Recaps

Chaos and Golden Lion fought a devastating battle while the Richest Group and Dragon’s forces moved to attack the Flying Pirates. Dragon confronted Empress Kehila, who revealed her awakened Bone-Bone Fruit power and summoned an army of skeleton warriors.

• Chaos donned Golden Armor and clashed with Golden Lion, whose attacks destroyed islands as their battle ranged across the sky.
• Betty led the Richest Group toward the palace ruins to rescue Stussy, while Archino and Enel headed for the island and Crocodile hurled Baccarat and Bonis toward it.
• Dragon’s forces followed to hold off the Flying Pirates’ fleet captains, and Dragon intercepted Empress Kehila.
• Kehila attacked Dragon with Haki-coated bone spikes, then awakened her Bone-Bone Fruit and transformed the surrounding ground into bones.
• Kehila formed bone armor and a crown and summoned skeleton warriors to fight Dragon.

Khel, Crocodile, and Archino fought opponents during the battle, revealing the strength of their abilities. Archino incinerated a group of attacking pirates with Solar Storm as he continued looking for another opponent.

• Khel sent a swarm of skeletons at Dragon, but Dragon cut them down with an invisible blade until Khel blocked the strike with a Haki-coated bone shield.
• Crocodile faced Groot, whose Mini Fruit let him enlarge sword slashes until they grew powerful enough to force Crocodile to fight back with a giant sand Tsar.
• Archino confronted Nebeka in a field of lava and blasted him away with a white-hot punch, then sent a flaming Garuda after him.
• When pirates surrounded Archino and opened fire, he unleashed Solar Storm, incinerating them with an expanding wave of heat.

Betty fought Black Widow Eliza while Annie held off Kuma, and Ivankov fled from Witch Roria during the battle. All three clashes remained unresolved.

• Betty and Black Widow Eliza exchanged fierce attacks, and their fight appeared evenly matched.
• Annie used her awakened jelly powers to block Kuma’s attacks as he prepared a powerful air strike.
• Witch Roria chased Ivankov through the jungle, but he continued to evade her and taunt her.

Loria’s relentless assault pushed Ivankov to the brink, but he began dodging her attacks with uncanny foresight. Elsewhere, Enel faced Grakas, a powerful axe master whose strength made Enel take the fight seriously.

• Loria chased Ivankov across the battlefield, overwhelming him with waves of hair and leaving him badly wounded.
• Ivankov healed himself with Healing Hormone and Life Return, but Loria’s attacks continued to wear him down.
• Ivankov used Observation Haki to evade two attacks that should have hit him, leaving Loria stunned and furious.
• On a floating island to the north, Grakas cleaved through the clouds with his axe while confronting Enel.
• Enel recognized Grakas’s destructive power and sensed danger from the Flying Pirates’ 7th Fleet captain.

The ability registration continued, revealing several rare and useful powers, including healing and spatial abilities. The healer accepted an invitation to join the base’s medical team as the registration ended.

• A beautiful young woman demonstrated her healing ability and registered as a healer.
• A tall man registered a fire ability, a thin young man registered a wind ability, and a young man registered a ten-cubic-meter spatial ability.
• Other survivors registered water, plant, animal-taming, barrier, ice, sound, and perception abilities.
• Several people tried to recruit the healer, but a man from the base’s recruitment office offered her housing and food to join its medical team.
• The healer accepted the offer, and the team leader and his assistant closed the register and left.

Chaos and Golden Lion fought a devastating battle, with Chaos using his Golden Warrior and other constructs against Golden Lion’s swordsmanship and earth-shaping powers. Big News Morgans recorded the clash for the World Economic Journal as the fight continued.

• Chaos summoned a Golden Warrior and attacked Golden Lion alongside it, but Golden Lion identified Chaos as the source of the construct and targeted him.
• Golden Lion used his Devil Fruit ability to raise two giant earth lions, which Chaos and his constructs smashed apart before Golden Lion created four more.
• Chaos and Golden Lion clashed with their strongest attacks, and Golden Lion’s sword strike sent Chaos crashing through a mountain and into a trench.
• Chaos recovered and blocked Golden Lion’s Thousand Cut Valley with a Serious Punch, leaving a deep ravine between them.
• Big News Morgans filmed the battle from afar, planning to feature the footage in the World Economic Journal.

Chaos fought Golden Lion for five hours but was ultimately outmatched and nearly crushed by his attacks. After escaping with Almighty Push, Chaos sensed he might be able to assimilate his surroundings and realized fighting powerful opponents could help him progress.

• Chaos continued battling Golden Lion as the older fighter gained the upper hand and wounded him repeatedly.
• Chaos and Shakyamuni coordinated attacks against Golden Lion, but Golden Lion split Shakyamuni apart and wounded Chaos with a series of counterattacks.
• Golden Lion trapped Chaos inside a pillar of twisting earth and rock, but Chaos escaped using Almighty Push.
• Chaos sensed that he might be able to assimilate the surrounding environment and looked at Golden Lion with renewed fervor.

Chaos and Golden Lion fought for two days and nights while Chaos tried to awaken his Gold-Gold Fruit, and the Revolutionary Army carried out its retreat from the Flying Pirates' base. The chapter ended with Kuma removing the retreating fighters' injuries as Chaos remained locked in battle with Golden Lion.

• Chaos and Golden Lion emerged from two days and nights of fighting badly wounded and exhausted, while Chaos sensed that his Gold-Gold Fruit was close to awakening.
• Chaos reached out with Observation Haki toward the floating islands, where Dragon defeated Khel and took the unconscious captain away.
• Kuma rescued Stussy, and Annie was forced to face Stussy and Kuma before they disappeared.
• Dragon's order to retreat reached the Revolutionary Army, and Crocodile, Enel, and Stussy covered the group's escape with their abilities.
• Kuma extracted Ivankov's, Crocodile's, Enel's, and the other fighters' injuries, helping them recover their strength.

Chaos was overwhelmed by Golden Lion but withdrew after the Richest Group and Dragon arrived, then joined them in attacking him. The battle escalated into a massive clash as Golden Lion faced the group alone.

• Golden Lion battered Chaos until Chaos dropped Life Return and announced he would retreat to train.
• Crocodile and the other Richest Group members arrived with Dragon, prompting Golden Lion to wonder what had happened to his men.
• Dragon blocked Golden Lion’s sword-energy attack with his Conqueror’s Haki and refused his offer to join the Flying Pirates.
• Kuma sent Chaos’s injuries flying away, and Ivankov treated him, allowing Chaos to recover and rejoin the fight.
• Chaos challenged Golden Lion to face the group, and Archino, Crocodile, Enel, Dragon, and the others launched a barrage of attacks as Golden Lion transformed the island.

After the battle with Golden Lion, Chaos and his allies reunited with Stussy, while Dragon returned to the Revolutionary Army base with Khel and tried to recruit her. Khel rejected his appeal, leaving her future allegiance uncertain.

• Dragon and Chaos parted ways after their brief fight with Golden Lion ended in a stalemate.
• Baccarat, Bonis, and the others recovered with Kuma and Ivankov’s help, and Stussy thanked her rescuers.
• Chaos proposed a celebration, but Kuma said he planned to play mahjong all night.
• Dragon brought the captured Khel to the Revolutionary Army base and identified himself as its leader.
• Dragon recounted Khel’s past and urged her to join the revolution, but Khel dismissed his appeal.

On Poppy Island, the Richest Group passed the night playing mahjong and preparing a feast while Baccarat watched Stussy manage the household. Stussy told Baccarat that her choices were to accept the group, die, or become strong enough to defeat Chaos.

• Chaos, Betty, Kuma, and Ivankov played mahjong while the others watched and wagered their pocket money.
• Stussy had Baccarat grill Sea King meat while Bonis washed ingredients for the feast.
• Stussy told Baccarat that she, too, had once been forced to join the Richest Group and said Baccarat would need intensive training to become a representative.
• Baccarat asked Stussy whether she had a way to escape, and Stussy answered that she could choose death or become strong enough to beat Chaos.

After news of the Richest Group’s clash with the Flying Pirates spread, Chaos tried to figure out whether he could awaken his Gold-Gold Fruit. He left for the estate’s treasury to test his limits in seclusion.

• Newspapers reported that the Richest Group had retreated safely from the Flying Pirates, leading others to regard the group as a power on the level of a Four Emperor.
• Enel struck Baccarat and Bonis with increasingly powerful lightning as they trained under Seastone restraints.
• Chaos disturbed Stussy and Betty at work before surveying what the other members of the Richest Group were doing around Poppy Island.
• Chaos experimented with his gold control but could not recreate the strange feeling he had experienced while fighting the Golden Lion.
• Chaos went to the treasury, where gold lay in heaps, intending to seclude himself and test his Devil Fruit further.

Golden Lion attacked Poppy Island by dropping islands from the sky, forcing the Richest Group to destroy the falling threats and retreat. Chaos confronted Golden Lion while the group scattered, leaving Poppy Island temporarily abandoned.

• Chaos sensed a small island hurtling toward Poppy Island and transformed gold into Shakyamuni to intercept it.
• Chaos split the falling island apart, and Stussy, Archino, Enel, and the others destroyed most of its fragments before they struck the island.
• Golden Lion sent another island and ships carrying the Flying Pirates down from the clouds, so Stussy ordered the Richest Group to retreat after they destroyed the second island.
• Kuma sent the exhausted Baccarat and Bonis away in a paw-shaped bubble as the Richest Group members fled in different directions.
• Chaos charged Golden Lion above the clouds, and the two began fighting while a load of medicinal herbs rose from the treasury and trailed after them.

Golden Lion’s renewed attack on Poppy Island put the Richest Group back in the headlines, while a battered pirate crew barely survived a storm caused by a fierce battle nearby. Buffalo Aquit recognized the Golden Warrior flying past as he fled a swordsman, and the crew watched the battle’s mushroom clouds from a distance.

• Tsuru and Dragon received reports that Golden Lion had attacked Poppy Island again, forcing the Richest Group to retreat.
• News of the attack spread across the sea, reporting that the Flying Pirates had briefly taken Poppy Island and were hunting the Richest Group’s key members.
• Buffalo Aquit and his impoverished crew struggled through a violent storm in the latter half of the Grand Line.
• A massive slash split the sea, and Aquit’s helmsman narrowly steered their ship clear of the chasm.
• A mushroom cloud unleashed a gale that hurled the ship across the sea, but the crew survived and escaped the storm’s center.
• Aquit recognized the Golden Warrior flying past, followed by a dual-wielding swordsman, and watched distant flashes and mushroom clouds as the storm cleared.

Baccarat and Bonis arrived on Sky Island, the Richest Group’s headquarters, after Bartholomew Kuma sent them away. Baccarat identified herself as the Luck Representative, but Gan Fall and the God Guards’ silence left her uncertain whether they believed her.

• Baccarat and Bonis landed on God Island and were surrounded by the God Guards.
• Gan Fall arrived, recognized Bartholomew Kuma’s name, and told them they were at the Richest Group’s headquarters.
• Baccarat questioned whether Gan Fall knew Golden Emperor Gaia Chaos, provoking the God Guards until Gan Fall calmed them.
• Baccarat declared herself the Richest Group’s Luck Representative, Queen of Luck, and grew nervous when Gan Fall and the others stared at her in silence.

As the Richest Group's members fought the Flying Pirates across the Grand Line, Baccarat relaxed at the group's Sky Island headquarters. Belo Betty, Ivankov, and Kuma returned one by one, battered but recovering, and Baccarat joined them for dinner as the sun set.

• Reports spread about the destructive three-day battle between Gild Tesoro and Golden Lion and the Richest Group Representatives' fights with Flying Pirates captains.
• Baccarat lounged on Sky Island's Golden Plaza and reflected on the comfort and influence her Representative position gave her.
• Belo Betty returned from three days of fighting in bad condition and asked Gan Fall for meat and medicinal herbs.
• Ivankov arrived soon afterward, injured and exhausted, and also asked Gan Fall for food and herbs.
• Kuma returned in better shape than Belo Betty and Ivankov, then went to the Golden God Temple to recover.
• Baccarat went to dinner and found Stussy, Ivankov, and Kuma recovering in the lounge.

Chaos and the Richest Group dragged their battles with the Flying Pirates on for a month, turning the hunt against their pursuers. At Marineford, Kong learned that Monkey D. Dragon led the Revolutionary Army and that Chaos might have ties to it.

• Stussy learned that Crocodile, Archino, and Enel were still fighting after turning on their pursuers, while Chaos had spent eight days retreating and battling the Golden Lion.
• Chaos used medicinal herbs and Life Return to recover as he continued his guerrilla fight with the Golden Lion, whose exhaustion and anger grew.
• After a month, the Richest Group was still fighting the Flying Pirates across the sea, and the exhausted pirates had become the ones being harassed.
• Kong and Tsuru reviewed reports at Marineford and discussed the Navy's failure to track the Roger Pirates and uncover the Revolutionary Army's core intelligence.
• Tsuru told Kong that Monkey D. Dragon led the Revolutionary Army and that Chaos might have ties to it, leaving Kong alarmed.

Archino returned to God Island gravely injured after fighting multiple fleet captains, and Kuma and Ivankov treated him while he recovered by eating and sleeping. With the Boss, Crocodile, and Enel still missing, the others resumed their duties and Baccarat and Bonis returned to training.

• Betty continued training Baccarat and Bonis, then sensed Archino's unusual presence near Golden Plaza and hurried there.
• Stussy, Kuma, Ivankov, Gan Fall, and Betty found Archino unconscious in the melted ground, and Kuma and Ivankov treated his critical injuries.
• Archino regained consciousness, devoured a huge amount of food, and told the group how he had turned on his pursuers before facing two fleet captains.
• Archino learned that the Boss, Crocodile, and Enel had not returned, then went to sleep for three days and three nights.
• Betty sent Baccarat and Bonis back to training, while Kuma and Ivankov left God Island and Stussy resumed managing the group's affairs.

Chaos awakened the Gold-Gold Fruit after a month-long battle with Golden Lion, losing an arm before escaping the island. He returned to God Island gravely injured and exhausted, where Stussy and the others cared for him as he went to sleep.

• Chaos revealed that his Gold-Gold Fruit had awakened and used the golden surroundings to form a replacement left hand.
• Chaos told Golden Lion he could not defeat him but would escape, then used Golden Molten Fire mode and explosions to flee at tremendous speed.
• Baccarat and Bonis continued their strenuous Seastone training under Kuma’s instruction.
• Chaos crashed into the plaza on God Island and smashed into the Golden Palace, where Stussy found him barely conscious.
• Kuma and Ivankov helped treat Chaos, but his depleted life force left him needing a slow recovery.
• Chaos ate dragonfish, stopped Betty from asking questions, and fell asleep with Stussy’s support.

After waking from five days of sleep with his left arm severed, Chaos reunited with his crew and explained that his loss to Golden Lion had awakened his Devil Fruit and made him stronger. The crew continued recovering and training while Enel remained away but alive.

• Stussy watched over the sleeping Chaos while Archino and Crocodile recovered, and the crew trained on God Island.
• Chaos woke after five days, found Enel was still roaming safely, and went to Stussy's office.
• Betty saw Chaos's missing arm and imagined taking over the Richest Group, but Chaos warned her that challenging him would be difficult.
• Crocodile asked Chaos about his battle with Golden Lion, and Chaos said he had both lost the fight and gained strength by awakening his Devil Fruit.
• Chaos judged Golden Lion to be far stronger for now but believed their next battle would be much closer.

Chaos tested his awakened Gold-Gold Fruit in the forest, transforming everything within a fifty-meter radius into gold and shaping it at will. He found that transformed objects reverted beyond his control range, leaving him considering how to expand the ability and develop it further.

• Chaos sent Nolan away and tested his awakened Gold-Gold Fruit in a forest clearing.
• Chaos transformed the surroundings within fifty meters into gold and shaped the gold into objects, figures, and living creatures.
• Chaos considered developing the fruit to create gold from nothing, turn his body into gold, control other metals, or expand his domain.
• Chaos combined his ability with Observation Haki and sent a Golden Warrior beyond his transformed area.
• The Golden Warrior began reverting to earth and stones before it left God Island, confirming that transformed gold could not remain intact outside Chaos's range.

Chaos tested new ways to use his Gold-Gold Fruit, then began an exhausting training regimen to improve his Life Return, Haki, and physical strength. His Conqueror's Haki overwhelmed Baccarat and Bonis during their training, while Archino challenged Ivankov to fight.

• Chaos discovered that a Golden Warrior made of genuine gold remained under his control at the edge of his Observation Haki's range, unlike gold created through temporary awakening.
• Chaos used Life Return to try to regenerate his severed left arm and decided to train with it constantly, despite the strain it placed on his body.
• Chaos trained Life Return, Observation Haki, Armament Haki, and his awakened Gold-Gold Fruit together while doing basic exercises and expanding his Conqueror's Haki across God Island.
• Betty and Stussy continued working through the oppressive Conqueror's Haki, while Baccarat and Bonis collapsed during their training with Ivankov.
• Ivankov told Baccarat and Bonis to get used to Chaos's Conqueror's Haki, and Archino ignored Ivankov's suggestion to fight Old Sand or Old Bear and punched at him.

Stussy warned Chaos that the Richest Group’s assets had been seized and organized its representatives to reclaim them, while Chaos kept Kuma on Sky Island to help train Baccarat and Bonis. Two months later, the Richest Group had struck back across the sea, and Thief Costles had drowned after attempting to steal treasure from Whitebeard.

• Stussy told Chaos that rival forces had taken Richest Group businesses and assets, and Chaos ordered Kuma to stay while the others received assignments.
• Stussy distributed detailed missions to Archino, Crocodile, Ivankov, Betty, and the other representatives, who soon left Sky Island.
• Chaos told Baccarat and Bonis that he would begin training them the next day.
• Over the next two months, Richest Group representatives eliminated pirate crews, underworld organizations, and royal families that had targeted the group, while conflicts involving Enel, the Navy, and other major powers made news.
• Former pirates who had crossed paths with Chaos grew into formidable crews, while the Flying Pirates remained quiet after their clash with the Richest Group.
• Thief Costles tried to steal Whitebeard’s treasure, but Whitebeard’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit forced him out of his Door-Door Fruit hideaway, and Costles sank beneath the sea.

Chaos learned that the Roger Pirates had been surrounded on Meteor Island by Sengoku, Garp, and a large Marine force, so he set out to intervene and continue honing his strength. Before leaving, he dumped Baccarat and Bonis on a dangerous island in the Calm Belt to train with Seastone bracelets.

• Stussy reported that the Roger Pirates had been trapped on Meteor Island for three days by Sengoku, Garp, and a powerful Marine force, with Tsuru on her way.
• Chaos decided to leave immediately, hoping to keep the Great Pirate Era from ending early and to test himself in real combat.
• Chaos told Stussy to keep training Baccarat and Bonis, then took Kuma with him as he departed on a golden floral avenue.
• Chaos pulled Baccarat and Bonis aboard and, six hours later, dropped them onto a beast-infested island in the Calm Belt.
• Baccarat cursed Chaos as she fell, while Chaos told her to stay alive and remember to wear the Seastone bracelets during training.

The Roger Pirates fought a vastly outnumbering Navy force on Meteor Island after being trapped there for three days. Roger and his crew were pushed toward defeat as Navy reinforcements led by Tsuru approached.

• Roger clashed with Sengoku while Garp and Rayleigh joined the battle, and Rayleigh warned Roger that their situation was worsening.
• Sengoku fought Rayleigh and Garp fought Roger as their attacks tore apart Meteor Island.
• Two veteran Vice Admirals pressed Scopper Gaban, while two others suppressed Kozuki Oden.
• Croccus, Sikal, Sambel, Taro, Doringo, and the other crew members faced Navy forces in separate battles.
• Buggy fled from a Navy captain and more than a dozen subordinates as the Roger Pirates struggled against the Navy's numbers.