Recaps

Priapus Dio Saint, an unusually disciplined Celestial Dragon with memories of another world, learned that the Kuja Pirates were nearing Sabaody and prepared to intercept them. The chapter ended with Stussy ready to carry out his orders.

• Dio Saint’s past bloodshed in Mary Geoise left three Celestial Dragons dead and made him a taboo among the nobles, but he avoided substantive punishment.
• Dio Saint recalled that he had trained from childhood because he knew the Celestial Dragons’ rule would eventually fall and wanted strength to survive.
• Stussy reported that the Kuja Pirates were sailing toward the Sabaody Archipelago and would arrive in about two days.
• Dio Saint ordered Stussy to prepare a ship and get ready to depart.
• Stussy appeared in her CP0 uniform; Dio Saint knew she was a clone created by MADS and Vegapunk’s sleeper agent, and had secured her as his private subordinate.

Saint Dio traveled toward Sabaody while secretly pursuing his plan to destroy the Celestial Dragons and claim Boa Hancock and her sisters before they were enslaved. When pirates attacked his ship, he refused to retreat and prepared to fight them himself.

• Saint Dio left Mary Geoise with Stussy and concealed his disgust and ambition from everyone but her.
• Saint Dio trained with Jörmungandr, his Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit sword, while sailors whispered about his unusual habits.
• Stussy threatened to execute the sailors for discussing Celestial Dragons, then let them go because Saint Dio would not care about their remarks.
• A pirate ship charged the Celestial Dragons' vessel near Sabaody, and the guard commander urged Saint Dio to take shelter.
• Saint Dio rejected the commander’s advice, pulled Jörmungandr from the deck, and prepared to confront the pirates.

Saint Dio destroyed Caesar’s pirate ship with Jörmungandr and then considered how to build a covert force beyond the World Government’s surveillance. He left the chapter planning to create that hidden organization while using his accumulated resources to advance his larger ambitions.

• Saint Dio flew toward the Slaik Pirates’ ship, with Stussy following on her bat wings.
• Saint Dio transformed Jörmungandr into a colossal serpent and crushed Caesar’s ship, while the pirates drowned in the resulting whirlpool.
• Stussy praised Saint Dio and pressed herself against him after the battle.
• Saint Dio’s thoughts explained that he had collected Devil Fruits and used his synthesis ability to create Stussy’s Mythical Zoan fruit and Jörmungandr.
• Saint Dio decided he needed a secret force unknown to the Five Elders and Imu, and he stroked Stussy’s hair as he planned.

Saint Dio arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago to arrange the capture of Boa Hancock and her sisters, intending to use them to take control of Amazon Lily. At a slave auction, he approached another Celestial Dragon, who recognized him and reacted with nervous deference.

• Saint Dio explained his plan to make Amazon Lily a hidden stronghold and use the Boa sisters to control the Kuja Pirates.
• Saint Dio and Stussy arrived at Sabaody, where Stussy left to scout for the human traffickers targeting the sisters.
• Saint Dio walked through Area 26 as the crowd knelt before him, then followed Stussy to an auction house.
• Saint Dio entered the auction and headed for the reserved front-row seats, where another Celestial Dragon recognized him and greeted him nervously.

Saint Dio bought Boa Hancock and her sisters, Boa Sandersonia and Boa Marigold, for one hundred Beli at the human auction. After seeing a runaway slave killed by his explosive collar, the girls stopped resisting, and Dio examined Hancock as Stussy brought them to him.

• Saint Dio bid one hundred Beli for the three captured Kuja girls, and the auction house accepted the sale without protest.
• Stussy completed the transfer and led Boa Hancock, Boa Sandersonia, and Boa Marigold away in collars attached to a chain.
• A runaway pirate slave's explosive collar detonated, killing him in front of the girls and frightening them into submission.
• Stussy caught up with Saint Dio and presented the three girls to him.
• Saint Dio gripped Boa Hancock's chin and studied her face as she met his gaze stubbornly.

Saint Dio faced the Kuja Pirates as they attacked to rescue Hancock and her sisters, then blocked their captain’s strike and began overpowering her. The captain was left bleeding and struggling against Dio’s strength.

• The Kuja Pirates burst into the street, and Hancock called out to her captain while the warriors fought the guards.
• The Kuja captain killed the guard captain as Saint Dio watched without intervening.
• Saint Dio ordered Stussy to take Hancock and her sisters to the ship, then stopped the Kuja captain with a sword slash when she pursued them.
• The Kuja captain attacked Saint Dio with her python naginata, but he blocked the blow with Jörmungandr.
• Saint Dio advanced while forcing the captain back, then flicked his sword and sent blood spraying from her hands.

Saint Dio began fighting Dark King Rayleigh after their Conqueror's Haki clashed in Sabaody Archipelago. Rayleigh matched his sword attacks, and Saint Dio ended the chapter preparing to increase Jörmungandr’s weight.

• Saint Dio knocked back the Kuja captain and fended off the Kuja warriors without killing them.
• Saint Dio sensed another powerful Conqueror’s Haki and clashed with its wielder, knocking out nearby Kuja and Marine soldiers.
• Rayleigh emerged from the shadows, and Saint Dio recognized the retired coating craftsman as the Dark King.
• Saint Dio charged Rayleigh, but Rayleigh blocked and redirected his strikes, then shattered his sword waves.
• The two swordsmen exchanged rapid attacks until Saint Dio leapt back and began increasing Jörmungandr’s weight.

Saint Dio unleashed Jörmungandr’s immense power against Rayleigh, summoning a giant serpent that began tearing Area 26 apart. As the serpent grew and Rayleigh ran out of ground to retreat across, the battle remained unresolved.

• Saint Dio swung Jörmungandr with overwhelming weight, but Rayleigh dodged the enormous sword wave by pushing off his flip-flop.
• Rayleigh outpaced Saint Dio and inflicted several wounds, stopping just short of piercing his eye when Jörmungandr’s corrosive green flames restrained his sword.
• Saint Dio plunged Jörmungandr into the ground and summoned a giant serpent that emerged and withstood Rayleigh’s powerful strike.
• Jörmungandr burrowed beneath Area 26, collapsing streets and buildings while flooding the harbor and forcing people to flee.
• Rayleigh watched the growing serpent approach from a shrinking remnant of wall and prepared to advance because he had nowhere left to retreat.

Saint Dio survived Rayleigh's attack and faced Garp, who mistook him for the Celestial Dragon's attacker before learning the truth and trying to appease him. Elsewhere, Stussy defeated the Kuja captain and took Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold toward the harbor as the collapsing island swallowed their captain.

• Rayleigh struck Jörmungandr with a powerful sword blow, was hurled into rubble, and left the island sinking around them.
• Garp arrived, mistook Saint Dio for the attacker, and repeatedly punched Jörmungandr before Saint Dio revealed he was the Celestial Dragon.
• Garp stopped his fist inches from Saint Dio, apologized, and followed him while pleading that he not report the incident to Fleet Admiral Kong.
• The Kuja captain attacked Stussy while trying to rescue the three girls, but Stussy transformed into bats, drained her blood, and kicked her away.
• Stussy struck the wounded Kuja captain with Rankyaku, and the captain fell into a collapsing fissure as Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold cried out.
• Stussy led the three girls toward the harbor while Area 26 continued cracking apart and sinking into the sea.

Saint Dio returned from Amazon Lily with Stussy and the Hancock sisters, branded all three girls with his personal mark, and brought them to Mary Geoise. There, Cipher Pol Aigis Zero delivered the Five Elders’ order for Stussy to report on her work, leaving Saint Dio to decide how to respond.

• Garp watched Amazon Lily sink, refused Fleet Admiral Kong’s order to return to headquarters, and said he was going to the East Sea for his grandson’s birth.
• Stussy healed Saint Dio’s wounds aboard the treasure ship with her Bat-Bat Fruit ability.
• Saint Dio had Stussy remove the explosive collars from Hancock and her sisters, then branded each girl with his Ouroboros Dragon mark.
• The treasure ship returned to Mary Geoise with Saint Dio, Stussy, and the chained sisters.
• Cipher Pol Aigis Zero told Saint Dio that the Five Elders had ordered Stussy to report on her work.

The Five Elders questioned Stussy about Saint Dio’s actions in Sabaody and warned her to keep monitoring him. Their discussion revealed why Imu had protected Dio after Jörmungandr’s rampage in Mary Geoise and how Stussy came to serve at his side.

• Stussy recounted the Sabaody incident to the Five Elders, who accepted her explanation and warned her to keep Saint Dio under control.
• Saint Nusjuro argued that Saint Dio should be confined, but Saint Ju Peter noted that Lord Imu had personally singled him out.
• Saint Warcury reported that Garp had nearly attacked Saint Dio after Kong ordered him to investigate the Sabaody incident.
• The Five Elders recalled that six-year-old Saint Dio’s Jörmungandr had killed three Celestial Dragons and injured many others after another Celestial Dragon tried to seize it.
• Lord Imu’s order led the Holy Knights to acquit Saint Dio, and he later refused several invitations to join them.
• Saint Dio requested Stussy as an aide, and the Five Elders assigned her to monitor him as a Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agent.

Saint Dio continued training the three Boa sisters after capturing them, and a month later they fought dangerous beasts on a New World island. After Hancock defeated a giant crocodile with Armament Haki, Saint Dio set the sisters against an even larger one.

• Saint Dio told Hancock that she and her sisters would have to accept his training, then left her with a warning that he would show no mercy.
• A month later, Sandersonia and Marigold fought a giant crocodile on a barren island and pinned its front claws with their naginata.
• Hancock used Armament Haki to kick the crocodile’s jaw and crush its skull, defeating it.
• Saint Dio praised Hancock’s progress and revealed a crocodile more than ten meters long as the sisters’ next target.
• The three sisters gripped their weapons and prepared to face the enormous crocodile despite their exhaustion and injuries.

On a deserted island, Stussy continued conditioning Hancock and her sisters to worship Saint Dio, while the sisters fought dangerous beasts to grow stronger and became increasingly dependent on him. Stussy guided Hancock into serving Saint Dio, leaving Hancock crossing a boundary she believed she could never return from.

• Hancock and her sisters defeated a giant alligator, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Stussy embraced Hancock and reinforced the belief that serving Saint Dio was a source of honor and devotion.
• Stussy’s account showed that she and Saint Dio had trained the sisters through relentless battles, camp provisions, and carefully cultivated dependence.
• Saint Dio and Stussy were intimate while Hancock watched, treating their behavior as an ordinary part of life.
• Stussy undressed Hancock and guided her to kneel before Saint Dio.
• Overwhelmed by fear, exhaustion, and the promise of Saint Dio’s favor, Hancock began serving him.

Saint Dio gave Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold Devil Fruits, then took the sisters and Stussy through a portal to another world. After ordering Sandersonia and Marigold to kill the approaching figures, he watched Sandersonia transform into her Titanoboa form.

• Saint Dio presented the sisters with three Devil Fruits, and Hancock chose the Love-Love Fruit while Sandersonia and Marigold chose two snake fruits.
• The sisters ate the fruits, and Saint Dio identified Sandersonia’s and Marigold’s powers as Ancient Zoan forms.
• Saint Dio opened a portal and led Stussy and the sisters into a different world.
• The group arrived in rocky terrain where approaching figures dressed in a style resembling Wano Country charged toward them.
• Saint Dio ordered Sandersonia and Marigold to leave none of the attackers alive, and Sandersonia began transforming into a giant Titanoboa.

Saint Dio and the Boa sisters defeated a horde of Kabane, and he identified their world as Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. Stussy’s reconnaissance led them to a railway, where they spotted Kotetsujō approaching with Ayame Yomogawa aboard.

• Sandersonia and Marigold transformed into enormous snake-women and crushed the attacking Kabane.
• Saint Dio extracted a Human-Human Fruit, Kabane Form from a Kabane and passed it to Stussy.
• Saint Dio ordered the group westward while Stussy sent blood bats out to scout for settlements and railway tracks.
• Stussy found a railway and detected an approaching armored train, so Sandersonia carried the group toward it.
• Saint Dio recognized the approaching train as Kotetsujō, which was returning to Kongoukaku with Ayame Yomogawa aboard.

Ayame Yomogawa’s train was chased and stopped by two enormous snake women after the samurai’s bullets failed to harm them. Saint Dio caught Ayame when she fell from the roof, then forced her to look up at him as the samurai shouted for him to stop.

• Ayame ordered the Kotetsujō to speed past the two snake women, but they pursued the train through the wilderness.
• Ayame ordered the samurai to prepare for battle, and their gunfire bounced harmlessly off the snake women’s scales.
• Saint Dio ordered Sandersonia to grab the train, bringing the Kotetsujō to a violent stop.
• Ayame fell from the roof, but Saint Dio caught her with a snake transformed from his sword and dropped her onto the ground.
• Saint Dio pinched Ayame’s chin and made her look at him as someone on the train shouted, “Stop!”

Saint Dio demonstrated his overwhelming power by cutting through a vast Kabane horde, then let Stussy convince Ayame that he was a god sent to save the world. Aboard the Kotetsujō, Saint Dio met Mumei and began considering how to recruit her.

• Kurusu tried to attack Saint Dio, but Sandersonia caught him in her enormous hand.
• Saint Dio unleashed a massive sword strike that cleaved through the Kabane horde and carved a deep canyon into the ground.
• Stussy told Ayame and the Kotetsujō's passengers that Saint Dio was a god who had come to save their world, and Ayame accepted her account.
• Ayame made room for Saint Dio and his companions aboard the Kotetsujō, which continued toward Kongoukaku.
• Mumei slipped into Saint Dio's freight car, asked if he had killed the Kabane with one swing, and Saint Dio asked what she thought.

Saint Dio arrived at Kongoukaku and refused its quarantine inspection, prompting Hancock to petrify and shatter a samurai’s arm when he reached for her. Munechika Shikishima stopped the armed samurai and identified Dio as his honored guest, but Dio was displeased that the confrontation had ended.

• Stussy demonstrated her speed to Mumei and offered to consider teaching her if she qualified.
• Ayame announced the Kotetsujō was nearing Kongoukaku, and Saint Dio ordered Sonia and Gurude to remain outside the fortress.
• Samurai began the required quarantine inspection, but Saint Dio walked past them, and Hancock petrified and shattered the arm of a samurai who tried to stop him.
• The platform samurai aimed their steam guns at Saint Dio, who calmly sat on a chair formed from Jörmungandr.
• Ayame tried to stop the samurai, then Munechika Shikishima arrived and ordered them to lower their guns, declaring Saint Dio his honored guest.
• Saint Dio rose from Jörmungandr and looked displeased after Munechika brought the confrontation to an end.

Saint Dio cowed Kongoukaku with his Conqueror’s Haki and Jörmungandr, then settled into the city while Stussy spread rumors that a god had arrived. Munechika Shikishima considered using Dio’s power to eliminate the Kabane and strengthen his family’s position, and the chapter ended with Dio and Stussy together in their quarters.

• Saint Dio unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, forcing Munechika Shikishima and the samurai to kneel, then revealed Jörmungandr in its giant form to frighten Kongoukaku’s residents.
• Munechika apologized to Saint Dio and escorted him and his entourage to the Shikishima family’s finest guest residence.
• Ayame brought Sandersonia and Marigold into the city, where they found Hancock waiting while Saint Dio and Stussy were occupied in a room.
• Stussy used her blood-servant ability and bats to spread and monitor rumors that a god had arrived to save the world.
• Munechika weighed how Saint Dio might defeat the Kabane and give the Shikishima family an advantage in the power struggles that could follow peace.
• Saint Dio finished his encounter with Stussy, who complained that he had nearly broken her.

Stussy made Munechika Shikishima her blood thrall, though he later remembered nothing of the attack. Munechika persuaded Ayame to approach Saint Dio as a way to secure his help, and she arrived at his residence while he was bathing in the hot spring.

• Stussy used a bat to bite Munechika Shikishima and make him her blood thrall.
• Munechika woke with no memory of Stussy’s attack and summoned Ayame to ask about Saint Dio.
• Munechika argued that Ayame should serve Saint Dio to secure his support against the Kabane, and Ayame reluctantly agreed.
• Ayame returned to Saint Dio’s residence, where Stussy spoke privately with her and Ayame blushed before agreeing to proceed.
• Saint Dio relaxed in the hot spring in the residence’s rear courtyard.

Saint Dio took Ayame to bed while Stussy learned about Mima Karyotori and set out to make him a villain. Stussy found Mima with the Hunters and incapacitated him, leaving his companions in alarm.

• Ayame came to Saint Dio in the hot spring, and he later brought her to his bedroom.
• Stussy stopped Mumei from investigating Ayame's screams and questioned her about her elder brother, Mima Karyotori.
• Stussy used reconnaissance bats to locate Mima and decided he would serve as an enemy for the people to fear.
• Stussy's bat bit Mima at the Hunters' camp, and he collapsed unconscious.
• The Hunters gathered around Mima, panicking at his condition.

Mima Karyotori ordered an operation as Kongoukaku received refugees fleeing coordinated Kabane attacks, and Munechika Shikishima asked Saint Dio to protect the last surviving stronghold. Saint Dio agreed to act, and after the refugees were settled, a small figure slipped onto the city wall under cover of night.

• Mima Karyotori awoke and ordered his people to begin the operation.
• Armored trains brought refugees and supplies to Kongoukaku as reports revealed that station cities had fallen in a coordinated assault aimed at the fortress.
• Munechika Shikishima concluded that Kongoukaku's food reserves would last only three days and led the station city overseers to ask Saint Dio for help.
• Saint Dio kept the overseers waiting, then heard Munechika Shikishima's report and promised to act.
• The refugees received temporary shelter, food, and water, and a small figure quietly climbed onto Kongoukaku's wall at night.

Mima Karyotori betrayed Mumei by having her open Kongoukaku’s drawbridge for a Kabane-filled train, then unleashed a giant Kabane aggregate against the city walls. As the fortress fell into chaos, Sandersonia and Marigold fought the aggregate while Ayame discovered her father and the other leaders had been killed.

• Mima Karyotori persuaded Mumei to lower Kongoukaku’s drawbridge, allowing a train loaded with Kabane to crash into the city.
• Mumei fought the invading Kabane, while Sandersonia and Marigold transformed and held the platform passage as civilians evacuated.
• Mima Karyotori injected Mebiki with black liquid, causing her to merge with nearby Kabane into a giant aggregate that smashed through Kongoukaku’s wall.
• Sandersonia and Marigold attacked the self-healing aggregate, but it regenerated its limbs and wounds and forced Sandersonia back.
• Ayame saw that Kabane had invaded and found Munechika Shikishima impaled in the hall among the dead station city leaders.

After Munechika Shikishima was killed, Ayame and Mumei escaped and tried to save Kongoukaku as Saint Dio arrived to control the panicked crowd and destroy the Kabane. Mumei drove her transformed brother Mima Karyotori into a gunpowder warehouse, where she prepared to face him.

• Mima Karyotori killed Munechika Shikishima, and Mumei rescued Ayame from the hall before they separated to respond to the crisis.
• Ayame tried to rally Kongoukaku’s fleeing civilians, but Saint Dio used Conqueror’s Haki to quiet the crowd so she could organize an evacuation.
• Saint Dio transformed Jörmungandr into a giant serpent and used its green mist to dissolve the advancing Kabane.
• Mumei used Soru to shoot Mima Karyotori, but he injected black fluid that covered him in armor and made him immune to her bullets.
• Mumei lured Mima Karyotori into a gunpowder warehouse, shot through the floor to drop him among the explosives, and told him goodbye.

After consolidating Kongoukaku under Saint Dio’s influence, he left that world and set his sights on Wano Country to acquire Ryuo and valuable Devil Fruits. He arrived by ship with Mumei and told Stussy that Wano was their next destination.

• Stussy’s engineered invasion ended in an explosion that destroyed the Kabane Aggregate and helped establish Saint Dio’s standing as a god among the survivors.
• Ayame Yomogawa became Kongoukaku’s supreme leader, organized recovery and rebuilding, and received five Zoan Devil Fruits from Saint Dio for a defense squad.
• Saint Dio restored Mebiki from her Kabane transformation and made her Ayame’s protector after ensuring her loyalty.
• Saint Dio left the rebuilt settlement and boarded his waiting ship with Mumei, who excitedly explored the ocean and ate a lavish meal.
• Saint Dio told Stussy that they were heading to Wano Country to pursue advanced Armament Haki and Devil Fruits held by the Kurozumi Clan.