Recaps

Kozuki Houka seized Gran Tesoro, killed Baccarat, and took control of Gild Tesoro and Tanaka as Rocks fought Garp and revealed he came from another time and space. News of the Celestial Dragons’ deaths and Gran Tesoro’s capture spread, prompting Doflamingo to prepare for chaos and the World Government and Marines to mobilize against Rocks and Houka.

• Rocks split apart the extreme storm, defeated Garp, and told him he had come to kill Imu and conquer the world from another time and space where Houka was a great prophet.
• Kozuki Houka killed Baccarat, drained Tesoro’s captives, and began transporting Gran Tesoro through a Rainbow Gate toward Lost Island.
• Kozuki Houka made Gild Tesoro his high-level blood servant and took control of Tanaka, while Tesoro watched Gran Tesoro disappear.
• Doflamingo heard that Houka had killed four Celestial Dragons and seized Gran Tesoro, moved supplies and funds to secret bases, and passed the news to the Beasts Pirates.
• The World Government and Marine Headquarters learned that Rocks had defeated and captured Garp, then assigned the Marines to pursue Rocks and the Holy Knights to recover Gran Tesoro.

Houka moved Rocks and Garp to the Eternal Country, then left Rocks on Elbaf before heading to Wano to hunt Kaido. The Holy Knights searched unsuccessfully for the Gran Tesoro while the World Government and major powers prepared for the coming conflict.

• Houka appeared before Rocks and Garp, split the storm with a slash, and sent them through the Rainbow Gate to the Eternal Country.
• Houka left Rocks on Elbaf and said he would return when it was time to attack Mary Geoise, prompting Loki to challenge Rocks to a battle in the Underworld.
• Kuzan and Sengoku worried after the Marines lost track of Garp, while Figarland Garling ordered the Holy Knights to search for the missing Gran Tesoro.
• Houka flew toward Wano, intending to devour Kaido and gain enough power to reach God-level Conqueror's Haki.
• Doflamingo learned that the World Government had summoned the Shichibukai, while Blackbeard sent Lafitte to seek a Shichibukai position using Ace as a bargaining chip.
• Houka arrived at Onigashima at night and prepared to kill Kaido.

Kozuki Houka attacked Onigashima and overwhelmed Kaido of the Beasts, forcing the Beasts Pirates’ officers to consider retreat. Queen the Plague offered to remove Yamato’s seastone cuffs so she could hold Houka off, leaving her poised to enter the battle.

• Houka’s Conqueror’s Haki and Blood Shadow Bats swept across Onigashima, killing and incapacitating many Beasts Pirates grunts.
• Kaido of the Beasts flew toward the disturbance, but Houka’s blast knocked him from the sky and revealed Houka’s enormous dragon form.
• Houka and Kaido clashed in midair, and Houka pinned Kaido down while King the Conflagration and Jack joined the fight.
• Yamato asked Queen the Plague and Ulti to remove her seastone cuffs, but Ulti accused her of planning to escape, and Yamato attacked her.
• Houka defeated King with one blow and badly injured Jack with a shock wave, prompting Queen the Plague, Who’s-Who, and Sasaki to prepare to retreat.
• Queen the Plague offered to remove Yamato’s explosive seastone cuffs and ordered her to hold Houka off.

Kozuki Houka defeated and devoured Kaido, then unleashed a vampire-bat massacre across Wano to draw out three gods. As the blood bats descended on the Flower Capital, Kyoshiro rushed to protect Komurasaki.

• Queen the Plague unlocked Yamato’s bomb cuffs and fled with Who’s-Who and Sasaki as Houka’s lightning clone drove them back.
• Yamato attacked Houka, who sent her flying, broke her kanabo, and pierced Kaido before devouring him to take his power.
• Houka’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked out the Beasts Pirates, and his blood bats drained King, Jack, Queen, and the Flying Six before he captured their Devil Fruit users.
• Houka massacred the Beasts Pirates and prisoners at Udon’s seastone mines, then flew toward the Flower Capital while declaring he meant to draw out three gods.
• Blood bats attacked the sleeping samurai and ninja in the Flower Capital, and Kyoshiro hurried toward Komurasaki’s quarters.

Houka devastated Wano Country, captured Kurozumi Orochi, and hunted for ability users while trying to draw out the Three Gods. Meanwhile, news of his 5.5-billion-Beli bounty and the disappearance of the Beasts Pirates and Red Hair Pirates alarmed the world, as the Marines analyzed his power and influence.

• Houka unleashed blood bats on the Flower Capital, but the Three Gods did not react as Kurozumi Orochi fled north and Kyoshiro led Komurasaki and the others toward Kuri.
• Houka defeated Orochi's guards and captured him for Kamui, then continued slaughtering samurai and ninjas and hunting ability users across Wano Country.
• Newspapers reported Houka's 5.5-billion-Beli bounty and crimes, while the World Government failed to suppress the news and Morgans reported that Big Mom's crew had become the Empress Pirates.
• The Straw Hat Pirates returned from Skypiea, stumbled into Marine G-8 Base, and escaped toward Water 7 while Kuzan remained occupied by the Marine crisis over Garp and Rocks.
• Rayleigh and Shakky learned that the Red Hair Pirates and the Beasts Pirates' intelligence agents had gone silent, prompting concern across the World Government and Marine Headquarters.
• The Marines' think tank concluded that Houka was the central figure obeyed by young Big Mom, young Whitebeard, and Rocks.

The World Government prepared to publicly execute Fire Fist Ace, hoping to draw in the Whitebeard Pirates and eliminate Kozuki Houka, Rocks, and other threats from another spacetime. In Wano Country, Houka forced Kozuki Hiyori to accept a mining and potato-planting job in exchange for sparing the remaining people, then left her with an ultimatum for his return.

• Sengoku the Buddha reported his concerns about the planned execution to the Five Elders, who committed the Holy Knights and the World Government to suppressing Houka and Rocks.
• The Five Elders approved Blackbeard Teach as a Shichibukai, summoned the other Shichibukai, and arranged preparations for Ace's public execution.
• Jinbe refused to help fight the Whitebeard Pirates after learning Ace was to be executed, and the World Government detained him.
• In Wano Country, Houka killed Ashura Doji and beat Denjiro, then offered Kozuki Hiyori a job digging mines and planting potatoes in exchange for the people's safety.
• Hiyori accepted Houka's terms, and Houka ordered her to move people to the Flower Capital and Udon and restore Udon's Seastone mine before he returned.

The Straw Hat Pirates faced death during the Buster Call at Enies Lobby until Nami and Robin summoned Houka with their Sparklences. Houka arrived, saved them, and left the Buster Call fleet under attack while capturing the Cipher Pol No. 9 team.

• As the battered Straw Hat Pirates prepared to jump into the sea to escape the incoming shells, Nami called Houka and convinced Robin to activate their Sparklences.
• Nami and Robin summoned Houka as a giant of lightning, and his Conqueror's Haki destroyed the shells in the sky.
• Houka returned to human form, reassured Robin, and summoned two flaming meteorites toward the Buster Call fleet.
• Houka detected the retreating Cipher Pol No. 9 agents, knocked them unconscious, and sent them to the Lost World for imprisonment.

Houka destroyed the Buster Call fleet, then invaded Impel Down and began capturing Devil Fruit users while fighting his way through the prison. He reached Infinite Hell as its notorious prisoners awakened and prepared to face him.

• Houka destroyed the Buster Call fleet and sent the Straw Hat Pirates away on a boat, while they discussed their Sparklence devices and headed back toward Water 7.
• Sengoku ordered Marine forces to mobilize, and the World Government sent the Holy Knights to join the effort against Houka.
• Houka sealed Impel Down inside a Thunder Cage, defeated Magellan, and took him away in Seastone handcuffs.
• Houka recruited Buggy to help identify Devil Fruit users, then swept through the prison levels, capturing powered prisoners and killing others.
• Ivankov watched Houka's advance on the surveillance feeds as Redfield, Bullet, and Shiryu awakened in Infinite Hell.

Houka broke into Impel Down’s Infinite Hell to seize powerful Devil Fruit abilities, killing Byrnndi World and overpowering the prisoners. He spared Buggy and approached Redfield, revealing that another version of Redfield was his friend and the godfather of his third son.

• Shiryu, Redfield, Bullet, Crocodile, Ace, Jinbe, and the other prisoners reacted as Houka blasted open the gate to Infinite Hell.
• Houka killed Byrnndi World and took the More-More Fruit ability, bringing his reclaimed abilities to five.
• Houka knocked out the prisoners with Conqueror’s Haki and sent the Devil Fruit users through a Rainbow Gate.
• Buggy begged Houka for mercy, and Houka spared him because he valued his luck.
• Houka told Redfield that another version of him was his friend and his third son’s godfather, then said he would find Pure Gold for that Redfield.

Houka used Buggy the Clown’s Lucky Conqueror’s Haki to give Redfield a chance to become Enma’s sword spirit as he died. The attempt remained uncertain, but Houka’s own power evolved and he prepared to pursue God-level Conqueror’s Haki later.

• Redfield accepted his death and said he wished he could meet his happier self from another timeline.
• Houka stabbed Redfield with Enma and transferred Buggy the Clown’s Lucky Conqueror’s Haki to him, hoping he would become the blade’s spirit.
• Redfield turned to dust, while Buggy landed on a wooden splinter and was badly injured.
• Houka felt his body evolve after combining the innate Haki of Loki, Charlotte Linlin, and Redfield.
• Houka sensed he could reach God-level Conqueror’s Haki but chose to keep refining his peak pseudo-God-level Haki until a more fitting moment.

Houka turned Enma into a permanent Black Blade and discovered that the Red Earl had survived as its sword spirit. The Red Earl manifested as a sword-man, while Shiryu of the Rain became eager to follow his example and gain immortality.

• Houka’s Conqueror’s Haki overwhelmed Bullet, Shiryu of the Rain, and the other prisoners, who hoped Houka would take them out of Infinite Hell.
• The Red Earl appeared as Enma’s sword spirit, having survived through his obsession, Enma’s incomplete spirit, and the fortune of Houka and Buggy the Clown.
• Houka coated Enma in Armament Haki, transforming it into a permanent Black Blade, and told the Red Earl to adapt to his new body.
• The Red Earl transformed into a sword-man and revealed that he had gained immortality, astonishing the great pirates who had not seen him as a spirit.
• The Red Earl sensed a connection to Buggy the Clown, while Shiryu of the Rain eagerly wished to become a blade and keep killing forever.

Kozuki Houka forced the prisoners in Impel Down’s Infinite Hell to prove their resolve by agreeing to fight the World Government, while the Marines assessed the devastation at Enies Lobby. The chapter left the Admirals anticipating the coming battle over Ace and Boa Hancock admiring Houka from afar.

• Bullet asked Houka to let him join so he could challenge him, and Shiryu and other prisoners also offered to follow him.
• Houka asked the prisoners whether they dared to fight the World Government and kill Celestial Dragons, then began another brutal round of selection and slaughter.
• Akainu, Kuzan, and Kizaru surveyed the destroyed Buster Call fleet and debated the threat posed by Houka, Rocks, and the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Kizaru worried that Ace’s public execution could draw the Whitebeard Pirates, Rocks, and Houka into a battle at Marineford.
• Momonga learned the Buster Call fleet had been annihilated, while Boa Hancock read about Houka and called him handsome.

Boa Hancock refused to answer the World Government’s summons, choosing instead to seek information about Kozuki Houka while the Marines faced threats from Rocks and the Whitebeard Pirates. Whitebeard resolved to die in battle to protect his crew and asked young Newgate to let him see Ace once more before Marineford.

• Boa Hancock dismissed Granny Gloriosa’s concerns and refused to cooperate with the World Government, believing it was too busy fighting Rocks and the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Granny Gloriosa worried that Hancock had fallen in love with Kozuki Houka and that Amazon Lily would suffer retaliation from the World Government.
• Whitebeard offered his life so young Newgate could become the Whitebeard Pirates’ stronger protector, but Marco pleaded with him not to die.
• Young Newgate told Marco that he would become the crew’s captain and said he would ask Houka to let Whitebeard die on the battlefield.
• Whitebeard asked young Newgate to let him see Ace once more and resolved to declare that One Piece existed; the Whitebeard Pirates’ subordinate crews began gathering.

Shakky, Rayleigh, and the World Government feared that the Red Hair Pirates and Beasts Pirates had vanished, while Luffy prepared to rescue Ace and Marineford mobilized for war. The chapter ended with the Admirals rushing to Impel Down after Kozuki Houka surrounded it with a lightning cage.

• Shakky urged Rayleigh to return to Amazon Lily after they failed to reach Shanks and Gaban and feared the Red Hair Pirates and Beasts Pirates had been destroyed.
• Cipher Pol Aigis Zero found signs that the Beasts Pirates had been destroyed, prompting the Five Elders and Holy Knights to focus on other threats.
• After learning Ace would be executed, Luffy urged Franky and Iceburg to finish the Sunny so the Straw Hat Pirates could leave Water 7 and rescue him.
• At Marineford, Kuma searched for Gecko Moria, Doflamingo went to Jaya, Mihawk waited, and Blackbeard secretly investigated Impel Down.
• News that Kozuki Houka had surrounded Impel Down with a lightning cage sent Akainu, Kizaru, and Aokiji racing there to stop him.

Houka emptied Impel Down of its powerful prisoners, leaving Fire Fist Ace behind for Hannyabal, then returned to Elbaf and prepared to exploit the coming Marine-Whitebeard war to strike at Imu and the World Government. Rocks learned that Blackbeard Teach had become a Shichibukai and urged Houka to take him down.

• Houka took most of Impel Down’s prisoners as blood servants, candidates, or crew, but left Fire Fist Ace behind with Hannyabal and warned him to keep Ace safe.
• After Houka departed, Hannyabal found Impel Down’s prisoners and officers dead or captured, while Ace discovered he was the only living prisoner left in Infinite Hell.
• The three Admirals arrived and discussed Houka’s massacre; Akainu suspected Houka wanted Marine Headquarters and the Whitebeard Pirates to clash, and the Five Elders ordered Ace returned for execution.
• Houka told Loki and Rocks that Marine Headquarters was gathering to fight the Whitebeard Pirates and that they would attack Imu and the World Government once the forces assembled.
• Rocks saw that Blackbeard Teach had become a Shichibukai and demanded that Houka take him to find Teach, while Teach lamented that Impel Down’s prisoners were gone and his plan might fail.

Teach planned to build the Blackbeard Pirates by hunting Devil Fruit users among the Supernovas gathered at Sabaody, while Kuma watched the Straw Hat Pirates defeat Gecko Moria in the Florian Triangle. Houka returned to Sabaody after making Rocks seize Devil Fruits in the Lost World, where Teach’s attempt to recruit Urouge turned into a fight.

• Teach abandoned his plan to recruit prisoners from Impel Down and looked for powerful Devil Fruit users among Whitebeard’s crew, Marines, and the Supernovas.
• Kuma failed to make Gecko Moria cooperate, then watched the Straw Hat Pirates defeat Moria and decided to confront them himself.
• Teach brought Burgess and the others to Sabaody to hunt Urouge and Trafalgar Law, while his crew considered other Devil Fruit targets.
• Houka took Rocks and Loki to the Lost World, where Rocks seized Devil Fruit abilities from Impel Down prisoners, then Houka teleported to Sabaody.
• Teach praised Urouge’s strength and offered him a place in the Blackbeard Pirates, but Urouge refused and attacked Teach with a massive black pillar.

Teach defeated Mad Monk Urouge and tried to leave with him, but Rocks appeared and overpowered Teach. Houka then rounded up the Supernovas with his kicks and left them pinned beneath Rocks’s gravity.

• Teach used Black Vortex to cancel Urouge’s Devil Fruit power, defeated him, and carried him away with the Blackbeard Pirates.
• The hidden Supernovas watched Teach leave, while Hawkins’s fortune predicted a fifty percent chance of death and a ninety percent chance of imprisonment.
• Rocks arrived through a Rainbow Gate, forced the Blackbeard Pirates to their knees, and seized Teach by the throat.
• The Supernovas recognized Houka, whose lightning-fast attacks drove them to flee.
• Houka and his electric clones kicked Kid, Killer, Law, Bonney, X Drake, Apoo, Bege, and Hawkins back into Rocks’s gravity field, where they were pinned down.

Kozuki Houka subdued the Supernovas and spared Jewelry Bonney, then helped Rocks revive the two souls left in Blackbeard Teach’s body. After Ivankov and Houka transformed Teach into a woman named Tillyna, she immediately sought to steal other Devil Fruit powers.

• Houka pinned the Supernovas under gravity, spared Bonney, and released her from the restraints.
• Rocks discovered that Tina and Tilly had survived in Teach’s body after he took the Dark-Dark Fruit power.
• Houka healed Teach and brought in Ivankov, who used hormones to feminize Teach.
• Houka used the Remodeling Factory to reshape Teach into a slender woman and named her Tillyna.
• Rocks told Tillyna to live peacefully, but she asked him to plunder Law’s Op-Op Fruit and Kid’s Magnet-Magnet Fruit powers.

Kozuki Houka subdued the Supernovas and the Blackbeard Pirates while Rocks tried to secure a Devil Fruit for Tillyna. The chapter ended with Tillyna renaming her crew and sailing for the New World as Houka watched Rayleigh flee.

• Tillyna tried to claim the captured Devil Fruit users, but Houka blasted her away and took custody of the Supernovas and Blackbeard Pirates.
• Rocks scolded Tillyna, then asked Houka for a Devil Fruit to help protect her and agreed to owe him another favor.
• Kid awakened Conqueror's Haki while resisting Houka, but Houka suppressed him and handed him to Rocks, who killed him.
• Houka sent the other Supernovas to the Lost World and released the Blackbeard Pirates; Rocks took Tillyna with him and then kicked her away.
• Tillyna renamed the Blackbeard Pirates the Tillyna Pirates and set course for the New World, while Houka noticed Rayleigh and made him flee.

Houka killed Rayleigh and Shakky after Rocks returned to the Lost World, then left Sabaody for Kozuki Village. News of Houka and Rocks defeating Teach and the Supernovas spread, while Kuma began searching desperately for the captured Bonney.

• Houka sent Rocks back to the Lost World and went to Shakky's Rip-off Bar, while news of their victory over Teach and the Supernovas spread.
• Rayleigh returned to Shakky's Rip-off Bar and warned her that Rocks and Houka were terrifyingly powerful, so they tried to flee through a hidden passage.
• Houka caught Rayleigh and Shakky, crushed Rayleigh's sword with Advanced Conqueror's Haki, and killed them both.
• Houka left Sabaody and headed for Kozuki Village to search for the Moon-Moon Fruit.
• Kuma learned that Bonney had been captured and began searching for Houka, asking the World Government, Marine Headquarters, and Dragon for help.

As the world prepared for war at Marineford, Luffy sought Houka’s help to save Ace, while Houka continued searching for the Moon-Moon Fruit and Wapol. Houka found and ate the fruit, then set out to find Wapol before the war began.

• The Straw Hat Pirates reached Sabaody Archipelago, where Luffy worried that they lacked the strength to rescue Ace from Marineford.
• Zoro reminded Luffy of Houka, and Luffy called him; Houka assured Luffy that Ace would not die.
• Houka found the Moon-Moon Fruit hidden near the rebuilt former Kozuki Village and ate it.
• After learning Wapol was selling memory alloy toys on an island in Paradise, Houka headed there to find him before the war.
• Wapol shivered as he sold toys and vowed revenge on Luffy.

Houka arrived at Sabaody to save Zoro from Kizaru, then clashed with the admiral and warned him of coming upheaval. The fight left Kizaru destroying buildings across the grove islands as Houka questioned his motives.

• Houka killed Wapol, reclaimed and fused the Munch-Munch Fruit ability, and answered Nami and Nico Robin’s summons.
• Kizaru prepared to kill Zoro, but Houka appeared beside him and let Usopp and Brook carry Zoro away.
• Houka released Bonney, told Kizaru that Kuma might die and Vegapunk could be forced into danger, and predicted the Celestial Dragons’ destruction and a new King of the World.
• Houka and Kizaru formed lightning and light swords and began fighting at high speed.
• Kizaru’s slashes demolished the Yarukiman Mangrove and dozens of buildings, including properties linked to slave traders and the underground mob.

Houka defeated Kizaru and Kuma on the Sabaody Archipelago, captured Saint Rosward's family, and arranged for Kuma to deliver electromagnetic wave receivers. Bonney reunited with Kuma and begged him to avoid further modifications, but Kuma believed he had no choice but to continue.

• Houka and Kizaru fought across the lawless zone as the Straw Hat Pirates and Bonney fled, while reinforcements headed for Sabaody.
• Houka overpowered Kizaru, captured Saint Rosward's family, and used a lightning clone to keep Kizaru occupied.
• Kuma arrived and attacked Houka, but Houka defeated him and caught Bonney as she rushed to him.
• Houka asked Kuma to deliver electromagnetic wave receivers to islands in the West Blue and South Blue, then returned Bonney to him.
• Houka told Kuma that Bonney had recovered and urged him to abandon Vegapunk's modifications, but Kuma said he had already been modified too far and could not run away.
• Bonney clung to Kuma and vowed not to let Vegapunk modify him, while Kuma believed continuing the process was his only choice.

Houka held three Celestial Dragons hostage and demanded that Fire Fist Ace’s execution be moved up, eager to bring on the war. The Five Elders agreed to hold the execution in three days, while taunting Houka to attend.

• Houka refused Jewelry Bonney’s plea to save Kuma, telling Kuma he had to choose to change his fate himself.
• Houka spun the three Celestial Dragons in the air and proposed moving Ace’s execution forward, forcing Kizaru to contact the World Government.
• Houka sensed the Marine fleet approaching and boasted that the Admirals and Four Emperors were beneath him.
• The Five Elders agreed to move Ace’s execution to three days from then if Houka released the hostages, and challenged him not to miss the war.

Kozuki Houka negotiated with the Five Elders while keeping three Celestial Dragons hostage, then faced the Marines and Shichibukai who gathered at Sabaody. After injuring and returning the captives, he vanished and challenged them to meet him at Marineford.

• Kizaru confirmed that Houka and the Five Elders had reached an agreement, but Houka refused to release the Celestial Dragons immediately.
• Bonney urged Kuma to ask Houka for help, while Kuma told her to join the Revolutionary Army if he died; Bonney refused to accept his death.
• The Marine fleet and Shichibukai arrived, and Mihawk sensed that Houka was an overwhelming threat while the Pirate Empress fell for him.
• Kizaru warned Akainu not to provoke Houka, but the Admirals formed a loose encirclement around him.
• Houka cut off Saint Charlos's ears, threw him to Akainu, and tossed the other two Celestial Dragons to Kizaru and Aokiji.
• Houka turned into lightning and disappeared, telling the gathered Marines and Shichibukai to see him at Marineford.