Recaps

Buggy won heavily at Tezoro’s casino, then refused to protect Tezoro from Garen until Kuzan ordered him to do his best. Kuzan warned Garen that Tezoro knew he was coming and that reinforcements would take two days to arrive.

• Buggy’s casino winnings terrified Baccarat, who escorted him to Tezoro after Tezoro summoned him.
• Tezoro offered Buggy five hundred million Beli and asked him to protect him from Garen.
• Buggy refused, claiming he would not oppose his old friend Garen, and condemned Tezoro as an evildoer.
• Tezoro called Kuzan and got him to order Buggy to protect him; Kuzan told Buggy to do his best.
• Kuzan messaged Garen that Tezoro knew about him, reinforcements were two days away, and Buggy was the only protection nearby.

Garen learned from Kuzan that Tezoro had arranged protection against him, but he delayed confronting Tezoro to enjoy Gran Tesoro with Nami and Reiju. The chapter left Tezoro's attack postponed while Garen agreed to put sunscreen on Nami.

• Tezoro bragged that Kuzan had agreed to protect him, and Buggy accepted the job in exchange for money.
• Tezoro learned that Garen was lounging on the artificial beach with Nami and Reiju, so he ordered his staff to make Garen's visit enjoyable.
• Kuzan told Garen that Tezoro had requested World Government protection and hired Buggy, prompting Garen to decide to confront him.
• Garen postponed leaving to watch Nami and Reiju play beach volleyball.
• Nami sat on Garen's lap and asked him to put sunscreen on her, delaying his departure again.

Garen enjoyed a remarkably lucky day in Gran Tesoro, winning nearly six hundred million Beli at a card game and spending the night with Nami and Reiju. The next morning, the two women woke in bed together, while Garen claimed they had spent the night playing Fight the Landlord.

• Nami, Reiju, and Garen received lavish gifts and a free meal, then headed to the casino.
• Garen asked Baccarat to teach the casino Fight the Landlord, and he won nearly six hundred million Beli with her luck-enhancing help.
• Nami and Reiju drank heavily while Garen played cards, then clung to him as he took them to a hotel.
• The next morning, Nami and Reiju woke beside each other in disarray and questioned Garen about what had happened.
• Garen claimed that the three of them had played Fight the Landlord all night after Nami and Reiju refused to let him leave.

Garen met Tezoro to seek his help tracking Doflamingo, freeing the people controlled by his Gold-Gold Fruit, and financing a major East Blue railway project. Tezoro agreed to release the workers and lend Garen money, then balked when Nami named the proposed loan as 200 billion Beli.

• Reiju and Nami woke up embarrassed after recalling that they had clung to each other in Garen's bed while drunk, and the three left the hotel with their rivalry gone.
• Baccarat greeted Garen and told him that Gran Tesoro's guests were learning Fight the Landlord, but Garen said he never wanted to hear about the game again and asked to see Tezoro.
• Tezoro told Garen that Doflamingo had fled toward Big Mom Pirates territory and promised to notify him if Doflamingo returned to withdraw his deposited money.
• Garen demanded that Tezoro free the people controlled by Gold Dust, and Tezoro agreed to release them and hire workers normally.
• Garen asked Tezoro for financing for East Blue's Sea Train lines, and Nami estimated the project would cost 162.534 billion Beli.
• Garen asked Tezoro to round the loan up to 200 billion Beli and promised repayment once the railway corporation became profitable.

Garen confronted Tezoro to demand 200 billion Beli, using Buggy’s supposed failure to protect him to demonstrate that the Marines would not intervene. Tezoro transformed Gran Tesoro into a Golden Giant, and Garen prepared to exploit gold’s conductivity with help from Enel.

• Tezoro summoned Buggy and demanded that the Marine uphold justice, but Garen knocked Buggy aside and persuaded him to pretend to be badly injured.
• Garen told Buggy that Fleet Admiral Kuzan had high hopes for him, and Buggy agreed to stay down while Garen faced Tezoro.
• Tezoro awakened his Gold-Gold Fruit, turned the ship and its surroundings into gold, and formed a towering Golden Giant.
• Reiju changed into her Germa 66 combat suit to protect Nami as Tezoro’s golden waves reshaped the ship.
• Garen called Enel to join him and explained that gold was an excellent conductor of electricity.

Garen and Enel defeated Tezoro, melted his Golden Giant, and forced him to agree to lend money for East Blue transportation construction. As Garen began taking Tezoro away in Seastone Handcuffs, CP0 arrived, leaving Garen to realize his delay had allowed the World Government’s reinforcements to reach them.

• Garen and Enel attacked Tezoro, and Enel’s lightning paralyzed him through the gold of his Golden Giant.
• Garen poured thunder into the Golden Giant until it melted, leaving Tezoro burned, shocked, and unable to resist.
• Garen forced Tezoro to agree to lend him two hundred billion and warned him to cooperate, then restrained him with Seastone Handcuffs.
• Tezoro called for help when he spotted a white-clad figure, and Garen insisted that the Marines could not arrive until the next day.
• CP0 appeared in the street, and Garen realized that his leisurely delay had given the World Government’s secret police time to arrive.

Garen confronted CP0 after Tezoro called them for help, claiming he only wanted to borrow 200 billion Beli. He overpowered CP0’s masked leader and discovered she was Kalifa, an old acquaintance whose past with Garen shocked Nami, Reiju, and Tezoro.

• Garen recognized Spandam among the CP0 agents and told their masked leader that his dispute with Tezoro was about borrowing money.
• Tezoro revealed that Garen wanted 200 billion Beli, stunning the CP0 agents and prompting their leader to question the amount.
• Garen attacked when CP0 tried to negotiate, but stopped briefly after the leader used an ability resembling Golden Lion’s Float-Float Fruit.
• Garen crushed the leader’s earthen wall, restrained her, and removed her mask, revealing Kalifa.
• Kalifa greeted Garen warmly and said a lot had happened since they last met.
• Nami told Reiju that she had last seen Kalifa and Garen lying in the same bed, leaving Tezoro’s hope of rescue shattered.

Garen reunited with Kalifa during negotiations over Tezoro’s debt and learned how the World Government hunted her after the Water 7 incident, before recruiting her into CP0. He offered to protect her if she wanted to leave, but Kalifa insisted she was staying, and Garen turned to face Spandam with his sword as negotiations began.

• Garen and Kalifa sat down to discuss Tezoro’s debt while Tezoro remained shackled and Spandam stood nearby.
• Kalifa told Garen that the World Government had ordered her, Kaku, and Blueno killed after Spandam blamed them for CP9’s failure.
• Kalifa explained that obtaining the Float-Float Fruit’s power saved her from the pursuit, though Kaku and Blueno had already died, and the World Government later recruited her into CP0.
• Garen offered to protect Kalifa if she wanted to escape CP0, but Kalifa said she had no intention of leaving.
• Spandam objected to Garen’s remarks about the World Government, and Garen drew his greatsword and said Spandam could negotiate with it.

Garen subdued Spandam, Tezoro, and Kalifa, taking their hearts to ensure their obedience while persuading Kalifa to work as his spy inside the World Government. The group emerged and told their waiting subordinates that the conflict had been resolved through successful mediation.

• Garen ignored Spandam's threats and subdued Kalifa with Seastone Handcuffs when she tried to stop him.
• Spandam begged for his life and offered World Government intelligence, so Garen had Luo remove his heart and Enel shock him into submission.
• Garen ordered Luo to remove Tezoro's heart as well, then secured Tezoro's cooperation.
• Luo removed Kalifa's heart, and Garen put it away, removed her handcuffs, and persuaded her to work for him.
• Garen and his group left the room, and Tezoro and Kalifa told their waiting subordinates that mediation had succeeded and the conflict was resolved.

Doflamingo reached Totto Land seeking Big Mom’s protection and agreed to join her family through marriage. Big Mom revealed she wanted to marry him specifically because he was a former Celestial Dragon and could give her a child with Celestial Dragon blood.

• Doflamingo arrived at Cake Island with Trebol and followed Charlotte Perospero to meet Big Mom.
• At Big Mom’s feast, Doflamingo offered her treasure and pledged to serve her in exchange for protection from Kaido, the World Government, and Garen.
• Big Mom proposed that Doflamingo marry one of her daughters, and he agreed under pressure.
• When Doflamingo asked which daughter he would marry, Big Mom revealed she wanted him as her own husband because he was a former Celestial Dragon.
• Big Mom demanded that Doflamingo accept the marriage, and he reluctantly agreed.

After learning that Doflamingo would marry Big Mom, Garen went to Cake Island to assassinate him and carry him away using Golden Lion’s Float-Float Fruit. His operation was interrupted when Big Mom burst through the castle wall, furious that someone had disturbed her.

• Tezoro told Garen that Doflamingo would marry Big Mom on Cake Island in one week, and Garen vowed to kill him despite the Big Mom Pirates’ strength.
• Three days later, Garen infiltrated Doflamingo’s castle at night and used the Float-Float Fruit’s power to prepare to lift the building.
• Garen heard a strange sound, sensed a powerful presence approaching, and realized the enemy was not Doflamingo.
• Big Mom smashed through the castle wall with her sword and demanded to know who had interrupted her while she was making babies.

Garen confronted Big Mom after interrupting her with Doflamingo, then clashed with her in a battle that shook Cake Island. Doflamingo tried to escape during the fight but was stopped by Big Mom’s children.

• Big Mom threatened Garen, while Doflamingo emerged from the wrecked castle and recognized his enemy.
• Doflamingo charged toward Garen, but Big Mom restrained him and attacked Garen with Emperor Sword: Poro Blade.
• Garen met Big Mom’s strike with Justice Rage and Fatal Strike, and their clash devastated the castle and shook Cake Island.
• Big Mom and Garen exchanged dozens of blows as their battle spread tremors across the island.
• Doflamingo seized the chance to flee, but Big Mom’s adopted children confronted him and made him stop.

Garen turned Big Mom’s Mighty Nation attack against her, then used the same giant sword technique to overwhelm her children and carve a ravine across Cake Island. As Katakuri rallied his siblings, Garen prepared a second, chained series of Mighty Nation slashes.

• Katakuri recognized Garen as the swordsman who had pursued Doflamingo, but judged Big Mom to have the upper hand and told his siblings not to intervene.
• Big Mom unleashed Elbaf Spear: Mighty Nation, but Garen used Laurent's Eye of the Mind to stop her blow and counterattack, sending her crashing into the ground.
• Big Mom’s children charged Garen, who transformed into a giant and answered with his own Elbaf Spear: Mighty Nation.
• Katakuri shielded his siblings from Garen’s slash, which carved a huge ravine across Cake Island and pressed Katakuri into the ground.
• Katakuri recovered and warned that Garen’s giant technique consumed stamina, but Garen began Elbaf Spear: Mighty Nation Consecutive Slashes.

Garen overwhelmed the Big Mom Pirates with his swordsmanship, but Big Mom stopped his attack and negotiated a truce rather than risk making a powerful enemy. Garen agreed to stay as a guest until Doflamingo was no longer useful to her, leaving Doflamingo alone with Big Mom.

• Garen’s Might of the Nation Triple Slash drove Katakuri and his siblings back, but Big Mom blocked the attack and destroyed his sword energy.
• Big Mom recognized that she could not kill Garen and proposed making peace, but Garen refused to abandon his promise to kill Doflamingo.
• Big Mom invited Garen to her wedding and offered to hand over Doflamingo once she no longer needed him in exchange for Garen becoming a guest.
• Garen accepted the deal and left with Perospero, while Big Mom approached the despairing Doflamingo.

At Big Mom’s banquet, she tried to recruit Garen through marriage, but he refused. When one of Shiryu’s former prisoners revealed that the group had taken Fish-Man Island’s Poneglyph and Ryugu Palace’s Jade Box, Garen agreed to let Big Mom keep the treasures and became intrigued by what the Jade Box contained.

• Big Mom welcomed Garen as her honored guest and proposed that he marry one of her daughters, but he firmly declined.
• Big Mom questioned why Garen had married princesses elsewhere but would not marry into Totto Land, and he explained that he already had enough women in his life.
• Shiryu of the Rain arrived late with the Impel Down prisoners, and Big Mom tolerated his group’s blunt manner because of their strength.
• One of Shiryu’s prisoners taunted Garen and revealed that the group had taken Fish-Man Island’s Poneglyph and Ryugu Palace’s Jade Box as wedding gifts for Big Mom.
• Big Mom offered to return the treasures, but Garen let her keep them since Shiryu’s group had given them to her.
• Garen focused on the Jade Box and looked forward to the wedding, curious about what it contained.

After rejecting Big Mom’s marriage proposals, Garen vanished from Cake Island and secretly visited Shiliew of the Rain, prompting Big Mom to suspect they were plotting against her. Their supposedly secret conversation turned out to be a brief, absurd exchange about the banquet’s desserts.

• Garen rejected Big Mom’s marriage proposals, and the banquet ended with the guests fleeing her anger.
• Katakuri offered to guide Garen around Cake Island, but Garen used his speed to leave him behind.
• Big Mom searched Cake Island for Garen and ordered her Homies to investigate where he had gone.
• Big Mom learned that Garen had secretly entered Shiliew of the Rain’s residence and grew suspicious of their meeting.
• Big Mom decided to increase her vigilance toward Shiliew’s group and send Pudding to approach Garen.
• Garen told Shiliew he had come to complain about the banquet’s desserts, and Shiliew ordered him to leave.

Garen used dinner with Pudding, Big Mom’s daughter, to draw out information about the wedding while pretending to get drunk. Pudding tried to read his memories, but Garen’s drunken reflexes drove her back, leaving her unable to approach him.

• Garen welcomed Pudding into his villa after she claimed Big Mom had sent her to serve him and intended to marry them.
• Pudding and Garen shared dinner and wine, and she described her mistreatment by the Big Mom Pirates.
• Garen, acting drunk, hinted that unexpected allies would intervene when the wedding fireworks went off, then collapsed before revealing more.
• Pudding tested whether Garen was asleep and moved to touch his head so she could read his memories.
• Garen suddenly unleashed a sword aura that split the wall, then fell asleep again, frightening Pudding into keeping her distance.

At Big Mom’s wedding banquet, Garen met CP0 agent Stussy, who offered help in killing Doflamingo to protect the World Government’s secrets. Garen arranged for CP0 to handle Doflamingo while he planned to confront Big Mom, though he admitted he might not defeat her.

• Garen and Pudding entered the wedding banquet, where Morgans questioned whether they planned to marry; Garen hinted that major news would soon unfold.
• Morgans introduced Garen to Stussy, who flirted with him before secretly identifying herself as a CP0 agent.
• Stussy told Garen that CP0 knew he intended to target Doflamingo and offered assistance, while Garen rejected her assumptions about his motives.
• Garen asked how much combat power CP0 had brought, and Stussy said her agents could rival the Sweet Commanders.
• Garen asked CP0 to kill Doflamingo during the coming disturbance while he dealt with the bigger target, Big Mom.

At Big Mom’s wedding, Garen watched her suspicion toward him and Shiryu’s group build while the celebration appeared peaceful. When Big Mom opened the Ryugu Jade Box and its explosives detonated, Garen used the chaos to provoke Shiryu as Doflamingo reacted strangely to the scene.

• Garen and Stussy returned to the banquet hall, where Stussy warned Morgans not to publish reckless rumors about them.
• Garen observed that Big Mom’s forces had surrounded Shiryu’s group, but Shiryu calmly told his companions to attend the wedding without reacting.
• Big Mom and Doflamingo entered as the wedding’s main attractions, and Big Mom proceeded with the ceremony while watching Garen.
• Big Mom ate the wedding cake and began opening gifts, but Katakuri failed to stop her from opening the Ryugu Jade Box.
• The box’s explosives detonated, wrecking part of the castle and leading Big Mom’s children to accuse Shiryu’s group of attacking her.
• Garen urged the trapped Shiryu to make his move, then used Taunting Shout as Doflamingo recognized the scene.

The Ryugu Jade Box explosion sparked a battle among Shiryu’s group, the Big Mom Pirates, and CP0, while Big Mom suffered Food Pangs after her wedding cake was destroyed. As the fighting spread, Garen finally stood before the rampaging Big Mom.

• Shiryu attacked Katakuri, and their clash set off a fierce melee between Shiryu’s group and the Big Mom Pirates.
• CP0 agents led by Stussy attacked Doflamingo, who fled toward Big Mom for protection.
• Big Mom erupted in Conqueror’s Haki and began rampaging after realizing the explosion had destroyed the remaining wedding cake.
• Doflamingo sought refuge among Katakuri and the Big Mom Pirates, drawing them into conflict with CP0 as the battle spread.
• Garen stepped forward to face Big Mom while she roared for cake.

Garen lured the frenzied Big Mom away from the castle and used her hunger to trick her into swallowing his greatsword. He enlarged himself and the sword inside her, impaling Big Mom as Perospero watched in terror.

• Big Mom attacked Garen, and their clash briefly restored some of her awareness before Food Pangs took over again.
• Garen promised Big Mom wedding cake and led her away from the castle while Perospero and several siblings followed.
• Garen stopped near dessert houses, and Big Mom tore into them before accusing him of lying about the cake.
• Garen wrapped his greatsword in cake and cream, then fed it to Big Mom despite Perospero's warning.
• Garen activated Death Descent, expanding the sword inside Big Mom until it pierced through her chest and back.
• Perospero panicked as Big Mom screamed, and Garen taunted her about the taste of his greatsword.

Katakuri and the Big Mom Pirates rushed to help Big Mom, but Garen lifted their battlefield into the sky and continued attacking her. On the isolated floating island, Garen brought out Golden Lion, leaving Big Mom to face the two enemies alone.

• Katakuri abandoned the fight with Shiryu and led the Big Mom Pirates toward Big Mom, while Shiryu’s group fled in the opposite direction.
• Doflamingo tried to join Katakuri’s force, but Katakuri struck him into the pursuing World Government agents.
• Garen and Golden Lion lifted the battlefield into the sky with the Float-Float Fruit, leaving Katakuri and the others behind on Cake Island.
• Garen pulled his greatsword from Big Mom’s chest, reopening her wound as Perospero used syrup to stop the bleeding.
• Garen brought the floating island to a remote altitude above the sea, where Golden Lion emerged from underground and shocked Big Mom.

Garen and Golden Lion trapped Big Mom’s wounded crew and launched a joint assault, forcing her sons to join the fight. Garen then turned Cracker’s biscuit powers against him, creating gigantic Biscuit Soldiers that surrounded everyone.

• Big Mom recognized Golden Lion beside Garen and ordered Perospero, Cracker, and the others to retreat on Zeus.
• Golden Lion shook the floating island and buried Big Mom’s group beneath a wave of earth while Garen’s Mocking Shout forced Big Mom to attack him instead of escaping.
• Garen and Golden Lion struck Big Mom from above and below, reopening her wounds and burning her arm before pressing their attack.
• Perospero shielded Big Mom with a Candy Wall, but Garen melted it; Cracker sent Biscuit Soldiers after Garen, who smashed through them and rushed past Cracker without attacking him.
• Garen transformed into a giant and created more than a dozen enormous Biscuit Soldiers, surrounding Big Mom and her crew.

Garen and Golden Lion overwhelmed Big Mom and her children, killing Perospero, Cracker, and the others before finishing Big Mom. On Cake Island, Katakuri and the family realized she was dead when the Homies collapsed and their souls scattered.

• Garen used his biscuit giants to surround Big Mom and her children, turning the battle against them.
• Garen disguised himself among the biscuit giants and struck Perospero down with a fatal blow to the head.
• Garen and Golden Lion cornered the wounded Big Mom after her sons, including Cracker, had been killed.
• Garen and Golden Lion resumed their attack, and Big Mom died.
• The Homies across Cake Island collapsed as their soul fragments scattered, and Katakuri and the others realized Mama was dead.

After killing Big Mom, Garen gained a powerful transformation and returned to Cake Island, where he killed the wounded Doflamingo. The chapter left Garen established as a new emperor and revealed his motive for pursuing Doflamingo: punishing human traffickers and their families.

• Big Mom died, and Garen gained the Great Demise skill upon reaching Level 17.
• Garen transformed, displaying golden wings and power that placed him among the strongest figures on the seas.
• Garen flew to Cake Island at tremendous speed, where Katakuri, Stussy, and the others saw his return.
• Garen approached the wounded Doflamingo, who pleaded for rescue and offered to reveal the Celestial Dragons' national treasure.
• Garen told Doflamingo he had pursued him to punish human traffickers, then beheaded him.