Recaps

Oden’s retainers urged him to fight Kaido after Kaido blamed an Akutami survivor for an attack, but Oden ordered Kanjuro to investigate before deciding whether to go to war. Meanwhile, Akutami waited at the mine as night fell and wondered why Kaido’s people had not arrived.

• Kin'emon, Nekomamushi, Inuarashi, and the other retainers accused Kaido of using the Akutami Family as an excuse to pressure the Kozuki Family and urged Oden to fight.
• Oden asked his retainers to calm down and suggested that an Akutami survivor might really have attacked Kaido’s men.
• Oden tasked Kanjuro with investigating whether any Akutami Family members survived and who attacked Kaido.
• Kanjuro agreed to uncover the truth, while Kin'emon held back his objection to delaying action.
• Akutami waited at the mine until nightfall and complained that Kaido’s people still had not come.

Orochi plotted to push Oden and Kaido into war by having Kanjuro fabricate a surviving Akutami Family member. Kanjuro used his Brush-Brush Fruit to bring a painted figure named Akutami to life, setting his scheme in motion.

• Kanjuro secretly reported to Orochi that Kaido had confronted Oden over attacks on his mines and the supposedly wiped-out Akutami Family.
• Orochi ordered Kanjuro to falsely tell Oden that an Akutami survivor had attacked Kaido’s mines, hoping Oden and Kaido would fight and weaken each other.
• Kanjuro asked whether they should inform Higurashi, but Orochi refused and insisted that he alone would decide.
• Orochi told Kanjuro to draw an Akutami orphan, so Kanjuro painted a wounded survivor and invented a revenge-filled backstory.
• Kanjuro activated his Brush-Brush Fruit and brought the figure to life, naming him Akutami, the last man of the Akutami Family.

Kanjuro planned to use a fake survivor to deceive Oden while Akutami grew tired of waiting for the Beasts Pirates to attack. After Akutami struck a transport team and a weapons factory, King realized the attacker might be the man who had been waiting at the mine.

• Kanjuro withdrew his Brush-Brush Fruit ability and planned to tell Oden he had found an Akutami Family survivor, then secretly hide a fake person in Oden's residence.
• Akutami waited at the mine for the Beasts Pirates, suspected they would not come, and decided to wage a war of attrition against Kaido.
• King learned that Jie Jian had wiped out a Beasts Pirates transport team and stolen its Seastone cargo.
• King recalled the scrawny pirate's warning about Akutami and realized the attacker might truly have been waiting at the mine.
• A second pirate reported that Jie Jian had burned a weapons processing plant and left a message demanding interest for the wasted time.

Kanjuro returned to Oden’s residence expecting to report that the Akutami Family had a survivor, but Oden already knew the survivor’s assumed name, Jie Jian, and said he had attacked Kaido’s convoy and destroyed a processing plant. Kanjuro realized someone had acted under the identity he had invented, while Oden rushed to find and protect Jie Jian.

• Kanjuro told Oden that the Akutami Family had a survivor and was unsettled when Oden reacted with worry rather than surprise.
• Oden asked Kanjuro where Jie Jian was, explaining that he was the Akutami orphan who had changed his name.
• Kanjuro panicked because he had invented the name Jie Jian only the night before and had told no one about it.
• Oden said Jie Jian had attacked Kaido’s transport convoy and destroyed a processing plant the previous day.
• Kanjuro realized he had not ordered the fake survivor to attack, while Oden urged him to help find Jie Jian before Kaido’s forces did.
• Oden questioned why Kanjuro thought Jie Jian was fake, saying Kanjuro had already investigated him.

Oden and the Nine Red Scabbards prepared to search for Jie Jian, whom Oden believed was a loyal Wano samurai who had attacked Kaido. Kanjuro was ordered to lead the search, but the Beasts Pirates’ announcement that Jie Jian was an outsider pirate threw Oden’s assumptions into doubt.

• Oden believed Kanjuro’s claim that a survivor of the Akutami Family was Jie Jian and vowed to find him before Kaido’s forces did.
• Nekomamushi, Inuarashi, and Kin’emon urged Kanjuro to reveal Jie Jian’s location, while Kanjuro struggled to hide that his supposed clue led only to a dummy.
• Oden argued that Jie Jian had deliberately hidden his identity to protect Wano and insisted that the samurai should not have to fight alone.
• Oden appointed Kanjuro to lead the search, and Kanjuro planned to find the real Jie Jian and use him to fulfill Great Serpent’s orders.
• An attendant reported that King was searching all of Wano and that the Beasts Pirates had identified Jie Jian as an outsider pirate, leaving Oden and the others stunned.

Oden ordered the Kozuki Family to find Jie Jian after deciding that his fight against Kaido made him an ally, regardless of his origins. Meanwhile, Jie Jian continued sabotaging the Beasts Pirates and was left questioning himself after two pirates dismissed his confession as an alibi.

• Denjiro explained that Kaido called Jie Jian an outside pirate to protect the Beasts Pirates' reputation and prevent Oden from claiming him.
• Oden ordered the Kozuki Family to find Jie Jian before King, and Kanjuro silently worried that the real Jie Jian had ruined his plan to frame Oden.
• Jie Jian reviewed his map and planned further attacks after destroying factories, convoys, and mines belonging to Kaido's forces.
• Two Beasts Pirates searched for the culprit, and Jie Jian approached them and admitted that he had burned their processing factory.
• The skinny pirate claimed Jie Jian had an alibi because he had never mentioned a fire, then led the fat pirate away while Jie Jian doubted his own memory.

Jie Jian continued sabotaging the Beasts Pirates’ operations in Wano, while King investigated him and devised a trap. King ordered more transport convoys with fewer guards, planning to hide among them and confront Jie Jian if he attacked.

• Jie Jian killed the fat pirate with a Shadow Spike while the skinny pirate escaped.
• Jie Jian continued destroying processing plants and transport supplies, leaving his name at each scene.
• King summoned the skinny pirate, who exaggerated his encounter with Jie Jian and described his shadow powers and unusual clothing.
• King suspected Jie Jian had the Shadow-Shadow Fruit and concluded that he had deliberately let the skinny pirate escape.
• King ordered more transport convoys with half as many guards and planned to infiltrate one to catch Jie Jian.

Jie Jian spotted a suspicious Beasts Pirates convoy and attacked, only to discover it was a trap set by King. King overwhelmed him in battle, but Jie Jian escaped by swapping places with a prepared Shadow Mage.

• Jie Jian noticed that the Beasts Pirates' convoys carried little cargo and had grown easier to rob, then identified a suspicious convoy retracing its route.
• Jie Jian attacked the convoy with Shadow Spikes, killing four pirates before King burst from the cargo compartment.
• King attacked Jie Jian with overwhelming speed, strength, and Haki, cutting through his shadow defenses and injuring him.
• Jie Jian admitted he could not beat King in a direct fight, then used the Shadow-Shadow Fruit to switch places with a Shadow Mage and escape.
• King realized Jie Jian had escaped and angrily called out his name.

After escaping King, Jie Jian treated his broken arm in a hidden cave. Kin'emon and Kanjuro found him while searching for him, and Kin'emon excitedly recognized him as Jie Jian.

• Jie Jian escaped King using Shadow Mage, then ran until nightfall and hid in a cave.
• Jie Jian used his shadows to realign and splint his broken arm, enduring the pain without anesthesia.
• Kin'emon and Kanjuro searched the mountains for Jie Jian, though Kanjuro privately wanted to meet him for his own reasons.
• Kin'emon found fresh blood and followed the trail with Kanjuro to a cave where they discovered the injured Jie Jian.
• Kin'emon identified Jie Jian and celebrated finding him, while Kanjuro was stunned.

Kin'emon and Kanjuro found Jie Jian, whom Kanjuro had mistaken for the Akutami Family survivor, and learned that Jie Jian was the one attacking Kaido's camps. Jie Jian agreed to travel with them to safety, while Kanjuro struggled to explain his false intelligence and Kin'emon urged him to locate the real survivor.

• Kin'emon introduced himself and Kanjuro as Kozuki Oden's retainers and mistakenly identified Jie Jian as an orphan of the Akutami Family.
• Jie Jian denied being from Wano Country, then revealed that he was the person attacking Kaido's camps.
• Kin'emon realized Kanjuro's information was wrong and invited Jie Jian to come with them to a safe place.
• Jie Jian agreed to go with Kin'emon and Kanjuro, though he remained wary of them.
• Jie Jian asked whether Kanjuro had found the real Akutami survivor, and Kin'emon pressed Kanjuro to confirm the survivor's location quickly.

Jie Jian reached Kozuki Oden’s residence and explained that he had attacked Kaido’s forces to honor Gecko Moria, who had once stood up for Wano Country. Oden bowed in gratitude, leaving the hall stunned.

• Kanjuro agreed to confirm the report while worrying that Kin'emon’s mistaken intelligence might expose him.
• Kin'emon led the injured Jie Jian through the mountains toward the Flower Capital, where Kozuki retainers brought him to Oden.
• Oden welcomed Jie Jian and learned that he was an outsider, but insisted that anyone who fought Kaido was Wano Country’s benefactor.
• Jie Jian told Oden how Moria had returned to Ringo to challenge Kaido and later died gambling on the Shadow-Shadow Fruit’s Rebirth.
• Oden performed a dogeza before Jie Jian and thanked him for everything he had done for Wano Country.

Jie Jian stayed at Oden’s residence to recover, while Kaido’s forces searched Wano Country for him. Great Serpent learned Oden was sheltering Jie Jian and ordered Kanjuro to tell Kaido, hoping to provoke a clash between Kaido and Oden.

• Oden promised to protect Jie Jian from Kaido and agreed to fight alongside him if they met Kaido’s men.
• Jie Jian officially stayed at Oden’s residence, while King expanded the search for him across Wano Country.
• Great Serpent confronted Kanjuro over Jie Jian’s identity, and Kanjuro insisted Jie Jian was not the fake Akutami Family survivor he had drawn.
• Kanjuro told Great Serpent that Oden was protecting Jie Jian and had vowed not to hand him over, even if Kaido sank Wano Country.
• Great Serpent ordered Kanjuro to leak Jie Jian’s whereabouts to Kaido so Kaido would demand him from Oden.
• Kanjuro warned that Oden might eventually compromise because Jie Jian was an outsider whom Wano’s people and samurai might not accept.

Kanjuro persuaded the Great Serpent to use Jie Jian’s presence to provoke Oden into fighting Kaido by spreading rumors across Wano Country. At Oden’s residence, Jie Jian discussed Oden’s ongoing submission with Kin'emon and remained in hiding as Kaido’s men searched for him.

• Kanjuro warned the Great Serpent that Oden might sacrifice himself rather than hand Jie Jian over, then urged him to make Oden’s retreat look like cowardice in front of Wano Country.
• The Great Serpent ordered Kanjuro to tell Kaido that Jie Jian was at Oden’s residence and spread word that Oden planned to fight Kaido to the death.
• The Great Serpent refused Kanjuro’s suggestion to inform Lady Higurashi and privately gloated over the trap he had set for Oden.
• Kin'emon changed Jie Jian’s bandages, and Jie Jian learned that Oden had gone to Orochi Castle to perform his dance.
• Jie Jian told Kin'emon that Oden wanted to protect everyone without fighting Kaido, while Kin'emon said Kaido’s people were searching for Jie Jian.

Kaido learned that Oden was supposedly behind the attacks on the Beasts Pirates and led his forces to the Flower Capital, where he and Oden began fighting. As the battle erupted, Kin'emon told Jie Jian that Oden was already facing Kaido.

• Kanjuro's message reached Onigashima and convinced Kaido that Oden had secretly orchestrated attacks on the Beasts Pirates.
• Kaido berated King for concealing the losses, then ordered the Beasts Pirates to march on the Flower Capital and target Kozuki Oden.
• Kaido's forces stormed the Flower Capital, and Kaido accused Oden of attacking his factories, cargo, and men before striking him.
• Oden tried to explain and avoid fighting, but Kaido attacked, forcing Oden to defend himself as their Conqueror's Haki collided.
• Oden and Kaido clashed on the main street, and Kin'emon rushed to Jie Jian to report that Oden was fighting Kaido.

Kaido invaded the Flower Capital and fought Oden, who initially held back while trying to learn why Kaido had attacked. After seeing the devastation and the suffering of civilians, Oden committed to fighting Kaido and ordered his allies to evacuate the survivors.

• Kin'emon told Jie Jian that Kaido and the Beasts Pirates had invaded the Flower Capital, then brought Oden his swords.
• Oden fought Kaido in the ruined main street while asking why he had attacked, and Kaido accused him of playing dumb.
• Kanjuro urged Oden to stop negotiating, and Oden saw the dead and wounded civilians around him.
• Oden charged Kaido with both swords, and the two clashed with powerful Haki.
• Kaido struck Oden with his club and drove him back, while Ashura Doji arrived with samurai.
• Oden told Ashura Doji and the samurai to protect the civilians and take the survivors out of the city.

Oden and Kaido fought a devastating battle in the Flower Capital while Jie Jian ambushed Beasts Pirates forces. Kurozumi Higurashi realized Orochi might have caused the clash, leaving the scheme in doubt.

• Oden and Kaido exchanged powerful blows as samurai evacuated civilians from the Flower Capital.
• Three Beasts Pirates searched Oden's residence for Jie Jian, who killed them with Shadow Spikes.
• Jie Jian watched Oden and Kaido's fight, then headed to ambush the exposed supply and wounded units.
• Oden and Kaido traded Thunder Bagua and Paradise Totsuka, leaving both badly wounded but determined to continue fighting.
• Kurozumi Higurashi worried that the premature battle would ruin her plan, then suspected Kurozumi Orochi had caused it.

Kurozumi Higurashi confronted Great Serpent over his role in provoking Kaido into attacking Oden before their plan was ready. Realizing Kaido might have wanted an excuse to break their agreement, she ordered Kanjuro to make Oden lose, warning that the Kurozumi Clan would otherwise face destruction.

• Kurozumi Higurashi questioned Great Serpent about why Kaido had attacked Oden, and Great Serpent insisted he had done nothing wrong.
• Great Serpent revealed that he had used Kanjuro and Jie Jian to provoke both Oden and Kaido into fighting.
• Kurozumi Higurashi realized Kaido might have been waiting for an excuse to break the five-year agreement and slapped Great Serpent for giving him one.
• Kurozumi Higurashi warned Great Serpent that either Oden's victory or Kaido's victory could ruin the Kurozumi Clan's plans.
• Kurozumi Higurashi ordered Great Serpent to have Kanjuro make Oden lose, saying they would be doomed if Oden survived.

Oden and Kaido fought fiercely through the ruined Flower Capital while Jie Jian secretly ambushed isolated Beasts Pirates squads. Oden unleashed his modified Paradise Totsuka and brought Kaido to his knees, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Oden and Kaido traded powerful blows as the battle devastated the Flower Capital and left both fighters badly wounded.
• Kin'emon and the retainers struggled against Huazha, King, and the Beasts Pirates while Jie Jian began targeting isolated pirate squads.
• Jie Jian ambushed and killed a squad in an alley, then spent half an hour attacking scattered Beasts Pirates and spreading panic among their ranks.
• Oden realized he had been avoiding the cost of protecting Wano and resolved to make his next strike the first blade before the country's dawn.
• Oden used Modified Paradise Totsuka to strike Kaido from four directions, leaving him bleeding and on his knees.
• Kanjuro reacted in disbelief as Kin'emon declared that Lord Oden had won.

Oden defeated Kaido and ordered him to leave Wano Country, but a Beasts Pirates pirate tried to exploit Oden’s fear for Momonosuke to give Kaido a chance to attack. Jie Jian exposed the supposed child as Kurozumi Higurashi in disguise, and Oden again demanded that Kaido leave.

• Oden defeated Kaido and ordered him and his men to leave Wano Country forever.
• A Beasts Pirates pirate threatened to kill the child he claimed was Momonosuke, distracting Oden as Kaido charged at him.
• Jie Jian shoved Oden out of Kaido’s attack and revealed that the supposed Momonosuke was Kurozumi Higurashi in disguise.
• Kurozumi Higurashi exposed herself, and Oden realized that Momonosuke was safe.
• Oden pointed at Kaido and repeated his demand that Kaido and his men leave Wano Country.

After Kaido retreated from Wano Country, Oden became shogun and began rebuilding the country. With his mission complete, Jie Jian said goodbye to Oden and sailed away, leaving him a letter containing intelligence about Kanjuro.

• Kaido ordered the Beasts Pirates to retreat, while Kurozumi Higurashi vanished during the chaos.
• Kurozumi Orochi fled Wano Country with Kaido, and Oden became shogun as the people celebrated his victory.
• Jie Jian learned that his mission was complete and rejected Oden's offers to stay in Wano Country.
• Oden and Jie Jian shared sake before Oden and the Nine Red Scabbards saw Jie Jian off at the harbor.
• Jie Jian sailed away in a small boat and told Oden that he had left a letter about Kanjuro in Oden's residence.

After rejecting the result of his first challenge, Jie Jian received modest rewards and saw that his combat power was still far below Kaido’s. He began his second challenge, found himself stranded at sea on Moria’s driftwood, and reached Wano Country, where Kaido’s pirate ships were docked.

• Jie Jian refused to submit his first challenge’s result because he still wanted to fight Kaido.
• The system increased Jie Jian’s Shadow-Shadow Fruit development and slightly improved his Haki and other abilities, but his panel rated him only as major combat power.
• Jie Jian started his second challenge and appeared sitting on the driftwood he had received from Gecko Moria, since the system set future challenges after he obtained the Shadow-Shadow Fruit.
• Jie Jian used the sun to work out his direction, sprinted across the sea with his Shadow Propeller for eighty-one minutes, and spotted Wano Country.
• Jie Jian reached Wano Country’s coastline and noticed Beasts Pirates ships docked at the port.

Jie Jian attacked the Beasts Pirates’ ship with a powerful Shadow Drill, tearing open its hull and forcing the pirates to respond. Jack transformed into his mammoth form and charged down at Jie Jian, who prepared to block him.

• Jie Jian sped toward the Beasts Pirates’ ship with his Shadow Propeller and pierced its hull with a spiraling shadow drill.
• The young pirate on watch spotted Jie Jian and raised the alarm as seawater flooded through the ship’s massive breach.
• Jack emerged from the cabin, learned Jie Jian had attacked, and tried to rush him despite his deputy’s warning about the sea.
• Jack leaped from the sinking ship and transformed into a mammoth, crashing down toward Jie Jian.
• Jie Jian realized he could not dodge and thrust out both hands to stop Jack’s attack.

Jie Jian survived Jack’s mammoth-form attack by encasing himself in shadow and fighting underwater, while Jack mistakenly believed he had won. The chapter left Jie Jian attacking the wounded Jack beneath the sea with his Shadow Blade.

• Jack transformed into a mammoth and smashed Jie Jian into the sea, destroying his floating log as the pirates assumed Jack had won.
• Jack sank underwater, dismissed his mammoth form, and expected Jie Jian to drown while he used his Fish-Man ability to breathe.
• The pirates spotted blood bubbling up from the sea and realized Jack might have been injured.
• Jie Jian revealed himself beneath the water, protected by a shadow diving suit that let him breathe and use his abilities for a short time.
• Jie Jian used Observation Haki to locate Jack and slashed his shoulder with the Shadow Blade, then prepared to attack again.

Jie Jian fought Jack underwater, wounded him, and escaped the Beasts Pirates’ reinforcements by destroying their warship. Jack was rescued ashore and ordered his remaining ships to attack Jie Jian, leaving their fight poised to continue.

• Jie Jian slashed Jack underwater, but Jack’s Fish-Man physique and Haki kept the wounds superficial while Jie Jian’s oxygen ran low.
• Jie Jian used a shadow propeller to get close and cut deeply into Jack’s waist, but Beasts Pirates reinforcements arrived and drove him away with harpoons.
• Jie Jian evaded the harpoons, burst out of the water, and split the Beasts Pirates warship in two with Shadow Blade: Sever.
• Jie Jian landed on floating wreckage and removed his Shadow Diving Suit while Jack was dragged ashore, injured but still watching him.
• Jack ordered his deputy to send out the remaining ships so he could fight Jie Jian at sea.

Jie Jian used his Shadow-Shadow Fruit powers and a homemade oxygen tank to dive beneath the sea and attack Jack’s fleet. He left Jack furious and helpless as he continued sinking ships from underwater.

• Jie Jian made a shadow diving suit with an oxygen bottle while Jack’s pirates sailed out to attack him.
• Jie Jian dodged the pirates’ cannonballs underwater as Jack ordered the ships to keep firing.
• Jie Jian punched holes in the bottom of the first ship and swam toward another, while the pirates discovered their vessel was taking on water.
• Jack challenged Jie Jian to come aboard, and Jie Jian surfaced only to refill his air before diving again.
• The first mate pointed out that Jie Jian was messing with Jack, so Jack struck him and ordered the pirates to fire again.