Recaps

Dawn learned that Pluton had been completed after more than a decade of work, while Tom began adapting its technology for the Thunder God Pirates’ mechanical soldiers. In the New World, Zephyr met Aokiji and tried to recruit him to Dawn’s cause.

• Tom called Dawn from Sky Island to announce that Pluton had passed testing and was officially complete.
• Tom returned to the moon and decided to adapt Pluton’s technology to upgrade the mechanical soldiers for the coming final war.
• Aokiji traveled across a frozen sea with Camel and encountered his former teacher, Zephyr.
• Aokiji and Zephyr shared JEREZ inside an igloo and discussed Dawn, Whitebeard Jr., and Zephyr’s departure from the Marines.
• Zephyr told Aokiji he had come to persuade him to join Dawn’s cause, describing its plans as crazier and more appealing than his own.

Zephyr revealed to Aokiji that he and Dawn intended to pursue true justice outside the World Government’s control, then invited him to join them. Aokiji doubted the plan could succeed, so Zephyr challenged him to a fight and unveiled a power that reminded Aokiji of Whitebeard.

• Aokiji questioned Zephyr about Dawn’s intentions, and Zephyr explained that the Marines could never achieve true justice while obeying the World Government.
• Zephyr invited Aokiji to join his plan, but Aokiji refused because he saw no chance of success and feared others would die for nothing.
• Zephyr proposed a fight to prove his point, and he and Aokiji began clashing outside the ice hut.
• Aokiji froze Zephyr inside an iceberg with Ice Age, but Zephyr shattered it and struck Aokiji with a power that reminded him of Whitebeard.

Zephyr fought Aokiji with his newly acquired Tremor-Tremor Fruit, then revealed that his illness had been cured and invited Aokiji to meet Dawn. Aokiji remained uncertain about Dawn’s plans, but Zephyr said Dawn would explain them personally.

• Aokiji warned Zephyr that the Tremor-Tremor Fruit could worsen his asthma, but Zephyr insisted the fruit suited him.
• Zephyr shattered Aokiji’s ice attacks and withstood his attempts to freeze him as they fought a battle of attrition.
• Zephyr charged Aokiji and broke free of the IceBall, then stopped fighting and asked whether Aokiji believed him.
• Aokiji noticed Zephyr’s restored health, and Zephyr said Dawn had arranged his treatment and built powerful forces of his own.
• Zephyr offered to take Aokiji to meet Dawn, but refused to explain more because his Contract required secrecy.

Zephyr brought Aokiji aboard his warship and revealed that Dawn planned to kill Kaido, while keeping the details of the coming battle secret. On Zou, Jack tortured Momonosuke in front of the captured Kin'emon and the others, and Momonosuke bled to death.

• Zephyr told Aokiji that Dawn was preparing to kill Kaido and led him aboard the warship with Shiryu of the Rain, Hawkins, Baby-5, and a masked man.
• Aokiji realized Zephyr had maneuvered him into joining the voyage and agreed to meet Dawn before resting aboard the ship.
• On Zou, Jack held Kin'emon and the others captive after poison gas spread across the island.
• Jack cut off Momonosuke's limbs while taunting Kin'emon and blaming him for the boy's suffering.
• Momonosuke grew pale and died from blood loss as Kin'emon and the others watched helplessly.

Jack's forces captured Zou's leaders and prepared to leave the poisoned island, but the Thunder God Pirates arrived and attacked. Moria fought Jack while Chloe and Wapol rescued the captives, giving Zou's people a chance to survive.

• Jack's pirates looted Zou, captured Duke Inuarashi, Master Nekomamushi, Kin'emon, and others, then left the island poisoned.
• Jack ignored the captives' demands to dispel the poison and led his group toward the outskirts.
• Jack's men spotted the Thunder God Pirates' flying ships, which launched laser fire and combat machines against them.
• Moria attacked Jack while Chloe summoned Demon Soldiers and Wapol escorted the rescued captives toward safety.
• Duke Inuarashi, Master Nekomamushi, Kin'emon, and the others recognized Wapol among their rescuers.

Enel launched the Thunder God Pirates’ fleet toward the war with Kaido while Dawn waited at the agreed island, ready to lure Kaido in. On Zou, Wapol rescued the poisoned leaders and promised that Jack would not leave alive.

• Enel rallied the Thunder God Pirates and led their Flying Ships toward the coming war, planning to use the conflict to expand their territory.
• Enel called Dawn, who confirmed he had reached their agreed island and would wait to lure Kaido there.
• Wapol and his Demon Soldiers carried the poisoned Kin'emon, Inuarashi, Master Nekomamushi, and others away from the battlefield on Zou.
• Master Nekomamushi told Wapol that Jack had used Momonosuke as a hostage before releasing poison gas and that Momonosuke had died.
• Wapol called for the ship's doctor, then assured Inuarashi and Master Nekomamushi that Jack would die.

Wapol turned the battle in the forest into a massacre, while Chloe and Moria joined forces against Jack. Moria raised fallen bodies as an undead legion, leaving Jack surrounded as the fight continued.

• Wapol charged into the battlefield with his shield, killed the Pleasures blocking him, and crushed the horned Gifter.
• Chloe and Moria attacked Jack together, with Wapol blocking Jack’s sword strikes as Chloe’s kick sent him flying.
• Chloe summoned Demon Generals and Demon Soldiers to fight Jack, but he dismissed them as too weak to threaten him.
• Moria activated Shadow Legion, using the nearby corpses to create an undead army that repeatedly swarmed Jack.
• Jack cut his attackers into pieces, but noticed that the number of enemies around him was not decreasing.

Jack realized Moria’s shadow-controlled corpses were being stitched back together, and Chloe’s troops had already exhausted his strength as planned. After Jack transformed into a mammoth and charged the trio, Wapol and Moria engaged him while Chloe tried to hit him with her Destructive Art, leaving the battle raging.

• Jack noticed that Moria’s shadows were repairing and reanimating the severed corpses around him.
• Moria taunted Jack about how an Ancient Zoan could completely destroy the zombies.
• Jack transformed into a mammoth and trampled and scattered the zombie horde before charging at Chloe, Moria, and Wapol.
• Wapol met Jack’s charge with his shield, while Moria’s corpses grabbed Jack’s legs and Chloe released her Destructive Art smoke.
• Jack blew Chloe’s smoke away with his trunk, and Moria and Wapol attacked him with a Shadow Saw and an electrified punch.
• Jack wrapped his trunk in Armament Haki and swung it at all three opponents.

Enel fought Kaido in the sky, unleashing a powerful burst that wounded Kaido but left him exhausted. He lured Kaido toward a desolate island, where Dawn arrived and struck him, taking over the fight as Enel retreated.

• Enel and Kaido clashed in the sky while their forces battled below.
• Enel used a full-power barrage of Super Electromagnetic Cannons to injure Kaido, then struck him with an overloaded lightning-charged attack.
• Exhausted, Enel evaded Kaido and drew him toward a desolate island while Kaido pursued him.
• Dawn appeared and slammed a powerful flaming fist into Kaido's spine, bending his dragon body.
• Enel retreated as Dawn blocked Kaido's path.

Dawn confronted Kaido in dragon form, intending to kill him as well as weaken the Beasts Pirates. With Ouroboros’s help, he exploited Kaido’s earlier wound and cut a deep gash into the dragon’s head, leaving the battle underway.

• Kaido realized Dawn and Enel had lured him away from the Beasts Pirates and demanded to know whether the Marines had allied with Enel.
• Dawn ignored Kaido’s threats and clashed with him, landing a fiery punch that scorched his body without overcoming his rapid healing.
• Kaido charged Dawn with his horns, and the two collided above a desolate island.
• Ouroboros froze Kaido with the Slow-Slow Fruit’s effect, allowing Dawn to strike the wound Enel had caused and send Kaido crashing onto the island.
• Dawn attacked Kaido’s head with Oto and carved a deep gash into it.

Dawn fought Kaido, testing the power of his Calamity God form against the Emperor’s overwhelming strength. Dawn landed a devastating slash that cut off Kaido’s horn and wounded his chest, but Kaido roared and struck back.

• Kaido wounded Dawn with a powerful club swing after Dawn cut his head.
• Dawn and Kaido exchanged brutal blows, while Ouroboros used Slow Light to slow Kaido.
• Dawn unleashed Black Extreme Flame Sun Zhu Rong, cutting off Kaido’s horn and slashing across his chest.
• Kaido erupted with Conqueror’s Haki and roared as he brought a powerful blow down at Dawn.

Dawn and Kaido fought an escalating battle while the clashes on Zou began to turn decisively against Jack. After three days and nights of being battered by Wapol, Moria, and Chloe, Jack was overwhelmed by their coordinated attacks.

• Dawn dodged Kaido's blows, struck him, and used Ouroboros's shield to withstand his furious barrage.
• Dawn blasted himself away from Kaido with a shockwave, then charged back and traded attacks with him as their battle continued.
• After three days and nights of fighting on Zou, Jack reverted from mammoth form to human form but remained unable to overcome Wapol, Moria, and Chloe.
• Wapol struck Jack with his shield while Moria wounded his back with the Shadow Saw, and Chloe stopped Jack's attempt to trade wounds.
• Wapol and Moria relentlessly attacked Jack without defending, turning his desperate counterattacks into a one-sided beating.

After three days of coordinated attacks, Chloe, Moria, and Wapol defeated Jack while keeping him alive. Moria then used Jack’s shadow to test a new technique, sending it into Jack’s body as the chapter ended.

• Moria and Wapol relentlessly attacked Jack while Chloe and her demon leaders limited his chances to fight back.
• Moria unleashed Thousand Shadow Sharp Spear, and Chloe and Wapol followed with attacks that broke Jack’s arm and crushed his chest.
• Chloe had the demon leaders restrain Jack, then agreed to let Moria take him.
• Moria cut Jack’s shadow and inserted it into a Shadow Master, transforming the figure into Jack’s likeness.
• Moria’s Jack-shaped Shadow Master used Shadow Erosion to send its shadow into Jack’s barely breathing body.

Moria turned Jack into Shadow Jack, an obedient shadow creature with Jack’s abilities and powerful regenerative abilities. After testing him, Moria, Chloe, and Wapol rode toward Zou’s interior as the island’s residents neared the end of their rescue.

• Moria used the Shadow Master to consume Jack’s life and create Shadow Jack, who obeyed Moria and could repair his injuries.
• Moria ordered Shadow Jack to heal, then briefly tested his strength against Wapol before stopping.
• Moria transformed Shadow Jack into a mammoth so the group could ride through Zou, and Chloe considered new ways to develop her abilities.
• Ship doctors treated Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, Kin'emon, and others with an antidote, and the recovered samurai killed Jack’s remaining pirates.
• Pedro and the Guardians gathered more medicinal ingredients while the doctors and mechanical soldiers helped rescue Zou’s poisoned residents, bringing the effort to its final stage.

Enel and the Whitebeard Pirates turned the battle at Marine Headquarters by forming an alliance, prompting Sengoku and Garp to join the fight. Fisher Tiger reunited with Jinbe and joined Luffy in confronting Garp as they tried to reach Ace.

• Enel traded lightning attacks with Kizaru, while Dawn watched their battle.
• Marco announced that the Whitebeard Pirates and Thunder God Pirates were allies, raising the pirates’ morale.
• Sengoku urged Garp to fight seriously, and the Marines and pirates arranged new matchups across the battlefield.
• Fisher Tiger reunited with Jinbe and joined him in helping Luffy save Ace.
• Luffy attacked Garp, who knocked his arm into the ground, and Fisher Tiger followed with Five Thousand Brick Fist.

Marco reported that reinforcements were coming to Wano, where Ace and the Straw Hat Pirates planned to gather intelligence and join Kin'emon’s uprising against Kurozumi Orochi. Meanwhile, Enel’s Thunder God Pirates overwhelmed the Beasts Pirates, and Enel revealed to King that Kaido had encountered the Thunder God Pirates’ true captain.

• Chloe told Marco that reinforcements were heading to Wano, and Marco updated her on the slow progress of his mission with Ace.
• Ace and Marco encountered the Straw Hat Pirates in Kuri, and Luffy agreed to help oppose Kurozumi Orochi after Kin'emon’s group arrived.
• The Thunder God Pirates used Enel’s lightning and mechanical soldiers to inflict heavy losses on the Beasts Pirates over three days.
• Enel defeated King’s efforts to hold him back and told him that Kaido could not return because he was facing an opponent stronger than himself.
• Enel revealed that the Thunder God Pirates had a true captain above him, then pressed his attack against King.

Enel unleashed the Thunder God Pirates’ prepared assault and overwhelmed the depleted Beasts Pirates. He brutally battered King, but King endured a chest-piercing blow to trap Enel’s arm and set up a desperate counterattack.

• Enel ordered the Thunder God Pirates to attack, and their sudden offensive crushed the weakened Beasts Pirates’ defenses.
• Enel intercepted King, crippled his wing with his trident and lightning, and bound it with molten gold.
• Enel repeatedly hurled and struck King, mangling his wings and leaving him unable to control his body.
• King recovered enough to block Enel’s lightning with flames, then took Enel’s Thunderous Fist through his chest while grabbing Enel’s arm for a mutually destructive strike.

Enel killed “Flame Calamity” King and overwhelmed “Pestilence Calamity” Queen, breaking the stalemate between the Beasts Pirates and the Thunder God Pirates. With King dead and Queen suppressed, the Beasts Pirates fled as Enel’s forces began massacring them.

• Enel punched through “Flame Calamity” King’s chest, but King unleashed a final wave of flames that Enel emerged from unharmed.
• Enel beat King in midair, then threw him down and pursued him to the ground.
• “Pestilence Calamity” Queen tried to rescue King, but Enel blasted him back with his golden trident before stomping King’s head apart.
• Queen charged Enel in brachiosaurus form, but Enel struck him with an iron-sand halberd and forced him to dodge by rolling aside.
• Enel ordered his men to attack, and the Thunder God Pirates charged as the Beasts Pirates fled and the battle turned into a massacre.

Dawn and Kaido fought for three days and nights as the Beasts Pirates’ territory fell into chaos, with Dawn initially holding the advantage. Kaido’s strength and recovery surged during the battle, bringing them to a deadlock as Dawn prepared to test the limits of the so-called strongest creature.

• Dawn battled Kaido above the shattered Desolate Island while the wider war turned against the Beasts Pirates after Enel killed King and Jack was captured on Zou.
• Dawn used attacks including a Stone Lion, Oto, Slow Light, and white flames to wound and restrain Kaido, but Kaido’s dragon tail shattered Dawn’s sword energy and sent him flying.
• Kaido threatened to fight the Marines to the death if anything happened to his crew, then struck Dawn hard enough to make him cough blood.
• Dawn realized Kaido’s power had risen to match his own and watched Kaido’s burned wound begin to regenerate.
• Dawn declared that he could endure a war of attrition and challenged Kaido to reveal the limits of his strength as another explosive shockwave swept across the battlefield.

Luffy, Ace, and their allies attacked Kurozumi Orochi in the Flower Capital, fighting Orochi’s forces as Luffy and Ace joined forces against him. After Orochi transformed into an eight-headed serpent, the brothers struck him with combined attacks, but he caught them between his heads and charged at them.

• Luffy admitted to Ace that he had been spotted while gathering information, and the two brothers prepared to fight together.
• Marco and Sanji battled Fukurokuju and Orochi’s ninjas while Zoro fought Sleepy Kyoshiro.
• Ace attacked Kurozumi Orochi with fire, and Luffy blasted him back with a Haki-coated fist and a barrage of punches.
• Kurozumi Orochi transformed into an eight-headed serpent and threatened Luffy, Ace, and the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Luffy and Ace combined their Conqueror’s Haki, then struck Orochi with fire-based attacks that scorched his serpent body.
• Orochi knocked the brothers into the air between his serpent heads and lunged at them with two more heads.

Luffy’s early assault in Wano Country forced the battle to begin before Kin'emon and the reinforcements arrived. Marco coordinated with the Whitebeard Pirates’ main force while he and Sanji fought off pursuers, as Luffy and Ace pressed their attack on Kurozumi Orochi.

• Marco contacted Trick and arranged for Kin'emon and the others to meet the Whitebeard Pirates before entering Wano Country.
• Vista, Jozu, and Blamenco discussed Luffy’s strength while the Whitebeard Pirates prepared to support Marco’s group.
• Nami and the others fled pursuing samurai, and Sanji repeatedly left Marco to rescue them.
• Marco fought through Orochi's Oniwabanshu and became locked in a stalemate with Fukurokuju and the remaining enemies.
• Luffy and Ace struck Yamata no Orochi with powerful attacks, but Kurozumi Orochi survived the explosion and threatened them.

Ace and Luffy battled Kurozumi Orochi, but his severed heads rapidly regenerated and began to overwhelm them. Trick arrived and froze Orochi before attacking him with a storm of ice blades.

• Kurozumi Orochi regenerated his wounds and attacked Ace and Luffy with his eight heads.
• Luffy and Ace destroyed three of Orochi's heads with powerful attacks, but Orochi fought back and sent them crashing through buildings.
• Ace and Luffy realized that Orochi's destroyed heads had regenerated, allowing him to overwhelm them in a battle of attrition.
• Trick arrived alone and froze Orochi inside an icy shell with Ten Thousand Year Snow: Snowscape.
• Orochi broke free and attacked Trick, who blocked him with snow and engulfed his body in Feather Blade Dance.

Trick, Ace, and Luffy fought Kurozumi Orochi and deduced that his heads sustained his regeneration and consciousness. They froze and shattered his body, then attacked the remaining heads as Ace prepared a final blow.

• Ace and Trick attacked Kurozumi Orochi, but the monster regenerated and swallowed Trick before Trick burst free inside an ice whale.
• Trick concluded that Orochi could survive as long as one of his eight heads remained, and Ace and Luffy agreed to strike them all at once.
• Luffy and Ace destroyed several heads while Trick froze Orochi’s body and shattered it into fragments.
• Luffy continued smashing the heads, while Ace told him and Trick to retreat and prepared to give Orochi a final attack.

Ace, Trick, and Luffy killed Kurozumi Orochi after he survived their first attacks by preserving one head and using Armament Haki to escape. Meanwhile, the battle erupted in the Flower Capital as Kin'emon and the Whitebeard Pirates entered Wano, and Nekomamushi and Inuarashi joined the fight against Queen.

• Ace engulfed Kurozumi Orochi in a massive fire attack, burning most of his heads and bodies to charred skeletons.
• Kurozumi Orochi revived the crowned head Ace had pierced and broke free from the flames using Armament Haki.
• Trick, Luffy, and Ace overwhelmed Kurozumi Orochi, destroyed his remaining heads, and burned and shattered his body until he was certainly dead.
• Kin'emon and the main force of the Whitebeard Pirates entered Wano Country as a fierce battle began in the Flower Capital.
• Nekomamushi, Inuarashi, Wapol, and Moria joined the battlefield, while Chloe sailed alone toward Dawn.
• Nekomamushi and Inuarashi attacked Queen with lightning-charged weapons, seeking revenge.

Enel unleashed a storm across the battlefield while Inuarashi and Nekomamushi took on Queen, as Dawn continued his exhausting fight against Kaido. When Dawn and Ouroboros struggled to stop Kaido, an icy attack froze him and an unknown man offered help.

• Enel left Queen to Inuarashi and Nekomamushi, then summoned a lightning storm over the battlefield to bring the war to an end.
• Dawn taunted the increasingly exhausted Kaido and revealed that he had been draining Kaido’s stamina, but Kaido adapted to Slow Light and struck Dawn with his tail.
• Dawn attacked Kaido with white spears while Ouroboros unleashed a barrage, but Kaido charged through the explosions.
• Ouroboros hurled a huge piece of the island at Kaido, and a vibration shattered it and sent Kaido flying.
• An icy wave froze Kaido into an ice sculpture, and a man beside Dawn offered to help.