Chapter Summaries

After Kong’s Vivre Card burned away, Sengoku assembled the Navy’s senior officers to report his apparent death during the Op-Op Fruit transaction in the North Blue. The officers suspected the Dark Man was behind the attack, while Gion’s Vivre Card remained intact.

• A Marine brought Sengoku Kong’s burned Vivre Card, and Sengoku learned it had gone out ten minutes earlier.
• Sengoku summoned the Navy’s senior officers to the First Strategic Conference Room.
• Sengoku told Garp, Zephyr, Tsuru, and Kuzan that Kong and Kizaru’s Vivre Cards had burned away, while Gion’s remained intact.
• Sengoku explained that Kong had gone to Rubeck Island to trade with former Navy officer Barrels for the Op-Op Fruit.
• Tsuru reasoned that Kong’s attackers needed strong intelligence and overwhelming strength, and Kuzan suggested the Dark Man was responsible.

Dawn arrived in Loguetown with Kalifa and met Kuro at the East Blue intelligence network’s hidden base. After reviewing the region’s reports, he ordered Kuro to keep monitoring the Goa Kingdom without intervening and received the Devil Fruit he had requested.

• Gion told Dawn she would return to the Marines, and he let her leave for Marineford the next morning.
• Dawn and Kalifa entered Loguetown disguised as transparent figures and went to the Black Cat General Store.
• Kuro revealed the store’s hidden basement and welcomed Dawn as the East Blue main base’s leader.
• Kuro reported that the network had gathered 137 valuable intelligence items and warned that the Goa Kingdom’s class conflict was nearing a breaking point.
• Dawn ordered Kuro to keep watching the Goa Kingdom without interfering, and Kuro showed him the Devil Fruit.

Dawn gave Kalifa the Smooth-Smooth Fruit, then traveled with her to Ant Hell to find the Giants' missing warship. He recovered its dragon-head figurehead to use as a model for the prow of their new ship.

• Dawn gave Kalifa the Smooth-Smooth Fruit, and she ate it and tested her new ability.
• Dawn praised Kuro's work and increased his salary by thirty percent.
• Dawn and Kalifa sailed from Loguetown to Ant Hell and used Geppo to cross its dangerous waters.
• Kalifa sensed many life signatures on the island, and Dawn led her to a cliff piled with shipwrecks.
• Dawn identified a massive dragon-prowed warship as the Giants' missing ship and stored its figurehead in his dimensional space.
• Dawn told Kalifa he planned to show the figurehead to Mr. Tom as a model for their new ship's prow.

Dawn and Kalifa searched Ant Hell for the Flame-Flame Fruit, then brought its dragon-headed ship figurehead to Tom in Water 7. Tom agreed to build Dawn’s demanding new ship after Dawn supplied a mountain of Beli, though the work would take at least two years.

• Dawn had Kalifa test her Smooth-Smooth Fruit against the monsters surrounding them, and she killed them without being injured.
• Dawn and Kalifa searched the monster corpses for the Flame-Flame Fruit, then split up to inspect the shipwrecks when they found no box.
• Kalifa discovered the box containing the Flame-Flame Fruit in a flooded merchant ship, and Dawn stored it in his pocket dimension.
• Dawn and Kalifa returned to Water 7 under invisibility cloaks and showed Tom the dragon-headed figurehead at his shipyard.
• Tom explained that Dawn’s ship requirements would make construction difficult and take at least two years, and Dawn paid him a large amount of Beli to proceed.

Dawn witnessed Luffy eat the Nika Fruit and recorded Shanks’s confrontation with Higuma, then questioned Shanks about why he let Luffy take it. After Shanks explained that he trusted Luffy and believed the world needed change, Dawn asked to spar with the Red Hair Pirates.

• Dawn arrived at Makino’s tavern and secretly recorded Higuma smashing a bottle over Shanks’s head and threatening him.
• Luffy ate the Devil Fruit, and Shanks revealed that Luffy’s body had become rubber.
• Dawn followed Shanks to the docks and asked why he had let Luffy take the fruit despite originally planning to give it to Ace.
• Shanks said his instincts told him not to stop Luffy, that he believed in Luffy, and that the world needed an opportunity to change.
• Dawn told Shanks that he wanted to spar with his people.

Dawn brought Hancock and Stussy to an uninhabited island to demonstrate their abilities against the Red Hair Pirates, then agreed to fight Shanks. Their matching Kamusari attacks collided, shaking the island and tearing apart the clouds.

• Dawn introduced Hancock and Stussy and explained how their Devil Fruit powers could counter the Immortal Body.
• Shanks had Snake spar with Hancock and Yasopp spar with Stussy while the Red Hair Pirates watched.
• Shanks challenged Dawn to a match and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, which Dawn met with his own.
• Shanks and Dawn each used Kamusari, and their swords clashed without touching, unleashing lightning and shockwaves that tore through the island and scattered the clouds.

Dawn and Shanks fought fiercely while Hancock, Yasopp, and their opponents battled elsewhere on the island. Shanks surrendered rather than face Dawn’s poised attack, and Dawn lowered Kikoku.

• Shanks rejected Dawn’s suggestion about family and clashed with him, using Observation Killing to disrupt Dawn’s Observation Haki.
• Hancock fought Snake, struck him with Perfume Femur, and sent him crashing across the sand.
• Yasopp evaded Stussy’s shadow attacks with his Observation Haki, but she expanded her shadow into purple tentacles that forced him to retreat.
• Dawn and Shanks traded powerful attacks, with Dawn’s purple-black Flame clashing against Shanks’s sword techniques.
• After Future Sight showed him what was coming, Shanks sheathed Griffin and surrendered, so Dawn lowered Kikoku and withdrew its Flame.

Dawn assessed Hancock and Stussy’s progress after their fights, then tested seven-year-old Luffy by making him try to awaken Armament Haki with Kikoku. Luffy collapsed after briefly touching the cursed sword, and Dawn called him weak and told him to give up on becoming a pirate.

• Hancock told Dawn that fighting Snake had taught her new rhythms for kicking and that she believed she could defeat him.
• Stussy said the Red Hair sniper had held back, but their fight had helped her learn to counter Observation Haki.
• Dawn found Luffy training in the forest near Foosha Village and stopped his punch by grabbing his stretched arm with Armament Haki.
• Dawn explained Haki to Luffy, repeating the theory until Luffy could recite its core points.
• Dawn told Luffy to draw Kikoku to awaken Haki, and Luffy collapsed after the cursed sword drained his strength.
• Dawn called Luffy a coward and told him to give up on becoming a pirate.

Luffy mastered Armament Haki after enduring Kikoku’s draining effect, then used it to strike Higuma when the bandit tried to abduct him. Shanks rescued Luffy from the Lord of the Coast at the cost of his left arm.

• Luffy held Kikoku for twelve hours until he awakened Armament Haki, then collapsed and was revived by Dawn with a nutrient injection.
• Days later, Higuma and his bandits entered Makino’s tavern, where Luffy attacked Higuma for insulting Shanks.
• Higuma discovered Luffy’s rubber body and tried to take him away, but Luffy struck his shin with a wooden stick coated in Armament Haki and sent him flying.
• Benn Beckman and the Red Hair Pirates defeated Higuma’s bandits, but Higuma escaped with Luffy in a smoke bomb and fled by boat.
• Higuma kicked Luffy into the sea, and the Lord of the Coast swallowed Higuma and his boat before turning toward Luffy.
• Shanks appeared, let the Lord of the Coast bite off his left arm, and drove it away with a cold stare and a command.

Dawn inspected his research projects on Egghead Sky Island, including the Law clones, a Haki Storage Knot, and Caesar’s poison gas. On Davy Island, he watched Sanji train with Drake and teased Reiju, whose emotional range continued to grow.

• Dawn reviewed the Law clones’ development, and Lilith said they would have full emotions and form deep bonds.
• Dawn asked Pythagoras about the Haki Storage Knot, and Pythagoras said physical testing would begin in seventy-two hours.
• Caesar demonstrated poison gas that dissolved a pig’s soft tissue, and Dawn ordered him to finish it within three weeks.
• Dawn watched Sanji defeat Drake in training, and Reiju called a stop to their match.
• Dawn praised Reiju’s growing emotional expression, ruffled her hair, and ran off as she chased him.

Dawn returned to Dawn Sky Island and reunited with the girls living there, where Stella, Nami, and Perona each reacted to his arrival. He gave Uta a music player and joined the others for dinner, leaving the island’s household gathered around the table.

• Dawn returned to Dawn Sky Island, and Stella complained that he had brought home someone who could cook while he reassured her she needed help.
• Nami tried to steal from Dawn, so he caught and punished her; Nojiko scolded her for stealing.
• Dawn watched Uta sing and checked that Perona and Mansherry were settling in well.
• Dawn gave Uta a music player that played a recording of her tune, and she thanked him.
• Dawn saw Robin and Scarlett preparing dinner, then sat at the head of the table as the girls gathered.

The kings arrived in Mary Geoise for the Reverie, where the contrast between its splendor and the slaves’ suffering was exposed. A mysterious attack flooded the city, and a figure hidden in darkness headed for the Flower Room.

• Cobra arrived at Red Port with Igaram and six-year-old Vivi as kings from across the seas gathered for the Reverie.
• The kings traveled up the Red Line and passed a Celestial Dragon’s slave-pulled carriage before reaching the road to Pangaea Castle.
• Cobra led Vivi and his attendants along the ordinary road instead of the moving walkway, beneath which slaves hauled its gears under overseers’ lashes.
• A vast sphere of darkness blotted out the sky above Mary Geoise and released torrents of seawater onto the city.
• Sakazuki and the Marine commanders fought the falling water, but Mary Geoise was flooded as a dark figure headed for the Flower Room.

Dawn sent a Dark Clone to Mary Geoise to test God's Knights and Imu, but Imu's barrier stopped the clone's attack and Imu destroyed it. Dawn returned to his body with valuable intelligence and a slight increase in his Conqueror's Haki.

• Garling ordered God's Knights to attack the Dark Man, but the clone cut down two knights and Saint Somaz with Conqueror's Haki-coated strikes that suppressed their regeneration.
• A voice ordered Garling and Shamrock to let the Dark Man enter the Flower Room, where he confronted Imu.
• The Dark Man attacked Imu, but an invisible barrier blocked his blade, and Imu shot the clone with a tracking shotgun drawn from an ancient spellbook.
• Two knots dropped from the clone and exploded, filling the corridor with poison gas that repeatedly dissolved and regenerated the God's Knights members caught in it.
• Dawn awoke on Dawn Sky Island and realized Imu's defenses had stopped the clone, though the encounter had slightly strengthened Dawn's Conqueror's Haki.

After the deaths of thirteen Celestial Dragons at the Reverie, Imu summoned the Five Elders and God's Knights to demand answers about Dark Man. The chapter left Garling under suspicion over Shanks as Imu ordered Dark Man hunted and his bounty raised to six billion.

• The Five Elders and God's Knights knelt before Imu at the Empty Throne after the Reverie attack killed thirteen Celestial Dragons.
• Imu questioned Saint Saturn about Dark Man, and Saturn admitted that CP had found no suspected identity despite three years of investigation.
• Imu described Dark Man's swordsmanship and Conqueror's Haki Coating, leading Saturn to name Silvers Rayleigh and Figarland Shanks as the only known swordsmen with that ability.
• Garling denied that Shanks could be Dark Man, but Imu pointed out that Shanks had stolen the Nika Fruit and had failed to arrive promptly during an earlier attack on the Holy Land.
• Shamrock swore that he would bring Shanks's head before Imu if Shanks proved to be the culprit.
• Imu ordered Saint Saturn to find Dark Man by any means, execute Fisher Tiger, and raise Dark Man's bounty to six billion.

Fisher Tiger brought Koala back to her village on Folsat Island, where the villagers rejected him after she reunited with her mother. Kizaru ambushed Tiger while Marine warships attacked the Sun Pirates, and Jinbe led a rescue party toward the island.

• Stussy told Arata that the Sun Pirates were searching for an Eternal Pose to Folsat Island.
• Fisher Tiger escorted Koala to her village, where her mother embraced her and the villagers silently drove Tiger away.
• Kizaru revealed that Koala’s family had reported the Sun Pirates and attacked Tiger, hurling him through several cacti.
• Marine warships ambushed the White Star Red Snapper, and the Fish-Men fought back as the ship caught fire.
• Jinbe ordered some Fish-Men to defend the ship and led an elite group toward the island to find Tiger.

Dawn arrived on Folsat Island and fought Kizaru while Fisher Tiger and Jinbe lay wounded. Their clash divided the island between spreading darkness and Kizaru’s awakened domain of light.

• Kizaru pinned Fisher Tiger beneath his foot and impaled Jinbe with golden light swords when Jinbe attacked.
• Dawn appeared and used darkness to pull Kizaru into the air, but Kizaru broke through Dawn’s defenses with a powerful kick.
• Dawn and Kizaru traded blows with their swords, and Dawn’s Kikoku forced Kizaru to abandon Ama no Murakumo.
• Dawn pursued Kizaru with a purple-black tide and pulled him from his light form, but their Armament Haki attacks blasted them apart.
• Dawn struck Kizaru’s arms with Kikoku, wounding him and sending him crashing into a rock wall.
• Dawn’s darkness covered half of Folsat Island as Kizaru awakened his Devil Fruit and transformed the other half into a domain of light.

Kizaru escaped the island after Fisher Tiger’s defeat, while Koala chose to leave with Nojiko. After Tiger died, Arlong led a group of Fish-Men away to seek revenge, but Nami and Nojiko confronted them and wiped out most of the crew.

• Kizaru broke through Nojiko’s violet-black barrier and fled as Fisher Tiger neared death.
• Koala agreed to leave with Nojiko and entered the submarine through a door in the Void.
• Fisher Tiger died after entrusting the Sun Pirates to Jinbe and urging them not to hate all humans or trust the World Government.
• Arlong led Kuroobi, Chew, Hatchan, and other Fish-Men to a deserted island to prepare revenge against humans.
• Nami and Nojiko attacked Arlong’s group, killing most of the Fish-Men and defeating Kuroobi and Chew.
• Nami overwhelmed Arlong with extreme weather while Nojiko disoriented Hatchan and beat him until he stopped resisting.

Dawn reviewed intelligence about Crocodile’s early moves in Alabasta and learned that Saint Charlos was heading to the Goa Kingdom. As the World Government ship approached, Sabo set out from the harbor in a stolen fishing boat, determined to begin his long-awaited voyage.

• Koala trained her air-kicking technique, and Dawn encouraged her to keep getting stronger.
• Dawn read reports that Alabasta’s rainfall had shifted and that Saint Charlos would visit Goa, then learned Galdino was Baroque Works’ second-in-command.
• Dawn decided to leave Baroque Works alone for the time being.
• Sabo ignored the fisherman’s calls to return the boat and rowed away from the Goa Kingdom harbor.
• The nobles prepared to welcome the approaching World Government ship, and Sabo slowed his rowing in surprise at its size.

Saint Charlos killed a CP Agent and attacked Sabo’s boat, but a hidden robot rescued Sabo as Dawn arrived to confront the Celestial Dragons. Saint Somaz, stronger after intense training, launched an attack on Dawn, and the two charged into battle.

• Saint Charlos shot a CP Agent who urged him to stay aboard, then ordered guards to throw the body into the sea.
• Saint Charlos fired an explosive round at Sabo’s fishing boat, setting it ablaze and sending Sabo into the water.
• A sudden darkness covered the harbor, and a camouflaged robot rescued the unconscious Sabo before anyone noticed.
• Dawn appeared on the official ship, where Saint Somaz challenged him and showed off his strengthened Armament Haki.
• Saint Somaz attacked Dawn with Haki-coated thorns while Dawn charged at him with Kikoku wrapped in Armament Haki, Conqueror’s Haki, and purple-black flames.

Dawn defeated Saint Somaz, but Imu intervened through a magic circle and rescued him. After Dawn killed Saint Charlos and his protectors and freed the slaves aboard the ship, all twenty slaves chose to die, leaving Dawn alone with the cruelty of the world.

• Dawn broke Saint Somaz’s Haki armor and cut him in half, but Imu used a magic circle and a powerful tail to force Dawn back and teleport Saint Somaz away.
• Dawn noticed that Imu had repeatedly intervened to save the God’s Knights, then turned to Saint Charlos as the frightened Celestial Dragon fired at him.
• Dawn annihilated Saint Charlos, the surviving Guards, and the CP Agents with a wave of purple-black power.
• Dawn cut the explosive collars from the roughly twenty slaves and told them they were free to leave by lifeboat.
• The slaves explained their despair, thanked Dawn, and one by one killed themselves; Dawn watched without changing his expression.