Recaps

Luffy despaired after learning Garen had found One Piece, while Zoro and Sanji reminded him that a lost dream did not end his journey. In Syrup Village, Kuro recruited Morgan to help him murder Kaya and steal her fortune, dismissing Morgan’s warnings about Demacia’s presence on the island.

• Luffy slumped in despair over Garen finding One Piece, and Sanji worried that he might never recover.
• Zoro told Sanji that a setback would not stop them from pursuing their dreams, and Sanji resolved to keep searching for All Blue and to confront Garen over Reiju.
• Zoro revealed his precise swordsmanship by smoothing a brick wall with his blade, then ordered Sanji to bring mortar.
• Kuro told Morgan that the Black Cat Pirates had been captured and might reveal that Kuro was alive, so they needed to escape Syrup Village with money.
• Kuro persuaded Morgan to attack Kaya’s estate and kill her so they could take her wealth and flee, and Morgan agreed.
• Morgan warned Kuro that Demacia flags and a military camp were visible on the island, but Kuro dismissed them as harmless construction workers.

Kuro brought Kaya to the construction site so Axe-Hand Morgan could stage her assassination, but he discovered that several powerful families’ heirs were working and eating there. Kuro tried to stop Morgan, but Morgan entered and announced his robbery before Kuro could warn him off.

• Kuro accompanied Usopp and Kaya to the construction site, where he planned to have Axe-Hand Morgan kill Kaya and disguise the murder as an attack by an escaped convict.
• The workers welcomed Usopp with laughter and teased him about his stories, while Kaya and Kuro were surprised by the delicious food.
• A worker told Usopp that Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji had powerful family connections, and Usopp confirmed some of the claims by checking the book he carried.
• Kuro realized the danger of involving the powerful heirs, ran out of the cafeteria, and tried to signal Morgan to leave.
• Morgan ignored Kuro and entered the construction site, announcing that he had come to rob them.

Axe-Hand Morgan robbed the construction site, where Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji confronted him and discovered he had mastered Armament Haki. The trio began overpowering him with their teamwork, and Zoro launched a rebar-inspired sword technique as Morgan fell toward him.

• Morgan threatened the workers and raised his Haki-coated axe, prompting Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji to step forward.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji recognized Morgan's Armament Haki and eagerly challenged him instead of backing down.
• Zoro blocked Morgan's full-force axe strike and knocked him back, while Luffy and Sanji joined the fight.
• Luffy used his rubber arms and the scaffolding to launch Morgan into the air, and Sanji struck him with a spinning kick.
• Zoro prepared to attack Morgan with his rebar-inspired sword technique, Steel-Cutting Flash.

Kuro revealed himself as Kuro of a Hundred Plans and ambushed Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji, giving himself and Axe-Hand Morgan the advantage. The Ace Construction Crew stepped forward to defend their men, showing Kuro that the workers were far stronger than he had assumed.

• Axe-Hand Morgan, badly wounded by Zoro, realized Kuro was his only hope, while Kuro decided to stop hiding and launched a surprise attack on Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji.
• Kuro wounded Zoro’s sword arm and Sanji’s leg, revealed his identity to Kaya and the others, and vowed to kill everyone present.
• Kuro and Axe-Hand Morgan gained the upper hand as Kuro repeatedly slashed Luffy and Zoro and Sanji struggled to fight while injured.
• Usopp prepared to join the fight, but the foreman stepped forward and challenged Kuro on behalf of the construction workers.
• The construction workers displayed their strength by wielding heavy materials with ease, and the foreman twisted steel bars into a club as he warned Kuro not to underestimate the Ace Construction Crew.

Kuro fled Syrup Village after the Ace Construction Crew overwhelmed him, but the workers pursued him in a cola-powered ship and drove him toward a Navy fleet. Seeing a chance to turn his pursuers into enemies of the Navy, Kuro reported that Dragon’s son was aboard the ship behind him.

• The Ace Construction Crew joined Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji in fighting Kuro and Axe-Hand Morgan, forcing Kuro to flee while Morgan was left helpless.
• The foreman ordered the workers to chase Kuro after seeing Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji injured, and Kuro escaped Syrup Village in a small boat.
• The workers pursued Kuro aboard a cola-powered ship, while Luffy launched stones, steel ingots, and bricks at his boat.
• Kuro encountered a Navy fleet ahead and realized the Navy had become Demacia’s enemy.
• Kuro waved to the Navy officers and claimed that Dragon’s son, leader of the League bandits, was aboard the pursuing ship.

Kizaru captured Luffy, Sanji, and Kuro after Kuro revealed their identities to the Marines. Garen learned that the captives had been split between two groups and chose to rescue Sanji first, while deciding to use Luffy’s capture to push Shanks into action.

• Kuro told Kizaru that Luffy was aboard the cola ship and that Sanji was Garen’s brother-in-law, so Kizaru captured Kuro and set out to seize the ship’s passengers.
• Reiju told Garen that Kizaru had captured Sanji and Luffy while they were pursuing a pirate near Syrup Village.
• Garen asked Kuzan for information and learned that CP0 had sent Luffy toward Marine Headquarters separately while Kizaru escorted Sanji through the Calm Belt.
• Garen chose to rescue Sanji first, reasoning that Luffy was protected by Garp, Kuzan, and Fujitora and that his whereabouts were unknown.
• Garen told Reiju to inform Shanks that Luffy had been captured, hoping to persuade the Red Hair Pirates to stop remaining neutral.

Garen tried to persuade Kizaru’s Navy fleet to surrender, first appealing to the soldiers and then broadcasting Zephyr’s testimony. When the Navy refused, Garen used blaring loudspeakers to draw Sea Kings toward the warships, leaving the fleet in danger.

• Navy soldiers guarding Sanji debated their treatment of him and voiced doubts about serving the World Government.
• Garen arrived with League of Heroes airships and urged the Navy soldiers to join his cause rather than fight their fellow supporters of justice.
• Zephyr broadcast his condemnation of the World Government, shaking the fleet’s soldiers and officers, while loyalist officers restored order.
• A Navy loyalist refused to surrender, so Garen continued broadcasting the speeches at punishing volume.
• A Navy officer realized the noise had attracted Sea Kings in the Calm Belt, and Garen turned the loudspeakers up further while leaving the Navy to choose whether to surrender.

Garen’s propaganda and the Sea Kings’ attack pushed the Marine fleet toward mutiny, prompting Kizaru to fight back. Garen neutralized him in midair, and Kizaru surrendered after realizing he could not win.

• Garen’s amplified voice roused waves of Sea Kings, and Marine officers cut down the first attackers before a larger second wave emerged.
• As the Marines faced mounting Sea King attacks, soldiers began throwing down their weapons, and an officer urged Kizaru to act.
• Kizaru used Yasakani no Magatama to destroy the Sea Kings and bombard Garen’s airships, but Dark Cloak shields protected the vessels.
• Garen confronted Kizaru, who tried to suppress him with a green stone, but the stone had no effect and Garen sealed Kizaru’s Devil Fruit Ability with a dark tide.
• Kizaru admitted that the Kryptonite legend was false and surrendered, saying he had tried and could not defeat Garen.

After Kizaru surrendered with the Marine fleet, the Five Elders announced war and ordered Luffy’s public execution. Ace, Whitebeard, and Shanks joined the effort to rescue him, leaving the coming conflict poised to grow into a massive upheaval.

• Kizaru surrendered to Garen, and the Marines laid down their weapons before the ghost Golden Lion lifted their fleet clear of the Sea Kings.
• Garen’s report portrayed Kizaru’s surrender as the start of a rebellion, prompting the Five Elders to mobilize for war and announce Luffy’s execution.
• Ace asked Whitebeard to let him rescue Luffy, and Whitebeard decided that the entire crew would go with him.
• Shanks learned that Whitebeard was joining the war and told Benn Beckman to inform Garen that he would help rescue Luffy.

Garp and Sengoku visited Luffy in prison and were shaken by the World Government’s unjust treatment of him. Fujitora persuaded them to oppose the coming war, and Kuzan joined them, leaving the Navy’s top figures ready to act together.

• Garp and Sengoku visited Luffy in Marine Headquarters prison under CP0 escort and saw him shackled and imprisoned despite his innocence.
• CP0 stopped Garp from approaching Luffy, deepening the two old Navy men's anger and doubts about their loyalty to the World Government.
• Fujitora asked Garp and Sengoku whether the war served justice and revealed that he was working with Garen to prevent it.
• Sengoku agreed to join Fujitora's effort, and Garp tacitly accepted as well.
• Kuzan arrived and joined Garp, Sengoku, and Fujitora in deciding to end the war together.

Sengoku worried that the Navy would split between commanders who opposed the World Government and Akainu’s loyalists, while Kuzan said Garen had a way to resolve the problem. After Garen spoke with Akainu and Spandain presented the Five Elders with a suspicious recording, they summoned Akainu for questioning.

• Sengoku identified the Navy’s Dove, Slacker, and Hawk factions and feared a clash with Akainu and the other Hawk commanders.
• Kuzan told Sengoku that Garen had a way to prevent the Navy from turning against itself.
• Garen called Akainu and reminded him of their agreement, and Akainu answered without rejecting the possibility of their future cooperation.
• Spandain brought the Five Elders a wiretapped recording of the call and claimed it showed Akainu colluding with pirates.
• The Five Elders debated whether the recording proved treason, then ordered Spandain to invite Akainu for a proper talk.

Akainu tried to restore discipline among demoralized Marines, but CP0 agent Spandam publicly accused him of colluding with Garen. A wiretapped call exposed Akainu’s connection to Garen in front of the troops, leaving his identity as an undercover agent revealed.

• Akainu found Onigumo struggling to control a young officer who questioned the war, then rebuked the officer and demanded that the Marines obey orders.
• Spandam arrived with CP0 agents and announced that they had come to arrest Akainu for secretly colluding with Deffs.
• Spandam accused Akainu of being Garen’s ally, shocking the Marines and prompting Akainu to demand evidence.
• Spandam played a recording of a call between Akainu and Garen, and Akainu’s angry reaction confirmed that the conversation was genuine.
• The Marines realized Akainu had secretly been working with Garen, exposing him as an undercover agent.

Akainu was publicly framed as a rebel and forcibly taken from Marine Headquarters by Golden Lion under Garen’s plan. After Garen revealed the trap, Akainu accepted that he could not return to the World Government and agreed to join the Alliance.

• Akainu agreed to go with Spandam to meet the Five Elders, while the Marines misread his compliance as heroic defiance and nearly mutinied to rescue him.
• Golden Lion arrived at Marine Headquarters, claimed Garen had sent him to help Akainu, and urged Akainu to return to the Alliance.
• Luo used Akainu’s preserved brain tissue to freeze his body, allowing Golden Lion to carry him away as the Marines watched.
• Garen had Luo restore Akainu’s control aboard the airship, and Akainu accused Garen of setting a trap.
• Akainu realized the World Government would no longer trust him and agreed to join the Alliance.

Imu ordered the Five Elders to join the coming war after they admitted the World Government had only a fifty-percent chance against Garen’s growing alliance. As the League of Heroes prepared for battle and revealed its intelligence, Smoker and Tashigi weighed whether to defect, while red cloth for signaling a rebellion proved impossible to find.

• Imu questioned the Five Elders about Akainu’s defection and ordered them to take the field in the final battle.
• At the League of Heroes’ prewar meeting, Garen presented detailed intelligence about Marine Headquarters and its defenders.
• Akainu asked why Garen had not counted the Navy’s hundred thousand troops, and Garen said everyone on the deployment map was already on their side.
• Smoker remained torn over joining Garen, while Tashigi told him Navy soldiers planned to wear red cloth to signal their support for the League.
• Smoker asked Tashigi to get him red cloth, but she returned with red ink after the shops had sold out of red clothing.

As the World Government assembled its forces for a live-broadcast execution to lure Garen out, the Marines revealed their secret unity by tying red cloth around their arms and rising against the Five Elders. The chapter ended with the entire Marine army bearing red marks while the Five Elders stood isolated.

• The World Government gathered its forces at Marine Headquarters and broadcast the battlefield worldwide as the Five Elders waited for Garen.
• Smoker noticed Marines, including Onigumo and Doberman, secretly gripping red cloth they had prepared.
• The Five Elders ordered Luffy brought to the execution platform and threatened to kill him unless Garen appeared within half an hour.
• Garp leaped onto the platform, declared his loyalty to justice rather than the Celestial Dragons, and tied red cloth around his arm.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, Blue Pheasant, and Fujitora joined Garp on the platform and marked their arms with red cloth.
• The one hundred thousand Marines followed their leaders, tying red cloth or using their own blood to mark their arms and openly rebelling against the Five Elders.

Garen arrived at Marine Headquarters as the Marines rebelled against the World Government and surrounded its remaining forces. The Five Elders and their allies launched an assault, deciding that killing Garen was their only chance to turn the battle around.

• The Five Elders saw that one hundred thousand Marines had surrounded the government agents, Celestial Dragon guards, and Pacifistas, and realized the rebellion had been planned by Kuzan and the other Marine leaders.
• Kuzan and Sengoku declared that the Marines were acting to uphold justice, while Kong warned that defeat would unleash a threat from the Holy Land; Fujitora urged the rebels to press on.
• Garen descended with more than a hundred alliance heroes and rallied the Marines, then offered the government agents and guards a chance to surrender and keep their Heroic Association positions.
• CP0 Chief Solaris refused Garen's offer and revealed that he was an elite Celestial Dragon, while threatening to kill anyone who surrendered.
• The Five Elders, Kong, and two CP0 fighters decided to target Garen and charged into battle, believing his death was their only chance.

The Marines and Garen’s forces overwhelmed the World Government remnants as Garp and Kong began a fierce duel and the Five Elders tried to reach Garen. Five Elder “Churchill” trapped Sengoku, Fujitora, and Blue Pheasant in a spatial barrier, but their combined attacks began to break it while his four companions advanced toward the front lines.

• Garen’s forces and the Marines opened fire on the World Government remnants, while Garp asked Tsuru to watch over Luffy before confronting the Five Elders and Kong.
• Garp and Kong exchanged powerful punches, creating a shockwave that nearly sent Luffy rolling off the execution platform.
• The Five Elders tried to break through the Marine commanders, but Fujitora’s gravity attack slowed them, and Five Elder “Churchill” stayed behind to confront the Marines.
• Five Elder “Churchill” raised an iron-curtain barrier that isolated Sengoku, Fujitora, and Blue Pheasant from Fujitora’s gravity field.
• Sengoku, Fujitora, and Blue Pheasant struck the barrier in succession, cracking it as Five Elder “Churchill” struggled to hold it while his four companions advanced toward Garen.

Five Elder Gandhi faced Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates to buy time for the other Five Elders to reach Garen. He revealed the Compassion Fruit’s power, forcing Shanks’s crew to contend with their own sympathy as Gandhi stood in their way.

• The four Five Elders encountered Shanks and his crew, and Gandhi stayed behind so the other three could advance toward Garen.
• Yasopp fired Haki-coated bullets at the departing Five Elders, but Gandhi cut them apart with First Generation Kitetsu.
• Shanks challenged Gandhi to a sword fight, but Gandhi sheathed his blade and declared that he needed to hold off the entire Red Hair Pirates crew.
• Gandhi charged into Shanks’s sword aura without defending himself and suffered severe wounds.
• Gandhi revealed that his Compassion Fruit released a mental shock when he was badly injured, stirring sympathy and weakening the crew’s resolve.
• Gandhi spread his arms and blocked Shanks’s path, leaving his fate dependent on whether the crew could maintain its killing intent.

The three Five Elders fought their way through the League’s forces as they tried to reach Garen, but Whitebeard, Akainu, and Kizaru blocked their path. The Five Elders faced an increasingly formidable line of enemies and were left exhausted.

• Teach attacked the Five Elders with Dragon Claw, but Lincoln blocked him with his giant axe.
• Vista joined Teach, but Lincoln repelled both of them with a single shake of his axe.
• Whitebeard intercepted the three Five Elders with a quake-infused naginata strike, and Lincoln countered with Cherry Blossom Slash.
• Akainu and Kizaru joined Whitebeard and confronted the Five Elders as traitors to the World Government.
• Whitebeard, Akainu, and Kizaru formed a defensive line that stopped the Five Elders from advancing toward Garen.

The Five Elders fought Whitebeard, Akainu, and Kizaru while one of them, Gorbachev, broke through to reach Garen. After Gorbachev’s Rupture ability defeated Jozu and cleared a path through the Whitebeard Pirates, Golden Lion blocked him and proved immune to the attack.

• Gorbachev volunteered to break through the battle and reach Garen while Lincoln and another Five Elder held back Whitebeard, Akainu, and Kizaru.
• Lincoln used Black and White Battle-Axe to destroy Akainu’s magma fist while taking Kizaru’s kick, creating an opening for Gorbachev to escape.
• Gorbachev used Rupture: Disintegration to grievously injure Jozu, then pushed past Teach, Ace, Vista, and the other Whitebeard Pirates.
• Gorbachev neared Garen and CP0 Chief Solaris, but Golden Lion descended to block his path.
• Golden Lion took Gorbachev’s full-power rupturing punch to the head without injury and explained that he had nothing left that could explode.

Solaris, the CP0 Chief, used his Mythical Zoan Phoenix Fruit to shield the World Government forces and attack Marine artillery, but Garen destroyed his Fire Spirits and overwhelmed him. Solaris was left isolated after the Five Elders were swallowed by the wider battle, and he considered using the green stone he carried.

• Solaris transformed into a giant fire phoenix and used Phoenix Impact to destroy an incoming cannon barrage in midair.
• Solaris created four Fire Spirits to attack Marine cannon towers and warships, but Garen destroyed all four with his body.
• Garen endured Solaris's Scorching Sun beam and answered with Ultimate Flash, causing a massive explosion over the harbor.
• Garen smashed through the remaining flames and struck Solaris, sending the giant phoenix flying.
• Solaris looked for help and saw that the Five Elders were occupied in the battle, then thought of the green stone he carried.

Solaris used the World Government’s supposed Kryptonite to strike Garen, but Garen survived and killed him. Solaris’s Phoenix Nirvana briefly became a blazing star before Garen kicked him into the sea, where the seawater extinguished his power and left him dead.

• Solaris charged through Garen’s tsunami and blade, pressing Kryptonite against Garen’s chest as he was impaled.
• Garen revealed that the stone had not stopped him, expanded into a giant, and pulverized Solaris’s torso with Death Descent.
• As he was dying, Solaris transformed and unleashed Phoenix Nirvana—Supernova, becoming a blazing sphere that scorched the sea and threatened Garen.
• Garen realized Solaris could not move in his Supernova form and kicked him into the ocean.
• The seawater extinguished Solaris’s flames, and his mangled corpse remained as CP0 Chief Solaris died.

After reaching Level 18, Garen gained Steadfast Bastion and used it to share his skills with Golden Lion, turning the tide against Five Elder "Gorbachev." The chapter left Golden Lion empowered with Garen’s abilities and Rupture power, while Gorbachev faced the pair in despair.

• Garen reached Level 18 and gained Steadfast Bastion, which let him cast non-targeted skills through a linked ally.
• Seeing Golden Lion’s Health Bar fall as he fought Five Elder "Gorbachev," Garen linked to him and shared Laurent's Eye of the Mind.
• Golden Lion blocked Gorbachev’s Rupture punch without losing health, then wounded him with a sword wave forced by the skill.
• Garen gave Golden Lion Courage, Spirit Turtle Stance, Fatal Strike, Twilight of the Gods, Justice Rage, and Great Demise, greatly increasing his strength and defenses.
• Garen used Klepto Hand to borrow Gorbachev’s Rupture power and share it with Golden Lion, leaving Gorbachev nearly in tears.

Garen and Golden Lion defeated Five Elder Gorbachev, forcing the remaining World Government forces to surrender and ending the war. Gorbachev then announced the dissolution of the World Government on a live broadcast, while Imu remained out of sight.

• Golden Lion and Garen overwhelmed Five Elder Gorbachev, and their Fatal Strikes left him unable to move.
• Garen rejected Gorbachev's warning about a world-destroying weapon and said he would bring the Celestial Dragons to trial instead of killing him.
• Garen announced the World Government's defeat, prompting the Marines and government forces to stop fighting and the other four Five Elders to surrender.
• The Alliance and Marines celebrated their complete victory, with no deaths among their forces and only a few hundred injured.
• Garen demanded that Gorbachev announce the World Government's end to the cameras, and Gorbachev declared that the World Government had dissolved.

After the World Government collapsed, Spandam led a rebellion in Mary Geoise, capturing Celestial Dragons and preparing to seize Pangaea Castle so he could win favor with Garen. The chapter ended with Spandam and his followers charging toward the Realm of the Gods.

• As the broadcast showed the Five Elders dissolve the World Government, Spandain panicked and decided to flee Mary Geoise with Spandam and his hidden fortune.
• Spandam pulled a gun on his father and claimed he had joined the League, then handcuffed Spandain and accused him of crimes against Nico Robin.
• Spandam and his followers rebelled across Mary Geoise, capturing Celestial Dragons and beating them while keeping them alive as gifts for Garen.
• Spandam looked toward Pangaea Castle and imagined earning a place in the new government by conquering it and offering its riches to Garen.
• Spandam led his followers toward Pangaea Castle, shouting, “Liberate Mary Geoise! Capture the Celestial Dragons alive!”