Recaps

Fisher Tiger returned to Fish-Man Island and announced his plan to free the slaves in Mary Geoise, while Doflamingo prepared to traffic merfolk and give Victor the Gold-Gold Fruit. Victor established the secret Dark Department under Rob Lucci, leaving Lucci to lead the masked force as Tiger.

• Fisher Tiger told Neptune and Otohime about the abuse he endured as a slave and said he would attack Mary Geoise to free the others.
• Neptune warned Tiger about the consequences, but Tiger said he would not return to Fish-Man Island after the raid.
• Doflamingo arranged to send Tesoro’s contraband shipment to Sabaody Archipelago and gave Victor the Gold-Gold Fruit he wanted.
• Doflamingo told Trebol to capture more merfolk for the Celestial Dragons, including from Fish-Man Island.
• Victor gathered children selected by Rob Lucci and established the secret Dark Department, which would answer only to him.
• Victor put Lucci in charge of the Dark Department and assigned him the codename Tiger.

Doflamingo delivered the Gold-Gold Fruit to Victor, who rewarded Tesoro with it and assigned Robin to work at Tesoro’s business. Meanwhile, Tiger began freeing slaves at Mary Geoise, and Victor received an urgent call reporting a major incident there.

• Doflamingo gave Victor the Gold-Gold Fruit and asked for the Shichibukai title, but Victor told him to wait until his influence grew.
• Victor summoned Tesoro, praised his expanding businesses, and gave him the Gold-Gold Fruit, warning him that wealth required strength.
• Victor told Tesoro that Robin would work at his place for a while, easing Tesoro’s fear that Victor planned to replace him.
• Tiger infiltrated Mary Geoise, killed guards, and began releasing the slaves held there.
• Dino called Victor from Mary Geoise and reported that something major had happened.

After Fisher Tiger's raid left Mary Geoise burning and its slaves rebelling, Victor reassured Dino and directed Akainu to prioritize the Celestial Dragons' safety. Victor extinguished the fires, confronted CP0, and ordered Dino to seal the passageways and verify identities, leaving responsibility for the crisis in dispute.

• Dino told Victor that Mary Geoise was in chaos, and Victor promised to protect him from being made a scapegoat while ordering him to cooperate with Sakazuki.
• Akainu's Marines and CP0 agents rescued Celestial Dragons as freed slaves set fires and attacked guards, and Victor told Akainu to put the Celestial Dragons' safety first.
• Victor arrived at Mary Geoise, transformed into a Titan, and used a massive sphere of water to extinguish the fires.
• Victor slapped a CP0 agent, accused CP0 of letting the slaves cause trouble, and warned that he would investigate the incident.
• Victor ordered Vice Admiral Dino to seal the passageways and verify identities because he suspected slaves had infiltrated the ranks.

Victor took control of the investigation into the attack on Mary Geoise, winning Saint Angellati’s backing and protecting the Marines from blame. He identified Fisher Tiger as the attacker and left the Marines searching for him while Akainu acknowledged his debt to Victor.

• Victor blamed CP0 for the attack and persuaded Saint Angellati to give him authority to investigate the breach of Mary Geoise.
• Victor reassured Saint Angellati that the attackers would be caught and promised to determine how they had infiltrated the Holy Land.
• Victor told Kong that Fisher Tiger, a former slave, had climbed the Red Line and attacked Mary Geoise, clearing the Marines of responsibility.
• Kong and Sengoku ordered the Marines to search for Fisher Tiger and bring him in.
• Akainu thanked Victor for protecting the Marines, and Victor told him to wait until Kong’s promotion opened the Fleet Admiral position.
• Victor went to sleep as the Marines saluted him, grateful that he had saved them from punishment.

Victor led a Marine mission to Fish-Man Island to capture Fisher Tiger, ordering searches that terrorized fish-men and merfolk across the world. Tiger gathered the freed slaves and his followers into the Sun Pirates, whose sun tattoos replaced the brands that marked them as former slaves.

• After the Gorosei ordered Fisher Tiger hunted, Victor directed the Marines to search Fish-Man Island and other islands for fish-men and merfolk bearing Celestial Dragon brands.
• Victor arrived at Fish-Man Island with more than ten thousand Marines and began searches without waiting for Neptune and Otohime's agreement.
• Marines raided homes and forced fish-men and merfolk to expose their backs, while Jinbe, Arlong, and others watched in anger.
• Tiger formed a pirate crew and welcomed freed slaves, Jinbe, and other followers after they could no longer find safety on Fish-Man Island or land.
• Tiger's crew adopted sun tattoos to cover the former slaves' brands and named themselves the Sun Pirates.

The Sun Pirates resumed their fight against the Marines, sinking a warship but sparing its crew under Fisher Tiger’s orders. As the Marines raised their readiness and CP0 confronted Victor over Tiger’s continued freedom, Victor wounded one agent and challenged the intruders.

• A Marine warship spotted the Sun Pirates, and Tiger ordered his crew to prepare for battle rather than flee.
• Jinbe, Arlong, and the others attacked the warship underwater and sank it, but Tiger ordered them not to kill the Marines, including Colonel Fislow.
• Light told Victor that Branch 160 had lost contact with Fislow, so Victor ordered Marine Headquarters to enter first-level combat readiness.
• The Sun Pirates continued defeating pursuers while Tiger told his crew to avoid harming humans without cause and described their mission as liberation and freedom.
• Two CP0 agents confronted Victor about the Sun Pirates remaining active, and Victor cut the wolf-headed agent’s cheek with a compressed-air attack.

Victor orchestrated a rumor campaign that turned the public against fishmen, while Fisher Tiger and the Sun Pirates continued their journey. On Torina Island, Tiger found Koala after Tucker died and decided to take her back to Folsha Island.

• Victor dismissed the wolf-faced agent and told Wright to let the Sun Pirates enjoy their final freedom.
• Victor had Tesoro and Doflamingo spread rumors that fishmen attacked and ate people, fueling a hunt against fishmen and merfolk.
• Tucker returned to Torina Island with Koala after they escaped slavery, but died from an infected gunshot wound and entrusted her to the villagers.
• Pirates arrived at Torina Island, and Tiger and the Sun Pirates defeated them after Koala sprained her ankle and could not flee.
• Tiger recognized Koala, learned Tucker had died protecting her, and promised to take her home to Folsha Island.

The Sun Pirates faced panic and hostility in town as Victor pursued Fisher Tiger through a manufactured man-eater rumor. Sengoku recruited Kizaru to capture Fisher Tiger, hoping to damage Victor’s reputation and advance Kizaru’s career.

• The townspeople fled from Tiger and the Sun Pirates, while Koala asked why they did not explain that they had not harmed humans; Tiger changed the subject and sent Arlong to buy her fried sugar cakes.
• Victor told Kong he planned to capture Fisher Tiger, describing a proposal to accuse Fish-Man Island of harboring the Sun Pirates and seize its people, which Kong rejected.
• Victor admitted he had spread the rumor that fish-men were man-eaters, and Kong let him continue his efforts to capture the Sun Pirates.
• Sengoku told Kizaru that the World Government wanted the Sun Pirates captured quickly and praised Kizaru as more suited to becoming an admiral than Victor.
• Kizaru recognized Sengoku’s attempt to use him against Victor and agreed to make arrangements to capture Fisher Tiger.

Victor learned that Kizaru had been assigned to pursue Fisher Tiger, while his informants ensured he knew of the mission. At Water 7, Victor publicly celebrated the Sea Train’s completion and won the citizens’ gratitude, as Kadar secretly tracked Tiger and decided to capture him for the credit.

• Kizaru ordered Major General Kadar to investigate Fisher Tiger without attacking, but Kadar secretly reported the mission to Victor through the Blue Sea Society.
• Victor attended the Sea Train’s completion ceremony at Water 7, praised Tom and the project, and promised Marine patrols to protect the trains.
• Aokiji watched Victor’s speech being broadcast and condemned his hypocrisy and the citizens’ adoration of him.
• Kadar’s investigation uncovered Tiger’s connection to Tank and Koala, including their Celestial Dragon brands and Koala’s home on Folsha Island.
• Kadar’s adjutant urged him to capture Tiger himself, and Kadar chose to keep tracking the pirates so he could claim the credit.

Victor sent Hancock, Sondargya, and Marygold back to Amazon Lily so Hancock could become empress, while Robin accompanied them with a prepared plan. The sisters sailed through the Calm Belt aboard a ship equipped with Navy Seastone technology, and Robin told Hancock that returning to Victor would depend on her performance.

• Kadar tracked down Fisher Tiger and planned to arrest him alone, prompting Victor to send Lucci on a mission with Bruno and Jabura.
• Victor assigned Hancock the mission of returning to Amazon Lily and becoming empress of the Kuja Kingdom.
• Hancock insisted that Sondargya and Marygold accompany her, though both sisters were reluctant to leave Sabaody.
• Victor saw the three sisters off, and their Seastone-equipped ship departed for Amazon Lily.
• Hancock and her sisters discovered Robin aboard the ship, where she explained that she was there on Victor's orders and offered Hancock a plan to seize the throne.
• Hancock rejected Robin's plan, and Robin teased that Hancock's return to Victor would depend on her performance.

Lucci, Jabura, and Bruno massacred Folsha Island’s villagers under orders to frame the Sun Pirates, who arrived afterward and were blamed for the killings. Victor arranged for the World Economic News Paper to publicize the accusation, advancing his plan to provoke a war between humans and fishmen.

• Lucci, Jabura, and Bruno reached Folsha Island and killed every villager, claiming the order was based on suspected ties to the Revolutionary Army.
• Tiger and the Sun Pirates arrived with Koala and found the village full of corpses, with no survivors.
• A passing merchant saw the fishmen near the village and falsely shouted that they had attacked it.
• Tiger ordered the Sun Pirates to bury the villagers, but Marine warships approached, forcing the crew to retreat with Koala.
• Victor told Wright to report the massacre as a Sun Pirates atrocity, intending to deepen conflict between humans and fishmen.

Victor framed Fisher Tiger and the Sun Pirates for a village massacre, then led a Marine force to Fish-Man Island under the pretense of capturing their supporters. He ordered Marines to seize fish-men and merfolk, enraging Aokiji as the force prepared to take them away.

• Victor used reports of a village massacre to turn public opinion against Fisher Tiger and the Sun Pirates, then secured Kong’s approval for an operation against Fish-Man Island.
• Victor assembled five vice admirals and ten thousand elite Marines, and the fleet set out for Fish-Man Island.
• The Marines arrived while slave traders were raiding the island, and Victor ordered his troops to arrest them.
• After the slave traders were captured, Victor ordered the Marines to take the bound fish-men and merfolk as well, accusing them of supporting Fisher Tiger.
• Aokiji challenged Victor’s orders to send the captives to Enies Lobby, while Kizaru voiced no objection and Victor watched the Marines suppress their anger.

Victor used a World Government-approved mission to seize Fish-Man Island’s citizens, deepening tensions between Aokiji and Marine Headquarters. Sengoku told Aokiji and the others that the village massacre had given the World Government an excuse to take extreme action, potentially including a Buster Call against Fish-Man Island.

• Victor ordered the Marines to take Fish-Man Island’s women and children aboard their ships, and Neptune demanded an explanation.
• Victor said the prisoners would be questioned and sent to Enies Lobby, then challenged Aokiji and the others to disobey military orders.
• Victor’s subordinates imprisoned the captured fish-men and merfolk at Marine Headquarters, while Aokiji and the others confronted Kong.
• Kong told Aokiji that the order came from the World Government, and Sengoku led the group out to explain the situation.
• Sengoku said the village massacre had given the World Government justification for extreme measures, including a possible Buster Call against Fish-Man Island.

The Sun Pirates attacked the Kingdom of Parris to free its enslaved fish-men, while Shino led the Revolutionary Army to liberate the kingdom’s slaves. After the two groups joined forces against the mercenaries, Hachi brought Tiger news that the World Government planned to publicly execute ten thousand fish-men at Sabaody Archipelago.

• Tiger led the Sun Pirates in an assault on the Kingdom of Parris to rescue their fellow fish-men, and Arlong and Jinbe joined the charge.
• Shino learned that the Sun Pirates had arrived and decided to help them, leading five hundred Revolutionary Army soldiers and local slaves into battle.
• Tiger, Jinbe, and Arlong fought the kingdom’s five thousand mercenaries until Shino’s forces attacked from behind and forced the mercenaries to retreat.
• Shino introduced himself to Tiger as a soldier of the Revolutionary Army.
• Hachi brought Tiger a newspaper reporting that the World Government would publicly execute ten thousand fish-men at Sabaody Archipelago.

After the World Government announced it would execute ten thousand fish-men to lure out Fisher Tiger, Tiger chose to surrender rather than let them die. At Enies Lobby, Victor promised leniency for the hostages and began Tiger’s public execution.

• Hachi brought Tiger a newspaper reporting the planned execution of ten thousand fish-men, and Shino recognized the announcement as bait to draw Tiger out.
• Arlong proposed capturing humans to exchange for the hostages, but Tiger refused and decided to surrender; Shino offered to take him to meet the Revolutionary Army commander, but Tiger declined.
• Victor prepared a public execution at Enies Lobby, where ten thousand fish-men were held before a live broadcast.
• Tiger arrived at Enies Lobby and asked Victor to release the hostages; Victor promised to reduce their punishment if Tiger surrendered.
• Victor sentenced Tiger to death in the name of justice, and two executioners stabbed him as the fish-men watched.

After Fisher Tiger’s execution deepened tensions within the Sun Pirates, Victor left Marineford for Foosha Village to draw out Monkey D. Dragon. Dragon confronted Victor over his actions against Fish-Man Island, and their first clash revealed Victor’s formidable strength.

• After Enies Lobby sentenced ten thousand fish-men to slavery, Arlong and Jinbe disagreed over revenge, splitting the Sun Pirates.
• Victor left the Sun Pirates’ affairs to Kizaru and persuaded Kong to let him spend up to a year in the East Blue.
• Victor settled in Foosha Village, where Garp tried to keep Ace away from him, and Victor reviewed intelligence about Foz F and Hancock.
• Dragon arrived at Victor’s courtyard and accused him of targeting Fish-Man Island to obtain something there.
• Victor and Dragon clashed with Haki and Dragon Claw Fist, and Victor praised Dragon’s strength after their blows shattered the stone slabs.

Victor returned to Marineford after distributing care packages to Marines in the East Blue, then confronted Sengoku with information about Doflamingo’s younger brother. The chapter ended with Victor asking whether the undercover Marine agent was working for Sengoku.

• Dragon left after Victor told him the Revolutionary Army could lie low while the Marines continued their capture efforts.
• Nojiko showed Nami a care package from the Sixteenth Branch, and the two prepared honey cake with Bellemere and Aken.
• Victor used his authority to send flour, honey, and olive oil to active and retired Marines throughout the East Blue.
• Victor returned to Marineford in 1510, where Kong questioned him about the care packages before dismissing him.
• Victor went to Sengoku’s office and asked whether Doflamingo’s younger brother, an undercover Marine agent, was one of Sengoku’s men.

Victor returned to Marine Headquarters with Makino, checked on the children’s progress, and ordered Robin to secretly assist the Revolutionary Army. Tesoro sent Victor a woman concealed in a large box, and Victor recognized her when he opened it.

• Victor taunted Sengoku by bringing up Corazon’s death, then said he would find the mole within the Marines.
• Victor returned to his villa with Makino, where Kuina reported that she could cut iron and Sabo reported a Power Level of 651.
• Victor told Robin that he wanted to help the Revolutionary Army and assigned her to provide secret assistance.
• Robin reported that Lucci had sent agents to infiltrate Wano Country and Cake Island, while Trafalgar Law remained missing.
• Connor brought Victor a large box from Tesoro, and Victor opened it to find a woman he recognized.

Victor received Victoria Sindori as a maid after Tesoro rescued her from debt and the threat of a human auction. During dinner, Robin learned that a shipment of arms bound for the Siva Kingdom had been hijacked, and Victor sent nearby Marines to assist the kingdom.

• Connor told Victor that Sindori was a stage actress whose fiancé had saddled her with debt, and Victor accepted her as a maid.
• Stella brought Sindori to the servants' quarters, reassured her, and learned how Tesoro had offered her a choice between serving Victor and being sold at a human auction.
• Stella introduced Sindori to Makino and tested the food before the maids served dinner to Victor and the others.
• Trebol informed Robin that attackers had hijacked an arms shipment bound for the Siva Kingdom, and Robin demanded investigation results within three days.
• Victor said the attackers had come to take revenge on them and ordered Wright to send Branch 135 to assist the Siva Kingdom.

Victor managed weapons support for the Revolutionary Army and ordered Robin to establish covert cooperation with Crocodile, while Marines protected the Siva Kingdom’s capital and port. After Lucci brought the masked Trafalgar Law to him, Victor told the boy to live under a codename and prove he was more valuable than Doflamingo.

• Victor praised Robin for arranging a shipment of Doflamingo’s weapons to the Revolutionary Army and told her to keep the support discreet and establish cooperation with Crocodile.
• Marines under Colonel Kaning protected the Siva Kingdom’s capital and trade port while leaving other areas to the rebels, and Kaning approved Diamante’s entry into Radlov Port.
• Diamante met Kaning under a disguise, claimed he was investigating stolen medicine, and left with Senior Pink to capture rebels and investigate the weapons theft.
• Victor watched Kuina and Sabo train, then Lucci brought a masked child to the study.
• Victor told the child that Doflamingo worked for him and could be replaced only if the child proved more valuable.
• Victor ordered Trafalgar Law to live under a codename, declaring that Trafalgar Law no longer existed.

Luo joined Victor’s private army and resolved to grow stronger, while Sengoku sought Zephyr’s help in gathering the Marines dissatisfied with Victor’s and Sakazuki’s methods. Victor learned of Sengoku’s meeting with Zephyr, and Light asked whether they should visit their teacher.

• Rob Lucci brought Luo to the training yard, where Luo saw Sabo, Kaku, and Kuina training and decided to become stronger.
• Marine officers discussed who would succeed Kong, weighing Sengoku’s seniority against Victor’s influence, until Zephyr arrived and ordered them back to work.
• Zephyr met Sengoku, who explained that Kuzan and other Marines were discouraged by Headquarters’ atmosphere and asked to counsel them together.
• Sengoku planned to use the gathering to demonstrate his ability to rally the Marines to the Gorosei.
• Victor learned that Sengoku had met Zephyr, and Light asked whether they should go see their teacher.

Victor arranged a Blue Sea Society exchange meeting as Sengoku prepared to pursue the Fleet Admiral position, while the Gorosei encouraged conflict between Sengoku and Victor. At Shakky's bar, Shanks and Rayleigh learned that Blue Sea Society members had gathered on Sabaody for Victor's meeting.

• Victor told Wright that Teacher Zephyr could not influence the Gorosei, then ordered the Blue Sea Society to hold an optional exchange meeting on the day of Sengoku's meeting.
• Blue Sea Society members at Marine branches throughout the New World received notice of Victor's meeting, and Kizaru noticed the gathering at G2.
• The Gorosei discussed Sengoku and Victor's rivalry and decided to let them fight for the Fleet Admiral position so the winner would need their support.
• Shanks met Rayleigh at Shakky's bar and told him that Luffy shared Roger's dream, explaining that this was why he had bet his left arm on Luffy.
• Shakky warned Shanks and Rayleigh that many Marines had arrived, and Rayleigh explained that they were Blue Sea Society members attending Victor's meeting.

Sengoku tried to rally Zephyr’s students behind Headquarters’ justice, but Kong summoned him and Zephyr to witness Victor addressing more than ten thousand Blue Sea Society members. Victor’s speech and the crowd’s fierce support left Sengoku furious and the Marines’ internal division on open display.

• Sengoku praised the doves faction’s justice while blaming Victor for their loss of faith in Headquarters.
• An officer summoned Sengoku and Zephyr to Kong’s office, where Kong showed them the huge Blue Sea Society gathering in the plaza.
• Victor led the crowd in chanting for a blue, pristine sea as Aokiji and the others watched from the meeting room.
• Victor outlined the Blue Sea Society’s work and promised members better opportunities and fair treatment.
• Victor described his hatred of pirates and declared that his task was to send them to meet the gods, prompting the crowd to chant for him to kill all pirates.

Victor proposed settling the competition for Fleet Admiral with a duel against Sengoku, while Imu let a coin toss decide between them. The ancient coin landed on its edge before Imu blew it over, revealing the final result.

• Victor told Sengoku that their different ideals should not divide the Marines and proposed a duel to settle their competition for Fleet Admiral.
• Sengoku accepted Victor’s challenge, though he remained confident he would win.
• Imu summoned the Gorosei and said the Marine division caused by Victor was interesting because tools did not need unity.
• Imu decided to choose the Fleet Admiral by coin toss, with heads for Sengoku and tails for Victor.
• The ancient coin landed on its edge, and Imu blew it over so the Gorosei could see the result.

The Gorosei chose Sengoku as Fleet Admiral instead of Victor, angering the Blue Sea Society. Victor accepted the decision outwardly, but he saw it as an opportunity to provoke an internal Marine struggle and welcomed Akainu’s support.

• Kong told Sengoku, Victor, and Akainu that Sengoku would take over as Fleet Admiral while Kong became General of the Armed Forces.
• Victor said he had no objections to the World Government’s decision and left the meeting.
• The Blue Sea Society gathered outside Victor’s office, but he told its members to return to work, and Wright guided them away.
• Akainu offered to drink with Victor, thanked him for his help, and openly declared his belief that Victor should lead the Marines.
• Victor and Akainu pledged to work together, and Victor resolved to use the Gorosei’s decision to stir conflict within the Marines.