Recaps

Longinus recruited Gion to help him pursue gradual change and arranged for Morgans to publicize the Amber Lead crisis in Flevance while making the government appear to support his actions. The chapter left Gion convinced of Longinus’s resolve as Morgans departed with the documents to prepare the story.

• Longinus explained to Gion that he intended to reform the corrupt government gradually, then invited her to join him, and she accepted.
• Drake brought Longinus documents on Flevance and the Amber Lead disease, and reported that Vice President Morgans had arrived.
• Longinus gave Morgans the documents and asked him to expose the crisis while presenting the Flevance royal family as responsible.
• Gion worried that involving Morgans would alert the government, but Longinus said he had deliberately exposed the matter to show the government his loyalty.
• Longinus explained that the government might view his commitment to Justice as a weakness it could exploit, and Gion defended him as a hero.

After news of Amber Lead’s toxicity reached Flevance, residents rioted and attacked others, while Vergo killed three Donquixote Family members and set out to find Longinus. Longinus stopped the crowd and promised doctors were coming, then threatened a rioter at gunpoint until the man admitted he might still be saved.

• Flevance’s residents learned that Amber Lead was poisonous and that the royal family had hidden its dangers for a century, sparking riots and bloodshed.
• Three Donquixote Family members discussed seizing the royal family’s wealth, but Vergo killed them for claiming they would sacrifice themselves for the Family.
• Vergo left to find Longinus after preparing a gift for him.
• Longinus and Gion arrived in the royal city and stopped the rioting crowd with Longinus’s commanding shout.
• Longinus promised that renowned doctors were on their way, then pressed a flintlock to a rioter’s head until he said he thought he could still be saved.

After the King of Flevance tried to flee the angry citizens, Longinus rejected his demands for protection and declared him a criminal unfit to rule. Longinus executed the King, and the people hailed him as a hero.

• The King of Flevance learned that the Government had abandoned the royal family and planned to escape with his wealth by becoming a pirate.
• Longinus calmed the citizens of Flevance and urged them to believe they could create a miracle of life.
• The King and other royal family members fled the palace and demanded that the Marines shoot the pursuing citizens, but Longinus's Marines refused to act without his orders.
• Longinus asked the citizens whether the King was still their ruler, and they condemned him as a criminal who had betrayed the kingdom.
• Longinus declared the King unfit for his crown and shot him, prompting the people to cheer for the Marines and hail Longinus as a hero.

Longinus rejected the Flevance survivors’ treasure and urged them to use it for treatment and a new life. On the way back, Vergo revealed that he wanted to join the Marines and had killed everyone from the Donquixote Family.

• The Flevance crowd killed the royal family members who had taken their treasures.
• An elder offered the recovered treasure to Longinus, but Longinus accepted only one gold coin and said he had invited doctors to help the sick people.
• The people of Flevance thanked Longinus as he left, while a young boy in a spotted fur hat watched him with admiration.
• Longinus noticed that someone had been following the Marines, and Vergo emerged and asked to join them.
• Vergo opened his suitcase to show three heads and said he had killed everyone from the Donquixote Family.

Vergo joined Longinus’s Marines after Doflamingo’s departure, while Marine Headquarters and the Five Elders discussed Longinus’s actions in Flevance and his potential future role. The Five Elders decided to test the next generation of Marine leaders for loyalty to the government.

• Vergo explained to Drake that Doflamingo had captured him before and said he wanted to join the Marines after seeing Longinus kill King.
• Longinus welcomed Vergo into the Marines, intending to play along with Doflamingo’s double-agent scheme.
• Kong worried that Longinus had acted impulsively, but Sengoku argued that the government would approve of his actions in Flevance because they upheld its authority.
• The Five Elders discussed Longinus as a possible future government spokesperson, comparing him with Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Borsalino.
• The Five Elders agreed that Longinus and his generation should be tested in advance to assess their loyalty to the government.

Longinus visited Germa Kingdom to say goodbye to Judge and encouraged the young Vinsmoke siblings before returning to Marine Branch 666. After learning his North Blue term had ended, he prepared to return to Marine Headquarters and make a name for himself.

• Judge apologized that Germa Kingdom had not developed Devil Fruit Item technology, but Longinus reassured him and announced he would soon leave North Blue.
• Longinus urged Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji to support Sanji and told Reiju to care for her younger brothers.
• Back at Branch 666, Longinus watched Drake lose a training match to Vergo and encouraged Drake to keep improving.
• Vergo told Longinus that his term was over, and Longinus prepared to begin his return voyage.

Longinus brought Drake and Vergo to Marine Headquarters, where they chose to follow him rather than continue their studies. He then visited the training camp and discovered recruits playing a popular card game that featured cards of him and his fellow Marines.

• Drake and Vergo both chose to follow Longinus and forge a new path under his command.
• Longinus arranged lodging for Drake and Vergo, then headed to the training camp.
• Longinus arrived as Doberman, Herbert, Rice, and Kaki fought in a match ordered by Fleet Admiral Zephyr.
• A recruit asked Longinus to obtain signatures from Kaki, Gion, and Longinus on cards from a popular duel game.
• Longinus examined the cards, which depicted Kaki, Gion, and himself as powerful game characters.

Garp examined the recruits’ collectible cards, then spoke with Longinus about his past actions, his graduation assessment, and the danger of the seas growing turbulent again. Meanwhile, Kaki defeated Doberman and two others in the arena, renewing the recruits’ discussion of Longinus’s past victory over him.

• Garp found recruits playing with cards, admired their designs, and joked about creating a card for Sengoku before taking Longinus to Zephyr.
• Garp asked Longinus about the King Disqualification Incident, and Longinus explained that the government had not even issued him a verbal warning.
• Longinus said he had chosen a troublesome target for his graduation assessment and hoped to use it to calm the seas before they grew turbulent.
• Kaki exploited Doberman and the others’ fatigue to finish the arena battle with Nightmare Syndrome.
• The recruits discussed Kaki’s mental attacks and recalled that Longinus had defeated him three years earlier by resisting them with sheer will.

The returned third-years gathered as Zephyr announced a six-month final assessment in which each would choose and hunt a pirate target. Longinus chose Byrnndi World, explaining that he had tracked World’s crew for two years, and Zephyr reluctantly agreed while warning him not to underestimate the former top pirate.

• Gregory and Algernon discussed how Longinus’s actions had stirred the North Blue as the returned interns gathered in the conference room.
• Zephyr announced that each trainee had six months to choose and hunt a target who met his expectations, stressing the need for careful judgment and preparation.
• Longinus told Zephyr that he had already chosen Byrnndi World, captain of the World Pirates, as his target.
• Zephyr warned Longinus about World’s past strength, while Longinus explained that World had declined and that he had monitored him and his crew for two years.
• Zephyr accepted Longinus’s choice but cautioned him that World might still have a hidden trump card.

A passenger ship headed for Beast Island encountered a naval battle between a fleet of World Pirates and a lone pirate ship in the Ait-Vol Sea Area. Captain Charles reassured the passengers that the World Pirates would protect them and decided to approach the battle to show support.

• Passengers aboard the Virginia discussed the legendary Ait-Vol Sea Area as Captain Charles reassured them that his connections and the ship’s flag would keep them safe.
• Cannon fire from a naval battle nearby shook the Virginia, and Charles used his telescope to identify the forces involved.
• Charles told the passengers that one fleet belonged to World and was led by Great Axe Carter, while Longinus judged Carter and the crew to be unimpressive.
• Charles urged everyone to approach the battle and show their sincerity to the World Pirates.

Charles and the passengers aboard his ship witnessed the Red Hair Pirates destroy the World Pirates' fleet, then watched Shanks's ship sail toward Beast Island. Charles chose to remain at sea, convinced the coming conflict could bring him profit.

• Charles thought that an alliance between Lord World and the Big Mom Pirates could help him advance beyond the Black Sea Merchant Association.
• Charles saw that the Red Hair Pirates had devastated the World Pirates' fleet and killed Great Axe Carter.
• Charles ordered his ship to retreat, but a sniper shot down its flag as a warning, and the Dragon Head Pirate Ship passed without attacking.
• Charles recognized the departing pirates as Red-Haired Shanks and heard passengers speculate that he was heading to Beast Island to confront Lord World.
• Charles slapped a passenger who urged them to return and insisted that war was their chance to prosper.

Aboard the passenger ship, Longinus questioned Charles about World’s planned alliance with Big Mom and learned that World intended to offer her a living griffin. He suspected Red-Haired might have attacked World’s fleet to seize the creature.

• Longinus reconsidered his plan to attack World directly after learning Big Mom might be involved in an alliance with him.
• Longinus approached Charles and asked how World intended to gain Big Mom’s support.
• Charles explained that Big Mom and Kaido’s alliance had weakened after their shared war and that World hoped to win her over with a rare gift.
• Charles revealed that World had captured a living griffin to present to Big Mom.
• Longinus suspected Red-Haired might have targeted World’s fleet because he wanted the griffin.

Longinus used his influence over Charles to secure an introduction to World, while learning about the planned banquet and the World Pirates’ recent battle with Red-Haired Shanks. The chapter left Longinus heading toward the banquet with the World Pirates’ weakness and reliance on Big Mom’s reinforcements in mind.

• Longinus pressured Charles into revealing what he knew, then offered information about the Marine who had nearly captured World as a gift and persuaded Charles to arrange an introduction.
• After Longinus left, Charles decided to claim the credit for his information and treat him as a disposable stepping stone.
• Katakuri told Smoothie that World had captured a young Griffin, fed it a Devil Fruit, and imprisoned it with Seastone chains.
• Three days later, Longinus and Charles arrived at Beast Island, where Sebastian confirmed that the banquet would be held and claimed World had defeated Red-Haired Shanks.
• Longinus listened with Observation Haki and realized the World Pirates had been losing until Big Mom’s reinforcements helped them repel the Red-Haired Pirates.

Longinus encountered Yasopp on Beast Island and rejected the Red Hair Pirates’ offer to cooperate against the World Pirates. He left Yasopp with a warning to tell Beckman that they were only coincidental allies against a common enemy, not partners.

• Longinus knocked out a Giant Rhinoceros with one punch and wondered how strong the island’s forest king, the Griffin, would be.
• Yasopp approached Longinus and praised his strength, then said he had come bearing goodwill from the Red Hair Pirates.
• Yasopp argued that Longinus should target the World Pirates and cooperate with the Red Hair Pirates rather than face the World Pirates and Big Mom Pirates alone.
• Longinus recognized that Yasopp was repeating a speech Beckman had prepared and remarked that the Red Hair Pirates were a greater threat than World’s crew.
• Longinus refused to consider them partners and told Yasopp to inform Beckman that they had merely chosen the same enemy at the same time.

On Beast Island, the Red-Haired Pirates discussed the marine they had encountered, while Waldo gathered pirates and the Big Mom Pirates to advance a revenge plan against the World Government and Marine Headquarters. The chapter ended with Waldo insisting that once his followers joined his cause, they would be trapped on his path to the bitter end.

• Shanks celebrated after the battle, and Yasopp asked Beckman whether the marine they had met was reliable.
• Beckman warned Yasopp not to mistake the marine for an ally and compared his rivalry with Shanks to Garp and Roger's.
• Two days later, pirates gathered at Waldo's encampment to see a griffin bound in Seastone chains.
• Waldo complained that Big Mom had not come herself, and Katakuri replied that his group was enough.
• Waldo demanded Big Mom's public support and wanted to be recognized as the fourth overlord so more New World pirates would join him.
• Waldo revealed that he wanted revenge and said the World Government would leave his followers no choice but to continue fighting once they joined his cause.

Katakuri agreed to lend the Big Mom Pirates’ flag to World, while Charles tried to win favor by reporting that Longinus had come to the New World alone. Charles’s plan ended in disaster when Longinus revealed himself at World’s banquet, and Charles fainted after realizing whom he had brought before World.

• Katakuri agreed to lend the Big Mom Pirates’ flag to World and warned that strength alone could earn recognition as ruler of the New World.
• Charles approached World and claimed he had important intelligence about Longinus, who had reportedly arrived in the New World alone.
• Katakuri and Smoothie recognized Longinus as the Marine who had severely injured Nozette, and World asked Charles where Longinus was.
• Charles called for his supposed subordinate, and Longinus revealed himself and walked toward World.
• Charles tried to deny responsibility for Longinus, then fainted when Longinus gave his name.

Longinus confronted World and demonstrated that his strength had grown enough to overpower World’s attacks, but World’s hundredfold speed forced him to endure a devastating collision. Longinus bound World and counterattacked with Rokuogan: Maximum Wheel, leaving both fighters hurled to opposite sides of the forest.

• World dismissed Longinus’s challenge, then attacked him with a thirtyfold-accelerated table that Longinus’s Armament Haki repelled.
• World enlarged and accelerated his blade fiftyfold, but Longinus caught it with one hand and knocked World flying.
• World used Momo: Hundredfold Speed to strike Longinus before he could evade, injuring him despite his Armament Haki and Iron Body defenses.
• Longinus seized World with his hair and hit him with Rokuogan: Maximum Wheel, sending both fighters flying in opposite directions.

The Big Mom Pirates and World’s men watched Longinus fight World before the Red Hair Pirates arrived and blocked the Big Mom Pirates from interfering. Shanks and Katakuri began fighting while Beckman confronted Cracker, leaving the crews poised for battle.

• Smoothie, Perospero, Cracker, and Katakuri assessed World’s strength and warned that his frozen body was nearing collapse.
• Katakuri caught a bullet and spotted the Red Hair Pirates on the cliff, where Shanks demanded that the Big Mom Pirates leave the battle between Longinus and World alone.
• Shanks and Beckman explained that their crew shared Longinus’s goal, but Katakuri refused to back down and drew Earth Dragon.
• Shanks leaped down to attack Katakuri, who awakened his Devil Fruit and clashed with him in a series of powerful exchanges.
• Cracker prepared to help Katakuri, but Beckman warned him off and offered to fight him instead.
• Cracker summoned Biscuit Soldiers and urged the Big Mom Pirates to join the battle.

Longinus and Waldo fought at full strength, with Waldo unleashing his speed and destructive power before Longinus stopped his charge and injured him. Waldo recovered and prepared to continue fighting, declaring that killing Longinus would complete his revenge.

• Waldo cast aside his hesitation and charged Longinus at a speed he could barely control, crashing through a mountainside.
• Longinus dodged Waldo’s charge, then used Rokuogan: Maximum Wheel to create an opening and seize him by the head.
• Longinus stopped Waldo’s Death Charge at the forest’s edge, despite mangling his hands, and drove a knee into Waldo’s abdomen.
• Waldo retaliated with a Rocket Headbutt, but Longinus kicked him away before he could land it.
• Waldo shoved aside the pirates who rushed to help him, recovered from his injuries, and vowed to kill Longinus as revenge against the World Government and Marine Headquarters.

Longinus and Waldo fought as Waldo pushed his failing body beyond its limits, while the battle threatened to engulf the other pirates on Beast Island. Waldo unleashed a massive chain storm, forcing Shanks and Katakuri to order everyone to flee or take cover.

• Waldo taunted Longinus and urged him to run, but Longinus refused to back down and called him a failure.
• Waldo attacked Longinus with his Hundred Times Human Cannon, and Longinus redirected him into the battlefield where Shanks and Katakuri were fighting.
• Longinus and Waldo traded blows across the battlefield, impressing the Red Hair Pirates and Big Mom Pirates with their strength.
• Waldo removed his chains and spun them into a growing storm that darkened the sky above Beast Island.
• Katakuri ordered his crew to retreat, while Shanks told everyone to flee to the island’s edge or dig holes for cover.

Longinus unleashed his full power against Waldo’s storm and pierced Waldo’s heart, while the Red Hair and Big Mom Pirates sheltered underground. Waldo recognized the scale of Longinus’s ambition before dying, and the other crews emerged to learn who had won the clash of Conqueror’s Haki.

• Waldo hurled his devastating storm at Longinus, who strode into it and erupted with enough power to tear apart the tempest.
• Yasopp and Lucky Roux dug deeper underground while Beckman restrained Shanks from rushing into the storm to save Griffin.
• Shanks and Beckman encountered Katakuri, Cracker, and Smoothie underground, and the pirates’ weaker crewmates collapsed when Longinus and Waldo clashed with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Shanks and Katakuri led the others outside after the storm subsided.
• Longinus stood with his arm through Waldo’s heart as Waldo recognized his ambition to reach beyond the ranks of Marine admirals and died.

Longinus reflected on Waldo’s Conqueror’s Haki, then discovered that the surviving griffin had escaped using the Speed-Speed Fruit and chose to follow him. After Longinus named it Minos, Shanks realized the Marine had taken the griffin and mourned his lost chance.

• Longinus considered how Waldo’s Conqueror’s Haki differed from his expectations and decided to ask Admiral Sengoku about using it.
• A surviving griffin flew to Longinus, and he learned that Waldo had given it the Speed-Speed Fruit and that it wanted to follow him to repay him for its father’s death.
• Longinus accepted the griffin’s submission and named it Minos.
• Katakuri, Smoothie, Beckman, and the others emerged from the crater and recognized Waldo’s defeat.
• Shanks saw Longinus leaving with Minos and cried that the Marine had stolen his griffin, so Beckman dragged him away.

Longinus returned to Marine Headquarters riding a griffin and carrying Waldo’s head, astonishing the recruits and senior officers. Sengoku persuaded Kong to publicize Longinus’s victory to deter pirates, leaving Longinus poised to become a public Marine hero.

• Rice, Herbert, Strawberry, Dalmatia, and Doberman watched Longinus arrive on a griffin and learned that he had killed World Breaker Waldo.
• Doberman explained that the Red Hair Pirates had attacked Waldo’s island after he tried to ally with Big Mom, and identified the head Longinus carried as Waldo’s.
• The recruits realized Longinus had apparently defeated Waldo and his crew alone, and their excitement over his feat grew.
• Sengoku told Kong and Garp that Longinus had killed Waldo after Waldo burned his life force in a battle that nearly destroyed the island.
• Sengoku urged Kong to spread news of Longinus’s victory to deter pirates, and Kong agreed.

News that Longinus killed Waldo spread across the seas, drawing reactions from Big Mom, Kaido, and Whitebeard’s crews. Big Mom threatened Longinus, Kaido became interested in testing him, and Whitebeard offered Teach a chance to seek revenge.

• Reports said Longinus had stormed the World Pirates, killed Waldo, and destroyed an island, though many initially doubted the story.
• Big Mom raged over Longinus stealing her gift and Katakuri’s supposed defeats, but Katakuri redirected her attention by revealing the World Government’s Human Gigantification research.
• Big Mom praised Katakuri for promising to steal the technology, then vowed to make Longinus fear her if he returned to the New World.
• Kaido asked King about Longinus, heard King describe the Marine’s strength, and said he wanted to test Longinus himself.
• Whitebeard discussed Waldo’s death and Longinus’s return with his crew, then offered Teach help getting revenge for his earlier beating by Longinus.

After Longinus’s capture of World made him a celebrated hero, Fleet Admiral Kong considered promoting him to rear admiral at seventeen. Longinus declined the unusually rapid promotion and left with Kong’s promise to promote him in a year or two.

• Longinus’s victory over World elevated his reputation at Marine Headquarters, where Marines praised him as a hero.
• Kong told Longinus that his achievements warranted promotion to rear admiral, despite his young age.
• Longinus asked Kong not to promote him beyond the usual standards and said he wanted to advance through his own achievements.
• Longinus reasoned that refusing the promotion would avoid resentment and protect his reputation in the Navy.
• Kong agreed to make Longinus a commodore and promised to promote him to rear admiral within one or two years.