Chapter Summaries

Sephiroth returned to Marineford after vacation and discussed the Marines’ relationship with the Celestial Dragons with Smoker. At the training ground, Gion warned him that the Butcher Blade was a life-draining Demonic Sword, but Sephiroth refused to give it up.

• Sephiroth found Smoker smoking in their dorm room and asked whether he had spent the whole vacation in bed.
• Sephiroth gave Smoker expensive cigars, and Smoker questioned whether he should remain in the Marines because they served the Celestial Dragons.
• Sephiroth went to the snowy training ground, exercised while wearing Sea Stone handcuffs, and set a goal of using Armament Haki despite their suppression.
• Gion visited Sephiroth and warned him that the Butcher Blade drained its wielder’s life, explaining that she had chosen Konpira instead.
• Sephiroth agreed that Gion’s warning made sense but refused to return the Butcher Blade, then walked away.

At Marine Headquarters’ New Year’s Eve gala, Zephyr gave the Military Academy students bottles of Sherry, and Sephiroth beat a drunken Maynard at arm wrestling by distracting him. After chatting with the students, Sephiroth left Oris Plaza for the Military Academy dormitories.

• Zephyr arrived at the students’ table and gave each of them a bottle of Sherry as a New Year’s gift.
• Maynard challenged Sephiroth to an arm-wrestling match, betting that the loser would finish a bottle of tequila.
• Sephiroth distracted Maynard by claiming Gion had a wardrobe malfunction, then forced Maynard’s hand onto the table.
• Maynard drank the bottle of tequila and collapsed onto the table, still protesting the loss.
• Sephiroth chatted with the students, then left Oris Plaza and headed for the Military Academy dormitories.

At the New Year celebration, Sephiroth and Gion fought after she overheard his careless remark, but their rooftop clash ended in an almost-kiss before Gion declared them even and left. The next morning, Gion remained cold toward him, while Tokikake revealed that Miss Liliana had rejected him and told him to stop harassing her.

• Gion confronted Sephiroth beneath the dormitory and attacked him over a remark he had made.
• Sephiroth and Gion fought across the dormitory rooftop, where he caught her when she fell and nearly kissed her before stopping himself.
• Gion stomped on Sephiroth's foot, declared them even, and left the rooftop.
• During the next morning's run, Gion ignored Sephiroth's greeting, and Tokikake asked him about their fight.
• Sephiroth mocked Tokikake for claiming to understand women, and Tokikake recalled that Miss Liliana had rejected his confession and told him to stop harassing her.

Sephiroth learned that Vegapunk would sell the technology for feeding Devil Fruits to weapons for twenty billion Belly, so he took up the Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro identity to raise the money. Before returning to the Military Academy, he hunted pirates across Sabaody and collected bounties and loot.

• Gild Tesoro told Sephiroth that Vegapunk was selling the weapon technology and its Lineage Factor principles for twenty billion Belly.
• Sephiroth learned the company could spare only fifteen billion Belly and decided to earn the rest by hunting pirates as Roronoa Zoro.
• Gild Tesoro introduced Fortes Jim, a weapons designer he had freed from a Human Trafficking Shop and appointed to lead the company's Weapon Workshop.
• Sephiroth gave Gild Tesoro weapon design concepts for Fortes Jim to develop.
• Sephiroth hunted pirates throughout Sabaody, collected their bounties, and looted their ships before returning to the Military Academy.

Sephiroth attacked three allied pirate crews on Sabaody Archipelago and demonstrated that his sound waves could curve a bullet around Gielman’s Observation Haki. Gielman shrugged off the shot, while Fat Jones swallowed the wounded Victor, leaving Sephiroth facing the surviving pirates.

• Victor ordered his crew to stay aboard while Jones and Gielman mocked his caution and led their crews ashore.
• A dense black fog trapped more than a hundred pirates, and Sephiroth moved through them, cutting down crew members as they fired blindly.
• Victor transformed into a Mantis Man and joined the fight, but stray bullets wounded him before Sephiroth slashed him across the chest.
• Gielman interrupted Sephiroth’s attempt to finish Victor, and Jones fired at them with his arm-mounted submachine gun.
• Sephiroth used a sound wave to curve an Armament Haki-coated bullet toward Gielman, but the shot barely marked him.
• Jones found Victor still breathing and swallowed him whole.

Sephiroth fought Gielman while the Metal Mantis Man joined the battle, and he killed the Metal Mantis Man with the Butcher Blade. He continued battling Gielman, who demonstrated advanced Armament Haki and shattered one of Sephiroth’s swords, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Fat Jones swallowed Viktor and transformed into a Metal Mantis Man, then attacked Sephiroth and Gielman with his weapons and guns.
• Sephiroth drew the Butcher Blade, severed the Metal Mantis Man’s arm, and used Vampire Transformation to cut him into four pieces.
• Sephiroth evaded Gielman’s attacks by splitting into Black Bats, then reassembled and faced him again.
• Gielman used advanced Armament Haki to destroy Sephiroth’s ordinary longsword from within.

Sephiroth defeated Gielman by enhancing his arm strength with Armament Haki and exploiting the pirate’s loss of composure. He found the Munch-Munch Fruit in a black cloth bag and realized its fusion and modification abilities might be useful.

• Sephiroth stopped using the Black Mist and enhanced his arm muscles with flowing Armament Haki as Gielman charged him.
• Sephiroth used Instant Slash to wound Gielman, then exploited his growing fear and sloppy attacks to cut him down.
• Sephiroth searched the black cloth bag beside Gielman’s corpse and found the Munch-Munch Fruit.
• Sephiroth considered the fruit’s ability to fuse and modify living creatures and objects, then had a sudden idea.

Sephiroth collected the bounties from his latest pirate hunt and encountered Dracule Mihawk, who challenged him to a duel. After agreeing to meet in ten days, Sephiroth returned to the Marine base and learned that Rear Admiral Doro had taken command of Sabaody’s base, prompting him to plan against the hardliner.

• Sephiroth loaded the corpses and treasure from three pirate ships onto Bubble Handcarts, gathering 840 million Belly in bounties and enough wealth to buy Devil Fruit weapon technology.
• Dracule Mihawk challenged Sephiroth, but Sephiroth said he was too exhausted to fight and arranged to meet him in ten days.
• Sephiroth left 52nd Island, privately deciding he would not risk fighting Mihawk before training for several more years.
• Sephiroth brought the corpses to the Marine base, where Captain Lutherf identified the pirates and gave him documents for the 840 million Belly bounty.
• Lutherf told Sephiroth that Rear Admiral Doro had replaced Kizaru as the base commander, and Sephiroth resolved to find a way to undermine Doro.

Sephiroth set a trap for Rear Admiral Doro by giving him information about Dracule Mihawk, then visited Umbrella Corporation’s weapons factory to test a powerful sniper rifle and recruit its designer, Fortes Jim. He left Jim with the Munch-Munch Fruit and instructed Gild Tesoro to complete the technology purchase from Vegapunk.

• Sephiroth gave Rear Admiral Doro information that Dracule Mihawk would appear on 52nd Island in ten days, encouraging Doro to pursue a military achievement.
• Sephiroth visited Umbrella Corporation’s weapons factory with Gild Tesoro and learned that the company used the CP Organization to ship arms to the Four Seas.
• Fortes Jim showed Sephiroth the AWM sniper rifle he had built, and Sephiroth tested it and ordered that it be reserved for company use while elite marksmen were trained.
• Sephiroth offered Jim the Munch-Munch Fruit in exchange for his loyalty, and Jim accepted and ate it.
• Sephiroth took Jim’s fingernails to make a Vivre Card, revealed his face to Jim, and told him to develop his Devil Fruit abilities for an important task in a week.
• Sephiroth urged Gild Tesoro to complete the technology purchase transaction with Vegapunk.

Sephiroth tested Jim’s ability to fuse Devil Fruits with objects, creating a wolf that could transform into a rocket launcher and giving Butcher Blade the Door-Door Fruit’s spatial power. He insisted on buying Devil Fruit weapon-feeding technology for its Lineage Factor research, which he believed could reveal how Devil Fruits were created and pointed back to the ancient Lunar People.

• Jim demonstrated a rocket launcher with a thousand-meter effective range to Sephiroth, Gild Tesoro, and Stella.
• Sephiroth made Jim swallow the Dog-Dog Fruit, Wolf Form and the rocket launcher, and Jim fused them into a wolf that could transform into the weapon.
• Sephiroth named the wolf Derp Wolf and had Jim fuse the Door-Door Fruit with Butcher Blade.
• Sephiroth used Butcher Blade to open a spatial passage, surprising Gild Tesoro with the weapon’s new ability.
• Sephiroth told Gild Tesoro that they still needed to buy the weapon-feeding technology to study its Lineage Factor principles and potentially mass-produce Devil Fruit abilities.
• Sephiroth suggested that the ancient Lunar People were behind the origins of Devil Fruits.

Sephiroth tested the Door-Door Fruit’s ability to travel through space and watched Hawkeye defeat the Marines who ambushed him. After the defeat made the news, Rear Admiral Doro was demoted, a new commander took over the Sabaody base, and Hawkeye’s bounty rose to 650 million Belly.

• Sephiroth discovered that he could use the Door-Door Fruit and a Black Bat to open doors between distant locations, and he resolved to develop the Vampire Fruit further.
• Hawkeye arrived at the 52nd Island on the Sabaody Archipelago and defeated the Marines led by Rear Admiral Doro, while Sephiroth watched through Visual Sharing.
• Sephiroth considered learning to control his Conqueror's Haki but worried that revealing his aptitude would make it harder to leave the Marines.
• Sephiroth arranged for reporters to publicize Hawkeye’s victory, prompting Steel Bone Kong to strip Doro of his rear admiral rank and send him to the North Blue.
• A brigadier general named Kaisa took command of the Marine base in the Sabaody Archipelago, and Hawkeye’s bounty increased to 650 million Belly.

More than three months after abandoning his Pirate Hunter persona, Sephiroth continued building Umbrella Corporation and studying Lineage Factors while relying on the Marines for opportunities. During a self-study session at the Military Academy, he helped Hina and Gion with their coursework and decided to visit the Pleasure District after school.

• Sephiroth studied biological sciences to understand Lineage Factors after the Devil Fruit weapon-feeding technology was sold for twenty billion.
• Jim created valuable Memory Alloy for Umbrella Corporation, while Gild Tesoro pursued gambling entertainment and intelligence businesses.
• Sephiroth considered leaving the Marines after graduation but decided he still needed them as a platform.
• Hina asked Sephiroth to explain questions from her textbook, and he began tutoring her.
• Gion flirted with Sephiroth and asked him for help too, so he explained her question while rejecting her invitation to meet in the woods.
• Sephiroth decided to go to the Pleasure District after school rather than risk Gion's teasing.

Sephiroth followed Doflamingo and Diamante to the Joyous Club on Sabaody Archipelago, suspecting they were meeting to make a deal. He chose to enjoy the club with a black-haired beauty while sending a Black Bat to eavesdrop on them.

• Sephiroth spotted Doflamingo, Diamante, and Trebol on the Pleasure District street and followed Doflamingo and Diamante after Trebol went into a club.
• Sephiroth entered the Joyous Club and learned from a black-haired beauty that its fifth floor was closed to the public.
• Sephiroth sensed Doflamingo had gone to the fifth floor and decided to use a Black Bat to monitor the meeting instead of following him himself.
• Sephiroth rented a private hot spring room with the black-haired beauty and released a Black Bat through a restroom window.

Sephiroth overheard Doflamingo and Stussy arranging a deal for two Devil Fruits, then stole the fruits from Doflamingo’s room. He returned to Marineford with them and planned to give the Snow-Snow Fruit to Stella so she could protect herself and reclaim her kingdom.

• Stussy told Doflamingo that his criminal operations in the North Blue would be tacitly permitted and handed him the Snow-Snow Fruit and Stone-Stone Fruit.
• Sephiroth spotted the transaction at the Joyous Club and decided to take the two Devil Fruits.
• Sephiroth used the Door-Door Fruit’s power to steal the fruits from Doflamingo’s case while Doflamingo slept.
• Doflamingo discovered the empty case, smashed the table in rage, and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki.
• Sephiroth returned to Marineford, hid the fruits in his locker, and planned to give the Snow-Snow Fruit to Stella.

Zephyr gave Class One a final exam asking them to define their own justice, and Sephiroth chose to write “Flexible Justice.” For their practical assessment, the cadets traveled through Red Port to the New World to answer a Marine request for aid from Dressrosa.

• Zephyr instructed the cadets to write down the justice they believed in, and Sephiroth settled on “Flexible Justice.”
• Zephyr announced that Class One would spend its practical assessment supporting the Dressrosa Kingdom.
• The cadets boarded a warship and sailed to Red Port, where Zephyr led them onto the high-altitude elevator to the Holy Land Mariejois.
• The group crossed Mariejois and took a second elevator down to Red Port in the New World.
• The cadets boarded a waiting warship and set course for Dressrosa.

Zephyr brought Military Academy students to Dressrosa to help defend the kingdom from a pirate alliance, but King Riku worried that the Marines were too few to face the attackers. The chapter ended with the Marines housed in the royal palace as Dressrosa prepared for the pirates’ return.

• The chapter described Dressrosa’s history, its alliance with the World Government, and its vulnerability to pirate attacks.
• Zephyr and the Military Academy students arrived at Dressrosa, where Kyros welcomed them and escorted them to King Riku.
• King Riku learned that Zephyr had brought only fifty-one people and feared they could not match the more than three thousand pirates threatening the kingdom.
• Zephyr reassured King Riku that he and the elite students could handle the pirate alliance, and said the G-5 Branch would send one hundred more Marines.
• King Riku recalled that seven Supernova Pirates had demanded Dressrosa’s surrender and planned to prepare defenses and civilian evacuations.
• King Riku arranged rooms in the royal palace for Zephyr and the Marines.

Sephiroth discovered pirates had kidnapped Princess Scarlett and rescued her while taking a barrage of bullets. He returned to the pirate ships, defeated their crews, and left them alive to question about the pirate alliance.

• While exploring Dressrosa, Sephiroth learned through his bats that two pirate ships were attacking the southern coast and used Butcher Blade to travel there.
• Sephiroth found that pirates had kidnapped Scarlett and pursued them through a spatial door onto their ship.
• When pirates fired at Scarlett, Sephiroth shielded her with his body, took seven gunshot wounds, and flew her back to the coast.
• After leaving Scarlett ashore, Sephiroth transformed into bats and returned to the pirate ship, where he defeated its crew.
• Sephiroth pursued the second pirate ship and knocked out its crew, intending to leave survivors to interrogate about the pirate alliance.

Sephiroth rescued Scarlett and the injured civilians, then helped Zephyr capture surviving pirates suspected of ties to the Pirate Alliance. That night, Zephyr briefed the Marines on the seven Supernova Pirates, and Sephiroth realized he had narrowly avoided their trap.

• Sephiroth called Zephyr after defeating two pirate crews and arranged for Marines to collect the surviving pirates for questioning.
• Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate to Iris Medical Center and transported the injured civilians, using his life force to stabilize them.
• Scarlett thanked Sephiroth for saving her, while King Riku arrived and expressed his gratitude after confirming his daughter was safe.
• Zephyr's Marines captured the surviving pirates and escorted them to prison, while Sephiroth changed clothes and returned to his vacation.
• Zephyr briefed the Marines on the seven Supernova Pirates and their latest bounties, and Sephiroth reflected that he had avoided being caught in their trap.

Scarlett prepared a bento for Sephiroth, while Violet discovered her sister’s romantic intentions and told King Riku. King Riku questioned Zephyr about Sephiroth’s character, then Scarlett left the palace with Kyros reluctantly following under orders to protect her.

• Scarlett made a bento for Sephiroth, and Violet read her thoughts with her Glare-Glare Fruit, learning that Scarlett wanted to marry him and have children.
• Violet told King Riku about Scarlett’s feelings, leaving him troubled by the prospect of his daughter pursuing Sephiroth.
• King Riku asked Zephyr about Sephiroth, and Zephyr described him as talented and hardworking but unnervingly indifferent about killing pirates.
• Scarlett left the palace carrying the bento, and she ordered Kyros to keep three meters away while he followed to protect her.
• Scarlett remembered Kyros’s violent past and remained convinced that he was hiding ulterior motives.

Sephiroth ate lunch with Princess Scarlett at a couples-themed restaurant and learned that she and Kyros were not together. Scarlett fed him from her lunchbox while Maynard watched enviously.

• Sephiroth complained about being stationed on Lovers Avenue with Maynard and asked him to move to another table.
• Princess Scarlett arrived and invited Sephiroth to share the lunchbox she had made as thanks for saving her.
• Sephiroth mistook Kyros for Scarlett’s lover and tried to leave the lunchbox for them, prompting Scarlett to send Kyros away.
• Scarlett fed Sephiroth fried pork cutlet and a heart-shaped egg, and he praised the food.
• Maynard watched Sephiroth and Scarlett share lunch and felt envious.