Recaps

Sephiroth learned that the Five Elders had introduced a law to pressure Umbrella Corporation into choosing between the World Government and Whitebeard. He devised a plan to make the Elders believe they had achieved their goal and called Baccarat to issue an announcement, but the chapter ended before he revealed its contents.

• Sephiroth read reports about the new law and Doflamingo's victory over Wang Zhi while relaxing with Perona.
• Gild Tesoro told Sephiroth that the Five Elders' law would take effect in ten days and was intended to suppress Umbrella Corporation.
• Sephiroth considered the risks of fighting the World Government or provoking Whitebeard and realized he could deceive the Five Elders into thinking their objective had been achieved.
• Sephiroth called Baccarat and told her to issue a company announcement and publish it in the World Economy News Paper.

Sephiroth learned that his retirement and Umbrella Corporation appointment had made him a public figure, while Uta prepared her first self-written album and Yamato proved she could use Conqueror’s Haki Infusion. Yamato announced that she planned to set sail with Kozuki Hiyori, Kuina, Isca, and Perona, and Sephiroth agreed after telling them to bring a Vampire Bat.

• Sephiroth read that Umbrella Corporation had hired him as a security consultant after his retirement from the Marines, and he worried that the news would draw the World Government’s attention.
• Sephiroth praised Uta’s new song, “New Era,” and suggested that she make music videos for her album; Uta agreed to learn dancing.
• Yamato demonstrated that she had learned to infuse her attacks with Conqueror’s Haki and asked Sephiroth if she could go adventuring at sea.
• Yamato revealed that Kozuki Hiyori, Kuina, Isca, and Perona had already agreed to join her crew, surprising Sephiroth.
• Sephiroth agreed to help Yamato set sail after another month or two and told her to take a Vampire Bat in case the crew ran into trouble.

Queen Otohime led more than sixty thousand fish-men and merfolk through a Spatial Gate to begin their relocation to Sky Island, where Sephiroth arranged their settlement. After learning that Golden Lion Shiki had attacked an Umbrella Corporation merchant ship, Sephiroth ordered a search for Shiki and his floating headquarters.

• Otohime and Baccarat prepared the first group of immigrants, and Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate to Upper Yard Island, where the fish-men and merfolk began settling in.
• Sephiroth offered Shyarly a new fish-man café, and she asked to live independently; he agreed on the condition that she occasionally spend time with the other women.
• Tesoro reported that Golden Lion Shiki had robbed an Umbrella Corporation merchant ship and killed its escorts.
• Sephiroth recognized Shiki from the report and ordered Tesoro to search the skies between Water 7 and the Sabaody Archipelago for his fleet.
• Sephiroth also told Tesoro to seek an Eternal Pose for Merveille, Shiki's former headquarters, and Tesoro agreed to begin the search.

Sephiroth visited Foodvalten Island and explained to Whitebeard that he had left the Marines to join Umbrella Corporation. He told Whitebeard he had come to settle things with him on the corporation’s behalf.

• Whitebeard drank heavily at The Big Barrel while Marco warned him that his health was worsening.
• Sephiroth entered the bar, prompting Whitebeard’s commanders to rise and watch him warily.
• Sephiroth showed Whitebeard a newspaper report confirming his new position as Umbrella Corporation’s security consultant.
• Sephiroth solemnly told Whitebeard he had come to settle things with him on behalf of Umbrella Corporation.

Sephiroth went to Foodvalten Island to end Umbrella Corporation’s partnership with the Whitebeard Pirates, and proved his strength by clashing with Whitebeard. After negotiating a payment, the two sides ended their business ties.

• Sephiroth told Whitebeard that Umbrella Corporation had to terminate its partnership because of new World Government laws, but Whitebeard refused to negotiate with him at first.
• Whitebeard attacked Sephiroth, and the two clashed with their blades and Conqueror’s Haki, wrecking the bar and splitting the sky.
• Whitebeard accepted Sephiroth as a legitimate negotiator and demanded fifty billion Belly to end the partnership.
• Sephiroth agreed immediately, opened five iron boxes of cash, and offered Whitebeard a total of five hundred billion Belly.
• Whitebeard declared that Umbrella Corporation and the Whitebeard Pirates would have nothing more to do with each other.

Yamato set sail from Sky Island with Perona, Isca, Kuina, and Kozuki Hiyori while Sephiroth learned that Golden Lion Shiki’s headquarters had been located. Shiki planned to unleash IQ-enhanced beasts on the East Blue, but a black figure raced toward his floating island.

• Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate so Yamato and her crew could sail from Sky Island to the Blue Sea, and he promised Shirahoshi he would tell her stories.
• Gild Tesoro informed Sephiroth that Golden Lion Shiki’s headquarters lay between the Florian Triangle and the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Golden Lion Shiki recalled his past defeats, his escape from Impel Down, and his declining strength after the ship’s wheel damaged his head.
• Shiki planned to use Dr. Indigo’s IQ Drug to breed powerful beasts and destroy the East Blue.
• A black figure tore through the sky toward Shiki’s floating island.

Sephiroth tracked Golden Lion Shiki to Merveille Island and attacked him, destroying the central palace and the laboratory for the IQ Drug. He redirected Shiki’s seawater attack with his new Secret Sword: Swallow Reversal, defeated him, and took him away as the floating islands began to fall.

• Sephiroth followed an Umbrella Corporation employee’s Vivre Card to Merveille Island and found Golden Lion Shiki in his palace.
• Sephiroth attacked Shiki, then unleashed a massive flaming slash that split the palace and destroyed Dr. Indigo’s laboratory for the IQ Drug.
• Shiki retaliated by turning seawater into a giant lion and sending it at Sephiroth.
• Sephiroth used Secret Sword: Swallow Reversal to send the water lion through a Spatial Gate and redirect it into Shiki, submerging him and weakening his Devil Fruit power.
• Sephiroth severed Shiki’s limbs with Haki-infused sword slashes, restrained him with a Sea Stone nail, and carried him away through a Spatial Gate as Merveille’s islands began to fall.

Sephiroth extracted Golden Lion Shiki’s Lineage Factor and recreated the Float-Float Fruit, then planned to use its power to make Umbrella Corporation’s territory mobile. He ordered Gild Tesoro to conceal the company’s New World operations and had Jim fuse the Float-Float Fruit with a bracelet.

• Sephiroth used blood control to learn how Golden Lion Shiki had developed the Float-Float Fruit, then extracted its power and created a new Devil Fruit.
• Sephiroth ate the blood mass and used Blood Recall to study Shiki’s experience, deciding the Float-Float Fruit could make his islands mobile and help Umbrella Corporation evade its enemies.
• Gild Tesoro warned Sephiroth that Underground World figures were targeting the company after its partnership with the Whitebeard Pirates ended.
• Sephiroth ordered Gild Tesoro to withdraw Umbrella Corporation’s public-facing New World businesses while secretly transferring operations to Du Feld, Dorag Pierrot, Giberson, and Umit.
• Sephiroth instructed Gild Tesoro to keep the company low-profile and hide its assets through subsidiaries until world turmoil distracted the World Government.
• Jim fused the Float-Float Fruit with a silver bracelet and handed the finished item to Sephiroth.

Sephiroth learned that Umbrella Corporation’s weather-control instrument was progressing and rejected Vinsmoke Judge’s bid to join the company’s leadership, offering private military and financial cooperation instead. He then used the Float-Float Fruit to lift all of Vaflorode into the sky, where World Government ships spotted the island and alerted the Five Elders.

• Lim told Sephiroth that research on the Breath of the Gods had yielded little, but a weather-altering instrument was expected to be ready in two or three years.
• Gild Tesoro informed Sephiroth that Vinsmoke Judge wanted the Germa Kingdom to join Umbrella Corporation and wanted a seat in its upper management.
• Sephiroth refused to let Germa join or give Judge an executive position, but offered paid support for Germa’s conquests in exchange for half of the resources taken.
• Sephiroth ordered Gild Tesoro to demonstrate Umbrella Corporation’s secret weapons to Judge without revealing cloning or Lineage Factor technology.
• Sephiroth used the Float-Float Fruit to raise all of Vaflorode about one thousand meters above the sea.
• World Government ships witnessed Vaflorode rising and urgently reported it to the Five Elders in Mariejois.

The Five Elders discussed Umbrella Corporation’s decline after the World Government’s new laws, then learned that Vaflorode had risen into the sky. Suspecting Golden Lion Shiki had taken the Ancient Weapon Breath of the Gods, they ordered Vegapunk to prioritize developing Mother Flame.

• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro estimated that the World Government’s legal pressure had reduced Umbrella Corporation’s share of the world’s Belly from twenty-eight percent to about twelve percent, and rejected calls to intensify the crackdown.
• Katonah reported to Saint Jaygarcia Saturn that Vaflorode and the surrounding seawater had inexplicably floated into the air.
• The Five Elders suspected Golden Lion Shiki had caused the phenomenon with the Float-Float Fruit and might be targeting Breath of the Gods.
• Saint Jaygarcia Saturn proposed using Mother Flame to counter Shiki, and Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro offered five times the research funding if Vegapunk focused exclusively on developing it.
• Saint Jaygarcia Saturn said Vegapunk would be warned that they were tools of the World Government.

Sephiroth and Baccarat arrived in the Germa Kingdom to negotiate with Vinsmoke Judge on behalf of the Umbrella Corporation. Judge challenged the company’s previous terms and invited Sephiroth to watch Germa’s soldiers train.

• Judge and his children waited at Germa’s harbor as an Umbrella Corporation speedboat approached at remarkable speed.
• Sephiroth and Baccarat arrived and introduced themselves to Judge as representatives of the Umbrella Corporation.
• Judge introduced Ichiji, Niji, Yonji, and Reiju to the visitors, while Sephiroth noticed the boys’ displeasure at his polite attention to Reiju.
• Judge argued that the Umbrella Corporation’s proposed conditions were too harsh and suggested that Sephiroth watch Germa soldiers train.
• Sephiroth accepted the invitation, saying he wanted to see how formidable Germa’s soldiers were.

In Germa Kingdom, Vinsmoke Judge showed Sephiroth Germa’s clone soldiers, and Sephiroth criticized their limitations before revealing Umbrella Corporation possessed cloning and Lineage Factor research. The revelation left Judge shocked as Sephiroth moved to secure his submission to Umbrella Corporation.

• Vinsmoke Judge demonstrated the clone soldiers’ absolute obedience by ordering two to fight to the death, then commanding the survivor to kill himself.
• Sephiroth praised the soldiers as tools of war but pointed out their slow cultivation, limited strength, low efficiency, and short service lives.
• Sephiroth told Judge that Umbrella Corporation had once considered a clone army but ultimately abandoned the plan.
• Baccarat handed Judge Umbrella Corporation’s research documents, including materials on cloning and Lineage Factor technology, leaving him astonished.
• Sephiroth explained that Umbrella Corporation had acquired MADS’s research through Du Feld and intended the revelations to make Judge submit while preserving his willingness to cooperate.

Sephiroth revealed Umbrella Corporation’s secret plan to use Germa Kingdom as its proxy in wars, then showed Vinsmoke Judge its Intelligent War Machines as an alternative to clone soldiers. Judge was left weighing Germa’s ambitions against the machines’ enormous cost.

• Sephiroth explained that Umbrella Corporation wanted Germa Kingdom to wage wars through underworld intermediaries while the corporation profited behind the scenes.
• Vinsmoke Judge struggled between accepting Umbrella Corporation’s terms for a chance to rule the North Blue and preserving Germa’s independence.
• Sephiroth asked why Umbrella Corporation did not manufacture a clone army and revealed two Intelligent War Machines, WM-1 and WM-2.
• Sephiroth described WM-1’s heavy machine gun and laser weapons, then demonstrated WM-2’s swordsmanship systems, lasers, and flight capability.
• Sephiroth explained that the machines could suppress enemies or enter killing mode, and Vinsmoke Judge objected that they were far too expensive.

Sephiroth explained Umbrella Corporation’s robot prices and production plans to Vinsmoke Judge, who challenged him to prove the WM-2 mech’s strength against his sons. As they arranged a test, Sephiroth recognized that expensive top-spec mechs could be vulnerable to elite Haki users, while cheaper mass-produced versions could overwhelm ordinary fighters through numbers.

• Sephiroth explained the WM-1 and WM-2 mechs’ capabilities, high maintenance costs, and estimated mass-production prices to Vinsmoke Judge.
• Sephiroth showed Judge an ordinary robot prototype and explained that robots could be produced much faster than clone soldiers.
• Vinsmoke Judge challenged Sephiroth to have the WM-2 mech fight Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji together.
• Sephiroth agreed and considered how Armament Haki Internal Destruction could short-circuit a mech despite its strong outer armor.
• Sephiroth speculated that the World Government had lowered Pacifista production costs because top-spec units were expensive and vulnerable to elite fighters.

Niji challenged the WM-2 mech and was decisively defeated, convincing Vinsmoke Judge of Umbrella Corporation’s technological superiority. Judge agreed to accept the cooperation proposal if Umbrella Corporation also gave Germa its robot manufacturing technology.

• Niji attacked the WM-2 mech with electric punches, kicks, and a sword, but failed to damage it significantly.
• The WM-2 mech overpowered Niji, broke six of his ribs, and pinned him until Sephiroth ordered it to disengage.
• Niji stood up and reset his broken ribs with his modified body’s strength.
• Judge abandoned further testing and acknowledged Umbrella Corporation’s technology after seeing Niji overwhelmed.
• Judge told Sephiroth he would accept the cooperation proposal if Umbrella Corporation provided its robot manufacturing technology.

Sephiroth negotiated a mech sales agreement with Vinsmoke Judge and demanded Reiju as part of the deal. Judge accepted, and Sephiroth entered the castle with him to settle the cooperation’s details, while planning to study Reiju’s toxin-related abilities.

• Sephiroth told Judge that Umbrella Corporation would not disclose its mech technology, but offered to sell robots at nearly cost price if Judge accepted a condition.
• Judge agreed to Sephiroth’s demand for Reiju, treating his daughter as a bargaining chip; Reiju remained silent because she could not disobey him, and Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji showed no concern.
• Sephiroth agreed that Umbrella Corporation would sell experimental and mass-produced mechs to Germa, with the company retaining control through maintenance needs, proprietary alloys, and programming backdoors.
• Judge invited Sephiroth to the castle, where they began negotiating the details of their cooperation.
• Sephiroth sought Reiju partly to study her toxin resistance and abilities in hopes of learning how to overcome seawater and Sea Stone.

Reiju confronted Vinsmoke Judge about giving her to Sephiroth, but Judge ordered her to serve Germa Kingdom and bind Sephiroth through children. Later, she invited Sephiroth into her room to watch the stars, where they spoke about Judge’s conquest of the North Blue.

• Reiju asked Vinsmoke Judge why he had given her to Sephiroth, and he said it would bring benefits to Germa Kingdom.
• Judge ordered Reiju to please Sephiroth and bear his children, and Reiju submitted because she could not resist her father’s commands.
• Reiju encountered Sephiroth in the corridor outside her bedroom and invited him inside to enjoy the night view.
• Sephiroth noticed a photograph of Vinsmoke Judge in Reiju’s room, and Reiju explained that it commemorated his slaughter of the four nations of the North Blue.

Sephiroth comforted Reiju after Vinsmoke Judge treated her as a political bargaining chip, and she chose to try trusting him. Their relationship grew as Sephiroth negotiated Umbrella Corporation’s cooperation with Germa Kingdom, leaving Vinsmoke Judge equipped to expand his wars across North Blue.

• Reiju said she had no right to refuse Vinsmoke Judge, then embraced Sephiroth and asked him to stay with her.
• Sephiroth promised to make Reiju happy, and she began to consider trusting him despite her despair.
• The next morning, Reiju treated Sephiroth warmly, and he became more accommodating during negotiations with Vinsmoke Judge.
• After three days, Umbrella Corporation and Germa Kingdom finalized their cooperation terms, and Reiju gradually came to like Sephiroth.
• Sephiroth returned to Sky Island with Reiju and Baccarat, and four months later Umbrella Corporation began delivering mechs to Germa Kingdom.
• Vinsmoke Judge used the mechs to wage war on North Blue nations outside the World Government while Umbrella Corporation profited in secret.

Sephiroth learned that Big Mom had invited him to her tea party and claimed to know his true relationship with the Umbrella Corporation, so he decided to investigate and attend. He then used the Ripe-Ripe Fruit’s power to age Sugar’s body, and agreed to age Monet as well.

• Gild Tesoro told Sephiroth that Big Mom had invited him to Charlotte Daifuku’s wedding tea party and claimed to know his connection to the Umbrella Corporation.
• Sephiroth ordered an investigation into what the Big Mom Pirates knew and decided to attend the tea party to learn Big Mom’s intentions.
• Sephiroth gave Jim the Ripe-Ripe Fruit to fuse with a silver ring.
• At the villa, Sephiroth used the ring’s power to age Sugar’s body by ten years.
• Sugar asked Sephiroth to age Monet too, and he agreed to embrace them both.

Sephiroth explored Cocoa Island in Totto Land before Big Mom’s tea party and discovered a group of children bullying a three-eyed girl. The chapter ended with the girl crying as the children continued to mock her.

• Sephiroth walked through Chocolate Town and observed Totto Land’s food-themed streets, Homies, and citizens’ lifespan payments.
• Sephiroth bought several chocolate fireworks from a stall and continued sightseeing while waiting for Big Mom’s tea party.
• Sephiroth heard laughter and a girl crying, then found children surrounding and insulting a three-eyed girl.
• The children ignored the girl’s pleas and continued calling her ugly while nearby adults watched without intervening.

Sephiroth rescued Brulee from children bullying her in Chocolate Town and comforted her about her third eye. The chapter ended with him kissing her forehead as he insisted she was cute.

• Sephiroth threw a chocolate ice cream cone at the boy threatening to cut out Brulee’s third eye, then drove off the children and onlookers with his intimidating presence.
• Sephiroth comforted Brulee as she cried in his arms and offered her his handkerchief.
• Brulee told Sephiroth that people mocked her third eye and that even her mother, Charlotte Linlin, called it disgusting.
• Sephiroth told Brulee she was cute and would grow into a beautiful girl, then kissed her third eye to reassure her.

Sephiroth comforted Brulee after she was bullied, then accompanied her through Chocolate Town to buy groceries and heard how she had been left living alone after Lola fled an arranged marriage. Brulee invited him into her home for coffee, and he accepted.

• Sephiroth kissed Brulee on the forehead, reassured her, and offered to take her home.
• Brulee told Sephiroth that Lola had fled Totto Land to escape marrying Prince Loki, leaving her alone in Cocoa Island.
• Brulee asked Sephiroth to accompany her to buy ingredients, and he held her hand as passersby stared at her third eye.
• Brulee bought enough food to last more than half a month and told Sephiroth she hoped to open a café specializing in chocolate desserts.
• Brulee invited Sephiroth into her pink two-story home for coffee, and he accepted.

Sephiroth met Brulee in her home on Cocoa Island, then declined to travel through the Mirror World with Katakuri to attend Daifuku’s wedding. Katakuri gave Brulee a mysterious Devil Fruit, and she ate it, gaining the ability to manipulate memories.

• Sephiroth chatted with Brulee about the outside world after learning she was Charlotte Brulee, the thirty-fifth daughter of the Charlotte Family.
• Katakuri arrived through a mirror to escort Brulee to Daifuku’s wedding, but Sephiroth left rather than enter the Mirror World.
• Brulee told Katakuri that Sephiroth had rescued her from children who threatened to gouge out her eye.
• Katakuri gave Brulee an unidentified Devil Fruit so she could gain strength and protect herself.
• Brulee ate the Devil Fruit and discovered she could manipulate memories.

Sephiroth arrived at Whole Cake Island for Big Mom’s tea party and rode to the venue with several underworld figures and Morgans. He rebuffed Morgans’s attempt to link Umbrella Corporation to the Big Mom Pirates and drove Stussy away, then rested without pursuing a connection to Vegapunk.

• Baron Tamago welcomed Sephiroth at the harbor and escorted him to a pig-drawn carriage carrying Du Feld, Dorag Pierrot, Giberson, Umit, and Morgans.
• Morgans tried to turn Sephiroth’s attendance into a story about Umbrella Corporation cooperating with the Big Mom Pirates, but Sephiroth countered by suggesting the World Economy News Paper might be doing the same.
• Stussy boarded the carriage, flirted with Sephiroth, and was met with insulting questions about her prices until she cursed him and moved to another seat.
• Sephiroth rested and reflected that lunar technology and Umbrella Corporation’s existing researchers made recruiting Vegapunk unnecessary for now.

Sephiroth arrived at Charlotte Daifuku’s wedding tea party on Whole Cake Island and refused Perospero’s demand to surrender his swords. Katakuri let him enter, where he traded taunts with Smoothie and received a glass of juice squeezed from a captive woman.

• Sephiroth arrived at the wedding venue with Stussy and the others as guests gathered for Charlotte Daifuku’s wedding.
• Perospero demanded that Sephiroth surrender his swords and submit to a search, but Sephiroth refused and intimidated the soldiers guarding the entrance.
• Katakuri intervened and told Perospero to let Sephiroth enter, taking responsibility for the decision.
• Smoothie welcomed Sephiroth inside and offered drinks squeezed from captives; Sephiroth teased her before accepting a glass of juice squeezed from a serial killer.