Recaps

After receiving a year-end reward, Kazu strengthened his Conqueror’s Haki and tested its new coating technique with Muramasa over the sea. He returned to Water 7 to celebrate with his companions while Iceburg neared completion of the Blond Hair Pirates’ ship and worried that Tom would not change his mind.

• Carlmand and Behrens improved their Haki under Kazu’s guidance, while Robin and Makino awakened theirs more slowly.
• Kazu claimed a year-end reward that enhanced his Conqueror’s Haki and taught him several advanced techniques.
• Kazu teleported to a deserted stretch of sea, coated Muramasa with Conqueror’s Haki, and split the clouds with a Flying Slash.
• Kazu returned to the villa, told Carlmand and the others about his improved Haki, and agreed to celebrate with a banquet.
• Iceburg continued fitting out the nearly completed ship and worried that Tom would not relent before the opportunity to hand it over passed.

Kazu reviewed his Haki techniques while waiting for his new ship to be completed. Iceburg brought him to see the finished vessel, which Kazu loved and named the Divine Dragon.

• Kazu studied Conqueror's Haki Defense and Observation Haki Killer, concluding he needed to develop his Haki further before using them.
• Iceburg, worried about delaying the Blond Hair Pirates, visited Kazu and said the new ship had passed inspection.
• Kazu and his crew went with Iceburg to the temporary shipyard and admired the huge red-and-yellow vessel, built with dragon designs.
• Iceburg explained that the luxurious ship had cost eight billion Beli and offered to return the remaining money.
• Kazu named the ship the Divine Dragon and declared it their new vessel.

Kazu and the Blond Hair Pirates left Water 7 for the Sabaody Archipelago, while Sengoku monitored their movements and reinforced Marine defenses in the New World. When two pirate ships approached the Divine Dragon, Kazu ordered his crew to turn toward them and bring the ship alongside.

• The Blond Hair Pirates packed their belongings, left their villa key with Iceburg, raised their flag, and sailed from Water 7.
• Marine intelligence reported the crew's departure to Sengoku, who ordered continued surveillance and discussed reinforcing Sakazuki against rising pirate activity.
• Kazu and his crew enjoyed the luxurious voyage aboard the Divine Dragon for two days.
• Kazu spotted two pirate ships approaching from a nearby island, and his crew hurried out to see them.
• Kazu ordered the Divine Dragon to turn to port and bring the ship alongside the approaching pirates.

The Blond Hair Pirates confronted the Claude Pirates, who tried to flee after recognizing Kazu’s crew. Kazu sent Behrens to stop them, and Behrens destroyed the pirates and their ship with a Thunder Shot.

• David Claude mistook the Divine Dragon for an easy target, but his lookout recognized the Blond Hair Pirates and revealed Kazu’s 2.077 billion Beli bounty.
• Claude ordered his ships to turn around and flee, but Kazu told Behrens to pursue them and demonstrate the power of his Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Behrens transformed into lightning and caught up with the Claude Pirates’ ship.
• Claude ordered his crew to shoot Behrens, but their bullets passed through his Logia body without harming him.
• Behrens fired Thunder Shot, engulfing the Claude Pirates and reducing their ship to dust.

Behrens wiped out the remaining Claude Pirates with a lightning strike, then returned to the Divine Dragon and received more guidance from Kazu. The Blond Hair Pirates reached a heavily industrialized island, where the locals recognized their ship and made way as they entered town.

• Punk ordered the remaining Claude Pirates to fight after Behrens blocked their escape.
• Behrens destroyed their ship with Falling Thunder, coating his lightning with Armament Haki.
• Behrens complained that his opponents had been too weak, and Kazu scolded him for whining despite his training and powerful Devil Fruit.
• Kazu ordered the Divine Dragon to head for the steel town on the island ahead.
• The Blond Hair Pirates docked at the harbor, and onlookers realized the Claude Pirates had likely been defeated.
• Kazu and the others walked toward town as merchants, civilians, and pirates cleared their path.

Kazu and the Blond Hair Pirates explored Saierde and noticed the contrast between its thriving steel industry and the hardship of its commoners. Drew asked Kazu to help change the country, offering his shipwright skills, and Kazu left him to explain what he could provide.

• Kazu asked a young man about the town and learned it was Saierde, a steelmaking and shipbuilding center near Water 7.
• Kazu and his companions observed that Saierde's commoners lived poorly despite the town's heavy industry and suspected its rulers were wealthy.
• Drew approached Kazu and asked the Blond Hair Pirates to help his country, while his companions tried to pull him away.
• Drew refused to leave, saying Kazu was the chance to change Saierde, and offered to repair the pirates' ship for life as a shipwright.

Kazu heard Drew describe the crushing taxes and royal excesses suffered by Saierde’s commoners, then decided to act against King Chadrila’s regime. He called Dragon before setting the plan in motion.

• Kazu invited Drew and his two companions to a tavern to discuss Drew’s shipbuilding skills and background.
• Drew explained that Saierde’s commoners paid oppressive taxes, including fees for marrying and having children, while King Chadrila and the nobles lived extravagantly.
• Kazu, Carlmand, and Behrens became especially outraged by King Chadrila’s nearly hundred consorts and threatened to punish him.
• Kazu agreed to wipe out the ruling regime, then went aboard the Divine Dragon to call Dragon.
• Dragon answered the Den Den Mushi and recognized Kazu.

Kazu arranged with Monkey D. Dragon for the Revolutionary Army to be ready to take over Saierde three days after the Blond Hair Pirates strike at its king and nobles. Drew and his companions welcomed the plan, while Kazu and his crew spent the waiting period drinking and talking.

• Kazu told Dragon that the Blond Hair Pirates planned to kill Saierde's king and nobles, and Dragon agreed to prepare the Revolutionary Army to take over in three days.
• Kazu returned to the tavern and told Carlmand that the Revolutionary Army would be ready when the pirates acted.
• Kazu explained to Drew and his companions that Monkey D. Dragon led the Revolutionary Army, which overthrew corrupt rulers and installed leaders who served the people.
• Drew and his companions celebrated the plan, believing Saierde would be saved and its people's lives would improve.
• Kazu suggested that Drew and his companions show the pirates around during the next three days, while Carlmand joked about finding the red-light district.

Kazu and his companions confronted King Chadrila and the nobles gathered at the royal palace for their weekly banquet. Kazu used his new ability to transport them onto the street, where they landed in pain and confusion.

• Kazu agreed to let Carlmand and Behrens split from the group after they pleaded with him, while Drew directed them to the central shopping street.
• During the next three days, Kazu told Drew and the others stories about his adventures, and Drew resolved to avenge his parents with the Blond Hair Pirates’ help.
• Carlmand and Behrens returned to Saierde, and Drew, Kennira, and Maqian led the group toward the royal palace, where King Chadrila was holding a banquet for the nobles.
• Carlmand knocked down the ten guards at the palace entrance, and Kazu used Space Perspective to see the king and nobles indulging inside.
• Kazu used Space Swap to move King Chadrila and dozens of nobles from the palace to the street, leaving them sprawled outside.

Kazu and the Blond Hair Pirates killed King Chadrila and Saierde’s nobles, ending their rule and bringing hope to the common people. Kazu then invited Drew to join the crew as the Divine Dragon’s shipwright, and Drew accepted.

• Kazu used Conqueror’s Haki to knock out Chadrila and the nobles, then killed them with Space Piercing.
• Drew, Kennira, and Maqian thanked the Blond Hair Pirates, while Saierde’s commoners discovered the dead king and nobles and spread the news.
• Kazu invited Drew to join the Blond Hair Pirates and take responsibility for repairing the Divine Dragon.
• Kennira and Maqian encouraged Drew to leave Saierde and sail, and Drew entrusted the island to them.
• Drew accepted Kazu’s invitation and promised to keep the Divine Dragon sailing.

Drew joined Kazu’s crew, and the Divine Dragon sailed toward the Sabaody Archipelago. The Kuja Pirates spotted the ship, and Hancock ordered her crew to approach because she wanted to see Kazu.

• Drew said goodbye to Kennira and Maqian as the Divine Dragon left Saierde.
• Kazu and the crew held a welcome banquet for Drew and continued toward the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Two days later, the Kuja Pirates spotted the Divine Dragon and recognized the Blond Hair Pirates’ flag.
• Hancock ordered the Kuja Pirates to approach the Divine Dragon at full speed and went out on deck to see Kazu.
• Behrens spotted the Kuja ship, and Kazu realized it had likely crossed the Calm Belt.

Kazu met Boa Hancock at sea after dressing to impress her, and she asked why he had killed a Celestial Dragon. He answered that the Celestial Dragon had provoked him and declared that the Five Elders should fear him, leaving Hancock impressed by his confidence.

• Kazu ordered Behrens to watch the approaching Kuja Pirates without attacking, then changed into a red-and-gold outfit.
• Carlmand, Drew, Makino, and Robin came onto the deck as the Kuja Pirates approached the Divine Dragon.
• Kazu addressed Hancock and asked whether she had come to fight the Blond Hair Pirates.
• Hancock approached Kazu on Salome and asked why he had killed a Celestial Dragon and whether he feared the World Government.
• Kazu said the Celestial Dragon had given him cause to kill him and challenged the Five Elders to fear his arrival at Mary Geoise.
• Hancock concluded that Kazu was powerful and confident.

Kazu’s confidence and disdain for the World Government impressed Hancock, who invited the Blond Hair Pirates to Amazon Lily despite her crew’s objections. She and Kazu exchanged personal Den Den Mushi, leaving open the possibility of a future visit.

• Hancock admired Kazu’s confidence and imagined she no longer had to fear anyone while he was there.
• After her crew called out to her, Hancock returned to her ship and thanked Kazu for answering her questions.
• Hancock ordered Rindo to deliver a personal Den Den Mushi to Kazu and invited the Blond Hair Pirates to visit Amazon Lily.
• Boa Sandersonia, Boa Marigold, and the other officers objected to letting men visit, but Hancock insisted that her rules were the rules.
• Rindo delivered Hancock’s Den Den Mushi, and Kazu gave her his personal Den Den Mushi in return.

Rindo returned to report that Her Kazi had accepted Hancock’s Den Den Mushi and sent one back, but she found Hancock suddenly gravely ill. The Kuja Pirates rushed back to Amazon Lily, where Elder Nyon hurried aboard to meet them.

• Rindo returned with Kazu’s Den Den Mushi, and Sandersonia and Marigold warned her that Hancock had seemed unusually angry.
• Rindo found Hancock sweating and struggling to breathe, and she called for the ship’s doctor.
• Sandersonia ordered the crew to keep Hancock’s condition secret and sail back to Amazon Lily at full speed.
• Kazu and the Blond Hair Pirates continued toward the Sabaody Archipelago while the Kuja Pirates worried over Hancock’s unexplained symptoms.
• The Kuja Pirates reached Amazon Lily the next morning, and Elder Nyon hurried aboard.

Elder Nyon diagnosed Hancock with lovesickness and told her she could only recover by joining the man she loved. Hancock called Kazu for help, and he appeared before the group on Amazon Lily.

• Elder Nyon learned from Marigold and Sandersonia about the Blond Hair Pirates and identified Hancock's illness as lovesickness.
• Elder Nyon explained that the previous empresses had died from lovesickness, but she had survived by leaving Amazon Lily and said Hancock needed to be with the man she loved to recover.
• Marigold remembered that Rindo had brought back Kazu's Den Den Mushi and suggested asking him to marry into Amazon Lily.
• Hancock eagerly took the Den Den Mushi and called Kazu, asking to travel to the Sabaody Archipelago for treatment.
• Kazu said he would come to Hancock himself, then suddenly appeared before her and the others.

Kazu arrived on Amazon Lily and agreed to take Hancock with him, while refusing to settle there as her husband. He arranged for Hancock to remain empress and for his crew to return instantly if the island needed help, then Hancock assigned her sisters to lead the country and the Kuja Pirates.

• Kazu offered to help treat Hancock and learned that marrying into Amazon Lily was proposed as the solution to her illness.
• Kazu agreed to make Hancock his woman and take her adventuring, but refused to live permanently on Amazon Lily.
• Hancock declared she would follow Kazu, and Elder Nyon warned that the island could not be left without a leader.
• Kazu proposed using his Space-Space Fruit to let the Blond Hair Pirates return instantly if Amazon Lily faced danger.
• Hancock appointed Sandersonia chief minister and Marigold captain of the Kuja Pirates, then invited Kazu to stay for a feast.

Kazu and Hancock spent the night together on Amazon Lily before preparing to leave for the Divine Dragon. Hancock said goodbye to her sisters and entrusted the island’s affairs to them, while Kazu promised to protect her.

• Kazu agreed to stay overnight so Hancock could say goodbye to her sisters, and he told Makino he would return the next day.
• Hancock hosted a banquet for the Kuja Pirates, and Kazu celebrated with the women before Hancock joined him in his room.
• The next day, Kazu and Hancock ate together, then walked to the council hall as the island’s residents watched them.
• Hancock warned Marigold that the World Government might revoke her Shichibukai title and asked Sandersonia to seek Elder Nyon’s advice.
• Hancock said goodbye to her sisters and the Kuja Pirates, and Kazu promised to protect her as they prepared to leave for the Divine Dragon.

Kazu returned to the Divine Dragon with Hancock, introduced her as the crew’s newest combatant, and celebrated her arrival with a banquet. The crew reached the Sabaody Archipelago, where Carlmand took Drew off to explore while Kazu’s group docked at Island 44.

• Kazu and Hancock returned to the Divine Dragon, where he introduced her to Robin and the rest of the crew as his woman and their new combatant.
• The crew welcomed Hancock and held a banquet, while Robin and Makino discussed cooperating with her.
• Carlmand lamented that he could not find a woman, and Kazu told him he could bring someone aboard if he found a decent partner.
• Robin and Makino left Hancock alone with Kazu for the night, and she did not emerge from their bedroom until noon the next day.
• The crew spotted the Sabaody Archipelago, and Carlmand secured Kazu’s permission to take Drew exploring despite Drew’s wish to buy alloy and visit the auction house.
• The Divine Dragon docked at Island 44, the archipelago’s shipyard and coating area.

Kazu and the Blond Hair Pirates arrived in Sabaody Archipelago, where their presence unsettled the local pirates. Kazu learned that No. 1 Auction House would hold an auction featuring a powerful Devil Fruit, but entry required an invitation.

• Pirates reacted to the Blond Hair Pirates' arrival, and Hancock's closeness to Kazu prompted rumors that she had become his captive.
• Carlmand took Behrens and Drew away, while Drew reminded Kazu to send him the alloy.
• Kazu and his companions headed through Sabaody Archipelago's Lawless Zone to look for auctions.
• Kazu stopped a burly man in a red vest and asked him about auction houses.
• The man told Kazu that No. 1 Auction House would hold an auction at noon the day after tomorrow, with a powerful Devil Fruit as its grand finale, and that invitations were required.

Kazu and his companions explored Sabaody Archipelago ahead of the auction, while Carlmand and Behrens dragged Drew into Pink Bubble. The three men took rooms and began their expensive entertainment packages.

• Robin recognized that the Devil Fruit auctioned last would likely be exceptional, and Kazu agreed as they looked forward to the auction in two days.
• Kazu struck the burly man in the red tank top with a Shattered Space Elbow, sending him flying, then left with his companions for the park area.
• Carlmand and Behrens approved of Pink Bubble's name and appearance, while Drew worried about what kind of place it was.
• Carlmand ordered the most expensive package for himself, Behrens, and Drew, requesting patient guides for Drew.
• The male manager led them to the top floor, where the men took rooms and their chosen girls arrived; Carlmand requested secretary outfits and received a female secretary and a female boss.

Drew, Carlmand, and Behrens shared stories over lunch before the Tough Guy Pirates provoked them. Behrens won a rock-paper-scissors match to fight their captain, Gadeko, and appeared beside him with a lightning-fast attack.

• Drew, Carlmand, and Behrens went to lunch and traded stories about the previous night.
• The Tough Guy Pirates insulted the three, and bystanders identified Carlmand and Behrens as members of the Blond Hair Pirates.
• Gadeko decided to fight despite realizing he had provoked Carlmand and Behrens, whose bounties were higher than his.
• Carlmand and Behrens settled who would respond with rock-paper-scissors, and Behrens won.
• Gadeko attacked Behrens with an Armament Haki-coated fist, but Behrens dodged with his lightning ability and prepared to kick him.

Behrens easily defeated Gadeko’s men and fought the injured pirate captain when he returned to the tavern. Gadeko transformed and lunged at Behrens, who answered with his Thunderous Fist.

• Behrens kicked Gadeko through the tavern wall with Thunder Battle Axe.
• Behrens defeated Gadeko’s six remaining men with kicks and lightning bullets.
• Carlmand teased Behrens while Drew admired his strength and resolved to get stronger.
• Gadeko returned to the tavern, saw his men defeated, and challenged Behrens again.
• Gadeko transformed into his human-beast wolf form and attacked Behrens with an Armament Haki-coated claw.
• Behrens coated his fist in lightning and Armament Haki and launched Thunderous Fist.

Behrens defeated and killed Gadeko with a lightning attack, realizing how much stronger he had become. Back at the tavern, he argued with Carlmand over who would get the next fight, while Drew redirected their attention to choosing a place to visit that night.

• Behrens overwhelmed Gadeko's wolf claws with his Thunderous Fist and sent him crashing through several houses.
• Behrens caught up with the badly injured Gadeko, who admitted defeat, and killed him with Raigo.
• Behrens reflected that his Haki, Logia Devil Fruit, and training under Kazu had made him strong enough to protect his companions.
• Behrens returned to the tavern, where Carlmand argued that he should get the next chance to fight.
• Drew shifted their argument toward picking a place for the evening, and the three agreed to visit a hot spring.

Kazu and the Blond Hair Pirates headed to the auction, but a swordsman named Maidel Oulait stopped them to challenge Kazu. Their clash showed that Kazu was stronger, though he praised Oulait’s skill.

• Kazu led the Blond Hair Pirates toward Auction House One after Drew praised his recent time with the crew.
• Maidel Oulait blocked Kazu’s path and challenged him to a sword fight.
• Kazu told the crew to stand back, drew Muramasa, and accepted Oulait’s challenge.
• Oulait attacked with Chikō and his Lion King Slash, but Kazu countered with Battō Slash and drove him back more than ten meters.
• Kazu recognized Oulait’s strong Armament Haki and great-swordsman skill after their clash.

Kazu and Oulait fought a fierce sword battle, with Kazu overcoming Oulait’s techniques through strength and defense. Kazu acknowledged Oulait as the purer swordsman, and Oulait gathered his strength for a decisive attack.

• Kazu charged Oulait with Raging Dragon Severing Dragon Slash, but Oulait used Swallow Return to redirect the strike and slash toward Kazu’s chest.
• Kazu covered himself with Armament Haki and countered with Rising Upper Slash, wounding Oulait in the chest.
• Oulait launched a Flying Slash and followed with a heavy downward strike, but Kazu crushed the slash and blocked his sword.
• Kazu and Oulait exchanged dozens of attacks as Kazu drove him through the streets.
• Kazu told Oulait that he acknowledged him as a purer swordsman, and Oulait gathered his strength for a potentially decisive move.