Chapter Summaries

Four years after Sephiroth led the Skypieans back to the moon, he brought Monet to the underground city of Bilca, where she would stay under supervision. He reunited her with Sugar and left the sisters together to help Monet adjust to her new life.

• Sephiroth arrived at Bilca with Monet, and the guardian knights welcomed him as their High God.
• Sephiroth showed Monet the vast underground city and explained that it would be her home for some time.
• Sephiroth led Monet through the Temple district and cathedral, where she observed the clergy’s deep reverence for him.
• Sephiroth brought Monet to Sugar’s pink, toy-filled room, and Monet rushed to embrace her sister.
• Sugar recognized Monet, and Sephiroth closed the door and left the sisters together.

Sephiroth visited Achiu at the Lunar City's Research and Development Center, where they discussed the treatment of Wingless people and the use of pure gold. The chapter left pure gold designated for secret, selective use after the laboratory clarified that it halted physical growth but still allowed improvements in endurance and technique.

• Sephiroth checked that Achiu and Olga had settled in and reminded Achiu to wear his Adamantine Magatama Necklace for protection.
• Achiu questioned whether Sephiroth treated pirate slaves too mercifully, and Sephiroth explained the rules and different classes of enslaved people.
• Sephiroth and Achiu agreed to produce pure gold secretly and reserve it for a small circle of people chosen by Sephiroth.
• Sephiroth explained that pure gold halted growth and muscle gains but did not stop exercise from improving endurance or technique.

Sephiroth visited the Medical Research Institute and reviewed its Devil Fruit User prisoners, then selected Foxy for more Slow-Slow Fruit experiments. The chapter ended with Porche, now working at a lunar amusement park, briefly sensing Foxy’s distress.

• Sephiroth toured the institute, where Holy Knight Oyama reported that security was operating normally.
• Sephiroth passed the nine Devil Fruit User prisoners and considered his limited fruit collection, research plans, and surveillance of Eustass Kid, Bartolomeo, and Van Augur.
• Sephiroth entered Foxy’s room and ordered him to assist with experiments, frightening Foxy with the prospect of repeated, exhausting ability tests.
• Porche, formerly a member of the Foxy Pirates and now an amusement park waitress, sensed something briefly before deciding she had imagined it.

Monet toured the lunar City with Sugar and learned how its collar-ranked prisoners worked and lived under Sephiroth’s system. After hearing that even the former pirate Orlib could refuse unwanted service and would soon be free, Monet remained unsure whether the City’s prisoners were truly slaves.

• Monet and Sugar walked through the City, where Birka people reacted warily to their collars and Artificial Angel attendants.
• Sugar explained that she and Monet held privileged status as the High God’s exclusive property, then showed Monet ordinary silver-collared workers and described the prisoner ranks.
• At a café, former pirate Orlib introduced herself to Monet and Sugar and explained that her collar tracked flexible work time and that she could refuse unwanted service.
• Orlib told Monet and Sugar that her remaining work time would soon expire, leaving Monet questioning whether the City’s prisoners could really be called slaves.

Sephiroth visited Bilca and found Monet and Sugar enjoying its amusement park, where their adamantine collars drew attention and revealed their elevated status among the Birkans. His sudden arrival frightened Porche and the other visitors, and he freed Porche before Monet asked what he had done to her.

• Sephiroth surveyed Bilca and spotted Monet and Sugar at the amusement park.
• Sugar and Monet toured the park with Porche as their guide, while visitors stared at the sisters’ adamantine collars and kept their distance.
• Sugar explained to Monet that the collars made them equivalent to bishops in the Birkans’ eyes, despite their lack of actual authority.
• Sephiroth arrived, and Porche and several Birkans nearly prostrated themselves until he ordered them not to kneel.
• Sephiroth dismissed Porche and set the time on her collar to zero, freeing her; Monet then asked what he had done to her, and he said he did not remember.

Sephiroth explained the moon’s labor system and work standards to Monet and Sugar, while realizing they viewed his policies as unusually kind. Monet chose to keep serving him despite her loyalty to Doflamingo, and Sephiroth stayed on the moon that night, prompting more frequent visits afterward.

• Sephiroth told Monet that captured pirates were used as laborers based on their crimes and abilities, partly to support the lunar city and its settlers.
• Monet and Sugar questioned why Sephiroth treated slaves well and why he had chosen particular work standards, and he admitted those policies reflected his personal preferences.
• Monet said she could not swear allegiance to Sephiroth because Doflamingo had saved her and Sugar, but she would continue serving him under their current arrangement.
• Sephiroth stayed on the moon that night, and Sugar noticed marks from chains on Monet the following morning.
• The Temple district guards noticed that the High God began visiting the lunar city more often.

Luo and the Heart Pirates enjoyed their stay in Titans and considered taking work from the Clock Tower mission board. Sephiroth, disguised as Satellite Shining, met with Babbage while Kalifa and Alpha reunited as twin CP agents, leaving the group poised to discuss their business.

• Luo told the Heart Pirates they would leave Titans next week and suggested they look for work on the Clock Tower mission board.
• Luo and his crew saw Satellite Shining pass through the city with Kalifa and a Clock Tower employee.
• Kalifa asked Sephiroth whether Luo interested him, and he said Luo was a friend of his junior, Kuma.
• Alpha welcomed Satellite Shining to the Clock Tower and greeted Kalifa, her twin sister, with strained professionalism.
• Alpha led Sephiroth and Kalifa to Babbage's private reception room, where Sephiroth and Babbage greeted each other as friends.

Satellite Shining and Mechanical King Babbage discussed the Imperial Guard and the Type IV No. 0 Unit while Kalifa and Alpha listened for intelligence. Their cryptic exchange left the World Government’s Cipher Pol chiefs with two reports they could not make sense of.

• Babbage said the Imperial Guard’s battlefield performance had largely matched his projections, while Satellite Shining teased him for not inviting him to Dressrosa.
• Satellite Shining hinted at Babbage’s dealings with Germa and asked him about a person whose relationship with them puzzled Kalifa and Alpha.
• Babbage said the Type IV No. 0 Unit’s freedom was proceeding according to plan after Satellite Shining claimed he had given it freedom.
• Satellite Shining handed Babbage a black box and ended the meeting.
• CP8 and CP9 shared Kalifa and Alpha’s reports, leaving the Cipher Pol chiefs baffled by their riddling contents.

Sephiroth visited the containment area and confronted Ulti, who was frustrated by her imprisonment and his earlier restraint. He embraced her and began a relationship with her, while the chapter ended with an author’s note explaining the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s awakened abilities.

• Sephiroth took Baby 5 to the research institute’s new containment area, where King, Ulti, and Page One were held.
• Ulti demanded to know when Sephiroth would release her and accused him of acting as though nothing had happened between them.
• Sephiroth used Emotion Absorption to understand Ulti’s feelings, then carried her from her room after sending Baby 5 away to handle the remaining arrangements.
• Ulti panicked but stayed with Sephiroth, and he removed her mask, explained that his actions reflected his personal preference, and embraced her.
• The author explained that the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s Awakening enabled weak-force manipulation, radiation effects, neutrino beams, and accelerated decay of heavy nuclei.

Sephiroth investigated Trans Town, also known as Sleepy Valley Town, and found the mythical zoan Vampire Fruit in its ancient ruins. He returned to Babylon Temple and gave it to Lilith, who ate it and gained vampire-like features.

• Sephiroth arrived in Trans Town under the alias Ross and spoke with the innkeeper Adoa about the settlement and its ruins.
• Adoa explained that the town had been founded by shipwreck survivors and survived by salvaging wrecks, but its residents had abandoned the dangerous ruins.
• Sephiroth used Mantra to locate a devil fruit deep inside the ruins and turned into lightning to reach it.
• The next day, Sephiroth returned to Babylon Temple and gave the purple fruit to Lilith as a present.
• Lilith ate the fruit and transformed, gaining bat wings, fangs, pale skin, and crimson slit pupils.

Marine Vice Admiral Momonga commanded a fortress defending against Big Mom’s Sweet Commanders, while Admiral Akainu battled Big Mom elsewhere. Jinbe and Sephiroth had answered the Shichibukai summons and awaited the coming fight.

• Momonga, Doberman, and Yamakaji discussed Akainu’s battle with Big Mom and the plan to persuade Katakuri and Cracker to withdraw.
• The three Vice Admirals prepared their forces to defend the harbor after Katakuri and Cracker bypassed Akainu’s fleet.
• Yamakaji noted that two Shichibukai had answered the summons, while Doberman reacted with disgust.
• Jinbe approached Sephiroth in his Satellite Shining form and admitted he felt nervous about facing an Emperor’s crew.
• Sephiroth reflected that the World Government’s attitude toward Shining had changed and that his earlier performance had mostly been fabricated.

Sephiroth warned the Marines that Katakuri’s fleet would arrive, and the Marines prepared a defensive line to repel the Big Mom Pirates. The chapter ended as both sides began probing bombardments; an author’s note afterward clarified the disputed number of Uta’s fans.

• Jinbe asked Sephiroth why he answered Marine summonses, and Sephiroth said he benefited from them and disliked pirates, though not Jinbe.
• Sephiroth warned Jinbe that the enemy would arrive in four hours, then vanished in a bolt of lightning.
• Katakuri’s fleet reached the harbor, where Katakuri learned that Marine ships had blocked its approach and ordered his forces to prepare for battle.
• Momonga and a CP8 agent credited Sephiroth’s accurate advance warning, while the Marines positioned their ships and defenders to hold the harbor.
• Momonga moved toward the defensive line as the Marines and Big Mom Pirates began probing bombardments.

The Big Mom Pirates broke through the Navy’s harbor defenses as Katakuri advanced despite resistance from Yamakaji and Doberman. Katakuri then used Future Sight on Satellite Shining and saw something so shocking that he froze when the Shichibukai asked what he had seen.

• Katakuri used mochi to block the Navy’s bombardment while Yamakaji fought Cracker, who was aided by Jinbe and Daifuku.
• Katakuri knocked Doberman aside, and Oven boarded the Navy ship to hold him off.
• Katakuri’s living warship walked through the harbor defenses until Satellite Shining destroyed it with a massive lightning strike.
• Katakuri used Future Sight repeatedly to examine Satellite Shining, saw different and horrifying outcomes, and froze as Satellite Shining asked what he had seen.

Sephiroth, fighting Katakuri as Satellite Shining, used extreme speed, mind-reading, and a relentless lightning barrage to keep the Sweet Commander from landing a hit. After the two clashed with Conqueror’s Haki, Katakuri charged into the barrage, determined to attack.

• The Marines withdrew as Sephiroth and Katakuri faced off, and Katakuri’s future visions left him shaken by what he saw.
• Sephiroth took to the air and unleashed a musical lightning barrage, while Katakuri defended with mochi and fired back with Haki-infused attacks.
• Katakuri’s predictions showed that neither close combat nor ranged attacks could overcome Sephiroth’s speed and mind-reading, so he struggled to find a way through.
• Sephiroth explained that preset responses triggered by his Mantra let him evade attacks at extreme speed without reacting consciously.
• Sephiroth invited Katakuri to attack, and the two unleashed Conqueror’s Haki that felled nearby Marines and pirates.
• Katakuri charged straight into Sephiroth’s lightning barrage with Armament Haki covering his body.

Sephiroth fought Katakuri while a CP8 observer tried to understand his speed and a Marine force battled the Big Mom Pirates. After surviving Katakuri’s strongest attack without a scratch, Sephiroth left Katakuri trembling and the battlefield stunned.

• A CP8 observer watched Sephiroth battle Katakuri and struggled to figure out how Sephiroth achieved his close-range speed.
• Momonga led the Marines and considered the battle’s prospects as Sephiroth appeared to face Katakuri’s attack without dodging.
• Katakuri pushed through Sephiroth’s lightning barrage with awakened mochi and struck him with Cutting Mochi.
• Sephiroth emerged from the crater unharmed after the BGM changed to "God's Anger!" and told Katakuri he had kept his promise not to dodge.
• Katakuri trembled as the battlefield reacted to Sephiroth’s apparent absolute defense.

Sephiroth used his newly mastered defenses to withstand Katakuri’s strongest attack, then learned Kaido was heading to the island and drove the pirates away with Raigo. Kaido arrived two hours later to find the harbor deserted.

• Katakuri’s strongest attack left Sephiroth unharmed, revealing that Sephiroth could stop kinetic force with his awakened Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers.
• Katakuri refused to surrender, but Sephiroth learned that Kaido was approaching and warned Momonga, Jinbe, and the other Marines.
• Sephiroth withdrew from Katakuri, who rushed to warn the Big Mom Pirates to evacuate as the Marines left the island.
• Sephiroth unleashed Raigo on the bay, devastating the harbor and causing heavy losses among the pirates who had not escaped.
• Kaido arrived in Azure Dragon Form two hours later and found the harbor empty.

Momonga struggled to explain Satellite Shining’s abilities in his report while Sephiroth relaxed aboard the Marine ship and spoke with Jinbe. After directing Jinbe to meet the Great Angel in Titans, Sephiroth departed, already worrying about how to tell Kaido that Ulti and Page One had joined Babylon.

• Momonga reviewed Kizaru’s report and wondered how Satellite Shining’s strength, speed, and long-range attack could be reconciled with his apparent lack of Armament Haki.
• Sephiroth and Jinbe discussed the Great Angel, and Sephiroth told Jinbe he would be in Titans on February 4.
• Jinbe offered to teach Satellite Shining Armament Haki, but Sephiroth thanked him and kept his reasons for avoiding close combat private.
• Sephiroth sensed that Kaido was angry but unharmed, then considered how to explain that Ulti and Page One had joined Babylon.
• Sephiroth said goodbye to Jinbe and vanished as lightning.

Sephiroth arrived at Onigashima aboard the Red Tears for peace talks with Kaido, while the Beasts Pirates nervously prepared to receive him. Queen escorted him and his honor guard toward the banquet as Sephiroth assessed Wano Country’s condition.

• Queen hurried the Beasts Pirates through preparations for Sephiroth’s visit, while rumors of Kaido’s recovery and the Great Angel’s power fueled their anxiety.
• Sephiroth surveyed Wano Country from the Red Tears and told Lilith he had arrived, reassuring her that he could escape if the talks went wrong.
• Sephiroth donned his golden Sanguinius Armor and descended from the Red Tears with his Royal Guard Knights.
• Queen welcomed Sephiroth and offered to lead him to the banquet prepared by Kaido.
• Sephiroth called Queen “Kun,” and Queen escorted him and his guards toward Onigashima’s center.

Sephiroth met Kaido on Onigashima, where the two quietly assessed each other while discussing Wano and the possibility of peace. Their conversation was interrupted when Yamato burst in looking for the Great Angel, leaving Sephiroth face-to-face with Kaido’s self-proclaimed son.

• Kaido received Sephiroth in Black Maria’s Pleasure Quarter and hosted him among courtesans, music, and dancing.
• Sephiroth kept calm, surveyed the skull’s entrances with his Mantra, and considered Kaido’s interest in peace and recruitment.
• Kaido studied Sephiroth, recognized that he had real strength and no living subordinates with him, and weighed recruiting him despite lingering reservations.
• Sephiroth sensed Kaido’s conflicted feelings and relaxed as he considered the value of having more allies against the World Government.
• Yamato smashed through the door, declared herself Kozuki Oden, and asked whether Sephiroth was the legendary Great Angel.

Kaido arranged for Sephiroth to meet Yamato and learn more about her, but Yamato’s intense devotion to Oden left Sephiroth and Kaido stunned. After hearing her praise Oden, Yamato was devastated when Sephiroth said he would not judge Oden’s deeds.

• Yamato barged into Kaido’s meeting with Sephiroth, challenged his armor, and removed her mask after Sephiroth explained that armor was his mask.
• Kaido invited Yamato to speak first, and she delivered a lengthy account of her admiration for Oden.
• Sephiroth realized that Yamato’s worldview had been shaped by her isolation, harsh upbringing, and reliance on Oden’s Logbook.
• Yamato protested when Sephiroth declined to comment on Oden’s deeds, believing he was unmoved by Oden’s story.