Recaps

Longinus rose through the Marines while secretly operating as Apophis, who freed Hancock and led an assault on the Celestial Dragons at Sabaody. The World Government blamed Dragon and raised Apophis’s bounty, while Apophis moved against Underground King Umit.

• Longinus forced Crocodile to abandon his schemes in Lodestar Island, then learned Crocodile’s intelligence network depended on information Longinus had supplied.
• Longinus became a rear admiral, sparred with Sakazuki, and watched Gion lose to Hawk Eyes before traveling to Sabaody as Apophis.
• Apophis freed Boa Hancock from her captors and joined Rayleigh and Shakky to rescue Hancock’s enslaved sisters and attack the Celestial Dragons.
• Apophis and Rayleigh fought Kuzan while escaping Sabaody, then Apophis left Hancock on Daughter Island after telling her to choose her own future.
• The Five Elders blamed Dragon’s Revolutionary Army for the Sabaody attack and raised Apophis’s bounty to one billion Beli, while others reacted to the conflicting reports.
• At Whole Cake Island, Apophis attacked Umit aboard his ship and leaped into the sea with him despite BIG MOM’s demand to stop.

Apophis reunited with Monet and left Doflamingo alive after helping him train. Meanwhile, Longinus strengthened his position in the Marines, clashed with Kuma, ended Sky Island’s four-hundred-year war, and led his forces toward Bika.

• Apophis killed Ursus and his underlings, learned that Demi had died aboard the sunken slave ship, and named Doflamingo as his final revenge target.
• Apophis defeated the Donquixote Family, then recognized Monet as his sister Demi and reunited with her.
• Apophis warned Doflamingo to protect Monet, offered him three future favors, and trained him by fighting him until he was unconscious.
• Longinus took charge of G2 Branch’s finances and met CP9 after their mission against the Revolutionary Army led them to Kuma.
• Longinus defeated Kuma, used his healing bubble to expand his Observation Haki, and later released him to Bonney.
• Longinus posed as a divine envoy on Sky Island, drove off the Sky Lord, recovered the Golden Bell, and helped end the war between the Skandians and Angel Island.
• Longinus warned Gan Fall and the Skandia Chief of a future disaster, then sent them to seek Devil Fruits and bring freedom to Bika.
• A wingless young man in Bika watched Longinus arrive with his forces and wondered whether he was not alone in being abandoned by God.

Longinus recruited giants from Elbaf and arrived in Dressrosa, where he defeated Doflamingo and faced Big Mom. The battle exposed the truth about Mother Carmel and ended with Longinus’s Brilliant Strike piercing Big Mom.

• Longinus recruited twenty giants from Elbaf after defeating Loki and warning the Giant King about Big Mom’s crimes against Mother Carmel and the children.
• Longinus rejected Sakazuki’s plan to sacrifice the giants, then Big Mom pursued him while Doflamingo stirred up trouble in Dressrosa.
• Longinus stopped Doflamingo’s attack on King Riku, defeated Doflamingo and his officers, and offered to buy Dressrosa’s grain.
• Longinus learned that Big Mom had arrived in Dressrosa and freed Doflamingo and his officers to help the giants hold off her commanders.
• Longinus fought Big Mom while the giants and Doflamingo battled Katakuri and the Charlotte commanders, driving Big Mom into an abyss and continuing the fight underground.
• Longinus forced Big Mom toward the surface with seawater, while Katakuri tried to lead his family to safety and urge his mother to retreat.
• Longinus taunted Big Mom with the truth about Mother Carmel and her disappearance, then struck her with Brilliant Strike, piercing her body.

Longinus helped suppress the Mary Geoise slave uprising and confronted Fisher Tiger, whose apparent death strengthened ties among the Fish-Men and Revolutionaries. He then began a mission to Wano with Hiyori, Kawamatsu, and Gion to build support against Kaido and Orochi.

• After Big Mom fell, Katakuri escaped with the Charlotte Family, while Longinus reported the victory and the Navy captured Cracker and Perospero.
• The Charlotte Family discovered that Charlotte Linlin had survived without her former Iron Body or Devil Fruit ability, and Katakuri urged them to disappear and train her.
• When Fisher Tiger freed the slaves in Mary Geoise, Longinus helped restore order, exposed a human trafficker, and confronted Celestial Dragon Kamalel.
• The Five Elders threatened to destroy Fish-Man Island unless Fisher Tiger was captured within three months, so Longinus sought Tiger and warned him of the order.
• Longinus confronted the Sun Pirates and promised Tiger’s crew safe passage if Tiger surrendered, but Dragon intervened and later killed Tiger before taking his body away.
• Haku and Inazuma secretly recovered Tiger, while Longinus concealed his reattached arm and the Five Elders considered backing him as a successor to Sengoku.
• Apophis asked Judge to turn the Fear-Fear Fruit and Door-Door Fruit into items, then left to seek another Devil Fruit for his Apophis identity.
• Longinus revealed that he knew Hiyori and Kawamatsu’s identities and took them, along with Gion, to Wano to seek the samurai’s support against Kaido and Orochi.