Recaps

Nico Robin and Alonso rescued Qinghua and agreed to take her back to Flower Country, where Robin hoped to explore its history. After more than half a month of traveling, Qinghua passed Alonso’s cooking test, and Alonso spotted Flower Country with his Observation Haki.

• Qinghua panicked aboard what she thought was a ghost ship until Nico Robin explained that Alonso’s String-String Fruit ability controlled the vessel.
• Qinghua said she had nowhere to go after her captain and crew died, so Nico Robin and Alonso offered to take her to Flower Country.
• During the journey, Qinghua begged Alonso to teach her cooking, and he accepted her as his disciple.
• More than half a month later, Alonso tasted Qinghua’s braised pork, gave it sixty points, and told her she had passed.
• Nico Robin praised Qinghua’s rapid improvement, and Alonso announced that his Observation Haki had spotted Flower Country.

Alonso arrived in the Flower Country and connected its neighbors’ sudden military decline to the explosion at Mary Geoise, while Nico Robin set out to find the country’s ancient ruins. At the same time, Gion and Kikyo toured the country during their leave, leaving Tokikake trailing after them.

• Alonso surveyed the Flower Country and realized the World Government had likely weakened its neighbors before the Mary Geoise explosion disrupted its plans.
• Nico Robin brought Qinghua home and went to search for the Flower Country’s ancient ruins.
• Tokikake tried to ingratiate himself with Gion, but she rebuffed him and walked off with Kikyo.
• Kikyo teased Tokikake about his capture of Byrnndi World and hurried after Gion when she called her away.
• Kikyo showed Gion around her birthplace, and Tokikake caught up as she began listing the country’s scenic attractions.

Alonso and Robin decided to visit the first Dragon Mountain Ruins in the Flower Country. Meanwhile, Qinghua told Kikyo, Gion, and Tokikake how Alonso had rescued her and defeated the Fluffy Pirates, leaving the Navy officers curious about his strength and cooking.

• Alonso dismissed the value of the already identified Flower Country ruins, but Robin chose to investigate them, so they agreed to visit the first Dragon Mountain Ruins.
• Kikyo, Gion, and Tokikake praised Qinghua’s cooking and asked why she had returned from working on merchant ships.
• Qinghua said pirates had attacked her ship and that she was the only one rescued, but the Fluffy Pirates had already been defeated by a Pirate Hunter.
• Qinghua explained that Alonso and Stephanie had rescued her, and Alonso had carried the severed heads of several Fluffy Pirates officers.
• Tokikake and Gion concluded that Alonso was likely an elite Vice Admiral-level fighter, while Kikyo suggested asking the Flower Country Navy branch for details.
• Kikyo praised her former Captain’s cooking, and Qinghua revealed that the Captain was Alonso, catching Tokikake’s interest.

Gion and Tokikake failed to find Alonso and discussed recruiting him into the Marines despite his connection to Doflamingo. Tokikake revealed his doubts about the World Government and asked Gion which side she would choose if the balance of power changed; she answered that she would stand with justice.

• Gion, Tokikake, and Kikyo reached the Flower Country Marine branch after Alonso and Robin had already collected the bounty, leaving them only portraits of the pair.
• Tokikake argued that Alonso’s strength and reassuring appearance made him a good Marine recruit, while Gion noted that his String-String Fruit might connect him to Doflamingo.
• Tokikake proposed recruiting Alonso through Doflamingo and suggested they keep the plan quiet, alarming Gion with the risk of bringing a Shichibukai spy into the Marines.
• Tokikake told Gion that the Marines and World Government were growing further apart after the Mary Geoise explosion and asked which side she would take if the world’s balance shifted.
• Gion declared that she would stand on the side of justice, and Tokikake agreed before inviting her to see the Twin Lotus at Cangshan Flower Sea; she walked away from his courtship attempt.

Alonso and Robin spent a month examining the Flower Country’s ruins, but Alonso decided against approaching the Hasshoken Army’s treasure vault for now. They chose to visit Meteor Garden, while Kikyo persuaded Tokikake to go there as well by calling it a popular place for confessions.

• Alonso asked Robin about life and geography nine hundred years ago, but she had found no records about the world’s geography in the ruins.
• Robin used her Flower-Flower Fruit to scare Alonso with a face emerging from a stele, and he jabbed its eyes, causing her phantom pain.
• Alonso and Robin surveyed most of the Flower Country’s ruins over the next month, leaving the Hasshoken Army’s guarded Treasure Jade Ice Bed unexplored.
• Robin chose to visit Meteor Garden, and Alonso agreed to go with her.
• Kikyo showed Tokikake a promotional poster and urged him to visit Meteor Garden, claiming it was a popular place for confessions.

During a visit to Meteor Garden, Gion and Kikyo collided in midair with Alonso and Robin, who had descended on cloud strings. Alonso tried to keep Robin’s identity hidden from the Navy officers, but Tokikake recognized him and asked if he would join the Navy.

• Kikyo admired Meteor Garden and asked Gion to carry her up to the Heavenly Stone, while Tokikake continued lamenting his failed confessions to Gion.
• Gion and Kikyo collided with Alonso and Robin above the Heavenly Stone because neither group had activated Observation Haki.
• Tokikake tried to tend to Gion, then recognized Alonso as the String-String Fruit user he had been seeking.
• Alonso noticed Robin’s fear of the Navy and stepped forward to keep Gion and Tokikake from focusing their Observation Haki on her.
• Kikyo recognized Alonso as one of Doflamingo’s former subordinates and thanked him for saving Qinghua; Alonso asked the group to keep his identity confidential.
• Tokikake bragged about his past connection to Doflamingo, and Gion rebuked him before Tokikake asked Alonso whether he wanted to join the Navy.

Alonso rejected Tokikake’s offer to join the Marines and revealed that Doflamingo had allies within their ranks. He proposed a major operation involving the Flower Country’s Treasure Ice Sheet, but Tokikake warned that Chinjao’s ties to the country made it a politically sensitive target.

• Tokikake offered Alonso a place in the Marines and promised to overlook Robin, but Alonso declined because he already had a Marine companion.
• Gion recognized Robin as the survivor of Ohara, and Robin trembled behind Alonso.
• Alonso revealed that Doflamingo had cultivated dissatisfied allies within the Marines, prompting Tokikake to speculate about who they might be.
• Alonso and Tokikake secretly tested each other’s Haki, and Tokikake judged Alonso’s strength to be close to that of an elite Marine Vice Admiral.
• Alonso proposed a major deal involving the Flower Country’s Hasshoken Army and the Treasure Ice Sheet, while Tokikake warned that targeting it would be illegal and difficult.
• Alonso questioned why the pirate Chinjao served as a pillar of the Flower Country and why the Treasure Ice Sheet’s contents belonged to the country, and Tokikake explained that arresting Chinjao would violate the member state’s internal affairs.

Alonso explained why Conical Chinjao had fought as a pirate and revealed that he could use his awakened String-String Fruit to open the Treasure Ice Sheet. He planned to bargain with the Hasshoken Army so Nico Robin could search for Poneglyphs, while his claims about Ancient Weapons and Doflamingo’s secrets shocked the others.

• Alonso explained that Conical Chinjao had fought enemy nations for the Flower Country and could no longer open the Treasure Ice Sheet after Garp flattened his head.
• Alonso awakened Tokikake’s String-String Fruit, showing that the power could turn the Treasure Ice Sheet into thread.
• Alonso said he planned to use his ability to make a deal with the Hasshoken Army rather than steal its treasure, partly to fund Nico Robin’s archaeological search for Poneglyphs.
• Alonso argued that the World Government did not truly fear the Ancient Weapons and claimed that Doflamingo had prepared by investigating classified information before leaving Mary Geoise.
• Tokikake, Gion, and Robin reacted with shock to Alonso’s claims about the Ancient Weapons and Doflamingo’s knowledge.

Alonso convinced Gion and Tokikake that the World Government might be hiding the Void Century because it planned to erase another hundred years, prompting them to investigate the Poneglyphs. The group arrived at the Treasure Ice Sheet, where they found Conical Chinjao mourning his inaccessible hoard and reacted with shock to what lay beneath the ice.

• Alonso suggested that the World Government concealed the Void Century because its history could reveal plans to make another hundred years vanish.
• Gion and Tokikake agreed to visit the Treasure Ice Sheet and seek answers about the Poneglyphs from Nico Robin.
• Alonso described the vast wealth buried beneath the Treasure Ice Sheet in the Flower Country.
• Conical Chinjao wept and cursed Garp as Alonso and his group approached the ice continent.
• Tokikake, Gion, Robin, and Kikyo climbed onto an ice cliff and were astonished by what they saw.

Gion, Alonso, Tokikake, and their companions stood above the vast gold beneath the Treasure Ice Sheet, while Tokikake beat Chinjao after their teasing escalated. Chinjao realized the visitors were Marines and laughed off their offer to help open the ice sheet, insisting that only Garp might be strong enough.

• Gion and the others saw the immense gold treasure beneath the Treasure Ice Sheet, and Alonso speculated that the Hasshoken Army might have found a huge treasure long ago.
• Chinjao ignored the group and cursed as he rolled on the ice, remembering how grave robbers had failed to break through the sheet over the years.
• Tokikake teased Chinjao about his flattened head, and Chinjao attacked him before Tokikake retaliated and beat him up.
• Chinjao recognized Konpira and the group's strength, then suspected they were Marines who had come to arrest him.
• Tokikake said the group had come to help open the Treasure Ice Sheet, but Chinjao scoffed that only Garp might manage it.

Alonso used his awakened String-String Fruit to bring Chinjao, Gion, and Tokikake beneath the Treasure Ice Sheet, revealing the vast treasure vault and its extraordinary thickness. Chinjao asked Alonso to become the 13th Generation Master of the Hasshoken Army, leaving Alonso stunned.

• Tokikake and Gion attacked the Treasure Ice Sheet, but its cracks quickly froze over before they could break through.
• Alonso transformed the ice into threads and lowered the group beneath it, where they learned the sheet was about fifty-three meters thick.
• Chinjao joyfully celebrated returning to the Ice Room and refused Alonso's suggestion to move the treasure, explaining its role in the Hasshoken Army's tradition.
• Alonso questioned how Chinjao's successors could access the treasure without mastering the Conical Drill Nail, and Chinjao realized his army's predicament.
• Chinjao asked Alonso to become the 13th Generation Master of the Hasshoken Army, and Alonso questioned the offer because he was not related to Chinjao.

Alonso learned that the Hasshoken Army guarded the Flower Country’s Heavenly Tribute beneath the Treasure Ice Sheet to prevent the disasters caused by releasing it without a strong Pillar. He agreed to become its Pillar and help pay the tribute, while promising not to interfere in the army’s affairs in exchange for its help when he needed it.

• Alonso asked Chinjao why he was so determined to make him the Hasshoken Army’s Pillar, and Chinjao explained that the army’s treasure was reserved for the Flower Country’s Heavenly Tribute.
• Chinjao described how releasing the treasure without a strong Pillar led to the Hasshoken Army’s decline and the Flower Country’s Nine-Country Rebellion.
• Chinjao revealed that the Hasshoken Army had previously invited an outsider to become a Pillar and said Alonso’s lack of a faction made him a suitable candidate.
• Alonso agreed to become the Pillar, help open the Treasure Ice Sheet each year, and pay the Heavenly Tribute without taking the treasure.
• Alonso promised not to interfere in the Hasshoken Army’s internal affairs and asked it to help him when needed, which Chinjao accepted.

Alonso became the Hasshoken Army’s 13th Generation Master, binding the army and the Flower Country to the side of the Dragon Hunting Pirates in a future conflict with the World Government. After the succession ceremony and handling the army’s tribute and treasures, he prepared to leave with Lao Cai for training.

• While Alonso spoke with Chinjao, Robin searched the treasure hoard and found a Poneglyph, translating enough to understand its general meaning.
• Alonso told Tokikake and Gion that the Flower Country had chosen its side early and warned that a calamity might engulf the world.
• Chinjao held a succession ceremony, and Alonso became the 13th Generation Master of the Hasshoken Army.
• Alonso helped retrieve the year’s Heavenly Tribute and bury some of the Hasshoken Army’s treasures at the Treasure Ice Sheet.
• Alonso left a Vivre Card and took a Den Den Mushi, while Chinjao sent Lao Cai with him to train at sea.

After Alonso left the Flower Country, Doflamingo learned that a Poneglyph beneath the Treasure Ice Sheet linked its treasure to the Void Century. As Rosinante reported the Navy’s plan to target Tiger’s Sun Pirates, Doflamingo considered how to protect them from the coming pursuit.

• Alonso accepted Chinjao’s offer to take Lao Cai under his guidance, learned Hasshoken techniques in the Flower Country, and departed aboard a ship from the Hasshoken Army.
• Doflamingo reviewed Alonso’s memories and learned that a Poneglyph beneath the Treasure Ice Sheet said the wealth had been hidden there nine hundred years earlier in preparation for a great event.
• Rosinante trained his Haki in the Illusion Space and told Doflamingo that the World Government planned to send an Admiral against Tiger’s Sun Pirates.
• Doflamingo reasoned that Kizaru was the likeliest Admiral to pursue the Sun Pirates, but believed the Navy would struggle to capture them at sea.
• Doflamingo resolved that the Revolutionary Army and his own forces could not allow the Sun Pirates to be defeated.

Doflamingo encountered and absorbed a powerful, mutated soul in the Sea of Souls, discovering it was Yhwach from Bleach and gaining his Talent Pearl. He began considering how to use the Illusion Fruit to simulate Yhwach’s Soul Transfer and Soul Retrieval abilities.

• Doflamingo sensed an unusually powerful soul approaching across the crimson sea and went to investigate.
• He found a tentacled monster covered in eyes and absorbed it into the Illusion Space.
• Doflamingo identified the creature as Yhwach and learned that contact with countless Soul Fragments had mutated him into a monster.
• He discovered that Yhwach’s Soul Transfer and Soul Retrieval talents had let him share and reclaim others’ abilities, knowledge, and experience.
• Doflamingo absorbed Yhwach’s Talent Pearl and considered how to reproduce those abilities with his Illusion Fruit.

Doflamingo tested Soul Transfer and Soul Retrieval on captured pirates, discovering that Soul Fragments could repair and strengthen their recipients but were difficult and risky to reclaim. A newspaper report about strange changes in Flevance caught his attention.

• Doflamingo ordered captured pirates brought to the Training Grounds to test his new abilities, and Hancock joined him.
• Doflamingo used Soul Transfer on a hypnotized pirate, whose life force, health, and potential improved.
• Doflamingo retrieved the Soul Fragment by touching the pirate, finding that the pirate gained little strength while Doflamingo received a modest increase in soul power.
• Doflamingo concluded that Soul Fragments had to be reclaimed by touch, worked best on talented recipients who survived and trained, and required increasingly large fragments for repeated transfers.
• Doflamingo considered giving Soul Fragments to young supernovas but decided against seeking them out, then read a newspaper report about albino people appearing in Flevance.

Doflamingo decided to travel to Flevance as Lead Poisoning began to spread, bringing Hancock and their companions aboard a new Sky Island ship. The chapter also showed Doflamingo training under Sea Stone suppression, where he explained how it could help powerful fighters improve.

• Doflamingo recognized that Lead Poisoning was beginning to erupt in Flevance and asked Hancock to travel there with him.
• Hancock discovered that their companions, including Yamato and her sisters, were joining the trip aboard a new high-speed ship.
• Yamato begged the afro-haired ship captain to demonstrate the ship’s flight mode, but he refused without Doflamingo’s order.
• Hancock went to Doflamingo to ask him to intervene and found him practicing the Navy Six Styles while wearing Sea Stone cuffs and shackles.
• Doflamingo explained that adaptive training let him retain combat ability under Sea Stone suppression, then removed his restraints with Armament Haki.

Doflamingo and Hancock joined Yamato and the others to watch Enel demonstrate the flying ship. After the ship transformed and lifted off, it headed toward White Town Flevance.

• Hancock told Doflamingo that Yamato and the others wanted to see the ship fly, and admitted she did too.
• Doflamingo went to the deck and watched Enel train with his Lightning Body Forging Technique while Yamato accidentally made her hair puff up with electricity.
• Doflamingo asked Enel to switch the ship into flight mode so they could reach White Town Flevance sooner.
• Enel led everyone into the captain's cabin and transformed the ship, whose shells and propeller lifted it into the air and sent it flying forward.

Doflamingo and his companions arrived in White Town Flevance and learned how platinum lead caused hereditary poisoning. Doflamingo warned that the World Government would conceal the truth and allow the town's destruction, while Enel welcomed how the metal enhanced his Electricity Generation Fruit.

• Enel explained how the flying ship worked as it carried the group toward Flevance.
• Violet admired White Town, and Enel described platinum lead's unusual conductivity and contamination.
• Doflamingo explained that prolonged platinum lead exposure caused incurable, hereditary poisoning that shortened descendants' lives.
• Doflamingo warned that the World Government would label the outbreak an infectious disease and let neighboring countries wipe out the town.
• The group looked over Flevance with pity, while Enel enjoyed how the platinum lead strengthened his Electricity Generation Fruit.

Doflamingo discovered that Platinum Lead Disease had begun spreading in White Town, including among patients at Law's family clinic. He confronted Dr. Trafalgar with the disease's name, leaving the doctor shocked and evasive.

• Doflamingo noticed early Platinum Lead Disease cases in White Town and spotted a worried Trafalgar Law.
• Doflamingo observed Law's home and saw three severely ill patients receiving blood transfusions and dialysis.
• Doflamingo considered ways Devil Fruit powers might remove the toxins, then decided to stop the World Government from suppressing the truth about Platinum Lead Ore.
• Doflamingo went to Law's family hospital and told Dr. Trafalgar that he knew about Platinum Lead Disease.
• Dr. Trafalgar reacted in shock and denied knowing what Doflamingo meant.

Doflamingo told Dr. Trafalgar that the World Government planned to cover up Platinum Lead Disease and silence White Town, then disappeared before CP Organization agents arrived. He ordered Violet to track the Flevance Royal Family and have Enel rob them when they fled, returning their people’s wealth to White Town.

• Doflamingo told Dr. Trafalgar that Platinum Lead Disease could not be cured and warned him that the World Government intended to disguise it as an infectious disease and silence White Town.
• Dr. Trafalgar questioned Doflamingo’s claims and asked why he was helping, but Doflamingo and his companions vanished before he could get answers.
• Doflamingo spotted two CP Organization agents with Observation Haki and decided he needed to act faster.
• Doflamingo ordered Violet to watch the Flevance Royal Family and told her to have Enel rob them when they fled and return the people’s wealth to White Town.

Doflamingo arranged a plan to expose Flevance’s platinum lead poisoning and cause trouble for the World Government. Williams woke from a nightmare, then learned that Lead Poisoning was real and incurable, leaving the people of Flevance in despair.

• Doflamingo told Violet and the others that Flevance’s royal family had known platinum lead was toxic and had planned to flee, and Violet promised to watch them.
• Doflamingo enveloped the city with Observation Haki and illusionary power as he prepared a plan to trouble the World Government.
• Williams woke from a nightmare about Lead Poisoning and chose an iron plate instead of his usual platinum lead plate at breakfast.
• Williams saw Dr. Carmen confirm that platinum lead was poisonous and Lead Poisoning was incurable, then rushed to Dr. Trafalgar’s hospital.
• Dr. Trafalgar told Williams that Lead Poisoning was real and incurable as hundreds of despairing residents gathered outside.

After Doflamingo’s prophetic dream exposed the truth about Platinum Lead Disease, Flevance descended into despair and revolt. The royal family and CP Organization struggled to hold the castle as rioters closed in.

• Williams saw two Platinum Lead Disease patients die outside Trafalgar’s house and realized Flevance was doomed.
• Flevance residents looted, fled, or took their own lives, while Williams heard dreamers condemn the royal family and World Government.
• Williams woke to find rioters besieging the royal castle, where smoke rose above the battle cries.
• The CP Organization leader berated his agents for failing to anticipate the riot and learned they had found no one manipulating events.
• The King of Flevance demanded that the CP Organization protect his castle and the treasure he was transferring for Gas Saint Fabre.

Flevance’s armed residents overwhelmed the royal palace, forcing the CP agents and King George to flee. After escaping, the agent leader ordered the World Government to launch a Buster Call, while Williams overheard the order and King George sailed away with CP0 escorts.

• The agent leader realized Flevance’s residents were armed with weapons and led his agents to defend the castle walls.
• The rioters attacked with guns and bombs, the palace guards fled, and the agents retreated as King George escaped through a secret passage to the sea.
• The agent leader decided to request a Buster Call, unaware that Williams had overheard him.
• King George sailed away with his retainers and CP0 agents, complaining about the losses while a CP0 agent dismissed the rioters as rabble.

Enel ambushed a CP0 convoy carrying Heavenly Tribute and overwhelmed its guards with electricity. A stronger CP0 agent revealed his Armament Haki and Emperor Scorpion Fruit, and Enel’s fight with him remained underway.

• Enel surprised a CP0 agent on the convoy and knocked him out with an electric shock.
• Enel electrocuted more than a dozen armed crewmen when they surrounded him.
• A second CP0 agent confronted Enel over the Heavenly Tribute, but Enel attacked him with lightning and a blade forged from his Golden Staff.
• The second agent revealed his Emperor Scorpion Fruit and attacked Enel with a venomous tail hook.
• Enel deflected the hook attacks and struck at the agent, who barely blocked the blow with his Armament Haki-coated pincers.