Recaps

After pirates destroyed his village, five-year-old Ron fought desperately until Sakazuki rescued him and later adopted him. Ten years later, Marine Major Ron confronted pirates using hostages to stop the Marines, and he appeared behind their captain.

• Five-year-old Ron remembered his past life as an undercover reporter and fought back when pirates killed his parents and attacked him.
• Ron endured multiple wounds and killed several pirates before Sakazuki arrived and burned the remaining attackers with magma.
• Sakazuki brought Ron to Marine Headquarters and later adopted him.
• Ten years later, Major Ron pursued pirates who had taken forty-seven civilians hostage to deter the Marines from firing.
• Ron used Observation Haki to locate the hostages, opened a door in the air, and vanished from the warship.
• Ron appeared behind the pirate captain and asked whether he was enjoying himself.

Ron rescued forty-seven hostages and defeated the Blood Axe Pirates, then used Dimension Slash to destroy their escaping ship while leaving Baku alive. A report from the Kingdom of Belo alarmed Ron when he learned that thirteen-year-old Rob Lucci had been sent there amid a hostage crisis.

• Ron killed the pirates holding hostages aboard the ship and freed all forty-seven captives, then brought them through an Air Door to the Marine warship.
• Ron returned to the pirate ship, retrieved the unconscious Baku, and ordered the Marines to keep him alive for questioning.
• Four pirates sailed away, but Ron used Dimension Slash to cut apart their ship and kill them after learning the pirates had slaughtered a village.
• A communications soldier reported that pirates in the Kingdom of Belo had captured five hundred soldiers and demanded the king abdicate.
• Ron learned that Rob Lucci had arrived in Belo as a Cipher Pol agent and reacted with alarm.

Ron diverted to the Kingdom of Belo after hearing that Rob Lucci had gone alone to rescue five hundred captured soldiers. When Ron reached the fortress, Lucci had killed the captives, and Ron found their bodies in the warehouse.

• Ron changed course for the Kingdom of Belo and used an Air Door to head there ahead of the warship.
• Rob Lucci arrived at the palace and went alone to the pirates’ fortress after learning where the captives were held.
• Lucci fought through the fortress, then condemned the captured soldiers for surrendering their weapons and killed all five hundred in the warehouse.
• Lucci survived the pirates’ cannon fire and killed their leader after the man fled into the warehouse.
• Ron arrived through an Air Door and found the five hundred soldiers dead.

Ron confronted Lucci over the execution of five hundred surrendered soldiers and defeated him in a fight. He demanded that Lucci explain the killings and turned to the arriving CP Agents, ordering them to account for the deaths as well.

• Ron found the soldiers dead in the warehouse and learned from Lucci that Lucci had killed them while they were tied up.
• Ron challenged Lucci’s claim that weakness justified killing the surrendered soldiers, then dodged and endured Lucci’s attacks.
• Ron used his sheathed sword and spatial doors to defeat Lucci, who demanded to be killed after losing.
• Ron told Lucci that someone would answer for the five hundred deaths and demanded details about the killings and their orders.
• Two masked CP Agents arrived and objected to Ron attacking Lucci, so Ron demanded they explain the deaths in the warehouse.

Ron confronted the CP Agents after Rob Lucci killed five hundred captive kingdom soldiers, then ensured the kingdom documented the massacre as evidence. After Sakazuki refused to let the Navy take the blame, Ron challenged the agents’ authority and threatened them by their own rules.

• Ron demanded the CP Agents’ mission documents and argued that their mission did not excuse the deaths of five hundred captives.
• The king and the kingdom’s reinforcements arrived, and Ron identified Lucci as the killer while directing the soldiers to document the bodies and preserve evidence.
• A military doctor reported that the dead had Shigan-like wounds, and Ron told the CP Agents they would have to report the killings and answer to the kingdom.
• Ron called Sakazuki, who said the Navy would not take responsibility for the deaths of soldiers from an Affiliated Nation.
• Ron drew Zhenyuan slightly and asked whether, by the CP Agents’ own rules, he could kill them for getting in his way.

Ron ensured the Kingdom of Belo’s dead soldiers were recorded as members of the Kingdom Army rather than traitors, while demanding accountability for their deaths. After returning to his warship, he was ordered by Sengoku to return to headquarters and write a complete report.

• Ron told the king to notify the dead soldiers’ families and make sure they were not branded as traitors, and the king ordered their names verified and their families supported.
• The Kingdom Army counted and identified the bodies, while Ron made the CP Agents sign for the verified names and record that Lucci had attacked first.
• The government agreed to provisionally register the five hundred dead as Kingdom Army personnel killed in action, but said responsibility and compensation still required further handling.
• Ron left the palace after telling the commander to get his men home, and Lucci watched him pass while being carried away on a stretcher.
• Ron returned to his warship and told his adjutant the government had not yet settled compensation; a call from Sengoku’s office then ordered him back to headquarters to write the report himself.

Ron returned to Marine Headquarters after the Kingdom of Belo incident and faced Sengoku’s questions about his actions and the World Government’s response. Sengoku ordered him to write a detailed report before dinner, just as Borsalino arrived to tease him about Lucci.

• Ron left his adjutant to send Headquarters the evidence and timeline from the Kingdom of Belo, then returned to Marineford through a spatial door.
• Ron headed to Sengoku’s office, trading familiar remarks with Marines and staff along the way.
• Sengoku confronted Ron over the missing mission report and discussed the deaths in Belo, the Government’s internal review, and the investigation into Lucci’s training.
• Sakazuki confirmed he had signed the application to transfer the evidence and told Ron to write his own action report.
• Sengoku ordered Ron to finish the report that night, and Borsalino arrived and teased him about beating Lucci.

Ron sparred with Borsalino, demonstrating a new spatial sword technique that could slash across space and anticipate his opponent’s escape routes. After Borsalino ended the match, Zephyr barred Ron from using his fruit powers in training starting the next day, and Ron confidently accepted the challenge.

• Ron struggled to write a truthful report about his fight with Rob Lucci, and Sakazuki made him describe it as a physical altercation.
• Borsalino met Ron at the training ground and tested how his swordsmanship had developed since their sparring five years earlier.
• Ron used Observation Haki and Air Doors to keep pace with Borsalino, then revealed a slash that cut through space and split a training boulder.
• Ron’s follow-up attacks opened spatial cracks along Borsalino’s anticipated escape routes, prompting Borsalino to stop the spar before they damaged the training ground further.
• Zephyr confronted Ron at the exit and ordered him to train without fruit powers starting tomorrow; Ron replied that Zephyr might be disappointed.

Ron trained with Zephyr to fight effectively without relying on his Door-Door Fruit, then challenged Garp over how he was raising his grandsons in the East Blue. A messenger summoned Ron to meet Fleet Admiral Sengoku, leaving the reason for the meeting unknown.

• Zephyr forbade Ron from using the Door-Door Fruit and pushed him through close-combat training until he held his ground inside a marked circle.
• Zephyr praised Ron's progress and reminded him that the fruit should help him survive, not make him unable to fight without it.
• Ron and Garp bickered over food in the headquarters cafeteria before Garp said he had returned from visiting the children in the East Blue.
• Ron criticized Garp for repeatedly beating the children and leaving for months instead of staying to teach them, warning that others could lead them astray.
• A messenger told Ron that Fleet Admiral Sengoku wanted to see him immediately.

Ron learned that Rosinante was undercover as Corazon in the Donquixote Family while investigating an arms case in the North Blue. He accepted a mission to investigate the case and promised Hibari that Rosinante would return safely.

• Hibari found Ron at Marine headquarters and asked when Rosinante would return, since he had promised to bring her fruit candy.
• Ron asked Sengoku about Rosinante and learned he was undercover as Corazon in the Donquixote Family.
• Ron warned Sengoku that Rosinante might act if he discovered Doflamingo was trading ordinary people, and asked to go to the North Blue.
• Sengoku assigned Ron to investigate the arms shipment and its buyers, ordering him to report leads to Tsuru and avoid contacting Rosinante.
• Ron promised Sengoku he would bring Rosinante back safely, then told Hibari that Rosinante would return soon.

Ron recruited Vergo for a North Blue mission investigating the Donquixote Family’s arms trade, while Tsuru briefed him on the family’s methods and growing reach. Vergo recognized the mission’s target but hid his reaction as he boarded Ron’s warship, uneasy about what lay ahead.

• Ron spotted Vergo winning fights at headquarters and watched him demonstrate Armament Haki and Soru.
• Ron questioned Vergo, then ordered him to join the North Blue mission and wait at the harbor.
• Ron visited Tsuru with Peacock and learned about the Donquixote Family’s arms network, escape tactics, and initial contact with the Beasts Pirates.
• At the harbor, Ron gave Vergo the mission summary naming the Donquixote Family as a key lead, and Vergo concealed his alarm before boarding the warship.

Ron led a Marine patrol through the North Sea, swiftly defeating pirates and rescuing captives while Vergo secretly reported his movements to Doflamingo. As the warship approached Donquixote Family waters, Ron changed course and used an Air Door to go ahead alone and confront Doflamingo.

• Ron defeated the Grey Wolf Pirates in minutes after their captain admitted to massacring a village, then ordered the Marines to collect supplies and check the bounties.
• Ron found enslaved captives aboard a disguised merchant ship, killed the pirate responsible for beating a child to death, and ordered the injured rescued and the child's family sought.
• Ron dealt with more pirate crews and protected Marines in battle, while Vergo grew alarmed by Ron's power and resolved to warn the Donquixote Family.
• Vergo secretly called Doflamingo and reported that Ron's warship was moving slowly, prompting Doflamingo to order Diamante to move the ledgers and disperse the warehouse goods.
• Ron abruptly changed his mind about slowing down and opened an Air Door to go ahead and meet Doflamingo, leaving Vergo behind to watch the ship.

Marine Major Ron confronted Doflamingo at the Donquixote Family estate and overwhelmed the family’s officers. The chapter ended with Ron countering Doflamingo’s Conqueror’s Haki, leaving Doflamingo furious and shaken.

• Doflamingo learned Ron’s warship was delayed and ordered the family to move sensitive ledgers and weapons before Ron arrived.
• Ron used a door to enter the estate and confronted Doflamingo over the Donquixote Family’s crimes.
• Diamante, Trebol, and Pica attacked Ron, but he defeated them with Zhenyuan and his doors.
• Rosinante struck Ron from behind and was sent through a partition, though he realized the blow had not hurt him.
• Doflamingo unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, but Ron countered with his own and called Doflamingo weak.
• Doflamingo shattered his wineglass and shouted Ron’s name in anger.

Ron defeated Doflamingo and warned him to stop trafficking people and dealing with civilians while continuing to investigate the arms smuggling. In private, Ron reunited with Rosinante, gave him an emergency Den Den Mushi, and urged him to survive his mission.

• Doflamingo attacked Ron with his strings, but Ron countered them, overpowered him, and kicked him through the estate walls.
• Doflamingo fled into the sky, but Ron pursued him through Air Doors and knocked him back into the courtyard.
• Ron told Doflamingo that Sengoku had ordered him spared for now, warned him against trafficking people, and said he would investigate the arms case.
• Ron had Rosinante lead him to an abandoned warehouse, where they spoke privately after Rosinante activated the Silent Field.
• Ron asked Rosinante to stay alive and gave him an emergency Den Den Mushi linked to Ron's space mark.
• Rosinante accepted the device and promised to return with candy for Hibari, while Ron demanded a second bag for himself.

Ron defended Doflamingo’s harbor from the Black Whale Pirates, destroying their fleet and killing Black Whale Horn. Afterward, he reminded Doflamingo to behave himself if he could not escape.

• Doflamingo checked that Rosinante was unharmed, while Rosinante remembered Ron’s warning about what might happen if his identity was exposed.
• A wounded Family member reported that Black Whale Horn and twelve warships were bombarding the harbor, and Ron went to confront them.
• Ron used spatial doors to redirect the pirates’ cannonballs, knocked out many pirates with Conqueror’s Haki, and cut several warships apart with Zhenyuan.
• Ron defeated three officers and hurled Black Whale Horn back onto his flagship after blocking his axe and kicking him through its decks.
• As Horn tried to flee, Ron used Dimensional Slash: Chaos to cut apart the flagship and kill him and the pirates aboard.
• Ron returned to Doflamingo, patted his shoulder, and told him to behave himself if he could not get away.

Ron returned from the Donquixote Family’s port after defeating the Black Whale Pirates and confronting Doflamingo, revealing that he knew Vergo was a Marine infiltrator. He left Vergo in the Marines under warning, then ordered the warship to keep investigating the arms case and detour to buy candy, leaving Vergo terrified of his undercover assignment.

• Ron told Doflamingo he knew Vergo was a Marine infiltrator and warned him to behave as a proper Marine or risk being hurt.
• Doflamingo ordered his family not to contact Vergo or send him critical intelligence, unsure whether Ron had been using him as a pawn.
• Ron returned to the Marine warship, reported that he had destroyed the Black Whale Pirates’ twelve ships, and said the Donquixote Family remained standing.
• Vergo asked Ron about the Donquixote Family, then realized from Ron’s remarks that Doflamingo had been beaten.
• Ron ordered the warship to continue investigating the North Blue arms case while detouring to a nearby town to buy candy, and Vergo despaired over remaining undercover.

Ron spoke with Kuzan about justice and obeying orders, then two years passed as Ron rose to rear admiral while events unfolded around Fish-Man Island and the North Blue. The chapter ended with Fisher Tiger climbing the Red Line toward Mary Geoise to free the people held there.

• Ron teased Hibari with candy, then discussed piracy, justice, and orders with Kuzan at Headquarters.
• Two years later, seventeen-year-old Ron had become a rear admiral known as the Monster Rear Admiral, while Vergo served aboard his ship and the Donquixote Family shifted its operations toward the New World.
• Queen Otohime continued gathering signatures for the Fish-Man Race's relocation to land despite opposition.
• Fisher Tiger told Neptune that he planned to return to Mary Geoise, where many people remained enslaved.
• Ten-year-old Trafalgar Law, the sole survivor of Flevance, entered the Donquixote Family's territory, and Doflamingo took interest in him while Rosinante recognized his illness.
• Fisher Tiger removed his coat and climbed the Red Line toward Mary Geoise.

A confidential assessment revealed how Rear Admiral Ron had transformed the Door-Door Fruit into a formidable combat ability, while Fisher Tiger climbed the Red Line and began freeing slaves in Mary Geoise. The Holy Land erupted in flames as the mass escape triggered an emergency call to Marineford.

• Officials at Mary Geoise reviewed Ron’s record and recognized that his Door-Door Fruit had far greater combat potential than they had previously believed.
• The conference recalled that Sakazuki had secured the Door-Door Fruit for eleven-year-old Ron after Ron insisted it suited him.
• Fisher Tiger climbed the Red Line, reached Mary Geoise, and broke into the slave district to free the prisoners.
• Fisher Tiger and the escaped slaves set fires, fought guards, and freed people across Mary Geoise as the escape spread.
• A World Government official declared a highest alert and called Marine Headquarters as emergency Den Den Mushi rang throughout Marineford.

During Fisher Tiger’s assault on Mary Geoise, Rear Admiral Ron defied orders to recapture escaped slaves and instead rescued people from the fires, helping them escape down the mountain. He then reached the Holy Land’s center and met Shanks, a young Holy Knight who quietly let the slaves pass.

• At Marine headquarters, Ron volunteered to go to Mary Geoise despite orders to recover every escaped slave, and Sengoku approved his deployment after telling him to protect civilians.
• Ron entered the burning Holy Land, freed a chained man, rescued government employees from a falling beam, and knocked out two escaped convicts who were robbing a nurse.
• When CP Agents asked Ron to block a group of escaped slaves, he sent them through an Air Door to the cargo lift, where they descended the mountain to safety.
• Ron encountered Fisher Tiger but turned away without stopping him, allowing Tiger and the other escapees to continue through the smoke.
• Near the center of Mary Geoise, Ron met Shanks in a Holy Knights uniform and realized Shanks had let another group of slaves escape past him.

Ron and Shanks secretly helped enslaved people escape the burning Holy Land while pretending to carry out their duties. Ron freed Boa Hancock and her sisters, who emerged at a forest refuge where Gloriosa offered to take them back to Amazon Lily.

• Ron and Shanks split up after Holy Land Guards ordered them to stop escaping slaves, then covertly opened routes for groups of captives to flee.
• Ron and Shanks worked together to free another group, using a redirected sword strike and falling rubble to distract their pursuers.
• Shanks fought Fisher Tiger and let his numbered keys fall, allowing Fisher Tiger to unlock the children's explosive collars.
• Ron rescued Boa Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold from Cipher Pol agents after Hancock promised not to do evil once they were free.
• The three sisters emerged from Ron's Air Door at a forest refuge, where Rayleigh, Shakky, and Gloriosa welcomed them and Gloriosa offered to take them to Amazon Lily.

Ron rescued Gild Tesoro from the burning palace at Mary Geoise and sent him through a door to the shore, where the escaped slaves were fleeing. As the boats departed, Hancock and the others left too, while Shanks remained behind for reasons he would not explain.

• Tesoro freed an elderly slave from his chains, but guards surrounded him and activated his explosive collar.
• Ron severed the collar, threw it at the guards, and opened a door that sent Tesoro to the shore below the Red Line.
• Tesoro joined the escaping slaves, vowed to earn enough money to protect himself, and wondered how to repay Ron.
• Hancock told Shakky that Ron had saved her, while Shakky reassured her that he would survive.
• Shanks stayed behind to handle unfinished business as Rayleigh and Gloriosa helped Hancock and the others sail away.

During the escape from Mary Geoise, Ron secretly helped Fisher Tiger flee by staging a fight that drove him off the Red Line and through spatial doors to the sea. By dawn, the World Government had declared Fisher Tiger a wanted man and publicly credited Ron with defeating him.

• Fisher Tiger freed the remaining prisoners and prepared to cover their escape as Government forces surrounded him.
• Ron fought Fisher Tiger while secretly telling him to retreat toward the eastern cliff and giving him advice for the future.
• Ron drove Fisher Tiger over the cliff, then used Air Doors to send him safely into the sea while hiding what he had done from the pursuers.
• Fisher Tiger survived the fall and swam deeper beneath the Red Line.
• The World Government announced that Fisher Tiger had attacked Mary Geoise and issued a high-level wanted notice, while claiming Ron had defeated him.

After the Holy Land praised Ron for supposedly defeating Fisher Tiger, Ron met Harald, king of Elbaf and God's Blade, and questioned the cost of Harald's efforts to win acceptance for the giants. Their conversation ended when Saint Figarland Garling summoned Harald, leaving Ron wary of the title Harald had taken.

• The World Government cleaned up the prison district and publicly commended Ron for ending the riot, while Ron accepted the bonus for his manufactured heroism.
• Ron met Harald, king of Elbaf and God's Blade, and learned Harald hoped to earn the giants acceptance by helping the World Government.
• Ron questioned whether Harald would do anything to bring Elbaf into the World Government and pointed toward the prison district as a warning.
• Harald admitted he had seen things in the Holy Land that its rulers wanted hidden, and Ron said the freed slaves could now see the sun.
• Saint Figarland Garling summoned Harald to report to the Five Elders, and Ron watched him leave, uneasy about the God's Blade title.

Ron returned to Marineford after the Holy Land operation and defended his decision to free slaves to Sakazuki, while Fisher Tiger founded the Sun Pirates. The chapter ended with Boa Hancock and Gild Tesoro keeping Ron’s newspaper photo, and Vergo still stuck writing Ron’s reports two years into his Navy infiltration.

• Ron presented his commendation to Sengoku and told Sakazuki that he had refused to return innocent people to slavery; Sakazuki warned him to stay away from the Holy Land’s people but asked him to tell him next time.
• Fisher Tiger returned secretly to Fish-Man Island, reunited with Jinbe and Arlong, and changed the former slaves’ brands into sun marks.
• Fisher Tiger refused Arlong’s suggestion to become pirates for revenge and named his group the Sun Pirates to rescue and protect their people.
• Boa Hancock kept a newspaper clipping showing Ron, while Gild Tesoro spent his first wages on a newspaper featuring Ron and resolved to make something of himself.
• Two years later, Ron joked with Garp in Marineford while Vergo continued preparing his reports and worried that Ron would get him promoted again.

Ron learned that Rosinante had taken in the sick, world-hating Trafalgar Law and urged him to keep watch, while Ron worried that events might not follow what he remembered. He then sent Harald’s giant Den Den Mushi to Borsalino so Vegapunk could check it for bugs and add encryption.

• Sengoku gave Ron command of an independent fleet and approved his choice of Vergo as adjutant, while warning him not to share sensitive intelligence with the recruit yet.
• Rosinante told Sengoku and Ron that Trafalgar Law, a ten-year-old with white patches who wanted to destroy the world, had joined Doflamingo’s family; Ron urged Rosinante to watch over him.
• Ron worried that Law’s arrival and his own past actions could change the events surrounding the Op-Op Fruit, the secret deal, and Minion Island.
• A package from Harald arrived at Sengoku’s office, and Ron sent the giant Den Den Mushi through a Spatial Door to Borsalino for Vegapunk to inspect and secure.
• Borsalino agreed to take the Den Den Mushi to Vegapunk and warned Ron to be careful with items sent through the Holy Land.