Chapter Summaries

Kate used an artificial full-moon device to enter a controlled Sulong form and defeat Barrack’s deputy, while Frankenstein killed Piekro with her Thunder Tree of Torture. Kate then killed Barrack, leaving Oran’s enemies on the ship defeated.

• Barrack and Piekro realized Kate had entered Sulong form, and Piekro questioned Oran about why he helped the people at the bottom.
• Oran dismissed Piekro’s taunts while Frankenstein repeatedly attacked him with her warhammer.
• Piekro pierced Frankenstein’s heart with his scythe, but she restrained him with cables and killed him with Thunder Tree of Torture.
• Kate destroyed Barrack’s deputy after he tried to interfere with the artificial moon.
• Kate appeared behind Barrack, tore out his heart, and watched him collapse on the deck.

Oran and his allies defeated the assassins aboard the ship, and MADS went on to win three Ybel Prizes. After the ceremony, agents delivered Oran and Vegapunk an order from the Five Elders.

• Frankenstein and Kate confirmed the assassins near Oran had been dealt with, while Vegapunk broadcast that their leader was dead and the remaining attackers began to flee.
• Oran told Kate to pursue the escaping assassins and received Doflamingo’s report that Piekro had planned to intercept him; Oran revealed he had already killed Piekro.
• By dawn, the ambush had ended, with Caesar the most seriously injured among MADS.
• Oran, Vegapunk, and MADS won three Ybel Prizes after the group advanced to the finals.
• After the award ceremony, agents in black suits handed Oran and Vegapunk a letter carrying an order from the Five Elders.

Oran and Vegapunk accepted the World Government’s invitation to visit Mary Geoise, intending to scout the Holy Land while keeping their colleagues behind on Ybel Island. After arriving, Oran noticed a hole in the wall of the palace room where they were waiting.

• Spandine delivered the Five Elders’ invitation and said he had no further orders for Oran and Vegapunk.
• Oran and Vegapunk agreed to visit Mary Geoise, while Oran told Kate and Franky to stay behind and watch the incubation room’s egg.
• Oran and Vegapunk traveled with Spandine’s group through Sabaody Archipelago and Red Port, then rode a bubble elevator up the Red Line.
• Vegapunk admired the bubble technology and began thinking of new inventions during the ascent.
• An attendant led Oran and Vegapunk to a palace room, where Oran spotted a hole in the wall.

Oran and Vegapunk met the Five Elders, who warned them against forbidden research and hinted that the World Government might recruit them. On the way back, Oran decided he would seek Government support without accepting its restrictions by pursuing the Shichibukai position.

• Oran and Vegapunk noticed a small hole in the reception room wall before guards escorted them to meet the Five Elders.
• Venus, Jupiter, Wororochy, and Muz welcomed the scientists, warned them about their conduct and research, then left Saturn to speak with them.
• Saturn praised Oran and Vegapunk’s potential, cautioned them against prohibited research, and suggested they might serve the Government in the future.
• Afterward, Vegapunk considered the appeal of Government funding, while Oran rejected the idea of being constrained by Government oversight.
• Oran decided to pursue the Shichibukai position as a way to gain Government support while preserving his independence.

After MADS’s lineage factor research was exposed, the World Government summoned Vegapunk to lead the Punk Hazard research institute, while Oran prepared to leave with his daughter Laili and their research. As Judge and Queen tried to recruit him for their separate plans, Caesar celebrated the prospect of becoming MADS’s undisputed second-in-command.

• MADS made a breakthrough in lineage factor research, and Oran gave several key achievements to Vegapunk while warning him that the results had leaked.
• Vegapunk accepted the World Government’s terms to lead the Punk Hazard research institute, while Oran decided to finish his work and leave MADS.
• Oran prepared to depart with Kate, Blitz, Frankenstein, and his three-year-old daughter Laili, whose clone origin he kept private.
• Kate showed Oran a honey fruit that had mutated into a Devil Fruit, and Oran told her to store it.
• Judge and Queen separately urged Oran to join their plans, while Caesar smiled at the prospect of becoming MADS’s undisputed second-in-command.

After leaving MADS, Oran turned down Judge and Queen’s plans and was welcomed by Doflamingo, whose businesses had grown through Oran’s technology. The visit ended with Lyliana, Oran’s three-year-old daughter, throwing Doflamingo over her shoulder while trying to grab a gemstone.

• Caesar planned to join Vegapunk under the World Government, while Judge and Queen tried to recruit Oran and he offered them roles as his research assistants instead.
• Most of MADS’s researchers joined Vegapunk at the World Government’s institute, and the organization took over MADS’s resources.
• Doflamingo welcomed Oran to Bean Island and explained how Oran’s technologies had helped his businesses and banking system prosper.
• Doflamingo offered Lyliana a gemstone and repeatedly pulled it away as she tried to grab it.
• Lyliana caught the gemstone and accidentally threw Doflamingo over her shoulder, startling him when he learned she was only three.

Oran’s three-year-old daughter Lilianna accidentally threw Feld while mistaking him for a sparring partner, then left with Kate and Blitz for their new home. Feld told Oran the Navy was interested in buying prosthetic bodies and receiving technical guidance, prompted by Iron Arm Mito’s success with his prosthetic arm.

• Lilianna threw Feld, apologized when she realized her mistake, and eagerly offered to do it again.
• Feld avoided another throw by asking Lilianna to leave with Kate and Blitz while he spoke with Oran.
• Feld told Oran that the Navy wanted prosthetic bodies for wounded and disabled soldiers and might offer a long-term military supply contract.
• Oran asked why the Navy had shown interest now, and Feld showed him a newspaper article about Iron Arm Mito becoming a Marine Headquarters colonel.

Mito joined the Marines and earned a promotion after fighting with his prosthetic arm, while Oran brought his family to a new residence. There, the dragon egg hatched, revealing an Elemental Wyrm.

• Mito maintained his damaged prosthetic arm at Marine G-2 Branch and learned he was being promoted to colonel and summoned to Headquarters for a medal ceremony.
• Oran agreed to Feld’s plans for military sales and returned to the residence Feld had prepared for him.
• Lyliana welcomed Oran by leaping into his arms, and Kate searched the house with Searchlight Devil Fruits to check for hidden surveillance devices.
• Frankenstein noticed the egg in the incubator moving, and Oran told the others it was an Elemental Wyrm egg he had traded for with Ithargil’s Tenth Princess.
• The egg cracked, and a rocklike head emerged.

Oran watched an Earth-Attribute Mountain Wyrm hatch and bond with Lyliana, giving her a durable playmate. As he considered how to keep the wyrm’s growth in step with hers, Kate delivered Feld’s updated Devil Fruit encyclopedia, which identified the mysterious grapes as the Logia Type—Mercury-Mercury Devil Fruit.

• Oran stroked the newly hatched Mountain Wyrm and asked Lyliana to gather ingredients while it adjusted to the world.
• Oran told Kate how he had traded technology and influence with Qiyana for Ithargil’s resources and the Dragon Egg.
• Lyliana returned with mud ingredients, and the Mountain Wyrm opened its eyes and bonded with her as its first family.
• Lyliana and the young wyrm played together, and Oran decided he might need to accelerate the wyrm’s growth.
• Kate gave Oran Feld’s updated Devil Fruit encyclopedia, which identified the grapes as the Logia Type—Mercury-Mercury Devil Fruit.

Oran gave Kate the Mercury-Mercury Devil Fruit after she rejected it, named the newly hatched earth dragon Terra, and prepared to research Logia abilities. Later, he visited Sett in Ionia and offered to trade knowledge of Haki for Sett’s fighting spirit, leaving Sett’s response unknown.

• Kate declined the Mercury-Mercury Devil Fruit because she felt it did not suit her, so Oran kept it for Logia research.
• Lyliana roughhoused with the young earth dragon until it became exhausted, and Oran named it Terra.
• Oran read about Terra’s diet, while Kate reported that the household needed more cooks; Oran planned to recruit some from town.
• Oran and Blitz set up defenses, and Lyliana fell asleep after playing with Terra.
• Sett confronted Oran about his frequent visits, but pretended to his mother that they were friends; afterward, Oran offered to trade his use of Haki for Sett’s fighting spirit.

Oran and Sett tested Armament Haki in Sett’s underground arena and exchanged their initial training methods. After Oran returned to Bean Island and studied Sett’s boxing technique, Kate reported that a warship had arrived at the harbor looking for him.

• Sett took Oran to his underground fighting arena and warmed up by fighting several opponents.
• Oran demonstrated Armament Haki, and Sett tested its power and defensive strength in their sparring match.
• Oran and Sett agreed to trade training methods, then arranged to continue their lessons another time.
• After waking on Bean Island, Oran recorded Sett’s Intentional Punch technique and considered how it could combine with Haki.
• Time passed into 1490, when Kate told Oran that a warship had landed at the harbor and appeared to be looking for him.

Tsuru arrived at Bean Island to discuss the Marines’ Prosthetic Body research with Oran, while Oran completed an experiment fusing Zaun alchemical reagents with the Mercury-Mercury Devil Fruit. The experiment produced a shapeshifting silver combat substance that Oran tested as armor and a weapon.

• The Marines turned to Oran for help improving Prosthetic Bodies after Vegapunk declined and Caesar failed to make progress.
• Oran sent Kate and Franky to receive Tsuru’s delegation while he finished his experiment.
• Tsuru arrived at Bean Island with Gion and her female subordinates, explaining that she had come to ensure their safety and show respect for Oran.
• Oran activated a tank of Zaun alchemical reagents and drew the silver gel inside it into his exoskeleton.
• Oran tested the gel in defense mode, then formed a mantis-like blade that cut through a metal target before the substance returned to his exoskeleton.

Oran tested Zack’s new independent combat form and traveled with Frankenstein to Marine Headquarters to provide technical guidance. After the Marine doctors were delayed by pirates, Frankenstein spotted suspicious people near Oran’s residence, apparently heading toward Zephyr’s family home.

• Oran formed Zack into a command-dependent humanoid combat unit and tested his ability to learn a puzzle by imitation.
• Tsuru sent Kate and Frankenstein to meet the Marine delegation, and Kate’s distaste for the Marines made the welcome chilly.
• Oran left his household in Kate and Blitzcrank’s care, then traveled with Frankenstein aboard Tsuru’s warship to Marineford.
• Tsuru learned the Marine doctors had been delayed by a pirate encounter, so Oran agreed to wait at Marine Headquarters.
• Frankenstein investigated the area around their residence and found suspicious people heading toward the home of Zephyr’s family.

Oran and Frankenstein investigated suspicious people in Marineford and discovered that escaped pirates were targeting Zephyr’s family. The pirates attacked Zephyr’s home, and as one raised his blade against Yeklik, a silver tentacle grabbed his arm.

• Oran ordered Frankenstein to check the nervous strangers, and Zack followed them through the sewers while pointing Oran toward their destination.
• Yeklik played at being the hero Z in his yard, and his mother scolded him for wearing a bedsheet as a cape.
• Escaped pirates identified Zephyr’s home and planned revenge because he had imprisoned them instead of killing them.
• The pirates broke into the house during a celebration and cornered Zephyr’s wife and Yeklik in the kitchen.
• Yeklik stabbed a pirate’s foot with a fork to protect his mother, and a silver tentacle from the sink seized the pirate’s arm as he raised his blade.

Zack and Oran stopped pirates from killing Zephyr’s family, while the World Government’s role in arranging the attack was revealed. Zephyr rushed back to Marineford, and Saturn ordered the captured pirate eliminated as the government waited to see Zephyr’s reaction.

• Zack’s clone restrained and suffocated two pirates who had attacked Zephyr’s wife and child.
• Oran arrived with Frankenstein, defeated the remaining pirates, and arranged for the Navy to respond.
• A Navy soldier secretly slipped away while Oran focused on contacting Marine Headquarters and recalling Zephyr’s history.
• A CP0 agent reported to Saturn that Siderial had disrupted the planned attack on Zephyr’s family.
• Saturn revealed that the World Government had arranged the raid to change Zephyr’s views, then ordered the surviving pirate to disappear.
• Zephyr learned what had happened and ordered his warship to return to Marineford at full speed.

After learning that pirates had attacked his family, Zephyr rushed back to Marineford and found them recovering from minor injuries. He thanked Oran for saving them and offered him a favor, but Oran asked whether Zephyr would honor it if it went against his principles.

• Zephyr learned that pirates had attacked his family and raced to Marineford using Geppo.
• Tsuru told Zephyr that his family was safe, and he hurried to the hospital to see them.
• A military doctor explained that Oran and Frankenstein had saved Zephyr's wife and son.
• Yeklik told Oran he wanted to become an Ability User and proudly introduced his father, Zephyr.
• Zephyr thanked Oran for saving his family and promised to repay him with a favor.
• Oran asked Zephyr what he would do if the favor went against his principles.

Oran left Zephyr with an unresolved request for a future favor, then considered what Zephyr might know about the God Valley incident. At the hospital, Zephyr questioned whether his family’s deaths were truly an accident, but Kong insisted they were, leaving Zephyr to withdraw into silence.

• Oran told Zephyr that he would not press him for a favor yet, then left the hospital with Frankenstein.
• Oran explained that he wanted to build a connection with Zephyr and wondered whether Zephyr knew anything about God Valley.
• Zack used Morse code to signal that part of his body had been left behind at the hospital, then slipped through a crack in the floor.
• Kong visited Zephyr, who recounted his Marine career before asking whether his family’s deaths had really been an accident.
• Kong insisted that the deaths were an accident, and Zephyr closed his eyes and stopped speaking.
• Oran told Frankenstein that the truth no longer mattered once Zephyr’s suspicion had taken hold, and Frankenstein began charging from an outlet.

Frankenstein drained part of Marineford’s power grid while charging overnight, prompting Oran to consider future power needs and possible resources in Alabasta. As the grid was repaired, delayed warships arrived with decorated soldiers and elite recruits, including Borsalino and Sakazuki, who discussed Mito’s mechanical arm.

• Oran discovered that the power outage had been caused by Frankenstein charging all night, and she explained that she had not finished charging when the power failed.
• Oran added power plant capacity to his plans and considered whether Alabasta might have oil and other undeveloped resources.
• Marineford repaired the affected power grid as warships carrying military doctors, wounded soldiers, medal recipients, and new recruits arrived.
• Mito’s mechanical arm drew attention from soldiers and recruits, who discussed his reputation and the arm’s inventor.
• Borsalino asked Sakazuki about Mito’s arm, and Sakazuki praised Mito’s service and the invention’s value to justice.

Oran met Mito at Marine Headquarters and examined the worn Prosthetic Body that had helped him rebuild his life. After discussing upgrade costs and military models with Sengoku and Tsuru, Oran was asked to join the Navy Science Unit.

• Oran reunited with Mito and removed his damaged Prosthetic Body to inspect its repairs and wear.
• Oran explained that debris was grinding inside the joints and that the civilian arm was not durable enough for Mito’s battles.
• Sengoku and Tsuru joined the discussion, and Tsuru asked Mito to stay and offer his perspective as a Prosthetic Body user.
• Oran described affordable military Prosthetic Bodies and shared a price list for models and weapon modules.
• Sengoku proposed that Oran join the Navy Science Unit.

Oran rejected the Navy’s offer to absorb him into its Scientific Force and negotiated as an independent businessman, while Sengoku and Tsuru discussed terms with him. In Mary Geoise, Saturn and Nusjuro considered how the Navy’s prosthetic research might be used to modify CP9 agents.

• Oran explained that he wanted to remain independent and asked how the Navy would pay for his work if it hired him.
• Oran demanded autonomy, funding, a large laboratory, and private territory, then dismissed Sengoku’s appeal to world peace and insisted they negotiate a price.
• Sengoku handed the negotiations to Tsuru after accepting that Oran would not enlist in the military.
• Saturn and Nusjuro listened to the Navy’s discussion and judged that Oran’s greed might make him useful, though his research was less suited to them than Vegapunk’s.
• Saturn proposed full-body modifications for failed CP9 agents and decided to wait for the Navy’s results before investing further.