Recaps

Aokiji and the Marines cornered Perona, Urouge, Hawkins, and Shakky, forcing Shakky to fight the admiral while the others faced the Marine forces. Hawkins survived Aokiji’s ice spear with a Substitute Straw Doll, but the group remained in grave danger.

• Urouge and Perona took Hawkins’s past divinations as proof they would survive, while the Marines surrounded them.
• Perona sent Negativity Ghosts after Aokiji, but he dodged and tried to freeze her before Shakky intercepted him.
• Hawkins transformed and attacked Aokiji with Curse Nails, but Aokiji pierced and froze him with an ice spear.
• Shakky fought Aokiji while Marines led by Onigumo engaged Urouge and Perona.
• Hawkins shed the ice after a Substitute Straw Doll took the fatal wound, and Urouge called for his help.

Urouge and Perona were overwhelmed by the Marines despite fighting back, while Hawkins was badly wounded by Onigumo. The chapter left Hawkins wondering whether he could still seize the opportunity he had sought as his allies lay defeated.

• Urouge used Karma Retribution to grow enormous and punch Dalmatian away, but Onigumo struck him from behind with eight Armament Haki-coated slashes.
• Hawkins transformed into Demon Felling Form and forced Onigumo back, saving Urouge from being finished off.
• Perona struggled against more than a hundred elite Marines, and Bastille prepared to strike her with his Shark Saber.
• Urouge took Bastille's blow to shield Perona, then collapsed; distracted, Perona was struck by several Marines' Finger Pistols and fell as well.
• Onigumo slashed Hawkins several times, and Hawkins saw Urouge and Perona lying gravely wounded as he wondered whether his chance had ended.

Hawkins chose to fight beside Perona and Urouge, but the Marines overwhelmed him as his substitute dolls ran out. Just as Dalmatian moved in to deliver the final blow, Maud crashed down and knocked the vice admiral unconscious.

• Hawkins decided to stake his life protecting Perona and Urouge, then broke free of Onigumo by sacrificing a substitute doll.
• Hawkins attacked the Marines with iron nails, but they dodged and overwhelmed him with Haki-coated Six Powers techniques.
• Bastille and Dalmatian decided to execute Hawkins, while his substitute dolls dwindled to a final one.
• Dalmatian charged Hawkins to deliver the final blow, but Maud fell from the sky and crushed him into unconsciousness.
• Maud looked down at Dalmatian and apologized for mistaking the vice admiral for an ant, shocking the Marines.

Maud’s reunited crew arrived just as he confronted the Marines who had injured his people. Maud began cutting down the Marines, while Jaya and Lafitte blocked Bastille and Onigumo from reaching him as he focused on Aokiji.

• Maud threatened the Marines and his crew members—Lafitte, Brook, Jaya, Jim, and Philo—arrived to join him.
• Hawkins realized Maud had saved him at the last moment, while Urouge called out to Maud before fainting.
• Maud used his shadows and Shusui to slash two Marines, causing them to disintegrate into dust.
• Bastille charged Maud with his Shark Saber, but Jaya blocked the attack with her axe.
• Onigumo attacked Maud from the side, but Lafitte blocked him with his sword cane and warned that he was no match for their captain.

Lafitte, Jaya, Brook, and Jim demonstrated the Maud Pirates’ strength as they fought the Marines, while Maud moved to confront Aokiji. Aokiji stopped attacking Shakky when Maud arrived, leaving the two battles poised to shift.

• Lafitte wounded and drove back Onigumo, while Jaya repeatedly overpowered Bastille with her axe.
• Maud passed the elite Marines and headed toward Aokiji, as the Marines chose to attack Brook and Jim instead.
• Brook used his Soul Reaping Sword to slash and freeze several Marines, while Jim’s Ancient Zoan form broke through their ranks.
• Philo treated the injured Perona and Urouge as Hawkins watched the Maud Pirates fight and marveled at their strength.
• Aokiji kept Shakky on the defensive until he and Shakky noticed Maud’s arrival; Aokiji then stopped attacking and let Shakky retreat.

Maud arrived on Sabaody Archipelago as Aokiji’s attack on Shakky and the others neared completion, furious that the Navy had injured his people. He countered Aokiji’s ice attack and appeared to strike at his heart, declaring that he could be wherever shadows were.

• Aokiji abandoned his advantage over Shakky when he sensed Maud approaching, while Maud confronted him over the harm done to his companions.
• Aokiji attacked Maud with Ice Bird Attack, but Maud cut through it with Shadow Flow, Curtain Blade.
• Curtain Blade split Aokiji’s body and cleaved through the Yoruean Red Tree, shaking Tree Island 14.
• Aokiji coated an ice blade with Armament Haki and swung at Maud, but Maud stopped it with two fingers.
• Maud appeared in front of Aokiji and drove Shusui toward the heart in one half of Aokiji’s body.

Maud fought Admiral Aokiji on Tree Island 14, using his shadows to counter Aokiji’s ice while their clash split the island and spread panic across the Sabaody Archipelago. As Maud’s crew gained the advantage against the Marines on Tree Island 13, he told Aokiji that shadows could not be frozen.

• Maud used his shadow to strike Aokiji, but Aokiji avoided the lethal blow by elementalizing with his Observation Haki and countered with Frozen Moment.
• Aokiji unleashed Ice Age, freezing the area, while Maud sent a tide of shadows against the ice.
• Their battle split Tree Island 14, and witnesses recognized Bagard Maud and spread news of his return as a pirate, causing panic across the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Maud and Aokiji exchanged dozens of blows as Shakky watched, while Jaya, Lafitte, Brook, Jim, and Hawkins pushed the Marines toward defeat on Tree Island 13.
• Maud made spikes emerge from the shadows trapped in the ice and told Aokiji that shadows could not be frozen and that his companions were stronger.

Maud and Luo battled Aokiji on Sabaody, where Maud’s shadow techniques and Luo’s Shambles sent the admiral crashing into a tree island. Aokiji survived Maud’s devastating Haaboku slash and invoked the Heart Pirates as bargaining chips, leaving Luo and Maud facing a new dilemma.

• Aokiji chose to abandon his operation against Maud and used Ice Age to cover his retreat toward Onigumo and the other Marines.
• Maud broke through Aokiji’s ice with Armament Haki-coated shadow brambles, while Luo used Room and Shambles to redirect Aokiji into their attack.
• Maud struck Aokiji with Haaboku, splitting several Yarukiman Mangroves and shaking the entire Sabaody Archipelago, but Aokiji remained alive and largely unharmed.
• Maud and Luo discussed Aokiji’s formidable Haki as Aokiji emerged from the frozen sea with blood at the corner of his mouth.
• Aokiji told Luo that the Heart Pirates were in Marine hands.

Aokiji disrupted Maud and Luo's pursuit before using Ice Age to divide the battlefield and extract the surviving Marines. Maud was left with a Marine Den Den Mushi and Aokiji's promise to call.

• Aokiji hinted that Bepo and the Heart Pirates had been targeted, and Luo attacked him with Room before Aokiji escaped in his elemental form.
• Maud sensed Aokiji heading toward the battlefield and pursued him with Luo as Lafitte fought Onigumo and Jaya defeated Bastille with Haoku.
• Aokiji trapped Jaya in ice walls, then used Ice Age to turn the battlefield into a maze and separate the combatants.
• Aokiji led the wounded and unconscious Marines away, tossed a Marine Den Den Mushi to Maud, and withdrew.

Maud regrouped with his crew after Aokiji retreated and learned that the Marines had targeted Luo and his Op-Op Fruit. He decided to leave Sabaody Archipelago by capturing a Celestial Dragon, refusing to let the Marines dictate terms.

• Maud stopped pursuing Aokiji, reunited with his companions, and sent Jaya and Lafitte with Luo to check on Bepo and the others.
• Maud accepted Hawkins into his crew after Hawkins said he wanted to stand beneath Maud's flag, then ordered him to gather his crew and the Strange Monk Pirates.
• Philo treated Perona and Urouge, and Perona woke while Urouge remained unconscious.
• Luo, Lafitte, and Jaya returned and confirmed Aokiji's account; Maud suspected the Marines wanted living hearts or Luo's Op-Op Fruit.
• Maud declared that he would thwart the Marines by capturing a Celestial Dragon.

Maud decided to attack the Celestial Dragons to force the Marines to return Bepo and the others, and his crew sailed with the Hawkins and Strange Monk Pirates to their floating base, Thriller Bark. Two days later, after Aokiji’s defeat became public, Sengoku contacted Maud, who mocked the Marines for taking hostages.

• Maud declared that he would target the Celestial Dragons to secure Bepo and the others’ return, and his companions accepted his decision despite Luo’s concerns.
• Jaya used the Float-Float Fruit to carry the ships and submarine to Thriller Bark, where the crews moored and gathered.
• Maud said Jim’s dream was to bring down the Celestial Dragons, then ordered a welcome banquet for Hawkins and the others.
• News spread that Maud had defeated and driven back Aokiji, who faced Akainu’s criticism at Marine Headquarters.
• Sengoku entered the Marshal’s office and ordered Aokiji to contact Maud, who answered by mocking the Marines’ hostage-taking.

Maud accepted Sengoku’s proposal to exchange one hundred living hearts for the Heart Pirates, while reserving the right to choose the meeting place. CP0 then revealed that the Marines’ true objective was the Op-Op Fruit.

• Sengoku told Maud that the Heart Pirates were imprisoned in Impel Down and offered to exchange them for one hundred living hearts.
• Luo corrected Sengoku’s count, confirming that seventeen Heart Pirates had been captured, including Bepo.
• Maud accepted the exchange but insisted that he would choose the location and contact Sengoku with the arrangements.
• Sengoku discussed the deal with Garp, Tsuru, Aokiji, and Akainu, expressing unease about Maud.
• CP0 arrived at Sengoku’s office and said that they needed to obtain the Op-Op Fruit, not merely one hundred hearts.

CP0 ordered Sengoku to seize the Op-Op Fruit from Law, but Maud warned that the World Government would not ignore the fruit and set out to abduct a Celestial Dragon. Maud, Brook, and Lafitte headed for Pangu City, where a vast shadow suddenly covered the streets.

• CP0 ordered Sengoku to take over the mission and obtain Law's Op-Op Fruit, while Sengoku argued that provoking the Maud Pirates was unwise.
• Maud challenged Law's assumption that the Marines would accept the exchange peacefully, pointing out the World Government's past offer of five billion for the Op-Op Fruit.
• Maud left Thriller Bark with Brook and Lafitte to create a major incident by abducting a Celestial Dragon.
• Maud, Brook, and Lafitte arrived on a small island, which then plunged through the clouds toward Pangu City.
• A rapidly growing shadow appeared over a street in Pangu City, startling the people below.

Maud, Lafitte, and Brook attacked the Holy Land under cover of an island falling toward Pangu City, then seized several Celestial Dragons and escaped as guards pursued them. Maud left with Shalria, Saint Charlos, and Saint Rosward, while Lafitte photographed the destruction and their flight.

• Maud sent Lafitte and Brook to separate targets while he flew toward the Celestial Dragon residence, as Holy Land guards and a Five Elder shattered the falling island.
• Maud subdued Shalria, Saint Charlos, and Saint Rosward, then fought CP0 agent Essai and captured her after cutting away her shadow.
• Maud bound the three Celestial Dragons together and took off as guards converged, while Lafitte arrived carrying two more Celestial Dragons.
• Lafitte photographed Maud escaping with the captives as island debris filled the town and enemies pursued them through the air.

Maud stayed behind to delay the Holy Land’s guards while Lafitte and Brook escaped with five captured Celestial Dragons. After cutting through the pursuers, Maud attacked another Celestial Dragon and sensed a powerful figure approaching.

• Maud gave Lafitte the Celestial Dragon family of three and told him and Brook to retreat while he held off the guards.
• Lafitte took Brook’s captive as well, and the two flew toward the ship with all five Celestial Dragons.
• Maud used ordinary and Armament Haki bullets to shoot down guards and slow their pursuit.
• The guards split up to attack Maud and pursue Lafitte and Brook, but Maud’s interception had already prevented them from catching the escapees.
• Maud charged through the guards, landed atop a tower near the Celestial Dragons’ residential district, and sent a Hakoku slash toward a Celestial Dragon.
• An old man blocked Maud’s slash with a Soaring Slash, and Maud sensed a cold gaze approaching from afar.

Maud escaped Pangu City after kidnapping five Celestial Dragons and returned to Thriller Bark, where Luo discovered evidence that their bodies had been artificially constructed. The chapter left Maud considering the revelation that the Celestial Dragons might not be what they claimed.

• Maud sensed a powerful gaze in Pangu City, destroyed buildings to create chaos, and escaped the guards by switching places with shadow ropes.
• Maud reunited with Lafitte and Brook on Thriller Bark, and the three returned to the castle with the five unconscious Celestial Dragons.
• Maud ordered Luo to remove the Celestial Dragons' hearts, and Luo detected unusual features in their bodily structures.
• Luo told Maud that the Celestial Dragons' bodies bore traces of artificial construction, though he said calling them artificial humans was not entirely accurate.

Maud planned to expose the Celestial Dragons’ origins and his attack on Mary Geoise through the World Economic News. Morgans chose to publish the evidence, and the resulting newspaper spread worldwide the next day.

• Luo told Maud that the Celestial Dragons descended from artificial humans, and Maud asked him to prepare a medical report to document the finding.
• Maud used a captured CP0 member’s shadow to register the corpse for experience, then ordered Lafitte to send photos of the Mary Geoise attack to Dada.
• CP0 members failed to wake Essai, and a sudden wound opened in her neck, killing her as blood covered their white robes.
• Maud’s crew began a victory feast after Jim silenced the awakened Celestial Dragon in the cells.
• Dada showed Morgans photographs of Maud abducting three Celestial Dragons, and Morgans ordered the staff to prepare a special newspaper edition.
• The next day, a sensational newspaper reached every corner of the world.

Maud’s attack on the Holy Land and abduction of a Celestial Dragon made headlines, astonishing Sabo and the Revolutionary Army. Sabo remained on the island to train Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates, while Sunny asked whether they should contact Maud.

• Maud read Dada’s account of his attack in the morning paper and waited for the Navy to call.
• Ace and the Whitebeard Pirates left the island to quell unrest in the New World and reclaim Whitebeard’s corpse from Maud.
• Luffy decided that the Straw Hat Pirates would stay on the island to train, and Sabo stayed to help them without leaving the Revolutionary Army.
• Koala arrived with a newspaper reporting that Maud had attacked the Holy Land and abducted a Celestial Dragon.
• Sabo admired Maud’s feat, Molly praised him for doing what the Revolutionary Army had always wanted, and Sunny asked whether they should contact him.

After reading the report of Maud’s attack on Mary Geoise and abduction of a Celestial Dragon, people across the seas reacted with shock. Sengoku called Maud to threaten him, but Maud rejected his attempt to regain the initiative.

• Luffy charged aboard the Sunny toward the kitchen, and Sabo introduced him to Koala and the others as his little brother.
• Nami snatched the newspaper from Sabo and read the report about Maud’s attack on the Holy Land, prompting the Straw Hat Pirates to react with shock.
• Sabo decided against contacting Maud so he could focus on the Straw Hat Pirates’ special training.
• Hancock and her sisters read the report, and Gloriosa confirmed that Maud had attacked Mary Geoise and abducted a Celestial Dragon.
• Sengoku rebuked the three CP0 members for dismissing Maud as no cause for concern, then called Maud to threaten him on behalf of the World Government.
• Maud told Sengoku that threats would not let him take back the initiative.

Maud arranged to exchange five captured Celestial Dragons for the Heart Pirates, leaving Sengoku with little choice but to agree. Maud planned to keep the Celestial Dragons’ “Shadow Heart” even after returning them, while Vegapunk began to suspect the Maud Pirates could retain Devil Fruits with certainty.

• Maud offered Sengoku the five Celestial Dragons in exchange for the Heart Pirates and set the exchange for two weeks later on Thunder God Island.
• Sengoku accepted Maud’s terms, then told the silent CP0 members that obtaining the Op-Op Fruit was no longer realistic.
• Sentomaru told Vegapunk that Maud had attacked the Holy Land using the reborn Float-Float Fruit, prompting Vegapunk to suspect the Maud Pirates had a way to retain Devil Fruits.
• Lafitte questioned Maud’s decision to trade away the Celestial Dragons, and Maud revealed that he intended to keep their “Shadow Heart.”

Maud tested how his Shadow ability could manipulate a person’s heart through its shadow, then traveled through a stormy sea to buy Thunder God Island supplies from an old traveling merchant. He left with umbrellas and Sky Island Empty Shells, considering whether a Sound Shell and the Sound-Sound Fruit could make a sound-explosion bomb.

• Maud explained that he had left a hidden Shadow Surgery mechanism in a Celestial Dragon as both insurance and a possible threat against the World Government and Marines.
• Maud separated Shalria’s heart from its shadow, then used the shadow to inflict intense pain before Luo restored the heart; Maud later prepared the same mechanism for four other Celestial Dragons.
• Ten days later, Maud encountered an old traveling merchant’s boat in a storm and asked whether she sold umbrellas for Thunder God Island.
• The frightened merchant sold Maud ten Lightning-Resistant Umbrellas and other goods for only 100 Beli, and Maud paid with a golden ring before flying away.
• As Maud headed toward Thriller Bark, he considered combining a Sound Shell with the Sound-Sound Fruit stored in his Shadow Box to make a sound-explosion bomb.

Maud returned to Thriller Bark with Empty Shells and Lightning-Resistant Umbrellas, then led a group onto Thunder God Island to await the Marines. The Marines arrived by warship as Luo waited to rescue Bepo and the others.

• Maud brought Lightning-Resistant Umbrellas and various Empty Shells back to Thriller Bark, where the crew examined them.
• Perona accidentally set Beli's rear on fire with a Flame Shell, and Beli retaliated by releasing a foul odor from a Stench Shell, causing chaos.
• Maud considered using Empty Shells to strengthen Thriller Bark but postponed his plans until after visiting Sky Island and handling Doflamingo's loose ends in Dressrosa.
• Several days later, Maud and a group including Lafitte, Jim, Luo, Perona, and five unconscious Celestial Dragons landed on Thunder God Island using the umbrellas to withstand its lightning.
• After waiting for several hours, Maud and the others saw two Marine warships approaching, and Luo recognized their arrival.

Maud exchanged the captured Celestial Dragons for Luo’s crew on Thunder God Island, but the Marines’ retreat was interrupted by a World Government ambush. Maud remotely killed Shalria aboard the warship as Kizaru tried to contact the Marines, leaving Smoker and Hina stunned.

• Smoker and Hina brought Bepo and the other Heart Pirates to Thunder God Island, where they met Maud and Luo for the exchange.
• Luo checked the pirates for tampering while Smoker verified the Celestial Dragons, and the two sides completed the exchange.
• Smoker and Hina sailed away with the Celestial Dragons, but more than a dozen Marine Headquarters warships appeared ahead of them.
• Kizaru called Smoker, and the Marines realized the World Government had not intended a normal hostage exchange.
• Maud saw the approaching warships and snapped his fingers, causing Shalria’s chest to explode aboard Smoker’s ship.

Maud killed the Celestial Dragon Shalria in front of Smoker’s Marines, committing the Maud Pirates to a path of no return. Kizaru arrived to eliminate Maud and his crew, but Maud caused the other Celestial Dragons to suffer unexplained pain, and Kizaru approached him without attacking.

• Maud snapped his fingers and killed Shalria as Smoker and the Marines watched from their warship.
• Lafitte, Perona, Luo, and Jim realized that Maud’s act meant they would raise the Maud Pirates’ flag and could not turn back.
• Kizaru arrived at the warship and gathered light to attack Maud, but Maud clenched the shadows of the other Celestial Dragons’ hearts and made them scream in pain.
• Hina restrained the suffering Celestial Dragons with Black Rags, but the ship doctors found no abnormality in their bodies.
• Kizaru traveled to Maud’s group, and Maud stopped his companions from attacking as Kizaru praised him.

Maud forced Kizaru to stand down by revealing his leverage over the Celestial Dragons, then killed another hostage and slashed Kizaru into a warship. As Thunder God Island rose into the sky, Maud and the Maud Pirates escaped while the Marines watched in shock.

• Kizaru told Maud that eliminating him could be worth the lives of four Celestial Dragons, but Maud judged that Kizaru had no intention of attacking.
• Maud revealed that he could destroy a Celestial Dragon with a snap of his fingers as Thunder God Island began to rise using the Float-Float Fruit's ability.
• Maud snapped his fingers again, killing a second Celestial Dragon, and then struck Kizaru with Shusui, sending him crashing into a warship.
• Thunder God Island rose into the sky as Maud sheathed Shusui and the Marines stared at him in shock.