Chapter Summaries

Dawn and the others explored the desert oasis market, sampled its oversized breadfruit and spicy Insect Pot, and learned about the local Honey Pot Ant delicacy. Dawn grew curious about the ants and their sweet wine, leaving the group ready to try another specialty.

• Dawn and the others walked through the crowded oasis market and saw its mud buildings, fruit stalls, and local goods.
• Dawn's group bought and tasted the island's unusually large breadfruit.
• Sola rushed to buy spicy Insect Pot, and Dawn stayed with her group while Rear Admiral Yak went to buy supplies.
• Sola shared fried ants, snake meat, scorpions, and centipedes, and the group eagerly sampled them.
• Dawn lost interest in the Insect Pot and turned his attention to the stall selling Honey Pot Ants and Honey Pot Sweet Ant Wine.

Dawn and the others sampled Anluya’s desert street foods, including Honey Pot Ants, drinks, and wine, while enjoying a rare chance to relax. Their outing ended abruptly when the Sand Bandits returned and the townspeople fled.

• Dawn and the others visited a Honey Pot Ant shop, where the owner explained how the ants stored nectar to help their colonies survive shortages.
• Hina tried a mint-fed Honey Pot Ant and enjoyed its cool watermelon flavor, so Dawn bought assorted ants, drinks, and wines for the group.
• Dawn and the others continued exploring Anluya’s food stalls, sampling dishes such as crocodile eggs, sea turtle eggs, and grilled crocodile meat.
• The townspeople shouted that the Sand Bandits had returned and urged everyone to run.

Dawn and his companions confronted the Sand Bandits, who attacked the market and tried to capture Devil Fruit users. Dawn and Sola defeated the attackers, and Dawn called the fight over after finding no strong opponents.

• Dawn ordered his group to take cover as the Sand Bandits rode into the market and fired indiscriminately.
• Dawn used Resistance Aura to shield his group, then reflected the bandits’ bullets and killed several of them.
• The Sand Bandit leader boasted about selling Devil Fruit users into slavery and planned to use his men as cannon fodder.
• Sola crushed the leader with a surprise attack, then punched another bandit while joking about her Man-in-Your-Arms Kill.
• Dawn dodged two charging bandits and defeated them, then told his companions to stop playing around because the fight was over.

Dawn and his companions wiped out a group of Sand Bandits and collected their spoils. As they finished the battle, Dawn reflected on how his Ouroboros aura concealed his Snatch-Snatch Fruit abilities and let him absorb attributes without drawing attention.

• Dawn and his companions defeated the Sand Bandits, and Sola killed their leader.
• Berigood struck the fleeing bandits with balls, and Dawn finished them off with weapons formed from the air.
• Dawn used his Ouroboros domain to finish off survivors and sensed a slight increase to his Spirit attribute.
• Hina remarked on Dawn’s unusual aura, and he explained that Devil Fruit abilities could defy common sense.
• Sola called Hina to help collect the bandits’ spoils while Dawn reflected on how his aura disguised his air manipulation and attribute absorption.

Dawn reflected on the limits of his Aura Fruit and Snatch-Snatch Fruit, learning how Power Snatch converted stolen stamina into energy that reduced his ability costs and recognizing the body's limit on stamina recovery. Sola then called him over after finding a person imprisoned in a barrel on a camel, apparently captured by Sand Bandits for being a Devil Fruit user.

• Dawn decided to focus on developing enhancement abilities and aimed to combine Power Snatch into a group-targeted Weakness Aura.
• Dawn's experiments revealed that Power Snatch reduced the stamina cost of his Devil Fruit abilities rather than directly restoring stamina, and that bodily stamina recovery had a limit.
• Dawn considered the Snatch-Snatch Fruit's potential, including the Ouroboros ability, but found no promising new developments.
• Sola called Dawn over after discovering a person inside a barrel tied to a camel.
• Dawn went to inspect the captive, suspecting the Sand Bandits had seized them because they were a Devil Fruit user.

Dawn and his companions discovered that the Sand Bandits had trapped Basil Hawkins, a young Devil Fruit user, in a barrel of seawater. After hearing Hawkins’s strange divination and learning his predictions had gone foggy, Dawn released him and considered recruiting him.

• Dawn watched Sola and the others open the barrel and found Basil Hawkins trapped in seawater.
• Dawn questioned Hawkins, who introduced himself as a Curse Fruit user.
• Shuen wondered how Hawkins had been captured, and Hawkins said his divination had predicted safety but could not reveal what came afterward.
• Hawkins offered to divine the group’s fortunes as thanks, and Sola eagerly agreed to try it.
• The group left the decision to Dawn, who chose to release Hawkins.

Dawn let Basil Hawkins out of the seawater barrel and asked him to read Sola’s past, present, and future. Hawkins’s first two cards suggested that Sola had returned from the brink of death and been resurrected, but the future card was blank.

• Dawn agreed to free Basil Hawkins, and the others drained the barrel before pulling him out.
• Sola agreed to have Hawkins read her past, present, and future, and he laid out three cards.
• Hawkins revealed Reversed Death for Sola’s past and explained that it meant returning from the brink of death.
• Hawkins revealed upright Judgment for Sola’s present, which represented resurrection and reminded the group of Golden Lion’s attack.
• Hawkins turned over Sola’s future card and found it completely blank.

Dawn’s fate remained hidden from Basil Hawkins’s divination, while the cards revealed Dawn’s past as a new beginning and his present as a ruler. After the group returned from defeating the sand bandits, Dawn invited Hawkins to join the Marines, and Hawkins agreed to travel with them before deciding.

• Basil Hawkins’s cards showed an inverted Death for Dawn’s past and the Emperor for his present, but the future card was blank.
• Basil Hawkins concluded that mist concealed Dawn’s fate and obscured the fortunes of people connected to him.
• Rear Admiral Yak returned, heard what had happened, and approved when Dawn invited Basil Hawkins to join the Marines.
• Basil Hawkins asked to travel with Dawn’s group before deciding whether to enlist, and Rear Admiral Yak agreed.
• Dawn and the others packed their supplies and spoils, then departed for the Ishtar Kingdom on a new route, with Basil Hawkins wearing Shalinkul’s Marine uniform.

Dawn and his companions stopped at the Island of Karate, where Sola hoped to study the island’s distinctive karate styles. After exploring its many dojos, they settled in a restaurant and were struck by the enormous portions served there.

• Dawn asked Basil Hawkins to join his crew, but Basil Hawkins said he wanted to travel with them first and decide through divination.
• Dawn and his companions arrived at the Island of Karate, the only island on their route where they could stop and resupply.
• Sola showed interest in a local fighting style that combined karate and yoga, while Dawn and the others explored the island’s dojos.
• Dawn and his companions visited a restaurant and received an enormous platter of food.

Dawn and his companions visited Karate Island and devoured its enormous specialty dishes, leaving Basil Hawkins bewildered by their appetites. As they headed toward a dojo, Dawn asked Hawkins whether he had decided to join the Marines, and Hawkins revealed he had already divined his future after making that choice.

• Dawn and his companions ordered Karate Island's enormous meals, and Basil Hawkins was stunned by the portion sizes.
• Dawn and the others divided food onto Hawkins's plate, then ate through multiple oversized servings while Hawkins received only small portions.
• Dawn explained that the training room served mostly plain meat, so they visited restaurants to enjoy different flavors.
• Sola set off for the Yoga Style Karate dojo, while Dawn asked Basil Hawkins if he wanted to join the Marines.
• Basil Hawkins said he had divined his future after making his own choice, though anything involving Dawn blocked his readings.
• Dawn asked Basil Hawkins what the divination had revealed.

Dawn asked Basil Hawkins to divine the futures that awaited him if he joined the Navy with Dawn or joined on his own. Hawkins chose to follow Dawn as Captain, leaving Dawn with a loyal new recruit whose future differed from the Navy's ordinary path.

• Basil Hawkins told Dawn that his first reading showed [The Fool] in the present and [The Magician] in the future if he joined the Navy with Dawn.
• Hawkins said a second reading showed [The Fool] in the present and [Justice] in the future if he joined the Navy alone.
• Hawkins explained that Dawn’s aura resembled the Ouroboros on [The Magician] card, making Dawn the branch between the two futures.
• Dawn welcomed Hawkins to the Navy and his group, and Hawkins addressed him as Captain to declare his loyalty to Dawn.
• Hawkins said he preferred the creative path represented by [The Magician] over the balanced path represented by [Justice].

Dawn gained Basil Hawkins’s personal loyalty and welcomed him into his close-knit group as a future Marine. After Rear Admiral Yak approved Hawkins’s enlistment at the island branch, he shared news from his old friend Cher that caught the group’s interest.

• Dawn reflected that Basil Hawkins had chosen to follow him personally, and valued the loyalty as a foundation for his influence.
• Dawn told the group that Hawkins was joining the Marines, and they welcomed him as a companion.
• Hina asked Hawkins to tell her fortune, and Dawn lightly scolded her for treating his ability like a toy.
• After Sola returned from the dojo, Dawn took Hawkins to report to Rear Admiral Yak, who approved his enlistment.
• Rear Admiral Yak explained that Hawkins would enter training camp after they returned to Marine Headquarters, and said Cher had sent news that interested the group.

Rear Admiral Yak sent Dawn’s group to deal with the Killer Crab, a giant sea beast terrorizing Karate Island’s coast. The group found it disguised among the rocks and began fighting, but its powerful limbs and armor proved difficult to damage.

• Rear Admiral Yak told Dawn and his companions about the Killer Crab and asked them to investigate with Commodore Cher watching over them.
• Sola eagerly asked whether the giant crab would make good food as the group traveled to the coast.
• Dawn’s group reached the rocky shore and spread out to prevent the Killer Crab from ambushing them.
• The Killer Crab revealed itself and attacked; Sola dodged, Hina restrained one of its limbs, and Shuen used his Rust-Rust Fruit ability to corrode its armor.
• Sola, Berigood, and Shalinkul struck the crab, but their attacks only cracked the keratin covering its shell.
• The Killer Crab counterattacked with a rapid barrage from its six hard limbs.

Dawn used the Killer Crab to show Hina, Sola, and the others the limits of their strength, then defeated it with one devastating punch. Commodore Cher watched Dawn’s display and realized another monster was emerging.

• Hina, Sola, and the others struggled to dodge the Killer Crab’s attacks until Dawn boosted their speed and pulled them out of danger.
• Dawn encouraged the group to learn from their defeat, and Sola insisted she still wanted to eat the crab.
• Dawn enhanced himself with support auras and dodged the Killer Crab’s attacks using Observation Haki.
• Dawn closed in and smashed the Killer Crab’s head with one enormous punch, killing it instantly.
• Cher watched Dawn’s victory and concluded that another monster was about to appear in the world.

After Dawn defeated the Killer Crab and shared its prized claws with the Marines, Yak learned that Dawn had awakened Observation Haki and rushed to report it to Marine Headquarters. Dawn then considered recruiting powerful allies and pursuing his own vision of justice, though his plans had yet to begin.

• Dawn killed the Killer Crab with one punch, and Commodore Cher identified it as an edible Rock Crab whose claws were a delicacy.
• Dawn and the others feasted on the steamed crab claws, while Dawn saved one claw to take home and the rest were shared with the Marine Branch soldiers.
• Cher confronted Yak for failing to tell him that Dawn knew Observation Haki, but Yak revealed that he had not known and hurried to contact Marine Headquarters.
• Dawn thought about recruiting Enel and Gild Tesoro, building a faction within the Marines, and relying on allies if his reforms failed.
• Dawn resolved to pursue his chosen path of justice and bring his will into the world despite the obstacles ahead.

Two years after Ohara's destruction, Dawn remained in the North Sea, building his strength and standing within the Marines while developing his plans. A grain trade with Alabasta gave him a safe, official opportunity to travel to Jaya Island.

• The World Government ordered Ohara destroyed after Dr. Clover angered the Five Elders, and Akainu ordered the refugee ship sunk; Robin became the island's sole survivor and received a 79-million bounty.
• Dawn learned of Ohara's destruction while stationed in the North Sea and could only lament that he was powerless to change events.
• Hina and the others returned to the training camp, while Dawn stayed in the North Sea after Rear Admiral Yak reported his Observation Haki and the Marines offered him a choice.
• The Marines assigned Rear Admiral Yukimura to oversee the North Sea, where Dawn gained combat experience and continued developing his Devil Fruit abilities.
• Dawn secured a chance to travel to Jaya Island openly as the Ishtar Kingdom's heir, representing his kingdom in a grain trade with Alabasta.

Enel and his crew set sail for West Blue, planning to unite its mafias under the Vongola Family and offer Dawn a gift. They began their campaign on Sichili Island by attacking its largest mafia base.

• Enel and the crew brought former slaves aboard the Thunder God, and Fisher Tiger covered their slave marks with Sun Mark tattoos.
• Chloe proposed crushing and uniting the West Blue mafias, and the crew dressed in black suits before arriving at Sichili Island.
• Chloe announced that the island belonged to the Vongola Family, then killed the leader of the mafia guards with a punch.
• Enel used Iron Sand Electromagnetic Rifle to take down the guards, and Chloe used Destruction Art against the gunfire and nearby enemies.

Dawn persuaded Gaius to establish an alliance with Alabasta, giving him a chance to travel to the Grand Line while strengthening both kingdoms’ influence at the Reverie. Before Dawn set sail, the chapter introduced Koltar, a mercenary kingdom whose people depended on war for their livelihood.

• Dawn proposed diplomatic ties and an alliance with Alabasta, explaining the political and economic benefits to Gaius.
• Gaius agreed and notified Cobra that Dawn, an heir to the throne, would attend the grain transaction as an envoy.
• The chapter described how alliances could strengthen nations’ influence at the Reverie and deter conflicts with other kingdoms.
• The narration introduced Koltar, a chaotic kingdom where nearly everyone depended on mercenary work and war for survival.

Kotal Rad faced a food shortage and considered working with pirates to start a war, while Doflamingo arrived in the Kotal Kingdom to secure its iron resources and expand his influence. Doflamingo prepared to negotiate with the king as he kept his ambitions for the Ishtar Kingdom in check.

• Kotal Rad brooded over the kingdom’s dwindling food supplies and the loss of weapon and iron trade, then ordered a Den Den Mushi so he could discuss cooperation with pirates.
• Doflamingo and Trebol arrived by ship near the Kotal Kingdom during a storm.
• Doflamingo planned to use the kingdom’s iron resources to build an arms-smuggling network and considered the corrupt kingdom easy to seize.
• Doflamingo restrained his desire to target the Ishtar Kingdom because its ties to the Marines made retaliation likely.
• Doflamingo prepared to speak with Kotal Rad about the Kotal Kingdom.

Dawn reflected on how alliances could increase a country's influence at the Reverie, then approached Alabasta and encountered Mad Dog Ladd's pirate ship. He charged at Ladd, and their first blows collided as the fight began.

• Dawn considered how Cobra could benefit from an alliance and how allied countries could gain influence at the Reverie.
• Yukimura identified the approaching pirate ship as Mad Dog Ladd's and explained that Ladd fought in full beast form using human intelligence and animal instincts.
• The Navy ship fired a concentrated barrage and closed in on Ladd's pirate ship near Alabasta.
• Dawn leapt toward Ladd, created footholds in the air to strengthen his descent, and attacked with a punch.
• Ladd met Dawn's strike with his raised claw, and their attacks collided.