Recaps

Maud helped secure the escape of Ace and the others, then used Kuma’s programmed intervention to leave Marineford with Luo. After regrouping with his crew and giving Jaya the Float-Float Fruit, Maud set out for Sabaody as rival powers pursued Whitebeard’s legacy and the Marines targeted Luo.

• Maud used Luo’s Room to reposition the Blackbeard Pirates before the Admirals, then stayed behind to cover Sabo, Ace, and the others as they fled.
• Maud fought Akainu and Sengoku while Dragon’s winds carried the escaping pirates toward their ships, then turned back to confront the battle around Blackbeard’s crew.
• Maud and Sengoku helped restrain Golden Lion, and Luo removed his heart so Maud could take his Devil Fruit and store the Float-Float Fruit.
• Maud used Kuma’s “Plane Ticket” program to let Kuma send him and Luo away from Marineford, while the war’s aftermath brought new threats to Whitebeard’s territories.
• Maud reunited with Lafitte, Jaya, Jim, Philo, and Brook, then gave the Float-Float Fruit to Jaya so she could raise Thriller Bark into a flying island ship.
• As Maud’s bounty rose to 1.98 billion, Hawkins waited at Shakky’s bar hoping to join his crew, while Kaido and Bakkin’s forces pursued Whitebeard’s legacy and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Maud reached Sabaody intending to confront the Donquixote Family and seek the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, while Aokiji captured the Heart Pirates to use Luo as leverage.
• Aokiji raised an ice wall around Shakky’s bar to trap Perona, Urouge, and Hawkins, and Hawkins sensed that his future was about to change.

Maud abducted five Celestial Dragons to force the Marines to return the Heart Pirates, while Luo discovered the captives’ unusual origins and Maud prepared a hidden threat inside their hearts. After the exchange, Maud killed two Celestial Dragons, struck Kizaru, and raised Thunder God Island into the sky.

• Maud returned to Sabaody, rescued Hawkins and his companions, and fought Aokiji until the admiral withdrew with the Marines and revealed that the Heart Pirates had been captured.
• Maud accepted Hawkins into his crew and decided to capture a Celestial Dragon to secure the Heart Pirates’ release, then left Thriller Bark with Brook and Lafitte to attack Mary Geoise.
• Maud and Lafitte captured five Celestial Dragons, and Maud’s crew discovered that their bodies bore traces of artificial construction.
• Maud exchanged the five captives for the Heart Pirates at Thunder God Island, but the Marines sent additional warships to intercept Smoker and Hina after the handover.
• Maud detonated Shalria’s heart, then used the hidden Shadow Heart mechanism to make the other Celestial Dragons suffer as Kizaru confronted him.
• Maud killed a second Celestial Dragon, struck Kizaru with Shusui, and raised Thunder God Island into the sky with the Float-Float Fruit.

Maud defeated the threats to Fish-Man Island, secured Neptune’s pledge to his crew, and set out with a strengthened crew that now included Aokiji. In Dressrosa, Maud and Aokiji arrived just as Vergo was about to strike Hina.

• After Maud rescued a mermaid from captivity, he agreed to go to Fish-Man Island and found Neptune’s kingdom besieged by pirates and threatened by the BIG MOM Pirates.
• Maud used Shirahoshi as bait to gather the pirates, killed thousands at Ghiro-Cord Plaza, defeated Smoothie, and crushed the New Fish-Man Pirates’ attack on Ryugu Palace.
• Maud captured Vander Decken and Smoothie, took their Devil Fruits, and told BIG MOM he would come to Whole Cake Island.
• Neptune accepted Maud’s flag and agreed to consider his offer to lead the Fish-Man Race to the surface, while Maud urged him to make the island less appealing to BIG MOM.
• Maud left Fish-Man Island aboard the Netherworld and learned that Vergo had eaten the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, after Aokiji joined the crew, Maud headed for Dressrosa with Jaya and Thriller Bark rejoining them.
• Vergo defeated the Marines sent to arrest him, then returned to Dressrosa as the Donquixote Family prepared to defend its interests against the Marines and other powers.
• Vergo attacked Chaton’s forces and overwhelmed Smoker before targeting Hina, but Maud stopped Demon Bamboo and Aokiji froze Vergo.

Maud and his crew defeated the Donquixote Family, then drove Blackbeard and the Whitebeard remnants from Dressrosa while Fujitora prioritized protecting civilians. They left with captured enemies, bodies, and Devil Fruits, and Maud’s power rose to nine stars before his Conqueror’s Haki knocked out weaker crew members.

• Maud freed Hina from danger, overwhelmed the harbor with Conqueror’s Haki, and led his crew against the Donquixote Family and Beasts Pirates.
• Luo used Shambles to drop Devil Fruit users into the sea, while Maud defeated Jack and Vergo and the crew captured the remaining officers.
• Sugar turned Koala and the Revolutionary Army members into toys, but Maud tortured Sugar until they returned to human form and extracted her Hobby-Hobby Fruit.
• Fujitora arrived and clashed with Maud, while Blackbeard and the Whitebeard Pirates joined the confrontation in Dressrosa.
• Maud defeated Blackbeard with a seastone bullet and fought Ace, Marco, and Vista as his crew battled the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Maud’s crew defeated Catarina Devon and Shiryu, while Maud severed and stored the shadows of Jack, Ulti, and Blackbeard.
• Maud helped Violet and civilians, gathered 500 laborers and 200 bodies, then departed Dressrosa with his crew after ending Aokiji and Marco’s fight.
• Maud extracted the Devil Fruits from Jack and Catarina Devon, reached nine-star strength in swordsmanship, Haki, and Devil Fruit ability, and knocked out weaker crew members with his aura.