Recaps

Longinus arrived at Impel Down to help contain the surge of escape attempts after Golden Lion's escape and met its guards and leaders. Shiryu revealed that Hancock was about to be demoted, while Longinus praised Magellan as the prison's best choice for Warden as they headed to the fourth level.

• Sengoku sent Longinus to reinforce Impel Down after Golden Lion's escape inspired a wave of escape attempts.
• Magellan welcomed Longinus and introduced him to Chief Guard Hancock and Deputy Chief Guard Shiryu.
• Shiryu confronted Hancock about his role in Golden Lion's escape and revealed that the Warden planned to demote him.
• Hancock broke down over losing his positions, while Magellan tried to comfort him.
• Longinus reassured Magellan and praised him as the most suitable manager of Impel Down as they proceeded to Scorching Hell.

Longinus toured Impel Down with Magellan and met Warden Alvis and Jailer Chief King, while learning about the prison’s leadership and its current predicament. Alvis revealed that Longinus was considered an extraordinary Marine, and Longinus recognized King as the future leader of the Beasts Pirates’ Three Calamities.

• Magellan escorted Longinus to Impel Down’s fourth floor, where they were summoned to the Warden’s office.
• Longinus met Warden Alvis and Jailer Chief King, who argued with Magellan before Alvis ordered them to settle down.
• Magellan explained that Shiryu had refused to come and Hancock was unresponsive after hearing he might be demoted.
• Alvis told King that Longinus was a renowned Marine monster and that Admiral Sengoku had high hopes for him.
• Magellan described King’s love of torturing prisoners and revealed that King had eaten the Ancient Species Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Pteranodon Form.
• Longinus recognized King as the future leader of the Beasts Pirates’ Three Calamities, King the Conflagration.

Longinus learned how Impel Down’s administrators planned to prevent a riot and considered how to pursue his own goals without exposing himself. After a Level 3 prisoner escaped and was killed by Shiryu, Longinus was summoned to a meeting with Alvis.

• Magellan explained that the Prison Beasts investigated prisoners who might have hidden their abilities while the administrators guarded against riots.
• Longinus settled into the former Prison Chief’s residence and weighed his plans to gain strength and earn Magellan’s and Alvis’s approval, deciding to proceed cautiously.
• An alarm reported that Giant Bar had escaped from a Level 3 cell and appeared near Cell 23.
• The prison announced that Shiryu had killed Giant Bar and lifted the alarm.
• A Prison Beast told Longinus to attend a meeting in Alvis’s office at nine, and Longinus encountered Shiryu wiping blood from himself.

Longinus stopped a disguised pirate from escaping Impel Down, revealing that a guard named Johnson was actually the pirate Butcher Ivan. After King took Ivan away for interrogation, Longinus warned that the string of coincidences surrounding the escape might point to something inevitable.

• King arrived with guards to inspect the level, and he and Magellan nearly came to blows after King taunted him.
• Longinus noticed a guard fleeing toward the passage to Extreme Cold Hell and struck him down with a Flying Shigan.
• Longinus claimed the fallen guard was an escaped pirate in disguise, and Magellan asked for proof.
• King restrained the guard with Seastone handcuffs, revealing him as Butcher Ivan, a pirate who had impersonated Johnson.
• King took Ivan to the Interrogation Room, while Magellan apologized to Longinus for doubting him.
• Longinus said that too many coincidences came together to become inevitability.

Longinus convinced Magellan that King might be conspiring with someone who controlled prisoners, then steered him into acting normal so the suspected plot would remain hidden. At a meeting with Alvis, Shiryu, King, and Hancock, the group discussed how to stop the prison breaks, but Hancock’s plan angered Alvis.

• Longinus suggested that King had diverted attention to help a disguised pirate escape, and Magellan blamed King for trying to ruin him.
• Longinus theorized that a hidden controller was using puppets to test the prison’s defenses, and warned Magellan not to confront King without evidence.
• Longinus privately planned to exploit the incident and told Magellan to behave as usual as they headed to Alvis’s office.
• Shiryu questioned Longinus and Magellan’s closeness, while King reported that he had killed the escaped pirate.
• Alvis called a meeting to devise a way to stop the prison breaks, and Shiryu proposed killing all the prisoners.
• Hancock proposed spreading a false report that he had recaptured Golden Lion and wearing the warden’s clothes, prompting Alvis to rebuke him.

Longinus proposed finding the prisoners who had hidden abilities and secured two weeks as temporary Prison Chief to do it. He told Magellan his Observation Haki let him hear unguarded thoughts, then learned that Count Patrick Redfield possessed a similar ability as Longinus prepared to expose the pirate working with King.

• Hancock accidentally revealed his ambitions, and Alvis silenced him while putting off punishment until later.
• King proposed demonstrating his interrogation techniques on the captured pirate escapees, but Magellan objected.
• Longinus proposed identifying prisoners who had concealed their abilities, and Alvis appointed him temporary Prison Chief for two weeks.
• Longinus privately told Magellan that his Special Observation Haki let him hear people's thoughts when they were off guard.
• Magellan revealed that Count Patrick Redfield, imprisoned on the sixth floor, had similar Observation Haki.
• Longinus warned that the pirate working with King might evade his detection, but said he would remove the pirate's puppets until he lost patience.

Longinus patrolled Impel Down’s Scorching Hell, capturing a disguised pirate and taunting Felix before entering Infinite Hell alone. The prisoners welcomed him with a surge of Conqueror’s Haki.

• Longinus identified a scar-faced pirate hiding his ability, and the guards captured him after he tried to flee.
• Longinus told Felix he had come to make sure he stayed alive because his Devil Fruit ability could be useful, then left as Felix was beaten by the guards.
• At the entrance to Infinite Hell, Longinus learned his guards could not accompany him because many prisoners wielded Conqueror’s Haki, and he entered alone.
• The prisoners discussed the powerful figures held in Infinite Hell, including Golden Lion, and mocked a newcomer’s lack of experience.
• More than a dozen prisoners unleashed their Conqueror’s Haki together as they welcomed Longinus.

Longinus failed to learn Count Red’s memory-reading ability but resolved to obtain it himself. Meanwhile, King and Naozu planned a prison riot to free Naozu and bring down Magellan.

• Count Red refused Longinus’s request to explain his innate ability, and Longinus left determined to obtain memory-reading on his own.
• Longinus reflected that Queen Otohime’s Oration Observation Haki was the only ability he had yet to acquire.
• Naozu complained to King that Longinus had exposed and removed nearly all the puppets he controlled.
• King and Naozu agreed to incite a riot on the first three floors, using mass suicide attacks to distract the prison staff while King freed Naozu.
• King revealed that he wanted to bring Magellan down because he refused to serve under someone he considered useless, and warned Naozu to kill himself if captured.

As prisoners rioted across the upper levels of Impel Down, King secretly killed a guard and freed Naozu in Extreme Cold Hell. When the other prisoners assumed King was helping them escape, he prepared to attack them.

• Alvis, Longinus, and Magellan received reports of coordinated riots on the first three levels and set out to inspect them.
• King killed a guard who had come to report Alvis's orders, then made his way to Extreme Cold Hell.
• King unlocked Naozu's cell and freed the prisoner, who had a history of inciting riots.
• The other prisoners realized King had opened a cell and poured out, asking him to free them too.
• King drew his blade and used Blazing Flame · Burning Ash against the prisoners.

King returned from Extreme Cold Hell after setting his plan in motion, then confronted Alvis, Magellan, Shiryu, and Longinus and escaped deeper into the prison. Longinus stayed behind to contain the rioting pirates while Alvis and Shiryu pursued King.

• King killed the pirates in Extreme Cold Hell, gave Naozu keys to free prisoners, and headed back upstairs.
• King faced Alvis, Magellan, Shiryu, and Longinus, rejected Alvis’s offer to return, and declared that he would never bow to a weakling.
• King broke through the floor toward the lower levels and sent keys flying into Scorching Hell’s prison cells; Longinus deliberately let most of them pass.
• Magellan jumped after King, while Alvis and Shiryu left Longinus to contain the pirates rioting in Scorching Hell.
• Longinus ordered the guards to hold the gate to Hunger Hell and destroy the elevator controls as he prepared to face the pirates alone.

Longinus slaughtered the pirates who had gathered in Scorching Hell, hiding the evidence by throwing their bodies into the flames. Meanwhile, Naozu led the escaped prisoners into a trap, where Longinus sealed the gates and confronted them.

• Longinus taunted the pirates in Scorching Hell, then killed them in a swift attack and disposed of their bodies in the fire below.
• Naozu used mental suggestion and the pirates’ gratitude to rally them into following him toward the surface.
• Naozu led the escapees toward Level 4 after discovering that the elevator was damaged.
• The escapees found Scorching Hell littered with corpses and discovered that the gate to Hunger Hell was locked.
• Longinus shut the gate to Extreme Cold Hell behind Naozu’s group and welcomed them to the real hell.

Longinus slaughtered Naozu’s weakened pirates while King escaped Infinite Hell and returned to Scorching Hell. King killed Naozu and attacked Longinus, and their clash left King buried beneath rubble as Longinus’s fist was badly burned.

• Naozu recognized Longinus and tried to rally his weakened pirates, but Longinus rapidly killed most of them.
• Naozu wrongly believed Longinus was exhausted, while Longinus continued fighting with strength replenished by the pirates he killed.
• King escaped Infinite Hell after Alvis chose to pursue the prisoners there, then flew through the prison toward Scorching Hell.
• King arrived as the battle neared its end and killed Naozu when he begged to be taken along.
• King dove at Longinus in flames, and Longinus met him with a glowing punch that sent King crashing through a wall beneath rubble.

Longinus fought King in Scorching Hell, steadily drawing out more of his strength as he upheld his conviction in Justice. He blasted King into the flames, but King emerged as a Pteranodon, bewildered by Longinus's growing power.

• Longinus explained that King's flames came from his conviction, and King accused him of hiding his strength before drawing his sword.
• King attacked with Blazing Flame Guillotine, but Longinus endured the slash, countered with a punch, and restrained King's Pteranodon beak with his hair.
• Longinus's Finger Pistols failed to pierce King's strong Armament Haki, and King taunted him about his stamina.
• Longinus and King clashed with Fist of Justice and Blazing Flame Storm, destroying much of Scorching Hell and opening a hole to Extreme Cold Hell.
• Longinus punched King into the sea of flames, but King emerged in Pteranodon form and questioned why Longinus had become even stronger.

Longinus continued fighting King as King tried to escape through Scorching Hell, but the battle was interrupted by the escape of Count Red and the arrival of Byrnndi World. King forced World to stay and help him by threatening to drag him down if he fled.

• King tried to fly into Hunger Hell, but Longinus clung to his back and stabbed him repeatedly with Finger Pistol.
• Count Red escaped from Extreme Cold Hell and continued toward Hunger Hell, while Longinus considered the consequences of letting him go.
• King deliberately crashed into Byrnndi World, who had just emerged into Scorching Hell, to prevent him from passing by.
• World recognized King as the one who had freed him but refused to help, so King threatened him and dove at him.
• World dodged King's attack and acknowledged that King was ruthless.

Longinus, King, and World fought in Scorching Hell, where King used World’s Devil Fruit ability to accelerate himself tenfold for a devastating charge. Longinus and King survived the clash, and King fled with World as Longinus emerged from the ruins nearly unharmed.

• World attacked Longinus with accelerated rubble, but Longinus dodged and countered while King charged at World.
• Longinus struck King with a Rokuogan before leaping away, and his clash with World sent both fighters flying.
• King asked World to accelerate living creatures, then had World use his power to make him ten times faster.
• King’s charge devastated Scorching Hell, burying Longinus in the ruins and leaving King stuck headfirst in the flames.
• King survived and warned World that Longinus was alive and that Alvis and the others would soon arrive, then fled toward Hunger Hell with World following.
• Longinus stood atop the ruins nearly unharmed, leaving World stunned by how powerful the era’s young fighters had become.

Longinus concealed the extent of his recovery and let others believe he had been badly wounded while stopping King. After Alvis promised to report Longinus’s contribution and prepared to leave the warden’s post, Longinus privately considered how he might repay him by bringing him into the Navy.

• Longinus severed his connection to the Seven Star Sword and pretended to be severely weakened after King escaped.
• Magellan, Shiryu, and Alvis arrived at the ruined Scorching Hell, where Longinus said King and World had escaped and showed them his injured hand.
• Magellan praised Longinus for killing over a thousand prisoners and holding King off, while Alvis blamed himself for the prison’s failures.
• Alvis said Magellan would likely become the next warden and promised to recommend Shiryu as Chief Guard.
• Alvis promised to report Longinus’s contribution to the Navy and government, and Longinus privately considered bringing Alvis into the Navy in the future.

After King escaped and Hancock was badly injured, Sakazuki arrived at Impel Down and learned that Longinus had killed most of the rioting prisoners. Sakazuki offered to help capture the remaining escapees and invited Longinus to join the Navy’s war against Whitebeard in the New World.

• A jailer reported that King had escaped after severely injuring Hancock, and Magellan learned Hancock still wanted to become warden.
• Sakazuki arrived with ten warships and asked Alvis for a list of the escaped pirates.
• Alvis named Redfield, Byrnndi World, and King as the three confirmed escapees and credited Longinus with stopping the larger breakout.
• Longinus told Sakazuki he had killed the rioting prisoners, and Sakazuki praised his decisiveness and hinted he could soon become a vice admiral.
• Sakazuki told Longinus about the Navy’s stalemated war with Whitebeard and offered to ask Sengoku to transfer him to the New World.

Longinus agreed to join Sakazuki in the New World, while World and King escaped and considered their next moves. At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku explained to Steel-Bone Kong how the Marines planned to exploit the New World conflict to restore their prestige and weaken rival pirate crews.

• Longinus agreed to go to the New World, and Sakazuki advised him to begin training Armament Haki when he returned.
• Longinus left for the New World, while Magellan and Alvis praised his prospects and Shiryu silently returned to the prison.
• World celebrated his escape and proposed that he and King join forces, but King rejected him and said he planned to seek refuge with a powerful man.
• Steel-Bone Kong and Sengoku discussed using the New World war to restore Marine prestige after Impel Down was breached twice.
• Sengoku explained that the Marines would let rival pirate crews weaken Big Mom, Kaido, and Whitebeard, then absorb the defeated crews.

Sengoku approved Sakazuki’s request to send Longinus to the New World after learning of his feats during the Impel Down riot. Before Longinus departed, Zephyr taught him the principles of Haki and urged him to hold firmly to his convictions.

• Sengoku proposed sending Sakazuki and Borsalino to reinforce Garp, Dragon, Kuzan, and the others against the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Sengoku told Kong that Longinus had suppressed the escaping prisoners at Impel Down, defeated King, and nearly stopped Byrnndi World.
• Sengoku agreed that Longinus was strong enough for the New World war to temper him.
• Zephyr warned Longinus about the dangers of the New World, but Longinus insisted on joining the conflict.
• Zephyr explained how Observation, Armament, and Conqueror’s Haki worked and urged Longinus never to doubt his convictions.

Longinus joined Sakazuki and Borsalino as they discussed the Marines’ plan to exploit rivalries among New World pirates, while Whitebeard’s crew learned of two recent escapes from Impel Down. The chapter ended with Whitebeard’s crew discussing Longinus and doubting that anyone could replicate Garp’s path to becoming a Marine Hero.

• Longinus spoke with Sakazuki about the New World and the Marines’ determination to purge it of pirates.
• Borsalino joined them, and Sakazuki explained that the Marines planned to provoke the New World’s pirate crews into fighting one another, with Sengoku controlling the operation.
• Aboard the Moby Dick, Whitebeard laughed about his recent clash with Garp as Jozu warned that the Marines were gathering formidable forces.
• Marco told Whitebeard that Impel Down had been breached again, this time by its Jailer Chief, and that Count Red Redfield and World Breaker World had escaped.
• Whitebeard’s crew discussed how World had nearly been captured by a Marine major, whom Headquarters was reportedly grooming as the next Marine Hero.

The Whitebeard Pirates attacked the G5 Branch, where Whitebeard and the Marines clashed in a battle of overwhelming powers. The fighting began in earnest as both sides met on the frozen sea.

• Garp trained Longinus with his Iron Fist, then learned that the Whitebeard Pirates had attacked.
• Whitebeard struck the sea with Shockwave: Tsunami, sending a gigantic wave toward the G5 Branch.
• Kuzan used Ice Age to freeze the wave and the surrounding sea, trapping the Whitebeard Pirates' fleet in ice.
• Sakazuki attacked with Great Eruption, but Whitebeard shattered the magma with Quake Blade: Jade Shatter.
• Marco kicked away Borsalino's light beam, while Jozu blocked Dragon's Dragon Claw with his diamond body.
• Garp hurled a giant cannonball at Whitebeard, who crushed it with his Naginata.

As the Marines gained the upper hand, Longinus targeted Teach and forced him to dodge a lethal attack. Teach hid his strength by acting terrified and taking serious wounds, until Lao G intervened to face Longinus.

• Whitebeard and Garp, Borsalino and Marco, Dragon and Jozu, and the other fighters clashed across the battlefield as the Marines' advantage grew.
• Longinus spotted Teach and maneuvered toward him, suspecting the dark-faced pirate was concealing his true strength.
• Teach dodged Longinus's Finger Pistol and realized he was facing a younger opponent with superior Observation Haki.
• Longinus attacked Teach with Finger Pistol: Spots, and Teach screamed and suffered bloody wounds while pretending to be helpless.
• Lao G stepped in front of Longinus and declared that he would be his opponent.

Longinus defeated Lao G and then fought three Whitebeard Pirates division captains at once. He overwhelmed Bramank and Lao G, while Namul’s attack rebounded off Longinus’s hardened body.

• Longinus caught Lao G’s Haki-coated meteor hammer, pulled him close, and knocked him flying with one kick.
• Marco recognized Longinus as the Marine who had nearly defeated Waldo, but Borsalino struck Marco with lasers and Marco healed with blue flames.
• Whitebeard and Garp clashed, then Whitebeard ordered Lao G, Bramank, and Namul to teach Longinus a lesson.
• Bramank attacked Longinus with massive hammers while Namul hid underwater and Lao G prepared a sneak strike.
• Longinus shattered Bramank’s hammer, rebounded Namul’s Fish-Man Karate attack, and slammed Bramank and Lao G together.

Longinus fought Marco as Kaido crashed the battle between Whitebeard and Garp, turning the Marine and Whitebeard Pirates’ conflict into a three-way melee. Longinus and Marco proved evenly matched, with Marco’s regenerative flames making a prolonged fight dangerous for Longinus.

• Longinus shattered the combined attack of three Division Captains, drawing the pirates’ attention and admiration.
• Kaido arrived in dragon form and attacked Whitebeard and Garp, prompting Whitebeard to block his breath and Garp to punch him into the sea.
• Kaido transformed into his human form and joined the fight, while Longinus recognized that his unexpected arrival had complicated the Marines’ plans.
• Marco confronted Longinus after Kuzan and Borsalino went to fight the Beasts Pirates’ senior officers.
• Longinus and Marco clashed across the ice, and Longinus realized he needed to end the fight quickly to avoid losing to Marco’s healing and attrition.

Longinus used a trick to leave Marco with a conspicuous mark before the three-way war ended. Aboard the Moby Dick, Whitebeard and Marco discussed Longinus’s strength and the Marines’ intentions, while Whitebeard urged Marco to prepare for future clashes.

• Longinus grabbed Marco and, after distracting him by claiming Jozu was secretly in love with him, headbutted him and left a dark mark on his forehead.
• Jozu laughed at Marco’s appearance, and Dragon reacted with frustration while the battle was still underway.
• Garp and several vice admirals beat Kaido until the swollen dragon finally left, bringing the three-way war to an end.
• Aboard the Moby Dick, Marco told Whitebeard that Longinus had injured him and was the Marine major who had nearly captured World.
• Whitebeard told Marco that he and the other younger fighters would face the next generation of conflicts, while Marco said he only wanted to protect their family.
• Marco asked whether the Marines intended to fight the Whitebeard Pirates to the death, and Whitebeard said Sengoku’s plans were uncertain.