Recaps

Hiko established the Uchiha Grand Alliance, recruited Kuzan, and prepared to strike Blackbeard with Buggy and Whitebeard’s remnants. As the Alliance faced the approaching war, Hiko’s crew encountered Zoro and Nami, then Kidd’s forces attacked the Konoha Go.

• Hiko drove back the Blackbeard Pirates at Dressrosa, captured their commander, and turned the victory into leverage to build the Uchiha Grand Alliance.
• Hiko set alliance conditions, including taxes and shared defense, while the Vinsmoke Family joined in exchange for authority in the North Blue.
• Kuzan escaped Blackbeard’s attack, sought refuge with Hiko, and joined the Alliance as Blackbeard’s main force approached Dressrosa.
• Hiko planned to attack Blackbeard’s territories with Buggy and Whitebeard’s remnants, while assigning Kuzan to defend Dressrosa.
• Hiko met Zoro and Nami while gathering supplies, welcomed them to join the Alliance, and let them leave after Zoro refused.
• Kidd, Hawkins, Apu, Killer, and their Pirates attacked the Konoha Go, where Urouge and Drake fought to defend the ship.
• Apu badly injured Drake, and Hawkins’s sword narrowly grazed Drake’s eye as the battle continued.

Uchiha Hiko built an alliance with Buggy and drew the Red-Haired Pirates into a campaign against Blackbeard, then coordinated a vast battle across the New World. The fighting left Blackbeard’s forces encircled, with Marco’s fleet trapped among them, as Hiko offered Teach a choice.

• Hiko defeated Kidd’s crew, brought Hawkins into the Uchiha Alliance, and ordered him to take custody of their ships and crews.
• Kaguya learned that the Divine Tree’s fruit was forming from the blood of three hundred thousand slaves and vowed to make Hiko pay.
• Hiko persuaded Buggy to seize Blackbeard’s subordinates while Hiko claimed his territory, and Shanks mobilized to help Buggy after learning of the plan.
• Kuzan and the Germa Corps delayed Blackbeard as Hiko’s forces, Buggy’s Pirates, and the Whitebeard remnants converged on his fleet.
• Shanks attacked Blackbeard, and Hiko’s underwater fleet completed a three-pronged encirclement before Hiko entered the battle in his golden Susanoo.
• Hiko ordered the Alliance to disengage and surround the battlefield, but Shanks withdrew and Marco refused to retreat, leaving his forces exposed.
• Hiko realized that Blackbeard’s escape route was blocked and Marco’s forces were trapped among the encircled Pirates, then offered Teach two choices, beginning with leaving the New World and surrendering his territory.

Hiko destroyed Blackbeard’s crew, took over its territories, and then confronted Otsutsuki Kaguya as she seized the Divine Tree’s Chakra Fruit. After a brutal battle that devastated Mary Geoise, Hiko sealed Kaguya in a massive stone sphere and hurled it into the sea.

• Hiko used Tsukuyomi and his forces’ encirclement to break the Blackbeard Pirates’ morale, then killed Blackbeard and absorbed his surviving crew and territories into the Uchiha Alliance.
• Hiko refused Marco’s territorial demands, while Red-Haired recognized that Hiko had become a new emperor and the Marines debated how to respond to his growing power.
• Hiko learned from Waldo that Kaguya had taken control of Mary Geoise, then raced there as Kaguya claimed the Divine Tree’s Chakra Fruit and released Chakra across the world.
• Hiko fought Kaguya through the ruins of Mary Geoise, surviving her Tsukuyomi, dragons, and devastating attacks as the battle killed countless people and destroyed much of the Holy Land.
• Hiko awakened in another world with his strongest techniques unavailable, met Ichigo Kurosaki, and offered to help him grow stronger.
• Hiko resumed his fight against Kaguya, overcame the CP0 leader and her summoned fighters, and battered her with his mutated Susanoo, Shadow Clones, and white Chakra flames.
• Kaguya unleashed Amaterasu across Mary Geoise, burning Hiko’s defenses, but Hiko forced an opening and completed Chibaku Tensei, sealing her in a massive sphere that he hurled into the sea.

After sealing Kaguya and disappearing, Hiko awoke in the World of the Living and battled Espada while making a place for himself in Soul Society. As his strength drew more enemies, he faced Stark, Barragan Lui-sen-bang, Ulquiorra, and Kensei Muguruma in a growing confrontation.

• Hiko sealed Kaguya inside a massive sphere, destroyed the Divine Tree, and fought her until they both fell into the sea and vanished.
• While Hiko was carried away unconscious, pirates attacked the Uchiha Alliance’s affiliated nations, and Kuzan took charge as acting Alliance Leader.
• Hiko awoke in the World of the Living, saved Ichigo Kurosaki from Espada, and defeated Aaroniero Arruruerie and Luppi while Tier Harribel and Grimmjow escaped.
• Hiko met Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, fought him in a contest to slay Hollows, and tied their score at 4,700 and a half each.
• After battling Yamamoto again, Hiko agreed to join Soul Society on the condition that he could establish an independent Fourteenth Division and take an examination.
• Stark sought Kisuke Urahara’s help to capture Hiko, but Kisuke refused, and Stark later joined Ulquiorra Cifer and others in attacking Hiko.
• Hiko fought Stark, Ulquiorra, and Kensei Muguruma, then returned with his full power channeled through Ryujin Jakka as Barragan Lui-sen-bang joined the assault.
• Isshin Kurosaki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Rukia, and Kisuke Urahara headed toward the battle, while Hiko confronted Kensei Muguruma about his Hollowfication.