Recaps

Maud and his companions fought to escape Mad Hatter Island as Marines and the Revolutionary Army clashed around them, while Saul held off Garp and Aokiji. Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates ended the fighting and took Maud and his companions from the island, where Gion continued purging the remaining pirates.

• Saul gave Maud Chidori and fled with Maud and Sunny toward Wall Mountain, but Garp pursued him while Aokiji intercepted the pair.
• Maud broke free of Aokiji’s ice, carried the injured Sunny toward Wall Mountain, and killed Robbie after a fierce fight.
• Gion hunted the fleeing pirates and caught Maud and Sunny, but Maud fought back until Sabo, Molly, and other Revolutionary Army members intervened.
• Aokiji froze Wall Mountain and pursued Maud’s group, while Saul’s gunfire helped them escape and Tatam and Jasmine held off the Marines.
• Saul challenged Garp to spare Maud, but Garp severed Saul’s leg and shattered his rifle as Maud arrived with Usopp.
• Maud fired Saul’s Seastone bullet through Usopp and wounded Garp, then collapsed as Lafitte and Yasopp intervened to protect him and Saul.
• Shanks stopped Garp with his Conqueror’s Haki, carried Saul, and left the island with Maud and his companions aboard the Red Force.
• Sunny reunited with Maud aboard the Red Force, while Gion purged the remaining pirates and Arthur escaped on a raft.

Maud trained on Mongmong Island, took Saul’s epithet, and set out with Lafitte and Beli. In the East Blue, he defeated Arlong and his crew, then considered Lafitte’s suggestion that he pursue the Shichibukai position.

• Maud refused Shanks’s and Sabo’s invitations, while Saul decided to retire near Gaban on Mongmong Island.
• Saul brought Maud and his companions to Mongmong Island, where Maud trained in Geppo and received Saul’s help and Gaban’s nourishment.
• Maud borrowed Saul’s epithet, Ghost Gun, and told Sunny he planned to set sail once he mastered Geppo.
• After five months of training, Maud mastered Geppo and left Mongmong Island with Lafitte and Beli.
• Maud met Nami and Nojiko near Cocoyasi Village, obtained Nami’s information, and defeated the fish-men who came to collect taxes.
• Maud invaded Arlong’s territory, killed Arlong and most of his crew, and spared Hachi for Rayleigh’s sake.
• Maud and Lafitte searched the territory for assets, while Nami accepted that the crew would keep the pirates’ spoils.
• Maud asked Lafitte how to use his strength gained from killing most efficiently, and Lafitte suggested seeking the Shichibukai position.

Maud strengthened his crew, gained fame through clashes with Marines and pirates, and recruited Jim while helping Usopp begin training. After crossing into the Grand Line and naming his crew the Maud Pirates, he reached Twin Island and began confronting the pirates who had driven its residents from their homes.

• Maud and Lafitte escaped Arlong’s territory with its treasure, and Maud told the villagers to give his name to the Marines.
• Maud fought Marines escorting King Rowell, defeated the Bucktooth Brigadier General, and uncovered the royal ship’s enslaved captives.
• Maud freed Jim, who killed King Rowell and joined Maud’s crew, while Maud’s actions earned him a 100-million bounty.
• Maud found Usopp in Syrup Village, told him about Yasopp, and offered to teach him Observation Haki before killing Captain Kuro.
• Maud gave Usopp ten million Beli and Yasopp’s machine core, then sailed with Lafitte, Jim, and Jaya toward the Grand Line.
• At Twin Cape, Maud named his crew the Maud Pirates and accepted Crocas’s Log Pose and directions toward Leviathan Island.
• On Spring Child Island, Maud confronted pirates and protected a boy, then his crew defeated a large group that attacked for his bounty.
• Dada announced the Maud Pirates’ name, and Maud led his crew toward the town center as Yatali, Paik, and Hobson formed an alliance against them.

After destroying the Pirate Alliance on Twin Island, Maud reached Leviathan Island to commission a new ship and pursue a rumored Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit. As the Coliseum Competition began, he and Luo watched Beli enter the beast fights while Maud considered using a grand prize to draw powerful opponents.

• Maud annihilated the Pirate Alliance on Twin Island, rescued Dada, and later departed after helping the island’s residents recover.
• A storm swept Maud’s crew into a waterspout, where Maud caught a treasure chest containing a Log Pose and a map marked with a red X.
• Maud’s crew reached Leviathan Island, and Maud hired Thomas Shipyard to build a new ship using his treasure and gold.
• Maud killed the Mallet Brothers after they attacked him, then Cains intervened when Captain Matthew’s soldiers tried to punish Maud’s group.
• Arthur told Maud about a rumored Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit on Little Garden, and Maud secretly took Arthur’s Log Pose.
• Luo arrived on Leviathan Island seeking Hanging Lantern Vine roots, met Maud, and became a possible future ally against Doflamingo.
• Maud and his crew hunted pirates on East Street, earning thirty-six million Beli as the kingdom’s army identified Maud as the prime suspect.
• Maud and Luo entered the Coliseum Competition, where Beli faced giant beasts while the crowd underestimated him.