Recaps

Saint Dio planned to reach Wano Country and Fish-Man Island in secret, but on the way back to Mary Geoise he intervened when Vice Admiral Tsuru pursued Donquixote Doflamingo. The Five Elders approved his request to let Doflamingo go, while privately reflecting on their reasons for tolerating Saint Dio and keeping Stussy near him.

• Saint Dio planned to travel secretly to Wano Country and visit Fish-Man Island in search of the Mark-Mark Fruit.
• After spotting Donquixote Doflamingo’s flamingo-shaped ship being chased by Vice Admiral Tsuru, Saint Dio ordered his ship to intervene.
• Saint Dio sent Stussy to ask Vice Admiral Tsuru to let Doflamingo’s pirate ship go, and Tsuru referred the request to Fleet Admiral Kong.
• Fleet Admiral Kong consulted the Five Elders, who approved Saint Dio’s request and ordered Tsuru to let Doflamingo pass.
• The Five Elders discussed their permissive attitude toward Saint Dio, noting Lord Imu’s interest in him and Stussy’s value as an intelligence operative.

Saint Dio recruited Doflamingo as his Underworld intermediary, demanding help with the arms trade and a Devil Fruit each year. After Doflamingo agreed, Saint Dio ordered Stussy to monitor him and took Hancock to his bedroom.

• Vice Admiral Tsuru withdrew her warship after receiving orders, leaving Stussy to approach Doflamingo's ship.
• Stussy delivered Saint Dio's invitation, and Doflamingo accepted it after learning she served Cipher Pol Aigis Zero.
• Saint Dio told Doflamingo to become his subordinate and asked him to help enter the arms trade and obtain one Devil Fruit per year.
• Doflamingo agreed to cooperate, and Saint Dio assigned Stussy to track his organization and personnel.
• Saint Dio explained his interest in Doflamingo's connections, including his potential ties to the Op-Op Fruit, then led Hancock into his bedroom.

Saint Dio returned to the Sabaody Archipelago, evaded a summons from the Five Elders, and began looking for a famous pirate crew to take him onward. In District 16, he led his group to a weapon shop so Mumei could choose a weapon.

• Stussy saw Hancock serving Saint Dio in his cabin, then reported that the ship had reached the Red Line.
• Saint Dio resupplied at Mary Geoise and departed before a Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agent sent by the Five Elders could meet him.
• After several days at sea, Saint Dio's ship arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago, where he sent Stussy to find a renowned pirate crew.
• Saint Dio took Hancock, her sisters, and Mumei into District 16 to look for weapons, while pirates and slave traders watched Hancock.
• Sandersonia and Marigold cleared the weapon shop of pirates, and Saint Dio told Mumei to choose a weapon.

Saint Dio and his companions confronted a pirate crew in the Sabaody Archipelago after the weapons shopkeeper tried to overcharge him. Sandersonia, Marigold, Mumei, and Hancock defeated the attackers, while Mumei chose to cripple a pirate rather than kill him.

• Saint Dio recognized the weapons shopkeeper's scheme and waited as the shopkeeper summoned help.
• A pirate captain arrived, threatened Saint Dio's group, and ordered his crew to attack.
• Sandersonia and Marigold transformed, killed the fleeing captain with Marigold's venom, and routed the pirates.
• Several pirates attacked Saint Dio, but Mumei shot one in the limbs and Hancock petrified two others with Perfume Femur.
• Saint Dio asked why Mumei had spared her target, and she said crippling him would stop him from doing bad things.

Saint Dio targeted Blamenco and the Pocket Pirates to obtain the Pocket-Pocket Fruit. Hancock shattered Blamenco’s weapon with her Devil Fruit power, leaving her poised to attack him.

• Saint Dio and his group left the weapons shop after he killed the pirates and took the weapons, while the shop owner planned to claim the bounty on the severed head.
• Saint Dio freed Stussy’s messenger bat, followed it to Area 26, and declined Hancock’s offer to revisit the ruins.
• Stussy identified Blamenco of the Pocket Pirates as a Pocket-Pocket Fruit user, and Saint Dio decided to take the fruit.
• Saint Dio’s group boarded the Pocket Pirates’ ship, where he assigned Hancock to fight Blamenco and ordered Sandersonia and Marigold to deal with the other pirates.
• Blamenco pulled a giant mallet from his cheek pouch and attacked Hancock, but she petrified and shattered the mallet with Perfume Femur before preparing another strike.

Saint Dio defeated Blamenco, gave Mumei the Pocket-Pocket Fruit’s ability through a ring, and ordered the captured pirates to sail for Fish-Man Island. After Jörmungandr killed a giant deep-sea fish, the ship reached the island, where Saint Dio ordered the crew to ram through its bubble membrane instead of using the official entrance.

• Hancock petrified Blamenco with her Love-Love Fruit and shattered his head with a kick, while Sandersonia and Marigold subdued the remaining pirates.
• Saint Dio extracted the Pocket-Pocket Fruit from Blamenco’s corpse and transferred its ability into a silver ring.
• Saint Dio gave the ring to Mumei, who tested its storage ability by putting away the weapon crates and retrieving a flintlock pistol.
• Saint Dio ordered the captured pirates to take the ship to Fish-Man Island, and the vessel descended beneath the sea inside its coating bubble.
• Jörmungandr killed a giant deep-sea fish that attacked the ship, and Saint Dio wondered whether such a creature could be used to make a Devil Fruit.
• When the ship reached Fish-Man Island, Saint Dio ordered the helmsman to ram the island’s bubble membrane rather than enter through the official entrance.

Saint Dio entered Fish-Man Island by forcing his way through its protective membranes and drew the Neptune Army’s attention after locals spotted his group. He stopped at a restaurant to sample the island’s food, where the Neptune Army confronted him and his companions.

• Saint Dio and his companions crossed Fish-Man Island’s inner membrane after the pirate ship crashed between the two barriers.
• The Neptune Army arrested the pirates, and one pirate revealed that his boss was already on the island; a resident then reported suspicious humans near Coral Hill.
• Saint Dio decided to draw out Fish-Man Island’s leaders without starting with bloodshed and took his companions to an upscale restaurant.
• Saint Dio ordered every dish on the menu and the island’s specialty liquor while Stussy, Hancock, Sandersonia, Marigold, and Mumei ate with him.
• A Neptune Army squad entered the restaurant, cleared the other customers, sealed the exits, and asked Saint Dio’s group to come in for questioning.

Saint Dio’s group fought the Neptune Army on Mermaid Street, and Neptune arrived to confront Sandersonia and Marigold outside the restaurant. As the two sisters struggled to hold off the king, Hancock blocked the elite soldiers from reaching Queen Otohime inside.

• Sandersonia and Marigold defeated the Neptune Army soldiers at the restaurant while Saint Dio ordered them not to hurt anyone.
• A fleeing soldier reported the disturbance to Neptune, who learned that Queen Otohime had gone to the restaurant and rushed to Mermaid Street.
• Neptune confronted Sandersonia and Marigold at the entrance, and their combined strength barely held back his trident.
• Neptune ordered his elite soldiers to protect Queen Otohime, but Hancock appeared at the doorway and knocked the front soldiers away.

Saint Dio negotiated an alliance with Queen Otohime, offering to take her to the next Reverie in exchange for raising her future daughter, whose power he intends to use in a secret plan. After Otohime agreed, she introduced him to Neptune as a Celestial Dragon, leaving the king alarmed that he had fought Saint Dio’s guards.

• Saint Dio sent Stussy outside after Queen Otohime revealed that she knew their purpose and refused to accept their control of Fish-Man Island.
• Saint Dio confirmed that Otohime’s Observation Haki could read people’s thoughts, but could not uncover anything beyond his words when he was honest.
• Otohime told Saint Dio that she wanted to attend the next Reverie and advocate coexistence between humans, merfolk, and Fish-Men.
• Saint Dio offered to take Otohime to the Reverie if she entrusted her future daughter to him to raise and train, and Otohime accepted after glimpsing his secret plan.
• Saint Dio and Otohime went outside and stopped the battle, where Otohime introduced him to Neptune as a Celestial Dragon.
• Neptune realized he had fought the Celestial Dragon’s guards and feared that Fish-Man Island could face the World Government’s wrath.

Saint Dio learned that Mumei could sense hostility and identified Hody Jones among Neptune’s guards, then ordered Stussy to eliminate him and find an octopus fish-man who had eaten the Mark-Mark Fruit. The chapter then explained the fruit’s tracking ability and limitations.

• Neptune apologized to Saint Dio and welcomed him and his party to Ryugu Palace, where Queen Otohime told Neptune about their agreement.
• Saint Dio explained to Stussy that Queen Otohime could read thoughts with Observation Haki, and he visited Hancock, Mumei, Sandersonia, and Marigold during their training.
• Mumei sensed hostility from Hody Jones, and Saint Dio recognized him as a future threat to Queen Otohime and Fish-Man Island.
• Saint Dio ordered Stussy to kill Hody Jones without leaving evidence and to find an octopus fish-man who had eaten the Mark-Mark Fruit.
• Saint Dio considered the Mark-Mark Fruit, whose user could mark living targets by touching their skin and make thrown objects pursue them, subject to several limitations.

Saint Dio’s collection of Devil Fruits expanded as Stussy killed Hody Jones, then she searched Fish-Man Island for an octopus Fish-Man. At the palace, Saint Dio relaxed in a hot spring with Hancock and Mumei, while Stussy found a possible lead in Fish-Man District.

• Saint Dio considered the Mark-Mark Fruit a useful ingredient for his Devil Fruit Synthesis ability despite its limitations.
• Stussy entered Hody Jones’s room, subdued him with her bats, drained his blood, and had his corpse carried away.
• Saint Dio soaked in a palace hot spring with Hancock and Mumei; Mumei noticed an intimate moment between Saint Dio and Hancock and hid in the water, embarrassed.
• Stussy searched Fish-Man Island for an octopus Fish-Man who had eaten a Devil Fruit but found no information from the mermaids she questioned.
• An elderly mermaid directed Stussy to Fish-Man District, where Stussy spotted a young mermaid carrying a crystal ball and chose her as a possible source of information.

Stussy found Shyarly and brought her to Saint Dio, who learned that she could prophesy a world-spanning war eighteen years in the future. After asking Shyarly to join her, Saint Dio set out to find Vander Decken IX near Noah.

• Stussy lured Shyarly into answering questions about Vander Decken IX with pastries and brought her to Ryugu Palace.
• Shyarly used her crystal ball to predict a devastating war that would sweep across the world in eighteen years.
• Saint Dio told Stussy he knew where Vander Decken IX was and left to pursue him.
• Stussy offered Shyarly a chance to learn and see a wider world, and Shyarly listened as she ate dinner.
• Saint Dio used a bubble to travel through the deep sea and headed to the palace hall to find Neptune.

Saint Dio traveled to the Noah, defeated Vander Decken IX, and obtained the Mark-Mark Fruit. As he examined it, a giant tentacle broke through the deck and attacked him.

• Saint Dio left Fish-Man Island with Arlong as his guide and used Geppo to race through the sea toward the Noah.
• Saint Dio found Vander Decken IX living aboard the Noah and learned that the Fish-Man had eaten the Mark-Mark Fruit.
• Vander Decken IX marked Saint Dio by shaking his hand, then attacked him with tracking weapons, but Saint Dio destroyed them and worked out the fruit's limits.
• Saint Dio used Jörmungandr to burst Vander Decken IX's bubble coating, leaving him powerless in the seawater until he died.
• Saint Dio extracted the Mark-Mark Fruit from Vander Decken IX's corpse and claimed it for himself.
• A huge dark-purple tentacle burst through the Noah's deck and swept toward Saint Dio, who dodged with Geppo.

Saint Dio defeated a giant octopus inside Noah and extracted the Mythical Zoan Kraken fruit, while also obtaining the Mark-Mark Fruit he had sought. He gave the Mark-Mark Fruit to Mumei, whose weapon-and-tracking combination showed promise, but Saint Dio recognized that she would need stronger weapons to threaten Haki users.

• Saint Dio summoned Jörmungandr to fight the giant octopus in Noah, and the serpent killed it by tearing out one of its eyes.
• Saint Dio extracted the Octopus-Octopus Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Kraken from the octopus and concluded that aquatic creatures could yield Devil Fruits.
• Saint Dio stored the Mark-Mark Fruit in a silver ring and gave it to Mumei, who already had the Pocket-Pocket Fruit.
• Mumei tested her new tracking power by marking Marigold and throwing curved blades that pursued her, but Marigold blocked them with Armament Haki.
• Saint Dio judged that Mumei needed more powerful weapons and considered Vegapunk, though he expected the Five Elders would reject a meeting request.

Saint Dio turned a Mythical Zoan Octopus Fruit into a giant transforming sword, named it Kraken, and then prepared to leave Fish-Man Island for Wano Country. Before departing, he took Shyarly along with Stussy after Arlong reluctantly gave permission, but Shyarly realized she could not walk on land because she had a mermaid’s tail.

• Saint Dio fused the Kraken Fruit into a deep-sea sword, transformed it into a giant octopus, and named the weapon Kraken.
• After several days on Fish-Man Island, Saint Dio told Stussy to prepare their departure for Wano Country.
• Stussy invited Shyarly to see the human world, and Shyarly went to ask her brother Arlong for permission.
• Arlong threatened Shyarly’s human companion until Saint Dio appeared, and he reluctantly agreed to let Shyarly leave.
• Neptune and Queen Otohime saw Saint Dio off at the harbor, where Shyarly realized she could not board the ship on land because she had a fish tail.

Saint Dio's ship left Fish-Man Island with Shyarly aboard and used an Eternal Pose to set course for Wano Country. During the voyage, he trained Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold under added weight, then used the Kraken sword to break apart a ship-sized hailstone as the sisters helped defend the ship from falling ice.

• Stussy gave Shyarly a bubble that let her move above the sea, and Shyarly and Mumei became friends as the ship surfaced.
• Saint Dio showed Stussy an Eternal Pose for Wano Country that Saint Gunko had obtained in the Holy Knights' name, and Stussy directed the pirates to follow it.
• Saint Dio placed Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold under Jörmungandr's added weight and ordered them to train during the voyage.
• The ship endured violent New World storms, and Saint Dio resolved to reach Wano Country before turning his attention to building a fleet.
• When enormous hailstones began falling, Saint Dio used the Kraken sword's tentacles to shatter a block of ice, while Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold dealt with the falling fragments.

Saint Dio developed the Stamp-Stamp Fruit by engraving a Tongue-Cutting Curse Seal on his pirates, preventing them from revealing information about him. He reached Wano Country with his companions, leaving the sealed pirates behind, where King found them and began interrogating them.

• Saint Dio tested a Tongue-Cutting Curse Seal on a pirate and confirmed it paralyzed anyone who tried to disclose specified secrets.
• Saint Dio had Stussy apply the curse seal to the remaining pirates, then considered what other sealing techniques the Stamp-Stamp Fruit might reproduce.
• Saint Dio, Hancock, her sisters, Mumei, Shyarly, and Stussy flew over Wano Country's cliffs, leaving the pirate crew aboard their ship.
• King arrived on the abandoned ship and demanded to know who the pirates were and who their captain was.
• The curse seal stopped the pirates from answering, so King drew his katana and began cutting them down as he tried to force them to talk.

Stussy and Mumei infiltrated Wano Country to find a place for their group to stay, while Stussy gathered information and entered the daimyo's residence to steal local currency. The group waited in the woods as Stussy explored the residence and mapped its defenses.

• King ordered the captured pirates imprisoned alive and flew to Wano Country to report the disturbance to his captain.
• Stussy and Mumei changed into kimonos and went to infiltrate a nearby town, while the rest of Saint Dio's group stayed hidden in the woods.
• Shyarly made flower wreaths for Hancock, Sandersonia, Marigold, and Saint Dio, who accepted hers and praised it.
• Stussy and Mumei learned they were in Ringo and that Shimotsuki Ushimaru was the local daimyo.
• Stussy flew into the daimyo's residence as a bat, memorized its layout and guard routines, and entered the storehouse.

Stussy gathered money and clothes in town while Mumei learned that the Beasts Pirates were searching for outsiders on King’s orders. Saint Dio’s group prepared to enter the city, but their stolen carriage proved too heavy for its horses to pull.

• Stussy took enough currency from the Daimyo’s Residence to order plain kimonos and rented an inn, while Mumei bought a candied apple.
• Mumei saw the Beasts Pirates searching for suspicious outsiders, and Shimotsuki samurai drove them away from the street.
• A giant bear attacked Saint Dio’s group in the forest, and Sandersonia killed it with her naginata.
• Stussy returned with the kimonos, dressed Saint Dio and helped Hancock put hers on, then reported the Beasts Pirates’ search.
• Mumei revealed that she had defeated bandits and taken their carriage, and the group boarded it to travel into town.
• Sandersonia and Marigold tried to pull the heavily loaded carriage, but the horses could not move it.

Saint Dio arrived in Wano Country to learn Ryuo and pursue the Devil Fruits in the Flower Capital, leaving Hancock and the others training at a dojo in Ringo. In the Flower Capital, his carriage was stopped by Kozuki Oden dancing in the street, and Saint Dio dismissed the sight as ugly.

• Saint Dio settled Hancock, Mumei, Sandersonia, and Marigold at a reputable dojo in Ringo to study Haki.
• Saint Dio traveled with Stussy to the Flower Capital, where he planned to watch for the Devil Fruits he sought.
• Saint Dio observed the Flower Capital’s crowded, colorful streets and remarked that Kurozumi Orochi had influenced the city’s aesthetic.
• Kozuki Oden blocked the carriage’s path by dancing half-naked in the street, and Saint Dio called the sight ugly.

Saint Dio sought out samurai in the Flower Capital to learn Ryuo through combat, and his fight with a skilled enforcer let him understand how Haki could flow through a weapon and strike through defenses. He broke the samurai’s sword with a Ryuo-infused punch, leaving his opponent facing another blow.

• Saint Dio dismissed Kozuki Oden as foolish for trusting Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi instead of resisting them.
• Saint Dio went into the Flower Capital at night to provoke samurai into fights so he could learn Ryuo through experience.
• A wary samurai confronted Saint Dio in an alley and struck his Haki-coated arm, letting him feel Ryuo’s penetrating force.
• Saint Dio fought the samurai, deliberately meeting his blade with his fists as he studied the flow of the man’s Haki.
• After several failed attempts, Saint Dio gathered Haki into his fist and broke the samurai’s sword with a punch.
• The samurai stared at his broken blade as Saint Dio’s fist rushed toward him.

Saint Dio honed his Ryuo by attacking samurai as the Flower Capital’s mysterious Night Owl, while the resulting decline in visitors and courtesans drew Kurozumi Orochi’s attention. Kaido and Orochi agreed to cooperate, and after learning that outsiders had infiltrated Wano Country, Kaido ordered King to hunt Night Owl and capture him if he was one of them.

• Saint Dio fought samurai across the Flower Capital for a month, improving his Ryuo and earning the name Night Owl.
• As samurai and courtesans left the Flower Capital, Kurozumi Orochi learned the cause and demanded that Night Owl be found.
• Kaido proposed building arms factories in Kuri, and Orochi agreed to provide the land in exchange for thirty percent of the profits.
• King showed Orochi a pirate flag from a ship found near Wano Country and reported that its captain and other key crew members had infiltrated the country.
• Orochi ordered the daimyo and magistrates to assist the Beasts Pirates’ search, then suggested that Night Owl might be an outsider.
• Kaido assigned King to find Night Owl, ordering him to capture the man if he was an outsider and dispose of him otherwise.

Saint Dio fought King in the Flower Capital, matching the Beasts Pirates All-Star’s attacks with Kraken’s ink powers and provoking him instead of answering questions about his identity. As their battle escalated, Kaido transformed into a dragon and flew toward the fight, while Saint Dio’s copied attack held King’s flames at bay.

• Saint Dio defeated a samurai in an alley before King attacked him from the sky with a laser, and Dio dodged it.
• King dived at Saint Dio, who blocked his wing strike with Jörmungandr and countered with Kraken’s tentacles.
• Saint Dio pursued King into the air and used an ink attack to overwhelm his flaming bullets, forcing King to evade.
• King questioned Saint Dio about his allegiance and the pirate ship near Wano, but Dio gave deliberately evasive answers.
• King transformed into human form and charged his katana with flames as Kaido drank sake, transformed into an azure dragon, and flew toward the battle.
• King launched his Fire Dragon Emperor, and Saint Dio answered with a matching Black Dragon Emperor that clashed evenly with the flaming dragons.

Saint Dio challenged Kaido after the Emperor arrived and rejected his offer to join the Beasts Pirates. Their battle escalated until Kaido used Conqueror’s Coating, and his attack sent Saint Dio crashing into a cliff.

• Kaido arrived in his Azure Dragon Form and agreed to fight Saint Dio after learning he was a Celestial Dragon.
• Kaido attacked with Bolo Breath, but Jörmungandr shielded Saint Dio and withstood the flames.
• Kaido used Blast Breath, damaging Jörmungandr’s scales, and Jörmungandr burrowed underground to escape the wind blades.
• King warned Kaido that Jörmungandr’s tunneling could destroy Wano Country, so Kaido ordered Saint Dio to stop it.
• Saint Dio agreed to stop Jörmungandr if Kaido used Conqueror’s Coating, and Kaido attacked with Conquest of the Sea: Three Realms Ragnaraku.
• Saint Dio clashed with Kaido’s spiked club using Kraken and Ryuo, but Kaido’s force overwhelmed him and hurled him into a distant cliff.

Saint Dio defeated Jack with Jörmungandr and Kraken, then reached an agreement to work with Kaido in Wano Country. Kaido invited him to drink, while King and Jack left angry about the partnership.

• Jack arrived with Beasts Pirates and ordered them to dig Saint Dio out of the rubble, but Saint Dio emerged unharmed and unleashed Kraken's full form.
• Jack transformed into a mammoth and charged Kraken, but Jörmungandr burst from underground and seized him in its jaws.
• Kaido and King arrived, and Kaido proposed working with Saint Dio after Saint Dio warned that his beasts could damage Wano Country.
• Saint Dio agreed to the partnership and had Jörmungandr release Jack, who returned to human form covered in corrosive wounds.
• Kaido transformed into a dragon and invited Saint Dio to drink, while King departed silently and Jack went to the prison to vent his anger.