Recaps

As Kaisha and Liangbing clashed over the Angels’ future, Bai Ye gathered Super Seminary research and intervened in the war against the Triangular-Body Civilization. The fighting continued as Bai Ye helped Angel Yan on the battlefield and began reconsidering how he treated those around him.

• Liangbing confided in Bai Ye about feeling useless and out of place among the Angels, while he urged her not to leave before the coming war.
• Kaisha and Liangbing argued over the Justice Order and freedom, but Kaisha chose to lead the Angels into the war without accepting Bai Ye’s advice to wait.
• Bai Ye traveled to the Super Seminary, copied technology from the Great Clock, and obtained research on the Triangular-Body Civilization and third-generation divine bodies.
• Bai Ye returned the research to Harshee, who warned Kaisha that the Angels should limit battles until they could exploit the enemy’s weakness.
• Bai Ye joined Liangbing at the front and used Heavenly Thunder to devastate the Triangular-Body forces, then promised Liangbing he would not accept Kaisha as his guardian Angel.
• As the enemy scattered its forces, Bai Ye went to help Kaisha and took responsibility for fighting the forces on the outskirts.
• Bai Ye and Angel Yan faced a larger-than-expected enemy force, and he watched Yan fight until he rescued her from a surprise attack.
• Bai Ye reflected on treating others like pieces in a game, then summoned lightning to wipe out the Triangular-Body creatures while Yan watched in shock.

Bai Ye gathered allies and prepared to overthrow the World Government, bringing Whitebeard, Dragon, and Vegapunk into his cause while Big Mom weighed competing offers. The arc left the sides preparing for war, with Dragon set to rally the Four Seas as Bai Ye’s forces advanced through the Grand Line.

• Bai Ye rejected the World Government’s offer, demanded control of the Four Seas or the deaths of all Celestial Dragons, and warned Shamrock and Gunko to prepare for war.
• Bai Ye invited Whitebeard to fight the World Government, and Whitebeard accepted after his sons urged him to join.
• Big Mom considered the World Government’s offer after Bai Ye rejected her demand that they have a child, while Shanks decided he would stay out of the war unless he needed to stop both sides from destroying each other.
• Dragon agreed to merge the Revolutionary Army with Bai Ye’s forces, and Bai Ye brought Dragon to Vegapunk’s location to recruit the scientist.
• Vegapunk joined Bai Ye after discussing the coming flood and the dangers of the Mother Seed, and Bai Ye transferred him, Dragon, and his laboratory to Wano Country.
• Bai Ye told Vegapunk to focus on technology that improved people’s lives, while the others teased Bai Ye about his lack of romantic decisions and he declared he would take them all.
• Bai Ye explained that Big Mom might distrust the World Government’s promises, and his companions recognized that many pirates could still join the opposing side.
• Vegapunk urged Bai Ye to recruit allies to reduce casualties, and Dragon offered to rally oppressed people across the Four Seas while Bai Ye’s forces attacked the Grand Line.

Bai Ye brought Fish-Man Island into his alliance and challenged Shanks to choose between joining him and preserving the old order. As the World Government prepared for war, Shanks decided to support Bai Ye, and Saint Saturn revealed Shanks was a Celestial Dragon.

• Bai Ye and Dragon planned to gather allies for the final battle, and Bai Ye explained that Roger had been waiting for Poseidon’s return and an eight-hundred-year cycle.
• Bai Ye met with Whitebeard and the captured Marines, while Gion explained why she had left the Marines and Akainu began questioning his service to the World Government.
• Neptune refused CP0’s demands, and Bai Ye moved Fish-Man Island to the seas around Wano Country after Neptune agreed to join his alliance.
• The Five Elders planned to win over Elbaf and Shanks, while Shanks answered Bai Ye’s call and heard his invitation to help fight the World Government.
• Shanks asked Bai Ye what kind of world he would build, then delayed his decision as his crew questioned him about the offer.
• The Five Elders urged Shanks to join them against Bai Ye, but Shanks chose to support Bai Ye before Saint Saturn revealed that Shanks was a Celestial Dragon.

Bai Ye gathered Big Mom, Shanks, the Marines, and other major factions in Wano Country as they considered joining his campaign against the World Government. Meanwhile, Blackbeard stole the Dark-Dark Fruit, gained a second Devil Fruit power, and sought the Five Elders’ help to recruit Impel Down prisoners against Bai Ye.

• Shanks rejected the Five Elders’ offer and told them he would not return to the World Government, while Big Mom chose to visit Bai Ye before deciding whether to join him.
• Bai Ye brought Big Mom and the Red Hair Pirates to Wano Country, where Shanks discussed Bai Ye’s plans and urged him to explain the mystery of Nika.
• Bai Ye invited the Marines to his banquet, and Akainu, Kizaru, Aokiji, and Garp joined the gathering after Bai Ye released them from prison.
• Blackbeard stole the Dark-Dark Fruit from Thatch, killed him, and escaped, prompting Whitebeard and Ace to suspect that Teach had defected to the World Government.
• Bai Ye and Ace searched for Teach without success, and Bai Ye advised Ace not to let Roger define his life.
• Blackbeard reached the Holy Land and offered to cooperate with the Five Elders, demonstrating that he could absorb Wapol’s Devil Fruit ability.
• Blackbeard asked the Five Elders to let him recruit prisoners from Impel Down to fight Bai Ye, and they agreed to consider his request.