Recaps

Sephiroth transformed Kozuki Hiyori into a vampire through The Embrace, sacrificing about one-tenth of his strength to give her power. After helping her use Pure Gold to withstand sunlight, he heard her confess her identity and tested her loyalty, and she chose to stand with him against the Kozuki Family if necessary.

• Sephiroth used his awakened Vampire Fruit ability to drain Kozuki Hiyori to the brink of death and implant his source blood, turning her into a vampire.
• Kozuki Hiyori awoke with greatly increased strength and discovered that sunlight burned her skin, though her injuries healed almost instantly.
• Sephiroth gave Kozuki Hiyori a Pure Gold ring that limited her ultraviolet absorption and prevented her from being burned by sunlight.
• Kozuki Hiyori confessed that Xiao Zi was her alias and that she was Kozuki Hiyori, daughter of Kozuki Oden, who had sought Enma to reclaim her father's sword.
• Sephiroth asked Kozuki Hiyori whether she would side with him or the Kozuki Family if they became enemies, and she vowed to help him eliminate the family if it threatened him.

Sephiroth reunited with Shyarly after being away for half a month, and the two later encountered Queen Otohime advocating for the Fish-Man Race to move to the surface. Shyarly foresaw something troubling, and the chapter ended when Queen Otohime was shot during a fire at the petition baskets.

• Sephiroth brought Shyarly roses at the Mermaid Cafe and coaxed her into forgiving his long absence.
• Shyarly noticed her Pure Gold ring and asked Sephiroth whether it could make someone immortal.
• Shyarly glimpsed something in the prophecy crystal but concealed it from Sephiroth, then asked him to go shopping with her.
• Sephiroth and Shyarly watched Queen Otohime urge the Fish-Man Race to gather signatures for a move to the surface at the Reverie.
• The petition baskets caught fire, and an abrupt gunshot struck Queen Otohime in the left chest.

Hody Jones tried to stop Queen Otohime’s campaign for peaceful coexistence by burning her petitions and shooting her, but Sephiroth captured him and operated on Otohime. With Otohime recovering, Neptune ordered Hody’s public execution.

• Hody Jones burned the petitions supporting Otohime’s relocation plan, then shot her from a cliff at Gyoncorde Plaza.
• Sephiroth used a Spatial Gate and Conqueror’s Haki to capture Hody, while Mekaro confirmed he had witnessed the shooting to Jinbe.
• Sephiroth brought the wounded Otohime to Shyarly’s residence and performed surgery after she agreed to trust him.
• Neptune and the royal family gathered at Shyarly’s residence, where Sephiroth reported that Otohime’s surgery had succeeded.
• Jinbe brought Hody to the residence and identified him as the shooter and the mastermind behind the petition fire; Neptune struck Hody and ordered Jinbe to execute him publicly.

Sephiroth challenged Queen Otohime’s plan to move Fish-Man Island’s people to the surface, then offered to relocate non-hostile fish-men to his Sky Island. He left to arrest Vander Decken and quickly captured him.

• Sephiroth learned that Vander Decken was attacking Shirahoshi and promised Neptune he would capture the pirate.
• Sephiroth argued that moving to the surface would expose fish-men to slavery, conflict, and shortages of land, while Otohime explained her hopes for their future.
• Sephiroth offered to shelter fish-men who were not hostile toward humans on his Sky Island, provided they addressed Fish-Man Island’s internal problems.
• Neptune recognized that Sephiroth meant the Sky Island, and Sephiroth confirmed that he controlled the territory and could approve the relocation himself.
• Sephiroth found Vander Decken in the Fish-Man District, knocked him unconscious, and carried him through a Spatial Gate.

Sephiroth killed Vander Decken and used his blood-control ability to extract the Target-Target Fruit power, which he transferred into a dragon fruit. The experiment led him to realize that Devil Fruit users possessed their fruits’ fundamental abilities from the start, even before they learned to develop them.

• Sephiroth interrogated Vander Decken, read his memories, and learned that the Target-Target Fruit power passed through the family by eating a dying predecessor’s heart.
• Sephiroth left Vander Decken chained in a sealed basement, then returned with fruit and refused the fish-man’s offer to become his underling.
• Sephiroth slit Vander Decken’s throat and used his awakened Vampire Fruit powers to drain his blood and extract the Target-Target Fruit power.
• Sephiroth tested the power against several fruits and transferred it into a dragon fruit, which became the Target-Target Fruit.
• Sephiroth realized that Devil Fruit powers included fundamental abilities from the beginning and that his blood-control trait had helped nearby fruits receive powers from defeated users.

Sephiroth arranged Queen Otohime’s inspection of Sky Island for the Fish-Man Island relocation plan, then met with Kuro at Marine Base G4. After informing Kuro he planned to resign from the Marines, Sephiroth let him choose a Devil Fruit to strengthen his position as Sephiroth’s representative in the Marines.

• Sephiroth introduced Queen Otohime to Black Maria, who was to handle the details of the fish-men’s relocation to Sky Island.
• Sephiroth returned to Marine Base G4 and told Kuro that Marine Headquarters had promoted him to colonel.
• Sephiroth revealed that he planned to resign and asked Kuro to represent his interests within the Marines, and Kuro agreed.
• Sephiroth offered Kuro a choice of Devil Fruits, and Kuro chose the Kilo-Kilo Fruit because it suited his movement-focused fighting style.
• Kuro ate the Kilo-Kilo Fruit, complained about its taste, and left Sephiroth’s office.
• Sephiroth took out a military Den Den Mushi and dialed a number.

Sephiroth spoke with Steel Bone Kong about resigning from the Marines and realized Kong had long known about his identity and Umbrella Corporation. Kong offered to let him leave in exchange for trying not to oppose the Marines, and Sephiroth accepted.

• Sephiroth asked Steel Bone Kong if he could resign after returning the Butcher Blade.
• Steel Bone Kong revealed that he had investigated Sephiroth since their meeting in Sea Calendar 1470 and knew about his activities and company.
• Sephiroth pieced together why Kong had tolerated Umbrella Corporation's growth and used the Butcher Blade to test whether he had returned to the past.
• Steel Bone Kong asked Sephiroth to explain his goal, and Sephiroth said he wanted a free and carefree life.
• Steel Bone Kong offered to overlook Sephiroth's past if he tried not to stand against the Marines after leaving.
• Sephiroth accepted the deal and promised to do his utmost to avoid becoming the Marines' enemy.

Sephiroth submitted his resignation to Sengoku and denounced the Marines as an instrument of the Celestial Dragons rather than a force for justice. Sengoku approved his departure, but Zephyr persuaded him to teach swordsmanship at the Military Academy before leaving.

• Zephyr and Sengoku discussed the Marines’ declining recruitment, poor benefits, and Red-Haired Shanks’s growing power and weak grand fleet.
• Sephiroth brought Sengoku his resignation report, and Zephyr questioned why he wanted to leave the Marines.
• Sephiroth condemned the Marines’ role in serving the Celestial Dragons and cited Ohara’s destruction and the framing of Nico Robin as evidence of their hypocrisy.
• Sengoku accepted that Sephiroth had made up his mind and approved his resignation.
• Zephyr insisted that Sephiroth repay the Military Academy by teaching one class, and Sephiroth reluctantly agreed to leave after completing the assignment.

Doflamingo persuaded Kaido to reform the slave factories and seize the Flower Capital’s population, then helped arrange Kurozumi Orochi’s removal under the guise of a rebellion. A week later, Vergo won the vacant All-Star position, while Lao G defeated Jack despite Jack gaining the Mammoth Fruit.

• Doflamingo returned to Onigashima with fewer slaves and urged Kaido to change the factories’ practices; he also encouraged Vergo to pursue the vacant All-Star position.
• Jack showed Kaido a photograph of the Road Poneglyph he found beneath Teng Mountain, and Kaido rewarded him with the Mammoth Fruit and the chance to compete for an All-Star seat.
• Doflamingo proposed taking the Flower Capital’s residents to replenish the slave factories, and he suggested staging an uprising to justify removing Kurozumi Orochi.
• Kojiro was presented as a Kozuki Family remnant who killed Kurozumi Orochi before Kaido arrived, slew him, and took control of the Flower Capital.
• During the Beasts Pirates’ All-Star selection, Lao G crushed Jack, then Vergo defeated Lao G and claimed the vacant All-Star position.

Sephiroth joined Zephyr at the Military Academy as a swordsmanship instructor and teaching assistant, where he reunited with Domino, who had become a criminal psychology instructor. Zephyr introduced himself to three hundred new recruits by ordering them to run laps.

• Sephiroth questioned how to teach a group, and Zephyr explained that he should adapt to each student's aptitude and identified Ain as the class's most talented swordswoman.
• Zephyr assigned Shuzo to lead a class and made Sephiroth both the swordsmanship instructor and his teaching assistant.
• Sephiroth ran into Domino on the stairs, flirted with her, and learned that she had joined the academy to teach criminal psychology.
• Zephyr and Sephiroth arrived before three hundred new recruits, and Zephyr ordered them to run two hundred laps, threatening extra laps and no lunch for those who fell behind.

At Marineford’s Military Academy, Sephiroth tested the students’ endurance, singled out a class that included Ain and Binz, and discovered Ain’s Rewind Fruit could potentially restore ancient records. He left the cafeteria considering how to recruit her to help recover the unreadable documents from Birka.

• Zephyr assessed the academy students’ poor performance and gave Sephiroth a list of thirty students, including Ain and Binz, to form a class.
• None of the three hundred students finished the initial eighty-kilometer run in an hour, and only twenty-four completed the added laps within two hours.
• Sephiroth rewarded the twenty-four finishers with lunch and told the students who had failed that they could stop running, prompting many to give up.
• Sephiroth sat with Ain in the cafeteria and learned that her Rewind Fruit could restore objects by up to five years at a time, with repeated use limited by her stamina.
• Sephiroth considered asking Ain to restore ancient Birkan documents so Umbrella Corporation could advance its research, then finished lunch and left.

Sephiroth taught swordsmanship to Class One at Marineford Military Academy, clashing with Zephyr over whether students should learn practical combat methods or sword theory. He demonstrated his Killing Intent Illusion, knocking out all thirty students, and left Zephyr disputing whether it was swordsmanship or Conqueror’s Haki.

• Zephyr introduced Sephiroth as the Marines’ foremost Great Swordsman and appointed him to teach the term’s swordsmanship classes.
• Sephiroth suggested that students who did not specialize in swordsmanship should train with pistols alongside their swords, but Zephyr insisted he teach swordsmanship instead.
• Sephiroth explained his three realms of swordsmanship, leaving the students bewildered and Zephyr demanding more practical instruction.
• Sephiroth used his Killing Intent Illusion to make the thirty students collapse unconscious, while Zephyr resisted by activating Armament Haki.
• Sephiroth claimed he had defeated the students with the sword in his heart, and Zephyr questioned whether the effect had actually been Conqueror’s Haki.

During an unarmed combat lesson at Marineford Military Academy, Sephiroth sparred with Zephyr and demonstrated a new technique that concealed his movements from future-sight Observation Haki. He left Zephyr stunned by his strength, then the lesson continued with the cadets sparring.

• Zephyr challenged Sephiroth to an unarmed combat demonstration after realizing his earlier swordsmanship display had used Conqueror's Haki and killing intent.
• Sephiroth and Zephyr exchanged blows using Armament Haki and the Six Powers, but both discovered that the other could use future-sight Observation Haki.
• Sephiroth revealed Observation Haki Killing, using controlled Conqueror's Haki to deceive Zephyr's perception and conceal his attack.
• Sephiroth appeared behind Zephyr and kicked him through a wall of the academy building, shocking the cadets and instructors.
• Zephyr ordered the cadets to begin sparring and chose not to resume his match with Sephiroth.

Sephiroth warned his cadets that they would face harsh punishments if they failed to score perfectly on their theory exams. Later, Domino invited him to dinner, and he asked her to come to his place so he could cook for her.

• Sephiroth told his cadets that anyone who failed to get full marks on next week's theory exams would be punished, ruining their weekend plans.
• Domino caught up with Sephiroth in the corridor and shyly reminded him that he had promised to treat her to dinner.
• Domino recalled her old crush on Sephiroth and how rumors about his relationships made her believe she had a chance with him.
• Sephiroth sensed Domino's feelings and invited her to his place that night, promising to cook.

Sephiroth invited Domino to his house, then waited for her at the Marineford Military Academy training field and coached Ain in swordsmanship. He stopped Ain’s final thrust with one finger, leaving her astonished by the gap between their abilities.

• Domino agreed to visit Sephiroth’s house for dinner but asked him to wait while she returned to the staff dormitory to get something.
• Sephiroth found Ain practicing two-sword-style techniques and offered to test her swordsmanship.
• Sephiroth evaded Ain’s attacks while teaching her to focus on the battle, vary her techniques, and avoid predictable attack patterns.
• Ain adjusted her attacks and showed Sephiroth her swordsmanship comprehension and potential.
• Sephiroth stopped Ain’s thrust at his throat with one finger, and Ain cried out in disbelief.

Sephiroth offered Ain two Famous Blades in exchange for using her Rewind Fruit ability to restore ancient books, but she mistakenly thought he was proposing a romantic relationship. After Domino interrupted and Sephiroth clarified the arrangement, Ain realized her misunderstanding and agreed to help.

• Sephiroth explained that Ain needed Armament Haki and a better sword to hurt him, then offered her two Meito for a price.
• Ain thought Sephiroth wanted her to date him and shyly agreed before Domino arrived.
• Sephiroth told Domino and Ain that he wanted Ain to restore ancient books with her Rewind Fruit ability.
• Ain realized she had misunderstood Sephiroth, and he arranged to visit her dormitory the next day and give her two Famous Blades after the work was done.

Sephiroth brought Domino to his villa on Sabaody Archipelago and cooked her seafood fried noodles. Domino secretly drugged the wine to seduce him, but drank the spiked glass herself after Sephiroth noticed something was wrong, leaving her intoxicated while he tried to calm her down with food.

• Sephiroth and Domino arrived at the villa on Sabaody Archipelago using his spatial ability.
• Sephiroth prepared seafood fried noodles while Domino secretly poured an entire bottle of Aphrodite's Temptation into the red wine.
• Sephiroth noticed the wine smelled strange and declined to drink it, so Domino drank her glass herself.
• The drug took effect, and Domino pressed against Sephiroth and asked whether he wanted her.
• Sephiroth told Domino to eat something to calm down and put a sea cucumber in her mouth with his chopsticks.

Domino woke beside Sephiroth, and he reassured her that he cared for her and wanted her in his life. Later, Sephiroth asked Ain to restore ancient lunar records, but after she finished a small batch, he revealed that more than a hundred thousand remained and paid her in advance with the cursed blade Killing Intent.

• Domino recalled how the spiked wine and Aphrodite Potion had led her to throw herself at Sephiroth, and she felt ashamed.
• Sephiroth comforted Domino, told her he liked her and would not let her go, and she kissed his cheek.
• Sephiroth visited Ain at Marineford Military Academy and brought her a cabinet of ancient books and documents to restore with her Rewind Fruit ability.
• Ain repeatedly rewound the documents until she had restored roughly one or two hundred of them, exhausting herself.
• Sephiroth revealed that more than a hundred thousand documents still needed restoration and gave Ain the cursed blade Killing Intent as half payment.

Sephiroth asked Zephyr to switch classes so he could lead Class One and have Ain help restore ancient books, but Zephyr refused after suspecting his motives. During the voyage to Hannibal, Zephyr misunderstood their work and burst into the cabin, where Sephiroth teased him about it.

• Sephiroth asked Zephyr to let him lead Class One, and Zephyr refused because he suspected Sephiroth was pursuing Ain and feared damage to the Military Academy's reputation.
• Zephyr confirmed that he planned to use the students to ambush pirates at the Underground Death Sailing Race in Hannibal.
• Sephiroth visited Class One's warship during the voyage and had Ain use her Rewind Ability to restore ancient books in exchange for two Famous Blades.
• Zephyr heard Ain's pleas and Sephiroth's teasing through the cabin door, then burst in and found them fully dressed with bookshelves nearby.
• Ain explained that she was restoring the books, while Sephiroth jokingly claimed he had been forcing her to do illicit things.

Miss Bakin and Weevil entered the Death Sailing Race on Hannibal Island after learning about its prize money and a special bounty. Meanwhile, Sephiroth and the other Marine instructors sailed toward the island, where they prepared to confront the dangerous pirates competing in the race.

• Miss Bakin took Weevil to an underground bar on Hannibal Island to enter the Death Sailing Race.
• Miss Bakin learned that the race offered 500 million Belly in prize money and that pirates with bounties above 80 million could pursue an additional 2 billion Beli bounty.
• Marine instructors reviewed intelligence about dangerous race participants, including Edward Weevil, as their warships headed for Hannibal Island.
• Sephiroth questioned why the Military Academy students had to face such dangerous pirates, and Zephyr rebuked him for boasting about his own training.

Sephiroth intervened in the battle after spotting an ambush against Zephyr’s warship and wiped out the pirates attacking his students. The chapter revealed that Beck had organized the concealed attack to kill Zephyr, though Sephiroth’s intervention disrupted the plan.

• Sephiroth’s warship engaged a pirate ship in the storm, and he deflected sniper fire before killing the sniper with a long-range slash.
• Sephiroth sensed a ship ram Zephyr’s warship and decided to help him despite their strained relationship.
• Sephiroth killed more than seventy pirates attacking his students, then promised to report their merit before stepping through a Spatial Gate.
• Beck explained that he wanted revenge on Zephyr and had planned to exploit his asthma with a virus and a coordinated pirate ambush.
• Beck ordered Cooley to keep their ship invisible and assigned Strongman Banks and Edward Weevil to draw Zephyr’s attention as the ship rammed the warship.

Zephyr tried to defend Class One’s warship from a coalition of pirates, but Banks, Edward Weevil, Kuri, and Beck overwhelmed him while Beck’s virus triggered his asthma. The chapter left Zephyr badly weakened, with his right forearm severed and the students losing hope as Beck revealed his revenge plot.

• Zephyr ordered Class Six to support Classes Three and Eight, then rushed onto the deck after a pirate ship appeared beside Class One’s warship.
• Zephyr intercepted Edward Weevil to protect Binz, knocked the invisible Kuri overboard, and fought Banks, Weevil, and Beck as pirates killed the academy students.
• Beck threw smoke grenades at Zephyr, and their virus triggered Zephyr’s asthma, weakening his Haki and leaving him vulnerable to Banks’s punch.
• Edward Weevil severed Zephyr’s right forearm, and Beck revealed that he had caused Zephyr’s asthma attack to avenge his older brother and wife.
• Zephyr stopped the bleeding and tried to use Armament Haki to erase the virus, but his condition deteriorated further.

Sephiroth rescued Zephyr and the surviving Class One students from an elite pirate attack, killing Beck and defeating Banks while Weevil and Miss Bakkin escaped. The disaster killed thirty-eight students and crippled nineteen, leading Sengoku to demote Zephyr, replace him with Simon Amanen, and promote Aokiji to Admiral.

• Sephiroth arrived aboard Zephyr's warship and killed Beck with a single slash as Beck ordered the pirates to retreat.
• Miss Bakkin jumped into the sea, Weevil blocked Sephiroth's attack and escaped into the water, and the remaining pirates fled.
• Sephiroth dodged Banks's punches and struck him with a Conqueror's Haki shockwave, sending him into the sea.
• Sephiroth surgically reattached Zephyr's severed arm, but the assessment's casualties led Zephyr to submit his resignation.
• Sengoku demoted Zephyr and removed him as chief instructor but rejected his resignation, then appointed Simon Amanen, who replaced practical combat assessments with trainee assignments.
• Sengoku promoted Aokiji to Marine Admiral, joining Akainu and Kizaru as the Marines' three Admirals.

Sephiroth resigned from the Marines to pursue the freedom to wage war against Kaido for his father's death, then advised Ain to join Zephyr's Pirate Guerrilla Force. Before leaving Marineford, he gave her the blade Thunderclap, and Ain kissed him on the cheek but could not say what she truly wanted to tell him.

• Sengoku approved Sephiroth's resignation after failing to persuade him to stay, and Sephiroth left him with a pointed remark about Flexible Justice.
• After Ain graduated, Sephiroth told her he had resigned because Marine rules prevented him from taking the initiative against Kaido, the pirate whose crew had killed his father.
• Sephiroth advised Ain to join Zephyr's Pirate Guerrilla Force, and she agreed to apply.
• At the beach, Sephiroth gave Ain the blade Thunderclap, which she tested by blasting a distant cliff with a lightning-wrapped slash.
• As Sephiroth prepared to leave through a Spatial Gate, Ain kissed his cheek and ran off without confessing what she had meant to say.

The Five Elders discussed Umbrella Corporation’s growing economic power and its ties to Whitebeard, then devised a legal plan to curb the company. They intended to propose a law that would force Umbrella to sever its ties with Whitebeard or face the World Government’s retaliation.

• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro reported that Umbrella Corporation controlled an estimated twenty-two percent of the world’s circulating Belly and that its influence continued to grow.
• The Five Elders questioned how Gild Tesoro had built the company so quickly and why the Underground World’s leaders had allowed it to expand.
• Saint Jaygarcia Saturn said the Five Elders needed to find a way to curb Umbrella Corporation or bring it under their control without provoking the nations tied to it.
• Saint Topman Warcury proposed a law against corporations accepting protection from pirate forces, which would force Umbrella Corporation to choose between breaking with Whitebeard or becoming an enemy of the World Government.
• The Five Elders planned to present the law to the Council of Fifty Kings during the Reverie and push it through after the required ten-day public notice.