Recaps

Doflamingo and Sakazuki discussed how Williams might leave the Sun Pirates and join the Revolutionary Army, prompting Sakazuki to ask to meet Dragon. As the fleets approached, Doflamingo used an illusion to stage a devastating battle, and Dragon saw through it and recognized the danger of Doflamingo’s power.

• Doflamingo warned Sakazuki that Williams’s age and Celestial Dragon hoof made Navy recruitment difficult, while the World Government might target the Sun Pirates for taking in escaped slaves.
• Doflamingo suggested the Revolutionary Army as an alternative for Williams and explained that Dragon led it and was exceptionally powerful.
• Sakazuki agreed to consider Williams joining the Revolutionary Army and said he wanted to meet Dragon.
• The fleets sped toward each other, and the people aboard witnessed what appeared to be a clash of magma and a world-splitting Flying Slash.
• Dragon recognized the battle as Doflamingo’s illusion, went to meet him in the sky, and realized Doflamingo’s ability could deceive everyone else’s senses.

Dragon met Doflamingo and Akainu, who revealed that he planned to overthrow the World Government and reached an agreement with Dragon. Akainu decided to let Williams remain with the Revolutionary Army, saw that his son was doing well, and returned to the Navy fleet while Doflamingo headed back to his ship.

• Dragon charged through the battlefield illusions and found Doflamingo and Akainu sharing a meal atop Zeus.
• Akainu told Dragon he intended to overthrow the World Government, and the two exchanged information and reached a consensus.
• Akainu sparred with Dragon and lost slightly because he lacked Conqueror's Haki.
• Akainu decided not to take Williams away, believing the boy could grow up safely with Dragon and the Revolutionary Army.
• Doflamingo brought Akainu to see Williams, but Akainu chose not to speak to his son.
• Doflamingo staged an illusion of an even fight as Akainu returned to the Navy fleet and Doflamingo went back to his golden ship.

Doflamingo brought Hancock, her sisters, Tesoro, Shinobu, Tiger, and Stella into his Illusion Space to train them in Haki and combat techniques. After testing their resolve, he made Tiger and Hancock’s sisters face Celestial Dragon inner demons with their own strength, and Tiger was swiftly defeated.

• Doflamingo offered to teach the group, then used his illusion to make them experience a frightening fall before Sancho caught them in her dragon form.
• Doflamingo explained that the Illusion Space felt real, prevented permanent death, and let time pass much faster than in the outside world.
• Doflamingo tested everyone with Conqueror’s Haki and psychological pressure, and most of them endured enough to pass.
• Doflamingo created Celestial Dragon phantoms from Tiger and Hancock’s sisters to make them confront their inner demons.
• Tiger charged his Celestial Dragon phantom, which matched his strength and defeated him with Fish-Man Karate before Doflamingo finished explaining the challenge.

Tiger defeated Doflamingo’s Celestial Dragon puppet and felt his confidence and Armament Haki strengthen, while Hancock and her sisters were overwhelmed by their fears. After Hancock’s sisters were branded and Hancock appeared to collapse, she erupted into a furious counterattack, destroyed her puppet, and awakened Conqueror’s Haki.

• Tiger overcame his initial mistakes, defeated the Celestial Dragon puppet, and felt his Armament Haki grow more condensed.
• Hancock and her sisters struggled against puppets embodying their fear of the Celestial Dragons, leaving them unable to fight effectively.
• The puppets defeated Marigold and Sandersonia and branded their backs as Hancock watched in horror.
• Hancock’s puppet knocked her down and prepared to brand her, while Doflamingo expressed disappointment in her weakness.
• Hancock suddenly sprang up, savagely attacked the puppet, and smashed its head apart with her bare fists.
• Hancock laughed over the destroyed puppet as a powerful aura of Conqueror’s Haki erupted from her.

Doflamingo gave Hancock’s sisters another chance to defeat their inner demons after Hancock overcame hers, then trained everyone in the Navy Six Styles through transferred memories and combat. They emerged from the Illusion Space with improved techniques, Haki, and control over Tiger’s Gen-Gen Fruit.

• Doflamingo judged Hancock’s victory over her inner demon a surprising success and noted that it had awakened her Conqueror’s Haki and strengthened her other Haki.
• Doflamingo gave Sandersonia and Marigold a second chance and created the Mirror of Inner Demons for them to face their fears.
• Doflamingo began training the group in the Navy Six Styles and used Memory Transfer to let them experience his training firsthand.
• Hancock, Tiger, and Shinobu demonstrated techniques they had learned, while Tesorro and Stella lacked the physical ability to use them yet.
• Doflamingo set up combat training against stronger opponents, and the group returned from the Illusion Space with Tiger better able to use the Gen-Gen Fruit and Hancock’s Armament Haki advanced.

After Dragon sent most of the former slaves home, Doflamingo gathered the remaining group to decide their next steps. He chose Alabasta as the base for building their forces and planned to begin by developing underground operations there.

• Tiger led several fish-man slaves to form the Sun Pirates, while Dragon sent the other former slaves back to their hometowns.
• Doflamingo asked Hancock, her sisters, Tesoro, Stella, and Shinobu what they planned to do; Hancock chose to stay with him for training.
• Doflamingo ruled out establishing a base in the New World and decided to build his forces on the Grand Line.
• Doflamingo selected the Alabasta Kingdom as their first target because it could help them recruit from the Four Seas and offered opportunities for Tesoro to gather gold.
• Doflamingo assigned Tesoro to develop underground forces in Alabasta and said he might later persuade the royal family to become their allies.

Doflamingo planned to seek a Devil Fruit on Jaya Island while looking for a reliable Navigator, as the World Government began recruiting Charlotte Linlin and Kaido into a conspiracy against him. Kaido demanded weapons and troops before agreeing to act, while Buggy endured Golden Lion's brutal training near Wano Country.

• Doflamingo said the crew should head to Jaya Island for a Devil Fruit and admitted he would temporarily navigate using his Observation Haki.
• World Government agents asked Charlotte Linlin to deal with Doflamingo in exchange for gigantification research data, but she demanded the data first and told them to contact the Five Elders.
• Kaido refused to leave Wano Country while his weakened Beasts Pirates faced attacks from the Kozuki clan and Wano's resistance, and he demanded troops, Dyna Stone, and artificial Devil Fruit data from the World Government.
• At Oden Castle, Buggy complained as Golden Lion struck him with a sword and a stone lion bit his butt during training.

Golden Lion continued punishing Buggy while training Kozuki Hiyori, then Joker woke and reminded him of their bargain for a Poneglyph translation dictionary. Joker left to check Mr. Balloon’s message, while Golden Lion held back from stopping him.

• Golden Lion revealed that he knew Buggy’s Second Personality was still part of him, then continued beating Buggy as training.
• Golden Lion trained Kozuki Hiyori in Two-Sword Style, and her swordsmanship advanced despite her injuries.
• Joker reappeared in Buggy’s body and promised Golden Lion he would keep his word about the Poneglyph translation dictionary.
• Joker went to check Mr. Balloon’s message, and Golden Lion hesitated to follow because he still needed Joker’s help.

Joker used his brain-reading machine to learn that the World Government was seeking Kaido and Charlotte Linlin’s cooperation against Doflamingo, then planned to sabotage Kaido’s search for Dyna Stone. Doflamingo considered his chances against the two Four Emperors and encountered a new puppet in the Illusion Space.

• Joker entered Oden Castle’s secret chamber, where Kawamatsu mistook him for Buggy before recognizing him.
• Joker examined the machine reading Queen the Plague’s brain and saw images of Kaido and CP0 agents.
• Joker deduced that the World Government was courting Kaido and Charlotte Linlin, and decided to cause trouble for Kaido over the Dyna Stone.
• Doflamingo learned of the threat of two Four Emperors joining forces and wondered whether breaking through his illusion bottleneck could let him defeat them.
• Doflamingo appeared on a blood-red beach in the Illusion Space and saw a red-haired, sword-wielding puppet emerge from the sea of blood.

Doflamingo absorbed the broken sword left by a figure and gained Shirou Emiya’s Heroic Spirit Transformation, then sailed to Jaya Island seeking the Sky Island and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. He reached Mock Town and set out to learn where the Knock-Up Stream would appear.

• Doflamingo absorbed a broken sword and discovered memories of Shirou Emiya, gaining a way to use Illusion Space against enemies.
• Marigold and Sandersonia passed Doflamingo’s inner-demon trial, while he assessed Hancock and Tesorro’s potential.
• Doflamingo concealed the Golden Ship with illusions and sailed toward Sky Island Jaya to search for Birka and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Three days later, Doflamingo arrived at Mock Town and went with his companions to ask where the Knock-Up Stream would appear.

Doflamingo read the latest newspaper on the island and saw that Tiger had been given a 500 million Beli bounty while he received only 50 million. When Black Bear Mick challenged him, Doflamingo let Hancock and her sisters fight, and Hancock defeated Mick and brought him over for questioning.

• Shinobu charmed a pirate into handing over his newspaper, which Doflamingo read to learn about the new bounties.
• Doflamingo saw that Tiger had a 500 million Beli bounty and he had a 50 million Beli bounty as a former Admiral Candidate.
• Black Bear Mick challenged Doflamingo, who told Hancock and her sisters to defeat the pirates and leave Mick alive.
• Hancock fought Mick, shattered his axe with a kick, and beat him until he begged for mercy.
• Hancock's sisters defeated Mick's underlings, and Hancock dragged Mick before Doflamingo to be questioned.

Doflamingo forced Mick to reveal where the Knock-Up Stream formed, and Hancock killed him after learning his crew dealt in slaves. Doflamingo then took Hancock, Shinobu, and two other women toward Sky Island on Thundercloud Zeus, reaching the White Sea as they climbed.

• Hancock stomped Mick until he told Doflamingo that the Knock-Up Stream usually appeared near the half-house at Jaya Island’s edge.
• Hancock asked Mick about his crew’s slave trade and killed him despite his plea for mercy.
• Doflamingo led the group to the Knock-Up Stream and used Observation Haki to sense something above them.
• Sancho stayed by the shore to guard her Golden Ship while Doflamingo and the others set off on Thundercloud Zeus.
• Doflamingo and his companions ascended to the White Sea, about seven thousand meters above sea level, on their way toward Sky Island.

Doflamingo and the Kuja Pirates arrived at Sky Island, where he subdued the guards who confronted them for entering without permission. He took his group aboard Zeus and flew toward Birka to find the Rumble-Rumble Fruit before Enel could eat it.

• Doflamingo and his crew reached the Gate of Heaven, where the gatekeeper demanded an entry fee and photographed them before escaping on a Waver.
• Doflamingo led the group through Sky Island and used Observation Haki to locate Birka while discussing its people and shells.
• Sky Island security officers surrounded Doflamingo and his crew and threatened them with a fine or imprisonment.
• Doflamingo knocked out the guards with Conqueror's Haki, then used the captain to learn Birka's direction.
• Doflamingo summoned Thundercloud Zeus and flew with the others toward Birka to search for the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

Doflamingo found the uneaten Rumble-Rumble Fruit in a cabin on Birka and left the Spark-Spark Fruit behind for Enel. After revealing the prize to Shinobu, Hancock, and her sisters, he arrived at Jaya Island, where Gan Fall confronted them for entering illegally.

• Doflamingo used Observation Haki to locate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit in a cabin on Birka.
• Doflamingo took the fruit and left the Spark-Spark Fruit behind for the approaching Enel, deciding he might recruit him if he proved useful.
• Doflamingo told Shinobu, Hancock, and her sisters that the fruit was the powerful Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Doflamingo and his companions arrived at Jaya Island and saw Gan Fall riding the strange Pegasus Pierre.
• Gan Fall stopped laughing at the group's reaction to Pierre and demanded to know why the Blue Sea people had entered illegally.

Hancock challenged Gan Fall after he tried to enforce Sky Island’s rules, but the island’s climate weakened her and his Flame Dial gave him an advantage. Doflamingo terrified Gan Fall with an enormous illusory hand, forcing him to surrender before mocking his claim to be a god.

• Hancock rejected Gan Fall’s entry rules and attacked him with Rankyaku.
• Gan Fall countered with his Impact Dial Gun, and Hancock grew weak from Sky Island’s climate while evading Pierre’s Flame Dial fire.
• Doflamingo explained the Dials and confronted Gan Fall, then conjured the illusion of a gigantic hand descending over Sky Island.
• Gan Fall mistook the illusion for a real catastrophe, fell from Pierre, and begged Doflamingo to spare them.
• Doflamingo withdrew the illusion and mocked Gan Fall for calling himself a god, and Gan Fall claimed it was only a Sky Island custom.

Doflamingo arranged a resource exchange with Gan Fall, while Joker gave Golden Lion the Poneglyph dictionary and asked him to bring someone to meet him. On Onigashima, Kaido spoke with Charlotte Linlin and was reminded of their past relationship, leaving him anxious about the debt she said he owed.

• Doflamingo reassured Gan Fall that he wanted to trade Blue Sea goods for Skypiea’s specialties, including its Dials.
• Joker handed Golden Lion the Poneglyph dictionary and asked him to bring a destructive man to meet him, leaving Golden Lion to arrange the encounter.
• Kaido spoke with Charlotte Linlin over a Den Den Mushi, and she reminded him that he had received his Mythical Zoan Fruit from her.
• Charlotte Linlin revealed that Kaido had left before she became pregnant with an Oni Tribe child, prompting Kaido’s nearby pirates to flee.
• Kaido remembered why he had run from Charlotte Linlin and worried that she might now demand the reward he owed her.

Doflamingo learned that Kaido and Charlotte Linlin had come to Alabasta to attack him, but he remained confident in his newly gained power from the Illusion Space. He set out to face them with Sancho, leaving the others on the Golden Ship.

• The World Government learned Doflamingo was heading for Alabasta and informed Kaido and Charlotte Linlin of his route.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin traveled to Alabasta through a mirror imbued with Charlotte Burei's ability, accompanied by Burei and Katakuri.
• Doflamingo sensed the group approaching and decided to test his new ultimate move against them.
• Doflamingo told Hancock and her sisters to stay aboard the Golden Ship, while Sancho eagerly joined him.
• Doflamingo and Sancho arrived in Alabasta, where Charlotte Linlin angrily saw that her former Homies Zeus and Prometheus were now with Doflamingo.

Doflamingo confronted Kaido and Charlotte Linlin in the Alabasta desert, where the two Sea Emperors attacked him together. He answered their combined Hakai with God's Calamity, but the clash still drove the remaining force into him and Sancho.

• Kaido admitted he still feared Doflamingo’s Illusion Fruit, and Charlotte Linlin offered to take the lead against him.
• Doflamingo claimed he knew the Sea Emperors were coming through his World Government connections, making Kaido suspect the government had leaked the plan.
• Doflamingo taunted Kaido and Charlotte Linlin about their previous defeats and injuries, provoking them to attack.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin synchronized their swings and unleashed Hakai together at Doflamingo and Sancho.
• Doflamingo combined Narikitsune, Zeus’s lightning, and Sancho’s flames strengthened by Prometheus into God's Calamity, but the collision’s remaining force struck him and Sancho.

Doflamingo and Sancho faced Kaido and Charlotte Linlin in battle while Joker assembled the Nine Red Scabbards, Wano swordsmen, and ninjas to raid Kaido’s base. Joker recruited Byrnndi World by promising him Dyna Stone, and Byrnndi agreed to attack Kaido to get it.

• Doflamingo and Sancho’s growth alarmed Charlotte Linlin, while Kaido transformed into a dragon to help her fight them in the air.
• Sancho admired Kaido’s dragon form and wondered if he would mate with her, prompting Doflamingo to joke about what their offspring might be.
• After Kaido left Wano Country, Joker prepared the Nine Red Scabbards, Wano swordsmen, and Oniwabanshu ninjas to attack the Beasts Pirates.
• Joker told Byrnndi World that Kaido had Dyna Stone and convinced him that enlarging it could help destroy Mary Geoise.
• Byrnndi World agreed to raid Kaido’s base for the Dyna Stone, dismissing Kaido as merely a former crewman of Rocks.

Joker sent the Nine Red Scabbards to liberate Wano while Doflamingo’s battle against Kaido and Charlotte Linlin dragged on. As his opponents began to gain the upper hand, Doflamingo unleashed World Projection, trapping Kaido and Charlotte Linlin in a strange realm.

• Joker chose not to take the Nine Red Scabbards to Onigashima and instead sent them to liberate Wano, then poured green solution into a brain in a vat.
• After nearly three days of fighting, Doflamingo and Sancho were badly wounded, while Kaido and Charlotte Linlin’s teamwork made Doflamingo’s illusions less effective.
• Doflamingo announced that he would use his ultimate move, and Katakuri foresaw a frightening scene and warned the others.
• Katakuri pulled Burei into the Mirror World as Doflamingo’s World Projection engulfed Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.
• Doflamingo appeared atop a city wall in a strange realm with a crimson beach and a sea of blood, and Charlotte Linlin warned Kaido not to touch the water.

Doflamingo used his Innate Barrier, World Projection, to confront Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, then materialized a nuclear weapon as his ultimate attack. He unleashed Unmerciful Sun, engulfing the barrier in a catastrophic explosion and leaving the battle’s outcome unclear.

• Doflamingo explained that he had projected the Illusion Space into reality, greatly enhancing his illusions but not granting him control over everything within it.
• Charlotte Linlin and Kaido charged Doflamingo, but he and Sancho vanished and reappeared elsewhere in the barrier.
• Doflamingo decided to materialize a nuclear weapon, while Charlotte Linlin and Kaido sensed the danger and tried to interrupt him.
• Doflamingo became intangible, with Sancho and the Homies, and avoided their attacks as he formed the weapon.
• Doflamingo named his attack Unmerciful Sun and unleashed it, reducing the Innate Barrier to a scorched wasteland.

Doflamingo’s Innate Barrier shattered after an outside attack during his battle with Big Mom and Kaido, leaving him exhausted while the two Great Pirates escaped with severe injuries. As his crew treated him, he considered the growing conflict around Wano Country and whether Joker’s scheme could reveal Imu’s strength.

• The Innate Barrier broke during the explosion, and Doflamingo realized an attack from outside had helped overwhelm it.
• Sancho tried to burn the wounded Big Mom and Kaido, but Katakuri pulled them through a mirror into the Mirror World.
• CP Organization agents decided not to attack Doflamingo and slipped away after observing the battle.
• Shinobu and the others reached Doflamingo, and Shinobu treated his wounds as he said they needed a doctor.
• Doflamingo told his crew that Big Mom and Kaido had ambushed him, prompting Hancock and the others to marvel at his strength.
• Doflamingo looked toward the New World and wondered whether Joker’s plan against Wano Country would test Imu’s strength.

Doflamingo expected Kaido and Charlotte Linlin to need at least a year to recover, while Joker moved to take control of Wano Country with Byrnndi World. At Onigashima, Queen the Plague suddenly turned on the Beasts Pirates, declaring that he planned to destroy them and use the chaos to push Kaido toward destroying the world.

• Doflamingo told Shinobu he might help drive Kaido out of Wano Country, though he believed the Kozuki clan had likely already reclaimed it.
• Kaido recovered in Totto Land while his Beasts Pirates weakened and faced the prospect of at least a year without him.
• Joker appointed Byrnndi World Guardian King of Wano Country, gave him control of the trade routes, and led him toward Onigashima.
• King confronted Queen the Plague after Queen attacked and killed Beasts Pirates on Onigashima.
• Queen the Plague said he had gone mad and wanted to destroy the Beasts Pirates to fuel Kaido's desire to destroy the world, then released poison gas among the pirates.

King subdued Queen the Plague after he went mad, but the Beasts Pirates were weakened by the rampage and soon attacked by Byrnndi World’s crew. As King struggled to hold Onigashima, Joker slipped into Kaido’s headquarters and found Ulti leading Page One toward the treasury.

• King transformed and fought Queen the Plague, then subdued him with help from the Beasts Pirates after a battle that lasted more than half a day.
• King suspected a conspiracy behind Queen the Plague’s madness and ordered the Beasts Pirates to repair their defenses.
• King spotted Byrnndi World’s ship approaching, but Byrnndi World wounded him with a More-More Fruit–accelerated cannonball and attacked Onigashima.
• The Beasts Pirates fought Byrnndi World’s crew while King defended himself against Byrnndi World and hoped Kaido would return.
• Joker boarded Onigashima and headed toward Kaido’s palace, where he sensed Ulti leading the young Page One toward the treasury.

Ulti and Page One tried to reach Kaido’s Devil Fruits amid the chaos on Onigashima, but Joker had already taken them. After Ulti fired at Joker and failed to hurt him, he forced her to eat a Devil Fruit.

• Ulti insisted that she and Page One steal Kaido’s Devil Fruit, but Page One collapsed from exhaustion.
• Joker appeared with two stolen Devil Fruits, and Ulti realized she had arrived too late.
• Joker threatened the siblings after Ulti admitted she had seen him, and Ulti shielded her unconscious brother.
• Ulti shot Joker with her pistol, but his head flew off and revealed that he had survived using his Chop-Chop Fruit ability.
• Joker split a Devil Fruit into pieces and stuffed them into Ulti’s mouth, asking her how it tasted.