Recaps

Golden Lion improvised a plan to kill Kaido first, claiming that kryptonite could weaken Garen, while Evil King went searching Wano’s mines for the mineral. After learning that Pudding’s Memory Fruit could extract Stussy’s intelligence, Garen took her toward Pleasure District and told her to become a woman.

• Golden Lion told Evil King and the other escapees to target Kaido first, claiming he had discovered kryptonite, a rare mineral that could weaken Garen.
• Evil King became determined to find kryptonite and headed into Wano Country’s mines.
• Garen considered intercepting Stussy and the CP0 agents, but decided it would be better to confront them later with more information.
• Pudding brought Garen interrogation reports and revealed that her Memory Fruit could retrieve prisoners’ memories.
• Garen realized Pudding could obtain Stussy’s intelligence and took her to Pleasure District, asking whether her acting skills were still sharp before telling her he wanted her to become a woman.

Garen led a Demacian raid on Stussy’s Pleasure District, accusing her business of human trafficking. After Stussy tried to flee, Garen captured her and defeated the CP0 agents who attacked him.

• Garen arrived with airships and soldiers, ordered everyone in the Pleasure District to squat, and began inspecting its establishments.
• Stussy confronted Garen, who accused her Pleasure District of human trafficking and warned her not to obstruct his investigation.
• Stussy realized the enslaved people on the island would expose her, ordered her subordinates to cover her retreat, and fled.
• Garen used Taunting Shout to make Stussy turn back, then captured her in his giant hand with Death Descent.
• CP0 agents attacked Garen with Rokushiki, but he used Gigantification: Finger Pistol Gatling to defeat them all.

Garen arrested Stussy and the CP0 agents after uncovering the slave trade operating in Pleasure District, then claimed he would spare them if Stussy came with him. He took her to a hotel room, where Pudding and Luo arrived, leaving Stussy stunned by Garen’s apparent plan.

• Garen’s soldiers uncovered secret prisons and slave ships connected to Pleasure District, and Garen confronted Stussy and the CP0 agents about the trafficking.
• A CP0 agent blamed the Celestial Dragons, while Stussy admitted the crimes and asked Garen to let them go.
• Garen refused to spare the agents for the World Government’s sake but offered to spare Stussy if she went with him alone.
• Garen dragged Stussy into a luxury hotel room and handcuffed her to himself with Seastone Handcuffs.
• Pudding and Luo entered the room, and Garen told them everyone was there to begin, prompting Stussy to call him a pervert.

Pudding extracted Stussy’s memories and, with Luo’s mind-transplant operation, took over her body to infiltrate CP0 while Stussy was left in Pudding’s body. Pudding convinced Stussy’s agents that Garen had agreed to let them leave, and the agents departed without realizing their chief had been replaced.

• Pudding used her Memory Fruit to extract and absorb all of Stussy’s memories, leaving Stussy in a coma.
• Garen had Luo exchange Pudding and Stussy’s consciousnesses, placing Pudding in Stussy’s body and Stussy in Pudding’s.
• Pudding revealed that she planned to impersonate Stussy and infiltrate CP0, while Garen kept the restrained Stussy nearby.
• Pudding told the CP0 agents that Garen had agreed to confiscate the Pleasure District’s properties and let them leave.
• Pudding ordered the agents to relocate and continue gathering senior agents, and they obeyed without noticing the switch.

Pudding, disguised as Stussy, learned that CP0's operation was led by the powerful agent Phantom and lured him and two elite agents to a deserted island. Garen appeared there to confront them, leaving Phantom and the others facing the ambush.

• Pudding told Garen that Phantom, a formidable physical fighter, would escort the government's humanoid weapons to the New World.
• Garen realized most CP0 agents would not recognize Phantom and instructed Pudding to arrange a meeting with him and two elite agents.
• Pudding led Ricton and Graphens to a deserted island while claiming Phantom had ordered the private meeting, and Graphens taunted her about Garen.
• Phantom arrived aboard a World Government warship, but he and the other agents discovered that Pudding had given them conflicting explanations for the meeting place.
• Garen descended onto the island, and Pudding hid behind him as Phantom, Ricton, and Graphens recognized the trap.

Garen and Golden Lion ambushed Phantom’s CP0 force, and Garen revealed the destructive potential of Graphens’s Orca Fruit after killing him and taking his ability. He left Ricton badly injured and challenged Phantom to say whether he had learned Garen’s fighting style.

• Phantom ordered Graphens, Ricton, and dozens of CP0 agents to attack Garen while he held back to observe.
• Graphens transformed with his Orca Fruit and wounded Pudding with an ultrasonic attack.
• Garen killed Graphens with a sword strike, then used the recovered spell fragments to transform into a massive orca.
• Garen’s amplified ultrasound killed nearly all the CP0 agents and seriously injured Ricton.
• Garen raised his sword toward Phantom and asked whether he had figured out Garen’s fighting style.

Garen faced Phantom after defeating the other CP0 agents, and Phantom revealed that he had the Shadow-Shadow Fruit and used it to turn the dead agents into powerful zombies. Garen destroyed Zombie Ricton in a fist clash, but Phantom hinted that his next weapons were the Pacifistas aboard the nearby warship.

• Phantom used Spiral Finger Pistol to kill Ricton, then revealed that he had obtained Moria's Shadow-Shadow Fruit.
• Phantom placed powerful stolen shadows into the dead CP0 agents, reviving them as zombies, including Ricton.
• Zombie Ricton attacked Garen with Impact Destruction Cannon, but Garen countered with Chinjao Opener and destroyed its body.
• Phantom said his zombie army was only a batch of inferior products and pointed out the Pacifistas aboard the warship.

Phantom revealed an army of more than a hundred shadow-modified Pacifistas and unleashed them against Garen. Garen suppressed the army and struck Phantom, sealing his Devil Fruit Ability, then continued his assault.

• Phantom explained that he had turned the Pacifistas into intelligent Shadow Zombies, and more than a hundred formed ranks at his command.
• Garen sent Pudding away from the battlefield before the Pacifistas attacked him with enhanced laser beams.
• Garen countered the lasers with Ultimate Flash, then crushed the charging Pacifistas with Elbaf: Mighty Nation.
• Phantom used five Shadow Doppelgangers to evade Garen's first attack, but Garen caught him with Fatal Strike and Twilight of the Gods, temporarily sealing his Devil Fruit Ability.
• Garen followed up with Demacia and another Greatsword strike against the trapped Phantom.

Phantom used the Shadow-Shadow Fruit to form Shadow Armor and fought Garen head-on, surviving Garen’s Hero’s Spear with Life Return. Impressed by the armor, Garen attempted to copy the technique with his own shadow.

• Garen repeatedly hammered Phantom into the ground, but Phantom emerged unharmed and charged at him.
• Phantom combined his five Shadow Doppelgangers with Armament Haki to create Shadow Armor and caught Garen’s greatsword.
• Phantom restrained Garen’s sword with shadow tentacles and attacked with Shadow Blade Burst, but Garen destroyed the attack with Hero’s Spear.
• Garen called his greatsword back, dragging Phantom into his punch, and Phantom used Life Return to soften his body and absorb the blow.
• Garen praised Phantom’s Shadow Armor and used Shadow Doppelganger to begin forming armor from his own shadow.

Garen copied Phantom’s Shadow-Shadow Fruit ability, overwhelmed Phantom’s forces, and drove him to flee toward a warship. There, Phantom unveiled a special Pacifista built from the corpse Garen had delivered to the World Government.

• Garen transformed his armor with the Shadow-Shadow Fruit and struck Phantom with shadow tentacles, driving him deep into the ground.
• Phantom sent the zombie Pacifistas to attack, but Garen shielded himself from their lasers and destroyed many with spikes erupting from beneath the ground.
• Phantom used the Pacifistas as a distraction and attacked Garen with Giant Wheel Rokuogan, but Garen’s Laurent’s Eye of the Mind nullified the blow.
• Phantom fled through the air, while Garen pursued him and the remaining Pacifistas tried to hold Garen back.
• Phantom reached the warship, where a mechanical zombie emerged from below deck, and he revealed it was a special Pacifista made from a powerful corpse Garen had delivered to the World Government.

Garen fought Phantom’s mechanical Zombie Golden Lion, a powerful Pacifista built from Golden Lion’s corpse and animated by a shadow. After the zombie failed to stop him, Phantom fled, but Garen prepared to pursue him with his own Golden Lion.

• Garen recognized Phantom’s weapon as Zombie Golden Lion and learned that it combined Golden Lion’s body, Vegapunk’s modifications, and a powerful shadow.
• Phantom ordered Zombie Golden Lion to attack, and it unleashed a Kizaru-style Yasakani no Magatama barrage that nearly broke Garen’s Shadow Shield.
• Zombie Golden Lion charged through Garen’s defenses with six laser blades, then attacked his core with Ama no Murakumo.
• Garen countered with Myriad Tentacles, overwhelmed Zombie Golden Lion, and sent it crashing onto the warship’s deck.
• Garen realized Phantom had used the zombie to cover his escape and noted that he had a Golden Lion of his own.

Phantom fled Garen, only to be cornered by Golden Lion, who attacked him in a rage over his mechanical Zombie Golden Lion’s bald head. Garen and Golden Lion defeated Phantom and prepared to read his memories, while Garen salvaged the Zombie Golden Lion and told the furious Golden Lion he would have to sacrifice himself for justice.

• Phantom escaped Garen, but Ghost Golden Lion caught up with him and attacked after seeing the bald Zombie Golden Lion.
• Golden Lion trapped Phantom with sword attacks and a meteor shower, but Phantom split into five shadow clones to flee.
• Garen left Zombie Golden Lion behind and caught Phantom with a light-and-darkness attack, ending his escape.
• Phantom absorbed more than a hundred powerful shadows, but Garen’s Shadow: Ultimate Flash disrupted the transformation, and Garen and Golden Lion subdued him.
• Garen stopped Golden Lion from killing Phantom so they could read his memories, then retrieved Zombie Golden Lion from the sea.
• Garen said Judge could repair Zombie Golden Lion and told Golden Lion to sacrifice himself for justice.

Garen killed Phantom, took his memories and Devil Fruit power, and impersonated him to infiltrate the CP0 operation. He arrived with Pudding disguised as Stussy and intimidated the senior agents into accepting his command.

• Garen ordered the Germa scientists to salvage the Pacifistas and repair Phantom’s warship so he could use it in his disguise.
• Garen extracted Phantom’s memories, killed him, and used the Dark-Dark Fruit to obtain the Shadow-Shadow Fruit.
• Three days later, Garen and Pudding, disguised as Stussy, arrived at the CP0 agents’ island aboard the repaired warship with the surviving Pacifistas.
• When an agent questioned the absence of Ricton and Graphens, Garen claimed they had been assigned a secret mission.
• Garen attacked the questioning agent with Hasshoken, passing it off as Six King Gun, and the remaining agents accepted his authority.

The Revolutionary Army arrived at Cake Island to join Garen’s forces and learned that he had already infiltrated Kaido’s alliance and planted agents across enemy ranks. In Wano, Garen, disguised as Phantom, convinced the CP0 agents that their mission was to eliminate Kaido, then silenced one who questioned the story.

• Dragon led the Revolutionary Army’s commanders and senior officers to Cake Island, where Nami explained that Garen had captured the Pacifistas and taken out Stussy and Phantom.
• Nami revealed that Garen had disguised himself as Phantom and reached Wano as Kaido’s ally, while Golden Lion and Navy Admiral Issho were also undercover agents for Garen.
• The Revolutionary Army officers realized that Garen had already placed allies inside Kaido’s camp and the Navy, and Sabo celebrated the advantage this gave them.
• At Onigashima, Garen, disguised as Phantom, had Pudding check the CP0 agents’ quarters for listening devices before telling the agents their real mission was to eliminate Kaido.
• Garen claimed that Garen was an ally of the World Government and that his rebellion was a ruse to deceive Kaido; when an agent questioned the story, Garen punched him and forbade further questions.

Garen, posing as CP0 agent Phantom, explained why the World Government had delivered only sixty of the promised Pacifistas and challenged Kaido’s subordinate Queen to prove his strength. Garen overwhelmed Queen with shadowy arms and launched him through the cave ceiling, leaving the Beasts Pirates waiting for him to return.

• Kaido confronted Garen over the missing and damaged Pacifistas, and Garen claimed the World Government could provide only sixty because the weapons were still in testing.
• Garen insisted that his own strength could make up for the missing Pacifistas and offered to demonstrate it, prompting Queen to volunteer as his opponent.
• Queen transformed into a giant scorpion and attacked Garen with a heavy pincer followed by a venomous stinger.
• Garen used shadowy tentacle arms to stop Queen’s stinger, seize him, and blast him through the cave ceiling.
• When Queen did not return after half a minute, Garen told the worried lackeys to wait and let the scorpion fly for a while.

Garen, disguised as Phantom, demonstrated his overwhelming strength against Kaido’s top performers, Queen and King, while Kaido watched. After Garen incapacitated both men, Kaido accepted his offer to help kill Garen, unaware that Phantom was Garen himself.

• Queen recovered from Garen’s earlier attack and charged him again while Kaido observed their fight.
• Garen formed Shadow Armor and used Flash Step Rend to cut Queen from head to tail before Queen could react.
• King intervened to protect Queen, blasted Garen with golden flames, and blocked Garen’s Scattering Bats with a Flame Barrier.
• Garen used a shadow doppelganger to appear behind King and strike him with a Six King Gun, sending him crashing from the sky.
• Kaido stopped the fight, admitted Garen’s strength was sufficient, and agreed that Phantom would help him kill Garen.
• Garen assured Kaido that taking Garen’s head would be effortless, concealing his identity as Phantom.

Garen attended Kaido’s war council and persuaded the alliance to take the fight to Garen’s territory, exploiting Kaido’s confidence and the others’ trust in his analysis. The Beasts Pirates mobilized their forces, and a secret message warned Demacia and the Revolutionary Army that Kaido’s army was on the move.

• Kurozumi Orochi arrived at Onigashima and respectfully greeted Kaido, Golden Lion, and Phantom.
• Kaido asked his allies and commanders how to kill Garen, and Garen urged them to launch an immediate invasion.
• Shiryu warned that leaving Wano Country’s natural defenses could be dangerous, while Kurozumi Orochi worried that Wano Country would be left vulnerable.
• Garen argued that Garen’s new territory was unstable and that his sense of justice would force him to defend it, persuading Kaido to attack.
• The Beasts Pirates gathered troops, weapons, supplies, and warships for the invasion.
• Someone secretly sent Demacia and the Revolutionary Army the message, “The eel has entered the sea. Prepare to haul in the net.”

Nami revealed that her secret weapon was a plan to use replicated Heat-Heat and Snow-Snow Fruit powers to accelerate and direct a hurricane toward Kaido’s fleet. As the storm began to form, the Revolutionary Army watched in awe, while Kaido’s fleet remained unaware of the danger ahead.

• Kaido led an eighty-thousand-strong expeditionary fleet from Wano Country toward Garen.
• Garen and the Revolutionary Army waited nearby in airships, and Nami delayed battle preparations while explaining her weather-based secret weapon to Dragon.
• Nami calculated how to accelerate a natural air vortex into a hurricane and issued an operation plan to her officers.
• Hundreds of officers used imitation Heat-Heat Fruit candies to boil the sea while Snow-Snow Fruit users created blizzards overhead.
• The opposing temperatures intensified the air vortex, creating dark clouds, lightning, and fierce winds as the hurricane began to form.

Kaido's vast fleet sailed toward battle, but an unpredicted hurricane battered it and threatened to destroy his military power. As the storm overwhelmed the ships, Kaido asked Golden Lion to help lift them out of danger.

• Kaido's navigator reported that the weather was safe, and Kaido ordered the fleet to keep sailing despite his lingering unease.
• An unnatural gale struck the fleet, wrecking ships and killing crew before the sailors could lower their sails.
• Kaido threw the navigator through three decks, then transformed into a dragon to investigate the storm.
• Kaido found a massive hurricane with towering waves and realized it could destroy his fleet and his standing as one of the Four Emperors.
• Kaido asked Golden Lion to make the ships fly and promised to give him anything in return.
• Golden Lion agreed to help Kaido, calling him a friend.

Golden Lion rescued six Beasts Pirates ships from the hurricane, then scattered them across the sky so Garen’s forces could attack them separately. King and Queen faced the Revolutionary Army, while Golden Lion and defecting Impel Down prisoners ambushed Shiryu’s ship, leaving both groups under attack.

• Golden Lion lifted six ships carrying Kaido, King, Queen, Shiryu, and other key figures above the hurricane, leaving the rest of the fleet to sink.
• Golden Lion secretly separated the six ships, and Kaido saw Garen’s airships approach as King and Queen spotted the Revolutionary Army closing in on their vessels.
• King dodged Lindbergh’s Freeze Ray Gun but was slowed by ice, then recognized Sabo, Betty, Lindbergh, Karasu, Ivankov, and Morley among the attackers.
• Golden Lion stabbed Shiryu from behind, but Shiryu called on his Impel Down subordinates to fight back.
• Evil King, Catalina, Big Barrel, and other major prisoners betrayed Shiryu and joined Golden Lion, who ordered them to capture the ship’s crew alive.

Garen, disguised as Phantom, turned on Kurozumi Orochi aboard a floating warship and led the CP0 agents into battle against Orochi’s samurai. After Orochi dodged his sneak attack and their duel began, Garen blocked Orochi’s sword technique with ease and prepared to strike back.

• Garen persuaded Kurozumi Orochi to bring the CP0 agents aboard his ship, then attacked him from behind with a shadow blade.
• Kurozumi Orochi dodged the attack because he instinctively distrusted strangers standing behind him, and both sides prepared to fight.
• Garen ordered the CP0 agents to cripple the Wano Country samurai without killing them, and the two groups clashed across the ship.
• Kurozumi Orochi attacked Garen with Phantom Demon Slash, but Garen blocked the two swords with a shadow-coated armguard.
• Garen mocked Orochi’s grandiose sword technique, knocked his blades aside, and began a Shadow Swordsmanship counterattack.

Garen defeated Kurozumi Orochi with a feint and a hidden shadow-blade attack, causing Orochi’s samurai to surrender. After Orochi accused him of shamelessness, Garen openly agreed and peeled a layer of face from his own face.

• Garen overwhelmed Kurozumi Orochi with Shadow Strike and Shadow Judgment, then pierced his chest with a second shadow blade and wounded his vital organs with Shadow Thorns.
• Kurozumi Orochi collapsed to his knees, and the Wano Country samurai lost heart and surrendered to Garen’s side.
• Kurozumi Orochi accused Garen of shamelessly using a second blade after announcing a single-blade technique.
• Garen mocked the World Government’s lack of scruples and admitted he had no shame.
• Garen peeled a layer of face from his own face and tossed it to the ground before Kurozumi Orochi and the CP0 agents.

Garen revealed that he had killed the real Commander Phantom, executed Kurozumi Orochi, and forced the CP0 agents to pledge allegiance to his uprising. Meanwhile, Sabo and the Revolutionary Army fought King and Queen; King escaped the aerial battle only to be attacked by the CP0 agents.

• Garen revealed his identity to the CP0 agents, admitted he had killed the real Commander Phantom, and declared that he opposed the World Government.
• Garen killed Kurozumi Orochi and demanded that the CP0 agents either join his uprising or die; they submitted and pledged allegiance.
• Sabo used the imitation Rumble-Rumble Fruit to fight King, while the Revolutionary Army's officers besieged King and Queen.
• King unleashed a Flame Hurricane, escaped the Revolutionary Army's encirclement, and flew toward the floating ships seeking help.
• The CP0 agents attacked King and claimed they were undercover agents, following Garen's orders.

Dragon confronted Kaido while Garen’s forces moved to eliminate Kaido’s allies, but Kaido tried to flee after realizing Garen was not present. Enel and over a hundred temporary Rumble-Rumble Fruit users combined their lightning into a colossal Thunder God, leaving Kaido’s escape blocked by a force neither he nor Dragon had expected.

• Dragon confronted Kaido and blocked his path while Garen’s airships arrived, and Kaido’s frightened subordinates watched him transform and flee.
• Dragon intercepted Kaido, countered his Dragon Breath with Sky Dragon Wing Strike, and stopped his charge with Sky Dragon Hook.
• Kaido pushed through Dragon’s attacks and tried to escape toward the sea, while Dragon doubted the reinforcements would be strong enough to stop him.
• Enel led Zephyr, Cavendish, Hajrudin, Chinjao, and over a hundred temporary Rumble-Rumble Fruit users into the sky.
• Enel formed the Thunder God’s head as the other lightning users fused their power into its body, creating a Thunder God over a thousand meters tall.

The giant Thunder God overwhelmed Kaido with lightning and kept him trapped in an electric net while its users repeatedly renewed their temporary abilities. After the Thunder God finally collapsed, Kaido tried to flee but saw five airborne warships approaching, realizing his teammates had been killed.

• Kaido tried to escape, but the Thunder God struck him with God's Judgment and paralyzed him.
• The Thunder God bound Kaido with Thunder God's Whip and repeatedly electrocuted him, while his rapid healing kept him alive.
• When the first group of temporary ability users renewed their knockoff Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers, Garen's staggered rotation tactic kept the Thunder God at full strength.
• The Thunder God continued roasting Kaido until it finally withdrew its electric net and collapsed into clusters of electric plasma.
• Kaido recovered enough to consider fleeing, then saw five airborne warships approaching and realized his teammates were dead.