Recaps

Garen and Dragon trapped Kaido in a powerful storm, then Garen and the officers used stacked gravity to crush him and send him plunging into the sea. Kaido disappeared beneath the waves after crashing into the ocean.

• Kaido attacked Garen’s airships with Dragon Breath, but their Float-Float Fruit users evaded the flames.
• Garen and Dragon struck Kaido from above and below, then used Taunting Shout and Raging Cyclone to trap him in a fused tornado.
• Garen ordered Zephyr and the other officers to use the Press-Press Fruit and form a Gravity Array above Kaido.
• More than a hundred temporary ability users stacked their gravity, crushing Kaido’s dragon body and sending him falling toward the sea.
• Kaido crashed into the ocean at tremendous speed and was swallowed by the waves.

Garen pursued Kaido into the sea and used his unusual abilities to overwhelm him despite the seawater. Kaido escaped the sea and transformed to flee, only to collide with Garen’s colossal Dragon Form.

• Garen followed Kaido into the sea, where Kaido’s Dragon Form was sealed but his modified body quickly healed his injuries.
• Kaido believed Garen’s abilities were also suppressed underwater, but Garen used the Wind-Wind Fruit to create a powerful seawater vortex.
• Garen combined the vortex with Fish-Man Karate to crush and cut Kaido inside a massive spiraling water sphere.
• The collapsing current launched Kaido out of the sea, and he transformed into Dragon Form to escape.
• Kaido flew into Garen’s enormous Dragon Form, which blocked his path and left him crawling across Garen’s body.

As Garen’s victory over Kaido seemed certain, Evil King persuaded Golden Lion’s prisoners that they could seize the New World with a hidden weapon capable of defeating Garen. Garen’s colossal golden Dragon Form shook the sky and sea, but Evil King renewed his confidence in the glowing green stone he held.

• An Impel Down prisoner questioned Golden Lion’s plan after noticing Garen’s powerful allies, but Golden Lion dismissed his concerns and claimed he had his own methods.
• Evil King convinced the prisoners that Golden Lion could use a treasure to defeat Garen, then seize Demacia’s and the Beasts Pirates’ territories and rule the New World.
• Garen emerged from the clouds in a Dragon Form tens of kilometers long, and its movements rocked the sea and shook the floating ships for three minutes.
• The prisoners asked Evil King whether a monster like Garen could be killed, and Evil King’s ambition briefly faltered before he saw Golden Lion’s calm demeanor.
• Evil King reassured himself that Golden Lion’s treasure would work and tightly gripped the green-glowing stone in his pocket.

Garen returned after killing Kaido and ordered his subordinates to collect the Mythical Zoan Fruit’s energy. Evil King then attacked him with a Kryptonite knuckle duster, and Garen was genuinely injured, leaving him curious about who would bring Kryptonite to challenge him next.

• Garen rose from the sea with Kaido’s mangled corpse and told his subordinates to use the Dark-Dark Fruit to collect its Devil Fruit energy.
• Golden Lion reminded Garen that Evil King and the other prisoners were still waiting, believing the story about Kryptonite.
• Evil King mistook Garen and Golden Lion’s private conversation for a tense standoff and quietly crept toward Garen.
• Evil King struck Garen with a green Kryptonite knuckle duster and followed with a punch that bruised Garen’s face.
• Golden Lion asked whether Kryptonite was real, and Garen admitted he wanted to see which hero would bring it to him next.

Garen let the Evil King publicly expose kryptonite’s power to weaken him, then revealed that Golden Lion had secretly switched sides and helped kill the Evil King. With the Impel Down escapees cornered in the sky, Garen prepared to fight them, becoming especially fired up after seeing Catalina’s Nine-Tailed Fox abilities.

• The Evil King used kryptonite knuckle-dusters to subdue Garen and threatened Dragon and the others while holding him hostage.
• The Evil King called on Golden Lion to help them escape, but Golden Lion stabbed him from behind, freeing Garen to mortally wound him with his greatsword.
• Garen told the dying Evil King that Golden Lion had become his ally and abandoned the escapees, and the Evil King died in a rage.
• Garen ordered an attack on Catalina, Big Barrel, and the other Impel Down escapees, who had no way to flee the floating platform.
• Catalina revealed her Nine-Tailed Fox abilities, and Garen began imagining using the Dark-Dark Fruit to take them before charging at her.

Garen defeated Catalina and the remaining Impel Down fugitives, then claimed the Devil Fruits and territories left behind by Kaido’s forces. As Dragon asked about the future, Garen proposed uniting Demacia and the Revolutionary Army as the League of Heroes.

• Catalina transformed into a seductive beauty and tried to beg Garen to spare her, but he resisted her sorcery and killed her and the other trapped fugitives.
• Garen assessed the spoils of war, including Kaido’s territories and several Devil Fruits, among them Catalina’s Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit.
• Garen imagined spending the night with Nami, but Dragon mistook his thoughts for concern about the coming conflict with the World Government.
• Garen outlined plans to take over Wano Country, liberate workers, train troops, and prepare for war.
• Garen proposed that Demacia and the Revolutionary Army merge into a single organization called the League of Heroes.

Garen united Demacia and the Revolutionary Army as the League of Heroes, establishing its leadership and a Hero Association to organize ordinary people who fought for justice. As the Five Elders prepared to crush the new alliance, they learned of Kryptonite, a stone that had nearly killed Garen, and decided to seize it.

• Garen persuaded Dragon, Sabo, and the Revolutionary Army leaders to join Demacia in forming the League of Heroes.
• Delegates established the League with Garen as Speaker-General and Dragon as Deputy Speaker, and created the Hero Association with ranked heroes.
• News of the League's founding spread worldwide, while the Five Elders learned that Garen had taken Wano Country and cut off the World Government's Sea Stone supply.
• The Five Elders learned that Golden Lion had joined the League and that Stussy had betrayed the World Government, helping explain Kaido's defeat.
• A Five Elder reported that Evil King had nearly killed Garen with Kryptonite from a sealed Sea Stone mine, and the Five Elders resolved to obtain the stone.

Kuzan faced the growing conflict between the Navy and Garen’s League of Heroes as Garen launched a propaganda campaign at Marine Headquarters. Kuzan suppressed a brewing mutiny, but the Marines’ trust in the World Government and their Fleet Admiral had already begun to erode.

• Kuzan learned that the World Government had declared Garen and the League of Heroes its foremost enemy, leaving the Fleet Admiral trapped between his Navy and his ally.
• Garen’s airships dropped crates of pamphlets, Den Den Mushi, and projection devices over Marine Headquarters.
• The Marines watched a broadcast in which Stussy and Caesar Clown exposed the World Government’s crimes and secret experiments.
• Kuzan ordered the Marines to confiscate the propaganda and devices, suppressing a possible mutiny.
• Some Marines cursed Kuzan as a Celestial Dragon lapdog, leaving him feeling wronged.

Garen returned to Rainbase to evacuate Vivi, Robin, Hancock, and the Demacia branch before the World Government could use them against him. He prepared to take them to the New World, but Robin misunderstood his request to discuss history as a romantic advance.

• Garen and Golden Lion flew from Wano Country to Rainbase, where Vivi, Robin, Hancock, and the branch executives awaited them.
• Hancock threw herself into Garen's arms, and Garen also drew the bashful Vivi into an embrace.
• Vivi said King Cobra was safe as a member-state king but warned that he disliked Garen's reputation as a princess killer.
• Garen told Hancock to have the Kuja warriors board a ship so he could fly everyone to the New World.
• Garen called Robin over to discuss history, but Robin thought he was proposing a relationship and blushed as he insisted she could not refuse him.

Garen gave Robin a notebook containing his invented account of the Void Century, which portrayed Demacia and the League of Heroes as the original force for justice and the World Government as their corrupt successors. Robin questioned some of the story but accepted its purpose, and Garen ended by describing himself as the heir to Demacian Justice Theory who would bring down the World Government.

• Garen told Robin that his notebook contained the hidden truth of the Void Century, then admitted he had invented the history himself.
• Robin read Garen’s account of Demacia’s founding of the Demacian Alliance and its eventual corruption by royal families.
• Garen’s story described the nineteen royal families establishing the World Government after the alliance collapsed, while the Nefertari Family remained loyal to Demacian ideals.
• Robin read that the World Government erased Demacian history and that the Will of D was actually Demacian Justice Theory, prompting Garen to denounce bloodline-based ideas of inheritance.
• Garen concluded his invented history by casting himself as Demacia’s heir, who would spread its ideology and bring the World Government to an end.

Garen persuaded Robin to help fabricate Demacia ruins on a deserted island and present them as Laugh Tale, planning to use the discovery to end the Great Age of Pirates. Robin agreed to design the site, then silenced Garen when he began suggesting ways to profit from the fake artifacts.

• Robin accepted that Garen’s version of history could become the world’s official account, even if her own research was buried.
• Garen showed Robin Nami’s map and an aerial photograph of a deserted island and asked her to create fake Demacia ruins, artifacts, and ancient inscriptions.
• Garen explained that he would present the ruins as Laugh Tale and claim the Pirate King’s treasure had already been found, hoping to end the Great Age of Pirates.
• Garen argued that people would trust his claim because Roger’s crew had never publicly described Laugh Tale, and he planned to use gold, Poneglyphs, media, and Buggy to support the story.
• Robin agreed to design the fabricated ruins, but used her Flower-Flower Fruit to shut Garen’s mouth when he proposed auctioning the fake artifacts.

Garen traveled to Fish-Man Island to protect Shirahoshi from the World Government, but told Neptune he had come to fulfill the promise by bringing the whole island to the surface. With Golden Lion's help, he raised Fish-Man Island into the sky, letting its people see the sun for the first time.

• Garen arrived at Ryugu Palace with Vivi, Robin, and Hancock, where they met the enormous Shirahoshi and Neptune.
• Garen warned Neptune that the World Government might target Fish-Man Island, and Neptune offered to send Shirahoshi away with him.
• Garen clarified that he intended to move all of Fish-Man Island rather than take Shirahoshi away alone.
• Garen and Golden Lion used the Float-Float Fruit to lift Fish-Man Island from the seabed and carry it toward the surface.
• Fish-Man Island emerged into the sky, and Neptune and the island's residents wept as they basked in sunlight.

Garen moved Fish-Man Island toward Wano Country and learned that CP0 had sent a top agent called Thunder God to search for Kryptonite. At Wano’s Sea Stone mine, the agent, Kuroda Raiga, tried to trick the League’s guards into letting him inside, but they offered to retrieve the bodies for him instead.

• Garen brought Fish-Man Island toward Wano Country, where Shirahoshi excitedly explored the sunlight and sea above the water.
• Spandam told Garen that CP0 had dispatched a top agent codenamed Thunder God to Wano Country to find Kryptonite.
• Garen realized that the World Government was sending the agent into a trap, since Kryptonite would soon be offered for sale.
• Kuroda Raiga arrived at the guarded Sea Stone mine with his retainers and claimed he had come to recover the remains of former fellow prisoners.
• The League’s guards believed Raiga’s story but refused to let him enter, offering to retrieve the bodies for him instead.

Raiga and Bell failed to enter the guarded Sea Stone mine and returned to Kuri to plan another way to steal the Kryptonite without alerting Garen. There, Ace and Teach were looking after Tama, and Teach transformed into a pink dragon to give her a ride.

• Raiga begged the League soldiers to let him retrieve his companions' bodies, but they refused and said he needed permission from a high-ranking League officer.
• Bell wanted to fight the guards, but Raiga stopped him and explained that they needed to avoid drawing Garen's attention before finding the Kryptonite.
• Raiga returned with Bell to their base in Kuri and worried that the mine's defenses made a quiet theft nearly impossible.
• Ace stayed in Wano Country to look after Tama after learning she was safe, and Teach had spent several days helping him babysit her.
• Tama asked to ride Teach's dragon, so Teach summoned his anger at Garen, transformed into a pink dragon, and let her climb onto his head.

Garen secretly staged a performance to make CP0 agents believe they had discovered valuable Kryptonite, but Ace and Teach’s unexpected arrival forced him to change the plan. Raiga gained their help getting into the Sea Stone mine, while Garen watched the operation head off course.

• Garen tracked Raiga’s CP0 group and prepared a staged street fight that would let them take Kryptonite and make it seem valuable to the World Government.
• Garen halted the actors when Ace, Teach, and Tama appeared, and Raiga recognized the two pirates as potential allies who could help his group reach the mine.
• Tama feared Bell, so Raiga had Bell use Life Return to transform his fur into a panda-like pattern, charming Tama and the people nearby.
• Raiga told Ace a moving story about recovering his brother’s body, and Ace promised to help him enter the mine.
• Teach suspected something was wrong but joined Ace, and the two pirates accompanied Raiga’s group toward the Sea Stone mine as Garen lamented the performance accident.

Raiga and the other CP0 agents entered the sealed Sea Stone Mine under the cover story of recovering Raiga’s dead brothers, while Ace insisted on helping them dig. After a long search, Ace uncovered a huge glowing piece of Kryptonite, and the group’s real intentions became impossible to hide.

• Garen arranged for Ace, Teach, and Raiga’s group to enter the mine shaft where Kryptonite had been found and sealed away.
• Raiga claimed his brothers had been buried in the shaft, and Ace and Teach helped persuade the mine worker to get permission for them to enter.
• Teach realized the group had come to steal Kryptonite but pretended not to know, while Raiga tried to send Ace and Teach away.
• Ace insisted on helping excavate the mine, forcing Raiga, Teach, and the CP0 agents to dig alongside him.
• After Ace unearthed dozens of skeletons, he found a person-sized glowing piece of Kryptonite, drawing every watcher’s attention.

Teach rescued Ace from Raiga’s attack but let the CP0 agents escape with the Kryptonite, hoping to avoid trouble. Ace insisted they pursue the agents, leaving Teach trapped in the collapsed mine and helping him dig out.

• Ace recognized the glowing stone as Kryptonite and tried to carry it to the Alliance, but Raiga attacked him with Finger Pistol.
• Teach dodged the attack and protected Ace, while Raiga admitted that he and the others were CP0 agents and Bell took the Kryptonite.
• Ace attacked Bell with Fire Fist - Fire Pillar, but Bell blocked the flames with his fur and then collapsed the tunnel to cover the agents’ escape.
• Teach secretly felt relieved that the agents had taken the Kryptonite, but Ace insisted they catch up and stop them.
• Ace and Teach dug through the rubble together, and Teach warned Ace to put out his fire before he used up the oxygen.

Raiga split the CP0 agents into separate groups to escape with the Kryptonite while Garen secretly arranged to let one agent get away. Ace and Teach caught up with Raiga and Bell, but Bell revealed his overwhelming strength and knocked Ace unconscious.

• Raiga and the other agents broke out of the mine, split the Kryptonite, and scattered in different directions, with Bell staying beside Raiga as bait.
• Garen sent pursuit teams after the fleeing agents but ordered them to let the one heading southwest escape.
• Ace and Teach flew ahead of Garen and confronted Raiga and Bell in a forest.
• Raiga attacked with a sword, but Ace easily overcame his sword strike, surprising Garen with Raiga's apparent weakness.
• Bell unleashed his Mink Tribe Electricity and struck Ace with Thunderous Wrath Claw, sending him flying and leaving him unable to fight.
• Bell declared that he was Thunder God, and Garen realized he had mistaken Bell for Thunder God's keeper.

Teach tried to protect the unconscious Ace from Bell's attack, but Garen arrived and fought Raiga and Bell. Raiga and Bell restrained Garen with Kryptonite, leaving Teach stunned and tempted by the chance to act against his sworn enemy.

• Teach shielded Ace from Bell's electrified Thunder Chariot, taking the impact and rescuing Ace from the ground.
• Raiga stopped Bell from attacking Teach, and the two CP0 agents began to flee until Garen arrived and struck Bell with his greatsword.
• Teach tried to leave with the unconscious Ace while Raiga and Bell decided to use Kryptonite to kill Garen.
• Bell held Garen in a crushing bear hug while Raiga wrapped a Kryptonite rope around his neck.
• Raiga and Bell celebrated after Garen appeared subdued, while Teach dropped Ace and considered taking advantage of the situation.

Garen faked weakness after being captured with Kryptonite, manipulating Teach into choosing between killing him and preserving his good-person reputation. Teach saved Garen, and Garen warned him that he would have to keep pretending to be good for the rest of his life.

• Teach considered killing Garen when Raiga's punch sent Garen flying into his reach.
• Garen pretended to be helpless and begged Teach to remove the Kryptonite as Raiga and Bell urged Teach not to save him.
• Teach crushed the Kryptonite and helped Garen up, choosing to protect his reputation and avoid betraying a companion.
• Garen revealed that he had baited Teach into exposing his true nature and said he had never been a good person.
• Garen told Teach to keep up his benevolent mask for life, and Teach tearfully declared that he was a good person.

Garen’s forces surrounded Raiga and Bell, who fought back as Bell revealed the destructive power of his Giant Bear Fruit and Raiga prepared an artificial moon. Bell transformed into Sulong, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Garen called down Golden Lion and the hidden Alliance officers, forcing Teach to join Garen against Raiga and Bell.
• Bell transformed into a fifty-meter-tall bear and unleashed the devastating Ultra Wheel - Thunder Six King Gun, while Garen shielded his allies with Laurent's Eye of the Mind.
• Raiga activated and threw a mysterious sphere into the sky, where it hovered and glowed like a moon.
• Bell transformed after staring at the artificial moon, and Golden Lion recognized the device as the key to triggering Sulong.

Bell used his Sulong transformation to escape with Raiga, but Garen intercepted them and fought Bell alongside Golden Lion. Teach’s dragon breath accidentally caused Raiga’s death beneath Bell’s paw, driving Bell to charge Teach while Garen praised Teach for drawing his fury.

• Bell transformed into Sulong form, kept his sanity, and used Rokushiki: Soru to flee with Raiga on his back.
• Garen caught Teach and raced after Bell, then intercepted him; Golden Lion joined Garen in attacking the giant bear.
• Teach attacked Bell from a distance with Scorching Dragon Breath, striking Raiga as he jumped from Bell’s back.
• Raiga fell beneath Bell’s paw and died, and Bell blamed Teach and charged at him in a rage.
• Garen called the incident an artificial taunt and praised Teach, who cursed him after being flattened by Bell’s paw.

Garen and Golden Lion helped Teach survive Bell’s relentless attack, and the group finally defeated Bell after a day-long battle. Garen then revealed he had the Dark-Dark Fruit and recovered Bell’s Devil Fruit energy, leaving Teach devastated over his lost dream as Ace praised him for saving his life.

• Garen struck Bell to give Teach a chance to escape, then he and Golden Lion attacked Bell while Bell kept pursuing Teach.
• Bell fought on for an entire day before collapsing and shrinking back to his original form.
• Garen praised Teach for drawing Bell’s attacks, then used a black candy to manifest the Dark-Dark Fruit and recover Bell’s Devil Fruit energy.
• Garen told Teach he had taken the Dark-Dark Fruit to keep him from becoming a criminal and revealed that his candies could temporarily grant its powers.
• Ace woke up, saw Teach’s injuries, and praised him for saving his life, making Teach cry even harder.

Garen asked Ace and Teach to bring Whitebeard a proposal for the Whitebeard Pirates to join the League of Heroes while retaining their flag, territories, and internal governance as a special zone. Ace accepted the idea of peaceful evolution and agreed to discuss it with Whitebeard.

• Garen explained that the League opposed pirates but considered the Whitebeard Pirates' protection of civilians different from criminal piracy.
• Garen invited the Whitebeard Pirates to join the League, promising not to seize their members, property, or territory.
• Ace rejected the proposal at first, saying Whitebeard and the crew would not abandon their pirate identities.
• Garen offered a compromise: the Whitebeard Pirates could keep their flag and governing system in a special zone if they joined the League and obeyed its laws.
• Teach questioned whether Garen would preserve the special zone after Whitebeard and the older crew members died, and Garen argued that the crew could eventually evolve beyond its pirate identity.
• Ace accepted Garen's proposal in principle and promised to ask Whitebeard to consider it.

The Five Elders discussed how to force Garen into a war and decided to invade his East Blue territory to seize League members as hostages. They chose Kizaru to lead the Navy operation and ordered him to take a piece of Kryptonite for protection.

• Two CP0 agents returned to Holy Land Mariejois with two pieces of Kryptonite after Bell and the other senior agents died in Wano Country.
• Churchill and the Five Elders agreed that the World Government needed to confront Garen, while Gorbachev warned that attacking his forces in the New World would be dangerous.
• Gorbachev proposed targeting League members in East Blue to force Garen to respond, and Lincoln argued that the Navy should lead the operation while CP0 supported and supervised it.
• The Five Elders rejected Fujitora as commander and chose Kizaru, whose speed could help him escape if he encountered Garen.
• The Five Elders ordered Kizaru to deploy to East Blue and take one piece of Kryptonite with him.