Recaps

Ma Qiao opened Shurima Hospital and hired Reiju, whose arrival made Vivi and Nami suspicious. Meanwhile, Garp dragged Luffy to the hospital, trying to persuade him to join the Marines, and met Zoro on the way to the docks.

• Ma Qiao welcomed Reiju to Shurima Hospital and introduced her to its medical team despite knowing she had uncovered his Mr. 3 disguise.
• Reiju joined the hospital to work on cloning technology and grew close to Akali while Vivi and Nami watched her warily.
• Vivi questioned Ma Qiao about Reiju, and he insisted she was only his personal physician.
• Garp took Luffy to a restaurant, paid with his Big Bird mobile Den Den Mushi, and tried to tempt him into joining the Marines with promises of meat.
• Luffy insisted he would become the Pirate King, and Garp asked Zoro for directions to the docks as Luffy invited him to join his crew.

Garp brought Luffy and Zoro to Ma Qiao’s hospital, where Zoro’s head injury and Luffy’s wisdom teeth became the focus of treatment. While Garp enjoyed Kennen’s electric massage, Luffy was restrained for surgery, and Reiju flirted with Ma Qiao outside the operating room.

• Garp accidentally struck Zoro, then brought him and Luffy to the hospital after worrying that Zoro had brain damage.
• Ma Qiao tested Zoro with poetry, causing him to break his ropes, but Garp pinned him down again.
• Nami agreed to work the hospital front desk after Garp paid for treatment for himself and the two young men.
• Kennen gave Garp an electric massage while Dr. Mundo, Akali, and Shen prepared Luffy for wisdom tooth surgery.
• Luffy broke his restraints, but Shen redirected his attack and Akali restrained him with Seastone Handcuffs.
• Reiju questioned whether Luffy would survive the operation, then offered to give Ma Qiao a pleasurable experience.

Ma Qiao oversaw Luffy’s recovery and Zoro’s treatment while Garp took responsibility for both Straw Hats. Zoro’s new direction-finding device left him furious, but seeing Luffy suffer alongside Garp inspired him to ask Luffy to set sail with him and change the world.

• Shen reassured Garp that Luffy had only fallen asleep during surgery, and Garp scolded him before carrying him off with beef jerky for his liquid diet.
• Reiju recognized Garp and left to report his presence to Vinsmoke Judge, while Ma Qiao reflected on the spies around him.
• Akali preserved Luffy’s teeth for the plan against Enel, and Dr. Mundo operated on Zoro to fix his sense of direction.
• Dr. Mundo revealed that Heimerdinger’s patent had allowed him to install directional birds in Zoro’s head, and Zoro chased him through the hospital before Nami knocked him down.
• After seeing Garp force food into Luffy’s mouth, Zoro asked Luffy to sail with him to Laugh Tale and shouted that they would change the world together.

Ma Qiao’s scientists combined the Vinsmoke Family’s cloning research with Sun God’s Tooth technology while developing armor to counter Enel’s lightning. Reiju began to suspect Ma Qiao was an elite Celestial Dragon, and the chapter ended with Ma Qiao inspecting the scientists’ first tooth-based armor.

• Garp sent Luffy and Zoro back to Foosha Village instead of taking them to Marineford, where they resolved to train before setting sail.
• Ma Qiao recruited Singed and joined Heimerdinger, Dr. Mundo, and Viktor in studying the Vinsmoke Family’s cloning materials, quickly exposing Reiju’s deliberate flaws.
• The Piltover and Zaun teams built separate machines using Sun God’s Tooth Cloning Technology, leaving Reiju stunned by their scientific skill and guessing Ma Qiao was an elite Celestial Dragon.
• Reiju bit Ma Qiao’s earlobe again after he warned her that the cloning technology was now part of their cooperation, and she invoked his threat concerning her brother Sanji.
• Dr. Mundo presented Ma Qiao with Enamel Type 01, a light, flexible armor made from a specially cultivated giant tooth, but Ma Qiao declined to try it on.

Ma Qiao funded Heimerdinger and Viktor’s research into Nika Cells, then sent the God-Slaying Squad and fifty armored Shandia warriors to fight Enel on Sky Island. While Ma Qiao stayed behind to secure contracts with the Shandia chief, the expedition pushed past Enel’s Priests and reached Enel, who was battered by the tooth-armored force.

• Heimerdinger presented Nika Cells cultured from dental pulp stem cells, and Ma Qiao redirected the researchers to study them while funding their work and letting Reiju join as an intern.
• Ma Qiao equipped the God-Slaying Squad with armor made from Luffy’s teeth, and Vivi persuaded Nami to stay behind and watch Reiju.
• Ma Qiao joined the squad at Cloud-Hidden Village, where Garen demonstrated that the tooth armor could withstand Enel’s lightning; fifty Shandia warriors then joined the expedition.
• Ma Qiao stayed in the village to sign contracts with the Shandia chief and ordered Tahm Kench to defeat Enel quickly to protect the consortium’s interests.
• Tahm Kench led the expedition past the four Priests’ trial areas, sending Shandia warriors to hold them off while the main force charged Enel’s shrine.
• Enel unleashed increasingly powerful lightning attacks, but the tooth-armored fighters overwhelmed him and left him exhausted.

Ma Qiao’s forces defeated Enel and drove Gan Fall away as the Shandia reclaimed Shandora. After celebrating their victory, they transformed Enel into a dream-bound brain and an electricity-generating body, securing power for the Big Bird Consortium’s Shandora branch.

• Garen prepared to execute the defeated Enel, but Tahm Kench swallowed him instead, while Twisted Fate defeated the fleeing Priests.
• Tahm Kench rejected Gan Fall’s claim to authority and hurled him away, declaring Shandora would belong to the Shandia and the Big Bird Consortium.
• Wyper returned to Cloud-Hidden Village with news of the victory, and the Shandia thanked Ma Qiao before joining his celebration banquet.
• Tahm Kench spat out Enel, and Dr. Mundo’s team separated his brain from his body and placed it in Nika Cells.
• Heimerdinger monitored Enel’s brain as it dreamed, while the Nika Cells in his body made him eat meat and generate electricity for the Big Bird Consortium’s Shandora branch.

After Enel’s defeat, Ma Qiao celebrated with the Shandia people, collected the gold he had contracted for, and invested the proceeds in research, construction, and stronger heroes. As he considered recruiting more bodyguards, Vivi confronted him over eight months of fruitless Chakra training.

• The Shandia people celebrated their victory, and Tahm Kench beat Kashii God into becoming a beast of burden.
• Ma Qiao collected gold worth 60 billion Beli and gave the Shandia people an equal weight of soil as a gift.
• Ma Qiao allocated 15 billion Beli to research and funded a Shandora industrial park, hero upgrades, and equipment.
• Ma Qiao reassigned Twisted Fate to Buggy’s crew and moved Ashe from combat duty to managing the tobacco and alcohol business.
• Ma Qiao spent a week considering new recruits until Vivi threw his underpants at him and demanded an explanation for her failed Chakra training.

Ma Qiao used his blood to pass the Flash skill and ten years of his lifespan to Vivi, who misunderstood the cost and grew closer to him. He then revealed plans to use Dance Powder in Shurima, where Jinx was recruited to develop a rocket capable of delivering it into the clouds.

• Ma Qiao admitted that Ma Family Kung Fu required a bloodline inheritance, then gave Vivi his blood and transferred the Flash skill to her.
• Vivi hit the door while testing Flash, then feared Ma Qiao had sacrificed his lifespan to empower her; Ma Qiao let her believe it and she embraced him.
• Vivi used Flash in her work as Ma Qiao's photographer, while struggling with the fact that her work supported his campaign against Alabasta's royal family.
• Ma Qiao told Vivi he planned to use Dance Powder in Shurima rather than follow Mr. 0's original plan to frame the Nefertari royal family.
• Ma Qiao recruited Jinx as his twenty-fourth hero and tasked her with building a precise rocket launcher able to carry at least a hundred kilograms of Dance Powder into the clouds.

Kizaru printed a massive report at Marineford and learned Sengoku had ordered the printing room to make paper and ink from food ingredients. Kizaru and Akainu then visited the hospital for Zephyr’s surgery, where Sengoku was pressed to review Akainu’s recruitment plan as the operation began.

• Kizaru asked Captain Allison Gale to print the thick report from his Military Affairs Communicator, and Gale wondered whether another war was coming.
• Sengoku ordered Gale to make environmentally friendly printing paper and ink from ingredients such as carrot juice, vegetable fiber, cream, and honey.
• Kizaru met Akainu, who invited him to visit their former teacher, Black Arm Zephyr, for his surgery.
• Kizaru and Akainu arrived at the Marineford hospital, where Garp, Tsuru, Sengoku, and Kuzan were waiting.
• Akainu gave Sengoku the annual spring recruitment plan to review, and Sengoku accepted the documents just as the operating room chimed.

After Zephyr emerged from surgery with his new mechanical Crusher arm, Garp and Sengoku took him on a convalescent trip to Alabasta to keep him away from dangerous pirates and help him recover. As the three Marines relaxed aboard their ship, a massive pirate fleet appeared on the horizon.

• The chapter recounted how Zephyr lost his family and students, left the Marines, and later died after fighting King Luffy, while noting that he had not yet turned against the Marines in the present.
• Zephyr emerged from surgery with the Seastone Crusher arm and demanded the latest bounty list, but Tsuru ordered him to take six months of leave.
• Garp persuaded Zephyr to convalesce in Alabasta, and Sengoku joined them on the trip by taking leave as well.
• Garp and Sengoku concealed the rising dangers at sea from Zephyr so he would not go hunting pirates while still recovering.
• Garp said he hoped a mysterious young man could heal Zephyr's emotional wounds, while Sengoku questioned whether the young man was more capable than Tsuru.
• As Sengoku relaxed aboard the passenger ship approaching Alabasta, a massive fleet of pirate ships appeared on the horizon.

Don Krieg tried to restore his authority by taking the Krieg Pirates into the Grand Line, but Zephyr destroyed his fleet and killed him after Krieg attacked. Zephyr was poisoned and his injured arm was aggravated, and a wooden barrel exploded in front of him as Garp and Sengoku rushed to help.

• Don Krieg took his remaining loyal followers into the Grand Line, planning to raid two men on a small boat and then buy ships in Water 7.
• Krieg attacked Zephyr and Garp, but Zephyr smashed all fifty pirate ships and seized Krieg.
• Krieg used his M.H.5 Poison Gas Bomb, poisoning Zephyr before Zephyr crushed Krieg and killed him.
• Zephyr moved to finish off Gin, but a flying barrel struck near him and aggravated the surgical wound connecting his body to his mechanical arm.
• Garp and Sengoku rushed toward Zephyr as the barrel exploded in front of him.

Gangplank rescued Gin from Zephyr after Garp secretly held back during their clash, while Ma Qiao learned that the plan involving Krieg had cost him an entire fleet. Back at the laboratory, Reiju demonstrated the deadly poisonous effects of her snails and teased Ma Qiao.

• Gangplank appeared before Zephyr and took Gin, while Garp’s snack-bag attack tested Gangplank but did little harm because Garp held back.
• Sengoku recognized Gangplank and said the World Government was considering him and Fire Fist Ace as Shichibukai candidates.
• Gangplank claimed Gin as his brother and escaped Zephyr’s attack by using Recall.
• Ma Qiao read Gangplank’s report and mourned the fleet lost when Zephyr defeated Krieg and his men.
• Reiju fed mushrooms to colorful snails, whose poisonous trails melted nearby plants and stone, then teased the alarmed Ma Qiao.

Ma Qiao tested artificial rain in the barren mountains near Shurima, and the brief rainfall brought a burst of plant and animal life. To keep the region green through its dry season, he summoned Maokai, Zyra, and Amumu, then tried to motivate Amumu by playing on his feelings for Annie.

• Ma Qiao told Twitch to increase his poison intake and arranged for Gangplank to provide poison gas bombs for a training exercise.
• Garp told Ma Qiao that Sengoku might visit and that Marine Headquarters could move its convalescent base to Alabasta.
• Jinx reported that Fishbones was ready, and Ma Qiao took the rocket launcher to the barren mountain with Nami and Vivi.
• Nami explained the local monsoon patterns and warned that low rainfall and intense sunlight would make it difficult to sustain a reservoir.
• Jinx fired a rocket carrying Dance Powder into a cloud, producing a short shower that brought out flowers, frogs, and other life in the valley.
• Ma Qiao summoned Maokai, Zyra, and Amumu underground, then used a photograph of Annie and Teemo to spur Amumu to work harder.

Ma Qiao expanded Shurima’s greenery and began organizing schooling for its children, then welcomed Garp, Sengoku, and the gravely ill Zephyr to town. Dr. Mundo examined Zephyr and recommended amputating his arm.

• Ma Qiao had Zyra and Maokai grow saplings and thorn seeds, then had Tahm Kench carry some to town for planting.
• Vivi reported that more than nine hundred children were old enough for school, and Ma Qiao planned a school for younger children while older ones could study through workplace classes.
• Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr arrived at Shurima’s docks and were welcomed by the town’s children.
• Garp and Sengoku rushed Zephyr to the hospital, where Nami charged them for Dr. Mundo’s expert consultation.
• Dr. Mundo found that Zephyr’s wound was infected and necrotic, worsened by poison gas and his unstable convictions, and recommended amputating his arm.

Garp and Sengoku brought Zephyr to Big Bird Medical Services, where Dr. Mundo and Shen replaced his infected mechanical arm with a Nika Cell arm. After Zephyr barely suppressed the cells’ attempt to consume him, Ma Qiao collected the Marines’ treatment payment and prepared to launch Project: Freedom for him.

• Garp reassured Sengoku that the Big Bird Consortium hospital could save Zephyr, then fell asleep while they waited.
• Dr. Mundo amputated Zephyr’s infected arm, and Shen transplanted Nika Cells that rapidly grew into a new arm and destroyed the toxin paralyzing him.
• The Nika Cells began draining Zephyr’s strength, so Dr. Mundo used his skills and adrenaline to help him suppress their backlash; Ma Qiao then had Akali embed red beads in the arm.
• Zephyr woke and thanked Garp, praising the living arm as better than his old mechanical one, while Sengoku worried that the hospital might be trading in organs.
• Dr. Mundo warned Ma Qiao that Zephyr could suffer a backlash in a few years, and Ma Qiao ordered treatment for Garp and Sengoku before planning Zephyr’s physical therapy and wellness care.
• Nami delivered the thirty million Beli Sengoku paid for the treatments, and Ma Qiao decided to begin Project: Freedom for Zephyr.

Ma Qiao traveled to Sky Island, where he brought PROJECT: Freedom Ekko to work on his systems and hoped Ekko’s time ability would eventually let him return to the past. In Alabasta, Sengoku visited the recovering Zephyr, gave him honey-glazed pig ears containing a small amount of Health Potion, and invited him to the internet cafe for the launch of Infinite Tsukuyomi.

• Ma Qiao arrived at Sky Island through a Hextech Gate, encouraged the Shandia workers building a parcel transport line, and rode Tahm Kench to Enel’s server room with Ekko following him.
• Ma Qiao planned to have Ekko write code and believed that developing Ekko’s abilities could eventually unlock genuine time travel into the past.
• Zephyr woke from a nightmare, reflected on his past failures, and tested his new flesh-and-blood arm while recovering in Shurima.
• Sengoku visited Zephyr with his pet goat and shared honey-glazed pig ears, whose Health Potion ingredient began a gentle restorative effect in Zephyr’s body.
• Sengoku told Zephyr that Garp was secretly training a final disciple by video call and invited Zephyr to the Big Bird Spin Spin Spin Internet Cafe for Infinite Tsukuyomi’s launch.

Cobra decided to secretly visit Ma Qiao’s territory to investigate him and protect Vivi, while Crocodile planned to visit Ma Qiao and push forward his Dance Powder scheme. The chapter left both men heading toward Ma Qiao, unaware that Cobra was also on his way.

• Cobra dismissed Chaka’s objections and decided to travel in disguise to investigate Ma Qiao’s construction work and uncover Baroque Works’ schemes.
• Robin told Crocodile that rats were damaging his possessions and reported that Bon Clay had been caught up in a Marine battle, with Timely Rain Gangplank now hunting him.
• Crocodile asked about Ma Qiao’s progress on the Dance Powder plan and recalled hiring him, his work history, and the Penguin-Penguin Fruit deal with Doflamingo.
• Crocodile decided to visit Ma Qiao in disguise and give him pointers so he would finally make Cobra take the blame for abusing Dance Powder.

Crocodile disguised himself and entered Shurima to investigate Ma Qiao’s work, while Cobra went undercover to find a way to contact Vivi. Crocodile tracked Ma Qiao to an internet cafe, where his confrontation was interrupted by Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr closing in on him.

• Crocodile and Cobra joined a refugee line in Shurima and invented cover identities while registering for citizenship.
• Cobra listed cooking as his specialty, while Crocodile wrote that his specialty was killing.
• Cobra explored the city and was pelted with tomatoes after failing to yield to a penguin courier, while Crocodile searched for evidence of Ma Qiao’s Dance Powder operation.
• Crocodile found his crocodile-skin sofa in a secondhand shop, then learned from a Den Den Mushi notification that Ma Qiao was at the Big Bird Spin Spin Spin Internet Cafe.
• Crocodile recognized Ma Qiao on the cafe’s Infinite Tsukuyomi billboard and spotted his lost gemstone rings on Ma Qiao’s fingers before storming inside.
• Crocodile slapped away Sengoku’s pet goat and demanded Ma Qiao come out, but Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr confronted him and invited him outside for a chat.

Crocodile was extorted by Garp and Sengoku, then joined Zephyr in the Infinite Tsukuyomi game. Zephyr chose the hidden character Obito after learning the game might fulfill his wish to bring back his family and students.

• Garp demanded money from Crocodile for Baru the goat and damage to the café, and Sengoku raised the compensation to a hundred million Beli.
• Crocodile paid Sengoku, but Zephyr stopped him and explained that he planned to continue treatment by choosing Sasuke as a teammate.
• Crocodile bought a computer and called Robin to send him more money before Garp urged him to log in.
• Zephyr entered the game and met Black Zetsu, who offered him the hidden character Obito Uchiha.
• Zephyr asked whether the game could revive his wife, son, and beloved students, and Black Zetsu promised that it could.

Ma Qiao monitored the players and reviewed a copied Marine recruitment plan, then prepared to place his heroes in powerful organizations during the coming spring recruitment. He ordered Annie sent toward Cipher Pol while arranging for Gangplank to destroy orphanages involved in trafficking, leaving his plans to infiltrate several factions underway.

• Ma Qiao saw Sakura assault her academy teacher, Sasuke serve her, and Naruto practice the Sexy Jutsu while checking on the players’ progress.
• Jhin delivered a copied recruitment plan, and Ma Qiao learned that the Marines, Cipher Pol, Impel Down, and the Beasts Pirates were recruiting while the World Government planned to add a Shichibukai.
• Ma Qiao selected Darius, Caitlyn, and Sett for Marine recruitment and chose Thresh for Impel Down.
• Ma Qiao chose Annie to infiltrate Cipher Pol and ordered Twitch to investigate East Blue orphanages before placing her in one connected to the World Government.
• Ma Qiao ordered Gangplank to attack trafficking orphanages after Annie reached Cipher Pol, accepting that the plan would make Gangplank an enemy of the World Government.

Sengoku returned to Marineford after helping Zephyr through his recovery, while Ma Qiao assembled a new bodyguard team and prepared to travel to Water 7. He left Yasuo in Foosha Village with Luffy and Zoro and set sail to seek help building the Dreadway and see his subordinates off to the World Government recruitment.

• Sengoku bought ten helmet-style game Den Den Mushi for Marineford and departed Shurima after spending a week there with Zephyr and Garp.
• Crocodile tried to leave, but Garp and Zephyr stopped him; nearby, a mob chased Cobra for his disastrous cooking and accusations against Ma Qiao.
• Ma Qiao reviewed his new bodyguards: Graves, Jhin, Jax, Xin Zhao, and the lazy Yasuo.
• Ma Qiao sent Yasuo to Foosha Village to join Luffy and Zoro, then entrusted Shurima's government to Nami and Vivi.
• Ma Qiao boarded the Golden Nico with his bodyguards and sailed for Water 7 to seek help building the Dreadway and see his subordinates off to recruitment.

Ma Qiao and his retainers defeated the Giant Axe Pirates, but Jack of the Beasts Pirates arrived and invited Ma Qiao to Onigashima on Kaido’s orders. Ma Qiao initially tried to flee, then changed his mind when Jack offered him a treasure-filled gift.

• Jhin destroyed the Giant Axe Pirates’ ammunition hold from a distance, and Jax boarded their disabled ship to fight the crew.
• Graves blinded Silvado with a Smoke Screen, and Jhin shot him through the forehead before Jax could land the finishing blow.
• Ma Qiao ordered Xin Zhao to salvage the Giant Axe Pirates’ ship, but Jack’s mammoth-shaped flagship pulled alongside the Golden Nico.
• Ma Qiao prepared to escape Jack, but Jack recognized him from a portrait and greeted him warmly.
• Jack leapt onto the Golden Nico carrying treasure and said Kaido had ordered him to invite Ma Qiao to Onigashima.
• Ma Qiao accepted Jack’s invitation after seeing the treasure and proposed that they sit down and talk.

Ma Qiao accepted Kaido’s offer to tutor Yamato, then revealed to Jack that Akainu would lead the Marines’ recruitment drive in Water 7. Jack rushed there and was defeated in an ambush, while Ma Qiao continued planning his journey to Water 7 and Onigashima and considered recruiting Evelynn for his news operation.

• Jack arrived with gifts from Kaido and asked Ma Qiao to become Yamato’s private tutor, and Ma Qiao accepted.
• Ma Qiao told Jack that the Marines’ spring recruitment drive would take place in Water 7 and, after Jack offered him money, revealed that Akainu would lead it.
• Jack hurried toward Water 7, while Ma Qiao detoured to sell the Giant Axe Pirates’ ship.
• Ma Qiao read that Jack had ambushed a Marine instructor group’s warship, lost to Akainu, and gone missing.
• Ma Qiao considered recruiting Evelynn as a paparazzo but decided to conserve his funds for the trips to Water 7 and Onigashima, then sent Vivi a photograph of the newspaper report.

Sabo traveled toward Water 7 with Hack, Lindbergh, and Karasu for a Revolutionary Army operation targeting the World Government’s spring recruitment livestream. The group planned to replace it with a promotional video filmed by Koala.

• Akainu received orders from the World Government to stop searching for Jack the Drought and vowed to resist its influence if he became Fleet Admiral.
• Sabo watched Miss Meat-Meat’s livestream aboard a merchant ship and told Hack that her dancing stirred a strange sense of familiarity linked to his amnesia.
• Lindbergh and Karasu arrived to join Sabo and Hack, and Hack said Dragon had appointed Sabo acting Chief of Staff for the mission.
• Sabo revealed that the Revolutionary Army planned to disrupt the Marines’ spring recruitment livestream and broadcast Koala’s promotional video instead.

Akainu and Hannyabal prepared to livestream the Marines’ and Impel Down’s recruitment drive in Water 7, while Garen departed aboard a new Marine warship. At the Galley-La shipyard, Ma Qiao approached Marshall D. Teach, who had been waiting for his ship, and offered him braised pig ears alongside his cherry pies.

• Akainu questioned Hannyabal’s livestream plan, but Hannyabal refused technical help that might cost him credit for the idea.
• Akainu praised the Marines wearing Root cloaks after Hannyabal asked about them.
• Iceburg and the Galley-La workers saw Colonel Garen off as the New Good Guy Twitch sailed from Water 7.
• Kalifa told Iceburg that Teach’s pirate ship was finished but could not be delivered during the Marine recruitment operation, and Iceburg decided to delay delivery and offer a price reduction.
• Ma Qiao sat beside Teach in the shipyard guesthouse cafeteria and offered him braised pig ears to eat with his cherry pies.