Recaps

Dawn and his group secretly explored the king’s Hunting Ground, finding a corpse, a blood-soaked iron enclosure, and a grim hut. After a scream sounded nearby, they were left facing whatever was happening deeper in the grounds.

• Sola spotted a corpse by the Protective Wall with an arrow in its neck, and Hawkins divined that the group had a ninety percent chance of surviving the mission.
• Dawn led everyone toward the Hunting Ground’s center, where they found a towering iron enclosure covered in dried blood.
• Sola led the group past wolves to a ramshackle hut, where they saw dried blood and scattered black objects but found no one inside.
• A scream suddenly rang out in the quiet night.

Dawn and his companions witnessed the king and his soldiers hunting helpless people in the forest, then escaped without alerting them. Dawn led the group to piece together how the island’s barriers and predators were used to trap the king’s human prey.

• Dawn hid his group in the trees as the king and his soldiers hunted and killed people in the forest.
• The king revealed that he had learned the hunting game from the Celestial Dragons and planned to host them on the island.
• Sola, Berigood, Shalinkul, and Shuen moved to intervene, but Dawn restrained them and silently led everyone away.
• After reaching the forest’s center, Dawn released the group and warned them to control their anger and assess what they knew.
• Dawn and the others concluded that the fences, cleared trees, house, and predators were all arranged to prevent the king’s human prey from escaping.

After discovering that Hunter Island’s king had built a hunting ground for the Celestial Dragons, Dawn’s group struggled with how the Marines could respond when the World Government might protect the king. Dawn steadied his companions by asking about their dreams, then declared his goal of leading the Marines toward “Black-and-White Justice” before an unseen voice offered to handle their immediate problem.

• Shalinkul and Berigood wanted to report the king’s hunting ground to their Marine superiors, but Sola and Hina warned that the Celestial Dragons’ influence could make reporting useless.
• Dawn explained that the World Government might protect the king and silence them, leaving Shalinkul and the others angry and helpless.
• Dawn asked his companions to share their dreams, and Hawkins, Hina, and Sola each spoke about what they wanted.
• Dawn declared that he would pursue “Black-and-White Justice” and lead the Marines toward true justice.
• An unknown speaker appeared in the darkness and told Dawn to leave the matter troubling them to him.

Dragon appeared in the forest and tested Dawn and his companions with Conqueror’s Haki. After Dawn resisted and revealed his own Conqueror’s Haki, Dragon recognized his convictions and sat down with him to talk, leaving Hina and the others unconscious nearby.

• Dragon’s Conqueror’s Haki overwhelmed Hina and the others, but Dawn remained standing and clashed with him using his own Haki.
• Dawn recognized the hooded man as Monkey D. Dragon after the clash forced his hood back.
• Dragon withdrew his Haki, asked Dawn’s name, and agreed to speak with him.
• Dawn moved Hina and the others onto a tree trunk, then sat with Dragon at a distance where they could not hear.
• Dragon explained that he had overheard Dawn discussing true justice for the Marines and wanted to learn more about his convictions.

Dawn and Dragon spoke through the night, exchanging revolutionary ideas and strategies that deepened their mutual respect. Dawn declined Dragon’s invitation to join the Revolutionary Army but asked him to teach him Conqueror’s Haki, and Dragon promised to handle Hunter Island’s hunting grounds.

• Dragon recognized Dawn’s declaration about leading the Marines toward true justice as sincere and talked with him until morning.
• Dawn and Dragon exchanged ideas, with Dawn offering strategies about preserving the people, inspiring the masses, and using collective strength.
• Dragon invited Dawn to join the Revolutionary Army, but Dawn declined because he had matters to attend to on the island.
• Dawn asked Dragon to guide him in Conqueror’s Haki, and Dragon taught him before Dawn asked further questions about the other forms of Haki.
• Dragon promised to handle the hunting grounds established by Hunter Island’s king, and Dawn asked how he planned to resolve the matter.

Dawn and Dragon agreed that exposing the king’s crimes through the rescued slaves would build resistance more effectively than killing the king outright. After secretly exchanging contact information with Dragon, Dawn considered his allies and hidden bases before Hina and the others woke up, and he concealed what had happened.

• Dragon explained that he had changed his plan from killing the king to rescuing the slaves and having them reveal the king’s crimes, and Dawn endorsed the strategy.
• Dragon thanked Dawn for helping him reconsider his approach, and they exchanged Den Den Mushi numbers before Dawn returned to the others.
• Dawn reflected on his trump cards and fallback bases, including the Revolutionary Army, Sky Island, and a future base on the moon.
• Hina, Sola, and the others woke in a tree and wondered why they had passed out; Sola fell, and Dawn caught her.
• Dawn concealed his meeting with Dragon, then told the others to assess the situation.

Dawn persuaded his companions to keep the king’s Hunting Ground secret and join him in pursuing a truer form of justice within the Marines. After Dawn and the others sailed away, Dragon freed the king’s prisoners and urged them to expose his crimes across the island.

• Dawn and his companions agreed to conceal what they knew about the Hunting Ground because they lacked the strength to change things safely.
• Dawn explained how the World Government’s obedience to the Celestial Dragons could force Marines to become accomplices, and Sola, Hina, Shuen, Berigood, and the others pledged to support his ideal of justice.
• Dawn told the group to keep the secret, build their strength, and expand their influence among young Marines.
• After Dawn and the others sailed away, Dragon returned to the warehouse and freed the people imprisoned there.
• Dragon told the freed prisoners to spread the truth about the king, then protected them as they fled through the forest toward the town.

After returning from Hunter Island, Dawn trained to master Armament Haki while preparing for the coming Mary Geoise attack. Aokiji took him on a mission to warn Doflamingo away from the Ishtar Kingdom, and Garp joined their ship for a ride toward the East Blue.

• After Dawn and the others returned to Marine Headquarters, they learned that Dragon had helped overthrow Hunter Island’s king and that the rescued slaves had joined the Revolutionary Army.
• Dawn trained for years, learned that Flevance had been destroyed by Amber Lead, and focused on mastering Armament Haki before the approaching Mary Geoise attack.
• Aokiji told Dawn that Doflamingo was planning to retaliate against the Ishtar Kingdom, and that their mission was to warn him off.
• Dawn reflected on his plans to protect Fisher Tiger and the slaves who would escape Mary Geoise, while Enel watched the Red Line for Tiger’s arrival.
• Garp boarded Aokiji’s ship, asked for a ride toward the East Blue, and agreed to accompany Dawn and Aokiji to confront Doflamingo.

Dawn, accompanied by Aokiji and Garp, reached a lawless island to test his strength against Doflamingo’s officers. He fought Gladius and was still defending against the officer’s explosive helmet fragments when the chapter ended.

• Dawn welcomed Garp’s arrival, deciding that Doflamingo would have little chance of retaliating against the Marines.
• Aokiji, Garp, and Dawn landed on the island where Doflamingo was hiding, with Dawn assigned to test his strength against an officer.
• Dawn spotted Gladius with Baby-5 and Buffalo, then asked Aokiji and Garp to let him fight Gladius alone.
• Dawn opened the fight with translucent bullets, and Gladius countered with exploding stone spheres before Dawn attacked at close range.
• Gladius detonated his expanding arms and helmet, forcing Dawn to block a storm of fragments with repeated Air Shields.

Dawn fought Gladius, using his speed, Air Shields, and Resistance Aura to withstand Gladius's explosive attacks. Dawn unleashed Two Extremes Blood Song and gained the upper hand, but Gladius responded with Explosive Rock Super Grand Performance, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Dawn recognized Gladius's explosive ability as dangerous and attacked at close range, blocking his Explosive Hair Needles with Resistance Aura.
• Dawn dodged Gladius's Explosive Rock Festival and endured its blasts behind layers of Air Shields while Garp and Aokiji watched.
• Dawn activated Two Extremes Blood Song and countered Gladius's explosions with barriers as he drove him backward with a relentless barrage of punches.
• Gladius fired a final barrage of explosive poison needles, but Dawn held his ground and prepared a powerful strike.
• Gladius unleashed Explosive Rock Super Grand Performance, causing the surrounding walls and ground to swell and explode.

Dawn defeated Gladius and captured Baby 5 as Donquixote Family reinforcements arrived. Garp then knocked out Mahabais with a single punch, leaving the remaining enemies facing the Marine Hero.

• Dawn endured Gladius's explosions with his barriers and Resistance Aura, then defeated him with a powerful combo.
• As Donquixote Family members arrived, Dawn used his Demon Hand to capture Baby 5 and bind her.
• A Donquixote Family member threatened Dawn, while Baby 5 fired at him with her transformed arms, but neither could break his barrier.
• Garp gave Dawn donuts and told him to leave the remaining enemies to him.
• Mahabais launched Hell's Ten Thousand Ton Bais at Garp, who punched him out of the air and left him unconscious.

Dawn, Aokiji, and Garp confronted Doflamingo, who demanded the return of Baby-5 and Mahabais. Dawn taunted Doflamingo and claimed Baby-5 as his maid, prompting Doflamingo to attack as a stone hand seized his other subordinates.

• Dawn raised barriers to block Doflamingo’s five sharp threads while Aokiji and Garp watched.
• Doflamingo confronted the Marines and demanded that Dawn return his people.
• Dawn told Doflamingo he would take Baby-5 as his personal maid, and Baby-5 happily agreed.
• Doflamingo unleashed Conqueror’s Haki and attacked Dawn with Rogue Line Descent.
• A gigantic stone hand rose from the ground and grabbed Mahabais and the other man.

Dawn, Garp, and Aokiji thwarted Pica’s ambush, but Doflamingo escaped after revealing that he had attacked through a thread clone. Dawn took the abandoned Baby 5 under his care as his ship’s cook, and she eagerly accepted.

• Pica rescued Mahabais and Gladius from underground, but Aokiji froze the ground and stopped his attempt to reach Baby 5.
• Dawn blocked Doflamingo’s attack with barriers, and Garp struck the apparent Doflamingo, only to discover it was a thread puppet.
• Doflamingo revealed himself high in the clouds, taunted Dawn, and escaped while Pica burrowed away with the rescued officers.
• Dawn offered to take Baby 5 aboard as his cooking maid, and she immediately accepted after falling into despair over being abandoned.
• Garp and Aokiji stared in surprise when Baby 5’s mood changed so suddenly.

Dawn took Baby-5 into his care, promising to train her and give her a place among his companions. With Aokiji leaving and Garp agreeing to guide Dawn's Armament Haki, the group sailed toward Windmill Village in the East Blue.

• Dawn explained that Baby-5 could not refuse requests and decided to make her his cook and personal maid rather than send her to the Marines or Impel Down.
• Aokiji praised Dawn's strength, advised him to train with Garp, and departed across the sea on his bicycle.
• Dawn told Baby-5 he would train her and not abandon her, then asked her to follow him as a companion and future member of the Ishtar Kingdom.
• Baby-5 accepted Dawn's invitation after hearing that she would have a place where she belonged.
• Dawn's warship set course for Windmill Village, where Garp would help train him in Armament Haki.

Dawn endured Garp’s brutal Haki training while considering how to awaken Ouroboros and develop his Contract Aura. He planned to pursue Gecko Moria, Gild Tesoro, and the Lily Carnation as possible means to achieve his goals.

• Dawn and Baby-5 recovered aboard the News Bird after Garp’s punishing training, while the Marines admired their endurance.
• Dawn described how Garp’s attacks forced him to improve his Observation and Armament Haki, and his abundant Haki reserves became apparent.
• Dawn realized Ouroboros still lacked the final step toward gaining intelligence and considered feeding it energy or having it devour something special.
• Dawn considered Gecko Moria’s shadow powers as a possible clue to Ouroboros’s transformation, while also planning to fight and potentially control Moria.
• Dawn planned to find Gild Tesoro and Pure Gold so he could secure a financial steward through a Contract and gain an advantage over Tesoro.
• Dawn recalled the Lily Carnation, whose power to revive corpses and grant them consciousness might transform Ouroboros.

Pique led his pirate crew in a nighttime ambush on a Marine warship, only to find Dawn and the Marines ready for them. Dawn fought back with his air-manipulating abilities and Observation Haki, leaving the battle underway with the pirates suffering heavy losses.

• Pique prepared his former death-row prisoners for a silent attack on the Marine warship.
• Pique led his men toward the warship in small boats under cover of darkness.
• Dawn spotted the pirates boarding, and the assembled Marine musket squad opened fire.
• Pique ordered his men to charge as the Marines drew their weapons and fought back.
• Dawn used Air Shield, air-forged blades, and Observation Haki to kill or disable several pirates.

Dawn and the Marines crossed the Calm Belt and reached Foosha Village, where Garp led them to Makino's bar. Dawn planned to feed his soldiers and ask Makino about trouble in the East Blue.

• Dawn killed Pique with a quick Air Blade attack after the Marines crushed the pirate ambush.
• The warship crossed the Calm Belt over several days, and Garp turned attacking Sea Kings into meals.
• Dawn watched Baby-5 grow more comfortable with the Marines as they entered the East Blue.
• After another week, Dawn arrived in peaceful Foosha Village and asked Garp to find a place where the soldiers could eat.
• Garp took Dawn and the Marines to Makino's Banquet Bar, introduced Dawn as the warship's commanding officer, and Makino welcomed them.

Dawn and the Marines arrived in Foosha Village, where Makino welcomed them with curry. Baby-5 enjoyed Makino’s kindness and began to feel she had found warmth and a place to belong, then went with Makino to buy clothes.

• Dawn told Garp that the Marines would rest in Foosha Village and patrol nearby before returning to pick him up.
• Makino served curry to Dawn and the Marines, and Dawn asked her to take baby-5 shopping for clothes.
• Baby-5 helped Makino deliver more curry to the Marines and noticed their friendly smiles were unlike the malice she had encountered before.
• Baby-5 asked Makino to teach her to cook so she could repay Dawn, and Makino took her to buy clothes.

Dawn's Marine unit swept through East Blue pirate crews, drawing the attention of the region's underworld leaders. On Rat Island, Baku and other powerful figures agreed to unite their forces and personally crush the Marines.

• Dawn led his Marines in wiping out pirate crews across the East Blue while intelligence brokers tracked their activities.
• Pirate leaders and underworld figures gathered on Rat Island to discuss the threat posed by Dawn's unit.
• Annie reported that Dawn's soldiers were strengthened by his presumed Devil Fruit ability, though his own combat strength was unknown.
• Baku urged the leaders to combine their pirate crews under his command and declared that he would lead the attack himself.
• Annie left the meeting, and Baku and the fat man shared a knowing smile.

Dawn met Annie, a woman who came aboard his Marine warship claiming she had important intelligence and wanted to preserve her life. After rejecting her attempt to seduce him, he pressed her to explain the truth, and she began recounting what had happened.

• Baby 5 served Dawn curry and said she would protect him, while Dawn encouraged her to keep training and protect herself.
• A merchant ship approached Dawn's warship, and Dawn ordered its crew to stop the vessel and state their purpose.
• Annie boarded alone and tried to charm Dawn before saying she had come to pledge allegiance.
• Dawn rejected Annie's honey trap and demanded a proper explanation of her motives.
• Annie said she had important intelligence and hoped to save her life, then began explaining the events that had brought her there.

Aboard the warship, Dawn questioned Annie about the East Blue forces plotting against him and discovered she had surrendered to protect herself from Baku and Fatty. Annie revealed that the two men were brothers who intended to absorb her operation, leaving Dawn to consider the situation she had brought before him.

• Annie claimed that Baku and Fatty led more than eighty pirate ships and thousands of men who planned to attack Dawn, but Dawn doubted her story.
• Dawn confronted Annie about her own involvement in the plot, and she admitted she had pretended to cooperate before coming to warn him.
• Annie explained that she relied on the Marines because she could not afford to offend Dawn or Garp, and that she knew Dawn was Abraham's heir and a powerful Marine.
• Annie revealed that Baku and Fatty were brothers who had long wanted to seize her forces, and that refusing their plan or fleeing would have made her their target.
• Dawn realized Annie had come to use the Marines to eliminate the brothers and keep them from swallowing her intelligence network.

Dawn accepted Annie’s surrender in exchange for her working for him, then moved to wipe out the pirates she had gathered on Rat Island. He began the night raid by silently killing the guards on one ship and damaging its hull before advancing to the next.

• Dawn agreed to spare Annie and employ her after the pirates were eliminated, and Annie accepted the terms.
• Dawn ordered Annie to proceed with the plan to gather the pirates on Rat Island for a joint attack with the East Blue Marines.
• One month later, Dawn surveyed the pirate ships gathered around Rat Island and approached a vessel with several guards aboard.
• Dawn killed the guards with air bullets, then killed a burly pirate in close combat when the first shot failed.
• Dawn damaged the ship’s bottom and quietly moved toward the next vessel.

Dawn abandoned his agreement with Annie and secretly began disabling the pirates’ ships before the Marines could surround their gathering place. After warning Annie to flee, he left her racing through a secret passage while the scattered pirate ships fell silent.

• Dawn decided to act as the vanguard after discussing the risks of leaks with Garp, and his crew followed him toward the pirates’ island.
• Annie returned to her headquarters after meeting with the pirate captains, unaware that Dawn had already changed the plan.
• Dawn called Annie and told her to flee, revealing that he had disabled one-third of the pirate ships and that the main Marine force would soon arrive.
• Annie realized Dawn had never trusted her, escaped through a secret passage, and paddled toward his warship.
• Dawn continued dealing with the ships’ guards as the pirate ships around the island fell silent.

Dawn and Garp led a Marine fleet in a surprise bombardment of Rat Island, aiming to crush the East Blue pirates. As the Marines landed, Baku blamed Annie for betraying the pirates and urged the survivors to fight their way out.

• Pirates on Rat Island woke to find Marine warships surrounding the island and opening fire.
• Dawn explained to Garp that Annie had provided the information and said the operation could bring peace to Foosha Village and the East Blue.
• Marine cannon fire destroyed the pirates’ ships and battered the island before Dawn led soldiers ashore.
• Baku learned that Annie was missing and that his brother had died in the bombardment, then accused Annie of betraying them.
• Baku rallied the remaining pirates to escape and seek revenge on Annie as the Marines advanced into battle.

Dawn killed Baku and helped Garp’s Marines defeat the pirates, securing a major victory in the East Blue. As the battle ended and reporters photographed the scene, news of the victory began spreading beyond the island.

• Dawn fought through the pirates and used Shave and powerful blows to defeat Baku, then killed him with a barrage of translucent bullets.
• With Baku dead, the Marines gained momentum, and Dawn and Garp helped them wipe out the remaining pirates.
• Garp praised Dawn for his service and said he would be promoted, while the Marines celebrated their victory and the prospect of peace in the East Blue.
• War correspondents photographed the battlefield and discussed Dawn’s clash with Baku as a major news story.
• News of the Marines’ victory began spreading from the island through Den Den Mushi and News Birds.