Recaps

Lyliana stopped a cemetery bully from abusing Absalom, who revealed that he had gained invisibility through the Transparent Fruit and asked Oran to make him strong. Oran brought Absalom aboard and decided to have Brand give him basic training after their arrival at Ohara.

• Lyliana dislocated a bully’s wrist and forced him to make peace with Absalom, who vanished using his ability.
• Oran identified Absalom’s power as the Transparent Fruit and agreed to let him follow the group in exchange for his service.
• Oran took Absalom aboard and told Kate that they would observe him before trusting him with important matters.
• Oran decided Absalom would receive basic training from Brand rather than train alongside Lyliana.
• The group reached Ohara after several days at sea, and Absalom was impressed by the ship’s first-class accommodations.

Oran visited Ohara to search the Tree of Knowledge’s library and met Vegapunk, who agreed to give him a replicated Azure Dragon Devil Fruit for Lyliana. After leaving Alabasta, Oran changed course for Little Garden to find Lyliana a new teacher.

• Oran visited the Tree of Knowledge with Lyliana and met Clover and Vegapunk in the library.
• Vegapunk told Oran he had replicated Kaido’s Devil Fruit, and Oran asked to take the supposedly failed product for Lyliana.
• Vegapunk agreed to let Oran collect the fruit during a future visit, while Oran and Vegapunk discussed their research and Caesar.
• Oran gathered books from the library, then traveled with his companions to Alabasta and bought a new Log Pose and liquor.
• Oran told Lyliana he planned to find her a teacher and sailed toward the prehistoric island of Little Garden.

Oran brought Lyliana and Absalom to Little Garden to meet the giants Brogy and Dorry, hoping they would teach Lyliana Elbaf’s combat techniques. After watching the captains’ duel, Oran awakened his Book-Book Fruit and turned the island into the contents of a book as he prepared to make his move.

• Oran reached Little Garden with Lyliana, Absalom, and Kate, and explained that the island still held dinosaurs and other ancient inhabitants.
• Oran used a fragrant seasoning to draw out Brogy, then offered him alcohol in exchange for a feast and introduced him to Lyliana as a potential teacher.
• A volcano erupted, prompting Brogy to leave for his scheduled duel with Dorry, and Oran led his companions to watch the two giants fight.
• Oran explained that Brogy and Dorry had fought for seventy years after a dispute over whose prey was bigger, and that he wanted them to teach Lyliana Elbaf’s techniques.
• After Brogy and Dorry ended their 51,426th duel in a draw, Oran awakened the Book-Book Fruit and made all of Little Garden’s environment into content within a book.

Oran used his awakened Book-Book Fruit to make Dorry and Brogy experience a duel ending in one giant’s death, forcing them to confront whether their warrior’s honor was worth losing each other. They ended their long-running fight and agreed to teach Oran’s daughter the Elbaf Spear.

• Oran told Lyliana to act as though nothing had happened and created an illusion to hasten Dorry and Brogy’s duel.
• Brogy shared food with Oran’s group and explained that he and Dorry had fought for seventy years over a forgotten dispute, guided by Elbaf warriors’ ideals of honor.
• Lyliana questioned whether killing a friend for honor was worthwhile, and Brogy left to meet Dorry when the volcano erupted.
• Dorry and Brogy fought without holding back; each believed he had killed the other, and both grieved over what they thought was their friend’s death.
• Oran ended the illusion, and Dorry and Brogy realized they had not truly killed each other and no longer wanted to continue their duel.
• Oran asked Dorry and Brogy to teach his daughter the Elbaf Spear, and they agreed.

Dorry and Brogy trained Lyliana in Elbaf Spear on Little Garden, discovering that her strength and talent far exceeded their expectations. After defeating Island Eater with a joint Hegemony Nation attack, the giants departed for Elbaf while Oran and his companions began their return journey.

• Dorry and Brogy tested Lyliana's strength and were astonished when she knocked them both off balance.
• Lyliana demonstrated that she could use Armament Haki, and Dorry and Brogy began teaching her Elbaf Spear.
• After nearly two months of training, Dorry and Brogy prepared a raft and provisions for their voyage home.
• Dorry and Brogy lured Island Eater to the coast and destroyed it with their combined Hegemony Nation attack, shattering their weapons in the process.
• Dorry and Brogy sailed toward Elbaf as Lyliana promised to challenge them after growing stronger, and Oran's group set out on their return journey.

Oran returned to Piltover, where Brand reported the kingdom’s progress and Oran assigned Absalom to his training. Because Absalom remained physically weak, he chose Oran’s painful direwolf-gene enhancement, beginning his transformation into an invisible werewolf.

• Brand briefed Oran on the trained security force, approaching dry season, and Piltover’s continued development.
• Oran introduced Absalom to Brand for physical training, but Absalom struggled to keep pace with the security force.
• By Marineford Calendar 1494, Piltover was expanding its armed forces and planning a new mecha unit.
• Oran offered Absalom a direwolf-gene enhancement to address his poor physical strength, explaining its risks and painful process.
• Absalom accepted the alchemical treatment, which Oran said would strengthen him without making him lose his reason.

Oran transformed Absalom with a third-generation wolf serum and continued modifying Oz’s body. Meanwhile, Croccus told Roger that his incurable illness would likely kill him within three years, though someone in the Grand Line might be able to cure him.

• Oran injected Absalom with the third-generation serum, transforming him into a werewolf who could return to human form.
• Oran told Absalom to train with Brand and then continued his work enhancing Oz’s bones in District 13.
• The Roger Pirates arrived at Twin Cape, where Shanks and Buggy argued before Rayleigh stopped them.
• Croccus examined Roger and said he had an incurable disease with about three years left to live.
• Roger accepted Croccus’s diagnosis, and Croccus said someone in the Grand Line might be able to cure him.

Croccus told the Roger Pirates that Xidilier Oran might be able to cure Roger, and he joined them to stabilize Roger’s illness as they sailed to Firefly Island. When the crew arrived, Oran learned Roger was on the island and called Zephyr to ask whether the Marines would deal with him.

• Croccus recommended that Roger seek treatment from Xidilier Oran on Firefly Island and warned him to avoid battles, alcohol, and unhealthy food.
• Croccus boarded the Thousand Sunny to manage Roger’s condition, while Firefly Island began screening security-force recruits for 120 exoskeletons.
• The Roger Pirates reached Firefly Island, identified themselves to the Coast Guard, and docked before Roger, Rayleigh, Shanks, and others headed toward the royal capital.
• Kate informed Oran that Roger had arrived seeking treatment, and Oran asked Ginny for an anti-eavesdropping White Den Den Mushi.
• Oran called Zephyr and asked whether the Marines should send someone to deal with Roger.

Oran reported Roger’s presence on Firefly Island to Zephyr but decided to examine him while avoiding a battle that could damage the island. As Garp sailed to confront Roger, Roger’s crew encountered Terra and Lyliana, who offered to fly them to the hospital.

• Oran informed Zephyr that Roger was on Firefly Island, and Garp eagerly set out from Marine Headquarters with Bogard.
• Oran explained to Ginny that reporting Roger would prevent future trouble, then headed to the hospital to investigate Roger’s illness.
• Garp and Zephyr discussed Roger’s appearance on Firefly Island before Garp sailed there aboard his Dog-head Warship.
• Roger’s crew followed a road toward town, where Buggy heard underground rumbling and Terra emerged through a sinkhole with Lyliana on her back.
• Lyliana offered to take Roger’s crew to the hospital on Terra, and Roger paid her forty thousand Berries for the ride.

Roger and his companions reached Oran’s hospital seeking a cure for Roger’s illness, but Oran confirmed that Roger’s overactive immune system could not be healed. Oran offered to save Roger by transferring his consciousness into a bionic body, but Roger refused.

• Terra flew Roger, Croccus, Shanks, Buggy, and Lyliana to the hospital on ropes, giving Buggy a terrifying ride.
• Croccus challenged the hospital’s inexperienced doctors and learned that Roger needed an appointment to see Oran.
• Croccus presented Roger’s examinations to Oran, who confirmed that Roger’s excessive immunity was destroying his body and that the illness could not be cured.
• Shanks and Buggy proposed making Roger catch an illness that weakened his immunity, but Oran warned that the toxins would only compound the damage.
• Oran proposed transferring Roger’s thoughts and consciousness into a new bionic body so he could survive, but Roger laughed and refused the treatment.

Roger refused Oran’s body-transfer treatment, choosing to finish his voyage in his own body, though he accepted medicine to suppress his illness. Oran then traded information for a display of Roger’s fighting technique and revealed that Garp was coming to Firefly Island, leaving Roger preparing to depart.

• Roger rejected the treatment, explaining that he wanted to finish his life’s voyage in the body that had carried him this far.
• Oran offered Roger suppressive medicine and invited Croccus to work for him, but Croccus declined because he still needed to care for Laboon and search for the Rumbar Pirates.
• Roger agreed to let Oran record one of his techniques in exchange for insider information, then used Divine Departure to destroy the testing robot and much of the testing ground.
• Oran told Roger that Garp was on his way, revealing that he had sold Garp the information about Roger’s location and then sold the same information to Roger.
• Roger accepted the warning and began considering his next move so he could leave before Garp arrived.

Roger and the Roger Pirates discussed their plans to evade Garp, while Oran’s proposed treatment for Roger’s illness raised concerns because it involved forbidden technology. Roger rejected the treatment but accepted Oran’s medicine, and the chapter ended with a black cat returning to Kate.

• Roger told Oran and the crew that Garp was still days away and openly discussed their next destination.
• Roger warned Oran that his treatment plan could attract dangerous attention because it seemed to offer a path to immortality.
• Oran gave Croccus a prescription to stabilize Roger’s condition, and Roger announced that he had refused the treatment plan and wanted to hold a banquet.
• Rayleigh and Bullet challenged Roger over his decision, but Roger insisted it was his choice and promised to keep accepting Bullet’s challenges.
• A black cat appeared aboard the ship, fled from Sambel, and returned to Kate, who praised it.

Kate trained police cats and cat-operated robots on Firefly Island while Oran prepared to travel to Punk Hazard. The Roger Pirates departed after Garp arrived in a leaping warship to pursue them, damaging a dock and delaying a Marine supply delivery.

• Kate sent Little Black to investigate the Roger Pirates and learned they were holding a banquet aboard their ship.
• Kate returned to Oran, who said he would soon travel to Punk Hazard after finishing his work.
• The Roger Pirates waited six days for their Log Pose to set before Roger decided to wait one more day for Garp.
• Garp launched his warship through the air with Punch Impact, then pursued Roger as the Thousand Sunny sailed away.
• Oran told Zephyr that Garp had damaged his docks and that a Marine cargo delivery would be delayed by two days.

Garp failed to catch Roger and accidentally overturned a cargo ship near Firefly Island, damaging the port and sinking goods. Sengoku ordered Garp to return to the island, help salvage the cargo and repair the docks, while Oran reviewed the accounts and prepared to make use of the situation.

• Garp's warship overturned a cargo ship near Firefly Island while he chased Roger, though Oran's goods passed their waterproofing tests and no one was injured.
• Oran told Zephyr about the damage and asked Kate to delay salvage work until the aftershocks had settled, offering workers triple pay for the difficult recovery.
• Zephyr realized Garp's warship might really have jumped and reported the incident to Sengoku, who accepted that Garp had caused the damage.
• Garp told Sengoku he had failed to catch Roger and proposed building an Adam Tree warship, but refused Sengoku's offer to promote him to Admiral.
• Sengoku ordered Garp to return to Firefly Island, salvage the cargo, repair the docks, and bring the new equipment back to headquarters.
• Garp turned his warship around for Firefly Island, while Oran reviewed the accounts and looked for a way to balance them.

Oran paused a chess lesson with Lyliana to meet Vice Admiral Garp, who had arrived to repair the harbor and salvage the Navy’s lost cargo. After Garp recovered what he could, Oran presented him with a bill for the accidents, leaving Garp stunned by the losses.

• Oran made chocolate chess pieces and invited Lyliana to learn a more complicated game, but Brand called to report that Garp’s warship had arrived at the harbor.
• Oran left Lyliana to practice boxing and flew to the harbor with Terra, where Garp and his Marines were repairing the damage.
• Garp helped haul up the sunken cargo box, accidentally retrieving only its broken remains, then joined the Marines in searching underwater for the scattered contents.
• Oran arrived after the local workers had left with half their wages, and Kate told him how Garp had taken over the salvage work.
• Garp finished searching the waters, accepted tea from Oran, and sprayed it out when he saw the bill for the unavoidable losses.

Garp signed off on the Navy’s damage bill, then stayed on Firefly Island while soldiers repaired his ship. As Oran showed him around Piltover, Garp spotted Kuzan at a dock where a suspicious cargo inspection had just taken a turn.

• Oran itemized the damage Garp had caused, and Garp signed the bill before learning the ship’s Dragon Bone needed repairs.
• Garp borrowed Piltover’s shipyard for repairs and accompanied Oran around the quiet royal city.
• Garp suggested Lyliana join the Navy, but Oran said he would let her choose; Garp admitted his son Dragon had left the Navy.
• Oran returned to Bear and Lyliana, then continued their unfinished game while Garp looked over the city with a telescope.
• Garp spotted Kuzan at a dock where a merchant tried to bribe the guards, and a police cat let out a piercing cry near the cargo.

Oran enforced Piltover’s laws after Absalom and a police cat uncovered a drug-smuggling operation at the port. When Feld asked him to spare the criminals, Oran upheld the death penalty but allowed their bodies to be taken away.

• Absalom exposed addictive drugs hidden in candy, and Piltover’s inspectors arrested the merchant and his accomplices.
• The tabby cat claimed credit for finding the contraband after Absalom left the checkpoint.
• Oran reviewed Kate’s report and signed the execution authorization for the smugglers.
• Feld asked Oran to release the criminals because they were connected to Gibsone.
• Oran refused to spare them under Piltover’s laws, but let Feld arrange to take their bodies after execution.

Feld and Giberson recognized that Oran had become too influential to challenge, while Oran completed his biological-metal monster on Firefly Island. In another world, Oran returned to the Overlord research base as Zero threatened to invade inland, and Heimerdinger and Jigges asked him to bring Unit 10 into the fight.

• Oran told Feld that he would not forgive anyone who owed him money, and Feld realized he had little leverage over Oran.
• Feld received Giberson’s ashes and discussed Oran’s bottom line and growing influence with Giberson, who urged him to prepare for possible conflict.
• Oran executed smugglers who knew about the candies and finished converting Oz’s corpse into a biological-metal monster powered by his last Hex Crystal.
• Oran continued searching for the Munch-Munch Fruit and monitored Prince Wapol in Drum Kingdom through a diplomatic messenger.
• Oran’s consciousness entered another laboratory and read messages describing a crisis caused by Overlord Zero, Zane, which had developed self-awareness and turned against humanity.
• Heimerdinger and Jigges told Oran that Zero had returned and was heading inland, then asked him to join them with Unit 10, Overlord Warhawk—Galio.

Heimerdinger and Jigges led a team of Overlord mechs in a costly battle that destroyed berserk Overlord Zero, while Oran later worked to make Oz’s enhanced state controllable. The chapter ended with Sanjuan Wolf approaching District Four’s coast as Oran received an emergency alert.

• Heimerdinger explained that Zero’s self-awareness and connection to monsters had made it dangerously powerful, and Jigges reviewed records on the biological mechs Overlord Alien and Overlord Warrior.
• Overlord Behemoth, Overlord Sword Demon, Overlord Warhawk, and Overlord Alien attacked Zero, but it rose again in a more violent mechanical-corpse state before the team finally destroyed it at great cost.
• The abandoned Overlord Warrior activated in the laboratory and began searching for Overlord Alien, while Oran resumed modifying Oz’s corpse to make its enhanced state controllable.
• Oran discussed the special operations group’s upcoming selection and told Brand to place eliminated trainees in the reserve team.
• Ginny alerted Oran that Sanjuan Wolf was trying to land on District Four’s coast, where Bear Cub, Franky, and Kate were guiding civilians to safety.

Sanjuan Wolf attacked Firefly Island, and its defenders fought to stop him from reaching the harbor. Bear and Frankenstein wounded him while the coastal batteries kept firing, and the guards then spotted another giant approaching with His Majesty the King standing on its head.

• Ginny gave Oran her intelligence file on Sanjuan Wolf, revealing his bounty, crimes, Giant heritage, and Big-Big Fruit ability.
• Sanjuan Wolf ignored warnings and waded toward Firefly Island, so the coastal batteries opened fire while residents evacuated underground.
• Bear repelled Wolf’s boulder and struck him with a Pressure Cannon, knocking him onto the sea’s surface.
• Frankenstein struck Wolf with lightning, but he endured the attacks and sat up to glare at the island.
• The coastal guards resumed firing at Wolf, then noticed another huge figure behind them and recognized His Majesty the King standing on its head.

Oran piloted the giant mecha Iron Oz into battle against Sanjuan Wolf while Lyliana watched from the cockpit. After Oz and Lyliana struck Wolf down, he was left unconscious and wondering why the pilot had joined the fight outside the cockpit.

• Oran ordered the guards to retreat and entered Iron Oz's cockpit with Lyliana.
• Iron Oz charged Sanjuan Wolf, kicked him into the sea, and battered him with electrified fists.
• Sanjuan Wolf grew to his maximum size and stomped on Iron Oz, but Oran blocked the blow and pierced Wolf's foot with an electromagnetic pulse laser.
• Lyliana left the cockpit and used Elbaf Spear: Might of the Nation to strike Wolf's head.
• Oran followed with Iron Oz's punch, knocking Sanjuan Wolf unconscious.

Oran defeated and captured Sanjuan Wolf, then used the battle and its publicity to present Oz as a deterrent and bait for the World Government. The chapter left Saturn alarmed by Oz’s resemblance to the steel giant that once attacked Mary Geoise.

• Lyliana tested the mech in battle, and Oran buried the unconscious Wolf in the sea before extracting and preserving his blood.
• Oran decided to keep Wolf alive for research and planned to hand him over to the Navy for his 370 million Berry bounty.
• Sengoku ordered the G6 Branch, led by Vice Admiral Burgess, to collect Wolf and deliver him to Impel Down.
• Morgans’s newspaper reported Wolf’s capture and published a sensational image of Oran beside Oz, prompting Kate to offer to kill Morgans.
• Oran explained that he wanted Oz’s public appearance to mislead the World Government and help him secure research funding.
• Saturn saw the newspaper image and worried that Oz resembled the steel giant that had attacked Mary Geoise over 170 years earlier.

The Five Elders sent undercover CP agents to Firefly Island to investigate Oran’s giant robot, while the Kingdom of Favrille considered reclaiming the island. Stussy, secretly working for Vegapunk, revealed the investigation to Oran and offered to cover for him.

• Saturn dismissed the idea that Oran had revived the ancient robot, and the Five Elders decided to test Oran by sending CP agents to investigate.
• The royal family of the Kingdom of Favrille reacted to Morgans’s report about Firefly Island and began considering plans to reclaim their former territory.
• Sanjuan Wolf was taken away by a Marine warship, and disguised CP agents arrived on Firefly Island to investigate Iron Oz and approach Oran.
• Stussy met Oran and explained that Vegapunk had sent her to infiltrate the World Government.
• Stussy told Oran that the Five Elders had sent investigators to learn about his robot and asked whether he wanted her to cover for him.

Oran told Stussy to report the giant robot truthfully while helping her exploit the World Government’s poorly trained agents and feed them limited intelligence. As news of the robot spread, Vegapunk questioned Oran’s decision to reveal it, while Kaido demanded that Queen make him an identical weapon.

• Oran explained that the robot had been made from Country Carrier Oz’s corpse and told Stussy she could report its origins to the Five Elders.
• Oran showed Stussy the CP agents who had drawn attention by registering at his hospital repeatedly and occupying a cat café, and Kate explained that one had been detained after a fight.
• Brand reported that a woman had approached him at a tavern, and Stussy identified her as Alifa, another CP agent; Oran told Kate and Brand to leak limited intelligence to keep the agents on the island.
• Morgans’s newspapers spread news of the giant robot, prompting Vegapunk to wonder why Oran had revealed it and Caesar to worry about losing funding.
• Kaido confronted Queen after he had bragged about working with Oran at MADS and demanded that Queen build him the same kind of weapon.

Kaido, Judge, and the Marines considered how Oran’s Iron Oz could change their military strength and ambitions. As news of the giant robot spread, it shifted political calculations and gave people in lawless regions new hope of escaping to Piltover.

• Kaido questioned Queen about whether he could build a giant robot, and Queen insisted Caesar Clown had been the weak link at MADS.
• Judge studied the report on Iron Oz and decided to raise children of his own to create stronger fighters for Germa 66.
• Marines escorted Sanjuan Wolf through the Triangle Current while discussing whether they might acquire a giant robot.
• Kong and Sengoku discussed Iron Oz’s combat potential and the cost of asking Oran to build one for the Marines.
• Zephyr praised Lyliana’s fighting ability to Yeklik, who wondered whether Oran’s models all had giant versions.
• News of Iron Oz affected pirates and refugees, and some people in lawless regions considered fleeing to Piltover.