Recaps

As Doflamingo prepared Dressrosa for the Land of Grass’s attack, he sought help from Kaido and the World Government, making costly promises to secure their support. He then learned that the Land of Grass’s king had answered Caesar Clown’s Den Den Mushi and was already sinking Caesar into the sea.

• Doflamingo rallied Dressrosa’s citizens against the Land of Grass while privately worrying about its power.
• Doflamingo agreed to deliver five times the goods to Kaido, who demanded the scientist behind him and threatened to take him after Dressrosa fell.
• Trebol told Doflamingo that Navy Headquarters had sent a fleet led by Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Homura, and Utatane Koharu.
• Doflamingo called Caesar Clown and demanded Artificial Devil Fruit materials and a newly developed large-scale weapon.
• The Land of Grass’s king answered Caesar’s Den Den Mushi and told Doflamingo that Caesar was getting sunk into the sea.

On Punk Hazard, Kusana’s forces captured Caesar Clown and Kuzan chose to remain with the Land of Grass as Smoker departed with the rescued children. Robin revealed that Navy Headquarters had sent Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu, leaving the ninja speechless.

• Kusana’s Grass Navy reported that Caesar Clown was still alive, and Caesar tried to bargain for his life by offering his scientific research.
• The Grass ninja extracted a Devil Fruit from Caesar and removed his head to claim his bounty.
• Smoker told Kuzan that Navy Headquarters wanted them to put the bigger picture first, and Kuzan told him he was now the Land of Grass’s Fleet Admiral.
• Smoker left with the children and Marines, while Vigo remained tied up behind on Punk Hazard.
• Robin revealed that Navy Headquarters had sent Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu, prompting a stunned silence.

Kuzan spoke with Sengoku about the Navy’s mission and then joined the Land of Grass crew as they relaxed aboard ship, despite the coming battle. In Dressrosa, Doflamingo struggled with the loss of Caesar and Vigo until Trebol reported that Navy reinforcements had arrived, prompting him to welcome them.

• Kuzan told Sengoku that the Land of Grass knew the Navy was sending reinforcements, and Sengoku ordered him to secretly assist Danzo and the other major generals.
• Kuzan asked whether the four major generals might be Land of Grass spies, but Sengoku dismissed the suspicion and warned him to remain vigilant.
• Kuzan found Kusana relaxing aboard the ship while Nami and the Alabasta princess danced, and he eventually joined them after Kusana pointed out that Doflamingo should be the one worried.
• Doflamingo realized that losing Caesar and Vigo had jeopardized his production promises to Kaido and feared the Beasts Pirates’ reaction.
• Trebol told Doflamingo that the Navy reinforcements had reached Dressrosa’s port, and Doflamingo ordered that they be welcomed.

Hiruzen, Danzo, Homura, and Koharu met Doflamingo in Dressrosa, where his plan to involve the Beasts Pirates had run into trouble because of Kuzan. As Danzo offered a plan to Doflamingo, Kuzan received a call from him requesting help with an important mission.

• Violet welcomed Hiruzen, Danzo, Homura, and Koharu to Dressrosa and escorted them to Doflamingo’s palace.
• Doflamingo told the four Rear Admirals that he had drawn the Beasts Pirates into the conflict, but Kuzan’s actions had caused an accident.
• Doflamingo demanded that the World Government send a large force and threatened to reveal its secrets if it abandoned him.
• Danzo stepped forward and told Doflamingo that he had a plan.
• Kuzan answered a call from Danzo, who identified himself as a newly promoted Rear Admiral and asked Kuzan to assist Doflamingo.

Kuzan relayed Shimura Danzō’s plan for the Donquixote Family to pay the Land of Grass to keep Punk Hazard’s secrets, and the King of the Land of Grass negotiated the price up to six billion Beli. Doflamingo agreed to pay but then asked Danzo for another solution because the family could not raise the money quickly.

• Doflamingo told Kuzan that Navy Rear Admiral Shimura Danzō had proposed paying the Land of Grass to keep Punk Hazard from being exposed.
• Danzo took over the call and persuaded Kuzan to ask the King of the Land of Grass about the deal while he was undercover.
• The King of the Land of Grass rejected Doflamingo’s offer of one billion Beli and demanded at least five billion, refusing to return Caesar or stop the declaration of war.
• The King of the Land of Grass raised the price to six billion Beli and threatened to reveal that Caesar was dead to Kaido if Doflamingo did not pay within an hour.
• Doflamingo agreed to transfer the six billion through an underground bank, then asked Danzo for another idea because the Donquixote Family could not produce the money in time.

Danzō persuaded Doflamingo to seek advance payment from the Beasts Pirates by framing it as a production deposit and a way to secure their protection. Doflamingo agreed to try, then offered Danzō a place in his family, but Danzō reaffirmed his loyalty to the Navy.

• Doflamingo asked the Navy officers to find a way to obtain six billion Beli, but Hiruzen, Danzo, Homura, and Koharu refused to borrow it from the World Government.
• Danzo proposed that Doflamingo demand a deposit from the Beasts Pirates for their unusually large order, arguing that the money could also make them more likely to protect him.
• Doflamingo accepted Danzo's reasoning and decided he needed to borrow money from the Beasts Pirates to survive.
• Doflamingo offered Danzo the position of deputy head of the Donquixote Family, but Danzo rejected the offer and declared his loyalty to the Navy.

Kusana and Kuzan discussed the Land of Grass’s next move after receiving six billion from the Donquixote Family, while Doflamingo prepared to use the Navy and Beasts Pirates to protect his family. The chapter ended with Doflamingo ordering the four Navy Rear Admirals killed and Danzo separately reaching the same conclusion about Doflamingo.

• Kusana regretted asking the Donquixote Family for too little money, while Kuzan warned him that the Land of Grass faced the Navy and Beasts Pirates.
• Doflamingo told Trebol that the Donquixote Family had borrowed ten billion from Kaido and planned to use its connections to deter the Land of Grass.
• Doflamingo ordered his family to prepare ships in case they had to flee Dressrosa and considered trading the four Navy Rear Admirals to the Land of Grass.
• Doflamingo ordered the four Navy Rear Admirals killed after Danzo refused to join him.
• Danzo checked that his resting area had no listening devices, then told his old friend that they could only let Doflamingo die.

Danzo refused to return to the Land of Grass and planned to make the Beasts Pirates blame it for Doflamingo’s death. Meanwhile, Kusana’s group reached Dressrosa, where Kuzan’s frequent restroom visits prompted a Marine to suggest he seek medical treatment.

• Hiruzen asked Danzo if he would return to the Land of Grass, but Danzo refused and declared that he would not live beneath another.
• Danzo said they should ensure the Land of Grass killed Doflamingo before the Beasts Pirates arrived, provoking a lasting feud between them.
• Kusana felt a sudden chill while Robin massaged him, and Kuzan denied using his powers or causing it.
• Kuzan repeatedly went to the restroom, and Issho and Kusana remarked on how often he had been going.
• A Grass ninja announced that Dressrosa was ahead, and Kusana and the others disembarked before Kuzan returned to the deck.
• A Land of Grass Marine asked Kuzan about his health and advised him to see the Land of Grass doctors for a possible men’s ailment.

Kusana's group arrived on Dressrosa and questioned the island's apparent affection for Doflamingo, while Kusana warned that appearances were deceptive and identified a strange ability as their main concern. Doflamingo learned that Sugar had been knocked unconscious and abducted just as disturbances erupted outside.

• Kusana's group landed on Dressrosa and debated whether the civilians' apparent gratitude toward Doflamingo was genuine.
• Madara Uchiha eagerly prepared to fight Kaido or one of the Beasts Pirates' All-Stars, while Tobirama Senju urged caution.
• Kusana said they needed to watch out for one person's strange ability and spotted a toy soldier approaching.
• Doflamingo asked Shimura Danzō what to do while they waited for the Beasts Pirates to arrive, then secretly considered using Sugar against the Land of Grass.
• A Donquixote Family officer reported that a pitch-black man had knocked Sugar unconscious and taken her away.
• Doflamingo threw the officer aside as chaotic noises came from outside, and the Donquixote Family realized they were already too late.

Kyros warned Kusana and the Land of Grass about Doflamingo’s powers and asked them to rescue Rebecca, but the toy-manipulating ability was broken and the forgotten citizens reunited with their families. Just as Kusana learned they might not need to intervene, another call came through from Doflamingo.

• Kyros warned Kusana that Doflamingo was dangerous, explained that people had been turned into toys, and pleaded with him to take Rebecca away.
• Kusana and his companions believed Kyros immediately and reacted with curiosity to the power that had transformed him.
• Kyros jumped back, discovered he had regained his human body, and saw Dressrosa’s citizens remember and reunite with people they had forgotten.
• Kusana asked what they should do next, but a call from Danzo led him to say they might not need to act.
• Kusana’s Den Den Mushi changed into one wearing a pink feather coat, and Doflamingo addressed him as the King of the Land of Grass.

After Sugar’s power failed and Dressrosa erupted into chaos, Danzo and Doflamingo each tried to turn the crisis to their advantage with a deal involving the Land of Grass. The story left Kusana preparing to finish matters quickly while Kuzan questioned King Riku about Doflamingo’s takeover of Dressrosa.

• Danzo agreed to help Doflamingo in exchange for a later explanation, then told Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu to contact Kuzan and pursue a four-billion-berry deal with the Land of Grass.
• Doflamingo ordered Trebol to prepare the Donquixote Family’s evacuation and called the King of the Land of Grass to offer four billion Berries and the four Navy Rear Admirals for safe passage.
• Kusana accepted Doflamingo’s proposed meeting at Green Bit, while he and the ninjas realized that Danzo and Doflamingo were both trying to betray the other side.
• Kuzan wondered why two people had requested the King of the Land of Grass’s number, then asked King Riku whether Doflamingo had stolen Dressrosa from him.
• King Riku clenched his fists and said Doflamingo had deceived everyone when he took the country.

Violet reunited with King Riku and warned that the Navy had allied with Doflamingo, who planned to frame the Land of Grass and escape. At the docks, Doflamingo and Danzo each tried to betray the other, only to discover they had both led their targets into an ambush.

• Kuzan admitted to King Riku that the Navy had cooperated with the Donquixote Family and that the Land of Grass had saved Dressrosa.
• Violet reunited with King Riku, remembered Kyros and Rebecca, and accused Kuzan of being a Navy spy.
• Violet warned that Doflamingo planned to kill Danzo and the other Rear Admirals, frame the King of the Land of Grass, and provoke a conflict.
• Kuzan realized that Doflamingo and Danzo might both be plotting betrayal and hurried toward their meeting place.
• At the docks, Doflamingo and Danzo each revealed plans to summon reinforcements and betray the other, then both turned to face the Land of Grass flag.
• A voice announced that Doflamingo was only a clone and told Teacher Madara to bring over the real Doflamingo, who was hiding nearby.

Sengoku learned that Danzo and three other Navy rear admirals had been captured by the Land of Grass, which threatened to expose World Government secrets unless it was paid. On Green Bit, Danzo discovered that the Land of Grass leader Kusana was an old acquaintance, and their reunion ended with Kusana stabbing him again.

• Sengoku expected Danzo's operation against Doflamingo to succeed and considered promoting him to Vice Admiral.
• Kabuto told Sengoku that the Land of Grass had captured Danzo and three other rear admirals and demanded money while threatening to livestream World Government secrets.
• On Green Bit, Doflamingo realized the World Government had wanted him dead and mocked Danzo and the other captives for apparently betraying him.
• Danzo demanded that Kusana release him, but Kusana treated him as an old friend and ignored his protests.
• A Navy warship broadcast a warning to the Land of Grass, so Kusana stabbed Danzo to silence it before threatening the ship into retreating.
• Danzo tearfully accused Kusana of stabbing him before and after their trip to sea, then struggled against his restraints and vowed to fight him.

Kusana dealt with the aftermath of Danzo’s capture as King Riku and Violet reunited with Kyros and thanked the Land of Grass for its help. Violet began to suspect Kuzan was secretly contacting Navy Headquarters, while Robin warned Kusana that a Marine Inspector General and the Beasts Pirates were approaching.

• Kusana assured Kuzan that Danzo’s knife wound was an accident and said Navy Headquarters would be notified to collect him.
• Kyros reunited with King Riku and Violet, apologized for arriving too late, and received their forgiveness; Rebecca was also welcomed by her grandfather.
• King Riku thanked Kusana and the Land of Grass for rescuing Dressrosa, while Kusana claimed Kuzan had gone to the bathroom because of poor health.
• Violet noticed Kuzan secretly using a Den Den Mushi to contact Navy Headquarters and began to suspect his intentions.
• Robin told Kusana that a Marine Inspector General was coming to negotiate and that the Beasts Pirates had sent a fleet; Kusana chose not to interrupt Teacher Madara’s fight.
• Robin noticed the second princess leaving and warned Kusana that she seemed to have discovered something.

Fleet Admiral Sengoku negotiated with the King of the Land of Grass for the release of Danzo and the others, while trying to apologize to King Riku for the Navy’s failure in Dressrosa. After the Land of Grass repeatedly stabbed Danzo during the talks, Sengoku agreed to pay thirty billion and not expose Doflamingo.

• Sengoku learned that Danzo had spent a day provoking the Land of Grass to attack him, and praised his apparent devotion to Navy justice to Kabuto.
• Kusana arrived at the negotiation site with Robin, Madara, Hashirama, Kuzan, and King Riku.
• Sengoku apologized to King Riku for the Navy’s failure in Dressrosa, but Riku ignored him, still furious over Doflamingo’s crimes and the Navy’s cooperation with him.
• Sengoku offered ten billion for the captives, but the King of the Land of Grass refused and Danzo was stabbed repeatedly as Sengoku tried to stand firm.
• Sengoku agreed to the thirty-billion demand and promised not to expose Doflamingo after the King of the Land of Grass asked whether Danzo should be stabbed and Doflamingo exposed.

Sengoku paid the Land of Grass thirty billion to free Danzo and the others, but Danzo immediately arranged for Doflamingo to be killed in a second deal. As the Navy departed Dressrosa, Kaido arrived demanding the scientist behind the artificial Devil Fruit technology, only for Hashirama and Madara to confront him.

• Sengoku paid the Land of Grass thirty billion, and the released Danzo refused treatment and insisted on continuing his mission.
• Danzo negotiated Doflamingo’s bounty, and a Grass ninja slit Doflamingo’s throat before Kusana finished him with another cut.
• Sengoku agreed to settle the Donquixote Family’s bounty at the branch and began sailing away from Dressrosa with Danzo.
• Kaido arrived and demanded that the Land of Grass hand over the scientist behind the artificial Devil Fruit technology or face war.
• Hashirama and Madara appeared as enormous giants and challenged Kaido to dance.

Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha attacked Kaido, and their immense power stunned the Marines and Dressrosa’s onlookers. As the battle intensified, the Beasts Pirates’ fleet approached, and Kusana noted that they had arrived.

• Hashirama Senju struck at Kaido with his thousand-handed giant while Madara Uchiha swung his Susanoo’s blade, prompting Sengoku to recognize the two fighters.
• Sengoku took heart from Danzo and the other rear admirals’ composure, while they secretly reassured one another that the decisive battle had not begun and the Navy might have a hidden trump card.
• Kaido dodged the attacks, laughed at the Land of Grass’s strength, and dove at Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha with a blast of flame.
• Madara Uchiha charged through Kaido’s flames, eager for a worthy opponent, while spectators watched in amazement.
• Kuzan sat beside Kusana and asked what they would do about the approaching Beasts Pirates; Kusana replied that they were already there.

Kaido fought Madara and Hashirama in a devastating battle at sea while the Beasts Pirates and Grass ninjas clashed nearby. After the storm cleared, Sengoku saw a giant emerge from the clouds and ordered the Navy to retreat, leaving the battle’s outcome to signal a coming shift in the balance of the seas.

• Jack refused to retreat and ordered the Beasts Pirates ship toward the battle, while a Grass ninja challenged them and brought a ship out to meet them.
• Kaido noticed the crews’ clash but struggled to harm Madara and Hashirama, whose wounds healed immediately.
• Kaido unleashed Dragon Twister Demolition Breath, creating a hurricane, thunder, and towering waves that shook Dressrosa.
• Madara and Hashirama charged Kaido with Susanoo’s twin blades and Buddha’s Palm as the sea and sky erupted around them.
• A massive explosion ended the battle, and Sengoku saw a giant emerge from the clouds before ordering the Navy to go back.

News spread that the Land of Grass had defeated the Beasts Pirates, prompting Whitebeard’s crew to celebrate while Shanks reconsidered his journey to see Luffy. Shanks refused to believe Luffy had abandoned his dream of becoming Pirate King and continued toward the Land of Grass.

• Whitebeard’s crew continued waiting for orders to rescue Ace, while Marco urged Pops to rest and trust his sons.
• Whitebeard read news that Kaido and the Beasts Pirates had fallen, then ordered a feast to celebrate.
• Marco recalled that Shanks had left after seeing a newspaper image of Luffy and wondered how the Red-Haired Pirates’ trip to the Land of Grass was going.
• Shanks’s crew joked about cancelling their trip after learning the Land of Grass had defeated the Beasts Pirates and Luffy was working in the Kingdom of Goa.
• Shanks declared that he would not give up on seeing Luffy and led his crew to raise wine before continuing their voyage.

After the Beasts Pirates fell, Navy Headquarters debated the Land of Grass’s strength and the upheaval caused by Edward Weevil’s appointment as a Shichibukai. As the officers struggled over how to handle Zephyr, Danzo proposed establishing a Navy Root.

• News spread that the Land of Grass had defeated the Beasts Pirates and collected the bounties of every crew member, including Kaido.
• Sakazuki demanded answers from Sengoku about the shattered balance of the seas, and Sengoku listed eight powerful figures associated with the Land of Grass.
• Sakazuki ordered the Navy to expand its intelligence gathering on the Land of Grass and told Sengoku to resolve the new Shichibukai issue.
• Sengoku explained that Edward Weevil’s appointment had driven Zephyr to leave the Navy, and that Zephyr was reportedly planning to destroy the New World and its pirates.
• When the officers hesitated to act against Zephyr, Danzo rose and proposed establishing a Root belonging to the Navy.

The Gorosei approved Shimura Danzō’s proposal to establish Root beneath Navy Headquarters, bringing him to the World Government’s attention. Meanwhile, the Land of Grass finished conquering and clearing out Wano, leaving the Kōzuki loyalists subdued.

• The Gorosei discussed Danzō’s plan for Root as a secret organization to protect Navy Headquarters and the World Government’s interests.
• The Gorosei agreed that Navy Headquarters needed stronger oversight and approved the Root proposal, taking note of Vice Admiral Danzō.
• In Wano, the Land of Grass wiped out the remaining Beasts Pirates, including King, and sent captured pirates to a Navy Branch to claim bounties.
• The Land of Grass cleared out Wano’s general, nobles, and gangsters, punishing those who had no bounty value.
• The surviving samurai accepted that Wano no longer belonged to the Kōzuki Clan and quieted their calls to restore it.

The Land of Grass consolidated control of Wano after executing Orochi, the Beasts Pirates, and others, while Kusana dismissed Kōzuki Sukiyaki’s claim to rule. Kusana ordered reconstruction and planned a Wano armory as Robin reported finding O-Kiku, leaving Kin'emon and the strange child unaccounted for.

• The Land of Grass executed Kurozumi Orochi, Ashura Dōji, and other nobles and gangsters, while Kōzuki Sukiyaki emerged from hiding and tried to rally Wano’s samurai.
• Teacher Madara mocked Sukiyaki’s excuses and condemned Kōzuki Oden for failing to unite Wano against the Beasts Pirates.
• Kusana ordered Hashirama to oversee reconstruction and sanitation, keep the samurai under control, and continue operating Wano’s Seastone mines.
• Robin told Kusana that O-Kiku was using that alias and running a teahouse in Rags Town with O-Tsuru, but Kin'emon and the strange child were missing.
• Kusana told Robin not to pursue them unless they caused trouble and ordered her to recruit Wano’s craftsmen for a Land of Grass Armory branch that would provide food vouchers to workers.

Kawamatsu told Kōzuki Hiyori that the Land of Grass had brought order, jobs, food, and medical care to the Land of Wano. Hiyori took this as a possible fulfillment of the prophecy and decided to go out and see what the new rulers were doing.

• Kawamatsu returned from an interview and told Hiyori and Toko that the armory had hired him as a high-level technician because he knew Armament Haki.
• Kawamatsu explained that the Land of Grass had defeated the Beasts Pirates and Kurozumi Orochi’s forces, punished bandits and corrupt schemers, and begun distributing food and recruiting workers.
• Hiyori said she felt relieved by the changes and wondered whether the Land of Grass was the hope her mother’s prophecy had foretold.
• Kawamatsu told Hiyori that Shimotsuki Yasuie had found mining work and was receiving treatment for his failed SMILE effects, while Jirō was serving unpaid mining punishment.
• Kawamatsu assured Hiyori that the Land of Grass did not intend to harm her, and she decided to go out and see the country for herself.

Kusana checked on Elder Yang Zheng’s research into Artificial Devil Fruits, then prepared to leave Wano as the island recovered. Before departing, he spotted Yamato arguing over Kōzuki Oden and decided not to intervene.

• Elder Yang Zheng reported that Caesar’s Artificial Devil Fruits contained unstable factors and said more research was needed, while Vegapunk’s perfect fruit appeared more stable.
• Kusana learned that Kushina was nearing childbirth and that Naruto had threatened to put him in a sack when he returned.
• Kusana saw Wano’s cleanup and rebuilding progressing, with Obito’s recycling company hiring workers to remove the accumulated garbage.
• Kusana noticed Yamato arguing with a shopkeeper who had mocked Kōzuki Oden, but told Robin to leave them alone unless the argument became a fight.
• Kusana told Robin to make preparations for their departure from Wano.

Kusana learned that Buggy had escaped East Blue and become a rising New World pirate, then visited the injured Zephyr after the Land of Grass rescued him. The chapter ended with Kusana offering Zephyr a place in the Land of Grass through its Talent Introduction program.

• Kusana read that Edward Weevil, Marshall D. Teach, and Buggy were gaining prominence in the New World after the Beasts Pirates fell.
• Kusana asked a Grass ninja why the Land of Grass had failed to capture Buggy, then decided not to pursue him unless they met.
• Robin told Kusana that Zephyr had awakened, and Kusana went with her and others to visit him.
• Kusana handed Zephyr a Talent Introduction document and invited him to join the Land of Grass.