Arc 8Elegia and the Rocks Reunion
Dimon’s resurrection of Rocks drew the New World’s great pirate crews to Hachinosu, while his agents pursued Devil Fruits and built a base on Elegia. The arc ended with Uta trapping Red-Haired, Kaido, and Whitebeard in her World of Song.
- The Holy Knights confronted Rocks and Harald at Enies Lobby, but Rocks and Harald escaped after unleashing Elbaph Spear: Hakai, and Dimon gave Rocks a magic circle and asked him to find the Dark-Dark Fruit.
- Lycaon retrieved the Road Poneglyph from Zou, while Kuranos met Uta on Elegia and helped her return to the island, where she released Tot Musica before Dimon subdued its control over her.
- Dimon recruited Uta into the Seven Deadly Sins and established a base on Elegia, as the resurrected Rocks’s presence drew Whitebeard, Shanks, Kaido, and Big Mom to Hachinosu.
- Dimon traded Longevity Wine for Devil Fruits on Hachinosu, while Blackbeard explained how the Dark-Dark Fruit could help control a Devil Fruit at rebirth and revealed that he was seeking it.
- Kuranos delivered an octopus-model Devil Fruit to Dimon, and Dimon sent Sigma and Kuranos to capture the defeated Aokiji after Akainu became Fleet Admiral.
- Kuma learned that Bonney’s Sapphire Scale Disease was incurable and set out to find Rocks, while Dimon imprisoned Aokiji on Elegia.
- Uta recognized Shanks, Whitebeard, and Kaido in Ain’s projection and used her song to draw them into her World of Song.
- Uta reunited with Shanks after nine years, then vanished as Kaido attacked the world’s barrier and Shanks proposed that the three emperors strike the same spot together with Conqueror’s Haki.