Recaps

Doflamingo arrived to protect the injured Gion and learned that Mihawk was being considered for the Shichibukai. Mihawk challenged Doflamingo to a serious duel, and after their clash Doflamingo realized his strongest technique left him vulnerable if it failed to badly wound his opponent.

• Mihawk blocked a long-range golden sword thrust, and Doflamingo descended to shield the injured Gion.
• Gion told Doflamingo that Mihawk had held back, while Mihawk said she was not qualified to be his opponent and that he had spared her out of consideration for the Marines.
• Doflamingo realized Mihawk was a Shichibukai candidate, and Mihawk explained that the position would help him with money and intelligence as a lone wolf.
• Mihawk attacked Doflamingo, and the two fought fiercely while Gion watched and learned from their swordsmanship.
• Doflamingo unleashed Outer Heaven Flying Fairy, but Mihawk countered and gradually gained the advantage after suffering only shallow wounds.
• Doflamingo recognized that Outer Heaven Flying Fairy left him vulnerable when it failed to seriously injure his opponent.

After a day-and-night sword duel, Doflamingo and Hawkeye Mihawk ended their contest and shared a feast with Gion and the Marines. Back at Navy Headquarters, Doflamingo learned that Aokiji had returned with Rosinante and worried about what they might discover about the World Government.

• Doflamingo and Hawkeye Mihawk fought for a full day and night before Mihawk sheathed his sword and called off their contest.
• Doflamingo, Gion, Hawkeye, and the accompanying Marines shared a meal made from a Sea King, and Hawkeye told them the World Government had approached him about becoming a Shichibukai.
• Doflamingo returned to Navy Headquarters and learned that Aokiji had come back from leave with a young user of the Ancient Zoan Giant Ape Fruit.
• Doflamingo suspected the young fighter was Rosinante and reflected on Aokiji's knowledge of the past and the danger posed by Imu.
• Doflamingo decided he should warn Aokiji and Rosinante to be careful.

Doflamingo secretly met Rosinante in a dream and learned that Kuzan had asked him about the Donquixote family’s stone tablet. He warned Rosinante to follow Kuzan’s instructions and sent a cautionary message to Kuzan, leaving the World Government’s hidden threat unresolved.

• Doflamingo discovered that Aokiji had brought Rosinante to the Navy, where the seventeen-year-old had become a powerful new recruit.
• Doflamingo entered Rosinante’s dream and reunited with him, and Rosinante mourned the deaths of their parents.
• Rosinante told Doflamingo that Kuzan had asked about the family’s stone tablet and instructed him to keep the inquiry secret.
• Doflamingo advised Rosinante to listen to Kuzan and urged him to keep the matter quiet to protect Kuzan.
• Doflamingo asked Rosinante to warn Kuzan to investigate carefully because the person behind the matter might be able to retaliate directly.

After meeting Rosinante in a dream and sending a warning for Kuzan, Doflamingo investigated Sakazuki’s connection to the New World and chose a Navy mission near Beast-Dragon Island. He left Navy Headquarters with his subordinates to search for clues, while learning that the island was rumored to contain fire-breathing dragons.

• Doflamingo sparred with Rosinante in their dream, left a Soul Fragment as a marker, and asked him to pass a message to Kuzan.
• Rosinante woke, confirmed that his Finger Pistol had improved, and went to Kuzan’s office to deliver Doflamingo’s message.
• Doflamingo reviewed Navy intelligence and noticed that Sakazuki often operated in a particular region of the New World.
• Doflamingo selected a mission monitoring Kaido near Beast-Dragon Island and set out with his rested subordinates.
• On the warship, Kikyo told Doflamingo that Beast-Dragon Island was rumored to hold fire-breathing dragons and that Dr. Vegapunk had sent people to collect their blood and scales.

Doflamingo fought pirates who attacked his Navy warship and killed a Bat Fruit user serving Kaido. After the battle, he dismissed the threat of Kaido, confident he could escape even if he could not defeat him.

• Doflamingo complained that New World pirates had grown bold before their ships opened fire on his Navy warship.
• Doflamingo split a cannonball and a pirate ship with a Flying Slash, then charged the fleeing pirates after a sniper disrupted his attack.
• A Bat Fruit user struck Doflamingo with an Ultrasonic Wave, but Doflamingo quickly recovered and pursued him.
• Doflamingo wounded the Bat Fruit user's wing, then killed him despite his claim that he served Kaido.
• Doflamingo mocked Kaido and judged that he could retreat unharmed if they fought.

Doflamingo learned that pirates had gathered to attack Dressrosa and capture the Tontatta Tribe, a disaster caused by his earlier performance for the Celestial Dragons. He continued toward the island, aware that his actions had helped make its little people highly prized slaves.

• Doflamingo dismissed the threat Kaido posed and continued sailing toward the Beasts Pirates’ territory.
• After several days, Doflamingo found fewer pirates in the New World and captured a crew to question them.
• The pirates told Doflamingo that crews were attacking Dressrosa to seize the Tontatta Tribe.
• Doflamingo realized his Gulliver’s Travels performance had revealed the little people’s homeland to the Celestial Dragons.
• Doflamingo learned that the Celestial Dragons’ bounty of one hundred million Beli per little person had drawn slave traders and pirates to Dressrosa.

Doflamingo sailed to Dressrosa after learning it was under attack and found Navy soldiers and civilians caught in a pirate siege tied to the Celestial Dragons’ bounty. He cut through the pirate alliance with Narikitsune and Conqueror’s Haki, leaving two powerful pirates alive but unwilling to fight.

• Doflamingo reported the situation to the Navy, received permission to help, and changed course for Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo arrived at Dressrosa and saw black smoke, wrecked Navy ships, and dead soldiers.
• Pirates surrounded Doflamingo’s warship and attacked, but he shattered their cannonballs and cut apart two pirate ships.
• Doflamingo boarded a pirate ship and killed its ordinary pirates with Narikitsune before a giant pirate killed a surrendering crewman.
• The giant revealed that twenty-three Pirate Crews had allied together, and Doflamingo killed him with a swift sword strike.
• Doflamingo unleashed Conqueror’s Haki and a ring-shaped sword aura, killing many pirates and breaking the will of the two survivors who blocked it.

Doflamingo advanced through pirate-ravaged Dressrosa, rescuing civilians and heading toward King's Plateau, where he discovered an unexpected stone-wall defense. King Riku revealed that Kyros had used the Stone-Stone Devil Fruit to hold off the pirate coalition, while the Tontatta Tribe's chief struggled to report their losses.

• Doflamingo killed the pirates blocking his ships, spared the abandoned vessels, and led his Marines into Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo rescued civilians from looting pirates and headed toward King's Plateau after spotting its towering stone walls.
• The Tontatta Tribe joined Dressrosa's defense after pirates attacked the kingdom while seeking a route to their home.
• King Riku's forces and the Tontatta Tribe retreated to King's Plateau, where Kyros used the Stone-Stone Devil Fruit to build walls against the pirates.
• Kyros reported heavy casualties to King Riku, who asked Gancho about the Tontatta Tribe's losses, but Gancho could not give a clear answer.

King Riku and Rear Admiral Dalmatian prepared to face another pirate assault while they waited for Vice Admiral Steve, whose arrival time was unknown. When the pirates used civilians as hostages to force King Riku to surrender, Dalmatian and Kyros urged him to resist, and King Riku left the defense to Dalmatian.

• King Riku asked Rear Admiral Dalmatian about the Navy’s losses and learned that Vice Admiral Steve, an Admiral Candidate, was on his way, though his arrival time was uncertain.
• When soldiers reported another pirate attack, King Riku, Kyros, and Dalmatian went to the walls, followed by Chief Gancho with a hammer.
• Dalmatian and Kyros sensed the pirates had gathered civilians below the walls, and King Riku saw the hostages for himself.
• A pirate in sunglasses threatened the civilians and used thin threads to bind and injure several of them, demanding that King Riku surrender.
• Dalmatian warned King Riku that surrender would lead to even more suffering, and Kyros firmly supported resisting.
• King Riku said he needed to calm down and entrusted the defense to Dalmatian.

Vergo and Trebol threatened to kill their captives unless Dressrosa surrendered the Tontatta Tribe, but King Riku and the soldiers refused to betray their allies. The Tontatta Tribe and the defenders charged into battle, where Trebol began burning soldiers and Vergo attacked Dalmatian.

• Vergo killed civilians and demanded that King Riku trade the Tontatta Tribe for the captives.
• Trebol urged Vergo to use the Dressrosa residents as bargaining chips, and Vergo threatened to kill them if the king refused.
• King Riku rejected the demand, reaffirmed his loyalty to the Tontatta Tribe, and the Tontatta Tribe jumped down from the wall to fight alone.
• The Tontatta Tribe chief jumped without a parachute, and King Riku ordered Kyros to lower the wall so the defenders could fight.
• Dalmatian jumped down first, and Kyros turned the wall into a slope as the Marines and Dressrosa soldiers charged.
• Trebol trapped and burned dozens of soldiers with explosive mucus while Vergo’s threads nearly ensnared Dalmatian.

Kyros struggled to defend Dressrosa from Trebol and the pirates until Doflamingo arrived with a devastating sword slash that routed them. Doflamingo killed Vergo and resolved that his former allies had chosen a path he could not accept.

• Kyros used his Stone-Stone Fruit to fight Trebol and a huge pirate, but the pirates' combined assault overwhelmed him and the defenders.
• Kyros saw that King Riku had been knocked unconscious while pirates slaughtered soldiers and civilians across Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo arrived and unleashed a sword slash that pierced the King's Plateau and killed several pirate captains without harming the soldiers.
• Dalmatian identified Doflamingo as Vice Admiral Steve, and the pirates began fleeing in panic.
• Doflamingo cut down Vergo and recognized that his former subordinates' willingness to massacre civilians put them beyond his limits.

Doflamingo defeated the invading pirates and helped Dressrosa recover after the battle. As the survivors began rebuilding, Princess Scarlett showed her affection for Kyros, leaving King Riku dejected.

• Doflamingo cut down Trebol, defeated the burly fighter he suspected was Pica, and hunted the remaining pirates as their alliance collapsed.
• After half an hour, the battle ended with most pirates killed or captured, and Dressrosa’s residents largely safe despite heavy damage to the city.
• Doflamingo returned and refused King Riku’s offer of treasure, leaving the intact pirate ships with Dressrosa to support its rebuilding.
• King Riku invited Doflamingo and Rear Admiral Dalmatian to a banquet, and Doflamingo offered to provide the food.
• King Riku introduced his daughter Scarlett, then discovered her wiping sweat from Kyros’s brow and lamented that she had abandoned him.

Doflamingo hunted sea beasts and cooked a massive feast for Dressrosa, and the food helped the wounded recover. He met the young Violet and recognized the immense strategic value of her Devil Fruit abilities.

• Doflamingo killed several sea beasts and Sea Kings, then cooked their meat into a feast with help from the others.
• Kikyo served the food while secretly snacking, and Dressrosa’s residents, King Riku, Kyros, Dalmatian, Scarlett, and the Tontatta Tribe devoured it.
• Dalmatian and Kyros discovered that their injuries were healing unusually fast after eating Doflamingo’s food.
• Violet got a nosebleed from eating too much rich food, and Kikyo gave her mint candy that stopped it.
• Doflamingo recognized Violet and considered her Glint-Glint Fruit abilities, including clairvoyance and mind-reading, to be strategically valuable.

After helping Dressrosa recover, Doflamingo left to continue his mission, having encouraged Violet and trained Kyros. On the voyage, he discovered the String-String Fruit and offered it to Kikyo, who turned it down because she wanted the Slip-Slip Fruit.

• Doflamingo stayed in Dressrosa for several days, winning Violet’s favor with food and teaching Kyros about swordsmanship and Armament Haki.
• Kyros made rapid progress in Armament Haki training while Doflamingo advised him to work out how to combine his swordsmanship with the Stone-Stone Fruit.
• Doflamingo said goodbye to the people of Dressrosa and sailed away aboard the warship.
• More than ten kilometers out to sea, Doflamingo found the String-String Fruit in the ship’s fruit storage and identified it by its patterns.
• Doflamingo offered the String-String Fruit to Kikyo, but she declined and said she would rather have the Slip-Slip Fruit.

Doflamingo took command of the isolated naval base near Beast-Dragon Island and discovered that King regularly attacked it with flames. Doflamingo drove King off, but King warned that Kaido would come next.

• Doflamingo arrived at the remote naval base near Beast-Dragon Island, where organized pirate forces kept their distance from Navy territory.
• Vice Admiral Anthony handed the base over to Doflamingo and quickly departed, leaving the deputy commander to explain the situation.
• King flew in as a black pterosaur and rained flames onto the base and Doflamingo's warship.
• Doflamingo struck King with sword light, damaging his head and wing, and learned that King had been harassing the base every month.
• King retreated after Doflamingo mocked him as a black-feathered chicken and warned that Kaido would come.

Doflamingo took charge of the battered Marine base near Wano and learned that its Marines gathered food from Beast-Dragon Island. He heard that a powerful dragon lived there and had defeated the previous Vice Admiral, leaving Doflamingo to consider the island’s threat.

• Doflamingo and King ended their brief clash without escalating it, since neither wanted a fight that could disrupt the Beasts Pirates’ plans or provoke Kaido.
• Doflamingo gathered the Marines and learned that repeated battles had reduced their island base to scorched remnants.
• Doflamingo took over the small base and assessed its limited role in monitoring Kaido and the Beasts Pirates.
• Doflamingo learned that the Marines’ supplies were becoming restricted and asked how they obtained vegetables and fruit.
• The adjutant explained that the Marines traded hunted Sea Kings for access to Beast-Dragon Island, where a dragon lived.
• The adjutant said the dragon had defeated the previous Vice Admiral in just a few moves.

Doflamingo took the Marines to Beast-Dragon Island, hoping to defeat the Fire Dragon and make it his flying mount. After the dragon attacked his fleet, Doflamingo wounded it with a Flying Slash, and it charged at him in fury.

• Doflamingo ordered the entire Marine force to sail to Beast-Dragon Island in search of a dragon mount.
• Doflamingo sensed a powerful aura atop the island’s central mountain and learned from the adjutant that it belonged to the Fire Dragon, which had previously outsmarted a Navy ambush.
• The Fire Dragon flew over the warships, frightening the Marines, then landed on the shore.
• Doflamingo stepped forward with Narikitsune and challenged the dragon instead of trying to negotiate.
• The Fire Dragon blasted Doflamingo with white-hot flames, but Doflamingo’s Flying Slash pierced the breath and cut its neck.
• The wounded Fire Dragon roared and charged at Doflamingo, who prepared to face it.

Doflamingo defeated the giant dragon and discovered that its black appearance was coal dust hiding pink scales with white spots. He found the dragon trying to flee its cave with its treasure and began persuading it to sail with him by promising to change its color.

• Doflamingo struck the charging giant dragon with an Outer Heaven Flying Fairy, sending it into the sea.
• The dragon’s coal coating washed off, revealing its pink-and-white-spotted scales, and it fled back to Beast-Dragon Island in embarrassment.
• Doflamingo had his naval soldiers gather food and followed the dragon to its mountaintop cave.
• The dragon emerged from its cave carrying treasure, then collapsed at the entrance when it found Doflamingo blocking its way.
• Doflamingo used his Illusion Fruit to communicate with the dragon and invited it to travel the world with him.
• The dragon asked whether Doflamingo could change its scale color, and he suggested spray paint or a Devil Fruit.

Doflamingo fought the giant dragon to decide who would be boss and defeated it with Divine Departure, then claimed it as his mount. The dragon acknowledged Doflamingo as stronger for now, and he set out to find a doctor while his Marines celebrated and Kikyo asked about eating the dragon.

• Doflamingo promised the giant dragon he could help it change colors, and the dragon agreed to set sail with him as its little brother.
• Doflamingo challenged the dragon to fight for the right to be boss, and they battled on the mountaintop as the Marines watched.
• The dragon launched a massive fireball, but Doflamingo split it with Divine Departure and wounded the dragon before it crashed at his feet.
• The dragon admitted that Doflamingo was stronger for now, and Doflamingo decided to make it his mount.
• The Marines hailed Doflamingo as a dragon-slayer, while Kikyo asked when they would have a dragon meat feast.
• Doflamingo rejected the idea of eating the dragon and went to find a doctor to treat it.

Doflamingo established a new Marine base on Beast-Dragon Island after naming and taming Sancho, then trained the dragon to develop his abilities. Sancho revealed that his mother had left to seek a vast hoard of gold and never returned, and Doflamingo suspected she had gone to Wano Country.

• Doflamingo named the injured giant dragon Sancho and moved the Marines’ base to Beast-Dragon Island.
• The Marines built a new base, while Sancho recovered and became a devoted follower of Doflamingo’s cooking.
• Doflamingo trained Sancho in combat and Haki, though Sancho complained that the intensive training hurt.
• Sancho told Doflamingo that his mother had vanished while seeking gold on a huge island beyond a nearby waterfall.
• Doflamingo connected Sancho’s story to Wano Country, and Sancho explained that dragons had little familial affection and that his mother’s treasure had ultimately fallen to him.

Sancho broke into the Navy supply warehouse and swallowed a mysterious Devil Fruit, despite Doflamingo’s attempt to stop him. The fruit transformed Sancho into a giant horned woman and revealed that it was a Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit.

• After the new Navy base was completed, Sancho realized the supply warehouse might contain Devil Fruits and decided to sneak inside.
• At night, Sancho clawed through the warehouse wall and sucked a wooden box toward him, accidentally bringing the wall crashing down.
• Sancho found a strange patterned fruit in the box and swallowed it just as Doflamingo arrived and ordered him to stop.
• Sancho complained about the fruit’s taste, then surprised Doflamingo by speaking human language and sprouting another pair of horns.
• Sancho shrank from a dragon into a naked, seven-or-eight-meter-tall horned woman, and Doflamingo recognized the fruit as a Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit.

Sancho discovered the transformations and immense physical power granted by the Oni-Oni Fruit, then mastered Armament Haki and challenged Doflamingo’s authority. Doflamingo subdued her with his Illusion Fruit and Sea Stone handcuffs, reaffirming their master-and-mount relationship.

• Doflamingo explained that Sancho’s Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Oni-Oni Fruit let her assume a humanlike Oni form, while Sancho preferred being a dragon.
• Sancho asked Doflamingo to find her a Devil Fruit that could change her color, and he told her she could eat only one fruit before promising to have her spray-painted.
• After recovering from her disappointment, Sancho mastered Armament Haki and realized the Oni-Oni Fruit had greatly increased her strength and durability.
• Sancho declared herself the boss and tried to make Doflamingo her personal chef underling, but he used his Illusion Fruit to overpower her and put Sea Stone handcuffs on her.
• Doflamingo judged that Sancho’s physical talent now let her fight him to a standstill without his Devil Fruit ability.

Doflamingo and Sancho encountered King while patrolling near Beast-Dragon Island, and Sancho took on the Lunarian fighter in a battle of Dragons. Their fight continued in the sky, with neither fire-resistant combatant able to harm the other with flames.

• After training and sharing a Sea King feast, Doflamingo rode Sancho out to patrol and record nearby islands.
• Doflamingo sensed a powerful enemy approaching and agreed to let Sancho test her strength against him.
• King arrived seeking revenge on Doflamingo for deceiving him about the Navy Vice Admiral's name.
• Sancho attacked King after he called her tamed, but both of them emerged unharmed from each other's fire attacks.
• Sancho and King charged at each other and fought in the sky, with Sancho holding the advantage in strength, defense, and reach.

Doflamingo and Sancho repeatedly fought off King as the clashes strengthened them, until King finally stopped challenging the Marine base. With King gone, Doflamingo prepared to use Sancho to search the sea regions where Sakazuki had been active.

• Sancho defeated King after half a day of fighting and returned to Doflamingo demanding a feast.
• King repeatedly returned to Beast-Dragon Island, where Sancho and Doflamingo fought him separately and drove him away.
• Sancho awakened Observation Haki and improved her Armament Haki techniques, while Doflamingo grew strong enough to gain the upper hand against King.
• Doflamingo told King to stop wasting his time, and King left after warning that monitoring the Beasts Pirates would not be easy.
• Doflamingo reviewed the sea regions where Sakazuki had been active and planned to search them with Sancho's help.

Kaido worried about threats to Wano Country and agreed to help King confront the Marine rookie Steve once Wano’s affairs were settled. Above Wano, Golden Lion arrived with Buggy and Doctor Indigo, considering the country’s riches while joking about its size.

• Kurozumi Orochi boasted that Wano Country’s natural defenses made the Marines and World Government harmless, and Kaido and King ignored him.
• Kaido reflected on the danger posed by Kozuki Oden and Golden Lion’s Flying Pirates, while King agreed to stop pursuing his opponents for now.
• Kaido promised to help King investigate Marine rookie Steve after Wano Country’s situation was settled, and he spoke of his interest in taming powerful animals like Sancho.
• Golden Lion’s island drifted into the skies above Wano Country, and he praised its territory, mineral resources, and fighters.
• Buggy asked whether Golden Lion wanted Wano Country, and Golden Lion joked that the country was too large to make fly before mistaking Buggy for a talking cream cake.