Recaps

Sengoku rejected demands from Marines protesting Victor and Zephyr’s detention, while Robin sold a secret about the World Government’s experiments on Punk Hazard. As Marine infighting spread, Whitebeard, Charlotte Linlin, and Kaido considered taking advantage of the chaos.

• Sengoku received demands to free Victor and Zephyr, apologize publicly, reveal why Aokiji left, and resign, then ordered normal operations to continue after seeing senior officers and academy students among the protesters.
• Robin sold a newspaper president information that the World Government was developing weapons on Punk Hazard, including human gigantification and artificial Devil Fruits, for two billion Berries.
• Reporters publicized the Marines’ sit-in, and Sengoku angrily tore up the newspaper while Whitebeard laughed at the Marine turmoil.
• Charlotte Linlin decided to seize the Marine Science Unit’s gigantification technology while the Marines were distracted.
• Kaido, believing rumors that the Marines were creating Devil Fruits, ordered King to go to Punk Hazard.

The Big Mom Pirates attacked Punk Hazard to seize the frozen laboratory, while King arrived to stop them and contacted Kaido for support. After the Marines were overwhelmed, Oven began melting the ice, and King confronted Katakuri in the passageway.

• King flew over Punk Hazard and spotted the Big Mom Pirates approaching the island.
• Perospero ordered his siblings to attack the Marines, and the Marines called Headquarters for help.
• Katakuri killed Major General Stock, and the Big Mom Pirates entered the laboratory base.
• King told Kaido that the Big Mom Pirates had arrived first, and Kaido said he had sent Queen to support him.
• Oven began melting the ice inside the base, and Katakuri threw his trident at King as he appeared in the passageway.

King fought Katakuri in the laboratory, using his flames and Lunarian speed to evade and counter his attacks. Perospero recognized clues to King’s race and contacted Big Mom, while Katakuri awakened his Devil Fruit and turned the floor beneath King into mochi.

• Katakuri attacked King with his trident, and King dodged before launching a fireball with Flame Emperor.
• Katakuri countered with Roast Mochi, blasting through the laboratory, but King used his flame-free speed to evade and transform into a pteranodon.
• King charged Katakuri with Tankyūdon and followed with Diao Zizun Huang, while Katakuri blocked and was driven back.
• Perospero realized King might belong to a vanished race and contacted Charlotte Linlin to report his discovery.
• Katakuri grew angry that King had evaded his attacks and awakened his Mochi Mochi Fruit, making the floor beneath King sticky and soft.

Katakuri and King fought over the Science Unit’s experimental base as the Big Mom and Beasts Pirates seized its weapons and equipment before Akainu arrived. Victor ordered Rob Lucci to publicize the incident and deal with Yuro, whose death deepened Zephyr’s doubts about justice, while Kong told Sengoku he would speak with Victor.

• Katakuri awakened his Paramecia and turned the experimental base’s ground into mochi, while King transformed into his Human-Beast Form and fought back with his speed and strength.
• Charlotte Linlin and Kaido argued over their crews’ interference at Punk Hazard, then agreed to let each other take what they wanted without clashing.
• Kaido told Queen to avoid fighting the Big Mom Pirates, and Akainu arrived at Punk Hazard after both pirate crews had withdrawn with the base’s contents.
• Victor ordered Rob Lucci to publicize what happened at Punk Hazard and deal with Yuro at Enies Lobby.
• Zephyr found Yuro dead and questioned his own justice, while Sengoku received Kong’s message that he would speak with Victor.

After Victor and Sengoku clashed over the World Government’s punishment, Victor’s positions were restored and he led the Marines to free Zephyr from Enies Lobby. He returned to Marineford to a massive show of support, while Sengoku watched from his office.

• Sengoku visited Victor and promised to petition the Gorosei to restore his positions and resolve Zephyr’s situation, but Victor remained cold toward him.
• After two months of investigation, Victor and the Navy officers with him had their positions restored, and Akainu greeted Victor outside the Military Police Department.
• Victor led his fleet to Enies Lobby, where Zephyr was formally declared not guilty and released.
• Victor escorted Zephyr back to the military academy and then led the Marines back to Marineford.
• One hundred thousand Marines welcomed Victor with raised fists and chants of “Justice” as Sengoku watched from his office window.

Victor submitted four proposals to strengthen his standing in the navy while Kong and Sengoku discussed which ones the World Government might approve. Queen Otohime was assassinated, and Doflamingo sought Victor’s permission to reclaim Dressrosa; Victor approved, while a masked boy continued training nearby.

• Victor submitted proposals to establish a naval rights association, improve personnel benefits, and expand the G1 and G5 branches.
• Kong and Sengoku agreed that the World Government would likely reject increased military spending and staffing, and Kong went to seek the Gorosei’s approval for the other proposals.
• Queen Otohime was shot dead in the human world in front of Saint Musgarud, who ordered the navy and army to investigate the assassination.
• Doflamingo told Victor that he wanted to take back Dressrosa, and Victor gave him permission to claim the throne.
• Doflamingo watched a masked boy train with Kuina and Sabo; Kuina easily bested the boy, who was desperate for revenge.

In 1513, Zephyr led Ain, Binz, and other Navy trainees to Branch 85 for a three-month internship and learned that a deadly pirate was terrorizing the area. As Zephyr’s forces began hunting the pirate, the scarred man appeared at a village harvest festival and attacked a villager.

• Zephyr took the training ship and its students to Branch 85, where commander Green Ham welcomed them.
• Ham told Zephyr that a powerful, elusive pirate had been attacking ships and villages without leaving survivors.
• Zephyr placed three thousand Navy soldiers, including Ain and Binz, under his command and organized intensified patrols to find the pirate.
• A tall, scarred man entered Gretol during its harvest festival, seized the villagers’ food, and threw a villager into the bonfire when he tried to stop him.

Miss Bakkin and Weevil massacred and robbed villages while Zephyr investigated their attacks and tried to intercept them. After Zephyr’s forces encountered the pair, Victor learned that Zephyr had been seriously injured in a pirate attack and ordered the unknown attacker hunted down.

• Miss Bakkin and Weevil looted a village after killing its inhabitants, then set off to rob more villages.
• After another village was massacred, Zephyr studied the attacks and used a sea chart to predict where the culprits would strike next.
• Zephyr positioned Marines at two islands, where they encountered Miss Bakkin and Weevil.
• Victor read about a war on Kureha Island and recalled that Mihawk would later make the kingdom’s ruins his home.
• Wright told Victor that a pirate had seriously injured Zephyr, killing all but two of the students accompanying him.
• Victor ordered a wanted notice prepared and told the Marines to arrest anyone matching the attacker’s description, using lethal force if they resisted.

After Miss Bakkin and Weevil escaped, the Navy spent half a year hunting them while the Revolutionary Army expanded and piracy surged. Sengoku faced pressure from the Gorosei to rein in Victor, then persuaded Zephyr to ask Victor to end the pursuit.

• Dr. Fishbone examined Zephyr and told Victor that Zephyr’s physical injuries were not serious but that he needed quiet time to recover; Victor promised to avenge Zephyr’s dead students.
• Miss Bakkin and Weevil hid for half a year as the Navy searched for them, leaving pirates and the Revolutionary Army greater freedom to move and grow.
• The Gorosei warned Sengoku that he would lose his position as Fleet Admiral if he could not restrain Victor’s private campaign.
• Sengoku visited Zephyr at the Navy Academy, told him that the Science Unit could make a flexible prosthetic arm, and argued that the Navy’s pursuit was causing more suffering at sea.
• Zephyr agreed to speak to Victor and ask him to stop the pursuit, relieving Sengoku.

Victor halted the pursuit of Miss Bakkin and Weevil, then attended the Reverie, where kings sought Marine protection amid unrest stirred by the Revolutionary Army. Later, he arrived at Jaya Island to capture pirates and set his sights on Enel, ending by hinting to Wright that Nolan’s story about the Golden City was true.

• Zephyr persuaded Victor to stop pursuing Miss Bakkin and Weevil, easing Sengoku’s concerns about the Marines’ escalating actions.
• At the Reverie, kings told Victor about uprisings and asked him to station Marines in their countries, and he implied that approval and payment would be required.
• Two months later, Kurik read that the World Government had approved troop deployments for member countries, while Genbo and Masira joined him to search for the Golden City.
• Victor brought ten warships and ten thousand Marines to Jaya Island, drove out the pirates, and captured the island.
• Victor explained that he had come to target Enel, then asked Wright about The Great Liar Nolan and suggested Nolan had not lied about the Golden City.

Victor took Light and a Marine fleet to Sky Island, where they encountered Enel, the self-proclaimed God who ruled the Sanctuary. Enel attacked Victor but dodged his counterpunch, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Victor ordered ships near Jaya Island to intercept pirates, then told Light that Sky Island existed and could be reached by lifting their warship with wind.
• Victor flew the warship above the White Sea and White White Sea, showing the Marines the Sky Islands and explaining that Upper Yard had once been part of Jaya Island.
• Victor directed Light to land on God Island, where Enel attacked the warship with lightning and Victor blocked the strike.
• Victor ordered Light and the Marines to arrest everyone on the island as Enel assembled his priests and Gan Fall hurried to investigate.
• Enel appeared as a lightning Logia user and struck Victor with his golden staff, but Victor blocked the blow; Enel dodged Victor's punch, which tore a path through the forest.

Victor defeated Enel and the priests, then ordered Wright to recruit the Shandia people after learning they had come to reclaim their stolen homeland. The Shandia celebrated their return, and Wright prepared to enlist them in the Marines.

• Enel transformed into the Thunder God and attacked Victor, but Victor blocked his strike with Armament Haki and blasted him into a mountainside.
• Victor transformed into a golden Titan and struck God Island, leaving Enel defeated and causing Ohm, Gedatsu, and the other priests to surrender.
• The Shandia warriors, led by Vearth, arrived at God Island and were confused to find Enel defeated and the priests kneeling.
• Victor ordered Wright to recruit the Shandia, and Wright told Vearth that they could return to their homeland.
• Vearth explained the Shandia's claim to the island, and he and his people celebrated their return as Wright prepared to enlist them in the Marines.

Victor’s Marines reclaimed Jaya, explored the golden ruins of Skypiea, and Victor made a deal with the defeated Enel. In 1515, new cadets Smoker and Hina arrived at Marineford Town, where Hina encouraged Smoker to join the Blue Sea Society.

• Wyper and the Shandia joined the Marines after they reclaimed their homeland on Jaya Island.
• Victor visited Skypiea, found the Poneglyph recording Poseidon’s history, and inscribed his name on it before ordering Light to take some gold for the Marines’ retirement fund.
• Victor offered Enel power in exchange for ten years of service, and Enel agreed to the deal.
• In 1515, Smoker arrived at Marineford Town to register at the military academy and met Hina, who signed up for the Blue Sea Society and urged him to join.

Smoker joined the Blue Sea Society and learned how it supported Navy members, while Victor’s network continued to expand through shipbuilding orders and Robin’s intelligence work. Robin reported that Crocodile’s men had found Miss Bakkin and Weevil, and Victor chose to leave them alone for now.

• Smoker joined the Blue Sea Society and admired its support for sailors and promotion based on merit.
• Iceberg received a Navy order for thirty warships, which helped sustain the Carrera Company’s shipyards.
• Robin learned from Crocodile that his men had found Miss Bakkin and Weevil, then returned to Victor’s villa.
• Sabo and Enel fought evenly after Enel mastered the Six Powers and Haki.
• Robin advised Victor not to capture Miss Bakkin and Weevil yet, and Victor agreed that they could still be useful.

Ace rose rapidly as a pirate, joined the Whitebeard Pirates, and became commander of the Second Division, prompting Sengoku to suspect he was Roger’s son and ask Victor to stop him. The Marines waited for a chance to capture Ace and Whitebeard, and that chance began to emerge when Teach killed Thatch and took the Dark-Dark Fruit.

• Shanks became one of the Four Emperors as the Marines grew more orderly under Sengoku and Victor.
• Ace set sail, formed the Spade Pirates, rejected Sengoku’s offer to become a Shichibukai, fought Jinbe to a draw, and joined the Whitebeard Pirates as Second Division commander.
• Sengoku showed Victor a photograph of Portgas D. Rouge and revealed his suspicion that Ace was Roger’s son.
• Sengoku warned Victor that the Marines were not ready to wage war on Whitebeard and asked him to find a way to stop Ace before he became a greater threat.
• The Marines and World Government monitored Ace as his bounty rose to 500 million Berries, while Sengoku waited for an opportunity to capture him and Whitebeard.
• Teach killed Thatch after Thatch obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit, then took the fruit and defected.

Victor told Akainu that Ace was Roger’s son and proposed capturing and publicly executing him to draw out Whitebeard, while secretly using the opportunity to strengthen the Marines and undermine Sengoku. Meanwhile, Teach fled the Whitebeard Pirates as Blackbeard, unaware that bounty hunters had been sent to capture him.

• Victor revealed Ace’s identity to Akainu and proposed using his capture and execution to lure out Whitebeard.
• Akainu pledged his support, and Victor planned to keep the operation secret from Sengoku.
• Ace pursued Teach to avenge Thatch, while Teach traveled alone and began seeking companions.
• The Loga Brothers received orders from Baroque Works to capture Marshall D. Teach and spotted Blackbeard at the docks.

Victor’s search for Blackbeard drove him into hiding, while his agents located Lafitte and brought him before Victor. Victor recruited Lafitte as Robin’s assistant, leaving Lafitte wondering why he had been chosen.

• Blackbeard killed the Loga Brothers after they followed him onto a passenger ship, and Robin relayed the report to Victor.
• Victor told Robin to stop pursuing Blackbeard directly and search for Lafitte, while his allies and government agents expanded the hunt.
• Blackbeard evaded repeated searches for three months with his Observation Haki, while Victor’s forces located several of his future crewmembers.
• Robin and Felix brought Lafitte, a former West Blue security officer, to Victor’s study.
• Victor had Felix remove Lafitte’s Seastone handcuffs and offered him a position assisting Robin, which Lafitte accepted.

Victor tracked down Blackbeard and attacked him before Blackbeard could use the Dark-Dark Fruit to escape. The chapter ended with Victor transforming into a Titan and landing a powerful blow on Blackbeard inside the darkness.

• Ace pursued Blackbeard but fell asleep aboard a merchant ship before he could catch up.
• Spandine gave Victor Blackbeard's location, and Victor flew off to find him.
• Victor confronted Blackbeard and overwhelmed him with fast, powerful attacks that Blackbeard's Observation Haki failed to predict.
• Blackbeard activated the Dark-Dark Fruit's Dark Vortex, spreading darkness that began pulling both men down.
• Victor transformed into a fifty-meter-tall Titan, coated himself in Armament Haki, and struck Blackbeard with Titan Nova.

Victor overwhelmed Blackbeard and revealed his awakened Zoan power, explaining that awakening meant gaining the fruit’s animal will and its recognition. The chapter left Blackbeard gravely wounded as Victor unveiled what he called the power of a god.

• Victor let Blackbeard rise after his Dark-Dark Fruit absorbed the damage, then struck him with a series of blows that sent him into a mountainside.
• Blackbeard’s confidence gave way to fear when Victor showed no sign of tiring and returned from Titan Form covered in golden runes.
• Victor told Blackbeard he was targeting him because he could see that Blackbeard’s future would cause trouble.
• Blackbeard covered the island in darkness and prepared to fight for his life, but Victor moved too quickly for Blackbeard to sense or track.
• Victor cut Blackbeard across the chest and explained that Zoan awakening involved the animal will recognizing its user, granting more than physical enhancement.

Ace found Blackbeard gravely injured and confronted Victor, the Marine who had defeated him. Victor overwhelmed Ace’s attacks and left him staring at a seemingly insurmountable gap in strength.

• Ace tracked down Blackbeard and found him lying motionless, covered in blood and near death.
• Ace saw Victor emerge from behind a tree and challenged him for interfering with the Whitebeard Pirates’ affairs.
• Ace attacked Victor with several powerful fire techniques, but Victor blocked them effortlessly with Armament Haki.
• Victor struck Ace in the abdomen, slapped him through more than a hundred trees, and unleashed a blow that triggered underground volcanoes.
• Ace realized he could not defeat Victor, who then ignited his runes and entered Flame Titan Form.

Victor arranged for Ace’s capture and announced that the Navy would publicly execute him, forcing Sengoku and the pirate world to react. Whitebeard had not yet decided what to do, while Shanks set out to stop him from leaving the New World.

• Victor defeated Ace, and Robin gave Morgans a note that led to news of Ace’s planned public execution.
• Sengoku confronted Victor, who revealed that he had secretly gathered one hundred thousand elite troops and intended to kill Whitebeard.
• Garp learned of Ace’s execution, and Luffy and Dadan pleaded for Ace to be saved.
• Whitebeard’s crew urged him to rescue Ace, but Whitebeard ordered them to be silent and gave no further orders.
• Sengoku sent Navy forces to monitor Whitebeard’s Pirates and prepare for emergencies.
• Shanks read the news, woke Beckman and the others, and decided to stop Whitebeard from leaving the New World as Charlotte Linlin and Kaido also grew restless.

Sengoku and Kong learned that the Red Hair Pirates had approached Whitebeard’s territory while the Moby Dick remained silent. Shanks met Whitebeard and tried to stop him from going to save Ace, but Whitebeard attacked him.

• Sengoku complained to Kong that Victor had provoked Whitebeard by targeting Ace, and Kong said the Marines had to prepare for war.
• Kong received word that the Red Hair Pirates were heading toward Whitebeard’s territory, but he and Sengoku decided they lacked the forces to stop them.
• Whitebeard allowed Shanks to board the Moby Dick, where Shanks used Conqueror’s Haki to demonstrate his strength to the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Shanks told Whitebeard about Luffy’s dream and warned him not to go save Ace, but Whitebeard rejected the warning.
• Whitebeard drew his Naginata and slashed at Shanks.

Whitebeard rejected Shanks’s attempt to keep him from going to Marineford, so Shanks planned to address the threat from Kaido and Charlotte Linlin himself. Sengoku sought Vegapunk’s Pacifista for the coming battle, while Victor sent Sabo to retrieve a powerful artificial Devil Fruit from Punk Hazard.

• Whitebeard and Shanks clashed with their swords and Conqueror’s Haki, then ended their fight peacefully.
• Whitebeard refused Shanks’s offer to resolve the matter and continued toward Marineford; Shanks decided to speak with Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.
• Sengoku visited Egghead Island with Kizaru and requested Vegapunk’s ten completed prototype Pacifista.
• Victor learned about the Pacifista and judged that Vegapunk’s Seraphim were probably not ready yet.
• Victor assigned Sabo to retrieve an artificial Devil Fruit from Punk Hazard, where Vegapunk had hidden the fruit he had created from Kaido’s Bloodline Factor.

Sabo ate the artificial Devil Fruit and transformed into a pink dragon, while the Whitebeard Pirates destroyed their surveillance fleet and disappeared. In Impel Down, Victor offered Jinbe a five-year deal to protect Fish-Man Island and eventually grant its people land, leaving Jinbe to consider the ultimatum.

• Sabo ate the artificial Devil Fruit, transformed into a pink dragon, and listened as Victor urged him to combine its power with Dragon Claw Fist.
• The Whitebeard Pirates attacked and destroyed a Marine surveillance ship, then vanished, prompting Sengoku to warn the assembled forces to prepare for a surprise attack and tsunami.
• Jinbe remained imprisoned in Impel Down with Ace and Blackbeard after refusing to fight Whitebeard.
• Victor met Jinbe privately and argued that Fish-Man Island would be vulnerable without Whitebeard's protection.
• Victor offered to protect Fish-Man Island for five years in exchange for Jinbe working for him, then promised land and human rights for its people; he warned that refusal would leave Fish-Man Island with no reason to exist.

Victor sent Jinbe back to his cell after offering him a deal tied to Fish-Man Island, while Kaido set out to attack Whitebeard and was blocked by Shanks. On execution day, Ace was brought to Marineford’s platform as the Marines and their allies prepared for Whitebeard’s arrival.

• Victor sent Jinbe back to his cell, and Jinbe kept the terms of Victor’s offer from Ace.
• Blackbeard realized Victor had deliberately spared him and despaired over how he could escape.
• Kaido led his forces from Wano Country to attack Whitebeard, but Shanks blocked the Beasts Pirates with the Red Force.
• Kaido attacked Shanks with Heat Breath, but Shanks stopped the flames with Gryphon and challenged Kaido to fight.
• At Marineford, Victor, Kizaru, and Akainu sat above the assembled Marines as Ace was escorted onto the execution stand and forced to kneel.
• Rayleigh told Shakky he hoped Whitebeard would not come, fearing the battle could affect the era before its prophesied king was born.