Recaps

Sephiroth examined Bonney and found that he could slow her blue jade scales disease, though curing it would require help with its genetic cause. He recruited Kuma to help target Doflamingo and gather doctors and allies who might save Bonney.

• Kuma brought Bonney aboard the Lucifer's Glory and asked Sephiroth to treat her blue jade scales disease.
• Sephiroth examined Bonney and found he could slow the disease's progression by manipulating her metabolism, but could not treat its genetic cause.
• Sephiroth told Kuma that defeating Doflamingo could free the Tontatta and bring help from Mansherry and Trafalgar Law, and Kuma agreed to join the effort.
• Sephiroth advised Kuma to seek Dr. Kureha and warned him not to approach Vegapunk unless necessary because the scientist was closely watched.
• Sephiroth proposed contacting Crocus and pursuing Germa's lineage factor technology, while warning Kuma that dealing with Germa might require fighting first.

Sephiroth, posing as the Rumble-Rumble Fruit user Satellite Shining, attacked Thriller Bark with a sustained lightning barrage while searching for Brook and planning to deal with Gecko Moria. Moria fled into the shadows as the attack freed captives’ shadows, and the assault continued.

• Perona and Doctor Hogback were startled by the relentless thunder striking Thriller Bark.
• Brook met Satellite Shining outside the castle and complained about the lightning, while Sephiroth explained that his elemental form reflected his Satellite Shining deck.
• Sephiroth bombarded Thriller Bark, destroying zombies and releasing the shadows stolen from their owners.
• Absalom came to investigate but was struck unconscious by Sephiroth, who spared him from being burned to charcoal.
• Moria was struck several times, abandoned any direct confrontation, and escaped into the shadows.

Sephiroth used his Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Mantra to attack Thriller Bark from a distance, defeating Perona’s forces and exposing Moria. The chapter ended with Sephiroth summoning the Giant Trunade Spirit and launching a massive lightning strike at Moria.

• Sephiroth warned Brook that Perona’s Negative Hollows were approaching, then fled when his lightning could not affect them.
• Sephiroth tracked Perona from high above and knocked her unconscious with a controlled lightning strike, causing the Negative Hollows to vanish.
• Sephiroth’s ball lightning defeated Ryuma and the castle’s zombies, while Doctor Hogback remained unharmed and Moria hid inside a shadow.
• Sephiroth discovered Moria’s shadow, struck it with a colossal bolt, and forced Moria back into three dimensions.
• Sephiroth summoned the Giant Trunade Spirit from two satellites and sent a huge lightning attack toward Moria.

Sephiroth killed Gecko Moria with a superbolt, then used his memory-transfer technology to steal Doctor Hogback’s medical knowledge. After destroying the laboratory’s remaining living subjects, he left Thriller Bark without any survivors breathing.

• Sephiroth struck Moria with a superbolt and confirmed that he was dead.
• Sephiroth buried Moria’s remains beneath an obelisk, then teleported to confront Doctor Hogback.
• Sephiroth transferred Hogback’s medical knowledge into a lunar soldier Logic Module, leaving Hogback nearly an idiot.
• Sephiroth found Cindry and the laboratory’s other corpses and survivors, then destroyed everything in the laboratory that could breathe.

Sephiroth confronted Perona on Thriller Bark, where she woke, mistook his lightning form for something cute, and attacked him with her ghosts. After he easily countered her abilities, he told her that Moria was dead.

• Sephiroth found Perona asleep and took photos of her with an Image Dial before waking her with a faint electric current.
• Perona awoke, called Sephiroth cute, and hugged his lightning form before realizing she was under attack.
• Sephiroth carried Perona as she tried to use Negative Hollows, then destroyed the ghosts with his Psychic Suppression Wave.
• Perona launched a Giant Hollow: Kamikaze Bomb, but Sephiroth reassembled unharmed and flicked her on the forehead.
• Perona hoped Moria would arrive to help, and Sephiroth told her that Moria was dead.

After killing Moria, Sephiroth spared Perona when she surrendered and made her his subordinate. As they left the castle with Kumashi, Perona began to develop a strange affection for her new boss.

• Perona accepted that Moria was dead and pleaded with Sephiroth to spare her life.
• Sephiroth made Perona his subordinate, and she followed him through the castle past the shadowless zombies.
• Sephiroth promised to find Perona something to ride, then brought her favorite stuffed bear, Kumashi, back to her.
• Perona hugged Kumashi and followed Sephiroth on the bear's back, feeling a new affection for him.

Sephiroth took Perona to pay respects at Moria’s grave, then reunited her with Brook, whose shadow had been restored. After gathering Moria’s treasure, the group prepared to leave Thriller Bark aboard Sephiroth’s newly remodeled Thunderhawk.

• Sephiroth brought Perona to Moria’s metal tomb and fashioned a bouquet for her to place there.
• Sephiroth and Perona found Brook, and Brook celebrated being free of his shadow’s curse.
• Sephiroth proposed forming a band, and Perona suggested calling it Kessoku Band.
• Perona led Sephiroth and Brook to Moria’s treasury, where they collected nearly all the loot.
• Sephiroth revealed the Thunderhawk, a gothic aircraft remodeled from the Ark Maxim, as their ship.

At Twin Cape, Brook reunited with Laboon while Perona settled into life aboard the Thunderhawk. Sephiroth returned to the Temple on Sky Island, where Lilith waited to speak with him.

• Crocus called Perona and Brook to eat, and Perona told him Brook was playing music for Laboon.
• Brook spent time singing and playing for Laboon, moving Crocus with the reunion after forty-six years apart.
• Perona returned to her room aboard the Thunderhawk and ate sweets while waiting for Sephiroth to come back.
• Lilith waited outside Sanctuary Zero to report to Sephiroth, who emerged from meditation and spoke with her about the band.
• Sephiroth explained that he had delayed his return to bring gifts and had not yet begun performing with the band.

Sephiroth discussed his doubts about his own strength with Lilith before she reported that Birka’s bishops were backing purists in Babylon. As they reviewed the committee’s findings and planned measures against the backers, Lilith suddenly pounced on him.

• Lilith asked Sephiroth why he meditated, and he explained that he lacked mental resilience despite his powerful weapons and abilities.
• Lilith recalled meeting Sephiroth ten years earlier, took his hand, and teased him about their relationship before whispering what she planned to wear that night.
• Lilith reported that Birka’s bishops supported purists who opposed Babylon’s spending on helping Blue Sea People, and she gave Sephiroth the committee’s list of backers.
• Sephiroth ordered the implicated old guard to surrender their positions or be sent to the moon for infrastructure work, with younger candidates to fill vacant roles.
• Sephiroth defended giving people basic dignity and room to maneuver, and Lilith pounced on him during work hours.

Sephiroth explained how Babylon should respond to the Purity Faction’s xenophobic views, favoring open debate and broader exposure to the Blue Sea rather than issuing decrees. Isabella also told him that the Church’s Scroll School had split, with its red-robed Tech-Priests forming the Mechanicus and calling Sephiroth the Machine God.

• Isabella asked Sephiroth where Lilith was, and he said she was playing with water balloons.
• Sephiroth told Isabella to let the Purity Faction’s ideas be debated, disclose some information, and arrange trips to the Blue Sea while quietly backing Carina and Nami.
• Isabella discussed how limited communication and people’s emotions could make it difficult to change minds, then asked Sephiroth about his dream of JoJo.
• Isabella reported that the Scroll School had split, with red-robed Tech-Priests forming the Mechanicus and naming Sephiroth the Machine God.
• Sephiroth denied being the Machine God.

Aboard the Thunderhawk, Sephiroth helped Perona and Brook learn music and Haki with Memory Crystals as he prepared to reveal Satellite Shining’s identity to the world. After Kuma thanked him for killing Moria, Sephiroth said Bonney was recovering well on Sky Island and promised to carry out their plan quickly.

• Sephiroth watched Perona and Brook use Learning Devices to absorb musical knowledge and Kuma’s two-color Haki, marveling that Brook could use the machine despite having no brain.
• Perona woke believing she had learned guitar and bass, and Sephiroth explained that she would need practice before the implanted knowledge and experiences became usable skills.
• Sephiroth outlined a provisional band lineup with Perona, Brook, himself, Kumashi, and the Bunbu, and planned to make noise by publicizing that Satellite Shining was a Rumble-Rumble Fruit user.
• Sephiroth edited footage of his fight with Moria and leaked it through Mechanical King Babbage’s channels, prompting the World Government, the Underworld, and Big News Morgans to learn that a Rumble-Rumble Fruit user had killed a Shichibukai.
• Kuma called to thank Sephiroth for eliminating Moria, and Sephiroth told him Bonney was recovering on Sky Island and invited him to visit her.

Monet spied on a classified Clock Tower investigation, while Babbage’s systems began planning a covert operation involving Alpha. At Twin Cape, Sephiroth read news of his victory over Moria and discovered that his bounty had risen to 400 million Beli.

• Monet followed senior Clock Tower staff to Sector Thirteen and infiltrated the secure area to gather intelligence for Doflamingo.
• Alpha obtained a classified report on a strange storm and battle footage from the Florian Triangle, while Monet and other spies tried to access the information.
• Babbage’s surveillance system recorded the spies and proposed Operation Gin, with Alpha intended to arrest the four least capable infiltrators without exposing the others.
• Sephiroth received the system’s report at Twin Cape and reflected on Kuma and Tesoro before a News Coo delivered the newspaper.
• Sephiroth read that he had defeated Moria and received a 400 million Beli bounty, astonishing Perona.

One month later, Sephiroth and [Kessoku Band] performed a spectacular concert in a port city of the Lulusia Kingdom, drawing a huge crowd and widespread media coverage. The concert ended with Sephiroth singing “You Will Return Like Lightning,” leaving reporters ready to make the 400-million-Beli pirate a headline-making idol again.

• [Kessoku Band] opened its concert with Brook greeting the crowd and asking a fan to show him her panties.
• Perona appeared to cheers, displayed her ghost magic, and introduced the Bunbu and Kumashi.
• Sephiroth made a thunderous entrance and began the concert by singing “Deja Vu.”
• Perona sang “Imperial Assault Force,” and Brook performed “The Wellerman” and other songs as their fans cheered.
• Sephiroth showcased his voice and lightning effects before closing with “You Will Return Like Lightning,” which reporters broadcast to the public.

Sephiroth and Kessoku Band explored Lulusia Kingdom while he helped arrange treatment for Bonney and reunited with Perona aboard the Thunderhawk. After revealing his identity to her, he struggled to accept her insistence that his actions were kind.

• Sephiroth told Dr. Kureha that the Heart Pirates had entered the Grand Line but disappeared afterward.
• Kuma brought Dr. Kureha and Dr. Crocus to Sky Island, where they improved Bonney’s treatment plan so she could live normally if she avoided natural light.
• Sephiroth returned to the Thunderhawk with Perona’s shopping and watched her play with a Bunbu in the communal lounge.
• Sephiroth revealed his identity to Dr. Crocus, Brook, and Perona, then admitted he had wanted Perona to know the truth.
• Perona asked Sephiroth why he refused to acknowledge his kindness, but he compared himself unfavorably to Kuma and left her frustrated.

Disguised as Satellite Shining, Sephiroth visited a ranch in the Lulusia Kingdom, bought milk, and offered the family work at a Titans Franchise Store. Meanwhile, Vice Admiral Comil prepared to confront Kessoku Band after Headquarters sent Vice Admiral Momousagi to join the Marines.

• Sephiroth visited the ranch, met Moda and her parents Kong Shi and Kong Da, and bought their milk.
• After learning the family struggled with rising taxes, Sephiroth recommended a Titans Franchise Store job and gave them a silver gear and a letter of introduction.
• Sephiroth left the ranch while considering the Artificial Angels sold by Titans and their surveillance capabilities.
• At the G-2 Marine Branch, Vice Admiral Comil told his officers to watch Kessoku Band and wait for reinforcements before acting.
• An ensign reported that Vice Admiral Momousagi would arrive, and Comil ordered the Marines to prepare their forces.

Sephiroth and Perona grew closer in the Thunderhawk’s lounge before Sephiroth sensed two powerful figures approaching. He identified the incoming Marine fleet, led by Vice Admiral Momousagi, and prepared to respond.

• Perona clung to Sephiroth in his elemental form and told him she loved him, while he considered his existing relationships and his decision to take her as his own.
• Sephiroth sensed two powerful bioelectric fields approaching and changed into Satellite Shining to investigate.
• Sephiroth told Perona that two powerful figures were about forty-five kilometers away, and she said Brook was still at the shop they could not mention.
• A fleet of five Marine warships approached, led by Vice Admiral Momousagi’s personal ship, with Vice Admiral Comil’s ship among those following.

Vice Admiral Momousagi prepared the Marines to confront Shining, while Sephiroth chose to meet their warships aboard the Thunderhawk. The two sides headed toward an uninhabited island, where Comil planned to test whether Shining deserved to become a Shichibukai.

• Momousagi briefed her subordinates on Shining and ordered them to prioritize civilian safety during the mission.
• A Marine lieutenant reported that Brook had abruptly left an establishment in Lulusia, and Momousagi judged that Titans was probably not directly involved.
• Sephiroth detected Momousagi and Comil's warships and decided to fly the Thunderhawk toward them to learn their intentions.
• The Marines spotted the Thunderhawk approaching from Lulusia, and Comil concluded that the pirates were inviting them to meet.
• Comil learned that an uninhabited island lay ahead and prepared to test Shining's strength.

Sephiroth confronted Vice Admirals Momousagi and Comil on an uninhabited island, using lightning, imposing music, and strange pressure to begin the fight. After dodging their attacks and unleashing a massive Blue Jets discharge, he left Momousagi trying to cut through the blast.

• A Bunbu met Momousagi and Comil on the island while Sephiroth taunted them remotely.
• Sephiroth transformed into his lightning form and arrived amid ominous music, storm clouds, and an unfamiliar pressure that Comil cut through.
• Momousagi and Comil leaped into the sky and attacked Sephiroth, who evaded them with lightning-fast movement.
• Sephiroth fired Thunderball and Red Sprites, but Comil escaped and Momousagi’s sword strike missed.
• Momousagi’s Observation Haki warned her of danger as Sephiroth unleashed Blue Jets, and she powered up her sword to carve a path through the attack.

The Five Elders discussed the Great Angel and ordered the Navy to send Kizaru to recruit and discipline the Rumble-Rumble Fruit user as a Shichibukai. Meanwhile, Sephiroth brought Kessoku Band to Water 7, where he planned to meet Perona and wait for the Navy.

• Jaygarcia Saturn Saint, Saint Marcus Mars, Saint Shepherd Ju Peter, Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro, and Saint Topman Warcury discussed the Great Angel’s Mythical Zoan and considered bringing him into the Celestial Dragon system.
• Saint Nusjuro identified the Rumble-Rumble Fruit user as a suitable Shichibukai replacement for Moria, and Saint Warcury ordered the Navy to send Kizaru to recruit him and teach him a lesson.
• Sephiroth recalled that his visits to Water 7 with different groups of women had fueled rumors about the Great Angel and his angelic companions.
• Sephiroth brought Kessoku Band to Water 7 aboard the Thunderhawk after leaving the Navy battle, intending to meet Perona and make it easier for the Navy to find him.
• Sephiroth chose Water 7 as a place where the Navy would be unlikely to start a fight because it was a major transport hub and population center.

Sephiroth and Perona toured Water 7 before Admiral Kizaru invited him to become a Shichibukai. Sephiroth accepted and took Kizaru out over the sea, where they began a fight that left both testing the other's abilities.

• Sephiroth and Perona rode a Yagara Bull through Water 7, knocking over a lemonade stand as Kalifa and Paulie watched.
• The next day, Kizaru approached Sephiroth and offered him the vacant Shichibukai position.
• Sephiroth accepted the offer and moved the confrontation away from Water 7 to protect nearby civilians.
• Sephiroth dodged Kizaru's light-speed kick, then tested Kizaru with a barrage of lightning strikes.

Sephiroth fought Kizaru in a high-speed battle, using his lightning abilities to challenge the Admiral’s light attacks. After Kizaru injured him, Sephiroth unexpectedly awakened Conqueror’s Haki and was mortified by the reason.

• Sephiroth used Mantra and a lightning web to anticipate Kizaru’s attacks and restrict his light-speed movement.
• Kizaru coated his lasers with Armament Haki, giving him an advantage over Sephiroth’s attacks.
• Sephiroth struck Kizaru with Dark Inazuma, which drained the Admiral’s stamina.
• Kizaru’s Haki-infused Yasakani no Magatama grazed Sephiroth’s arm, and Sephiroth rapidly healed while struggling with his first serious injury.
• Sephiroth erupted with Conqueror’s Haki after being hurt, leaving him ashamed of his sudden awakening.

Sephiroth used his newly awakened Conqueror's Haki and advanced Mantra to keep Kizaru at a distance, then prepared an intercontinental Gamma-Ray Burst as his final attack. The chapter ended as the devastating beam began racing toward Kizaru.

• Sephiroth and Kizaru traded attacks across the battlefield, with Kizaru deflecting Sephiroth's dark lightning and Sephiroth evading Kizaru's counterattacks.
• Sephiroth used lightning channels and return strokes to attack from hundreds of kilometers away, staying beyond Kizaru's Observation Haki and repeatedly widening the distance between them.
• Sephiroth contacted Kizaru telepathically and announced that he would launch a final attack.
• After confirming they were over the Calm Belt and away from settlements, Sephiroth gathered gamma rays into a directional beam from 1,400 kilometers away.
• Sephiroth unleashed his Gamma-Ray Burst, whose dazzling radiation and shock wave surged through the atmosphere toward Kizaru.

Sephiroth fired a long-range Star-Crushing Roar Cannon at Kizaru in the Calm Belt, intending to intimidate the Marines without killing him. Kizaru survived the near miss, but the attack’s lingering radiation killed sea life over a wide area and convinced him that the World Government needed to treat Satellite Shining with greater caution.

• Sephiroth gathered a thunderstorm, calibrated his aim for three minutes, and fired the Star-Crushing Roar Cannon toward Kizaru, 1,400 kilometers away.
• Kizaru sensed the attack and maintained his elemental form as the beam passed roughly thirty meters away, its shock wave severely distorting his body.
• Kizaru expelled the destructive energy from his body as light bullets, but the attack’s impact created enormous waves, a hydrogen explosion, and a vast hole in the sea of clouds.
• Kizaru detected marine life dying across more than ten kilometers, while nearby Sea Kings suffered horrific injuries from the lingering energy.
• Kizaru evacuated the Calm Belt, reached the West Blue, and decided that the World Government needed to approach Satellite Shining more cautiously.

Sephiroth used a Gamma-Ray Burst against Kizaru, then cleared the radioactive residue and returned to the Thunderhawk after declaring the danger over. His crew regrouped while Marine Headquarters reacted to his power, and the chapter ended with his appointment as a Shichibukai set for the next day.

• Sephiroth recovered after firing a Gamma-Ray Burst at Kizaru, assessed the attack’s limits, and gathered its radioactive residue into a ball that he launched into space.
• Perona and Brook waited aboard the Thunderhawk under Sephiroth’s safety rules until he telepathically told them the problem was solved and that they should await the World Government’s envoy in Water 7.
• Sephiroth explained that his newly awakened Telepathy could transmit words into another person’s surface thoughts, then appeared in the lounge and reunited with Perona and Brook.
• Perona tackled Sephiroth while Brook was brought down by a Negative Hollow.
• Sengoku struck his desk at Marine Headquarters as Tsuru sighed and Garp ate rice crackers, while Sengoku wondered how Sephiroth had developed his Devil Fruit so effectively.

Aboard the Thunderhawk, Perona asked Sephiroth to spend the night with her after sensing his unsettled emotions. She revealed that she wanted him to change into his elemental form, leaving Sephiroth stunned as she began to undress.

• Sephiroth rested aboard the Thunderhawk instead of staying in a Water 7 hotel and reflected on his newfound power and ambitions.
• Perona entered Sephiroth's cabin and asked him to sleep with her.
• Sephiroth checked that Perona genuinely wanted this, and she said his mood after returning had made her feel it was the right time.
• Sephiroth drew Perona close, and she asked him to change back into his elemental form, preferably just a little.
• Perona lifted her gothic outfit as faint light flickered inside the cabin.