Recaps

Ares used his Mythical Zoan’s powerful recovery to endure a brutal fire-and-impact training regimen, then awoke to find his body had grown stronger. Three days later, he headed to sea with Ochoku and Shiki, eager to meet Roger and change the world.

• Ares burned and struck his body for hours, relying on his recovery ability to endure the pain.
• Ares awoke with smoother, harder skin and celebrated how much faster his training could make him grow.
• Ares bathed, began his daily training, and spent the next three days learning more about his Devil Fruit.
• Ochoku warned Ares to follow orders on their next outing, while Ares insisted he could handle powerful enemies and asked for a stronger opponent.
• Ares and Ochoku reached the pier, where Ares boarded a pirate ship and declared that the world’s destiny would begin changing with him.

Ares joined Golden Lion’s voyage toward the Roger Pirates, while the Marines mobilized Garp, Zephyr, and Sengoku to watch the Rocks Pirates. Golden Lion warned Ares about the cruelty of the sea and explained why pirates gathered under the protection of the strong.

• Ares boarded Golden Lion’s ship, greeted Kaido, and reassured him that he would find a suitable Devil Fruit someday.
• Fleet Admiral Kong sent Garp and Zephyr to deal with Golden Lion and Ares, and assigned Sengoku to monitor Whitebeard.
• Garp told Zephyr that he would leave the credit for catching Ares to him, then boarded the Marine warship.
• Golden Lion warned Ares not to show mercy to enemies and described how the strong controlled the lives of the weak.
• Golden Lion explained that pirates gathered under powerful leaders who claimed territory and protected them.

Ares and Kaido trained aboard the Rocks Pirates’ ship while Golden Lion and Ochoku discussed their mission, but Garp and Zephyr intercepted them at sea. Ares challenged Zephyr and launched an attack, leaving the battle just beginning.

• Ares and Kaido trained as Golden Lion and Ochoku discussed the Roger Pirates and the Marines’ pursuit.
• Garp and Zephyr flew toward Golden Lion’s ship after a Marine officer spotted it six nautical miles away.
• Golden Lion confronted Garp and Zephyr, while Ares transformed and flew up to challenge Garp.
• Ochoku failed to stop Ares, and Zephyr recognized him as Bloodhand and a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit user.
• Golden Lion assigned Ares to hold off Zephyr, and Ares attacked him with Dragon—Breath.

Ares and Zephyr fought in the sky and over the sea, trading powerful attacks that left both of them injured. Ares became excited by Zephyr’s Navy combat techniques and wondered if he could learn them.

• Ares opened the battle with flames as Golden Lion attacked Garp, while Zephyr punched through the inferno and dodged Ares’s claws and tail sweep.
• Ares unleashed blue-white claw slashes, and Zephyr dodged them before rushing in with an Armament Haki punch.
• Ares met Zephyr’s punch with his own, then narrowly dodged Zephyr’s whipping kick and faced his Finger Pistol with a barrage of attacks.
• Zephyr pierced Ares’s chest with Finger Pistol, while Ares struck Zephyr hard enough to send him crashing into the sea.
• Zephyr rose from the water as Ares admired his techniques and wondered whether he could master them himself.

Ares battled Zephyr and grew stronger as he learned from the Marine’s techniques, while Garp fought the Golden Lion. The Golden Lion began a new attack on Garp as both battles continued.

• Ares’s wounds rapidly healed as he fought Zephyr and tried to draw out the Marine’s full range of techniques.
• Silver Axe and Ochoku watched the fight, while Kaido and the other pirates cheered Ares on.
• Ares’s strength and technique improved during their exchanges, alarming Zephyr, who realized Ares was learning from him.
• Garp noticed how much Ares had grown in a month, and the Golden Lion predicted that Ares would change the era.
• The Golden Lion unleashed a barrage of sword waves, which Garp smashed apart before challenging him to fight seriously.
• The Golden Lion answered Garp’s taunt by launching Lion’s Might—Sea Swirl.

Garp and Shiki fought fiercely for hours while Ares battled Zephyr, until the Marines withdrew for the day. Back aboard the ship, Silver Axe praised Ares and asked him to introduce beautiful women if he met any.

• Shiki sent giant seawater lions at Garp, who smashed them apart with his fists as their battle continued into the night.
• Kaido grew bored watching, while Ochoku and Silver Axe discussed Ares's endurance and potential.
• Zephyr urged Garp to retreat, and the two Marines flew away after Garp promised to fight Shiki again tomorrow.
• Shiki stopped Ares from chasing them, explaining that the fight could last days and attract Marine reinforcements.
• Silver Axe praised Ares for contending with Zephyr and asked him to introduce beautiful women if he met any.

After recovering from his battle with Zephyr, Ares replayed the fight and began practicing Geppo, quickly learning to stomp through the air and change direction. Kaido, Golden Lion, and Wang Zhi watched his astonishing progress, while Ares continued training under the moonlight.

• Wang Zhi had the ship's doctor examine Ares, and the doctor confirmed his injuries were minor thanks to his powerful recovery.
• After eating, Ares reviewed Zephyr's use of Geppo and realized his explosive strength could let him move through the air.
• Ares practiced stomping the air, broke through the deck, and began rising and moving diagonally across the sky.
• Kaido marveled that Ares had learned Geppo in less than an hour and felt inferior beside his talent.
• Wang Zhi worried that Ares was taking on too many disciplines, but Golden Lion said a monster without weaknesses was truly terrifying.

Ares continued to grow stronger, mastering Geppo and impressing Zephyr with how quickly he learned from combat. The next day, Ares resumed his fight with Zephyr while the Marines pursued the Rocks Pirates, and Ochoku worried the Navy planned to destroy them at sea.

• Ochoku praised Ares as a monster without weaknesses while Ares trained to control Geppo.
• Zephyr told Garp that Ares had rapidly improved during their fight and seemed to have learned Garp's techniques by watching him.
• Garp compared the moon to a giant donut, frustrating Zephyr as they discussed the threat posed by Ares and Rocks.
• The next day, Golden Lion flew out to confront the pursuing Marines, and Ares joined him, eager to learn more of the Marine Six Powers from Zephyr.
• Ares attacked Zephyr with a newly mastered Geppo, and their battle resumed as Ochoku worried the Navy intended to wipe out the pirates.

With supplies running low, Ochoku and Shiki planned to obtain food and fresh produce from the Kingdom of Providencia, by trade or force. Meanwhile, Ares trained in the Six Forms and amazed Zephyr by mastering Finger Pistol and Iron Body within days, while agreeing to teach Kaido.

• Silver Axe warned Ochoku that the crew had only about two days of supplies, and Ochoku identified the Kingdom of Providencia as their nearest source of provisions.
• Ochoku told Shiki about the shortage and proposed trading for supplies, but Shiki decided they would rob the kingdom if necessary.
• After eating, Ares began training Finger Pistol and practiced until his strikes tore through the air.
• Kaido admired Ares's strength and asked him to teach him the Six Forms, and Ares agreed.
• On the third day, Zephyr was stunned when Ares used a powerful Finger Pistol, and on the fourth day he was shocked again when Ares unleashed Iron Body.

Zephyr unleashed his increasing Armament Haki against Ares, who endured the blows and fought back with ferocious attacks. As their clash intensified, Ochoku and Silver Axe feared the Navy might be preparing a larger confrontation near the Kingdom of Providencia.

• Zephyr decided Ares had to be captured before he became a dangerous weapon for Rocks and struck him with an Armament Haki-infused punch.
• Ares used Iron Body to withstand Zephyr's punch, recovered quickly, and charged back into battle in Dragon Human Form.
• Zephyr increased his strength with Arm Strength: Double and Black Arm: Triple, driving Ares backward with increasingly powerful blows.
• Ares answered with Blood-colored Armament and Twenty Lightning Punches, and both men battered each other in a fierce clash.
• Kaido worried as Ares fell behind, while Ochoku warned that Zephyr was getting serious and Silver Axe feared the Navy had enlisted the Kingdom of Providencia against them.

After Zephyr knocked Ares into the sea, Kaido and Ochoku tried to rescue him, but Kaido could not reach him before the ocean drained his strength. Ares discovered his Azure Dragon Form let him breathe underwater, leaving him alive in the depths.

• Zephyr struck Ares into the sea, and Ochoku and Kaido leaped overboard to save him.
• Zephyr blocked Ochoku, who fought him at the surface while Kaido swam toward Ares.
• Kaido spotted Ares sinking but had to return to the surface when he ran short of oxygen.
• Ares struggled against the sea's suppression of his strength and remembered examples of Devil Fruit powers working underwater.
• Ares transformed into his Azure Dragon Form and found he could breathe underwater.

Ares proved that seawater could not suppress his Azure Dragon abilities, resurfaced, and returned to battle Zephyr. As Zephyr’s repeated shockwave punches battered Ares, the wounded dragon roared and covered the sky with black-and-red lightning.

• Ares swam through the seabed in Azure Dragon Form and realized that he could breathe and move freely despite the seawater draining his strength.
• Ares burst from the sea and challenged Zephyr, shocking Zephyr and giving Ochoku an opening to slash his shoulder.
• Ochoku, Kaido, Garp, and Golden Lion reacted to Ares’s return as the fighting between Garp and Golden Lion paused.
• Ares attacked Zephyr with Dragon Breath and a Divine Dragon Tail Slash, but Zephyr blocked the flames and shattered the slash with his shockwave punches.
• Zephyr repeatedly struck Ares with energy shockwaves, leaving the dragon badly hurt and unable to counterattack.
• Ares roared in pain and fury, summoning a vast network of black-and-red lightning that darkened the sky and dominated the battlefield.

Ares survived a brutal twelve-to-thirteen-hour battle with Zephyr, then revealed that his Azure Dragon form let him breathe underwater. As the pirates prepared a nighttime raid on the Kingdom of Providencia, Zephyr asked Garp to request Navy reinforcements.

• Zephyr's Conqueror's Haki shock briefly halted his assault, but he and Ares fought on for twelve or thirteen hours before Ares returned to the ship with broken ribs and severe bruising.
• Ares said he was growing stronger from fighting Zephyr, while Kaido vowed to learn Geppo so he could fight alongside him in the sky.
• Ares explained that his Fish-Fish Fruit Azure Dragon form let him breathe underwater, surprising Golden Lion and Ochoku.
• Ochoku and Golden Lion planned a nighttime raid on the Kingdom of Providencia for supplies, deciding to leave some trainees behind to cover their retreat.
• Ochoku rallied the pirates for the raid and assigned preparations, while Silver Axe joked with them about their guns.
• Zephyr told Garp to notify Fleet Admiral Kong and request reinforcements because Ares could become a grave threat to the Navy and the world.

After Zephyr’s injuries confirmed Ares’s growing strength, Garp and Kong arranged reinforcements to pursue the Rocks Pirates, while Kong learned that Rocks had attacked the Kingdom of Illis. Ares reflected on Zephyr’s techniques and, prompted by Kaido, began considering new ways to use his Azure Dragon Form.

• Dragon agreed with Zephyr that the Marines should send more people, and Garp called Fleet Admiral Kong to request reinforcements.
• Kong ordered Vice Admiral Prodi to support Garp and capture Rocks Pirates officers, including Blood Hand - Ares.
• Kong received word that Rocks had attacked the Kingdom of Illis and ordered Marine forces to prepare to reinforce the kingdom.
• Ares studied his fight with Zephyr and considered how to develop the power of his Rokushiki and Devil Fruit.
• Kaido suggested that Ares use his Azure Dragon Form to create storms and control lightning, and Ares praised Kaido’s ideas.

Ares gained ideas for developing his Mythical Zoan powers after Kaido suggested using Flame Clouds to lift and drop heavy objects. As Ares planned new training, Ochoku ordered him to stay aboard the ship during the coming raid, while Kaido remained eager to fight in a great war.

• Kaido suggested that Ares use Flame Clouds to lift boulders and ships, and Ares praised the idea and planned to combine his Devil Fruit powers with the Six Powers and swordsmanship.
• Ares considered how to control lightning and combine his abilities, but decided to resume Fire Forging before attempting lightning training.
• Ares reflected on his place among the Rocks Pirates and on the broader sources of cruelty in the world.
• Ochoku told Ares to rest aboard the ship during the night's operation and assigned Kaido to look after him.
• Kaido insisted that he wanted to join the raid because he longed for an epic war and hoped to direct one someday.

The Rocks Pirates descended on the Kingdom of Providencia to raid it, but the king revealed a powerful ability as he confronted them. Ares recognized the danger just as Elizabeth II unleashed his King's Fist.

• Ochoku told the pirates to prepare for a raid on the Kingdom of Providencia, while only the crew's leaders knew they had less than three hours.
• Shiki's airborne ship evaded the kingdom's lighthouses and landed in the capital, where the pirates began killing and looting.
• Ares warned Kaido that Ochoku's caution suggested the kingdom had a serious threat, then identified the destruction of several buildings as the work of a powerful Devil Fruit ability.
• King Elizabeth II arrived with armed soldiers, turned red as steam rose from his body, and challenged the pirates.
• Ares realized Elizabeth II was gathering power, and the king shouted, "King's Fist!!!"

Elizabeth II unleashed a devastating King's Fist, and Ares blocked the first Punch Wave before Kaido stepped in to fight him. Elizabeth II's next charged punch sent Kaido crashing through several buildings, leaving Ares to find him unconscious but alive as the king continued charging his attack.

• Elizabeth II struck the square with a King's Fist, and Ares blocked the Punch Wave with eight crossed sword-lights.
• Elizabeth II recognized Ares as Blood Hand—Ares of the Rocks Pirates and began charging another King's Fist.
• Kaido arrived to protect the injured Ares, but Elizabeth II's one-and-a-half-minute charge ended with a Punch Wave that blasted Kaido away.
• Ares found Kaido beneath the rubble with blood at his mouth, checked that he was breathing, and tried to wake him.
• Elizabeth II mocked Kaido as he continued gathering strength.

Ares carried the unconscious Kaido out of the ruins while Elizabeth II charged his King's Fist for five minutes. Ares shattered the attack with his own punch, leaving Elizabeth II stunned by the strength of a pirate with a 40-million-Berry bounty.

• Ares smacked Kaido awake, but Kaido remained unconscious, so Ares carried him out of the ruins and placed him on the pirate ship.
• Elizabeth II announced he would charge his King's Fist for three minutes, while Ares returned to the square and prepared to study the attack.
• Elizabeth II charged his punch for five minutes and claimed he would erase the name Blood Hand - Ares from the sea.
• Ares used Blood-colored Armament and Azure Dragon Fist Style: Divine Dragon Reveals Its Head to meet the King's Fist.
• Ares's punch shattered Elizabeth II's Punch Wave, and Elizabeth II wondered how a pirate with a 40-million-Berry bounty could be so powerful.

Ares allowed Elizabeth II ten minutes to charge his King's Fist so he could study the technique, despite the pirates' warnings. Elizabeth II accepted the chance to power up, while Ochoku urged Ares not to show mercy to his enemies.

• Ares charged Elizabeth II, who threw a nearby soldier in his path and retreated to charge his King's Fist for ten minutes.
• Ares's punch burst the soldier into a cloud of blood, and a frightened soldier's bullet clanged harmlessly off Ares's scales.
• Ares told Elizabeth II he would give him ten minutes to charge, astonishing both the soldiers and the pirates.
• Ares studied Elizabeth II's body and recalled the King's Fist, hoping to learn its technique and unleash more of his own strength.
• The pirates tried to persuade Ares to attack before Elizabeth II finished charging, and Ochoku approached with his greatsword and warned Ares not to show mercy.

Ares insisted on fighting Elizabeth II despite his injuries because he wanted to learn the powerful King's Fist technique. Shiki supported his choice, and Ares prepared to face Elizabeth II as the Golden Lion watched to see whether he could secretly learn the technique.

• Elizabeth II recognized Ochoku and feared that Shiki the Golden Lion might also be nearby.
• Shiki arrived with barrels of food and wine, then told Ares to leave the fight to him because Ares was injured.
• Ares asked to fight Elizabeth II so he could learn King's Fist, and Ochoku objected because Ares had not recovered from his battle with Zephyr.
• Shiki encouraged Ares to fight, trusting that he needed challenges to pursue his dream of becoming the strongest person on the sea.
• Ares declared that he would forge his body into a blade beyond a Supreme Great Sword and warned Elizabeth II that two minutes remained.
• Shiki recognized that Elizabeth II's technique resembled Ares's Blood-colored Armament state and suspected Ares wanted to learn it.

Ares faced Elizabeth II’s fully charged King’s Fist and met its golden shock wave with a relentless barrage of Blood-colored Armament punches. He advanced through the blast toward the terrified Elizabeth II, leaving the fight on the verge of close combat.

• Ares watched Elizabeth II charge his King’s Fist for ten minutes while Shiki and the pirates observed.
• Elizabeth II unleashed a golden energy blast and boasted that he would destroy the Rocks Pirates.
• Ares countered with Blood-colored Armament—Azure Dragon Fist Style—Tides Turning, throwing hundreds of punches into the shock wave.
• Ares endured the blast and steadily pushed through it, thrilling at the pain and pressing closer to Elizabeth II.
• Elizabeth II’s confidence collapsed as Ares shattered his attack and loomed over him like a demon.

Ares pressured Elizabeth II to reveal the secret of King's Fist, but Zephyr arrived with Marine reinforcements and interrupted them. As the pirates began retreating under Ochoku's orders, Ares agreed to return to the ship after the others escaped, determined to learn the technique another time.

• Golden Lion and Ochoku watched Ares's growth in battle and discussed his seemingly limitless potential.
• Ares frightened Elizabeth II and demanded that he explain King's Fist, but Zephyr arrived and attacked before Elizabeth II could answer.
• Ares clashed with Zephyr and used Dragon Breath, while Zephyr recognized that Ares had grown stronger again.
• Marine reinforcements fought the pirates, Garp engaged Golden Lion, and Ochoku ordered the pirates to retreat to their ships.
• Ochoku attacked Zephyr to cover the retreat, and Ares agreed to return to the ship after everyone else had escaped, vowing to learn King's Fist later.

After his battles left him injured and hungry, Ares experimented with storing food energy in his body and began training to control his digestion. Several days later, Ochoku received news about the Roger Pirates.

• Ares reflected that his physique needed to become stronger so he could fight for longer without being injured.
• Ares realized food could replenish his strength and asked Ochoku for a meal.
• Ares ate slowly while practicing control over his stomach, eventually slowing his digestion and storing nearly two truckloads of food.
• Ares rested, considered how stored food energy might help him outlast powerful opponents, and continued thinking about his battles and Elizabeth II's King's Fist.
• Several days later, Ochoku received news about the Roger Pirates and excitedly told Golden Lion.

Golden Lion learned that the Rocks Pirates had conquered a kingdom and Ares’s bounty had risen, but the Navy was intensifying its campaign against them. Meanwhile, Roger and his crew celebrated on an island, where Gaban brought a newspaper reporting on a remarkable newcomer from the Rocks Pirates.

• Ochoku told Golden Lion that Captain Rocks had conquered a kingdom and Ares’s bounty had risen to 220 million Berries.
• Ochoku reported that the Navy was pursuing Newgate, Charlotte Linlin had gone to support him, and Captain Rocks had ordered Golden Lion’s group to return to Hachinosu Island after meeting Roger.
• Golden Lion ordered his crew to sail at full speed to meet the Roger Pirates.
• Rayleigh hunted a large beast with Gaban, then joined Roger, who studied copied Poneglyph writing that no scholar had deciphered.
• Gaban arrived with a newspaper and told Rayleigh that a newcomer from the Rocks Pirates had recently become famous.

Rayleigh, Roger, and Gaban discussed Ares’s rising bounty before Roger and Rayleigh planned to visit Ohara to decipher the stone writings. The Roger Pirates were interrupted by Shiki’s arrival, and Ares eagerly anticipated facing them as Shiki invited Roger to join the Rocks Pirates.

• Gaban showed Rayleigh a newspaper reporting Ares’s 220-million-Berry bounty, and Rayleigh noted the unusual Tianyue surname and the Rocks Pirates’ growing threat.
• Roger and Rayleigh laughed about Ares’s bald appearance, then agreed to visit Ohara after traveling across the seas so its scholars could help read the stone writings.
• A cannon blast interrupted the Roger Pirates’ banquet, and the crew prepared for battle when they saw Shiki the Golden Lion’s ship approaching.
• Ares recognized Roger and Rayleigh and resolved to create an era of his own, while Kaido grew eager for battle beside him.
• Shiki called out to Roger and invited him to join the Rocks Pirates, declaring that they should turn the world upside down together.