Recaps

Doflamingo brought Yamato and Shinobu to the Golden City, where he discovered that a strange mushroom had grown from Zango’s chin. He recalled that eating such a mushroom had given Zango his hypnotic ability and began considering how it could be studied.

• Yamato carried Hancock across the desert at high speed while Shinobu and Doflamingo followed on Zeus.
• Doflamingo’s group reached the Golden City and arrived at its pyramid-shaped City Hall.
• Sancho laughed at Zango, who examined the strange mushroom growing from his chin.
• Doflamingo remembered that Zango gained hypnotic powers after eating a patterned mushroom as a child.
• Doflamingo wondered whether the mushroom could give others hypnotic abilities or be cultivated to strengthen them.
• Zango scratched his head and wondered how the mushroom had suddenly grown on his chin.

Doflamingo collected a strange mushroom from Zango’s chin and attended a meeting in the Golden City, where Stella and Baccarat had gathered with Tesorro. The chapter left Stella’s Snow-Snow Fruit development and Baccarat’s secret Lucky-Lucky Fruit ability established as valuable assets.

• Doflamingo clipped the mushroom from Zango’s chin and kept it as a potential experimental subject.
• Doflamingo distracted Sancho with the promise of a feast and went to the city hall for a meeting.
• Tesorro sat with Stella, who had received the Snow-Snow Fruit from Doflamingo to protect her from danger.
• Stella had developed her Snow-Snow Fruit enough to bring snowfall across a region, helping expand the Golden City’s oasis and relieve drought in Alabasta.
• Baccarat attended the meeting as a young future officer, while Doflamingo kept her Lucky-Lucky Fruit ability secret from outsiders.

Doflamingo held a meeting with his allies and core staff to review finances, diplomacy, and intelligence as the World Government recovered from the Mary Geoise explosion. The chapter left him expanding his casino network while the weakened Government faced declining support from its member states.

• Doflamingo met with Gan Fall, Jinbe, and his core personnel, while discussing the Sun Pirates’ growth and the World Government’s likely plans to target them.
• Tesorro reported 12 billion Beli in net profit, and Doflamingo approved expanding the casino network under the name Las Vegas.
• Stella asked whether to congratulate King Cobra and his queen on their new daughter, and Doflamingo ordered a Great Grade Sword-quality scimitar sent to Princess Vivi.
• Shinobu reported that the World Government had resumed operations but was weakening as member states pursued their own ambitions and the number paying Heavenly Tribute fell by one-third.

Doflamingo introduced Yamato and Violet at the Round Table Conference, heard reports on Sky Island’s trade and relations with the Shandia, and received a Devil Fruit from Jinbe. The fruit was the Love-Love Fruit, which Doflamingo had been seeking, and he considered its power and limitations.

• Doflamingo introduced Yamato as Kaido’s daughter and welcomed her as a new attendee of the Round Table Conference.
• Doflamingo introduced Violet, whose Glint-Glint Fruit let her see up to eight thousand li.
• Gan Fall reported that Sky Island’s relationship with the Shandia had improved and that scientific shellfish farming had increased production.
• Jinbe gave Doflamingo a Devil Fruit recovered from a Celestial Dragon slave ship, prompting Tesorro and Hancock to condemn the Celestial Dragons.
• Doflamingo opened the box and identified the pink, heart-patterned fruit as the Love-Love Fruit, then considered how its strength depended on its user’s appearance and development.

Doflamingo gave Hancock the Love-Love Fruit and explained how her charm could unlock its petrifying power. After exchanging intelligence with Jinbe, he assessed the Dragon Hunting Pirates’ growth and outlined scientific projects to overcome its development bottleneck.

• Doflamingo accepted the Love-Love Fruit from Jinbe and gave it to Hancock as a debt against her future merits.
• Doflamingo explained that the Love-Love Fruit petrified people captivated by its user’s charm, and that awakening could imbue attacks with petrifying power.
• Doflamingo and Jinbe exchanged intelligence about the Sun Pirates, the Revolutionary Army, and their networks.
• Doflamingo said the Dragon Hunting Pirates had reached a development bottleneck and needed to step into the open or rely on science.
• Doflamingo outlined plans for lunar spacecraft and robots with Dr. Tsukimi, and for biological research after visiting Germa 66.

Doflamingo traveled to the North Blue with Baccarat, Violet, and Hancock to find Germa 66 and prepare for future artificial Devil Fruit research. He arrived at a town controlled by the Dragon Hunting Pirates and met its mayor, Oink.

• Doflamingo decided to search for Germa 66 with Baccarat and Violet, while postponing artificial Devil Fruit research until the Tontatta Tribe's plants yielded results.
• Hancock joined Doflamingo's trip to test her newly acquired Love-Love Fruit, and the group traveled through the Anywhere Door to the North Blue.
• Doflamingo arrived at a North Blue town secretly controlled by the Dragon Hunting Pirates and found Oink being beaten by his female secretary.
• Oink complained that Doflamingo had interrupted his pursuit of his secretary, and Doflamingo teased him about his chances of finding a partner.
• Doflamingo recalled that Oink had joined his crew after Doflamingo rescued Oink's enslaved older brother and had given him the Pig-Pig Fruit, Great Forest Pig form.

Doflamingo questioned Oink about Germa 66 and learned the war machines were near the Rhine Kingdom. Elsewhere, Judge worried over his failing son and remembered his wife Sora.

• Oink joked with Doflamingo and accused him of pursuing minors, prompting Hancock to petrify him with her Love-Love Fruit.
• Hancock released Oink, and Doflamingo asked him for information on Germa 66.
• Oink told Doflamingo that Germa 66 was likely near the Rhine Kingdom based on its recent route.
• Judge sensed something was wrong aboard Germa 66 and watched his children train, focusing on the blond boy who seemed no stronger than an ordinary three-year-old.
• Judge thought of Sora and wondered why she could not understand that strength was necessary.

Judge ordered Germa 66 to prepare for Doflamingo by wearing seawater-filled helmets he believed could block Doflamingo’s mind control. Doflamingo arrived at Germa 66’s War House and demanded that Judge work for him, but Judge refused, leaving Doflamingo ready to make his demand by force.

• Judge watched Sanji get knocked down by his brothers and kept silent, partly out of regard for Sora.
• A clone reported enemy activity, and Judge recognized the approaching Doflamingo and ordered every soldier to wear his Mental Isolation Helmet.
• Doflamingo and Violet mocked the soldiers’ seawater-filled glass helmets, though Doflamingo knew they could block his mind-control ability but not his other illusions.
• Doflamingo arrived at Germa 66’s War House, where Judge confronted him in his distorted helmet and demanded to know what he wanted.
• Doflamingo asked Judge to work for him, but Judge refused, and Doflamingo angrily rejected being compared to the Celestial Dragons.

Doflamingo overwhelmed Judge and Germa 66 with his Conqueror's Haki, then persuaded Judge to accept his proposal. When Doflamingo demanded Germa 66's Lineage Factor technology, Judge angrily refused, leaving their negotiations at an impasse.

• Doflamingo unleashed Conqueror's Haki that incapacitated Germa 66's clone soldiers and Den Den Mushi and left Judge struggling to stand.
• A black-haired girl mocked Germa 66, and Judge agreed to serve Doflamingo after he asked whether Judge still opposed his proposal.
• Doflamingo used his Mental Energy to wake the unconscious people, and Judge ordered the clone soldiers to withdraw.
• Doflamingo told Judge he wanted Germa 66's biotechnology, especially its Lineage Factor research.
• Judge refused to hand over the Lineage Factor technology, which he considered the core of his work.

Doflamingo forced Judge to hand over Germa 66's Lineage Factor technology, offering Vegapunk's design blueprints in exchange. He then discussed Judge's ambition to restore the Vinsmoke Family's rule over the North Blue, noting Germa 66 had the strength to pursue it.

• Judge protested that Doflamingo could not plunder a World Government Member State, but Doflamingo threatened to destroy Germa 66 and leave no evidence.
• Judge became terrified and offered Doflamingo all of Germa 66's Lineage Factor technology.
• Doflamingo offered Judge some of Vegapunk's design blueprints, delighting Judge and easing his resentment.
• Doflamingo asked Judge about the Vinsmoke Family's ambition to rule the North Blue, and Judge confirmed Germa 66 had been created for that purpose.
• Doflamingo said Germa 66's current strength could make its conquest of the North Blue possible.

Doflamingo offered Judge a Demon Seed that could dramatically boost his Haki in exchange for his freedom. Judge learned its benefits and dangers, but the chapter left his decision unresolved.

• Judge explained that the World Government, not the North Blue nations, was Germa 66’s true obstacle to gaining territory.
• Doflamingo asked whether Judge would sacrifice his freedom for the power Germa 66 needed to challenge the World Government.
• Judge asked how powerful the offered gift was and considered accepting Doflamingo as a patron.
• Doflamingo formed a black point of light from his Mental Energy and revealed it was a Demon Seed he could implant in Judge.
• Doflamingo explained that the Demon Seed could greatly increase Judge’s Haki but would halt his willpower growth and let Doflamingo control or reclaim it.

Doflamingo gave Judge a Demon Seed, dramatically increasing his strength while placing his life under Doflamingo’s control. Judge joined the Dragon Hunting Pirates and was tasked with researching a strange mushroom that might grant hypnotic abilities.

• Doflamingo explained the Demon Seed’s power and drawbacks, and Judge eagerly agreed to use it.
• Doflamingo implanted the Demon Seed in Judge, whose Haki surged and whose Conqueror’s Haki and advanced techniques awakened.
• Doflamingo accepted Judge as a subordinate of the Dragon Hunting Pirates and let him retain responsibility for biotechnology and Lineage Factor research.
• Doflamingo gave Judge a Den Den Mushi number for his research team and asked him to investigate whether a black mold mushroom could grant hypnotic abilities.

Doflamingo asked Judge to clone him so he could use a stand-in to conduct covert operations without exposing his movements to the World Government. Judge examined Doflamingo’s blood and was astonished by how strange his Lineage Factor was.

• Judge promised Doflamingo that Germa 66 would test the mushroom’s effects within a few hours, and Doflamingo asked to see its cloning technology.
• Doflamingo explained that he wanted a clone to help him act discreetly, since World Government spies constrained his contact with allies and political connections.
• Judge warned that cloning powerful people was difficult and costly, but agreed to try cloning Doflamingo after Doflamingo insisted he might be easy to clone.
• Doflamingo used Life Return to draw blood into Judge’s test tube and asked how long a successful clone would take.
• Judge examined the blood under an electron microscope and exclaimed that Doflamingo’s Lineage Factor was unusually strange.

Judge discovered command-receiving modifications in Doflamingo’s Lineage Factor, suggesting the Celestial Dragons could influence people across the seas through inherited genetic receptors. Doflamingo remained focused on his own plans and asked Judge whether he could clone him.

• Judge told Doflamingo that his Lineage Factor appeared artificially modified and might contain a control function inherited from his ancestors.
• Judge revealed that command receptors appeared in nearly every Lineage Factor database, though their effects had weakened over generations and likely required a biological chip and a blood relationship.
• Doflamingo considered whether the Celestial Dragons might be the legendary creators and realized their chips could help make slaves more obedient.
• Judge panicked at the possibility that most people in the Pirate World had been created from Celestial Dragon Lineage Factors, while Doflamingo dismissed the ancient mystery.
• Doflamingo asked Judge whether he could clone him.

Doflamingo learned that Judge could not clone his complex, inheritable Lineage Factor, so he ordered a powerful, mindless clone instead. The researchers also confirmed the mushroom could awaken hypnotic abilities in people with strong or influential mental energy, though its cultivation remained uncertain.

• Judge explained that Germa 66 could not reproduce Doflamingo’s Lineage Factor or create a substitute body for him.
• Doflamingo ordered Judge to make the strongest possible clone without an ego, and Judge estimated it would be ready in three days.
• Doflamingo warned Hancock, Baccarat, and Judge to keep the Celestial Dragon secrets they had heard from spreading.
• The elderly researchers reported that the mushroom could help people with powerful or infectious Mental Energy awaken hypnotic abilities.
• The researchers said small-scale cultivation might work but large-scale farming seemed unlikely because the mushroom appeared to need human mental fluctuations to grow.

After learning the limits of the Hypnosis Mushroom, Doflamingo considered giving its memory-altering ability to his avatar. He then used his cooking to restore Sora’s failing health, leaving her likely to recover while Judge’s emotionally detached sons watched from a distance.

• Doflamingo learned that the Hypnosis Mushroom could make a small portion of his Mental Energy alter memories, but its face-to-face hypnosis was limited and weaker than the Illusion Fruit.
• Doflamingo considered giving the Hypnosis Mushroom’s ability to his avatar because memory alteration could be useful.
• Three days later, Doflamingo served medicinal dishes aboard the giant sea-snail ship, where Judge, Sora, Sanji, Reiju, and the others gathered to eat.
• Doflamingo’s cooking improved Sora’s complexion and vitality, making it likely she would recover instead of dying young.
• Judge’s three emotionless sons watched Doflamingo during the meal but stayed silent, while Sanji felt drawn to the cooking that had lifted the sorrowful atmosphere around his mother.

Doflamingo used a new Soul Fragment to possess Germa 66’s strongest clone, creating an independent body named Alonso. After testing his abilities, Alonso prepared to help Doflamingo find Fish-Man Tom and Nico Robin.

• Doflamingo inspected Judge’s most powerful clone and found it physically strong but completely mindless.
• Doflamingo placed a new Soul Fragment into the clone, allowing him to control a real body without splitting his soul.
• The clone gained awareness, chose the name Alonso, and took a Hypnosis Mushroom.
• Alonso assessed his strength as slightly above the weakest Navy Vice Admirals and discussed the limits of his potential.
• Doflamingo told Alonso to train and run errands, including finding Fish-Man Tom and Nico Robin.

Robin traveled through the West Blue searching for Poneglyphs but found only minor ruins, and she asked the Ring Spirit when she could enter the Grand Line. The Ring Spirit urged her to train for two or three more years, leaving Robin to continue strengthening herself while waiting for a safer chance to go.

• Robin studied a sea chart aboard a merchant ship and lamented that her search across the West Blue had uncovered no Poneglyphs.
• The Ring Spirit told Robin she was not yet ready for the Grand Line and estimated she would need another two or three years of training.
• Robin accepted the delay and listened as the Ring Spirit advised her to develop Observation Haki and the Navy Six Styles.
• The chapter established that Robin had already awakened Observation Haki, mastered several Navy Six Styles, and grown strong enough to rival some pirates with bounties of twenty or thirty million.
• The Ring Spirit warned that Robin's identity as an Ohara survivor made the Grand Line especially dangerous, since its illusions might fail to conceal her there.

Robin spotted the Fluffy Pirate Crew approaching and asked the Illusionary Clone whether she should confront them. It advised her to strike first if she chose to fight, while secretly relying on Alonso to protect her, and the chapter ended before the pirates attacked.

• Robin used an eye on the ship’s mast to spot two pirate ships belonging to the Fluffy Pirate Crew.
• The Illusionary Clone and the old man in the ring explained that the Fluffy Pirates’ 72 million Beli bounty overstated their strength, though their brutal reputation made them dangerous to the merchant ship.
• Robin asked the Illusionary Clone what she should do, showing she no longer wanted to simply hide from pirates.
• The Illusionary Clone told Robin to strike first and leave the pirates no chance to retaliate if she intervened.
• The Illusionary Clone secretly noted that Alonso was nearby and could defeat the Fluffy Pirates if Robin faced danger.

The Fluffy Pirates returned to the West Blue and attacked a merchant ship, where Robin and her Illusionary Clone prepared to stop them. The merchant ship’s captain could only urge his crew to pray as the pirates closed in.

• The Fluffy Pirates, led by Captain Bick, decided to abandon the Grand Line and become local tyrants in the West Blue.
• Magan shot down a rope on the merchant ship’s sail, slowing it as the Fluffy Pirates moved in to attack.
• Robin recognized that Magan had awakened Observation Haki and agreed with her Illusionary Clone to wait until the ships were closer before targeting him.
• The merchant ship’s captain admitted they could neither flee nor fight the Fluffy Pirates and told his crew to pray for rescue.

Robin fought the Fluffy Pirates as they boarded the merchant ship, using her Flower-Flower Fruit and illusions against their captain, Bick, and sniper Kaufmann. Though she wounded Kaufmann and escaped Bick’s attacks, the battle continued as the pirates tried to locate her.

• The Fluffy Pirates bound the merchant ship with the captain’s hair and charged aboard, while the merchant captain and crew prepared to fight back.
• Magan shot the merchant captain’s pistol away, and Robin used 12-Wheel Flower Bloom to twist Magan’s neck, but Bick’s braid cut off her spawned arms.
• Robin dodged Magan’s shot with Soru, but Bick’s hair attacks struck her and left bloodstains that exposed her position.
• Robin covered her wounds to hide the blood trail, then used Flowers Beneath the Feet to wrap Kaufmann in petals and throw him toward the sea.
• Bick caught Kaufmann with Hair Spiderweb, and Kaufmann warned that Robin could attack from anywhere and that they needed to find her real body.

Robin fought Captain Bick and Kaufmann aboard a merchant ship, but their coordinated attacks overwhelmed her. Bick captured Robin and prepared to execute her, leaving her bound and facing imminent death.

• Kaufmann tracked Robin’s position while Bick attacked the ship with his hair, forcing Robin to look for a way to counter them.
• Robin used the Flower-Flower Fruit to grab guns from the deck and shoot Kaufmann four times, mortally wounding him.
• Bick furiously attacked the entire ship, killing his own crew and the sailors as Robin rescued the cook Qinghua by throwing her overboard.
• Bick’s hair struck Robin and bound her into a cocoon after she was distracted by the Captain’s death.
• Bick threatened to tear Robin apart in an execution by chariots as she struggled and cried.

Robin escaped Bick’s grasp and was rescued by a man wielding the String-String Fruit, who killed Bick and revealed that he had come specifically to find her. After healing Robin, the stranger left her wary and wondering whether he wanted her to translate Poneglyphs.

• Robin used her Flower-Flower Fruit to gouge out Bick’s eyes, but he tightened his hold on her limbs until a stranger cut through his hair and freed her.
• The stranger used threads to seize Bick, identified himself as a bounty hunter, and killed him for his 52-million-Beli bounty.
• Robin noticed Kaufmann’s head hanging beside Bick’s on the stranger’s waist and realized his Observation Haki surpassed hers.
• The stranger recognized Robin and told her he had come for her, while explaining that he was not on good terms with the World Government.
• The stranger used fine threads to set Robin’s bones, close her wounds, and reconnect her muscles, and Robin asked whether he wanted her to translate Poneglyphs and find an Ancient Weapon.

Alonso revealed that he was Doflamingo’s clone and that Robin’s Ring Spirit was a fragment of Doflamingo’s soul. He decided to take Robin to the Grand Line, while the Ring Spirit warned that meeting Doflamingo could expose Robin to the World Government’s danger.

• Alonso told Robin he had watched over her since she left Ohara and revealed his connection to the Ring Spirit.
• The Ring Spirit explained that she and Alonso were Doflamingo’s clones, and that Robin’s ring contained a fragment of Doflamingo’s soul.
• Alonso and the Ring Spirit discussed Alonso’s mastery of the String-String Fruit and his plan to take Robin to the Grand Line.
• Robin objected to being treated as an object and refused to accept Alonso’s protection without an explanation.
• The Ring Spirit warned Robin that meeting Doflamingo could draw the World Government’s attention and put her in danger.

Robin chose to join Alonso and the Dragon Hunting Pirates, hoping to train while gathering Poneglyphs. Alonso transformed the ships into one vessel, and after rescuing Qinghua, the group sailed onward while Robin kept her identity concealed.

• Alonso asked Robin whether she would train with the Dragon Hunting Pirates or wait, and he persuaded her by promising faster growth and access to Poneglyphs.
• Robin decided to go with Alonso, who used his String-String Fruit to merge two ships into a new vessel.
• Robin reminded Alonso that Qinghua had survived in the sea, and Alonso pulled the exhausted cook aboard with a giant hand made of strings.
• Robin disguised her identity and pretended that she and Alonso were merchants who had rescued Qinghua.
• Alonso showed Qinghua the Fluffy Pirates' severed heads, frightening her into fainting, and Robin carried her to the cabin.
• Two hours later, Qinghua woke and saw Alonso steering the ship with ropes while Robin avoided using her Flower-Flower Fruit.