Recaps

Oden Kozuki and Kaido traded powerful attacks, and the clash of their Conqueror’s Haki left Oden’s side with more fighters still able to battle. While the fighting continued, Mousse captured Shinobu’s Devil Fruit and located five ordinary Zoan users, waiting for the battle’s outcome before targeting them.

• Oden Kozuki survived Kaido’s Thunder Bagua and struck again, but Kaido’s club sent him flying.
• The fighters’ Conqueror’s Haki knocked out thousands of Beasts Pirates, leaving Oden Kozuki’s side with the advantage among those still able to fight.
• King killed Raizo, while Mousse captured the unconscious Shinobu and used Soul Capture to take the Juku Juku no Mi.
• Mousse searched the battlefield with Observation Haki and found five ordinary Zoan users among the Beasts Pirates.
• Mousse memorized the five users’ locations and waited for the battle’s outcome before acting against them.

Mousse captured Queen and several Beasts Pirates before escaping, while Oden spent his life force on a devastating attack that failed to defeat Kaido. Mousse then raided Orochi’s Seastone factory and decided to visit Yasuie Shimotsuki and Lady Toki.

• Mousse and Amon captured five ordinary Zoan users and Queen, enraging Kaido and prompting him to pursue them.
• Kaido turned into a dragon to chase Mousse, giving Oden the opening to pour his remaining strength and life force into Enma.
• Oden wounded Kaido deeply with Enma but was thrown aside, and Kaido knocked out Denjiro, Kin'emon, and Shutenmaru.
• Mousse escaped the battlefield with Amon while Kaido remained behind, unable to catch them.
• Mousse raided the poorly guarded Seastone factory, taking ore, finished goods, equipment, materials, and most of its skilled craftsmen.
• Mousse decided to visit Yasuie Shimotsuki and Lady Toki under the pretense of delivering news.

Mousse questioned Toki about the ancient Great Kingdom and Momonosuke’s lack of training, then offered to teach the boy a martial art in exchange for Toki’s cooperation with his research. He taught Momonosuke the renamed Way of the Second Son and began asking Toki questions about her directly.

• Mousse examined Momonosuke and asked Toki what the world had been like eight hundred years earlier, but she could recall little beyond a comfortable childhood.
• Mousse concluded that the Great Kingdom’s productive capacity had not necessarily exceeded that of the present and asked why Momonosuke had never trained seriously.
• Yasuie Shimotsuki explained that Oden and Toki had hoped Momonosuke’s apparent weakness would keep their enemies from viewing him as a threat.
• Mousse offered to teach Momonosuke a martial art and told Toki he wanted to study her Time-Time Fruit ability; Toki agreed for her son’s sake.
• Mousse taught Momonosuke the Sea Calming Art under the name Way of the Second Son, then began questioning Toki about her directly.

Mousse learned why Oden had endured humiliation instead of seeking outside help to defeat Kaido, and understood that Oden had reached his limit after five years of training his resolve and strength. Toki hinted that Wano’s liberation and opening would come in twenty years, and Mousse’s mention of Poseidon and Joy Boy revealed that she recognized the names.

• Toki explained that Oden had endured humiliation to protect Wano’s people while sharpening his resolve and strength against Kaido.
• Yasuie Shimotsuki revealed that Moria had turned from an ally into an enemy after robbing Ryuma’s grave, worsening Wano’s distrust of outsiders.
• Mousse concluded that flying gave Kaido a decisive advantage and that Wano had to defeat him without relying on outside help.
• Toki said Wano’s liberation and opening would have to wait twenty years, then refused to explain the prophecy connected to Laugh Tale.
• Mousse mentioned Poseidon and Joy Boy, and Toki’s brief change in expression confirmed that she recognized the names.

After learning that Toki and Oden’s children had been arrested and condemned to execution, Mousse suspected Kaido’s absence and his own interference had changed the events surrounding Oden’s imprisonment. He resolved to raid the execution grounds, and Shimotsuki Ushimaru joined the assembled samurai as they prepared to travel to the Flower Capital.

• Mousse learned from Yasuie Shimotsuki that Toki and the children had been arrested after visiting Oden in prison and were to be executed with him.
• Mousse reasoned that his interference had helped Oden nearly defeat Kaido, leaving Kaido with no regretful desire to give Oden another chance to escape and fight again.
• Mousse worried that without Shinobu to reveal the truth, Oden might die remembered as the Foolish Lord, so he decided to raid the execution grounds and sought a chance to capture Kurozumi Orochi.
• Mousse enlarged Amon’s scroll form to make it easier to rescue the prisoners, and Yasuie Shimotsuki quickly gathered samurai to accompany him.
• Shimotsuki Ushimaru joined the group, and Mousse questioned whether the daimyo risked being recognized in the Flower Capital.

Mousse disguised the samurai and explained a plan to help Oden only if Kaido was absent, while arguing that replacing Orochi with a weaker shogun could still protect Wano’s people. When they saw Oden at the execution site, they found him grievously wounded and missing both arms.

• Yasuie Shimotsuki and Mousse disguised the samurai, and Mousse outlined how they could approach the execution ground if Kaido was not there.
• Mousse argued that capturing Orochi mattered because a less cruel, easier-to-threaten shogun could reduce the harm done to Wano even if Kaido remained in power.
• Yasuie Shimotsuki and Shimotsuki Ushimaru realized they could keep fighting by threatening Orochi’s regime and retreating when they could not win.
• Mousse and the two Shimotsuki saw Oden covered in wounds with nothing below his shoulders.
• Mousse deduced that King and Orochi had both helped cripple Oden, while Oden felt some gratitude to King for stopping Orochi from tormenting his family.

Mousse’s rescue attempt at Oden’s execution turned tragic when King’s Fire Dragon Emperor killed Oden and Toki, though Amon saved Momonosuke and Hiyori. Mousse brought the surviving children into the Book World, where he confronted the cost of the parents’ sacrifice.

• Amon and the samurai launched a prepared attack, incapacitated Kurozumi Orochi, and created an opening for Oden’s family to escape.
• King intercepted Oden’s escape and unleashed Fire Dragon Emperor at Oden, Toki, Momonosuke, and Hiyori.
• Oden and Toki shielded their children from the flames and died, while Amon rescued Momonosuke and Hiyori.
• Denjiro realized Momonosuke had survived, and the Scabbards abandoned their charge against King to focus on their young lord.
• Mousse saw Oden and Toki’s burned bodies in the Book World and reflected on their sacrifice and his own parents.

Charlotte Mousse realized the Sea Calming Art drew power from hatred and despair, then erased the dangerous technique from his memory while keeping its broader insight about strengthening Haki through emotion. After Momonosuke awakened Conqueror’s and Observation Haki, two Scabbards stayed in Wano to pursue King, and Mousse prepared to leave despite doubting they could defeat him.

• Charlotte Mousse discovered that Momonosuke had awakened both Conqueror’s Haki and Observation Haki, and concluded that the Sea Calming Art harnessed hatred and despair to strengthen conviction.
• Fearing the Sea Calming Art’s lasting psychological distortions, Charlotte Mousse erased it from his memories but retained the idea of using positive emotions to accelerate Haki training.
• The Scabbards, grateful for Momonosuke’s awakening, accepted Charlotte Mousse’s claim that Kanjuro was a traitor, and Kin’emon handed over his sorcery.
• Ashura Doji Shutenmaru declared that he would stay in Wano to seek revenge on King, and Denjiro chose to stay with him.
• Charlotte Mousse doubted that Shutenmaru and Denjiro could kill King, but he concealed his pessimism and felt able to leave Wano without concern.

Mousse coordinated the Scabbards’ plans to gather allies against Kaido and returned to Totto Land to oversee the removal and reassignment of Devil Fruit powers. He discovered the strategic uses and limits of the Juku Juku no Mi and learned that Charlotte Snag had developed the Fuku Fuku no Mi into a combat ability.

• The Scabbards divided their efforts: Shutenmaru and Denjiro stayed in Wano to recruit patriots, while Kin'emon, Kawamatsu, Momo, his sister, Shinobu, Cat Viper, and Dogstorm headed to Zou.
• Kikunojo planned to seek help from Whitebeard and bring her brother Izo back, while Mousse returned to Totto Land to work with Hogback on removing Shinobu’s and Kin'emon’s Devil Fruit abilities.
• Charlotte Moscato tested the Juku Juku no Mi and, with Mousse, discovered that it could accelerate existing growth but caused ungrown seeds to rot and could not improve poor cultivation.
• Praline considered using the Juku Juku no Mi to gain strength quickly, but Mousse refused and ordered Charlotte Moscato not to ripen his siblings at the cost of their lifespans.
• Charlotte Snag used the Fuku Fuku no Mi to create fantasy armor for combat instead of producing clothing, though his appearance failed to match the impressive designs.

Mousse distributed the Brush-Brush Fruit and gave the Copy-Copy Fruit to Charlotte Castard, whose broad abilities made her an ideal user. After discovering she could transform by touching any part of her body, Castard gained a major combat advantage and surpassed Charlotte Amande for the first time.

• Charlotte Mondol rejected the Brush-Brush Fruit because he preferred military matters, so Mousse gave it to Charlotte Broyé instead.
• Mousse gave the Copy-Copy Fruit to Charlotte Castard, believing her versatile skills would let her use it effectively in battle.
• Charlotte Castard tested the fruit and, following Mousse's suggestion, learned she could transform by touching any part of her body.
• Charlotte Castard found that transforming during combat disrupted opponents without diminishing her own abilities, improving her fighting performance.
• Charlotte Castard surpassed Charlotte Amande, whose strength had stagnated while Castard's had continued to grow.

Mousse helped Charlotte Custard explore the Copy-Copy Fruit’s limits, while the Devil Fruits brought back from Wano strengthened Totto Land’s treasury. He reassured Perospero about their Seastone supply, and Katakuri remained ready to protect him if Kaido came seeking revenge.

• Charlotte Custard found that copying her mother increased her size and strength, but her agility and the Fruit’s limits kept her from challenging stronger fighters.
• Mousse suggested Custard try copying an imagined larger person, and she managed to grow to nine meters before discovering a limit of about twelve meters.
• Mousse realized the Copy-Copy Fruit could reproduce a target’s voice and presence closely enough to fool even powerful observers.
• Mousse’s recovered Devil Fruits repaid the losses from giving away the Swamp-Swamp Fruit, quieting siblings who had resented him.
• Mousse told Perospero that Totto Land’s seized Seastone would last and that he had learned how to process it for future production.
• Katakuri worried Kaido might attack Totto Land, but stood by Mousse rather than surrendering him when Kaido demanded it.

Kaido attacked Charlotte Linlin, but she withstood his strongest blow and knocked his weapon into the sea. Kaido returned to shore in his human-beast form and challenged her again, but he still could not overpower her.

• Charlotte Linlin taunted Kaido over his complaint, and he lunged at her with a powerful attack.
• Charlotte Linlin met Kaido's blow with Elbaf Spear: King's Spear, was blasted back, but emerged unharmed.
• Kaido lost his iron club to the sea, while Totto Land's onlookers cheered Charlotte Linlin's advantage.
• Kaido transformed into a dragon and entered the sea, then returned to shore after Athena froze its surface.
• Kaido resumed the fight in his human-beast form, but Charlotte Linlin's stronger defense kept him from overwhelming her.

Charlotte Linlin gained the advantage over Kaido, but refused to hand Queen back, provoking Kaido into attacking Mousse before Katakuri took over the fight. Katakuri wounded Kaido with his trident and declared that Kaido’s copied future sight would not be enough to defeat him, as their battle resumed in earnest.

• Mousse explained that Charlotte Linlin’s strength and endurance were gradually turning the battle against Kaido, who had already spent his trump cards.
• Kaido demanded Queen’s return, but Mousse had turned Queen’s soul into a Homies and sent Kaido only Queen’s corpse.
• Furious at the sight of Queen’s corpse, Kaido attacked Mousse, but Charlotte Linlin grabbed his tail and slammed him into the ground.
• Charlotte Linlin withdrew so Katakuri could fight Kaido, and Katakuri defended patiently until he struck Kaido’s armpit with his trident.
• Katakuri explained that he could predict Kaido’s movements and would not be shaken by Kaido’s copied Observation Haki again, prompting Kaido to resume the fight in anger.

Katakuri used precise, efficient attacks to match Kaido and forced him to abandon his attempt to get compensation from Totto Land. The Scabbards remained there while Mousse studied Sulong, and Whitebeard proposed a personal duel with Kaido, leaving Mousse to question whether Whitebeard could kill him.

• Katakuri evaded Kaido’s ranged attack, conserved his Haki, and struck Kaido’s joints until Kaido’s right hand lost its strength.
• Kaido recognized that Katakuri’s precise fighting style resembled Garp’s and realized Katakuri had become his equal.
• Kaido gave up on forcing compensation from Totto Land and flew back to Wano Country without learning where Momonosuke, his sister, and the Scabbards were.
• Cat Viper and Dogstorm agreed to help Mousse study Sulong, so Momonosuke and the Scabbards stayed in Totto Land for the research.
• Kikunojo reported that Whitebeard wanted to challenge Kaido to a personal duel, and Mousse noted that Whitebeard’s ability to kill Kaido remained uncertain.

Mousse watched Whitebeard fail to permanently harm Kaido and used the aftermath to build influence through the World Economic News Paper’s Combat Power Rankings. After Morgans aligned with Totto Land and Charlotte Linlin entrusted Mousse with the family intelligence network, Mousse became one of Totto Land’s most important figures.

• Mousse watched Whitebeard overwhelm Kaido, but Kaido fled without lasting injuries and later earned the title Strongest Creature of Land, Sea, and Air.
• Mousse understood that Whitebeard could not safely avenge Oden alone and would risk losing many of his sons in a group battle.
• Morgans launched a popular Combat Power Rankings column, and Mousse secretly wrote its monthly rankings under the name Tengtianxiao.
• Morgans chose to align with Totto Land, and Mousse became the World Economic News Paper’s second-largest shareholder.
• Mousse used his growing wealth and influence to strengthen his position within the Charlotte family.
• Charlotte Linlin placed the family’s intelligence network under Mousse’s management, making him Totto Land’s fourth most important figure before he turned twelve.

Mousse uncovered how the Mink Tribe’s Sulong transformation worked and developed medicine and a flare that let nearly every adult Mink transform more safely. After Cat Viper and Dogstorm entrusted him with their Life Cards, he postponed his plan to visit Zou when Charlotte Amande sought his help with cooking, and he learned she still visited Dressrosa to duel Kyros.

• Mousse determined that Sulong activated suppressed animal lineage factors and that a Mink’s strength of body and soul affected whether they could retain control.
• Mousse developed medicine that reduced Sulong’s power but lowered its risks, then paired it with a Moonlight Illumination Flare so adult Minks could transform on demand.
• Cat Viper and Dogstorm recognized how Mousse’s inventions could strengthen Zou and gave him their Life Cards, unaware he had built a safeguard into the medicine.
• Mousse set aside his plan to sneak into Zou and see the Road Poneglyph after Charlotte Amande asked him for cooking advice.
• Mousse suggested Amande make hand-pulled noodles, and he learned from Kastard that Amande still went to Dressrosa to duel Kyros.

Mousse returned to Dressrosa and discovered how Doflamingo’s money and businesses had transformed the kingdom while tightening the Donquixote Family’s control. He also learned that Kyros continued defeating the family’s officers in the arena despite its deadly new rules, while Mousse hoped to help Charlotte Amande pursue him.

• Mousse learned that Charlotte Amande had stopped killing after her second defeat by Kyros, and he suspected she had fallen in love with him.
• Mousse traveled to Dressrosa, where he found the population better fed but the streets filled with bars, casinos, and an open slave auction.
• Mousse concluded that Doflamingo had gained the citizens’ favor by offering jobs and advances after King Riku’s failed attempt to repay the ten-billion-Berry debt.
• Doflamingo’s tax-free businesses drove local competitors out of business, leaving King Riku with little power beyond the palace.
• The arena removed restrictions on sharp weapons and killing, but Kyros still defeated every challenger, including nearly all the Donquixote Family’s officers.

Mousse traced Kyros’s conflicted beliefs to Dressrosa’s long history of suppressing violence and its recent swing toward glorifying it, then proposed taking Kyros away so he could see the wider world. He planned to use a meeting with Kyros to send him far from Dressrosa, leaving him to find his own way home.

• Mousse realized Kyros’s distress stemmed from being condemned for killing a murderous noble and from the conflict between Dressrosa’s old pacifism and its new worship of violence.
• Mousse concluded that the Riku Royal Family had spent centuries encouraging fear of violence to keep the people passive and preserve its rule.
• Mousse explained to Charlotte Amande that Kyros needed distance and exposure to other societies to form his own beliefs.
• Mousse planned to surprise Kyros with Soul Capture, put him in the Book World, and have Amon carry him far away before leaving him to return to Dressrosa on his own.
• The author announced that the novel would return to one update per day after a failed attempt at daily full attendance and ongoing writing difficulties.

Mousse sent Kyros to the Hundred Thousand Mountains and left Charlotte Amande to accompany him, helping her become an unprotected pirate in the Four Blues. After visiting Li Dayong, Mousse learned that he was delaying rebellion to build support and prepare to replace the Flower Kingdom’s hereditary monarchy.

• Mousse sent Kyros to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where the Flower People’s revolt and Li Dayong’s leadership challenged the values Kyros had learned in Dressrosa.
• Charlotte Amande chose to stay with Kyros, and Mousse advised her to master her strength and use it without needless cruelty.
• Mousse framed Charlotte Amande and Kyros’s journey as an elopement, hoping their relationship would develop into romantic love.
• Mousse visited Li Dayong, whose Swamp-Swamp Fruit and Observation Haki had grown powerful, and saw how he had transformed the Hundred Thousand Mountains into fertile farmland.
• Li Dayong explained that he was cultivating talent and building a core team before overthrowing the Long Hand Royal Family, because he wanted to replace hereditary rule and slow the Flower Kingdom’s historical cycle.

Mousse tracked down Capone Bege to claim the Castle-Castle Fruit, but his attempt to capture Bege with the Book World's Soul Capture failed. After overpowering and incapacitating him, Mousse took Bege away and killed him and the gang members hidden inside him.

• Mousse located Capone Bege, but the Book World's Soul Capture could not affect him, possibly because the Castle-Castle Fruit was also a spatial ability.
• Capone Bege attacked Mousse with a Gatling Gun and tried to release the men inside his castle, but Mousse blocked the bullets and froze the castle gates and cannons.
• Capone Bege surrendered, but Mousse shot him in the thigh with a Seastone-tipped bullet, weakening him and nullifying his Devil Fruit defenses.
• Mousse used Formless to carry Bege to the shore, then built an underwater ice chamber and killed Bege along with the several hundred subordinates inside him.

Mousse helped Charlotte Mont-d'Or develop the Castle-Castle Fruit into a modern sea fortress and equipped it with powerful weapons. The fortress’s defenses and armament promised enormous strength, but a capable, well-trained garrison would take years to assemble.

• Mousse stored the reborn Castle-Castle Fruit, left the Book World with Amon, and reflected on Charlotte Chiffon’s choices during the failed assassination plot.
• Mousse advised Charlotte Mont-d'Or to develop a mobile sea-fortress form and redesign his castle with reinforced concrete and improved firing positions.
• Mousse supplied Charlotte Mont-d'Or with modern firearms and artillery, including anti-materiel rifles and autocannons for his garrison.
• Mousse concluded that the fortress’s greatest limitation was the lack of trained personnel, since Totto Land’s educated children and potential clones would need years before they could fight.

Mousse investigated ways to make the Charlotte Family larger and stronger, but his research into the Giant Medicine led him to suspect that it harmed users’ souls and lifespans. He stopped that research and shifted attention to Island Clouds, which might provide a safer source of PYROBROIN.

• Vegapunk encouraged Mousse to keep improving the Giant Medicine, while Mousse also tried to concentrate PYROBROIN from seawater with Charlotte Smoothie's ability and failed.
• Mousse gathered Island Clouds and discovered that their PYROBROIN had lost its usual volatility, leading him to theorize that supernatural forces governed the substance.
• Mousse connected the Giant Medicine’s effects to changes in soul intensity and lifespan, and compared its mechanism with Mighty Water.
• Mousse halted Giant Medicine research to protect his family, and Vegapunk approved the decision and redirected their work toward Island Clouds.
• Mousse and Vegapunk planned to remove harmful components from Island Clouds and investigate how clouds could help concentrate seawater PYROBROIN.

At thirteen, Mousse helped Praline advance her training while developing a transparent air-filtering helmet that enabled safer underwater practice. He learned Fisher Tiger had been sold to a Celestial Dragon but chose to wait before attempting a rescue, and Totto Land celebrated Baron Tamago awakening his Devil Fruit ability.

• Huo Lisha brought Panda and its mate to Totto Land, where the pandas sparked a craze among the citizens and especially Praline.
• Mousse encouraged Praline to balance her studies and training with time around the pandas, and she surpassed 3,000 Doriki before turning thirteen.
• Mousse learned from Stussy that Fisher Tiger had been sold to a Celestial Dragon, but he asked Stussy to watch over him while he waited for a safer chance to rescue him.
• Mousse invented a transparent air-filtering helmet that supported underwater breathing and training, allowing Praline to begin practicing Fish-Man Karate and Fish-Man Jiu-Jitsu in the water.
• Baron Tamago awakened his Egg-Egg Fruit ability, becoming the first to reach that milestone ahead of his counterpart in the original timeline.

Baron Tamago’s awakened Egg-Egg Fruit greatly improved his transformations and fighting ability, and he sent Charlotte Smoothie to study kicking techniques with his former master. The visit ended in violence when the master tried to kill Smoothie and Mousse revealed that the old man was her father, prompting Smoothie to leave and vow to become a famous Great Pirate.

• Baron Tamago’s awakened Egg-Egg Fruit strengthened his transformed forms, shortened his vulnerable egg-yolk period, extended his transformations, and allowed him to fly.
• Baron Tamago sent Charlotte Smoothie and Mousse to the West Blue so Smoothie could train with his former master.
• Baron Tamago’s master attacked Smoothie and Mousse, but Mousse defeated him and learned from his soul that he was Smoothie’s father.
• Mousse explained that the old man resented Charlotte Linlin and the circumstances of his marriage, and he still loathed Smoothie after learning she was his daughter.
• Smoothie left with Mousse, blamed Baron Tamago for the ordeal, and vowed to become a renowned Great Pirate.

After Doflamingo seized Dressrosa’s throne, Charlotte Mousse exploited his guilt and the Charlotte Family’s influence to obtain the Art Fruit. Mousse gave it to his sister Charlotte Galette, whose appearance and aura transformed after she ate it.

• Doflamingo ousted King Riku, forced Violet into the Donquixote Family, and kept King Riku and Princess Scarlett alive as hostages.
• Charlotte Mousse read about Dressrosa’s peaceful transfer of power and decided to extort Doflamingo while congratulating him on becoming king.
• Doflamingo gave Mousse the Art Fruit, which he had bought for Jola, as compensation for breaking his promise to prioritize his own people for good Devil Fruits.
• Mousse chose Charlotte Galette to eat the Art Fruit because her existing Butter-Butter Fruit ability was mediocre and she had strong artistic refinement.
• Charlotte Galette ate the Art Fruit, and Mousse saw her aura and appearance transform.