Recaps

Major Thorne took temporary command of Graystone Port, investigated Hawk’s crimes, and arrested Su Hang and Qi Hai while allowing the Morning Bell Caravan to carry the refugees to Greenleaf Island. That night, armed intruders broke into the old harbor prison to kill everyone inside.

• Thorne arrived with a Joint Inspection order, arrested Hawk, and took command from Qi Hai.
• Thorne identified Su Hang as the escaped Windmill Village target and ordered him arrested, but accepted Hawk’s ledger and arranged an escort for the grain ship to Greenleaf Island.
• Thorne shackled Su Hang with Seastone, and Qi Hai gave his final military order for his Marines to escort the refugees safely out of Graystone Port.
• After the grain ship departed, Su Hang and Qi Hai were held in the old harbor prison with other witnesses.
• Masked intruders entered through a drainage passage and prepared to kill everyone in the prison on Hawk’s orders.

Su Hang and Qi Hai stopped Hawk’s assassins from killing the jail witnesses, exposing a plan to raid the West Lighthouse vault and helping clear Qi Hai of the charges against him. Qi Hai was permanently expelled from the Marines and agreed to consider joining Su Hang’s fleet, where he would be tasked with holding its captains—and Su Hang—accountable.

• Su Hang deduced that the assassins planned to kill the witnesses and quartermaster, then steal evidence from Hawk’s West Lighthouse vault; he secretly took the jail keys and freed himself.
• Su Hang and Qi Hai defeated the assassins without killing them, while Su Hang seized the red-wax seal linking the attack to the lighthouse vault.
• Thorne arrived with Marines, arrested the surviving assassins, and found evidence that the attackers had used 16th Branch weapons and forged records.
• Before dawn, the assassins’ testimony and hit list supported the evidence against Hawk, and Thorne cleared Qi Hai of collusion and rebellion charges but permanently expelled him for unauthorized actions.
• Su Hang offered Qi Hai a role overseeing the conduct of his future fleet, and Qi Hai followed him toward the West Lighthouse while warning that he would stop him if he kept the dirty money.

Su Hang refused to take money from Hawk’s private vault and arranged a public inventory with survivors, merchants, and Qi Hai, earning trade-route support instead. A mysterious bronze compass then pointed beneath the grain ship’s keel, revealing a possible hidden discovery as the group prepared to leave.

• Alan opened the underwater entrance to Hawk’s vault, where Su Hang and the others found cash, medicine, arms contracts, and records of trafficked people.
• Su Hang refused to take any of the money, and Qi Hai arranged a joint public inventory with survivors and merchant representatives.
• The group distributed medicine and divided the cash among victim compensation, harbor repairs, and resettlement, while the Morning Bell Caravan gained ships and credit from local merchants.
• Su Hang received a Trade Route Credibility Mark, and he left an IOU for an unregistered bronze compass from Hawk’s collection.
• On the grain ship, the compass needle pointed beneath the deck, and Mia determined that it was aimed at the ship’s keel.

Mia discovered an ancient sky map hidden in the grain ship’s keel, and Su Hang decided to establish an escort route before pursuing the power indicated by the map. As the group prepared to leave, Grayfin remnants and rogue Marines blockaded the harbor and demanded that the merchants hand over Su Hang.

• Mia uncovered a metal plate in the keel and recognized its markings as an ancient White-White Sea map showing seven sky layers and a lost city.
• The system detected a distant fortune linked to lightning, and Su Hang recognized that it might involve the Rumble-Rumble Fruit but postponed the search until the trade route was established.
• Su Hang set plans for a merchant-funded escort route and publicly defined rules for combat, retreat, civilian protection, and compensation for losses.
• Mia copied the map and requested instruments to observe the weather and wind patterns needed to complete its missing details.
• Grayfin remnants and Marines who had escaped Hawk’s branch blockaded the harbor, accused Su Hang of stealing military funds, and demanded that he be handed over.

Su Hang exposed the private treasury’s location and invited a Navy inspection, then broke Grayfin’s blockade by ramming an armed ship without capsizing the fishing boats. The Navy arrested Grayfin’s men, the merchants joined the convoy, and Su Hang signed an escort contract with the Morning Bell Caravan for the route to Greenleaf Island.

• Su Hang posted the private treasury inventory and asked Thorne to send Marines to inspect and supervise the grain ship to Greenleaf Island.
• Grayfin’s first mate used fishing boats and their captive fishermen as shields, blocking the channel and threatening the grain ship.
• Su Hang stretched his arms to pull one fishing boat aside, then used the southwest wind to ram the armed ship while absorbing the impact with cables around the bow’s crossbeams.
• Qi Hai boarded the damaged armed ship, subdued Grayfin’s first mate, and helped the grain ship’s crew pin the vessel in place.
• Thorne’s patrol warship sealed the harbor, and Grayfin’s pirates surrendered after the supervising Marines confirmed the grain ship carried no private treasury assets.
• Lorne signed a public escort contract with Su Hang on behalf of the Morning Bell Caravan, and the merchant ships formed up behind the grain ship for Greenleaf Island.

Su Hang and his crew repaired and reorganized their damaged ship, renaming it Dawnbringer and using a new modularization ability to reinforce its rudder pulley. Before its test voyage, Mia discovered someone was chiseling at the keel.

• Su Hang accepted the repair costs and worked with Qi Hai and Lorne to replace unsafe lifeboats, a moldy freshwater tank, and damaged ship parts.
• Mia installed a wind vane that warned when winds threatened the mast, while Lorne reorganized the cargo hold for supplies and temporary shelter.
• Qi Hai posted escort rules prioritizing civilian ships and disaster relief, and Su Hang named the repaired vessel Dawnbringer.
• Su Hang unlocked a modularization function and fused usable scrap into Dawnbringer’s rudder pulley, which the system estimated would last forty-six days.
• As the crew prepared for a test voyage, Mia heard someone chiseling beneath Dawnbringer’s keel and warned them not to sail.

Su Hang and his crew caught Nami chiseling into the Dawnbringer, but her accurate harbor map and inspection of the ship revealed her skill and her plan to repair boats in Cocoyasi Village, which was controlled by fish-men pirates. Nami stole Mia’s celestial chart rubbing and escaped through a drainage channel, demanding that Su Hang bring grain to her village in exchange for its return.

• Su Hang hauled Nami out of the water after catching her chiseling the Dawnbringer, and Mia identified her from a tide map as Nami.
• Nami identified three dangerous problems on the ship: shipworms in the hull, a backward spare sail, and a cracked pipe that could contaminate the freshwater hold.
• Nami revealed that she was taking old nails to repair fishing boats in Cocoyasi Village, where fish-men pirates demanded protection money.
• Su Hang offered to bring grain to the village, but Nami distrusted his offer and became interested in Mia’s celestial chart rubbing.
• Nami distracted the crew, stole the chart rubbing, and escaped down the eastern drainage channel, demanding a shipload of grain for Cocoyasi Village in exchange for the map.

Su Hang prepared the Dawnbringer to carry relief supplies to Cocoyasi Village, working with Nami and Alan to navigate the shallows and avoid harming fish-men without cause. As the ship reached the village, Arlong’s crew blocked the channel and demanded most of the food.

• Su Hang chose to preserve the Sky Map rubbing and focus on bringing food to Cocoyasi Village, where Lorne reported severe shortages and Arlong’s control of the waters.
• Su Hang planned a shallow-water route, prepared flotation bags, and hired Alan, who gained authority to identify fish-men before the crew could fire on them.
• The crew loaded twelve days of supplies under fixed-price rules, and Nami secretly watched without being pursued over the stolen rubbing.
• Nami returned the map and ship nails, agreed to guide the Dawnbringer through the eastern inlet, and sailed with the crew.
• The Dawnbringer reached the waters outside Cocoyasi Village, where Arlong’s fish-men trapped the channel with an underwater net and demanded ninety percent of the food.

Su Hang and the Dawnbringer refused Chew’s demand for ninety percent of their cargo and thwarted the Arlong Pirates’ attempt to damage the ship. When they reached Cocoyasi Village with the grain, Chew seized Nojiko and threatened to break her leg if they delivered it.

• Chew boarded the Dawnbringer and demanded ninety percent of its cargo in the name of Boss Arlong, but Su Hang refused and Alan denied that Fish-Man Island had authorized the extortion.
• Chew shot a grain sack and threatened the freshwater tank, but Su Hang kicked his second water bullet back into the sea and scattered the pirates’ boats.
• Two fish-men tried to saw through the Dawnbringer’s hull, but Nami cut their towline underwater and stopped the attack.
• Chew withdrew, and the Dawnbringer followed Nami’s marked shallows to Cocoyasi Village without pursuing the pirates.
• As the sailors began unloading grain, Chew captured Nojiko and threatened to break her leg if Su Hang delivered another sack.

Su Hang rescued Nojiko from Chew and defeated the fish-man without entering the sea. He stayed in the village to protect it, while Chew warned that Arlong would bring every fish-man from Arlong Park in three days.

• Chew held Nojiko hostage and demanded ninety percent of the Dawnbringer's food, while Su Hang secretly prepared an anchor-chain rescue.
• Nami distracted Chew with a salt-filled Weather Ball, and Su Hang used the chain's rebound to pull Nojiko away from the reefs.
• After Chew attacked with water shots, Su Hang crossed the sea on a floating sail and struck him into the reefs.
• Alan and the crew helped Su Hang return to shore, and Chew retreated with the wounded fish-men.
• Su Hang ordered the food distributed at its original price, prioritizing the wounded and children, and said the Dawnbringer would stay to protect the village.
• Chew vowed that Arlong would bring every fish-man from Arlong Park in three days.

Su Hang organized Cocoyasi Village to survive Arlong’s retaliation before attempting an assault, dispersing food and medicine, setting alarms, and establishing defensive procedures. That night, Arlong’s men arrived to burn the grain stores, leaving the village facing an immediate attack.

• Su Hang and Qi Hai persuaded the villagers not to rush Arlong Park and explained the dangers of fighting fish-men at sea.
• Su Hang ordered the food and medicine divided among four hidden stores, while Nami marked waterways and established alarm signals with Qi Hai.
• Qi Hai trained villagers to defend and evacuate in teams, and Bellemere agreed to take the first watch after Su Hang explained that he had spent his escort commission on medicine.
• The villagers completed the food transfers, and Qi Hai spotted black shapes approaching the village with oil barrels.
• Su Hang identified the approaching fish-men’s plan to burn the grain stores, and Bellemere readied her gun as Nami reached for the bell.

Su Hang and the villagers used a fake granary and cargo ledger to trap Arlong’s fish-men and draw attention away from the real grain. The captives revealed that the military fire oil came through Brand’s smuggling network, which was also tied to a Sky Island relic and a complete chart leading to the sky.

• Nami organized the villagers as fish-men set fire to the fake granary, and Su Hang, Qi Hai, and the villagers captured several attackers while letting one escape with a planted ledger.
• Su Hang explained to Nami that the false ledger and visible loading activity would lure Arlong toward the eastern bay, where the group could assess his forces and boats.
• Qi Hai found a military token and a two-headed fish-marked rope among the attackers’ supplies, and Su Hang learned that a broker named Brand had supplied the fire oil.
• A captive revealed that Brand’s warehouse ship moved near White Reef and that a Two-Headed Fish Lead Token could guide them to it, so Su Hang asked Nami to map the tides and Lorne to prepare a small cargo ship.
• Another captive told Su Hang that someone had offered for the Sky Island item and that the fire-oil seller claimed to possess a complete nautical chart leading to the sky.

Su Hang negotiated with Brand for the sky chart’s Ancient Record Shell by agreeing to escort a medicine shipment to Greenleaf Island. After the Dawnbringer sailed from White Reef, Brand secretly reported that a rubber ability user would enter the channel the following night.

• Su Hang boarded Brand’s cargo ship and learned the sky chart was stored in an Ancient Record Shell that required stable lightning to activate.
• Brand demanded one hundred million Beli and Hawk’s original private ledger, but Su Hang used a fuel oil purchase list to pressure him.
• Su Hang offered to escort Brand’s medicine shipment to Greenleaf Island in exchange for the record shell and complete fuel oil distribution routes.
• Brand agreed to send the shell aboard the Dawnbringer under an escort guarantee contract, and Nami identified its need for lightning.
• After the Dawnbringer left, Brand secretly told an unknown contact that a rubber ability user would enter White Reef Channel the next night.

Su Hang countered the Marines’ bounty accusations by publishing verifiable evidence from Hawk’s Private Ledger, persuading merchants to restore their support for the Dawnbringer’s medical escort. After Thorne delivered an arrest warrant and a warning about seven Seastone torpedoes in White Reef Channel, Su Hang publicly announced the fleet’s route and departure, leaving the ships facing a threatened ambush.

• Su Hang ordered Lorne and Qi Hai to publish Hawk’s Private Ledger beside the bounty posters so merchants could verify the Marines’ accusations.
• Merchants checked the evidence and escort records, and several ships raised the Dawnbringer’s flag again, completing the medical fleet.
• Thorne arrived with Marines to deliver Su Hang’s arrest warrant and an order barring ports from supplying or supporting the Dawnbringer.
• Thorne quietly warned Su Hang that seven experimental Seastone torpedoes had been listed at White Reef Waterway, and Qi Hai found their details in the seizure inventory.
• Su Hang publicly announced the medical fleet’s passage through White Reef Channel and posted the torpedo inventory, inviting witnesses to accompany the ships.

Su Hang established the Dawnbringer Merchant Guild with clear rules, shared oversight, and an emergency communications channel. The fleet departed for White Reef, where seven torpedoes appeared beneath the reefs.

• Su Hang and the merchants agreed that guild members could refuse dangerous work or leave, while Lorne, Mia, Alan, and Qi Hai took responsibility for contracts, weather, underwater identification, and oversight.
• Qi Hai received authority to halt dangerous actions, including Su Hang's, and Su Hang required records of powerful abilities and retained a reasoned strategic veto.
• Merchants signed contracts to escort ships and transport grain, and Su Hang hung the Dawnbringer Merchant Guild sign at the dockyard.
• The system rewarded the guild with a shared emergency channel, while warning that the guild's growing influence made high-level observers more likely to detect it.
• The fleet spent its funds preparing medical ships and anti-torpedo defenses, then departed with the Dawnbringer leading through White Reef.
• Mia spotted seven torpedo trails beneath the reefs, and Alan reported that the foremost torpedo had activated.

Qi Hai, Mia, and Su Hang used decoys and a dangerous maneuver to neutralize six of seven Seastone torpedoes targeting the fleet. The last torpedo locked onto Medical Ship Two, and a government agent challenged Su Hang to unleash Nika’s power if he wanted to save it.

• Qi Hai ordered the fleet to spread out as Mia tracked seven torpedoes closing in on the Dawnbringer.
• Su Hang, Qi Hai, and Mia used weighted barrels and changing sound signatures to lure the first five torpedoes into explosions or a reef.
• Su Hang stretched his arms around the mast while the crew shifted cargo, allowing the Dawnbringer to list and evade two more torpedoes at the cost of a cracked mast and his bleeding shoulder.
• Mia discovered that the final torpedo had changed its target to Medical Ship Two, which carried Brand’s fever medicine and had no room to turn.
• Brand revealed that a government agent controlled the last torpedo, and the agent demanded that Su Hang fully unleash Nika’s power to save the medical ship.

Su Hang saved Medical Ship No. 2 from the final torpedo without revealing Nika's complete form, but a Seastone fragment wounded his leg. The ships completed their passage safely, while Grave decided to use an island's people as a heavier bargaining chip in a future attempt to force Su Hang to reveal his power.

• Su Hang and Qi Hai used the Dawnbringer's anchor and chain to draw the final torpedo away from Medical Ship No. 2, despite pressure from an unfamiliar voice to reveal Su Hang's power.
• Su Hang drove the anchor into a reef, causing the torpedo to follow it and explode; he escaped the shattered Seastone net but was wounded by a Seastone fragment.
• Qi Hai pulled Su Hang back aboard the Dawnbringer, and Captain No. 2 reported that the medical workers and medicine were safe.
• Mia guided the medical ship and witness merchant ships through the route, completing the escort mission without losing a ship or medicine crate.
• Grave reported that Su Hang had refused to reveal his full power and chose to risk himself to save others, then proposed placing an island's people in danger next time.

Su Hang used the Nika Core to break through the lingering Seastone suppression in his leg, but the increased fusion rate triggered uncontrollable laughter, combat impulses, and autonomous ability use. Qi Hai and Mia subdued him with a seawater-soaked sail, and Su Hang was left shaken by how little control he had over his own body.

• Su Hang refused to rest despite his Seastone wound and raised the Nika Core's temporary fusion rate to 20%.
• Su Hang's leg recovered, but his heartbeat and strength surged as he began laughing and rubberizing the medical cabin and deck.
• Su Hang tried to leave to pursue the observation ship, and Qi Hai blocked him while Mia and Chopper tried to stop his rampage.
• Qi Hai dropped a sail over Su Hang, and Mia soaked it with seawater, weakening him before he could strike her again.
• Su Hang regained control and denied wanting to chase the observation ship, but his hand then attacked Qi Hai without his command.
• Chopper concluded that Su Hang's strength had recovered faster than his will could keep up, and Qi Hai warned he would use seawater to stop him next time.

After Su Hang’s Nika Core fusion caused him to lose control and endanger the Dawnbringer’s crew and medicine cargo, Qi Hai, Mia, and Lorne confronted him during a debrief. Su Hang accepted responsibility and agreed to strict limits on his authority and future fusion use, then was asked to sign the new rules.

• Lorne presented the damage report, and Mia’s Weather Wheel record showed that Su Hang had ignored stop orders and attacked Qi Hai during forty-seven breaths of abnormal behavior.
• Qi Hai challenged Su Hang’s claim that he had acted to protect the fleet, and Su Hang admitted that fear of losing his combat strength had driven him to fuse without fully explaining the risks.
• Su Hang acknowledged that he had used the lucky outcome to excuse his decision and agreed to create mandatory rules for interrupting fusion and transferring command.
• Su Hang set restrictions on fusion tests, accepted personal responsibility for the damage and injuries, and agreed that overseers could not be punished for imposing restrictions.
• The system displayed a prompt noting that Su Hang had voluntarily relinquished part of his authority, and Qi Hai asked him to sign the new rules first.

Su Hang received Luffy’s challenge and sent back his old ability records with a warning to prepare before fighting him. Luffy trained under Karp, grew stronger without relying on a Devil Fruit, and vowed to punch Su Hang first when he set sail.

• Su Hang received a challenge letter from Luffy, who claimed he could now beat the wild boars in the mountains.
• Karp trained Luffy in balance, rescue knots, fighting, tides, and currents as Luffy subdued a Blue-backed Boar without continuing to hurt it.
• Luffy told Karp he still wanted the Nika Fruit but would pursue what he wanted through his own speed and strength.
• Su Hang mailed Luffy copies of his old ability-testing records and warned him to learn how not to fall into the sea before their next fight.
• The system reported that Luffy had improved his physical skills, rescue abilities, and navigational knowledge, changing the predetermined fate loop.
• Luffy climbed a warship mast carrying two barrels of stones and told the mail-delivering seabird that Su Hang would be the first person he punched after setting sail.

Su Hang and his crew entered Rogue Town under Smoker’s supervision and used the weather observatory’s records to pinpoint the next Rising Current, which could lead them toward Sky Island. As they prepared to leave, they learned that the sky route had been put up for auction at an underground venue.

• Smoker confronted Su Hang at Rogue Town’s harbor, but verified the crew’s documents and allowed Dawnbringer to enter port for four hours.
• Mia found an old weather chart and a Cloudstone at the observatory, linking a reverse thunderstorm to a route toward Sky Island.
• Su Hang’s bronze compass pointed skyward, and Mia calculated that the next Rising Current would occur in twenty-one days near the East Blue–Grand Line border.
• Smoker warned Su Hang that the World Government might pursue them if they found Sky Island, then let them complete their purchases before leaving port.
• A broker delivered an underground auction token and told Su Hang that the sky route was already up for bidding.

At Rogue Town’s underground auction, Su Hang and Lorne exposed that Belloc’s High-Altitude Imaging Shell contained only half a sky route, disrupting Donquixote Doflamingo’s attempt to obtain evidence against the Navy and Arlong. As they left, a masked figure offered the other half in exchange for Nika’s secret.

• Lorne used the auction rules to secure a public projection of the shell after the guild could not afford Belloc’s bid.
• Su Hang and Lorne showed that the shell recorded only the route to the thunderstorm layer, without the directions needed to cross it safely.
• The bidders erupted in anger, and Su Hang accused Belloc of trying to trade the incomplete route for evidence against the Navy and Arlong.
• Su Hang and Lorne left the auction hall after the bidders forced Belloc to stand down, while Lorne kept the copied first half of the route.
• A white-bone-masked figure waiting in the rain offered Su Hang the other half of the route in exchange for Nika’s secret.

Su Hang traded verified information about Nika’s weakness to seawater for the second half of a sky route, then forced the seller to reveal that the route’s measurements had been falsified. As the Dawnbringer set sail, Grave launched a trap using genuine weather data with a false date, and Mia received an urgent notice claiming the Rising Current had arrived early.

• Su Hang verified the gray-cloaked figure’s recording shell with the Bronze Compass and offered seawater test data about Nika in exchange for the route.
• Lorne and Mia examined the projected route and discovered that the gray-cloaked figure had altered its altitude measurements.
• Su Hang seized Belloc and forced the gray-cloaked figure to reveal the original route data, which pointed the Bronze Compass toward the passage.
• The gray-cloaked figure turned out to be a mechanical Den Den Mushi, while Grave ordered agents to lure the Dawnbringer into White Tower Strait with a false early-current date.
• Mia received an emergency message claiming the Rising Current had arrived early and that the crew had three hours to catch it.

Su Hang exposed Grave’s trap at White Tower Strait and glided into the tower, where he discovered a World Government causality experiment. Grave triggered the tower’s flooding and escape sequence, leaving Su Hang to choose between pursuing him and saving the trapped researchers.

• Su Hang rejected the forged Rising Current report but took the Dawnbringer to White Tower Strait and exposed the Seastone net and hidden wires.
• Grave claimed Su Hang had missed the current and revealed that he knew about Opportunity Interception Determination; Su Hang identified the tower as a World Government research facility.
• Su Hang glided in from the northwest while Mia used balloons and white ash to reveal the wires, then he evaded a cannon and entered the observation room.
• Su Hang fought past the guards and confronted Grave, who activated the tower’s self-destruct sequence and fled down the escape ladder.
• Su Hang found researchers trapped in flooding watertight chambers as Grave warned that the tower would sink in ten minutes, forcing Su Hang to choose whether to pursue him or save them.

Su Hang and the Dawnbringer crew rescued the researchers, brought down White Tower without hitting their fleet, and captured Grave with the help of Qi Hai’s escape-route trap. They assembled the route to Vika, where Su Hang set out to intercept the Rumble-Rumble Fruit as its original recipient approached.

• Su Hang broke through White Tower’s compartment, evacuated the researchers, and shifted the collapsing tower away from the Dawnbringer.
• Qi Hai trapped Grave’s speedboat with buoys, captured him, and recovered the surviving fragments of the file case.
• Mia combined the recovered documents and navigation records to confirm the complete route to Vika and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Su Hang ordered the route archived for guild members under confidentiality rules, and the system reported increased Cause-and-Effect Lighthouse brightness.
• Imu rejected the Five Elders’ proposal to seal the Rising Current and allowed Su Hang to continue toward Vika.
• The Dawnbringer prepared to sail for Vika as the system warned Su Hang that the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s original recipient was approaching it.