Recaps

Dill’s crew landed on the island and quickly defeated four female warriors, whom they tied up while seeking information about a guarded stone. As Dill tried to question Guerrero, a larger group of islanders arrived and offered to talk.

• Guerrero warned Dill’s approaching ship to turn away, but Dill ordered his crew to prepare to capture the islanders alive.
• Narcissa broke Guerrero’s spear and defeated her, while the other three female warriors were also subdued.
• Dill ordered the four captives brought aboard and questioned Guerrero about her name and the stone, but she repeatedly told him to kill her.
• Around fifty more female islanders emerged from the forest, and one called out that they could talk.

Dill negotiated with acting clan leader Sally to see the Moriju Clan’s Poneglyph, agreeing to take the clan’s children away while leaving hostages aboard his ship. Robin reached the stone and began translating its inscription, leaving Sally astonished that she could read it.

• Dill offered to make a rubbing of the Poneglyph, and Sally agreed in exchange for food and for him to take the children away.
• After learning the ship was five days from Cologne Island, Sally gave up on asking for food, and Dill required hostages before she led him to the stone.
• Sally sent forty-one women aboard as hostages, then guided Dill, Robin, Hina, and the remaining sailors into the forest.
• Robin found the Poneglyph and touched it, while Dill tried unsuccessfully to bite through the stone.
• Robin began translating the inscription, and Sally was shocked that she could read it.

Dill and Robin finished copying the Poneglyph and followed Sally toward her tribe, but they discovered a huge yak nearby and learned the tribe was suffering from a deadly illness. Sally revealed that the disease affected men most severely, prompting many of them to change sex to survive.

• Robin translated the Poneglyph, made a rubbing, and committed its inscription to memory.
• Dill agreed to take the tribe’s children away, and the group headed through the forest with Sally leading them.
• Robin spotted a long-haired yak, so Dill sent her, Hina, and five sailors back to the ship for safety.
• Sally explained that the tribe’s adults had fallen ill after eating a strange fish, while the children and elderly remained healthy.
• Sally said the elderly refused to leave because of ancestral teachings, and Dill learned that the disease killed men quickly, leading most of the tribe’s men to change sex.

Dill learned how Morisou's Favor changed people’s sex and saw how former men continued to oppress women in the Morisou Tribe. When a white yak attacked the settlement, Dill sent Narcissa to evacuate the children and prepared to fight it himself.

• Sally showed Dill Morisou's Favor, a green disc that changed a person's sex, and led him to the Morisou Tribe's camp.
• Sally explained that men who had changed sex still looked down on women, and that she had become chief to keep them from oppressing the women.
• Sally gathered the children and told them Dill could take them somewhere with food and water.
• A white yak charged the camp, and Dill told Narcissa and the sailors to lead the children toward the shore.
• Sally offered to stay behind and buy time, but Dill refused, erupted in flames, and warned her to avoid the crossfire.

Dill killed the yak that had been hunting the Morisou Tribe and learned that it blamed them for accidentally changing its mate into a bull. He left with Sally and a group of children, then returned to the ship, where Robin said she might be able to cure the tribe’s disease.

• Dill set the yak’s long hair on fire, climbed onto its back, and tore out part of its spine, killing it.
• Dill and the tribe put out the remaining fires, and he shared the yak meat with them.
• Sally explained that Forest’s Favor had accidentally turned the yak’s mate from female to male during mating, leading the original bull to hunt the tribe.
• Sally declined to leave but let Dill take the children, and she accompanied them to the ship because hostages were still aboard.
• Robin asked about Dill’s bloodied appearance, heard what had happened, and said she might be able to cure the tribe’s disease.

Robin discovered that apples could cure the Moriju Clan’s muscle-dissolving illness, giving Sally hope that the adults and children could return home. After Sally gave Robin Morisou’s Favor, Hina accidentally changed into a boy and panicked, while Sally asked Robin to take some children who wanted to leave.

• Robin read aloud that apples neutralized the toxin causing muscle dissolution, and Dill arranged for apples to be delivered from Cologne Island.
• Robin explained the cure to Sally, who realized the Moriju Clan’s adults could recover and the children might return home.
• Sally gave Robin Morisou’s Favor and described how its power had enabled discrimination against women in the tribe.
• Robin accidentally held Morisou’s Favor against Hina’s forehead long enough to turn her into a boy, and Hina cried that she did not want to become a man.
• Sally explained how Hina could change back, and Robin reassured her that holding the favor in her hand would not trigger another transformation.
• Robin suggested returning the children to the island because the ship lacked room, and Sally asked her to take some children who wanted to leave.

Dill recruited warriors from the Morisou Tribe while building belief in his many abilities, and fought the island’s second giant yak. Robin reported Crocodile’s defeat by Whitebeard, but Dill dismissed its importance to West Blue; the chapter ended with the apple ship arriving after several peaceful days.

• Robin planned to send the children and other recruits to Cologne Island to join Karin’s ranks, while Sally took most of the children back to the tribe.
• At the beach party, the boatswain danced with Guerrero, and later Dill made Guerrero listen to his list of desired abilities before sending for the next person.
• By noon the next day, Dill had five more warriors under his command and fought the second white yak, eventually pulling out its spine after an hour.
• Robin gave Dill Morisou’s Favor and told him Crocodile had challenged Whitebeard and lost; Dill said the news would not affect West Blue.
• Dill, Hina, and Robin settled into a routine of hunting, training, hypnotizing recruits, and teaching the tribe, while Dill demonstrated his abilities to encourage belief.
• After several peaceful days, the ship carrying apples arrived.

Dill met with Geno on Cologne Island and reviewed plans to build his reputation through schools, newspapers, rumors, and comics. He then helped reverse the tribe’s transformation, while Sally prepared to leave and challenged Greber to take the Moriju Clan out to sea if he wanted to punish her.

• Dill welcomed Brandon and Geno to Cologne Island, then told Geno to deliver apples to the tribe and update him on their projects.
• Geno reported that the school had opened, the newspaper was starting, the rumor campaign was progressing, and the West Blue news outlet relied on a giant Den Den Mushi rather than a branch chief.
• Dill considered using schools and stories to spread frightening tales about Kali Dill and planned to find comic artists to create a hero comic.
• Dill and Robin went to the Morisou Tribe, where Dill treated patients and restored the men with apples and Morisou’s Favor.
• Sally told Hina she planned to leave rather than let the Moriju Clan split over her actions, and explained why she opposed women becoming men.
• Sally placed Morisou’s Favor on Greber and challenged him to lead the tribe out of the forest and onto the seas if he wanted to punish her.

Sally and the Morisou Tribe’s children and loyal adults joined Dill’s crew as the ships left the island for Cologne Island. Dill planned a relaxing trip with Robin and Hina, but Bege’s call announced that he had kidnapped a prince.

• Greber accepted that Sally was leaving and went into the forest to set traps for the tribe.
• Sally gave Morisou’s Favor back to Dill, and she and Narcissa celebrated their plans to travel together.
• Dill met privately with a newcomer, and by morning the outsiders aboard the Apple Ship had become their own people.
• Fifty-seven children and twenty-five adults prepared to leave with Dill, while he arranged food for the Morisou Tribe’s remaining hunters.
• Dill, Robin, and Hina discussed traveling and their dreams as the two ships sailed away from the island.
• Bege called Dill and announced that he had kidnapped a prince.

Dill learned that Bege had kidnapped a crown prince and agreed to help, despite wanting to enjoy his free time. After leaving Narcissa’s cargo ship with Robin and Hina, he boarded a passenger ship bound for the island where Gunpowder and Boren were waiting.

• Bege told Dill that he had kidnapped a crown prince and gave him the location where Gunpowder and Boren were waiting.
• Dill agreed to help Bege and planned to find a submarine builder in the North Blue after the operation.
• Robin said they would travel to a small island near Thriller Bark, and she teased Hina about ghosts and vampires until Hina asked to withdraw.
• Three days later, Dill, Robin, and Hina parted ways with Narcissa’s cargo ship, changed their faces, and boarded a passenger ship.
• Dill and the others settled into a luxury suite for the two-day voyage to Mist Island.

Dill, Robin, and Hina arrived at Mist Island and traveled through its dangerous fog to find Gunpowder and Boren. There, Dill met a shy boy whose father had marked him with a symbol of a king, and asked whether he trusted him.

• Dill spent two days aboard the passenger ship sampling food and searching for a familiar shaved head, but he did not find him.
• Robin told Dill and Hina that they were nearing Mist Island, near Thriller Bark.
• Hina feared a floating figure at the harbor was a ghost, but Dill pointed out that it was a person under a sheet.
• Dill, Robin, and Hina bought demon masks and took a dog-drawn carriage to the Mist Forest, where they followed its boundary rope to Gunpowder and Boren's tent.
• Dill met a boy with a stitched-looking symbol on his forehead, examined its design, and asked whether the boy trusted him.

Dill learned that Wolf Vlad was the fugitive prince of the Trancy Kingdom and encouraged him to declare his determination to defeat Tia. Dill and his companions brought Vlad to Thriller Bark, where Robin’s disguise let him pass a search for the missing prince unnoticed.

• Vlad explained that Tia had seized the throne after the old king died, and that only Vlad’s living forehead mark could open the treasury’s secret chamber.
• Dill questioned Vlad about reclaiming the throne, then pushed him to loudly proclaim that he would defeat Tia and become king.
• Dill brought Vlad along, bought demon masks for the group, and boarded a passenger ship with his companions for Thriller Bark.
• At Thriller Bark’s harbor, Robin disguised all six travelers, allowing them to remove their masks without the soldiers recognizing Vlad.
• A soldier told the group that Earl Tia was offering fifty million Beli for Vlad and warned them about unusual activity in the western cemetery.

Dill and his companions began a plan to oppose Tia, using Vlad’s popularity to win support among the soldiers while Robin investigated strange reports at the cemetery. Robin’s team learned that real ghosts had appeared there two years earlier, and Hina spotted something behind a bereaved visitor.

• Dill and his companions agreed to infiltrate the palace, win over soldiers, and consider raising an army in Vlad’s name.
• A constable tried to frighten Dill but was hypnotized after Dill asked whether he trusted him.
• Dill began recruiting support with Vlad’s help, while Robin, Hina, Gunpowder, and Boren searched the cemetery for the source of unusual occurrences.
• A man in a top hat told Robin that gravestones had recently been cut with unusual precision and that real ghosts had appeared in the cemetery two years earlier.
• Hina pointed behind the man and shouted that she saw a ghost.

Robin and Hina searched Thriller Bark’s cemetery for the source of its ghosts and learned that gravestones had recently been damaged by an unknown force. Meanwhile, Dill investigated the island’s military forces and considered how to deal with the Blood Descendant Force, before Hina returned with news of their encounter.

• A ghost made a local man collapse into despair when he touched it, and Robin decided to investigate the ghosts’ source.
• Robin, Hina, Gunpowder, and Boren searched the cemetery, learned that gravestones had been cut the previous afternoon, and failed to catch any ghosts.
• Dill learned that Thriller Bark’s forces consisted of the Zombie Force, the Kappa Force, and the Blood Descendant Force, which had about two thousand members.
• Dill sent a zombie constable back to bring another recruit and wondered how many members of the Blood Descendant Force were enemies.
• Hina returned to Dill and announced that she and the others had encountered ghosts.

After luring Perona to a cemetery with teddy bears and food, Dill confronted her and tried to recruit her by offering a giant teddy bear. When an attacker raised a cleaver behind Perona, Dill rushed in to protect her and recognized the figure as a familiar bald monk.

• Hina told Dill and Robin about the ghosts she had seen in the cemetery, and Dill realized Perona might be nearby.
• Dill and Robin waited by a gravestone with a teddy bear and sandwich, hoping Perona would come to collect them.
• Perona took the teddy bear and sandwich, then followed Dill’s offer of a person-sized teddy bear with interest.
• Perona summoned Negative Hollows to take the large teddy bear, but Dill used flames to threaten it until she withdrew her ability.
• Dill warned Perona about an attacker behind her, then caught the attacker’s cleaver and recognized the bald monk holding it.

Dill protected Perona from an attack by the young Daz Bones, then convinced her to join him and Robin. The group returned to the inn, where Dill planned to tend to his wound in the morning and wondered why Daz Bones had targeted Perona.

• Daz Bones attacked Perona, but Dill blocked his blade and drove him off with electricity.
• Dill gave Perona the stuffed bear Kumashi, and she thanked him for saving her and agreed to help him.
• Perona told Dill that she had lived alone near the cemetery since she was three and had mistaken the island's costumed residents for monsters.
• Dill invited Perona to join him, promising her cute bears and bagel sandwiches, and Robin arrived to find him looking like a child abductor.
• Dill, Robin, and Perona returned to the inn, where Robin and Perona went to bathe while Dill rested and wondered why Daz Bones had attacked.

Dill learned that Mr. 1 had visited the cemetery and encountered Perona’s Negative Hollow, then decided to move the group closer to the harbor. The chapter ended when Vlad’s glowing forehead stitches triggered a transformation in his right arm.

• Dill woke beside Robin, washed up, bought breakfast, and asked Perona about Mr. 1.
• Perona recalled that Mr. 1 had searched the cemetery, chased her Negative Hollow, and cut up gravestones and her bananas.
• Dill reasoned that Mr. 1 was likely searching for someone or something and told the group to move to an inn near the harbor.
• Boren summoned Dill to the next room, where Vlad lay in pain and Gunpowder struggled to restrain Vlad’s beastlike, red-haired right arm.

Dill helped Vlad regain control of his transformed arm and learned that the stitches on Vlad’s forehead might be responsible. The group prepared to build support among the Kappa Army and Blood Descendant Army before attacking the palace, then ended the day at a restaurant.

• Dill, Gunpowder, and Boren restrained Vlad’s monstrous arm until Vlad focused on the stitches and returned it to normal.
• Dill took the group to an inn near the harbor, where Robin and Hina took Perona shopping while Dill and Vlad continued their control work.
• Dill learned from a Blood Descendant Army soldier that Tia had already recruited most of the army, and he planned to infiltrate both armies before attacking the royal capital.
• Dill suspected Tia feared Vlad might use the stitches to become a monster and decided the group would wait before storming the palace.
• Dill and the others ate at the town’s most luxurious restaurant, where Robin told Perona and Hina vampire stories and Boren suggested a poker game.

Dill and his allies prepared Prince Vlad’s return to power, and Vlad led the Kappa Army toward the palace to confront Earl Tia. The chapter ended as Vlad ordered his forces to open fire, while Tia’s defenders prepared to meet them.

• Dill healed his hand by eating and spent the following days taking control of soldiers from the Kappa Army and Blood Descendant Army.
• Vlad marched toward the palace with about eight hundred Kappa Army soldiers, declaring that Tia had murdered the former king and tried to assassinate him.
• Robin questioned Dill’s decision to make the march public, and Dill explained that it would build Vlad’s confidence and prestige.
• Hina asked Dill to leave her one soldier to fight, and he agreed as the procession swelled with supporters.
• Tia learned that the Zombie Army and Kappa Army headquarters would not reinforce him, and he ordered the Blood Descendant Army to march out and fight.
• Vlad raised his hand and shouted for his forces to open fire.

Dill used Perona’s Negative Hollow to cripple the Blood Descendant Army and help Vlad’s forces seize the palace. After finding Tia dead, Vlad was ambushed by Mr. 1, who fled when Vlad revealed his unexpected strength.

• Dill kept Perona, Robin, and Hina away from the battle, then directed Perona’s Negative Hollow through the Blood Descendant Army’s ranks.
• The Negative Hollow made the soldiers collapse in remorse, allowing Vlad and the Kappa Army to rout their opponents and enter the palace.
• The Kappa Army found Tia’s severed head, and Vlad ordered his soldiers to search for a shaved-headed boy without fighting him.
• Mr. 1 ambushed Vlad from the ceiling, but Vlad struck him aside with a transformed red arm.
• Mr. 1 dropped his stolen valuables and fled to avoid confronting the Negative Hollow.

Dill, Perona, and Vlad explored the castle’s hidden treasury and discovered a barrel of blood ink and a giant bone sword tied to the Wolf Family’s Devil Bloodline. Vlad learned he could shrink and wield the sword, while Dill reconsidered Vlad’s potential as a fighter; as they left, Vlad noticed Dill seemed to be floating.

• Perona’s Negative Hollow knocked Vlad and Mr. 1 down, and Dill sent the Kappa Army soldiers away before tending to Perona.
• Vlad led Dill and Perona through the castle’s hidden passages to the treasury and the secret chamber.
• Vlad touched the enormous bone sword, causing it to shrink into a normal-sized longsword that only he could hold without it expanding again.
• Vlad read a note explaining that blood ink sealed the Wolf Family’s Devil Bloodline and that the bone sword was made from a devil’s spine.
• Dill told Vlad to take the sword and leave, and Vlad noticed that Dill seemed to be floating ahead of him.

Dill helped Vlad decide to leave the kingdom’s administration to others and join the Marines, while he arranged new roles for Hina and the hypnotized prisoners. After Vlad’s coronation, Dill gained telepathic communication and used it to pester Robin for meat.

• Dill suggested Vlad become a Marine, and Vlad agreed after Dill promised to find someone else to manage the kingdom.
• Vlad announced the war’s outcome, and the people celebrated him as their new king.
• Dill hypnotized the Blood Descendant Army commander into attacking Hina, who defeated him with her Cage-Cage Fruit ability.
• Dill hypnotized Mr. 1 and the commander, then sent Mr. 1 away to eventually join Crocodile and pass Dill information.
• Vlad became king at the succession ceremony, and Dill gained the ability to communicate through thought.
• Dill silently approached Robin and telepathically repeated that he wanted meat, so Robin pushed him out with her ability and asked Vlad to order meat dishes.

After Vlad's coronation, Dill gained a series of new abilities, celebrated New Year's Eve with Robin and the others, and arranged for Vlad to govern Trancy while he trained. Dill then left Thriller Bark with the three little girls, bound for the North Blue.

• Dill gained several new abilities, including changing other people's sex, and learned Geno had mistakenly spread that ability as one of Dill's existing powers.
• Dill used Perona's Negative Hollow to weaken a visitor's will before offering him a chance to find meaning in life.
• Dill celebrated New Year's Eve with Robin, Hina, Perona, Gunpowder, and Boren, and stopped Hina from drinking champagne because she was a minor.
• Dill put Lake and other controlled officials in charge of governing the Trancy Kingdom while Vlad trained and delayed joining the Marines.
• Dill left Thriller Bark aboard a passenger ship with the three little girls, heading for the North Blue.

Dill asked Bege to find and kill Aimee, the gang boss who had tried to abduct him as a child, while the group traveled toward Mary Geoise. Bege reached West Red Port and boarded the elevator for the North Blue, beginning their ascent of the Red Line.

• Dill asked Bege to kill Aimee if he was still alive and explained that Aimee had tried to take him from his village when he was ten.
• Bege comforted Dill, then returned his consciousness to his real body, and Dill sent Hina to bed.
• Bege's passenger ship arrived at West Red Port, where he ignored the hawkers and headed to the elevators.
• Bege paid the fee and boarded the North Blue elevator with the others, which began climbing toward Mary Geoise.

Half a year after crossing the Red Line, Dill traveled around the North Blue with Robin, Hina, and Perona, using hypnotized rulers to search for Law's submarine. The search brought him face-to-face with the Red Hair Pirates.

• Bege escorted Dill and the others across the Red Line, then left them on a prosperous North Blue island with money and supplies.
• Bege hypnotized the passenger ship's captain, while Dill obtained a nautical chart and fell asleep after Robin urged him to rest.
• Bege parted ways with Dill and the others, returning to the West Blue to continue his efforts to unite the mafia.
• Dill and the others traveled from island to island, secretly controlling local rulers and having them search for the submarine.
• After half a year in the North Blue, Dill encountered the Red Hair Pirates.