Recaps

Crocodile’s attempt to pose as a hero in Alabasta was undercut when Marines rushed to capture pirates before he could rescue anyone. At a royal banquet, Longinus learned that Cobra suspected Crocodile’s motives and went to speak with him.

• A pirate tried to rob Nanohana, but the locals showed no fear and Longinus’s Marines eagerly seized him.
• Crocodile abandoned his plan to rescue the townspeople after seeing that Longinus’s reputation had left them unafraid.
• Crocodile told his bald subordinate that he would test Brigadier General Longinus at the banquet that night.
• At the palace, Longinus praised young Vivi while Cobra recalled that her mother had died in childbirth and expressed his hope that Vivi would be happy.
• Cobra warned Longinus that Crocodile was staging pirate attacks and then posing as a hero, and Longinus agreed to speak with Crocodile.

At Vivi’s first birthday banquet, Longinus stopped Crocodile from threatening the nobles and forced the Shichibukai to promise to behave while the Marine commodore remained on Lodestar Island. Crocodile left humiliated and resentful after Longinus overpowered him and threatened to reveal a secret he had learned from the Okama King.

• Crocodile grew furious as Lodestar Island’s nobles praised him as a lesser hero compared with Longinus and crushed his wineglass.
• Longinus put an arm around Crocodile and warned him not to attack anyone because Lodestar Island was under his protection.
• Crocodile challenged Longinus, but Longinus suppressed his elementalization and pinned him with a crushing grip.
• Longinus struck Crocodile and threatened to reveal a secret from the Okama King, prompting Crocodile to agree to behave while Longinus was there.
• Longinus taunted Crocodile about his arrogance and walked away.

Longinus left Vivi’s birthday celebration after defeating Crocodile and learned Crocodile had traded with Doflamingo using recycled intelligence. He then returned to the Marine base ahead of schedule to address the incident involving Major General Danitz, while the Marines speculated about his arrival and the transformation rumors.

• Longinus reassured Cobra that he had persuaded Crocodile to abandon his plans and left the palace with Komurasaki and Drake.
• Longinus discovered that Crocodile’s dealings with Doflamingo relied on processed intelligence that had originally come from him.
• Drake and Komurasaki suggested killing or luring Crocodile, but Longinus chose to leave him alive while he still had value.
• Longinus warned that Crocodile’s Shichibukai status would offer no protection if he refused to behave.
• Longinus arrived at the Marine base on Griffin, where soldiers speculated that he had returned to handle the incident involving Major General Danitz and joked about him transforming.
• Longinus waited outside Vice Admiral Borsalino’s office, noting that the workday would not start for another half hour.

Longinus was assigned to deal with Ivankov after Ivankov transformed King Kakarichi and Rear Admiral Danitz into okama. He arrived at Kama Baraka Kingdom and subdued the island’s gathered forces with Conqueror’s Haki, leaving Ivankov to recognize his immense power.

• Borsalino told Longinus to teach Ivankov a lesson and revealed that Longinus would be promoted to rear admiral after the mission.
• Longinus traveled to Kama Baraka Kingdom, where Ivankov and Inazuma discussed the Marines’ likely response to Ivankov transforming Danitz.
• Longinus arrived on a griffin, and Inazuma identified him as the Marine who had killed the Great Pirate Waldo.
• Ivankov attacked Longinus with Female Hormone, but the griffin blew the pink mist back toward Ivankov.
• Longinus unleashed Conqueror’s Haki across the island, knocking out the people gathering to support Ivankov.
• Ivankov remained standing and remarked that he had seen Conqueror’s Haki like Longinus’s only once before.

Longinus fought Ivankov until Dragon revealed himself and explained his plan to overthrow the World Government. Dragon invited Longinus to join the newly established Revolutionary Army, but Longinus refused.

• Longinus defeated Ivankov's attacks and prepared to strike him with a powerful shockwave.
• Dragon emerged from hiding and reunited with Longinus, while Ivankov learned that Dragon had once been a Marine vice admiral.
• Dragon told Longinus that he had come to see the World Government as the root of the world's problems and wanted to establish a new order.
• Dragon invited Longinus to join the Revolutionary Army, but Longinus declined.

Longinus challenged Dragon to consider what would follow a revolution and explained why he favored reform over total upheaval. Before leaving, he asked Ivankov for a secret about Crocodile, who had abandoned a lover after learning her former identity.

• Longinus warned Dragon that a revolution without guiding principles could replace the World Government with another oppressive order and bring war and death to the current generation.
• Dragon admitted he had not considered what would come after overthrowing the World Government but remained determined to pursue revolution, even if the world called him a sinner.
• Longinus declined Dragon's offer to become the Revolutionary Army's second-in-command, saying he had become a moderate reformist and needed strength to change the world.
• Dragon said their ideals might eventually put them on opposite sides of a battlefield, and Longinus joked that he might arrest Dragon when they next met.
• Longinus asked Ivankov for a secret about Crocodile, and Ivankov revealed that Crocodile had abandoned Little Irene after learning about her former identity.

After Longinus was promoted to rear admiral, he warned Garp that Dragon planned to overthrow the World Government, prompting Garp to rush back to East Blue over fears for Luffy. Longinus then visited the training camp, where Sakazuki harshly challenged the recruits to work harder by citing Rob Lucci and Longinus as examples.

• Kong promoted Longinus to rear admiral, and Sengoku asked him to visit the training camp and instruct the recruits.
• Longinus told Garp that Dragon intended to overthrow the World Government, and Garp hurried back to East Blue to protect Luffy.
• Sakazuki made the recruits endure training amid scorching magma and called them the worst group he had ever taught.
• Sakazuki cited Rob Lucci's achievements at thirteen and Longinus's record as reasons the recruits needed to work harder.

Longinus reunited with Sakazuki at Marineford, where the vice admiral challenged him to a spar before returning to the New World. Their clash revealed Longinus’s impressive growth, though he acknowledged that Sakazuki was still stronger, and Sakazuki urged him to pursue more demanding missions.

• Sakazuki addressed the new Marine recruits, who praised Longinus’s achievements and discussed Hina’s past meeting with him.
• Longinus arrived at the training ground and exchanged greetings with Sakazuki, who asked him to demonstrate his current strength.
• Longinus and Sakazuki began a controlled spar, and their first blows collapsed the ground and sent shockwaves through the training ground.
• Sakazuki pressed Longinus with magma attacks, forcing him to evade and use his Devil Fruit Item spear to block a powerful strike.
• Sakazuki ended the spar before they lost control, then advised Longinus to seek more action in the New World instead of following Borsalino.

Longinus reunited with Hina and Gion, then took them to Spring Queen City, where they encountered Hawk Eyes, Juraquille Mihawk, competing in a drinking challenge. The chapter left Longinus and Gion watching Mihawk approach the final stage of the contest.

• Longinus reunited with Hina and Gion at the training camp, and Gion agreed to accompany him to Spring Queen City with Hina.
• Longinus, Gion, and Hina visited Spring Queen City’s food street, where Hina eagerly sampled the local food.
• Longinus and Gion discussed Gion’s years fighting on the New World front lines and Longinus’s offer to help her.
• Gion persuaded Longinus to investigate a Wine God Challenge, where contestants competed to drink ten kilograms of strong liquor.
• Longinus recognized the leading contestant as Hawk Eyes, Juraquille Mihawk, who had already finished nine bottles.

Longinus and Gion followed Hawk Eyes through Spring Queen City, where they watched him win a wine contest and attend an opera. When they followed him toward the outskirts, Hawk Eyes attacked them and confronted Gion after she blocked his Sword Beam.

• Longinus stopped Gion from challenging Hawk Eyes in the city and advised her to wait until they reached a suitable battlefield.
• Hawk Eyes won the drinking contest, collected the wine prize, and avoided fighting after noticing Gion’s sword.
• Longinus and Gion followed Hawk Eyes to the Queen's Grand Theatre, where Hawk Eyes’s presence frightened Hogback into fainting.
• After the opera, Hawk Eyes headed toward the outskirts and attacked Longinus and Gion with a Sword Beam.
• Gion blocked Hawk Eyes’s attack with her own Sword Beam, and Hawk Eyes challenged them, asking if they were ready to die.

Hawk Eyes challenged Gion and overwhelmed her with his superior swordsmanship, forcing Longinus to catch her after his devastating final slash. Hawk Eyes left, and Longinus took the injured Gion back toward Marine Headquarters.

• Hawk Eyes recognized Longinus as the Marine who had killed Waldo, while Gion challenged Hawk Eyes to prove her swordsmanship.
• Gion attacked with Death Sonata, Death Waltz, and Death Moonlight Sonata, but Hawk Eyes broke through her techniques and steadily wounded her.
• Hawk Eyes praised Gion's skill, then prepared his strongest strike as Gion chose to face it and Longinus agreed not to intervene unless necessary.
• Hawk Eyes's slash split the earth and created a massive canyon, and Longinus caught Gion and shattered the lingering shockwave.
• Hawk Eyes sheathed his sword and left, while Longinus assessed his chances against him and urged the injured Gion to return to Marine Headquarters.

Longinus went to Sabaody Archipelago as Apophis to investigate and prepare for an attack on its slave trade. After killing a gang that chased a little beggar, he visited Ali Auction House and demanded a specific male slave from its manager.

• After recovering, Gion returned to the New World, and Longinus left Marine Headquarters to travel to Sabaody Archipelago as Apophis.
• Longinus explained that he had arranged distractions for the Government and sent Garp to the East Blue, but still needed a backup plan.
• On Grove 50, Apophis encountered a little beggar fleeing a gang, and he killed the men who tried to involve him.
• The little beggar admired Apophis after witnessing his strength, but he left before she could speak to him.
• At Ali Auction House, Apophis demanded a human, male, old slave from the manager, then lifted the man by the throat when he tried to dismiss him.

Apophis searched for records about the slave ship tied to Aska Island while arranging to use Rayleigh as a contingency if events went badly. A masked girl escaped her captors after turning one pursuer to stone and found the aftermath of Apophis’s attack, believing he had come to rescue her.

• Apophis found Rayleigh listed among the auction house’s slaves and planned to collect him later if he needed to draw Rayleigh into the conflict.
• The auction-house manager secretly decided to torment Apophis by arranging for someone to assault Rayleigh.
• Apophis killed Black Python Victor after Victor denied knowing anything about Aska Island, then considered why the slave ship’s records could not be found.
• A masked girl was escorted toward Victor, and one pursuer turned to stone after lifting her mask.
• The girl ran into the inner courtyard, saw the severed limbs and mangled bodies left behind, and imagined Apophis had come to save her.

Apophis rescued Boa Hancock from pirates, freed her shackles, and used her past as a slave to persuade her to seek power and revenge. Hancock pledged to follow him as Apophis planned to contact Shakky and investigate her possible ties to Daughter Island.

• Apophis killed the pirates who had entered the room and realized the masked girl was Boa Hancock.
• Apophis read Hancock's memories, learned she admired him, and broke her shackles.
• Apophis urged Hancock to overcome her shame by gaining power and making others fear her.
• Hancock decided to become strong enough to be useful to Apophis and promised to follow him forever.
• Apophis set out to make contact with Shakky and investigate her connection to Daughter Island.

Apophis and Hancock went to Shakky's bar to buy information about Kuja, but Shakky's questions and Apophis's threat sparked a clash with Rayleigh. The fight ended when Hancock revealed she would not return to Kuja, and Shakky urged Rayleigh to stop.

• Rayleigh returned to Shakky's bar, where he and Shakky noticed Apophis and Hancock arrive to buy information about Kuja.
• Shakky asked why Apophis wanted the information, and Apophis threatened her before attacking.
• Rayleigh blocked Apophis's strike, and the two fought while keeping the damage inside the bar to a minimum.
• Apophis gradually fell behind Rayleigh, and Hancock shouted that she would not return to Kuja and begged Apophis not to get hurt.
• Shakky caught Hancock's words and stopped Rayleigh, who pointed out that he was more likely to be injured; Hancock then urged Apophis to kill him instead.

Apophis, Hancock, Rayleigh, and Shakky discussed rescuing Hancock’s sisters from the Celestial Dragons on Peninsula 62. Apophis declared he would free the slaves and kill several Celestial Dragons, and Rayleigh reluctantly agreed to join him.

• Shakky recognized Hancock as the girl Gloriosa had asked her to find, and Hancock revealed that her sisters were still enslaved by the Celestial Dragons.
• Hancock said her sisters were being held on Peninsula 62, and Shakky and Rayleigh discussed the Marines and CP0 guarding the area.
• Apophis said he would free all the slaves and kill a few Celestial Dragons, alarming Rayleigh and moving Hancock and Shakky.
• Rayleigh reluctantly agreed to act alongside Apophis, who admitted he wanted Rayleigh to share some of the pressure.
• Apophis recognized Rayleigh as Silvers Rayleigh, the Pirate King’s former right hand, while Hancock continued to insist Apophis was superior.

Saint Irsys arrived at a Celestial Dragon banquet and served wine made from a person he had captured, lamenting that his intended ingredient had escaped. Saint Rosward arranged fishing and a shooting contest for the guests, ordering CP0 agent Serpent Eagle to add more slaves to the range while privately aspiring to become King of the World.

• Saint Irsys arrived at the palace, kicked a slave in the eye, and entered the banquet hall where Rosward and seven other Celestial Dragons waited.
• Irsys served his specially made wine, and the Celestial Dragons praised it as he mourned that the woman he had hoped to use for his finest Bloody Mary had escaped.
• Rosward opened a hole in the floor for a fishing game featuring fish and Merfolk, then led the Celestial Dragons to a shooting range for a killing contest.
• Rosward ordered Serpent Eagle to seize more people and fill the range with three hundred fugitives, and Serpent Eagle agreed despite Rosward miscounting the number needed.
• Rosward urged the Celestial Dragons to vote for him in the next Five Elders election, then privately declared that he was destined to become King of the World.

Apophis attacked the Celestial Dragons’ palace during the slave riot, overwhelming Serpent Eagle and the CP0 agents. After Ernest shot him, Apophis revealed that the Celestial Dragon had already been fatally corroded, leaving Ernest to melt away as Rosward panicked.

• Serpent Eagle told Rosward that a slave riot had plunged the Sabaody Archipelago into chaos, and Rosward proposed a cannon-firing contest against the fleeing commoners.
• Apophis emerged from the bloodied front hall, defeated Serpent Eagle, and warned the CP0 agents not to interfere.
• Apophis cut off one CP0 agent’s arm and blasted the other agents aside as they tried to protect the Celestial Dragons.
• Ernest shot Apophis several times, but the bullets stopped and disintegrated before reaching him.
• Apophis seized Ernest by the head and let him go, then realized the Celestial Dragon knew nothing about the slaves.
• Ernest discovered that his body was melting, begged Rosward for help, and Rosward fired every bullet in his pistol at him.

Apophis fought CP0 commander Serpent Eagle during the slave uprising on the Sabaody Archipelago, while using the chaos to search their memories for information. Serpent Eagle’s memories pointed Apophis toward Umit, the Underground King who controlled maritime transport.

• Apophis read a CP0 agent’s memories and learned little, so he decided to target Serpent Eagle for information.
• Serpent Eagle transformed into his Titan Boa form and attacked Apophis, but Apophis outmaneuvered and overwhelmed him.
• Apophis planted the Seven Star Sword in Serpent Eagle’s head and made him believe he had rampaged and killed Saint Rosward.
• Apophis searched Serpent Eagle’s memories again and learned of Umit, the Underground King who controlled maritime transport.

After a slave revolt broke out on Sabaody, Marine Headquarters sent Kuzan to suppress it, while Rayleigh and the others prepared to escape. Kuzan let the freed slaves leave peacefully, then headed to the Celestial Dragons’ residence and was intercepted by Rayleigh, whom he mistook for Apophis.

• Kong and Sengoku discussed the Sabaody slave revolt and sent Kuzan to restore order.
• Rayleigh returned with Hancock’s sisters, and Shakky arranged to take them to Daughter Island as Kuzan froze the fires on Grove 15.
• Kuzan told the freed slaves they could leave if they stopped rioting, and they cleared his way.
• Kuzan spotted a giant python emerging near the Celestial Dragons’ residence and left to rescue them while the Marines handled the riot.
• Rayleigh struck Kuzan with a fierce slash and blocked his path, prompting Kuzan to ask whether he was Apophis.

Rayleigh and Apophis fought Kuzan after revealing that they belonged to the same group seeking to unmask the world. Kuzan froze Apophis and tried to hold Rayleigh off until reinforcements arrived, but Apophis broke free, and the two began overpowering him.

• Rayleigh deflected Kuzan's ice attacks and claimed that Apophis was not a single person, revealing that he and the Crimson Swordsman belonged to the same group.
• Rayleigh told Kuzan that the group had come to unmask the world, then he and Apophis prepared to leave as Kuzan called for reinforcements.
• Kuzan attacked with his Endless Ice Domain, but Apophis and Rayleigh countered together and fought him through the ruined street.
• Kuzan froze Apophis with Ice Age and believed he could hold Rayleigh off, but Apophis broke free much sooner than expected.
• Rayleigh struck the distracted Kuzan, and Apophis joined him in beating the weakened Marine.

Sengoku and Kaki reached Sabaody and found Kuzan critically injured inside an Ice Barrier, while Apophis and Rayleigh escaped by swimming away. Rayleigh confronted Apophis over the killing of Kōzuki Momonosuke and warned that someone from the Kōzuki Clan would challenge him in fifteen years.

• Sengoku and Kaki sailed toward Sabaody, suspecting the attack on the Celestial Dragons had been planned to expose their deaths and possibly involve Dragon and the Revolutionary Army.
• Sengoku and Kaki found Kuzan frozen in an Ice Barrier inside a huge crater, and Sengoku sent him back to Marine Headquarters while he went to inspect the Celestial Dragons.
• Apophis and Rayleigh surfaced at sea after escaping, and Apophis explained that they had fled rather than spend several minutes breaking through Kuzan's final move.
• Rayleigh asked Apophis why he had killed Kōzuki Momonosuke, and their Conqueror's Haki stirred the sea as Apophis refused to explain.
• Rayleigh said someone more qualified would confront Apophis in fifteen years, and Apophis accepted the warning without concern.

Apophis and Rayleigh reached Daughter Island after swimming through the Calm Belt, where Hancock and her sisters reunited with them. Apophis departed after telling Hancock to find him when she was strong enough to decide her own future, while Rayleigh compared Apophis’s aim to Roger’s.

• Shakky told Gloriosa that Apophis and Rayleigh were powerful enough to reach Daughter Island without a ship.
• Rayleigh asked Apophis about his mask and his interest in testing the World Government’s reaction as they crossed the Calm Belt.
• Hancock rushed to embrace Apophis when he arrived, and Gloriosa thanked him and Rayleigh for rescuing the three girls.
• Apophis told Shakky that he had killed one Celestial Dragon and that CP0 had killed the other eight.
• Apophis refused to attend the island’s bonfire party and told Hancock he would appear again when she could decide her own future.
• Rayleigh watched Apophis leave and said that, like Roger, he wanted to tear off the world’s mask.

The Five Elders learned that Crimson Swordsman Apophis and a masked ally had killed nine Celestial Dragons on Sabaody and discussed the group’s stated aim to tear off the world’s mask. The World Government blamed the Revolutionary Army and raised Apophis’s bounty to one billion Beli, while Dragon and others reacted to the news.

• The Five Elders read Kuzan’s report identifying Crimson Swordsman Apophis and a masked ally as the attackers, and debated whether the Revolutionary Army was behind them.
• The Five Elders decided to pin the Sabaody incident on Dragon’s Revolutionary Army and ordered Apophis’s bounty raised to one billion Beli.
• The World Government announced that Apophis was a Revolutionary Army officer responsible for a deadly riot, while another account praised him for freeing slaves and killing nine Celestial Dragons.
• At Baldego, Revolutionary Army recruits celebrated Apophis’s actions, but Dragon told the Okama King he did not know the Crimson Swordsman.
• Hawk Eyes wondered whether he should kill Celestial Dragons to provoke the World Government, while Doflamingo celebrated the news because it would keep the World Government away from him.

At the tea party on Whole Cake Island, Apophis appeared aboard Umit’s ship and stabbed him before Big Mom could intervene. Apophis escaped into the sea with Umit, leaving Stussy stunned as Big Mom arrived.

• BIG MOM and the guests discussed the Crimson Swordsman’s attack on the Celestial Dragons and the Revolutionary Army led by Dragon.
• Stussy warned Umit that Apophis might target his slave-trading operations, but Umit boasted that he was not afraid.
• As Umit prepared to leave Whole Cake Island, Morgans spotted Apophis standing on Umit’s ship flag.
• Apophis stabbed Umit from behind while the other guests watched, and Umit accused him of attacking by surprise.
• BIG MOM ordered Apophis to put Umit down, but Apophis grabbed Umit and leaped into the sea before she could stop him.