Chapter Summaries

Dawn took over the fight against Dehua Weibul inside a barrier to protect the training ship while Zephyr rescued the students. Though Dawn’s enhanced Observation Haki let him evade Dehua Weibul’s attacks and land powerful blows, Dehua Weibul’s strength and recovery proved formidable, and Dawn embraced the battle as a way to absorb the Battle Song Aura.

• Dawn enclosed Dehua Weibul and himself in a barrier, then sent Zephyr to rescue the injured students.
• Dawn’s Battle Song Aura absorption sharply increased his strength, and he struck Dehua Weibul with a blow that sent him crashing into the barrier.
• Dawn trapped Dehua Weibul in a fiery barrage and tornado, but Dehua Weibul escaped with a slash and charged at him.
• Dawn used enhanced Observation Haki to evade Dehua Weibul’s sword attacks, then drove him backward with a high-speed halberd thrust.
• Dehua Weibul unleashed even greater force, sent Dawn crashing into the barrier, and left cracks in it.
• Dawn spat blood, began recovering with his own power, and resolved to keep fighting so he could absorb more Battle Song Aura.

Enel used his Thor form and heat-generating lightning to counter Crocodile’s sand attacks, then struck him with a powerful punch and a barrage of lightning. Crocodile escaped into the desert, leaving Enel disappointed and searching for a new opponent.

• Enel transformed into a giant lightning Thor and crystallized Crocodile’s sand attacks with intense heat.
• Crocodile launched a larger sand tornado, but Enel hit him with a magnetically propelled lightning fist and followed with a storm of lightning.
• Enel searched for Crocodile with Observation Haki but found only silence and left to look for Tesoro or Golden Lion.
• Crocodile hid deep in the sand, assessed his injuries, and chose a tactical retreat rather than continue fighting.

After Edward Weevil escaped, Dawn healed the wounded Marines and Zephyr resolved to help the shaken trainees recover. Half a month later, the group was returning to Marine Headquarters, with the trainees training hard and Dawn having collected a Cat-Cat Fruit, Tabby Cat Model.

• Dawn apologized to Zephyr for letting Edward Weevil escape, while Zephyr and Ain mourned the trainees killed or injured in the battle.
• Dawn learned that about one-third of the trainees were dead or injured and ordered Binz to gather all the wounded.
• Dawn used Healing Ring to heal the soldiers, impressing Zephyr and lifting the wounded's spirits.
• Zephyr vowed to help the trainees overcome the battle's aftermath, while Dawn left him to support them.
• During the next half month, the trainees trained on the voyage back to Marine Headquarters, and Dawn fought pirates and collected the Cat-Cat Fruit, Tabby Cat Model.

Dawn encountered Hancock and her warriors while traveling aboard a battered Marine warship, then met privately with Hancock, who had become ruler of Amazon Lily. He encouraged her to keep training her forces for their future revenge against the Celestial Dragons.

• The lookout spotted Hancock’s snake-drawn ship approaching the battered warship, and Dawn flew out to meet it.
• Hancock’s warriors threatened Dawn until Hancock recognized him and ordered them to withdraw.
• Dawn and Hancock reunited, and she told him she had ruled Amazon Lily for four years and had trained its warriors in Haki.
• Dawn urged Hancock to continue developing her forces for their future revenge and suggested organizing Amazon Lily’s archers into dedicated units.
• Dawn told Hancock to contact Tesoro if her people needed supplies.

Dawn arranged for Tesoro to fund Hancock’s troop training and advised her to become a capable ruler, while she mistook his advice as encouragement to become a worthy queen. Dawn returned to the ship, where he reassured the tense crew that Hancock had no intention of fighting the Marines.

• Dawn explained that he wanted Hancock’s soldiers to train as archers to keep them safer, and Hancock proudly declared that she would be forgiven because she was beautiful.
• Dawn contacted Tesoro and arranged for him to fund Hancock’s troop training, repaying her for helping him when his influence was still growing.
• Dawn reflected on how Tesoro’s empire, Enel’s work, and Tom’s decision to build Pluton had turned his plans into a powerful force.
• Dawn urged Hancock to listen to Elder Nyon, study world affairs, and learn to govern her country well; Hancock resolved to become a worthy queen for him.
• Dawn left Hancock, who imagined that he had romantic feelings for her, then returned to the ship and assured the crew that Hancock had no intention of fighting the Marines.

Enel traveled to Alabasta to find Crocodile, then blasted the roof of a Rainbase casino to draw out someone connected to him. Mr. 3 emerged and recognized Enel, realizing he had run into a Shichibukai he could not afford to offend.

• Enel decided to postpone searching for Golden Lion and planned to visit Tesoro after completing his assignment in Alabasta.
• Enel reached Alabasta and sent his men to rest while he headed alone for Rainbase.
• Enel used Observation Haki to locate a casino with people using “Mr.” code names and blasted its roof without harming the occupants.
• Mr. 3 came outside to confront the attacker, then recognized Enel and feared his terrible luck.

Enel confronted Crocodile in Rainbase, then drove him into the desert for a battle that tested both their powers. After Crocodile demonstrated that he could threaten Enel by draining moisture, Enel struck him with a Super Electromagnetic Cannon, and the explosion swallowed Crocodile.

• Enel attacked Mr. 3 after demanding that he reveal his boss, and Mr. 3 fainted from the electrical discharge without giving anything away.
• Enel summoned lightning against the casino, but Crocodile blocked it with a blade of sand and challenged Enel over entering his territory.
• Enel pierced Crocodile's chest with lightning, but Crocodile's sand body healed as the two began fighting across Rainbase and the desert.
• Enel moved the battle away from ordinary people and exchanged enormous sand and iron-sand blades with Crocodile.
• Crocodile drained moisture from a patch of Enel's hand, showing that his power could threaten Enel despite his Logia abilities.
• Enel fired a Super Electromagnetic Cannon, and the resulting explosion engulfed Crocodile.

Enel and Crocodile fought across the desert, trading lightning, sand, and Enel’s magnetic cannon attacks. Crocodile unleashed an enormous awakened sea of sand that towered over Enel and crashed toward him.

• Crocodile created a Sand Storm, but Enel’s 60 Million Volt Thunder Dragon burst through it and crystallized the sand with its heat.
• Crocodile tried to drain the moisture from Enel with Corrosive Cycle, but Enel sensed the danger, escaped, and kicked Crocodile away.
• Enel attacked Crocodile with lightning from the air, while Crocodile dodged and built sand defenses against the repeated strikes.
• Crocodile redirected Enel’s lightning through sand pillars into the ground, believing the desert made him invincible.
• Enel fired magnetically propelled Super Electromagnetic Cannons, battering Crocodile’s Empty Sand Defense Wall with physical attacks.
• Crocodile awakened his sand powers and raised a vast sea of sand above Enel, sending it crashing down like a tsunami.

Enel used his heat-generating Thor form to counter Crocodile’s sand attacks and badly injured him with a lightning punch. Crocodile hid underground and escaped, while Enel left the desert to look for Tesoro or Golden Lion.

• Enel transformed into Three Hundred Million Volt Thor and burned Crocodile’s sand attacks into liquid crystal.
• Crocodile attacked with a larger sandstorm, but Enel struck him with a magnetically propelled lightning fist and sent him flying.
• Enel unleashed a barrage of lightning at Crocodile’s landing place, but Crocodile had already hidden beneath the sand.
• Enel failed to find Crocodile with Observation Haki and left to seek out Tesoro or Golden Lion.
• Crocodile hid safely in the desert, assessed his injuries, and chose a tactical retreat.

After Enel defeated him, Crocodile hid in the desert and became even more determined to obtain Pluton. Meanwhile, Wapol and Chloe began clearing Buster Call Town for the Thunder God Pirates, and the slaughter continued as they waited for Enel.

• Crocodile accepted his defeat by Enel, retreated into the desert, and clung more strongly to his plan to obtain Pluton.
• Enel set out for Buster Call Town, where Wapol and Chloe were waiting to join him on a trip to Gran Tesoro.
• Chloe ordered her subordinates to kill the pirates in Buster Call Town and leave the civilians alive, then summoned Demon Soldiers to attack.
• Wapol and his companions charged into the pirates, and the Thunder God Pirates began taking over Buster Call Town by force.

Dawn consulted Hawkins about his next move while pursuing Edward Weevil in the New World, and Hawkins’s divination pointed him toward Gran Tesoro. The chapter ended with Dawn wondering whether the promised unexpected gains might include meeting Fujitora Issho.

• The avengers under Chloe captured Buster Call Town, and Enel arrived after the Thunder God Pirates’ flag had been raised.
• The Marines raised Edward Weevil’s bounty to 480 million Berries, and Dawn took Hawkins and his warship along to pursue him in the New World.
• Dawn asked Hawkins to divine opportunities to improve his strength and expand his forces, but both readings advised patience.
• Dawn decided to visit Gran Tesoro to relax, and Hawkins’s Tarot reading predicted unexpected gains there.
• Dawn suspected he might encounter Fujitora Issho at Gran Tesoro.

Dawn searched Gran Tesoro for Fujitora but failed to find him, then met with Tesoro and Enel in a private gathering area. Morgans spotted the three influential figures meeting upstairs and became convinced that a major story was unfolding.

• Dawn and Hawkins searched Gran Tesoro for three days but found no sign of Fujitora, so Dawn arranged to meet Tesoro and Enel.
• Mr. Tanaka guided Dawn and Hawkins into an exclusive casino area reserved for influential guests.
• Morgans recognized Dawn and watched him go to Tesoro's private second floor.
• Enel also went upstairs, and Morgans saw that only Dawn, Tesoro, and Enel were meeting there.
• Morgans concluded that the three were plotting something and continued observing them for a major scoop.

Morgans risked sneaking into Gran Tesoro’s guarded second floor to investigate three people, unaware that Enel had already detected him. In a private room, Dawn and his allies discussed building Pluton and prepared to confront Morgans as he approached with his camera Den Den Mushi.

• Morgans spotted an opening in the second-floor guard post and sneaked upstairs with his camera Den Den Mushi.
• Morgans weighed the danger of angering Gild Tesoro against the chance of getting a sensational scoop, then chose to keep investigating.
• Dawn told Tesoro that he and Enel would gather materials for Pluton, and Tesoro promised to help build it using Gran Tesoro’s resources.
• Dawn suggested Tesoro could later lure their enemies to an event for revenge, and Tesoro eagerly anticipated that day.
• Enel revealed that Morgans was hiding in the restroom and that guards had gone to retrieve him, while Dawn and the others prepared to welcome him.

Dawn, Enel, and Tesoro lured Morgans into discovering their alliance and plans to target Big Mom. Cornered beneath Tesoro’s inn, Morgans realized that Dawn led Enel and Tesoro, and Dawn offered him a chance to live if he answered.

• Dawn and the others waited in the hidden underground chamber while Morgans searched the empty second floor for a secret room.
• Morgans overheard Dawn and Tesoro confirm their cooperation and name Big Mom as their first target.
• Enel revealed that he had detected Morgans with Observation Haki and had been reading his thoughts.
• Dawn and Tesoro emerged from the hidden wall, and Morgans recognized Enel and Tesoro as Dawn’s subordinates.
• Morgans accepted that he was trapped and asked how the three had met, and Dawn asked whether he wanted to live.

Dawn offered Morgans a chance to live if he accepted a Contract that bound him to Dawn and prevented betrayal or disclosure. Faced with death if he refused, Morgans agreed to sign and became bound to Dawn’s crew.

• Dawn stopped Morgans from approaching and offered to spare his life on the condition they discussed.
• Morgans asked whether Dawn could prevent him from betraying the group, and Dawn said the Contract would stop him from leaking secrets.
• Ouroboros transmitted the Contract to Morgans, who recognized it as a slave Contract with strict prohibitions and lethal consequences.
• Morgans began to refuse, but Enel, Tesoro, and Hawkins’s threatening looks made him reconsider.
• Morgans agreed to sign the Contract because refusing meant death.

After being forced to sign Ouroboros's Contract, Morgans learned that Dawn's hidden faction sought to build strength and pursue true justice. Though he understood the danger, Morgans embraced his new role and chose to join Dawn's cause.

• Ouroboros's Contract bound Morgans, and Dawn welcomed him into the faction while promising not to treat him like a slave.
• Dawn, Tesoro, and Enel explained that Morgans would provide intelligence and resources, and Morgans accepted that joining them was better than resisting.
• Morgans asked about the group's origins and purpose, and Dawn said Tesoro sought revenge while he pursued true justice beyond the Marines.
• Dawn revealed that he was secretly gathering strength for the coming tide of the times, and Morgans realized the faction's reach might extend far beyond what anyone knew.
• Morgans became excited about the news he had uncovered and formally chose to join Dawn's faction, asking him to raise waves that would shake the seas.

Morgans joined Dawn’s group and expanded its intelligence network across the seas. Dawn tasked him with finding Golden Lion and recruiting underworld rulers, while revealing that Stussy was a CP0 agent.

• Morgans settled in with Dawn’s group, and Enel told him to use his News Birds to find Golden Lion.
• Morgans was shocked to learn Dawn intended to kill Golden Lion, but agreed to search for him.
• Dawn told Morgans to invite underworld rulers to Gran Tesoro so they could be forced to join or face death.
• Morgans suggested starting with Stussy, but Dawn warned him that she was a CP0 agent.

Dawn brought the King of Sea Transport under his control and used his shipping network to support Pluton’s construction. In summer 1515, Morgans finally located the Golden Lion’s floating island, and Dawn raced across the New World to join Enel.

• Morgans recommended the King of Sea Transport, whom Dawn later forced to work for him after Morgans brought him to Gran Tesoro.
• Dawn transported materials to Sky Island over several months, then returned to the Ishtar Kingdom to wait for the New Year.
• In summer 1515, News Birds found the Golden Lion’s floating island after it descended to replenish supplies.
• Morgans contacted Enel, who followed the island aboard the Flying Ship and waited for Dawn to arrive.
• Dawn steered his small boat through the New World, following his Vivre Card toward Enel and the Golden Lion.

Dawn and Enel reached Golden Lion’s floating islands, where Enel’s attacks provoked the pirate leader into confronting them. Dawn met Golden Lion’s Conqueror’s Haki with his own, and their clashing auras began to crack the island beneath them.

• Ouroboros brought Dawn through the storm to Enel, who took them aboard the Thunder God and rose to the floating islands.
• Dawn let Enel greet Golden Lion’s crew, and Enel blasted an island with an electromagnetic cannon.
• When the pirates mistook the blast for a natural disaster, Enel struck them with lightning, killing several and drawing Golden Lion’s attention.
• Golden Lion flew up to confront Dawn and Enel, then clashed with Dawn’s Conqueror’s Haki as their auras shook the island.

Dawn and Enel confronted Golden Lion, and Dawn fought him while Enel searched the island for captured civilians and protected its research facilities. After trading powerful attacks, Dawn gained the advantage and declared that Golden Lion would die there.

• Dawn revealed that he was a Marine, provoking Golden Lion to attack him and Enel.
• Dawn sent Enel to find captured civilians and preserve the island’s research facilities while he faced Golden Lion alone.
• Dawn used his Air Domain to create a Flame Serpent, and Golden Lion broke it apart and turned its flames against him.
• Dawn answered Golden Lion’s flaming lion with a stone lion, then cut apart a floating island Golden Lion had hurled at him.
• Dawn clashed blades with Golden Lion, vanished, and kicked him flying before declaring that he would remain there forever.