Chapter Summaries

Sephiroth abducted Kozuki Sukiyaki from Komuso Village and took him to his underground laboratory on Sabaody Archipelago, where he imprisoned him and demanded his swordsmithing techniques. Sukiyaki was left locked in a soundproof steel room with a pen and notebook.

• Kozuki Sukiyaki concealed his identity as Tenguyama Hitetsu and lived in Komuso Village after escaping imprisonment and recovering his health.
• Sephiroth appeared in Sukiyaki’s shrine, knocked him unconscious, bound him, and took Kitetsu the Second after failing to find Enma and Ame no Habakiri.
• Sephiroth brought Sukiyaki through a Spatial Gate to his laboratory beneath a residential building on Island 50 of Sabaody Archipelago.
• Sukiyaki woke in the laboratory and asked who Sephiroth was and where they were.
• Sephiroth locked Sukiyaki in a soundproof steel room and ordered him to write down his swordsmithing techniques before the next day.

Sephiroth trained with a Sea Stone shackle before Gion confronted him about his clash with Akainu, his detention, and rumored embezzlement. He spun a convincing account of being pressured by powerful interests and refused Gion’s offer to ask Tsuru for help, leaving his situation unresolved.

• Sephiroth trained with a high-purity Sea Stone shackle while lifting a thirty-ton barbell and considered how Haki could help him grow stronger.
• Gion arrived at the gym and teased Sephiroth about avoiding Impel Down, so he took her through a Spatial Gate to a hotel.
• Gion asked Sephiroth about his clash with Akainu, his three-day detention, and rumors that he had embezzled money.
• Sephiroth claimed he had been forced to use connections because powerful interests, including the World Nobles, controlled events in Sabaody.
• Gion believed Sephiroth’s account through Observation Haki and offered to ask Tsuru for help, but he refused.

Sephiroth spent the morning with Gion and Perona before questioning his captive, Kozuki Sukiyaki, about Wano Country’s secrets. He used Blood Recall to extract Sukiyaki’s memories and ordered him to translate several Poneglyphs, while Sukiyaki began looking for a way to stop him.

• Gion left the hotel after spending the morning with Sephiroth, who returned home and made breakfast for Perona.
• Sephiroth woke Perona and waited for her to eat the breakfast he had prepared.
• Sephiroth visited Kozuki Sukiyaki in the underground laboratory and asked about Ame no Habakiri, Enma, Pluton, and reading Poneglyphs.
• Sephiroth drank Sukiyaki’s blood and used Blood Recall to obtain his recent memories and answers.
• Sephiroth gave Sukiyaki documents containing several Poneglyphs to translate and left the steel room.
• Sukiyaki realized Sephiroth could use his blood to uncover his secrets and eyed the red apple on his tray.

Sephiroth retrieved Ame no Habakiri and Enma, then disguised himself as a wandering samurai before traveling toward Leftovers Town. He heard shouting and fighting nearby and hurried toward the commotion.

• Sephiroth dug up Ame no Habakiri and Enma and stored the swords in Butcher Blade's temporary space.
• Sephiroth changed into a kimono and used the Color-Color Fruit to disguise his hair, beard, eyes, and swords.
• Sephiroth considered giving Ame no Habakiri to Isca if she kept practicing swordsmanship, while leaving Enma unused for now.
• Sephiroth crossed Wano's devastated wilderness and used a Black Bat's position to open a Spatial Gate to the outskirts of Leftovers Town.
• Sephiroth heard shouting and fighting and hurried toward the noise.

Ashura Doji attacked a food convoy outside Leftovers Town to seize supplies and protect the people of Wano from Orochi’s control, but his identity was exposed and he turned to kill the witnesses. Sephiroth arrived and challenged him, leaving the bandits shaken after he effortlessly felled five attackers.

• Ashura Doji and more than two hundred bandits fought a hundred warriors defending food shipments bound for the Flower Capital.
• Ashura Doji denounced Orochi’s control of food and attacked a warrior who recognized him as one of Kozuki Oden’s retainers, then ordered his men to kill everyone.
• Sephiroth arrived and distracted Ashura Doji, who disarmed and severely wounded the one-eyed warrior before threatening Sephiroth.
• Five bandits charged Sephiroth, but he used One Sword Style · Great Shock to make them collapse in terror.
• Sephiroth challenged the remaining bandits to face him one at a time.

Sephiroth, calling himself Miyamoto Musashi, defeated Ashura Doji in a fierce sword fight at a riverside dock in Kuri. After Kojiro suggested turning Ashura Doji over to the Shogun for a reward, Sephiroth considered using the capture to further his plans in Wano Country and search for the Dumpling Fruit.

• Sephiroth introduced himself as Miyamoto Musashi and clashed with Ashura Doji, overpowering him with his strength and fiery sword attacks.
• Ashura Doji grew enraged when Sephiroth insulted Kozuki Oden and continued fighting with his Oden Two-Sword Style, while Sephiroth answered with close-range swordsmanship.
• Sephiroth broke Ashura Doji's sword and severely wounded him with a heated slash, leaving him unconscious as more than two hundred bandits fled.
• Kojiro thanked Sephiroth for intervening and told him that the Shogun had offered five hundred gold for capturing a Kozuki Family remnant.
• Sephiroth considered delivering Ashura Doji to Kurozumi Orochi to gain influence and resolved to search Wano Country for the Dumpling Fruit.

Sephiroth arrived at the Flower Capital with Kojiro, the wounded Ashura Doji, and a convoy of grain, witnessing the harsh treatment of a starving porter along the way. The group entered the capital and headed toward the Shogun’s Palace as Kyoshiro watched them with surprise and concern.

• Kojiro contacted Fukurokuju after the ships reached the Flower Capital’s dock and asked Sephiroth to accompany him to meet the shogun.
• Samurai unloaded the grain and escorted forty porters from Ebisu Village as they hauled it toward the capital.
• A samurai caught a porter taking an apple and oranges, beat him, and ordered him to keep hauling the grain.
• Kojiro left fifty men to oversee the convoy while he and Sephiroth continued up the stairs and entered the Flower Capital.
• Kyoshiro and four rough-looking men watched Sephiroth’s escort pass, and Kyoshiro responded with a savage grin.

Sephiroth delivered the captured Ashura Doji to Kurozumi Orochi, who offered him a position serving at the Shogun's Palace. Sephiroth refused, accepted a reward of a thousand gold coins for his help, and left as Orochi questioned Kojiro.

• Kojiro led Sephiroth and the bound Ashura Doji into the Shogun's Palace, where Fukurokuju recognized Ashura Doji as one of the Nine Red Scabbards and demanded information about the Kozuki Family.
• Fukurokuju brought the group before Kurozumi Orochi, who celebrated Ashura Doji's capture and worried about the missing Kozuki Family members and the escaped Kozuki Sukiyaki.
• Orochi asked Sephiroth, who had defeated Ashura Doji, to serve as a samurai at the Shogun's Palace, but Sephiroth refused and offered to help for suitable payment.
• Orochi gave Sephiroth a thousand gold coins as a reward, and Sephiroth left the palace while Orochi questioned Kojiro about what had happened.

Sephiroth considered how to gather intelligence and build strength before confronting Kaido, then acquired two new underlings in the Flower Capital. He left with Camel and Kuma Goro looking for somewhere lively to spend his time.

• Sephiroth weighed ways to defeat Kaido and concluded he needed intelligence and a powerful force of his own rather than outside help.
• Camel and Kuma Goro staged an accident and tried to rob Sephiroth, but he easily threw them both to the ground.
• Camel and Kuma Goro asked Sephiroth to take them as underlings, and he accepted after warning them not to betray him.
• Sephiroth learned the two men were struggling to afford the Flower Capital's residence fee and learned their names.
• Sephiroth asked for recommendations for somewhere lively, and Camel suggested a gambling house while Kuma Goro suggested the pleasure district.

Sephiroth used his future-seeing Observation Haki to win thousands of gold at a Flower Capital gambling den owned by the Kyoshiro Family. After the dealer invited him to meet Lord Kyoshiro, Sephiroth followed her into the back courtyard despite Camel and Kumagoro's warnings.

• Sephiroth entered the Kyoshiro Family gambling den with Camel and Kumagoro and chose to play dice guessing.
• Sephiroth repeatedly predicted the dice results with Observation Haki, winning gold and attracting gamblers who copied his bets.
• Sephiroth deliberately mixed wins with losses at other tables but earned three thousand gold, drawing the gambling den's attention.
• Sephiroth returned to the dice table and wagered all three thousand gold on low, correctly predicting the result.
• The dealer invited Sephiroth to meet Lord Kyoshiro, and he accepted despite Camel and Kumagoro urging him to leave.

Sephiroth met Kyoshiro, secretly Denjiro, at his gambling house and accepted gold in exchange for promising not to gamble there again. He left with his two underlings and the money, agreeing to visit the pleasure district with them.

• Sephiroth introduced himself to Kyoshiro as Miyamoto Musashi, and Kyoshiro recognized him as the man who had defeated Ashura Doji.
• Kyoshiro offered Sephiroth five thousand gold to stop gambling at the house, and Sephiroth accepted while demanding another three thousand gold the house owed him.
• Kyoshiro ordered his men to bring the additional gold, and Sephiroth left with two chests alongside Kumagoro and Camel.
• Kumagoro and Camel praised Sephiroth, who offered to treat them to drinks and meat.
• Sephiroth agreed to follow his underlings to the pleasure district.

Sephiroth visited Thousand Crane Brothel and learned it was being pressured into a cheap sale after its owner’s husband died. He bought the brothel for six thousand gold, leaving himself with a foothold in the Flower Capital’s underworld.

• Sephiroth arrived at Thousand Crane Brothel with Kumagoro and Camel and heard about its oiran, Xiaoling.
• Sephiroth saw Shinbei and five thugs demand that Tsuru Miko sell the brothel to their boss Black Colt for three thousand gold.
• Tsuru Miko refused the offer and explained that Xiaoling had died and her husband Keisaburo had been killed while pursuing Xiaoling and a ronin samurai.
• Shinbei threatened that Black Colt would destroy the brothel if Tsuru Miko did not agree to sell it by the next day.
• Sephiroth offered Tsuru Miko six thousand gold, dismissed her concern about offending Black Colt, and signed a contract to buy the brothel and its courtesans’ and geisha’s sale contracts.

Sephiroth discovered Kozuki Sukiyaki had died by suicide and preserved his body as a research specimen while considering how to study Haki Lineage Factors. In Wano Country, Kyoshiro reunited with Shinobu while preparing to rescue Ashura Doji, and learned that her Ripe-Ripe Ninja Art could corrode steel.

• Sephiroth found Kozuki Sukiyaki dead in the laboratory and concluded he had killed himself to protect secrets from memory reading.
• Sephiroth chose not to drink Sukiyaki's blood, stored his corpse in preservative fluid, and considered researching Lineage Factors linked to Haki.
• Sephiroth handled his laboratory work, made dinner for Perona, and returned to Wano Country after shopping.
• Kyoshiro snuck near the prison in Rakshasa Town to investigate a rescue route for Ashura Doji, but Shinobu mistook him for an enemy and struck him with her Testicle Buster technique.
• Kyoshiro revealed his identity to Shinobu, who explained her altered appearance and demonstrated that her Ripe-Ripe Ninja Art could corrode steel.

Shinobu and Kyoshiro freed Ashura Doji from prison, but Sephiroth ambushed them after they escaped the Flower Capital. He killed all three and secretly disposed of their bodies, intending to keep their deaths hidden.

• Shinobu and Kyoshiro entered the prison, freed Ashura Doji, and helped him escape the Flower Capital.
• A Black Bat followed the three fugitives, and Sephiroth appeared through a spatial doorway to confront them.
• Ashura Doji realized Sephiroth had used him as bait to draw out the Kozuki Family remnants.
• Sephiroth overwhelmed the three with Conqueror's Haki and a sword attack, leaving Kyoshiro barely conscious.
• Sephiroth killed Kyoshiro and confirmed he served no one, then declared that Wano Country would open its borders without the Kozuki Family.
• Sephiroth took the bodies to the Sabaody Archipelago and disposed of them so Kurozumi Orochi would remain unaware of their deaths.

Sephiroth hired Black Maria as a geisha at the Thousand Crane Brothel after she explained that poverty had left her unable to afford housing in the Flower Capital. He secured her service with a contract, but a commotion downstairs interrupted their conversation.

• Sephiroth considered recruiting attractive applicants to improve the Thousand Crane Brothel after taking it over.
• Chiyo brought Black Maria to meet Sephiroth, and Black Maria applied to work as a geisha.
• Black Maria explained that her father had died, her home had burned down, and her mother had recently died after an illness, leaving her unable to pay her expenses.
• Sephiroth warned Black Maria that signing a contract would make her his subordinate, and she agreed to the terms.
• Black Maria signed the contract, pressed her fingerprint, and accepted one hundred gold from Sephiroth.
• A commotion rose from downstairs as Sephiroth was about to give Black Maria her next instructions.

Sephiroth confronted Shinbei and his thugs after the Black Colt family tried to claim his brothel, then challenged them to a fight that night. As his new employees prepared to join him, Black Maria moved into the brothel, openly smitten with him.

• Shinbei and five thugs demanded that Sephiroth hand over the brothel for Boss Black Colt, but Sephiroth intimidated them with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Sephiroth arranged a fight with the Black Colt family at Ebisu Village’s southern exit at six that evening, and the six thugs fled.
• Camel pledged to accompany Sephiroth despite fearing the fight, and Kumagoro agreed to go as well.
• Kumagoro brought Sephiroth a new signboard reading “Pleasure Quarter,” which Sephiroth approved for the entrance.
• Sephiroth told Black Maria she would work for him and move into the brothel, and she agreed while continuing to gaze at him warmly.

Sephiroth took Black Maria shopping for clothes and accompanied her as she packed her belongings before leaving her former home. He hired her as his personal attendant, while the chapter revealed that Bin-go had helped orchestrate the fire that destroyed her home.

• Sephiroth bought Black Maria three outfits, and she left the shop wearing a black, low-cut kimono.
• Black Maria packed her shamisen, hair ornaments, and spider doll, prompting Sephiroth to wonder whether her fondness for spiders was connected to the Spider Fruit.
• Black Maria returned her room key to Bin-go, and Sephiroth sensed malice toward her and hurriedly led her away.
• The chapter revealed that Bin-go, Bun'gyo, and Ban-go had plotted the fire that destroyed Black Maria's home as part of a scheme to exploit victims.
• Sephiroth offered Black Maria a position as his personal attendant, and she eagerly accepted.

Sephiroth confronted Boss Black Colt and the Black Colt Family over Thousand Crane Brothel in Ebisu Village. After defeating the gang, he forced Boss Black Colt to choose between death and serving him, and the man became his subordinate.

• Boss Black Colt gathered more than three hundred men in Ebisu Village and challenged Sephiroth over ownership of Thousand Crane Brothel.
• Sephiroth refused the offer of three thousand gold and rejected Boss Black Colt’s demand that he surrender the brothel.
• Sephiroth used One-Sword Style: Great Shockwave! to knock nearly all of the Black Colt Family unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki and murderous intent.
• Boss Black Colt charged Sephiroth, but Sephiroth knocked away his sword and held the Netherflame Blade to his neck.
• Sephiroth offered to spare Boss Black Colt and his men if they became his subordinates, and Boss Black Colt knelt and pledged to serve him.

Sephiroth won the Black Colt Family over after defeating Boss Black Colt and brought more than three hundred new underlings to the Pleasure Quarter for a feast. After they drank the brotherhood wine and celebrated, a drunken Sephiroth was led to a courtyard by Black Maria.

• Boss Black Colt announced that the Black Colt Family would disband and invited his underlings to follow Sephiroth, and the crowd accepted Sephiroth as their boss.
• Sephiroth brought the new underlings to the Pleasure Quarter and told Chiyo to prepare a banquet for them.
• Sephiroth used food and wine from Umbrella Corporation's store to host a lavish feast for the hungry underlings.
• Sephiroth and the underlings drank the brotherhood wine, formally binding them as brothers and boss.
• Sephiroth mingled with the underlings to assess their loyalty, then left for a rear courtyard with Black Maria after becoming drunk.

Sephiroth spent a moonlit evening drinking wine with Black Maria in his courtyard, where their flirtation grew intimate. The chapter ended as he carefully prepared a strawberry.

• Sephiroth entered his courtyard with Black Maria and settled beneath the moonlight among the cherry blossoms.
• Black Maria offered Sephiroth sobering tea, but he asked her to drink wine with him instead.
• Black Maria poured wine and shared it with Sephiroth, then became flushed and dazed in his arms.
• Sephiroth fed Black Maria fruit and slowly ate grapes and a peach.
• Sephiroth split a strawberry, removed its core with a toothpick, and pierced it through.