Chapter Summaries

Youmu showed Yamato and the others how Amigasa Town had prospered, while Sephiroth secured Wano Country’s agreement to open a Babylon embassy and trading port and obtained photographs of three Poneglyphs. The chapter ended with Kozuki Hiyori visiting Sephiroth at his hot spring inn.

• Youmu guided Yamato, Tama, Ulti, and Page One through Amigasa Town and explained how its welcoming policies had drawn refugees and transformed the town.
• Sephiroth ordered Youmu to arrange care for the incapacitated Kozuki Sukiyaki after extracting his memories and learning the locations of Wano Country’s Poneglyphs and how to make and read them.
• Sephiroth met Kurozumi Orochi in the Flower Capital and secured his agreement to establish a Babylon embassy district and open Blade Martial Port to trade.
• Imperial Guards photographed the Poneglyphs beneath the Flower Capital and on Onigashima, recording information about Pluton and Joy Boy.
• Kozuki Hiyori visited Sephiroth at his hot spring inn and introduced herself as Komurasaki, offering to serve him.

Sephiroth spent the morning with Kozuki Hiyori, learned she hoped to use him to help restore the Kozuki Family, and prepared to leave Wano Country. Lilith then reported unusual preparations at the Holy Land, prompting Sephiroth to mobilize the dormant Praying Hands as he recognized the signs of a Celestial Dragon excursion.

• Sephiroth learned through Hiyori’s surface thoughts that she planned to cultivate a relationship with him so he might support her brother’s return and the Kozuki Family’s restoration.
• Sephiroth ordered Youmu to increase shipments of sake iron ore and seastone to Babylon after learning that Poneglyph production was too slow to be useful.
• Sephiroth told Youmu to prepare Yamato and the others to leave Wano Country after lunch, while Hiyori served him breakfast and questioned him about his plans and ties to Yamato.
• Lilith reported increased ship traffic and supplies around the Holy Land, and Sephiroth identified the activity as preparations for a Celestial Dragon excursion.
• Sephiroth ordered Lilith to stop investigating and relocate everyone who knew about the activity to the moon, then awakened the dormant Praying Hands around the world.

Sephiroth upgraded Youmu with mithril in his laboratory, then joined her, Yamato, Ulti, and Tama for lunch before preparing to sail. The chapter left Ulti rushing off to find Page One, while Youmu tried to correct Tama’s impression of sibling relationships.

• Sephiroth returned to the Babylon Church in Amigasa Town and took Youmu to his precision engineering laboratory for a mithril upgrade.
• Sephiroth joined Youmu, Yamato, Ulti, and Tama for lunch, where Youmu helped Tama eat and the others boasted about their strength.
• Sephiroth explained that Youmu’s upgrade had raised her abilities, though she still could not use Haki or match Yamato in an all-out fight.
• Sephiroth asked where Hanafuda and Page One were, and Ulti rushed out after worrying that Page One had found someone else.
• Sephiroth sensed Page One fishing at the dock, while Youmu prepared to teach Tama about childhood and sibling relationships.

Sephiroth learned that the World Government was preparing for another Celestial Dragons’ hunting event and planned to investigate, pursue the Devil Fruit prizes, and strike back under his Bondrewd identity. Back aboard the Winter, he told Yamato he would sit out adventures for a month, and the two spent the night together.

• Sephiroth examined the three Great Grade Swords he had acquired and ordered the Praying Hands to identify the Celestial Dragons’ target without acting rashly.
• Sephiroth concluded that a hunting event was likely imminent, estimated 300–500 participants, and set his sights on the Devil Fruit prizes and humiliating the World Government as Bondrewd.
• Sephiroth recharged the Winter and told Yamato he would not join outings the following month while he digested their gains and made preparations.
• Yamato declined to adventure without Sephiroth and chose to train on Sky Island, trusting his judgment when he kept his plans private.
• Sephiroth and Yamato spent the night together, and the next morning Yamato told Ulti that he was skipping breakfast.

Sephiroth entrusted Tashigi with two famous swords, shared Wano’s Poneglyph texts with Robin, and learned that Shinobu had surfaced in Amigasa Town. The next day, disguised as Bondrewd, he told Caesar to prepare supplies for a second God Valley event, terrifying him.

• Sephiroth gave Tashigi responsibility for Ame no Habakiri and another famous sword, and she vowed to become a Great Swordsman and serve as his sword.
• Sephiroth asked Melise to prepare a banquet celebrating trade with Wano Country, then showed Robin the Poneglyph texts and proposed making fake Poneglyphs to mislead the World Government.
• Lilith told Sephiroth that Shinobu had gone to Amigasa Town for odd jobs, and he ordered her kept under surveillance without being alerted.
• Sephiroth spent the night with Bella and Lily and avoided provoking Yamato.
• Disguised as Bondrewd, Sephiroth told Caesar that he wanted supplies for a second God Valley event, and Caesar panicked.

Sephiroth, disguised as Bondrewd, tracked the Marine fleet carrying the Celestial Dragons to Jade Island, where the World Government began a three-week hunting game against the island’s people and released slaves as targets. As the hunt was about to begin, Shamrock’s unexplained sense of being watched continued to linger.

• Shamrock, Gunko, Sommers, and Kiringham discussed the competition, Sephiroth’s angel ability, and Shamrock’s persistent unease aboard the flagship.
• Sephiroth followed the fleet from the air with Caesar and submarine units, while Caesar panicked about joining the raid and Sephiroth considered Gunko’s connection to Imu.
• The Marine fleet surrounded Jade Island, landed, and killed any natives who resisted.
• The Marines gathered the surviving natives and broadcast the hunting game’s rules: they would be hunted for three weeks, and survivors would earn freedom.
• The World Government released thousands of slaves as Escapees with different point values, while the natives reacted in despair before the Celestial Dragons’ pursuit began.

Sephiroth prepared to expose the Celestial Dragons’ island hunt to the world, while Caesar reluctantly remained aboard the submarine. As the hunt began and the Holy Knights grew uneasy, a brilliant object struck the island and blasted Gunko into the sky.

• Sephiroth directed the submarine units toward the island and explained to Caesar that he intended to announce their existence to the world, while pretending they might rescue people.
• Sephiroth connected his Bondrewd armor to cables in a hidden chamber as the Celestial Dragons began their three-week hunt for the island’s inhabitants and slaves.
• Shamrock warned the other Holy Knights that something felt wrong, then rode ahead to pursue the Cerberus Fruit while Gunko and Saint Shepherd Sommers set off to hunt.
• Gunko killed a young man who mistook her for a hunted girl, then sensed an unexplained unease despite finding nothing with her Observation Haki.
• A brilliant light plunged from the sky and sent a shock wave across the island, launching Gunko into the air.

Bondrewd attacked the Celestial Dragons’ hunting island, killing dozens in an explosion before confronting Saint Pulminge and turning his guards into a horrific chimera. With the Marines’ ships under attack and more than thirty Celestial Dragons dead, the command center struggled to summon an Admiral.

• Bondrewd launched an explosive attack into an area where Celestial Dragons were hunting, killing an estimated twenty or thirty of them.
• A Rear Admiral reported the attack to Marine Headquarters, while the Marines’ surveillance recordings showed Bondrewd entering a village littered with murdered civilians.
• Bondrewd found a dying girl clutching her dead dog, then encountered Saint Pulminge and the guards, Cipher Pol agents, and Marines protecting him.
• Bondrewd fused Pulminge, his Chocobo, and the surrounding guards into a monstrous chimera as the island’s surveillance Den Den Mushi broadcast the scene.
• Unknown attackers struck the Marines’ ships underwater, communications from panicking Celestial Dragons overwhelmed the command center, and the Rear Admiral reported more than thirty Celestial Dragon deaths while demanding an Admiral’s arrival.

Sommers was ordered to capture Bondrewd, who ravaged the island and killed or captured Celestial Dragons while Marine forces tried to stop him. As Bondrewd drew reinforcements into a losing fight, the fleeing natives and slaves found a chance to escape by boat.

• Sommers tortured a family with his thorns, then received Shamrock’s order to capture Bondrewd without killing him.
• Bondrewd attacked a Marine force protecting three Celestial Dragons, killed their guards, and captured the Celestial Dragons for Sephiroth’s research.
• Bondrewd used chlorine gas to kill more guards and Celestial Dragons, while a surveillance Den Den Mushi broadcast the massacre.
• Bondrewd burned approaching Marine soldiers with white phosphorus and destroyed shells fired by a lieutenant colonel’s artillery unit.
• The Marines focused on Bondrewd and an underwater enemy, allowing natives and slaves to flee the island by boat.

Bondrewd fought Saint Shepherd Sommers and demonstrated several copied Devil Fruit abilities before Shamrock joined the battle. As the Holy Knights confronted him, Bondrewd unleashed a powerful electrical attack through a chemically altered mist.

• Saint Shepherd Sommers intercepted Bondrewd, and the two discussed their shared ideas about love before Sommers tried to capture him.
• Bondrewd turned the ground into quicksand, blocked Sommers’s thorn whip, and struck him with an enormous fireball.
• Gunko attacked Bondrewd with her arrows, but he froze her and shattered her body before Shamrock arrived and forced him back with a slash.
• Bondrewd used an ice shock wave against the three Holy Knights, who scattered to avoid it.
• Bondrewd summoned two obelisks and created an ion-rich mist that amplified his electrical attack, leaving the Holy Knights shocked by his apparent Rumble-Rumble Fruit power.

Sephiroth remotely controlled Bondrewd as he fought Shamrock, Gunko, and Saint Shepherd Sommers, using a vast array of simulated Devil Fruit abilities and surviving their attacks. The Holy Knights discovered little about Bondrewd’s nature, while he completed the first stage of data collection and taunted Gunko.

• Shamrock struck Bondrewd with Conqueror’s Coating, but Bondrewd regenerated and injured Shamrock by touching him.
• Bondrewd attacked the Holy Knights with lava, explosions, flying debris, earth lions, and poisonous dragons, while the trio countered and tried to capture him.
• Bondrewd turned invisible, ambushed Gunko, and severed her head, but she regenerated and revealed that her immortality persisted despite bodily separation.
• Shamrock and his companions resumed their assault, but Bondrewd used laser pulses and a diamond barrier to withstand their attacks.
• Bondrewd escaped in a smoke cloud by riding an invisible arrow, then announced that the first stage of data collection was complete and mocked Gunko.

Bondrewd overwhelmed Shamrock, Gunko, Sommers, and Kiringham’s Nightmare Legion with his copied abilities and radiation attacks. Saint Saturn arrived, destroyed Bondrewd’s body, and found his core, but Bondrewd’s warning revealed that a second attack was already falling toward the port where the Celestial Dragons had gathered.

• Shamrock, Gunko, and Sommers pressed Bondrewd in close combat, but he copied their abilities and defeated their coordinated attacks.
• Kiringham’s Nightmare Legion joined the battle, and Bondrewd wiped out the soldiers and killed the three Holy Knights with a devastating radiation pulse.
• Saint Saturn arrived, cut Bondrewd down, and discovered that his core was hidden inside his damaged head.
• Bondrewd warned Saint Saturn about a second attack as his core shattered, and Gunko spotted a blazing object falling toward the port where the Celestial Dragons had gathered.

Saint Saturn intercepted Bondrewd’s falling chemical “baleful star” at the Port, only to learn Bondrewd was attacking the Main Venue, where he stole four Devil Fruits. Imu possessed Gunko and transformed two Vice Admirals and nearby troops into demons, while Bondrewd revealed his own dragon wings and prepared to show Imu his soul.

• Saint Saturn raced to the Port and cleaved the falling baleful star, but its chemical contents exploded and caused more casualties among the Marines and Celestial Dragons.
• Lord Imu told Saint Saturn that Bondrewd was at the Main Venue, so Saint Saturn teleported there while Bondrewd attacked Kiringham and the defenders.
• Bondrewd defeated three Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents, drove back two Vice Admirals, and stole the Cerberus, Harpy, Quiet-Quiet, and Paper-Paper Devil Fruits before the God's Knights arrived.
• Gunko transformed into Imu, unleashed overwhelming Conqueror’s Haki, and turned the two Vice Admirals and unconscious soldiers into demons.
• Imu offered Bondrewd destruction or submission, but Bondrewd sprouted enormous dragon wings and invited Imu to witness his soul.

Bondrewd summoned a legion of Praying Hands from the dead and refused Imu’s order to become commander of the God's Knights. Imu sent Shamrock and Sommers to capture him, and the battle between the Praying Hands and the Demon Marines and Nightmare Soldiers began.

• Bondrewd used eight obelisks and Transmutation to create thousands of armored Praying Hands from organic and inorganic matter.
• Saint Saturn condemned Bondrewd’s treatment of life, but Imu rebuked him and ordered him to kneel.
• Imu declared that Bondrewd would become commander of the God's Knights, but Bondrewd refused.
• Imu ordered Shamrock and Sommers to capture Bondrewd, while Kiringham revived the Nightmare Soldiers.
• Bondrewd fought Shamrock and Sommers as the Praying Hands clashed with the Demon Marines and Nightmare Soldiers, adapting to attacks and regenerating when struck down.

Sephiroth used Bondrewd and his pre-positioned forces to cover his retreat, while Imu and the God's Knights tried to stop him. A meteor strike devastated the venue, Bondrewd escaped, and Kizaru arrived to find the God's Knights furious.

• Sephiroth used the Black Stone Obelisks to control the Praying Hands and staged their equipment as if he had transmuted it on-site.
• Shamrock, Sommers, and Imu attacked Bondrewd, but he resisted Black Transmutation and regenerated after Imu's shotgun blasted apart much of his body.
• Bondrewd summoned a meteor from orbit, destroying the main venue and leaving Imu, Saint Saturn, and the God's Knights to revive in the crater.
• Bondrewd and his forces vanished during the destruction, leading the God's Knights to suspect he had escaped by teleportation.
• Gunko returned to normal, and a teleportation circle carried Saint Saturn away.
• Kizaru arrived by cannon shell and found the four God's Knights glaring at him.

Imu ordered the Five Elders to bring Bondrewd before them, and the Elders set his bounty at the Pirate King’s record while deciding to blame him for the incident. The Marines learned Bondrewd had to be captured alive, while Sephiroth, posing as Bondrewd, put Caesar to work studying the captured Celestial Dragons; three days later, the bounty announcement shook the world.

• Imu reviewed Bondrewd’s file, bounty poster, and photographs, then ordered the Five Elders to bring him before them.
• Saint Saturn described Bondrewd’s many Devil Fruit abilities and his apparent lack of Haki, and the Elders debated how to respond.
• The Five Elders set Bondrewd’s bounty at 5,564,800,000, decided to blame him for the incident, and planned to investigate Shining indirectly.
• Sengoku told Garp, Tsuru, Akainu, and Aokiji that Bondrewd had to be captured alive, prompting disbelief from the three men.
• Sephiroth, posing as Bondrewd, told Caesar to examine the captured Celestial Dragons for secrets in their Lineage Factor.
• Three days later, the World Government announced Bondrewd’s record-matching bounty and charges, stirring speculation among the Four Emperors, the Golden Lion, and the Revolutionary Army.

Bondrewd’s record-shattering bounty alarmed pirates, the Revolutionary Army, and the World Government, while Big Mom and Kaido considered his biotechnology and stolen Devil Fruits. In Water 7, Cipher Pol Aigis Zero and Hina questioned Shining, who revealed that Bondrewd belonged to an organization called the Tower of Babel.

• Bondrewd’s wanted poster named him the world’s most evil criminal and listed a bounty of 5,564,800,000, prompting Golden Lion Shiki to laugh at his attack on the Celestial Dragons’ event.
• Big Mom ordered Perospero to find Bondrewd and considered a marriage alliance, while Kaido called her to discuss his modified Zoan army and the stolen Devil Fruits.
• Dragon’s Revolutionary Army reviewed intelligence on Bondrewd’s attack, discussed rescuing survivors, and considered but postponed contacting or cooperating with him.
• Shining rehearsed a song with Perona, Brook, and Kalifa before Hina and two Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents arrived to question him about Bondrewd.
• Shining told Hina and the Cipher Pol agents that Bondrewd came from the Tower of Babel, an organization like MADS, and that he and Babbage had once belonged to it.

Shining recounted Babel’s collapse and Bondrewd’s dangerous abilities to Cipher Pol Aigis Zero, while concealing the truth behind his story. Later, he revealed to Kalifa that Heaven’s Cup involved psionic ascension and soul materialization, hinting that Babel’s accident had transformed him too.

• Shining told Cipher Pol Aigis Zero that Bondrewd founded Babel with Babbage, and that their dispute over genetic and mechanical ascension ended with Babel’s members becoming Praying Hands.
• Shining explained that Bondrewd could transform matter, adapt to opponents, and survive through Zoa holic and the Life-Echo Stone, but he claimed not to know about Heaven’s Cup.
• After Cipher Pol Aigis Zero and Hina left, Shining told Kalifa that Babel’s project was called Redefining Humanity and that Bondrewd and Babbage had pursued genetic and mechanical ascension.
• Kalifa visited Shining that night to ask about Heaven’s Cup, but he pulled her into his room before she could begin her prepared questions.
• Shining told Kalifa that Heaven’s Cup was psionic ascension, or soul materialization, and that it was the real reason he hated Bondrewd.

Shanks told Whitebeard about Bondrewd’s seemingly unbeatable ability and the possible alliance between Big Mom and Kaido, while withholding Bondrewd’s origins. Sephiroth attended Uta’s successful Dressrosa concert, then revealed that he was Shining, leaving Uta to react by biting him in a playful scuffle.

• Shanks arrived at the Moby Dick and warned Whitebeard about Bondrewd, explaining his ability and the threat posed by Big Mom and Kaido’s apparent agreement.
• Sephiroth stayed with pregnant Hancock in Amazon Lily before leaving to attend Uta and the others’ concert in Dressrosa.
• Uta, Carina, Nami, Baby 5, and Tashigi performed successfully at the Corrida Colosseum, while Sephiroth watched with Rebecca.
• Backstage, Uta praised Shining’s songs, prompting Sephiroth to take her aside and reveal that he was Shining.
• Uta bit Sephiroth in protest at his revelation, and they tumbled into a playful scuffle.

Sephiroth stayed on Amazon Lily to care for Hancock during her pregnancy, but went to the Eighth Research Institute as Shining for a meeting with Vegapunk. He met Vegapunk’s newly created satellites and learned that Vegapunk had made progress reproducing the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s powers.

• Sephiroth stayed close to Hancock on Amazon Lily and said he would remain there through her delivery and recovery.
• Hina contacted Shining and arranged for him to visit the Science Unit’s Eighth Research Institute the next morning.
• Shining arrived at the institute and met Lilith, who revealed herself as Vegapunk’s second satellite, along with Shaka and the other satellites in their cultivation tanks.
• Vegapunk showed Shining the satellites and explained their roles, including York’s responsibility for eating and sleeping.
• Vegapunk took Shining to work and told him he had analyzed Shining’s powers and made progress reproducing the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s abilities.