Recaps

The Whitebeard Pirates and their allies fled Marineford as an annihilating ripple consumed the island and everyone left behind. Natsu contacted Uchiha Fugaku, ordered Whitebeard to take his pirates back to Origin Island, and revealed his hidden weakness through his voice.

• Garp fell silent as Akainu condemned Coby for defying orders and invoking Garp's name against a Vice Admiral.
• Uchiha Fugaku rescued Oars and pirates with his Susanoo, while Uchiha Yaoyu carried Whitebeard and other pirates aboard the Moby Dick.
• Uchiha Kei rescued Hancock, Crocodile, and Moria, then picked up Doflamingo after he showed the Uchiha Clan's token.
• Fugaku pushed the Moby Dick out to sea, and the other pirate ships followed, leaving thousands behind as the ripple erased them and Marineford.
• As the survivors waited in the fog, Natsu contacted Fugaku and ordered him to take Whitebeard and the Whitebeard Pirates back to Origin Island.

Saint Imu ordered the Navy to withdraw from West Blue after returning to Mary Geoise badly wounded. Natsu used the Flying Thunder God Kunai to reach Izumi on Origin Island, where he collapsed with a grievous wound, leaving her struggling to treat him.

• Saint Imu returned to the Flower Room bleeding and ordered the Five Elders to withdraw Navy forces from West Blue and send CP0 to gather intelligence.
• Izumi worried that she could not keep up with Natsu as she waited alone at home on Origin Island.
• Natsu activated the formula on Izumi’s Kunai and appeared behind her before collapsing and asking her to notify Setsuna.
• Izumi summoned a Shadow Clone to fetch Setsuna and sealed her house while preparing to treat Natsu.
• Izumi found Natsu’s abdomen pierced and the wound being eroded by dark-red energy that her Mystical Palm Technique could not affect.

Izumi struggled to keep Natsu alive by using the Mystical Palm Technique, while her Sharingan unknowingly awakened into a Mangekyo Sharingan. Elder Setsuna learned that Natsu was injured and rushed to Izumi’s home with medical specialists, medicine, and Shadow Guards.

• Izumi repeatedly poured Yang Release Chakra into Natsu’s wound until it began to close, and her Sharingan changed into an unfamiliar Mangekyo pattern.
• Setsuna struggled with the kingdom’s paperwork while the other leaders remained away at Marineford with Natsu.
• Izumi’s Shadow Clone arrived and told Setsuna that Natsu was injured.
• Setsuna ordered Feihong and Feiyan to come to Izumi’s residence, Taoho to deploy twenty Shadow Guards, and a guard to bring Vallen and his treatment potions.
• Setsuna followed Izumi’s Shadow Clone, fearing what the Uchiha Clan would face if Natsu died.

Marshall D. Teach and the surviving Blackbeard Pirates escaped Marineford after the Uchiha’s devastating attack, but lost Catarina Devon, Sanjuan Wolf, and Vasco Shot. Nearby, Whitebeard and his exhausted crew gathered aboard the Moby Dick after surviving the battle.

• Teach lamented that the Uchiha had destroyed his plans to recruit Impel Down prisoners and steal Whitebeard’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Teach saw that Burgess, Van Augur, Lafitte, Doc Q, and Stronger had escaped with him, while Devon, Sanjuan Wolf, and Vasco Shot had been lost at sea.
• Lafitte remembered Doc Q and Stronger pulling him onto the ship just before the waves engulfed Marineford, and called the Uchiha monsters.
• Teach’s crew watched the Marineford horizon in fear as the sea wind carried a scorched stench.
• Whitebeard and his exhausted commanders rested aboard the Moby Dick, with Marco’s flames weakened and Jozu still partly diamondized.

After escaping Marineford with Ace, the battered Whitebeard Pirates thanked the Uchiha Clan for saving them and learned that the World Government would remain a threat to both groups. Fugaku relayed Natsu’s proposal for the Whitebeard Pirates to retreat to the West Blue near Origin Island, leaving Newgate to consider the alliance’s next move.

• The Whitebeard Pirates escaped Marineford with Ace after Natsu and the Uchiha Clan helped rescue them from the catastrophic battle.
• Newgate welcomed the bandaged Ace back and thanked Fugaku for the Uchiha Clan’s intervention.
• Fugaku explained that using Complete Susanoo had drained much of his chakra and eye power before telling Newgate that Natsu had a request.
• Fugaku asked Newgate to move the Whitebeard Pirates to the West Blue near Origin Island, where they could recover and support the Uchiha Clan.
• Newgate recognized that both groups had become enemies of the World Government and that the Whitebeard Pirates’ forces could make up for the Uchiha Clan’s shortage of fighters.

Whitebeard agreed to Natsu’s request and asked Fugaku to form an alliance with the Uchiha Clan, but Fugaku said only Natsu or the clan elders could approve it. As Whitebeard’s fleet sailed toward the West Blue to ask Natsu, the surviving Marines mourned their losses and struggled to understand what they were fighting for.

• Whitebeard accepted Natsu’s request and proposed an alliance between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Uchiha Clan.
• Fugaku explained that he could not approve clan affairs without Natsu’s permission or unanimous agreement from the elders.
• Whitebeard ordered Marco to lead the fleet toward the West Blue so they could ask Natsu about the alliance.
• The evacuating Marines mourned Onigumo, Steel Bone Kong, Coby, and the other casualties as Sengoku and Garp remained silent.
• Gion asked Sengoku what the Marines were fighting for, but she could not answer.

After Marineford was destroyed and the Navy suffered devastating losses, Sengoku and the surviving officers faced the task of rebuilding Headquarters and restoring the Navy. As the meeting began considering a new location, Doberman urged them to stay near Marineford.

• Sengoku told Gion that the Navy first needed to survive, return, mourn its dead, and rebuild.
• Tsuru reported that seven vice admirals, more than twenty rear admirals, and over seventeen thousand soldiers had died, and that Marineford could not be rebuilt.
• Tsuru warned Sengoku that pirates, allied nations, and the Revolutionary Army could exploit the Navy’s defeat.
• Sengoku convened the surviving flag officers and announced that the Navy was entering its highest state of combat readiness and would reassess its forces and alliances.
• Doberman recommended rebuilding Headquarters near Marineford to preserve familiar defenses and allow families to visit the fallen.

After Marineford’s destruction, Navy officers argued over where to build their new headquarters while confronting severe losses and the need to restore the force. The Five Elders ordered the Navy to abandon the West Blue and move headquarters to G2, while approving global recruitment and additional admiral positions under their oversight.

• Hōshō, Momonga, and other officers argued over whether to rebuild at Marineford, expand G2, or establish headquarters in Paradise.
• Akainu insisted the Navy first address its losses, pensions, and weakened defenses before discussing reconstruction.
• Tsuru ordered formal proposals within three days and said the site decision would wait for Garp and Sengoku to return from Mary Geoise.
• Sengoku received a call from the Five Elders and reported the Navy’s casualties.
• The Five Elders ordered the Navy to withdraw from the West Blue, turn its operations there over to CP0, and expand G2 into the new headquarters.
• The Five Elders approved global recruitment and additional admiral positions, requiring their approval for each appointment.

The Marines ordered an immediate withdrawal from the West Blue while promising to return one day. On Origin Island, Uchiha Setsuna, Izumi, and the clan’s medical team struggled to stabilize the gravely wounded Natsu, whose Yang Release chakra was resisting a mysterious dark red energy.

• Sengoku ordered the Marines to evacuate the West Blue, assigned Vice Admiral Hōshō to coordinate the G-2 expansion, and tasked Tsuru with preparing a Global Military Draft plan within three days.
• Uchiha Setsuna brought Uchiha Feihong and Uchiha Feiyan to treat Natsu, and they discovered that Yang Release chakra was holding back the dark red energy around his wound.
• Setsuna went to find Vallen while Feihong and Feiyan continued trying to stabilize Natsu.
• Vallen arrived with Research Ninja and equipment, then ordered them to transfer Natsu carefully to a Foldable Sterile Lab Bench.
• Vallen monitored the struggle between the dark red energy and Natsu’s scarlet-gold Yang Release chakra, warned that stronger treatment could disrupt their balance, and began stabilizing Natsu’s vital signs with Nutrient Solution No. 1.

Vallen discovered that Uchiha blood could stimulate the Susanoo energy protecting the unconscious Natsu, and Setsuna ordered clansmen to gather for blood screening in an effort to wake him. Meanwhile, Fugaku guided the Whitebeard Pirates toward the guard islands, where the Guard Corps stopped their fleet for inspection.

• Vallen's treatments failed, but he observed that Natsu's scarlet-gold energy actively defended against the dark crimson energy.
• Vallen found that Uchiha blood triggered a stronger resonance with Natsu's Susanoo energy when the bloodline was purer and its chakra concentration higher.
• Vallen asked Setsuna to gather Shadow Guard and Guard Corps members for blood-sample screening, and Setsuna immediately issued the order.
• Uchiha Fugaku guided the Whitebeard Pirates through the channel between the guard islands.
• A Guard Corps patrol approached the Moby Dick and raised signal flags ordering the fleet to halt for inspection.

Fugaku brought Whitebeard and his crew through Spirit Awakening Island’s heavily guarded perimeter, while Natsu’s treatment triggered an independent Susanoo and awakened Ōkuninushi’s power to heal his wound. The chapter ended with Natsu’s abdominal wound fully restored.

• Fugaku showed Uchiha Ryosuke the clan head’s token, and the patrol captain cleared the Moby Dick to pass through.
• Fugaku explained that most island guards came from the former Three Kingdoms’ garrisons and that the core forces were stationed on Origin Island.
• A compatibility-matched Uchiha blood sample caused a dark gold Susanoo to emerge from Natsu and shield his Nutrient Pod.
• Natsu awoke and recognized Susanoo as a presence within him, and the spirit dissolved back into his body.
• Ōkuninushi activated and merged Yin-Yang Release, destroying the dark red energy and healing Natsu’s wound.

After surviving his fight with Imu, Natsu recovered on Origin Island and reflected on how often he had been beaten after growing stronger. He then gave Setsuna instructions for guarding the island and hosting the returning Whitebeard Pirates.

• Natsu emerged from the Nutrient Pod alive, and Izumi rushed over to embrace him while Setsuna and the others reacted with relief.
• Natsu recalled how Imu had pierced his abdomen with a blade infused with Demonic Energy, forcing him to retreat to Origin Island before Ōkuninushi and his Susanoo restored him.
• Natsu realized that his repeated cycle of gaining power, showing it off, and getting beaten reminded him of Sasuke's path.
• Natsu told Setsuna to watch the port, settle the Whitebeard Pirates on Hillguard Island when Fugaku returned, and keep outsiders out of Origin Island's restricted areas.

Natsu arranged the terms for showing Whitebeard’s crew around Origin Island before their alliance meeting. After finding Izumi waiting for him, he learned that her Mangekyō Sharingan had awakened and began to understand why she wanted to face danger alongside him.

• Natsu agreed to meet Whitebeard the next day to discuss an alliance and ordered Fugaku to restrict the crew’s tour to designated areas of Origin Island.
• Natsu left Naka Shrine and found Izumi asleep on the steps outside her home.
• Izumi clung to Natsu, cried over how badly wounded he had looked, and accused him of breaking his promise not to lie to her.
• Izumi revealed her newly awakened Mangekyō Sharingan and insisted on accompanying Natsu into danger rather than waiting alone.
• Natsu held Izumi in silence and recognized that keeping her behind him had ignored the fear and helplessness she felt when he was in danger.

Natsu ordered the expansion of the three guardian islands and began reorganizing the Uchiha Clan’s armed forces now that every clan member had become a ninja. The chapter ended with the clan preparing to formalize its military structure amid the Marines’ withdrawal from the West Blue.

• Natsu reassured Izumi that he would take her with him if a similar situation happened again.
• Natsu reviewed reports of Marine withdrawals and pirate raids, then ordered Setsuna to expand Spirit Awakening, Sourceguard, and Hillguard Islands and recruit civilians for construction.
• Natsu told Fugaku that the Uchiha Clan had fulfilled its promise for every member to become a ninja and announced a reorganization of its armed forces.
• Fugaku and the others considered the clan’s expanded strength, including its Kage Level fighters, Mangekyō Sharingan users, and six-thousand-member garrison.

Natsu outlined his vision for the Uchiha Clan as a merit-based military power and established three guards to defend its territories and train its people. He appointed Setsuna, Uchiha Kei, and Fugaku to lead the Earthly Chief Guard, Heavenly Star Guard, and Nightingale Guard, respectively.

• Fugaku and the other clan leaders pledged their support to Natsu and affirmed their loyalty to the Uchiha Clan.
• Natsu rejected turning the Uchiha into privileged rulers and said he wanted them to become powerful warriors who earned their standing through strength and discipline.
• Natsu appointed Setsuna supreme commander of the Earthly Chief Guard and ordered him to gather non-Uchiha forces under Uchiha rule, setting a strength requirement for its members.
• Natsu appointed Uchiha Kei supreme commander of the Heavenly Star Guard, assigning it patrol, recruitment, and training duties and imposing a two-year strength standard on its members.
• Natsu ordered Uchiha Kei to enforce strict screening for study companions and coordinate the Heavenly Star Guard's patrols with the Earthly Chief Guard.
• Natsu appointed Fugaku supreme commander of the Nightingale Guard, tasking it with protecting Origin Island and teaching at the Clan Academy.

Natsu established the Night Owl Guard as the Uchiha Clan’s highest armed force and laid out new education and recruitment systems for the clan and outside students. The chapter ended with Uchiha Tetsuka appointed to lead the Royal Academy.

• Natsu appointed Uchiha Yaoyu deputy commander of the Night Owl Guard and set rules for its command, recruitment, and access to clan resources.
• Natsu appointed Taoho vice principal of the Origin Island Clan Academy and established education tracks, assessments, and guard assignments for Uchiha children and their companions.
• Natsu warned that no student at the Clan Academy would receive special treatment, and the clan members pledged to enforce the rule.
• Natsu appointed Uchiha Tetsuka the first principal of the Royal Academy, tasked with opening schools and recruiting qualified outside students.

Uchiha Natsu rallied the Uchiha around their renewed ambitions, while news of his battle at Marineford spread across the world and prompted major powers to reassess the clan. At the G2 Branch, Marines debated bounties as the fortress was rebuilt to Marine Headquarters standards.

• Uchiha Natsu outlined tuition and service options for talented Royal Academy students, then reminded the clan of its past humiliations and called on them to fight for the Uchiha.
• Fugaku, Setsuna, Kei, Yaoyu, Yakumi, Taoho, Tekka, and Yashiro joined the Uchiha in shouting their support for Natsu.
• Morgans publicized the destruction of Marineford and Uchiha Natsu's confrontation with Saint Imu, sending the news across the seas.
• Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, Shanks, and Monkey D. Dragon reacted to the reports, with Linlin ordering an investigation and Dragon sending people to the West Blue.
• Makino heard villagers discuss the battle while major powers across the seas verified the reports and reconsidered the Uchiha Clan's strength.
• Marines continued rebuilding the G2 Branch to Marine Headquarters standards while arguing over bounties.

After the Summit War, the Navy set massive bounties on Uchiha Natsu and his allies, and the notices sent shockwaves across the seas. As pirates and governments reacted to the Uchiha presence on Origin Island, Cipher Pol began monitoring the West Blue and waited for Natsu to act.

• Sengoku set Uchiha Natsu's bounty at fifteen billion Beli, while Tsuru listened without giving her opinion.
• The Navy assigned huge bounties to the Uchiha clan and raised the Whitebeard Pirates' bounties, including Edward Newgate's to six billion Beli.
• News Coos spread the notices across the Four Blues, prompting betting agencies, pirate crews, and Supernovae to reconsider their plans around the West Blue.
• Vinsmoke Judge moved his research materials on Uchiha bloodlines to top priority, then locked them away in his safe.
• Cipher Pol agents entered the waters near Marineford's ruins, and their lead agent said they would stay in the West Blue until Natsu made a move.
• New World pirates focused on the bounty notice's location: Uchiha Natsu, Origin Island, West Blue.

After the Marines withdrew from the West Blue, pirate crews flocked to Uchiha territory seeking refuge and opportunity, and Natsu ordered them inspected and screened for recruitment. Some pirates tested Uchiha’s control by attacking Alderlai Island, where they set fire to the port and terrorized its residents.

• Pirate crews from across the New World began sailing to the West Blue after Uchiha took control of the region.
• Uchiha Ryosuke ordered arriving pirates to register, and Natsu told Fugaku to enforce inspections, issue fifteen-day passes, and establish a recruitment station.
• The flow of pirates grew into a torrent, filling Spirit Awakening Island’s port and forcing officials to create a temporary anchorage.
• A pirate crew attacked undefended Alderlai Island, setting fire to a dockside warehouse and killing fishermen.
• Pirates forced Alderlai’s doctor to treat their wounded while his wife and infant hid nearby.

Uchiha Zhenhe and nine Sharingan-wielding fighters arrived at a burning town and slaughtered the pirates led by Baldo. The town remained ablaze as the group continued their cleanup, and one member noted that Zhenhe’s draw slash had become faster.

• Baldo and his pirates looted and burned a town, assaulting residents and killing anyone who resisted.
• Uchiha Zhenhe arrived with nine fighters and sent them through the town while he confronted Baldo.
• The pirates froze, fled, or tried to fight as the Sharingan overwhelmed them.
• Zhenhe beheaded Baldo with a swift draw slash, then ordered his men to leave no pirates alive and hang their heads along the coast.
• The nine fighters hunted down the remaining pirates, and one member remarked that Zhenhe’s draw slash was faster than on their last mission.

Nightingale Guard squads suppressed pirate raids across the West Blue, but one squad withdrew from a powerful crew whose captain could track the Sharingan. After learning the pirates stayed to celebrate among the ruins, Uchiha Setsuna summoned three elders to authorize a Night Owl Guard response.

• Nightingale Guard squads attacked pirate crews raiding islands across the West Blue, killing many of them.
• A ten-person Uchiha squad retreated from a crew led by a 900-million-bounty captain, destroying the pirates’ two sailboats and reporting that Night Owl Guard intervention was recommended.
• The pirate captain mocked the retreat while his crew feasted amid the burned town, and his advisor secretly studied Uchiha Natsu’s wanted poster.
• Uchiha Setsuna read the squad’s report, learned the pirates were still at the island, and ordered Uchiha Yaoyu, Uchiha Yakumi, and Uchiha Kei to meet him at Naka Shrine.
• Setsuna told the three elders he needed their support to legally mobilize three Night Owl Guard squads.

Setsuna ordered the Broken Axe Pirates captured alive and publicly executed after they attacked the Uchiha. As the pirates slept at their dock, Uchiha forces arrived by sea, and Drox realized they were facing a far stronger enemy than before.

• Setsuna gave Yaoyu, Yakumi, and Kei the island coordinates and ordered them to authorize the capture and public execution of the Broken Axe Pirates.
• Setsuna sent a Night Owl Guard messenger to deploy three squads and bring the entire pirate crew to Spirit Awakening Island's port.
• Drox dismissed the danger, convinced the Uchiha would prefer to recruit him and that he could submit if necessary.
• A lookout spotted a fleet approaching and shouted that the Uchiha were coming.
• The sniper identified Uchiha fighters racing over the waves, and Drox sensed that their forces were stronger than the Nightingale Guard squad the pirates had fought before.

Uchiha Kei and the Night Owl Guard confronted Drox and the Broken Axe Pirates for plundering in the West Blue. Kei began carrying out Uchiha Setsuna’s order to capture them for public execution, and the Guard overwhelmed the pirates at the docks.

• Drox sensed Uchiha Kei and thirty Night Owl Guards approaching and recognized Kei as a threat far beyond his ability to fight.
• Kei cited Drox’s crimes and announced Uchiha Setsuna’s order to apprehend the Broken Axe Pirates and execute them by a thousand cuts.
• Kei used Itsumade to make Drox rapidly weaken and bleed, then ordered the Night Owl Guard to take the pirates alive.
• The Night Owl Guard attacked across the docks, using their Sharingan and genjutsu to swiftly disable the pirates.

Uchiha Kei’s Night Owl Guard overwhelmed Drox’s thousand-strong pirate crew, while Uchiha Kei captured the weakened captain himself. The chapter ended with Drox crushed to death by Susanoo as the Uchiha Clan’s forces continued their one-sided assault.

• The Night Owl Guard used their Sharingan and Haki to defeat the pirates while knocking them unconscious rather than killing them.
• Drox charged at Uchiha Kei, hoping to turn the battle around by taking down the leader.
• Uchiha Kei summoned Susanoo, which stopped Drox’s axe and seized him.
• Drox surrendered and begged to become the Uchiha Clan’s dog, but Uchiha Kei rejected him.
• Susanoo crushed Drox’s bones and killed him.

The Uchiha Clan drew pirates from across the West Blue to Spirit Awakening Island by announcing a public execution of captured raiders. On execution day, Uchiha Setsuna took his seat as more than two hundred prisoners, including the 900-million-Beli pirate Drox “Broken Axe,” were brought onto the platform.

• Pirate crews across the West Blue vanished, spreading panic and rumors about the Uchiha Clan’s campaign.
• A passing crew found hundreds of corpses hung along an island’s shore, with a 400-million-Beli pirate’s head displayed at the docks.
• The Uchiha Clan posted a notice announcing a public execution at Spirit Awakening Island five days later, drawing pirate crews and spectators from across the sea.
• Setsuna allowed surviving members of the Broken Axe Pirates to attend so they would spread word of the execution.
• At seven in the morning, Setsuna sat on the execution platform and ordered the prisoners brought out.
• The Night Owl Guard marched more than two hundred raiders onto the platform, including Drox “Broken Axe” and his combat captains.