Recaps

Houka waited for the Four Elders to agree to his terms while the Rocks Pirates repaired and modified the Pluton Battleship. When the Elders called, Houka revealed his suspicions about the locations and identities of the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika and the Dark-Dark Fruit, leaving them eager to bargain for his help.

• Rocks agreed to keep the Pluton Battleship hidden for a few more days while Houka tried to obtain more Devil Fruits from the Four Elders.
• Shiki, Linlin, Malone, Houka, John, Guyram, and the giant craftsmen worked on modifying or studying the Pluton Battleship, while Houka planned to search Water 7 for the Pluton Blueprints.
• Houka ignored several calls from the Four Elders before answering, and they agreed to his previous terms while requesting information about Wano and the golden giant.
• Houka suggested that Rocks could seek the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika and the Dark-Dark Fruit, shocking the Four Elders.
• Houka questioned whether the Dark-Dark Fruit was truly a special Logia and whether its power belonged to Davy D. Jones, prompting the Four Elders to offer him anything in exchange for help seizing the Nika fruit.

Houka negotiated with the Four Elders over Road Poneglyph information and Devil Fruits, while pretending to consider their offer for the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika. He then fabricated a story about the golden giant’s Pangaea Ancient God Form, leaving the Four Elders convinced the power belonged to the Celestial Dragons.

• Houka suggested he might find and eat the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, prompting the Four Elders to warn that he could not awaken it and offer him other powerful Devil Fruits instead.
• Warcury promised ten Mythical Zoan abilities for the Nika fruit, and Houka redirected the discussion to trading the Road Poneglyph and three Mythical Zoan fruits.
• Houka promised to help locate other Road Poneglyphs and share information on the Rocks Pirates, while the Four Elders offered to help him break away from Rocks and rise in the World Government.
• Houka said he would leave Wano Country for the Grand Line and arrange a trade for the Paw-Paw Fruit and Road Poneglyph information.
• Saint Nusjuro asked about the golden giant, and Houka claimed its power was the Pangaea Ancient God Form, also known as Pangu God.
• The Four Elders demanded to know who had the ability and insisted that the Celestial Dragons reclaim it.

Houka deceived the Four Elders into believing he knew about a legendary Pangaea Ancient God Form, while Imu ordered them to keep tempting him away from Rocks. Houka then asked Rocks for permission to collect the promised Devil Fruits, and Newgate and Redfield offered to accompany him.

• Houka falsely linked the Pangaea Ancient God Form to a Kozuki genius, prompting the Four Elders to offer him two additional Devil Fruits.
• Imu learned that Rocks and Houka were in Wano Country and ordered the Four Elders to keep corrupting Houka, offering him power and support if he turned against Rocks.
• Houka celebrated fooling the Four Elders and flew back to the Pluton Battleship to ask Rocks for permission to leave and collect his Devil Fruits.
• Rocks worried that Houka might be captured, but Houka assured him he could escape danger and would send word once the trade was complete.
• Whitebeard Newgate and Redfield volunteered to accompany Houka into the Lost World and help protect him.

Houka left Wano to secure a Devil Fruit transaction while Rocks stayed behind to oversee repairs to the Pluton warship. In the Sacred Ancient Moon Empire, Amatsuki Toki waited for Houka, and Vice Admiral Tsuru sought a private audience with him to discuss a crisis involving the D Clan and Mythical Zoan users.

• Houka stored his flagship and companions in the Lost World, then flew toward the front half of the New World after Rocks insisted that Newgate and Redfield accompany him.
• Loki stayed behind, determined to grow stronger and obtain Elbaf's inheritance fruit, as the Great Hammer Warband worked to repair the Pluton warship.
• Amatsuki Toki arrived at Egghead Island, learned about the empire's peaceful coexistence among races, and waited for Houka after discovering he was away.
• Tsuru arrived at the imperial palace in disguise and offered a Devil Fruit in exchange for speaking with Houka.
• Tsuru told Tianjin Tao that her matter concerned the D Clan and Mythical Zoan users, and Tianjin Tao agreed to report it and have her wait for Houka's response.
• While waiting, Tsuru considered Houka a capable ruler and wondered whether he could help her restore pure justice and cleanse the Celestial Dragons' corruption.

Houka spoke with Tsuru, who revealed that Garp and Sengoku had been controlled by Imu, and discussed ways to free them. Houka offered to cooperate by capturing and imprisoning them in his alternate dimension, leaving Tsuru with a possible path to save them and an opening for Houka to strike the World Government.

• Houka told the Four Elders to prepare the Devil Fruit for their trade and continue supplying his ambitions rather than risk provoking him.
• Tianjin Tao connected Tsuru, disguised as 'Kujaku', to Houka after she brought the Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: Lynx.
• Tsuru revealed her true name and asked Houka whether people controlled by Imu could be freed.
• Houka realized that Garp and Sengoku had been controlled and explained that killing Imu might release them, while the Sun God Nika and Dark-Dark Fruit abilities might restrain Imu.
• Houka offered Tsuru a way to sever Imu's contractual control through his alternate dimension and proposed capturing and imprisoning the controlled Marines.

After learning that Imu had placed powerful Marines under his control, Houka grew more cautious as he flew toward the New World. On Onigashima, Loki formally asked to claim Elbaf’s inherited Nidhogg Fruit and resolved to grow stronger before challenging its guardian, Tirei Ragnir.

• Tsuru told Houka that Garp and Sengoku had been promoted to Admiral candidates, while Garp had revealed his Cerberus Fruit and challenged the Iron Hand Admiral.
• Houka suspected Imu had made several Marine powerhouses immortal and decided to take extra care during the Devil Fruit trade.
• Loki asked Harald and Elder Jarul for support in claiming the Nidhogg Fruit, which was guarded by Tirei Ragnir and the soul of Ice Squirrel Ratatoskr.
• Jarul explained that Nidhogg was the world’s largest dragon and that Ratatoskr guarded the fruit for a worthy heir; Rocks questioned whether Loki was suited to it.
• Kalleras revealed Elbaf’s legends of Nidhogg, Ratatoskr, and Eagle Vedfolnir, and said the World Government likely held Vedfolnir’s power.
• Harald declared that Loki could have the fruit if he won over Tirei Ragnir, and Loki resolved to use Houka’s Ripe-Ripe Fruit power to grow up before returning to challenge the guardian.

Houka contacted Imu through God's Blades while waiting on Raijin Island for the exchange with the Four Elders, and Imu tried to tempt him with power and rule over the New World. Houka stayed wary, intrigued Imu with talk of Yellow Springs Hell, and prepared multiple clones to manage the exchange.

• Houka told the Four Elders to bring the Devil Fruit to Raijin Island, and Saint Marcus Mars flew them there as Itsumade.
• Houka used God's Blades to call Imu and checked whether Imu had come in person while keeping watch over the sea.
• Imu offered Houka authority over the New World and help against Rocks in exchange for the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika.
• Houka asked Imu for a means of escape, agreed to bring the Nika Fruit and a second Road Poneglyph, and secured Imu's promise to prepare the Devil Fruits he wanted.
• Houka told Imu about a Revive-Revive Fruit user returning from Yellow Springs Hell, then ended the call after sparking Imu's curiosity.
• Houka called the Four Elders through a Platinum Transponder Snail and summoned vampire blood-shadow, lightning, and moonlight clones to prepare the exchange.

Houka traded a Road Poneglyph to the Four Elders for four valuable Devil Fruits, using nine convincing clones to conceal his true location. After securing the fruits, he escaped to Raijin Island, leaving the Four Elders determined to drive a wedge between him and Rocks.

• Warcury, Saint Nusjuro, and Saint Shepherd Ju Peter traveled aboard Itsumade to meet Houka, but found nine identical Houkas surrounding them.
• Saint Nusjuro tested the Road Poneglyph with Shodai Kitetsu and confirmed that the stone was unharmed.
• Saint Shepherd Ju Peter gave Houka the Nekomata Fruit and Ubume Fruit, while Saint Warcury offered the Paw-Paw Fruit and Crow Tengu Fruit in exchange for the Road Poneglyph.
• Houka transferred the four Devil Fruits into the Lost World, revealing that he had hidden his true body in the sea while all nine visible Houkas were decoys.
• Houka escaped as lightning toward Raijin Island, and the Four Elders resolved to make him and Rocks fall out.

Houka recruited Brook and shipwright Jerry and his disciples into his forces, then flew toward the Vodka Kingdom. Jerry was eager to see the Pluton battleship Houka had found.

• After the Road Poneglyph fell, Warcury and the other Elders took it to Mary Geoise to report to Imu and investigate how to destroy the Poneglyphs.
• Houka reached Water 7 and welcomed Brook aboard as the Sacred Ancient Moon's musician.
• Houka invited Tom and his teacher Jerry to join his forces, and Jerry accepted along with his disciples.
• After learning Houka had found Pluton, Jerry eagerly prepared to see the battleship, and Jerry Shipyard dismissed its laborers and left Water 7 with its core members.
• Houka's Flying Warship departed Water 7 and headed for the Vodka Kingdom.

Kozuki Houka traveled to Vodka Kingdom and recruited the ten-year-old Kaido, whose strength he believed could eventually rival an Admiral or Yonko. Kaido left with Houka aboard the Flying Warship, while the kingdom's king and the Four Elders learned of the recruitment.

• The king of Vodka Kingdom considered offering Kaido to the World Government in hopes of earning the kingdom a seat at the Reverie.
• Kozuki Houka arrived in Vodka Kingdom aboard a Flying Warship with Whitebeard Newgate and Redfield, intending to recruit Kaido.
• Houka's Conqueror's Haki overwhelmed the kingdom's military camp, and he asked Kaido whether he wanted to grow stronger and take on the Celestial Dragons.
• Kaido accepted Houka's invitation and boarded the Flying Warship, saying he was tired of the weak army.
• The king of Vodka Kingdom collapsed when he heard Houka had taken Kaido, then felt relieved that his royal family had been spared.
• The Four Elders received word that Houka had recruited Vodka Kingdom's ten-year-old warrior and gained another promising subordinate.

Ten-year-old Kaido joined Houka’s crew and met its legendary pirates, learning that he had the potential to awaken Conqueror’s Haki. After hearing about Katakuri and Loki, Kaido resolved to prove himself among the world’s other prodigies.

• Davy D. Tina Jet marveled at Kaido’s size and strength, while Kaido recognized several famous Rocks Pirates aboard the flagship.
• Houka introduced Kaido to the crew, and Kaido greeted the others.
• Whitebeard asked whether Kaido had awakened Conqueror’s Haki, and Houka judged that Kaido had the foundation for it but had not found his path.
• Kaido became excited when Tina Jet explained Conqueror’s Haki and learned that Katakuri and Loki had awakened it from birth.
• Kaido realized that other geniuses surpassed what he had known and vowed never to be inferior to anyone.

Young Vegapunk struggled to fund research that could change Baldimore’s climate and planned to form the MADS team to find support. Houka arrived on the island and located Vegapunk, while keeping the Rocks Pirates from landing to protect the scientist’s hometown from possible World Government retaliation.

• Vegapunk used his Brain-Brain Fruit and animal-modification research to pursue a way to heat Baldimore, but he lacked money and knowledge.
• Vegapunk decided to create the MADS team and seek out other scientists and potential patrons.
• Houka stopped the Rocks Pirates from landing on Baldimore because Vegapunk cared about his hometown and could be threatened through it.
• Houka searched Baldimore with his Observation Haki, transformed into lightning when he heard Vegapunk’s name, and appeared in front of him.
• Vegapunk was blinded by Houka’s flash of lightning and cried out in pain.

Vegapunk joined Houka after seeing the vast research resources available in the Lost World, then boarded the Sacred Ancient Moon’s flagship. Houka planned to visit the South Blue and East Blue to find people, but Rocks urged the crew to return to the New World.

• Vegapunk accepted Houka’s recruitment after seeing his laboratories, supplies, and research funding, and left Baldimore after writing letters to his family and the villagers.
• Aboard the flagship, Houka explained Vegapunk’s future potential, while Vegapunk eagerly examined Brook and his resurrected skeleton.
• Vegapunk realized Devil Fruit abilities could solve problems science could not and resolved to broaden his horizons at sea.
• Whitebeard Newgate told Houka that Rocks was urging them to return to the New World.
• Houka said he still wanted to visit the South Blue and East Blue to find people, including Monkey D. Dragon and the Gol D. Clan.

Houka distributed Devil Fruits to his new companions and assigned the Davy siblings to recruit members of the D Clan and rare races. The chapter left Presley, Tina Jet, and Kaido with new Mythical or Paramecia powers as the Sacred Ancient Moon Empire prepared to act across the world.

• Davy D. Presley and Davy D. Tina Jet asked Houka for Devil Fruits and offered to help find the D Clan and the Buccaneer Tribe.
• Houka gave Presley the Paw-Paw Fruit and made him Minister of Personnel, tasking him and Tina Jet with recruiting talent and enforcing justice.
• Houka gave Tina Jet the Mythical Zoan Ubume Fruit, and she and Presley ate their fruits.
• Houka offered Kaido the Gyuki Fruit, previously wielded by Saint Jaygarcia Saturn, and Kaido ate it without hesitation.
• Redfield acknowledged that he and Houka were enemies after Brook teased him about wanting a Mythical Zoan Fruit.

Houka trained the Davy siblings in their new Devil Fruit powers, then left them in the South Blue to recruit members of the D Clan and Buccaneer Tribe. News that the Rocks Pirates had obtained and converted Pluton into a flying warship reached the World Government, prompting the Four Elders to report the crisis to Imu.

• Davy D. Tina Jet tested her Ubume form while Davy D. Presley practiced the Paw-Paw Fruit, and Kaido entered Gyuki's full beast form.
• Shimotsuki Ushimaru refused a Mythical Zoan Fruit and said he wanted to become a swordsman like his brother Guizaburo.
• Houka assigned the Davy siblings to recruit the D Clan and Buccaneer Tribe in the South Blue and East Blue, and trained them during the voyage.
• Houka dropped Presley and Tina Jet off in the South Blue with a special warship and warned them to retreat if they met enemies they could not handle.
• The World Government and Marine Headquarters received news that the Rocks Pirates had obtained Pluton in Wano Country and turned it into a flying warship.
• The Four Elders reported the Pluton news to Imu, who reacted with fury at being deceived by Houka.

After Kozuki Houka tricked Imu out of five valuable Devil Fruits, Imu ordered war against him and chose a Mythical Zoan for Manmayer Gunko. Gunko ate the Eagle Vedfolnir Fruit, gaining a colossal form and powerful wind wings.

• Imu learned that Kozuki Houka had swindled the Kirin, Paw-Paw, Crow Tengu, Nekomata, and Ubume Fruits and ordered the World Government to prepare for war and kill him.
• The Four Elders mobilized, while Kukulkan, Kong, Sengoku, and Garp received Imu's order at G-1 Marine Base.
• Imu gave Manmayer Gunko a sixth Abyss Mark, making her an immortal contractor, then took her to the Devil Fruit collection.
• Gunko chose the Eagle Vedfolnir Fruit over the other Mythical Zoans, and Imu approved her choice.
• Gunko ate the fruit and transformed into a gigantic Eagle Vedfolnir, whose wings and talons overwhelmed the collection vault.

Gunko received the sixth Abyss Mark and was appointed commander of the Holy Knights, then took charge of their mission to confront the Rocks Pirates at the G-1 Marine Base. Imu planned to descend through her and stop the pirates from gaining control of Pluton.

• Imu ordered Gunko to lead the Holy Knights into the war, and Gunko changed into her commander’s uniform.
• The five remaining Holy Knights argued over who should lead them while Gunko entered their palace.
• Gunko sat in the leader’s seat and used the power of her Abyss Mark to send Saint Sommers crashing into a wall.
• Gunko declared herself the Holy Knights’ leader by Imu’s order, silencing Saint Sommers and disappointing Maffei Palace.
• Gunko ordered the Holy Knights to travel to the G-1 Marine Base without using magic teleportation arrays.
• Imu prepared to descend into Gunko and planned to prevent the Rocks Pirates from taking Pluton.

Rocks and Shiki launched the Pluton warship but learned it had energy for only two or three more shots, forcing them to reconsider their plans and depend on Houka. At G-14, Vice Admiral Tsuru prepared to seek Houka’s help and use Seastone to capture Garp and Sengoku.

• Rocks and Shiki took the Pluton warship out to sea without waiting for Houka, while Harald reminded Rocks not to target innocent nations.
• Kalleras warned that the Pluton warship’s main cannon had energy for only two or three shots, and Rocks turned to Houka for a solution.
• Silver Axe Xiong, Babel, and Elder Jarul discussed attacking Mary Geoise and finding the energy source that might also reactivate the ancient robot.
• Admiral Kong notified Vice Admiral Tsuru that the Marines were preparing for war against the Rocks Pirates and to seize or destroy Pluton.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru decided to meet Houka and obtain Seastone, considering mixing Seastone powder into Garp and Sengoku’s rice crackers to weaken them for capture.

Kozuki Houka changed course to Egghead Island after receiving Vice Admiral Tsuru’s request and learning that Amatsuki Toki was there. Aboard the Sacred Ancient Moon flagship, Houka prepared Vegapunk to study advanced technologies and instilled in Kaido the conviction to surpass the limits of their world.

• Kozuki Houka learned that Vice Admiral Tsuru wanted a secret meeting on Egghead Island and that Amatsuki Toki had arrived, so he changed course to visit the island.
• Amatsuki Toki heard that the Pluton battleship had appeared decades before the prophecy predicted and decided to stay until she learned the truth; she looked forward to meeting Kozuki Houka.
• Kozuki Houka promised Vegapunk a laboratory and research projects, and Vegapunk quickly learned the ancient language and began translating the Pluton blueprints.
• Kozuki Houka urged Kaido to seek worlds beyond their own, and Kaido vowed to break through the world’s limits and explore stronger worlds with him.
• Red wondered whether Kozuki Houka came from another world, while Brook continued investigating the parasitic soul inside Charlotte Linlin.

Houka met Amatsuki Toki and convinced her that she was destined to become his wife and the mother of a Child of Destiny. Toki began to accept his claim and asked whether he truly wanted to marry her.

• Houka secretly gave Vice Admiral Tsuru pure Seastone powder and tools before she left, intent on returning to the G-1 Branch.
• Houka decided to meet Amatsuki Toki and exploit her devotion to prophecy and fate.
• Houka revealed that he knew Toki had traveled from more than seven hundred years in the past and asked about Joy Boy.
• Houka told Toki that Joy Boy had sent her through time to become his wife and bear a Child of Destiny.
• Toki was overwhelmed by Houka's words and asked whether he really wanted to marry her.

Kozuki Houka persuaded Amatsuki Toki to stay with him, then introduced her to his companions as a witness from the era of the Great Kingdom. The chapter ended as Rocks and Shiki arrived aboard Pluton, drawing the empire’s attention and preparing to show off the Ancient Weapon.

• Houka told Amatsuki Toki that she was his fated wife, and she accepted his embrace and decided to remain in his era.
• Houka introduced Toki as his fifth woman and explained that she had traveled from more than seven hundred years in the past.
• Toki recounted what she knew of the Great War, including the Great Kingdom’s defeats and the powerful allies and weapons involved.
• Rocks and Shiki brought Pluton to the Sacred Ancient Moon Empire, while Kaido excitedly greeted the enormous warship.
• Shiki offered Houka a ride to G-1 Base or Mary Geoise, and Loki declared that he would grow up to gain greater strength.

Aboard Pluton, Houka was celebrated for obtaining the ship’s blueprints and teased Shiki and Rocks about their swords. The ship then headed to Elbaf, where Houka granted Loki’s request to accelerate his growth, leaving him as a towering forty-six-year-old giant.

• Vegapunk, Jerry, Tom, and the shipwrights studied Pluton’s blueprints, while Shiki and the others praised Houka for securing them.
• Houka jokingly downgraded Shiki’s Oto and Kogarashi in his sword rankings, and Rocks tried to distract him by proposing new names for his swords.
• Pluton sailed toward Elbaf, where Houka confirmed that Loki wanted to grow older and stronger.
• Gell Arthur used the Ripe-Ripe Fruit twice to age Loki by thirty-two years, leaving the fourteen-year-old at forty-six and vastly stronger.

Loki began brutal training to master Conqueror’s Haki Infusion while the World Government and Marines mobilized for war over Pluton. Vice Admiral Tsuru proposed infiltrating Pluton to sabotage it, and the Four Elders approved her mission.

• Loki asked Harald, Rocks, Houka, and Newgate for help mastering Conqueror’s Haki Infusion, and they supported his bid to obtain Black Dragon Nidhogg.
• The World Government and Marines tracked Pluton and the Rocks Pirates, gathered forces at G-1, and drove many New World pirates to flee.
• Aboard Pluton, Gier Buster used Negative Hollows to make Kozuki Oden repeatedly kneel in repentance, while Uzumaki Erza chose Magnolia as her epithet.
• Houka, Harald, Rocks, and Newgate mercilessly beat Loki in the Underworld to push him toward mastering Conqueror’s Haki Infusion.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru joined Garp and Sengoku’s assault team and proposed using an allied official’s guards to board Pluton and sabotage it; the Four Elders approved her plan.

As the World Government and Marine Headquarters advanced toward Elysium Island, the Rocks Pirates continued their deadly trial to master Conqueror's Haki Infusion. Roger, Redfield, Shiki, and Charlotte Linlin succeeded, but Loki did not, leaving him behind as the others prepared for war.

• Ambitious rulers and schemers watched the coming war, hoping both the World Government and New World Alliance would suffer heavy losses.
• Houka gathered the Roger Pirates and other fighters in Elbaf for the Conqueror's Haki trial, where Loki, Redfield, Shiki, Charlotte Linlin, and others endured powerful attacks.
• Gol D. Roger mastered Conqueror's Haki Infusion first, followed by Redfield and then Shiki.
• After Houka provoked Charlotte Linlin, she mastered Conqueror's Haki Infusion, while Loki remained unable to do so.
• As the World Government and Marine Headquarters advanced toward Elysium Island, Houka told Loki to stay behind, but Loki insisted on fighting alongside them.

Loki awakened immense Conqueror’s Haki, and Houka praised him as a worthy future War God and Black Dragon Nidhogg. As the group prepared to defend Elysium Island, Houka warned that Garp and Sengoku were immortal, exceptionally powerful threats under Imu’s control.

• Loki unleashed overwhelming black-and-red Conqueror’s Haki after Houka’s provocation, and Elder Jarul declared him the reborn War God of Elbaf.
• Harald embraced Loki, who promised to fight beside Houka and become the greatest dragon; Houka admitted Loki had him beat.
• Houka urged Rocks and Shiki to move before Elysium Island was destroyed, while Shiki, Rocks, Silver Axe Xiong, and Babel prepared for battle.
• Houka warned Silver Axe Xiong and Babel that Garp and Sengoku had Conqueror’s Haki, Mythical Zoan powers, and immortal bodies from Deep Sea Contracts, making them stronger than Marine Admirals.