Chapter Summaries

Stussy attended a meeting of underworld rulers who discussed dividing Doflamingo’s businesses after Dunn’s likely attack on Dressrosa. She then spoke with Vegapunk, who asked her to invest in Dunn through the Hunter Guild and warned her not to interfere in Dressrosa.

• Stussy and the other underworld rulers discussed Dunn’s five-billion-Belly commission and the possibility that he would target Dressrosa.
• Umit urged the group to plan how to divide Doflamingo’s businesses, but Stussy said she would not participate and left.
• Peclo, Giberson, Du Feld, and Umit argued over the businesses that might become available after Doflamingo’s fall.
• Stussy contacted Vegapunk with a specially made Den Den Mushi, and he told her to use the Hunter Guild to invest in Dunn and establish contact with him.
• Stussy agreed to Vegapunk’s plan, and he told her to stay out of Dressrosa because the World Government and Celestial Dragons were testing whether they could eliminate Dunn.

Stussy agreed to use the Hunter Guild to approach Dunn while the God's Knights prepared a scheme in Dressrosa to turn the world against him. Dunn reached Dressrosa alone, leaving Issho and Robin aboard the ship as he flew toward the kingdom.

• Vegapunk told Stussy that Dunn's power might rival ancient powerhouses, and Stussy proposed joining the Hunter Guild as a founding elder.
• Shamrock, Killingham, Gunko, and Sommers prepared to use Dressrosa and a broadcast Den Den Mushi to make Dunn appear a villain, while Gunko was tasked with capturing Nico Robin.
• Dunn detected Dressrosa with Observation Haki, including the imprisoned Viola and the Donquixote Family officers, but found no clear sign of the Celestial Dragons' plan.
• Dunn told Issho and Robin to remain on the ship, then transformed into flames and flew toward Dressrosa.
• Issho slowed the ship, and Robin took up Shusui as she considered awakening her Devil Fruit.

Dunn flew into Dressrosa’s royal palace and confronted Doflamingo, overpowering the Donquixote Family with his Conqueror’s Haki. Doflamingo admitted his past mistakes and offered a reason to be spared, and Dunn demanded that he prove his sincerity by bringing him a Celestial Dragon.

• Dunn used Observation Haki to survey Dressrosa, then flew toward the royal palace.
• Baby 5, Sugar, and Buffalo watched Issho and Robin approach, but could not find Dunn.
• Dunn’s Conqueror’s Haki clashed with Doflamingo’s in the palace, knocking out most of the Donquixote Family officers.
• Doflamingo said he had been immature in the East Blue and cited Diamante’s death and the loss of North Blue as the price he had paid.
• Dunn agreed that he might spare Doflamingo if he showed his sincerity by bringing him the Celestial Dragon in Dressrosa.

Dunn resisted the Donquixote Family’s attempts to capture him, while Doflamingo concealed himself with an awakened thread puppet. Dunn located him and countered his attack with a fiery tornado, but their fight remained unresolved.

• Sugar touched Dunn, but her Devil Fruit ability had no effect, and Dunn held her until she passed out.
• Dunn used his influence over Baby 5 to have her bring him juice and release Viola.
• Doflamingo and the Donquixote Family attacked Dunn, but he broke free of Pica’s stone restraints, burned Trebol’s slime, and sent Lao G flying through a wall.
• Monet’s snowstorm and the surging threads concealed Doflamingo’s thread puppet, which swallowed the surrounding family members.
• Dunn sensed the awakened Ito Ito no Mi’s thread puppet, searched the palace with Observation Haki, and found Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo launched thousands of Armament Haki-coated threads at Dunn, who answered with a fiery tornado.

Dunn struck Doflamingo down, then faced the approaching Shamrock as Dressrosa’s residents and nightmare monsters converged on the royal palace. Shamrock offered Dunn a place among the Celestial Dragons, but after Dunn refused, his awakened Cerberus attacked.

• Dunn kicked Doflamingo, badly injuring him, then noticed Gunko and another figure heading toward Dressrosa’s harbor.
• Dunn realized the approaching monsters and half-asleep residents were part of Dressrosa’s plan and saw Shamrock coming toward him.
• Shamrock drew his sword, summoned his Cerberus, and offered Dunn wealth, power, and a chance to become a Celestial Dragon.
• Dunn rejected Shamrock’s offer, and the Cerberus launched three spinning heads at him as the surrounding monsters attacked.
• The Cerberus’s drills struck Dunn, whose body burst apart into flames.

Dunn unleashed his full power, overwhelming Shamrock and knocking Sugar unconscious, while Robin and Issho fought Gunko and Sommers to stop them from using Robin against Dunn. As Dressrosa’s toys reverted to humans and its people gathered in their dreams, Sommers regenerated and attacked Issho again.

• Dunn repelled Shamrock and the monsters, then activated the second stage of his full power and released a massive burst of Conqueror’s Haki.
• Dunn’s Haki knocked Sugar unconscious despite Pica’s efforts, causing the toys across Dressrosa to revert to humans as the nation’s people fell asleep and gathered toward the royal palace in their dreams.
• Robin attacked Gunko with Haki-coated fists while Issho used gravity and his sword to overwhelm Sommers and destroy his body.
• Robin warned Issho that Dunn suspected their enemies could be immortal, and Sommers regenerated before launching Red Lotus Hell at Issho.

Dunn fought Shamrock and Killingham in Dressrosa, discovering that Seastone could suppress Killingham’s regenerative ability and dream monsters. After Morgans warned that the battle was being broadcast as an attack on Dressrosa, Shamrock activated a pentagram that followed him as Dunn struck him.

• Issho and Robin struck Sommers and Gunko with a meteor, but both enemies survived and regenerated.
• Dunn overwhelmed Shamrock and Killingham, decapitating them and observing their unusual regeneration.
• Dunn pressed a Seastone bullet into Killingham’s forehead, causing his dream monsters to vanish and slowing his regeneration.
• Morgans told Dunn that the fight was being broadcast and portrayed him as attacking Dressrosa and its residents.
• Shamrock created a massive pentagram beneath himself, and Dunn struck him across the chest, sending him flying while the pentagram followed.

Dunn confronted Im, who possessed Gunko, then stopped a devastating strike from the sky that he suspected was Uranus operating without the Mother Flame. Afterward, Doflamingo asked to live, while Killingham remained behind despite the Celestial Dragons' attempt to summon him away.

• Dunn fought Im in Gunko's body, and Im retreated with the other Celestial Dragons after Dunn suggested that people suitable for possession were hard to find.
• Dunn sensed a threat from the sky and told Issho to take Robin and escape by ship before flying upward.
• A massive pillar of light struck Dunn's giant fireball over Dressrosa, but Dunn's flames countered the attack and saved the island.
• Issho and Robin recognized the attack as possibly connected to Uranus while Dunn searched the sky for its source.
• Doflamingo asked Dunn to spare his life and accepted that he should pay for provoking him.
• A five-pointed star failed to transport Killingham, and Dunn wondered whether Seastone had prevented it.

Dunn spared Doflamingo on the condition that he kill twenty Celestial Dragons within six months, reclaimed Dressrosa for its former royal family, and left Doflamingo to kill Killingham. Killingham’s body teleported away while his severed head remained behind, and Dunn reappeared to observe that separating the parts disrupted the teleportation.

• Dunn told Doflamingo he could live if he killed twenty Celestial Dragons within six months, while warning that hiding was his only alternative.
• Dunn ordered the Donquixote Family to leave Dressrosa within three days and return it to the former royal family, then gave Doflamingo the incapacitated Celestial Dragon.
• After Dunn vanished, Doflamingo strangled Killingham with a thread to prove he would comply with the demand.
• Killingham’s body teleported away after Doflamingo severed his head, and his head soon lost its life force.
• Dunn reappeared carrying a woman and remarked that separating Killingham’s body parts had disrupted the teleportation ability.

Dunn defeated Doflamingo and ended his control of Dressrosa, then tasked Viola with arranging the kingdom’s return and a Hunter Guild branch. He left Doflamingo alive under a demand to kill nineteen Celestial Dragons, while the city began dealing with the people freed from toy forms.

• Dunn wondered how to use his ability against immortal enemies, then told Viola to arrange the handover of Dressrosa and establish a Hunter Guild branch.
• Doflamingo and Viola agreed that her choice to side with Dunn had been right, and Viola hurried to find King Riku.
• Doflamingo told the Donquixote Family officers that they had to kill nineteen Celestial Dragons to pay for their lives, and said they would leave Dressrosa.
• Dunn found the city in chaos as people returned from toy forms, then met Robin and Issho, who confirmed their ship was safe.
• Dunn told Issho he had dealt with Doflamingo without killing him, then handed his sword to Robin as Baby 5 watched it longingly.

Dunn declared that the war had already begun and planned to expand the Hunter Guild across the New World, while the World Government spread footage falsely portraying him as attacking Dressrosa’s civilians. Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru recognized the propaganda, but the Navy could not oppose the World Government, and Sengoku sent Garp away to capture pirates.

• Dunn told Issho that Doflamingo was still useful and would later attack the Celestial Dragons, trading twenty of their lives for his own.
• Dunn said the war had already begun and vowed that he would never lose.
• Dunn planned to establish Hunter Guild branches throughout the New World and asked Robin to coordinate a Dressrosa branch with Viola or the Riku Royal Family.
• Issho left Dunn’s group to help Dressrosa’s frightened and confused citizens.
• At Navy Headquarters, Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru questioned footage claiming Dunn had attacked Dressrosa’s civilians and recognized the World Government’s propaganda strategy.
• Garp said the report was false, and Sengoku ordered him to return to the Four Blues and capture pirates.

Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru learned that Morgans’s newspaper had exposed the World Government’s plans in Dressrosa, while Garp was sent to keep the Four Blues and Paradise stable. Morgans began preparing to move the World Economic Journal headquarters and considered Dunn’s offer of a partnership, ending with plans to meet Dunn in person after hearing he had traded Celestial Dragons’ lives to spare Doflamingo.

• Garp left Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru to deal with the fallout from Dressrosa, then returned with a newspaper revealing the World Government’s plans and the Celestial Dragons’ scheme.
• Sengoku told Garp to patrol the Four Blues and Paradise while the Marines left the New World to Dunn and the events expected to follow.
• Morgans ordered the World Economic Journal headquarters to relocate, anticipating retaliation from the World Government for exposing its plans.
• Dunn proposed that the Hunter Guild and the newspaper cooperate, including opening newspaper offices at every Hunter Guild branch, and Morgans said he would consider it.
• Morgans learned that Dunn had spared Doflamingo in exchange for the lives of Celestial Dragons and decided to meet Dunn in person.

Morgans considered the Hunter Guild’s growing power as conflicting reports about Dunn’s actions in Dressrosa spread across the seas. Kaido worried about his trade with Doflamingo, while Shanks and Whitebeard discussed Dunn and the trouble his arrival might bring.

• Morgans concluded that Dunn could make the Hunter Guild a power on par with or greater than the Navy, making cooperation with the World Economic Journal worthwhile.
• The World Economic Journal disputed the World Government’s claim that Dunn destroyed Dressrosa and reported his conflict with Doflamingo, fueling suspicion of a wider confrontation.
• Kaido learned that Dunn’s actions had disrupted Doflamingo’s artificial Devil Fruit deliveries, but he held back from acting until he understood Dunn’s strength.
• King warned Kaido that Dunn had entered the New World and might come to Wano, and Kaido said he would face him if he arrived.
• Shanks visited Whitebeard, who praised his Conqueror’s Haki and asked what he planned to do about Dunn; Shanks said he could not get involved and was not confident he could face him.
• Whitebeard dismissed Shanks’s warning that Dunn was a Pirate Hunter, suggesting he doubted Dunn was a pure one.

Shanks met with Whitebeard and departed to continue his journey, while Whitebeard’s worsening old injuries worried Marco. In Dressrosa, King Riku apologized to his people as Dunn considered using the Hunter Guild to gradually weaken the World Government, setting the stage for a future confrontation.

• Shanks told Whitebeard he wanted to meet Dunn, then left to attend to his own matters.
• Marco warned Whitebeard that Dunn was formidable and asked whether the Whitebeard Pirates should prepare for him, but Whitebeard dismissed his concern.
• Marco recognized that Whitebeard’s old injuries were worsening and could eventually cause his body to collapse.
• King Riku knelt before Dressrosa’s citizens and begged their forgiveness, while Dunn questioned whether he was acting to regain power.
• Viola asked Dunn about the Hunter Guild, and Dunn had Robin leave with her before discussing Dressrosa’s role with Issho.
• Dunn explained that he planned to expand Hunter Guild branches and gradually erode the World Government’s control until it provoked an all-out confrontation.

Dunn assessed how much he had grown after the events in Dressrosa and spoke with Baby 5 about her future with him. Robin arrived, claimed she had been there first, and told Dunn the task was finished, leaving him to decide when they would leave.

• Dunn reviewed his digitized panel and judged that his normal strength could match the three Marine Admirals, while he could suppress at least two together by unleashing his power.
• Dunn examined his evolving sword and concluded it was becoming a personal weapon that could withstand his hotter flames, even if it would remain dark red rather than turn into a conventional Black Blade.
• Baby 5 told Dunn she planned to follow him, and she mistook his request to be needed only by him as a proposal to become his wife.
• Robin arrived, sent Baby 5 to clean the ship at the docks, and told Dunn she had completed the task they had discussed.
• Robin asked Dunn when they would leave.

Dunn and Robin discussed the risks of keeping the Hunter Guild’s branch in Dressrosa and the need to find someone strong to manage it. Viola then invited Dunn to a banquet and revealed that Doflamingo had left behind a Devil Fruit factory and several dozen Devil Fruits.

• Dunn told Robin that he would keep the Dressrosa branch despite its proximity to Marine Headquarters and Mary Geoise.
• Dunn rejected the idea of involving the Revolutionary Army in a war, saying it would plunge the world into chaos.
• Robin reminded Dunn that the branch needed a strong manager, and Dunn said Issho had to travel with them instead.
• Viola arrived with Rebecca and invited Dunn to a banquet on behalf of her father.
• Viola told Dunn that Dressrosa had a Devil Fruit factory and several dozen fruits, more than half of them artificial and intended for Kaido.

Dunn agreed to attend a banquet in Dressrosa and arranged for Enel to join the Hunter Guild branch there for half a year. Crocodile then told him that Boa Hancock had gone looking for him because he killed a Celestial Dragon.

• Robin suggested using Doflamingo's Devil Fruits as Hunter Guild rewards, and Dunn agreed while ruling out the artificial fruits as prizes.
• Viola asked Dunn to let Kyros join the Hunter Guild, and Dunn agreed to attend a banquet the following night.
• Dunn rejected Kyros as the branch's combat leader because he was not strong enough, and Robin suggested Enel instead.
• Dunn called Crocodile and ordered him to send Enel to Dressrosa, while Caesar would oversee the goods and children from Punk Hazard.
• Crocodile told Dunn that Boa Hancock had gone looking for him because of the Celestial Dragon Dunn killed.

Dunn arranged for Boa Hancock and Amazon Lily to join the Hunter Guild, accepted Rayleigh and Shakky’s offer to stay on Skypiea, and approved the Revolutionary Army’s help establishing branches. After discussing Hawkeye’s disappearance, Dunn went to meet Enel and Hancock on Punk Hazard.

• Crocodile told Dunn that Boa Hancock wanted to join the Hunter Guild with Amazon Lily, while Rayleigh and Shakky had accepted Dunn’s invitation to stay on Skypiea.
• Dunn told Crocodile to have Hancock come with Enel and approved the Revolutionary Army’s joint management of new Hunter Guild branches.
• Dunn explained Hancock’s history as a former slave to Robin, and Robin asked him about the other Shichibukai and Hawkeye.
• Dunn speculated that Hawkeye had gone home to train after seeing his strike at Mary Geoise, then left to meet Enel.
• Enel arrived on Punk Hazard reluctant to go to Dunn, and Hancock rebuked him for sounding disloyal to Dunn.

Hancock, Enel, and Caesar Clown met on Punk Hazard as Hancock sought a Log Pose to Dressrosa and Enel delivered news of his reassigned orders. Caesar obtained a few strands of Enel’s hair in exchange for arranging his passage, while Enel remained uncertain about why Dunn had summoned him.

• Hancock grew anxious that she had not caught up to Dunn and became angry when Enel seemed to complain about him.
• Enel told Caesar Clown that he had been ordered to go to Dressrosa and that the people behind him would escort the goods back.
• Caesar asked Enel for blood to study his Rumble-Rumble Fruit, then asked Hancock for blood from her Love-Love Fruit.
• Hancock erupted with Conqueror’s Haki and demanded a Log Pose, so Caesar hurried to have one brought to her.
• Caesar offered to send Enel to Dressrosa in exchange for blood, and Enel gave him several strands of hair instead.
• Caesar arranged Enel’s passage and asked about his mission, but Enel said Crocodile had summoned him without explaining why.

At a banquet in Dressrosa, Dunn agreed to King Riku’s request for the island to join the Hunter Guild and receive its protection. Dressrosa became the Guild’s first territory, with Enel set to oversee its branch.

• Caesar watched his ships depart and considered how the World Government and Marines might respond to Dunn’s growing power.
• Dunn arrived at the Dressrosa banquet with Robin and Baby 5 and spoke with Issho about Enel overseeing the Hunter Guild there.
• Dunn asked Kyros whether he wanted to join the Hunter Guild, and Kyros readily agreed.
• King Riku asked Dunn to place Dressrosa under the Hunter Guild’s protection, offering to fund and support its branch.
• Dunn accepted King Riku’s request despite warning him that Dressrosa’s proximity to Mary Geoise and Marine Headquarters could bring consequences.
• Baby 5 and Robin served Dunn food as the banquet continued in a more relaxed atmosphere.