Recaps

Kurozumi Orochi learned that Ashura Doji had escaped and ordered Fukurokuju to investigate, then decided to recruit Miyamoto Musashi with a promise of power. The chapter ended with Orochi returning to his bedroom and falling asleep beside a courtesan.

• Kurozumi Orochi questioned Fukurokuju about Ashura Doji's escape, and Fukurokuju reported that the fugitives' tracks vanished in the wilderness, possibly because they used a flying vehicle.
• Fukurokuju told Kurozumi Orochi that Miyamoto Musashi had been drinking during the prison break and had since defeated and recruited more than three hundred men from the Black Colt Family.
• Kurozumi Orochi decided Miyamoto Musashi could be won over with wealth and status, and ordered Fukurokuju to offer him control of Wano Country's underworld if he pledged allegiance.
• Kurozumi Orochi recalled how Kaido had allowed the Nine Red Scabbards to escape after Kozuki Oden's execution, which left him wary of relying on Kaido alone.
• Kurozumi Orochi returned to his bedroom, spent two minutes with the courtesan, and quickly fell asleep.

Sephiroth accepted Kurozumi Orochi’s offer to serve him while privately using the Shogun’s approval to expand the Miyamoto Family’s hold over the Flower Capital underworld. As his influence grew, he sidelined spies and gave Black Maria a Devil Fruit, whose effects changed her abilities and behavior.

• Chiyo told Sephiroth that Fukurokuju had come from the Shogun’s Palace, and Sephiroth went to meet him after finishing his morning routine with Black Maria.
• Fukurokuju offered Sephiroth greater power and status if he pledged allegiance to Kurozumi Orochi, and Sephiroth agreed while recognizing that Orochi wanted him to consolidate the underworld.
• With Kurozumi Orochi’s approval, Sephiroth fought rival families and grew his force to more than a thousand subordinates, while assigning Kozuki Family samurai and Oniwabanshu spies to peripheral roles.
• Sephiroth gave Black Maria the Rosamygale Grauvogeli Tarantula Fruit and began training her, then chose to ignore her harsh treatment of courtesans and geisha as long as she remained loyal to him.

Sengoku ordered Sephiroth’s transfer to the G-5 Branch in one month as a symbolic punishment, and Sephiroth began arranging who would accompany him and how he would stay connected to Hancock. He left the choice to Frank and planned to bring Perona and Isca to the New World, while Hancock remained in Sabaody for now.

• Sengoku told Sephiroth that his past offense required symbolic punishment and announced his transfer to the G-5 Branch in one month.
• Sephiroth asked Perona to come with him and planned for Hancock to use Vampire Bat while he was away.
• Sephiroth gave Isca the sword Ame no Habakiri after she completed a month of sword practice, and she agreed to go with him to the New World.
• Sephiroth offered Frank a choice of new assignments, but Frank said he wanted to join him at G-5, and Sephiroth told him to consider the risks before deciding.
• Sephiroth told Hancock that he would move to the New World, gave her two Crimson Bats for teleportation, and declined her proposal to move the Kuja Pirates’ headquarters there immediately.

Sephiroth arrived at the G-5 Branch with Frank and thirty-one troublesome Marines, intending to keep a low profile there before eventually leaving the Marines. The branch’s soldiers burned six captured pirates alive, and Sephiroth walked into the base without intervening.

• Sephiroth told Frank he could arrange a transfer back to a better posting, but Frank insisted on staying by his side at the G-5 Branch.
• Sephiroth’s warship reached the dilapidated G-5 Branch, whose base had been repeatedly damaged by pirate attacks.
• The escorting major reported that all thirty-three transferred personnel had arrived, and Sephiroth led the soldiers off the ship.
• Sephiroth saw Lieutenant Colonel Arlinsky and other G-5 Marines set fire to six chained, battered pirates.
• Sephiroth walked into the base while the newly arrived troublesome Marines watched the burning with excitement.

Sephiroth reported to Vice Admiral William at the G-5 Branch and learned that he would command Unit 03. He then challenged his undisciplined troops and beat them all, while Frank recalled that Sephiroth had done the same to him and hundreds of soldiers before.

• Sephiroth waited for a woman to leave Vice Admiral William’s office, then reported for duty and handed over the transfer documents.
• William gave Sephiroth a cigar, learned he had mastered the Six Powers, and recognized him as the officer who had fought Akainu.
• William explained that Sephiroth would command Unit 03 with thirty-two transferred soldiers and eighteen veterans, then told him not to seek help from the Vice Admiral.
• Sephiroth gathered his soldiers on the training ground and called them all trash, inviting them to attack him together.
• The rogue soldiers charged Sephiroth, who beat them all black and blue, and Frank remarked that they were still too young and ignorant.

Sephiroth inspected a newly renovated villa on Pollock Island and decided to move there with Perona. The chapter left him following Perona through a Spatial Gate while preparing to pack her belongings.

• Sephiroth reviewed the G-5 Branch's patrol situation and learned that other Marine branches covered the Prodence Kingdom's waters.
• Sephiroth visited his renovated villa in Hallstatt Town and inspected its rooms and garden.
• Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate to the Sabaody Archipelago and told Perona they were moving.
• Perona asked Sephiroth to pack for her, then carried her movie player through the Spatial Gate.

Sephiroth brought Isca to his villa, then traveled to Shimotsuki Village, where young Roronoa Zoro challenged the dojo. He left Zoro to duel Kuina and reunited with her after she complained that he had not visited.

• Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate to his villa and introduced Isca to Perona, who mistook her for another of his girlfriends.
• Sephiroth arranged a room for Isca, then went to Shimotsuki Dojo and found Zoro challenging it.
• Zoro agreed to join the dojo if he lost, while Koshiro accepted his challenge and chose Kuina to duel him.
• Kuina welcomed Sephiroth warmly and asked why he had not come to see her lately.

Kuina defeated Zoro at the Shimotsuki Dojo, and Sephiroth arranged to take her away from East Blue to train her in swordsmanship. Dragon then appeared and persuaded Sephiroth to lend one billion Belly to fund a hydroelectric power station in the Kingdom of Marino.

• Zoro challenged Kuina with a pile of bamboo swords, but she defeated him twice before he accepted his loss and asked Koshiro to make him a disciple.
• Sephiroth encouraged Kuina after she described awakening Observation Haki, then asked Koshiro for permission to teach her swordsmanship.
• Sephiroth proposed taking Kuina away from East Blue, and Kuina insisted she wanted to train with him; Koshiro eventually agreed.
• Dragon arrived and asked Sephiroth to help fund a hydroelectric power station in the Kingdom of Marino.
• Sephiroth agreed to lend Dragon one billion Belly in exchange for policy and resource support for Umbrella Corporation in the kingdom.

Sephiroth returned to Pollock Island with Kuina, where Perona’s movie choices frightened and embarrassed the girls, delaying their swordsmanship training. He then set sail from Marine G-5 with Frank and forty-nine soldiers to search the waters around Pollock Island for an uncharted island.

• Perona switched from a horror movie to Cinderella for Isca, and Sephiroth arrived with Kuina and stopped the film before recommending comedies instead.
• Kuina chose a room beside Sephiroth’s, and she and Isca watched a comedy with Perona while Sephiroth prepared dinner.
• Sephiroth joined the girls for a horror movie, after which Kuina and Isca shared a room and stayed awake in fear until the middle of the night.
• Sephiroth found Kuina and Isca exhausted the next morning and let them sleep instead of starting their swordsmanship training.
• Sephiroth ordered Frank and forty-nine soldiers to sail from Marine G-5 along search routes around Pollock Island to find an uncharted island.

Sephiroth received a rare black Devil Fruit from Camel and decided to store it until he could identify its ability. After Black Maria warned Camel to keep the discovery secret, she returned to Sephiroth as he turned his attention to her.

• Camel brought Sephiroth a naturally formed black Devil Fruit he had found after searching for unusual fruits.
• Sephiroth rewarded Camel with jurisdiction over four more streets and ordered Black Maria to give him one thousand gold.
• Black Maria warned Camel not to reveal that he had delivered the rare fruit, then gave him the money.
• Sephiroth realized he had forgotten to warn Camel about secrecy, but Black Maria told him she had already done so.
• Sephiroth playfully punished Black Maria, who knelt and apologized to him.

Kurozumi Orochi questioned Miyamoto Musashi about the rapid growth of the Miyamoto Family, and Sephiroth eased his suspicions with a gift of gold and a show of loyalty. Orochi then ordered him to destroy villages outside the Flower Capital to force peasants into Kaido’s weapons factories, and Sephiroth agreed.

• Fukurokuju, Sephiroth, Camel, and Kumagoro passed through the Shogun’s Palace defenses to meet Kurozumi Orochi.
• Orochi questioned Sephiroth about the Miyamoto Family’s growth to more than two thousand members and worried that Sephiroth might become a threat to his rule.
• Sephiroth presented Orochi with a chest of gold and pledged the Miyamoto Family’s money, manpower, and women to serve him.
• Orochi ordered Sephiroth to destroy villages outside the Flower Capital so the peasants would be forced to work in Kaido’s weapons factories.
• Sephiroth agreed to the order, while Orochi planned to use the task to ruin the Miyamoto Family’s reputation or expose Sephiroth as disloyal.

Sephiroth defied Kurozumi Orochi’s order to destroy villages by secretly moving Hyakusen Village’s residents through Spatial Gates to Sky Island. After burning the empty village to disguise their escape, he arranged temporary shelter for the newcomers on Angel Island.

• Sephiroth gathered forty-five trusted leaders and told them Kurozumi Orochi had ordered him to destroy villages outside the Flower Capital, then secured their support for a dangerous plan.
• Sephiroth led more than eight hundred underlings to surround Hyakusen Village and persuaded its chief to help evacuate the residents.
• Sephiroth opened Spatial Gates to Angel Island, and the village residents crossed through to escape Wano Country.
• Sephiroth ordered his underlings to burn Hyakusen Village after the evacuation, making it appear that they had carried out Orochi’s order.
• Through his Bat Clone, Sephiroth instructed Gan Fall to provide the six hundred newcomers with temporary housing, food, and water on Angel Island.

Sephiroth joined Kurozumi Orochi’s Fire Festival voyage to Onigashima after secretly relocating thousands of Wano residents to Sky Island. The ships reached Kaido’s stronghold, where Sephiroth noticed the Beasts Pirates had copied Umbrella Corporation’s howitzers, and he followed Orochi into the island’s hall.

• At Jinbu Port, Sephiroth boarded a ship with Kurozumi Orochi and the Shogun’s Palace officials bound for Onigashima’s Fire Festival banquet.
• Kurozumi Orochi asked how many villages Sephiroth had destroyed, and Sephiroth reported thirty; Orochi ordered him to terrorize the residents gradually rather than wipe out villages too quickly.
• Sephiroth reflected that he had relocated more than thirty thousand Wano residents to Sky Island, where they worked in his factories, and considered how they could help secure his future rule.
• The seven ships sailed to Onigashima, where Sephiroth spotted howitzers resembling weapons developed by Umbrella Corporation and realized Queen had likely replicated them.
• The ships docked at Onigashima, and Sephiroth followed Kurozumi Orochi through the horned skull entrance and down into the hall.

At Onigashima’s Golden Kagura, Sephiroth saw Queen and struggled to contain his desire for revenge, so he avoided the private gathering with Kaido. Outside, he caught Yamato stealing his food, and she introduced herself as Kozuki Oden.

• Sephiroth heard Queen announce the Golden Kagura and recalled the night Queen’s actions had led to his father’s death.
• Worried that his killing intent would expose him to Kaido or Queen and ruin his plan, Sephiroth declined to join Kurozumi Orochi’s private gathering.
• Sephiroth left the noisy banquet hall and ate and drank alone beside a lotus pond.
• Yamato tried to steal a roast chicken from Sephiroth’s platter, but he caught her hand.
• Sephiroth let Yamato eat and introduced himself as Miyamoto Musashi; Yamato said her name was Kozuki Oden.

Sephiroth told Yamato that Kozuki Oden had committed terrible deeds, shaking her faith in the idol she had sworn to emulate. Yamato refused to believe his account, and Sephiroth was left ready to recount Oden’s life from his own knowledge.

• Sephiroth questioned Yamato about insisting she was Kozuki Oden, and she explained her admiration for Oden and her resolve to open Wano’s borders.
• Sephiroth reflected on how Kaido had imprisoned Yamato with three daimyo, whose kindness and sacrifice helped her escape and strengthened her rebellion against her father.
• Sephiroth offered to tell Yamato stories about Oden, and she eagerly accepted.
• Sephiroth recounted Oden’s alleged Harem Rebellion, causing Yamato to drop her food and insist that the story could not be true.

Sephiroth challenged Yamato’s idealized view of Kozuki Oden by comparing Oden’s travel log with what he knew of Oden’s voyages, and the conversation left Yamato doubting her idol while still determined to open Wano’s borders. As they drank together, Yamato confided that she longed to see the outside world, but Sephiroth chose not to remove her explosive Sea Stone shackles.

• Yamato rejected Sephiroth’s claims about Oden and showed him Oden’s Travel Log as proof.
• Sephiroth recounted Oden’s encounter with Whitebeard and compared his account with the journal, causing Yamato to doubt Oden’s heroic image.
• Yamato declared that she would defeat Kaido and open Wano Country’s borders, and Sephiroth invited her to drink with him.
• As Sephiroth described the outside world, Yamato said she wanted to see it but feared her shackles would explode if she left Onigashima.
• Sephiroth examined Yamato’s shackles and realized he could break them with Armament Haki, but decided to leave them on; Yamato told him Kaido had thrown the key into the sea.

Sephiroth recognized that the geisha applicant calling herself Xiao Zi was Kozuki Hiyori, then used Consciousness Hypnosis to learn why she had left Kawamatsu. He hired her under her false identity and had Black Maria buy her contract for fifty gold coins.

• Sephiroth trained with Black Maria and asked her to assess a young geisha applicant named Xiao Zi.
• Sephiroth suspected the green-haired girl was Kozuki Hiyori and dismissed Chiyo before Black Maria continued the interview.
• Sephiroth hypnotized Xiao Zi and learned that she had left Kawamatsu to avoid burdening him and escape a life of hunger.
• Sephiroth ordered Black Maria to take Xiao Zi on as a geisha and train her.
• Sephiroth ended the hypnosis, accepted Kozuki Hiyori as a geisha, and had Black Maria buy her contract for fifty gold coins.

Red-Haired Shanks brought Uta to Elegia, where they met King Gordon and Uta’s singing impressed him. Gordon welcomed the Red Hair Pirates into the kingdom after recognizing Shanks as an old acquaintance.

• Shanks and Uta disembarked from the Red Force and entered Elegia despite the warning about the Demon King of Song.
• Shanks and Uta saw King Gordon teaching children music and leading them in a song from Titanic.
• Gordon heard Uta sing along and was struck by the beauty of her voice.
• Shanks reminded Gordon that they had met with Roger, and introduced Uta as his daughter and the Red Hair Pirates’ musician.
• Gordon welcomed Shanks and the others into the kingdom and treated them with hospitality.

Uta accidentally awakened the Demon King of Song by humming from an ancient score, and the creature began devastating Elegia Kingdom. A Marine distress call sent Sephiroth’s unit to reinforce the kingdom, while Sephiroth abruptly left Black Maria and Hiyori in Wano to handle urgent business.

• Uta hummed from an ancient sheet of music, summoning the Demon King of Song, which swallowed her and unleashed destructive attacks inside Elegia’s opera house.
• Shanks protected Gordon from the Demon King’s lightning, then led him and the Red Hair Pirates out of the opera house to confront the creature in the open.
• Frank received a Class One distress call from G-2 Branch and reported it to Commodore Sephiroth, who ordered his unit to reinforce Elegia Kingdom.
• In Wano, Sephiroth stopped his intimate moment with Black Maria, grabbed his swords, and hurried out of the courtyard after remembering urgent business.

Sephiroth prepared to investigate the fires on Elegia Island, while considering the possible nature of the Sing-Sing Fruit and his own research into awakening his Vampire Fruit. He reached the island by flying through Spatial Gates and saw the towering blaze below.

• Sephiroth returned to the G-5 warship, retrieved his Crimson Bat, and put away his Justice cape and replica blades.
• Sephiroth wondered whether Uta had still gone to Elegia and speculated that the Demon King of Song might be the awakened form of the Sing-Sing Fruit.
• Sephiroth reflected on the dangers of awakening Mythical Zoan Fruits and his efforts to find a safe way to awaken his Vampire Fruit.
• Frank reported that he had spotted fires on Elegia Island and estimated the warship would take forty to fifty minutes to arrive.
• Sephiroth took the Eternal Pose for Elegia, flew ahead, and used Spatial Gates to reach the island, where he saw a towering blaze.

Sephiroth arrived in Elegia and learned that Uta’s dream world had trapped the kingdom’s people in a sleep that would become fatal if she ran out of stamina. With the Red Hair Pirates suppressing the Demon King of Song, he replenished Uta’s strength and hypnotized her into singing, causing the monster to vanish while she remained asleep.

• Sephiroth discovered that the people within twelve kilometers of the Demon King of Song were unconscious and realized they were trapped in its dream world.
• Sephiroth joined Shanks and warned him that the sleeping people would die if Uta exhausted herself and the Demon King disappeared.
• Shanks ordered the Red Hair Pirates to attack the Demon King of Song and keep it from regenerating while Sephiroth reached Uta.
• Sephiroth sent a bat clone through a Spatial Gate to Uta, replenished her stamina, and used her blood to read her memories and hypnotize her.
• Hypnotized Uta began humming a song, and the Demon King of Song vanished from the real world as she fell asleep.

Sephiroth kept Uta after the Demon of Song’s rampage, believing her Sing-Sing Fruit was too dangerous to leave unsupervised. Shanks left Elegia Kingdom after agreeing to conceal the truth from Uta, who was told the Red Hair Pirates had betrayed her and was stopped when she tried to swim after them.

• Sephiroth refused to return Uta to Shanks, explaining that her awakened Sing-Sing Fruit could trigger another catastrophe and that he would watch over her.
• Shanks asked Sephiroth to care for Uta and conceal the truth, then agreed with Gordon to blame the disaster on the Red Hair Pirates so Uta would be protected.
• Sephiroth found and deleted Video Den Den Mushi recordings of the events, then urged Gordon to lead relief efforts as Uta awoke.
• Gordon told Uta that the Red Hair Pirates had used her singing to reach Elegia Kingdom and steal its treasure, while Shanks sailed away under fire from Marine warships.
• Uta ran after the Red Force and tried to throw herself into the sea, but Sephiroth stopped her; she cried until she fell asleep.

Sephiroth brought the sleeping Uta home, where Perona, Isca, and Kuina accepted her without needing an explanation, then returned to Elegia to handle the aftermath. Three days later, Sengoku learned from Rosinante that Doflamingo planned to seize the Op-Op Fruit, and they arranged an ambush against the Donquixote Family on Finch Island.

• Sephiroth brought Uta to his villa, and Perona, Isca, and Kuina assumed she would be staying with them.
• Sephiroth settled Uta into an empty bedroom and returned to the Elegia Kingdom to deal with the aftermath.
• Sengoku and Garp reviewed reports about Elegia’s destruction and discussed Red-Haired Shanks’s role and new bounty.
• Rosinante secretly contacted Sengoku and warned him that Doflamingo had learned about the Marine deal for the Op-Op Fruit.
• Sengoku and Rosinante agreed to ambush the Donquixote Family on Finch Island three weeks later.

A mysterious attacker killed Diez Barrelus and his pirates and stole the Op-Op Fruit before Donquixote Rosinante arrived. Rosinante corrected his false report to Sengoku, while Doflamingo found the fruit gone and fled Minion Island as Vice Admiral Tsuru’s warships approached.

• Diez Barrelus showed his pirates the Op-Op Fruit and boasted that it could fetch five billion Beli.
• A black mist filled the villa, and an unknown attacker killed Barrelus and the pirates before taking the fruit; Diez Drake escaped after discovering his father was dead.
• Donquixote Rosinante arrived, mistook a ship with a flamingo figurehead for proof that Doflamingo had taken the fruit, and reported his suspicion to Sengoku.
• Rosinante asked Sengoku for help curing Law’s Lead Poisoning Disease, and Sengoku told him the Marines had Life Enhancement Agent that could treat it.
• Rosinante admitted what he had actually seen, and Sengoku said he would notify Vice Admiral Tsuru and have her capture Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo arrived at the villa, learned the Op-Op Fruit was gone and Tsuru’s warships were nearby, then led the Donquixote Family away from Minion Island.

Sephiroth secured the Op-Op Fruit and considered using its Perennial Youth Operation to reduce the limits on his spatial travel. He continued shaping Yamato’s priorities while treating her injuries after another failed challenge against Kaido.

• Sephiroth took the Op-Op Fruit from its box and considered whether the Perennial Youth Operation could replenish his life force, possibly through a robotic surgeon.
• Sephiroth found Uta singing to Perona, Kuina, and Isca, then woke the four women for dinner after they fell asleep on the sofa.
• Yamato hid in a warehouse attic after Kaido beat her again, and Sephiroth arrived with food and injected her with a Life Enhancement Potion.
• Yamato said she wanted to defeat Kaido, free herself, open Wano Country’s borders, and repay the samurai who had helped her.
• Sephiroth treated Yamato’s wounds and warned her not to risk dying, but Yamato remained eager to challenge Kaido again.