Recaps

After escaping slave traders with the Boa sisters, Sephiroth reached the City of Water, fought off pirates, and enlisted in the Marines. He arrived at G-3 Branch and began training, aiming to win a place at Marineford Military Academy.

• Sephiroth ate the Vampire Fruit, escaped the slave traders with Boa Hancock, Boa Sandersonia, and Boa Marigold, and sailed with them to the City of Water.
• Sephiroth helped Tom with an Internal Combustion Engine design, said goodbye to the Boa sisters, and enlisted in the Marines.
• Sephiroth defended Commercial Street from the Watson Pirates, awakened Observation Haki, killed their leaders, and secretly buried an unidentified Devil Fruit beneath his villa.
• Sephiroth sailed with Garp to Marine G-3 Branch, where he helped defeat Paul Frode’s pirates and secretly used Life Reversal to stabilize wounded Marines.
• Bogard exposed Sephiroth’s weaknesses in sword combat and began training him after Garp delivered the captured pirates to G-3 Branch.
• Sephiroth learned that G-3 Marines could compete for places at Marineford Military Academy and continued training while studying medicine.

Sephiroth trained at Marineford while building Umbrella Corporation with Gild Tesoro and hunting pirates on Sabaody. After Tesoro warned that seven Supernova Pirates had joined forces against him, Sephiroth gave him the Gold-Gold Fruit and approved a plan to build an arms factory in Salto Kingdom.

• Garp trained Sephiroth in combat and promised to spend an hour each day teaching him, while Sephiroth vowed to defeat him someday.
• Sephiroth joined the Marine academy, where he trained under Zephyr, Tsuru, and Onigumo and befriended Gion, Tokikake, and Smoker.
• After stopping Smoker from attacking Saint Charlos, Sephiroth decided he needed strength and influence, then offered to free Stella in exchange for Tesoro becoming his subordinate.
• Sephiroth freed Stella, formed Umbrella Corporation with Tesoro, and planned to earn money as a bounty hunter while Tesoro ran the business.
• Sephiroth killed Gray Wolf Bello and other pirates, collected their bounties, and helped Tesoro seize part of Sabaody’s arms market.
• Sephiroth scored a perfect academy exam, trained with Sea-Stone Cuffs, and continued hunting pirates while Tesoro expanded Umbrella Corporation.
• Sephiroth killed Hunter, took the Gold-Gold Fruit, and gave it to Tesoro after learning that seven Supernova Pirates had allied against him.
• Tesoro proposed building an arms factory in Salto Kingdom, and Sephiroth approved the plan.

Sephiroth received the Butcher Blade, expanded his weapons enterprise, and stole two Devil Fruits from Doflamingo while balancing Marine duties with his private plans. The arc ended with Zephyr’s cadets sailing to Dressrosa for their practical assessment.

• Zephyr took the cadets to intercept pirates near Paldia, where Sephiroth killed dozens and later received the life-draining Butcher Blade from Steel Bone Kong.
• Sephiroth returned to his villa, gave Boa Hancock the Love-Love Fruit, and spent time with her and her sisters before retrieving the Door-Door Fruit from the City of Water.
• Sephiroth and Gild Tesoro built up Umbrella Corporation’s weapons operation, while Sephiroth hunted pirates and defeated several crews to raise money for Vegapunk’s weapon-feeding technology.
• Sephiroth gave Fortes Jim the Munch-Munch Fruit, and Jim fused Devil Fruits with weapons to create Derp Wolf and give the Butcher Blade the Door-Door Fruit’s spatial passage ability.
• Sephiroth directed Rear Admiral Doro toward Dracule Mihawk, then used Hawkeye’s defeat of Doro to help get Doro demoted and transferred.
• Sephiroth secretly observed Stussy hand Doflamingo the Snow-Snow Fruit and Stone-Stone Fruit, then stole both while Doflamingo slept.
• Zephyr asked the cadets to define their justice, and Sephiroth chose “Flexible Justice.”
• Zephyr led Class One through Mariejois and down to the New World, where they boarded a warship bound for Dressrosa.

Sephiroth helped defend Dressrosa from the Pirate Alliance, began a relationship with Scarlett, and arranged for the Umbrella Corporation to establish itself in the kingdom. He then used his spatial ability to bring Tesoro’s ship across the Red Line to Dressrosa, where Scarlett and Kyros joined the crew.

• Zephyr arrived in Dressrosa with the Military Academy students, and Sephiroth defeated pirates attacking the coast before rescuing Scarlett and treating the wounded.
• Sephiroth fought the Pirate Alliance’s invading forces alongside the Marines and King Riku’s army, then killed Yelick after he took the royal family hostage.
• At the victory banquet, Sephiroth admitted that he liked Scarlett, and she kissed him, and he later accepted her feelings and gave her a bat as a travel marker.
• After leaving Dressrosa, Sephiroth passed Whitebeard’s ship without a fight, experimented with concentrating Haki through Butcher Blade, and asked Gild Tesoro to expand the Umbrella Corporation in Dressrosa.
• Sephiroth gave Stella the Snow-Snow Fruit and gave Scarlett the Stone-Stone Fruit, while King Riku agreed to let the corporation develop businesses in the kingdom.
• Sephiroth traveled from Dressrosa to Sabaody, then transferred Tesoro’s ship across the Red Line and brought it to Dressrosa, where Scarlett, Kyros, and elite kingdom soldiers joined them.