Chapter Summaries

In March 1507, the Donquixote Family’s growing arms trade drew Marine attention, and Sengoku assigned Tsuru to capture Doflamingo. Meanwhile, Gray continued his training and concealed his Observation Haki practice behind his sunglasses.

• Over the past year, Gray trained, studied with Baby 5, helped her develop her Devil Fruit abilities, and occasionally sailed with the Donquixote Family to deal with pirates.
• The Donquixote Family added Dellinger, a half-Fish-Man who had been picked up as a baby.
• Tsuru reported that the Donquixote Family was starting wars in the North Blue to profit from arms dealing, and Sengoku ordered Doflamingo sent to Impel Down if captured.
• Sengoku and Tsuru found no suitable Marine officer to send, so Tsuru volunteered to lead the mission herself.
• Gray, now eleven, put on his sunglasses and used them to hide his Observation Haki training from people who pitied him for being in a wheelchair.

Gray and Doflamingo sensed a powerful, hostile presence approaching the Donquixote Family’s docks, while Gray’s advanced Observation Haki impressed Doflamingo. The family prepared for the incoming enemies as Gray continued developing a new Haki technique.

• Baby-5 greeted Gray, sat on his lap, and helped look after the baby Dellinger, accidentally hurting his cheeks while admiring him.
• Doflamingo brought everyone in for breakfast, and Gray and the others ate together.
• Gray and Doflamingo sensed a powerful presence approaching the docks and realized the visitors were hostile.
• Doflamingo congratulated Gray on the reach of his Observation Haki, and Gray explained that he had trained it intensely for half a year.
• Trebol, Diamante, and Pica spread their Observation Haki to sense the approaching enemies while Gray continued practicing his wide-ranging technique.

Doflamingo recognized Vice Admiral Tsuru approaching the Donquixote Family’s base and ordered an evacuation while he and several officers stayed to fight. Gray launched an attack from the air, but Tsuru’s Wash-Wash Fruit neutralized it and every other attack, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Doflamingo spotted Tsuru aboard the approaching Marine warship and ordered the family to abandon its base.
• Doflamingo told Diamante, Pica, Lao G, Senor, Machvise, Gladius, and Gray to hold off Tsuru while the others prepared to leave.
• Gray launched his Sky Crystal Flying Wheel at the warship as the Donquixote officers attacked and the Marines fired their cannons.
• Tsuru washed away Gray’s attack and prevented him from retrieving the Sky Crystal Flying Wheel.
• Tsuru neutralized the officers’ attacks, including Doflamingo’s Armament Haki-reinforced Five-Colored Strings.

Doflamingo kept Tsuru occupied while Gray and Shark Chili prepared to sabotage her warship, but Tsuru struck him with a powerful punch that shattered his chest and sent him into the sea. Gray rescued him, and Doflamingo ordered the group to flee while Shark Chili continued the sabotage plan.

• Doflamingo ordered Gray to have Shark Chili attack the warship's underside while he distracted Tsuru, and the Donquixote Family officers retreated from the bombardment.
• Gray sent Shark Chili underwater as Doflamingo attacked Tsuru, but Tsuru pursued him and blocked his strings.
• Tsuru closed the distance and hit Doflamingo in the chest with her Cannon Fist, crushing his internal organs and sending him toward the sea.
• Shark Chili swallowed Doflamingo before he drowned, and Gray helped him begin repairing his injuries.
• Doflamingo ordered Gray to carry him away from Tsuru while Shark Chili continued the warship sabotage plan, and Tsuru chased after them.

Gray joined Tsuru and Doflamingo in the sky, where Tsuru tried to recruit him before they fought. As Tsuru pursued Gray, they spotted the Marine warship taking on water and sinking.

• Tsuru confronted Doflamingo and noticed Gray flying beside him.
• Doflamingo revealed Gray's Spin-Spin Fruit ability, and Tsuru invited Gray to join the Marines.
• Gray rejected Tsuru's offer and criticized the Marines for serving the World Government.
• Gray attacked Tsuru with electrified beads, then used his flight and Observation Haki to evade her pursuit.
• The Marines below saw their warship slowly sinking into the sea.

Tsuru raced to save the female Marines while Doflamingo and Gray tried to stop her, and Gray unleashed a limit-breaking attack that Tsuru managed to block. Gray ran out of stamina and retreated to the Donquixote Family’s ship, leaving an exhausted Tsuru and a wary Doflamingo behind.

• Doflamingo taunted Tsuru as the Donquixote Family officers threatened the female Marines, and Tsuru charged toward her subordinates after using Tempest Kick: Chaos against Gray and Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, knocking half the female Marines unconscious, while Tsuru fought past his strings to reach the survivors.
• Gray used Magnetic Field Rotation to power up the Sky Crystal Flying Wheel and launched Meteor Form Two at Tsuru.
• Tsuru blocked Gray’s attack with her Devil Fruit ability, Haki, and Iron Body, while Doflamingo praised Gray and promised to handle what came next.
• Gray, nearly out of stamina, descended to the island and headed for the retreating ship, while the exhausted Tsuru faced Doflamingo from a distance.

Gray and the Donquixote Family escaped the Marines after a battle that left Doflamingo gravely wounded. Aboard the ship, Gray assessed his combat strengths and weaknesses and began searching for a defensive technique suited to his Spin-Spin Fruit.

• Gray reached the secret port, ate while the family loaded supplies, and praised Shark Chili for damaging the ship's bottom.
• Gray and the others boarded and escaped as Trebol fired a flare to signal their departure.
• Doflamingo led the family away from Tsuru, then collapsed from his severe internal injuries once they were at sea.
• Gray considered the Donquixote officers inept and assessed his own stamina, attack power, and lack of defensive techniques.
• Gray tried to think of a way for a Spin-Spin Fruit user to develop a defensive move.

Sengoku agreed to send Gion to help Tsuru capture Doflamingo, while Gray began developing Vector Rotation as a defensive counterattack. Doflamingo recovered and ordered his family to hide and stay at sea as Tsuru continued dismantling their forces while awaiting Gion.

• Tsuru explained her failed operation to Sengoku and proposed that Gion assist her while she pursued Doflamingo.
• Sengoku agreed to send Gion but worried that Tokikake would follow her and leave Paradise short of protection.
• Gray devised a defensive Vector Rotation technique and tested it by making a falling iron ball bounce away from his hand.
• After waking, Doflamingo ordered the Donquixote Family to suspend its business, hide its identities, and resupply at Sweet Potato Island before staying at sea.
• Tsuru swept through the Donquixote Family's contacts and forces with Marine reinforcements while waiting for Gion to arrive.

Tsuru and Gion pursued the Donquixote Family across the North Blue, but Doflamingo’s intelligence network repeatedly helped them evade capture. With Kaido provoking the Navy in the New World and Headquarters stretched thin, Tsuru suspended the pursuit and prepared to return.

• Gion joined Tsuru’s pursuit and promised to help capture the Donquixote Family.
• Trebol warned Doflamingo that Navy forces were approaching, and the family escaped before Tsuru could reach them.
• Doflamingo’s paid network of island informants and Gray’s vigilance helped the family stay ahead of the Navy for three months.
• Tsuru explained that Kaido’s attack on a Marine Base had drawn Aokiji to reinforce Sakazuki and left Headquarters short of forces.
• Tsuru rejected Gion’s offer to continue the pursuit alone, suspended the mission, and said the Navy might face both Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.

After the Donquixote Family settled ashore, Doflamingo promoted Gray and ordered the senior officers to train harder. He then approved Corazon taking Law to find a doctor, and the two set sail with the family’s support.

• Doflamingo waited until Tsuru had left the North Blue before bringing the family ashore at a secret base, where Gray celebrated being back on solid ground.
• The family held a party, and Gray once again drank too much while competing with Trebol.
• At the family meeting, Doflamingo promoted Gray to senior officer for saving him and helping the family retreat, then ordered the senior officers into full-time training.
• Corazon asked permission to take Law to find a doctor, and Doflamingo arranged a ship and information about doctors on nearby islands.
• Corazon and Law set sail, while Doflamingo urged Law to keep training and Law quietly felt warmed by the concern.

After visiting Shark Chili, Gray considered new ways to develop his Spin-Spin Fruit, focusing on rotating space to teleport himself or attacks. He began his first serious experiment by trying to move a metal ball in his palm to a point beside a pebble ten meters away.

• Gray finished combat training, visited Shark Chili at the family port, and promised to arrange an extra meal for it.
• Gray reviewed his ongoing efforts to develop defensive Direction Rotation and Personal Magnetic Field rotation.
• Gray planned to use Space Rotation to teleport between points and potentially distort space for attacks.
• Gray wheeled back to his place, set a metal ball in his palm, and prepared to rotate the space between it and a pebble ten meters away.

Sengoku and Tsuru decided to abandon the Navy’s G6 Branch rather than risk an all-out war with the Beasts Pirates, while reinforcing the branch before its fall. In the North Blue, the Donquixote Family received its first bounties, and Gray celebrated his 88 million Beli reward by provoking the others.

• Tsuru learned that Kaido had targeted the G6 Branch to strengthen his reputation and recruit Zoan users, and she discussed the threat with Sengoku.
• Sengoku chose to send Akainu, Aokiji, Gion, and Tokikake to fight the Beasts Pirates, then abandon G6 and reinforce G1 through G5.
• baby-5 brought the Donquixote Family their wanted posters, and Doflamingo discovered his first bounty was 90 million Beli.
• Gray asked the officers to reveal their bounties, including Pica’s 80 million, Diamante’s 78 million, and Lao G’s 50 million Beli.
• Gray revealed his 88 million Beli bounty, stood beside Doflamingo to taunt the officers, and escaped in his wheelchair as they shouted after him.

In Marine Calendar 1509, Corazon and Luo raced to Minion Island after learning that Barrels planned to trade the Op-Op Fruit, while Doflamingo's family set out to seize it. After Doflamingo killed Corazon, Tsuru and Gion confronted the family, and Gray and the officers launched an attack on Tsuru.

• Corazon learned that Barrels planned to trade the Op-Op Fruit on Minion Island and hurried there with Luo, hoping the fruit could save him.
• Trebol told Doflamingo about the planned deal, and Doflamingo ordered the officers, including Gray, to sail for Minion Island and take the fruit.
• Gray witnessed Doflamingo kill Corazon and did not reveal that Luo was hidden in a box behind him.
• Tsuru and Gion arrived with Marines, and Gion clashed with Doflamingo as Tsuru advanced on Gray and the other officers.
• Gray activated his Sky Crystal Flying Wheels, and the Donquixote Family officers unleashed their attacks on Tsuru.

Gray and Tokikake clashed after Gray mocked the Marine’s appearance, with Gray using his Spin-Spin Fruit to keep Tokikake under pressure in the sky. Gray left Tokikake struggling to fend off his attacks while Tsuru engaged the other officers below.

• Gray used Haki-coated gunshots from Tokikake to test and accelerate his Sky Crystal Flying Wheels.
• Gray mocked Tokikake’s appearance and compared him to Trebol, provoking Tokikake into an angry argument.
• Tsuru ordered Tokikake to focus on capturing the officers and attacked Gray’s group with a Tempest Kick.
• Gray flew upward in his Flying Chair, and Tokikake pursued him with Geppo while firing his pistol.
• Gray led Tokikake higher into the sky and attacked with the two Flying Wheels, exploiting Tokikake’s limited range and aerial disadvantage.

Gray intensified his aerial fight with Tokikake by deploying four Flying Wheels, while Doflamingo escalated his duel with Gion by creating a string clone. Both battles remained unresolved, with Gray gaining control over Tokikake and Doflamingo putting Gion under heavier pressure.

• Tokikake drew a second gun, but Gray summoned two additional Flying Wheels and revealed their strengthened Magnetic Field Rotation: 1000 Horsepower form.
• Gray attacked with three Flying Wheels as Tokikake fired Haki-infused scattershot, but Gray’s growing control forced Tokikake to struggle against the distance and pressure.
• Doflamingo told Gion that Tokikake was about to lose, while Gion insisted Tokikake had not yet shown his full strength.
• Doflamingo increased his attacks, created a Shadow Knight clone, and struck at Gion with both copies’ Five-Colored Strings.
• Gion defended against the doubled assault, strengthened her Haki and sword strikes, and challenged Doflamingo to keep fighting.

Gray used Space Displacement: Meteor to strike Tokikake from behind, leaving him gravely wounded, while Doflamingo and the Donquixote Family officers kept Tsuru and Gion occupied. Tokikake tried to flee toward the coast as Gray pursued him, and Tsuru remained trapped with the injured Gion.

• Tsuru attacked the Donquixote Family officers, but Pica raised a giant of stone to absorb her Slash Waves while the officers tried to keep her at a distance.
• Gray kept Tokikake pinned with his flying wheels and gunfire, then used Space Displacement: Meteor to make a fourth wheel appear behind him and pierce him.
• Doflamingo struck Gion when she was distracted, and Tsuru rescued her before attacking Doflamingo to stop his pursuit.
• The Donquixote Family officers attacked Tsuru as she held the wounded Gion, preventing her from reaching Tokikake.
• Tokikake got to his feet and ran toward the coast, shouting for Tsuru and Gion to retreat, while Gray pursued him from the sky.

Gray’s Railgun devastated Minion Island, but Tokikake survived and fled while Tsuru escaped with Gion. Sengoku sent Kizaru to support them after Tsuru reported that Tokikake had been killed, and Kizaru raced toward the North Blue.

• Gray fired his Railgun at Tokikake, piercing him and blasting a huge crater into Minion Island, then ordered the Donquixote Family to pursue Tsuru and Gion.
• Tsuru carried Gion out of the encirclement, while Tokikake emerged from the crater with his right arm gone and the right side of his body charred before fleeing toward the shore.
• Gray realized his attack had exhausted him and resolved to improve his Armament Haki and continue developing his powers.
• Tsuru called Sengoku and reported that Tokikake had been killed, then asked him to send Kizaru to support her and Gion.
• Sengoku rushed to Kizaru’s office, and Kizaru immediately set off for the North Blue.

Tokikake used his last strength to get Tsuru and Gion aboard a Marine warship, while Doflamingo’s family escaped and planned how to avoid the Marines. Doflamingo chose to seize the North Blue Heavenly Tribute to force the World Government to make him a Shichibukai, despite Gray warning that Kizaru could destroy them.

• Doflamingo struck the barely conscious Tokikake, but Tokikake used the impact to carry Tsuru and Gion toward the coast and a Marine warship.
• Tsuru and Gion escaped aboard the warship, and Tsuru saw that Tokikake was gravely injured and unconscious.
• Gray watched the Marines escape and warned Doflamingo that their losses could provoke the Marines to send an Admiral.
• Doflamingo gathered his officers aboard their ship and decided that becoming a Shichibukai could let the family stay in the North Blue.
• Doflamingo proposed seizing the North Blue Heavenly Tribute to force the World Government to grant him Shichibukai status, while Gray warned that Kizaru could wipe them out.

Kizaru reached the North Blue and found Tokikake alive but critically injured, then stayed behind to pursue the Donquixote Family. As Gray kept evading him, Gray reconsidered how to develop his Personal Magnetic Field and pursued a path toward biological evolution and immortality.

• Kizaru arrived at the Marine Branch, learned Tokikake was in critical condition, and agreed that Tsuru would take him back while Kizaru hunted the Donquixote Family.
• Tsuru arranged for Kuzan to guard Mary Geoise and assigned Kizaru to stay in the North Blue and capture the Donquixote Family.
• Kizaru pursued the Donquixote Family for a month, but Gray and the others repeatedly left before he reached them.
• Gray concluded that he needed to absorb beneficial magnetic fields to strengthen his Life Magnetic Field and Soul Magnetic Field.
• Gray compared the Op-Op Fruit's Perennial Youth Surgery and Pure Gold as routes to extended life, but continued seeking a way to evolve naturally.

Gray and baby-5 visited Monet and Sugar’s restaurant, where Gray enjoyed the food before Leonard arrived to demand another protection payment and pressure Monet to become his gang leader’s wife. The confrontation remained unresolved as Leonard’s threat left Monet and Sugar facing trouble.

• Gray searched nearby magnetic fields for ones that could strengthen his soul, then decided to take a break on an island with baby-5.
• Gray and baby-5 found Monet and Sugar’s Cottage, where Sugar served them the restaurant’s specialties.
• Gray praised the food and ate with baby-5 as Leonard and his men barged into the restaurant.
• Leonard demanded protection money from Monet, claiming his newly founded Fierce Tiger Gang was separate from the Black Bear Gang.
• Sugar challenged Leonard’s demand, and Leonard suggested Monet become his gang leader’s wife if she could not pay.