Recaps

Maud and his allies fought Kaido, but Maud ended the battle with a powerful slash that sent Kaido into the sea. Unsure whether Kaido had died, Maud ordered the crew to set sail and told Sabo to bring the injured Straw Hat Pirates for treatment.

• Aokiji froze Kaido briefly, but Kaido melted the ice with his flame clouds, while Jaya and Shakky also failed to restrain or seriously harm him.
• Luffy charged at Kaido and was knocked into a crater by Thunder Bagua, leaving Sabo and Sanji to rush to his aid.
• Maud enlarged himself and his blade, then used Luo's Room and Shambles to position himself for a powerful Shadow Press and slash.
• Maud's slash sent Kaido flying over the sea and plunging into the water, stunning everyone who witnessed it.
• Maud withdrew his shadow ability, said nothing about Kaido's fate, ordered everyone back to the ship, and asked Sabo to bring the injured Straw Hat Pirates for treatment.

Maud brought the injured Straw Hat Pirates aboard Thriller Bark, then killed Ulti and obtained her Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit. As the Straw Hats confronted Zoro’s lost arms and Luffy’s severe injuries, Maud offered to restore Zoro’s arms, leaving the crew stunned and hopeful.

• Maud had Jaya bring the Thousand Sunny aboard Thriller Bark and lift the island into the air as the Beasts Pirates arrived searching for Kaido and Ulti.
• Maud returned Ulti’s shadow to her, removed it again to anesthetize her, and had Luo perform the Removal Surgery, killing her and producing a Pachycephalosaurus Devil Fruit.
• The Straw Hat Pirates regained consciousness and gathered around the badly injured Luffy and Zoro, whose arms had both been severed.
• Zoro woke, asked about Luffy, and insisted he could change from Three Sword Style to One Sword Style despite losing his arms.
• Maud entered the medical room and offered to restore Zoro’s arms, shocking the Straw Hat Pirates.

Maud restored Zoro’s arms at the cost of at least ten years of lifespan, and the Straw Hats learned that Maud had defeated Kaido with one slash. The chapter left Zoro considering Maud as his master while Sanji questioned whether the crew could grow strong enough.

• Maud warned Zoro that restoring both arms would cost at least ten years of lifespan, but Zoro accepted the price and insisted he would become the world’s greatest swordsman.
• Maud restored Zoro’s arms, and Zoro thanked him for the second major favor he owed him.
• Maud let the injured Straw Hats remain aboard his ship until they recovered, then left the infirmary with Perona and Beli.
• Robin asked Sabo about the battle, and Sabo revealed that Maud had sent Kaido flying into the sea with a single slash.
• Zoro considered asking Maud to become his master, while Sanji worried that the crew might never become strong enough.

Maud planned to use footage of his fight with Kaido to claim the fame of defeating him, then hurried to ask Franky about Pluton and found Zoro waiting in the corridor with a favor to ask.

• Maud explained to Perona that he would give Dada footage showing Kaido being knocked into the sea so Morgans could report Kaido's defeat.
• Perona misunderstood Maud's hint to leave his room, then fled after Beli teased her about wanting to sleep with Maud.
• Maud sent the footage to Dada late at night and woke after less than three hours of sleep.
• Maud learned from Jaya that Thriller Bark was already traveling at maximum speed and considered asking Franky about Pluton technology.
• Maud found the badly wounded Zoro standing in the corridor with his swords and heard him ask for a favor.

Zoro knelt before Maud and asked to be taught swordsmanship, but Maud refused and went to speak privately with Franky. Maud revealed that he knew Franky had incorporated Pluton technology into the Thousand Sunny and proposed a deal to obtain some of it.

• Zoro removed his swords, knelt before Maud, and asked him to teach him swordsmanship.
• Maud refused Zoro and entered the infirmary, where Bartholomew excitedly told Usopp that Maud had nodded at him.
• Maud invited Franky to speak on the infirmary balcony and closed the glass door with his shadows.
• Maud asked Franky how much Pluton technology he had used to build the Thousand Sunny, shocking Franky into tacitly confirming it.
• Maud told Franky he needed some of Pluton's technology and proposed a deal.

Maud negotiated with Franky for part of Pluton's technology, and Franky asked him to help the Straw Hat Pirates grow stronger quickly in return. Maud agreed and offered three Devil Fruits, leaving Franky eager to give his all to the deal and Thriller Bark's transformation.

• Maud demanded part of Pluton's technology and caught Robin eavesdropping from the medical room.
• Franky agreed to provide the technology if Maud helped the Straw Hat Pirates become strong enough to face powerful battles.
• Maud accepted Franky's demand and considered having Aokiji train the crew while Franky helped transform Thriller Bark.
• Maud revealed twelve Devil Fruits and offered Franky three, along with agreeing to Zoro's earlier request.
• Franky was impressed by Maud's offer and resolved to fulfill his side of the transaction wholeheartedly.

Maud finalized a deal with Franky to trade part of Pluton's technology for special training and three Devil Fruits for the Straw Hat Pirates. He helped Usopp, Nami, and Sanji choose fruits, while the crew awaited recovery before training and Franky prepared to renovate Thriller Bark.

• Maud and Franky settled their deal, and Maud told Zoro to begin special training once his injuries had mostly healed.
• Maud recruited Shakky and Aokiji to help train the Straw Hat Pirates, and Aokiji reluctantly agreed.
• Maud presented the Devil Fruit list, and the Straw Hat Pirates chose Usopp, Nami, and Sanji to receive fruits.
• Maud recommended the Float-Float Fruit for Usopp and the Pachycephalosaurus for Nami, explaining how each could help them.
• Sanji considered the Swim-Swim Fruit but chose the Ton-Ton Fruit after weighing its combat benefits.
• Maud gave the chosen fruits to Usopp, Nami, and Sanji, then hoped Franky would start renovating Thriller Bark while the crew recovered.

Usopp and Sanji ate the Devil Fruits Maud had given the Straw Hat Pirates, while Franky began designing modifications for Thriller Bark. News then spread that Maud had defeated Kaido, and Gild Tesoro looked forward to meeting him.

• Usopp ate the Float-Float Fruit and Sanji ate the Ton-Ton Fruit, while Nami claimed she had already eaten her Devil Fruit.
• Maud introduced Franky to Lafitte, and Franky presented concept designs for Thriller Bark’s weapons and propulsion systems.
• Maud planned to gather materials, gold, and a solution to the ship’s fuel needs before focusing on finding Rayleigh.
• Newspapers reported that Kaido had been defeated by Bagard Maud, shocking people around the world and stirring discussion about his growing influence.
• Aboard Gran Tesoro, Tesoro studied Maud’s bounty poster and said he wanted to meet him soon.

Bullet destroyed a lawless-zone stronghold and vowed to find Bagard. Maud, while the Big Mom and Beasts Pirates reacted to Maud’s defeat of Kaido, Perospero found the badly wounded Rayleigh on Flavor Island, and Hiyori reported that someone had washed ashore on Onigashima.

• Bullet read the report of Kaido’s defeat, vowed to find Bagard. Maud, and headed for the harbor with weapons following him.
• Charlotte Linlin raged over Maud’s defeat of Kaido, while Perospero discussed the difficulty of finding the Maud Pirates and the possibility of recruiting escaped prisoners such as Bullet.
• Perospero learned that Rayleigh had washed ashore unconscious on Flavor Island and ordered a doctor to treat him.
• Queen arrived at Onigashima and demanded news of Kaido, while Yamato read the report and asked whether Kaido had died.
• Hiyori confirmed that Kaido was fine and reported that someone had washed ashore on Onigashima’s eastern coast.

The Beasts Pirates discovered the injured Gaban near Onigashima while Akainu prepared a Marine campaign and Sengoku learned Maud’s real name and family history. Hina regretted investigating Maud as Maud received news of Bullet on Thriller Bark.

• Hiyori reported that someone had washed ashore on Onigashima, and Queen recognized the injured, limbless old man as Gaban, Roger’s right-hand man.
• Akainu ordered Marines to prioritize executing escaped prisoners and revealed that he was using Maud as bait to provoke conflict among pirates.
• Tsuru told Sengoku that Bagard was an assumed name, Maud was a D, and Maud’s younger brother Bagard Moyou had secretly survived the massacre.
• Sengoku learned that Garp had gone to the cemetery to mourn Ghost Gun, while Hina admitted to Smoker that investigating Maud’s background had been unnecessary.
• Sabo brought Maud news about Bullet on Thriller Bark, and Maud reacted with a cold glint in his eyes.

Maud learned that Douglas Bullet had defeated Rayleigh, Gaban, and Saul, and resolved to find Rayleigh while keeping the news from Sunny. As Luffy recovered and Maud trained Zoro, Charlotte Linlin learned that Rayleigh was imprisoned in Mont Dor’s Book World and ordered him brought before her.

• Sabo told Maud that Bullet, a former Roger Pirate, had defeated Rayleigh, Gaban, and Saul, but the Revolutionary Army had uncovered no further information.
• Maud told Jaya what they knew, and they worried about Rayleigh and the others while Thriller Bark continued at full speed.
• Several days later, Luffy woke up, learned that Maud had saved his companions, and heard that Aokiji and Maud were training the crew.
• Maud taught Zoro to distribute Armament Haki more evenly across his swords, and Zoro tested the technique against a Poneglyph.
• Perospero told Charlotte Linlin that Rayleigh was imprisoned in Mont Dor’s Book World, so she ordered Mont Dor to bring him to her.

After learning that BIGMOM had taken Rayleigh and publicly provoked him, Maud declared war on the BIGMOM Pirates to rescue him. He arrived above Totland and began his assault by descending on Flavor Island, where Rayleigh had washed ashore.

• Charlotte Linlin decided to publicize Rayleigh’s condition and threatened that Rayleigh would die at her hands, so Perospero contacted Morgans.
• Morgans published a headline about Rayleigh, and Akainu approved of the trap’s success in provoking Charlotte Linlin against Maud.
• Dada told Maud that Rayleigh was in BIGMOM’s hands, prompting Maud to announce war on the BIGMOM Pirates while Saul and Gaban remained unaccounted for.
• Maud’s crew accepted the coming battle, while the Straw Hat Pirates were stunned and Nami said she wanted to leave the ship.
• A week later, Maud followed Rayleigh’s Vivre Card to Totland and ordered Thriller Bark to descend on Flavor Island, where Rayleigh had washed ashore.

Maud and his crew invaded Flavor Island, overwhelmed its defenses, and took control of the island. After evacuating its residents and hiding the island with Sabo’s Clear-Clear Fruit, they prepared to use it as a weapon against BIG.MOM’s territory.

• Thriller Bark crashed onto Flavor Island’s Gift Box building, and Maud led his crew ashore.
• Maud’s Conqueror’s Haki incapacitated hundreds of Chess Soldiers and pirates, and he defeated Saint Mark with one kick.
• Maud ordered the crew to evacuate the island’s residents, while Jaya seized control of Flavor Island with her Float-Float Fruit.
• Maud’s crew boarded Thriller Bark, and Sabo used the Clear-Clear Fruit to make the ship and island invisible.
• Scouting ships arrived to find Flavor Island gone and Saint Mark’s corpse at sea.

The Maud Pirates used stealth and island-moving abilities to invade Totto Land, conquering Cream Island after Flavor Island and then striking Liquor Island. Perospero realized the Big Mom Pirates could not track their movements and feared the remaining islands would fall one by one.

• The Big Mom Pirates learned that Bagard Maud had invaded Totto Land and imposed martial law across nearby islands.
• Maud sent the invisible Thriller Bark and Flavor Island west, then dropped Flavor Island onto Cream Island and crushed the Cream Puff Tower.
• Maud's crew emerged from the dust and defeated Charlotte Opera in seconds while Bepo and the others fought Cream Island's soldiers.
• The Maud Pirates rendered Cream Island transparent and lifted it into the sky after conquering it.
• Perospero received news that the Maud Pirates had also conquered Liquor Island and that its minister, Zikert, was missing and presumed dead.

The Maud Pirates used invisibility and Jaya’s Float-Float ability to evade the Big Mom Pirates and destroy six islands in Whole Cake Island. With their forces unable to locate the attackers, Perospero proposed using Dark King Rayleigh as bait, leaving Charlotte Linlin to consider sacrificing her prized collectible.

• Katakuri and Perospero discussed the failed search for the Maud Pirates and worried that Brulee could not locate them without a marked mirror.
• Maud confirmed that Lafitte had removed the mirrors, then prepared Opera and Zeus’s shadows and hearts for his plans as the sun set.
• The Big Mom Pirates found the wounded Opera and Zeus without their hearts or shadows, while the Maud Pirates destroyed Ice Island and then Chip Island and Chibo Island.
• Charlotte Linlin’s forces continued searching as six islands fell, and Perospero suggested using Rayleigh to draw out the Maud Pirates.
• Charlotte Linlin turned her oppressive gaze on Perospero as he proposed risking the loss of her prized collectible.

Perospero persuaded Charlotte Linlin to use Rayleigh as bait to draw the Maud Pirates into a direct confrontation, and she ordered Brulee to bring him aboard the Queen Mama Chantilly. Meanwhile, Aokiji attacked Cake Island to retrieve Rayleigh and left Cracker, Snack, and Mont Dor facing him in the collectible library.

• Perospero proposed using Rayleigh as a bargaining chip, and Charlotte Linlin ordered Brulee to bring him aboard the Queen Mama Chantilly.
• Aokiji reached Cake Castle and used Ice Age to freeze the castle and the soldiers inside it.
• Cracker and Snack sensed Aokiji's attack in the collectible library, while Mont Dor called Perospero to request help.
• Aokiji entered the library and revealed that he had frozen the castle's remaining soldiers; he identified Mont Dor as the one holding Rayleigh's book.
• Cracker and Snack attacked Aokiji, who froze both Sweet Commanders and the surrounding Biscuit Warriors in a single exchange.

Aokiji fought his way through Cake Castle’s library, freed Rayleigh from Mont Dor’s book, and tried to escape with him. Cracker and Snack pursued them, while powerful reinforcements arrived and the castle’s ice began to melt.

• Aokiji froze Cracker and Snack, restrained Mont Dor, and destroyed the book Mont Dor had used to ambush him.
• Mont Dor’s flames let Rayleigh and a dozen other prisoners escape from the pages of a burning book, and Aokiji carried Rayleigh out of the library.
• Cracker broke free of the ice with Snack, revealed his true form, and clashed with Aokiji as he tried to stop their escape.
• Aokiji sealed the library doors with ice and fled through the hall with Rayleigh, but Cracker and Snack broke through and pursued them.
• Cracker’s biscuit soldiers attacked the escaped prisoners as Aokiji sensed powerful auras arriving throughout the castle and saw the ice begin to melt.

Aokiji rescued Rayleigh from Cake Castle and escaped through a hole Cracker had accidentally made, but BIG.MOM’s returning forces gathered around the castle and attacked as the pair leaped outside. Perospero’s sugary stream shot toward Aokiji, leaving their escape under threat.

• Aokiji sensed the returning BIG.MOM Pirates and identified the treasury as the likely target of their defenses.
• Oven’s heat melted Aokiji’s ice, while Cracker and Snack prepared to corner Aokiji and Rayleigh.
• Aokiji dodged Cracker’s sword wave, which blasted a hole in the wall, then carried Rayleigh through it and out of the castle.
• Aokiji and Rayleigh saw Oven’s heat thawing the castle as armed soldiers below prepared to attack them.
• The soldiers aimed their guns at Aokiji and Rayleigh, and Perospero fired a stream of purple sugary liquid toward Aokiji’s back.

Aokiji froze tens of thousands of soldiers on Cake Island, but the BIG.MOM Pirates’ main forces returned and surrounded him and the severely injured Rayleigh. Katakuri and several powerful Charlotte siblings joined Perospero, while BIG.MOM herself remained absent.

• Aokiji countered Perospero’s syrup attack and used Ice Age to freeze tens of thousands of soldiers across the plaza.
• Perospero confronted Aokiji and noted that the former Admiral’s ice powers were less dangerous to him than Akainu’s heat would have been.
• Aokiji and Rayleigh sensed BIG.MOM’s forces converging from all directions and realized they were surrounded, though BIG.MOM had not returned.
• Katakuri arrived with Charlotte Monde, Charlotte Amande, and Charlotte Yashu, while other Charlotte siblings gathered around Perospero.
• Katakuri and the returning Charlotte Family forces formed an overwhelming encirclement around Aokiji and Rayleigh.

Aokiji faced the Charlotte Family’s overwhelming forces while protecting the incapacitated Rayleigh, but Maud arrived to reinforce him. Maud’s Conqueror’s Haki felled nearly the entire enemy force, leaving Perospero’s claim of superior numbers in ruins.

• Oven melted Aokiji’s ice across the plaza while Perospero and the Charlotte Family discussed how to defeat Aokiji without angering Big Mom by killing Rayleigh.
• Aokiji stayed calm as Rayleigh worried about being a burden and asked him to deliver a message to Maud, but Aokiji told him to deliver it himself.
• Katakuri sensed an approaching danger just as Perospero ordered the family to attack Aokiji.
• Maud appeared beside Aokiji through a Shadow Mark, shocking Perospero and the surrounding Charlotte Family forces.
• Maud unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, knocking down all but fewer than three hundred of the more than twenty thousand enemies and challenging Perospero’s claim of a combat advantage.

Maud arrived on Whole Cake Island and devastated BIG.MOM's forces with Conqueror's Haki and a powerful Ikoku. After sending Rayleigh to safety and learning the Marines had taken Saul and Gaban, Maud faced Katakuri and the Charlotte Family, whose future sight revealed his enemies could not survive even one second against him.

• Maud's Conqueror's Haki knocked out tens of thousands of enemies, and Cracker began creating Biscuit Warriors to replace them.
• Maud unleashed Ikoku, shattered Perospero's Candy Maiden, and blasted a huge hole through Cake Castle.
• Maud ordered Aokiji to deal with the forces near the castle and spare or kill everyone as he wished, except Cracker, whom Maud wanted alive.
• Rayleigh told Maud that the Marines had sent him, Gaban, and Saul to Impel Down, then taken Rayleigh to BIG.MOM's territory; Saul was still in Impel Down when Rayleigh left.
• Maud made shadow limbs for Rayleigh and sent him to Thriller Bark, then confronted Katakuri and the Charlotte Family.
• Katakuri restrained Stelong and Snaman, warning that Maud would have killed them within one second.

Katakuri used future-seeing Observation Haki to lead the Charlotte Family against Maud, but Maud countered his attacks and revealed Smoothie's corpse and the captured shadows of other family members. After Maud destroyed one shadow to provoke Katakuri, Katakuri’s emotions disrupted his Observation Haki, allowing Maud’s shadow pillars to batter him.

• Katakuri foresaw Stron and Snaman being skewered by Maud’s shadow pillars and stopped them from attacking.
• Katakuri confronted Maud, and the two exchanged Gatling fire, sword strikes, and awakened mochi and shadow attacks.
• Maud brought Smoothie’s corpse out of the Shadow Box, enraging the Charlotte Family as Monde called on them to set Smoothie free.
• Maud produced seven captured shadows and warned Katakuri that he could kill their owners by crushing them.
• Maud destroyed one shadow, disrupting Katakuri’s Observation Haki as his emotions surged, then battered him with shadow pillars and absorbed the remaining shadows.

Maud used his shadows to suppress Katakuri while the Smoothie corpse held off the Charlotte Family, hoping to seize more Devil Fruits before leaving Whole Cake Island. As Katakuri adapted with his future-seeing Observation Haki, Maud summoned the shadows across Cake Island to overwhelm him.

• Maud watched the shadows attack Katakuri and resolved to take as many Devil Fruits from the BIG.MOM Pirates as he could before leaving.
• Monde and the Charlotte Family charged Maud, but the Smoothie corpse intercepted them and sent Monde flying.
• The Smoothie corpse used her Observation Haki to evade the Charlotte Family’s attacks and held their forces back without Armament Haki.
• Katakuri regained his future-seeing Observation Haki, trapped Maud’s shadow pillars with mochi, and attacked him with Nine-Headed Mochi.
• Maud decided to overwhelm Katakuri with a higher attack frequency and drew the shadows from across Cake Island toward himself.

Maud unleashed his awakened Shadow-Shadow Fruit power against Katakuri and the Big Mom Pirates, using an overwhelming barrage to create an opening. He struck Katakuri with Overlord. Slash and followed with a close-range cut, leaving Katakuri wounded as the attack continued.

• Maud summoned a vast tsunami of shadows, and Katakuri recognized that Maud could control them without assimilating objects.
• Aokiji froze Cracker’s Biscuit Warriors and intensified his assault on Perospero and the other Big Mom Pirates officers.
• Maud fired Shadow. Starfall across the plaza, forcing Katakuri to defend himself while the shadow bolts killed numerous Big Mom Pirates members.
• Maud recalled the shadow bolts and sent them at Katakuri from every direction, then shattered Katakuri’s mochi shield with Overlord. Slash.
• Maud used Shadow Shift to appear behind Katakuri and slashed him while Katakuri struggled to react to the barrage.

Maud overwhelmed Katakuri with relentless shadow attacks and sword strikes, leaving him badly wounded despite Katakuri’s attempts to counterattack. Brulee rescued Katakuri through a mirror, and Maud revealed that he wanted both the Biscuit-Biscuit Fruit and the Mirror-Mirror Fruit.

• Maud’s shadow spikes disrupted Katakuri’s Observation Haki, allowing Maud to wound him with Shusui.
• Brulee watched Katakuri’s injury through a mirror and entered the battlefield to help him.
• Katakuri replicated Maud’s shadow spikes with mochi and tried to evade the attacks, but Maud continued pressing him with shadow spikes and a shockwave slash.
• Katakuri pierced Maud’s chest with Mochi Thrust, but Maud remained unharmed and explained that Katakuri’s future-sight window had weakened.
• Maud struck Katakuri with a kick, and Brulee dragged him into the mirror world before Maud’s shadow beam shattered the mirror.
• Maud declared that he wanted the Biscuit-Biscuit Fruit and the Mirror-Mirror Fruit.