Recaps

Ruidio brought Nico Olvia out of the Ohara mission and into the real world, where she reunited with the grown Robin, though the mission remained incomplete. As they traveled toward Alubarna, they suspected Jaguar D. Saul had failed to come out because he was still alive in the present.

• Ruidio brought Olvia back to Alabasta, and Robin reunited with her mother seventeen years after Ohara's destruction.
• Ruidio found that the mission to ensure Olvia survived the buster call was still in progress, despite Olvia now being with them.
• Robin explained Ohara's fate and her search for Poneglyphs to Olvia, while Ruidio said she had once been close to ending her life.
• Ruidio led Robin and Olvia toward Alubarna in Robin's Banana Crocodile carriage.
• Ruidio said he had failed to bring out Robin's younger self and other living people from the Ohara mission, prompting Robin to wonder whether Jaguar D. Saul was still alive.

Ruidio accepted Robin’s request to find Jaguar D. Saul and traveled with her and Olvia to Alabasta’s capital, where he revealed Crocodile’s scheme behind the drought. The chapter left Robin preparing to seek the king’s help with Olvia and the Ohara scholars, while Ruidio completed Vivi’s request to uncover the disaster’s mastermind.

• Robin asked Ruidio to find out whether Jaguar D. Saul was alive and where he was, and Ruidio accepted the task.
• Robin bought Olvia desert clothing, and Ruidio told her and Olvia that he might be able to bring back the Ohara scholars, though their requests did not trigger a task.
• Ruidio sent Robin to request an audience with King Cobra while he and Olvia went to nearby abandoned houses.
• Ruidio entered the palace and told Cobra he could help end Alabasta’s drought, prompting Princess Vivi to demand the truth.
• Vivi commissioned Ruidio to identify the drought’s mastermind, and he explained that Crocodile had used Dance Powder to cause the drought outside Alubarna.

Ruidio revealed the history behind the Nefertari family and the meaning he believed the “D” carried, while King Cobra and Dr. Clover shared evidence about the lost war. Cobra and Vivi enlisted Ruidio to help Alabasta, but he told them he had already driven Crocodile away.

• Ruidio told King Cobra and Vivi that Nefertari D. Lily had rejected the victorious rulers and added “D” to her name, which he theorized was once a mark of comradeship.
• Dr. Clover introduced himself as Clough D. Clover, and he and Olvia discussed how the “D” might identify descendants of those who opposed the alliance of twenty nations.
• King Cobra revealed Queen Lily’s letter, which urged future bearers of D to raise the flag of dawn and said the Poneglyphs pointed to the Ancient Weapons and the truth.
• Ruidio explained that Crocodile had used Dance Powder to provoke a civil war and sought Pluton to defend his planned pirate kingdom from the Marines.
• King Cobra and Vivi accepted Ruidio’s help against Crocodile, but Ruidio said he had already chased Crocodile away and Robin confirmed that he had left.

Ruidio brought the revived Ohara scholars to Alabasta, where Cobra agreed to shelter them in the Royal Grand Library. As Robin reunited with Olvia and the scholars settled in, Ruidio warned Cobra not to question the Five Elders about Queen Lily or D at the next Reverie, then reminded the scholars to conceal their identities.

• Ruidio checked his new System Inventory Slot, the Time Extension Card, and the intermediate Mission Scroll, then considered how to use the scroll.
• Vivi told Ruidio that Pell was checking whether Crocodile remained in Rainbase and Chaka was searching for Dance Powder; she thanked Ruidio for helping Alabasta.
• Cobra led the Ohara scholars through the Royal Grand Library, where they eagerly explored its books while Olvia and Robin spoke about Robin's life.
• Robin feared that her revived mother and the other scholars might not be real, and briefly saw Olvia as an ice sculpture before Olvia comforted her.
• Ruidio warned Cobra that questioning the Five Elders about Queen Lily and D at the next Reverie would get him killed, and Cobra promised not to act rashly.
• Ruidio told the scholars to focus on hiding their identities and asked Clover whether he would keep his conspicuous hairstyle.

Ruidio abducted Olvia and Robin during the destruction of Ohara, then persuaded Kizaru to take them aboard his warship by claiming Olvia knew information about Figarland Shamrock. After completing the mission, Ruidio returned to Alabasta, where Robin seemed to recognize the name Figarland and asked him about it.

• Ruidio entered the Ohara mission and watched Olvia reunite with young Robin before knocking Olvia unconscious and carrying her away.
• Ruidio returned for Robin when she chased after them, then fled north with both Robin and Olvia as the Buster Call continued.
• Kizaru intercepted Ruidio, but Ruidio claimed Olvia had information about Figarland Shamrock's missing twin, convincing Kizaru to take them to Marine Headquarters.
• The Marines handcuffed Ruidio, Olvia, and Robin with Seastone cuffs while the Buster Call destroyed Ohara and the Tree of Knowledge.
• Robin's question about why her mother died completed Ruidio's mission, and the system transported him back to Alabasta with rewards including Satoru Gojo Transformation.
• Robin saw Ruidio's handcuffs, frowned as she tried to remember, and asked him what he meant by “Figarland.”

Ruidio reassured Robin that her mother and the other scholars were still real, though their altered history left faint, contradictory memories in Robin’s mind. Back in East Blue, he claimed the Satoru Gojo Transformation reward and tested its powers, ending with his left hand severed and an explanation of Reverse Cursed Technique beginning.

• Robin told Ruidio about blurred memories of a different past and asked why changing Ohara’s history had not changed the present.
• Ruidio had Robin check the library, where she saw Olvia, Dr. Clover, and the others safe with King Cobra, and he said she should stay in Alabasta until he formed a crew.
• Ruidio returned to Syrup Village, collected the rewards from Robin’s mission, and used the Satoru Gojo Transformation item.
• Ruidio transformed, demonstrated Limitless by manipulating seawater with attraction and repulsion, and caused a massive eruption in the sea.
• Ruidio used Malevolent Shrine to cut off his left hand, then began explaining how Reverse Cursed Technique could heal it.

Ruidio used the Mission Scroll to search for a mission involving Kizaru, then explored the green energy he could see around people while transformed into Satoru Gojo. He suspected the energy might be Haki, but the chapter ended before he learned what it was.

• Ruidio wrote requirements for a mission based on his current strength that involved Kizaru without making the admiral a direct threat, then began a precise search.
• Merry found that Ruidio's injuries had healed, while Kaya struggled to manage the cats she had bought.
• Ruidio asked Kaya to show him around Syrup Village and introduce him to Usopp.
• Ruidio transformed again and saw green energy surrounding Kaya, Usopp, and the villagers.
• Ruidio wondered whether the energy was Haki and whether the Six Eyes could let him use it with near-perfect efficiency.

Ruidio trained on Syrup Village, used his Satoru Gojo transformation to improve his skills, and forged a Seastone Great Grade Sword he named Demon Subduer. After leaving Kaya and her family, he flew east and accidentally destroyed Krieg’s flagship, then attacked the survivors with Hollow Technique: Purple.

• Ruidio used Satoru Gojo mode and Reverse Cursed Technique to recover from training, rapidly improve his Soru, and treat Bonney to lavish meals.
• Ruidio combined copies of Malevolent Shrine with Seastone until he forged Demon Subduer, a Great Grade Sword that could counter Devil Fruit Users.
• Ruidio bid farewell to Kaya, her parents, and Merry, then stored the ship and flew east using Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue.
• Ruidio accidentally smashed Krieg’s flagship while flying over the sea and recognized the ships as Krieg’s fleet.
• Ruidio aimed Hollow Technique: Purple at the wreckage, Krieg, Gin, and the surrounding pirates.

Ruidio accepted a task from Trafalgar o Law to rescue Bepo, a kidnapped bear mink, before Kizaru reached the island. After Law accidentally cut Ruidio in half, Ruidio reunited his body and hurried with Law toward Garling Tower as Kizaru closed in.

• Ruidio's task scroll located Law's request to rescue Bepo and showed Kizaru racing toward the island, with only forty minutes left to accept.
• Ruidio teleported to the snowy island, where Law mistook him for an attacker and cut him in half with the Op-Op Fruit.
• Ruidio used his Seastone sword to stop Law's powers, threatened him, and then rejoined his own body.
• Ruidio told Law he had come to rescue Bepo, and they raced toward the tower as Kizaru drew near.
• Law teleported them to the top of Garling Tower after Ruidio climbed most of its hundred-meter wall.

Ruidio and Law found the stolen coffin and fought the tentacle-wielding old man who had attacked them. Kizaru arrived, and Ruidio tested Satoru Gojo Mode against the Admiral as the battle continued with Law caught in the crossfire.

• Ruidio stopped Law from opening the coffin, then fought off an old man whose tentacles drained his blood and pinned him with a Seastone sword.
• Kizaru arrived and asked which of them had stolen the coffin, while Ruidio confirmed that Kizaru showed no reaction to his test of hazy memories.
• Ruidio activated Satoru Gojo Mode, regenerated his arm, and blasted Kizaru with Red, but Kizaru reformed his body from light.
• Ruidio attacked Kizaru with Playful Cloud and stopped the Admiral's laser before it reached him.
• Kizaru dodged Ruidio's attacks and fired at Law, who used his Devil Fruit to escape but still suffered a cut to his cheek.

Ruidio used Unlimited Void to incapacitate Kizaru, rescued Bepo with Law, and escaped before the Admiral recovered. Back in East Blue, he collected his quest reward and took Bonney shopping after a radar search began.

• Ruidio activated Unlimited Void, leaving Kizaru and the old man unconscious while Law watched in amazement.
• Ruidio questioned the old man, learned Bepo was hidden in a passage beneath the coffin, and killed him after the effects of the domain overwhelmed his brain.
• Law found the hidden passage and went to rescue Bepo while Ruidio waited; Kizaru woke after 150 seconds and found the others gone.
• Ruidio returned to East Blue, completed the rescue quest, and received Essence and an Omniscience Potion he chose to store.
• Ruidio began a quest-radar search, then met Bonney and took her shopping in East Blue.

Ruidio completed tasks with Bonney, then set out for Foosha Village and met Ace at sea. After Ace learned Ruidio was looking for Luffy, the two raced toward Mount Colubo, where Ruidio hurled a giant tiger at Ace.

• Ruidio took Bonney around a South Blue town, completed three tasks, and returned her before sailing away the next morning.
• Ruidio met Ace near Foosha Village and said he wanted to kill Monkey D. Luffy, prompting Ace to attack him.
• Ruidio repeatedly pushed Ace off his ship, then stole Ace’s boat and rowed toward shore while Ace swam after him.
• Ace searched Foosha Village for Ruidio and Luffy, learned Ruidio had asked about Mount Colubo, and chased him into the forest.
• Ruidio outran Ace through the mountain terrain, then threw a giant tiger at him while running backward.

Ruidio fought Ace after ambushing Luffy, then explained that he wanted to awaken Luffy’s Devil Fruit and offered to help the brothers pursue their dreams. The chapter ended with Ruidio and Ace competing in a handshake after Ace invited him to become his crewmate.

• Ruidio struck Luffy with a tree trunk, and Ace confronted him with Conqueror’s Haki before they fought.
• Luffy tried to help Ace, but Ruidio wrapped a seastone Three-Section Staff around his arm and made him collapse.
• Ace and Ruidio exchanged blows until Ruidio stopped fighting and removed the staff, reviving Luffy.
• Ruidio explained seastone and claimed that nearly killing Luffy might awaken his Devil Fruit, prompting Ace to challenge him again.
• Ruidio accepted and abandoned Luffy’s repeated missions to make him a crewmate, then offered to help Ace with his dream.
• Ace invited Ruidio to join his crew, and the two tested their strength in a handshake.

Ruidio fought Ace for a day, then discussed Roger’s legacy with him before teleporting to a radar task involving Boa Hancock. He arrived on an island where petrified pirates surrounded a stranded ship, and Kuja warriors attacked him after spotting him.

• Ruidio revealed that he knew Ace was Gol D. Roger’s son, provoking Ace into a fierce fight that lasted until dusk.
• After Luffy and Ace ate the roast meat Ruidio produced, Ruidio urged Ace to ask him for help and explained Roger’s reasons for starting the age of pirates.
• Ruidio found a radar task for Boa Hancock and teleported to an island near the Calm Belt.
• Ruidio discovered petrified pirates and heard Kuja women discussing Snake Princess before a warrior fired a cannon at him.
• The Kuja warriors identified Ruidio as a man and prepared to deal with him.

Ruidio confronted Boa Hancock and her Kuja Pirates, resisted her Love-Love Fruit powers, and used Unlimited Void to incapacitate the crew before declaring that Hancock needed treatment. He vanished after telling her to consider cooperating, leaving Hancock shaken and wondering whether he knew her secret.

• Ruidio defeated five Kuja warriors and persuaded Rindou to take him to the Perfume Yuda.
• Boa Hancock's Mero Mero Mellow petrified the four Kuja warriors who had brought Ruidio, but Limitless protected him from its effects.
• Ruidio repelled attacks from Hancock and her sisters, then used Unlimited Void to freeze the Kuja Pirates on deck and accepted a task to treat Boa Hancock.
• Ruidio told Hancock to consider treatment and vanished, while she feared he had recognized her secret.
• Sandersonia and Marigold returned to Hancock and wondered why Ruidio had not been petrified by her beauty.

Ruidio deployed to the Kuja sisters’ task and found Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold imprisoned aboard a slave ship, where he began cutting his way through the crew. He reached Saint Shepherd Sommers on deck and confronted the Holy Knight, leaving the sisters’ escape unresolved.

• After Ruidio returned to Mount Colubo, Ace ambushed him, but Ruidio overpowered him and vanished again.
• Ruidio deployed to the Kuja sisters’ task and found the young Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold shackled in a cage aboard a ship.
• Ruidio freed himself from the cage, questioned a jailer, and learned the vessel was a slave ship connected to a Celestial Dragon.
• Ruidio killed the jailer and cut down the slave traders and helmsman as he made his way toward the deck.
• Ruidio found Saint Shepherd Sommers, a Holy Knight, and slashed off his left arm and across his chest.
• Sommers turned toward Ruidio and demanded to know who was there.

After Saint Shepherd Sommers nearly killed Ruidio with a single blow, Ruidio recovered on Mount Colubo and explained Devil Fruit types to Ace and Luffy, revealing that Luffy had eaten the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika. He warned Ace about the dangers of being Roger’s son, then used Satoru Gojo Mode to heal himself and demonstrated a powerful attack.

• Saint Shepherd Sommers struck Ruidio with overwhelming force, sending him flying across the sea until he returned to Mount Colubo.
• Ruidio awoke badly injured, repaired Malevolent Shrine with the system, and created a feast that Ace and Luffy ate with him.
• Ruidio explained the three Devil Fruit categories and told Ace that Luffy had eaten the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, not the Gum-Gum Fruit.
• Ruidio warned Ace that the Marines and ordinary people would target him as Roger’s son, and said he would need to surpass Roger to live freely.
• Ruidio activated Satoru Gojo Mode, healed his injuries with Reverse Cursed Technique, and combined Blue and Red into a powerful attack.

Ruidio traveled back to the slave ship and attacked Saint Shepherd Sommers, trying to draw out Imu and test the limits of the God's Knights' contract. After returning to Mount Colubo, Ruidio set off again and found himself in a red palace, where women's voices came from behind drapes.

• Ruidio returned to the slave ship, killed its guards, and confronted Sommers on deck.
• Ruidio broke Sommers's thorn attacks, blasted him across the sea, and demanded that he summon his master, Imu.
• Ruidio submerged Sommers and waited for Imu to possess him, then pulled out and tried unsuccessfully to crush Sommers's beating steel heart.
• Ruidio returned to Mount Colubo, where Luffy saw him soaking wet and Ace inspected the trench left by Ruidio's attack.
• Ruidio left again and appeared inside a red palace, where he followed women's voices behind pink drapes.

Ruidio took Hancock and her sisters back to the night they were enslaved, where Hancock freed them and confronted Saint Shepherd Sommers. The mission failed before they could return to Amazon Lily, leaving Ruidio and Hancock back in the empress's hall.

• Hancock used her Devil Fruit power to break the sisters’ chains and led Sandersonia and Marigold out of their cell.
• Hancock and her sisters attacked the slave ship’s crew, and Ruidio shattered Saint Shepherd Sommers’s petrified chest, revealing a beating steel heart.
• Ruidio and the Boa sisters escaped aboard a small boat, where Hancock told him how she and her sisters had been captured and blamed herself for their fate.
• Ruidio listened as Hancock shared her pain, but the system declared the mission failed and returned them to the present in Kuja Castle.

Ruidio treated Hancock’s wound and comforted her over the Celestial Dragons’ brand, then accepted her request to help her sisters. After deploying with Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold into their past selves, he found the other captive girls still trapped aboard the ship.

• Ruidio noticed that Hancock’s wound from the spacetime mission had carried over into reality and applied medicine to it.
• Ruidio examined the Celestial Dragons’ brand on Hancock’s back, comforted her, and asked her to teach him Haki.
• Hancock asked Ruidio to soothe Sandersonia and Marigold’s emotional trauma, and he accepted the mission while requesting that a crew member join the Haki lessons.
• Ruidio hired Sandersonia and Marigold, then deployed with the three sisters into their past selves.
• Ruidio searched the ship and found the other twenty captive girls still chained inside their cell.

Ruidio returned to Amazon Lily with Hancock’s two sisters and fourteen rescued slave girls, then examined his new Poké Ball reward. Hancock treated him as her equal among the Kuja and led him into the jungle to begin teaching him Haki.

• Ruidio arrived at Kuja Castle with Hancock, Sandersonia, Marigold, and fourteen rescued girls, then conjured a feast so they could eat.
• Ruidio learned that his Poké Ball could be copied and spent 8,000 Essence to make ten copies.
• Ruidio entrusted the rescued girls to Sandersonia and Marigold, then asked Hancock to teach him Haki.
• Hancock introduced Ruidio to Kuja Warriors as someone they should respect as they did her, and he wondered whether he had become Kuja’s vice emperor.
• Hancock knocked out several jungle beasts with Conqueror’s Haki and ordered Marguerite to keep others away from the trial grounds while she and Ruidio trained.

Hancock explained Haki and its training to Ruidio, then tried to help him awaken Observation Haki. When her gentle attacks failed, Ruidio proposed using her Armament Haki on his hand as a training stimulus, and she cautiously began.

• Hancock demonstrated Observation Haki and the three stages of Armament Haki, explaining how Haki differed from physical strength.
• Ruidio realized that Haki could compensate for differences in natural strength, while physical training could still strengthen a person's convictions.
• Hancock struggled to attack Ruidio during Observation Haki practice, so he could not properly stimulate his senses.
• Ruidio tried to capture a Sea King with a Poké Ball, but it broke free, and he gave Hancock five balls to capture smaller Sea Kings for the island.
• Ruidio suggested that Hancock wrap his hand in Armament Haki so he could sense it and develop his own control, and she cautiously began.

Ruidio trained with Hancock until he awakened Armament Haki, then returned to Mount Colubo and invited Ace aboard his ship. Ace accepted the offer to sail with Ruidio, while Luffy stayed behind.

• Hancock carefully channeled her Armament Haki into Ruidio for hours, and the system recorded his first glimpse of Armament Haki.
• Ruidio checked the system’s updated strength details and continued training with Hancock until evening, sensing slight progress.
• Ruidio returned to Mount Colubo and told Ace about Whitebeard, the Four Emperors, and the great pirates of the sea.
• Ruidio summoned the Black Cat Ship at the shore and invited Ace to come aboard; Ace accepted, insisting he would be captain.
• Ruidio tried to hypnotize Luffy with a pocket watch, but the attempt failed, and he sailed away with Ace while Luffy waved from shore.

Ruidio brought Ace to Amazon Lily so the Kuja could train him in Haki, while encouraging him to give his life meaning and pursue strength. As Ace began brutal training with Sandersonia and Marigold, Ruidio continued practicing Haki with Hancock.

• Ruidio told Ace that his mother, Roger, and Garp had chosen to bring him into the world and urged him to make his existence known.
• Ruidio said he wanted to fulfill his crew’s dreams and reach Laugh Tale, then decided to take Ace to Shimotsuki Village after preparing him for the Grand Line.
• Ruidio used his ability to bring Ace to Amazon Lily, where Ace met Hancock and learned that Sandersonia and Marigold would teach him Haki.
• Ruidio revealed that Ace was the Pirate King’s son, shocking Sandersonia and Marigold.
• The Kuja began training Ace by attacking him to awaken his Observation Haki and teach him Armament Haki, while Ruidio trained with Hancock.

Ruidio killed a Celestial Dragon while pursuing a system mission, gained Observation and Armament Haki with Hancock’s help, and watched Ace’s training progress. On day eight, Hancock summoned Kuja warriors and children to the arena to sort them by Haki ability.

• Ruidio found a system mission to make Manmeya Speed’s chosen South Blue island the venue for the Celestial Dragons’ gathering.
• Sandersonia and Marigold reported that Ace was training hard, and Ruidio brought back and discarded a Celestial Dragon’s head after questioning him about the gathering.
• Ruidio gained Observation Haki and asked Sandersonia and Marigold why they looked different from Hancock; they explained that the sisters had once looked alike and that beauty had brought them misfortune.
• Ace continued training against Sandersonia and Marigold, sometimes anticipating their attacks and dodging them.
• Hancock helped Ruidio master beginner Armament and Observation Haki in the bath, and they embraced after she had heard about his killing of a Celestial Dragon.
• Hancock summoned Kuja warriors and children to the arena, where Rindou and Kikyo sorted them into groups according to their Armament and Observation Haki.