Recaps

Ares fought Silka and Rayleigh in the battle between the Rocks Pirates and the Roger Pirates, pushing his strength and Haki to new limits before the Marines interrupted the duel. After recovering in the Mink Kingdom, Ares reunited with Kaido, while Rocks ordered the Rocks Pirates to search for him.

• Roger rejected Shiki’s offer to join the Rocks Pirates, and Ares defeated Silka as the battle erupted on the beach.
• Ares challenged Rayleigh, and their prolonged duel tested Ares’s strength, endurance, and understanding of swordsmanship and Haki.
• After more than two hours, Rayleigh’s Pluto’s Judgment badly wounded Ares, but Ares countered with Tornado Gale and fought Rayleigh for eight more hours.
• The Marines arrived and interrupted the exhausted duel, and Rayleigh admitted defeat while Ares refused to count the unfinished fight as a victory.
• Ares fought the Marines until he collapsed, and Kaido carried him away while Silver Axe stayed behind to hold them off.
• Kong reviewed Zephyr’s report on Ares as Roger withdrew from the New World to recover his crew and pursue the meaning of the stone stele.
• Kaido brought Ares to the Mink Kingdom for treatment, and after waking, Ares thanked Kaido and promised they would grow strong enough to live freely.
• Rocks ordered the Rocks Pirates to search for Ares, and Ares began learning about the Minks’ fighting skill and paralyzing electricity during his recovery.

Ares and Kaido trained on Zou before returning to the Rocks Pirates, where Ares fought CP0 Chief Cloud and then confronted Charlotte Linlin. Ares’s growing strength stunned the Big Mom Pirates, while the Five Elders set a scheme in motion to make Rocks suspect Ares was a World Government spy.

• Ares and Kaido trained on Zou for a year, with Ares tempering his body in flames and learning to direct lightning before they left the island.
• Ares and Kaido boarded a World Government ship, where Ares fought CP0 Chief Cloud and escaped his airless cloud prison, while Kaido killed Saint Charlos.
• Ochoku and Silver Axe reunited with Ares and Kaido, and the pirates returned to Hachinosu with the seized Heavenly Gold.
• Saint Christine persuaded the Five Elders to use Ares’s disappearance to make Rocks suspect that Ares was a World Government spy.
• Back on Hachinosu, Linlin demanded that Kaido have children with her, but Kaido refused and declared he would follow Ares.
• Ares defended Kaido from Linlin, struck her down, and left her recognizing that his strength had surpassed hers.

Ares earned his place as captain of the Sixteenth Division, trained Katakuri, and led Captain John’s crew into the Sea of Death, where he defeated the Sea Demon Slada. While Ares invited Slada to join his crew, Kaido and Silver Axe faced a Sea King ambush drawn by a woman’s song.

• Ares defeated Linlin in their fight, and Rocks named him captain of the Sixteenth Division after no pirate challenged him for the position.
• Rocks taught Ares about Conqueror’s Haki, while Linlin resolved to become stronger and began sword training with Streusen.
• Ares received a 2.2 billion Berries bounty, and Katakuri asked to train alongside him so he could protect his younger siblings.
• Kaido accepted Katakuri into the training group, and Whitebeard returned to Hachinosu, where he praised Ares and said he wanted a family.
• Rocks sent Captain John, Ares, and others to retrieve a treasure, while the Marines secretly pursued them through the Sea of Death.
• Ares protected the crew from the sea’s hazards, then fought and defeated Slada, a surviving Sea Demon who had attacked Captain John and Kaido.
• Ares invited Slada to join his crew, while a woman’s song lured Silver Axe, Kaido, and the other pirates toward an ambush by dozens of Sea Kings.
• Silver Axe tried to steer the ship clear of the Sea Kings, then leaped onto one to search for the woman singing.

Ares fought Garp, Zephyr, Sengoku, and Redfield on the island while his companions reunited and Kaido revealed the power of his new Mythical Zoan. The arc left Ares using Conqueror’s Haki to counter Redfield’s future sight and attacking him with his Swordless Style.

• Captain John and Silver Axe battled Brandy Strawberry until Slada intervened and took them underwater, then explained Stella’s transformation and hatred of humanity.
• Kaido found a jeweled chest, ate its Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, and transformed into the Hanuman form as he reunited with Captain John and Silver Axe.
• Ares battled Garp and learned to dissipate the force of his attacks and copy his Armament Haki method, while Zephyr joined the fight.
• After Garp and Zephyr struck him into a crater, Ares emerged with a savage aura, challenged the Marines, and attacked Sengoku and Redfield.
• Ares and Redfield fought while the Marines held back, and Kaido and the other Rocks Pirates arrived to battle Garp, Zephyr, and Sengoku.
• Ares studied Redfield’s Observation Haki and realized he could disrupt its predictions by spreading Conqueror’s Haki across the island.
• Ares overwhelmed Redfield’s ability to read his thoughts and predict his moves, then attacked with his arms and dragon tail using his Swordless Style.