Chapter Summaries

Wude and Hina began their first day of Marine Academy training, where Wude breezed through the assigned push-ups and encouraged Hina as she struggled to finish. Hina appreciated his company, while Sakazuki watched Wude’s unusual training behavior from afar.

• Wude and Smoker walked to breakfast together and found Hina chatting with female cadets, where Hina searched Wude for Kuroh.
• Wude and Hina joined their formation at the training grounds, and their instructor ordered the recruits to do 500 push-ups.
• Sakazuki demanded that his recruits complete 1,000 push-ups and warned them that anyone who acted like waste would be eliminated.
• Wude finished 500 push-ups ahead of the others, then continued alongside Hina as she struggled through her set.
• Hina finished her push-ups, learned Wude had reached 750, and told him she would keep trying to follow him because she liked having him as a friend.

Wude and Hina pushed through rope climbing and an exhausting eighty-lap run, with Wude pacing Hina until she finished. The chapter left them ravenously eating lunch while Smoker sat across from them.

• Wude and Hina completed fifty rope climbs while the other trainees struggled and some fell.
• The instructors punished one of their own with forehead-flicks over a lost bet, while Sakazuki's trainees faced harsher discipline.
• Wude and Hina joined the trainees running eighty laps, and Wude paced Hina as she chased him to the finish.
• At noon, Wude and Hina devoured several portions of food in the cafeteria as Smoker sat across from them.
• Sakazuki's trainees arrived later and stared anxiously at the long cafeteria line.

Wude and Hina resumed Marine training after lunch, and Wude faced a series of sword-fighting challenges in the kendo hall. The chapter left Wude battling more than a dozen elite recruits at once while Hina watched.

• Wude, Hina, and Smoker finished lunch and rested before instructors summoned the recruits for afternoon training.
• Wude and Hina were assigned to a kendo hall, where Wude was paired with Dennis, a huge recruit who transformed into a spider ape.
• Wude held his own against Dennis without using Kuroh, while instructors arranged for a dozen elite recruits from Sakazuki's faction to challenge him together.
• Wude used Observation Haki to read the recruits' attacks and countered their coordinated assault, while Hina watched after defeating her own opponent.

Wude and Hina trained under Chaton and Sakazuki before discovering an unidentified Devil Fruit. Wude ate it, and its power clashed with the mysterious substance behind his Ajin revival, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Wude and Hina continued their Marine training, with Chaton arranging their duties and Sakazuki giving Wude occasional guidance.
• After Chaton sailed away on a mission, Wude and Hina found an unfamiliar Devil Fruit among the fruit Wude had bought.
• Sakazuki explained that the fruit had once been auctioned in the North Blue and was rumored to grant an overbearing ability, but its power was unknown.
• Wude decided to take the fruit away and test it using his Ajin immortality, then ate it after Sakazuki left.
• Black particles emerged from Wude and surrounded the Devil Soul inside him, struggling against it until both forces stopped and Kuroh dispersed.

After eating the Devil Fruit, Wude discovered it let him briefly control people through eye contact or touch, and he considered how to develop the ability. He tested another power by challenging Smoker and a group of trainees, then left them frozen by his Ajin scream.

• Hina worried when Wude remained silent after eating the Devil Fruit, and he explained that its ability let him cast brief illusions and control people with weaker spirits.
• Wude demonstrated the fruit's forced control on Hina through eye contact and touch, then considered how to develop it by studying hypnotists and other talents.
• Wude remembered the paralysis caused by an Ajin's unique voice and asked Smoker to help him test its duration during their kendo sparring.
• Smoker challenged Wude alongside more than twenty elite trainees in the kendo hall, where Wude screamed and left the trainees unable to move.

Wude tested his paralysis and illusion abilities on Navy trainees and instructors, measuring how constitution, willpower, and preparation affected them. After combined abilities proved ineffective, the instructors urged him to develop Tactile Illusion for use through weapon clashes, and agreed to help him find a hypnotist to learn from.

• Wude used Ajin Scream to paralyze nearby trainees and instructors, then repeated the test while officers recorded how long people with different constitutions remained stiff.
• Wude tested Gaze Illusion on groups of trainees and learned he could control up to five people at once, with control lasting less time against stronger wills; Sakazuki resisted it completely.
• Wude tested Tactile Illusion and found it could control unprepared targets through touch, but it was far less effective against prepared people with greater willpower and mental strength.
• Wude combined Ajin Scream with both illusion abilities, but the scream woke targets and nullified the illusions.
• Colonel Strawberry and the other instructors urged Wude to develop Tactile Illusion for use through weapon clashes, and Colonel Yamakaji and Strawberry promised to help him find a hypnotist.

Wude met Astrid, a skilled hypnotist brought to Marineford by Colonel Yamakaji, and persuaded her to teach him after hearing about her trouble with the Donquixote Family. Astrid agreed reluctantly, while the Marines promised to search for her boyfriend and help protect her from Doflamingo.

• After Chaton left, Wude and Hina found Smoker eating noodles and smoked chicken, teased him, and discussed Wude's struggle to extend Tactile Illusion to weapons.
• Wude learned that the technique would need to penetrate an opponent's Armament Haki before it could control them during a clash.
• After a month of training, Colonel Yamakaji and the other instructors brought Wude to meet Astrid, a hypnotist they had found in the North Blue.
• Astrid demanded her freedom and asked the Marines to help her reunite with her boyfriend and deal with Doflamingo; Yamakaji apologized for how his friend had treated her and promised to search for her boyfriend.
• Wude persuaded Astrid to teach him hypnosis, and she demonstrated her painting-based ability by making a Marine laugh uncontrollably until Wude erased the pattern.

Wude learned the basics of Hypnosis from Astrid while both secretly hoped to acquire the other’s techniques, and Hina reacted jealously to their meeting. He continued experimenting with Kuroh and IBM, and after half a year managed to recall a small portion of IBM’s particles into his body, beginning an attempt to make them attack the Devil Fruit soul.

• Wude watched Astrid demonstrate her hypnosis on a marine and asked her to teach him, while Yamakaji left them to exchange knowledge.
• Astrid lectured Wude on Hypnosis for four hours, and they agreed to trade lessons each day.
• Hina saw Wude escort Astrid back and felt jealous, but Wude reassured her that he would continue training with her.
• Wude considered whether he could use IBM to imprison the Devil Fruit soul and make it choose a new fruit.
• Wude spent half a year practicing until he could recall a small portion of IBM’s particles into his body, then commanded them to attack the Devil Fruit soul.