Chapter Summaries

Dawn brought Germa's Modified Human Technology to Vegapunk, who agreed to improve it, and left Sanji in the scientist's care while taking Reiju to Kuja Island. He entrusted Reiju to Stussy and gave Alpha the Snow-Snow Fruit, telling her she was family, leaving her confused by his kindness.

• Dawn gave Vegapunk Germa's Modified Human Technology, and Vegapunk condemned its flaws before agreeing to improve it for use on adults.
• Vegapunk confirmed that Sanji and Reiju were safe after he resolved the dangers in their Lineage Factors.
• Dawn left Sanji with Vegapunk and took Reiju to Kuja Island, where he asked Stussy to care for her.
• Dawn praised Alpha for following her training and gave her the Snow-Snow Fruit.
• Dawn told Alpha that she was family and left her holding the fruit, uncertain about his kindness.

Vegapunk told Dawn that improved Modified Human Technology required enormous life energy, and Dawn said he knew a Woods-Woods Fruit user who could help. Meanwhile, Apoo, Page One, and Kaku defeated gangs across Kuketsu Island, but Page One was badly struck by a metal arm after charging into the South District.

• Vegapunk explained that Modified Human Technology needed enormous life energy and said studying a Woods-Woods Fruit user might let him produce it artificially.
• Dawn told Vegapunk that he knew a Woods-Woods Fruit user.
• Apoo defeated the East District gang with sound waves, Page One rampaged through the West District as a Tyrannosaurus, and Kaku cut through the North District gang.
• Apoo, Page One, and Kaku met and learned from scouts that the South District was controlled by a red-haired metal-controlling Devil Fruit user.
• Page One ignored Kaku's warning and charged into the South District, where cannon fire and a mechanical metal arm struck him and sent him flying.

Kaku and Apoo confronted Kid’s gang on Kuketsu Island, but Page One defeated Kid and Killer after Kid’s attack endangered nearby residents. The gang was subdued, and Kaku sent Apoo to handle the aftermath.

• Kid confronted Kaku and Apoo, warning them to leave his territory as his gang surrounded them.
• Page One transformed into his Human-Beast Form and charged Kid, dodging the cannonballs Kid launched with his magnetic ability.
• Page One smashed through Kid’s metal wall and punched him unconscious, knocking him and Killer into a wall.
• Kaku told Apoo to deal with the aftermath, and the others quickly defeated Kid’s gang.

Kaku and Page One guarded the captured Kid while Apoo secretly reported to the Governor. Kaku and Page One caught Apoo betraying them and left him gravely wounded.

• Kaku said the leader had ordered Kid kept alive until his arrival, while Apoo questioned the decision.
• Apoo secretly used a Den Den Mushi in the mansion courtyard to report intelligence to the Governor.
• Kaku emerged from the shadows and attacked Apoo for being a traitor, badly wounding his right arm.
• Apoo unleashed Sonic Wave Annihilation: Trio, damaging the courtyard and mansion as he tried to escape with Geppo.
• Page One blocked Apoo's sonic attack with soundproof earplugs and punched him into a crater.
• Kaku struck Apoo with two Flying Slashes, leaving him unconscious with a severe X-shaped wound.

Dawn killed Kid, Killer, and Apoo before confronting Kaido, whom he had deliberately lured to Kuketsu Island as a training opponent. Their battle began with clashing attacks, and Kaido unleashed tornadoes and wind blades that threatened to engulf the island.

• Dawn gave Kid the choice to submit or die, then killed him when he refused and killed Killer after he attacked.
• Dawn waited on Kuketsu Island with the bound Apoo, sensing Kaido approaching from the sea.
• Dawn killed Apoo and prepared for Kaido, who realized Dawn had been waiting for him.
• Dawn told Kaido he wanted guidance to improve his Armament Haki and launched a sword slash at him.
• Kaido countered Dawn's slash with Bolo Breath, setting the southern district ablaze, then attacked with Dragon Twister and Wind Scythes.

Dawn fought Kaido on Kuketsu Island, refusing his offer to join the Beasts Pirates and enduring devastating blows to experience and strengthen his Armament Haki. The chapter ended with Kaido reaching down to take the badly injured Dawn away.

• Dawn rejected Kaido's offer and hurled his dragon form into a crater with [Undersea Drop], while Kaido's Armament Haki ravaged Dawn's body.
• Kaido transformed into human form, and Dawn struck him with a Haki-coated punch before Kaido criticized his technique and Haki.
• Kaido battered Dawn with [Thunder Bagua] and [Roaring Thunder Bagua], overwhelming his defenses and sending him crashing into the ground.
• Kaido struck Dawn with [Ragnaraku], splitting Kuketsu Island into four pieces and leaving Dawn gravely injured in the crater.
• Kaido offered to take Dawn back with him and reached down to lift him from the crater.

Dawn fought Kaido through the night and advanced his Conqueror's Haki Coating during their battle. After their final clash, Dawn vanished, while Kaido recovered and declared he would wait for him in Wano Country.

• Dawn used a Gravity Field coated in Conqueror's Haki to knock Kaido back, and Kaido realized Dawn had been using him to break through a training bottleneck.
• Dawn thanked Kaido for the lesson, refused his offer to join the Beasts Pirates, and challenged him by proposing marriage to his daughter.
• Dawn and Kaido fought on until the island was destroyed, with Dawn rapidly improving his Haki as they clashed.
• Kaido offered Dawn the Beasts Pirates' third-in-command position and said he might allow him to marry his daughter if he performed well, but Dawn insisted he had not reached his limit.
• Dawn and Kaido unleashed a final clash that created a vast explosion and monstrous waves, after which Dawn disappeared and Kaido found a strange wound on his chest.
• Kaido healed, called out that he would wait for Dawn in Wano Country, and transformed into a dragon before flying into the clouds.

After his exhausting battle with Kaido, Dawn hid inside Xiao Ai’s Castle-Castle Fruit space and recovered by devouring a mountain of food. Once restored, he prepared to conceal the operation’s dangers from the other sisters and tested how his Haki had changed.

• Dawn used Xiao Ai, a stealth-capable robot with the Castle-Castle Fruit, to hide inside its space and escape after fighting Kaido.
• Stella found Dawn nearly unconscious from exhaustion, and he asked her to bring him food so he could recover.
• Stella prepared a huge feast, and Dawn ate it all, rapidly restoring his strength and healing his injuries.
• Dawn asked Stella to tell the other sisters that the operation had gone smoothly and that he had encountered no accidents.
• Dawn covered himself in Armament Haki and judged its quality comparable to the Haki Kaido had used in their battle.

Two years earlier in Taya Kingdom, Aramaki fell in love with A-Xin, a manager from the Pleasure District, and planned to escape with her. When rebels attacked her town and killed her, Aramaki slaughtered them and marched on the Royal Capital, where the terrified king called Marine Headquarters.

• Aramaki met A-Xin when he helped her carry a barrel to the tavern, then began visiting her regularly.
• A-Xin told Aramaki about her past and her role managing the tavern, and they became lovers.
• Aramaki planned to save money and leave Taya with A-Xin to open a small shop.
• The Sondora Free Front attacked the town, and rebels captured and killed A-Xin.
• Aramaki killed the rebels in the town and stormed toward the Royal Capital to confront the king.
• The king hid in the palace and called Marine Headquarters for help.

After learning how Aramaki’s grief and prison conversations turned him into a devotee of absolute order, Dawn prepared to recruit him by overpowering him first. Dawn arrived at the prison, killed Aramaki’s cellmate, and freed Aramaki from his cell and shackles.

• Sakazuki stopped Aramaki’s rampage, spared him from Impel Down, and urged him to uphold order against chaos.
• Aramaki’s grief over Ashin’s death led him to embrace order, while a cellmate steered him toward supporting the World Government and Celestial Dragons.
• Kaku reported Aramaki’s history to Dawn, who concluded that he would need to defeat Aramaki before trying to recruit him.
• Dawn sent Kaku and Page One away, then waited until night to approach the prison.
• Dawn killed Aramaki’s cellmate, challenged Aramaki, and cut through his cell bars and shackles.

Dawn attacked Aramaki with the annihilating power of Divine Lament Kikoku while demanding that he join Dawn’s crew if he lost. Aramaki fought back with his Woods-Woods Fruit, but Dawn summoned a massive meteor that was about to strike his Armament Haki-covered wooden dome.

• Dawn offered Aramaki a chance to recover before fighting, and demanded that he become a pirate under Dawn if he lost.
• Dawn used Divine Lament Kikoku — East: Void Torrent to erase a path through the prison, and Aramaki evaded the attack with Soru.
• Aramaki unleashed Forbidden Grudge Woods-Woods, destroying the prison and draining surviving prisoners to restore his strength.
• Dawn protected himself with Divine Lament Kikoku — West: Abyssal Prison Robe, then slashed through Aramaki’s wooden defenses and forced him to retreat.
• Dawn summoned a huge meteor from the sky, and Aramaki raised an Armament Haki-covered wooden dome as the meteor crashed down.

Dawn defeated Aramaki with a meteor shower and forced him to pledge loyalty, then brought him to Egghead to assist with Vegapunk’s research. At the training grounds, Enel asked to lose his trainee status, and Dawn challenged him to defeat the crew’s weakest adult.

• Dawn launched a second wave of meteors at Aramaki, who raised a vast Haki-coated forest to shield himself through the night.
• The bombardment destroyed Taya Kingdom’s island, and Dawn demanded that the exhausted Aramaki join his crew or die; Aramaki pledged his loyalty.
• Two days later on Egghead, Dawn introduced Aramaki to Lilith, who took him to the laboratory to cooperate with her research.
• Dawn watched Enel train and praised his progress after Enel’s lightning dragon failed to harm him.
• Enel asked Dawn to remove his trainee crew member title, and Dawn said he could do so by defeating the weakest adult in the crew.

Dawn arranged a prepared fight between Caesar and Enel, and Caesar used scientific devices and Seastone to defeat the lightning user. Dawn left Enel an apprentice crew member, telling him he still had much to learn.

• Dawn told Caesar he would fight Enel in three days and allowed him to use Ancient Technology.
• Enel attacked Caesar at the training grounds, but discovered Caesar was a Logia who could turn into gas.
• Caesar used devices that disrupted Enel’s Observation Haki and Seastone knuckle dusters to land a punch.
• Enel launched a lightning attack, but Caesar absorbed it with a superconducting device before its hidden bombs and Seastone wounded Enel.
• Dawn told Enel that he had lost to a non-combat crew member and would remain an apprentice.

Dawn tested Monet’s new modifications on Rusukaina Island, where she defeated Kalifa and Alpha before enduring Baby-5’s Gatling fire without injury. The chapter left Stussy beginning a Haki-coated spear attack to test Monet’s physical defense.

• Monet used her enhanced Rankyaku to defeat Kalifa, while Dawn caught Kalifa and Alpha with his Gravity Field and sent them to Stussy for treatment.
• Dawn praised Monet’s successful fusion with Electro Blue’s Lineage Factor and reminded her that he considered her family.
• Dawn began Monet’s physical defense test, and Baby-5 fired her Gatling-gun arms at Monet for thirty seconds without harming her.
• Stussy emerged from a shadow and thrust a Haki-coated spear toward Monet’s heart.

Dawn watched the women train after their successful modification surgery and learned that Red-Haired Shanks had booked a deep ocean current voyage to Elbaf. Suspecting Shanks might be heading there on the day Harald was controlled, Dawn decided to investigate.

• Stussy tested Monet’s modified body with repeated Armament Haki spear strikes, and Dawn judged the results successful before the other women underwent surgery.
• The women trained on Rusukaina Island, while Dawn told Sugar to wait to eat the Hobby-Hobby Fruit until he could make her grow up instantly.
• Nami and Ulti fought in the sky, with Nami’s acid rain weakening Ulti’s dragon form and causing her to fall.
• Lafitte reported that Shanks had appeared at Umit’s headquarters and booked passage to Elbaf using a deep ocean current.
• Nami explained how deep ocean currents could take a powerful traveler to Elbaf, and Dawn decided to go investigate Shanks’s movements.

Loki and Jarul returned to the reception hall and found Harald attacking Giant soldiers while rapidly healing from fatal wounds. After Harald urged Loki to take Elbaf’s secret treasure and kill him, Imu forced Harald to attack Loki, but Dawn arrived and trapped Harald in a cage of purple-black flames.

• Loki and Jarul argued over Elbaf’s relationship with the World Government as they headed to the reception hall.
• Loki kicked a guard through the hall doors and found Harald fighting Giant soldiers and healing from his wounds.
• Loki remembered Dawn’s warning that the King of the World could turn people into puppets with near-immortal recovery, then intercepted Harald’s sword.
• Harald told Loki to take Elbaf’s secret treasure, kill him, and become king, so Loki ran from the hall.
• Imu sent an invisible force that made Harald attack Loki, while Jarul tried to stop him and was struck down.
• Dawn appeared at the hall entrance and enclosed Harald in a massive cage of purple-black flames.

Dawn trapped Harald in a purple-black cage, but Harald regenerated after breaking free under Imu’s control. Dawn challenged Imu directly, and Harald unleashed Hakoku at him.

• Shanks and Gaban entered the reception hall and recognized Dawn, while Gaban confirmed Dawn had helped Ida and was an ally against the World Government.
• Harald broke out of Dawn’s cage and regenerated his destroyed body, prompting Shanks to call on him to resist Imu.
• Dawn said he had a way to deal with Harald, then challenged Imu to descend and fight him.
• Imu spoke through Harald and attacked Dawn with Hakoku, a Giant technique passed down through generations.
• Hakoku’s shockwave swept through the reception hall, battered the people there, and rushed toward Dawn.

Dawn fought Imu-controlled Harald and used his awakened Yami Yami no Mi to capture Harald’s Spirit Body and destroy it with a liquid from a porcelain bottle. Imu suffered pain in Mary Geoise and ordered the Navy to raise Dark Man’s bounty to five billion, dead only.

• Dawn exchanged powerful attacks with Imu-controlled Harald and exploited Harald’s resistance to Imu’s control to bind him with darkness.
• Dawn used Divine Lament Kikoku: North: All Things Exhausted to erase Harald’s body, then pulled his exposed Spirit Body into his hand before it could return to the newly forming body.
• Dawn poured liquid from a porcelain bottle over Harald’s Spirit Body, causing it to wail and dissolve into smoke.
• Imu writhed in pain in the Flower Room as Dawn destroyed Harald’s Spirit Body.
• Imu ordered the Navy to raise Dark Man’s bounty to five billion and demanded that he be captured dead only.

Dawn revealed his identity on Elbaf and explained his research into a way to defeat Immortal Bodies before leaving the island. In South Blue, Ginny waited excitedly to reunite with Kuma as a World Government ship approached her port.

• Dawn told Shanks and Gaban that his scientists were developing a drug to separate impurities from Spirit Bodies, with the eventual goal of destroying them.
• Loki returned to find Harald unconscious, then triggered Harald’s sudden awakening by declaring he could now defeat him; Harald beat Loki for ten minutes before showing affection.
• Harald and Dawn spoke through the night, and Dawn left Elbaf after drinking with Loki the next morning.
• Ginny maintained her rifle at a South Blue port and teased her Revolutionary Army soldiers while looking forward to joining Kuma’s troops the next day.
• A World Government ship approached the port, carrying white-suited figures and a red-haired man.

Dawn attacked Figarland Shamrock’s ship and fought him after finding Ginny being tortured for information about the Revolutionary Army. The ship was devastated, and the battle between Dawn and Shamrock continued with Ginny the only other person still conscious.

• Figarland Shamrock questioned and kicked the chained Ginny, then ordered two CP0 agents to torture her for information.
• Dawn’s purple-black slash killed the two CP0 agents and cut through the ship’s mast.
• Dawn confronted Shamrock, mocked his name, and attacked him with his flame-covered blade.
• Dawn and Shamrock clashed in a fierce sword fight that wrecked the ship and injured the Holy Land Guard soldiers.
• Dawn’s invisible pressure knocked out the surviving soldiers and stopped one from calling for reinforcements, leaving Dawn, Shamrock, and Ginny conscious.