Recaps

Mousse reunited with Nico Robin and explained his unusual marriage to Horace, while their reunion rekindled their intimacy. Robin then joined Mousse in searching Alabasta’s royal mausoleum, where they found the Poneglyph revealing Pluton was in Wano Country.

• Mousse told Robin that he and Horace were genuinely married, but Horace preferred him in giant form and might not object to his relationship with Robin.
• Robin told Mousse she could grow bigger too, and the two became intimate.
• The next day, Robin shared her history with her mother, Olvia, and explained how she had traveled the world searching for Poneglyphs.
• Robin exchanged the Poneglyphs she had found with Mousse, who took her to the stone tablet hidden in Alabasta’s royal mausoleum.
• Mousse and Amon located the Poneglyph, which revealed that Pluton’s hull was in Wano Country and that its ship spirit was there.

Mousse left Alabasta to impose new limits on Amazon Lily, seize the Munch-Munch Fruit, and bring technologically important islands into the Mutual Protection Alliance. With Charlotte Brulee’s expanded Mirror World linking their territories, the alliance became a worldwide network for trade and research.

• Nico Robin left Alabasta to continue deciphering the Void Century, and Mousse departed soon after to handle urgent matters.
• Mousse warned Amazon Lily to stop disruptive piracy and overwhelmed its people and animals with his Conqueror’s Haki; Boa Hancock sought Gloriosa’s advice and was told to grow stronger.
• Wapol fled Drum Kingdom, allowing Mousse to seize him and the Munch-Munch Fruit, along with Isshi-20 and the kingdom’s medical team.
• Mousse helped Drum Island repel an invading nation and proposed that it join the Mutual Protection Alliance, while Machine Island had already joined.
• Mousse recognized the importance of supporting technologically advanced regions and added Drum Island to an alliance that included Water 7 and Machine Island.
• Charlotte Brulee expanded her Mirror World to connect the alliance’s islands and other territories, including Totto Land, Elbaf, and the Farol Islands.

Mousse helped stabilize the world by coordinating intelligence, proposing a World Martial Arts Tournament, and creating a World Bank, while republics spread across much of the globe. At the first tournament, Praline placed second after Red-Haired Shanks entered and defeated the young competitors.

• Mousse persuaded the world's most powerful factions to share intelligence, enabling them to hunt dangerous criminals and stabilize the seas.
• Mousse proposed the World Martial Arts Tournament to give young fighters challenges and make potential criminals easier to track.
• Bartholomew Kuma led the New Revolutionary Army in overthrowing governments across the South Blue, expanding the republic to nearly one-third of the world.
• Mousse decided to delay republican reform in Totto Land while its people and younger generation gained more influence, but planned to gradually remove monarchical ceremonies and hierarchy.
• Mousse established the World Bank to issue a unified currency and fund global institutions without imposing direct taxes.
• Praline entered the first World Martial Arts Tournament, but Red-Haired Shanks competed and she finished in second place.

Li Xiao became the youngest S-rank powerhouse after winning the World Martial Arts Tournament and challenging Whitebeard, then sought a fight with Mousse. Mousse demonstrated the overwhelming gap between them by knocking Li Xiao unconscious with his Conqueror's Haki, but Li Xiao woke up excited rather than discouraged.

• Praline trained after her earlier defeat, but Li Xiao won the second World Martial Arts Tournament by defeating her, Red-Haired Shanks, and Hawk Eyes Mihawk.
• Mousse praised Li Xiao's rapid breakthroughs in Haki and judged him nearly equal to Whitebeard and Garp.
• Li Xiao challenged Whitebeard on Hachinosu Island, then ended their fight after recognizing Whitebeard's declining health and deciding he would win if it continued.
• Li Xiao went to challenge Mousse, who refused to fight under conditions that would make the outcome one-sided.
• After Li Xiao insisted on trying, Mousse released his Conqueror's Haki on the Red Line and knocked him unconscious; Li Xiao woke up excited.

After Li Xiao endured Mousse’s Conqueror’s Haki, Mousse promised him a head-on rematch in twenty years, giving him a goal that would also keep him from causing trouble. Mousse then reflected on Yamato’s escape from Kaido and how she had lost her tournament savings after facing Li Xiao.

• Li Xiao reversed the flow of Mousse’s Conqueror’s Haki and stayed conscious under its pressure.
• Mousse promised Li Xiao a fair fight in twenty years, and Li Xiao resolved to train until he could challenge him.
• Mousse revealed that Li Dayong had asked him to blunt Li Xiao’s unruly nature, and that the promise had secured twenty years of peace.
• Mousse recalled how Little K had hidden Yamato from Kaido by disguising himself as a membrane that blocked her Life Card’s signal.
• Yamato entered the tournament disguised under different appearances but lost her savings after Li Xiao defeated her in the preliminaries.

Mousse reunited with Yamato and Bonney, reclaimed Little K, and arranged for Praline to travel with them. Yamato and Bonney fled after Mousse questioned what Yamato had done with his avatar, while Mousse prepared his ship for their voyage.

• Mousse found Yamato and Bonney, recognized Bonney, and persuaded her to return to the South Blue to help Kuma.
• Mousse called Little K back from Yamato, and Yamato protested that it had abandoned her.
• Yamato and Bonney blushed and ran when Mousse asked what Yamato had done with Little K.
• Mousse confirmed Little K was a powerful Homies with strength synchronized to his own and a Doriki Value above 3,000.
• Mousse called Praline and decided she would travel with Yamato aboard his newly built ship, taking the children in his care along.

Mousse took Brulee to the East Blue so strangers could judge her third eye without being influenced by their family’s reputation. At Baratie, Sanji praised her eye for the first time, and Brulee wept with joy.

• Mousse comforted Brulee about her third eye and invited her to travel with him to hear honest opinions from people outside the New World.
• Mousse and Brulee flew to the East Blue, where she uncovered her third eye and listened as he explained the Three-Eyed Tribe’s history and powers.
• Mousse brought Brulee to Baratie and held her hand as she faced the restaurant’s customers with her eye exposed.
• Patty welcomed Brulee without showing fear or disgust, and Sanji praised her third eye, making her cry with joy.

Mousse brought Brulee to Baratie to see how Sanji would react to her, and discovered that Sanji’s Observation Haki might overcome the fear inspired by her third eye. After Sanji made Brulee finish her leftovers and then cleaned her plates himself, Mousse revealed himself and reunited the two men, while Brulee learned Sanji had once nearly been taken to Totto Land.

• Mousse realized that Sanji’s lack of fear toward Brulee’s third eye likely came from his powerful Observation Haki, and wondered if that ability had once countered the Three-Eyed Tribe.
• Brulee admitted she had ordered too much food and offered to pay double, but Sanji insisted that wasting food was wrong and made her eat the leftovers.
• Brulee cried that she could not eat any more, so Sanji sorted the untouched food for later and ate the portions she had already bitten.
• Mousse revealed himself, laughed at Sanji for cleaning the plates, and delighted Sanji, who greeted him warmly.
• Brulee learned that Mousse and Sanji already knew each other and that Mousse had once nearly brought Sanji to Totto Land; Sanji remembered that choosing otherwise had led him to Zeff.

Mousse advanced global trade and education initiatives while Marshall D. Teach led the Whitebeard Pirates to invade Wano and defeat Kaido. Momonosuke killed Kaido, but Kaido’s final blow killed his chief retainer as he protected him.

• Sanji remained grateful to Mousse for helping Reiju escape, while Zeff declined Mousse’s offer to have Law restore his leg and discussed relocating Baratie near Reverse Mountain.
• Mousse proposed a World Trade Organization, and the Flower Kingdom agreed to abandon its isolation after Amon reshaped its terrain to improve farmland and protect against disasters.
• Mousse advocated for a global Education, Science, Culture and Health Organization, and the Whitebeard Pirates supported the plan under Marshall D. Teach, who had received the Dark-Dark Fruit from Whitebeard.
• Teach urged the Whitebeard Pirates to avenge Oden Kozuki in Wano, where they overwhelmed Kaido’s weakened forces and Teach’s awakened Dark-Dark Fruit stripped Kaido of his Azure Dragon abilities.
• Momonosuke killed Kaido with a powerful slash, but Kaido’s final club strike killed Momonosuke’s chief retainer as he shielded him.

Mousse assessed the shifts in power after Kaido’s death, including Blackbeard gaining Kaido’s Devil Fruit and the proposed marriage alliance between Blackbeard and Momonosuke. He concluded that the alliance would strengthen the Whitebeard Pirates but still leave them far behind the Charlotte Family’s forces.

• Charlotte Linlin woke from a nightmare in which she had never given birth to Mousse and she and Kaido were defeated by a young man in a straw hat.
• Mousse learned that Marshall D. Teach had obtained Kaido’s Azure Dragon Devil Fruit and warned his Second Brother to master the electromagnetic cannon.
• Mousse was shocked to hear that Momonosuke planned to marry Blackbeard, then reasoned that the alliance could secure Wano Country’s future and benefit both factions.
• Mousse considered the forces Momonosuke would bring, including Wano Country, Zunesha, and his retainers, and recognized that they could help Blackbeard consolidate power.
• Mousse compared the Whitebeard alliance with the Charlotte Family’s strongest fighters, elite ranks, and armies, and judged that the Charlotte Family still held the advantage.

Blackbeard became the Whitebeard Pirates’ successor but grew ambitious after learning about Laugh Tale and the Ancient Weapons. Li Xiao defeated him in a challenge arranged by Li Dayong, crushing his ambition and leaving him to remain with the crew as a slacker.

• The Charlotte Family’s growing alliances and Ace’s decision to join Bartholomew Kuma’s New Revolutionary Army left Blackbeard as the Whitebeard Pirates’ uncontested successor.
• Blackbeard used an international organization to help search for the Poneglyphs, hoping to learn the secret of Laugh Tale before the Charlotte Family could widen its lead.
• At Laugh Tale, Blackbeard learned that Pluto could not reach its full power and that defeating Uranus required Poseidon, while Mousse and his allies already held the advantage.
• Li Dayong arranged for Li Xiao to challenge Blackbeard, and she beat him unconscious despite her doubts about why she had to fight him.
• Blackbeard abandoned his ambition and stayed with the Whitebeard Pirates, whose crew was spared the turmoil that might have followed his departure.

After the discoveries at Laugh Tale sharpened the divide between Monkey D. Dragon and Bartholomew Kuma, Mousse tried to prevent their political conflict from turning into war. Kuma agreed to consider waiting a few years after Mousse reminded him of the importance of “productive forces.”

• Monkey D. Dragon urged Bartholomew Kuma to abandon his uncompromising plans, but Kuma became more determined in his beliefs.
• As the old and new Revolutionary Armies moved toward armed conflict, Mousse went to the East Blue and persuaded Kuina and Zoro not to join the fighting.
• Mousse confronted Monkey D. Dragon in the Goya Kingdom and promised to help him if Kuma refused to listen, prompting Dragon to yield.
• Mousse traveled to the South Blue and urged Bartholomew Kuma to delay implementing comprehensive public ownership, warning that the policies were ahead of their time.
• Bartholomew Kuma asked what a few years of waiting would change, and Mousse reminded him of the “productive forces” he had discussed before.

Mousse’s perpetual-motion technology transformed the world, helping establish public ownership and unite much of the Pirate World under the “One Sea, One Nation” vision. As the West Blue teetered toward chaos after Li Dayong’s death, Li Xiao’s show of strength against Katakuri only made his former brothers more determined to eliminate him.

• The new generation of Perpetual Motion Machines enabled abundant automated production, giving people greater freedom to refuse poor working conditions and accelerating social change.
• Backward rulers who forced civilians into labor were overthrown, and Monkey D. Dragon lost support for resisting the radicals led by Bartholomew Kuma.
• Luffy sailed around the world three times, while Nico Robin recorded the upheavals in her book 1080° Around-the-World Voyage.
• The New Revolutionary Army unified the South Blue and the adjacent first half of the Grand Line, while Whitebeard’s death and Blackbeard’s surrender allowed the New World to unite.
• Reiju seized power in Germa 66, after which Mousse supported the unification of the North Blue.
• After Li Dayong died, Li Ya turned against Li Xiao, who defeated Katakuri to intimidate his former brothers but instead made them more determined to kill him.

Mousse rescued Li Xiao from Li Dayong’s sons and disciples, then fought him atop the Red Line to test their strength. After revealing his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki and explaining his vision of a society where everyone could become powerful, he left Li Xiao struck by how closely their ideals aligned.

• Mousse arrived as Li Xiao faced four S-rank opponents, knocked them down with Conqueror’s Haki, and stopped Li Xiao from taking revenge.
• Li Xiao left the Flower Kingdom with Mousse, who learned that Li Xiao had used electric currents in his training and challenged him to their long-promised match.
• Mousse and Li Xiao fought atop the Red Line, where Mousse used calculations and Observation Haki to counter Li Xiao’s attacks.
• After Li Xiao broke through Mousse’s defenses, Mousse ended the fight with a punch that broke several of Li Xiao’s ribs and demonstrated his superior Conqueror’s Haki infusion.
• Mousse explained that his training proved ordinary people could narrow the gap with exceptional physiques, and Li Xiao recognized that Mousse shared the vanished man’s ideal of “Everyone like a Dragon.”
• Mousse described how widespread strength and the removal of survival pressures could prevent selfish leaders from overturning a society built on public ownership.

Mousse’s world transformed through communal child-rearing, public ownership, scientific progress, and full automation until material scarcity disappeared and society expanded into space. He remained convinced that extending his life had been necessary to protect the changes, and the story ended with him having achieved his ideal world.

• Mousse’s communal child-rearing system produced more successful children than traditional families, and marriage and family life faded away.
• Vegapunk retired as a new generation of rigorously trained scientists expanded research across the Pirate World.
• Under Mousse’s control, public ownership accelerated technological and productive growth while preventing a return to private ownership.
• Robots began manufacturing robots, and the matter generator eliminated material scarcity, leaving human contributions in science and art as the basis of status.
• Mousse saw the Red Line transformed into habitable land and learned that extraterrestrial colonization had begun.
• Mousse reflected that his extended lifespan had allowed him to purge the old era’s influence and secure his ideal world.