Recaps

Oran negotiated possible sales and medical care with Alabasta's queen, while Otohime returned safely to Merfolk Island and the fish-men expanded their mining team. At the beginning of 1500, World Government agents arrived at Firefly Island to discuss Ohara with Oran.

• Oran pitched Alabasta's queen Titi on Piltover's products, and she said she needed to consult Cobra before deciding what to buy.
• Igaram asked Oran to arrange medical treatment for Titi, and Oran agreed to provide the best doctors.
• Oran asked Ginny to watch for threats to Otohime, then arranged safe passage for the Ryugu Kingdom delegation and an escort for Alabasta's visitors.
• Otohime returned safely to Merfolk Island, and Arlong joined Shak's fish-man deep-sea mining team to watch for human schemes.
• At the beginning of 1500, Spandine arrived at Firefly Island on the Five Elders' orders and told Oran the matter concerned Ohara.

Spandine delivered a message from the Five Elders to Oran, but Lyliana’s newly awakened Conqueror’s Haki briefly overwhelmed him. After she finished training, Oran connected to Wororochy, who revealed that the Five Elders had summoned him for another matter rather than to inspect his research.

• Spandine told Oran that he had come to deliver an order from the Five Elders concerning Ohara.
• Lyliana’s Conqueror’s Haki erupted, frightening Spandine while leaving Oran unaffected.
• Lyliana joined Oran and discussed her progress training Conqueror’s Haki.
• Spandine connected the Den Den Mushi, and Wororochy said the Five Elders had come to discuss a different matter, not inspect Oran’s research.

Oran went to Ohara to persuade Clover to abandon his research, while the World Government prepared to destroy the island regardless. Sauron defected after refusing to carry out the order against the scholars, and Spandine found the Poneglyph, declaring Ohara’s scholars guilty and sentencing them to death.

• Wororochy told Oran the World Government would spare Ohara’s scholars if Clover stopped researching history, though the Five Elders expected him to refuse.
• Sauron’s Marines killed thirty-three scholars while capturing Nico Olvia, and Sengoku ordered him to prepare for a Buster Call on Ohara.
• Sauron defected with Olvia after refusing to obey the order, but their escape went awry and they drifted toward Ohara.
• Spandine arrived at Ohara with Oran, gathered the island’s scholars, and searched the Tree of Knowledge for evidence.
• Oran warned Clover that the World Government had used his research as bait, but Clover refused to stop and asked to speak to the Five Elders.
• Spandine found the Poneglyph in the library basement and sentenced the scholars to death.

Clover defied the Five Elders, prompting them to order Ohara’s destruction, while Oran and his allies escaped the bombardment with Kuzan’s help. The Marines resumed the attack, but Sakazuki’s assault on an evacuation ship led Lyliana to confront him, with Kuzan intervening as the chapter ended.

• Clover rejected the Five Elders’ rhetoric and began reporting his findings before they ordered his execution and activated the Buster Call.
• Spandine activated the Buster Call while still on Ohara, and Oran led the CP Agency agents away from the central bombardment zone.
• Lyliana reached Kuzan and persuaded him to pause the bombardment long enough for Oran and the agents to escape.
• Kuzan confronted Sakazuki over the premature bombardment, and the warships paused briefly before resuming their attack on Ohara.
• Sakazuki ordered an evacuation ship burned, prompting Lyliana to strike him and argue that the World Government had authorized the passengers’ departure.
• Kuzan blocked Sakazuki from retaliating against Lyliana and challenged his justification for attacking her.

Lyliana fought Sakazuki after he bombarded the evacuation ship, while Kuzan restrained Sakazuki and let her attack. Spandine and Sengoku tried to stop the fight, and Oran went to intervene as Sengoku called out to Sakazuki.

• Kuzan stopped Sakazuki from attacking Lyliana while allowing her to strike him, and the two fought without using their Devil Fruit abilities.
• Lyliana criticized Sakazuki's absolute justice and continued attacking him as their clash damaged the warship's deck.
• Sauron carried Robin away from Ohara after recognizing the force of Lyliana's attack as resembling Elbaf Spear.
• Spandine learned that Lyliana and Sakazuki were fighting, contacted Sengoku, and hurried to Oran for help.
• Oran rose to go to the warship, and Sengoku's voice called for Sakazuki to stop.

Sauron helped Robin escape Ohara while Kuzan froze him, and the Buster Call destroyed the island. Oran preserved Ohara’s books and began telling Lyliana how his companions’ bond began at God Valley.

• Rasky delivered a Den Den Mushi to Oran as Sakazuki and Lyliana fought, and Kuzan helped end the clash.
• Sauron sent Robin away along an ice route created by Kuzan, then allowed Kuzan to freeze him.
• The Buster Call razed Ohara, while a mysterious book vanished and Spandine declared the island clear of survivors.
• Oran traveled with Lyliana to the Flower Country and showed her the books he had saved from Ohara.
• Oran told Lyliana that his bond with Kate, Bear, and Ginny had begun at God Valley sixteen years earlier.

Oran told Lyliana about the World Government’s crimes and warned her that they would eventually need to overthrow it. After Ohara’s destruction, Dragon resolved to arm the Freedom Army, while Vegapunk gave him Gray’s contact information; Oran returned to Firefly Island with a pink-haired girl.

• Oran explained God Valley, the Celestial Dragons, and Ohara’s destruction to Lyliana, who agreed that the World Government deserved to be opposed.
• Spandine blamed the Marines for the chaos at Ohara, while Sengoku praised Kuzan for stopping Sakazuki from forcing Dr. Siderial into opposition.
• Vegapunk visited Ohara and found Sauron and the giants salvaging the scholars’ books.
• Dragon met Vegapunk at Ohara and resolved to replace the Freedom Army with an armed Revolutionary Army.
• Vegapunk gave Dragon Gray’s contact information so he could obtain weapons, and Oran returned to Firefly Island with a pink-haired girl.

After returning to Piltover, Oran adopted Perona, a three-year-old Spirit-Spirit Fruit user whom Lyliana found in a graveyard. As rumors about Oran’s new daughter spread, Ginny asked to borrow Perona to tease Bear Cub about marriage.

• People in a tavern speculated that Oran had returned with an illegitimate daughter, and Brand cautioned them against disrespectful gossip.
• Brand explained that Oran had adopted the girl and left the tavern after drinking.
• Nayafili appeared outside the tavern with a message saying Oran was on vacation, while Absalom knelt under the influence of a ghost.
• Ginny questioned Oran about Perona, and he explained that Lyliana had found her at Grave Country and that she possessed the Spirit-Spirit Fruit.
• Ginny asked to borrow Perona so she could provoke Bear Cub and encourage him to marry.

Oran explained Perona’s Spirit-Spirit Fruit and helped Ginny gain her trust, while Absalom left to train after being overwhelmed by Perona’s ability. Vegapunk told Oran that the Freedom Army was turning to armed struggle, and Impel Down announced that Golden Lion had escaped.

• Perona cried when Ginny tried to take her, but Oran reassured her and Ginny eventually led her away.
• Oran explained that Perona had the Spirit-Spirit Fruit and described how her Negativity Ghosts could overwhelm opponents.
• Absalom blamed himself for failing to resist Perona’s ability and went to train with Brand.
• Vegapunk told Oran he had visited Ohara and said the Freedom Army was shifting from protests to armed struggle.
• An alarm rang through Impel Down, announcing that Golden Lion had escaped from prison.

Golden Lion Shiki escaped from Impel Down, prompting Oran to consider the danger to Piltover while Bear returned from Sky Island with news and a gold payment. Bear then learned Ginny might want a child with him and fled, leaving Perona crying and Kate searching for an intruder.

• Magellan reported that Golden Lion had cut off his feet to escape his shackles, and Shiki soon confronted him before fleeing Impel Down alone.
• Morgans publicized Shiki’s escape, the warden resigned, and Magellan became the new warden as the pirate tide rose again.
• Bear brought Oran news of Shiki’s escape and reported that the Shandia and Sky Islanders had reached a truce while the Shandia ordered more weapons.
• Bear went to Ginny’s residence, where Perona opened the door, and Ginny teased him about having a child of his own.
• Bear vanished after Ginny’s suggestion, Perona began crying, and Kate arrived to investigate the damaged wall.

After Golden Lion escaped Impel Down, he visited Whitebeard and then traveled to Piltover to recruit Oran as his right-hand man. Oran refused and challenged Golden Lion’s ambitions by bringing up Rocks, and Golden Lion’s attempt to test his strength ended with Lyliana unleashing Divine Departure.

• Ginny found Bear after he fled and put him to work repairing the wall while she considered a new way to get him to take medicine.
• Zephyr warned Oran that Golden Lion had escaped, while Sengoku asked Garp to protect the East Blue; Garp agreed and caught Ace as he tried to crawl away.
• Golden Lion visited Whitebeard aboard the Moby Dick, spoke about Roger and his plans to disappear, and left with a bottle of Whitebeard’s liquor.
• Golden Lion arrived in Piltover, recognized Croccus, and asked Oran to become his right-hand man so they could dominate the world.
• Oran refused Golden Lion’s offer and questioned whether he could succeed where Rocks had failed, prompting Golden Lion to challenge Oran’s group.
• Origin Project Shiki fought Golden Lion, and Lyliana struck with a move Golden Lion recognized as Divine Departure.

Golden Lion fought Lyliana and helped her grasp Conqueror’s Haki infusion before leaving after revealing that Roger had turned himself in because he was terminally ill. Golden Lion set his plan to destroy Roger’s era for twenty years later and decided to buy himself prosthetic feet.

• Golden Lion recognized Roger’s Divine Departure in Lyliana’s sword technique and demonstrated how to infuse a slash with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Lyliana learned from Golden Lion’s demonstration and changed her next sword strike, impressing him with her talent.
• Golden Lion ended the fight and told Lyliana that Roger had turned himself in because he was terminally ill.
• Golden Lion left, while Oran and Croccus discussed Roger’s surrender and Lyliana continued practicing her sword technique.
• Golden Lion told Dr. Indigo to prepare for his plan to destroy Roger’s era in twenty years and ordered him to find a way to buy prosthetic feet.

Shak led Arlong and other fish-men on a salvage expedition, where they found an ancient ruin and asked Nicole Robin to read its inscription. When Marines arrived, Shak’s crew avoided a confrontation by showing Dr. Siderial’s flag, and Robin began considering what that protection might offer her.

• Hachi visited Shakky’s bar and told Rayleigh that fish-men from Merfolk Island had gone to Piltover to work and salvage shipwrecks.
• Arlong reported that Shak’s crew had found an ancient ruin and brought back a copy of its inscription for Nicole Robin to translate.
• Robin described the inscription as an account of a nation resisting an alliance’s invasion, while Shak told her he hoped she would someday find companions she could trust.
• A Marine warship approached Shak’s vessel, but Momonga’s crew confirmed the fish-men worked for Dr. Siderial and ended the inspection.
• Robin saw that Dr. Siderial’s flag had kept the Marines from interfering and began considering the advantage it could give her.

Nicole Robin weighed her options for protection while Shak’s fish-men sailed under Oran’s flag without being searched by the Marines. Meanwhile, Zephyr brought his latest training class to Piltover for Evolution Day and showed them Iron Oz crushing a pirate ship.

• Nicole Robin decided she needed protection from an ambitious and powerful man, but she remained wary of Oran because she suspected he worked for the World Government.
• Shak warned his fish-men not to misuse Oran’s flag and to protect their chance to improve the fish-men’s reputation.
• Rear Admiral Momonga’s Marines left Shak’s ship unsearched, following regulations and recognizing the protection associated with Oran’s flag and Shichibukai status.
• Zephyr brought his eleventh class of Marine trainees, including Yeklik, Smoker, and Hina, to Piltover before Evolution Day and explained the pirate restrictions.
• Zephyr’s trainees watched Iron Oz stand in the sea and crush a pirate ship with one hand.

Lyliana piloted Iron Oz to crush a pirate ship and capture its crew, then met Zephyr and his students aboard the warship. Smoker’s confidence went unshaken by warnings about Lyliana’s strength, while Zephyr planned to use her to humble the training camp’s proud young talents.

• Lyliana used Iron Oz to knock the pirates into the sea, incapacitate them, and bring them aboard Zephyr’s warship for bounty verification.
• Lyliana stepped out of Iron Oz and asked Zephyr whether the pirates could be exchanged for money; Hina restrained them with bars created by her Cage-Cage Fruit.
• Lyliana broke off some of Hina’s bars with ease and took them as a possible material for her father’s research.
• Hina and Smoker learned from Yeklik that Lyliana far surpassed the other young Marines, while Zephyr warned Smoker not to rely on his Logia ability or become arrogant.
• Zephyr decided to let the training camp’s proud young talents meet Lyliana, and the warship later docked at Firefly Island as people lined up for chances to see or pilot Iron Oz.

Zephyr visited Piltover with his wife, toured Stellar Avenue, and met Oran, hoping to ride Iron Oz while also asking for help disciplining troublesome Marine trainees. Oran declined to send Laili because she might seriously injure them, then demonstrated Perona’s Negativity Ghost and offered a different way to discourage the trainees.

• Zephyr drew an ordinary lottery consolation message and went with his wife to explore Piltover’s Stellar Avenue, where he bought a detailed globe.
• Oran discussed possible upgrades to Iron Oz and explained that its core would need a suitable Devil Fruit or more Blue Blood to gain power.
• Kate showed Oran a flying skateboard powered by Hexalite batteries and Sky Island Wind Dials, then told him Zephyr was on his way.
• Zephyr asked Oran to lend Laili to teach Marine trainees a lesson, but Oran warned that her new training might make her hit too hard.
• Oran brought Zephyr to Perona, whose Negativity Ghost made Zephyr feel crushingly ashamed, and gave her a mechanical teddy bear called Tibbers.

Oran introduced Perona to Kuma Ai, a Seastone-equipped mechanical bear, while Zephyr arranged an impromptu assessment for his trainees. Perona defeated Smoker with her Spirit-Spirit Fruit and Kuma Ai, leaving Zephyr to warn the trainees that Logia powers could not protect them from every threat.

• Oran showed Perona how to transform and control Kuma Ai, a mechanical bear armed with Seastone fragments.
• Zephyr summoned Yeklik, Smoker, and Hina to the royal capital for an emergency assessment, and they sold scrap to afford train tickets.
• Zephyr set Perona against Smoker and warned the trainees that they could surrender or face Demon Week.
• Perona sent a Negativity Ghost through Smoker, making him collapse in despair, then used Kuma Ai to pin him down with its Seastone paw.
• Perona celebrated her win as Zephyr told Smoker that carelessness and overconfidence in his Logia powers could cost him his life.

Zephyr tested Smoker's combat skills by having him fight Perona and then Absalom, exposing how much he relied on his Logia abilities. After losing both matches, Smoker accepted Zephyr's criticism but proposed using a Seastone weapon, leaving Zephyr unsure whether his lesson had gone as intended.

• Smoker accepted his defeat to Perona but argued that her Devil Fruit and Seastone weapon had decided the fight, so Zephyr explained that combat tools were part of fighting and warned him against neglecting other skills.
• Zephyr introduced Absalom as Smoker's next opponent, and Smoker attacked first with White Fist.
• Absalom used invisibility and a Wind Dial to evade and counter Smoker's smoke attacks, then revealed his werewolf form and struck Smoker with an invisible Haki-powered baton.
• Absalom defeated Smoker after a close-range barrage, and Zephyr told him that Logia abilities did not make him invincible.
• Smoker accepted responsibility, agreed to Zephyr's proposed training, and requested a weapon equipped with Seastone, prompting Zephyr to wonder if he had taught Smoker the wrong lesson.

Zephyr arranged mecha training for Yeklik and Oran, then took Iron Oz out himself despite having little skill at piloting it. When pirates attacked the mecha, Zephyr abandoned the cockpit and jumped aboard their ship to confront them.

• Zephyr explained that Smoker's choice of Seastone weapons could help him address his weakness, then sent Smoker and Hina back to their warship.
• Zephyr told Yeklik that he and Oran had permission to pilot a mecha, and Oran suggested Perona could become a strong support fighter.
• Zephyr entered Iron Oz's cockpit with Yeklik and Ginny, took the controls from Yeklik, and struggled to pilot the mecha steadily.
• Zephyr steered Iron Oz toward a pirate ship, but repeatedly failed to grab it as the pirates grew bold and started firing back.
• Zephyr opened the cockpit door, jumped down to the pirate ship, crushed its cannon, and confronted the pirates.

Zephyr tested the Iron Oz mech and returned to port, while Oran continued his research on Firefly Island. In a dream, Oran met Kai'Sa in the Void, taught her how to conceal her armor, and learned that the Void had grown more restless; the encounter inspired a new direction for his biometal research.

• Zephyr defeated a ship of pirates with his fists, then let Yeklik pilot Iron Oz during the return voyage.
• Flying skateboards appeared at Firefly Island’s Evolution Day celebration, and Zephyr’s trainees bought gifts before the Marine ship departed.
• Oran met Kai'Sa in the Void, told her that Kassadin had searched for her, and taught her a technique to conceal her Void armor outside the Void.
• Kai'Sa warned Oran that the Void’s unrest had increased and that its factions were fighting among themselves.
• Oran connected the Void creatures’ ability to evolve with his biometal alloy research and began a new project with Blitzcrank.

Tesoro’s attempt to buy Stella’s freedom ended when the auction house revealed she had been reserved by the Celestial Dragons. Iron Mask—Bavy and his masked crew raided the auction house, freed the slaves, and left Tesoro and Stella on Merfolk Island, where Shak offered the freed people a place to go.

• Tesoro saved for three years to buy Stella, but learned that the Celestial Dragons had reserved her and the auction house guards moved to arrest him.
• Iron Mask—Bavy and his crew broke into the auction house, freed the slaves, and seized control in an organized raid.
• Bavy knocked the Celestial Dragons’ butler unconscious and ordered him left to burn with the auction house.
• Bavy destroyed the auction house, gave freed slaves money or passage, and brought Tesoro and Stella to Merfolk Island before sailing for the New World.
• Shak returned from mining, learned that the people on Merfolk Island were freed slaves, and offered to recommend a place for them.

Shak offered escaped slaves Stella and Tesoro a safer route to Piltover, and they decided to take it. Meanwhile, Kuzan delivered a frozen cargo from Punk Hazard to Oran, who was told that Caesar had successfully recreated the Ancient Giant race and wondered how he had fooled the World Government.

• Shak showed Stella and Tesoro his Marine-registered identification and offered to take them to Piltover, where they could escape the risk of being recaptured.
• Stella and Tesoro accepted Shak’s offer and planned to board a ship from Merfolk Island to Firefly Island.
• Some of the slaves rescued by Bavy joined his pirate crew, while others fled or eventually made their way to Piltover.
• Kuzan arrived at Piltover with a frozen cargo ship shipment from Punk Hazard and told Oran that the World Government claimed Caesar’s Ancient Giant race experiment had succeeded.
• Oran led Kuzan to a cold storage room, curious about the shipment and skeptical that Caesar had truly recreated the Ancient Giant race.

Oran examined Caesar’s failed giant experiment and recognized that the World Government had mistaken it for a promising prototype. He chose to keep the project stalled, while Caesar learned that Oran’s report had given him time to continue his research.

• Oran welcomed Kuzan, the World Government agents, and a crate containing a frozen giant experimental subject at Piltover’s public laboratory, where Lyliana helped him inspect it.
• Oran identified the creature as one of Caesar’s defective artificial giants and judged it inferior to ordinary Giants and the Ancient Giant race.
• Oran ordered the creature thawed and planned to delay further development so the World Government would not mass-produce giant weapons too soon.
• At Punk Hazard, Caesar panicked that Oran would expose his failed work and considered fleeing before the World Government could confront him.
• World Government agents found Caesar and showed him Oran’s report, which called the result generally acceptable and advised him to research it longer.

Tesoro and Stella began their new life in Piltover while visitors from Merfolk Island explored the island. In Mary Geoise, Oran attended a Shichibukai meeting where Sengoku proposed Gecko Moria as a new member, and Crocodile arrived to face Sengoku’s taunts.

• Tricia welcomed the refugees from Merfolk Island and assigned Tesoro and Stella a room in Piltover.
• Tesoro decided to seek construction work to support Stella, while she planned to look for theater work.
• The Left Minister met Brand, asked after Oran, and struggled when Brand did not follow his conversational script.
• Oran attended the Shichibukai meeting in Mary Geoise, where Sengoku presented Gecko Moria as a candidate.
• Crocodile arrived and argued with Sengoku over where he should sit, then Sengoku mocked him for losing to pirates from the New World.

Crocodile attended the meeting that approved Moria as a Shichibukai, while events across the seas showed Piltover’s expanding influence and new developments. The chapter ended with Laboon carrying Lyliana’s birthday cake to Piltover’s harbor for her fourteenth birthday.

• Crocodile attended the Shichibukai meeting, where the World Government approved Moria as the new candidate, and Moria accepted the position.
• Kuina was born in Shimotsuki Village, while the young Merry began building a ship in the East Blue.
• Bellemere tested Oran’s new gauntlets at a Marine branch, struck through part of the cafeteria wall, and learned that their recoil could injure the wearer.
• Dalton warned the King of Drum Kingdom that Wapol’s behavior and the exodus of doctors to Piltover were harming the kingdom, while the King promised to discipline his son.
• Kureha cleaned up after Hiruluk’s dangerous treatment, as the Merfolk deep-sea exploration team supplied Piltover with scarce minerals and lowered equipment costs.
• In November 1501, Laboon carried a huge birthday cake to Piltover’s harbor for Lyliana’s fourteenth birthday.