Recaps

Garen entered the Grand Line, faced Mihawk and Crocodile, and became entangled in the struggle over Alabasta. After refusing Crocodile’s offer and drawing Robin away from Baroque Works, Garen attacked the organization’s senior agents to gain strength.

• Garen took control of Goa Kingdom’s defenses after exposing nobles’ ties to piracy and criminal networks, while Wallace defended the purge as a campaign against crime.
• Garen left the kingdom with Nami and Vivi, fought the Ironclad Pirates, and saved his crew from Laboon before learning that the rescued scientist Kentucky had been forced to work for pirates.
• Garen met Mihawk, withstood his sword attack, and agreed to travel with him for training before Mihawk left him near Alabasta.
• Crocodile offered Garen half of Alabasta, but Garen refused and reported Crocodile and Robin’s forbidden research to Marine Headquarters.
• Garen challenged Crocodile’s public standing by defeating pirates and doing charitable work, while Crocodile ordered Robin to win Garen’s trust and find the Poneglyph.
• Robin offered to switch sides, and Garen refused her knowledge of the Poneglyphs before declaring that he wanted Baroque Works and bringing her to meet its senior agents.
• Garen fought the Baroque Works agents, killed Mr. 5 and Miss Merry Christmas, injured Mr. 3 and Bon Clay, and chased Miss Valentine into the sky after she abandoned Miss Goldenweek.
• Garen caught Miss Valentine and slammed her onto a damaged ship, then told her he would kill her for her past killings.

Garen defeated Crocodile, helped end Alabasta’s rebellion, and recruited Robin before accepting a Shichibukai appointment. On Moria’s ship, he clashed with the Marines and Rayleigh, then faced Cavendish as a second personality took control.

• Garen spared Miss Goldenweek and Bon Clay, then helped Vivi end the rebellion by using Nami’s rain calculations to convince Koza to surrender.
• Garen defeated Crocodile in the rain, freed Robin, and recruited her after revealing his plans to oppose the World Government.
• King Cobra made Garen Count of Alabasta and granted him Rainbase, while Garen publicly framed Crocodile’s defeat as a defense of the government’s order.
• Garen accepted Garp’s offer to become a Shichibukai and established a research institute in Rainbase to develop an airship.
• Garen attacked Moria’s ship, killed Absalom and Hogback, and agreed to spare Moria and Perona while Onigumo arranged to report Moria dead.
• Garen signed the Shichibukai appointment as Rayleigh arrived with Cavendish, who had come to rescue Faruru.
• Onigumo attacked Rayleigh, while Cavendish stabbed Garen and was knocked unconscious by Demacian Justice before rising under the control of his second personality.

Garen defeated Moria and Rayleigh, then crossed paths with Sabo, Ace, and Teach in Water 7 while arranging an airship and a Sea Train project. He secretly turned CP9’s mission against the Revolutionary Army into a trap for Lucci, then staged his own defeat and left CP9 believing Teach had killed him.

• Garen fought Rayleigh, who gave him Shusui before Garen destroyed Moria’s ghost ship and sent the sword to Tashigi.
• Garen’s supposed Celestial Dragon identity fueled rumors, while Sabo recovered his memories and learned that Garen had killed his family.
• In Water 7, Sabo and Koala confronted Garen, but Garen showed them evidence of the Autluk Family’s crimes and reunited Sabo with Luffy by Den Den Mushi.
• Garen persuaded Franky to build him an airship, then fought Ace and Teach when they came to the shipyard, sealing Ace’s Devil Fruit power and overpowering Teach.
• Garen arranged for Galley-La to build Sea Trains for Demacia Company and revealed to CP9 that he knew their identities before joining their operation against the Revolutionary Army.
• Garen led Lucci into a trap with Sabo, Hatchan, Ace, and Teach, and the group killed Lucci while Ace hid the fight from the other agents.
• Garen and his allies staged a fight, with Teach appearing to defeat Garen as Sabo and Hatchan escaped and Garen told CP9 that Teach had killed him.

Garen fought Golden Lion Shiki with Kuzan, saved the people of Nine Serpent Island, and took Shiki’s ghost and treasures into his service. At Sabaody, Garen encountered Rayleigh, took Perona from a slave trader, and entered an auction where Teach was also pursuing a mysterious Logia Fruit.

• Whitebeard named Teach commander of a new Zero Division, while Garen returned to Alabasta and Franky completed the Big Salted Fish airship.
• Kuzan confronted Garen over Robin, but Garen stood by her through Kuzan’s punishing test and then took him aboard the airship toward a nearby Sky Island.
• Garen and Kuzan fought Golden Lion Shiki, and Garen disabled Shiki’s Float-Float Fruit before striking him with Excalibur.
• Garen evacuated Shiki’s enslaved villagers and fought the island’s beasts, while falling ice devastated Amazon Lily and Shiki recruited Hancock against Garen.
• Garen defeated Hancock and helped Kuzan exhaust Shiki, but Shiki killed himself to bring his floating island down on Amazon Lily, and Garen then controlled Shiki’s ghost and claimed his treasures.
• Garen recruited Hancock’s Nine Serpent Pirates and kept her with him to teach him Haki, then traveled with Kuzan and the others to Sabaody.
• Garen stopped Rayleigh from selling Perona to traffickers and took her into his care, while Teach arrived seeking a mysterious Logia Fruit at auction.
• Garen decided to bid on the Logia Fruit, entered the auction house with Hancock and his companions, and handed Perona to Hancock for safekeeping.