Recaps

The Richest Group expanded its influence while the Marines established a new leadership and the Shichibukai, and the Four Emperors emerged. After years away from public view, Baccarat set out to confront trouble in the Liquor Kingdom and clashed with Boa Hancock on the way.

• Kurozumi Orochi pledged Wano Country to the Richest Group, and Stussy spared the Flower Capital while shrouding the rest of the country in darkness.
• Chaos prepared the Richest Group to expand into arms dealing, pursue new weapons research, and explore space.
• The Marines reorganized under Sengoku, named four Admirals, and faced Gild Tesoro’s challenge to their leadership and the Cultivation Era.
• Chaos led the Richest Group into space and to the moon, where his companions found an abandoned city, robots, and clues about its inhabitants.
• The World Government’s Four Emperors scheme and Shichibukai plan reshaped pirate power, and seven candidates signed agreements to become Shichibukai.
• The Richest Group stayed largely out of sight as its businesses expanded, while Stussy returned from space to address trouble in its territories.
• Baccarat sailed toward the Liquor Kingdom, defeated the Dog Pirates, and fought Boa Hancock after Hancock claimed the pirates as her prey.
• Baccarat overwhelmed Hancock, destroyed the Dog Pirates’ ship, and continued toward the Liquor Kingdom as a giant snake rescued Hancock and the surviving Kuja warriors.

Chaos and the Richest Group returned to the world and fought the Marines and their allies across the Liquor Kingdom. While the battle continued, Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates broke into Impel Down and freed Whitebeard, Jozu, and Thatch.

• Doflamingo joined Coridas Tolo and Axos’s negotiations with the Liquor Kingdom, but Saint Jegenos’s arrival and Baccarat’s attack on him turned the gathering into a battle.
• Baccarat fought the gathered forces, while Hancock, Coridas Tolo, Borsalino, and Axos joined the conflict before Chaos crashed into the island.
• Chaos defeated Coridas Tolo and fought Borsalino, Axos, Doflamingo, Hancock, and Fujitora, while Enel, Don Archino, and Bonis arrived to support him.
• Chaos transformed Fujitora Issho into a woman and Ivankov used hormone injections against the Donquixote Family, as the Richest Group’s return drew powerful figures toward the island.
• Zephyr and the Marines arrived, and Baccarat revealed that she had killed Saint Jegenos as the Richest Group and Marines began fighting across the island.
• Chaos battled Zephyr while Golden Lion arrived and Sakazuki clashed with Archino, as Kuzan, Crocodile, Betty, Baccarat, and the others fought across the sea and island.
• Marco and seven Whitebeard Pirates invaded Impel Down during the battle, fought their way to Infinite Hell, and freed Whitebeard, Jozu, and Thatch.

Chaos and Stussy toured the New World, forcing kingdoms and pirate powers to submit while sparing Nine Snake Island in exchange for concessions. Chaos then infiltrated Blackbeard’s crew as Ultraman Tiga, and the arc ended with the Golden Warrior defeating Blackbeard and Kuzan while Blackbeard vowed revenge.

• Whitebeard escaped Impel Down as the Richest Group’s growing power and the Navy’s losses stirred reactions across the world.
• Stussy took Chaos to Wano Country, where she exposed Orochi’s arms sales and forced him to surrender fingers, then continued punishing factions that had betrayed the Richest Group.
• Crocodile retaliated against Alabasta by killing four managers and burying Yuba and Elumalu in sandstorms after Cobra could not meet his demands.
• Chaos and Stussy confronted Doflamingo, defeated his crew, and forced him to surrender Devil Fruits, half his business profits, and the Donquixote Family’s service.
• Chaos defeated Hancock and spared Nine Snake Island after Gloriosa agreed to his terms, including surrendering the Dark-Dark Fruit and paying Stussy an annual sum.
• Chaos infiltrated Blackbeard’s crew as Ultraman Tiga and secretly gave Teach the Dark-Dark Fruit, then spent three years watching the crew grow and plan to target the Richest Group.
• Blackbeard’s crew attacked Ivankov, but the Golden Warrior overwhelmed them, captured the crew in gold, and spared Blackbeard after he begged for his life.
• The Golden Warrior and Ivankov defeated Kuzan, who later woke in Marineford under Seastone restraints, while Blackbeard vowed to investigate Gild Tesoro and take revenge.

Chaos and the Richest Group crushed the Explosion Pirates, captured Blackbeard, and began studying how he could wield two Devil Fruits. After a mysterious enemy defeated Chaos and took Blackbeard, Chaos prepared for the threat by striking Big Mom at Whole Cake Island, where his Golden Warriors destroyed Cake Chateau.

• Blackbeard and his crew targeted Stussy in Atororia, but Gai defeated them and cut off Blackbeard’s pinky finger before letting them go.
• Gild Tesoro repeatedly beat Blackbeard’s crew, while Gottdi gathered the Explosion Pirates and declared war on the Richest Group.
• Chaos rescued Bonis and destroyed the Explosion Pirates on Mushroom Island, killing most of their forces and defeating Gottdi.
• Chaos tricked Blackbeard into eating Gottdi’s Explosion-Explosion Fruit, then defeated and captured him after Blackbeard demonstrated that he could wield two Devil Fruit powers.
• Caesar’s experiments confirmed that subjects could survive eating two Devil Fruits, and Chaos decided to seize Big Mom’s Soul-Soul Fruit.
• The Army trapped Dragon’s forces in the Vegeta Kingdom, where Enel, Archino, and Crocodile joined the battle against the Army Admirals.
• A mysterious figure defeated Chaos, took Blackbeard, and left Stussy, Baccarat, Betty, and Caesar with no memory of the encounter.
• Chaos ordered spaceships and space bases built, then attacked Whole Cake Island with Betty and Kuma and had ten Golden Warriors destroy Cake Chateau.