Recaps

Akainu pressed the injured Whitebeard, while Luffy was ambushed by CP0 during his fight with Steel Bone Kong and appeared to die. Garp killed the agents in grief, but Luffy’s heartbeat returned with the Drums of Liberation, signaling his awakening.

• Akainu attacked Whitebeard and exploited his injuries until Whitebeard’s illnesses and wounds left him unable to fight, but Marco drove Akainu back to protect him.
• Red-Haired Shanks and Rayleigh hurried toward Marineford after sensing that Kaido’s presence had vanished.
• Guernica and Joseph ambushed Luffy as he clashed with Steel Bone Kong, and their attacks combined with Kong’s blow stopped Luffy’s heart.
• Garp killed Guernica and Joseph, tore off his Justice coat, and wept beside Luffy while Sengoku and the others watched.
• Luffy’s determination to save Ace stirred a mysterious power within him, and the Drums of Liberation began beating throughout Marineford.
• Sephiroth heard Luffy’s heartbeat and regretted not having beaten him nearly to death earlier.

Luffy revived in his awakened form and fought his way toward Ace, while Shanks and Rayleigh arrived to stop the execution and free Ace. Shanks called for the war to end, leaving Sengoku and the Marines facing the assembled pirate forces.

• Luffy revived with his awakened powers, then Kizaru kicked him away from the execution platform after Sengoku ordered him to stop Luffy.
• Luffy returned and struck Akainu with Super Rubber Gatling, knocking him into the Marine Headquarters ruins.
• Sengoku ordered Kizaru to execute Ace, but Shanks appeared and held his sword to Kizaru’s throat.
• Rayleigh appeared beside Shanks, and Luffy joined them on the platform before discovering Ace’s handcuffs were made of Sea Stone.
• Rayleigh shattered Ace’s shackles with Armament Haki, freeing him.
• Shanks asked everyone to end the war while keeping Kizaru at swordpoint.

The Five Elders ordered CP0 to target Luffy, then learned he had awakened Nika as Red-Haired Shanks tried to end the war. Imu launched an Ancient Weapon at Marineford, but Sephiroth redirected it through a Spatial Gate, destroying Mary Geoise and Fish-Man Island and tearing a breach through the Red Line.

• The Five Elders discussed the battle, ordered CP0 to assassinate Luffy, and realized he had awakened Nika when the Drums of Liberation sounded.
• Red-Haired Shanks announced that he had rescued Ace and asked Whitebeard and Big Mom to end the war; Whitebeard agreed, but the battle remained unresolved.
• Sephiroth foresaw a catastrophe as Imu sent a gigantic energy sphere toward Marineford.
• Sephiroth opened and amplified a Spatial Gate, swallowing the energy sphere and redirecting it toward Mary Geoise.
• The energy sphere crushed Mary Geoise and Fish-Man Island, blasted a huge breach through the Red Line, and caused the Calm Belts to vanish.

After the ceasefire, Sephiroth destroyed the enormous weapon hidden in the clouds before Big Mom Charlotte Linlin and Doflamingo could reach it. Marineford then shook with an unexplained earthquake, and Brandnew brought Sengoku urgent reports from both Red Ports.

• Big Mom Charlotte Linlin agreed to end the war but pursued the weapon overhead, while Red-Haired Shanks and Luffy left with Ace.
• Doflamingo ended his clash with Aokiji, ordered the Beasts Pirates to withdraw, and took King and Vergo with him toward the weapon.
• Sephiroth decided the weapon could not be allowed into anyone else's hands and destroyed it with a huge flame dragon.
• Big Mom Charlotte Linlin and Doflamingo abandoned their pursuit and left after seeing Sephiroth's attack.
• Marineford shook, and Sengoku's group suspected an earthquake near the Red Line while Whitebeard coughed up blood.
• Brandnew hurried to Sengoku with urgent communications from both Red Ports.

After the war at Marineford, Whitebeard’s injuries finally overwhelmed him, and he died aboard the Moby Dick surrounded by his sons. Sengoku mourned his old rival, declared a Marine victory, and Sephiroth left Marineford with Hancock and Yamato.

• The Whitebeard Pirates boarded the Moby Dick to leave Marineford, and Whitebeard climbed aboard despite his severe injuries.
• Whitebeard thanked Red-Haired Shanks and offered him half the Whitebeard Pirates’ stored treasure, then revealed that his injuries were fatal.
• Ace blamed himself, but Whitebeard comforted him and asked his sons whether he had been a good father before dying.
• The Whitebeard Pirates mourned Whitebeard Newgate as the Moby Dick sailed away, and Sengoku bid farewell to his old rival.
• Sengoku ordered the communications soldiers to announce a great Marine victory, while Sephiroth left Marineford with Hancock and Yamato through a Spatial Gate.

Blackbeard Teach learned that Marineford’s battle had ended and that Mary Geoise had been destroyed, then decided to target the Whitebeard Pirates. At Marineford, Steel Bone Kong, Sengoku, and Tsuru discussed the disaster and the Marines’ responsibility for maintaining order without the Celestial Dragons.

• Blackbeard Teach sent Lafitte to scout Marineford after seeing a huge energy sphere vanish in the sky.
• Lafitte discovered that Mary Geoise had disappeared, leaving a massive breach in the Red Line, and saw a fire dragon destroy a warship hidden in the clouds.
• Lafitte reported that the Marines and pirates had stopped fighting and that the pirates were withdrawing; Blackbeard Teach resolved to target the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Sengoku told Steel Bone Kong and Tsuru that a massive energy sphere had destroyed Mary Geoise and wondered whether it was the same one that had threatened Marineford.
• Steel Bone Kong said the Marines had to preserve order after the Celestial Dragons’ deaths, while recalling the atrocities they had committed at God Valley and other islands.

After the Summit War, Sephiroth returned to Angel Island and redirected his prepared forces from pursuing the Beasts Pirates to conquering Wano Country. He led a vast fleet through a Spatial Gate into the New World, leaving his invasion force poised near Wano.

• Sephiroth, Hancock, and Yamato arrived at the villa, where Perona checked on them and Marigold asked about the war.
• Sephiroth told the gathered women to leave the Beasts Pirates’ remnants alone for now and make Wano Country their new strategic objective.
• After lunch, Sephiroth brought the Boa sisters, Black Maria, Kuina, Isca, Kozuki Hiyori, and Yamato to the harbor, where Yamato insisted on joining despite her injuries.
• Sephiroth opened a Spatial Gate, and the eighty ships and Interstellar Ark crossed into the New World under the Float-Float Fruit’s power.
• The airborne fleet appeared near Wano Country, where people below spotted and photographed it as Sephiroth began his plan to seize Wano and expand into Kaido’s former territory.

The Umbrella Corporation’s fleet attacked Wano Country, and Sephiroth assigned Kozuki Hiyori to unite the Kozuki Family’s surviving forces and govern the country. Marigold’s lightning strike destroyed the Shogun’s Palace and killed most of the Beasts Pirates officers there, leaving their forces scattered.

• Sephiroth told Kozuki Hiyori to rally the Kozuki Family’s survivors and prepare to govern Wano Country under the Umbrella Corporation.
• Beasts Pirates officers, including Ulti, Drake, Baby-5, and Pica, gathered at the Shogun’s Palace after learning the Kuja Pirates’ fleet was approaching.
• The Umbrella Corporation’s airships emerged through a Spatial Gate above the Flower Capital, and Baby-5 prepared her laser cannons to attack them.
• Marigold used Breath of the Gods to strike the Shogun’s Palace with lightning, destroying it and killing most of the Beasts Pirates officers inside.
• The Beasts Pirates members around the palace fled into the streets after losing their officers and command.

Kozuki Hiyori and Umbrella Corporation’s forces secured the Prisoner Mine and subdued the Flower Capital as they took control of Wano Country. Hiyori reunited with Kawamatsu, while Sephiroth’s forces prepared for a prolonged security operation until Hiyori could establish a stable order.

• Kozuki Hiyori broke open the Prisoner Mine’s gate, defeated its Beast Pirates defenders, and freed prisoners after checking their identities.
• Kozuki Hiyori found Kawamatsu imprisoned in the mine and learned that Kurozumi Orochi had captured him years earlier.
• WM-1 and WM-2 robots and Umbrella Corporation forces suppressed resistance in the Flower Capital and gathered over a hundred thousand residents in the central square.
• Sephiroth spoke with Black Maria in the Pleasure Quarter and learned that Drake’s injuries had been stabilized with a Life Enhancement Potion.
• Sephiroth ordered Black Maria to guard Drake, while Hancock, Sandersonia, Kuina, and the others secured Wano Country’s regions under Marigold’s aerial lightning support.

With the Red Line breached and the New World cut off from Paradise, Doflamingo and Shanks sought ways to get their crews across while Hancock’s forces attacked Wano. The Big Mom Pirates had already crossed using Bre’s mirrors, and Blackbeard secretly followed the Whitebeard and Red Hair fleets, waiting for them to split up.

• Doflamingo ordered Vergo to gather the Beasts Pirates’ artificial Flying-type Devil Fruit users so they could ferry the crew across the Red Line.
• A communications officer told Doflamingo that the Kuja Pirates, led by Boa Hancock, were attacking Wano Country with about forty thousand fighters; Doflamingo chose to prioritize returning to the New World.
• Luffy and the Whitebeard Pirates saw the vast breach in the Red Line as the Red Force and Moby Dick sailed toward Sabaody.
• Shanks asked Marco to carry the eleven Red Hair Pirates across the Red Line, and Marco agreed; Shanks planned to leave the Red Force in his care.
• The Big Mom Pirates crossed to the New World through Bre’s mirrors, while Blackbeard followed the Whitebeard and Red Hair fleets and waited for a chance to attack.

After the war, Marineford faced massive casualties and reconstruction costs, leaving Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru unsure how to fund the Marines. Sephiroth visited them to discuss Garp’s fate, joked about staging another war, then offered to buy the entire Marine force.

• Tsuru reported that twenty-three thousand Marines had died, twelve thousand had been injured or disabled, and Marineford’s reconstruction would cost hundreds of billions of Beli.
• Steel Bone Kong suggested seeking financial aid from member nations, while Sengoku noted they had recently paid the Celestial Tribute.
• Sephiroth asked to speak privately with Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru, then learned that Garp was detained pending a military trial for killing a CP0 agent.
• Sephiroth proposed publicly executing Garp to lure Dragon, Luffy, and Ace into a trap, but the three Marines rejected the idea.
• Sephiroth stopped joking and offered to buy the entire Marine force.

Sephiroth offered to buy the Marines, arguing that the World Government’s destruction had left them desperate for funds. He challenged their claim to justice by revealing photographs of the God Valley massacre, leaving Sengoku, Tsuru, and Steel Bone Kong confronted with evidence of the Marines’ complicity.

• Sephiroth asked Sengoku and Steel Bone Kong to name a price for handing the Marines over to him.
• Sephiroth pointed out that the Marines needed vast sums to operate and that the World Government’s destruction had left them short of money.
• Sengoku rejected the offer and defended the Marines’ justice, while Sephiroth mocked his claim.
• Sephiroth produced photographs of the God Valley Incident and said Umbrella Corporation’s intelligence network had uncovered the truth.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, and Steel Bone Kong examined images of Celestial Dragons massacring civilians and slaves, including young Saint Rosward, Saint Charlos, and Saint Pulming.
• Sephiroth accused the Marines of serving the World Government’s atrocities and again demanded that they name their price.

Sephiroth pressed Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru to accept his deal by threatening the Marines’ funding and reputation, then revealed that his ambition reached beyond ruling the planet. He left them to decide within a day, while the three Marines debated the ruined world order and his claims about aliens.

• Sephiroth challenged Steel Bone Kong’s plans to reform the Marines, arguing that they lacked funding and could not claim justice while relying on money extracted from suffering countries.
• Sephiroth threatened to expose the Marines’ role in the God Valley massacre, manipulate global finances, and rally countries against them if they rejected his terms.
• Sephiroth showed Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru a newspaper reporting Mariejois and Fish-Man Island’s destruction, the severing of Paradise from the New World, and the fall of Kaido and Whitebeard.
• Sephiroth warned that the Marines might lose the world’s trust and said their leaders had one day to give him an answer about his deal.
• Steel Bone Kong asked if Sephiroth intended to rule the world, and Sephiroth said his ultimate goal was interstellar conquest and warned that aliens could colonize the planet.
• After Sephiroth left, Sengoku, Steel Bone Kong, and Tsuru discussed whether aliens existed and whether Gion could persuade Sephiroth, but Steel Bone Kong doubted she could change his decision.

Albertaon’s pirate crew attacked Dressrosa Kingdom’s East Coast port, but armed residents and Stone Statue Guards crushed the raid and killed him. Meanwhile, Scarlett tried to get Sephiroth to help name her future son, and the destruction of Mariejois fueled pirate raids and revolutions across the world.

• Albertaon ordered his crew to raid Dressrosa Kingdom after hearing that Mariejois had been destroyed, but the port’s residents answered their bombardment with gunfire and rockets.
• King’s Army soldiers and twenty Stone Statue Guards arrived, and Albertaon charged them to preserve his authority after losing two ships.
• The Stone Statue Guards trapped Albertaon and killed him with stone spikes, then the Kingdom displayed his corpse at the East Coast port.
• Scarlett asked Sephiroth to help choose a name for her future son, but he fled the study and left her frustrated.
• Pirates launched raids across the New World as depleted Marines and the World Government struggled to respond, while five countries including Tequila Wolf and Goa Kingdom revolted under the Revolutionary Army.

Sengoku, Tsuru, and Steel Bone Kong debated Sephiroth’s proposal and ultimately agreed to place the New World Marines under his command. Sephiroth became the Marines’ fourth Admiral as the Blackbeard Pirates attacked the weakened Whitebeard Pirates, leaving only Marco and Ace alive to escape.

• Sengoku argued that the Marines should reject Sephiroth’s control and pursue true justice, while Tsuru and Steel Bone Kong favored accepting his proposal.
• Steel Bone Kong revealed that the attack that devastated Marineford had likely been redirected from Mary Geoise, leading Tsuru to recognize that Sephiroth had saved their lives.
• Sengoku accepted Sephiroth’s proposal, and the four negotiated the Marines’ future in secret.
• The Marines announced that Sephiroth had been promoted to fourth Admiral and would command all New World Marine affairs.
• The Blackbeard Pirates ambushed the injured Whitebeard Pirates after their allies departed, killing many commanders and forcing Marco and Ace to flee.

Sephiroth arranged the transfer of trusted Marines to the New World and secured Ain as his adjutant. He then arrived at Egghead Island, where he knocked a mechanical shark onto the shore and discovered a drenched pink-haired girl emerging from its mouth.

• Sephiroth gave Sengoku transfer files for Gion, Hina, Domino, Tashigi, and Kuro, and Sengoku accepted them under their secret agreement.
• Sengoku teased Sephiroth about Ain's request to become his adjutant, and Sephiroth declared that he would choose Ain alone.
• Sephiroth asked Ain to become his adjutant, and Ain agreed.
• Sephiroth flew toward Egghead Island and kicked a mechanical shark out of the sea onto the shore.
• A drenched pink-haired girl crawled out of the mechanical shark's mouth.

Jewelry Bonney escaped from a damaged mechanical shark on Egghead Island, but Marine Admiral Karl D. Sephiroth captured her with Sea-Stone Cuffs. After Bonney agreed to behave in exchange for meat, she learned Sephiroth was going to meet Vegapunk and decided to let him take her there.

• Jewelry Bonney emerged from a mechanical shark that had destroyed her pirate ship and used her Age-Age Fruit to return to her adult form.
• Karl D. Sephiroth caught Bonney when she tried to attack him, restrained her with Sea-Stone Cuffs, and carried her toward Egghead Island.
• Bonney gave up struggling when hunger overcame her and demanded meat from Sephiroth.
• Sephiroth told Bonney he was going to talk to Vegapunk, and Bonney decided to go with him so she could settle accounts with Vegapunk.

Sephiroth brought the shivering Bonney into Egghead Island, where she changed clothes and ate a huge meal from an automated food machine. As they left her cuffs off, Bonney wondered about his intentions, and Sephiroth claimed he could cook better steak than the machine.

• Sephiroth flew Bonney into Egghead Island, where holographic projections of a dragon and robot fought above the streets.
• Sephiroth took Bonney to an automated clothing store, bought her a combat suit, and removed her Sea-Stone Cuffs after she promised not to run away.
• Bonney changed into the suit and followed Sephiroth to a food-making machine, where she ordered more than a hundred portions at his expense.
• Bonney devoured the food, including Sephiroth's steak, while he criticized its flavor and said his own cooking was better.
• Bonney doubted Sephiroth's boast, and he replied, "Believe it or not!"

Bonney confronted Vegapunk over what had happened to her father, Kuma, after a Pacifista mistook her for a pirate and attempted to arrest her. Vegapunk explained his brain and clone system, but he said he could not restore Kuma’s memories, leaving Bonney threatening him.

• A Pacifista recognized Bonney as a pirate and trapped her in a bubble, but Sephiroth used his authority chip to make it release her.
• Bonney swore she would settle the score with Vegapunk, then Vegapunk suddenly fell onto the street and introduced himself to her and Sephiroth.
• Vegapunk explained that he had moved his expanding brain into Punk Records and created six clones to share his knowledge and personality.
• Angered by what Vegapunk had done to Kuma, Bonney transformed into a muscular future form, tore up a streetlamp, and demanded that he restore her father’s memories.
• Vegapunk said he could not restore Kuma and hid behind Sephiroth as Bonney threatened to kill him.

Bonney confronted Vegapunk about erasing Kuma’s personality, and Sephiroth offered to investigate whether he could restore Kuma’s memories. The three went to Egghead’s research level, where Vegapunk introduced his six satellites.

• Bonney attacked Vegapunk over Kuma’s erased personality, but Sephiroth stopped her and she broke down crying.
• Vegapunk said Kuma had chosen to lose his sense of self but refused to reveal why he had done it.
• Sephiroth offered to study Vegapunk’s process and try to restore Kuma’s memories, learning that Kuma’s brain remained intact and blood still flowed through his body.
• Bonney accepted Sephiroth’s offer with renewed hope, while he kept his reasons for helping her to himself.
• Vegapunk led Sephiroth and Bonney to the research level and introduced his six satellites: Shaka, Lilith, Edison, Pythagoras, Atlas, and York.

Sephiroth examined Vegapunk’s records of Kuma’s memory-erasure surgery and learned that Kuma’s stored memories could help restore him. Vegapunk showed them the memories, which traced Kuma’s tragic life and his choice to sacrifice himself for Bonney, leaving Sephiroth with a possible path to restoring Kuma.

• Sephiroth said restoring Kuma’s memories would be difficult, but he could use Bonney’s memories; Vegapunk revealed he had secretly preserved Kuma’s own memories.
• Vegapunk led Sephiroth and Bonney to a stored paw-shaped mass of Kuma’s memories and projected them onto a screen.
• Kuma’s memories showed his childhood enslavement, his parents’ deaths, and his escape from God Valley with Ginny and Ivankov.
• Kuma’s memories recounted how he joined the Revolutionary Army with Ginny, lost her after she was captured by a Celestial Dragon, and raised Bonney after Ginny died.
• When Bonney developed Sapphire Scales, Kuma sought a cure, became entangled in the Sorbet Kingdom’s political upheaval, and eventually left to find a doctor.
• Kuma agreed to Vegapunk’s human-modification experiment to pay for Bonney’s treatment, then accepted the erasure of his personality and memories when Saint Saturn threatened Bonney.

After watching Kuma’s memories, Sephiroth assured Bonney and Vegapunk that he could restore Kuma’s personality and memories once they obtained his body. Bonney’s grief gave way to hunger, and Sephiroth cooked a pizza feast that York joined before an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Bonney wept over Kuma’s memories, while Sephiroth and Vegapunk discussed restoring Kuma’s personality and memories.
• Sephiroth assured Bonney he could help and said retrieving Kuma from Marine custody would not be difficult.
• After realizing she was hungry, Bonney asked Sephiroth to make pizza.
• Sephiroth cooked several pizzas, which Bonney, Vegapunk, and York ate together.
• Someone unexpectedly arrived during the pizza feast.

Sephiroth encountered Stussy on Egghead Island, where she had come to warn Vegapunk that the surviving Five Elders were heading there with summoned CP agents. The chapter ended with Sephiroth revealing he had been eavesdropping and claiming the Five Elders feared he would kill them.

• Sephiroth invited Stussy to share pizza, and she reluctantly ate with him and Vegapunk.
• Stussy remembered her urgent reason for visiting and asked Vegapunk to speak privately with her.
• Stussy told Vegapunk that the Five Elders survived Mariejois's destruction and were traveling to Egghead Island to take control, while summoning CP agents from around the world.
• Sephiroth entered through a Spatial Gate and said the Five Elders were hiding because they feared he would kill them.
• Stussy shielded Vegapunk from Sephiroth and demanded that he explain why the Five Elders feared him.

Sephiroth revealed that he had used Vegapunk’s Mother Flame to destroy Mary Geoise and pressured Vegapunk to join his side while asking Stussy for intelligence on the Five Elders. In Wano Country, he renamed the nation Inazuma, planned a false prison escape for Drake, and had Kozuki Hiyori announce the new name during the Fire Festival.

• Sephiroth told Vegapunk and Stussy that he had powered the attack on Mary Geoise with the Mother Flame, then persuaded Vegapunk to work for him and asked Stussy for intelligence on the Five Elders.
• Sephiroth told Kozuki Hiyori to rename Wano Country Inazuma and ordered her to establish a shrine and statue honoring Marigold as its Thunder God.
• Sephiroth explained to imprisoned Drake that he had become a Marine Admiral and planned to send him undercover back to Doflamingo’s surviving Beasts Pirates by staging a prison break.
• During the Fire Festival, Kozuki Hiyori announced in a nationwide broadcast that Wano Country had been renamed Inazuma Country, despite the complaints of the Kozuki retainers.

The Five Elders planned to seize Vegapunk’s weapons and rebuild their power after Holy Land Mariejois was destroyed. Sephiroth confronted them aboard their cruise ship, but Saint Saturn’s invisible force appeared to kill him.

• Saint Saturn said the Five Elders would go to Egghead Island to take control of Vegapunk’s Pacifistas and mechanical sea beasts, killing Vegapunk if he refused.
• The Five Elders decided to secretly gather elite CP agents and loyal nations because they distrusted the Marines and feared Sephiroth knew the truth about the attack on Holy Land Mariejois.
• Sephiroth burst into the Five Elders’ room, killed a CP agent, and demanded to know where Imu was.
• Saint Saturn and the other Four Elders transformed into monstrous forms, and Saint Saturn bound Sephiroth with an invisible force.
• Saint Saturn blasted Sephiroth’s head apart with an invisible force.