Recaps

Longinus confronted Buggy at Baratie, then revealed that Douglas Bullet had been manipulating events and came to seize Buggy. Longinus refused to hand him over and prepared to arrest Bullet.

• Longinus struck near Buggy with a devastating punch that unleashed a tsunami but deliberately stopped short of hitting him.
• Longinus revealed that he had sensed Bullet beneath the sea, and Smoker identified the hidden opponent as Douglas Bullet.
• Bullet emerged aboard a whale-shaped submarine and demanded that Longinus hand over Buggy.
• Buggy tried to convince Longinus to arrest him, but Longinus dismissed his claims and refused to give him to Bullet.
• Longinus explained that Bullet wanted to use Buggy against Red-Haired over the Ancient Stone Tablet, then declared that he would arrest Bullet.

Bullet awakened his Devil Fruit and transformed into a three-hundred-meter Steel Beast, forcing Longinus into a massive battle at sea. Longinus knocked Bullet into the water, but Bullet rose again and tried to reach more islands to grow stronger as Longinus pursued him.

• Bullet awakened his Devil Fruit, merging the submarine, nearby ships, and Beast Island into a towering Steel Beast.
• Longinus met Bullet's first attack head-on, and their clash unleashed a shock wave that battered the sea and damaged the Baratie.
• Longinus and Bullet exchanged powerful blows; Longinus knocked off the Steel Beast's horn and sent Bullet crashing toward the sea, while the impact threatened to break apart the Baratie.
• Smoker ordered the Baratie to head for Orange Town and explained that Longinus was conserving stamina while Bullet's enormous body drained his strength.
• Bullet rose from the water and tried to reach more islands to grow stronger, but Longinus struck him again and forced him backward.

Bullet merged with the Catapult and attacked Longinus, but Longinus endured his barrage and proved too strong to hit. Bullet then destroyed the Sea Restaurant to threaten him, and Longinus protected everyone aboard; Bullet reappeared as an even larger giant in the clouds.

• Bullet merged with the Catapult and unleashed a barrage of Haki-reinforced cannons at Longinus, who charged through and struck him.
• Longinus explained that his body had been reinforced with Armament Haki, while Bullet failed to land a hit with his claws.
• Bullet aimed his cannons at the Sea Restaurant and destroyed the ship, but Longinus blocked the attack and saved everyone except Smoker from the blast.
• The survivors mistook Longinus for dead until he revealed he was unharmed, then they realized Bullet had disappeared.
• Bullet laughed from the horizon, appearing as a giant whose head was hidden among the clouds.

Longinus fought Bullet after Bullet fused into an enormous beast and gained the upper hand. When Bullet threatened Longinus’s companions to force him to hand over Buggy, Longinus activated Blast Form and knocked the giant into the sea.

• Bullet fused into a giant beast and struck Longinus into the sea, then claimed he was the strongest man in the world.
• Longinus rose from the sea and endured Bullet’s attacks, arguing that Bullet could not kill him and was not truly the strongest.
• Bullet demanded that Longinus hand over Buggy and threatened to kill everyone else if he refused.
• Longinus activated Life Return: Blast Form after deciding to arrest Bullet before facing Red-Haired.
• Longinus appeared at the giant beast’s chest and struck it with hundreds of punches, knocking it into the sea.

Longinus defeated Bullet and prepared to send him and Buggy to Impel Down, but Red-Haired arrived and asked to take them. Longinus agreed to release only one, and Red-Haired chose Buggy before sailing away.

• Longinus broke through Bullet’s fused beast form by attacking Bullet’s true body, then defeated him with a barrage of punches.
• The people of Orange Town celebrated Longinus’s victory, while Buggy tried to sneak away and was caught.
• Longinus said Buggy and Bullet would be imprisoned in Impel Down, and Buggy fainted at the news.
• Red-Haired arrived aboard the Red Force and asked Longinus to hand over Buggy and Bullet.
• Longinus agreed to release only one prisoner, and Red-Haired chose Buggy before leaving with him.

After Red-Haired left, Longinus offered compensation to the Sea Restaurant’s owners, who refused, before receiving alarming news. Aboard the Red Force, Red-Haired learned that Big Mom had returned from the final sea, and Beckman warned that the era was about to run wild again.

• Longinus told Smoker he had no reason to hide his decision to release Red-Haired, apologized to Zeff for the restaurant’s destruction, and offered to arrange compensation that the chefs refused.
• Longinus received a message that made him solemn, while Red-Haired and Beckman discussed his strength and his defeat of Bullet.
• A Red Force pirate reported that Kaido, Apophis, and Big Mom had returned from the final sea.
• Red-Haired and Beckman questioned how Big Mom could be alive despite her apparent death and the Soul-Soul Fruit’s reappearance.
• Beckman concluded that Big Mom’s return meant the era was about to run wild again.

Half a month earlier, Apophis’s ships found an island where the Charlotte Family had been stranded with Big Mom, and they encountered the Beasts Pirates. The Charlotte Family learned that Apophis had become one of the Four Emperors, leaving them worried about what awaited them if they escaped.

• Kaido went berserk above the ships, and Apophis swallowed the dark lightning before the clash tore open the clouds and whipped the sea into a storm.
• The crews spotted an island, while the Charlotte Family fought to keep Big Mom occupied and Oven burned the meat they were preparing for her.
• The Charlotte Family saw the approaching ships and hoped to seize them to return to the New World.
• Queen and King went ashore with their crew and found the ragged Charlotte Family, whose members recognized them as Beasts Pirates.
• Daifuku proposed that the Beasts Pirates help deal with Big Mom, and the pirate officers gathered around her.
• Enel declared that he served Apophis, and King explained that Apophis had founded the Demon Sword Pirates and become one of the Four Emperors, alarming the Charlotte Family.

Apophis interrupted Kaido and Big Mom’s battle, then discovered that Big Mom had lost her memories and was acting like a child. He agreed to take the Charlotte Family with him in exchange for an offensive and defensive alliance.

• King revealed that Longinus had become a Marine Admiral and killed the returned Golden Lion, shocking the Charlotte Family.
• Kaido arrived and struck Big Mom with his Wolf Fang Club, while Apophis appeared before the Charlotte Family.
• Apophis assessed Big Mom’s strength and stopped her fight with Kaido by slashing them apart, then gave Big Mom meat and Kaido booze.
• Big Mom treated Katakuri and Apophis as new friends and acted like a child, so Katakuri explained that she remembered only being seven or eight.
• Apophis ended the voyage and offered to take the Charlotte Family with him if they formed an offensive and defensive alliance, which Katakuri accepted.

News that Kaido, Apophis, and BIGMOM had returned from the Final Sea spread across the world, alarming the Revolutionary Army and Rayleigh. Apophis’s former territory became the site of Enel’s attack on the Red Hair Pirates, who were left nearly destroyed.

• Sabo and Koala debated Admiral Shirozou Longinus’s strength and reputation as Dragon read that Kaido, Apophis, and BIGMOM had returned from the Final Sea.
• Rayleigh and Shakky discussed Bullet’s capture, Apophis’s danger, and Rayleigh’s efforts to train Kuina to defeat him.
• Red Hair learned that Bullet had been captured and considered taking over the Barrett Pirates’ territory.
• The Red Hair Pirates discovered that their island had once belonged to Apophis and tried to evacuate.
• Enel struck the island with A Million Thunder, killing more than half the Red Hair Pirates and turning Red Hair to charcoal when he charged at him.

The Five Elders discussed the return of the pirates from the Final Sea and the Revolutionary Army’s growing threat, deciding to focus on Dragon while using the upcoming Reverie to pressure Big Mom. On Fish-Man Island, Longinus attended Queen Otohime’s speech and encouraged Shirahoshi to develop her ability to hear voices.

• The Five Elders worried that the returned pirates might have discovered the secret of Laugh Tale and considered provoking a conflict with the Big Mom Pirates.
• A report told the Five Elders that riots had broken out in the North Blue and South Blue and that four kingdoms had been overthrown, likely by the Revolutionary Army.
• The Five Elders decided to prioritize the Revolutionary Army and use the upcoming Reverie to encourage kingdoms oppressed by Big Mom to submit a joint proposal.
• Neptune and Shark Star discussed Fish-Man Island’s first attendance at the Reverie and agreed to avoid causing Longinus trouble.
• Longinus attended Queen Otohime’s speech and reflected on her mental influence through Observation Haki.
• Shirahoshi told Longinus she had faintly heard something about an agreement, and he encouraged her to keep developing her ability.

Three months later, Longinus attended a gathering of kings in the Holy Land and secretly gave Wapol a second personality. That night, the new personality used Wapol’s body to begin exploring the forbidden Gods' Domain.

• Longinus arrived at the Holy Land with Neptune, Shark Star, and Jinbe, where the kings and crowds greeted him with admiration.
• Wapol insulted Longinus and dismissed the Marines, but Longinus calmly let the confrontation pass.
• Longinus used his gaze and Observation Haki to create a second personality in Wapol, intending to use him to explore the Gods' Domain.
• After nightfall, Wapol’s second personality took control, considered the limits of the body, and slipped out to discover a route for a future invasion.

Longinus used Wapol’s body to sneak into Gods' Domain and test the defenses around a strange temple, but Wapol was erased as soon as he entered. Imu questioned the Five Elders about the intruder and ordered them to prevent anyone else from entering the temple.

• Longinus guided Wapol through Gods' Domain and spotted an ancient, columned temple that reminded him of the building where Imu kept the enormous straw hat.
• Longinus disguised Wapol as a Celestial Dragon and used Observation Haki to confuse the gate guards into letting him inside.
• Longinus staged a chase so Wapol could charge into the temple, but Wapol was instantly erased when he crossed its threshold.
• Longinus woke up in his room and concluded that the temple’s defenses had erased Wapol, while noting he could prepare better for another test.
• Imu questioned the kneeling Five Elders about Wapol’s intrusion, then ordered them not to let anyone else enter the temple.

After reclaiming Whole Cake Island, the Charlotte Family learned about major events from the past seven years and received news that the World Government was preparing to move against them. Katakuri decided they should seek help from Apophis as the family faced an uncertain threat.

• Charlotte Linlin happily ate roast meat during the family’s welcome-back banquet while Katakuri recounted events from the family’s seven-year absence.
• Katakuri told the family that Longinus had become the strongest admiral, prompting them to give up hope of revenge against him.
• Katakuri revealed that the King of the Near Sea had bitten off Red-Haired’s left arm, leaving the family bewildered.
• Katakuri and the Charlotte Family read a joint proposal from several kings accusing Big Mom of violating them and calling for war against the Big Mom Pirates.
• Katakuri warned that the World Government intended to move against the family, and he decided to ask Apophis for help.

Katakuri asked Apophis for reinforcements against the Marines, who had ordered a war against the Big Mom Pirates. As Kaido’s and Apophis’s forces gathered near Whole Cake Island, Katakuri warned that the Marines might not want to win and become too powerful.

• Katakuri called Apophis to request reinforcements, and Apophis agreed without asking for details.
• Apophis wondered why the World Government was so concerned about the pirate conflict and considered the consequences of Big Mom’s defeat.
• Sengoku convened the Marines’ top officers to discuss the war, and Longinus warned that Kaido, Red-Haired, and Apophis might intervene.
• A rear admiral reported that the Beasts Pirates and Demon Sword Pirates were gathering toward Whole Cake Island.
• Katakuri and the Charlotte family learned that the Marines were sending four Admirals and sixteen Vice Admirals, and Katakuri suggested the Marines might hold back to avoid becoming too powerful.

Katakuri explained why the Marines might restrain themselves from crushing the alliance of three Five Emperor crews, while warning his family that pirates’ disunity gave the Marines their strength. The Marine fleet reached Whole Cake Island and opened fire, and Kaido burst through Katakuri’s defensive shield.

• Katakuri told the Charlotte Family that the Marines’ unity against pirates made them powerful, and reasoned that overwhelming the three allied crews could provoke the World Government to pressure the Marines.
• Katakuri said his theory about the Marines holding back was only an analysis and hinted that he had other contingencies.
• A fleet carrying four Marine Admirals and sixteen Marine Vice Admirals arrived near Whole Cake Island, with Akainu commanding the operation.
• Akainu ordered fifty warships to open fire before the Marines exchanged words with the pirates.
• Katakuri awakened his Devil Fruit and raised an earthen shield, but Kaido transformed into a dragon and burst through it.

The Marines and the Big Mom Pirates clashed as Akainu and Kizaru attacked Kaido, while Longinus intercepted Kizaru’s laser and fought Apophis. The battle took an absurd turn when Garp and Charlotte Linlin stopped to share barbecue, leaving the other fighters stunned.

• Akainu’s magma attack hurt Kaido, and Kizaru fired a laser at him before Longinus redirected it toward the fleet and destroyed it.
• Apophis attacked Longinus through a Space Gate, and Longinus countered his sword strike with a kick.
• Garp launched himself at the approaching Big Mom Pirates’ fleet and landed embedded in its flagship deck.
• Charlotte Linlin offered Garp barbecue, and Garp overcame his suspicions to join her in eating.
• Akainu was distracted by Garp and Charlotte Linlin’s barbecue and was struck by Kaido.

Katakuri fought Aokiji to a standstill while Enel and Kizaru struggled to land hits on each other. King found that Issho’s gravity powers countered him, so he flew off to find another opponent.

• Aokiji ambushed Katakuri, but Katakuri dodged with Future Sight and the two clashed with ice and mochi attacks.
• Enel blanketed the area with lightning, but Kizaru evaded it and refused to fight him seriously.
• King crossed blades with Issho, whose gravity shattered their warship and forced King into his pteranodon form.
• Issho used gravity to disrupt King’s flight, but King escaped with powerful wingbeats and flew away to seek Enel.

Longinus and the Marines fought the pirate alliance in the New World until Red-Haired arrived and called for the war to end. The Five Elders also learned that Impel Down was under attack and ordered Akainu to send reinforcements, leaving him furious at their commands.

• Longinus overwhelmed Apophis while the Five Elders learned the Marines held the advantage in the New World battle.
• CP0 reported that Impel Down had been attacked, with Dragon suspected of seeking to free Ivankov and Inazuma, and then reported that the Red Hair Pirates were heading to the battlefield.
• Red-Haired arrived and demanded that the fighting stop, while Apophis put away his weapon and Akainu objected to being ordered around.
• The Five Elders told Akainu to send Kizaru and White Ram to Impel Down and end the war, but Akainu angrily challenged their treatment of the Marines.

Akainu ordered the Marines to retreat after the Five Elders ended their call, and Longinus prepared to return toward Impel Down. There, Dragon searched for Ivankov and Inazuma and found a prisoner willing to escape with him.

• The Five Elders hung up on Akainu, who punched the sea in anger before ordering the Marines to retreat.
• Garp chatted with Charlotte Linlin while Kaido demanded that the battle continue, and Akainu charged at him.
• Longinus told the Marines to withdraw and asked Aokiji to watch over Akainu while he and Kizaru headed back toward Impel Down.
• Dragon searched Impel Down for Ivankov and Inazuma but could not find them on the fifth or sixth levels.
• Dragon spoke with a curly-haired prisoner who knew Ivankov had disappeared, then agreed to take the prisoner along when he asked to escape.

Dragon freed Victor from Impel Down’s Level 6 and learned that Victor had been imprisoned after killing masked attackers. The two escaped through the prison, but Magellan confronted Dragon and tried to stop them as they fled.

• Dragon’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked out more than half the Level 6 prisoners, while Victor endured it without difficulty.
• Victor told Dragon that he had killed masked attackers who were setting fires and slaughtering people, then let himself be captured because dealing with them was troublesome.
• Dragon refused to rescue the beautiful lady and led Victor toward the exit, explaining that Magellan, CP0, and two Marine Admirals threatened their escape.
• When Magellan blocked the way with poison, Victor charged straight through the poisonous wall and continued ahead.
• Magellan unleashed Poison Giant: Hell’s Judgment, but Dragon scattered the poisonous mist with a hurricane and escaped.

Dragon escaped Impel Down with Victor, whose Wood-Wood Fruit had encased the prison in a vast sphere of vines. They encountered Longinus and Kizaru at sea, where Dragon and Longinus began fighting while Victor clashed with Kizaru.

• Dragon flew out of Impel Down and found Victor exhausted after using his Wood-Wood Fruit to trap the prison in a gigantic wooden sphere.
• Dragon carried Victor away, and Magellan, Shiryu, and the CP0 agents escaped the sphere too late to catch them.
• Longinus and Kizaru encountered Dragon and Victor in the sky, and Dragon refused to surrender.
• Dragon and Longinus exchanged powerful attacks, while Victor struck Kizaru and began fighting him.

Longinus and Kizaru fought Dragon and Victor, but the Revolutionary Army escaped after Dragon used a hurricane and Victor trapped the Navy officers. Longinus concluded that the Navy faced growing threats from both the pirates and the Revolutionary Army.

• Victor and Kizaru clashed, with Victor's rapid healing offsetting Kizaru's light attacks.
• Longinus and Dragon exchanged powerful martial arts blows, then Longinus activated his transformation and pursued Dragon through a hurricane.
• Longinus and Dragon traded nearly a thousand punches inside the hurricane before their clash caused it to burst apart.
• Victor bound Longinus and Kizaru with vines and dropped a giant wooden sphere into the sea while Dragon carried Victor away.
• Longinus and Kizaru escaped, and Longinus reflected that the Big Mom Pirates and Victor had strengthened the Navy's enemies.

Ace met Red-Haired Shanks, who urged him to explore the sea and grow before challenging its strongest figures. Ace reconsidered his reckless course and set out on a new adventure, while Marine Admiral Longinus learned that Ace had rejected the World Government’s Shichibukai invitation and entered the New World.

• Ace visited Red-Haired Shanks, introduced himself as Luffy’s brother, and joined the Red Hair Pirates’ welcoming banquet.
• Ace declared that he would become Pirate King by defeating the world’s strongest, and Shanks advised him to gain experience before challenging the summit.
• After the banquet, Shanks wondered whether Ace’s birthplace, Baterilla Island, connected him to something he should ask Senior Rayleigh about.
• Deuce warned Ace that he had become reckless, and Ace agreed to grow stronger before challenging the world’s pinnacle as the Spade Pirates began a new adventure.
• Commodore Skar told Longinus that Ace had rejected the World Government’s Shichibukai invitation and entered the New World.

Longinus learned that Ame no Habakiri had been found and was being carried toward the Gold City by the Blood Sail Pirates. He visited Vegapunk to ask how to put someone’s deep consciousness to sleep, then left the unconscious Kuma in the doctor’s care.

• Skar told Longinus that the Blood Sail Pirates had found Ame no Habakiri in the Mink Principality’s ruins and were fleeing toward the Gold City.
• Longinus visited Vegapunk’s deep-sea laboratory, where Kuma was undergoing mechanical modification and was about thirty percent mechanized.
• Longinus asked Vegapunk for a way to make a person’s deep consciousness fall asleep, and Vegapunk gave him an injection for the cerebral cortex.
• Vegapunk warned that using the injection could allow the person’s consciousness to return, but confirmed it could put him to sleep if necessary.
• Longinus left Kuma’s care to Vegapunk.

Ace and his crew discovered an Ancient Stone Tablet bearing a Poneglyph in an underground palace, where Blood Sail Hak arrived and challenged them for it. Ace struck Hak with his Logia powers, and Hak revealed he had a Supreme Great Sword, though his crew pointed out that he fought with a battle axe.

• Hak planned to hide on a deserted island after pirates blocked his route, and his crew praised his claim that fate had made him the future Pirate King.
• Ace accidentally triggered a mechanism that opened an underground tomb, and Deuce privately concluded that Ace seemed like the protagonist of a story because of his extraordinary luck.
• Ace and his crew found a Stone Tablet at the palace's deepest point, and Deuce identified it as an Ancient Stone Tablet recording the Poneglyph.
• Hak entered the palace and declared that he would take the Stone Tablet, while Ace insisted he would become the Pirate King.
• Ace attacked Hak with Flame Impetus, and Hak used Armament Haki to block the blow before revealing Ame no Habakiri as one of the twelve Supreme Great Swords.
• A subordinate reminded Hak that he usually fought with a battle axe, and Ace laughed at him.