Recaps

Luo Han relaxed with Chiyue and Sola while the women around him grew determined to have children, unaware that he was secretly preventing pregnancy. Meanwhile, Roger and his crew reached Sky Island and headed toward the Golden Land, where San Long stood in their way.

• Sola told Luo Han that Roger was heading to Sky Island after fighting Garp, but Luo Han said San Long could handle the Roger Pirates with Perfect Armament Haki.
• Aixi, Elles, Chiyue, and Sola became interested in having children after learning that Olvia had a daughter, while Luo Han secretly ensured none of them could get pregnant.
• Roger and his crew defeated several pirate crews in Devil Town, then rode an Upward Sea Current back to Sky Island.
• Rayleigh worried that Luo Han might appear again, and Roger and the crew teased him about Shakky.
• Shakky had arranged for Luo Han not to interfere with Roger and his crew as long as they avoided harming Sky Island residents, but they still had to get past San Long to reach the Golden Land.

Roger and the Roger Pirates sought to view a Poneglyph on Sky Island, but San Long confronted them with Luo Han’s Perfect Armament Haki and easily sent Roger flying. San Long revealed that the Poneglyph had been taken to Eternal City, leaving Roger and his crew to go there and arrange an exchange.

• Oden asked Roger about Blue Demon’s strength, and Roger warned him that Luo Han was dangerously powerful and killed anyone who provoked him.
• San Long blocked the Roger Pirates near the Golden Land and challenged them to defeat him if they wanted to see the Poneglyph.
• Roger fought San Long, whose Perfect Armament Haki overwhelmed him and blasted him away with a single clash.
• Oden recognized San Long’s power, while Bullet decided to train until he could defeat Blue Demon and become the strongest in the world.
• San Long said Luo Han had taken the Poneglyph to Eternal City and would accept another Poneglyph or a rubbing in exchange.
• Roger and the others left for their ship, deciding to travel to Eternal City and negotiate with Luo Han.

Luo Han waited for Roger to seek him out and trade for the Poneglyphs, while Roger’s crew sailed toward Fish-Man Island and encountered a prophecy about its gates. Finding the island’s Poneglyphs missing, Roger decided to visit Wano Country before confronting Luo Han.

• Luo Han chose not to have San Long beat Roger and instead revealed that he held the Poneglyphs, hoping Roger would come exchange for them.
• After visiting Water Seven, Roger and his crew sailed through the New World, fighting pirates and Marines on their way to Sabaody and Fish-Man Island.
• Roger, Oden, and Kashi heard a mysterious, joyful voice in the deep sea as the crew approached Fish-Man Island.
• Neptune let Roger’s crew enter the island, but a Sea King soon bit apart its gates, apparently fulfilling Shyarly’s prophecy.
• At the Sea Forest, Neptune told Roger that Blue Demon had taken the Poneglyphs five years earlier.
• Roger decided to visit Wano Country to make rubbings of two other Red Road Poneglyphs before seeking out Luo Han.

The Roger Pirates reached Eternal City after collecting the Red Road Poneglyph rubbing from Zou, with only the one in Luo Han’s possession remaining before they could head for the Final Island. As Roger’s crew entered Eternal City’s waters, they saw its ruthless rules enforced against pirates pursuing them.

• Hiyori Kozuki was born, and after Roger’s crew reached Wano Country, Oden sailed with them to Zou while Nekomamushi and Inuarashi stayed to care for Tian Yue Shi and her children.
• The Roger Pirates obtained the Mink Tribe’s rubbing of the Red Road Poneglyph on Zou and, three months after entering the New World, set course for Eternal City.
• Several pirate crews pursued Roger’s ship, but most stopped firing and halted when they reached the red buoys marking Eternal City’s jurisdiction.
• One pirate crew continued firing inside Eternal City’s waters, and humanoid Sea Kings quickly subdued everyone aboard for Eternal City’s intelligence department to investigate.
• Rayleigh, Roger, Gaban, and the others marveled that Eternal City’s giant fishmen had Perfect Armament Haki and complained that Blue Demon’s forces seemed to have mastered it wholesale.

Luo Han met Roger and his crew at Ark Island and offered to trade information from the Poneglyphs for a rubbing of Wano Country's Red Road Poneglyph. After revealing that he knew about Poseidon and Pluton, he brought Olvia to show that someone could read the Poneglyphs.

• Sengoku restrained Garp aboard the warship and made him wait outside Eternal City for Roger's group.
• After months of Elles, Aixi, and Sola trying to get pregnant, Luo Han left them and teleported to the boardwalk on Ark Island.
• Roger and his crew arrived near Ark Island, and Luo Han teleported their ship to the central lake before greeting them.
• Luo Han summoned four Poneglyphs and proposed trading their rubbings for the rubbing of Wano Country's Red Road Poneglyph.
• Luo Han identified Poseidon and Pluton as the Ancient Weapons recorded on two Poneglyphs, shocking Roger's group.
• When Roger and Oden asked whether he could read Poneglyphs, Luo Han said someone could and teleported Olvia to his side.

Luo Han gave Olvia a ring that let her use Psychic Armament Mode and sent Roger’s crew on toward Final Island without joining them. He hinted that the island would only have meaning if they reached it at the right time, leaving Roger and the others puzzled as they sailed away.

• Luo Han asked Roger to take Olvia to Final Island in exchange for the rubbing of Wano Country’s Red Road Poneglyph, and Roger agreed.
• Luo Han gave Olvia a ring that activated Psychic Armament Mode, and she tested its powers by flying through the sky.
• Roger and Rayleigh considered getting rings of their own, but Luo Han explained that each ring worked only for its intended wearer and could also track them.
• Roger’s crew finished rubbing the Poneglyph, and Olvia boarded their ship after learning that Oden could decipher the writing.
• Roger invited Luo Han to Final Island, but Luo Han declined, saying the island would make sense only if they reached it at the right time, then teleported the crew and ship outside Eternal City.

The Roger Pirates fought their way toward Final Island while Garp’s pursuit made him famous, and Olvia’s Psychic Armament Mode withstood the Marines’ attacks. After Roger’s crew reached Final Island and earned him the title of Pirate King, they mysteriously vanished.

• Garp blocked the Roger Pirates after they left Eternal City, and the ensuing battle ended in a truce the next morning with Olvia leaving alongside Roger’s crew.
• Olvia’s Psychic Armament Mode absorbed the Marines’ attacks, while Tsuru ordered them to ignore her after judging that she would not fight back.
• As Roger’s illness worsened, his crew fled from Garp and fought their way onward, boosting Garp’s reputation as a Marine hero.
• Luo Han read newspaper reports praising Garp and reflected that Roger had only avoided him to save time, then worried about Elles and the other women who had moved out.
• The Roger Pirates left Buggy and Shanks behind at the final island before Final Island, then sailed on and completed their voyage around the Grand Line four months after leaving Eternal City.
• Roger’s discovery of Final Island made him famous as the Pirate King, and the Roger Pirates then mysteriously vanished.

The Gorosei ordered the World Government to capture Roger and publicly execute him, while Roger’s fame drew more adventurers toward Eternal City. After learning Olvia’s account of the Void Century, Luo Han went to Sky Island to search deep space for Pluton.

• The Gorosei blamed CP0 for failing to discover Roger’s plans and ordered the Navy and CP0 to find and publicly execute him.
• The World Government searched for Roger and his crew but failed to locate them, while ambitious people turned their attention to Olvia and Eternal City.
• Eternal City’s forces destroyed a pirate ship and captured its crew, reinforcing the city’s reputation as a place where outsiders had to obey its rules.
• Luo Han learned from Olvia that the Poneglyphs described a Great Kingdom that ruled the world before the World Government was established.
• Luo Han used a Transparent Shield above Sky Island and tried to sense the deep-space location of Pluton.

Luo Han failed to sense Pluton and tried to test his theory that the islands of the world had broken off from the Great Kingdom’s continent. He realized his comparison was inconclusive and decided to focus on growing stronger while he waited for future conflicts.

• Luo Han gave up searching Sky Island for Pluton after a month and returned to his routine in Eternal City.
• A year passed as Roger’s disappearance fueled widespread violence and reduced attendance at Eternal City’s food competition.
• After controlling Sea Kings in the Calm Belt, Luo Han compared nearby islands from the sky to test whether they had once formed the Great Kingdom’s continent, but found no clear match.
• Luo Han realized that powerful fighters might have destroyed islands and that sea charts would be a better way to test his theory.
• Luo Han returned to Eternal City, fought Chiyue in her Beast Giant King form, and resolved to keep training rather than worry about the future war.

Luo Han was summoned to Whitebeard’s territory and discovered that Roger was waiting there to speak with him. Roger revealed his impending death and began telling Whitebeard about the Clan of D, while Luo Han wondered why Roger had called for him.

• Luo Han left Chiyue after Sola told him that Whitebeard wanted to meet him.
• Luo Han followed Whitebeard’s Life Card Paper to a New World island where Whitebeard and Roger were drinking together.
• Whitebeard explained that Roger had asked him to arrange the meeting with Luo Han.
• Roger told Whitebeard that he was nearing death and offered to reveal the route to Laugh Tale, but Whitebeard declined.
• Roger revealed that his real name was Gol D. Roger and told Whitebeard what he had learned about the Clan of D.
• Luo Han arrived above the island, recognized Roger, and wondered why he wanted to see him.

Roger asked Luo Han to protect Rouge from the World Government after Roger turned himself in, revealing that Rouge was carrying twins. The chapter ended with Roger happily confirming that he had sensed two children growing inside her.

• Luo Han teleported between Whitebeard and Roger, startling them before joining them for a drink.
• Whitebeard left, and Roger knelt before Luo Han to ask for his help.
• Roger deduced from Olvia's ring that Tian Yue Shi had once stayed aboard Luo Han's ship and learned about the future.
• Roger explained that he planned to turn himself in and asked Luo Han to protect Rouge from the World Government's search.
• Roger said he trusted Garp to care for his children afterward, and Luo Han realized Roger meant two children.
• Roger confirmed that his Observation Haki had sensed two little voices inside Rouge.

Roger asked Luo Han to protect Rouge and their child, then turned himself in, shocking the pirate world and redirecting many pirates’ ambitions toward Luo Han’s example. Golden Lion learned Roger would be publicly executed in Loguetown and attacked Marine Headquarters to confirm and oppose it.

• Roger asked Luo Han to protect Rouge and their child, and Luo Han agreed before teleporting away.
• Roger spent the night drinking with Whitebeard, then drank with Rayleigh at Sister Shaku’s bar before leaving to turn himself in.
• The World Government announced Roger’s capture and released a prison photograph, leaving many pirates confused about their ambitions.
• Pirates recalled how Luo Han and Eternal City had forced the World Government into a draw, and many began to pursue Luo Han’s path instead of the title of Pirate King.
• Golden Lion, unaware Roger had chosen to surrender, went to Marine Headquarters after hearing of his capture.
• Garp announced Roger’s execution would take place in Loguetown, and Golden Lion flew into the air and began a battle against Garp and Sengoku.

Golden Lion fought Garp and Sengoku for three days before Kong joined them and helped defeat him. Three days after Golden Lion was imprisoned, Roger was executed in Loguetown, where his final words launched the Great Pirate Era.

• Golden Lion used his speed and Devil Fruit ability to keep Garp and Sengoku from coordinating effectively as their battle devastated Marineford.
• After three days of fighting, Kong joined Garp and Sengoku, and the three Marines defeated Golden Lion once his stamina ran out.
• Garp reflected that powerful figures across the sea were seeking ways to grow stronger in response to Luo Han.
• Three days after Golden Lion was imprisoned, Roger walked through the crowds of Loguetown and sat on the execution platform.
• Roger declared that he had left everything on Laugh Tale, renewing belief in One Piece and inspiring people to set sail.
• Tens of thousands of pirate crews formed, and the sea entered the Great Pirate Era.

Luo Han went to Baterilla Island to protect Portgas D. Rouge and her unborn children while cultivating his Mind World. As the World Government began an intense search for Roger’s descendants, Luo Han waited to see whether the birth of Roger’s two children would prove that the future could change.

• Luo Han found Rouge’s home on Baterilla Island and used Illusion to conceal her pregnancy from the World Government’s searchers.
• Luo Han stayed above the island, projecting its residents into his Mind World to cultivate while guarding Rouge until Garp arrived.
• Luo Han reconsidered whether plot correction determined the future, believing Roger’s two children might prove that events were not predetermined.
• The World Government inferred that Roger might have left descendants, and the Gorosei ordered an unusually thorough search.
• Five days after Roger’s execution, Marines and Cipher Pol blockaded nearby islands, recorded their residents, and examined every woman daily, taking pregnant women away.

Marines and Cipher Pol agents began examining the women on Rouge's island for signs of pregnancy, putting Rouge's life at risk. Trusting Roger's promise that she would be protected, Rouge passed the examination without the doctor detecting her pregnancy and was told to return the next day.

• Marines ordered every woman on the island to undergo daily examinations, and Luo Han watched as they gathered at the hospital.
• Rouge feared the examination would expose her pregnancy, but Roger's parting words strengthened her trust in him.
• Rouge went to the hospital and let the doctor check her pulse, while Luo Han secretly concealed the signs of her pregnancy.
• The doctor listened to Rouge's belly and reported no additional heartbeat, then told her to return for another examination the following day.

As the World Government’s inspections terrorized Baterilla Island, Rouge decided to delay giving birth until the agents left, despite carrying the twins for an unusually long time. Luo Han watched from concealment and realized that one child’s life was weakening, but chose to wait and see whether the story’s course could be changed.

• For two months, the World Government intensified its inspections, taking away pregnant women and arresting anyone who appealed.
• Elles joined Luo Han above Baterilla Island, where they resumed their relationship while he continued watching the island and training.
• Three months later, Rouge worried that the World Government would discover her newborn twins and decided to wait until its agents withdrew before giving birth.
• After Rouge’s pregnancy reached twelve months, Luo Han sensed that one twin’s life was weakening and feared the child would die before birth.
• Luo Han vowed not to let the other twin die but remained concealed, waiting to see how events unfolded.

Luo Han used Elles’s life force to stabilize Rouge’s weakened child while Rouge endured the World Government’s eighteen-month search. Ten days after the search ended, Rouge began a dangerous delivery of the two oversized children, and Luo Han sustained her with more life force as labor continued.

• Elles confronted Luo Han about Rouge’s weakening child, and he promised to keep it alive.
• Luo Han infused the child with life force gathered by Elles, and Rouge felt both children recover as her pain eased.
• Rouge continued eating to nourish the children while the World Government searched for eighteen months before withdrawing on the Gorosei’s order.
• Ten days after the withdrawal, Rouge began labor, but the midwives warned that the oversized children could not come out easily.
• Luo Han infused Rouge with life force to sustain her through labor, and Rouge thanked him before continuing to push.

After Rouge gave birth to Gol D. Ann and Gol D. Ace, she entrusted them to Garp to protect them from the World Government. Elles objected and urged Rouge to bring the children to Eternal City, while realizing Rouge did not intend to live on.

• Rouge endured hours of labor and gave birth to twins as Garp arrived on the island.
• Elles visited Rouge and met the newborn girl whose life she had sustained, while Rouge learned Luo Han had been protecting her.
• Garp entered and Rouge named the children Gol D. Ann and Gol D. Ace before asking him to take them.
• Rouge explained that she wanted the children hidden from the World Government and trusted Garp to protect them.
• Elles urged Rouge to take the children to Eternal City, where Luo Han could protect them.

Elles asked Rouge to let her raise Ann, and Garp persuaded Rouge that Elles could keep the child safer. After Rouge entrusted Ann to Elles, she died peacefully, and Luo Han teleported Elles and Ann away while deciding that another person would raise Roger’s child.

• Elles urged Rouge to let her raise Ann, but Rouge initially chose to trust Roger’s plan and hand the child to Garp.
• Garp suggested that Ann go with Elles, arguing that Luo Han could conceal her from anyone who might expose her.
• Rouge agreed and gave Ann to Elles, while Garp took Ace and left.
• After her children’s futures were settled, Rouge’s exhausted spirit gave out and she died peacefully.
• Elles asked Luo Han to take them home, and he teleported her and Ann away after deciding that someone else would raise the child.

The Gorosei ordered the destruction of Ohara, while Luo Han watched Chiyue, Aixi, Elles, and Sola play with Ann on Ark Island. The women continued passing the newborn around despite Luo Han's objections.

• The Gorosei concluded that suspicion was enough to condemn Ohara and ordered the CP0 Chief to wipe it out within half a year.
• On Ark Island, Ann crawled toward Elles, who proudly lifted her up and showed her to Chiyue, Aixi, and Sola.
• Aixi and the others pinched and rubbed Ann, and the baby stayed quiet until Aixi tried to take her from Elles.
• Ann cried without tears when Aixi picked her up, then stopped and allowed Aixi to hold her.
• Luo Han objected to the women treating the two-day-old baby like a toy, but they ignored him and looked to Elles.

Luo Han left for the Calm Belt after merging his evolved bodily talent into newborn Ann, while Elles and the other women plotted her future training and adoption. They decided to announce Ann as Luo Han’s daughter and seek a world-class swordsman to train her, without Luo Han’s knowledge.

• Elles told Chiyue and the others that Luo Han had infused Ann with his bodily talent, making the baby sturdy enough to withstand their poking.
• Luo Han teleported to the Calm Belt to control the Sea Kings and use the accumulated Amaterasu power in the Mind World.
• After confirming Luo Han had left, Elles assigned Chiyue to teach Ann Fish-Man Karate and Sola to teach her the Six Powers, and they chose Mysterious Gun Mistergong as a potential marksmanship instructor.
• The four women agreed to wait until Ann was two years old before beginning her training.
• Elles told Sola to arrange a world-edition headline identifying Ann as Luo Han’s daughter and declaring that the world’s greatest swordsman could become her instructor, so the women could secure control of Ann’s adoption.

Luo Han returned from controlling Sea Kings and discovered that Elles and the other women had announced little Ann as his heir without consulting him. After a month away with the women, he found that Cole had taken Ann in and was feeding the one-month-old baby enormous pieces of meat.

• Luo Han returned to Ark Island and learned that Elles, Chiyue, Aixi, Sola, and Stussy had publicly presented little Ann as his child and Eternal City's heir.
• Elles admitted the scheme and promised the five women would spend a month with Luo Han, and they kept him occupied for the entire month.
• News of Ann's birth spread worldwide, prompting the World Government's Gorosei to assign CP0 to gather information on her.
• Luo Han returned with the women and discovered that Cole had taken Ann from Olvia's home to Gourmet City.
• Luo Han found Ann crawling around Cole's cafeteria while chewing meat larger than herself, and Cole complained that Luo Han had not told him about his child.

Luo Han explained that Ann was Roger's child, then learned that the World Government had launched a Buster Call on Ohara. He refused to save the island but rescued Olvia's daughter, Robin, leaving Olvia to mourn Ohara's destruction while reunited with her child.

• Luo Han told Cole that Ann was Roger's child, and the women gathered around Ann as she eagerly ate meat.
• Stussy and Olvia reported that the World Government had ordered a Buster Call on Ohara, and Olvia begged Luo Han to save the island and her daughter.
• Luo Han told Olvia that he could not save Ohara without starting a war, but promised to rescue her daughter because she belonged to Eternal City.
• Luo Han arrived at burning Ohara and found Nico Robin unconscious beneath the Tree Library, protected by the bodies of professors.
• Luo Han rescued Nico Robin and returned her to Olvia, explaining that the professors had died protecting her.

Fish-Man Island severed its ties with Eternal City, prompting Chiyue to ask Luo Han to restore Neptune’s mind. After he determined that Neptune could not be changed, Chiyue withdrew her people, and Eternal City closed its passage to the island, leaving Fish-Man Island vulnerable to pirates and traffickers.

• Neptune publicly announced that Fish-Man Island no longer recognized Eternal City’s Fish-Men as its citizens and stripped Princess Akatsuki of her royal status.
• Chiyue asked Luo Han to help restore Neptune, but he found that Neptune’s will had fused with an unknown force and could not be altered without killing him.
• Chiyue gave up on Fish-Man Island and ordered its Fish-Men in Eternal City to return to Dream Island and report within three days.
• Eternal City withdrew its personnel from Fish-Man Island and made the Space Gate connecting them vanish.
• Human traffickers began anticipating the chance to hunt mermaids now that Fish-Man Island had lost Eternal City’s protection.

Chiyue forced the fish-men on Dream Island to choose between returning to Fish-Man Island or joining the New Fish-Man Race, then executed those who stayed without registering. The split became public, signaling that Eternal City and the World Government were independent of each other.

• Chiyue announced that fish-men who stayed on Dream Island would form the New Fish-Man Race, separate from Fish-Man Island, and ordered everyone to choose whether to stay or leave.
• Chiyue threatened to execute any fish-men still on Dream Island who had not registered by the next day, sparking an argument between her supporters and those loyal to Fish-Man Island.
• Fish-men signed the New Fish-Man Race registry or left Eternal City, while several dozen fence-sitters remained behind.
• Newspaper reporters connected the impending split to suspicions that Eternal City and the World Government had secretly cooperated.
• The next day, Chiyue used lightning to carbonize the unregistered fish-men who had remained, and news of the executions spread around the world.