Recaps

After Big Mom and Doflamingo died, Garen took control of the surviving Big Mom Pirates and killed Smoothie and other people on his blacklist. The chapter ended with Katakuri kneeling before Garen and pleading for mercy for his younger siblings.

• Garen asked Stussy and the CP0 agents to help clear the remaining Big Mom Pirates from Cake Island, and Stussy agreed.
• Garen stopped the fleeing pirates with a sword slash and announced that Big Mom was dead.
• Garen killed several people from his blacklist, then defeated and killed Smoothie despite Katakuri's attempts to intervene.
• When Garen turned his attention to the remaining Charlotte Family members, Katakuri knelt and begged him to spare his siblings.

After killing Big Mom, Garen accepted Katakuri’s loyalty and took command of the Big Mom Pirates, but required their officers to face his judgment before joining him. With Stussy taking the guilty pirates into custody, Garen began organizing his takeover of Totto Land, while Morgans prepared a sensational report about the wedding.

• Katakuri knelt before Garen and offered his loyalty in exchange for mercy for his siblings, and Garen accepted him as a subordinate.
• Katakuri’s siblings and the Big Mom Pirates’ peripheral officers followed his lead and submitted to Garen.
• Garen announced that the pirates would face his sword’s judgment, sending those who failed to Stussy for processing and imprisonment in Impel Down.
• Garen secretly asked Stussy to take special care of those whose evil scores exceeded one hundred, and the judgment left her with a ship full of prisoners.
• Garen reminded Stussy to have the Marines pay his bounty before she departed with Doflamingo’s corpse and the captured pirates.
• Garen began planning the annexation of Totto Land with Katakuri and his selected subordinates, while Morgans drafted a sensational headline about Big Mom’s wedding.

Smoker learned that Zephyr had turned against the Marines, then discovered that Garen had become a new Four Emperor after taking over Totto Land. As Garen reunited with Nami and Reiju and settled his new territory, Smoker called him for help while under fire.

• Smoker received Marine Headquarters' warning that Zephyr had betrayed the Marines, seized Dyna Stone, and become a target of a manhunt.
• Tashigi showed Smoker a newspaper reporting that Garen had killed Big Mom and Doflamingo, captured half the Big Mom Pirates, and become a new Four Emperor.
• Ten days later, Nami, Reiju, Judge, and Germa 66 arrived at Cake Island, where former Big Mom Pirates were laboring under Garen's reforms.
• Judge saw Katakuri serving beside Garen and began to reconsider his resentment toward his new son-in-law.
• Pudding brought Garen a Den Den Mushi call for help, prompting Nami and Reiju to question her role as his temporary secretary.
• Under a hail of bullets, Smoker demanded over the Den Den Mushi that Garen answer his call.

Smoker and Tashigi returned lost children to a poor village protected by Whitebeard, where they learned Marines had once robbed the villagers and apologized for it. As Smoker promised to defend the civilians from an approaching pirate crew, his unit was wiped out, and he later called Garen for help because Zephyr was chasing and beating him.

• Smoker and Tashigi arrived at a Whitebeard-protected fishing village and brought the lost children home.
• Tashigi won the villagers’ trust, and the village chief explained that Whitebeard’s crew protected them without taking money while Marines had seized their supplies during the war.
• Smoker, Tashigi, and the Marine soldiers apologized to the villagers for their comrades’ actions.
• Unknown pirate ships approached as the Marines prepared to leave, and Smoker vowed to protect the village.
• The Marines were wiped out, and Smoker later told Garen that Zephyr was chasing and beating him.

Smoker, Tashigi, and the villagers were captured by pirates seeking a hidden Devil Fruit, which Smoker recognized as the Dark-Dark Fruit. When the pirate captain threatened the Marines, the villagers refused to abandon them, until Whitebeard Pirates commander Thatch arrived at the dock.

• Smoker and Tashigi were captured with the Marines and villagers after losing a battle against an unknown New World pirate crew.
• The pirate captain forced the old village chief to reveal that the village had hidden a Devil Fruit for the Whitebeard Pirates.
• The pirates retrieved the pale purple fruit, and Smoker identified it as the Logia Dark-Dark Fruit, worth more than five hundred million Beli.
• The pirate captain released the villagers but threatened to use the Marines' heads to raise his bounty, while the villagers refused to leave Smoker and Tashigi behind.
• Smoker urged the villagers to escape and declared that protecting civilians was the Marines' duty.
• Thatch arrived at the dock and introduced himself as the Whitebeard Pirates' Fourth Division Commander.

Thatch rescued Smoker and Tashigi, then welcomed them as honored guests after learning they were friends of Garen. After three days of friendship between the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates, Zephyr spotted Smoker shaking hands with Thatch and ordered an attack.

• Thatch defeated the pirates who had captured Smoker and his Marines, freed them, and arranged medical care for the wounded.
• Thatch recognized Sakura Ten and Kareki as swords given to Tashigi by Garen, learned Smoker and Tashigi were Garen's friends, and returned Smoker's Jitte.
• Thatch hosted Smoker and Tashigi at a banquet, and the Marines stayed on the island for three days while the Whitebeard Pirates compensated and helped the villagers.
• Smoker and Thatch became friends, and the two groups warmly said farewell as Smoker's unit prepared to leave.
• Ain told Zephyr that Smoker was meeting amicably with the Whitebeard Pirates, and Zephyr recognized his former student and ordered his forces to attack.

Zephyr attacked Smoker and Thatch, then captured them after Smoker refused to kill Thatch. Garen learned Zephyr planned to destroy the New World’s final End Point and agreed to help Kuzan save him, while Whitebeard mobilized to rescue Thatch.

• Zephyr’s forces overwhelmed Smoker and Thatch, and Zephyr beat both men down.
• Smoker stood up for Thatch and challenged Zephyr’s claim that all pirates deserved to die; Zephyr spared them and ordered his men to imprison them.
• Garen learned from Kuzan that Zephyr had stolen Dyna Stone and destroyed two End Points, and agreed to help save him from Sakazuki’s kill mission.
• Whitebeard learned Zephyr had captured Thatch and ordered his crew to set out and bring him back.

Zephyr led the NEO Marines to Volcanic Hot Spring Island, intending to destroy its End Point despite the tens of thousands of residents nearby. The Marines ambushed his forces, but Zephyr revealed Dyna Stone explosives and charged at them, leaving Akainu scrambling to evacuate his soldiers.

• Zephyr rejected Smoker's plea to spare the island's residents and insisted that destroying the End Point would bring peace.
• Zephyr led the NEO Marines ashore, where Marine forces surrounded them on land and at sea.
• Akainu and five Vice Admirals confronted Zephyr and demanded that he stop his attack.
• Zephyr revealed rings of Dyna Stone strapped to himself and his officers, threatening to destroy the island rather than surrender.
• Zephyr activated a piece of Dyna Stone and charged the Marine formation, prompting Akainu to order his soldiers to retreat.

Zephyr's suicidal attack threatened to trigger a catastrophic volcanic eruption, but Garen arrived in time to rescue him and remove the Dyna Stones. The explosion still caused the volcano to erupt and sent magma toward the town, where Garen used Binz's plant-controlling ability to try to stop it.

• Akainu rescued Navy soldiers from a Dyna Stone blast, then led the pursuit as Zephyr and his team fought their way to the volcano's crater.
• Zephyr charged through Akainu's magma defense and detonated a Dyna Stone, using the blast to fall into the crater with more than a dozen armed Dyna Stones.
• Garen caught Zephyr before he fell into the magma, tore the Dyna Stones from his body, and flew them into the sky, where they exploded.
• The blast shook the volcano and triggered an eruption that sent magma toward the town, forcing residents to flee toward the coast.
• Garen spotted Binz using his Shove-Shove Fruit to control plants, then landed in the forest and activated Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands to stop the magma.

Garen protected Zephyr and his disciples from Akainu, then confronted the Marines with his assembled forces and invoked his Shichibukai treaty rights. When Akainu attacked, Garen vanished into the magma and reappeared unharmed, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Garen raised a Thousand-Armed Giant Buddha that blocked the volcanic magma from reaching the town.
• Akainu attacked the incapacitated Zephyr, Ain, and Binz, but Garen's Buddha arms crushed the lava fist and carried the three to safety.
• Garen summoned Katakuri, Reiju, and his other fighters from an airship, overwhelming the Marine officers with their numbers and strength.
• Garen cited the Shichibukai treaty's protections and refused Akainu's demand to hand over Zephyr.
• Akainu attacked Garen, who charged into the lava fist, disappeared into the magma, and re-formed beside Akainu unharmed.

Garen forced Akainu to withdraw, then recruited Zephyr after explaining that his justice served the people rather than the World Government. As Garen’s forces began disaster relief on Volcanic Hot Spring Island, Whitebeard’s fleet approached, and Thatch remained hidden aboard a captured warship.

• Garen used his matching magma ability and superior forces to make Akainu retreat with the Marines.
• Garen ordered Katakuri and the Big Mom Pirates officers to rescue civilians and clear the destruction, threatening them with more reform lessons when they suggested raiding the Marines.
• Garen told Zephyr that he had saved the townspeople because his justice served the people, and Zephyr accepted Garen’s recruitment.
• Garen learned that Smoker and Tashigi were locked aboard a warship now held by Akainu, and decided to leave their rescue to him.
• Thatch was also aboard the warship, while Whitebeard’s fleet sailed toward Volcanic Hot Spring Island.

Akainu captured Thatch and prepared to use him against Whitebeard, but Thatch tried to kill himself rather than become a hostage. Marco came to rescue him and was badly injured by Akainu before Whitebeard arrived with the seventeen divisions and over a hundred ships.

• Akainu learned that Zephyr had imprisoned Smoker, Tashigi, Thatch, and others, then recognized Thatch as Whitebeard's Fourth Division Commander.
• Akainu ordered Thatch taken to Marine Headquarters, but Thatch refused to be used against Whitebeard and charged at the Marines' blades to kill himself.
• Akainu struck Thatch with a magma punch, badly burning him and leaving him unable to resist.
• Marco arrived by air and attacked Akainu, but Akainu and the vice admirals overwhelmed him and inflicted a serious chest wound.
• Marco revealed that Whitebeard was close behind, and Whitebeard arrived aboard the Moby Dick with his seventeen divisions and over a hundred warships, vowing that Akainu would pay for harming his sons.

Whitebeard and his crew overwhelmed Akainu and the Navy, leaving Akainu gravely wounded and facing Whitebeard’s fatal strike. Just as Whitebeard raised his bisento, Garen arrived by airship and asked everyone to give him some face.

• Teach recognized Akainu and raged over the damage Akainu had done to his dream, prompting Whitebeard to promise revenge.
• Whitebeard unleashed a tsunami against the Navy fleet, and Akainu ordered Smoker to seek Garen’s help before attacking with Meteor Volcano.
• Whitebeard redirected the tsunami to extinguish Akainu’s magma, then battled him as Teach, Ace, Vista, and other pirates joined the attack.
• Whitebeard’s crew defeated the Navy and rescued Thatch, while Akainu fought until he was exhausted and collapsed on the battered deck.
• Whitebeard raised his bisento to deliver the fatal blow, but Garen arrived aboard a golden-greatsword airship and asked everyone to give him some face.

Garen arrived on the battlefield and asked Whitebeard to spare the unconscious Akainu, but Whitebeard refused because Akainu had harmed his sons. They agreed to settle the dispute with a duel, leaving Garen and Whitebeard poised to fight over Akainu’s fate.

• Garen descended onto the deck and shielded the unconscious Akainu while Luo examined his injuries and agreed to treat him.
• Garen asked Whitebeard to spare Akainu, but Whitebeard refused, citing Akainu’s attacks on his sons.
• Garen said he would use force if necessary, so Whitebeard proposed a duel: Garen could take Akainu if he won, but would become Whitebeard’s son if he lost.
• Garen accepted the duel but rejected the idea of becoming Whitebeard’s son, saying he was confident he would win.
• Whitebeard and Garen declared their resolve to fight for the title of the world’s strongest man.

Garen fought Whitebeard on a floating island, proving himself able to withstand the strongest man's quake attacks and wield the same vibrational power. Whitebeard called off the duel and declared that Garen would inherit the title of the strongest man in the world.

• Garen summoned a floating island for his duel with Whitebeard, while Golden Lion secretly remained beneath it in the seawater.
• Whitebeard opened with a powerful strike, and Garen blocked it, convincing Whitebeard that Garen had the strength of an Emperor.
• Whitebeard used Quake Blade: Shattered Jewel, but Garen's Great Demise-enhanced counter left Whitebeard hurt while Garen appeared unaffected by the vibrations.
• Whitebeard fought Garen with successive quake attacks, then retreated when he realized Garen showed no sign of fatigue.
• Garen produced the same vibrational power as Whitebeard, and their Sky Shatter attacks collided, nearly destroying the floating island.
• Whitebeard ended the duel and declared that Garen would bear the title of the strongest man in the world.

After the battle, Thatch revealed that the Dark-Dark Fruit had been confiscated by Zephyr, and Garen secretly kept it instead of giving it to Teach. Garen gave the fruit to Reiju, then used its copied power to investigate how it interacted with other Devil Fruit abilities before his temporary ability expired.

• At Whitebeard’s banquet, Thatch told Teach that Zephyr had confiscated the Dark-Dark Fruit he found during patrol.
• Teach learned the fruit might be aboard the warship now under Garen’s control, and Garen promised to look for it while secretly planning to keep it.
• Garen decided Reiju should eat the Dark-Dark Fruit because her modified body was insensitive to pain, and she gained its ability after tasting a small piece.
• Reiju discovered she could see Devil Fruit energy, while Garen used the fruit’s copied power on Luo and found it could seal his ability but not absorb it.
• Garen theorized that the Dark-Dark Fruit could absorb an ability only after its user died, then lost the copied power when Klepto Hand’s three-minute duration ended.
• Reiju cried out as the Devil Fruit energy on Garen’s body emerged.

Garen and Reiju discovered that Reiju could capture the energy from Garen’s copied Devil Fruit abilities and put it into ordinary fruit, creating temporary bootleg Devil Fruits. They produced hundreds aboard the airship before Reiju became exhausted, and Nami confronted Garen after overhearing their work.

• Reiju captured the Devil Fruit energy that dissipated from Garen and transferred it into an apple, creating a second Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Garen tested the bootleg fruit on Yonji and learned that its power lasted only three minutes before disappearing.
• Garen and Reiju established an assembly line with Reiju’s brothers, producing hundreds of temporary Rumble-Rumble Fruits and Float-Float Fruits.
• Reiju grew too exhausted to continue, so Garen decided to recruit Nami as another helper.
• Nami overheard Garen and Reiju discussing their exhausting all-night work and kicked down the cabin door, demanding to know what they were doing.

Garen used a fake Dark-Dark Fruit to trick Teach into eating the artificial Azure Dragon Fruit, transforming him into a pink flood dragon and apparently destroying his dream of obtaining the Dark-Dark Fruit. Teach collapsed on Whitebeard’s ship as Garen pretended to be shocked.

• Garen planned to cut off Teach’s chances of getting the Dark-Dark Fruit and learned that a Devil Fruit from Punk Hazard was still aboard the airship.
• Garen had Luo use his Op-Op Fruit powers to put the peel of a knockoff Dark-Dark Fruit around the artificial Azure Dragon Fruit.
• Garen presented the disguised fruit to Teach as the Dark-Dark Fruit while Whitebeard, Ace, and the other commanders watched.
• Teach trusted the fruit’s appearance, ate it whole, and transformed into a pink, four-clawed flood dragon.
• Garen acted surprised as Teach realized he had eaten another Devil Fruit and collapsed helplessly on the deck.

Garen tricked Teach into accepting his failed Azure Dragon Fruit, then tried to persuade Akainu that Garen’s forces could bring justice and stability better than the World Government. Akainu agreed to judge Garen by his ability to pacify the New World, while Garen secretly kept a small piece of Akainu’s brain tissue.

• Garen comforted Teach by comparing his dragon form to Kaido’s, and Teach concealed his anger and pretended to accept his fate.
• After Garen left Whitebeard’s flagship, Teach discovered he could not change back from his dragon form and erupted in anger again.
• Akainu woke in Seastone Handcuffs aboard Garen’s airship and argued with Zephyr and Garen over justice and the World Government.
• Garen cited his record of suppressing piracy in East Blue to challenge Akainu’s belief that the World Government maintained stability.
• Garen proposed pacifying the New World as proof of his claim, and Akainu agreed to judge him before leaving to find the Marine fleet.
• Garen revealed that he had secretly removed a tiny piece of Akainu’s brain tissue while Akainu was unconscious.

After the Five Elders grew wary of Garen’s influence over the Navy, they created a bureau to monitor senior officers and placed Kalifa as Akainu’s personal secretary. Akainu recognized her as a CP0 agent but accepted the surveillance, convinced he had nothing to hide.

• Garen held a farewell banquet for Akainu, and photographs of their friendly-looking gathering reached the Five Elders.
• The Five Elders discussed Garen’s expanding power and decided to guard against his influence within the Navy by openly planting informants.
• Spandain was appointed to lead CP0’s new Military Committee Investigation and Statistics Bureau, and he agreed to bring his son Spandam into the department.
• Akainu returned to Marine Headquarters and noticed rumors spreading about the World Government’s new surveillance bureau.
• Kalifa introduced herself as Akainu’s World Government-appointed personal secretary, and Akainu identified her as a CP0 agent.
• Akainu burned the appointment document but ultimately accepted Kalifa’s presence and returned to work.

Garen gathered his officers at Cake Island to devise a way to lure pirates into the New World and strengthen Demacia Company before its expected conflict with Kaido. His subordinates proposed traps and a staged gladiatorial contest, and Garen settled on advertising Devil Fruits—including fake Rumble-Rumble Fruits—as bait.

• Garen asked his officers how to draw pirates out, and Katakuri explained that pirates had fled the waters around Totto Land since Garen took control.
• Zephyr proposed building bases and training officers to restrict pirate activity, but Pudding argued that such a plan would take too long and pirates would not fear it.
• Pudding suggested using a fake treasure as bait, while baby-5 proposed a gladiatorial contest that would leave pirates vulnerable to capture and transformation into toys.
• Judge recommended having Tezoro host the contest as a third party, and Pekoms suggested offering a Poneglyph as the prize.
• Garen rejected the Poneglyph idea and proposed advertising Devil Fruits, claiming he had a warehouse full of Logia-type Rumble-Rumble Fruits.
• Enel pointed out that the Rumble-Rumble Fruits were fakes that lasted only three minutes, and Garen replied that the pirates would not know unless they tried one.

Miss Bakkin brought Edward Weevil to Gran Tesoro to win the tournament’s prize, and Weevil’s clash with Chinjao and Cavendish drew attention before an unfamiliar swordsman intervened. The tournament was still three days away when the newcomer introduced himself as Yasuo.

• Miss Bakkin urged Weevil to clear the crowded registration line, and Weevil struck Chinjao back several meters with a single blow.
• The contestants recognized Weevil as a Shichibukai, and Cavendish challenged him for stealing his spotlight.
• Weevil and Cavendish fought, with Cavendish’s swordsmanship barely keeping Weevil’s powerful attacks at bay.
• Yasuo halted the fight with a tornado-producing sword technique and reminded the contestants that the tournament would begin in three days.
• The unfamiliar swordsman introduced himself as “The Unforgiven, Yasuo.”

Disguised as Yasuo, Garen entered the tournament and clashed with Edward Weevil, then watched the powerful fighters gather and recruit teammates. The chapter ended with Mihawk registering for the competition, leaving Garen surprised at how seriously the tournament was being taken.

• Garen disguised himself as Yasuo and entered the tournament, where his swordsmanship silenced the assembled fighters.
• Garen confronted Edward Weevil and wounded him, but Miss Bakkin stopped her son from continuing the fight.
• Miss Bakkin recruited Elizabello’s team to compete alongside Weevil, prompting other contestants to seek teammates as well.
• Garen rejected invitations to join a team, and Mihawk praised his swordsmanship before registering for the tournament.
• Garen wondered whether the prize money or the tournament’s name had drawn Mihawk into the competition.

Garen oversaw preparations to capture and turn the tournament’s most dangerous pirates into toys, while planning different treatment for contestants with less criminal histories. The chapter ended with blind Issho arriving to gamble and Koala discovering a casino employee’s elaborate story about Fight the Landlord.

• Garen returned to the artificial island and corrected Sugar before agreeing to begin the plan in three days.
• Tezoro described how the team would use anesthetic gas, Brulee’s Mirror World, Katakuri, and Sugar to capture defeated pirates, and proposed adding gold dust as backup.
• Garen approved the gold dust but ordered the contestants’ backgrounds checked so they could be treated according to their past deeds.
• Issho entered Gran Tesoro’s casino, introduced himself, and handed his chips to an attendant to place bets for him.
• Koala heard a casino employee claim Monkey D. Dragon invented Fight the Landlord and asked Sabo, Hatchan, and Ivankov whether it was true.

Koala, Sabo, and Hatchan visited a casino, where Sabo encountered the blind gambler Issho and learned how Garen had transformed Gran Tesoro after freeing its enslaved workers. Issho revealed that he had followed Garen’s trail to learn about him, and Koala began to introduce him to The Doctrine.

• Koala praised Garen’s books and agreed to go shopping with Sabo, but Sabo followed a crowd to watch a blind man gambling.
• Sabo recognized that Issho sensed his approach through exceptionally powerful Observation Haki.
• After Issho lost his winnings, a casino attendant warned him to stop and explained that the casino followed rules against cheating and gambling addiction.
• The attendant described how Tezoro had exploited people before Garen freed the slaves, secured compensation and employee benefits, and reformed the casino.
• Issho said he had followed Garen’s trail after hearing people in Dressrosa praise him, and Koala offered to tell Issho about Garen using Demacian Justice Theory.