Recaps

Issho left Gran Tesoro to find Garen, but a trail of Gold Dust led him to suspect the martial arts tournament was part of a conspiracy. He entered the tournament and warned Sabo, Koala, and the others, just as golden glitter fell over the opening ceremony.

• Issho declined Sabo's invitation to join his team and left to seek Garen, while Koala teased Sabo about constantly mentioning Ace and Luffy.
• Issho sensed Gold Dust on the streets and followed its trail to the sealed bridge leading to the tournament venue, concluding that something was wrong with the tournament.
• On opening day, Issho entered the tournament alone alongside Mihawk and The Unforgiven Yasuo, drawing the contestants' attention.
• Garen recognized Issho and decided he should be treated well, while Mihawk said he wanted to challenge Garen after honing himself against strong opponents.
• Issho told Sabo, Koala, and the others he suspected the tournament was dangerous, then revealed Gold Dust in his palm as golden glitter filled the venue.

Issho discovered that Tezoro had secretly mixed Gold Dust into the fireworks and rigged the tournament’s draw, then destroyed the mechanism and entered the preliminaries. He defeated every opponent in his zone with a gravity technique, becoming the first contestant to reach the top eight.

• Issho warned Sabo and Koala about the Gold Dust and asked them to conserve their strength while he investigated Tezoro’s scheme.
• Tezoro announced the tournament rules and a team free-for-all format in which one team from each of eight zones would advance.
• Issho detected the hidden mechanism in the drawing box and used Gravity Suppression to break it, making the zone assignments genuinely random.
• More than a hundred contestants attacked Issho at the start of his preliminary round, and he crushed them with Gravity Blade: Hell Journey.
• Issho left the arena after his victory, becoming the first contestant to qualify for the top eight.

Mihawk overwhelmed his arena with devastating sword strikes until Cavendish stood against him. In the other arena, Ivankov transformed Hajrudin into a woman, frightening off challengers and helping Sabo's group reach the final eight without exhausting themselves.

• Mihawk unleashed two powerful sword strikes that incapacitated dozens of contestants, then recognized Cavendish when he blocked the second attack.
• Cavendish challenged Mihawk, eager to fight the world's greatest swordsman despite risking elimination.
• Sabo, Koala, Hatchan, and Ivankov tried to conserve their strength while avoiding the melee in their arena.
• Hajrudin attacked Ivankov, who stopped his punch with Death Wink and transformed him into a woman using giant-sized female hormones.
• Ivankov threatened to leave Hajrudin transformed if he was knocked unconscious, and the other contestants avoided Ivankov rather than risk the same fate.
• Sabo, Koala, Hatchan, and Ivankov advanced to the final eight without having to fight seriously.

Weevil and Garen fought in separate preliminary arenas, with Weevil devastating the teams that swarmed him and Garen revealing the true power behind his Tempest Swordsmanship. Garen drove back his attackers with Chinjao defeated, while Mihawk watched and wondered where he had seen the style before.

• Miss Bakkin told Weevil not to kill anyone and ordered him to follow Elizabello's commands during the match.
• Nearly twenty contestants attacked Weevil's team, but Weevil misheard Elizabello's call to retreat and struck the arena, crippling the attackers and leaving Elizabello stunned.
• More than a hundred fighters targeted Garen, and Chinjao countered Garen's wind techniques with Hasshoken before leading the assault that shattered Garen's wind wall.
• Garen used Tempest Strike to smash Chinjao into a crater, then spun through the enemy formation with Tempest Judgment.
• Mihawk watched Garen's swordsmanship and wondered where he had seen it before.

Sabo and his allies uncovered evidence that Tezoro was using the tournament to capture weakened fighters, with a suspicious medical room concealing the heart of the scheme. As the quarterfinals approached, Sabo sought help, but Hawkeye Mihawk refused to get involved.

• Sabo realized that Tezoro could be using the tournament and its no-surrender rules to capture exhausted contestants, and Koala agreed with his suspicion.
• Ivankov entered the medical area by claiming he needed to treat Hajrudin, and Tezoro guided him to the left medical room while preventing him from entering the right one.
• Ivankov reported that the left room was noisy and ordinary while the right room was silent, prompting Sabo to suspect that Tezoro had powerful backing.
• Sabo decided to contact Mr. Issho and seek help from the remaining contestants, while Koala approached Hawkeye Mihawk.
• Mihawk said he cared only about Issho and Yasuo, then walked away, leaving Koala to consider asking Yasuo for help.

Sabo explained that the Revolutionary Army contestants planned to lose and enter the infirmary to investigate, while Issho threw his match against Mihawk for the same purpose. Garen defeated Elizabello II’s team, but Mihawk recognized him beneath his Yasuo disguise and wanted to fight him.

• Sabo told Koala that their group would take minor injuries and deliberately lose so they could investigate the infirmary, and he said Mihawk was a believable opponent for Issho.
• Mihawk and Issho fought fiercely, but Issho deliberately let Mihawk injure his sword arm and withdrew, then headed to the infirmary.
• Mihawk angrily accused Issho of insulting their duel, but sheathed his sword and left after demanding that Issho fight him again someday.
• Garen broke Dagama’s four-protect-one formation and defeated Elizabello II’s team, who accepted their loss and went to the infirmary.
• Mihawk recognized the disguised Garen as the Unforgiven Yasuo and felt eager to challenge him.

Garen dropped his disguise after Mihawk challenged him, then ordered his forces to seal the arena and capture the fleeing pirates. Meanwhile, Issho and Koala subdued Tezoro in the medical area, but Koala refused to believe his claim that Garen was behind the scheme.

• Mihawk confronted the Unforgiven and forced Garen to reveal himself so they could duel.
• Garen exposed his identity as the Knight of Justice, prompting Miss Bakkin, Weevil, and several pirates to flee the arena.
• Garen ordered the bridge sealed, and Zephyr, Luo, Enel, Reiju, and the other officers blocked the escape route.
• Tezoro led Issho, Sabo, and Koala toward the left-side medical rooms, but Issho pinned him with Gravity Blade: Suppression and Koala handcuffed him.
• Tezoro named Garen as the mastermind, but Koala accused him of slandering Senior Garen and punched him for answers.

Sabo, Koala, and the others uncovered Tezoro’s anesthetic-gas scheme and followed Brulee into the Mirror World, where they confronted Katakuri and found the missing contestants. As Issho held off the Big Mom officers, Sugar turned Koala, Sabo, and Ivankov into toys, leaving Hatchan alone.

• Tezoro told Koala and the others to warn Garen, but they dismissed his claim and searched the medical room after subduing him.
• Sabo and the others discovered unconscious contestants and Brulee, who had been using the mirrors to transport them into the Mirror World.
• Issho, Sabo, Koala, Hatchan, and Ivankov entered the Mirror World, where Katakuri attacked them and Issho blocked his strike.
• Sabo, Koala, Hatchan, and Ivankov rushed past the officers to rescue the contestants while Issho held Katakuri and the others back.
• Sugar lured Koala, Sabo, and Ivankov toward her with a false plea for help, turning each into a toy and erasing the others’ memories of them.

Issho overwhelmed Katakuri in the Mirror World and learned that Garen had ordered the capture of pirates in the name of justice. Convinced that Garen’s methods were wrong, Issho set out to confront him, while Brulee offered to lead him outside the Mirror World.

• Sugar turned Koala and three others into toys, then headed toward the Mirror World entrance to deal with another intruder.
• Issho used gravity to overpower Katakuri, whose mochi body struggled against the shifting pressure.
• Issho questioned Katakuri about Garen, and Katakuri confirmed that Garen had ordered the pirate hunt.
• Brulee defended the captures as a way to rid the people of harm, but Issho rejected Garen’s methods as unjust and demanded to see him.
• Issho defeated Katakuri, and Brulee agreed to take him to Garen outside the Mirror World.

Garen defeated Mihawk in their swordsmanship duel and accepted the title of World's Greatest Swordsman. After learning Issho had discovered his conspiracy and confronted him over his methods, Garen revealed that he could use Issho's gravity ability to cancel Issho's attacks.

• Mihawk ended the duel and conceded that Garen had become the stronger swordsman, naming him the World's Greatest Swordsman.
• Mihawk told Garen that Issho suspected a major conspiracy behind the tournament, and Garen hurried to the medical room to investigate.
• Garen's subordinates told him that Issho had taken Tezoro hostage and entered the Mirror World.
• Issho confronted Garen, condemned his extreme methods, and attacked him with Gravity Blade: Hell Journey.
• Garen moved through Issho's gravity field, then canceled Issho's gravity techniques with an opposing force and revealed matching gravitational light on his blade.

Issho escalated his fight with Garen from a flaming meteor shower to a real meteorite, but Garen stopped it and overwhelmed Issho with his own gravity. Issho ended the chapter sealed inside a rocky mass floating above the arena.

• Issho lifted boulders from the arena and launched them at Garen as a flaming meteor shower.
• Garen used his Spiral Force Field to redirect the meteors, leaving the ground around him untouched.
• Issho revealed that he had secretly pulled a real meteorite from beyond the atmosphere and sent it crashing toward Garen.
• Garen grew into a golden giant, stopped the meteorite with his sword, and split it in half.
• Garen seized control of the meteorite fragments and arena rocks, overpowering the exhausted Issho and sealing him inside a floating mass of stone.
• Garen named the rocky mass Planetary Devastation.

Garen recruited the injured tournament contestants into Demacia Company by threatening them with overwhelming force, then urged Issho to stay with him and judge his actions firsthand. Issho agreed to observe Garen, though he remained unconvinced that Garen’s methods served justice.

• The recovering contestants returned to the ruined venue and discovered Garen’s soldiers had captured Weevil and his mother.
• Garen confronted the contestants, accused the pirates among them of crimes, and offered them a chance to join his cause.
• Hajrudin resisted Garen, but Garen overpowered him and demonstrated his strength by splitting the ground and destroying the giant meteor with Mighty Nation.
• The contestants accepted Garen’s offer, and Demacia Company recruited them as new members.
• Issho condemned Garen’s coercive methods, but Garen challenged him to watch and decide for himself; Issho agreed to stay.

Garen revealed to Issho that Sugar had turned hundreds of pirates into toys and defended the punishment by exposing one pirate’s crimes. He ordered the toys processed in batches and their cases publicly broadcast, while Issho remained conflicted and Koala and the others stayed trapped as toys.

• Sugar silenced the toys and imposed a new contract forbidding them to speak when Garen was present.
• Garen had Sugar turn one toy back into a human, restoring Issho’s memory of seeing him before.
• Katakuri read Longbeard’s extensive crimes from the blacklist, and Garen killed him after rejecting his plea for mercy.
• Issho remained uncertain about Garen’s actions and asked to see more before deciding what to think.
• Garen ordered the remaining toys handled in batches through interrogation, asset seizure, and execution, with the process filmed for a public program called Today’s Law.
• Sugar was pleased that she could keep the toys longer, while Koala and the other toys remained unable to speak or move.

Garen tried to convince Issho and the Revolutionary Army members that his harsh justice protected ordinary people. After showing them Weevil’s devastated victims and announcing his execution, he left Issho and the others with little to say.

• Sugar refused to restore the volunteer toys first, but Garen stopped her and chose Koala; her tearful plea derailed his attempt to show Issho the pirates’ crimes.
• The next day, Garen took Issho, Koala, and their companions to a ruined island with Zephyr, Weevil, and Miss Bakkin.
• Garen explained that Weevil had raided the town, killing residents and leaving many others injured.
• Garen challenged Issho to consider whether he had listened to victims who only wanted to live without pirates.
• The residents cheered and thanked Garen when he announced that Weevil would be executed, leaving Issho and the others speechless.

Garen executed Weevil and Miss Bakkin, then sought Revolutionary Army cooperation against Kaido and the World Government. Sabo promised to pursue an alliance, Issho joined Garen, and a newspaper report about the World Military Draft gave Garen a new mission idea.

• Zephyr read Weevil's crimes aloud, but Garen stopped him from killing Weevil out of hatred and executed Weevil and Miss Bakkin himself.
• Koala and Sabo prepared to return to Revolutionary Army headquarters, and Garen asked Sabo to cooperate against Kaido.
• Sabo said he needed approval from the Revolutionary Army's leader, and Garen declared his intention to fight the World Government after defeating Kaido.
• Issho agreed to join Garen after seeing enough of his actions.
• Garen read a newspaper report about the World Military Draft and decided to entrust Issho with an important mission.

Garen sent Issho to join the World Military Draft and become an undercover Navy Admiral, confident that Issho would remain loyal. At Marineford, Issho, Kuzan, and Spandam discovered they were all Garen’s undercover comrades.

• Garen persuaded Issho to apply for the vacant Navy Admiral position as an undercover agent.
• Issho arrived at Marineford and told Fleet Admiral Kuzan he wanted to serve justice, while Kuzan questioned him about his duel with Garen.
• Kuzan and Issho both ignored calls from Garen because Spandam was present, but Spandam stepped away to answer his own call.
• Garen told Spandam that Issho was one of his agents and urged him to make contact with his comrade.
• Spandam returned and shouted Garen’s revolutionary signal, and Issho answered it, revealing their connection to Kuzan.

Marine officers welcomed Issho as Admiral Fujitora and bonded with him over their admiration for Garen, while the Five Elders discovered that The Doctrine had spread through Marine Headquarters. Fearing Garen’s growing influence, they decided to enlist Kaido against him.

• Marine officers celebrated Garen and Zephyr defeating Edward Weevil, and Issho joined them as Admiral Fujitora.
• Issho admitted that he agreed Garen had done the right thing and discussed Garen’s justice with the officers.
• Issho began explaining Garen’s understanding of justice by asking the officers about The Doctrine.
• The Five Elders learned that The Doctrine had become popular among Marine officers, including Akainu, and called its spread a threat.
• Five Elder Gorbachev proposed using Kaido against Garen, and the Five Elders ordered CP0 to negotiate with Kaido.

The Revolutionary Army approved a formal alliance with Garen after Sabo and Koala argued that they had to rescue Kafoor’s uprising and the enslaved workers. Garen set out alone to attack Kaido’s territory, and Kaido flew to confront him after rejecting a proposed alliance with the World Government.

• Sabo urged the Revolutionary Army to cooperate with Garen against Kaido, while opponents argued that the World Government remained their main target.
• A request for help arrived from Kafoor, whose uprising against the Beasts Pirates was near defeat, and Koala condemned the officers who wanted to leave the workers to die.
• Dragon asked Sabo to seek Garen’s help and approved a formal alliance, directing the General Staff and Intelligence Department to focus on the Beasts Pirates.
• Garen agreed to rescue the workers despite Zephyr’s warning that his forces were not ready, and decided to go alone to Kaido’s territory.
• Stussy proposed that Kaido cooperate with the World Government to eliminate Garen, but Kaido refused and set out for the weapons factory after learning Garen had attacked alone.

Garen rescued Kafoor and the workers from Kaido’s island, then confronted Kaido as the airships departed. He provoked the dragon and secretly put something in Kaido’s mouth, which Kaido swallowed.

• Kafoor charged Scotch with a Gatling gun, but Scotch shot him and prepared to execute him.
• Garen arrived, crushed Scotch with a punch’s shockwave, and asked Kafoor to help gather the workers.
• Kafoor accepted Garen’s explanation and organized the workers and their families to leave aboard Garen’s airship fleet.
• Kaido appeared in Dragon Form, and Garen flew toward him to provoke him.
• Garen called Kaido an eel and slipped a small object into his mouth, which Kaido swallowed.

Garen tested Kaido’s durability by making him swallow a Dyna Stone, poison gas, and multiple Devil Fruit gummies, but Kaido survived and rapidly healed. Kaido attacked with Heat Breath, but Garen knocked his head aside and recognized that his Dragon Form had been weakened.

• Garen detonated the Dyna Stone inside Kaido, causing a massive internal explosion that left Kaido in pain.
• The explosion released poison gas and multiple Devil Fruit energies, making Kaido convulse and crash onto the island.
• Garen feared Kaido had died, but Kaido revived, healed his wounds, and explained that his awakened Devil Fruit let him survive the effects.
• Kaido launched Heat Breath at Garen, but Garen punched his dragon head aside and noted that Kaido had become slower.

Garen continued overwhelming Kaido with powerful punches and martial arts while a flaming giant sword burned inside Kaido’s stomach. The chapter ended with Garen unleashing a rapid barrage of Hero’s Spear-powered punches at Kaido.

• Garen enlarged the sword inside Kaido and ignited it with Justice Rage, burning Kaido from within.
• Garen struck Kaido’s head with Hasshoken’s Dragon Drill, driving the flaming sword deeper into Kaido’s throat.
• Kaido attacked with wind, lightning, and Heat Breath, but Garen blocked and repelled the attacks with Fish-Man Karate.
• Garen used Elbaf’s Hero’s Spear to launch Kaido into the sky and disperse the thunderclouds.
• Kaido laughed, believing Hero’s Spear would exhaust Garen, as Garen rushed toward him and unleashed Hero Machine Gun.

Garen battered Kaido in Dragon Form, but Kaido recovered and Kaido’s reinforcements approached. With the Beasts Pirates fleet arriving, Garen decided to withdraw and hinted that Golden Lion should arrange for an underworld tycoon to rescue Kaido and earn his trust.

• Garen repeatedly struck Kaido’s Dragon Form, driving his head into the ground and cracking the island until Kaido erupted with Conqueror’s Haki and forced Garen off his back.
• Kaido regained control of his body and rapidly healed his injuries, while Garen recognized that defeating him would take too long.
• King, Queen, and Shiliew sailed toward the island with a massive Beasts Pirates fleet, and Shiliew warned his new colleagues not to underestimate Garen.
• Golden Lion warned Garen that Kaido’s forces were arriving and that Shiliew and Impel Down prisoners were among them.
• Garen decided to withdraw and suggested that Golden Lion help an underworld tycoon rescue Kaido so Kaido would trust him; Golden Lion understood and went to save Kaido.

Garen fought Kaido until Golden Lion arrived and pretended to help him, allowing Kaido to believe they were enemies of Garen. When Kaido’s reinforcements arrived, Garen escaped, and Kaido agreed to form a formal alliance with Golden Lion against him.

• Garen attacked Kaido with his Spiral Flying Kick, but Golden Lion interrupted with a barrage of sword strikes and drove Garen into a crater.
• Golden Lion claimed he had come to Wano Country to ally with Kaido against Garen, and Kaido accepted his offer after escaping Garen’s assault.
• Golden Lion’s attacks could not harm Garen because the system recognized them as teammates, while their staged hostility convinced Kaido they were genuine enemies.
• King, Queen, Shiryu, and the Beasts Pirates’ warships arrived, prompting Garen to retreat after briefly acting as though he was preparing to attack everyone.
• Golden Lion urged Kaido to form a formal alliance against Garen, and Kaido agreed.

After Kaido returned badly beaten by Garen, he agreed to ally with the World Government and Golden Lion against him. Garen secretly learned of the alliance and ordered Golden Lion to track Stussy, leaving their enemies’ preparations underway.

• Stussy waited anxiously for Kaido, who returned from fighting Garen covered in severe injuries and drank wine despite the pain.
• Kaido agreed to ally with the World Government, and Golden Lion arrived seeking revenge on Garen and joined the alliance.
• Stussy accepted Golden Lion as a temporary ally and offered more than thirty senior CP0 agents, one top-tier agent, and Pacifista weapons, but no Marines.
• Stussy said the forces would need up to a month to assemble before she contacted Kaido again.
• Garen monitored the meeting remotely, learned of the alliance, and instructed Golden Lion to notify him when Stussy left the Beasts Pirates.

After Kaido and Stussy argued over the terms of their alliance against Garen, Golden Lion stayed on Onigashima and used his meeting with Shiryu and the Impel Down escapees to recruit them. Evil King Avalo Pizarro, Catalina, Big Barrel Vasco Shot, and the others agreed to follow Golden Lion, leaving Shiryu behind.

• Stussy told Kaido she needed approval from the World Government's upper ranks for his demands and for cooperation with Golden Lion, and Kaido let her remain on Onigashima.
• Golden Lion asked to stay so he could hear Kaido and Stussy's discussions, and Kaido assigned Queen and Shiryu to escort the guests to their accommodations.
• Golden Lion, guided by Garen through their voice broadcast, questioned Shiryu's loyalty and noticed that Evil King Avalo Pizarro, Catalina, Big Barrel Vasco Shot, and the other escapees resented him.
• Golden Lion used his Conqueror's Haki and praise of the escapees' ambitions to stir their interest in joining him.
• Evil King, Catalina, Big Barrel, and several other Impel Down escapees visited Golden Lion and pledged to follow him.