Recaps

Garen’s actions at Sabaody helped free hundreds of slaves, while Teach was captured and then rescued in a joint Whitebeard and Revolutionary Army raid on Impel Down. The prison escape descended into chaos as Magellan fought the escapees, while Whitebeard guarded the rescuers’ ship and Buggy was mistaken for his victor.

• Garen helped Teach kill Saint Idiote, then arranged for Golden Lion Shiki to free Sabaody’s slaves and lift Island 1 into the sky.
• Teach escaped the Admirals but was captured after Buggy’s attack, and the Marines prepared to execute him as Whitebeard and Sabo agreed to raid Impel Down.
• Garen gave the stolen Sand-Sand Fruit to Vivi, while Hancock chose to answer the summons to Marine Headquarters so she could stay near him.
• Ace, Sabo, and the Whitebeard Pirates broke into Impel Down, freed Teach, and fought their way through the prison without releasing its other Level Six prisoners.
• Garen defeated Doflamingo at Marine Headquarters, then flew with Kuzan toward Impel Down as Buggy followed them and secretly tried to escape.
• Whitebeard protected a Sea Stone Warship at the harbor, defeated Momonga and Byrnndi World’s group, and was mistaken by Marines for Buggy’s defeated opponent.
• Magellan attacked Teach and the escapees with poison, but Ace cleared the venom as Sanjuan Wolf broke through the floor and challenged Magellan.

Garen fought through the Impel Down escape and the Marineford battle, then rescued Hancock and defeated Enel on Sky Island. He returned to Rainbase with plans to recover Germa 66’s cloning research and hold a Sea Train groundbreaking ceremony in Cocoyasi Village.

• Garen killed Braun and several other powerful prisoners, reached Level 14, and used Death Descent to grow giant-sized before Sanjuan Wolf emerged from beneath Impel Down.
• Teach tried to use his claimed friendship with Garen to get the prisoners past him, but Garen refused to let the worst criminals escape as Whitebeard arrived and the battle began.
• Garen found and killed wounded Level Six prisoners, gained Klepto Hand, and collected spell fragments while fighting on the battlefield.
• Garen learned Hancock had entered Impel Down alone, transformed into a golden giant to defeat Sanjuan Wolf, and rescued her from the prisoners.
• Garen copied Magellan’s Venom-Venom Fruit and spread poisonous fog through Impel Down, forcing the Marines and pirate forces to retreat as Shiryu escaped with a captured warship.
• Akainu pierced Teach with magma after Whitebeard intervened, but Marco and Ivankov saved Teach aboard the warship while he learned that Akainu had destroyed two of his three hearts.
• Garen traveled to Sky Island and defeated Enel with an Armament Haki-coated greatsword, then returned to Rainbase with Hancock and discussed borrowing Devil Fruit powers.
• Kentucky told Garen he had hidden Germa 66’s cloning research in the North Blue, so Garen planned to retrieve it and hold the Sea Train groundbreaking ceremony in Cocoyasi Village.

Garen recruited Law and Baby 5, clashed with the Donquixote Family, and forced Reiju to help him reach Germa 66. After setting course for the New World, he left the airship alone to answer a call from twenty thousand meters away.

• Zoro, Luffy, and Sanji challenged Garen at the Cocoyasi banquet, but he defeated Zoro and Luffy, then trained them and helped Sanji accept Luffy’s invitation to join his crew.
• Tashigi resigned from Demacia Company to join Marine G-5, and Garen gave her a training manual that he later revealed was a mass-produced book, and copies of it reached Marines and aspiring fighters across the seas.
• Garen reopened Kentucky Fried Chicken on Swallow Island, met Law and his crew, defeated Law, and recruited them to work for him.
• The Donquixote Family came to the restaurant looking for Law, and Garen’s side fought Diamante, Baby 5, and Buffalo while Yonji and Reiju intervened.
• Garen recruited Baby 5 and captured Reiju and Yonji with Golden Lion’s help, then pressured Reiju to reveal Germa 66’s location and persuade Judge to cooperate.
• Reiju contacted Judge and falsely blamed the Donquixote Family for seeking Germa’s cloning technology, while Garen decided to travel toward the New World himself.
• Reiju removed poison from Nami after Garen kissed her, and five days later the group reached the Red Line, where Garen left the airship alone to answer a call from twenty thousand meters away.

Garen rescued Shirahoshi, ended the New Fish-Man Pirates’ rebellion, and promised to protect Fish-Man Island before leaving to confront Doflamingo. After exposing Vergo on Punk Hazard, he arrived at Germa 66, where Judge sought an alliance and a marriage tie.

• Smoker and Tashigi investigated the unrest on Fish-Man Island, while Shiliew’s escaped prisoners stole a Poneglyph and attacked Ryugu Palace.
• Garen found Shirahoshi and Fukaboshi in the deep sea, rescued them from Fix, and killed Vander Decken after he threatened Shirahoshi.
• Garen stopped Hody Jones’s rebellion, revealed Hody’s role in Queen Otohime’s murder, and promised to bring fish-men onto land and punish those who oppressed others.
• Garen subdued the slave traders on Fish-Man Island, threatened Doflamingo, and departed with Smoker and Tashigi to expose Vergo on Punk Hazard.
• Garen and Kuzan rescued the kidnapped children and defeated Vergo, whom Garen killed before Luo could take revenge himself.
• Garen left Smoker and Tashigi to escort the children home, then flew away as Kuzan and Akainu continued their duel on Punk Hazard.
• Judge ordered Reiju to seek an alliance with Garen against Doflamingo, while news of Garen’s marriage to Shirahoshi reached Nami and Germa 66.
• Garen arrived at Germa’s floating city, rejected Judge’s offered battle plans as unnecessary, and faced Niji’s challenge to spar.