Chapter Summaries

Kakarot and his companions befriended Gancho and Gan'er, learned about the Tontatta Tribe on Green Bit, and helped treat their sick chief. After crossing the Fighting Fish-infested bridge and visiting the village, they celebrated with the Tontattas before returning to Dressrosa.

• Kakarot got his wallet back from Gancho and Gan'er, then invited them to a meal and learned about their home on Green Bit.
• Gancho told Kakarot that the Tontattas had come to Dressrosa to find medicine for their sick chief, so Yueli bought medicine and the group gathered supplies.
• Kakarot and his companions crossed the suspension bridge while evading or fending off the attacking Fighting Fish, then followed Gancho and Gan'er to the Tontatta village.
• Yueli examined the chief and gave him medicine, after which the Tontattas welcomed Kakarot and his companions with a banquet and dancing.
• Kakarot and his companions said goodbye to the Tontattas and returned to Dressrosa, where they rested at an inn.

Kakarot and his companions attended Kyros's 1,000th duel, a ten-man arena championship, where he met the young Viola and listened as she spoke about Kyros and her sister. The tournament was about to begin as Kakarot and Viola chatted in the stands.

• Kakarot's group entered the crowded arena and joined Nasha and her companions in their saved seats.
• Kakarot noticed Viola sitting beside Slade and switched seats with him to sit near her.
• The announcer introduced the ten gladiators, including Kyros, and the crowd cheered them as they entered the arena.
• Kakarot asked Viola why she was cheering for Kyros, and she claimed her family was nearby.
• Viola relaxed and told Kakarot about Kyros's exploits and her older sister as the tournament prepared to begin.

The ten-man championship began at Dressrosa's Corrida Colosseum as Kyros defeated several gladiators and drew the crowd's attention. The Observation Haki fighter, Talick, and Telas teamed up to surround Kyros, setting up their attack.

• Talick opened the match by striking a gladiator with his greatsword and driving him backward.
• Kyros seized an opening and sent a gladiator flying out of the fighting area with a fast sword thrust.
• Telas wounded a gladiator with a surprise strike, while the Observation Haki fighter defeated another opponent with a counterattack.
• Viola told Kakarot that the Observation Haki fighter had nearly defeated Kyros before, but Kakarot confidently backed Kyros.
• Kyros defeated several gladiators in succession and became the focus of the spectators' cheers.
• The Observation Haki fighter, Talick, and Telas joined forces and surrounded Kyros.

Kyros fought Talick, Telas, and a Gladiator who used Observation Haki in the ten-man championship, struggling under their coordinated attacks until his Observation Haki improved and he turned the battle around. He defeated Talick and the other Gladiator, then disarmed Telas and held his blade to Telas's throat.

• Talick, Telas, and the Gladiator who used Observation Haki attacked Kyros together, wounding him and forcing him onto the defensive.
• Kakarot reassured Viola that Kyros's Observation Haki was about to break through, and Kyros sharpened his perception while searching for an opening.
• Kyros exploited a lapse in the Gladiators' coordination, struck the Gladiator who used Observation Haki, and kicked Talick down when he rushed to help.
• Kyros unleashed his Armament Haki and fought Telas and the Gladiator who used Observation Haki until he knocked the Gladiator's sword away and kicked him to the ground.
• Kyros disarmed Telas and pressed his blade against Telas's throat.

Kyros won his 1,000th consecutive match and was named the Corrida Colosseum’s King of the Arena. As Viola left to tell her sister Scarlet, the Bloodthirsty Pirates abducted her, but Kakarot sensed her despair and caught up with them.

• Kyros won his 1,000th consecutive victory, and the announcer declared him the Corrida Colosseum’s King of the Arena.
• Viola celebrated with Kakarot and his companions, then hurried off to tell her sister Scarlet about Kyros’s victory.
• Mad Blood Fini and the Bloodthirsty Pirates ambushed Viola and dragged her into an alley, planning to ransom her for Dressrosa’s Devil Fruit.
• Kakarot sensed Viola’s despair, pursued the pirates, and ordered them to let her go.
• Kakarot unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, immobilizing the pirates except for Fini and knocking some unconscious.

Kakarot defeated Bloodmad Fini after shielding Viola and the pirates from Fini’s corrosive blood, then freed Viola and brought her back to the arena. The others comforted Viola and reacted angrily to the kidnapping, while Viola kept looking at Kakarot with gratitude and admiration.

• Bloodmad Fini attacked Kakarot with fists and blades, but Kakarot evaded his strikes and landed a punch on his back.
• Fini cut his arms and sprayed corrosive blood at Kakarot, who raised an Armament Haki shield to protect himself, the pirates, and Viola.
• Kakarot struck Fini with a Tailed Beast Ball and followed up with a blow to the head, knocking him unconscious.
• Kakarot untied Viola and took her back to the arena.
• Lilith, Lina, Vian, Emily, Iris, Yingyue, Nasha, and the others gathered around Viola, comforted her, and expressed anger at the pirates.

Kakarot visited Kyros and warned him that Dressrosa could face a change of royal family, then gave him training materials to prepare for future danger. Kyros accepted the manual and began reading its ideological program after Kakarot left.

• Kakarot found the wounded Kyros resting alone and asked why he stayed in the arena after earning his freedom.
• Kyros explained that King Riku had spared him and that he stayed to become stronger; Kakarot warned that Dressrosa's royal family might be replaced.
• Kakarot overwhelmed Kyros with his Conqueror's Haki and revealed that they were both sixteen, urging Kyros to train with proper methods.
• Kakarot gave Kyros a manual on the Navy's Six Powers, Haki, and Martial Arts Will, and Kyros vowed to grow stronger and remember the favor.
• After Kakarot left, Kyros opened the manual's Ideological Program and read its opening line about comrades sharing the same ideals.

Kakarot joined Viola and his companions on a visit to the royal palace, then met King Riku to warn him that the Donquixote Family would one day overthrow his rule and bring suffering to Dressrosa. King Riku took the warning seriously and asked what Kakarot knew.

• Viola invited Kakarot and his companions to the palace, and they traveled with her to the King's Plateau.
• Kakarot asked Viola to have a guard take him to King Riku while she led the others to the sunflower field.
• Kakarot introduced himself to King Riku and explained that he had met Viola at the Corrida Colosseum.
• Kakarot told King Riku that the Donquixote Family would overthrow his rule and plunge Dressrosa into suffering.
• King Riku grew serious and asked Kakarot what he knew.

Kakarot warned King Riku that Doflamingo would eventually target Dressrosa and offered to help protect it. In the sunflower field, Hades shared his hopes for the future as Kakarot relaxed and felt his Observation Haki deepen.

• Kakarot told King Riku how Doflamingo abandoned his Celestial Dragon status, killed his father, and founded the Donquixote Pirates.
• King Riku realized Doflamingo would target Dressrosa, and Kakarot gave him a Den Den Mushi number and advised him to strengthen Kyros and recruit arena fighters.
• Kakarot joined Hades, Simba, Ailik, and the others in the sunflower field behind the palace.
• Hades said that traveling with Kakarot had shown him more of the world and that he wanted to help build the society described in Kakarot's book.
• Kakarot promised to build a world-famous arena, then relaxed among the sunflowers as his mind grew clear.

After rescuing Viola, Kakarot joined King Riku’s banquet and accepted the Devil Fruit offered in thanks, identifying it as the Stone-Stone Fruit. He directed Scarlet to give it to Kyros so it could help protect Dressrosa.

• Kakarot’s Observation Haki expanded as he relaxed with his companions, and Lilith led everyone to the palace for a meal.
• Scarlet thanked Kakarot for saving Viola and accompanied him to the dining room, where King Riku welcomed him and expressed his gratitude.
• King Riku revealed that the Bloodthirsty Pirates had kidnapped Viola for a Devil Fruit and offered the fruit to Kakarot as thanks.
• Kakarot used his Observation Haki to identify the Devil Fruit as the Paramecia-type Stone-Stone Fruit.
• Kakarot accepted the fruit and asked Scarlet to give it to Kyros, and King Riku agreed.
• Kakarot and his companions feasted with the royal family, eating more than five hundred people’s worth of food.

Kakarot and his crew said goodbye to Viola and set sail from Dressrosa, choosing a course at random. Three days later, they spotted the Superhuman Pirates, and Kakarot prepared the crew for their first pirate encounter.

• Kakarot carried Viola to see the Yanhuang Dragon Soul, then said goodbye as the ship departed Dressrosa.
• Viola watched the ship disappear and returned to the palace, while Kyros resolved to leave the Corrida Colosseum and grow stronger after reading Kakarot’s Ideological Program.
• Nasha explained how Dressrosa’s surrounding magnetic fields created several routes, and Kakarot chose one by instinct.
• After three days at sea, Iris spotted a pirate ship, and Lilith, Vian, Emily, and Yingyue eagerly prepared to fight.
• Iris identified the approaching crew as the Superhuman Pirates and described their captain Hadro, vice-captain Harlock, and officers; Kakarot reassured everyone that he and Hades could handle them.

Kakarot and his companions attacked Hadro’s pirate ship, where Kakarot fought Hadro and his clones while Hades was trapped by a Slow-Slow Beam. After Lina and Iris helped protect him, Hades broke free and killed the officer, while the battle continued around them.

• Hadro ordered his crew to attack Kakarot’s approaching ship, and Kakarot led his companions toward the pirates while assigning Iris and Emily to provide aerial support.
• Kakarot’s Tailed Beast Balls overwhelmed Harlock’s sword slashes, but Harlock and a Great Swordmaster stopped the attacks before Kakarot reached Hadro.
• Kakarot struck Hadro through the ship, then battled the captain and eight clones created by Hadro’s Clone-Clone Fruit.
• A pirate officer hit Hades with a Slow-Slow Beam, while an invisible officer tried to attack him and Iris warned the others about the threat.
• Lina kept the Slow-Slow officer occupied until the beam wore off, and Hades used Conqueror’s Haki and gravity to pin the exhausted officer before crushing his head.

Athena and Vian fought powerful pirate swordsmen while Slade and the others defeated the crew’s remaining fighters. After Vian broke through to Great Swordmaster, Hadro absorbed his clones and overwhelmed Kakarot, then confronted Hades and offered the crew a chance to join him.

• Athena wounded Harlock until he could no longer fight, while Vian and Yingyue battled a pirate Great Swordmaster.
• Slade killed three pirates with his enormous axe as Lilith and the others finished off the remaining crew members.
• Vian defeated the pirate Great Swordmaster and broke through to Great Swordmaster herself.
• Hadro absorbed nine clones, greatly increasing his strength, and then beat Kakarot into the sea.
• Hades stepped in front of the others to confront Hadro, who offered to spare them if they joined him.

Kakarot recovered from his injuries and fought Hadro at sea until the full moon let him transform into a Great Ape and overpower him. He brought the unconscious Hadro back to the ship, where an invisible pirate surrendered.

• Kakarot recovered from his injuries and attacked Hadro with Vast Sea Fist Intent, while Hadro defended himself and the battle churned the sea around the pirate ship.
• As night fell, Kakarot saw the full moon and transformed into a Great Ape while retaining his consciousness.
• Kakarot struck Hadro into the sea, chased him down when he fled, and dragged him back into the water, where Hadro lost consciousness after his Devil Fruit power stopped working.
• Kakarot returned to the ship with Hadro alive and told Lina he intended to use him before killing him.
• Emily told Kakarot that an invisible Devil Fruit User remained aboard, and the man revealed himself and surrendered before Hades could use gravity on the ship.

Kakarot and his crew searched a captured pirate ship and found treasure, Seastone Handcuffs, and two Devil Fruits. After identifying one as the Dalmatian Fruit, Kakarot sensed that the other was a Mythical Zoan Dragon-Dragon Fruit, which seemed to be drawing Lilith to it.

• Kakarot spared the pirate Xiluo but kept him under watch while Iris went to bring their ship alongside.
• Lilith, Vian, Emily, Yingyue, and Lina discovered a chest of jewels, while Vian found another chest filled with Seastone Handcuffs that Kakarot used to subdue Xiluo.
• Kakarot opened the last chest and found two Devil Fruits; Xiluo said the pirates had stolen them from a merchant ship and identified one as a Dalmatian Zoan.
• Kakarot used his Observation Haki to confirm the Dalmatian Fruit and sensed a powerful dragon within the other fruit.
• Kakarot identified the second fruit as a Mythical Zoan Dragon-Dragon Fruit, and Lilith celebrated after feeling drawn to it.

Lilith showed off her new Void Ancient Dragon abilities and teased Lina about her closeness to Kakarot, stirring Lina’s doubts about her feelings for him. Meanwhile, Kakarot injected three unconscious pirates with blood infused with his Ideological Program and waited to see whether they would become loyal to him.

• Lilith clung to Kakarot and celebrated her ability to control space, but Lina scolded her for playing a prank and warned her to be less intimate with Kakarot.
• Lina privately questioned whether she had fallen for Kakarot, while Iris observed that Lina still struggled to face her feelings.
• Kakarot collected his blood and infused it with his will and the Ideological Program, naming it Advanced Blood.
• Kakarot injected Hadro, Harlock, and Xiluo with Advanced Blood, then moved them onto the deck to await the results.
• Emily asked Kakarot about the pirates, and he said they would see what happened after they woke; the crew then gathered for a meal.

Kakarot used his blood and Observation Haki to imprint revolutionary ideology on injured pirates, turning Xiluo remorseful and planning to recruit them against the World Government. The Yanhuang Dragon Soul approached Dream Island, while Kakarot asked Nasha which waters they were in.

• Xiluo awoke overwhelmed with remorse, and Kakarot urged him to atone by devoting himself to the revolution.
• Kakarot explained that he had infused his blood with the Ideological Program and used Observation Haki to imprint its ideas on the pirates; he planned to recruit them as comrades.
• Kakarot noted that Lilith had reached roughly Admiral-level strength and vowed to find Devil Fruits for his companions before challenging the World Government.
• The Yanhuang Dragon Soul neared Dream Island, where Dream Fantasy City drew visitors to its Ascension Hot Spring and the old tour guide Zhebo welcomed newcomers.
• That night, Kakarot and his companions played a board game aboard the ship, and he asked Nasha which waters they were in.

Kakarot and his companions arrived at the colorful Dream Fantasy City, where they eagerly began exploring. As they admired the city, an old man named Zhebo approached them, while an unsettling presence lingered around their ship.

• After days at sea, Emily spotted an island, and Nasha identified a prosperous city ahead.
• The Yanhuang Dragon Soul reached Dream Island, whose rainbow-stone city captivated the crew and subtly affected their minds.
• Nasha said she had never heard of Dream Fantasy City, and Hadro, Harlock, and Xiluo volunteered to guard the ship.
• Kakarot and his companions went ashore and explored the colorful streets and shops.
• When the group noticed unusually tall, tattooed dockworkers, Zhebo explained that their designs were traditional and asked whether the visitors were new to the city.

Kakarot and his companions toured Dream Fantasy City with Zhebo, sampling local foods and buying souvenirs before heading to the famous hot spring hotel. Zhebo secretly tried to overwhelm them with nightmare aura, focusing on Kakarot, while Lilith remained partly resistant without realizing she was being influenced.

• Kakarot paid Zhebo to guide the group around Dream Fantasy City, and Zhebo explained how visitors were drawn to the island and kept from spreading news of it.
• Zhebo described the Ascension Hot Spring and showed the group local specialties, including seven-flavor fruit, dream pearls, and rainbow cakes.
• After buying souvenirs, Lilith suggested they take their belongings to the hot spring hotel, and Kakarot asked Zhebo to lead them there.
• Zhebo privately recognized that Kakarot resisted his mental influence and began concentrating nightmare aura on him.
• The group admired the rainbow-stone hotel as the aura thickened, while Lilith's purple dragon eyes retained some clarity.

Kakarot and his companions checked into Dream Fantasy City's Hot Spring Hotel and relaxed in its private springs, unaware that the colored mist was spreading over them. Troius Jeno and Zhebo watched the nightmare aura take hold and decided to hold Nightmare Day the next day.

• Zhebo parted from Kakarot and his companions, then looked toward the Hot Spring Hotel as Troius Jeno waited inside and called Kakarot delicious prey.
• Kakarot and the others entered the hotel, admired its décor, and booked more than a dozen luxury suites.
• Kakarot's group and Lilith's group split across the private hot spring, where the soothing water and Dream Fantasy Flower fragrance relaxed them.
• Lilith felt a slight weakness when she entered the spring but soon focused on its comfort, while the others soaked and chatted.
• Multicolored mist and nightmare aura spread over Kakarot and the others without their noticing or reacting.
• Troius Jeno and Zhebo were satisfied with the aura's spread, and Zhebo told City Lord Jeno they would hold Nightmare Day the next day.