Recaps

Madara confronted Imu after deducing that Imu had created Devil Fruits by devouring the original twenty gods and using their descendants as cages. Imu confirmed the truth and began fighting Madara, who tried to stop him before he broke more chains and drained Devil Fruit Users across the sea.

• Madara observed Imu drawing demonic power from Devil Fruit Users and concluded that Imu had tampered with the fruits.
• Madara guessed that Imu had devoured the other nineteen original gods and gained authority over their laws.
• Imu confirmed Madara's theory but revealed that the gods had remained alive inside him for eight hundred years, imprisoned by their descendants' bloodlines.
• Madara realized Imu's power would grow beyond his ability to suppress if more chains broke, so he attacked to stop him before the fourth chain was released.
• Madara battered Imu's weapon array, seized the Sea God Sword, and hurled it back at Imu.

Madara fought Imu as the fourth chain shattered and the fifth began to crack, while Imu’s power continued to rise. A dark purple spear pierced Imu and pinned him in midair, and Madara recognized the returning Natsu.

• Madara suppressed the black mist with Yin-Yang Release Binding Lock, but Imu broke the fourth chain and drew power from its destruction.
• Madara struck the fifth chain to slow its cracking while Imu formed two giant swords and unleashed Heavenly Wrath, Divine Punishment.
• Madara merged the nine Truth-Seeking Orbs into his staff and countered Imu’s giant swords with Ten Thousand Ways Rule the Universe.
• Madara charged Imu during the clash, but Imu was knocked back and accelerated the twin swords, forcing Madara to defend again.
• Honebami Tōshirō attacked Madara, but a dark purple spear pierced the blade and then Imu’s chest.
• Madara recognized Natsu’s voice and asked him what had taken so long.

Uchiha Natsu returned from sealing Uranus and joined Madara in fighting Imu, whose power grew as the chains holding him broke. Imu shattered the fifth chain despite their attacks, and Natsu struck at the newly solidifying figure within the black mist.

• Uchiha Natsu descended beside Madara and recognized that Madara had awakened the Six-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan, which could help restore Izuna Uchiha.
• Natsu and Madara attacked Imu together as black mist accelerated Imu's healing and the fifth chain neared breaking.
• Natsu evaded Imu's weapons and attacked his true body while Madara smashed Imu's left arm with his staff.
• Natsu unleashed Sage Art: Heaven-Illuminating Sun Devourer as Madara used Kotoamatsukami to restrain Imu briefly, but Imu shattered the fifth chain and vanished from the flames.
• Natsu used Sage Art: Turbid World Annihilation to clear the black mist, revealing Imu standing at its center with a more solid form.

Natsu and Madara fought Imu’s twisted figures to keep them from breaking the sixth chain, while Natsu resisted using Takamagahara because it threatened to erase his humanity. Their defense faltered as the chain began to crack.

• Imu claimed he was the one who decided who wielded the world’s powers, while Natsu accused him of stealing those powers from others.
• Imu sent the twisted figures in the black mist toward the sixth chain, and Natsu and Madara agreed to stop them without using Takamagahara.
• Natsu and Madara attacked the figures with Sage Art: Turbid World Annihilation and Madara’s staff, but the seemingly endless waves drained their strength.
• Natsu took a deep wound to his left shoulder while protecting Madara, then continued fighting beside him.
• After a wave of figures retreated, Natsu and Madara saw a crack forming in the sixth chain as natural energy gathered around Natsu.

Natsu unleashed Sage Art: Heaven-Extinguishing Annihilation while Imu tried to tear apart the seventh chain, and the flames consumed Imu and his demonic power. The battlefield was left with Imu and his presence gone.

• Imu released Ten Thousand Sins Forgiven, sending a tide of black mist toward Natsu and Madara.
• Madara used Vault-Breaking Voidfall to hold back Imu’s attack while Natsu gathered natural energy.
• Imu abandoned the clash and focused his power on the sixth and seventh chains, trying to destroy the seventh before Natsu struck.
• Natsu merged with Kunwu’s fox phantom and unleashed Sage Art: Heaven-Extinguishing Annihilation.
• The blood-red flames swallowed Imu and stripped away his demonic power until nothing remained.

After Natsu killed Imu, the battlefield briefly fell silent, but a new force began stripping power and life from Devil Fruit Users across the world. The chapter left Whitebeard and Garp using Conqueror’s Haki to protect those near them as most Devil Fruit Users died.

• Natsu and Madara confirmed Imu was gone, and the fighters began to lower their defenses.
• Shamrock’s sword Cerberus suddenly cracked and split in half.
• In the North Blue, a Whitebeard Pirates crewman twisted and crumbled into shriveled remains as his crewmates suffered the same pulling force.
• Whitebeard gathered his crew and used Conqueror’s Haki to shatter the threads draining them, though the threads reformed.
• Garp used Conqueror’s Haki to protect Sengoku, Tsuru, Akainu, and Kizaru from the force draining their powers.
• Across the One Piece World, more than ninety percent of Devil Fruit Users became desiccated corpses.

The World Will manifested above Mary Geoise, transforming Imu into its empty vessel and summoning an army of Demon Entities. Natsu recognized the entity as the World Will and faced its judgment as an outsider.

• People across the world without strong Conqueror's Haki or Haki training withered and shattered at once.
• A black Pentagram Formation appeared over Mary Geoise as black mist gathered into a humanoid outline.
• The formation produced over a thousand Vice Admiral Level Demon Entities, dozens of Yonko Commander Level demons, and more than a dozen powerful Devil Fruit demons.
• The outline took Imu's form, but Natsu saw Imu's consciousness pinned beneath the World Will's control.
• The World Will called Natsu an outsider, and Natsu recognized that it had entered the fray in person.

Natsu activated Takamagahara, spreading a crimson-gold domain across the surrounding sea and awakening stronger Sharingan in the Uchiha. As the power reached Madara, his Six-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan advanced into a Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.

• Natsu invoked Takamagahara, expanding a domain across Sabaody Archipelago, the southern tip of the Red Line, and hundreds of surrounding islands.
• Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan transformed into a Six-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan, strengthening his Complete Susanoo.
• Kei, Yaoyu, Yakumi, and the other Uchiha with Mangekyō Sharingan also awakened Six-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.
• Night Owl Guard members who had only Three-Tomoe Sharingan awakened Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Madara received the domain's power, and his Six-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan became a Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.

Madara and the Uchiha forces used the Takamagahara domain’s power to transform their Susanoo and confront the Demon Entities, while Natsu awakened a pair of Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan. Madara realized that using Takamagahara was eroding Natsu’s humanity, and waited to question him until the battle was over.

• The World Will ordered the Demon Entities to attack, sending more than a thousand demons charging toward the Uchiha forces.
• Fugaku and the Uchiha clansmen drew on the domain’s power to raise two-thousand-meter Complete Susanoo, while the Night Owl Guard summoned hundreds of smaller Susanoo.
• Natsu transformed, awakened a pair of Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan, and calmly judged the approaching demons as targets to eliminate.
• Madara noticed Natsu’s detachment from his own body and his clansmen, and concluded that Takamagahara’s power was making him resemble the emotionless World Will.
• Madara stayed silent, deciding to ask Natsu about the change after the battle if Natsu was still himself.

Natsu and Madara attacked the World Will and the Demon Entities in Takamagahara, with Natsu using his creation authority to erase the demonic forces. The battle stalled when the World Will adapted to Madara’s Kotoamatsukami and blocked Natsu’s attacks, leaving the two powers locked in a deadlock.

• Natsu ordered the attack, and Fugaku, Madara, and the Night Owl Guard fought the Demon Entities.
• The World Will recognized Natsu’s authority to create worlds and realized he was using it to strip Mu of control.
• Madara used Kotoamatsukami to lock down the World Will’s rule patterns and interrupt the Pentagram Formation.
• Natsu unleashed Takamagahara Divine Absolution, disintegrating most of the Demon Entities, then directed Divine Will Analysis at the World Will.
• The World Will opened a new channel to form a defensive web of rules, stopping Natsu’s attacks and creating a stalemate as Madara’s suppression began to weaken.

Fugaku led the War God Legion in a fierce battle against the Demon Entities while Natsu's Divine Amnesty remained locked in a stalemate with the World Will's rules. The legion cleared most of the battlefield, but the struggle in the sky continued.

• Fugaku ordered Kei, Setsuna, Yaoyu, and Yakumi to divide the battlefield as the Susanoo fighters attacked the Demon Entities.
• The Night Owl Guards coordinated their Susanoo to defeat Vice Admiral Level and Yonko Commander Level demons.
• Fugaku fought a carapace-covered demonic giant while Killing Hall identified its armor gap and stabbed it, allowing Fugaku to behead it.
• The War God Legion wiped out most of the Vice Admiral Level and Yonko Commander Level demons and defeated the other powerful demonic figures.
• Natsu's crimson-gold beam remained locked against the World Will's web of rules after Madara's Kotoamatsukami opened a passage through it.

Natsu used Takamagahara to sever the World Will from the world’s rules and destroy its hold on Imu. The World Will escaped as a faint dark-red thread, while Imu fell free and opened his eyes with a hazy awareness.

• Fugaku ordered the Night Owl Guard to finish clearing the battlefield and prepare to support the battle in the sky.
• The World Will reached for the final chain inside Imu, intending to claim the world’s complete rules and drain the strongest Devil Fruit Users.
• Natsu invoked Takamagahara Divine Pardon and raised five pillars that enclosed the domain, cutting the World Will off from its authority over the world.
• Natsu used Ten Thousand Laws, Heart-Slaying to shatter the World Will’s shell and free Imu, but the World Will escaped between the pillars as a dark-red thread.
• Imu fell through the void, then opened his eyes with a faint, bewildered awareness.

Imu accepted defeat and vanished after Natsu defeated her, while Natsu kept a fragment of her fading power and turned his attention to Joy Boy. On an island in the New World, Luffy suddenly felt something being forcibly pulled from inside him as crimson-gold eyes appeared before him.

• Imu admitted that she had lost to Natsu and dissipated into motes of light without asking for mercy.
• Natsu drew one mote of light into his palm, where it condensed into a dark red crystal, and tucked it into his sleeve.
• Madara, Fugaku, Shanks, Shamrock, and Beckman silently watched Imu disappear.
• Natsu said he would deal with Joy Boy next.
• Luffy's companions rested on an island in the New World when crimson-gold eyes appeared and Luffy convulsed as something was dragged from within him.

A crimson-gold eye pulled a phantom from Luffy and destroyed it before it could return to his body, leaving the Straw Hat Pirates wondering who had intervened and what the phantom was. Elsewhere, Takamagahara’s domain began to recede, and Natsu and the fighters below lost the powers it had granted them.

• A phantom emerged from Luffy and tried to burrow back into him, but a crimson-gold pillar of light pinned and destroyed it.
• Robin told the Straw Hat Pirates that the eye meant no harm and had stripped something from Luffy, though she could not explain when the phantom had entered him.
• Luffy shrugged off the danger and asked Sanji for meat while the crew questioned the identity of the eye’s owner and feared the matter was not over.
• Takamagahara’s domain receded, its five pillars shattered, and the covered islands reappeared.
• Natsu’s appearance and eyes returned toward their former state as the power granted to the Night Owl Guard and Uchiha clansmen faded.

After the borrowed power faded, the Night Owl Guard discovered that their Sharingan had grown stronger and that they could still summon a weakened Susanoo. Natsu and Madara returned with them, while Natsu admitted the power of the Origin had dulled his human emotions and left Madara uneasy about his condition.

• Fugaku and the Night Owl Guard's Sharingan reverted, but several members found they could still summon small, faint Susanoo outlines.
• Fugaku and Killing Hall sensed that their chakra and ocular power had grown stronger, inspiring the Night Owl Guard to hope they could awaken the power themselves.
• Madara's Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan reverted to Six Tomoe, and he noticed that Natsu's eyes and emotions had not fully recovered.
• Natsu led the group back and explained to Madara that the power of the Origin pushed him toward divinity by diminishing his humanity.
• Natsu said his sense of distance from others was fading, but Madara remained troubled by the change in him.

Natsu offered the defeated Marines a chance to join the Earthly Chief Guard, but Sakazuki and Borsalino refused to surrender, choosing to face death rather than live in disgrace. Natsu gave a silent signal, and Fugaku stepped aside as Sengoku watched with conflicted feelings.

• Madara urged Natsu to rest and recover before planning their next move, and Natsu thanked him.
• The Night Owl Guard surrounded the surviving Marines among the ruins of Sabaody Archipelago, where Natsu offered them a chance to submit and join the Earthly Chief Guard.
• Sakazuki acknowledged that Natsu’s new order might be better, but refused to surrender because he would not abandon absolute justice.
• Borsalino also rejected surrender, saying he would lose face if he survived after Kuzan and Aramaki died.
• Natsu silently signaled the Night Owl Guard, and Fugaku stepped back to clear the way as Sengoku watched Sakazuki with conflicted feelings.

Sengoku, Tsuru, and Garp chose to stand with the Marines against Madara, while Yaoyu and Yakumi offered Garp a chance to spare Ace grief. Garp sent Ace a tearful message before Akainu, Borsalino, Sengoku, Tsuru, and Garp charged Madara, who spread the power of Kotoamatsukami.

• Sengoku and Tsuru decided to fight alongside Sakazuki, and Garp stood with them.
• Yaoyu and Yakumi told Garp they were willing to give him a chance because they did not want Ace to suffer.
• Garp asked Yaoyu and Yakumi to tell Ace that he was sorry, urged him to live and cherish himself, and said he was glad Ace had found friends.
• Akainu charged Madara while Borsalino moved toward his flank, and Sengoku, Tsuru, and Garp followed.
• Madara remained atop Susanoo and spread out the ocular power of Kotoamatsukami.

Madara used Kotoamatsukami and Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei to seal Akainu, Kizaru, Sengoku, Tsuru, and Garp in five rock spheres. Natsu ordered Fugaku to take them to Origin Island, then led the Night Owl Guard past the dead and surviving slaves toward the depths of the Holy Land, away from the Room of Authority.

• Madara suppressed the Marines with Kotoamatsukami, but Garp reached Susanoo and cracked its armor with his Haki.
• Madara’s Yin-Yang Release: Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei dragged Akainu, Kizaru, Sengoku, and Tsuru into forming rock spheres.
• Garp tried to punch through a sphere, injured his knuckles, then let the gravitational stream seal him inside the fifth sphere.
• Madara confirmed that the five prisoners were sealed, and Natsu told Fugaku to take the spheres to be sealed beneath Origin Island.
• Natsu and the Night Owl Guard walked through Mary Geoise past corpses and surviving slaves, then continued deeper into the Holy Land without entering the Room of Authority.

Natsu transformed the Empty Throne into a symbol of the Uchiha and declared that the Uchiha Clan would rule the world as its only God Race. He left the Night Owl Guard facing a new era under the clan’s absolute authority.

• Natsu entered the hall of the Empty Throne as the Night Owl Guard, Fugaku, and Madara assembled on its steps.
• Natsu used Yin-Yang Release to reshape the throne’s lion heads into dragons and replace its World Government symbols with Uchiha designs.
• Natsu recalled the Uchiha Clan’s exile eight years earlier and recounted its victories, including the defeat of the Navy and the World Government in the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Natsu declared that the Uchiha Clan would become the world’s only God Race and that its words would be truth and its actions inviolable law.

After the Night Owl Guards pledged loyalty to Natsu, he declared that the world needed only one royal family and ordered the ocean’s remaining threats purged. He sent Yashiro, Tekka, Taoho, and Kei with a hundred guards to confront the Big Mom Pirates on Whole Cake Island.

• The Night Owl Guards roared their allegiance to Natsu while Madara, Fugaku, Yaoyu, and Yakumi watched from the steps.
• Natsu declared that the world needed a single royal family and commanded the guards to clean up the ocean’s scum.
• Natsu remembered how his original group of twenty-three had survived their dangerous mission in Konoha without losing anyone.
• Natsu surveyed the forces now under his command, including the Night Owl Guards in the hall and troops spread across the seas.
• Natsu ordered Yashiro, Tekka, Taoho, and Kei to lead a hundred Night Owl Guards to Whole Cake Island and deal with the Big Mom Pirates, sparing only those who submitted.

Natsu assigned forces to deal with the Beasts Pirates in Wano Country, ordered Madara to kill Marshall D. Teach, and sent Killing Hall to invite Red-Haired Shanks to meet him. He also told Madara to restore Izuna’s living body after the mission and instructed Fugaku to reshape Wano after the fighting.

• Natsu ordered Fugaku, Yaoyu, Yakumi, and Setsuna to lead the Ten Night Owl Guard Squads against the Beasts Pirates, offering surrender to those willing and allowing Kaido to live if he submitted.
• Natsu told Yaoyu to surround King if he refused to surrender, and Fugaku returned to his place after receiving his orders.
• Natsu ordered Madara to bring him Marshall D. Teach’s head, then told him to restore Elder Izuna’s living body before heading to the New World.
• Madara said he would return from the New World within five days and then go to get Izuna.
• Natsu sent Killing Hall to find Red-Haired Shanks and tell him he could come before Natsu in ten days.
• Natsu told Fugaku to choose when to depart and to clean up and reorganize Wano Country after the fighting, recruiting the Beasts Pirates’ All-Stars where possible.

Natsu ordered the Night Owl Guard’s preparations and agreed to meet Shanks in ten days, while Madara requested that Natsu come see him. On the Red Force, Beckman persuaded Yasopp that Natsu’s permission to meet was a genuine favor given the Uchiha Clan’s overwhelming power.

• Natsu told Fugaku to persuade King to surrender and instructed the Night Owl Guard squad leaders to report every four hours after reaching their destinations.
• Fugaku relayed Madara’s request for Natsu to visit him after Izuna Uchiha’s business was finished, and Natsu told Fugaku to have Madara return instead.
• Killing Hall delivered Natsu’s message that Shanks could meet him in ten days, with someone providing the location and Shanks coming alone.
• Yasopp complained that Natsu made the meeting sound like a favor, and Beckman cited the Uchiha Clan’s defeat of the Navy and World Government to explain why it was one.
• Yasopp stopped arguing and sat down on a crate.

Shanks decided to meet Uchiha Natsu alone in ten days and ordered the Red-Haired Pirates to remain quiet until then. Meanwhile, a Night Owl Guard delivered Natsu’s ultimatum to Morgans and killed him after demanding he appear in Mary Geoise within three days.

• Shanks concluded that Natsu’s ten-day deadline tested whether the Red-Haired Pirates would accept the new order, and agreed to meet him alone while Beckman waited outside.
• Shanks ordered the Red-Haired Pirates to stay put, avoid trouble, and leave Uchiha Clan territory untouched for ten days.
• A seagull carrying photographs of the giants at Sabaody Archipelago flew toward the World Economy News Paper’s airship while a Night Owl Guard followed it.
• The Night Owl Guard confronted Morgans on the airship and ordered him to appear before Lord Natsu in Holy Land Mary Geoise within three days or die.
• The Night Owl Guard transported Morgans to a gray-white place and killed him.

After enduring more than seventy deaths in the Night Owl Guard’s genjutsu, Morgans was ordered to appear before his lord in Mary Geoise within three days. Meanwhile, Uchiha Yan told Whitebeard that Natsu had succeeded and that the Uchiha Clan regarded the Whitebeard Pirates as family.

• The Night Owl Guard repeatedly killed Morgans in a genjutsu, then released him and gave him three days to reach Mary Geoise.
• Morgans packed for the journey and told the seagull not to publish the photos it had taken.
• Uchiha Yan arrived aboard the Moby Dick and told Whitebeard that Natsu had succeeded and the Night Owl Guard’s seventeenth squad would help clear the remaining forces in the North Blue.
• Yan said the Uchiha Clan planned to return to the Ninja World after stabilizing the sea, and Whitebeard welcomed the Uchiha Clan as family.

Yan told Ace that Garp had been sealed by Madara rather than killed, and Ace broke down over the news before Marco reminded him that he could still visit. Whitebeard promised to go with Ace once the situation stabilized.

• Yan recounted Natsu’s loyalty to his clan, then listened as Ace nervously asked about Garp.
• Yan explained that Garp and several Marine leaders had refused to surrender and were sealed, while Kuzan and Aramaki had died in battle.
• Ace remembered Garp’s care and their history, then wept after hearing that Garp had left final words.
• Marco reassured Ace that Garp was sealed, not dead, and suggested asking Natsu, Yaoyu, or Yakumi about visiting him.
• Whitebeard promised to accompany Ace and make sure Yaoyu and Yakumi arranged a visit.