Chapter Summaries

Dawn fought Shamrock for twenty-four hours, outlasting his will and destroying his body, but Imu’s power rescued Shamrock’s Spirit Body before Dawn could finish him. Dawn helped the wounded Ginny escape, while Shamrock returned to Mary Geoise missing his right arm, which Imu declared would never grow back.

• Dawn battled Shamrock through the night, repeatedly overwhelming his Immortal Body with Conqueror’s Haki and purple-black flames.
• After twenty-four hours, Shamrock’s will and Haki failed, and Dawn’s All Things Exhausted erased his body.
• Shamrock called for Imu, who teleported his Spirit Body away before Dawn’s attack could destroy it, leaving behind his severed right arm.
• Dawn gave Ginny medicine, food, and a Log Pose, and she paddled away through the morning mist.
• Shamrock appeared in the Flower Room in Mary Geoise, where Imu told him his right arm would never return.

Lucci, Van Augur, Jesus Burgess, and Doc Q raided Du Feld’s casino, where Baccarat and Mr. Tanaka confronted them. Baccarat used the Luck-Luck Fruit to turn the attackers’ misfortune against them, leaving Van Augur injured and Jesus Burgess in a pool full of piranhas.

• Lucci silently eliminated casino guards while Van Augur shot anyone who tried to raise the alarm.
• Jesus Burgess smashed a guard into a gambling table, and Doc Q’s exploding apple killed several guards as gamblers fled.
• Baccarat and Mr. Tanaka approached the invaders, and Baccarat tossed a coin at their feet before revealing her power through a string of mishaps.
• Jesus Burgess slipped beneath a falling chandelier, but Bartolomeo shielded him with a barrier before the floor collapsed and dropped him into a piranha pool.
• Doc Q recognized that Baccarat controlled luck, while her power turned his explosion’s debris away from her and sent it toward Van Augur, who lost his footing and crashed into a pillar.

Lucci and the others fought Baccarat and Tanaka as the Luck-Luck Fruit repeatedly turned attacks aside, until Doc Q’s explosives exhausted Baccarat’s stored luck and injured her. Both Baccarat and Tanaka surrendered, and Lucci restrained them before reporting the situation to his superiors.

• Tanaka shot at Lucci but was swiftly caught and held at knifepoint, while Bartolomeo’s attempt to trap Baccarat failed when he stumbled.
• Van Augur’s Haki-coated bullet narrowly missed Baccarat after a die altered its path, and Burgess lost his footing on spilled marbles while charging her.
• Doc Q threw three explosive apples at Baccarat; after dodging the first two, she ran out of stored luck and was badly injured by the third.
• Lucci threatened Tanaka, who ordered Baccarat to stop; Baccarat and Tanaka both surrendered.
• Lucci cuffed Baccarat and Tanaka with Seastone shackles and called his superiors to report what had happened.

Dawn visited the ruined casino, recruited Baccarat and Tanaka, and tested Lucci’s four young recruits in a show of force. He effortlessly repelled Burgess and Van Augur, took Doc Q’s explosive apple without harm, and faced Bartolomeo’s barrier attack.

• Dawn offered Baccarat and Tanaka positions in his organization, and both agreed to work for him.
• Dawn assigned Tanaka to undercover intelligence work and told Baccarat to accompany him when he left.
• Dawn challenged Van Augur, Doc Q, Jesus Burgess, and Bartolomeo to attack him together.
• Jesus Burgess charged Dawn with an Armament Haki-covered punch, but Dawn sent him crashing into a wall.
• Van Augur’s Haki-coated bullet stopped behind Dawn’s head, and Dawn ate Doc Q’s explosive apple without being harmed.
• Bartolomeo launched a massive barrier at Dawn, who punched toward it.

Dawn tested Lucci’s strength in a fierce fight and showed how far he still surpassed him. Lucci survived the clash with a meteor and earned Dawn’s approval, though he remained stubborn.

• Dawn praised the four youths and offered to find suitable Devil Fruits for them.
• Lucci attacked Dawn using the Through-Through Fruit and transformed into his leopard form, but Dawn shattered his claws.
• Lucci used a barrier and then Maximum Rokuogan, but Dawn’s Haki sent him through a wall and into the street.
• Dawn summoned a meteor, and Lucci split it with Rankyaku: Kai Bird, though both halves kept falling.
• Dawn destroyed the meteor fragments with two punches, then praised Lucci’s improvement, and Lucci snorted and turned away.

Dawn gave Monet the Vampire-Vampire Fruit, and she awakened its bat-like powers before setting out to destroy Marine G-5. She devastated the corrupt base and killed its acting commander, then fixed her attention on a stronger presence among the remaining Marines.

• Dawn introduced Baccarat to the women on Kuja Island, who eventually welcomed her into their group.
• Dawn and Robin uncovered the secrets of Sleeping Ancient Town and retrieved the Vampire-Vampire Fruit.
• Monet ate the fruit, transformed with bat wings and other vampire abilities, and received orders to destroy Marine G-5.
• Monet attacked Marine G-5, using ultrasonic waves, Haki, and regeneration to overwhelm its Marines.
• Monet killed Commodore Guotou by draining his blood, then turned toward a stronger presence in the Marine formation.

Monet defeated and killed Vergo during the assault on the G-5 base, exposing his identity as a Donquixote Family infiltrator. On a New World island, Doflamingo learned of Vergo’s death when his Vivre Card burned to ash.

• Vergo confronted Monet at the G-5 base, but she wounded him and drained the blood from the Marines around them.
• Monet shattered Vergo’s Iron Body with a Haki-coated punch, forcing him to flee toward the sea.
• Monet intercepted Vergo and struck him with blood spears that drained his blood and life until he died and fell into the sea.
• Doflamingo’s Vivre Card for Vergo burned to ash as he stood with the Donquixote Family on an island.
• Doflamingo clenched his fists, and his threads lashed through the ground and walls while the Family members stayed silent.

As the Donquixote Family attacked Dressrosa, Mr. Tanaka revealed his hidden abilities and began evacuating the royal family and Mansherry. He left the palace carrying King Riku, Scarlett, and Violet toward the coastline.

• Scarlett told Violet that her feelings for the man on the wanted poster had not changed, while Kyros sensed an approaching threat and raised the alarm.
• Doflamingo and the Donquixote Family launched a brutal assault on Dressrosa, and Rosinante struggled to find a chance to warn the Marines.
• Mr. Tanaka knocked out Scarlett and Violet, wrapped them in blankets, and carried them through the palace walls.
• Mr. Tanaka knocked out King Riku and retrieved the sleeping Mansherry from a hidden storage room beneath the palace.
• Mr. Tanaka carried King Riku, Scarlett, and Violet underground, with Mansherry tucked into his pocket, and headed toward the coastline.

Doflamingo’s forces overwhelmed the King’s Army at King’s Plateau, and Kyros died defending the royal palace as Doflamingo claimed Dressrosa. Aboard a fleeing ship, King Riku learned Tanaka had rescued him and his daughters as Lord Dawn’s agent, but insisted he must return to help his people.

• King Riku and the princesses were reported missing as Kyros rallied the King’s Army to defend King’s Plateau against the Donquixote Family.
• Kyros wounded Diamante in battle, but Doflamingo immobilized him with threads and killed him with String Saw.
• After Kyros’s death broke the King’s Army’s resistance, Doflamingo stepped toward the royal palace and declared Dressrosa belonged to him.
• King Riku awoke aboard a merchant ship with Scarlett and Violet and learned Tanaka had secretly served as Lord Dawn’s intelligence agent and rescued them.
• King Riku thanked Tanaka but insisted on returning to help his people, and Tanaka agreed to contact someone who could decide what to do.

Dawn trained with Harald and Loki in Elbaf before answering King Riku’s call for help against Doflamingo. Dawn agreed to eliminate the Donquixote Family, but the chapter ended when Scarlett burst in before he could say what he wanted in return.

• Loki defeated Enel with a hammer strike after Enel unleashed lightning at him.
• Dawn clashed with Harald, who praised his improvement, and thanked him for training his crew.
• King Riku waited anxiously for Dawn while Scarlett prepared to meet the man she believed had saved her six years earlier.
• Dawn arrived at King Riku’s manor and recounted Doflamingo’s takeover of Dressrosa and Kyros’s death.
• Dawn promised King Riku that the Donquixote Family would disappear within days, then began to say what he wanted in return before the hall doors burst open.

Scarlett reunited with Dawn and chose to stay by his side, while Princess Mansherry asked him to save the Dwarves captured by the Donquixote Family. As Doflamingo began terrorizing Dressrosa, Dawn arrived at the coast with Sugar, Monet, and Baby 5 to begin his plan.

• Scarlett embraced Dawn and insisted she would stay with him despite his many women, and Dawn accepted her choice.
• Mansherry asked Dawn to rescue the Dwarves captured by the Donquixote Family, and he promised to destroy the Family in Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo announced that the Donquixote Family would rule Dressrosa and used fear and violence to crush resistance.
• Dawn reached the coast near King's Plateau and released Sugar, Monet, and Baby 5 to carry out the plan.

Dawn and his companions fought their way through Dressrosa, killing Donquixote officers Jora and Señor and uncovering Rosinante as a Marine spy before Dawn killed him. At King's Plateau, Monet, Sugar, and Baby-5 engaged Pica, Trebol, and Diamante while Dawn flew toward the royal palace.

• Sugar killed the patrolmen and Jora, freeing the Dwarves who had been turned into art, while Baby-5 and Monet defeated the arriving reinforcements.
• Baby-5 forced Señor Pink out from underground, and Monet drained his blood and knocked him unconscious.
• Rosinante recognized Dawn as Dark Man and tried to escape, but Dawn's purple-black Flame killed him.
• Dawn recovered the Calm-Calm Fruit, killed the unconscious Jora and Señor, and took the Art-Art Fruit and Swim-Swim Fruit.
• At King's Plateau, Monet shattered Pica's stone fist, Sugar sliced apart Trebol's thrown earth, and Baby-5 clashed with Diamante as Dawn flew toward the royal palace.

Dawn confronted Doflamingo at the royal palace while Monet and Sugar fought members of the Donquixote Family below. Dawn revealed his overwhelming Haki and attacked Doflamingo, while Monet defeated Pica and Trebol ignited a street full of mucus as Sugar evaded him.

• Dawn arrived before the royal palace as Doflamingo formed the Birdcage, and Doflamingo asked whether Dawn was a D before they clashed with Conqueror's Haki.
• Doflamingo awakened his String-String Fruit and attacked Dawn with Wild Wave White Thread, but Dawn used Abyssal Prison Garb to melt through the strings.
• Monet pierced Pica's defenses with her Blood Sword, drained his strength and lifespan, and knocked him unconscious as an old man.
• Trebol covered the street with flammable mucus and set it alight, triggering a huge explosion while Sugar dodged his attacks.

Monet and Baby 5 defeated Trebol and Diamante as Dawn confronted Doflamingo at King's Plateau. Dawn killed Doflamingo, erasing him with purple-black Flame.

• Monet pierced Trebol with blood spears and drained his blood and lifespan until he was an old man near death.
• Baby 5 overwhelmed Diamante with missile and electromagnetic rifle attacks, exhausted his Haki, and knocked him unconscious.
• Dawn faced the severely wounded Doflamingo among the ruins of the royal palace.
• Doflamingo unleashed his God Thread attack, but Dawn shattered it with a shockwave from Kikoku.
• Dawn's attack struck Doflamingo, and purple-black Flame erased his body from King's Plateau.

After Dressrosa was freed, Dawn asked Scarlett and Violet to leave with him, and both sisters agreed despite Scarlett’s anger over his feelings for Violet. Dawn took them aboard Xiao Ai, while King Riku prepared to tell the country that the princesses had died in battle.

• King Riku returned to Dressrosa and began organizing the reconstruction as the Tontatta Tribe reunited with Mansherry.
• Dawn asked Violet to join his forces, and she hesitantly agreed after learning that he had deliberately shown her his thoughts about taking both sisters with him.
• Dawn confronted Violet about using her ability to read his heart, and Scarlett later noticed the tension between them at dinner.
• Dawn gave Scarlett the Ripple-Ripple Fruit, explaining that its power would help her protect herself.
• Scarlett objected to Dawn’s feelings for Violet, but ultimately chose to leave with him; Violet also agreed to go.
• Dawn released Xiao Ai and departed with Scarlett and Violet, while King Riku ordered an announcement that both princesses had been killed in the battle.

Dawn learned of the Op-Op Fruit on Egghead as Diez Barrels displayed it to his crew on Minion Island. A lightning attack incapacitated Barrels and his pirates, and the Op-Op Fruit and Dorry were taken through Air Doors.

• Dawn listened to a Den Den Mushi call while Baccarat cleaned his sword and Monet straightened his clothes.
• Diez Barrels abused his son Dorry and showed his pirates the Op-Op Fruit, revealing that the World Government had offered five billion Beli for it.
• Air Doors opened in the fortress, and a swarm of lightning sharks attacked Barrels's pirates.
• Barrels escaped the first attack but was knocked unconscious by a lightning strike from another Air Door.
• Two hands reached through Air Doors and took the Op-Op Fruit and Dorry away.

Dawn and Violet found Wolf’s hidden underground laboratory and discovered his yellow Submarine, then Dawn, Aramaki, and Enel reached Rubeck Island ahead of a Marine fleet preparing to trade for the Op-Op Fruit. Gion, secretly aiding Dawn, hoped he had already left before the Marines arrived.

• Dawn and Violet entered Joy Town and asked Wolf to sell his Submarine, but he refused and shut the door.
• Violet used the Glint-Glint Fruit’s ability to read Wolf’s thoughts and learned the location of his underground laboratory.
• Dawn found the hidden entrance beneath a dead oak, opened the laboratory, and saw a yellow Submarine inside.
• Five days later, Dawn, Aramaki, and Enel surfaced near Rubeck Island and used a Transforming Leaf to create a copy of Diez Barrels.
• Fleet Admiral Kong brought three hundred Marines to Rubeck Island for the Op-Op Fruit transaction, while Gion nervously hoped Dawn had already escaped.

Kong led a Marine force to Rubeck Island to confront Diez Barrels, but the meeting proved to be an ambush arranged by Herman Dawn and his allies. The island became a battlefield, with Kong facing Dawn, Aramaki fighting Gion, and Enel evading Gion’s attack.

• Kong, Gion, and hundreds of Marines reached Rubeck Island and confronted Barrels, demanding to know where the Op-Op Fruit was.
• Barrels vanished as purple-black flames erupted around the island, and a torrent of energy wiped out the Marine formation while Kong and Gion defended themselves with Armament Haki.
• Dawn and two allies appeared in combat suits, and Gion recognized Dawn while Kong demanded that Dark Man reveal himself.
• Dawn revealed his control of the purple-black flames and met Kong’s charge with a direct punch that shook the island.
• Aramaki intercepted Gion as he tried to aid Kong, and Gion then pursued Enel with Kompira.
• Enel dodged Gion’s slash and fired a pillar of lightning at her with El Thor.

Gion and Kong fought desperately against Enel and Aramaki as the battle on Rubeck Island stretched into its twenty-fourth hour. After Gion was killed and Gion was left on the brink of defeat, Kong opened a gap in the Flame barrier and ordered Gion to run.

• Gion struck Enel with a series of powerful slashes, wounding him and sending him flying with an iaijutsu attack.
• Gion charged through Aramaki's root attacks and shattered his wooden giant, but Aramaki seized Gion and drained his strength with wooden fibers.
• After the battle lasted twenty-four hours, Kong was hurled into a boulder, and Gion was impaled and drained until he died.
• Gion's death distracted Gion, allowing Enel's Thunder Dragon to drive her back and leave her badly exhausted.
• Kong forced his dislocated shoulder back into place, gathered his remaining Haki, punched a gap in the Flame barrier, and shouted for Gion to run.

Dawn defeated Fleet Admiral Kong after confronting him over the Marines’ role in the Celestial Dragons’ Native Cleansing Competition, then killed him. Gion grieved in Dawn’s arms and asked how far he intended to go, and he said he would target only those wholly loyal to the Celestial Dragons.

• Gion escaped through the Flame barrier’s closing gap and waited outside while Dawn fought Kong.
• Dawn overpowered Kong, restrained him with Void tentacles, and questioned him about the Native Cleansing Competition.
• Kong defended his silence as necessary for the greater good, and Dawn killed him by swallowing him with the tide.
• After the barrier vanished, Gion confronted Dawn, struck his chest, and broke down over Kong’s death.
• Gion asked Dawn how many more people he planned to attack, and Dawn said he would target only those wholly loyal to the Celestial Dragons.