Recaps

Sephiroth and Akainu fought fiercely on a secluded Marineford beach, turning the coast into a sea of molten fire and forcing nearby officers to retreat. Their clash ended with both men knocked from the sky after a headbutt, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Sephiroth struck Akainu with a powerful sword slash that shattered his body and carved a trench through the beach and sea.
• Akainu re-formed from magma and repeatedly attacked Sephiroth with Meteor Volcano, setting the surrounding land ablaze as the officers fled; Zephyr prepared to intervene, but Sengoku stopped him.
• Sephiroth and Akainu briefly faced off, then exchanged sword qi and magma attacks as Akainu used Hound Blaze to force Sephiroth to evade.
• Akainu exploited Sephiroth's opening with Dark Hound, grabbed his blades, and launched his head at him using elementalization.
• Sephiroth and Akainu collided foreheads with Armament Haki, and the shockwave sent them falling in opposite directions.

Sephiroth and Akainu fought fiercely on Marineford until Zephyr stopped them, and Sephiroth’s Butcher Blade transformed into a Black Blade during the battle. After learning that pirates were attacking the Sabaody Archipelago, Sephiroth left to respond, while news of his strength spread through Marine headquarters.

• Sephiroth recovered from his injuries, struck Akainu with a powerful Haki slash, and buried him beneath rubble.
• Sephiroth’s Butcher Blade became a Black Blade, and he retrieved Shusui from the magma before facing Akainu again.
• Zephyr intervened and ordered Sephiroth and Akainu to stop fighting.
• Frank told Sephiroth that pirates were attacking Islands 55 and 7, so Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate and returned to Sabaody.
• Sengoku took Akainu aside for a private conversation, while news of the battle made Sephiroth famous as an admiral-level fighter and the Marines’ number one Great Swordsman.

Sengoku questioned Akainu about his fight with Sephiroth and reconsidered the Marines’ plans after learning Sephiroth could match an Admiral. He and Steel Bone Kong agreed to warn Sephiroth privately, avoid pursuing his past offenses for now, and keep him from becoming an Admiral.

• Sengoku asked Akainu about his fight with Sephiroth, and Akainu said Sephiroth had provoked him and they had fought at the beach.
• Akainu told Sengoku that he had used almost all his strength but could not have stopped Sephiroth from escaping by flight.
• Sengoku reviewed Sephiroth’s dossier and decided to suspend the plan to punish him because his strength and spatial transfer ability made him a dangerous potential enemy.
• Sengoku brought Sephiroth’s dossier and evidence of his violations to Steel Bone Kong and proposed issuing a private warning while monitoring him.
• Steel Bone Kong approved Sengoku’s plan, and Sengoku left to handle other Marine matters.

Sephiroth returned to Sabaody Archipelago to stop pirates ravaging Islands 55 and 7, where he realized Vergo had secretly arranged the raid for Doflamingo. After rescuing a badly burned orange-haired girl and organizing the Marines to fight the fires and evacuate civilians, he treated her injuries and said he might be able to remove her scars with a cosmetic ointment.

• Sephiroth arrived at the Marine base, saw the fires on Island 7, and ordered the soldiers to assemble before going to Island 55.
• Sephiroth found Vergo fighting pirates and realized from his lies and emotions that Vergo had helped arrange the raid for Doflamingo.
• Sephiroth ordered Vergo to handle the aftermath and killed the pirates looting on Island 55 and setting fires on Island 7.
• Sephiroth rescued an orange-haired girl from a burning house after her mother died shielding her, then stabilized the girl's burns with life force.
• Sephiroth sent the Marines through a Spatial Gate to contain the fires and evacuate civilians, then treated the girl's wounds in the infirmary.
• Sephiroth told a nurse that his cosmetic ointment might remove the girl's burn scars and asked to be informed when she woke.

Sephiroth spent the morning with Hancock, Sandersonia, Marigold, and Perona before preparing breakfast and reading about Fisher Tiger’s attack on Mariejois. As Hancock and her sisters prepared to set sail, Sephiroth gave her a suitcase of his newly developed Life Enhancement Potion.

• Sephiroth sent a bat clone to the Sabaody Archipelago Marines base and made seafood noodles for breakfast.
• Sephiroth and the others read that Fisher Tiger had freed thousands of slaves in Mariejois, putting himself on the World Government’s kill-on-sight list.
• Hancock reminded Sandersonia and Marigold to pack for their departure, and Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate so Marigold could shop on Island 45.
• Sephiroth retrieved a suitcase containing one hundred vials of Life Enhancement Potion and explained its healing effects, limits, and side effect.
• Hancock accepted the potion to help her crew recover from injuries in battle.

Sephiroth comforted Isca after her mother’s death and agreed to take her in, then received an order from Sengoku to report to Marineford. Suspecting Sengoku might move against him, Sephiroth sent a Bat Clone in his place and headed to the underground laboratory on Island 50 to prepare.

• Sephiroth visited Isca in the Marine medical room and comforted her as she grieved for her dead mother.
• Sephiroth offered to take Isca in, gave her a Life Enhancement Injection, and arranged for her to have food.
• Lieutenant Frank delivered Sengoku’s order for Sephiroth to report to Marineford.
• Sephiroth sent a Bat Clone to Marineford and went to the underground laboratory on Island 50 to prepare for possible trouble.

Sephiroth met with Sengoku, who accused him of betraying the Marines and colluding with pirates. Sengoku presented a photograph of Sephiroth kissing Hancock at a Sabaody amusement park, leaving Sephiroth wondering who had set him up as Sengoku demanded an explanation.

• Sephiroth's Bat Clone arrived at Sengoku's office in Marine Headquarters, and Sengoku tried to persuade him over tea.
• Sengoku accused Sephiroth of betraying the Marines and colluding with pirates, while Sephiroth denied the charges with exaggerated protestations of loyalty.
• Sengoku produced documents and photographs as evidence against Sephiroth.
• Sephiroth recognized a photograph of himself feeding ice cream to Hancock at the Soap Bubble Amusement Park a month earlier.
• Sephiroth suspected that someone in the Marines' corrupt faction had arranged the photograph, while Sengoku demanded that he explain himself.

Sephiroth faced Sengoku’s questions about his relationship with Boa Hancock and his role in her becoming a Shichibukai, then was confronted with evidence of corruption. He pretended to repent and offered to expose others, giving Sengoku a chance to use him in a wider purge.

• Sengoku confronted Sephiroth with Marine intelligence documents comparing Boa Hancock’s measurements and demanded an explanation for their embrace.
• Sephiroth deflected Sengoku’s accusations by invoking the Shichibukai system and defending Hancock’s strength and qualifications.
• Sengoku accused Sephiroth of helping Hancock become a Shichibukai, and Sephiroth admitted that he had helped her while arguing she deserved the position.
• Sengoku presented evidence of Sephiroth’s false warship damage reports with Kaisa and his business dealings through the Umbrella Corporation.
• Sephiroth feigned remorse, claimed he wanted to become a good person, and offered to report other corrupt Marines in exchange for redemption through service.

Sephiroth exposed corruption among Marine and World Government officials to Sengoku, who ordered him to keep reporting on them. The next day, Sephiroth prepared to travel to Fish-Man Island while arranging a home for Isca on Sabaody Archipelago.

• Sephiroth told Sengoku about corruption involving Marine leaders, government officials, and Celestial Dragons, and Sengoku asked him to continue gathering information.
• Sephiroth left his Bat Clone at Marineford after his meeting with Sengoku.
• A joke circulated at Marine Headquarters that Brandnew had been beaten and left unconscious in an alley.
• Sephiroth reassured Isca that her burns had healed and promised to make ointment to remove her scars.
• Frank delivered Sengoku's order for Sephiroth to search for Fisher Tiger and warn the Fish-Man Race, so Sephiroth arranged a coated warship for the trip to Fish-Man Island.
• Sephiroth brought Isca to a furnished house in the Marines' family housing district on Island 61 and left her one million Belly.

Sephiroth prepared a small warship and selected fifty veterans and the recruit Vergo for a trip to Fish-Man Island. He transferred Vergo from the Logistics Department into the Special Mobile Unit as a squad leader, while Vergo reconsidered his plans and worried about Doflamingo's report against Sephiroth.

• Sephiroth arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago base harbor with a covered iron cage and inspected the coated warship and the fifty soldiers Frank had selected.
• Sephiroth ordered Frank to bring Vergo from the Logistics Department, then questioned the recruit about his assignment to scrub toilets.
• Sephiroth claimed he had sent Vergo to the Logistics Department to test his will and character, and the soldiers confirmed that Sephiroth had tested them with beatings when he first took command.
• Sephiroth declared that Vergo had passed his test and appointed him a squad leader in the Special Mobile Unit.
• Vergo thanked Sephiroth, resolved to tell Doflamingo to stop targeting him, and worried that Doflamingo's report could bring Sephiroth down.
• Sephiroth promised to promote and raise Vergo's pay if he distinguished himself on the Fish-Man Island trip, then boarded the warship.

Sephiroth led a Marine warship beneath the sea toward Fish-Man Island, sinking pirates that threatened the ship along the way. When a Sea King attacked, he sent Vergo to fight it, and Vergo’s blow enraged the creature as it turned to bite him.

• Sephiroth directed the warship’s descent and ordered the crew to navigate cautiously through the deep-sea currents.
• A pirate ship captained by Lice appeared behind the warship, and Sephiroth cut it in half with a long-range slash.
• Sephiroth sank three more pirate groups, including a fleet of six ships, with one slash per ship.
• A giant anglerfish Sea King charged the warship, and Sephiroth ordered Vergo to take it down.
• Vergo left the ship in a coated diving suit and kicked the Sea King into an undersea mountain, but the enraged creature turned to bite him.

Vergo survived a battle with an anglerfish Sea King at the cost of rupturing his diving suit, while Sephiroth’s warship navigated the deep-sea hazards to reach Fish-Man Island. The crew entered the harbor and encountered Jinbe and the Neptune Royal Army.

• Vergo defeated the anglerfish Sea King, but falling rocks ruptured his coating; the soldiers hauled him aboard before the pressure killed him.
• Sephiroth promoted Vergo to corporal, and the soldiers praised his strength.
• Sephiroth directed the crew through the deep-sea waterfall and around underwater hazards as they descended toward Fish-Man Island.
• The warship reached Fish-Man Island, and Sephiroth ordered a messenger to request entry from the Ryugu Kingdom.
• The border harbor opened its floodgates and admitted the warship, where Sephiroth and the crew saw Jinbe leading twenty armed Fish-Man soldiers.

Sephiroth brought Marines to Fish-Man Island to capture Fisher Tiger, but entered the island despite Jinbe’s attempt to delay them. Jinbe warned Fisher Tiger, who prepared to act and hide the rescued former slaves.

• Frank presented Marine Headquarters’ orders and a photograph of Fisher Tiger to Jinbe, who asked to wait for King Neptune’s approval while secretly ordering soldiers to keep the Marines out.
• Sephiroth told Frank to rest and entered Fish-Man Island alone, using his Killing Intent to frighten the Neptune Royal Army soldiers into lowering their spears.
• The soldiers reported their failure to Jinbe, who reassured them and continued toward the royal palace.
• Jinbe urgently called Fisher Tiger and warned him that the Marines had come to capture him, advising him and the rescued people to hide or leave the island.
• Fisher Tiger told Jinbe that he understood and would take action immediately.

Sephiroth explored Fish-Man Island and witnessed Queen Otohime use her unusual Observation Haki to sway a resident toward trusting humans. At her Mermaid Cafe, Shyarly received a startling prophecy, but the vision was not revealed.

• Sephiroth walked through Port Town and observed the wary attitudes between humans and the island's residents.
• Queen Otohime persuaded a cartilaginous fish-man not to withdraw his signature supporting relocation to the surface.
• Sephiroth sensed Otohime's power to influence others through her Observation Haki and left before it could affect him.
• Shyarly recalled her past prophecies, her growing fortune, and her move to the commercial district to open a Mermaid Cafe.
• Shyarly felt a prophecy coming, looked into her crystal ball, and dropped her smoking pipe in shock at the vision.

Sephiroth visited Mermaid Cafe on Fish-Man Island to fulfill a long-held wish and booked a private room. The owner, Shyarly, offered to keep him company, and he accepted.

• Sephiroth arrived at Mermaid Cafe and asked the staff for a private room.
• Shyarly recognized Sephiroth, took over serving him, and charged him fifty thousand Beli for the room.
• Sephiroth ordered cakes, ice cream, fruit, and coffee, then followed Shyarly to Room 16.
• Sephiroth asked whether he could stay overnight and requested a beautiful mermaid to keep him company.
• Shyarly blushed and offered to keep him company herself, and Sephiroth agreed.

Sephiroth sought a prophecy from Shyarly, but she could not divine his future until later. After arranging to return in three days, he grew intimate with her in Mermaid Cafe’s private room.

• Sephiroth asked Shyarly to divine his future, but she said she had already used her ability that day.
• Sephiroth reflected on Shyarly’s accurate prophecies and the possibility that her vision of a straw hat destroying Fish-Man Island could refer to Luffy overthrowing Hody Jones’s regime.
• Sephiroth asked Shyarly to read his future three days later, and she agreed.
• Sephiroth and Shyarly became intimate, and Shyarly closed the clam bed around them.

Sephiroth spent the morning with Shyarly before returning to his Marine warship to begin the mission to capture Fisher Tiger. He arranged for Vergo to announce the Marines’ purpose at Gyoncorde Plaza while keeping himself out of the speech.

• Sephiroth answered Frank’s call and told him to wait for orders before beginning the hunt for Fisher Tiger.
• Shyarly learned that Sephiroth was a Marine, and the two spent two more hours together before he left the cafe.
• Sephiroth arrived at the border port and ordered Frank to assemble the soldiers.
• Sephiroth gave Vergo the prepared speech and assigned him to announce the Marines’ purpose at Gyoncorde Plaza.
• Sephiroth told Frank to record Vergo’s speech and led the soldiers toward town, leaving ten soldiers and the coating craftsmen to guard the warship.

Sephiroth sent Vergo to announce a reward for information about Fisher Tiger, stirring hostility among Fish-Man Island’s residents. Realizing he could not safely remain there, Fisher Tiger agreed to leave with his supporters and formed the Sun Pirates to pursue freedom and liberate slaves.

• Vergo announced that Marines would pay for information leading to Fisher Tiger, and Sephiroth withdrew with his soldiers as residents watched them with hostility.
• Arlong and Hachi went aboard Noah, where they met Kuroobi and found Fisher Tiger, Jinbe, and the escaped slaves gathered.
• Arlong offered to kill the Marines, but Fisher Tiger refused, warning that provoking them could bring disaster to Fish-Man Island.
• After hearing the Marines were offering money for reports, Fisher Tiger decided to leave Fish-Man Island before someone betrayed him.
• Jinbe and the other fish-men insisted on joining Fisher Tiger, and he agreed to form a pirate crew with them.
• Fisher Tiger named the crew the Sun Pirates and declared that they would pursue freedom and liberate oppressed slaves.

Sephiroth pressured Neptune and Otohime to send the Neptune Royal Army after Fisher Tiger, but his real goal was to infiltrate Ryugu Palace and steal its ES Steroid. He escaped with the drug to test whether it could be combined with his Life Enhancement Injection, while the kingdom agreed to search for Fisher Tiger without intending to make a serious effort.

• Sephiroth met Neptune, Otohime, and the Left Minister and argued that Fish-Man Island should help the Marines capture Fisher Tiger to protect its reputation and hopes of reaching the surface.
• The Left Minister asked Sephiroth to leave, then persuaded Neptune and Otohime to send soldiers to search for Fisher Tiger while secretly letting them go through the motions.
• While waiting, Sephiroth wandered through the palace and learned the location of the royal treasury.
• Sephiroth used a Spatial Gate to enter the treasury and found the ES Steroid, intending to combine it with his Life Enhancement Injection to develop a drug without its life-draining side effects.
• Sephiroth left the palace with the ES Steroid as Neptune and the others agreed to the Marine request to search for Fisher Tiger.

Sephiroth asked Shyarly to divine his future, and she saw Kaido kill him in battle. Troubled by the prophecy, Sephiroth reconsidered his plans for Wano before traveling to Sea Forest to photograph two historical texts.

• Sephiroth visited Shyarly and asked her to use her crystal ball to divine his future.
• Shyarly saw Kaido fighting Sephiroth and killing him, then told Sephiroth she could not glimpse his future again until the prophecy came true.
• Sephiroth considered postponing his planned attack on Wano Country and making more thorough preparations.
• The next morning, Sephiroth traveled through a spatial doorway to Sea Forest.
• Sephiroth photographed the blue apology text and the red historical text.

After helping the Marines search for Fisher Tiger, Sephiroth returned from Fish-Man Island to the Sabaody Archipelago with the Neptune Royal Army’s sea lion towing his warship. At the Marine base, he clashed with investigator Doro, then sent his Bat Clone to Marineford for questioning while he went in disguise to Island 13.

• Left Minister apologized for Fisher Tiger’s escape and showed Sephiroth photographs proving that Fisher Tiger and his companions had left Fish-Man Island aboard a pirate ship.
• Left Minister arranged for a sea lion to tow Sephiroth’s coated warship safely back to the Sabaody Archipelago.
• At Dock 1, Lieutenant Doro ordered Sephiroth to come to Marineford for an investigation and said the base’s department heads had already been taken away.
• Sephiroth slapped Doro when he blocked his way, challenged him to retaliate, and watched him leave.
• Sephiroth returned to his office, asked what had happened during his absence, checked on Isca, and sent his Bat Clone to the investigation while heading in disguise to Island 13.

Sephiroth visited Shakky’s bar to ask Rayleigh to help him awaken Conqueror’s Haki Infusion after his fight with Akainu, but Rayleigh refused. After meeting Uta and recognizing the Sing-Sing Fruit’s power, Sephiroth warned her to stay away from Elegia before leaving.

• Sephiroth asked Rayleigh to help him recover the feeling of infusing Conqueror’s Haki into his attacks after his battle with Akainu.
• Rayleigh explained that Conqueror’s Haki developed through repeated battles with powerful opponents, then declined to fight Sephiroth even when offered money.
• Shanks and Uta entered the bar, and Sephiroth recognized that Uta had eaten the Sing-Sing Fruit.
• Sephiroth warned Uta that going to Elegia could make her the key to bringing the Demon King of Song into the real world, then left the bar.

Sephiroth visited Salto Kingdom to collect research materials and asked Jim to combine a Color Fruit with a spray bottle. The chapter also showed Shanks preferring to roam the Four Seas over pursuing fame as an Emperor of the Sea, while Salto Kingdom prospered under the Umbrella Corporation’s support.

• At Shakky’s bar, Uta wondered whether Sephiroth had lied about being the Demon King of Song, while Shakky said his identity was sensitive.
• Shanks told Rayleigh about the Revolutionary Army’s reforms in Marino and said he preferred roaming freely to seeking fame in the New World.
• The chapter described how Princess Stella and the Umbrella Corporation had transformed impoverished Salto Kingdom into a growing industrial and commercial nation.
• Sephiroth arrived at the palace and collected research materials from Jim, asking the biological laboratory to study cloned animals.
• Sephiroth gave Jim a Paramecia Color Fruit and a spray bottle to combine, then reflected on the limits of using Butcher Blade’s Door-Door Fruit ability.

Sephiroth tested a new disguise ability and discussed Umbrella Corporation’s political strategy before receiving Kozaburo’s completed Nether Flame Blade. After demonstrating the sword’s immense power, Sephiroth took it to Jim to fuse with the Flame-Flame Fruit.

• Jim fused the Color-Color Fruit with white spray, and Sephiroth tested its invisibility before explaining that he wanted its disguise ability.
• Gild Tesoro told Sephiroth that Joker wanted to expand his cooperation with Umbrella Corporation and had been probing Princess Scarlett’s position; Sephiroth refused to meet him and warned against threatening Scarlett or Dressrosa Kingdom.
• Sephiroth told Gild Tesoro and Stella to build ties with other World Government member nations and work toward Salto Kingdom qualifying for the Sea Calendar 1510 Reverie.
• Kozaburo presented Sephiroth with the completed Nether Flame Blade, which he said could absorb Haki and had reached Supreme Grade quality.
• Sephiroth tested the Nether Flame Blade by cutting through a coconut tree and then unleashing a slash that split the sea and the clouds; Kuina asked him to teach her the move.
• After Kozaburo declined to forge more swords for now, Sephiroth went to Salto Kingdom and had Jim fuse the Nether Flame Blade with the Flame-Flame Fruit.

Sephiroth accompanied Violet on a shopping trip through prosperous Dressrosa, where she teased him into revealing that he liked her. He took her through a Spatial Gate toward the Sunflower Field, leaving their outing underway.

• Violet asked Sephiroth to go shopping with her, and he agreed before they left the palace together.
• King Riku saw Violet clinging to Sephiroth and worried their relationship was becoming too intimate.
• Violet asked whether Sephiroth liked her and used the Glare-Glare Fruit to read his answer, which satisfied her.
• Sephiroth and Violet walked through Dressrosa’s bustling commercial district and discussed the kingdom’s defenses and Scarlett’s progress with Haki.
• When Violet admitted she had nothing to buy, Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate and led her toward the Sunflower Field.