Chapter Summaries

Dawn assigned Lucci and Kaku to eliminate the Buffalo Family, while Stussy and Kalifa went after Liliana and Stella and Robin were tasked with Vincent. At the Buffalo manor, Lucci and Kaku confronted Magadino; Kaku survived a barrage of bullets and blocked Magadino’s escape with his wife and daughter.

• Dawn gave Lucci and Kaku files on the Buffalo Family and sent them to deal with it.
• Dawn assigned Stussy and Kalifa to handle Liliana, and Stella and Robin to deal with Vincent.
• Three days later, Lucci and Kaku appeared in Buffalo Magadino’s dining room and announced they had come for his head.
• Magadino sounded the alarm and ordered his men to fire while he tried to escape with his wife and daughter.
• Kaku blocked Magadino’s path, unharmed by the gunfire, and transformed his arms into blades.

Lucci and Kaku fought Magadino and his armed thugs at the Buffalo Family estate. After Lucci killed Magadino, the surviving thugs scattered or were defeated, and the two began searching the estate for wealth and documents.

• Magadino sacrificed his wife and daughter to evade Kaku’s attack, then retrieved a hidden shotgun and opened fire.
• Kaku used Rankyaku slashes to destroy bullets and cannonballs, but the prolonged barrage drained his stamina until he fell to one knee.
• Magadino aimed his armor-piercing pistol at Kaku, but Lucci emerged through an Air Door and stopped the bullet with diamond-transformed skin.
• Lucci pierced Magadino’s heart with his diamond-transformed finger, killing the leader of the Buffalo Family.
• Most of Magadino’s thugs fled, while Lucci and Kaku defeated the few who attacked them.
• Lucci and Kaku began looting the estate’s wealth and valuable documents.

Stussy and Kalifa killed Liliana and began looting the Pana Family headquarters. At the Rosa Family headquarters, Stella and Robin fought Rosa Vincent, who struck the Nine-Tailed Fox’s forelimb as the battle continued.

• Stussy and Kalifa dodged Liliana’s gunfire and aerial attacks while fighting her in the Pana Family headquarters.
• Liliana fired a sniper rifle at Stussy, but Stussy used a Kami-e afterimage to evade the shot and kill her with Flying Finger Pistol.
• Stussy and Kalifa began collecting the Pana Family’s treasures and confidential documents.
• At the Rosa Family headquarters, Stella attacked Rosa Vincent in her full Nine-Tailed Fox form while Robin watched for an opening from her fur.
• Vincent endured Robin’s arms stabbing his eyes, then used his Longarm Tribe limbs to strike Stella’s forelimb.

Stella and Robin defeated Vincent and searched the Rosa Family’s arena for wealth and secrets. At the Gino Family headquarters, Dawn killed Gino Colobo after forcing him to face the helplessness of his own words about a fair fight.

• Stella shattered Vincent’s frozen lion form, then returned to human form, wounded and discouraged about her combat talent.
• Robin reminded Stella to clean up the battlefield, and the two began searching the ruined arena for the Rosa Family’s wealth and secrets.
• At the Gino Family headquarters, Dawn surveyed the slaughterhouse and used a Gravity Field to crush nearly a thousand family members.
• Dawn confronted the surviving Gino Colobo, who taunted him for refusing a fair fight.
• Dawn entered the Gravity Field unharmed and challenged Colobo to stand and fight, but Colobo could not move.
• Dawn stomped Colobo’s head, killing him beneath the Gravity Field.

Dawn reviewed the documents showing his crew had taken over the West Blue’s major Underworld industries and ordered them to consolidate their power by moving toward Reverse Mountain. When Stella doubted her combat potential, Dawn promised to pursue technology that could enhance it, leaving the crew to wait for an opportunity to secure and improve that technology safely.

• Lucci, Stussy, and Stella presented Dawn with records of the arms, trafficking, entertainment, and other industries they had absorbed from the West Blue’s major bosses.
• Dawn praised the crew’s work and ordered Lucci and Kaku to prepare to move their base toward Reverse Mountain before expanding across the West Blue.
• Stella asked to leave the combat roster and focus on logistics because she feared her weak foundation would make her a burden in battle.
• Dawn told Stella that scientific technology could enhance her potential and planned to have Vegapunk refine Modified Human Technology.
• Dawn said they needed a mind-reading ability to obtain Judge’s technology without leaving hidden backdoors, and he considered asking Stussy how to contact Vegapunk.

Dawn left Hadebein Island aboard his newly restored ship, the Herman's Revenge, and asked Rob Lucci to identify notable people near their route. When Lucci mentioned a powerful sheriff known for violent law enforcement, Dawn decided to establish their next base on that island.

• Dawn told Stussy to gather intelligence on people with mind-reading abilities and said he planned to improve the strength of all the women in his group.
• Dawn and his subordinates said farewell to the miners on Hadebein Island and sailed away aboard the Herman's Revenge.
• At noon, Dawn studied a map of the West Blue with his companions and asked Rob Lucci about notable people nearby.
• Rob Lucci pointed out an island known for a powerful sheriff who enforced the law violently.
• Dawn recognized who the sheriff might be and chose the island as their next base.

In Bash, Constable Lafitte stopped a thief and savagely beat him before returning the stolen handbag to its owner. After the mayor confronted him over his excessive force, Lafitte gave a perfunctory promise to be more careful, leaving the mayor intimidated and unable to continue scolding him.

• A thief stole a woman's handbag and fled through Bash, but Lafitte blocked the town exit.
• Lafitte evaded the thief's dagger, knocked him unconscious, and repeatedly smashed his hand and forearm with his cane.
• Lafitte returned the handbag to the frightened woman, then dragged the thief to the Watchtower.
• The mayor stormed into Lafitte's office and reprimanded him for using excessive force, threatening to fire him if he did it again.
• Lafitte promised to be more careful, and his cold gaze frightened the mayor into leaving.

After the mayor called in the kingdom’s army to remove Lafitte, five hundred soldiers confronted him outside Bash Town, and Lafitte refused to surrender. Hidden above the town, the crew of Herman's Revenge watched as the soldiers charged, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• The mayor decided Lafitte was too dangerous to keep and asked his superiors to send troops to expel him.
• The mayor’s superiors agreed to dispatch the nearby garrison, while Lafitte left town for his cottage by the coast.
• A commander arrived with roughly five hundred soldiers, revoked Lafitte’s duties, and ordered him to be thrown into the sea.
• Lafitte refused to obey the expulsion order, and the commander sent his soldiers to attack him.
• Kaku, Lucci, and the women aboard Herman's Revenge watched the battle from above while Dawn remained silent.

Lafitte defeated the five hundred kingdom soldiers outside Bash Town by using flight, curved bullets, and hypnosis to turn them against one another. The mayor witnessed the massacre, called Lafitte a devil, and fled into town.

• Lafitte took to the air to evade the soldiers, deflected their arrows, and shot around their shields with his flintlock.
• Lafitte hypnotized some soldiers, causing them to attack their comrades and plunge the battlefield into chaos.
• Lafitte moved among the fighting soldiers, killing survivors until all five hundred soldiers, including their commander, were dead.
• The mayor watched the massacre from the town entrance, called Lafitte a devil, and fled into town.

Herman Dawn offered Lafitte a diplomatic position, but Lafitte demanded proof of his strength and attacked him. Dawn stopped the strike with gravity, and Lafitte recognized his power, though he insisted he still had a way to fight back.

• Lafitte sat alone by the Calm Sea, uncertain where to go after leaving the country.
• Herman Dawn approached Lafitte undetected and offered him a place as his diplomat.
• Lafitte questioned Dawn’s claim that he had overturned the West Blue’s Five Families and demanded proof of strength before pledging loyalty.
• Lafitte attacked Dawn with his cane and prepared to shoot him, but Dawn’s Gravity Armor and Gravity Field halted the strike.
• Lafitte escaped to a nearby reef, identified Dawn’s gravity control, and declared that the ability would not leave him helpless.

Dawn defeated Lafitte in a prolonged aerial fight and asked him to make his final choice. Lafitte pledged his loyalty, and Dawn brought him aboard Herman's Revenge, treated his injuries, and introduced him to the others.

• Lafitte broke through Dawn's Gravity Field and kicked him into a crater, but Dawn got back up and challenged him to use a stronger move.
• Dawn overwhelmed Lafitte with a rapid series of Geppo-powered attacks and left him unable to move in a deep crater.
• Dawn asked Lafitte to choose, and Lafitte smashed his cane and pledged his loyalty to Dawn.
• Dawn took the injured Lafitte to Herman's Revenge, treated him with the ship's medicine, and introduced him to the crew.
• Lafitte used his diplomatic skills to integrate smoothly into the group.

Dawn learned of two rumored Devil Fruit users nearby and assigned his crew to consolidate the West Blue underworld while he set out with Stussy to find the invisible man. On Parent Island, Absalom continued spying on women until a figure in an alley caught his attention.

• Lafitte told Dawn about an invisible man on Parent Island and ghost sightings on Fantom Island, which Dawn recognized as likely Devil Fruit users.
• Dawn tasked Lafitte with absorbing the West Blue's remaining small underground factions and assigned Kaku and Lucci to secure the crew's existing territory.
• Dawn told Stussy to accompany him to meet the invisible man.
• Absalom used the Suke Suke no Mi to spy on a middle-aged woman bathing, then wandered Parent Island in search of another target.
• A figure at the end of a darkening street caught Absalom's attention.

Stussy confronted Absalom after Dawn secretly stopped him from touching her, and she killed him with a vacuum slash. Dawn collected the reborn Suke Suke no Mi, then left with Stussy as she reacted to his possessiveness with flustered annoyance.

• Absalom approached the unaware Stussy while invisible and tried to touch her, but Dawn's Gravity Field crushed his arm.
• Stussy recognized Absalom as her mission's target and killed him with a vacuum slash after he appeared.
• Dawn examined Absalom's corpse and collected the regenerated Suke Suke no Mi in a wooden box.
• Stussy thanked Dawn for protecting her, and Dawn teased her about needing to improve her vigilance.
• Dawn put an arm around Stussy and lifted them both into the air with his golden force field.

Lafitte forced a lawless-island faction leader to sign a contract bringing his group under Louis’s control, then hypnotized him to uncover his secrets. Lafitte left with the signed document, while the man remained unaware he had been questioned.

• A middle-aged faction leader’s unease faded as he began taking advantage of his Merfolk wife in front of his guards.
• Lafitte burst into the manor, incapacitated the guards, and presented the leader with an Underworld approval contract.
• The leader recognized Louis’s codename, signed the contract, and pleaded for Lafitte’s understanding.
• Lafitte hypnotized the leader and questioned him about his hidden secrets without leaving him any memory of it.
• Lafitte took the signed contract and departed into the darkness.

Lafitte reported that one of the underworld bosses who signed a contract with Dawn was a Charlotte Family intelligence agent, but Dawn dismissed the chance of retaliation and remained confident in his ability to handle it. After considering the limits of ordinary Haki and his own Devil Fruit potential, Dawn chose to postpone seeking Haki training while he secured his West Blue base.

• Lafitte presented Dawn with the signed contracts and classified intelligence, then revealed that one contractor was a Charlotte Family agent.
• Dawn reassured Lafitte that the Charlotte Family was unlikely to target them over an insignificant agent and said he could handle any threat from Big Mom.
• Dawn reflected that only exceptionally powerful Haki truly stood above other abilities and decided to focus first on developing his Devil Fruits and stabilizing his West Blue base.
• Dawn dismissed Lafitte, who withdrew to rest with a faintly satisfied smile, while Dawn returned to chatting with the women in the tavern.

Dawn received his first bounty poster, which revealed that the World Government knew only his cover name and had not discovered his two Devil Fruit abilities. After leaving Ilusia Kingdom for Reverse Mountain, he erased a storm from the sky, drawing the attention of a nearby Marine warship that closed in to attack.

• Lucci returned with Kaku and gave Dawn a bounty poster naming him HERMAN and offering 70,000,000 Beli; Dawn concluded that his real identity and dual Devil Fruit abilities remained secret.
• Lafitte warned Dawn that the crew would face Marines and bounty hunters, and Dawn said they would take the Marines' supplies before dealing with them.
• Dawn spent another week securing the loyalty of Ilusia Kingdom's underground bosses, then led the crew south from the royal capital harbor toward Reverse Mountain.
• When Lafitte spotted a storm ahead, Dawn used a Gravity Field through his sword to disperse the clouds, rain, and lightning.
• A Marine lookout spotted Herman's Revenge and reported that its crew had scattered the clouds; Lieutenant Commander Dayin ordered the warship to close in and attack.

Dawn’s crew repelled a Marine warship, and Lucci and Lafitte killed its defenders and looted its supplies. Dawn then crushed the disabled warship and sank it, leaving the pirates to continue their voyage with the spoils.

• Lieutenant Colonel Dayin ordered his Marines to fire on Herman’s Revenge, but Dawn stopped the cannonballs with a gravity wall and destroyed them.
• Dawn ordered a small group to rob the warship, and Lucci and Lafitte flew over to attack it.
• Lucci and Lafitte slaughtered the Marines, and Lucci killed Lieutenant Colonel Dayin.
• Lucci and Lafitte searched the warship and returned to Herman’s Revenge with its valuables, supplies, weapons, ammunition, and sea charts.
• Dawn used gravity to crush the disabled warship and sink it.

Dawn reached Fantom Island and found Perona before Moria could recruit her, persuading her to join him with food. The chapter ended when Moria confronted Dawn and demanded that he hand Perona over.

• Dawn spotted Moria’s pirate ship near Fantom Island and ordered Lucci to open a door through the Kong clouds so the crew could reach the island quickly.
• Dawn instructed his crew to stay out of any fight and to seize the target ability user when an opportunity arose.
• Dawn found Perona wandering in the forest with Kumashi, learned she had lost her home, and offered her food and a place with him.
• Dawn gave Perona a bagel sandwich, and she accepted his hand and left the forest with him.
• Moria confronted Dawn and demanded that he hand over Perona, and Dawn insulted him as a loser who had fled the New World.

Dawn fought Moria, using gravity and his extraordinary strength and healing to withstand the older pirate’s attacks. After realizing Dawn’s abilities made the battle too dangerous, Moria fled toward the coast and left Perona behind.

• Moria attacked Dawn with his longsword, but Dawn’s unusual physique let him endure the blow while an Air Door rescued Perona from the clash’s shockwave.
• Dawn blasted Moria away with a gravity field, healed his chest wound, and taunted him about his defeat by Kaido.
• Moria switched places with Shadow Mage to evade Dawn’s gravity attacks and traded blows with him, wounding Dawn’s shoulder before Dawn healed again.
• Moria judged that continuing the fight would put him at a disadvantage, then ran toward the coast and told Dawn to keep Perona.

Dawn fought Moria after destroying the pirate ship Moria had spent years preparing, using gravity and darkness to counter Moria’s shadow attacks. The battle ended with Dawn revealing that he could bypass Armament Haki by applying the Press-Press Fruit’s gravity to the environment, leaving Moria battered in a crater.

• Stella destroyed Moria’s ship, and Moria turned back to confront Dawn in a fury.
• Moria trapped Dawn with shadow arms and attacked with Flying Slashes and shadow spears, but Dawn absorbed the shadows and crushed the slashes.
• Moria mistook Dawn’s gravity and darkness powers for the abilities of an awakened Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit.
• Dawn lifted Moria into the sky with Paradise Lost and slammed him into the ground after Armament Haki failed to stop the effect.
• Dawn explained that he had applied gravity to the environment rather than directly to Moria, bypassing Armament Haki’s ability negation.