Chapter Summaries

Kazu and the Blond Hair Pirates arrived in Wano Country after avoiding a dangerous whirlpool, then learned they were in Kuri under Orochi’s rule. Kazu found the graves at Oden Castle, recognized them as Momonosuke and the others’ burial site, and decided he wanted Momonosuke dead.

• Pedro spotted a huge whirlpool ahead, so Kazu used Space Swap to bring the Divine Dragon and its crew safely to Wano Country.
• The crew explored Kuri and discussed samurai and ninjas while seeing how hunger had impoverished the local civilians.
• Kazu asked locals about Wano Country and learned that Orochi was shogun and lived in the Flower Capital.
• Remembering that Kin'emon, Momonosuke, and the others would return from the future near Oden Castle, Kazu left the crew and searched the area.
• Kazu found the grave markers on a hill and identified them as the burial site of Momonosuke and the others, then resolved that he wanted Momonosuke to die.

Kazu set a deadly trap on the hilltop for Momonosuke and his companions, then took his group to the prosperous Flower Capital, where they encountered the courtesan Komurasaki. The group began exploring the city and realized its luxury contrasted sharply with the poverty in Kuri.

• Kazu sealed the hilltop with a Space Barrier and planted a spatial sphere trap powerful enough to seriously injure Charlotte Linlin.
• Kazu left the hilltop, brushed off his companions’ questions, and decided to head straight to the Flower Capital.
• Kazu transformed into an azure-and-white Shenron and flew there with everyone inside a spatial shield, prompting witnesses to mistake him for Kaido or Kaido’s relative.
• Kazu and his companions landed in the Flower Capital, where Kaido’s and Orochi’s men recognized that the dragon was not Kaido and sent word toward Udon.
• Carlmand remarked that the Flower Capital and Kuri seemed like different worlds as the group admired the city’s clean streets and prosperous shops.
• Kazu and his companions saw Komurasaki pass by in a palanquin, and the group began thinking about asking for more spending money.

Kazu abandoned his plan to seek Kaido’s Red Road Poneglyph and leave Wano with Yamato after deciding to rescue Komurasaki from Orochi. He seized Kozuki Hiyori from her palanquin and left Carlmand freezing the men who tried to stop him.

• Kazu and his crew admired Komurasaki and joked about competing for her, but Carlmand and Behrens backed down when Kazu challenged them to fight him together.
• When Komurasaki’s fans protested, Kazu knocked several unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki, frightening the crowd.
• Kazu blocked Kozuki Hiyori’s palanquin and used spatial force to pull her into his arms.
• After the palanquin attendants ordered their men to attack Kazu, Carlmand froze them with the Chilly-Chilly Fruit.

Kazu took Kozuki Hiyori away after killing the men who had seized her, then promised to kill Orochi and confront Kaido. He led Hiyori and the others toward the shogun’s residence to show her his strength.

• The crowd fled after Kazu killed dozens of men and took Kozuki Hiyori.
• Kazu told Hiyori that she would serve him, and she accepted while warning him that Orochi and Kaido would retaliate.
• Hiyori tried to test Kazu and appeal to his protectiveness, but he saw through her ploy and slapped her bottom.
• Kazu promised to kill Orochi and take on Kaido, then set Hiyori down and led the group toward the shogun’s residence.

Kazu and his group took Kozuki Hiyori to the shogun's residence, where Orochi saw the arrival of the Blond Hair Pirates as a chance to turn against Kaido. When the group forced its way inside, Orochi ordered Fukurokuju and the Orochi Oniwabanshu to kill them.

• Kazu and his group stopped at a soba stall, ate a hundred bowls, and then continued toward the shogun's residence with Kozuki Hiyori.
• Orochi learned that the Blond Hair Pirates had taken the courtesan he requested and decided to offer them hospitality while considering using them against the Beasts Pirates.
• A subordinate reported that intruders had forced their way into the shogun's residence and overwhelmed the guards.
• Orochi summoned Fukurokuju and ordered him to lead the Orochi Oniwabanshu in killing every intruder.
• Fukurokuju gathered the Orochi Oniwabanshu and personally set out to suppress the rebels.

Behrens, Law, and Kazu’s crew attacked the shogun’s residence and overwhelmed the Orochi Oniwabanshu. Fukurokuju and the surviving ninjas tried to flee, but Kazu pulled them back into the courtyard.

• Behrens killed four Orochi Oniwabanshu members with a bolt of azure lightning before they could see their attackers.
• Law used ROOM and Shambles to bring seven hidden ninjas into the courtyard.
• Galette blocked Fukurokuju’s silver needles with a butter shield, and Oulait cut down two ninjas with a Flying Slash.
• Fukurokuju abandoned his remaining subordinates and fled to warn the shogun, while the other ninjas also escaped.
• Kazu used his power to pull Fukurokuju and the four fleeing ninjas back into the courtyard.

Kazu and his allies defeated the Orochi Oniwabanshu and confronted Kurozumi Orochi in his residence. Kazu crippled Orochi’s arm, and Orochi transformed and offered cooperation to save himself.

• Law killed Fukurokuju with Gamma Knife and High-Frequency Scalpel while Drew, Carlmand, and Pedro defeated the other guards.
• Kazu led the group to Orochi’s quarters after Carlmand froze the guards on the second-floor stairway.
• Orochi greeted Kazu and the Blond Hair Pirates warmly, pretending they were welcome guests.
• Kazu twisted Orochi’s right arm into a mangled shape when Orochi reached toward him.
• Orochi transformed into his Yamata no Orochi form and offered to cooperate against Kaido in exchange for Kazu stopping the attack.

Kazu killed Kurozumi Orochi’s first life, then revealed Orochi had seven more and repeatedly tortured him while preventing him from speaking. Kazu restored Orochi with Time Rewind, leaving him alive with the memory of his pain, and prepared to demonstrate the torture again.

• Kazu mocked Orochi’s offer to work together and cut off one of his heads when Orochi threatened the women behind him.
• Kazu explained that Orochi’s Yamata no Orochi Fruit gave him eight lives, and Orochi revealed he had survived the first attack by pretending to be dead.
• Kazu silenced Orochi with the Space-Space Fruit and crushed his remaining heads, then pierced him with thousands of spatial needles.
• After Orochi fell silent, Kazu used Time Rewind to restore him while leaving his memories of the torture intact.
• Orochi realized Kazu intended to torture him again.

Kazu killed Kurozumi Orochi after repeatedly bringing him back with Time Rewind, then left the shogun's residence with Kozuki Hiyori and his companions. Outside, Queen confronted them and transformed into a brachiosaurus after Kazu mocked the Beasts Pirates' claim to Wano.

• Kazu used Time Rewind to revive Kurozumi Orochi six times and continue torturing him, but stopped when Orochi no longer reacted.
• Kazu crushed Kurozumi Orochi into minced meat and teleported the remains into a toilet in Wano Country.
• Kazu told Kozuki Hiyori that her revenge was settled and that she should serve him, then set off to have fun with Kaido.
• Queen arrived with more than a hundred Beasts Pirates and challenged Kazu about entering their territory.
• Kazu mocked Queen and rejected the Beasts Pirates' claim to the territory, so Queen transformed into his brachiosaurus form.

Kazu defeated Queen with spatial and time powers, then offered his crew the chance to fight the battered pirate. Carlmand won the right to face Queen by beating Behrens at rock-paper-scissors.

• Kazu struck Queen twice with spatial light, hitting him in the chin and groin.
• Queen attacked with Brachio Headbutt, but Kazu froze him briefly and grabbed his neck.
• Kazu spun Queen around and hurled him more than a thousand meters through buildings.
• Carlmand and Behrens both volunteered to fight Queen, while Law, Drew, and Oulait declined.
• Kazu made Carlmand and Behrens settle the dispute with rock-paper-scissors, and Carlmand won again.

Carlmand and Queen fought while Kazu and the others watched, until Kaido arrived and confronted Kazu. The two prepared to clash as Carlmand and Queen moved their fight away from them.

• Carlmand and Queen exchanged heavy blows, with the freezing conditions putting Queen at a disadvantage.
• Kazu and the others watched the fight until Kaido descended in dragon form and changed back to human form.
• Kaido challenged Kazu for bringing trouble to his territory and asked whether Whitebeard had come with him.
• Kazu mocked Kaido’s Devil Fruit, provoking him, and the two drew their weapons and coated them in Conqueror’s Haki.
• Queen and Carlmand moved their fight elsewhere to avoid being caught in the clash between Kaido and Kazu.

Kazu fought Kaido, using his space and time powers to outmaneuver him and turn his Bolo Breath against him. As Kaido and Kazu exchanged barrages in dragon form, Kazu’s spatial blades drew blood while Kaido’s wind blades struck Kazu without harming him.

• Kaido opened with Roaring Thunder Bagua, but Kazu met him with Serious Slash, and their Haki-coated weapons clashed.
• Kazu used Space Swap to appear behind Kaido and kick him across the ground.
• Kaido transformed into his Azure Dragon Form and took to the sky, prompting Kazu to reveal his own enormous blue-white dragon form.
• Kazu used Time Stop and Space Piercing to make Kaido swallow his own exploding Bolo Breath and crash into the ground.
• Kazu rained spatial blades on Kaido, who answered with Tatsumaki; the blades clashed, and Kazu’s attacks left Kaido bleeding.

Kazu subdued Kaido in Wano Country, then negotiated compensation instead of continuing the fight. Kaido agreed to give Kazu a rubbing of his Red Road Poneglyph and let him recruit Yamato into the Blond Hair Pirates.

• Kaido realized Kazu completely outmatched him and asked what he wanted in Wano Country.
• Kaido proposed working together after Kazu said he had no interest in Wano's Seastone deposits.
• Kazu rejected an alliance and demanded compensation for Kaido's attack.
• Kazu asked Kaido for a rubbing of his Red Road Poneglyph and permission to recruit Yamato into the Blond Hair Pirates.
• Kaido agreed to both requests after Kazu argued that Yamato wanted to set sail and might change through adventure.

Queen stopped fighting Carlmand by promising him women and drinks, and the two quickly became friendly. Kaido invited the Blond Hair Pirates to Onigashima for a banquet, leaving Queen scrambling to follow after they departed.

• Queen saw Kaido negotiating with Kazu and tried to persuade Carlmand to stop fighting, but Carlmand kept attacking.
• Queen promised to arrange young women to serve drinks, and Carlmand deactivated his Chilly-Chilly Fruit ability and made peace with him.
• Queen and Carlmand joined Kaido and Kazu, and Kaido ordered Queen to have King prepare a banquet and find Yamato.
• Queen called King to request food, liquor, and twenty women, while Behrens, Law, Drew, Carlmand, and Oulait praised him.
• Kaido flew toward Onigashima in his Azure Dragon Form, and Kazu used his spatial power to take the Blond Hair Pirates after him.
• Queen watched them leave, then hurried after Kaido on his own.

Kazu and his companions arrived at Onigashima, where Kaido arranged for Robin to make a rubbing of the Poneglyph. As they waited for the banquet and drank together, Kaido discovered Kazu’s peanut dishes and ordered Wano Country to grow peanuts.

• Kaido returned to human form on Onigashima and told Jack to take Robin to make a rubbing of the Poneglyph, with Behrens accompanying her.
• King reported that the banquet would be ready in about half an hour, and Kaido settled down to drink with Kazu and the others.
• Kazu served several varieties of peanuts, and Kaido eagerly tried them with wine.
• Kaido enjoyed the peanuts and told King to have Wano Country farmers grow them and the cooks learn to prepare them.

At Kaido’s banquet, Behrens joined the others in choosing women before Kaido was alerted that Yamato had beaten his men. Kaido and Kazu found Yamato in the woods, and Kaido stopped her from fleeing by promising to send her out to sea.

• Carlmand, Law, Oulait, Drew, and Pedro chose women at the banquet before Behrens arrived and complained that the others had taken the best ones.
• Kazu ordered Carlmand and Drew to give one woman each to Behrens, and the banquet continued as Kaido enjoyed peanuts and drinks.
• An underling told Kaido that Yamato had knocked out more than a dozen men, so Kaido set out with Kazu to capture her.
• Kazu and Kaido found Yamato searching the unconscious men for money, and she tried to flee when she saw Kaido.
• Kaido shouted that he would send Yamato out to sea, stopping her in her tracks.

Kazu invited Yamato to join the Blond Hair Pirates and live freely at sea, and she eagerly accepted. He destroyed the explosive collar around her neck, freeing her to leave with him.

• Yamato questioned Kaido's offer to let her go, suspecting a trick.
• Kazu introduced himself as captain of the Blond Hair Pirates and invited Yamato to become a free adventurer at sea.
• Yamato hesitated because she feared Kaido would not let her leave, but Kazu reassured her that Kaido had agreed.
• Yamato excitedly accepted Kazu's invitation and embraced him as Kaido watched her happiness.
• Kazu used Armament Haki's Internal Destruction to destroy Yamato's explosive collar and tossed it away, where it exploded in the air.

Kazu introduced Yamato as the Blond Hair Pirates’ newest crewmate after Kaido’s explosive collar failed to stop her from leaving Wano. Yamato learned that Kazu had defeated Kaido to secure her freedom and admired her new captain’s strength.

• Yamato cursed Kaido after discovering that her collar was powerful enough to kill her, while Kaido insisted it would not have exploded if she had stayed in Wano.
• Kazu introduced Yamato to the Blond Hair Pirates, whose crew welcomed her as their new crewmate.
• The crew joked about Yamato being a woman rather than the brother Carlmand had expected, and Makino invited her to join the women.
• Kaido challenged Kazu to a drinking contest, but he drank himself unconscious while Kazu remained sober.
• Yamato asked whether Kazu was stronger than Kaido, and Kazu said he had beaten Kaido, who had agreed to let her leave.

Yamato challenged Kazu to see the strength of the world’s strongest, and he agreed to fight her atop Onigashima. As Kazu unleashed his overwhelming Conqueror’s Haki, Kaido rushed toward them and King recognized the gap between Kazu’s power and his own.

• Yamato asked Kazu to fight her after eating her fill, explaining that she wanted to see the view from the world’s highest peak.
• Kazu agreed, and King led Kazu and Yamato to the top of Onigashima as the others gathered to watch.
• Yamato asked Kazu to fight with everything he had, while Makino stopped the crew from provoking them for a spectacle.
• Kazu released his Conqueror’s Haki across Onigashima, startling the Beasts Pirates and making King wary.
• Kaido sobered up, grabbed Hassaikai, and flew toward the top floor as King realized Kazu’s strength far exceeded his own.

Yamato challenged Kazu and was overwhelmed by his carefully restrained attack, while Kaido and the others watched. The fight left Yamato determined to improve, and Kazu convinced the onlookers that he had gone all out.

• Yamato transformed into her hybrid form and challenged Kazu with Himorogiri.
• Kazu used Conqueror's Coating and a Space Barrier, then struck Yamato down with a Flying Slash.
• Kazu ended his transformation, pleased that his performance had made the attack look intimidating.
• Kaido arrived, and King explained that Yamato had challenged Kazu; Kaido realized Kazu had been holding back.
• The crew discussed Yamato's strength and Drew's work repairing the undamaged Divine Dragon.
• Yamato recovered among the rocks, acknowledged Kazu's strength, and resolved to keep improving.