Chapter Summaries

On January 1, 1530, Dawn used Kikoku to help Kuina awaken Armament Haki so she could survive the future staircase accident. Zoro also endured Kikoku’s ordeal and awakened Haki before collapsing, and Dawn carried him back to the village.

• Dawn helped Kuina endure Kikoku’s draining influence for eighteen hours until faint Armament Haki appeared on her arm.
• Kuina succeeded, then passed out from exhaustion, and Koshiro carried her down the mountain after checking her condition.
• Zoro asked Dawn to let him try Kikoku’s training and endured its drain without letting go.
• After ten hours, Zoro awakened Armament Haki and drew Kikoku fully from its sheath.
• Zoro boasted that he had awakened Haki faster than Kuina, then collapsed, and Dawn carried him toward the village.

Kuina and Zoro infiltrated the Playing Card Pirates’ stronghold on Clockwork Island and defeated dozens of pirates. Big Bear King and his four officers confronted them, and Zoro launched the next fight by charging at the captain.

• Dawn turned invisible and told Kuina and Zoro they would have to survive without his help.
• Kuina and Zoro entered the stronghold during the pirates’ banquet and faced Big Bear King and his four officers.
• Kuina and Zoro fought through the pirates, taking down dozens of them in ten minutes.
• Big Bear King offered Kuina and Zoro a choice between joining his crew and dying, but Zoro refused and charged at him.

Zoro and Kuina fought Big Bear King and his four officers, killing the officers despite their injuries. When Big Bear King overwhelmed them, they combined their final attacks and cut through him, leaving his upper body sliding from his waist.

• Big Bear King turned his body to steel and resisted Zoro and Kuina’s attacks as his four officers joined the fight.
• Kuina split from Zoro, endured Joker’s needles, and killed Skanger-1 with a surprise strike.
• Zoro used Dragon Twister to free himself from Sweetheart Queen’s paste and fatally wound her and Pugh Jack.
• Kuina killed Joker, and she and Zoro refused Big Bear King’s offer to become his subordinates.
• Big Bear King overpowered the wounded children until Kuina and Zoro poured their wills into their blades and severed his hands and torso.

Dawn agreed to let Sugar eat the Hobby-Hobby Fruit after he obtained the Ripe-Ripe Fruit in Wano, and traveled there while Kaido and the Beasts Pirates were away. He found Shinobu in a forest near Amigasa Village and killed her with purple-black flames.

• Sugar begged Dawn to let her eat the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, and Dawn promised she could have it when he returned from Wano.
• Monet reported that Kaido and the main officers were away on an expedition, so Dawn ordered his people to monitor the Beasts Pirates and left for Wano.
• Dawn arrived invisibly at Habu Port and saw that Fortune Town remained prosperous and its people had not been turned into SMILE users.
• Dawn asked an old woman where to find Shinobu and followed her directions to a forest near Amigasa Village.
• Dawn decided Shinobu was unlikely to join him and disintegrated her with purple-black flames.

Dawn stole Nidai Kitetsu, Enma, and Ame no Habakiri from Kozuki Sukiyaki’s residence, then went to the Flower Capital and approached Black Maria. After revealing his transformed size, he asked for her services and herself, and she agreed to make an exception for him.

• Dawn entered Kozuki Sukiyaki’s residence unseen and took Nidai Kitetsu, Enma, and Ame no Habakiri.
• Dawn went to a pleasure house in the Flower Capital and singled out Black Maria.
• Black Maria led Dawn to a private room and questioned what he wanted from her.
• Dawn used Life Return to grow from three meters to eight meters tall, then told Black Maria he wanted her services and her herself.
• Black Maria said she had never received a client but would make an exception for Dawn, then began removing her kimono.

Dawn freed Black Maria from the pleasure district and offered her a place by his side, then bought Komurasaki’s freedom and led her away. As they left, a disguised samurai watched them with suppressed fury.

• Dawn asked Black Maria to leave with him, and she agreed after warning him about the powerful person who had claimed her as a gift.
• Dawn sent Black Maria into Xiao Ai and left the pleasure house with her freedom secured.
• Dawn paid ten white gold coins to buy Komurasaki’s freedom from the madam of another pleasure house.
• Dawn took Komurasaki’s cold hand and led her out, while a disguised samurai followed them with a furious gaze.

Dawn took Komurasaki to a luxurious estate and told her he wanted her as a woman, while Denjiro burst in to defend her. Dawn killed Denjiro and overpowered Komurasaki, leaving her trapped in his bed as she begged him to stop.

• Dawn brought Komurasaki to a borrowed estate and told her she met his requirements for a woman.
• Denjiro charged into the room and attacked Dawn, declaring that Komurasaki was the Kozuki Family's surviving heir.
• Dawn immobilized Denjiro with crushing pressure, then drained his Haki and erased him with purplish-black energy.
• Dawn tore away Komurasaki's sash and dismissed Denjiro as an obstacle when she asked if he had killed him.
• Komurasaki struggled and pleaded as Dawn kissed her, pushed her onto the bed, and tore open her kimono.

After Komurasaki tried to kill Dawn, he revealed that he knew she was Hiyori Kozuki and demanded she take his surname and obey him, offering to help drive Kaido from Wano. Hiyori accepted his terms, leaving her committed to a desperate bargain for her family and country.

• Komurasaki attacked Dawn with a knife, but he broke the blade and stopped her.
• Dawn told Hiyori that he had redeemed her and claimed the right to decide her fate.
• Dawn revealed that he knew her Kozuki identity and offered to help drive Kaido away if she fulfilled her duties.
• Hiyori weighed her family’s losses and Wano’s suffering against her lack of alternatives.
• Hiyori knelt before Dawn and agreed to do what he expected of her.

Dawn went to Onigashima to take Yamato away from Wano, but she attacked him, believing he had come to marry her and insisting she was Kozuki Oden. After defeating her and knocking out the Beasts Pirates who rushed to help, Dawn approached Yamato as she lay embedded in a rock wall.

• Dawn used Observation Haki to locate Yamato on Onigashima and revealed himself after she sensed his presence.
• Yamato attacked Dawn with A-Ken, saying Kaido had once planned to marry her off to him and that she would never marry a man.
• Dawn blocked Yamato's Thunder Bagua and kicked her into the ground.
• Yamato attacked again with Roaring Thunder Bagua, but Dawn overpowered her, broke her mask, and blasted her into a rock wall.
• Beasts Pirates members rushed toward Yamato, and Dawn's Conqueror's Haki knocked them unconscious.

Dawn fought Yamato on Onigashima, breaking her explosive cuffs and overpowering her with gravity, darkness, and Haki. After twelve hours of fighting, Yamato lay defeated in the crater, and the chapter left her condition unclear.

• Dawn broke Yamato’s cuffs, then crushed her into the cliff with a Gravity Field.
• Yamato transformed and charged Dawn after he insulted her devotion to Kozuki Oden, but he blasted her into the air and drove her into a crater with gravity.
• Yamato attacked Dawn with Namuji Ice Fang, but he absorbed the frost and struck her down, then surrounded the battlefield with darkness.
• Dawn prepared a Haki-coated punch as Yamato rushed him and unleashed a storm of club strikes.
• The battle shook Onigashima for twelve hours before the impacts stopped, leaving Yamato bloodied and battered atop the shattered rock.

Dawn used a fictional version of Kozuki Oden’s story, with Yamato in Oden’s place, to make her reconsider her admiration for him. Yamato was left questioning whether Oden had truly been a hero.

• Dawn gave the exhausted Yamato a rice ball and told her he would not kill her because she was still his fiancée.
• Dawn asked Yamato to imagine herself as Kozuki Oden and began telling a story about Yamato sailing away from Wano Country with a pirate crew.
• Dawn described Yamato returning after Kaido’s death to find Queen and King ruling Wano Country and its people suffering.
• Dawn told Yamato that Queen forced her to dance naked for five years while the country endured hardship and devastation.
• Dawn ended the story with Yamato’s failed rebellion and death, leaving Yamato sobbing and questioning what made Oden a hero.

Yamato realized that imitating Kozuki Oden had become another prison and broke down as she mourned the life she had lost. Dawn comforted her and offered her a new identity as his wife, and Yamato accepted.

• Dawn held Yamato as he challenged her view of Oden as a hero and questioned the suffering Oden's dream had imposed on others.
• Yamato recognized that she had never truly been a man and had been imitating Oden to escape the fate Kaido forced on her.
• Yamato cried in Dawn's arms over her worship of Oden and the years she felt she had wasted.
• Dawn told Yamato to be herself and offered her the choice of becoming his wife.
• Yamato accepted Dawn's offer.

Dawn returned to Dawn Island with Yamato, then introduced her and two more newcomers, Black Maria and Hiyori Kozuki, to his household. Hancock welcomed them into the family, and the women began making the newcomers feel at home.

• Stella greeted Dawn and hid her disappointment at seeing him carry a sleeping white wolf, while Dawn teased her about being jealous.
• Dawn told the wolf, Yamato, that they had arrived, and she transformed into a woman before he brought her inside to meet everyone.
• Dawn introduced Yamato as Kaido's daughter, then brought Black Maria and Hiyori Kozuki out of Xiao Ai.
• Hancock welcomed the three women to the family, and Robin offered to discuss Kozuki history with Hiyori.
• Scarlett invited the newcomers to dinner and asked about their food preferences, while Black Maria requested alcohol.
• The household's awkwardness eased, but Yamato continued watching Hancock with scrutiny.

Yamato challenged Hancock after Dawn taught her to call herself his wife, and their fierce duel ended in a draw. Under the pressure of the fight, Hancock finally mastered Conqueror's Haki Coating, and Dawn healed both women.

• Yamato told Dawn she wanted to challenge Hancock, then struggled to call herself “this wife” and address him as “Husband.”
• Dawn allowed Yamato to challenge Hancock, and the two women faced off in a sealed training ground.
• Yamato and Hancock traded powerful attacks, with Yamato using her ice abilities and Hancock relying on her kicks and Haki.
• Yamato unleashed Roaring Thunder Bagua as Hancock countered with Great Perfume Femur, and Dawn called the battle a draw.
• Dawn healed Yamato and Hancock with Mansherry's Healing Tears, and Hancock thanked Yamato after realizing she had mastered Conqueror's Haki Coating during their fight.

Dawn used Hiyori’s Ripe-Ripe Fruit to age Sugar and the other girls into adults, after warning them that doing so would cost them years of their lives. They all agreed, and the chapter ended after Hiyori transformed them.

• Dawn gave Hiyori the Ripe-Ripe Fruit, and she ate it without hesitation.
• Dawn explained the fruit’s lifespan cost to the girls, and Sugar volunteered to be aged first.
• Hiyori transformed Sugar into an adult, and Sugar then ate the Hobby-Hobby Fruit she had kept in a box.
• Nami challenged Dawn about his motives, and she and the other girls affirmed they were willing to be transformed.
• Hiyori aged the remaining girls, leaving the hall filled with young women.

Dawn and Nami confessed their feelings and began a relationship, while Yamato continued adapting to married life and training under him. A call announced that Dawn's ship was finished, but a second call left him with a grave expression.

• Nami asked Dawn if he liked her, and they confessed their feelings before kissing and going to bed together.
• The next morning, Nami and Nojiko helped Dawn dress, and Yamato served him her inedible cooking.
• Yamato took Dawn to the training grounds and sparred with him for two and a half hours.
• A Fish-Man called to tell Dawn that his ship was finished, and Yamato asked if he was finally going to sea.
• Dawn received another call and hung up with a grave expression.

Shamrock and Spandam came to Tom's Workshop in Water 7 and demanded Pluton's blueprints, threatening the city with a Buster Call. As Tom prepared to answer under pressure, a strange darkness spread across the workshop floor.

• Tom told Iceburg and Franky to clean up because guests would arrive in a few days.
• Shamrock arrived in Water 7 aboard a World Government warship, with slaves lowering the gangway and Spandam sweeping beneath it.
• Spandam demanded Pluton's blueprints from Tom, who denied knowing anything about them.
• Shamrock stabbed Tom, and CP Agents crippled Franky after he attacked Shamrock.
• Spandam warned Tom that Shamrock could call a Buster Call, and Tom hesitated as Shamrock counted down.
• A darkness spread across the workshop floor just as Tom was about to answer.

Dawn rescued Tom, Iceburg, Franky, and Granny Kokoro from Tom's Workshop as his allies lifted their dragon-headed ship into the sky. Shamrock fought Dawn, but Dawn overpowered him and sent him crashing into Water 7's wall, where his Immortal Body began to regenerate.

• Dark humanoids dragged Spandam, the CP agents, and the Holy Land Guard into the darkness while Shamrock fought them off with his shield.
• A man in a white lab coat transported Tom, Iceburg, Franky, and Granny Kokoro from the workshop to the dragon-headed ship.
• The white-haired woman activated the ship's machinery, and the lightning-powered blond man made its propellers lift it into the sky.
• Dawn appeared above the workshop and mocked Shamrock, who attacked him with a powerful slash and followed with a sword strike.
• Dawn absorbed Shamrock's slash, blocked his sword, then shattered his Armament Haki with a kick and launched him through Water 7 into its outer wall.
• Shamrock's Immortal Body regenerated his destroyed flesh and bones as he saw Dawn walking toward him through the air.

Dawn defeated Shamrock and forced Imu to negotiate by threatening to kill him. Imu agreed to give Dawn three Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits, which Dawn collected before the confrontation ended.

• Shamrock accused Dawn of abandoning a swordsman's honor, but Dawn mocked him and wounded him with a sword attack.
• Shamrock tried to escape through a magic circle, but Dawn used gravity to interrupt the transfer and smashed him into a pit.
• Dawn pinned Shamrock beneath darkness and gravity, then threatened Imu with his life.
• Dawn demanded three Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits in exchange for sparing Shamrock, and Imu agreed.
• Imu sent the Kamaitachi, Jorogumo, and Cerberus fruits through a magic circle, and Dawn stored them in Subspace.

Shamrock, possessed by Imu, ambushed Dawn and fought him in the skies above Water 7. Dawn resisted Imu’s remotely cast Blackening, and Imu prepared to change forms as the confrontation continued.

• Shamrock attacked Dawn without warning, grievously wounding him and sending civilians across Water 7 unconscious with his Conqueror’s Haki.
• Dawn challenged Shamrock and exchanged powerful attacks with him in the sky, trying to learn more about Imu and the God's Knights.
• Imu cast Blackening on Dawn, but Dawn used the Yami Yami no Mi to erase the magic circle before it could take hold.
• Dawn tried to pull Shamrock in with Black Hole, then concluded that Shamrock’s possessed body was not vulnerable to the ability.
• Shamrock summoned a Trident through a magic circle and asked whether David had come to fulfill the promise.