Recaps

Victor told Felix that Robin’s identity and the mission to protect her were classified, then ordered Robin to keep trying to smile as he tested her obedience. Connor interrupted to report that someone had killed a person.

• Victor explained to Felix that Ancient Weapons were dangerous depending on whose hands they were in, and appointed him commander of the Knights to protect Robin.
• Victor warned Felix that Robin’s identity had to remain secret because the Revolutionary Army and pirates might seek the Ancient Weapon.
• Victor told Robin her mother, Olvia, would be publicly executed in a month and asked whether she wanted to see her.
• Victor ordered Robin to smile until he was satisfied, and she continued forcing a smile for half an hour.
• Connor entered and whispered to Victor that someone had killed someone.

Tesoro seized control of the Wolf Gang and launched a violent attack on the rival Taby Family. After killing Taby and claiming his nightclub, he left determined to make the whole city fear him.

• Tesoro killed his former boss, took over his position in the Wolf Gang, and punished the gang's underlings.
• Tesoro recruited desperate men with money from his former boss's home and led them to a nightclub owned by the Taby Family.
• Tesoro shot the nightclub's owner and Taby's cousin, then demanded that Taby come out.
• Tesoro bombed the nightclub, killing more than a dozen people as Taby and the others fled.
• Tesoro captured Taby, beat him, stabbed him, and declared that he was taking the nightclub.
• Tesoro left the nightclub, intending his attack to announce his power and intimidate the city.

Victor arranged for Robin to see her mother, Olvia, before Olvia’s execution, then took Robin in and oversaw her education. A month after witnessing Olvia’s death, Robin asked Victor what justice was, and he defined it as obedience to those in power.

• Victor continued monitoring Tesoro as Tesoro pursued greater profits through violence.
• At Penal Island Prison, Victor gave Robin and Olvia time to say goodbye while Stella waited outside.
• Olvia embraced Robin and wept before Victor left them alone together.
• Robin watched the crowd torment Olvia and saw her hanged, while Victor stayed beside her.
• A month later, Robin asked Victor what justice meant, and Victor said justice meant acting according to the will of those in power.

Victor taught Robin that justice and evil depended on who held power, while the Marines learned the Golden Lion had escaped and were ordered to withdraw from the New World. Victor was tasked with capturing the pirate and organized defenses as Akainu was assigned to Branch G1.

• Victor explained to Robin that the Celestial Dragons' crimes were protected by the World Government and that there was no absolute justice or evil.
• The Marines learned the Golden Lion had escaped from Impel Down, and Kong convened a military meeting to address the threat of his revenge.
• Sengoku proposed withdrawing the Marines from the New World, and Kong revealed that the order came from the World Government's upper ranks.
• Kong assigned Victor to apprehend the Golden Lion and left with Sengoku for a meeting at Pangaea Castle.
• Victor ordered Onigumo to search for the Golden Lion, arranged extra defenses and family evacuations, and assigned Akainu to Branch G1.

Golden Lion recovered from his escape and met with Whitebeard before disappearing again, while the Marines and pirate crews fought over the New World. Victor was assigned to escort Saint Angellati on a world cruise, where he planned to recruit promising children.

• Golden Lion met Whitebeard on Helitof Island, vowed revenge on Victor, and left the sea in Whitebeard's hands while he prepared.
• Pirates flocked to Whitebeard as the Marines abandoned New World bases, and the Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Beasts Pirates continued to grow stronger.
• Victor's recommendation helped Akainu take command of G1 Branch, while Onigumo, Dogman, and their subordinates received promotions and assignments.
• Kong ordered Victor to escort Saint Angellati on a cruise ship leaving Mary Geoise in two days to display the World Government's military strength before the Seven Warlords of the Sea Project.
• Victor accepted the assignment and planned to bring back promising children, then watched Sengoku enter Kong's office.

Victor escorted sixteen Celestial Dragons on a round-the-world voyage and studied the powerful figures traveling with them. When he spotted a woman whose eyes resembled Imu’s, he saw a possible path toward learning about Imu and the Celestial Dragons’ national treasure.

• Saint Angellati introduced Victor to Chaltina Palace, and Victor realized the voyage included Celestial Dragons of differing importance.
• Victor learned that sixteen Celestial Dragons and more than two thousand attendants were traveling aboard a cruise ship escorted by ten Marine warships.
• Angelina warned Victor that the mission was special and that any accident would bring serious trouble.
• The voyage began for Loguetown, while Victor observed the Celestial Dragons mistreating slaves aboard the ship.
• Victor noticed a woman with eyes like Imu’s and considered how approaching her might help him uncover Imu’s strength and the national treasure.
• The woman met Victor’s gaze, and his composed bow made her curious about him.

Victor and his Marines accompanied Celestial Dragons to Loguetown, where their cruelty tested Light and the others. When the Celestial Dragons turned a passenger ship into a target for their cannon game, Victor ordered Light to help intercept it, leaving the passengers desperate.

• The fleet reached Loguetown, where Celestial Dragon guards forced civilians to kneel and killed a black dog and a girl who disturbed the Celestial Dragons.
• Light and the other Marines clenched their fists in anger, but Victor warned them that CP0 was watching and told them to keep their emotions out of their work.
• After three days of chaos in Loguetown, the Celestial Dragons left and began firing cannons at a passenger ship for sport.
• Saint Angellati ordered Victor to have his men intercept the passenger ship, and Victor signaled Light to relay the order.
• Light warned the Marines that refusing could put their families at risk, and they aimed their guns at the passenger ship and ordered it to turn back.

Victor encouraged Wright to keep pursuing absolute justice after the Marines helped the Celestial Dragons destroy a passenger ship. When the Celestial Dragons visited the Kingdom of Goa, Victor planned to abduct the young Sabo and take him away before it was too late.

• The Marines watched the Celestial Dragons sink a passenger ship, leaving Wright struggling with the injustice of his orders.
• Victor told Wright he dreamed of a world where everyone who committed a crime was punished, and Wright pledged to follow him.
• Victor and Wright arrived in the Kingdom of Goa and prepared to protect the Celestial Dragons during their visit.
• Victor reflected on Sabo's potential and decided to take the young boy away before he grew older.
• The king, royal family, nobles, and officials welcomed the Celestial Dragons at the docks, while Victor waited for a chance to abduct Sabo.

Victor visited Garp in Foosha Village, where he met Makino, while Outlook III discovered that his infant son Sabo had vanished. After completing his voyage around the world, Victor returned to Marine Headquarters with Sabo and Kuina, intending to raise them under his care.

• Victor visited Garp in Foosha Village and met Makino, whom he praised for her cooking.
• Outlook III awoke to find that his infant son, Outlook Sabo, was missing.
• Victor completed his journey around the world and returned to his villa in the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Victor reunited with Stella and Robin, then presented them with Sabo and Kuina, whom he had taken from their families.
• Victor ordered Stella to care for the children while he worked to make them regard him as their father.

Victor maintained his fatherly role with Kuina and Sabo while arranging to take the Hancock sisters from the slave-trading market. After welcoming them to his villa, he left them in Robin’s care and remained confident he could earn their trust.

• Stella fed Kuina and Sabo, and they were excited when Victor called to say he would return that afternoon.
• Connor told Victor that the three Hancock sisters had appeared on the slave-trading market, and Victor ordered them sent to his villa.
• Victor told Aokiji to leave the Marines if he had no desire to serve or to show determination if he wanted change; Aokiji dismissed the advice and went into Sengoku’s office.
• Victor returned home, praised Kuina and Sabo for their training, and carried them into the villa.
• Robin reassured the frightened Hancock sisters, while Connor reported their situation to Victor, who said their problems were minor.

Victor left the traumatized Hancock sisters in Robin and Stella’s care, then went to Enies Lobby to recruit Lucci and request the help of the giants Oimo and Kashii. He gave Spandine a Golden Den Den Mushi in exchange, and Spandine offered to send Victor even more talented CP9 children.

• Victor asked Robin to help the Hancock sisters adjust and told her to leave their collars on until they were used to their new home.
• Robin and Stella helped the sisters eat and reassured them that Victor’s villa was safe.
• Victor arrived at Enies Lobby, where Spandine staged a grand welcome for him.
• Victor gave Spandine a Golden Den Den Mushi and asked to take Lucci, while also requesting Oimo and Kashii’s help.
• Spandine accepted Victor’s requests and offered to send him other talented CP9 children as well.

Victor brought eleven-year-old Rob Lucci from Guanhao Island to his villa on Sabaody Archipelago and began teaching him a different approach to training. Lucci learned how wide the strength gap was between him and Victor’s people, then was sent for medical treatment.

• Instructor Clarkson told Lucci that a ship was waiting, and Lucci boarded it without asking questions.
• Spandine brought Lucci to Victor’s villa, where Victor ordered him to stay and Stella took him to eat.
• Victor taught the children that physical resistance was the foundation of cultivation, then called Lucci forward to test him.
• Lucci attacked Light for several minutes without hurting him, and Light knocked Lucci down with one punch.
• Victor sent Lucci for medical treatment and told Light to train harder so Connor would not widen the gap between them.

Victor received the Love-Love Fruit from Saint Angellati, intending it for Hancock, and agreed to meet with Tesoro, whose expanding underworld operation on Sabaody had reached a bottleneck. Tesoro welcomed Victor at his Golden Bar, and the onlookers realized that Admiral Victor was his backer.

• Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marygold discussed missing Victor, while Lucci, Kuina, and Sabo continued their training at home.
• A CP0 agent delivered the Love-Love Fruit to Victor, who planned to give it to Hancock.
• Connor told Victor that Tesoro wanted to meet him, and Victor agreed.
• Tesoro waited outside his Golden Bar and personally opened the car door for Victor.
• The pedestrians recognized Victor as an admiral and realized he was Tesoro's backer.

Victor backed Tesoro with funds and protection, allowing Tesoro to expand his underworld business on the Sabaody Archipelago. Meanwhile, Doflamingo considered approaching Victor to secure cooperation with the Navy, while Corazon listened in undercover.

• Victor warned Tesoro to understand his position as a subordinate, then promised him tasks and businesses to run.
• Tesoro learned that Tasro wanted to sell its establishment, and realized Victor's backing had made the rival family retreat.
• Victor gave Tesoro twenty billion Berries to invest, while Connor monitored how Tesoro used the money tied to Navy funds.
• Doflamingo reviewed intelligence about Tesoro's growing influence on Sabaody and worried that his weapons-smuggling route would be affected.
• Doflamingo decided to approach Victor about cooperating with the Navy, hoping to build a relationship that could help him become a Shichibukai.
• Corazon remained silent during the discussion and listened for information about Doflamingo's weapons-smuggling route.

Victor’s businesses expanded as Tesoro met Doflamingo and received weapons and drugs, while Victor prepared a mobile island for Marine families. After the Golden Lion destroyed a Marine fortress and threatened him, Victor planned to meet Doflamingo, leaving both conflicts in motion.

• Victor praised Tesoro’s profitable businesses and considered creating regulations to keep Marines out of gambling, prostitution, and drugs.
• Tesoro met Doflamingo on Winter Island, accepted his shipment of weapons and drugs, and realized Doflamingo wanted to reach Victor.
• Victor inspected the St. John, a mobile island where he had gathered the families of Blue Sea Society members.
• A Marine reported that the Golden Lion had destroyed a fortress and left no survivors, and the Golden Lion threatened to kill Victor.
• Connor told Victor about Doflamingo’s cargo, and Victor asked him to arrange a meeting with Doflamingo.

Doflamingo met with Victor, who offered to recommend him as a Shichibukai in exchange for finding Golden Lion and the Gold-Gold Fruit. Doflamingo left shaken but ordered his crew to search through all their channels.

• Doflamingo and his crew waited hours for Victor to arrive at the bar.
• Victor met Doflamingo alone and revealed that he knew about Doflamingo's Marine spy, but said he would let the spy remain.
• Victor offered to recommend Doflamingo as a Shichibukai if he used his underworld intelligence network to find Golden Lion.
• Victor also ordered Doflamingo to find the Gold-Gold Fruit, and Doflamingo promised to deliver it.
• After leaving the meeting drenched in sweat, Doflamingo told Trebol and the others to use all their channels to search for Golden Lion.

Doflamingo searched for Golden Lion after Victor tasked him with finding the pirate, while Victor explained to Wright how the assignment would keep Doflamingo eager to earn his favor. Golden Lion attacked G5 Base, killed Vice Admiral Maca, and left the Marines beneath the shadow of a floating island.

• Victor told Wright that he had tasked Doflamingo with finding Golden Lion to keep Doflamingo working for his approval.
• Doflamingo's men reported that they had found no trace of Golden Lion, and Doflamingo insisted they continue searching to preserve their chance to cooperate with Victor.
• Vice Admiral Maca read that Golden Lion had sunk three G1 warships and killed most of the 3,000 Marines aboard.
• Golden Lion arrived at G5 Base, dismissed Maca, and killed him with a sword strike.
• As the Marines watched in fear, Golden Lion floated an island over the G5 fortress and cast the base into shadow.

Victor left the fallout from the Golden Lion’s return to Kong and Sengoku while the Golden Lion visited Whitebeard and vowed to kill Victor. Back at the villa, Victor oversaw training and assigned Robin her first mission: spread word that an Ancient Weapon existed in Water 7.

• The Golden Lion returned to the sea, drawing pirates to follow him as he targeted the Marines.
• The Golden Lion visited Whitebeard aboard the Moby Dick and said he would not die before killing Victor; Whitebeard refused to join his campaign and hid with his crew.
• Hancock and Lucci sparred in the villa courtyard until Victor stopped them and praised the trainees’ progress.
• Victor left Connor to assign tasks to the trainees, then called Robin into his office.
• Victor told Robin to spread the news that an Ancient Weapon existed in Water 7.

Robin carried out Victor’s mission in Water 7, where she staged a search for the Ancient Weapon to spread information through the underground network. Golden Lion heard the rumor and set sail for Water 7.

• Victor sent Robin to Water 7 with Felix to gather information and announce that the Ancient Weapon might be there.
• Robin and Felix listened to rumors around Water 7, and Robin concluded that Victor had chosen the city because the Ancient Weapon could be there.
• Robin had Felix disguise Marines as World Government agents, and their staged search spread rumors about the Ancient Weapon through the underground network.
• Gries told Golden Lion that World Government agents were searching for something important in Water 7.
• Golden Lion decided the rumor might be true and ordered his crew to set sail for Water 7.

Victor set a trap in Water 7 to draw Golden Lion out and capture him again, despite Kong and Sengoku's concerns that the battle could devastate the city. Their rematch began before a worldwide broadcast, and Golden Lion's attacks left Water 7 facing destruction.

• Kong and Sengoku discussed Victor's plan to confront Golden Lion in Water 7, but Victor insisted he could capture Golden Lion again.
• Golden Lion learned that the Pluton blueprints were hidden in Water 7 and arrived, shaking the island as he searched for them.
• Victor's forces attacked Golden Lion, but Golden Lion used the Float-Float Fruit to crush hundreds of Marines with flying stone slabs.
• Victor confronted Golden Lion in the sky, and they traded punches and sword attacks as a Transponder Snail broadcast their fight worldwide.
• Golden Lion unleashed Lion's Thousand Grain Valley and Lion's Roar: Earth Roll, slicing apart buildings and lifting vast stretches of the city into the air.

Victor and Golden Lion fought a destructive battle that laid waste to Water 7, until Aokiji arrived and froze Golden Lion with an ice spear. Aokiji questioned what Victor was protecting as the ruined city burned around them.

• Victor transformed into a towering Titan, destroyed Golden Lion’s floating lion with a punch, and attacked him with lightning and flaming fists.
• Victor and Golden Lion’s battle devastated Water 7, while Sengoku and Kong watched and worried about the island’s destruction.
• Golden Lion tried to slash Victor’s neck, but Victor accelerated past the attack and smashed Golden Lion into the ground.
• Golden Lion invited Victor to join forces, but Victor refused and continued attacking him.
• Aokiji pierced Golden Lion with an ice spear, freezing most of his body, then confronted Victor about what he was protecting.

Victor and Golden Lion’s battle devastated Water 7, while Aokiji and Akainu intervened amid the destruction. Victor unleashed Genesis Nova against Golden Lion, who countered with Thousand-Blade Slash, leaving both attacks to strike their targets.

• Victor’s clash with Golden Lion sent shockwaves through Water 7, killing more than a thousand people and shaking buildings loose.
• Aokiji froze the sliding buildings and saved hundreds of citizens, while Golden Lion raised a giant lion of earth and buildings to draw Aokiji away and escape.
• Victor opened the Eight Inner Gates Formation, and Akainu arrived with Felix to intercept Golden Lion as he tried to fly away.
• Akainu struck Golden Lion with Hell Hound, driving him back into the ground despite Golden Lion’s attempt to block with his sword.
• Victor formed a purplish-red lightning sphere with Titan: Genesis Nova and hurled it at Golden Lion.
• Golden Lion countered with Lion: Thousand-Blade Slash, splitting the sphere and striking Victor’s shoulder as the lightning serpents pierced his swords and entered his body.

Victor defeated and crippled Golden Lion in Water 7, winning worldwide acclaim while the city's devastation went largely ignored. As the Marines and world powers assessed Victor's growing influence, Imu chose to watch him rather than move against him.

• Victor defeated Golden Lion, cut off both his hands, and displayed him as a helpless captive while Marines and viewers around the world celebrated.
• Aokiji questioned whether Victor's ruthless version of justice was right, thanked a rescued girl and her mother, and left in silence.
• Kong told Sengoku that he hoped Sengoku would succeed him as Fleet Admiral, explaining that Victor's radical ideals made him difficult for the Gorosei to control.
• Imu called Victor interesting, asked whether the Gorosei could control Marines like him, and decided to wait and see how far Victor would go.
• News of Golden Lion's capture and Water 7's destruction spread worldwide; Whitebeard and his crew discussed Victor's danger as Teach examined his photograph.

Shanks and Yasopp discussed the devastation caused by Victor’s capture of Golden Lion as Marines argued over the operation’s civilian casualties and the next Fleet Admiral. Kong awarded the available admiral promotion to Sakazuki, while Victor agreed not to pursue Kuzan’s mistake.

• On Taklon, Shanks told Yasopp that Marine Admiral Genma had captured Golden Lion again, and Yasopp was shocked by the report of more than five hundred thousand casualties at Water 7.
• Shanks reflected that Roger’s attempt to overturn the world’s order might have been the only method he could put into practice.
• At Marine Headquarters, officers argued over Victor’s operation, its civilian deaths, and whether Sakazuki or Kuzan deserved promotion.
• Victor defended the cost of capturing Golden Lion, blamed Kuzan’s intervention for nearly letting Golden Lion escape, and said Kuzan’s contribution offset his mistake.
• Kong chose Sakazuki for the available admiral promotion, and Sengoku accepted the decision.

Victor secured Akainu a promotion to Admiral and asked him to repay the favor by covering some of his shifts. Two months later, Akainu was assigned to guard Mary Geoise, where a report of an escaped fish-man slave reached him.

• Victor hosted a banquet at his villa, where he told Akainu he had secured him an Admiral promotion despite favoring Aokiji and risking his relationship with Sengoku.
• Victor asked Akainu to repay his help by covering shifts so Victor could relax, and Akainu agreed.
• In Grand Line Era 1506, Akainu became a Marine Admiral through Victor's recommendation, strengthening Victor's influence as his quiet struggle with Sengoku for Fleet Admiral began.
• After two months on duty at Mary Geoise, Akainu was disturbed by the Celestial Dragons' treatment of slaves but tried to preserve his sense of justice by telling himself they were criminals.
• A CP0 agent called Akainu to report that a fish-man slave had escaped and asked him to help search for the fugitive.