Chapter Summaries

Sephiroth led a Marine warship beneath the sea toward Fish-Man Island, sinking pirates that threatened the ship along the way. When a Sea King attacked, he sent Vergo to fight it, and Vergo’s blow enraged the creature as it turned to bite him.

• Sephiroth directed the warship’s descent and ordered the crew to navigate cautiously through the deep-sea currents.
• A pirate ship captained by Lice appeared behind the warship, and Sephiroth cut it in half with a long-range slash.
• Sephiroth sank three more pirate groups, including a fleet of six ships, with one slash per ship.
• A giant anglerfish Sea King charged the warship, and Sephiroth ordered Vergo to take it down.
• Vergo left the ship in a coated diving suit and kicked the Sea King into an undersea mountain, but the enraged creature turned to bite him.

Vergo survived a battle with an anglerfish Sea King at the cost of rupturing his diving suit, while Sephiroth’s warship navigated the deep-sea hazards to reach Fish-Man Island. The crew entered the harbor and encountered Jinbe and the Neptune Royal Army.

• Vergo defeated the anglerfish Sea King, but falling rocks ruptured his coating; the soldiers hauled him aboard before the pressure killed him.
• Sephiroth promoted Vergo to corporal, and the soldiers praised his strength.
• Sephiroth directed the crew through the deep-sea waterfall and around underwater hazards as they descended toward Fish-Man Island.
• The warship reached Fish-Man Island, and Sephiroth ordered a messenger to request entry from the Ryugu Kingdom.
• The border harbor opened its floodgates and admitted the warship, where Sephiroth and the crew saw Jinbe leading twenty armed Fish-Man soldiers.

Sephiroth brought Marines to Fish-Man Island to capture Fisher Tiger, but entered the island despite Jinbe’s attempt to delay them. Jinbe warned Fisher Tiger, who prepared to act and hide the rescued former slaves.

• Frank presented Marine Headquarters’ orders and a photograph of Fisher Tiger to Jinbe, who asked to wait for King Neptune’s approval while secretly ordering soldiers to keep the Marines out.
• Sephiroth told Frank to rest and entered Fish-Man Island alone, using his Killing Intent to frighten the Neptune Royal Army soldiers into lowering their spears.
• The soldiers reported their failure to Jinbe, who reassured them and continued toward the royal palace.
• Jinbe urgently called Fisher Tiger and warned him that the Marines had come to capture him, advising him and the rescued people to hide or leave the island.
• Fisher Tiger told Jinbe that he understood and would take action immediately.

Sephiroth explored Fish-Man Island and witnessed Queen Otohime use her unusual Observation Haki to sway a resident toward trusting humans. At her Mermaid Cafe, Shyarly received a startling prophecy, but the vision was not revealed.

• Sephiroth walked through Port Town and observed the wary attitudes between humans and the island's residents.
• Queen Otohime persuaded a cartilaginous fish-man not to withdraw his signature supporting relocation to the surface.
• Sephiroth sensed Otohime's power to influence others through her Observation Haki and left before it could affect him.
• Shyarly recalled her past prophecies, her growing fortune, and her move to the commercial district to open a Mermaid Cafe.
• Shyarly felt a prophecy coming, looked into her crystal ball, and dropped her smoking pipe in shock at the vision.

Sephiroth visited Mermaid Cafe on Fish-Man Island to fulfill a long-held wish and booked a private room. The owner, Shyarly, offered to keep him company, and he accepted.

• Sephiroth arrived at Mermaid Cafe and asked the staff for a private room.
• Shyarly recognized Sephiroth, took over serving him, and charged him fifty thousand Beli for the room.
• Sephiroth ordered cakes, ice cream, fruit, and coffee, then followed Shyarly to Room 16.
• Sephiroth asked whether he could stay overnight and requested a beautiful mermaid to keep him company.
• Shyarly blushed and offered to keep him company herself, and Sephiroth agreed.

Sephiroth sought a prophecy from Shyarly, but she could not divine his future until later. After arranging to return in three days, he grew intimate with her in Mermaid Cafe’s private room.

• Sephiroth asked Shyarly to divine his future, but she said she had already used her ability that day.
• Sephiroth reflected on Shyarly’s accurate prophecies and the possibility that her vision of a straw hat destroying Fish-Man Island could refer to Luffy overthrowing Hody Jones’s regime.
• Sephiroth asked Shyarly to read his future three days later, and she agreed.
• Sephiroth and Shyarly became intimate, and Shyarly closed the clam bed around them.

Sephiroth spent the morning with Shyarly before returning to his Marine warship to begin the mission to capture Fisher Tiger. He arranged for Vergo to announce the Marines’ purpose at Gyoncorde Plaza while keeping himself out of the speech.

• Sephiroth answered Frank’s call and told him to wait for orders before beginning the hunt for Fisher Tiger.
• Shyarly learned that Sephiroth was a Marine, and the two spent two more hours together before he left the cafe.
• Sephiroth arrived at the border port and ordered Frank to assemble the soldiers.
• Sephiroth gave Vergo the prepared speech and assigned him to announce the Marines’ purpose at Gyoncorde Plaza.
• Sephiroth told Frank to record Vergo’s speech and led the soldiers toward town, leaving ten soldiers and the coating craftsmen to guard the warship.

Sephiroth sent Vergo to announce a reward for information about Fisher Tiger, stirring hostility among Fish-Man Island’s residents. Realizing he could not safely remain there, Fisher Tiger agreed to leave with his supporters and formed the Sun Pirates to pursue freedom and liberate slaves.

• Vergo announced that Marines would pay for information leading to Fisher Tiger, and Sephiroth withdrew with his soldiers as residents watched them with hostility.
• Arlong and Hachi went aboard Noah, where they met Kuroobi and found Fisher Tiger, Jinbe, and the escaped slaves gathered.
• Arlong offered to kill the Marines, but Fisher Tiger refused, warning that provoking them could bring disaster to Fish-Man Island.
• After hearing the Marines were offering money for reports, Fisher Tiger decided to leave Fish-Man Island before someone betrayed him.
• Jinbe and the other fish-men insisted on joining Fisher Tiger, and he agreed to form a pirate crew with them.
• Fisher Tiger named the crew the Sun Pirates and declared that they would pursue freedom and liberate oppressed slaves.

Sephiroth pressured Neptune and Otohime to send the Neptune Royal Army after Fisher Tiger, but his real goal was to infiltrate Ryugu Palace and steal its ES Steroid. He escaped with the drug to test whether it could be combined with his Life Enhancement Injection, while the kingdom agreed to search for Fisher Tiger without intending to make a serious effort.

• Sephiroth met Neptune, Otohime, and the Left Minister and argued that Fish-Man Island should help the Marines capture Fisher Tiger to protect its reputation and hopes of reaching the surface.
• The Left Minister asked Sephiroth to leave, then persuaded Neptune and Otohime to send soldiers to search for Fisher Tiger while secretly letting them go through the motions.
• While waiting, Sephiroth wandered through the palace and learned the location of the royal treasury.
• Sephiroth used a Spatial Gate to enter the treasury and found the ES Steroid, intending to combine it with his Life Enhancement Injection to develop a drug without its life-draining side effects.
• Sephiroth left the palace with the ES Steroid as Neptune and the others agreed to the Marine request to search for Fisher Tiger.

Sephiroth asked Shyarly to divine his future, and she saw Kaido kill him in battle. Troubled by the prophecy, Sephiroth reconsidered his plans for Wano before traveling to Sea Forest to photograph two historical texts.

• Sephiroth visited Shyarly and asked her to use her crystal ball to divine his future.
• Shyarly saw Kaido fighting Sephiroth and killing him, then told Sephiroth she could not glimpse his future again until the prophecy came true.
• Sephiroth considered postponing his planned attack on Wano Country and making more thorough preparations.
• The next morning, Sephiroth traveled through a spatial doorway to Sea Forest.
• Sephiroth photographed the blue apology text and the red historical text.

After helping the Marines search for Fisher Tiger, Sephiroth returned from Fish-Man Island to the Sabaody Archipelago with the Neptune Royal Army’s sea lion towing his warship. At the Marine base, he clashed with investigator Doro, then sent his Bat Clone to Marineford for questioning while he went in disguise to Island 13.

• Left Minister apologized for Fisher Tiger’s escape and showed Sephiroth photographs proving that Fisher Tiger and his companions had left Fish-Man Island aboard a pirate ship.
• Left Minister arranged for a sea lion to tow Sephiroth’s coated warship safely back to the Sabaody Archipelago.
• At Dock 1, Lieutenant Doro ordered Sephiroth to come to Marineford for an investigation and said the base’s department heads had already been taken away.
• Sephiroth slapped Doro when he blocked his way, challenged him to retaliate, and watched him leave.
• Sephiroth returned to his office, asked what had happened during his absence, checked on Isca, and sent his Bat Clone to the investigation while heading in disguise to Island 13.

Sephiroth visited Shakky’s bar to ask Rayleigh to help him awaken Conqueror’s Haki Infusion after his fight with Akainu, but Rayleigh refused. After meeting Uta and recognizing the Sing-Sing Fruit’s power, Sephiroth warned her to stay away from Elegia before leaving.

• Sephiroth asked Rayleigh to help him recover the feeling of infusing Conqueror’s Haki into his attacks after his battle with Akainu.
• Rayleigh explained that Conqueror’s Haki developed through repeated battles with powerful opponents, then declined to fight Sephiroth even when offered money.
• Shanks and Uta entered the bar, and Sephiroth recognized that Uta had eaten the Sing-Sing Fruit.
• Sephiroth warned Uta that going to Elegia could make her the key to bringing the Demon King of Song into the real world, then left the bar.

Sephiroth visited Salto Kingdom to collect research materials and asked Jim to combine a Color Fruit with a spray bottle. The chapter also showed Shanks preferring to roam the Four Seas over pursuing fame as an Emperor of the Sea, while Salto Kingdom prospered under the Umbrella Corporation’s support.

• At Shakky’s bar, Uta wondered whether Sephiroth had lied about being the Demon King of Song, while Shakky said his identity was sensitive.
• Shanks told Rayleigh about the Revolutionary Army’s reforms in Marino and said he preferred roaming freely to seeking fame in the New World.
• The chapter described how Princess Stella and the Umbrella Corporation had transformed impoverished Salto Kingdom into a growing industrial and commercial nation.
• Sephiroth arrived at the palace and collected research materials from Jim, asking the biological laboratory to study cloned animals.
• Sephiroth gave Jim a Paramecia Color Fruit and a spray bottle to combine, then reflected on the limits of using Butcher Blade’s Door-Door Fruit ability.

Sephiroth tested a new disguise ability and discussed Umbrella Corporation’s political strategy before receiving Kozaburo’s completed Nether Flame Blade. After demonstrating the sword’s immense power, Sephiroth took it to Jim to fuse with the Flame-Flame Fruit.

• Jim fused the Color-Color Fruit with white spray, and Sephiroth tested its invisibility before explaining that he wanted its disguise ability.
• Gild Tesoro told Sephiroth that Joker wanted to expand his cooperation with Umbrella Corporation and had been probing Princess Scarlett’s position; Sephiroth refused to meet him and warned against threatening Scarlett or Dressrosa Kingdom.
• Sephiroth told Gild Tesoro and Stella to build ties with other World Government member nations and work toward Salto Kingdom qualifying for the Sea Calendar 1510 Reverie.
• Kozaburo presented Sephiroth with the completed Nether Flame Blade, which he said could absorb Haki and had reached Supreme Grade quality.
• Sephiroth tested the Nether Flame Blade by cutting through a coconut tree and then unleashing a slash that split the sea and the clouds; Kuina asked him to teach her the move.
• After Kozaburo declined to forge more swords for now, Sephiroth went to Salto Kingdom and had Jim fuse the Nether Flame Blade with the Flame-Flame Fruit.

Sephiroth accompanied Violet on a shopping trip through prosperous Dressrosa, where she teased him into revealing that he liked her. He took her through a Spatial Gate toward the Sunflower Field, leaving their outing underway.

• Violet asked Sephiroth to go shopping with her, and he agreed before they left the palace together.
• King Riku saw Violet clinging to Sephiroth and worried their relationship was becoming too intimate.
• Violet asked whether Sephiroth liked her and used the Glare-Glare Fruit to read his answer, which satisfied her.
• Sephiroth and Violet walked through Dressrosa’s bustling commercial district and discussed the kingdom’s defenses and Scarlett’s progress with Haki.
• When Violet admitted she had nothing to buy, Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate and led her toward the Sunflower Field.

Sephiroth and Violet joined Scarlett in the Sunflower Field after Scarlett negotiated an agreement with the Tontatta Tribe over supplies from Dressrosa’s arms factory. Sephiroth gave Scarlett Black Blade Shusui, but refused her request to have a child, saying he would reconsider once things had settled down.

• Scarlett agreed with Gan Qiao that the Tontatta Tribe would request valuable supplies from her and stop taking outsiders’ belongings.
• Sephiroth and Violet arrived in the Sunflower Field and learned why Scarlett had met with Gan Qiao.
• Sephiroth gave Black Blade Shusui to Scarlett, who thanked him with a kiss.
• Scarlett asked Sephiroth to give her a child, but he refused because he was unprepared and feared exposing a child to danger.

The Cannon Pirates, led by Captain David, fired on the Perfume Yuda from long range, hoping to defeat Boa Hancock without getting close enough to be turned to stone. Sandersonia intercepted the cannonball with a Rankyaku, but the blast still sent a shockwave and spray crashing into the Kuja ship.

• Captain David spotted the Perfume Yuda and ordered his crew to load the Cannon Pirates’ long-range cannon.
• David fired a shell at the Kuja ship, relying on his cannon’s range to keep his crew beyond Boa Hancock’s reach.
• Sandersonia recognized the Cannon Pirates but chose not to pursue them because the Kuja crew had already seized treasure worth five billion Belly.
• Sandersonia leaped into the air and cut the incoming cannonball in half with Rankyaku.
• The split shell exploded near the Perfume Yuda, and its shockwave drove spray against the hull.

Marigold used her Railgun to destroy a pirate ship attacking the Perfume Yuda, then Hancock and her sisters went to Sephiroth’s villa on Sabaody Archipelago to ask him to handle their treasure. The chapter ended with Hancock joining Perona’s math lesson and struggling to solve a problem.

• Sandersonia told Hancock that a distant pirate ship was repeatedly firing at the Perfume Yuda, and Hancock ordered Marigold to sink it.
• Marigold used a Haki-coated alloy coin and her Rumble-Rumble Fruit to fire a Railgun that destroyed Captain David’s ship.
• Marigold returned to the cabin after confirming the enemy ship had sunk, and the chapter explained the Railgun’s range and limitations.
• Hancock and her sisters docked at Sabaody Archipelago and headed to Sephiroth’s villa to ask him to dispose of their treasure.
• Hancock found Sephiroth tutoring Perona, took the math problem from him, and realized she could not solve it.

Sephiroth found comfort in Hancock’s support as he resolved to face whatever future awaited him. The next morning, he visited Isca, treated her scars with ointment, and agreed to teach her swordsmanship if she completed a month of daily practice.

• Hancock joined Sephiroth on the balcony and urged him to share his worries, but he said he would overcome the future and stay with her forever.
• Sephiroth visited Isca at her home after his Bat Clone endured three days of questioning and received a major demerit and a three-year promotion ban.
• Sephiroth removed Isca’s bandages and mask, then applied his scar-removal ointment and told her to use it twice daily for around ten days.
• Isca asked Sephiroth to teach her swordsmanship, and he set a daily practice goal of 1,300 swings for a month before formal training.
• Sephiroth and Isca sealed their agreement by hooking little fingers.

Sephiroth infiltrated Wano Country and used Black Bats to scout Komuso Village, where he witnessed the effects of Kurozumi Orochi’s rule. He eventually found a masked old man he believed was former shogun Kozuki Sukiyaki.

• Sephiroth reached Wano Country’s dangerous waters and sent a Black Bat ahead to scout Onigashima and the main island.
• Sephiroth used a spatial doorway to enter a bamboo forest near Komuso Village, where his damaged color coating revealed him.
• Sephiroth’s Black Bats surveyed the village and showed him its starving residents, ruined crops, and polluted water.
• Sephiroth reflected on how Kurozumi Orochi seized power, allied with Kaido, and brought Wano Country to ruin.
• Sephiroth’s bats found a white-haired old man wearing a tengu mask in a village shrine, whom he suspected was Kozuki Sukiyaki.