Chapter Summaries

Kuina saved Vivi from Abdullah after winning her first battle on the Grand Line. Vivi rushed back to check on Igaram, while Kuina told Dawn what happened, and he set out with her to investigate the battle site.

• Igaram sacrificed himself to give Vivi time to flee, but Abdullah pierced him with his Trident and pursued Vivi using Observation Haki.
• Vivi ran into Kuina and begged her for help, and Kuina attacked Abdullah with Wado Ichimonji.
• Kuina cut through Abdullah's defenses, severed his hands, and sliced his body in two.
• Kuina reassured Vivi, who hurried back toward Igaram, while Kuina returned to the tavern.
• After Kuina recounted the fight to Dawn, he sent Zoro to David's Revenge and went with Kuina to the battle site.

After Igaram died protecting her, Vivi asked Kuina and Dawn to help save Alabasta, and Dawn agreed in exchange for her becoming his woman after the crisis ended. Vivi boarded Dawn's ship convinced that the captain’s enormous bounty meant he could defeat Crocodile.

• Vivi mourned Igaram’s death as Kuina comforted her and apologized for arriving too late.
• Vivi explained that she had fled Alubarna with Igaram to seek help against the rebellion, but the Marines had refused to intervene.
• Dawn revealed that he and Kuina were pirates and offered to help if Vivi agreed to become his woman, with a Devil Fruit user turning her into an adult.
• Vivi accepted Dawn’s terms but demanded that he not touch her until Alabasta’s affairs were resolved, and Dawn agreed.
• Kuina led Vivi aboard David's Revenge, where Vivi saw Dawn’s 6.5 billion Beli wanted poster and believed he could defeat Crocodile.

Dawn revealed to Vivi that the Nefertari Family descended from Nefertari Lily, who opposed Imu and scattered the Poneglyphs, and offered to help resolve the family’s predicament. Vivi left to rest while Dawn stayed with Robin, then quietly left her sleeping at the end of the chapter.

• Hiyori used Maturation Softness on Vivi, who joined the crew for breakfast afterward.
• Dawn introduced himself to Vivi as Davy D. Dawn and told her he had caused the darkness at the previous Reverie.
• Dawn explained that Nefertari Lily had scattered the Poneglyphs to thwart Imu and that Imu had since sought to destroy the Nefertari Family.
• Vivi realized Imu was likely behind the suppression of Alabasta and accepted Dawn’s offer of help before leaving to rest.
• Robin recorded Dawn’s account but said she wanted to uncover the Void Century through her own archaeological work.
• Dawn stayed beside Robin, later covered her with a blanket as she slept, and quietly left the room.

Dawn brought Yamato and Sugar to Little Garden to collect ancient creatures for Devil Fruit research, then approached the giant warriors Dorry and Brogy with wine and challenged them. The chapter left Dawn and Yamato launching attacks on the two captains.

• David's Revenge anchored off Little Garden, and Dawn, Yamato, and Sugar entered the island through an Air Door.
• Dawn ordered Sugar to turn one of each kind of ancient creature into toy soldiers, and she hurried into the forest.
• Dawn and Yamato encountered Dorry and Brogy while the giants rested after fighting near the erupting volcano.
• Dawn enlarged himself with Life Return and punched toward Dorry as Yamato transformed and swung A-Ken at Brogy.

Dawn and Yamato tested their strength against the Giant captains Brogy and Dorry on Little Garden, overpowering the exhausted warriors after a fierce clash. Dawn returned to the island alone that evening after taking Yamato and Sugar back to the ship.

• Dawn and Yamato struck Brogy and Dorry’s shields, and the impact sent a powerful shockwave across Little Garden.
• Brogy and Dorry shattered their shields to repel the attack, then launched a coordinated axe-and-sword counterattack.
• Dawn and Yamato steadied themselves and met the Giants’ weapons with Haki-coated strikes, breaking both weapons and knocking the Giants down.
• Dawn explained to Yamato that the Giants were worn out from their long battle and that their own strength rivaled that of Ancient Giants.
• Sugar finished her task, and Dawn took her and Yamato back to David's Revenge before returning alone to Little Garden that evening.

Dawn convinced Brogy and Dorry to return to Elbaf by telling them about the Marines’ execution of the Giant Warrior Pirates’ remnants. When an Island Eater Goldfish appeared near Little Garden, Dawn killed it with Hakoku, and David's Revenge sailed toward Drum Island.

• Dawn served Brogy and Dorry homeland wine and told them that Harald had asked him to bring them back to Elbaf.
• Dawn revealed that the Marines had publicly executed the Giant Warrior Pirates’ remnants, prompting Brogy and Dorry to abandon their duel and prepare to return home.
• An Island Eater Goldfish rose from the sea beside David's Revenge, while the crew watched from the cabin.
• Dawn unleashed Hakoku, cleaving the sea and killing the Island Eater Goldfish as a Gravity Field protected David's Revenge.
• David's Revenge departed for Drum Island, leaving Brogy and Dorry stunned on the shore.

Dawn returned to Drum Island and found the blue-nosed reindeer being rejected by its herd. After the reindeer transformed and attacked him, Dawn remained unharmed and asked whether it had a name.

• Dawn asked Violet to search Drum Island for a blue-nosed reindeer, and she located one in a northern reindeer habitat.
• Dawn and Padong found the small reindeer being driven away by its herd, and Dawn protected it from the charging bucks.
• Dawn approached the injured reindeer and asked if it understood him, prompting it to transform into a towering, humanlike form.
• The reindeer attacked Dawn twice, but Dawn remained unharmed while the reindeer's fists swelled from the impacts.
• Dawn asked the reindeer whether it had ever given itself a name.

Dawn named the rejected blue-nosed reindeer Tony Tony Chopper and invited him to join his crew. Chopper accepted, and Dawn brought him to Black Maria to learn medicine and assist with her research.

• Dawn endured Chopper's attacks and named him Tony Tony Chopper, prompting the reindeer to speak.
• Dawn invited Chopper to sail with him, and Chopper hesitated because he believed he was an outcast reindeer.
• Dawn introduced Chopper to the talking Padong and gave him a double-layered hat, and Chopper accepted the invitation.
• Dawn brought Chopper aboard the David's Revenge and introduced him to Black Maria as her new assistant.
• Black Maria agreed to teach Chopper basic medical knowledge, though she mistakenly called him a tanuki.

Dawn learned that Crocodile had recruited Charlotte Carlson, a Three-Eye Tribe man and one of Linlin’s husbands, as a likely replacement for Robin. In Alubarna, King Cobra faced a vast rebel uprising driven by Crocodile’s drought scheme, and Crocodile appeared before the city.

• Dawn asked Vivi about Crocodile’s associates, and she recalled a three-eyed man named Charlotte Carlson.
• Stussy explained that Carlson was born Vandom, had taken the Charlotte surname for protection, and was a Zoan user with strength around a Marine Headquarters rear admiral’s level.
• Dawn concluded that Crocodile had likely chosen Carlson to continue his Ancient Weapons plan after losing Robin.
• Cobra stood on Alubarna’s walls as four hundred thousand rebels demanded rain and justice, while his guards struggled with their loyalty to the king and their families.
• Cobra remembered that Crocodile had used staged rainfall and drought to make the people blame the royal family for hoarding water.
• A huge wave of sand rose among the rebels and formed Crocodile’s figure before the city walls.

Cobra faced Crocodile and the rebel army, then agreed to surrender the throne if Crocodile treated his people well. As Crocodile prepared to accept, the cloudless sky suddenly plunged into darkness.

• Crocodile demanded that Cobra surrender, while the rebel army accused the king of causing their suffering.
• Cobra left the city wall despite Bellemere and Chaka urging him not to, then opened the gates and faced the rebels alone.
• Cobra asked the people of Alabasta to hear him, and Crocodile waited while considering his plans to seize Pluton and strengthen his power against the Dark Man.
• Cobra agreed to Crocodile's demand on the condition that he treat the people well.
• The sky abruptly darkened as Crocodile prepared to respond.

Dawn stopped the rebel army, exposed Bentham as the one who had impersonated Cobra, and took Crocodile away. Vivi reunited with Cobra, and Bentham’s death revealed the conspiracy, leaving the rebels ready to accept the king’s innocence.

• Dawn restrained Crocodile and the Baroque Works agents with gravity, then sent the agents away and flew off with Crocodile.
• Dawn explained Bentham’s role in framing Cobra and lowered Vivi beside her father.
• Vivi told Cobra who she was and helped him calm the leaderless rebels.
• Cobra approved Bellemere’s suggestion, and the rebel archers killed Bentham, whose disguise then vanished.
• The rebels recognized that Cobra had been framed and felt remorse as the conflict in Alabasta began to subside.

Dawn challenged Crocodile to reveal his restored Haki and fought him as Crocodile transformed into a massive, endlessly reforming sand giant. Meanwhile, in Rainbase, Zoro was badly injured by Kelly Funk while Kelly controlled Bobby Funk’s body.

• Crocodile attacked Dawn with Desert Grande Spada, but Dawn casually destroyed the attack and taunted him for holding back.
• Crocodile formed a colossal sand giant and struck at Dawn with a Haki-coated hand, which Dawn shattered with Heaven and Earth Tyrant Fist.
• Crocodile reformed his giant hand, and Dawn entered the sand giant to test the limits of Crocodile’s restored power.
• In Rainbase, Kelly Funk wore his own skin as a jacket to control Bobby Funk and overpowered Zoro with an Armament Haki punch.
• Zoro got back up, wiped away his blood, tied on his bandana, and prepared to face Kelly again.

Zoro awakened a savage Asura aura and defeated Kelly Funk with a nine-sword attack. At Nanohana Port, Sanji caught up with Carlson and sent him crashing through a house with a flaming kick.

• Zoro repeatedly charged Kelly Funk but was battered by his superior strength and Haki.
• As Kelly Funk pummeled Zoro, Zoro recalled his senior brother’s words and awakened a powerful purple Asura aura.
• Kelly Funk’s attack sent Zoro into the ruins, but Zoro emerged and used Eight Views of Hell to destroy Kelly Funk and Bobby Funk.
• At Nanohana Port, Sanji refused Carlson’s request to let him go, and Carlson transformed into his Red Wolf form.
• Sanji vanished from Carlson’s sight and struck him with a flaming kick that sent him crashing through a house.

Sanji defeated Carlson after rejecting his attempt to use the Charlotte name to escape. At Yuba, Yamato unleashed Diamond Dust Fist against Dorothy and the others, destroying the battlefield and leaving her worried that she had killed enemies she was supposed to spare.

• Carlson tried to frighten Sanji by invoking his Charlotte surname, but Sanji condemned his cowardice and continued attacking.
• Sanji dodged Carlson’s kicks with Observation Haki and battered his abdomen with Diable Jambe: Grade One Mincing.
• Carlson crashed to the ground and died as Sanji watched.
• At Yuba, Dorothy, Jem, and Sarah confronted Yamato, and Sarah charged while Yamato prepared to fight.
• Yamato used Diamond Dust Fist to freeze and shatter Sarah, Jem, Galdino, Dorothy, Gene Ango, and Babe, carving a vast ravine through the desert.
• Yamato realized she might have killed enemies her husband had wanted kept alive so their Devil Fruits could reincarnate.

Dawn defeated and killed Crocodile in the desert, ending Crocodile’s attempt to reclaim his former glory with Pluton. In Alubarna, Cobra confronted Vivi over pledging herself to Dawn, then let her leave after realizing she truly liked him.

• Dawn erased Crocodile’s sand attacks and dragged him in with an irresistible force.
• Crocodile summoned a giant sand crocodile, but Dawn shattered it and fatally struck Crocodile.
• Crocodile recalled his life and died, lamenting how short it had been.
• Cobra angrily confronted Vivi for pledging herself to Dawn without his permission.
• Cobra saw that Vivi liked Dawn and let her go; Vivi apologized and left the palace in tears.

After Yamato apologized for killing the remaining Devil Fruit users, Dawn reassured her and later welcomed Vivi’s decision to join him. Vivi asked to open their family’s businesses in Alabasta to provide work and food for its struggling people, and Dawn agreed.

• Yamato apologized to Dawn for killing everyone, and he told her the remaining Devil Fruits had not mattered since they had obtained the Suna Suna no Mi.
• After Yamato left the bathhouse, Dawn found Vivi waiting in his quarters and asked whether she had made up her mind.
• Vivi told Dawn she would keep her word and belong to him because he had dealt with Crocodile.
• Vivi asked to manage Dawn’s assets so she could open their family’s businesses in Alabasta and help its starving refugees.
• Dawn agreed to have his people cooperate with Vivi, easing her worries about her country.

Garling explained that the World Government was preparing rubber equipment and emitted Armament Haki before confronting Louis, while Dawn left Alabasta with Vivi after his three-month attempt to lure enemies failed. Violet spotted the Flying Pirates transporting more than a hundred floating islands, revealing that Golden Lion had been preparing for war.

• Shamrock confronted Garling over letting Louis expand his influence in Alabasta, and Garling said the Government was developing counters to lightning before striking.
• Dawn's ship departed Nanohana Port with Vivi, while Dawn wondered why neither the Flying Pirates nor the World Government had taken his bait.
• Dawn discussed alternate ways to fight the Government and planned to visit Mock Town, Water 7, Enies Lobby, and Impel Down to recruit Barrett and Shiryu.
• Dawn asked Violet to search for the Flying Pirates, and she spotted more than a hundred islands floating over three thousand kilometers away.
• Dawn realized Golden Lion had been preparing for war by lifting the islands and touching their terrain so he could use his large-scale powers.

Dawn confronted Golden Lion and the revived Flying Pirates on Upper Yard, where he unleashed a prepared sphere of compressed lightning against their floating island fleet. The attack destroyed ninety-nine islands, leaving Golden Lion’s Vermeer Island intact and the watching Underworld figures stunned.

• Dawn cleared Upper Yard by arranging for its residents to relocate, then prepared a surprise for the approaching Flying Pirates with Enel and Nami.
• Golden Lion assembled his revived Flying Pirates on ninety-nine floating islands around Vermeer Island and announced their return during a live broadcast.
• Golden Lion offered Dawn a chance to join the Flying Pirates, but Dawn refused and mocked him.
• Golden Lion sent the floating islands toward Dawn, who summoned a gigantic sphere of dark element energy and guided it toward the fleet.
• Golden Lion’s Chop Wave cracked the sphere, releasing a devastating storm of compressed lightning that destroyed the other ninety-nine islands and left Vermeer Island intact.
• Underworld figures watching the broadcast stared in disbelief as Golden Lion’s fleet was obliterated.

Dawn fought Golden Lion above Vermo Island, using the Press-Press Fruit to counter his opponent’s control of the seawater and pin him into the ground. After Golden Lion got back up and attacked in fury, Dawn charged him and chose to settle the fight with swordsmanship.

• Dawn and Golden Lion traded enormous slashes and clashed blades in the air, where Dawn’s strength forced Golden Lion back.
• Golden Lion pulled seawater into a giant lion’s head and sent it lunging at Dawn, but Dawn redirected it with the Press-Press Fruit.
• Dawn’s gravity overwhelmed Golden Lion’s Float-Float Fruit, dropped him onto Vermo Island, and destroyed the Visual Den Den Mushi recording the fight.
• Golden Lion rose from the crater and attacked Dawn with furious Flying Slashes, while Dawn charged through them in Abyssal Prison Garb.
• Dawn sheathed and redrew Kikoku to challenge Golden Lion with pure swordsmanship, and Golden Lion answered with Cross Chop Wave.

Dawn and Golden Lion clashed across Vermeyo Island, and Golden Lion tore Oto and Kogarashi from his legs to fight Dawn in a pure swordsmanship contest. Their duel left Dawn wounded and Golden Lion bleeding heavily, with neither fighter defeated.

• Dawn broke through Golden Lion’s slash, wounded him, and launched him into the air with a knee strike.
• Golden Lion tore Oto and Kogarashi from his legs and challenged Dawn to a swordsmanship contest.
• Dawn and Golden Lion unleashed their Conqueror’s Haki, knocking the island’s beasts unconscious and dispersing the clouds.
• Golden Lion’s Haki-coated slashes cut through Dawn’s Abyssal Prison Garb and wounded his chest.
• Dawn and Golden Lion exchanged a rapid barrage of sword strikes, both sustaining injuries as their fight continued.