Recaps

Tsugikuni Yoriichi left Pluto with Eikobair Oliva, learning that Oliva’s clan could communicate over any distance and that their homeland was the Holy Land, Marie Geoise. Meanwhile, Shanks rejected Zephyr’s offer to hire the Red-Haired Pirates to retake islands and proposed a strategic partnership instead.

• Eikobair Oliva told Yoriichi that his parents had left home when he was young, and Yoriichi offered to use the New Marines’ network to search for them.
• Yoriichi asked Oliva to reconsider leaving his grandparents, but Oliva insisted he had decided to follow him and explained the Eikobair Clan’s long-distance communication ability.
• Oliva gave Yoriichi an Eternal Pose and revealed that the clan’s homeland was Marie Geoise, where the Lunarians had once lived; Yoriichi set sail with him for the Holy Land.
• On Whole Cake Island, Shanks rejected Zephyr’s offer of two billion Beli for the Red-Haired Pirates to help reclaim four occupied islands.
• Shanks proposed that the Red-Haired Pirates and New Marines form a strategic partnership, with the pirates controlling any islands they captured and staying out of attacks on the New Marines.

Shanks negotiated with Zephyr for cooperation between the Red-Haired Pirates and the New Marines, but the talks collapsed when Shanks pressed for information about Tsugikuni Yoriichi killing a Gorosei. Meanwhile, Yoriichi and Oliva reached the Red Line, and Yoriichi flew toward Mary Geoise alone.

• Shanks told Zephyr that the Red-Haired Pirates would keep the territories they seized and demanded an additional price for cooperation.
• Shanks asked how Tsugikuni Yoriichi had killed Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro, alarming the New Marines with his knowledge of the Gorosei.
• Zephyr ended the negotiations, and Mihawk told Shanks that cooperation depended on strength rather than trust.
• Beckman said Shanks had raised the question too hastily, and Shanks decided the Red-Haired Pirates would take the islands and control the route to Laugh Tale regardless.
• After nearly half a month at sea, Yoriichi told Oliva to go to the Sabaody Archipelago, then transformed into a Golden Streamer and flew toward the Holy Land.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi infiltrated the Holy Land to investigate Imu’s abilities and ambushed her in Pangea Castle’s underground garden. After Imu escaped his lethal attacks by liquefying into the ground and reappeared, she recognized Yoriichi’s golden wings and concluded that he had obtained Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s Devil Fruit.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi climbed the Red Line at night and approached Mary Geoise in a black cloak.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi entered Pangea Castle undetected, avoiding its guards and surveillance Den Den Mushi.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi stabbed and beheaded Imu, but her head and body liquefied and vanished without blood.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi sensed Imu beneath the garden, escaped as the pavilion was swallowed by the ground, and watched her reappear.
• Imu recognized Yoriichi’s golden wings and accused him of obtaining Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s Devil Fruit.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi attacked Imu in the Holy Land but discovered that her strange, earth-like true body could withstand his strongest techniques, so he withdrew. Imu began repairing a serious wound, only for Yoriichi to return and strike her from behind.

• Imu recognized Yoriichi’s golden wings and attacked him, but he beheaded her with a swift strike.
• Yoriichi blasted the garden with Golden Flames, revealing that the ground itself was a living creature that could produce countless Flesh Whips.
• Yoriichi used Clear Sky to split the ground, but it flowed back together without suffering lasting damage.
• Yoriichi suspected the awakened Nika Fruit might be the only way to harm Imu’s true body and left the garden.
• Imu emerged from the ground and used black flames to repair a wound in her chest, revealing that she was not invincible.
• Yoriichi returned behind Imu and pierced her neck with his wooden staff.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi discovered that Imu could be injured and unleashed a devastating golden-flame attack across Mary Geoise. He escaped to a cave afterward, horrified by the destruction, while the chapter revealed that the Devil Fruit’s divinity was consuming his humanity.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi beheaded Imu, but Imu regenerated with black flames and attacked him with controlled fire arrows.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi countered Imu’s black flames with golden fire, engulfing the garden and injuring Saint Garling and the arriving Gorosei.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi declared that the Celestial Dragons had lost their right to rule and transformed into a growing golden fireball.
• The golden fireball exploded across Mary Geoise, annihilating exposed Celestial Dragons and slaves while a mysterious power protected some residents; the blast also shook the Red Line and was noticed in Sabaody and Marineford.
• The Gorosei and Saint Garling regenerated amid the ruins of Mary Geoise, while Tsugikuni Yoriichi escaped to a cave and collapsed in anguish.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi realized that the divinity within his Devil Fruit was consuming his humanity.

After destroying Marie Geoise, Tsugikuni Yoriichi struggled with the deaths of innocent people and questioned whether revenge had made him like the Celestial Dragons. The Gorosei investigated the attacker and feared he might be Yoriichi, while Yoriichi reached Sabaody and reunited with Rayleigh and Shakky.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi left the cavern, questioned the morality of destroying Marie Geoise, and continued toward Sabaody as planned.
• Imu restored nearly a hundred Celestial Dragons from the ground, and the Gorosei ordered an investigation into the attacker.
• The Gorosei debated whether to involve the Marines and suspected the attacker might be Tsugikuni Yoriichi, but decided to investigate the New World and Dragon's group.
• The Gorosei sealed off the Holy Land and Marine Headquarters while the Marines wondered what had happened to Marie Geoise.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi arrived at Sabaody to wait for Oliva and entered Shakky's Rip-off Bar, where he greeted Rayleigh and Shakky.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi revealed himself to Rayleigh and Shakky, explained that he had destroyed much of the Holy Land, and asked what Rayleigh knew about Imu and Laugh Tale. Rayleigh told him the Great Treasure could not yet be opened and pointed him toward Wano Country for answers.

• Yoriichi removed his hood, shocking Rayleigh and Shakky, who recognized him despite the world believing he had died.
• Yoriichi told Rayleigh that he had attacked the Holy Land and that fewer than one in a hundred there had survived, though Imu and the Gorosei remained.
• Yoriichi asked Rayleigh about Laugh Tale and how to kill Imu, but Rayleigh said the Great Treasure had not yet reached the time when it could be opened.
• Yoriichi rejected the idea of waiting for the destined moment and declared that change would begin with him.
• Rayleigh advised Yoriichi to visit Wano Country, where the Kozuki Clan had passed down the ability to decipher Poneglyphs.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi learned that Wano Country could hold clues to the World Government’s hidden history, then waited for Oliva to reach Sabaody and heard about Fish-Man Island’s growth and continuing slave trade. After the two left for Alabasta to investigate the Ancient Weapon’s power, the chapter ended with Nefertari Vivi scavenging shellfish on the former kingdom’s shore.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi told Rayleigh he hoped to visit Wano Country and settle the problems posed by Whitebeard’s crew and the New Marines, while Rayleigh warned him not to endanger Kozuki Oden or the Kōzuki Clan.
• After more than ten days, Oliva reached Shakky’s bar disguised as a wealthy merchant and recounted how he had taken over a pirate ship to reach Sabaody through Fish-Man Island.
• Oliva told Tsugikuni Yoriichi that Fish-Man Island had prospered as a commercial hub but still suffered kidnappings and an ongoing merfolk slave trade.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi decided to visit the Alabasta Kingdom in three days to assess the Ancient Weapon’s power, and Oliva agreed to accompany him.
• With Rayleigh’s help, Oliva handed his pirate crew over to the Marines, then he and Tsugikuni Yoriichi escaped Sabaody by boat while a patrol officer’s report was withheld by a lieutenant commander.
• At the former site of Alabasta, Nefertari Vivi scavenged shellfish along the shore, living like a fisherman’s daughter.

Vivi and the surviving Alabasta citizens watched a small boat challenge the Marine blockade, hoping it could bring them a chance to escape their island prison. Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Oliva reached shore, where the islanders begged Oliva to take them away, while Yoriichi hurried inland to find something near a sinkhole.

• Vivi spotted Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Oliva's boat approaching, and the Marines opened fire on it.
• Oliva used an oar to destroy the watchtower's coastal cannon, and Yoriichi propelled their boat toward shore with flames.
• The boat crashed into the beach, and the islanders crowded around Oliva and begged him to take them away.
• Yoriichi left Oliva to handle the islanders and rushed inland toward a sinkhole.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi explored the Ancient Weapon’s sinkhole in search of his lost blade while Oliva helped the Alabasta survivors seize a Marine warship and prepare to leave the island. After Garcia accused Cobra of informing on his son, Yoriichi returned with a broken sword, leaving Oliva’s response to the accusation unresolved.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi examined the sinkhole, jumped into it, and searched its magma-filled depths for his lost blade.
• Oliva subdued the Marines at the watchtower, and the Alabasta survivors executed them and took their supplies and warship.
• Oliva spent two days helping the survivors prepare to sail away from the island.
• Garcia told Oliva that Cobra had likely informed on Garcia’s son, who had been taken by the Marines while trying to escape.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi landed on the warship holding a broken sword, and Oliva greeted him without revealing their earlier conversation.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi helped Oliva prepare to take Alabasta’s refugees to safety, entrusted him with protecting Cobra and his daughter, and left for the East Blue. There, Ace and Sabo had become celebrated Marine commanders, and Ace was suppressing pirates in Loguetown while finding purpose in the people’s approval.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi told Oliva to bring willing refugees to the New Marines and gave him directions and a letter for Zephyr.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi privately told Oliva that the Nefelt clan belonged to the D clan and asked him to protect Cobra and his daughter.
• Oliva organized the refugees, disguised their warship, and prepared to sail while Tsugikuni Yoriichi departed for the East Blue.
• Marine publicity made Ace and Sabo famous as Sengoku’s adopted sons and helped improve the Marines’ reputation and recruitment.
• Ace used Fire Fist to rout pirates in Loguetown, and the cheering civilians gave him a sense of belonging and purpose.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi visited Loguetown and learned how Ace and Sabo had made the town safer and more prosperous. At the Marine Branch, Ace decided to investigate reports of disappearances at the 16th Marine Branch despite Sabo’s warning that they needed headquarters’ authorization.

• Ace escorted captured pirates through Loguetown as residents praised the Marines’ work.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi bought mulberry juice and heard from local vendors that Ace’s proactive arrests had made Loguetown safer and trade more prosperous.
• The juice seller offered Yoriichi a pancake, and Yoriichi was moved by the man’s kindness before vanishing into the crowd.
• Sabo told Ace that Bellemere, a former Marine, had reported disappearances connected to the 16th Marine Branch, but their investigation lacked headquarters’ authorization.
• Ace decided to take Marines to the 16th Marine Branch to investigate, telling Sabo to remain in Loguetown.

Bellemere spent a peaceful day in the orange grove with Nojiko and Nami until a warship from the Marine 16th Branch arrived at Cocoyasi Village. Captain Mouse demanded supplies from the villagers, who agreed because his Marines had enabled pirates to raid the village whenever their demands were refused.

• Bellemere picked an unripe orange for Nami, then teased her and Nojiko when they found it sour.
• Nojiko spotted a warship approaching Cocoyasi Village, and Bellemere hurried down the mountain with the girls.
• Captain Mouse and his Marines landed at the harbor and told Adjian and Dr. Na Gao that their branch needed the village's assistance.
• Captain Mouse implied that the Marines could not protect the village unless the villagers supplied them with money and food.
• Adjian agreed to Captain Mouse's demands, and Mouse announced that his Marines would stay on the island for a few days.

Belmerre and the villagers of Cocoyasi Village struggled to meet Captain Mouse’s annual demands, pooling money and grain despite their poverty. When Belmerre paid her share, Mouse threatened her and demanded that Nami join the Marines, leaving Belmerre at gunpoint.

• Adjian called a village meeting to organize contributions for Captain Mouse, and Na Gao offered to cover Xiang Miao’s shortfall.
• Na Gao and Adjian encouraged wealthier villagers to help, and the town collected money, grain, and supplies in the warehouse.
• Belmerre gathered more than eighty thousand Beli and brought it to the warehouse, despite having little savings.
• Captain Mouse rejected Belmerre’s contribution as insufficient, threw money at her, and ordered his Marines to aim their rifles at her.
• Mouse demanded that Nami join the Marines and pressed his gun against Belmerre’s forehead when she began to react.

Bellemere stood up to Captain Mouse and learned that her latest accusation had reached the Loguetown Marines, Ace and Sabo. The two young officers followed her home to investigate her claims, where they met Nojiko and Nami.

• Bellemere challenged Captain Mouse to shoot her, and he backed down and left the village square.
• Adjian told Bellemere that her letters accusing Captain Mouse had gone unanswered, but agreed to send one final letter to Loguetown.
• Ace and Sabo arrived, identified themselves as Marines from Loguetown, and showed Bellemere the accusation letter they had received.
• Ace and Sabo asked to speak with Bellemere at her home so they could check her circumstances and confirm her claims.
• Bellemere led Ace and Sabo to her home, where they met Nojiko and Nami.

Ace and Sabo discussed Captain Mouse’s suspected collusion with pirates with Belmer and proposed exposing him by having Cocoyasi Village resist while they defended it. Nojiko tested their resolve by firing a rifle between them, and after Ace and Sabo left, Tsugikuni Yoriichi reflected on how much they had grown.

• Belmer told Ace and Sabo that the Sixteenth Branch’s oppression had left Cocoyasi Village facing a harsh winter, while Sabo warned that Mouse might only be demoted without proof.
• Belmer described her suspicions that Mouse’s men drove villagers who refused to pay protection money into the path of pirates, and Ace said the villagers could help produce evidence.
• Ace proposed that Belmer rally the village to resist Mouse while he and Sabo defended against the expected pirate attack and captured someone for questioning.
• Nojiko loaded Belmer’s rifle and fired between Ace and Sabo to test their courage; Belmer knocked the gun aside, slapped Nojiko, and embraced her.
• Ace and Sabo left the house, leaving the decision to Belmer, while Tsugikuni Yoriichi watched from outside and reflected on their growth.

Yoriichi left the East Blue for Wano after deciding Ace and Sabo could continue their work in Cocoyasi Village without his intervention. The villagers agreed to resist Captain Mouse, and Ace and Sabo prepared to confront the pirates who arrived at the island.

• Yoriichi watched Ace and Sabo leave Belmer’s home, then vanished and set out for Wano Country.
• Nojiko and Nami confronted Adjian and Na Gao, and Nami persuaded them to let the villagers decide whether to resist Captain Mouse.
• The villagers backed Belmer’s plan, and Adjian concealed the empty granary when Captain Mouse returned to collect its supplies.
• Less than ten days later, three pirate ships approached Cocoyasi Village, and the villagers sounded the alarm.
• Belmer armed herself to defend the village while Ace and Sabo appeared on the beach; Sabo rushed to capture pirates, and Ace prepared to fight.

Sabo and Ace defeated the pirates sent to attack Cocoyasi Village and promised to investigate Captain Mouse, while Tsugikuni Yoriichi reached Wano Country. Yoriichi found the isolated island peaceful, easing his hostility toward the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates.

• Sabo appeared aboard the pirates’ ships, captured their bearded captain, and carried him back to shore.
• Ace destroyed all three pirate ships with a fire attack as the villagers gathered to resist the invasion.
• Ace introduced himself as the Loguetown Marine G-5 Branch commander and promised to investigate the 16th Branch and bring Captain Mouse to justice if the evidence supported it.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi flew across the Grand Line and Red Line, guided by a permanent Log Pose, and arrived in Wano Country.
• Yoriichi explored a bamboo grove near the Flower Capital and sensed that Wano Country’s peaceful life softened his killing intent toward the Whitebeard Pirates’ remnants.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi arrived in Wano Country and waited in the Flower Capital for Kozuki Oden to return. After Yoriichi sold a piece of gold, Kurozumi Orochi learned of the stranger and ordered his men to capture him and discover where the gold came from.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi entered Wano Country, found Kozuki Oden absent, and decided to wait for him in the Flower Capital.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi changed into local clothes and sold a piece of gold at Gold House for money.
• Gold House alerted Kurozumi Orochi that a wealthy-looking stranger had sold rare gold and might be connected to the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Kurozumi Orochi ordered his subordinate to capture Tsugikuni Yoriichi, force him to reveal the gold's source, and kill him if he had no more.
• Kurozumi Orochi returned to the teahouse and resumed forcing himself on the geisha.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi exposed two men following him in the Flower Capital and knocked them unconscious with Conqueror's Haki, drawing Kozuki Momonosuke into a fruitless pursuit. Yoriichi left for Kuri while Momonosuke's search ended at an abandoned house, where he vented his anger by cutting a table in half.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi entered a noodle shop, caught two armed men following him, and rendered them unconscious with Conqueror's Haki after they falsely accused him of stealing their money.
• Kozuki Momonosuke questioned a frightened woman and threatened her husband before ordering his men to pursue Yoriichi.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi left the Flower Capital and headed toward Kuri, hoping to explore Wano Country and find a craftsman to make a sheath for Dawn.
• Kozuki Momonosuke searched unsuccessfully for Yoriichi and later found the couple's home abandoned at Myomon Street, Third Alley, Fourth House.
• Kozuki Momonosuke slashed a table in half and stormed out toward the teahouse.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi explored Kuri and was confronted by Kozuki Momonosuke, who mistook him for a thief and tried to seize him. Yoriichi defeated Momonosuke’s forces with Conqueror’s Haki, captured him, and ordered Kin'emon and Kurozumi Kanjuro to summon Kozuki Oden.

• Yoriichi crossed into Kuri, toured Boro Town, and settled into an inn for the night.
• Momonosuke surrounded the inn with samurai after learning Yoriichi possessed gold, while Kin'emon questioned the excessive show of force and Kurozumi Kanjuro backed Momonosuke.
• Momonosuke attacked Yoriichi with a Haki-coated sword, but Yoriichi blocked the strike with his wooden staff.
• Yoriichi released Conqueror’s Haki, knocking out Momonosuke’s samurai and forcing Kin'emon and Kurozumi Kanjuro to their knees.
• Yoriichi made Momonosuke kneel and ordered Kin'emon and Kurozumi Kanjuro to summon Kozuki Oden to retrieve his son.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi captured Momonosuke after breaking his wrist, then took him to an inn and began questioning why Momonosuke had accused him of being a thief. Meanwhile, Kurozumi Kanjuro persuaded Kozuki Toki and the Nine Scabbards to plan a rescue, while secretly hoping Momonosuke would be killed.

• Momonosuke attacked Tsugikuni Yoriichi, who broke his wrist and let Kurozumi Kanjuro summon Kozuki Oden before taking the boy away.
• Kurozumi Kanjuro pleaded for Momonosuke and ordered Kin'emon to contact Kozuki Oden, while Momonosuke mistook Kanjuro's performance for loyalty.
• Kozuki Toki gathered the Nine Scabbards, and Kurozumi Kanjuro proposed a diversion and rescue plan while hiding his wish for Momonosuke's death.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi struck Momonosuke's shoulder blade and began questioning why he had been called a thief.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi tortured Momonosuke until he confessed that he had targeted him for gold, then questioned him about Kozuki secrets and history. After learning that Momonosuke knew little, Yoriichi waited at an inn in Boro Town and sensed several people approaching, ready to confront them.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi stabbed Momonosuke and discovered that Dawn slowly repaired itself by absorbing human blood.
• Yoriichi threatened Momonosuke with increasingly dangerous wounds until Momonosuke confessed that he wanted Yoriichi's gold.
• Yoriichi asked Momonosuke about the Kozuki Clan's secret script, Kozuki Oden's voyage journal, the Poneglyph, Joy Boy, and Imu.
• Momonosuke revealed that he knew little, so Yoriichi concluded he still needed to seek answers from Kozuki Oden.
• That night, Yoriichi sensed several people approaching his inn in Boro Town and prepared to teach them a lesson.

The Nine Red Scabbards attacked Tsugikuni Yoriichi to rescue Momonosuke, but Yoriichi quickly defeated several of them and revealed his identity to Inuarashi and Nekomamushi. He held Momonosuke and demanded they answer for the ambush, as Inuarashi and Nekomamushi began transforming beneath the full moon.

• Momonosuke sensed the approaching Nine Red Scabbards and stayed quiet, hoping they would rescue him from Yoriichi.
• Raizo sent shadow clones into Yoriichi’s room to seize Momonosuke, but Yoriichi destroyed them with golden flames.
• Inuarashi and Nekomamushi attacked Yoriichi, who knocked them into the street with his Conqueror’s Haki and a sword strike; he also blasted away Kawamatsu, Raizo, and Kikunojo.
• Yoriichi identified himself to Inuarashi and Nekomamushi as Tsugikuni Yoriichi and explained that Momonosuke had come looking for him over his gold.
• Yoriichi dragged Momonosuke to his side and said he would settle the ambush with Kozuki Oden when he returned to Wano Country.
• Inuarashi and Nekomamushi refused to hand over Momonosuke and began transforming under the full moon.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi observed Nekomamushi and Inuarashi transform into Sulong, then fought them while Ashura Doji escaped with Momonosuke. Yoriichi wounded both Mink warriors and left Nekomamushi bleeding on the street after his attack passed through Yoriichi’s Golden Flames.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi imitated the Sulong transformation but gained little, while Nekomamushi and Inuarashi transformed beneath the full moon.
• Nekomamushi attacked Yoriichi as Ashura Doji ran toward the inn entrance to rescue Momonosuke, but Yoriichi effortlessly deflected Nekomamushi into a wall.
• Inuarashi threw Momonosuke to Ashura Doji, who caught him and fled through the inn toward their reinforcements.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi appeared beside Inuarashi, slashed his chest, and then broke his sword when Inuarashi continued attacking.
• Nekomamushi charged Yoriichi with his electrified claws, but his strike hit Golden Flames instead of Yoriichi’s true body, and Yoriichi slashed him down.