Recaps

Trafalgar Law said goodbye to his parents at Shadow Isles International Airport as the Fathead Fish carried Ma Qiao, Vivi, and the Heart Pirates back to Shurima. After the long flight, they arrived to find the city had grown into a thriving coastal hub.

• Trafalgar Law tearfully listened as his parents fussed over him before the Fathead Fish took off.
• Vivi showed Ma Qiao her drawing, and he encouraged her by promising to get her a Brush-Brush Fruit from Kanjuro in Dressrosa.
• The Fathead Fish crossed the Calm Belt and reached Alabasta after seventy-eight hours and forty-nine minutes.
• Ma Qiao and the Heart Pirates arrived in Shurima, where Bepo and the others marveled at the city’s growth and attractions.
• The Heart Pirates saw Shurima’s planned streets, public housing, Birdnet Cafe, and the Big Bird Consortium’s extensive services and transport fleet.

Ma Qiao visited Alabasta for Cobra’s food festival and discovered that Cobra had funded it with risky loans secured by the kingdom’s future customs revenue. The chapter ended with Cobra insisting Crocodile would keep Alubarna safe, while Ma Qiao questioned the absence of royal guards.

• Ma Qiao assigned Trafalgar Law to work under Dr. Mundo, though he knew Law still wanted to avenge Corazon and would help plan against Doflamingo.
• Vivi showed Ma Qiao an invitation to Cobra’s Alabasta Food Festival, and Ma Qiao traveled with her to Alubarna.
• Ma Qiao saw that the food festival had attracted crowds and vendors, while Cobra avoided explaining how much it had cost.
• Ma Qiao asked Ekko to investigate Cobra’s finances and learned that Cobra had borrowed widely and wagered Alabasta’s customs revenue for the next ten years.
• Ma Qiao asked Cobra where his royal guards were, and Cobra said Crocodile’s presence was enough to prevent trouble.

Ma Qiao took Vivi and Nami to Alabasta’s food festival, where they met Sanji and Katakuri’s family. After Flampe attacked Ma Qiao with a dart, he and Tahm Kench confronted her while she appealed to Katakuri for help.

• Ma Qiao, Vivi, and Nami sampled the food at Cobra’s festival, then found Sanji selling doughnuts.
• Ma Qiao recognized Sanji and hurried to buy doughnuts before he could flirt with Vivi and Nami.
• Twitch told Ma Qiao that Sanji had come to the festival to improve his cooking and earn money.
• Flampe demanded the doughnuts, then fired a bee-stinger dart at Ma Qiao when he ignored her.
• The dart bounced off Ma Qiao’s neck, and Tahm Kench ate it as Ma Qiao turned to confront Flampe.
• Flampe called to Katakuri for help as Ma Qiao and Tahm Kench faced her.

Crocodile rushed to a disturbance in Alabasta’s dessert area, where Ma Qiao was spanking Flampe after she had provoked him. Katakuri arrived to defend his sister, and Crocodile intervened as the royal guard’s commander, leaving a clash about to unfold.

• Chaka told Crocodile that Ma Qiao had gotten into a fight, and Crocodile rode Chaka to the dessert area.
• Crocodile found Ma Qiao spanking Flampe while Tahm Kench restrained her with his tongue.
• Katakuri freed Flampe with a candy bean and moved to protect her, though he disliked her and saw a blurred glimpse of the future through his Observation Haki.
• Crocodile stepped between Katakuri and Ma Qiao, then demanded that Katakuri submit to an investigation by the royal guard.

Crocodile agreed to take Katakuri outside Alabasta to settle their dispute, while Flampe stayed behind and targeted Vivi with an anesthetic dart. As Vivi worried about Ma Qiao, Cobra rushed toward the crowd carrying kitchen utensils.

• Crocodile trusted his instincts about Katakuri and stepped in, offering to settle the dispute peacefully.
• Ma Qiao suggested moving the confrontation outside the city, and Crocodile and Katakuri agreed to leave the festival grounds.
• Flampe stayed behind, grew angry, and aimed an anesthetic dart at Vivi so she could use her as leverage against Ma Qiao.
• Vivi tried to reach Ma Qiao, then quietly explained to Nami how he had passed his skills to her.
• Cobra ran toward Vivi wearing an apron and chef's hat and carrying a ladle and a spatula.

Flampe and Brulee attacked Vivi, Nami, and Cobra at the food festival, while Jhin and the Royal Guard intervened. Sanji defended Pudding from Koza, but Nami summoned Graves, Braum, and Varus to confront him.

• Flampe drugged Cobra with sleeping needles and ordered Brulee to capture Vivi and Nami.
• Vivi fought Brulee with her Peacock Chain and defensive gear, while Jhin shot Flampe and scarred her face and scalp.
• Pudding arrived and shot a Royal Guard soldier, and Koza tried to shoot her before Sanji blocked his shot.
• Sanji defended Pudding and declared he would protect her, despite Koza explaining that she could cooperate with the military investigation.
• Nami summoned Graves, Braum, and Varus with Vision Wards, and they invited Sanji to a philosophical discussion.

Braum, Varus, and Graves overwhelmed Sanji and the fleeing Charlotte siblings, while Crocodile fought Katakuri to a stalemate he could not win. Ma Qiao then clashed with Katakuri, and Tahm Kench Abyssal Dived them into striking range as Ma Qiao attacked.

• Braum froze Sanji's kick with his shield, and Varus bound Sanji with a chain of corruption while Graves filled the area with smoke.
• Pudding used her third eye to find a path through the smoke, but Sanji cleared it with his Rotating Pork Chop and praised her appearance; Brûlée carried Pudding, Flampe, and Cobra away as Graves and the others subdued Sanji.
• Crocodile repeatedly failed to damage Katakuri, recognized him as Big Mom's son, and challenged Big Mom to meet him at the Birdnet Cafe in Shurima.
• Katakuri confronted Ma Qiao over Flampe's new middle-part hairstyle and attacked him with Bird Mochi after Ma Qiao joked about adding overalls and a basketball.
• Ma Qiao mistimed Cleanse, so Tahm Kench freed him with Mikael's Blessing and Abyssal Dived to Katakuri's feet; Ma Qiao attacked Katakuri's knees with Demacia.

Ma Qiao and Tahm Kench fought Katakuri while Crocodile watched, but Katakuri’s Observation Haki and mochi body kept him in control. After Crocodile exploited Brûlée’s arrival and Ma Qiao wounded Katakuri, Ma Qiao stabbed himself to even the score and proposed starting their fight over.

• Ma Qiao’s empowered punch nearly broke Katakuri’s knee, but Katakuri used Observation Haki to foresee it and shifted his body into mochi to evade.
• Katakuri drew his trident and clashed with Ma Qiao’s Black Cleaver, while Tahm Kench blocked Katakuri’s attacks and absorbed heavy damage.
• Katakuri’s mochi body let him evade Ma Qiao’s blows, leaving Ma Qiao and Tahm Kench to endure the fight as they struggled to land a hit.
• Brûlée arrived carrying the unconscious Flampe, Cobra, and Pudding, with Vivi, Chaka, Nami, and Karoo following behind, and warned Katakuri that Marines were in the city.
• Crocodile attacked Brûlée with Sables, so Katakuri turned away from Ma Qiao to protect her, allowing Ma Qiao to strike Katakuri in the waist.
• Ma Qiao stepped back and stabbed himself with the Black Cleaver, telling Katakuri they were even and asking to start the fight over.

Ma Qiao faced Katakuri, using his strange abilities to overcome the Big Mom Pirates fighter and earn his friendship. After Katakuri left through a mirror, Crocodile tried to take charge of Alabasta, but the royal guards asked Vivi to serve as regent.

• Ma Qiao concealed his rapidly healing wound and convinced Katakuri that he had acted out of respect for him.
• Katakuri released his Conqueror's Haki, but Ma Qiao blocked it with a Wind Wall and then attacked with a barrage of unpredictable skill shots.
• Ma Qiao's Mystic Shot struck Katakuri, freezing his movement and silencing his Mochi Fruit powers; Katakuri surrendered and praised him as Gentleman Sword Ma Qiao.
• Ma Qiao and Katakuri clasped hands as friends, and Katakuri quickly departed through a mirror with Brûlée.
• Crocodile offered to rule Alabasta in Cobra's place, but Chaka and the royal guards asked Vivi to serve as regent.

After learning Vivi’s identity and becoming Alabasta’s regent, Crocodile was ordered to lead an expedition to rescue Cobra from the Big Mom Pirates. He reluctantly agreed to set out for Totto Land, while Ma Qiao prepared to infiltrate Big Mom’s tea party.

• Crocodile learned that Miss Valentine was Princess Vivi and scolded Alabasta’s guards for sending their sole heir undercover in Baroque Works.
• Vivi became Alabasta’s regent and planned an expedition to rescue Cobra after he was kidnapped by a senior Big Mom Pirate.
• Crocodile rejected Vivi’s order to lead five thousand troops to Whole Cake Island, but changed his mind when he learned Garp would deliver the summons in person.
• Crocodile decided to leave immediately with his own acquaintances instead of waiting for troops and supplies, then learned that Alabasta and the Goa Kingdom were forming an alliance with Ma Qiao as regent.
• Vivi and Chaka revealed that Ma Qiao had received an invitation to Big Mom’s tea party and would face Big Mom behind enemy lines.

Cobra woke on Flour Island after dreaming that Ma Qiao had taken over Alabasta and won Vivi’s affection, then learned that Katakuri planned to put his ramen skills to work. In Shurima, Crocodile recruited Nico Robin’s help to contact his former subordinates and discovered that Ma Qiao’s newspaper had publicly branded him the Big Mom-Conquering Admiral-General.

• Cobra woke tied up on Flour Island as Streusen argued with Katakuri and Brûlée about hiring him as a chef.
• Katakuri took Cobra away, saying he would make sure the old man’s ramen talents were used.
• Crocodile met Nico Robin, who gave him a list of former subordinates and a loan contract so he could finance their return.
• Robin showed Crocodile a Peace Daily article featuring a fabricated image and quotes that portrayed him as a challenger to Big Mom.
• Crocodile blamed the article on Vivi, signed Robin’s fake contract, and asked whether she would accompany him to Totto Land.
• Crocodile warned Robin to stay away from the boy she loved before leaving her office.

Crocodile gathered his former Baroque Works officers for the expedition against Big Mom, while Ma Qiao sailed toward Whole Cake Island with the retired Zephyr and rescued Camie and Pappag along the way. The voyage ended with Ma Qiao preparing another operation on Zephyr’s Nika Cell arm.

• Crocodile reunited his former Baroque Works officers and set out from Alabasta as the kingdom’s Grand General for the Conquest of Big Mom.
• Garp refused to accompany Ma Qiao to Whole Cake Island, but Zephyr revealed that he had submitted his retirement request and joined the voyage.
• Sengoku accidentally received Zephyr’s retirement request while wiping himself with document paper, and his scream led Marines to believe he was devastated by Zephyr’s departure.
• Ma Qiao rescued Camie and Pappag from a Sea Beast, discussed a possible fashion partnership with Pappag, and sold Camie a Big Bird Den Den Mushi.
• Ma Qiao passed the Red Line checkpoint and reflected on his Marine agents before deciding to give Zephyr’s Nika Cell arm further treatment, including possible big-eye transplants.

Ma Qiao and Marshall D. Teach sailed into Totto Land for Big Mom’s tea party, where a feud with Big News Morgans and Ace’s poisoning complicated their arrival. The ships continued toward Whole Cake Island, hoping Ma Qiao could treat Ace.

• Ma Qiao’s ship entered Totto Land, where territorial sea cows welcomed him and his penguins shared dried fish with them.
• Big News Morgans’s News Coos dropped bird droppings on Ma Qiao’s ship, and the penguins retaliated with a barrage of their own, starting a battle in the sky and sea.
• Marshall D. Teach brought Ace to Totto Land, hoping to investigate a rumored Devil Fruit that might be the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Ace drank the juice-like seawater, which was contaminated with bird droppings, and became unconscious from severe poisoning.
• Teach refused to turn back for Marco and ordered the crew to continue toward Whole Cake Island, relying on Ma Qiao to treat Ace.

Ma Qiao arrived at Whole Cake Island for Big Mom’s tea party, where he observed the cost and plunder behind its apparent abundance. An assassination attempt was stopped, and he discovered that Ace had been poisoned by contaminated juice as Smoothie took charge of him and punished Snack.

• Ma Qiao explored Whole Cake Island and concluded that its residents’ comfortable lives depended on surrendered lifespans and the Big Mom Pirates’ plunder.
• An assassin targeting Ma Qiao was killed by an unseen protector, and the chess-piece soldiers removed the body without investigating.
• Ma Qiao warned Zephyr not to act rashly at Big Mom’s tea party, then set out with Snack and Morgans.
• Ma Qiao reunited with Teach and learned that Ace had also come to Totto Land, then found Ace poisoned near Smoothie.
• Smoothie used her ability to draw poison from Ace, kept him as a witness, and squeezed Snack into juice for questioning her.

Ma Qiao attended Big Mom's tea party, where he introduced Teach to Katakuri and retaliated against Du Feld for threatening him. The gathering revealed Big Mom’s new pet was Cobra, and Ma Qiao’s cake brought Big Mom and Miss Bakkin’s whispered conversation within earshot.

• Ma Qiao introduced Marshall D. Teach to Katakuri, while Katakuri stopped Zephyr from attacking Morgans at the tea party entrance.
• Du Feld threatened Ma Qiao, so Ma Qiao ordered Xin Zhao to strike him; Du Feld flew into Charlotte Linlin’s fist after Edward Weevil intervened.
• Ma Qiao discovered that Big Mom was keeping Cobra bound in her arms as her new pet, and Streusen served the tea party’s food.
• Big Mom welcomed Miss Bakkin and reminisced with her about their time aboard Rocks's ship, but they whispered whenever the conversation reached important details.
• Ma Qiao placed his cream cake, secretly fitted with Vision Wards, beside Big Mom, and the device made her conversation with Miss Bakkin audible.

The chapter revealed how Miss Buckin came to bear Whitebeard’s son, Edward Weevil, through a soul-swapping scheme that cost her elder sister her life. At Big Mom’s tea party, Weevil and Big Mom fought over a giant cake before bad cream made Weevil vomit across the venue, knocking the photograph of the nun to the ground.

• Young Newgate tried to protect two noble sisters from Rocks, taking a deep sword wound to save the elder sister.
• Charlotte Linlin helped the younger sister swap souls with her elder sister, and the younger sister used the elder sister’s body to spend a night with Newgate.
• A storm sank the Rocks Pirates’ ships, and the elder sister drowned while Newgate tried to save her; the younger sister later gave birth to Edward Weevil.
• At Big Mom’s tea party, Weevil reached for her giant cake, and Big Mom struck him when he refused to stop.
• Weevil ate some cake made with fertilizer sold as cream by Rossi, vomited violently, and knocked the nun’s photograph from the table.

Big Mom’s tea party collapsed into chaos after Whitebeard II broke the nun’s photograph, triggering her madness and Hunger Pangs. Ma Qiao saved Katakuri from her attack, but Cobra remained trapped in Big Mom’s Four-Dimensional Pocket as he pleaded for help.

• Whitebeard II accidentally broke the nun’s photograph, sending Big Mom into a destructive roar that swept across Whole Cake Island.
• Katakuri blocked Miss Bakkin and Whitebeard II from escaping, then fought Whitebeard II while Teach searched the wreckage for the King of Shipping’s gift.
• Teach found a pink Devil Fruit that was not the Dark-Dark Fruit, but Ma Qiao caught him trying to take it.
• Charlotte Flampe took Miss Bakkin hostage to help Katakuri, and Ma Qiao knocked Flampe out by throwing Teach at her.
• Big Mom’s Hunger Pangs flared, and she knocked Katakuri unconscious before Ma Qiao used Ryze’s Realm Warp to carry him to safety.
• Cobra called for help from inside Big Mom’s Four-Dimensional Pocket, saying he had not gotten aboard yet.

Crocodile led a Marine-sanctioned expedition into Totto Land to attack Big Mom, while Cobra hid from her Hunger Pangs on Whole Cake Island. Mr. 5's enormous booger bomb struck Big Mom from a great distance, leaving her injured and furious as she turned on Crocodile's group.

• Big Mom rampaged through Whole Cake Island during her Hunger Pangs, and Perospero tried to calm her by promising more food.
• Rear Admiral Huanila Baowei confronted Crocodile's warship, learned that Crocodile had been appointed General for the Conquest of Big Mom, and let the force proceed.
• Sengoku told Baowei to monitor the expedition and await Admiral Kizaru, warning him not to rush in.
• Crocodile prepared to send Princess Vivi's letter to Whole Cake Island, while Mr. 5 claimed he was targeting Charlotte Linlin with a booger bomb.
• Mr. 5's bomb exploded beside Big Mom, badly blackening her, and she demanded that Perospero identify the people who had hidden her food.

Ma Qiao rescued Baroque Works agents while Big Mom chased Crocodile and threatened Cobra during her Hunger Pangs. His Bandage Toss stunned Big Mom as mochi slid toward her windpipe, leaving Cobra’s rescue and the crisis unresolved.

• Big Mom chased Crocodile while her attacks scattered the Baroque Works agents, and Ma Qiao rescued Miss Valentine and brought Mr. 1 and Mr. 5 to Teach.
• Miss Doublefinger suspected Ma Qiao was Mr. 0, but he denied it as Crocodile remained under attack.
• Cobra urged Crocodile to help Vivi, drawing Big Mom’s attention; she recognized Cobra’s ramen and grabbed him to eat.
• Katakuri trapped Big Mom’s mouth with mochi, but Perospero said only the missing giant cake could end her Hunger Pangs.
• Ma Qiao used Bandage Toss to stun Big Mom, and the mochi in her mouth began slipping toward her windpipe.

Ma Qiao and Tahm Kench helped save Big Mom after a mochi ball blocked her airway, and Cobra gave her artificial respiration. After Teach accidentally sent a Devil Fruit into Big Mom’s mouth, she swallowed it and transformed into a younger, slimmer Charlotte Linlin, leaving Ma Qiao to suspect the Soul-Soul Fruit’s power had changed.

• Ma Qiao rescued Cobra and Teach while Big Mom collapsed from choking on a mochi ball.
• Tahm Kench used the Heimlich maneuver, and Cobra gave Big Mom artificial respiration when she stopped breathing.
• Teach broke free of the mochi and accidentally sent the hidden Smooth-Smooth Fruit flying into Big Mom’s mouth, where she swallowed it.
• Big Mom transformed into a slim, youthful Charlotte Linlin, and Ma Qiao identified the fruit as the Smooth-Smooth Fruit.
• Ma Qiao noticed that the Soul-Soul Fruit’s chess soldiers still obeyed orders and Napoleon’s eyes were closed, prompting him to consider what had happened to Big Mom’s powers.

Ma Qiao staged a psychological treatment for Big Mom after her children feared she had eaten two Devil Fruits. His dark jokes and Thresh’s Dark Passage drew Mother Carmel’s spirit out of Big Mom, leaving Ma Qiao calling for protection.

• Perospero feared Big Mom was dying after she ate the Smooth-Smooth Fruit, but Ma Qiao insisted he could save her.
• Ma Qiao persuaded Perospero and Katakuri to let him treat Big Mom, then had Tahm Kench set up a treatment room and injected her with a heavy anesthetic.
• Ma Qiao told dark jokes about religion into Big Mom’s ear while using Thresh’s Dark Passage, provoking an angry voice from within her.
• Ma Qiao declared that Big Mom was possessed and threw the Dark Passage at her left upper abdomen, drawing out Mother Carmel’s apparition.

Ma Qiao uncovered that Mother Carmel was still alive and parasitizing Big Mom, then used Illaoi’s power to pull Carmel’s soul into reach. He left Carmel at Perospero’s mercy while Big Mom’s children watched in alarm.

• Ma Qiao identified the apparition as Mother Carmel, exposed her history as the Mountain Hag, and explained that she had trafficked and eaten children at Sheep’s House.
• Katakuri restrained Carmel’s animated ECG machine, while Perospero’s attacks failed to harm her spirit.
• Ma Qiao used Dark Passage and realized Carmel was a living person whose soul remained connected to her physical body.
• Ma Qiao repeatedly tried Illaoi’s Test of Spirit until he pulled Carmel’s soul out, allowing Perospero to strike her with his candy cane.
• Perospero beat Carmel’s exposed soul with a series of candy attacks as the watching children feared Ma Qiao’s medical treatment.

Ma Qiao and Dr. Mundo removed Mother Carmel from Big Mom during surgery, discovering she was a parasite whose Soul-Soul Fruit powers sustained Totto Land’s Homies. Ma Qiao decided to imprison Carmel in the next Infinite Tsukuyomi expansion, leaving the Charlotte brothers uneasy about her fate.

• Mother Carmel tried to seize control of the sedated Big Mom, but Ma Qiao pulled Charlotte Linlin’s soul from her body instead and proved Carmel and Linlin were separate beings.
• Katakuri prepared a mochi operating room, and Dr. Mundo arrived to surgically remove Carmel while Perospero and Katakuri waited outside with Ma Qiao.
• Dr. Mundo wheeled out Carmel’s parasite-like body, which he had removed from Big Mom’s stomach after clearing away construction debris.
• Ma Qiao stopped Perospero from killing Carmel, explaining that her death would make the Homies across Totto Land disappear.
• Ma Qiao revealed his plan to imprison Carmel in an upcoming Infinite Tsukuyomi expansion, The Shining.

Teach searched Big Mom’s treasury on Whole Cake Island, but Kizaru and Lux confronted him after Crocodile brought the Marines there. Flampe ate the Tama-Tama Fruit and transformed into Hiyoko, while Teach escaped into the sea after Kizaru cut off his left arm.

• Teach found Big Mom’s treasury, where Kizaru confronted him and explained that he had arrived with Crocodile and his student Lux.
• Flampe took the Tama-Tama Fruit from the treasury and ate it, then fell and hatched into her second form, Hiyoko.
• Kizaru mistook Flampe for Teach’s intended bride and ordered her and Teach to come with him.
• Teach kicked Hiyoko toward Kizaru and tried to escape, but Lux bound his arm with Light Binding.
• Kizaru struck Teach with Ama no Murakumo and severed his left arm, but Teach escaped into the sea.

Kizaru returned to Marineford with Flampe while Ma Qiao helped Zephyr recover and brokered a joint rule for Totto Land after Big Mom’s personality changed. The Charlotte Family’s marriage alliance with the Whitebeard Pirates took an unexpected turn when Izo arrived demanding that the crew rescue Teach from the Marines.

• Kizaru and Crocodile captured Flampe and left for Marineford, while Kizaru sensed a powerful presence resembling Zephyr fighting Whitebeard II in the distance.
• Ma Qiao learned that Zephyr’s transplanted arm and eye worked well, then discussed his dream of creating a world that no longer needed superheroes to uphold justice.
• Perospero and Katakuri concealed the reason for Big Mom’s changed personality and agreed to divide Totto Land between them after Ma Qiao proposed joint rule.
• Ma Qiao departed with half the Big Mom Pirates’ treasury, Carmel’s body and soul, and Zeus, while Cobra shouted after the ship and Linlin mistook him for Mr. Cook.
• Charlotte Linlin sent the Whitebeard Pirates a marriage proposal for Smoothie and Ace, but Izo arrived with betrothal gifts and a newspaper, insisting the crew would rescue Teach from the Marines.