s DNA sample and Whitebeard’s Haki training methods, while MADS members pursued their research. Vegapunk then gathered the core members to announce that MADS had run out of money.

• Oran asked Bakin for Charlotte Linlin’s DNA, and Bakin agreed to provide it along with Whitebeard’s Haki training methods.
• Bakin joined the ship while she waited for the results of their cloning project and sought a controllable Whitebeard with comparable potential.
• Judge considered using cloned soldiers to restore the Germa Kingdom as Oran and the other MADS members continued their research.
• Vegapunk called the core members to a meeting, interrupting Caesar’s work.
• Vegapunk announced that MADS had run out of money.

MADS faced the loss of Doflamingo’s sponsorship, but Oran was certain he could persuade him to invest more. Oran offered to help Vegapunk win the Ibel Prize’s Peace Prize and Medicine Prize, then proposed taking over Grand Undertaker Piekro’s business.

• Vegapunk told MADS that Doflamingo was considering withdrawing his funding, prompting Judge, Caesar, and Queen to worry about their research.
• Oran learned that Vegapunk’s GP Flowers research was nearly complete and told the others to wait for Doflamingo to make his move.
• After several days, Doflamingo arrived aboard the MADS ship and met Oran in the conference room.
• Oran told Doflamingo that doubling his investment could help Vegapunk and Oran win the Ibel Prize’s Peace Prize and Medicine Prize.
• Oran also offered to help Doflamingo take over Grand Undertaker Piekro’s business, leaving Doflamingo visibly excited.

Oran proposed that Feld fund a charity organization and build public support for it to win the Ybel Prize by showcasing Punk’s Flower Bomb and affordable prosthetic limbs. Feld was interested in the plan, which ended with Oran naming his mass-market strategy “Mixue Bingcheng.”

• Oran explained that his plan did not involve organ trafficking and would put him in conflict with Piekro’s funeral business.
• Feld dismissed his bodyguards and confirmed that the room was secure for their discussion.
• Oran proposed using Punk’s Flower Bomb to help the charity organization win the Ybel Peace Prize.
• Oran presented Feld with a prosthetic arm and explained that it could restore lost limbs through a minor operation.
• Oran said each prosthetic limb cost just 500,000 Beli to produce and offered to teach doctors how to perform the surgery.
• Oran planned to make prosthetics affordable to ordinary people and gave the strategy the codename “Mixue Bingcheng.”

Oran persuaded Feld to support his prosthetics and organ-growing plans in exchange for shared business opportunities and prestige. After Feld left, Oran told Kate their alliance was temporary, but Queen suddenly barged in to apologize to him.

• Oran pitched Feld on affordable prosthetics and cultivated organs, explaining that the technology could undermine Piekro's business.
• Feld agreed to double MADS's funding and promote Oran's achievements after Oran proposed a partnership and a private bank offering loans for advanced prosthetics.
• Feld warned that the organ-trafficking assassination group might join forces with Piekro, and Oran asked him to use his channels to find the Munch-Munch Fruit and Book-Book Fruit.
• After Feld left, Kate emerged from hiding and warned Oran that Feld was dangerous; Oran agreed they could not trust each other and said their alliance was temporary.
• Queen shoved past Judge and Caesar, rushed to Oran, and apologized for offending him.

Oran explained to Kate that they needed to blend into the World Government’s power structure before turning against it, while he completed a humanoid body and tested a new Hex Type II Core. He installed the core in a hammer rather than inside the body and awakened Frankenstein.

• Queen tried to distance himself from Judge and Caesar, then asked Oran for a share of the research funding, but Oran told him to prove his abilities first.
• Oran completed a slimmer humanoid body as Blitz watched, sensing a close connection to the being about to be born.
• Oran told Kate they would join the World Government’s interests as inconspicuous parts of its system until they could reverse its direction and reshape it.
• Oran combined a Devil Fruit with a Hex Core to create a Hex Type II Core, then installed it in a prepared metal hammer.
• Oran activated the core and called the new being Frankenstein to open her eyes.

Oran activated Frankenstein, a Type II clockwork unit fused with a Devil Fruit, and discovered that she had unusual emotions and damaged memories. As he prepared to test her abilities, Caesar arrived and challenged Oran over MADS funding.

• Oran's experiment flooded the laboratory with electricity, and Frankenstein awakened in her new body.
• Frankenstein called Oran her father and Blitzcrank and Kate her siblings, while Oran noticed damage to her language system and fragmented memories.
• Oran learned that Frankenstein's core held the Absorb-Absorb Fruit and planned combat drills with Kate to test her abilities.
• Caesar entered the damaged laboratory, mocked Oran's experiment, and challenged him to a comparison of their results for MADS funding.

Caesar challenged Oran and Kate after gaining the Gas-Gas Fruit, but Oran arranged for Frankenstein to test her abilities against him instead. As Frankenstein prepared to fight, Vegapunk shared an early discovery about the unusual component in Devil Fruit users’ blood.

• Caesar boasted that his new Gas-Gas Fruit made him immune to Kate’s kick, and Oran recognized him as a Logia user.
• Oran stopped Kate and chose Frankenstein to fight Caesar so they could test her limits.
• Oran and Caesar agreed to settle their dispute at the MADS ship’s weapons testing grounds.
• Vegapunk told Oran that his earlier experiment had damaged the ship’s wiring and shared his discovery of an unknown component in Ability Users’ blood.
• Oran kept his attention on Frankenstein as she readied herself to prove her abilities to him.

Oran’s creation Frankenstein fought Caesar on the ship’s deck, where she used her Absorb-Absorb Fruit and Hex Core to counter his Logia powers. She defeated him with a shockwave that prevented him from elementalizing and sent him flying.

• Oran warned Vegapunk that Frankenstein’s power could damage the ship’s wiring, so Vegapunk ordered researchers to clear the deck and halt repairs.
• Queen and Judge discussed Frankenstein’s design and prayed that Caesar would be beaten after learning he had obtained a Logia Devil Fruit.
• Caesar attacked Frankenstein with flames, but her structure resisted his poison and her war hammer absorbed the fire.
• Frankenstein converted the absorbed energy into lightning, ignited Caesar, and forced him to extinguish the flames by creating a vacuum.
• Frankenstein used a shockwave to stop Caesar from elementalizing, then struck him with her war hammer and sent him flying.

Frankenstein defeated Caesar in a brutal fight, and Oran let her continue until she was ready to use a dangerous technique. After the battle, Oran gave Queen control of part of Caesar’s funding for the next few months, while Judge began considering whether emotions weakened machines.

• Frankenstein struck Caesar with her warhammer, breaking his ribs and forcing him out of his Void World.
• Frankenstein summoned lightning and overwhelmed Caesar, who repeatedly surrendered as she continued attacking.
• Oran stopped Frankenstein before she could use a stronger move, praised her performance, and sent her to dry off and review the fight.
• Judge concluded that Frankenstein would be more stable without emotions, while Caesar waited for medical help.
• Oran assigned Queen control of part of Caesar’s funding for the next few months as punishment for his failed attempt to claim half of Oran’s funding.

Oran settled Caesar’s punishment and discussed cloning plans with Vegapunk, while Heimerdinger used a Dream Enhancer to contact Oran and ask about his trouble. The chapter ended with Oran’s consciousness appearing before Heimerdinger in Piltover.

• Oran left Queen to audit Caesar’s accounts, and Queen gleefully threatened to scrutinize every entry while Judge reconsidered resisting.
• Oran and Vegapunk compared their plans to study different Devil Fruit types and examined their growing clones.
• Vegapunk explained that he was cloning an adult assistant, while Oran said he wanted his clone to grow up and develop into a powerful fighter.
• Oran and Vegapunk agreed that they were responsible for the humans they had created.
• In Piltover, Heimerdinger used Lulu’s magic to power his Dream Enhancer and bring Oran’s consciousness to him.
• Heimerdinger asked Oran what had happened after hearing that he was in trouble.

Heimerdinger reached Oran through a device powered by Lulu’s magic, but the unstable dream connection ended before their conversation could continue. After Oran woke aboard the ship, his crew spotted a fleeing exploration ship pursued by pirates, and its captain introduced himself as Clover of Ohara.

• Heimerdinger explained how his device used Lulu’s magic to draw Oran into a dream and warned that he might not be able to contact him again.
• Lulu’s unstable magic disrupted the device, ending Oran’s dream before he could finish speaking.
• Oran woke aboard the ship, where Kate and Blitzcrank detected an approaching vessel being chased by pirates.
• The crew prepared for battle as the approaching ship’s passengers also readied themselves to fight.
• Captain Clover complained that pirates were pursuing his scholars’ exploration ship despite finding no treasure in the ruins.

Clover’s expedition ship sought help from MADS while fleeing pirates, and MADS used the encounter to test new weapons. Kate boarded the pirate ship and unleashed her overloaded electrical power, leaving the pirates under attack.

• Clover’s expedition ship signaled MADS for help when pirates pursued it.
• Vegapunk and Judge offered new weapons for testing, and Bakin and Kate prepared to fight the pirates.
• Dylan ordered his pirates to board MADS’s ship and attack the ships ahead.
• Kate boarded the pirate vessel with Blitz’s mechanical arm and tested Judge’s electric gun and Vegapunk’s Flower Bombs.
• Kate killed a pirate who threatened to sell her, then used Flower Bombs to disable the pirates’ guns.
• Kate activated Overlimit Burst Flash and attacked the pirates with electricity without relying on her gun.

Kate, Bakin, and Frankenstein destroyed Heavy Axe Dylan’s pirate crew while testing their weapons, but Bakin salvaged Dylan’s head for the bounty. After Feld warned Oran that Piekro and Umit were joining forces against him, Oran proposed offering Umit a safe way across the Calm Belt.

• Kate blinded the pirates with her electric light and killed many of them as they panicked.
• Bakin defeated Dylan and prepared to claim his thirty-seven-million-Beli bounty while testing Judge’s electric gun.
• Frankenstein unleashed the Thunder Tree of Torture, destroying the ship and its remaining pirates; Bakin returned with Dylan’s head.
• Feld told Oran that Piekro and Umit planned to ally and might attack him before the award results were announced.
• Oran suggested Feld offer Umit a safe route across the Calm Belt to secure his interest.

Oran used Seastone technology to strike a deal with Feld, then examined a Poneglyph recovered by Clover's expedition and warned Vegapunk that the World Government would target Ohara's scholars. The underworld's power struggle began anew, and Oran and Vegapunk were nominated for the Ybel Prize.

• Doflamingo proposed investing in Oran's ship technology, and Oran explained that Seastone embedded in hulls could help ships cross the Calm Belt unseen by Sea Kings.
• Oran accepted Feld's deal for the technology, while warning Kate to prepare for a difficult fight against Piekro's forces.
• Vegapunk showed Oran a Poneglyph recovered by Clover's expedition, and Oran warned that the World Government feared research into history.
• Clover left under cover of night, while Vegapunk secretly analyzed the Poneglyph's ancient technology.
• Feld, Piekro, and other underworld figures began another bloody struggle, and Oran and Vegapunk were nominated for the Ybel Prize.

Oran’s work with Vegapunk helped end Tamonda Island’s war, and a newspaper report about Oran’s Ibel Medicine Prize nomination spread across the seas. Piekro found Oran’s location in the paper and ordered assassins to kill him, while Oran prepared for a possible attack.

• Bakin used Flower Bombs to sabotage both armies’ weapons, and the resulting battle ended with the two sides beginning peace negotiations.
• Kate brought Oran a newspaper touting his and Vegapunk’s work, and Oran prepared for a possible attack after the report revealed their location.
• Bear and Ginny read news of Oran’s nomination in the Kingdom of Sorbet and resolved to honor the trust he had placed in them.
• Ivankov saw the report in Kamabakka Kingdom and began training harder after recognizing Oran’s efforts.
• Piekro found Oran’s photograph in the newspaper, cut it in two with his scythe, and ordered assassins to kill him.

Piekro grew furious over Oran’s affordable Prosthetic Bodies and set out to kill him, while Oran prepared to demonstrate the technology in a live surgery. The broadcast reached doctors and Navy personnel, who saw new possibilities in the prosthetics.

• Piekro blamed Oran’s prosthetic business for threatening his organ-trafficking operation and decided to lead an attack on him.
• Oran prepared to replace Mito’s damaged lungs and missing right arm with mechanical devices during a live broadcast arranged for publicity.
• Oran anesthetized Mito and began the surgery, using a ring-shaped device to connect the prosthetic arm to his nerves.
• A medical professor in West Blue showed the broadcast to students and scolded Hogback, who privately considered the technology’s profit potential.
• Navy personnel watched the broadcast and recognized that prosthetics could offer a new way to help injured and disabled soldiers.

The Navy and World Government considered the military potential of Oran’s prosthetics as Mito recovered from his surgery and MADS sailed toward Ybel Island. Piekro prepared an ambush to kill Oran and everyone aboard the ship, and his assassins spotted their approaching prey.

• Sengoku and Tsuru discussed the potential of Oran’s prosthetics to strengthen Navy soldiers, while Saturn dismissed the technology as merely interesting and approved Oran for the Ybel Prize.
• Oran completed Mito’s surgery, connecting the nerves in his arm to a metal control ring and installing a Clockwork Power Device to support his Mechanical Lung.
• Mito tested his Prosthetic Limb and said he felt better than he had since the battle, while Feld’s people continued documenting his recovery.
• MADS left for Ybel Island, and Piekro arranged an ambush near a seasonal reef, ordering his men to kill Oran and everyone aboard and disguise the attack as a maritime disaster.
• Piekro promised a reward of one hundred million Beli for killing Oran, and his assassins spotted the MADS ship as night fell.

Assassins attacked MADS's ship, but the scientists and their allies fought back with powerful weapons and quickly turned the assault into a massacre. Caesar tried to direct the attackers toward other targets, only to find several assassins already attacking him.

• Frankenstein left her plants and joined the defense as MADS's ship opened fire on the approaching vessels.
• Vegapunk identified the blocked route and suspected the attackers were assassins, while Oran prepared to fight.
• Piekro's men boarded the ship, where Blitz and Frankenstein struck them with mechanical force and lightning.
• Queen released his Mummy weapon, which killed the assassins exposed to it, and Judge joined the battle to protect himself.
• Caesar pointed the remaining assassins toward Siderial and Vegapunk, but several attackers launched a coordinated assault against him.

Oran’s group fought off Piekro and the organ-trafficking assassins, who had underestimated the scientists’ abilities. The battle turned in the group’s favor when Kate used Oran’s device to enter Sulong form despite the absent full moon.

• Caesar and Queen repelled the assassins below deck while Oran watched the battle with Vegapunk and Kate.
• Jackal Barrack engaged Kate, while the chess-piece assassin sent his clones after Oran, who cut them down.
• Piekro attacked Oran with his Haki-coated scythe, but an invisible barrier blocked the strike.
• Frankenstein arrived, drove Piekro back, and smashed the surrounding clones with her warhammer.
• Kate launched a device that produced artificial moonlight and transformed into Sulong form, then confronted Barrack.