Recaps

As the World Government framed Bai Ye for the Impel Down jailbreak and recruited pirates to fight him, Blackbeard, the Marines, Crocodile, and Doflamingo each chose their sides. Bai Ye gathered allies including Big Mom and Shanks, then revealed plans to replace his crew’s rule with a civilian-elected council.

• The Five Elders evacuated Impel Down’s staff and let Blackbeard recruit prisoners, while arranging to blame Bai Ye for the jailbreak.
• Blackbeard recruited Shiryu, Vasco Shot, Dai Peng, Evil Governor King, and other prisoners, then promised to fight alongside the World Government after gathering more allies.
• Sengoku and Tsuru debated whether the Marines should follow the World Government, while Crocodile abandoned Baroque Works and set out to find Bai Ye.
• Doflamingo aligned with the World Government, bargained for help finding Law, and left Dressrosa as Sugar’s ability ended and the toys returned to normal.
• Bai Ye asked Dragon’s forces to take control of Dressrosa, warned that the World Government might have powerful hidden assets, and decided to handle Elbaf before launching his war.
• Bai Ye persuaded Big Mom to join his cause and warned her not to terrorize people or take their lifespans in the New World he planned to build.
• Kaido and Big Mom discussed their reasons for joining Bai Ye, and Big Mom returned to Whole Cake Island to tell her children she would join his crew.
• Bai Ye met Shanks, explained that he would disband the Breaking Dawn Pirates and give power to a civilian-elected council, and Shanks agreed to join him.

Bai Ye gathered Shanks, Rayleigh, and Shakky while the World Government prepared for war and tried to control Blackbeard, Doflamingo, and the Marines. The arc ended with Bai Ye and Sengoku beginning talks about the Marines’ future at Marine Headquarters.

• Shanks joined Bai Ye and brought him to Rayleigh, who agreed to leave Sabaody with Shakky after realizing the World Government would target them.
• Bai Ye moved Rayleigh and Shakky’s tavern, prompting Saint Saturn to order that Rayleigh be killed with a single strike.
• Blackbeard prevented Dai Peng and Shiryu of the Rain from fighting, rallied his crew, and agreed to return to the World Government while planning to exploit its conflict with Bai Ye.
• Im ordered the Lights-Out Plan to begin early, kept the secret weapon in reserve against Bai Ye, and directed the Five Elders to seek Doflamingo’s help.
• Doflamingo negotiated better terms with the World Government and told Trebol that the crew needed to prepare for battle and prioritize survival.
• Bai Ye and the former Rocks Pirates argued about their conduct at God Valley before Shanks reminded them to proceed to Elbaf.
• Tsuru invited Bai Ye to Marine Headquarters to discuss the Marines’ future, and Bai Ye brought Garp, Kizaru, Aokiji, and Akainu with him.
• Bai Ye told Sengoku he would take the four Marines as spoils if they reached no agreement, while Garp and the others confirmed that conditions in Wano Country were good.

Bai Ye and Sengoku negotiated an alliance against the World Government, then Sengoku revealed the Celestial Dragons’ crimes and gave the Marines a choice. Five-sixths chose to leave with him, while Sengoku faced a final call from Kong Kong.

• Sengoku revealed that the World Government had ordered Marines’ families moved to the Holy Land, and he agreed to cooperate with Bai Ye against its rule.
• Sengoku and the Marines debated whether joining Bai Ye meant betraying Marine justice, while Akainu refused to join but agreed to hunt the escaped Impel Down prisoners.
• Sengoku announced to Marine Headquarters that he would cooperate with Bai Ye and invited willing soldiers to go with him.
• Sengoku condemned the Celestial Dragons’ atrocities, including the massacre at God Valley, and a Marine who had witnessed their cruelty at Sabaody spoke in support of him.
• Bai Ye explained that the World Government and his side were both judging the Marines’ loyalties, while Garp recalled how he and Roger had fought Rocks at God Valley.
• Five-sixths of the Marines chose to leave with Sengoku, and he gave the soldiers thirty minutes to gather their families and belongings before making a final choice.
• Kong Kong called Sengoku and asked what he was thinking, and Sengoku struggled to explain himself before apologizing for disappointing him.

Sengoku led many Marines away from the World Government and brought them to Wano Country, where captured Marines chose to join him. As Bai Ye prepared to face the World Government after seeking Elbaf’s support, he used an interview with Big Morgans to expose the Celestial Dragons’ role in the Marines’ defection.

• Sengoku told Kong Kong he trusted Bai Ye more than the World Government, but Kong Kong refused to leave and accepted that they would face each other in the coming war.
• The Five Elders let the departing Marines go rather than weaken their forces before the war, while Saint Garling took them to meet Im and the Knights of God joined the battle preparations.
• Doflamingo decided to remain with the World Government, abandoned Vergo’s Marine infiltration, and ordered him to return.
• Sengoku led many Marines away from Marineford with Bai Ye, while the remaining Marines chose whether to stay or leave and the World Government personnel eventually departed.
• Sengoku brought the Marines to Wano Country and offered the imprisoned Marines a choice, after which they chose to stay with him and fight the World Government.
• Bai Ye told Whitebeard and the others that Teach was Rocks’s son, and Whitebeard resolved to deal with Teach himself.
• Bai Ye agreed to Big Morgans’s interview and said the World Government would lose because of the Celestial Dragons, while Big Mom discussed seeking Elbaf’s support before the war.
• Big Morgans prepared an article blaming the Marines’ defection on the World Government and the Celestial Dragons’ oppression.