Chapter Summaries

Dawn killed Saint Barbette and two CP agents aboard the official ship, then salvaged supplies and escaped with the unconscious Hancock sisters. He sank the ship and its remaining crew beneath a massive wave.

• Dawn entered Saint Barbette's cabin and used gravity to pin down the two CP agents as they attacked him.
• Saint Barbette fired a hand cannon and a flintlock at Dawn, but Gravity Armor stopped both weapons, and his Den Den Mushi could not call for help.
• Dawn crushed Saint Barbette beneath intense gravity until he died, while the two CP agents also died under the pressure.
• Dawn gathered useful supplies, carried the unconscious Hancock sisters onto the deck, and flew away with them.
• Dawn used a Gravity Field to form a huge wave that swallowed the official ship and dragged it and the World Government members into the sea.

Dawn examined the loot taken from the traffickers, identified two Devil Fruits, and checked on Nami and Uta before visiting the infirmary. Hancock woke aboard Herman's Revenge and found Dawn standing beside her bed.

• Stella explained that the traffickers had used unstable Optical Stealth Cloaks and a dangerous potion to evade Observation Haki.
• Dawn opened two gilded boxes and, with Robin's help, identified their contents as the Snake-Snake Fruit, Model: Anaconda, and the Snake-Snake Fruit, Model: King Cobra.
• Nojiko told Dawn that Nami and Uta were getting along well, and he went through the Air Door to the infirmary.
• Stussy told Dawn that the three sisters' vital signs had stabilized and that they should soon wake up.
• Hancock woke in the infirmary and saw the unfamiliar Dawn standing beside her bed.

After waking in Dawn's care, Hancock learned that he was a man and that he had rescued her and her sisters from traffickers. As Dawn prepared food, Stussy and Nojiko answered the sisters' questions about the outside world, and the chapter ended with them growing more at ease.

• Hancock asked Dawn what he was, and he introduced himself and explained the difference between men and women.
• Dawn told Hancock that he had rescued her and her sisters from human traffickers, and Hancock thanked him.
• Hancock found Sandersonia and Marigold awake beside her, and her hunger prompted Dawn to offer to cook for them.
• Dawn used his Gravity Field to prepare a meal while Stussy and Nojiko brought the sisters to the dining room.
• Stussy explained Devil Fruits to Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold, and she and Nojiko answered their questions about the outside world.

Dawn prepared a feast for the crew, then asked the three sisters about their homeland and whether he could visit Amazon Lily to learn Haki. Hancock decided to bring him to the island despite its rules, leaving Sandersonia and Marigold worried but no longer objecting.

• Dawn served the crew a lavish dinner tailored to each girl's tastes, and everyone praised his cooking.
• After the meal, Dawn asked the three sisters about their background and learned they were trainee crew members of the Kuja Pirates.
• Dawn expressed a wish to visit Amazon Lily and learn Haki, prompting the sisters to worry about their island's rules.
• Hancock insisted that gratitude mattered more than the rules and agreed to bring Dawn to the island.
• Sandersonia and Marigold objected, but Hancock stood by her decision, and they eventually stopped arguing.

Dawn arrived at Rusukaina Island and convinced Empress Toritoma to let him train in Haki among the Kuja. He began lessons with Hancock, while in Mary Geoise the World Government ended its stalled investigation into Saint Barbette’s death by purging several slave-catching groups.

• Hancock left Dawn on Rusukaina Island while she and her sisters returned to Kuja to report to Toritoma.
• Toritoma questioned Dawn about why a powerful pirate sought Kuja’s Haki training, then accepted his request after sensing his sincerity.
• Hancock returned to Rusukaina and proudly demonstrated her Armament Haki before beginning to teach Dawn.
• Dawn pretended to be a beginner and listened as Hancock explained Haki’s types, principles, and methods of perception.
• World Government officials failed to find the group responsible for Saint Barbette’s death and had CP0 destroy several slave-catching groups as scapegoats.

In 1525, Lafitte searched Wilberuz Island for a famed blade to give his captain. He left with the Skillful Blade Qu Yan and learned where to find the island’s best blade, Kikoku.

• Lafitte inspected a weapons shop but found its ornate blades impractical.
• At a second shop, Lafitte hypnotized the clerk and tested Zangetsu-maru, then discarded it as worthless.
• Lafitte hypnotized an old shopkeeper and made him reveal Qu Yan, a powerful Skillful Blade hidden in the shop.
• Lafitte took Qu Yan and learned that Kikoku could rival a Supreme Grade in the hands of a skilled Haki user.
• Lafitte left with Qu Yan, and the shopkeeper regained consciousness without remembering what had happened.

Lafitte tested Kikoku against Diamante and grievously wounded him before Diamante escaped. Dawn left Kuja Island for the North Blue after reassuring Hancock, who watched him depart.

• Lafitte reported to his captain about the North Blue underworld and revealed what he had learned about Kikoku.
• Diamante ambushed Lafitte, but Lafitte used Qu Yan to cut through his sword energy and slash open his chest.
• Stone spikes erupted around Lafitte, and when he destroyed them, Diamante had disappeared, leaving a pool of blood.
• Dawn kissed Hancock goodbye and blasted off from Kuja Island toward the North Blue.
• Hancock watched Dawn's white trail vanish, then returned inland humming a Kuja Island ballad.

Dawn intercepted a World Government fleet carrying the Heavenly Tribute and overwhelmed its crew before confronting Onigumo and CP0 Maha. He badly wounded Onigumo, but Maha struck from behind as the fight continued.

• Dawn spotted the fleet carrying the Heavenly Tribute and approached after confirming no one aboard was stronger than him.
• Onigumo ordered the fleet to fire on Dawn, but Dawn emerged unharmed and knocked out nearly everyone with Conqueror's Haki.
• Onigumo recognized Dawn from their encounter three years earlier and attacked in his Zoan hybrid form.
• Dawn cut through Onigumo's eight swords and inflicted a severe wound across his chest and abdomen.
• Maha used Soru to appear behind Dawn and thrust his Armament Haki-coated fingers toward Dawn's back.

Dawn killed Maha and Onigumo aboard the Heavenly Tribute convoy, took its valuables, and destroyed the official ships. The monitoring room in Mary Geoise realized the convoy was in trouble as Dawn departed for his next destination.

• Dawn used his speed to pierce Maha’s Iron Body and kill the CP0 agent with Gambler's Fireline.
• Onigumo attacked Dawn with his regrown hair, but Dawn’s Gravity Blade: Xuanming crushed him to death.
• Dawn regenerated Onigumo’s Devil Fruit and walked into the transport ship’s cabin.
• The Den Den Mushi aboard the convoy lost their signals, and the monitoring room in Mary Geoise raised the alarm.
• Dawn stored two wooden boxes and stripped the five official ships of valuables, then sank them with a massive tsunami.
• Dawn confirmed there were no survivors or obvious traces and flew toward his predetermined destination.

Dawn retrieved Kikoku from its sealing formation and traveled to Kuin Village, where he found Baby 5 starving. He offered her food and asked her to join him, and she accepted, pledging to do anything for him.

• Dawn removed Kikoku from its seals, drew the sword, and stored it before setting off for his next destination.
• Dawn arrived in Kuin Village and found Baby 5 scraping tree bark to eat.
• Dawn conjured a meal for Baby 5 and told her he needed her to come with him.
• Baby 5 ate the food and accepted Dawn's offer, saying she would do anything for him.

Doflamingo attacked Swallow Island to avenge Diamante and drew Lafitte into a battle, hoping to use Bonanno and his men against him. Lafitte turned the fight chaotic by hypnotizing the Donquixote Family’s ordinary members, then mocked Doflamingo.

• Doflamingo’s forces attacked Swallow Island, and he forced Bonanno to call Lafitte.
• Lafitte reported the attack to Louis, then flew to Swallow Island after Louis told him to go ahead.
• Doflamingo used Parasite String to control Bonanno and the surviving members of his family, making them shoot at Lafitte.
• Lafitte dodged the bullets with his Haki-covered wings and hypnotized the ordinary Donquixote Family members into firing at everyone nearby.
• The Donquixote officers killed their own confused underlings, and Lafitte asked Doflamingo how he liked his solution.

Lafitte fought Doflamingo and his executives in the burning ruins, but their coordinated attacks overwhelmed him. As Diamante thrust his Rapier at Lafitte’s heart, Lafitte lay wounded and unable to defend himself.

• Doflamingo and his executives attacked Lafitte, who dodged their blows and repeatedly struck Machvise while targeting the injured Diamante.
• Doflamingo wounded Lafitte with Overheat, and Diamante followed with a storm of thorn-covered iron balls that cut him.
• Senor Pink knocked Lafitte from the air, then Pica slashed his back, while Lao G and Vergo struck him and left him gravely injured.
• Doflamingo signaled Diamante to finish Lafitte, and Diamante advanced with his Rapier.
• Lafitte tried to block Diamante’s thrust with his cane, but Diamante knocked it away and drove his Rapier toward Lafitte’s heart.

Dawn arrived to confront Doflamingo after the Donquixote Family attacked his people, then swiftly killed Gladius and sent Doflamingo crashing into the mountainside. The Family’s officers attacked Dawn, and the chapter left him deflecting Trebol’s mucus barrage with a Gravity Field.

• Dawn threw a long blade from the forest, pinning Diamante to a tree, then confronted Doflamingo over the attack on his people.
• Lafitte apologized to Dawn for failing to handle the fight, and Dawn told him to withdraw and rest.
• Gladius shot at Dawn, but Dawn vanished and killed him with a Finger Pistol to the throat.
• Doflamingo attacked Dawn with Overheat, but Dawn dodged and punched him into a distant mountainside.
• Trebol launched mucus at Dawn, and Dawn’s Gravity Field crushed the projectiles in midair.

Dawn overwhelmed the Donquixote Family’s officers and defeated Doflamingo in a clash of Haki, speed, and swordsmanship. As the officers fled with their injured young master, Dawn killed Lao G, leaving the battle’s outcome poised to continue.

• Trebol, Machvise, and Pica launched a coordinated attack, but Dawn’s Gravity Armor shattered their strikes and his Tiger Roar Gale Fist killed Machvise.
• Dawn retrieved Kikoku from Diamante, while Doflamingo charged and unleashed Conqueror’s Haki against him.
• Dawn’s Conqueror’s Haki overwhelmed Doflamingo’s, and Dawn cut through his Spider Web Wall and wounded him with Kikoku.
• Lao G used Battle Guard Punch to cover the officers as they carried Doflamingo away from the battlefield.
• Dawn withdrew his Gravity Armor and killed Lao G with a head-on punch against G’s Mark.

The Five Elders decided to track down the thieves who stole the Heavenly Tribute by watching for the stolen Devil Fruits to appear, and ordered the South Blue nations to raise another shipment. In North Blue, Dawn searched war-torn islands for two sisters and reached Fuer Island, where the girls were trapped by soldiers.

• Saint Nusjuro told the Five Elders that the stolen tribute included the Love-Love Fruit and Cloud-Cloud Fruit, and suggested waiting for their users to surface.
• The Five Elders ordered the South Blue member nations to gather another shipment of tribute and assigned an admiral candidate to escort it.
• After settling matters for the Donquixote Family and hiding Baby-5, Dawn searched North Blue for two sisters across seventeen islands in seven days.
• Two sisters fled soldiers across Fuer Island toward a forest, but another group emerged from the trees and blocked their escape.
• The sisters found themselves surrounded by soldiers, with a mountain wall on one side and a battlefield exposed to gunfire on the other.

Dawn rescued Monet and Sugar, brought them to his hidden North Blue base, and later met Basil Hawkins on Wilberuz Island. After testing Hawkins’s abilities and reading his memories, Dawn accepted him into the Dawn Pirates.

• Dawn knocked out the soldiers threatening Monet and Sugar, then earned the sisters’ trust and took them with him.
• Dawn brought Monet and Sugar to his hidden island base, where they reunited with Baby-5.
• A week later, Dawn set out from Octagon Village with the three girls and met Basil Hawkins, who asked to join the Dawn Pirates.
• Hawkins said his divination had led him to Dawn and that refusing the opportunity could delay his next turning point by fourteen years.
• Dawn kicked Hawkins into a cliff, triggering his Straw Substitute, then used Observation Haki through touch to invade Hawkins’s mind.
• Dawn confirmed Hawkins’s sincerity and officially welcomed him into the Dawn Pirates.

Dawn encountered the Heavenly Tribute Transport Fleet escorted by Kuzan and decided to attack it to test himself against a powerful opponent. The chapter ended as Dawn blocked Kuzan’s ice spears with a Gravity Field.

• Dawn sensed an overwhelmingly powerful aura and spotted Kuzan and Guernica aboard the World Government’s transport fleet.
• Dawn weighed the danger of attacking Kuzan, then chose to approach the fleet to test his strength.
• Guernica warned Kuzan that an unknown powerhouse was approaching and pressed him to defend the mission.
• Kuzan recognized Dawn’s aura from Ohara and launched Ice Block: Partisan toward the clouds.
• Dawn told the three girls to stay on the ship, then used Kikoku and a Gravity Field to shatter Kuzan’s ice spears.

Kuzan tested whether Dawn had the strength to protect Nico Robin, freezing him with an ice attack before Dawn broke free and challenged him. Dawn’s counterattack raised ten massive water dragons, but Kuzan froze them and the sea around the Marine fleet, leaving the ships trapped in ice.

• Kuzan recognized Dawn and attacked him with Ice Block: Partisan, freezing him into an ice sculpture.
• Dawn shattered the ice, recovered from his injuries, and confronted Kuzan over the Marines’ role in enforcing the World Government’s order.
• Dawn used Water Dragon Bite to raise ten enormous seawater dragons and send them toward the transport fleet.
• Kuzan stopped the dragons with Ice Age and froze the sea into a vast sheet of ice, trapping the fleet.

Dawn bombarded Kuzan and the Marine transport fleet with compressed-air spheres before launching a massive dark sphere that gathered ice and seawater. Kuzan shielded the fleet, but the sphere exploded through his defenses and injured him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Dawn repeatedly hurled compressed-air spheres at Kuzan, who destroyed them with Ice Time Capsule.
• Dawn secretly formed a dark sphere by combining Armament Haki, gravity waves, darkness, and high-pressure air.
• The sphere drew in enormous masses of ice and seawater as it descended toward Kuzan and the five transport ships.
• Kuzan protected the fleet with layers of Haki-coated ice walls, but the sphere broke through four walls before exploding against the fifth.
• The explosion shattered Kuzan's final shields and forced him backward, leaving him bleeding and injured.

Dawn escaped Kuzan after defeating Guernica’s ambush, then left Baby-5, Monet, and Sugar on Kuja Island to train under Hancock. He began searching for a Bake-danuki Fruit user whose ability could create powerful opponents for his Haki training.

• Dawn repelled Guernica’s surprise attack with Almighty Push, crushing him and sending him into the sea.
• Kuzan ordered Marines to rescue Guernica while Dawn flew away into the clouds.
• A week later, Dawn asked Hancock to train Baby-5, Monet, and Sugar on Kuja Island, where the women welcomed the girls after scolding him.
• Dawn contacted Lafitte, Lucci, and Kaku and ordered them to look for a talking tanuki with the Mythical Zoan Bake-danuki Fruit.
• Dawn planned to use the fruit’s ability to create remembered enemies for repeated sparring and improve his Haki.