Chapter Summaries

Dawn brought Nami and the other girls to Water 7 to commission a ship from the legendary shipwright Tom, whose workshop was struggling amid the city's decline. After revealing himself to Tom, Dawn requested a vessel for at least fifty people and offered a mountain of money as a deposit.

• Dawn explained that he wanted a new ship so he could continue his voyage toward Laugh Tale and uncover secrets that could help him overthrow the Celestial Dragons.
• Nami reluctantly knocked at Tom's Workshop, where Kokoro welcomed the group inside.
• Dawn dispelled the clouds and mist concealing him, and Kokoro recognized him before leading him to Tom.
• Tom asked Dawn about blueprints, materials, and design requirements, and Dawn requested a large, sturdy ship built to the best specifications for at least fifty people.
• Dawn produced a mountain of Beli and asked Tom whether it was enough for a deposit.

Dawn commissioned Tom to build a ship with unusual rooms, then left Water 7 with the girls. When a World Government human trafficker ambushed them, they defeated him and Dawn killed him after reading his memories, so the group hurried toward the harbor.

• Dawn paid Tom a large deposit and listed his requirements for the ship, including a giant mermaid tank and a room for an Ancient Giant.
• Tom accepted the job and told Iceburg and Franky to keep Dawn's visit secret, while Iceburg and Franky began fighting.
• Nojiko asked Dawn whether it was safe to reveal himself, and he reassured the girls that Tom would not talk.
• Dawn and the girls sensed an approaching attacker and led him into an alley, where the girls overwhelmed him.
• Dawn read the man's memories, learned he was a World Government human trafficker who had tried to capture Sugar, killed him, and led the girls toward the harbor.

Dawn learned that Alpha was Kalifa’s biological sister and left their reconciliation to Kalifa before continuing his training. After receiving news that Hajrudin was searching for a doctor to cure a poison, Dawn suspected Ida was in danger and considered going to Elbaf to earn the giants’ alliance, but he put the decision aside for the night.

• Dawn brought the captured Alpha to Kalifa and told her they were biological sisters who had been raised in separate training bases.
• Dawn ordered Kalifa to educate Alpha, then went to train with a Roger clone created from Padong’s Transformation Leaf.
• Dawn combined his Haki, gravity power, and dark currents in a sword strike that destroyed the Roger clone.
• Lucci reported that Hajrudin was searching for a famous doctor to cure a poison.
• Dawn suspected Hajrudin was trying to save his mother, Ida, and considered intervening to gain Elbaf’s support.
• Hancock drew Dawn’s attention away from his plans, and he kissed her.

Dawn attacked Punk Hazard to force Vegapunk to help save Ida, while Nojiko and Stussy infiltrated the research base. As Dawn fought Kizaru outside, the women captured Caesar and stole an artificial Azure Dragon Devil Fruit.

• Dawn arrived at Punk Hazard with Nojiko and Stussy and cut through the island’s protective wall, triggering the alarms.
• Kizaru confronted Dawn, and the two fought above the island as Nojiko and Stussy entered the base through an air door.
• Stussy lip-read staff conversations to locate Vegapunk, Caesar, and the artificial Devil Fruit samples.
• Nojiko and Stussy knocked out Caesar, restrained him with Seastone Handcuffs, and took him into the subspace.
• Nojiko retrieved the artificial Zoan Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan Azure Dragon Form, from the storage vault.

Stussy and Nojiko rescued Vegapunk and the ancient robot Emet from Punk Hazard while Dawn fought Kizaru. After Emet was taken, Dawn withdrew, leaving Saturn furious and the group’s next move unresolved.

• Stussy incapacitated Sentomaru and persuaded Vegapunk to leave with her, while Nojiko brought them through Air Doors.
• Vegapunk questioned why they had captured Caesar, and Stussy explained that he was too dangerous to leave with the World Government.
• Stussy used a compressed seawater bomb to knock Saturn aside while Nojiko and shadow arms dragged Emet through a giant Air Door.
• Saturn recovered to find Emet gone and blamed the Dark Man.
• Dawn sensed that Stussy’s contingency had been triggered, unleashed a black tide at Kizaru, and disappeared while Kizaru evaded the attack.

Dawn recruited Vegapunk and Caesar, then traveled with Vegapunk to Elbaf to meet Scopper Gaban and pursue an alliance by treating a member of the royal family. Gaban confirmed that the king sided with the World Government, but agreed to take Dawn to see the patient.

• Dawn offered Vegapunk unrestricted research and resources, and Vegapunk accepted.
• Dawn threatened Caesar into working for him, then revealed that he secretly owned the Pleasure District.
• A week later, Dawn and Vegapunk arrived on Elbaf, where Dawn and Scopper Gaban exchanged powerful sword and axe attacks.
• Dawn explained that he had learned Kamusari by manifesting its creator's memories, and Gaban said Crocus had told him about Dawn reading his memories.
• Dawn confirmed that Prince Hajrudin was seeking doctors and said he wanted an alliance with Elbaf's next king, not the current king who supported the World Government.
• Gaban agreed to take Dawn and Vegapunk to see the sick patient.

Dawn persuaded Ida to accept treatment by warning her that Elbaf’s Giants could face enslavement if the island joined the World Government. After arranging to keep his visit secret, he agreed to Loki’s challenge to fight.

• Ida’s illness worsened, and Mado refused to leave her bedside while Loki demanded that the tavern reopen.
• Dawn introduced himself to Ida and explained that he had come to help her and discuss Elbaf.
• Dawn described the high prices paid for Giant slaves and warned Ida that opening Elbaf to trade could put its people at risk.
• Ida agreed to accept treatment but refused to help persuade Harald, and Dawn asked her to conceal his visit.
• Dawn released medical equipment for Vegapunk to treat Ida, then accepted Loki’s invitation to fight.

Dawn and Loki fought fiercely in Elbaf’s Underworld, trading powerful blows as Loki recognized a sword technique resembling Rocks’s. The chapter ended with their Conqueror’s Haki-coated blade and warhammer colliding, triggering a massive shockwave and avalanche.

• Loki struck at Dawn with his warhammer, but Dawn dodged and cut through the weapon, wounding Loki’s chest.
• Dawn overpowered Loki in a clash of strength and then sent him crashing into a mountainside with a sword shockwave.
• Loki asked about Dawn’s connection to Rocks, and Dawn explained that they shared the David Clan name but that he had imitated the technique with his Fruit power.
• Loki resumed the battle with a stronger attack, and Dawn met it with Kikoku coated in Conqueror’s Haki.
• Dawn’s blade and Loki’s warhammer collided, cracking the ground and setting off a massive avalanche and mountain collapse.

After Dawn defeated Loki, Loki asked to join his crew, and Dawn promised him a place when he returned to Elbaf. Loki then discovered that clan elders had poisoned Ida and attacked them, declaring that Ida was his only mother.

• Dawn defeated Loki, who asked to join his pirate crew, and Dawn promised him a place when he sailed to Elbaf again.
• Loki carried Dawn to a tavern, where they overheard Mado tell Ida that she had been poisoned with a fungal toxin.
• Loki learned that elders in Wine Village had poisoned Ida with Ergot Poison and stormed to confront them.
• The elders admitted they had poisoned Ida to protect Loki's interests, and Loki smashed several of them with his warhammer.
• Loki condemned the elders and revealed that his birth mother had abandoned him in the Underworld, declaring that only Ida was his mother.

Dawn rescued Vegapunk from Elbaf and took him to a hidden research base, which Vegapunk began transforming into a permanent sky island. Months later, Dawn reunited with Hancock and the others at the floating island, but his suggestive greeting sent them fleeing in embarrassment.

• Dawn left Elbaf with Vegapunk before Harald returned and carried him through the Sleeping Mist Zone.
• Dawn seized Navy Science Division Research Institute No. 8, destroyed its guards and communications, and raised the island into the sky.
• Dawn asked Vegapunk to make the island non-magnetic and turn it into a permanent Sky Island, and Vegapunk began the work with covertly supplied resources.
• In January 1527, Hancock, Stussy, Stella, and the others met Dawn on the developing sky island above Rusukaina.
• Dawn suggested that they all sleep together under one blanket, and the embarrassed women rebuked him before fleeing toward Kuja Island.

Dawn went to the Pleasure District to find Caesar Clown and instead encountered Gion, a Marine officer posing as a geisha to entrap lecherous customers. After recognizing her identity and learning through Observation Haki that this was her first undercover mission, Dawn followed her to a private room and played along with her attempt to arrest him.

• Dawn learned that Stussy had left Caesar Clown in the Pleasure District for several months and went to retrieve him.
• Dawn spotted Gion posing as a geisha and recognized her as a future candidate for Marine Headquarters admiral.
• Dawn embraced Gion and used Observation Haki to read her recent memories, confirming that this was her first entrapment operation.
• Gion introduced herself as Peach and led Dawn to her room, where she offered tea and suggested several parlor games.
• Dawn chose Mr. Taihei, pretended to lose repeatedly, and drank alcohol while waiting to see how Gion would try to arrest him.

Dawn pretended to be drunk while Gion tried to restrain him with Seastone Handcuffs, but he overpowered and assaulted her. The next morning, Gion recovered with Life Return, drew her famed blade Kompira, and attacked Dawn.

• Dawn faked being unconscious and watched Gion retrieve Seastone Handcuffs from a cabinet.
• When Gion tried to cuff him, Dawn grabbed and overpowered her, while Gion next door remained unaware of what was happening.
• The next morning, Gion woke in Dawn's arms and used Life Return to restore her ability to move.
• Gion took Kompira from a concealed compartment and slashed at Dawn's back, intending to follow with a fatal blow.

Gion attacked Dawn, but he effortlessly blocked her strikes and defeated her in a swordsmanship duel. Exhausted and unable to resist, she was carried to a tatami mat as Dawn began another sexual encounter with her.

• Gion tried to kill Dawn with Kompira, but his Armament Haki blocked her attacks.
• Dawn and Gion exchanged powerful slashes while his force field kept their fight and its damage contained within the room.
• Dawn outmatched Gion with a fruit knife, criticizing her swordsmanship as she grew exhausted.
• Gion unleashed her remaining strength in a final attack, but Dawn cut through it and the fruit knife shattered.
• Gion collapsed, and Dawn caught her, carried her to a tatami mat, and began another sexual encounter as she closed her eyes and cried.

Dawn left Gion after telling her he would capture her if they met on the battlefield, and she abandoned her mission to catch criminals in the pleasure district. He brought Caesar to Egghead Sky Island to work on Artificial Devil Fruits and soul-affecting drugs, then checked on Kalifa’s sister and surveyed the island’s preparations.

• Dawn dressed Gion in a new kimono, and she asked whether he would attack her if they met on the battlefield.
• Dawn kissed Gion and said he would capture her in battle, then urged her to improve her swordsmanship before leaving.
• Gion put away the Seastone Handcuffs and told Gion she would never again go to the pleasure district to catch lawbreakers.
• Dawn took Caesar from the pleasure district to a laboratory on Egghead Sky Island and assigned him research on Artificial Devil Fruits and drugs that affected souls.
• Kalifa told Dawn that her sister seemed trustworthy and was training diligently, and Dawn ordered her to keep watching her.
• Dawn inspected Egghead’s surveillance screens, where Vegapunk adjusted his clones and Caesar lay recovering from the flight.

Dawn brought Robin to Shandora as a birthday gift, where she found a Poneglyph and learned that Roger had carried its message to the final destination. Robin accepted the discovery as a new direction for her search and later agreed to join the David Clan.

• Dawn flew with Robin from Jaya to Shandora in the White-White Sea.
• Dawn led Robin up a giant beanstalk to a Golden Bell, where she found a Poneglyph describing Poseidon and a message signed by Gol D. Roger.
• Dawn told Robin that Kozuki Oden had added the message and that Roger had sent the historical truth to its final destination.
• Robin kissed Dawn in gratitude and spent hours examining and recording Shandora's ruins.
• Dawn asked Robin to become a member of the David Clan, and Robin answered by kissing him passionately.

Dawn collected Shandora’s gold and defeated Gan Fall when he tried to stop him. On Birka, Dawn and Robin encountered Enel, who attacked after overhearing their conversation about the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

• Dawn stored Shandora’s gold in his dimensional space, stripping the city of its golden exterior.
• Gan Fall confronted Dawn and demanded the gold, but Dawn defeated him and left him dying in Shandora.
• Dawn and Robin reached Angel Island, asked for directions to Birka, and discussed Dawn’s search for the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Enel appeared in a lightning strike and revealed that he had eaten the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and could hear their conversation.
• Enel declared that Dawn knew too much, summoned a giant lightning bird, and swallowed Dawn and Robin in its attack.

Dawn and Robin defeated Enel and brought him to Egghead Sky Island, where Dawn offered him a chance to join his ambition to rule the world. Enel accepted and became an apprentice crewman of the Dawn Pirates.

• Dawn and Robin's force field blocked Enel's lightning attacks, and Robin struck him with a giant Armament Haki fist.
• Dawn endured Enel's lightning unharmed, then knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Dawn and Robin took Enel to Egghead Sky Island in Seastone Handcuffs.
• Dawn offered Enel a place in his plan to become the god of the entire world, and Enel agreed to join him.
• Dawn named Enel an apprentice crewman of the Dawn Pirates.

Dawn punished Stussy for teasing him, then learned that Judge had agreed to meet him in seven days to discuss Germa's Modified Human Technology. Dawn and his crew arrived at Germa 66 in North Blue, where Hawkins saw the legendary kingdom for the first time.

• Dawn caught Ulti using the word “Aniki,” struck her with Armament Haki, and told her to focus on developing her ability.
• Dawn found Stussy teaching Uta, Baby 5, Sugar, Perona, and Nami inappropriate things, then took Stussy away after she teased him.
• The next morning, Lafitte told Dawn that Judge had agreed to meet him in seven days, and Dawn prepared to obtain Germa's Modified Human Technology for Vegapunk to refine.
• Seven days later, Dawn, Lafitte, and Hawkins sailed toward Germa 66 in North Blue, and Hawkins recognized the kingdom from the Germa comics.

Dawn and his allies attacked Germa Kingdom after Judge rejected Lafitte’s offer to join them. Dawn defeated Judge and devastated the kingdom, leaving its giant snail critically injured and the entire territory in ruins.

• Lafitte offered Judge control of the North Blue if Germa joined their force, but Judge refused and declared Germa independent.
• Hawkins attacked Judge with a blazing straw blade, while Judge used Clone soldiers as a shield and fired an electromagnetic spear at him.
• Judge ordered his Clone soldiers to unleash a barrage of Light Guns, but Dawn’s Almighty Push crushed the beams and swept the soldiers toward Judge.
• Dawn appeared above Judge, broke his spear with his chest, and hurled him into Germa with Undersea Drop.
• Judge’s impact blasted a huge pit, collapsed buildings, killed Clone soldiers, and cracked the giant snail’s shell, causing Germa Kingdom to tilt and fall into ruin.

Dawn brought Sanji and Reiju to Vegapunk for examinations, then tested Enel’s progress and showed him how his thunder drums left him vulnerable. Enel accepted Dawn’s advice to rethink his drum-dependent techniques.

• Dawn asked Vegapunk to examine Sanji and Reiju for risks from Judge’s modifications, and Vegapunk took them to a laboratory.
• Dawn tested Enel’s training by punching him, and Enel successfully blocked the attack.
• Dawn removed Enel’s Seastone Handcuffs, restoring his lightning powers.
• Dawn told Enel to attack using drum-dependent techniques, then seized and slammed him into the training ground before he could strike his drums.
• Dawn explained that Enel’s thunder drums made him vulnerable and advised him not to develop techniques that required them, and Enel pondered the advice.