Chapter Summaries

After the war, Marineford faced massive casualties and reconstruction costs, leaving Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru unsure how to fund the Marines. Sephiroth visited them to discuss Garp’s fate, joked about staging another war, then offered to buy the entire Marine force.

• Tsuru reported that twenty-three thousand Marines had died, twelve thousand had been injured or disabled, and Marineford’s reconstruction would cost hundreds of billions of Beli.
• Steel Bone Kong suggested seeking financial aid from member nations, while Sengoku noted they had recently paid the Celestial Tribute.
• Sephiroth asked to speak privately with Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru, then learned that Garp was detained pending a military trial for killing a CP0 agent.
• Sephiroth proposed publicly executing Garp to lure Dragon, Luffy, and Ace into a trap, but the three Marines rejected the idea.
• Sephiroth stopped joking and offered to buy the entire Marine force.

Sephiroth offered to buy the Marines, arguing that the World Government’s destruction had left them desperate for funds. He challenged their claim to justice by revealing photographs of the God Valley massacre, leaving Sengoku, Tsuru, and Steel Bone Kong confronted with evidence of the Marines’ complicity.

• Sephiroth asked Sengoku and Steel Bone Kong to name a price for handing the Marines over to him.
• Sephiroth pointed out that the Marines needed vast sums to operate and that the World Government’s destruction had left them short of money.
• Sengoku rejected the offer and defended the Marines’ justice, while Sephiroth mocked his claim.
• Sephiroth produced photographs of the God Valley Incident and said Umbrella Corporation’s intelligence network had uncovered the truth.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, and Steel Bone Kong examined images of Celestial Dragons massacring civilians and slaves, including young Saint Rosward, Saint Charlos, and Saint Pulming.
• Sephiroth accused the Marines of serving the World Government’s atrocities and again demanded that they name their price.

Sephiroth pressed Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru to accept his deal by threatening the Marines’ funding and reputation, then revealed that his ambition reached beyond ruling the planet. He left them to decide within a day, while the three Marines debated the ruined world order and his claims about aliens.

• Sephiroth challenged Steel Bone Kong’s plans to reform the Marines, arguing that they lacked funding and could not claim justice while relying on money extracted from suffering countries.
• Sephiroth threatened to expose the Marines’ role in the God Valley massacre, manipulate global finances, and rally countries against them if they rejected his terms.
• Sephiroth showed Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru a newspaper reporting Mariejois and Fish-Man Island’s destruction, the severing of Paradise from the New World, and the fall of Kaido and Whitebeard.
• Sephiroth warned that the Marines might lose the world’s trust and said their leaders had one day to give him an answer about his deal.
• Steel Bone Kong asked if Sephiroth intended to rule the world, and Sephiroth said his ultimate goal was interstellar conquest and warned that aliens could colonize the planet.
• After Sephiroth left, Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru discussed whether aliens existed and whether Gion could persuade Sephiroth, but Steel Bone Kong doubted she could change his decision.

Albertaon’s pirate crew attacked Dressrosa Kingdom’s East Coast port, but armed residents and Stone Statue Guards crushed the raid and killed him. Meanwhile, Scarlett tried to get Sephiroth to help name her future son, and the destruction of Mariejois fueled pirate raids and revolutions across the world.

• Albertaon ordered his crew to raid Dressrosa Kingdom after hearing that Mariejois had been destroyed, but the port’s residents answered their bombardment with gunfire and rockets.
• King’s Army soldiers and twenty Stone Statue Guards arrived, and Albertaon charged them to preserve his authority after losing two ships.
• The Stone Statue Guards trapped Albertaon and killed him with stone spikes, then the Kingdom displayed his corpse at the East Coast port.
• Scarlett asked Sephiroth to help choose a name for her future son, but he fled the study and left her frustrated.
• Pirates launched raids across the New World as depleted Marines and the World Government struggled to respond, while five countries including Tequila Wolf and Goa Kingdom revolted under the Revolutionary Army.

Sengoku, Tsuru, and Steel Bone Kong debated Sephiroth’s proposal and ultimately agreed to place the New World Marines under his command. Sephiroth became the Marines’ fourth Admiral as the Blackbeard Pirates attacked the weakened Whitebeard Pirates, leaving only Marco and Ace alive to escape.

• Sengoku argued that the Marines should reject Sephiroth’s control and pursue true justice, while Tsuru and Steel Bone Kong favored accepting his proposal.
• Steel Bone Kong revealed that the attack that devastated Marineford had likely been redirected from Mary Geoise, leading Tsuru to recognize that Sephiroth had saved their lives.
• Sengoku accepted Sephiroth’s proposal, and the four negotiated the Marines’ future in secret.
• The Marines announced that Sephiroth had been promoted to fourth Admiral and would command all New World Marine affairs.
• The Blackbeard Pirates ambushed the injured Whitebeard Pirates after their allies departed, killing many commanders and forcing Marco and Ace to flee.

Sephiroth arranged the transfer of trusted Marines to the New World and secured Ain as his adjutant. He then arrived at Egghead Island, where he knocked a mechanical shark onto the shore and discovered a drenched pink-haired girl emerging from its mouth.

• Sephiroth gave Sengoku transfer files for Gion, Hina, Domino, Tashigi, and Kuro, and Sengoku accepted them under their secret agreement.
• Sengoku teased Sephiroth about Ain's request to become his adjutant, and Sephiroth declared that he would choose Ain alone.
• Sephiroth asked Ain to become his adjutant, and Ain agreed.
• Sephiroth flew toward Egghead Island and kicked a mechanical shark out of the sea onto the shore.
• A drenched pink-haired girl crawled out of the mechanical shark's mouth.

Jewelry Bonney escaped from a damaged mechanical shark on Egghead Island, but Marine Admiral Karl D. Sephiroth captured her with Sea-Stone Cuffs. After Bonney agreed to behave in exchange for meat, she learned Sephiroth was going to meet Vegapunk and decided to let him take her there.

• Jewelry Bonney emerged from a mechanical shark that had destroyed her pirate ship and used her Age-Age Fruit to return to her adult form.
• Karl D. Sephiroth caught Bonney when she tried to attack him, restrained her with Sea-Stone Cuffs, and carried her toward Egghead Island.
• Bonney gave up struggling when hunger overcame her and demanded meat from Sephiroth.
• Sephiroth told Bonney he was going to talk to Vegapunk, and Bonney decided to go with him so she could settle accounts with Vegapunk.

Sephiroth brought the shivering Bonney into Egghead Island, where she changed clothes and ate a huge meal from an automated food machine. As they left her cuffs off, Bonney wondered about his intentions, and Sephiroth claimed he could cook better steak than the machine.

• Sephiroth flew Bonney into Egghead Island, where holographic projections of a dragon and robot fought above the streets.
• Sephiroth took Bonney to an automated clothing store, bought her a combat suit, and removed her Sea-Stone Cuffs after she promised not to run away.
• Bonney changed into the suit and followed Sephiroth to a food-making machine, where she ordered more than a hundred portions at his expense.
• Bonney devoured the food, including Sephiroth's steak, while he criticized its flavor and said his own cooking was better.
• Bonney doubted Sephiroth's boast, and he replied, "Believe it or not!"

Bonney confronted Vegapunk over what had happened to her father, Kuma, after a Pacifista mistook her for a pirate and attempted to arrest her. Vegapunk explained his brain and clone system, but he said he could not restore Kuma’s memories, leaving Bonney threatening him.

• A Pacifista recognized Bonney as a pirate and trapped her in a bubble, but Sephiroth used his authority chip to make it release her.
• Bonney swore she would settle the score with Vegapunk, then Vegapunk suddenly fell onto the street and introduced himself to her and Sephiroth.
• Vegapunk explained that he had moved his expanding brain into Punk Records and created six clones to share his knowledge and personality.
• Angered by what Vegapunk had done to Kuma, Bonney transformed into a muscular future form, tore up a streetlamp, and demanded that he restore her father’s memories.
• Vegapunk said he could not restore Kuma and hid behind Sephiroth as Bonney threatened to kill him.

Bonney confronted Vegapunk about erasing Kuma’s personality, and Sephiroth offered to investigate whether he could restore Kuma’s memories. The three went to Egghead’s research level, where Vegapunk introduced his six satellites.

• Bonney attacked Vegapunk over Kuma’s erased personality, but Sephiroth stopped her and she broke down crying.
• Vegapunk said Kuma had chosen to lose his sense of self but refused to reveal why he had done it.
• Sephiroth offered to study Vegapunk’s process and try to restore Kuma’s memories, learning that Kuma’s brain remained intact and blood still flowed through his body.
• Bonney accepted Sephiroth’s offer with renewed hope, while he kept his reasons for helping her to himself.
• Vegapunk led Sephiroth and Bonney to the research level and introduced his six satellites: Shaka, Lilith, Edison, Pythagoras, Atlas, and York.

Sephiroth examined Vegapunk’s records of Kuma’s memory-erasure surgery and learned that Kuma’s stored memories could help restore him. Vegapunk showed them the memories, which traced Kuma’s tragic life and his choice to sacrifice himself for Bonney, leaving Sephiroth with a possible path to restoring Kuma.

• Sephiroth said restoring Kuma’s memories would be difficult, but he could use Bonney’s memories; Vegapunk revealed he had secretly preserved Kuma’s own memories.
• Vegapunk led Sephiroth and Bonney to a stored paw-shaped mass of Kuma’s memories and projected them onto a screen.
• Kuma’s memories showed his childhood enslavement, his parents’ deaths, and his escape from God Valley with Ginny and Ivankov.
• Kuma’s memories recounted how he joined the Revolutionary Army with Ginny, lost her after she was captured by a Celestial Dragon, and raised Bonney after Ginny died.
• When Bonney developed Sapphire Scales, Kuma sought a cure, became entangled in the Sorbet Kingdom’s political upheaval, and eventually left to find a doctor.
• Kuma agreed to Vegapunk’s human-modification experiment to pay for Bonney’s treatment, then accepted the erasure of his personality and memories when Saint Saturn threatened Bonney.

After watching Kuma’s memories, Sephiroth assured Bonney and Vegapunk that he could restore Kuma’s personality and memories once they obtained his body. Bonney’s grief gave way to hunger, and Sephiroth cooked a pizza feast that York joined before an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Bonney wept over Kuma’s memories, while Sephiroth and Vegapunk discussed restoring Kuma’s personality and memories.
• Sephiroth assured Bonney he could help and said retrieving Kuma from Marine custody would not be difficult.
• After realizing she was hungry, Bonney asked Sephiroth to make pizza.
• Sephiroth cooked several pizzas, which Bonney, Vegapunk, and York ate together.
• Someone unexpectedly arrived during the pizza feast.

Sephiroth encountered Stussy on Egghead Island, where she had come to warn Vegapunk that the surviving Five Elders were heading there with summoned CP agents. The chapter ended with Sephiroth revealing he had been eavesdropping and claiming the Five Elders feared he would kill them.

• Sephiroth invited Stussy to share pizza, and she reluctantly ate with him and Vegapunk.
• Stussy remembered her urgent reason for visiting and asked Vegapunk to speak privately with her.
• Stussy told Vegapunk that the Five Elders survived Mariejois's destruction and were traveling to Egghead Island to take control, while summoning CP agents from around the world.
• Sephiroth entered through a Spatial Gate and said the Five Elders were hiding because they feared he would kill them.
• Stussy shielded Vegapunk from Sephiroth and demanded that he explain why the Five Elders feared him.

Sephiroth revealed that he had used Vegapunk’s Mother Flame to destroy Mary Geoise and pressured Vegapunk to join his side while asking Stussy for intelligence on the Five Elders. In Wano Country, he renamed the nation Inazuma, planned a false prison escape for Drake, and had Kozuki Hiyori announce the new name during the Fire Festival.

• Sephiroth told Vegapunk and Stussy that he had powered the attack on Mary Geoise with the Mother Flame, then persuaded Vegapunk to work for him and asked Stussy for intelligence on the Five Elders.
• Sephiroth told Kozuki Hiyori to rename Wano Country Inazuma and ordered her to establish a shrine and statue honoring Marigold as its Thunder God.
• Sephiroth explained to imprisoned Drake that he had become a Marine Admiral and planned to send him undercover back to Doflamingo’s surviving Beasts Pirates by staging a prison break.
• During the Fire Festival, Kozuki Hiyori announced in a nationwide broadcast that Wano Country had been renamed Inazuma Country, despite the complaints of the Kozuki retainers.

The Five Elders planned to seize Vegapunk’s weapons and rebuild their power after Holy Land Mariejois was destroyed. Sephiroth confronted them aboard their cruise ship, but Saint Saturn’s invisible force appeared to kill him.

• Saint Saturn said the Five Elders would go to Egghead Island to take control of Vegapunk’s Pacifistas and mechanical sea beasts, killing Vegapunk if he refused.
• The Five Elders decided to secretly gather elite CP agents and loyal nations because they distrusted the Marines and feared Sephiroth knew the truth about the attack on Holy Land Mariejois.
• Sephiroth burst into the Five Elders’ room, killed a CP agent, and demanded to know where Imu was.
• Saint Saturn and the other Four Elders transformed into monstrous forms, and Saint Saturn bound Sephiroth with an invisible force.
• Saint Saturn blasted Sephiroth’s head apart with an invisible force.

Sephiroth ambushed the Five Elders, but they escaped the destruction of their ship and disappeared. He later told Sengoku about the failed assassination, warned him to monitor the allied nations, and took Tyrant Kuma to restore his memories, revealing that Vegapunk had a replacement weapon called Seraphim.

• Sephiroth ordered Marigold to attack the Five Elders’ ship with a whirlpool, a Knock-Up Stream, and lightning, but the Elders escaped.
• Sephiroth and Marigold searched for the Five Elders without success, so Sephiroth began eliminating Cipher Pol agents using Stussy’s intelligence.
• Sephiroth visited Sengoku at Marineford and revealed that the Five Elders were alive and had escaped his assassination attempt.
• Sephiroth asked Sengoku to have Marine intelligence watch for unusual movements by allied nations, and Sengoku agreed.
• Sephiroth took Tyrant Kuma to restore his memories and told Sengoku that Vegapunk’s Seraphim project could replace him.

Sephiroth moved Egghead Island to the New World and used a flying Marine fleet to suppress pirate unrest and take control of twelve nations. Meanwhile, Doflamingo abandoned Wano Country for Hachinosu Island, and Sengoku sent Akainu and Kizaru to curb the growing Blackbeard Pirates.

• Sephiroth returned to Egghead Island, learned Vegapunk had completed the requested machine, and promised to move the island to safety near G-1 Branch.
• Sephiroth used the Float-Float Fruit to carry Egghead Island and a hundred Marine warships through the air to G-1 Branch, where he deployed forces to support the New World.
• After pirates withdrew from the nations they had occupied, Sephiroth captured them and returned them for execution; the Marines brought twelve nations under direct control.
• Drake and more than a dozen Flying Six members escaped prison and reunited with Doflamingo, who realized Sephiroth controlled Wano Country and moved his headquarters to Hachinosu Island, renaming the crew the Donquixote Pirates.
• Sengoku sent Akainu and Kizaru to strike at the Blackbeard Pirates and prevent their fleet from expanding.

Sephiroth helped Vegapunk treat Kuma on Egghead Island, then cooked lunch for Bonney and the others. He later visited Ain at the G-1 Branch, where a meal and a promised chance to relax led to an intimate encounter, leaving her embarrassed and unsteady.

• Sephiroth told Bonney that Kuma's surgery had gone well and that restoring his memories and personality would take three to five days, then used hypnosis to aid the process.
• Vegapunk asked to study Sephiroth, but Sephiroth refused and urged him to focus on improving the Seraphim.
• Bonney's hunger prompted Sephiroth to cook seafood fried rice, which he shared with Bonney, Stussy, York, and Vegapunk.
• At the G-1 Branch, Sephiroth found Ain buried in military paperwork, brought her fried rice, and listened as she explained the workload.
• Sephiroth teased Ain by removing a grain of rice from her mouth, then persuaded her to take a break; three hours later, she left the office disheveled and embarrassed.

Sephiroth visited Stussy to recruit her to help purge CP agents loyal to the Celestial Dragons and Five Elders, offering her a Pure Gold ring that would preserve her youth. Stussy accepted the offer and spent the night with Sephiroth, who left her exhausted by morning.

• Sephiroth asked Stussy to use her CP0 intelligence to help eliminate the CP personnel loyal to the Celestial Dragons and Five Elders, with Steel Bone Kong secretly covering for them.
• Sephiroth gave Stussy a Pure Gold ring and admitted that he also wanted her to remain young because he desired her body.
• Stussy confirmed the ring was genuine and agreed to help Sephiroth.
• Sephiroth and Stussy fought through the night, and Stussy eventually ran out of strength and fell asleep.
• At sunrise, Sephiroth reflected on Stussy's stamina and wondered whether Miss Bakkin had contributed to Whitebeard's weakness in old age.

Kuma woke on Egghead Island with his memories and personality restored and reunited with Bonney, then spoke with Sephiroth about returning to the Revolutionary Army. Sephiroth hinted that the Celestial Dragons’ era had ended and that he wanted to discuss the future with Dragon.

• Kuma woke restrained in Vegapunk’s operating room and chose not to escape because the World Government threatened Bonney and the people of the Sorbet Kingdom.
• Bonney arrived and told Kuma that Sephiroth and Vegapunk had restored his memories and personality, though he could not remember the period after his modifications were completed.
• Kuma apologized to Bonney for failing as a father, and she reassured him that he was the best father in the world.
• Sephiroth arrived and spoke with Kuma about his influence on Dragon and the Revolutionary Army’s progress.
• Kuma said he had promised Dragon he would return to the Revolutionary Army if Bonney’s illness was cured, and Sephiroth said serving as a Shichibukai did not necessarily conflict with that.
• Sephiroth said most Celestial Dragons were already dead and that he wanted to meet Dragon to discuss matters concerning the future.