Chapter Summaries

Kalifa misread Gawain’s intentions and pushed herself to train harder, while the Gawain Pirates sailed to Silver Moon Port and found it devastated by a fungal plague. Gawain burned the infected port before the crew continued toward Drum Kingdom, as Spandam waited at Enies Lobby for intelligence from Lucci and Kalifa.

• Kalifa decided Gawain had feelings for her and began training intensely, while Gawain quietly benefited from the experience she gained.
• The Gawain Pirates reached Silver Moon Port, where Gawain’s crew discovered corpses covered in spore-releasing mushrooms and learned the victims had died of Fungal Infection.
• Gawain sent Akin and Lucci to search for survivors; they found none and reported that some people had been shot.
• Gawain transformed into a Red Dragon and used Dragon Breath to burn Silver Moon Port and its airborne spores before the Raven sailed on.
• Several days later, Spandam waited at Enies Lobby for intelligence from Lucci and Kalifa, anticipating a promotion and a fortune.

Spandam received reports that Lucci and Kalifa had infiltrated the Gawain Pirates, then approved an inflated funding request while Spandine pursued a secret plan with Crocodile to kill Demon Man Gin. Near Drum Kingdom, Mushuru learned that Knight Gawain’s crew had destroyed his spore base and resolved to act with the Beasts Pirates backing him.

• Spandine told Spandam that Crocodile’s operation had failed and ordered him to make the eater of the Bones-Bones Fruit disappear, but Spandam refused to endanger Lucci and Kalifa’s infiltration.
• Spandam read Lucci and Kalifa’s report, fretted over Kalifa’s plan to win Knight Gawain’s heart, and approved her funding request after increasing it to eighty million Berry.
• Spandine agreed with Crocodile to continue their deal to kill Demon Man Gin and secure the fruit, then considered how to persuade Spandam to send Rob Lucci into action.
• Mushuru learned that Knight Gawain’s crew had destroyed his spore cultivation base at Silver Moon Port and revealed that the Beasts Pirates were backing him.
• Mushuru killed a subordinate with poisonous spores and vowed to reclaim what he believed was his in Drum Kingdom, while ordering his men to report the Gawain Pirates to his backer.

Queen used Mushuru’s ability to accelerate the development of plague weapons, while Kaido sent King and Fuzf to recruit Gawain. A fungal outbreak reached Gawain’s ship near Drum Kingdom, where Nami collapsed and Gawain realized Mushuru might be deliberately spreading the spores.

• Queen tested Mushuru’s spores on death-row prisoners and praised their lethality as a basis for plague rounds.
• Mushuru told Queen that Gawain had destroyed Silver Moon Port and its experimental data, and hinted that he could kill Gawain without confronting him directly.
• Kaido ordered King to bring Gawain back alive and sent Fuzf along, while Hyogoro watched them fly over Wano from Udon’s prison.
• A crew member aboard Gawain’s ship developed a suspected fungal respiratory infection, and the ship doctors warned that they lacked the supplies to treat him.
• Nami fainted with matching symptoms as the Raven approached another island covered in purple mist.
• Gawain recognized the likely culprit as Mushuru, the Mushroom-Mushroom Fruit User, and suspected that someone was deliberately spreading the plague.

Gawain took his infected crewmates toward Drum Kingdom to find medical help, splitting the crew between Doctor Kureha’s location and Drum Castle. After warning Dalton that Mushuru was spreading fungal spores across the kingdom, Gawain flew toward Kestard while Lucci and Kalifa secretly prepared to carry out Spandam’s order to eliminate Demon Man Gin.

• Gawain stopped Sanji from interfering with Nami’s isolation, promised not to abandon the infected, and ordered the crew to sail at full speed for Drum Kingdom.
• The Raven reached Drum Kingdom, where guards and Dalton confronted the pirates; Gawain caught a bullet and explained that his companion needed a doctor.
• Gawain told Dalton that Mushuru had returned and was spreading fungal spores across several islands, prompting Dalton to rush toward Drum Castle.
• Gawain sent himself and Sanji to Kestard to find Doctor Kureha, while Kuro and Fan-Oka headed for Drum Castle and the remaining crew guarded the ship.
• After Gawain flew toward Kestard as a Crimson Dragon, Lucci and Kalifa received Spandam’s order to eliminate Demon Man Gin.

Gawain brought the seriously ill Nami and another patient to Drum Kingdom, where Chopper examined them and led the crew to Doctor Kureha. Kureha warned that preparing an antidote would take time and that the infection could cause permanent disabilities if it progressed further.

• Lucci and Kalifa agreed to handle Demon Man Gin without exposing their identities if possible, despite Spandine's order.
• Chopper saw the Red Dragon flying toward Kestard and hurried after it, worried about Doctor Kureha.
• Gawain found Chopper, who recognized Nami's respiratory infection and agreed to help treat her and another patient.
• Chopper guided Gawain and the crew to Kureha's clinic, where Kureha examined the patients and learned they had been infected at Silver Moon Port.
• Kureha warned Gawain that the infection was serious, the antidote would take time to prepare, and delaying treatment could leave the patients permanently disabled.

After Doctor Kureha stabilized Nami and the others, Gawain invited Chopper to join his crew and learned more about Hiruluk’s place in the reindeer’s life. As purple mist spread through Skydar Town and civilians fell ill, fear turned the town against the Red Dragon.

• Doctor Kureha treated Nami and the other girl, and three hours later she told Gawain and Sanji that they were out of immediate danger.
• Akin reported purple mist near Big Horn Village, and Gawain ordered him to remove infection sources and track Mushuru.
• Gawain explained to Chopper that pirates could pursue dreams and invited him to join the Raven as its doctor.
• Doctor Kureha revealed that she recognized Gawain as a Shichibukai and warned him to leave once Nami and the others recovered.
• Gawain asked Doctor Kureha to help find research on Rumble Balls, which could help him develop a suitable combat form.
• Purple mist appeared outside the window as civilians in Skydar Town fell ill, and townspeople blamed the Red Dragon for the plague.

As the plague spread across Winter Island, Doctor Kureha collapsed and entrusted Chopper with treating the kingdom’s patients. Chopper stabilized the sick but needed a specific medicine and vaccine, while Dalton hurried toward Drum Castle to confront Wapol and seek help.

• Villagers panicked as the purple-spore plague spread through Kestard, Big Horn Village, and other parts of Winter Island.
• Doctor Kureha fell ill, warned Gawain that Mushuru’s spores acted like a biological weapon, and entrusted Chopper with her patients and her fate.
• Chopper accepted Kureha’s graduation challenge and took charge of the clinic, isolating and treating the sick.
• Chopper stabilized Nami, Kureha, and the others but said he still needed a specific medicine and vaccine to cure them.
• Gawain promised Chopper that his companions were seeking medicine at Drum Castle and would report back soon.
• Dalton crossed the snowy landscape toward Drum Castle, determined to obtain help from Wapol’s doctors and stop the king from ruining the kingdom.

Dalton confronted Wapol for abandoning the Drum Kingdom’s infected civilians and fought his guards when Wapol refused to leave behind Doctor-20. Kuro and Fan-Oka arrived, wounded Wapol, and demanded to know where the doctors were.

• Dalton begged Wapol to let Doctor-20 treat the civilians infected by Mushuru’s spores, but Wapol declared he was abandoning the country and ordered Dalton to join him as a pirate.
• Dalton denounced Wapol, transformed into his Human-Beast Form, and demanded that he leave the doctors behind.
• Wapol ordered Jess and Krocomarimon to attack Dalton, who fought them despite being burned by the static furballs.
• Wapol tried to swallow Dalton, but a gunshot from Fan-Oka wounded Wapol and stopped his attack.
• Kuro and Fan-Oka appeared at the palace window, and Kuro demanded that Wapol reveal where Doctor-20 was.

Dalton killed Wapol after Doctor-20 revealed that their medicine could no longer stop Mushuru’s spores, but Kuro inspired the doctors and guards to try to save Drum Kingdom. Gawain arrived to take Kuro and three doctors to Kestard, where the crew faced an escalating outbreak and an enemy hiding in plain sight.

• Doctor-20 revealed that its old medicine no longer worked against the disease zone caused by Mushuru’s spores, and Dalton killed Wapol in a rage.
• Kuro told the doctors that saving even one person could be redemption, prompting Doctor-20 to split up and work with Dalton to save the kingdom’s people.
• Fan-Oka killed Jess and Cromalimon, while Kuro left with three research doctors to develop new medicine.
• Gawain arrived in his Red Dragon form and carried Kuro, Fan-Oka, and the doctors toward Kestard.
• Gawain told Kuro that Akin’s team had burned infected islands without finding Mushuru, and that Mushuru might be hiding in Drum Kingdom while infections spread.
• Gawain asked Kuro to protect Nami and the others at Kestard as he patrolled Winter Island for Mushuru.

Kureha’s illness worsened as Chopper struggled to save her, but Gawain returned with former royal doctors who joined the infirmary after Wapol’s defeat. Chopper considered joining Gawain’s crew, while Gawain studied Kureha’s research on the Rumble Ball and found a clue about controlling Zoan transformations.

• Kureha woke to find the patients improving, covered the sleeping Chopper with a blanket, and left Gawain a note about the Rumble Theory before collapsing.
• Chopper stabilized Kureha after her infection worsened, then Doctor-20 arrived and confessed their guilt over Hiruluk’s death and offered to help treat the patients.
• Chopper accepted the doctors’ help while refusing to forgive them, and Gawain confirmed that Wapol was gone; Chopper thanked Gawain and considered joining his crew.
• Gawain assigned Kuro to remain in Kestard and sent Fan-Oka back to watch Lucci and Kalifa, revealing that he knew they were World Government spies.
• Gawain found Kureha’s Rumble Theory paper and deduced that Zoan transformations were controlled by neural excitation, which the Rumble Ball could disrupt.

Gawain developed and named Demon Form, a compact transformation that preserved his Human-Beast Form’s strength while letting him use his speed and swordsmanship to their fullest. As he searched for Mushuru’s group on Winter Island, Kuro considered eating a Devil Fruit, while Chopper and the Doctor-20 worked to create a new medicine against Mushuru’s spores.

• Gawain repeatedly adjusted his transformation through the night until he created Demon Form, which the System recognized as matching his Human-Beast Form’s power.
• Gawain reviewed his improved skills and concluded that Demon Form had raised his combat power, then flew off to search for traces of Mushuru’s group on Winter Island.
• Kuro revealed a Devil Fruit illustration to himself and said he could not accept becoming dead weight, but denied it when Sanji recognized the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia.
• Chopper and the three Doctor-20 researchers began developing a new medicine after their earlier treatment for Mushuru’s spores proved ineffective.
• The researchers praised Chopper’s medical skills, and Chopper welcomed them to continue helping as they devoted themselves to treating patients and researching a vaccine.

Chopper developed a cure for the plague ravaging Drum Kingdom, but Kureha realized Mushuru planned to unleash far more dangerous spores from Drum Castle. As Kuro and the others reacted to a terrifying new arrival, the threat to the country escalated.

• Chopper's medicine killed most of the spores in patients' bodies, restoring hope in Kestard Town, and Dalton set out to deliver it across Winter Island.
• Kureha praised Chopper as he slept, while the patients began calling the medicine Chopper's Forgiveness.
• Gawain continued searching for Mushuru as Mushuru and his pirates traveled through underground waterways toward Drum Castle, intent on spreading his cultivated spores.
• Nami and the sailor woke, and Kureha realized Mushuru might use Drum Castle's Giant Cannon to disperse spores he had cultivated for nearly twenty years.
• Kuro saw a powerful, flaming figure streak across the sky, and the others sensed that it might be even more terrifying than Gawain.

Kuro headed for Drum Castle to destroy the central cannon while Chopper, Nami, and Dalton organized evacuations as King the Conflagration approached. Aboard the Raven, Fuzf confronted Lucci and the pirates, wounded Akin, and forced Akin to unveil his Double Bone combat stance before their next clash.

• Kuro agreed to handle the threat near Drum Castle, while Chopper and Nami arranged shelter and Dalton led civilians toward safety.
• Akin and Lucci identified the approaching King the Conflagration, and Fuzf appeared aboard the Raven and revealed his intention to target the Gawain Pirates.
• Fuzf accused Lucci of being a World Government infiltrator and offered to work with him, but Akin defended Lucci and attacked Fuzf.
• Fuzf blocked Akin's bone spear with Armament Haki and badly wounded him with a Finger Pistol.
• Akin activated Double Bone, formed a powerful two-layer bone exoskeleton, and charged Fuzf, who transformed into his saber-toothed tiger form.

Akin, Zoro, and Lucci fought Fuzf, and Lucci finally turned against his mission to protect Akin. As the pirates retreated, Fan-Oka warned Kalifa that Mushuru planned to destroy Drum Island and that Kuro had gone to stop him.

• Akin and Zoro struggled against Fuzf, while Lucci resisted the urge to join them until he saw Akin refuse to abandon the crew.
• Lucci entered the fight and teamed up with Akin and Zoro, helping Akin land a damaging White Cannon shot on Fuzf.
• Fuzf injured Akin with Tooth Gun, enraging Lucci and prompting him to unleash his Paper Arts Body technique as Zoro and Akin supported him.
• Kalifa led the retreat and chose not to report Lucci's wavering loyalty to the CP Organization.
• Fan-Oka stopped Kalifa, explained that Mushuru planned to destroy Drum Island and that Kuro had gone to stop him, then headed off with Seastone Bullets.

On Winter Island, Gawain fought King the Conflagration, who had come under Kaido’s orders to capture him or kill him for resisting. After King’s Lunarian abilities overwhelmed him, Gawain entered Demon Form and restored his strength, leaving the battle poised to escalate as King unleashed a fiery attack.

• King explained that Kaido wanted Gawain alive and offered him a place in the Beasts Pirates, but Gawain refused and provoked King by revealing he knew King was a Lunarian.
• Gawain blocked King’s fire-and-sword attacks with his swordsmanship and future-seeing Observation Haki, then struck him hard enough to send him through a stone wall.
• King admitted Gawain’s strike had hurt him, but his Lunarian durability and shifts between defense and speed forms let him overpower Gawain in a series of attacks.
• Gawain was badly wounded by King, then transformed into his Fourth Form—Demon Form—and used leyline energy to heal and restore his stamina.
• King sensed the danger of Gawain’s transformed state and unleashed Fire Dragon Emperor—Scorching Hundred Beasts, filling the battlefield with flaming beasts.

Gawain battled King across Winter Island, gradually gaining the advantage until King fled, then flew to support Akin. At the Raven, Akin, Lucci, and Zoro were close to defeat by Fuzf when a gunshot suddenly struck him.

• Chopper, Nami, and Kureha watched the flames engulf Winter Island and worried about Gawain facing King.
• Gawain charged through King's flames, broke the tip of King's sword, and wounded him with Kansei Masamune.
• Gawain and King fought across several kilometers, but King's stamina dwindled as Gawain healed and turned the battle in his favor.
• King threatened Gawain's companions and claimed Fuzf was attacking them, but Gawain said Akin and the others would defeat Fuzf.
• King unleashed a final flame attack and escaped into the sky, while Gawain chose to fly to Akin's aid.
• Akin, Lucci, and Zoro remained at a disadvantage against Fuzf until a gunshot made Fuzf's head snap back and his body freeze.

Fan-Oka killed Fuzf with a long-range shot after King rescued him, while Gawain’s crew recovered and Lucci began questioning his loyalty to the World Government. The chapter ended with Fan-Oka secretly monitoring Lucci and Kalifa and worrying about Kuro’s mission on Winter Island.

• Akin, Zoro, and Lucci weakened Fuzf, but King arrived and carried him away before they could finish him.
• Fan-Oka shot and killed Fuzf from a distant mountain, and King fled with the corpse as Gawain arrived to help the wounded crew.
• Akin warned Lucci that he would kill him if Lucci ever did something irreparable, and Lucci accepted the warning.
• Lucci told Kalifa that Akin had discovered their identities but had chosen to keep them secret, and Lucci insisted Akin must live until they learned why.
• Fan-Oka listened to Lucci and Kalifa through a wiretapping Den Den Mushi and wondered whether they would join the Gawain Pirates or remain with the World Government.
• Fan-Oka maintained Thousand Land and hoped that nothing would go wrong for Kuro on Winter Island.

Mushuru infiltrated Drum Castle and died while triggering the explosive spread of his poisonous spores across Winter Island. As the kingdom began evacuating, Gawain plunged into the spore cloud with a plan that could destroy the island, and Kuro warned the others to flee.

• Mushuru emerged from the underground pipes, found the castle cannon destroyed, and attacked Kuro with black spores before Kuro fatally wounded him.
• Mushuru revealed that his death would release the spores inside him, then expanded into a huge sphere that exploded and spread poisonous spores across Winter Island.
• Dalton ordered the refugees to evacuate, while Kureha told Chopper that the kingdom might be doomed and Chopper despaired over being unable to save its people.
• Gawain flew into the spore cloud and told Kuro he had a plan, but would blow up the island if it failed.
• Kuro warned Gawain against the plan, then alerted Akin, Nami, and the others aboard the Raven to escape.

Gawain unleashed the Red Dragon Fruit’s stored energy to burn away Mushuru’s poisonous spores, saving Winter Island at the cost of devastating its center and gravely injuring himself. As the survivors celebrated the pink ashes falling like cherry blossoms, Chopper decided to join Gawain, while Dalton began planning the country’s recovery.

• Akin explained that Gawain could release all the energy absorbed within his body, as Gawain rose above Winter Island overflowing with ley line energy.
• Gawain fired the Azure Star of the Red Emperor into the sky, and its explosion flattened the area around Drum Castle and burned away the poisonous spores.
• Dalton and the civilians survived the blast by sheltering behind hippopotamuses, then emerged to find pink ashes falling over the island.
• Kureha recognized the pink flakes as resembling Hiruluk’s promised cherry blossoms, and Chopper decided to follow Gawain and become his ship doctor.
• The survivors hailed Gawain as the Demon Dragon that saved the country, and Dalton led them to rescue others and considered giving the country a new name and flag.
• Gawain crashed into the desert left by the explosion, coughed up blood and flesh, and acknowledged the severe backlash from drawing so much ley line energy.

Gawain and his crew left the Drum Kingdom after defeating the poisonous-spore crisis, with Chopper joining them and Dalton naming the country the Cherry Blossom Kingdom. Meanwhile, Spandam examined reports about Gawain and began plotting to exploit his ties to Crocodile.

• Gawain considered whether his ley line powers could rival the Ancient Weapons, healed himself on Winter Island, and returned to his crew.
• Dalton and the island’s guards cleared the remaining spores, and the grateful civilians brought supplies to the Raven.
• Chopper arrived late, introduced himself to the crew, and joined Gawain’s ship to pursue his dream of becoming a cure-all.
• Chopper thanked Doctor Kureha as the Raven sailed away, while Dalton became king and renamed the country the Cherry Blossom Kingdom.
• Spandam learned that the attempt to assassinate Demon Man Gin had failed and suspected that the Cherry Blossom Kingdom held something that had attracted Gawain.