Chapter Summaries

Dawn fought Moria through four days and nights, using gravity and darkness to wear down the shadow-wielding pirate while rapidly healing his own injuries. By the end, Moria was exhausted and despairing, unable to land a decisive blow against Dawn.

• Moria escaped the Pit and attacked Dawn with his Haki-coated greatsword, cutting a deep wound across Dawn’s chest and abdomen.
• Dawn used gravity to slam Moria toward the ground, but Moria repeatedly switched places with Shadow Mage to escape.
• Moria sent Haki-coated shadow bats after Dawn, but Dawn’s Almighty Push crushed them and he resumed restraining Moria with gravity.
• Dawn and Moria fought through four days and nights as Dawn repeatedly crushed or swallowed Moria’s shadow attacks and Moria sought chances to counterattack.
• Moria’s strength and Haki dwindled while Dawn kept recovering from his wounds, leaving Moria exhausted and despairing at the edge of a massive Pit.

Dawn defeated Moria after surviving his final ambush and trapping him with Black Hole. He killed Moria with a Rasengan, leaving Moria to die after realizing Dawn might wield two Devil Fruits.

• Dawn declared victory over the exhausted Moria, who warned him that a battle was not over until the enemy drew his last breath.
• Moria used his shadow to ambush Dawn from behind, but stabbed a Dark Clone while Dawn's real body remained concealed.
• Dawn caught Moria with Black Hole after confirming Moria could no longer use Observation Haki to locate him or resist.
• Dawn severed Moria's connection to Shadow Mage and drove a Rasengan through his chest.
• Moria realized Dawn might be a dual Devil Fruit user before he died in Dawn's grasp.

After defeating Moria, Dawn stored the Shadow-Shadow Fruit and replenished his strength with a huge meal before falling asleep. Stussy carried him to bed, where they woke tangled together the next morning, and Dawn moved to take their encounter further.

• Dawn reflected on how narrowly he had defeated Moria and locked the Shadow-Shadow Fruit in a storage box.
• Dawn ate a vast meal prepared by Stella and the other women, restoring his energy before falling asleep at the dining table.
• Stussy carried Dawn to his quarters, where he pulled her into his embrace and she eventually fell asleep beside him.
• Dawn and Stussy woke together the next morning, and Stussy angrily pinched him after noticing his arousal.
• Dawn lifted Stussy face-to-face and decided to press the encounter despite her defiant glare.

Dawn recovered Shusui from Moria's ship, assigned his crew to secure their territories, and continued building his power. Over half a year later, after unifying the West Blue Underworld, he prepared to face retaliation from the New World's Underworld rulers.

• Stella reported that Moria's ship held Shusui and strange corpses, which she had burned, and Dawn recognized the sword as Ryuma's Black Blade.
• Dawn ordered Lucci and Kaku to secure their territories and told Lafitte to gather the remaining independent factions.
• Dawn checked that Perona was settling in, then answered Stella's jealous demand for eleven times the next day after telling her he had been with Stussy ten times.
• By May 1522, Dawn's group had taken control of Lapugas and celebrated its complete unification of the West Blue Underworld.
• Lafitte warned that the Underworld's rulers would retaliate, but Dawn said he was ready to defeat them and establish who made the rules.

More than five thousand pirates gathered at Troy Island before Charlotte Oven ordered them to attack Dawn’s crew on Lapugas. At Marine Branch 80, Commodore Onigumo prepared to ambush the pirates with a plan that would sacrifice the island’s civilians.

• Pirates swarmed Troy Island, where many began looting and capturing musicians for the slave trade.
• Charlotte Oven told the gathered pirate captains that he wanted Dawn eliminated, and then ordered all forces to attack Lapugas.
• Commodore Onigumo ordered five Marine warships to wait until the pirates landed, then sink their ships and bombard them indiscriminately.
• A young Marine objected that civilians should be warned, but Onigumo dismissed them as necessary sacrifices for absolute justice.
• The commanders accepted Onigumo’s orders, and he looked toward Lapugas.

Dawn confronted the fleet led by Chinjao and Oven as it approached Lapugas Island. He used his Press-Press Fruit to devastate most of the fleet, leaving fewer than twenty ships afloat and a chance for his companions on shore to fight the survivors.

• Lafitte spotted the approaching fleet, and Dawn flew out to meet it.
• Chinjao said he had come under the Flower Country king’s orders, while Oven threatened Dawn and demanded his surrender.
• Dawn mocked Oven, and Oven ordered the pirates to attack him with every long-range weapon they had.
• Dawn used Almighty Push to crush the incoming attacks and destroy the leading pirate ships, creating towering waves.
• Dawn unleashed six more Almighty Pushes, reducing the fleet of more than a hundred ships to fewer than twenty so his companions could face the survivors.

Dawn destroyed the pirate fleet and forced its survivors toward Lapugas Island, while the observing Marines held back to see who would win. At the port, Stella led the defenders in attacking the pirates, and several powerful enemies moved to confront her group.

• Dawn used gravity to wreck the pirate ships and guide the survivors toward Lapugas Island, defeating their long-range attacks.
• Onigumo ordered the Marine fleet to hold position and wait for the battle on the island to end.
• Dawn's seawater currents drove the surviving pirate ships aground at Lapugas's port, where the civilians sheltered in defensive buildings.
• Stella ordered the defenders to kill the pirates, and they began slaughtering the disorganized survivors.
• Cai Wu, Huo Cai, Lily, and several pirate captains surrounded Stella and her allies, while Lucci, Kaku, and Lafitte engaged other captains.

Stella and Stussy defeated the Happo Navy and Erbao Navy leaders and their forces during the harbor battle. With Lily also killed and the fighting on their side nearly finished, Lafitte turned his attention toward the Marine fleet waiting offshore.

• Stella killed Cai Wu and wiped out the Happo Navy forces after he and his men attacked her.
• Stussy killed Huo Cai and eliminated the Erbao Navy forces with her Rokushiki techniques.
• Lily charged at Stussy to avenge Huo Cai, but Kalifa, Robin, and Perona killed her with a coordinated attack.
• Lafitte praised the women after their side of the battle was largely settled and looked toward the Marine fleet in ambush.
• Kaku and Lucci went to hunt the remaining pirates hiding or fleeing through the harbor.

Dawn defeated Oven with a single punch, then trapped Chinjao with repeated Gravity Fields on Lapugas Island. As the Navy fleet sealed off the island and Dawn’s crew prepared for a possible fight, Oven escaped by raft into the West Blue.

• Dawn asked Chinjao whether he would fight alongside Oven, and Chinjao said he would only watch.
• Oven charged Dawn, but Dawn dodged his punch and struck him into the ground far below the summit.
• Chinjao attacked Dawn, who repeatedly used Almighty Push to pin him in place despite his powerful Armament Haki.
• Onigumo brought seven Navy warships to blockade Lapugas Island while Dawn’s crew watched the fleet and stood ready to act.
• Oven boarded a crude raft and fled into the West Blue, carrying his humiliation and fear with him.

After five days of fighting, Dawn defeated Chinjao’s final desperate attack and restored the pointed head Chinjao had lost. Chinjao thanked Dawn for the favor but, determined to avenge his family, launched another all-out strike against him.

• Dawn and Chinjao fought for five days and nights, leveling the mountains behind Lapugas Island as Dawn’s Gravity Field drained Chinjao’s Haki.
• Chinjao attacked Dawn with his iron head, but Dawn met him with a powerful punch and then countered his Hasshoken secret art with gravity, darkness, and Conqueror’s Haki.
• Dawn’s attack restored Chinjao’s pointed head and sent him crashing across the ground.
• Chinjao thanked Dawn for restoring his head but said he would still avenge his son, whom he believed Dawn’s companions had killed.
• Chinjao gathered his remaining Haki and launched his self-sacrificing attack, Hasshoken Secret Art: Drill Dragon: Drill Nail: Chinjao’s Opening Gate.

Dawn awakened Armament Haki and killed Chinjao, but Onigumo ordered the Marine fleet to bombard the coast and Dawn’s ship. Dawn and his crew escaped through Lucci’s Air Door, leaving the Marines to find only civilian casualties and wreckage.

• As Chinjao’s Hasshoken threatened to destroy his organs, Dawn awakened Armament Haki and unleashed Tiger Roar Gale Fist.
• Dawn shattered Chinjao’s Armament Haki, exploded his head, and sent his body sinking into the sea.
• Onigumo ordered all seven Marine warships to fire on the coast and Herman’s Revenge to eliminate Dawn.
• Lucci cut through the first barrage with Rankyaku: Kai Bird, then opened an Air Door so Dawn and the crew could escape.
• The second barrage devastated Lapugas’s coastline and killed civilians who had survived the battle.
• Marine soldiers reported finding no trace of Dawn’s crew, and Onigumo reacted with furious frustration.

Dawn opened the Jade Ice Bed glacier, claimed its immense treasure, and ordered his crew to destroy the Flower Country. Five days later, the Marines discussed his growing threat and set his bounty at 600 million Beli.

• Dawn used Hell Journey to break open the glacier and Planetary Devastation to gather the treasure, then stored it away.
• Dawn ordered his crew to wipe out the Flower Country while he stayed back because of his injuries.
• Dawn's crew defeated the Flower Country's remaining forces, captured its palace, and looted its treasury before departing.
• At Marineford, Kong, Sengoku, Zephyr, and Tsuru discussed Dawn's crimes and abilities while Garp slept.
• Kong wrote a bounty of 600 million Beli on Dawn's wanted poster.

At a banquet honoring him, Dawn learned that trafficker Kane had been hired to abduct three Kuja Pirates apprentices in October, including the Hancock sisters, and agreed to guard the operation while secretly planning to intervene. Afterward, Dawn ordered Lucci, Kaku, and Lafitte to expand his underworld network and decided to seek playmates for Perona.

• Dawn attended a lavish banquet with Stella and Stussy, accepted profitable underworld partnerships, and met the trafficker Kane.
• Kane told Dawn that the World Nobles had hired him to abduct three Kuja Pirates apprentices in October and that he needed a powerful bodyguard.
• Dawn recognized that Kane’s targets were the Hancock sisters, negotiated a deal with him, and watched him leave unaware of Dawn’s plans.
• At a meeting aboard the Herman's Revenge, Dawn sent Lucci, Kaku, and Lafitte to bring underworld forces across four seas and the Grand Line under their control while building an intelligence network.
• Dawn told Perona they would find her some playmates, delighting her and drawing knowing, scornful looks from Stella, Stussy, and the other women.

After accidentally reaching Dressrosa, Herman Dawn rescued Princess Scarlett from pirates and returned her to shore. Scarlett became captivated by Dawn, who left for his ship and found the women aboard teasing him with knowing looks.

• Dawn spotted the kidnapped Scarlett aboard the pirate ships he had lifted into the clouds and recognized her as Dressrosa's princess.
• Dawn told Scarlett he would release her, untied her, and carried her back to shore.
• Kyros met Scarlett at the shore, but she dismissed him and asked Dawn for his name before he flew away.
• Scarlett learned Dawn's name and returned to the palace while thinking about him.
• The women aboard Herman's Revenge rolled their eyes at Dawn and left him alone on deck.

Dawn rescued Bell-mère from the battle in Oykot Kingdom and found Nojiko and Nami, taking the feverish sisters aboard Herman's Revenge. As the ship continued toward Amazon Lily, Dawn revealed that its training methods could help the women aboard grow stronger.

• Dawn used Conqueror's Haki to knock out everyone on the battlefield, then killed the pirates and left the injured Bell-mère alive.
• Dawn found Nojiko and Nami hiding in an alley after their family had died, and offered them food and a safe home.
• Nojiko collapsed from hunger and exhaustion, and Dawn caught her and Nami before carrying them back to Herman's Revenge.
• Dawn handed the feverish girls to Stussy for medical care, while Stella went to assist.
• Robin and Kalifa questioned whether the young girls could survive the Grand Line, and Dawn said Amazon Lily could train them to fight.

News of Dawn defeating Chinjao spread across the seas, drawing reactions from Whitebeard, Doflamingo, and Charlotte Oven. By September 1522, Herman Dawn had become famous worldwide, while Doflamingo learned that Lafitte had taken over one of his allied forces.

• The World Economy News Paper reported that Dawn had defeated Chinjao and described his expansion through the West Blue underworld, earning him the title of the strongest rookie pirate in history.
• Whitebeard dismissed the title as exaggerated after Marco showed him the newspaper, though he looked back toward figures from the past.
• Doflamingo recognized that Dawn’s West Blue strategy resembled his own plans, then learned from Trebol that Lafitte had taken over a force formerly under the Donquixote Family’s command.
• Charlotte Oven burned the newspaper while vowing to take revenge on Dawn for the injuries and humiliation he had suffered.
• By September 1522, Herman Dawn’s name had become famous across the seas.

Dawn faced Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates in a clash between two prominent rookies. Shanks called off the fight to protect his crew, acknowledged Dawn's victory, and sailed away.

• Lucky Roux spotted Dawn's ship, and Shanks ordered the Red Force to approach.
• Dawn sent his crew into the cabin before Shanks launched a Haki-infused flying slash at him.
• Dawn stopped Shanks's attack with Gravity Blade: Xuanming, but Shanks used Future Sight and sword strikes to prevent Dawn from raising a tsunami.
• Dawn repeatedly stirred the sea with gravity while Shanks precisely cut apart the waves before they could form.
• Shanks sheathed Griffin and surrendered rather than risk the Red Force being overwhelmed by Dawn's tsunamis.
• Dawn dispersed the gravity waves, and Shanks praised him, promised to find a counter, and sailed away.

After Shanks departed, Dawn reflected on his shortcomings in Haki and sent Nojiko and Perona to defeat an approaching pirate crew. While sorting through the loot, he discovered Uta hidden in a treasure chest.

• Dawn recognized that Shanks’s Haki and combat skills had exposed weaknesses in his own abilities, and he planned to improve his Haki on Kuja Island.
• Stussy spotted an approaching pirate ship, and Dawn sent Nojiko and Perona to handle its crew as a training exercise.
• Nojiko and Perona used their abilities and Rokushiki to defeat the pirates, looted the ship, and returned to Herman's Revenge.
• Dawn sank the pirate ship with his Gravity Field and began inspecting the loot.
• Dawn opened a silk-lined chest and found the sleeping Uta inside.

Dawn waited on a deserted island for Kane’s steamship and realized the human traffickers were likely World Government operatives after witnessing their advanced invisibility technology. Once they abducted Hancock and her sisters, Dawn arranged to ambush the group at the planned handoff.

• Dawn confirmed the island was empty and waited for Kane’s steamship to arrive.
• Kane told Dawn the traffickers had located their target and asked him to escort them to the handoff point.
• Dawn concluded the operation likely involved a World Government espionage agency and suspected an insider on the Kuja Pirates’ ship.
• Dawn followed the steamship and watched three men use injections and special coats to turn invisible before swimming to Perfume Yuda.
• The three men returned with Hancock and her two sisters unconscious, and the steamship headed back toward Dawn’s island.
• Dawn told his companions to follow the traffickers and attack after the handoff, leaving one alive to learn how their technology worked.

Dawn escorted Kane’s trafficking ship to the South Blue, then secretly followed the World Government ship that collected the three unconscious sisters. He attacked the government vessel, eliminated its crew, and found the sisters unharmed before breaking into a luxurious cabin.

• Dawn protected Kane’s ship from sea beasts and storms during the three-day voyage and accepted payment upon reaching the handover island.
• Kane handed the unconscious three sisters to a masked female CP member in exchange for sealed cases of Beli.
• Dawn followed the World Government ship while the women aboard Herman's Revenge attacked the traffickers at the harbor.
• Dawn trapped the government ship inside Vision Cage and killed its guards and CP members before clearing the vessel and looting its rooms.
• Dawn found the three sisters unharmed in the hold, then smashed open the reinforced door of the ship’s luxurious cabin.