Recaps

Stussy delivered a deceptive report about Iron Oz to the Five Elders, who concluded that its creation depended on Ancient Giant remains and discussed the World Government’s stalled gigantification research. After Stussy’s team was reassigned, Saturn contacted Oran, who agreed to let the Government call on Iron Oz in battle; Saturn then invited him to visit Punk Hazard and consider a partnership.

• Saturn and Pit discussed Stussy’s report, concluding that Iron Oz could not be mass-produced without more Ancient Giant remains and that Punk Hazard’s gigantification project had made little progress.
• Stussy’s teammates credited her for their shared success, but the two agents who had failed were sent back while Alifa received an intelligence-gathering assignment and Stussy became a CP9 reserve member.
• World Government agents delivered a Den Den Mushi to Oran, and Saturn questioned him about Iron Oz and its limitations.
• Oran told Saturn that Ancient Giant remains were the necessary raw material and agreed to bring Iron Oz into battle when the World Government required it.
• Saturn invited Oran to visit Punk Hazard, where an old acquaintance led a secret project that might enable a partnership.

Oran assigned Ginny to build an independent Field Team and delayed transferring Absalom until he finished his training. The Security Team Special Unit selection began with a dangerous river-crossing test, leaving Bear to rescue and disqualify candidates swept downstream.

• Oran discussed Caesar Clown's work at Punk Hazard with Saturn and postponed his own visit.
• Oran assigned Ginny to gather intelligence on Alifa and approved expanding her department into an independent Field Team.
• Ginny asked to recruit Absalom, but Oran told her to wait until he graduated from Brand's training.
• Oran decided not to change the Special Unit selection grounds, allowing Alifa to investigate the publicly deployed mechs.
• Brand began the selection's armed river-crossing test, and Bear rescued candidates swept downstream, sending them to the hospital and disqualifying them.

The recruits completed the mountain, balloon, and mecha trials, selecting the first exoskeleton pilots for Firefly Island. Oran then went to Punk Hazard, where he confronted Caesar about the accounts and left him sweating.

• The recruits climbed the mountain under Terra’s doubled gravity and completed the Earth Trial.
• The recruits rode hot-air balloons to the royal city, where those afraid of heights were eliminated from the Wind Trial.
• Oran oversaw the Fire Trial, in which the recruits piloted exoskeletons through artillery fire to compete for the first pilot positions.
• After handling matters for the special operations unit, Oran revised his development plans and traveled to Punk Hazard.
• Caesar welcomed Oran smugly and claimed he could only be third-in-command, but Oran asked whether Caesar wanted help settling the recent accounts.

Oran helped Caesar reassure the World Government that the Ancient Giant experiments could succeed, while privately positioning Caesar as a failed comparison for his own future research. He collected Vegapunk’s supposedly failed pink dragon fruit and presented it to Laili as a gift.

• A CP0 agent took Oran and Caesar to a secret experimental zone, where Caesar explained the World Government’s effort to revive the Ancient Giant race.
• Oran supported Caesar’s account of the project’s difficulties, and Caesar became convinced that Oran had been fooled by his claims.
• After CP0 left, Oran visited Vegapunk and persuaded him to destroy a failed Mythical Zoan fruit instead of continuing to study it.
• Oran took the pink dragon fruit to the Sabaody Archipelago and told Laili that he had prepared it especially for her.

Oran gave Lyliana an artificial Devil Fruit and a P-particle shielding bracelet, then took her to explore the Sabaody Archipelago. When thieves tried to steal her bracelet, Lyliana transformed into her Human-Beast Form and confronted them.

• Lyliana swallowed the artificial Devil Fruit whole, and Oran gave her a bracelet that would let her swim despite her Devil Fruit powers.
• Oran, Lyliana, and Kate traveled toward Bubble Park, where Lyliana chose to rent a bubble car instead of buying one.
• Lyliana tried bubble liquor, disliked its bitter, spicy taste, but finished the drink.
• A group of thieves tried to snatch Lyliana's bracelet, and she grabbed the thief who had taken hold of it.
• Lyliana transformed into her dragon-like Human-Beast Form, put on knuckle dusters, and challenged the thieves.

After a thief tried to rob Lyliana, she transformed into a dragon-man, beat him, and demonstrated her new ability to fly. Marines arrested him and threatened him with the charge of attempting to murder Vice Admiral Oran’s family.

• A thief tried to steal Lyliana’s gold bracelet, but she punched the ground, frightening him and scattering his accomplices.
• Lyliana crushed the thief’s dagger and, still drunk, used Flame Clouds to fly until the haze wore off.
• Lyliana released her transformation and offered to fly Oran and the others home once she had practiced.
• A Marine patrol arrived and arrested the thief after he woke up.
• The patrol captain claimed the thief had attempted to murder the family of a Marine vice admiral, leaving him terrified.

Oran took Lyliana from Bubble Park into Sabaody’s lawless district to show her the human auction and the injustice hidden beneath the World Government’s rule. As Lyliana resolved to destroy the traffickers, Gol D. Roger arrived, and Oran asked him to take the blame for the coming commotion.

• Oran and Lyliana left Bubble Park and entered Sabaody’s lawless district, where Lyliana stopped several street fights.
• Oran brought Lyliana and Kate to an auction house, where Lyliana learned that people were being sold as merchandise.
• Kate threatened a man who defended the auction, and Oran explained to Lyliana how power could be used to challenge injustice.
• Lyliana said the traffickers should be destroyed, but Gol D. Roger asked them to wait until the auction ended so he could obtain something there.
• Oran asked Roger to take responsibility for the consequences of causing a scene, and Roger laughed.

Roger and the Roger Pirates disrupted a slave auction to seize an ancient Navigational Logbook, while Lyliana’s anger awakened a new ability. The chapter ended with Lyliana aiming her Heat Breath at the auction host.

• Oran offered Roger a bottle of Explosion Wine, and Roger accepted it as payment for his help.
• The auction began, and Lyliana grew furious as enslaved people were sold to bidders.
• Roger bid two hundred million Berries for the Navigational Logbook, then admitted he never intended to pay.
• Roger ordered the Roger Pirates to move out, and Buggy, Shanks, and Croccus joined the attack.
• Lyliana transformed, felt a blaze of fury, and aimed a Heat Breath at the host.

Lyliana destroyed the auction stage with her Dragon Breath, then went backstage with Kate to free the enslaved people. Oran agreed to take the freed captives to Piltover, and Lyliana prepared to carry them home as a dragon.

• Lyliana transformed and blasted a path through the auction house, triggering a stampede as the guests fled.
• Roger rescued the ancient Navigational Logbook from the spreading flames after Rayleigh warned him it might burn.
• Lyliana went backstage to free the slaves, while Kate picked open their Explosion Collars.
• Some freed slaves asked to join the group, and Lyliana asked Oran if they could take everyone with them.
• Oran welcomed the slaves to Piltover, and Lyliana transformed into a giant pink dragon to carry them home.

Lyliana carried Oran, Kate, and the rescued slaves from Sabaody toward Piltover while the Roger Pirates escaped and Garp set off after them. On Firefly Island, Frankenstein met Patrick Redfield, whose unusual mind-reading ability could not penetrate her, and he began hoping she might become his friend.

• Lyliana transformed into a dragon, carried Oran and Kate on her back, and lifted the rescued slaves on clouds as she flew toward home.
• The Roger Pirates looted the auction house and sailed for the New World, while Garp learned what Roger had done and set out to catch him.
• Ginny and Bear discussed protecting Piltover, and Ginny asked where Frankenstein had been spending her time.
• Frankenstein dozed beneath a windmill as Patrick Redfield returned to tell her about the Rumbar Pirates and why he had gone to sea.
• Redfield realized he could not read Frankenstein's thoughts and became interested in making her his friend.

Frankenstein befriended Redfield while observing him, and Oran returned to Firefly Island with Lyliana and the rescued slaves. After learning about Redfield from Frankenstein, Oran forged a helmet to help control Redfield’s mind-reading.

• Frankenstein realized Redfield was the legendary pirate but kept her identity and thoughts unreadable to him, and Redfield enjoyed the mystery and arranged to meet her again.
• Lyliana flew Oran and the rescued slaves back to the royal city, where she reunited with Ginny and Bear and enthusiastically showed off her Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit.
• Several rescued slaves asked to become Oran’s subjects, and he accepted them and arranged for Brand to settle them in the immigrant district.
• Bear told Oran he had compressed the metal Oran needed, and Frankenstein reported that Redfield seemed harmless, strange, and eager to make friends.
• Oran forged a helmet from the metal and special Valoran plants to limit Redfield’s uncontrolled Observation Haki, then planned to send it to him through Frankenstein.

Frankenstein gave Redfield a helmet made by Oran that suppressed the mind-reading burden of his Observation Haki. Redfield accepted the gift and agreed to attend Evolution Day, curious to meet its maker.

• Oran explained that the helmet had failed as a limiter for his dream ability, but it might help Redfield control his mind-reading.
• Frankenstein gave Redfield the helmet when he returned, and he put it on.
• Redfield discovered that the helmet silenced the thoughts he could normally hear, and taking it off restored them.
• Redfield called the helmet his best gift and asked how Frankenstein had obtained it.
• Frankenstein invited Redfield to Evolution Day, and he agreed to attend so he could meet Oran.

On Piltover’s first Evolution Day, former slave Tricia found work while Redfield experienced the city’s celebration with the help of his mind-blocking helmet. After meeting Frankenstein, Redfield declined to stay or join Oran’s country and set out to sail again, leaving his friend a way to contact him.

• Tricia traveled from District Four to the Evolution Day celebration in District Two, hoping to find work.
• Redfield rode the tram with Tricia, then explored the festivities and enjoyed bargaining with a fruit vendor.
• Tricia used her quick hands to help a bakery owner serve Ginny and Bear, who bought her bread and helped her secure a job.
• Redfield went to meet Frankenstein and learned that Oran was at the hospital, so he could not meet him.
• Redfield invited Frankenstein to sail as his vice-captain, but Frankenstein chose to remain with Oran.
• Redfield gave Frankenstein his Den Den Mushi number and left to continue his voyage, planning to return someday.

Oran diagnosed a merchant from Flevance with White Lead Disease and secretly cured him using an experimental separator, while deciding to wait for the disease to spread before revealing the treatment. Meanwhile, Firefly Island’s former royal family returned, hoping to reclaim the island by seeking the World Government’s support.

• Oran learned that a patient from Flevance had White Lead Disease caused by the kingdom’s white lead mining, which the World Government and royal family had knowingly concealed.
• Oran warned the doctors that white lead products were poisonous, reassured them the disease was not contagious, and took the patient to his laboratory for treatment.
• The patient agreed to Oran’s experiment, and Oran’s separator successfully removed the white lead from his body.
• Oran chose not to announce the cure yet, planning to reveal it during a kingdom-wide outbreak and use the ensuing gratitude to gain influence in Flevance.
• Firefly Island’s former royal family arrived aboard an underworld supply ship and discussed returning to power by resuming Celestial Gold payments and pressuring Oran.

Former King Bowen XVI and his brother returned to the Kingdom of Favrille to find Iron Oz and reclaim the throne, but their attempt to enter the old secret passage led them to the Zodiac Vault, where Terra confronted them. Terra knocked the royal family’s group unconscious, leaving their recovery and the fate of their plan unresolved.

• Bowen XVI and his younger brother planned to find Iron Oz, though they disagreed about whether to keep the weapon or trade it to the World Government.
• Bowen XVI led his followers to a concealed entrance and began digging through a boulder blocking the old royal tunnel.
• Terra sensed the group digging above and realized they were heading toward the Zodiac Vault.
• Terra took a red-and-white capsule, grew into its adolescent form, and dug upward through the tunnel.
• The group fell into Terra’s underground chamber, and Terra’s roar stunned them unconscious.

Terra captured Bowen XVI and the former royal family of Favrille beneath the royal city, and Oran ordered Brand to kill them after confirming the World Government would not protect them. In a dream, Oran learned about Durand’s first Galio and woke with a blueprint, wondering whether Seastone could give the stone colossus life.

• Terra found Bowen XVI and his companions digging near the treasury, captured them, and brought them to the royal city.
• Brand identified the prisoners as the former royal family of Favrille, but Oran rejected their offer to share the kingdom and confirmed that Saturn would not intervene.
• Oran ordered Brand to dispose of the royals, and Brand killed them before a cat witnessed the execution and ran off.
• Several days later, a newspaper reported that nobles had been killed during a voyage, while Saturn took the story as evidence that Oran was a pragmatic ally.
• Oran dreamed of Durand creating the first Galio from Magic-Nullifying Stone, then woke and redrew its blueprint using Seastone as a possible substitute.

Oran arranged for Absalom to travel to Wano Country and negotiate with Kaido, offering Zoan Potions in exchange for Seastone. He called Queen to gauge Kaido’s interest, leaving Queen startled by the offer.

• Oran concluded that his experiments on Seastone required more raw material and considered obtaining it directly from Wano Country.
• Oran asked Absalom to negotiate a Seastone deal with Kaido using Version 2.0 Zoan potions, and Absalom accepted the dangerous assignment.
• Oran arranged transport and a receiver near Wano Country for Absalom before calling Queen.
• Queen said he had become an important member of the Beasts Pirates and asked Oran why he was calling.
• Oran asked Queen to find out how interested Kaido was in Zoan Potions, and Queen reacted in surprise.

Queen agreed to receive Oran’s subordinate and help arrange a deal with Kaido, while Absalom traveled to Wano Country to demonstrate Oran’s potion. Kaido was intrigued when Absalom revealed that the potion gave him a werewolf form alongside his Transparent Fruit powers.

• Queen learned that Oran had developed a potion using animal Lineage Factors and agreed to look after the junior sent to Wano Country.
• Queen prepared to discuss the deal with Kaido but could not find him until Kaido returned to Wano Country.
• Absalom sailed to an island near Wano Country carrying Oran’s potion equipment and vials, then King flew him to Kaido.
• Kaido asked Absalom to show what he was offering, and Absalom transformed into a wolf-like form.
• Absalom used the Transparent Fruit to become invisible and explained that Oran’s invention had given him the werewolf transformation, drawing Kaido’s interest.

Absalom offered Kaido two generations of Zoan Potions in exchange for Seastone, and Kaido agreed to test them before settling the deal. Queen began testing the potions on two pirates, and the first recipient started changing after receiving the silver dose.

• Absalom showed Kaido the gold third-generation potion and silver second-generation potion, explaining their different effects, risks, and limited production.
• Kaido agreed to trade Seastone for both kinds of potion and took the samples to test, while Queen entertained Absalom in the Flower Capital.
• Kaido met with Kurozumi Orochi to arrange a Seastone supply, then returned to Onigashima in a good mood.
• Kaido ordered Queen to test the potions on two subordinates, and the pirates fought over who would receive the stronger dose first.
• Queen injected one pirate with the silver second-generation potion, and the pirate began to undergo unusual changes.

Absalom completed a serum deal with Kaido’s crew as Roger’s pirates fought Golden Lion Shiki at Edd War, while Oran explored the Monolith’s history during a new visit to Ancient Shurima. After returning, Oran planned to use the arriving Seastone to develop a technological war machine inspired by Galio and Malphite.

• Queen tested the second-generation serum on Kaido’s pirates, creating a stable pangolin-like exoskeleton, while a third-generation modification failed and Absalom explained that serum modifications could not be repeated.
• Absalom and Kaido’s crew finalized a preliminary deal, and Absalom received a deposit before preparing to return.
• Golden Lion Shiki surrounded Roger’s ship at Edd War and tried to recruit Roger, but Roger refused and the Roger Pirates prepared to fight.
• A massive tsunami struck during the battle, changing its course and giving the Battle of Edd War its name.
• Oran entered a memory of Ancient Shurima, where Siderial helped build the Monolith, a fortress that shattered during the empire’s disastrous battle against the Void.
• Oran connected the Monolith’s fragments to Malphite and planned to combine its operating model with Galio’s behavioral model to create a technological war machine.

Oran explained the dangers of power to Lyliana after recalling Shurima’s war against the Void, then agreed to take her to the sky islands after she connected Noland’s Golden Land to their location. Their trip depended on Absalom returning from Wano Country, where he was enjoying himself too much to leave.

• Oran pondered how Seastone and Devil Fruits defied ordinary rules, then spoke with Lyliana after she came downstairs.
• Oran recalled Shurima’s costly war against the Void and warned Lyliana to consider the consequences of power before acting.
• Lyliana showed Oran her map calculations linking Noland’s Golden Land to the sky islands, and Oran confirmed the connection.
• Oran proposed a family trip to the sky islands to obtain gold, but said they would wait until Absalom returned and his experiments were finished.
• Absalom remained in Wano Country, enjoying its pleasure industry while waiting for a ship to take him home.

Oran created a Shvana sparring partner in his Book World to teach Lyliana how dragonkin fought. Lyliana learned to coat her fist in flames, and the chapter ended with her celebrating her new technique.

• Queen questioned Absalom about the potion production volume, confirmed that Oran was limiting supplies, and secured his own position without exposing Absalom.
• After two days in the pleasure district, Absalom returned to Firefly Island with a deposit of Seastone stored in Oran's book.
• Frankenstein and Kate sparred while Bear, Brand, and Ginny trained in the royal city.
• Oran created Shvana in his Book World as Lyliana's sparring partner and set them to fight for an hour.
• Shvana's combat style and fiery scales inspired Lyliana to concentrate flames around her left fist, and she proudly showed Oran her new technique.

After Absalom returned with Seastone payment and Sake Iron Ore from the Beasts Pirates, Oran planned a trip to Sky Island with Ginny and Bear. Their journey brought them to Buggy Town on Gaya Island, where talk of Sky Island soon attracted attention.

• Lyliana trained new Dragon Flame techniques while Oran read about Golden Lion’s losses and counterattack after the Edwall Sea Battle.
• Absalom returned with the Beasts Pirates’ Seastone payment and a sample of Wano Country’s Sake Iron Ore, which Oran tested with Terra.
• Oran invited his companions to Sky Island and chose Ginny and Bear to accompany him, while Kate and Frankenstein stayed behind.
• Oran’s group traveled to Gaya Island, where they learned how Shandora had been launched into the sky and how pirates had gathered in Buggy Town.
• Ginny ordered food for the group at a Buggy Town restaurant, and their conversation about Sky Island drew attention.

Oran’s group decided to reach the Sky Island by riding the Rogue Sea Current, and Ginny’s rejection of a pirate’s advances triggered a tavern fight. Bear sent the pirate to the Marine G6 Branch, leaving Oran to call and claim the bounty.

• Oran’s group discussed ways to reach the Sky Island and chose to seek out the Rogue Sea Current for the adventure.
• The tavern owner explained that the Rogue Sea Current might erupt soon, while Oran dismissed the cherry-heavy menu.
• Violent Bear Billson approached the group, mocked their plans, and tried to touch Ginny.
• Ginny kicked Billson away, and he revealed his Cave Bear form and attacked the group.
• Bear blocked Billson’s blow and sent him to Vice Admiral Burgess at the Marine G6 Branch.
• Oran told Bear he should have acted sooner and said he would call to collect Billson’s bounty.

Oran’s group sent pirate Violent Bear Billson to the Marine G6 Branch to collect his bounty, then used a Rogue Sea Current to ascend into the sky. They reached the White Sea and learned that their destination, the White White Sea, lay three thousand meters higher.

• Oran warned Vice Admiral Brulgrass that Billson would arrive at the Marine G6 Branch, and Bear’s Paw-Paw Fruit ability sent the pirate flying there.
• Two days later, Billson fell into the Marine plaza, where Brulgrass identified and imprisoned him before arranging to claim his bounty.
• Oran’s group caught a South-South Bird and used it to help locate the Rogue Sea Current beneath the Accumulation Clouds.
• Zack steered the ship into the Rogue Sea Current, which launched it through the clouds and carried the group to the White Sea.
• Oran explained that they were seven thousand meters above sea level and that the Log Pose pointed to their destination, the White White Sea, three thousand meters higher.