Recaps

Drake brought the Vinsmoke Family to the Non-Member State of Notis Kingdom, where pirates were raiding, while reflecting on his secret efforts to protect such countries. As Reiju’s forces attacked the pirates, Nara Dan sent Meru into battle, and she began crushing the raiders with overwhelming strength.

• Drake explained that the Navy would not aid the Non-Member State of Notis Kingdom and that he had secretly alerted the Vinsmoke Family to pirate invasions.
• Reiju warned Drake not to meddle in the Vinsmoke Family’s ambitions, then ordered the Snail Ship toward the kingdom’s coast.
• Reiju’s ship opened fire on the pirate vessels, sinking them as the pirates on shore rushed to meet the attackers.
• Reiju looked to Nara Dan for help, and he sent Meru ashore, telling her not to eat anyone.
• Meru lifted a half-sunken pirate ship and smashed it into the crowd, killing nearly a hundred pirates as the survivors tried to flee.

Meru slaughtered the pirates and defeated Ghost Scythe and Garon with overwhelming strength. Drake and Reiju were shaken by her potential, while Nara Dan noticed the Devil Fruit power leave Garon's body after his death and ordered Meru to finish the fight quickly.

• Meru killed Ghost Scythe after he attacked her from behind with his chain scythe.
• Drake and Reiju marveled at Meru's strength and considered her frightening potential.
• Garon confronted Meru, transformed with the Dung Beetle Fruit, and tried to crush her with his armored fists.
• Meru broke Garon's exoskeleton, slammed him headfirst into the ground, and left him unconscious or dead.
• Nara Dan saw an energy current leave Garon's body and disappear, then ordered Meru to stop playing around and finish quickly.

Meru and Nara Dan reached the Vinsmoke Family’s floating base, where Gaji coveted Meru’s strength and secretly considered taking her. After Meru exposed his thoughts, Nara Dan let her attack, and she knocked Gaji unconscious before fighting his sons.

• Meru used Ghost Scythe’s broken weapon to kill the remaining pirate underlings, while Drake questioned Nara Dan and Reiju sent him away.
• Reiju led Nara Dan and Meru to the Vinsmoke Family’s joined Snail Ships, where Gaji greeted them and eyed Meru as a potential subject for his experiments.
• Meru revealed that she could hear thoughts and told Nara Dan that Gaji had considered making her his and killing him.
• Nara Dan told Meru not to kill Gaji, and Meru struck Gaji hard enough to knock him unconscious and send him crashing across the base.
• Niji charged Meru, but she pierced his chest with Chimera Claw and slammed him into a crater.
• Ichiji unleashed a blinding flash and a storm of flames at Meru.

Meru defeated the Vinsmoke brothers’ combined attack, and Nara Dan revealed his overwhelming power when Reiju tried to use her as leverage. He insisted that he wanted close cooperation with the Vinsmoke Family, leaving Gaji intimidated and outmatched.

• Meru dodged Ichiji’s fire attacks, survived his explosive barrage, and forced him to call Yonji and Niji for help.
• The healed brothers joined Ichiji in using their Mixed-Color Burst, but Meru overpowered their combined strike and sent all three crashing to the ground.
• Reiju took Nara Dan hostage and threatened him with poison, asking Meru to stop in exchange for the Vinsmoke Family’s money and safe passage.
• Nara Dan transformed into a towering, godlike form, flung Reiju into Gaji, and frightened Gaji into recognizing that his family could not win.
• Nara Dan told Gaji that he still wanted to work closely with the Vinsmoke Family.

Nara Dan questioned Vinsmoke Gaji about Devil Fruits and learned how Lineage Factor research could reproduce some of their effects. After uncovering that Devil Fruits contained used World Origin Power, he asked who created them, and Gaji connected their origins to the Ancient Kingdom.

• Nara Dan sat on Gaji’s throne and asked him about his work with Vegapunk and Devil Fruits.
• Gaji explained that Lineage Factor research could imitate Devil Fruit effects, especially by altering unborn children, but could not truly reproduce the fruits.
• Nara Dan made the Rhino Fruit vanish and identified the energy it left behind as used World Origin Power.
• Nara Dan asked who had intervened to create Devil Fruits, and Gaji said he did not know but believed they were connected to the Ancient Kingdom from eight hundred years earlier.

Nara Dan ordered the Vinsmoke Family to gather Devil Fruits, people with abilities, and information about the Poneglyphs while he used World Origin Power to produce a new Talent Entry. He discovered that his higher Rank let him directly strengthen his Talent Entries with World Origin Power and resolved to seek the Ancient Kingdom’s method of controlling Gaia Authority.

• Nara Dan told Gaji to collect Devil Fruits and people with abilities, investigate Poneglyphs, and work with Meru, promising the Vinsmoke Family influence in the North Blue if he was satisfied.
• Nara Dan used World Origin Power from the Rhino Fruit to create the purple Talent Entry Blood Qi Like Dragon.
• Nara Dan absorbed Blood Qi Like Dragon into his orange Transcendent True Lord entry, gaining only a slight increase in strength.
• Nara Dan realized he could use World Origin Power directly to advance his Talent Entries instead of relying on gaining more entries.
• Nara Dan concluded that Devil Fruits and the Ancient Kingdom’s technologies and weapons drew on Gaia Authority, and he resolved to find how the Ancient Kingdom had accessed it.

Sengoku ordered the Marines to monitor the Vinsmoke Family after receiving a report about Meru, unaware of the family’s recent upheaval. On Sabaody, Nara Dan visited Shakky’s bar, warned her to leave before she ended up in Impel Down, and departed for other business.

• Sengoku reviewed a report about Meru’s strength and cooperation with the Vinsmoke Family, then ordered closer surveillance without direct interference.
• Nara Dan observed the suffering beneath Sabaody’s prosperity and considered how the Revolutionary Army might overthrow the World Government.
• Nara Dan entered Shakky’s Rip-off Bar, ordered whiskey, and surprised Shakky by knowing about her and Rayleigh.
• Nara Dan paid for his drink with a huge gem and warned Shakky to leave Sabaody before she was sent to Impel Down.
• Shakky realized Nara Dan’s warning might mean Rayleigh was about to be arrested.

Nara Dan killed a Celestial Dragon and defeated the CP0 leader after leaving Shakky's bar, triggering a crisis in the Holy Land. He then appeared at Pangu Castle with Samehada and flooded the entire castle, beginning his raid for the Celestial Dragons' Devil Fruits.

• Nara Dan ignored a Celestial Dragon's demand to kneel, caught his first bullet, and killed him by flicking another bullet through his forehead.
• The CP0 leader ordered the other agents to alert the Five Elders and summon an Admiral, then attacked Nara Dan and was killed in the ensuing fight.
• Nara Dan transported the elderly man who had tried to warn him to safety as CP0 agents approached.
• Nara Dan revealed that he had targeted the Celestial Dragons to seize their Devil Fruits and collect their World Origin.
• Nara Dan appeared above Pangu Castle, summoned Samehada, and used its Water Release to unleash a flood that submerged the castle.

Nara Dan flooded Pangu Castle and left Samehada to fight the Five Elders while he disappeared. As the Elders rescued the Celestial Dragons, Samehada transformed into a colossal ten-tailed beast, and the Long-Beard Elder prepared to use his Devil Fruit against it.

• Nara Dan used Samehada to trap Pangu Castle in rising water, forcing CP0 agents to carry Celestial Dragons into the air.
• Nara Dan vanished after ordering Samehada to keep the Five Elders from escaping, and the Five Elders emerged from the water.
• The Birthmark Elder and the blond Five Elder dived underwater to rescue Celestial Dragons while Samehada attacked the others with water sharks.
• The Sword-Wielding Elder sliced through the sharks and launched a huge slash, but Samehada blocked it with a wall of water and transformed into a gigantic ten-tailed creature.
• The Birthmark Elder resurfaced in Xuanwu form with rescued Celestial Dragons and CP0 agents on his back, and the Long-Beard Elder prepared to use his Degree-Degree Fruit against Samehada.

Nara Dan returned from looting twenty-five Devil Fruits and confronted the Five Elders, demonstrating his overwhelming strength before launching a Divine Tailed Beast Bomb at them. The bomb exploded after the Elders failed to stop it, and Nara Dan watched through the flames to see what had become of them.

• Long-Beard Elder froze the surrounding water, allowing the CP0 agents and Celestial Dragons to land safely while Samehada prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Nara Dan returned with twenty-five stolen Devil Fruits, and Sword-Wielding Elder attacked him with a powerful slash that Nara Dan shattered with one hand.
• The Five Elders considered retreating and summoning help, while Long-Beard Elder suggested notifying a mysterious person.
• Nara Dan absorbed Samehada and transformed its Tailed Beast Bomb into a massive Divine Tailed Beast Bomb, then sent it toward the Five Elders.
• Sword-Wielding Elder's slash failed to stop the bomb, and Birthmark Elder's Black Tortoise Shield broke before Long-Beard Elder tried to block it with an Air Wall.
• The Divine Tailed Beast Bomb exploded through Long-Beard Elder's defense, engulfing the area in heat and shock waves as Nara Dan watched the Five Elders through the flames.

Nara Dan overwhelmed the Five Elders with another devastating Tailed Beast Bomb, forcing them to retreat and summon Lord Imu. Imu appeared in the Holy Land and swallowed the attack with an enormous gate, confronting Nara Dan directly.

• Long-Beard Elder used the Degree-Degree Fruit to stretch the distance between himself and Nara Dan’s first Tailed Beast Bomb, but the effort left him exhausted.
• Nara Dan launched an even stronger Tailed Beast Bomb, and Long-Beard Elder admitted he could not stop another attack.
• The Five Elders chose to flee the ruined Pangu Castle and notify Lord Imu rather than risk fighting Nara Dan.
• A thousand-meter-tall gate appeared and swallowed the Tailed Beast Bomb as the Five Elders escaped.
• Imu emerged from an ornate gate, and Nara Dan recognized him as the hidden ruler of the World Government.

Nara Dan confronted Imu at Pangu Castle and discovered that Imu controlled Pluton, which took the form of powerful combat armor. The chapter ended with Pluton’s devastating beam carving a vast canyon through the Red Line, while the Five Elders realized the weapon had not yet reached its full power.

• Imu warned Nara Dan to leave, but Nara Dan mocked him and inspected his impressive abilities with the Cheat System.
• Imu attacked Nara Dan with lasers, but Nara Dan stood unharmed and challenged him to reveal Pluton’s power.
• Nara Dan rushed Imu, who used Conqueror’s Coating to repel him before appearing in Platinum White Armor powered by Pluton.
• Imu’s armor fired a beam that split around Nara Dan and cut through Pangu Castle and the Red Line, creating a canyon ten thousand meters deep.
• The Five Elders watched the destruction and noted that Pluton’s power had not yet reached its limit.

Nara Dan battled Imu, who used the Pluton Armor to match Dan’s overwhelming strength and tear apart much of the Red Line. The armor remained intact, but it drained Imu’s life force, leaving Dan to question how long Imu could survive.

• Dan survived Pluton’s direct hit, healed, and attacked Imu, shattering his energy armor and driving him into the Red Line.
• Dan’s blows collapsed mountains and shook the continent, while Rayleigh and Shakky watched from a safe distance and wondered what enemy had forced the World Government to use Pluton.
• Imu ordered Pluton to take control and activate Kill Mode, allowing the armor to block Dan’s punch and counterattack with enhanced speed and strength.
• Dan and the Pluton Armor traded devastating blows across the sky and the Red Line, overturning half the continent.
• Dan struck the armor with a hundred-plus Flying Thunder God: Light-Speed Fists, leaving the armor unharmed but causing Imu to cough blood and nearly pass out.
• Dan realized Pluton’s battle mode was draining Imu’s life force and asked how long the Immortality Surgery could keep him alive.

Nara Dan gained the upper hand against Imu and damaged the Pluton Armor with his Startling Immortal Finger, forcing Imu to spend more life force. Imu then unleashed Pluton: Final Weapon, which appeared to kill Nara Dan, and relaxed as the armor began to heal.

• The Five Elders watched as Nara Dan fought the Pluton Armor on equal terms and realized Imu's life force was running low.
• Nara Dan worked out how Imu's Immortality Surgery and Pluton’s life-force drain interacted, then used a resonant-frequency technique to slow the armor.
• Nara Dan struck the Pluton Armor’s chest with Divine Gang: Startling Immortal Finger and left a crack in its surface.
• The damaged armor drained more of Imu’s life force, visibly aging him as Nara Dan prepared to strike again.
• Imu used the World Origin’s power to immobilize Nara Dan and fired Pluton: Final Weapon, engulfing him in light until only ashes remained.
• Imu deactivated Pluton’s Full Auto Mode, recovered as his wrinkles faded, and watched the armor’s cracks slowly heal.

After Imu claimed Nara Dan had died to Pluton's ultimate weapon, the Five Elders ordered a cover-up and increased their security. Nara Dan recovered and planned to seek the remaining Gaia's Authority, while Sengoku suspected the Holy Land had been attacked by a powerful enemy and considered how the Navy might respond; he did not know Nara Dan was already near Marine Headquarters.

• Imu told the Five Elders that Nara Dan had died beneath Pluton's ultimate weapon and ordered them to search for a Devil Fruit and possible accomplices.
• The Five Elders decided to investigate Nara Dan, recall CP0's best fighters, strengthen Holy Land security, and conceal the battle.
• Nara Dan revealed he had survived by recovering in the Void Realm Sea, recognized Imu's attack as a use of Gaia's Authority, and resolved to find the remaining authority.
• Sengoku feigned anger at the Five Elders for withholding information, then inferred that Pluton may have been deployed against an extraordinary enemy.
• Sengoku considered whether the attacker had survived and saw the incident as a possible beginning of change, unaware Nara Dan was near Marine Headquarters.

Nara Dan raided Marine Headquarters for Devil Fruits, absorbed their World Origin energy, and grew stronger while considering how to challenge the World Government. Meanwhile, Monkey D. Dragon identified Nara Dan as the likely attacker of the Holy Land and saw a chance for the Revolutionary Army to learn the World Government’s secrets through the surviving girl close to him.

• Nara Dan stole eight Devil Fruits from Marine Headquarters and concluded he needed to expand the Vinsmoke Family’s influence to find more.
• Nara Dan theorized that a hidden rule prevented any power from collecting every Devil Fruit, but believed the restriction did not apply to him as a hunter.
• Nara Dan converted dozens of Devil Fruits into World Origin energy, grew to nearly twelve meters tall, and judged that his strength had increased several times over.
• Nara Dan considered that he still needed a lost Gaia Authority to confront Imu’s power directly, then disappeared.
• Monkey D. Dragon studied intelligence and photographs of Nara Dan and Meru, identified Nara Dan as the likely Holy Land attacker, and recognized his connection to the Vinsmoke Family.
• Monkey D. Dragon decided the Revolutionary Army could use the surviving girl close to Nara Dan to uncover the World Government’s secrets.

After slaughtering everyone at the North Sea auction house, Meru warned Vinsmoke Gaji that Nara Dan was alive and that the Vinsmokes must obey him. She then spotted and captured a large albatross that had watched her from high above.

• Meru collected the auctioned Devil Fruit and two wounded ability users from the bodies while Gaji ordered Androids to gather the auction house's valuables.
• Meru confronted Gaji about doubting Nara Dan's survival and threatened to kill his entire family if he disobeyed her.
• Meru sensed a watcher nearly ten thousand meters above the ground and flew up to pursue him.
• Meru impaled the fleeing watcher with her antennae and discovered he was a large, humanlike albatross.

Meru spared Morgans after Gaji vouched for his usefulness, then returned to await Nara Dan’s instructions. Nara Dan found Zunesha and demanded its Road Poneglyph, but Zunesha refused to let him take it and roared in defiance.

• Meru stopped herself from killing Morgans after he offered to spread news for the Vinsmokes and her companions, and Gaji agreed he could be useful.
• Meru returned to wait for Father God’s next instructions, while Gaji warned Morgans to keep his head down and pointed toward the Holy Land when Morgans asked who he meant.
• Nara Dan found Zunesha, the giant elephant carrying the Mink Tribe’s home of Zou, and approached it to take something from its back.
• Nara Dan told Zunesha he had come for the Road Poneglyph, which he wanted to learn how the Ancient Kingdom controlled the Gaia Authority and World Origin Power.
• Zunesha refused to let Nara Dan take the Road Poneglyph and bellowed, shaking the sea and air around them.

Nara Dan confronted Zunesha and stopped the elephant’s attack with one hand before using its own trunk to strike its chest. As Zunesha staggered and the Minks lost their footing, Nara Dan reflected on the relationship between powerful beings and the worlds—and inhabitants—they carried.

• The Minks noticed Zunesha calling out and an old Mink realized that Zunesha feared Nara Dan.
• Nara Dan faced Zunesha as the elephant swung its enormous trunk at him.
• Nara Dan stopped Zunesha’s trunk with one hand, leaving the Minks astonished by his strength.
• Nara Dan seized the trunk with both hands and hurled it into Zunesha’s chest, injuring the elephant and shaking the Minks on its back.
• Nara Dan considered how his World Tree Clone might one day carry a world and opened the Cheat System.

Nara Dan found the Road Poneglyph in Whale Forest and convinced Duke Dogstorm that he was not working for the World Government. After learning that the Voice of All Things could reveal the Poneglyphs’ contents, Nara Dan chipped the supposedly indestructible stone and discovered it was made from naturally formed material.

• Nara Dan examined Zunesha’s Giantification Surgery Talent and teleported to Whale Forest to find the Road Poneglyph.
• Duke Dogstorm confronted Nara Dan and asked why he wanted the Poneglyph, preparing to fight if he served the World Government.
• Nara Dan said he opposed the World Government and was interested in the Ancient Kingdom, so Dogstorm escorted him to the Poneglyph.
• Dogstorm explained that people with the Voice of All Things could understand Poneglyphs by listening, and Nara Dan connected this ability to Roger’s success.
• Nara Dan pressed his fingers against the Poneglyph, caused a tremor, and chipped off a thin layer of stone.
• Dogstorm stared in shock as Nara Dan concluded that the Poneglyph was made from naturally formed material.

Nara Dan used his spiritual power to break the Poneglyph’s seal and uncover the Ancient Kingdom’s secrets about One Piece and the Gaia Authority. He concluded that controlling the world’s collective will was key to wielding that power, and resolved to pursue unification despite the long conflict with Imu it would require.

• Nara Dan used the Voice of All Things and his spiritual power to break the Poneglyph’s information seal.
• Nara Dan learned that One Piece, called God’s Treasure by the Ancient Kingdom, could enable extraordinary technologies and powers through the Gaia Authority.
• Nara Dan discovered that the Gaia Authority drew on the faith and will of living beings, and that the Will of D. could unite people around freedom and equality.
• Nara Dan concluded that the World Government divided the world to prevent a shared ideology from forming and threatening its rule.
• Nara Dan decided he would need to unify the One Piece World and wage a long campaign against Imu to obtain the Gaia Authority.

Nara Dan killed Buggy to claim the Bara Bara no Mi’s World Origin Power, then returned to the Vinsmoke stronghold and ordered Gaji to seize the North Blue’s Non-Member States. Gaji revealed that a similar bid to unify the region twenty years earlier had failed, beginning an account of the Vinsmoke Family’s past.

• Nara Dan found Buggy’s ship in the East Blue, killed Buggy, and reclaimed the Bara Bara no Mi’s World Origin Power.
• Nara Dan returned to the Vinsmoke stronghold, where Meru greeted him and Gaji presented three Devil Fruits and five captured ability users.
• Nara Dan reclaimed the World Origin Power from the collected Devil Fruits and ability users, then asked Gaji about the family’s expansion and Android forces.
• Nara Dan ordered Gaji to take control of all the North Blue’s Non-Member States, and Gaji said the World Government was not the main obstacle.
• Gaji recalled that twenty years earlier he had tried to unify the North Blue using Android soldiers, weapons, and political connections, targeting Non-Member States.

Gaji explained that Dragon’s intervention against the Vinsmokes had helped drive him from the Marines, and worried the Revolutionary Army would oppose their expansion into the North Sea’s Non-Member States. Nara Dan empowered the Vinsmokes with Samehada Bio-Armor, and they prepared to occupy the states while he ordered Morgans kept alive.

• Gaji told Nara Dan that Dragon had once defied Marine orders to stop the Vinsmokes’ war, forcing the family to abandon its plans to rule the North Sea.
• Gaji warned that the Revolutionary Army was active in the Four Seas and might intervene if the Vinsmokes occupied the Non-Member States, but Nara Dan told him to proceed without fear of either it or the World Government.
• Nara Dan implanted Samehada Bio-Armor in Reiju and the Red-Yellow-Blue Three Brothers, greatly increasing their strength and giving them powerful Tailed Beast Cloaks.
• Gaji promised that the Vinsmoke android forces would occupy all the North Sea’s Non-Member States within ten days, and Nara Dan dismissed the family to their duties.
• Meru told Nara Dan that she had captured a white bird who had been spying on her and offered to spread news; Nara Dan recognized him as Morgans and ordered that he be kept alive.

The Vinsmoke Family conquered the North Sea’s Non-Member States, and Ichiji fought a Masked Swordsman while using power granted by Samehada. Ichiji defeated the swordsman, but Reiju warned that holding the conquered territory would be far harder than taking it.

• The Vinsmoke Family’s Artificial Human Soldiers seized nearly all the North Sea’s Non-Member States in a week, and Ichiji complained that the fighting was too easy.
• Reiju urged Ichiji to finish Lord Dan’s task, and Ichiji encountered a Masked Swordsman who refused to join the Vinsmokes.
• Ichiji called on Samehada and used its Chakra to empower his attacks, while the Masked Swordsman countered with powerful sword techniques.
• Ichiji’s Tailed Beast Cloak absorbed the swordsman’s slashes, and Ichiji defeated him after a prolonged battle.
• Reiju warned Ichiji that the Vinsmokes would face suspicion and resistance as they tried to occupy the conquered lands.

The Five Elders discussed Meru’s connection to That Man and Vinsmoke’s takeover of the North Sea’s Non-Member States, then chose to avoid confronting them directly. They left Meru under observation and arranged for Underworld bounty hunters and the Revolutionary Army to test the threats while Vinsmoke’s occupation neared completion.

• The Five Elders reviewed evidence linking Meru to the same race as That Man and noted Vinsmoke’s role in occupying the North Sea’s Non-Member States.
• The Five Elders decided not to attack Meru or Vinsmoke, fearing Meru might possess power comparable to That Man.
• The Five Elders agreed to observe Meru, keep her existence from Lord Imu and the Navy, and place a bounty on her through the Underworld.
• The Five Elders planned to let the Revolutionary Army confront Vinsmoke and Meru rather than risk the World Government’s forces.
• Vinsmoke’s occupation of the North Sea’s Non-Member States neared completion with Nara Dan’s strength and its Artificial Human Soldiers.