Recaps

Whitebeard held off Garp and Akainu while Luffy’s group tried to escape with Ace, but Aokiji froze several of them and PX-0 began capturing the frozen crew members. Jinbe stayed behind to face Aokiji as the others continued toward the harbor.

• Whitebeard struck Garp back and told him he was willing to die to give his sons a chance to escape, then blocked Akainu’s magma attack.
• Aokiji caught up with Luffy’s group near the harbor and froze Franky and Brook as they tried to carry Ace forward.
• Usopp attacked Aokiji while Robin caught Ace with a web of arms and bounced him toward Jinbe.
• Jinbe stopped Luffy from turning back, threw him and Ace toward the harbor, and confronted Aokiji.
• Aokiji froze Robin and Usopp, but Jinbe dispersed his freezing attack with a Fish-Man Karate punch.
• A Pacifista marked PX-0 appeared and began removing the frozen crew members, starting with Franky and targeting Nico Robin.

Bear sent the Straw Hat Crew members away as the Shichibukai turned against the Navy or pursued their own goals during the battle. With the crew scattered and the war still raging, Lina prepared to escape.

• Sengoku realized Bear was sending the frozen Straw Hat Crew members flying, while Lina denied having arranged the betrayal.
• Momousagi overwhelmed the wounded Zoro, but Moria and Perona intervened before Bear sent Zoro away.
• Hancock left Sanji and Gatte petrified, and Bear sent Sanji away as Gion demanded that Hancock undo her ability.
• Sengoku condemned the Shichibukai, while Lina mocked the system and announced that she was ready to escape.

As the Whitebeard Pirates began retreating, Lina fought Sengoku while Ace escaped with Luffy and the pirates reached their ship. Little Oars’s arrival opened a path for the retreat, but Marco knew someone would have to stay behind to hold off the Marines.

• Luo and Bepo spotted a sailboat approaching Marineford and wondered who was steering it.
• Sengoku attacked Lina to stop him from leaving, and Lina sent several wraiths to fight back.
• Knight Doma directed Luffy and Ace around the frozen ice toward the bay as the pirates followed.
• Little Oars and a white-coated auxiliary ship burst through the ice, prompting the pirates to hurry aboard.
• Marco told Kizaru that the pirates had accepted someone would have to cover their retreat.

Whitebeard split Marineford with his attack and ordered Marco to lead the Whitebeard Pirates to safety, then stood alone against the Marines to protect his family. Sengoku deduced that Lina was a remote presence whose undead had turned the battle, and Lina answered cryptically as Whitebeard faced the admirals.

• Whitebeard split the battlefield with Murakumogiri and told Marco to take the crew and retreat, appointing him vice captain of the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Marco accepted Whitebeard’s order through tears, while Ace blamed himself and Luffy tried to hold him back.
• Aokiji, Kizaru, and Akainu attacked the retreating pirates, but Whitebeard shattered their attacks and threatened Sengoku by tearing Marineford apart.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to focus on Whitebeard and told Lina he had identified his fruit as the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit: Lich Lord.
• Sengoku concluded that Lina’s undead had turned the war and that Lina himself had never entered the battlefield, and Lina gave him a cryptic reply.

Lina waited on the execution platform for Blackbeard while his spirits helped Luffy and the others escape Marineford. After sharing a private moment with Nami, Lina watched Whitebeard’s fight as Blackbeard and his crew prepared to move.

• Lina stayed on the execution platform, where Sengoku watched him while Whitebeard fought Akainu, Aokiji, and Kizaru below.
• Lina controlled his spirits from a ship beyond the harbor, and Nami joined him after he told Luffy the spirit on the platform was not his real body.
• Nami asked whether Lina would visit her in Visseria during the next two years, then kissed him and left angrily when he said he did not think he would go.
• Whitebeard struck Akainu down after Akainu pierced his chest with Hell Hound.
• Blackbeard and his crew watched from beneath the headquarters, and Blackbeard told Burgess to wait for a chance to take revenge on Lina.

Blackbeard and the escaped Level Six prisoners entered the plaza to kill Whitebeard and steal the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, prompting Lina and Sengoku to join forces against them. Whitebeard wounded Blackbeard before the pirates overwhelmed him, but Lina's undead and Sengoku's Buddha Shockwave struck back, leaving the prisoners battered as Lina prepared to take them down.

• Blackbeard led Shiryu and the escaped prisoners into the plaza, where Sengoku and Lina recognized his plan to take Whitebeard's power and agreed to oppose him.
• Whitebeard charged Blackbeard despite Kizaru's attack, wounded him with Murakumogiri, and was then attacked by Blackbeard's crew.
• Lina's War Fiend punched Blackbeard away, Sukuna wounded Shiryu, and Gun Ghost exchanged fire with Van Augur.
• Lina's lightning struck the Blackbeard Pirates, and Sengoku descended as a golden Buddha and blasted the crew and prisoners with his Buddha Shockwave.
• After the escaped prisoners struggled to rise, Lina decided to take down as many of them as she could.

Lina and the spirits disrupted Blackbeard's attempt to steal Whitebeard's power during the Marineford battle. Crocodile and other Impel Down escapees joined the fight, and Crocodile confronted Lina.

• Lina targeted Sanjuan Wolf, and Magellan's spirit attacked him with poison while Bullet's spirit shattered a tower thrown at Magellan.
• Sanjuan Wolf was poisoned and crushed buildings when he fell, while Blackbeard refused to save him.
• Blackbeard used Dark Water to pull Whitebeard toward him, but Sengoku's attack and a spear from the ground interrupted the attempt.
• Crocodile slashed Blackbeard's chest and rebuked him for claiming he would kill Whitebeard.
• Crocodile recognized Lina, who also spotted Mr. 1, Mr. 3, and Clown Buggy among the Impel Down escapees.

Whitebeard died standing at Marineford after Akainu pierced his chest, and Sengoku ordered the Marines to stop Blackbeard from taking his power. As the fighting resumed, Lina arranged to take Whitebeard’s corpse, hoping to claim the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

• Akainu struck Whitebeard from behind and pierced his chest, and Whitebeard died standing after declaring that Blackbeard was not the one Roger awaited.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to attack the Blackbeard Pirates, while Akainu and Kizaru pursued Ace toward the harbor.
• Sukuna gave Hawk Eyes Black Blade Shusui to pass on to Zoro, then disappeared.
• Blackbeard asked Lina to join forces, but Sengoku revealed that Lina had exposed Blackbeard’s power-stealing ability and controlled undead fighters.
• A giant face and arms rose from Marineford, and Garp leaped to fight them as an eagle seized Whitebeard’s corpse and flew away for Lina.

Lina recovered Whitebeard’s body and turned him into an undead, then used him to attack Teach and threaten Marineford before escaping. Shanks arrived after the war had ended and chose to wait for Luffy in the New World.

• Lina caught Whitebeard’s body, used Azure Flame on him, and found that he could not fuse with the War Ogre.
• Lina summoned her undead to fend off Akainu while the Whitebeard Pirates escaped Marineford with Luffy.
• Teach unleashed his darkness against the plaza, but Lina summoned undead Whitebeard, who shattered the attack and shook Marineford with the Tremor-Tremor Ability.
• Lina vanished after telling everyone to sink with Marineford, while undead Whitebeard attacked Teach’s crew and Aokiji stopped Burgess from fleeing.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to deal with undead Whitebeard and leave Blackbeard’s escape for later.
• Shanks arrived too late to see the war’s end and decided to wait for Luffy in the New World.

Buggy’s confused live report from Marineford left the world uncertain about Ace, Whitebeard, and the pirates’ fates. Sengoku then declared a Marine victory and Whitebeard’s death, setting pirates across the seas in motion to seize power.

• Buggy reported that Ace had been rescued, misstated the Straw Hat Crew’s fate, and said Whitebeard was still fighting.
• Shakky doubted Buggy’s report about Lina, while Rayleigh mourned Whitebeard and prepared to welcome the arriving pirates.
• Sengoku announced that the Marines had killed Edward Newgate, defeated the Straw Hat Pirates and Blackbeard Pirates, and won the war.
• People cheered the Marines’ victory as pirates prepared to fight over Whitebeard’s territory and the New World’s balance of power shifted.

After Whitebeard’s crew departed Sabaody, Lina brought Luffy and their companions to Shakky’s Rip-off Bar to find Rayleigh and arrange Luffy’s training. Rayleigh explained why he had respected Ace’s choice not to be rescued, then left with Lina to visit the red-light district.

• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates thanked Luffy and Lina, took Whitebeard’s body, and sailed away while Ace remained unconscious but out of danger.
• Lina reassured the departing crew that Ace would recover with their support, then decided to take Luffy to Rayleigh for two years of training.
• Lina, Luffy, Jinbe, and Ivankov reached Shakky’s Rip-off Bar, where they learned Rayleigh had gone to meet Marco and the others.
• Rayleigh said he had met Ace three years earlier and had respected Ace’s determination to make his own name rather than be rescued by Roger’s former subordinate.
• Jinbe planned to return to Fish-Man Island, and Ivankov planned to return to his country; Lina invited Rayleigh to the red-light district, and Rayleigh eagerly went with him.

Lina bought supplies on Sabaody and encountered two Marines returning home after surviving the war. The brothers fired at him but deliberately missed, and Lina left while realizing one of them had awakened Observation Haki.

• Lina said goodbye to Rayleigh, planned to buy an Eternal Pose and provisions, and left Luffy in Rayleigh’s care for two years of training.
• Two Marine brothers returned to Sabaody, where the older brother remembered the horrors of the battle and how Lina had stopped Doflamingo’s Birdcage, saving him and his younger brother.
• Lina bought fruit from the brothers’ mother, and the brothers recognized him when he returned the older brother’s dropped money.
• Lina told the brothers they could pretend not to see him while on leave, then took back a thousand berries and walked away.
• The brothers shot at Lina but intentionally missed, and Lina sensed their thoughts and realized one of them had awakened Observation Haki.
• After Lina disappeared, the brothers relaxed, and the older brother went searching for the berry he had dropped.

A week after Marineford, Sanji continued to rage against Lina and Ivankov for sending him to the Kamabakka Kingdom, while Lina visited Nami on Visseria. Lina reunited with the lonely Nami and promised to take her around the world, leaving them holding each other as he agreed not to go.

• Sanji fought off the okama on Peachy Island and blamed Ivankov and Lina for tricking him into going there.
• Ivankov transformed into a woman using his hormone powers, leaving Sanji stunned.
• Lina arrived on Visseria and heard the old men warn him about Nami, who had taken over the island in just four days.
• Nami, feeling lonely and missing her friends and Lina, encouraged herself to return to her meteorology studies.
• Lina appeared behind Nami, embraced her, and promised to take her around the world.
• Nami clung to Lina and asked him not to leave, and Lina promised he would stay.

Hawk Eyes arrived at Crocus Island and suspected Zoro had wounded its armed baboons, while Franky became determined to build Lina and Usopp's Assault Freedom robot. On Visseria, Lina offered to protect the scholars during their research travels, and Nami's crew prepared to make the Sky Island their base.

• Hawk Eyes landed on Crocus Island with Shusui and noticed sword wounds on the armed baboons, leading him to suspect Roronoa.
• Zoro wandered through a maze in the island's castle as two newcomers entered and admired the spooky surroundings.
• Franky studied Lina and Usopp's robot designs and vowed to build Assault Freedom.
• Lina, Nami, and Hareda shared a meal, and Nami alternately ordered the old man to leave and allowed him to stay in his own house.
• Lina offered to guard the Visseria scholars while they researched dangerous islands, and Hareda panicked after learning Lina and Nami were pirates.
• Nami knocked Hareda down, while Lina planned to use Visseria as a base and turn it into a small undead empire.

In 1521, the Marines underwent a major shake-up as Akainu became Fleet Admiral and Aokiji left the organization. Aboard Visseria, Lina and Nami read news about their old friends and planned to visit Vivi in Alabasta before Lina explored the Santora River.

• The World Economic News Agency reported Sengoku and Garp's retirement, Akainu's victory over Aokiji, and the Marines' relocation and recruitment of Fujitora and Ryokugyu.
• Nami and Lina read the newspaper and were surprised to learn that Brook had become the Soul King.
• Nami wondered how their other friends were doing, while Lina worried that Sanji would be angry when they met again.
• Lina recalled their travels aboard Visseria, his battles and training, and their progress with Haki and Devil Fruit abilities.
• Lina agreed to visit Vivi in Alabasta with Nami before exploring the Santora River.

Lina and Nami traveled with the Meteorology Science Adventure Group to Alabasta, where the old men investigated Rain Country’s unusual rainfall and Alubarna’s Dancing Powder effects. After finding the surrounding desert inexplicably ordinary, Lina proposed searching for the rumored Goddess of Life.

• Lina left the old men’s mahjong game and woke Nami after Visseria arrived above Alabasta.
• Nami dressed in a red gown, and Lina carried her out to join the group.
• The group landed at Rain Country, bought desert supplies, and rode Quick-Running Duck undead into the desert.
• The old men began studying Rain Country’s rainfall and the consequences of Dancing Powder in Alubarna.
• The old men were stumped by how ordinary the desert seemed, and Lina suggested they search for the Goddess of Life.

Lina and Nami arrived in Alubarna after Lina drove off a giant scorpion with his Conqueror’s Haki. They reunited with Vivi at the palace, where she welcomed them joyfully and agreed to treat them to dinner.

• A Santora Giant Scorpion attacked Hareda and the other researchers, but Lina stopped it with his Conqueror’s Haki and sent it away.
• Lina rescued the researchers from the sand, then traveled with Nami and the others toward Alubarna aboard the hidden Sky Island Visseria.
• Vivi spoke with Bell at the palace and reflected on missing Luffy and the others and the photograph they had left her.
• Lina and Nami surprised Vivi on the palace balcony, and Vivi hugged Nami as tears of joy filled her eyes.
• Lina teased Vivi about acting like a princess, and she agreed to treat him and Nami to dinner.

Nami and Lina reunited with Vivi and Cobra in Alabasta and shared stories of their adventures and training. When Nami asked about the Goddess of Life, Cobra and Vivi revealed that the Royal Family kept detailed records of the ancient legend of Nephthys and Set.

• Nami told Vivi that Robin had joined the crew after they left Alabasta, while Lina teased Nami about how quickly Robin had won her over.
• Nami kicked Lina’s chair out from under him, and Bell helped him up before Lina invited Bell to join the meal.
• Cobra urged Bell and Jaka to sit with the guests, and Bell took a seat beside Vivi.
• Nami and Lina recounted their travels, including Sky Island, Water 7, Impel Down, and the Summit War, and Nami explained that they were training for the New World.
• Nami asked about the Goddess of Life, and Cobra and Vivi said the Royal Family had records of the ancient story of Nephthys and Set.

Vivi told the legend of the eastern tribes’ migration and war against Geri, prompting Lina to suspect that the Santora River had once been the great rift. The group decided to explore the river that night, with Vivi joining their adventure.

• Vivi recounted how drought drove the eastern tribes across the desert to Geri, where they fought a long war that Set eventually ended with a happy resolution.
• Lina studied a map and suggested that the Santora River might have replaced the legendary rift, with Rain Country and Alubarna on opposite sides.
• Nami and the others considered Lina’s theory as the map’s geography seemed to match Vivi’s story.
• Lina proposed exploring the Santora River, and Vivi asked to come along.
• Nami agreed to prepare for a nighttime expedition and reminded Lina not to act like Luffy.

Lina led Vivi, Nami, Bell, and Jaka on a dive to investigate the Santora River, where legends placed the tomb of Set and Nephthys. After Lina killed a giant catfish and Nami found ancient pillars carved like the Burial Temple, the group discovered what appeared to be the tomb’s entrance and decided to explore it.

• Vivi recounted the legend of Set and Nephthys, whose tomb was said to lie beneath the Santora River, and Lina and Nami gathered equipment for an expedition with Vivi, Bell, and Jaka.
• The group descended into the river using film bubbles, and Lina killed an attacking Santora Catfish with his Breaking Charge Punch: Pierce.
• Nami guided the group through the deep river and located a current-disturbing obstruction on the riverbed.
• The group found rows of ancient stone pillars bearing carvings matching those in the Burial Temple where they had fought Crocodile.
• Nami tried to leave when they realized the pillars might mark a tomb, but Lina stopped her and persuaded her to continue by suggesting the tomb might hold gold and jewelry.

Lina and the others explored a sealed underwater tomb, survived its traps and beetles, and encountered a powerful cobra wearing a barbed collar. Lina chased the fleeing snake, hoping to make it her pet and sparring partner.

• Nami found a current leading through a gate into the palace, and Lina entered the dry chamber before guiding the others inside.
• Lina led the group through a passage, where they triggered a spiked stone trap and fled from a swarm of Spiked Foot Sacred Beetles before he collapsed the passage behind them.
• The group entered a larger chamber covered in murals and spotted a huge cobra, which knocked Bell into a wall with its powerful tail.
• Vivi identified the cobra as a Desert Lord Apis, and Lina noticed the barbed collar digging into its body.
• Lina fought the cobra and challenged it to withstand a hundred punches to become her pet, but it fled, so Lina chased after it.

Lina and Nami captured a starving cobra in the underground palace, and Nami named it Peace before the group reached the royal tomb. Lina discovered a chamber filled with the bodies of the tomb’s sacrificed workers and, with Bell and Jaka, investigated the royal coffins and claimed a share of the treasure.

• Lina fought the cobra, offered it food and a place with the group, and Nami named it Peace after Lina removed its shackles.
• Peace carried Vivi deeper into the underground palace, where the group opened the tomb chamber and found tens of thousands of workers’ corpses.
• Lina flew to the altar with Bell and Jaka, and they examined an inscribed stele beside three coffins without opening them.
• Lina offered to copy the stele so Nico Robin could translate it, then negotiated with Bell and Jaka to take thirty percent of the treasure.

Lina and his companions recovered treasure from an underwater palace, then helped Alabasta by bringing rain to its drought-stricken cities. After Vivi visited Lina and Nami on Visseria, the chapter ended with the couple preparing to continue their journey.

• Lina copied the ancient script from the palace tablet and left some treasured ornaments beneath it before taking the remaining treasure.
• Nami revealed to Vivi that she and Lina were a couple, and Vivi happily asked to spend the night with Nami.
• Lina, Nami, and Vivi returned to Alabasta with the treasure, where Cobra was astonished by their haul.
• Visseria's elders used their accumulated rain clouds to bring rain to several Alabasta cities before leaving.
• Vivi visited Lina and Nami on Visseria, exchanged gifts and promises with them, then flew back to Alabasta on Bell.
• Lina took Nami back to their home and offered to buy her ice cream.

Two years after the Paramount War, Usopp trained his Haki and sniping skills on Boin Archipelago while preparing to leave for Sabaody Archipelago. On Visseria, Lina and Nami read that Portgas D. Ace had become the new leader of the Whitebeard Pirates and reclaimed a Sea Emperor’s place, but the chapter ended as Lina noticed another surprising new member.

• Usopp used a Haki-coated bullet and Thorn Vines to bring down a sea beast, though he remained dissatisfied with his Armament Haki.
• Usopp told Hercules he planned to leave for Sabaody Archipelago the day after tomorrow, following their agreed schedule.
• Nami found a newspaper headline announcing Portgas D. Ace as the fifth Sea Emperor and the new leader of the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Lina reacted with shock when he saw that former Shichibukai Jinbe had joined Ace’s crew.
• Lina noticed that another new member, the new commander of the Second Division, had helped Ace reclaim the Sea Emperor title.

Lina read about Ace’s rise and the Whitebeard Pirates’ strength, then prepared to head for Sabaody to reunite with her crew. As the Straw Hats’ return rumors drew pirates and Marines to the archipelago, Brook arrived and a blind Marine in a purple kimono went looking for a casino.

• Lina learned from the newspaper that Ace had become the Fifth Emperor after the Whitebeard Pirates fought the Beast Pirates, with Jinbe and Yamato among their ranks.
• Lina and Nami discussed how the crew’s training might have gone and looked forward to seeing everyone again.
• Lina said the ship would soon leave for Sabaody, and Nami grew excited about the reunion.
• Brook arrived at Sabaody and was called back by Longarm Tribe men before his cue.
• Rumors of the Straw Hat Crew’s return stirred pirates and bounty hunters, while Sentomaru led a new Pacifista unit toward the island.
• A blind Marine in a purple kimono asked a passerby for directions to a casino and headed there.