Recaps

Ace, Luffy, Zoro, and Kuina fought Teach as his black-swamp domain and mysterious drumming repeatedly restored his body. After their combined attack failed to finish him, a tall figure struck Teach with a huge black-vortex-covered palm, knocking him unconscious.

• Teach spread his black-swamp domain and attacked Ace, Luffy, Zoro, and Kuina with shadow tendrils while repeatedly regenerating from their blows.
• Ace and Luffy realized that an unknown presence inside Teach seemed to answer the drumming that restored him.
• Zoro and Kuina struck Teach together, and Ace and Luffy followed with their Conqueror's Coating combo technique, Flame Dragon's Roar.
• Teach survived the combined assault and began to rise again, but a tall figure suddenly appeared and slammed him underground with a massive black-vortex-covered palm.

Roy arrived at the battlefield, knocked Teach unconscious with a single slap, and stopped Ace from killing him because Teach was still useful. Roy then took Ace, Luffy, Zoro, and Kuina back to the warship, hinting that the doctor had prepared something new for them, while the Blackbeard Alliance's troops later dug Teach out alive.

• Roy appeared on the battlefield and struck Teach unconscious with one slap.
• Ace, Luffy, Zoro, and Kuina told Roy that Teach's power let him keep getting back up and grow more excited during their fight.
• Kuina urged them to eliminate Teach, and Ace prepared to finish him off, but Roy stopped Ace and said Teach was still useful.
• Roy took the four fighters back to the warship and suggested they try something new the doctor had been working on.
• After Roy and the others left, the Blackbeard Alliance's remaining troops dug Teach out of the rubble and found him alive.

Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr enjoyed a vacation near Punk Hazard while discussing Sengoku’s retirement and possible successors. When they arrived at the island, they ran into Ace and Luffy, whose battered faces left Garp in shock.

• Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr relaxed aboard a disguised Navy ship and joked about Sengoku finally retiring.
• Garp confronted Sengoku for tricking him into eating a Devil Fruit disguised as a cake, and the two old friends brawled.
• Sengoku and Zephyr discussed Fleet Admiral candidates Sakazuki and Kuzan, joking that Sakazuki might attack the Holy Land.
• The three veterans landed at Punk Hazard and headed toward the research facilities, guessing that Roy had called them to see Vegapunk’s latest experiment.
• Garp spotted Ace, Luffy, Zoro, and Kuina approaching, then exclaimed in shock when he saw that Ace and Luffy were badly beaten.

Roy brought Sengoku, Zephyr, and Garp to the Punk Hazard Institute to reveal a surprise prepared with Vegapunk. Three enormous figures emerged in the training area, and the old veterans recognized the familiar Haki and presence of peak fighters.

• Zephyr, Kuina, and Zoro reacted to Luffy and Ace’s swollen faces, and Luffy and Ace clarified that Roy had not beaten them.
• Roy healed Luffy and Ace with pale golden energy and stopped Luffy from revealing the surprise.
• Roy led Sengoku, Zephyr, and Garp into the institute and teleported them to its training field.
• Roy announced that he and Vegapunk had prepared a surprise, then vanished with Ace and the other youths.
• Three enormous figures rose from the training field, and Sengoku, Zephyr, and Garp sensed the powerful Haki and presence within them.

Vegapunk’s Seraphim project produced powerful Whitebeard, Kaido, and Linlin replicas whose consciousnesses began to awaken. The three Seraphim clashed with Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr at Punk Hazard while Roy and the younger fighters watched.

• Vegapunk’s six satellites reported that the three Seraphim’s core consciousnesses were awakening, startling Sengoku, Zephyr, and Garp with their familiar auras.
• The chapter explained that Roy had supplied Vegapunk with Kaido and Linlin’s bodies and Devil Fruits, along with a Whitebeard template and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Whitebeard, Kaido, and Linlin awakened and exchanged familiar, hostile banter, with Linlin accusing Kaido of stealing her fruit.
• Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr chose to fight the Seraphim, unleashing their powers as the three replicas answered with tremors, thunder, and soul attacks.
• The clash shook Punk Hazard’s energy barrier while Roy urged Ace, Luffy, Zoro, and Kuina to watch and learn.

Garp battled the Kaido Seraphim in a brutal exchange of fists, while Sengoku fought the Whitebeard Seraphim and Zephyr fought the Charlotte Linlin Seraphim. Roy, Ace, and Luffy watched as all three battles escalated into clashes of Haki, shockwaves, and flames.

• Garp struck the Kaido Seraphim with an Iron Fist, and Kaido awakened into his Human-Beast Form and counterattacked with Thunderclap: Dragon Strike.
• Garp and Kaido traded blows without defending, shaking their combat zone as Roy urged Ace and Luffy to watch.
• Sengoku transformed into a giant golden Buddha and clashed his Golden Light Palm with the Whitebeard Seraphim's Tremor-Tremor Shockwave.
• Sengoku and the Whitebeard Seraphim continued fighting amid a platinum energy storm that pierced the Training Ground's dome.
• Zephyr charged the Charlotte Linlin Seraphim, whose Soul-Soul Fruit power turned her White Flames into Soul Homies.
• Zephyr and the Charlotte Linlin Seraphim collided in a towering surge of Blue and White Flames, forcing Ace and the other spectators back.

Teach awakened on Hachinosu and learned that Burgess and Doc Q had died, then sensed the eerie drumbeats and believed something was about to offer him power. On Punk Hazard, Garp unveiled a fiftyfold Iron Fist against the battered Kaido Seraphim.

• Teach woke in the ruins of Hachinosu and remembered Roy overpowering him.
• Van Augur told Teach that Burgess and Doc Q had died and most of the Alliance had fled.
• Teach rallied the survivors, declared he would not give Roy what he wanted, and reacted to mysterious drumbeats.
• On Punk Hazard, Sengoku, Zephyr, and Garp continued battling the exhausted Seraphim while Ace and Luffy watched.
• Garp launched his new Doubling—Fiftyfold Iron Fist at the Kaido Seraphim.

Garp unleashed a fifty-fold punch that carved a vast pit into the sea and devastated parts of Punk Hazard, while Roy evacuated everyone from the Training Ground. The story then shifted to Flower Country, where X Drake and his SWORD team began a mission to stop groups planning to rebuild pirate forces.

• Garp combined the More-More Fruit with his Haki and prepared a fifty-fold punch powerful enough to threaten Punk Hazard.
• Roy used Spatial Transfer to move the Training Ground and its occupants offshore before Garp's punch struck.
• Garp's punch blasted a huge pit into the seabed, sent up towering tsunamis, and damaged Punk Hazard; the Seraphim and Zephyr and Sengoku reacted to its power.
• Roy warned Vegapunk that the World Government would notice the destruction, and Vegapunk realized he would have to deal with the fallout.
• X Drake led Sanji, Usopp, Hibari, and Kujaku ashore in Flower Country to investigate groups planning to form an alliance and rebuild pirate forces.

Chinjao gathered several New World adventure group leaders in the Flower Country and proposed forming a Great Pirate Fleet allied with the Blackbeard Alliance. As they discussed the navy’s brutal pirate hunts, unseen figures emerged from the shadows, revealing they had overheard the meeting.

• Chinjao told Cavendish, Bartolomeo, Sai, Ideo, Hajrudin, and Orlumbus that their adventure groups were exiled pirates who had never truly abandoned their flags.
• Chinjao proposed forming a new Great Pirate Fleet and allying with the Blackbeard Alliance to restore pirate glory and sweep across the four seas.
• Cavendish, Bartolomeo, Ideo, and Hajrudin objected to trusting Blackbeard, but Chinjao argued they needed him to draw attention as the world order changed.
• Cavendish and Bartolomeo agreed to take the stage, while Ideo and Hajrudin warned that the navy, especially Sakazuki and Enel, was hunting pirates with devastating attacks.
• Chinjao reassured the group that the navy would not target them if they acted as adventure groups, but mysterious figures emerged from the shadows and said they had heard everything.

Drake led Razor, Admiral Roy’s secret Marine unit, to confront Chinjao’s group and declared them threats to order. The two sides clashed across the battlefield, with the fight still underway.

• Drake revealed that the Marines knew of the group’s plans and introduced Razor as a special unit serving directly under Admiral Roy.
• Chinjao charged Drake, who transformed into her Allosaurus form, and the two fought with powerful Haki.
• Usopp and Hibari took sniper positions and shot down more than a dozen members of the Happo Navy.
• Sanji and Cavendish clashed with Sanji’s flaming kicks against Cavendish’s swordsmanship.
• Kujaku used her Whip-Whip Fruit to turn the ground into stone hands that seized and hurled the surrounding underlings.

Drake and the four other SWORD members battled Chinjao and his assembled allies in the harbor district. After Drake was forced back, she revealed that she had contacted a hotheaded ally, whose approach filled the sky with lightning and crimson flames.

• Chinjao and Drake clashed while Bartolomeo, Sai, Ideo, Hajrudin, and Orlumbus attacked the SWORD members and their positions.
• Usopp and Hibari supported Kujaku, who used her whip to raise waves of rubble and scatter the enemy's underlings.
• Chinjao overwhelmed Drake with his spinning head, but Drake struck him with her head and sent him crashing through a wall.
• Drake returned to human form and stood with Sanji and Kujaku as Chinjao's allies regrouped behind him.
• Drake revealed that she had contacted a hotheaded ally, and crimson flames and lightning appeared on the horizon.

Chinjao’s forces attacked Drake’s group, but Enel’s lightning spears struck Cavendish and Sai before Sakazuki’s Meteor Volcano engulfed the battlefield. As Chinjao resisted the magma assault, Enel and Sakazuki appeared amid the devastation.

• Chinjao ordered Cavendish and Sai to attack Drake’s group, and the pair charged forward.
• Two lightning spears struck Cavendish and Sai, leaving Cavendish injured and pinning Sai to the ground.
• Chinjao rushed to Sai and called out in grief as the sky turned red and magma meteors began to fall.
• Sakazuki’s Meteor Volcano set the battlefield ablaze and overwhelmed members of the adventure group.
• Chinjao fought back against the magma while Enel and Sakazuki arrived on the burning battlefield.

Sakazuki’s Meteor Volcano devastated the Adventurer Group Alliance, but Bartolomeo’s barrier protected a few survivors. After Sakazuki learned of Bartolomeo’s criminal past, he destroyed the barrier and apparently killed him; Enel then learned Roy had wanted Bartolomeo brought back for his useful Devil Fruit.

• Sakazuki’s Meteor Volcano left the Adventurer Group Alliance in ruins, while Bartolomeo’s barrier shielded him and a handful of survivors.
• Enel mocked the survivors and provoked Hajrudin by asking whether Loki had kept the giants under control.
• Hibari identified Bartolomeo as a former crime boss and pirate whose underground business continued under the guise of an adventurer group.
• Sakazuki confronted Bartolomeo, and Sanji, Drake, Usopp, Kujaku, and Hibari withdrew from the burning ruins.
• Sakazuki transformed into a giant of lava and engulfed Bartolomeo and the survivors around him, destroying the barrier.
• Roy called Enel and asked him to bring Bartolomeo back for his useful fruit, but Enel found only a charred hand in the magma.

Roy reflected on the end of a call and discussed the Fleet Admiral position and his readiness with Sengoku, while life continued at the Cold Experimental Base. In Flower Country, the Blade Squad encountered three masked strangers, whose leader stopped them to ask questions.

• Roy learned that the person he had been trying to reach was already gone and brushed off the news.
• Garp dragged Ace and Luffy through the corridor as Zephyr trained Zoro and Kuina, while Vegapunk and his Six Great Satellites monitored the Three Emperors Seraphim.
• Sengoku asked Roy what he thought of becoming Fleet Admiral and offered to lend him a final hand, but Roy told him not to underestimate the younger generation.
• In Flower Country, Sanji, Usopp, Kujaku, Hibari, and Drake rested in an alley as three masked figures approached the Blade Squad.
• The masked leader addressed the Marines and said he needed to ask them a few things.

CP0 leader Guernica confronted Drake and the Navy's Blade Squad in the Flower Country, claiming authority to question them while investigating the Navy's ties to Gild Tesoro. The clash began, but a lightning-wreathed figure appeared behind Joseph and Gismonda and challenged Guernica for targeting his juniors.

• Guernica arrived with Joseph and Gismonda and announced that he could take Drake and the Blade Squad to Mary Geoise for questioning.
• Sanji rejected Guernica's authority, and Guernica resolved to force the squad to comply with his mission.
• Sanji and Guernica exchanged attacks as Usopp, Hibari, Kujaku, and Drake prepared to fight.
• Guernica noticed Joseph and Gismonda standing motionless, then saw a lightning-wreathed man holding their shoulders and asking if Guernica meant to harm his juniors.

Enel and Sanji defeated Guernica’s men, and Sakazuki confronted the CP0 agent over the order that had kept him from going to Hachinosu. Half an hour later, Sakazuki and Enel were aboard a Navy warship off the Flower Country, with Sakazuki saying he would deal with Guernica soon.

• Enel struck Joseph and Gismonda with lightning, knocking them unconscious despite their Tekkai.
• Sanji kicked Guernica into a stone wall, and Guernica accused the group of defying the World Government and the Five Elders.
• Sakazuki arrived and confronted Guernica about the order that had stopped him from going to Hachinosu.
• Sakazuki unleashed magma, engulfing the street in a fiery explosion.
• Half an hour later, Sakazuki and Enel stood aboard a Navy warship off the Flower Country, where Sakazuki said he would deal with Guernica soon.

The Five Elders discussed the Marines’ growing independence and ordered that the gods’ wrath be shown again, while Shanks tried to stop Shamrock from carrying out an undisclosed plan. At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku announced that Sakazuki and Kuzan would decide the next Fleet Admiral by fighting.

• The Five Elders reviewed reports of CP0 agents being attacked, the Marines slipping beyond their control, and nations refusing to pay Heavenly Tribute.
• Saint Figarland Garling agreed to make the Marines witness God's Wrath again.
• Shanks asked his older brother Shamrock not to carry out a matter connected to the Five Elders’ arrangements, but Shamrock challenged his right to interfere.
• Sakazuki and Enel arrived at Marine Headquarters for a senior officers’ meeting about selecting the next Fleet Admiral.
• Sengoku said the choice was between Sakazuki and Kuzan, then announced that they should fight, shocking the assembled officers.

Sengoku nominated Kuzan for Fleet Admiral, but the Five Elders chose Sakazuki instead and ordered both admirals to Mary Geoise, hoping to drive a wedge between the Marines. Roy welcomed the plan as a chance to set events in motion, leaving Sakazuki and Kuzan preparing to confront the World Government.

• Sengoku formally submitted a nomination naming Kuzan as the next Fleet Admiral.
• Saint Shepherd Ju Peter proposed appointing Sakazuki instead to make Kuzan and Sakazuki clash and weaken the Marines.
• The Five Elders ordered Sakazuki and Kuzan to travel to Holy Land Mary Geoise to receive the appointment.
• Sengoku questioned Roy about the order, and Roy said they needed a fuse and would let the two make trouble.
• Sakazuki threatened the World Government, Kuzan called the mission difficult, and Kizaru looked forward to the coming spectacle.

Sakazuki and Kuzan arrived at Mary Geoise, where the Five Elders arranged a duel to decide who would become Fleet Admiral and test their loyalty. As the two Admirals faced each other in the plaza, both privately dismissed the Elders as fools.

• Sakazuki and Kuzan walked through Mary Geoise, their opposing heat and cold overwhelming the Celestial Dragon guards.
• The Five Elders gathered at the plaza outside the Power Hall to receive the two Admirals.
• Saint Garling criticized the Navy's growing independence and announced that Sakazuki and Kuzan would compete for the Fleet Admiral position.
• The Five Elders declared that the victor would become Fleet Admiral and the loser would step down, presenting the duel as a test of loyalty.
• Sakazuki and Kuzan faced each other as fire and frost spread across the plaza, while both privately thought the Five Elders were fools.

Sakazuki and Kuzan launched their duel in Mary Geoise, unleashing a devastating clash of magma and ice that battered Pangaea Castle and terrified the Celestial Dragons. As the Holy Knights deployed to stop them, Roy watched from above and told Borsalino that the destruction did not matter.

• The Five Elders tried to lead Sakazuki and Kuzan to a prepared dueling ground, but the Admirals attacked behind them with magma and ice.
• Sakazuki and Kuzan exchanged powerful attacks that shattered the plaza and sent the Five Elders flying.
• The Admirals’ battle ravaged Pangaea Castle and the surrounding Holy Land, while the Celestial Dragons cried out in fear.
• Shanks and Shamrock led the Holy Knights into the battle zone as Saint Mars ordered them to stop the Admirals.
• Borsalino questioned Roy about the destruction below, and Roy replied that it did not matter.

Sakazuki and Kuzan deliberately directed their fire-and-ice attacks toward the Celestial Dragons’ district, devastating Mary Geoise as the Five Elders struggled to contain the destruction. Saint Garling and the other Elders attacked them, and the chapter ended with Garling’s sword strike colliding with their combined assault at Pangaea Castle.

• Sakazuki and Kuzan clashed across Mary Geoise while the Five Elders struggled to maintain the Holy Land’s barrier.
• Sakazuki’s lava and Kuzan’s ice attacks veered toward the Celestial Dragons’ town, destroying palaces and killing Celestial Dragons and slaves.
• Shanks and Shamrock led the Holy Knights in an attempt to rescue Celestial Dragons in areas away from the battle.
• Saint Garling realized the Navy had lured them into a trap, abandoned the barrier, and attacked Sakazuki and Kuzan as the other Elders revealed their Mythical Zoan forms.
• Sakazuki and Kuzan combined their attacks against Garling, whose sword strike collided with their torrent of fire and ice and engulfed Pangaea Castle.

Sakazuki and Kuzan joined forces to nearly destroy Saint Garling, revealing that his Immortal Body could regenerate, while the other Elders and Shanks’s Holy Knights closed in on them. Roy and Borsalino arrived, and Roy struck Saint Mars after accusing the Elders of forcing his comrades to fight and then surrounding them.

• Sakazuki and Kuzan unleashed a combined fire-and-ice attack that disintegrated half of Saint Garling’s body, but he began regenerating.
• Sakazuki and Kuzan recognized Saint Garling’s Immortal Body and noted that Conqueror’s Haki coating could break it.
• Shanks led an elite force of Holy Knights to the battlefield as the four other Elders surrounded Sakazuki and Kuzan.
• Roy and Borsalino appeared above the Holy Land, and Saint Garling accused the Marines of rebelling.
• Kuzan and Sakazuki retorted that the Elders had arranged their fight, and Roy punched Saint Mars into the ground before condemning the Elders for surrounding his comrades.

Roy crippled Saint Mars with a single punch, making the Five Elders and Holy Knights hesitate as Shanks and Borsalino intervened. Shanks brokered a temporary end to the fighting, but Roy hinted that he regretted letting Shanks return to the Holy Land.

• Roy struck Saint Mars with Conqueror’s Haki, destroying his regeneration and leaving him bleeding and unable to heal.
• Saint Garling and the others recoiled at Roy’s power, while Shanks readied Griffon and sensed their hesitation.
• Shanks urged the Navy and the Five Elders to treat the clash as a misunderstanding, and Borsalino descended and traded remarks with him.
• Shanks called for a dignified end to the battle, warning that continued fighting would expose the Holy Land to the world.
• Saint Garling accepted a temporary truce, and the other Elders and Holy Knights withdrew as the battlefield quieted.
• Roy told Shanks he was beginning to regret letting him return to the Holy Land.

Saint Garling attacked Sakazuki with a dark power after taunting the Navy’s justice, forcing Roy and Kizaru to rescue Sakazuki and Kuzan. On a distant island, Roy sensed that the crisis had come sooner than expected, but hinted that he had a way forward.

• Roy dismissed the Admirals’ killing intent toward Shanks and asked Saint Garling whether he had anything else to say about the Navy’s Fleet Admiral choice.
• Saint Garling mocked Sakazuki’s Absolute Justice and Kuzan’s Free Justice, provoking Sakazuki and stirring the Admirals’ anger.
• Roy recognized a darkness like the power he had witnessed at God Valley and warned Saint Garling, but Garling unleashed Black Turn Domination beneath Sakazuki.
• Roy blasted apart the magic circle with Conqueror’s Haki as he and Kizaru teleported Sakazuki and Kuzan away from the void.
• On a distant island, Sakazuki thanked Roy, who watched the dark clouds over the Holy Land and said there was still a way forward.

Roy analyzed how Imu’s Black Turn Domination took hold of people overwhelmed by emotion and suspected Nika’s liberating laughter was its opposite. At Pangaea Castle, Imu ordered the Five Elders to retrieve Vegapunk’s invention and convene the Reverie early.

• Roy told Kizaru, Sakazuki, and Kuzan that Black Turn Domination had nearly taken control of Sakazuki and Kuzan through their extreme emotions.
• Roy reasoned that Imu had prepared Rocks to lose control and that the power worked through mental infiltration of an emotionally overwhelmed vessel.
• Roy connected Luffy’s laughter after awakening the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, to freedom from the darkness, then said he had an idea for countering it.
• At Pangaea Castle, Saint Garling apologized to Imu for letting Roy and the others escape while Saint Mars regenerated from his injuries.
• Imu ordered the Five Elders to retrieve Vegapunk’s invention and convene the Reverie early.