Recaps

Big Mom’s trap succeeded, and Katakuri captured Marco after Zeus and Brulee helped ambush him. Big Mom ordered the Queen Mama Chanter to sail at full speed toward Whitebeard, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Zeus ambushed Marco from the sky while Katakuri and Smoothie waited inside Brulee’s mirror.
• Smoothie caught Marco and squeezed nearly all his strength into a vat, leaving him exhausted.
• Katakuri took Marco through Brulee’s mirror and presented him to Big Mom.
• Big Mom celebrated Marco’s capture and ordered him tied to the mast of the Queen Mama Chanter.
• Big Mom ordered the ship to head toward Whitebeard and called for Zeus to return.

Whitebeard learned that Big Mom had captured Marco and rallied the Whitebeard Pirates to rescue him. As the Moby Dick charged toward Big Mom’s fleet, the Revolutionary Army’s warships had still not arrived.

• Whitebeard told Jozu to take Marco’s place as his right-hand man and remain a source of strength for the crew.
• Big Mom approached with Marco tied to the bow of the Queen Mama Chanter and offered to spare him if Whitebeard surrendered.
• The Whitebeard Pirates recognized Marco and shouted for Whitebeard to lead them in rescuing him.
• Whitebeard ordered the fleet to set sail and save Marco, and the crew charged toward Big Mom’s fleet.
• Big Mom and Katakuri watched the Whitebeard Pirates advance and planned to defeat them before the Revolutionary Army arrived.

The Big Mom Pirates and Whitebeard Pirates clashed as Katakuri sought to end the battle before the Revolutionary Army arrived. Big Mom charged Whitebeard while both leaders held back their full strength, and Ace listened to an order aboard a Revolutionary Army warship.

• Katakuri arranged for the Big Mom Pirates to provoke the Whitebeard Pirates into attacking before the Revolutionary Army could arrive.
• The Queen Mama Chanter and the Moby Dick collided, and Big Mom threatened the frightened ship for veering away.
• Whitebeard Pirates rushed aboard the Queen Mama Chanter and tried to rescue Marco, while Big Mom's fighters blocked them.
• Izo recognized Borsalino's Wano Country attire, and their hostility eased as the commanders fought over Marco.
• Big Mom rode Zeus toward Whitebeard as he and Jozu remained at the bow without joining the battle.
• Ace picked up a Den Den Mushi aboard a Revolutionary Army warship and listened to an order.

Ace informed Issho and Kyros that the Whitebeard Pirates were losing their war against the Big Mom Pirates, and the Revolutionary Army fleet hurried to the battlefield to save them. As Big Mom attacked Whitebeard with Ikokku, Whitebeard called out to Jozu.

• Ace told Issho and Kyros that Whitebeard’s failing health meant the Whitebeard Pirates could lose and scatter, ruining the Revolutionary Army’s mission.
• Ace’s fleet accelerated to its maximum speed and reached the battle at dusk.
• The Revolutionary Army officers saw the bloodied sea and the Whitebeard Pirates struggling against Big Mom.
• Big Mom taunted Whitebeard and attacked him with Ikokku.
• Whitebeard raised Murakumogiri without defending himself and called out to Jozu.

Whitebeard used the Diamond-Diamond Fruit to endure Big Mom’s attack and strike her with Murakumogiri, while the silent man who had eaten the Tremor-Tremor Fruit dealt her another devastating blow. The crews erupted into fiercer fighting, and Jozu blocked Katakuri as he rushed to Big Mom’s aid.

• Whitebeard transformed his body into diamond, took Big Mom’s Ikokku, and counterattacked with Murakumogiri.
• The silent man roared and struck Big Mom with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, leaving her body nearly split in half.
• Katakuri abandoned his opponent and rushed toward Big Mom as the Whitebeard Pirates cheered and pressed their attack.
• Jozu intercepted Katakuri, and Katakuri charged him with two Haki-coated mochi clubs.

Jozu used the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to defeat Katakuri, turning the battle in the Whitebeard Pirates’ favor, while Whitebeard collapsed from his final attack on Big Mom. As Marco examined Whitebeard, the Revolutionary Army arrived, and Jozu announced Big Mom’s death and the Whitebeard Pirates’ victory.

• Jozu used the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to scatter Katakuri’s mochi body with a full-force strike.
• The Whitebeard Pirates cheered as Katakuri’s defeat shifted the battle in their favor.
• Whitebeard clutched his heart and fell to his knees after exhausting himself in his final attack on Big Mom.
• Jozu carried Marco back to the Moby Dick and asked him to examine Whitebeard.
• Marco examined Whitebeard and shook his head at Jozu, conveying that Whitebeard was dying.
• When cannon fire announced the Revolutionary Army’s arrival, Jozu raised Murakumogiri and proclaimed Big Mom dead and the Whitebeard Pirates victorious.

The Revolutionary Army discovered the Blackbeard Pirates hiding in a reef-filled harbor and unleashed a long-range bombardment, shattering their ships and morale. Blackbeard watched his crew flee toward Whitebeard’s protection, leaving the Blackbeard Pirates on the verge of collapse.

• Pedro hesitated over whether to frighten the fleeing Big Mom Pirates or rally them to rescue Mama as their crew descended into chaos.
• Revolutionary Army scouts spotted the Blackbeard Pirates’ fleet in a harbor and identified its flag.
• The Revolutionary Army’s main battleships formed an oblique line and fired all nine Electromagnetic Cannons at the fleet.
• The bombardment devastated the harbor and sent the Blackbeard Pirates’ men scrambling for their ships.
• Blackbeard demanded to know who was attacking, but his crew recognized the Revolutionary Army and fled to seek Whitebeard’s protection.

The Revolutionary Army’s artillery devastated the Blackbeard Pirates, while the Big Mom Pirates split apart as Pedro tried to order a retreat. Big Mom recovered and demanded that Napoleon call her “Nun.”

• Violet guided the Revolutionary Army’s cannon fire, which destroyed the Blackbeard Pirates’ ships and left fewer than one in ten men alive.
• Blackbeard’s surviving crew ignored him and swam toward the battlefield, hoping to return to Whitebeard’s side.
• Pedro ordered the Big Mom Pirates to retreat, but the crew split between fleeing outsiders, Big Mom’s relatives gathering around Pedro, and officers who kept fighting.
• Whitebeard Pirates officers surrounded the retreating Big Mom Pirates, making it difficult for them to protect themselves or reach Big Mom.
• Big Mom’s wounds stopped bleeding, and she told Napoleon not to call her Mom but to call her Nun.

Big Mom recovered enough to fight Jozu, using Prometheus, Zeus, and Napoleon to wound him. As the Whitebeard Pirates ran out of strength, Marco sent Namul to seek help from the Revolutionary Army, and Namul reached their warship to request an immediate rescue.

• Big Mom ordered Prometheus to block Jozu, who destroyed the Homie with a shockwave punch.
• Big Mom used Zeus to paralyze Jozu, then struck him in the chest with Napoleon’s Ikokku attack.
• Marco whispered instructions to a Whitebeard Pirates officer, who went to Namul with the message.
• Namul dove into the sea and used the Whitebeard pirate flag to identify himself while reaching the Revolutionary Army’s warship.
• Namul asked the Revolutionary Army to rescue the Whitebeard Pirates, warning them that Big Mom was terrifying.

Ace, Issho, and Kyros joined the battle against Big Mom after hearing Namur’s report, while Revolutionary Army ships attacked the fleeing Big Mom Pirates. Cornered by the three Vice Admirals, Big Mom claimed to be Navy CP0, and Issho warned that she was no longer herself.

• Ace heard Namur’s account, then proposed that the Vice Admirals suppress Big Mom and protect Marco and Jozu.
• Ace, Issho, and Kyros agreed on a plan and rushed to the battlefield as Rear Admiral commanders ordered the fleet to bombard the fleeing Big Mom Pirates.
• Ace and Issho arrived beside Jozu while Kyros landed behind Big Mom, and Revolutionary Army warships opened fire.
• Big Mom pretended to praise Jozu, then claimed she was Navy personnel and CP0 when the three Vice Admirals confronted her.
• The Big Mom Pirates reacted in disbelief, and Issho said that Big Mom was no longer their mother.

Ace and the others realized that a CP0 agent had taken over Big Mom's body and confronted her as she tried to escape. The Three Sweet Commanders were held back by Issho, but Katakuri charged at him.

• Issho noticed that Big Mom's words and behavior suggested she had lost her memories, and the others suspected someone had possessed her.
• Ace ordered Kyros and Jozu to step back and asked who was inside Big Mom's body.
• The nun revealed that she had parasitized Big Mom to use her body and now wanted to escape and recover from her fatal injury.
• Pedro urged the others to reclaim Mama's body, but Issho drew his sword and warned the Three Sweet Commanders not to advance.
• Katakuri charged at Issho with half his body formed and his mouth exposed.

Issho defeated Katakuri with a spatial sword attack but spared his life, leaving the Big Mom Pirates terrified of fighting him. The nun then tried to bargain with Ace by offering Big Mom’s surrender and her own service in the new Navy.

• Katakuri faced Issho, prepared to die, but Issho sheathed his sword and praised his boldness before a spatial slash broke Katakuri’s body into pieces.
• Issho explained that distorted space had displaced Katakuri’s body parts and warned the Big Mom Pirates that he might not spare them if they attacked.
• The Big Mom Pirates despaired at Issho’s power and the pressure of facing him.
• The nun addressed Ace and offered Big Mom’s surrender and her own service as an admiral in the new Navy.

Ace rejected the nun’s offer to join the Revolutionary Army and ordered Big Mom killed, while Ace and Kyros attacked her. Issho cut down Cracker, leaving the Big Mom Pirates facing the overwhelming strength of their opponents.

• Ace concluded that accepting Big Mom would alienate the Whitebeard Pirates and declared that Big Mom had to die.
• Ace ignited his fist and Kyros formed a sword of light as they attacked the badly wounded Big Mom.
• The Big Mom Pirates intervened, with Pedro hurling a mountain of candy toward Issho and Cracker charging in a biscuit puppet.
• Issho cut Cracker’s hidden real body in half, leaving him mortally wounded.
• The Big Mom Pirates watched in despair as they realized neither Cracker nor Katakuri could withstand the enemy’s strength.

At Zephyr’s funeral, Leo announced the Revolutionary Army’s victories against the Big Mom and Whitebeard Pirates and declared the Great Pirate Era was nearing its end. As the mourners buried the fallen beneath a monument on Sky Island, the Navy prisoners—including Sengoku, Akainu, and Aokiji—reflected on their defeat and the Navy’s choices.

• Leo attended Zephyr’s funeral, where the Revolutionary Army honored Zephyr and the countless fallen soldiers with a monument and urns of ashes.
• Leo told Sabo and the mourners that the Revolutionary Army had defeated the Big Mom Pirates and that its expeditionary force had helped bring down the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Leo announced that Whitebeard had died, Big Mom had been eliminated, most of her crew had surrendered, and most of Whitebeard’s crew had joined the Revolutionary Army.
• The Navy prisoners listened in shock, while Sengoku asked Akainu whether he had once cared too much about the Celestial Dragons’ orders; Akainu and Aokiji watched Leo without answering.
• Leo declared the burial begun, and the Revolutionary Army members knelt and placed the heroes’ urns into their graves.

Garp observed how the Revolutionary Army differed from the Navy, while Leo concluded that the Revolutionary Army needed to change direction. After recalling his rejection of being treated as a savior, Leo suddenly realized what he should write.

• Garp wandered around Sky Island and recognized the Revolutionary Army as the army he had always wanted the Navy to be.
• Leo reflected on how the World Government constrained the Navy and how the Revolutionary Army had challenged its rule.
• Leo told Hancock that the Revolutionary Army needed to change direction as he held her hand.
• Hancock remembered Leo’s angry rejection of the army’s claims that he was a savior.
• Leo leaped from his chair and announced that he knew what he should write.

Leo led Hancock home, where Robin cared for their young daughter, Zoya, and helped Leo prepare to write articles. Hancock wondered what work he would produce next.

• Leo brought Hancock to his treehouse home on Sky Island, which the Sky Islanders had built with help from Trafalgar Law.
• Leo had rejected rumors portraying him as a saint and vowed that his descendants with Hancock would not become Celestial Dragons.
• Robin cared for Zoya by the fireplace until Leo called her into the study to help write articles.
• Hancock took Zoya and strawberries to the kitchen, then watched the study with anticipation as she wondered what Leo would write.
• Hancock reflected that Leo had helped reform people's habit of not reading books and newspapers.

Leo drafted a political article arguing that a regime’s legitimacy came from the people’s support, which depended on the material quality of their lives. He left the article’s central claim focused on whether a government could improve citizens’ lives and incomes.

• Nico Robin entered Leo’s study, lit the fireplace, and sat beside him to take notes as he wrote.
• Leo began drafting a political manifesto and explained that he needed to refine a long-form argument into a clear article.
• Leo stated that a regime’s justice came from recognition by the people, and that the World Government lost legitimacy when the people rejected it.
• Leo argued that people’s material conditions shaped their loyalty and support for a regime.
• Leo concluded that a government’s justice depended on whether it could improve citizens’ lives by helping them increase their incomes, then crossed out the first line in his notebook.

Leo explained to Nico Robin why people had tolerated unsafe lives under the former nations and World Government, and warned that the Revolutionary Army would face new demands once people forgot how hard-won their safety was. Robin asked whether the Revolutionary Army could avoid making promises about security and prosperity, leaving Leo’s response unresolved.

• Nico Robin asked Leo why people had obeyed rulers and the World Government despite their failure to protect basic survival.
• Leo explained that people judged their safety against the widespread violence of the Great Pirate Era and accepted limited local harm when danger was worse elsewhere.
• Leo described how trade and commerce gave people material wealth even when their lives were insecure.
• Leo warned that after about ten years, people might take safety for granted and demand greater material abundance from the Revolutionary Army.
• Nico Robin asked whether the Revolutionary Army could use its military strength to refuse promises and keep its plans unspoken.

Leo explained to Nico Robin why the Revolutionary Army had to educate the masses and help them recognize their common humanity with those in power. He argued that a country must remain adaptable and that the people should learn to think as clearly as he did, leaving Robin wondering whether a world of people like Leo would descend into conflict.

• Leo reflected that people were easily misled but could be awakened by being told the truth.
• Leo argued that political systems had to adapt over time and that countries needed firm moral limits.
• Leo told Robin the Revolutionary Army had to unite the masses by freeing them physically and mentally from the nobles’ control.
• Leo explained that the Revolutionary Army had to show people that Celestial Dragons, rulers, and future leaders were no different from ordinary people.
• Robin asked whether educating everyone to reach Leo’s level would lead them to tear the world apart.

Leo explained to Nico Robin that skills people took for granted had taken generations of survival and education to develop, and that people would likewise need time to learn who their friends and enemies were. Robin estimated that this political understanding might take hundreds of years to spread.

• Leo argued that a society’s achievements came from its people and the deep accumulation of education and culture.
• Leo asked Nico Robin how to make fire without tools, and she described using a bow made from her hair to drill wood.
• Leo compared fire-making, once an extraordinary skill, to the challenge of teaching people to distinguish friends from enemies.
• Nico Robin guessed that people might need a few hundred years to learn that skill, and Leo suggested the process could take even longer.

The Revolutionary Army and the Whitebeard Pirates anticipated Leo’s unreleased book, and Ace explained why Leo’s writing impressed the Revolutionary Army. Marco questioned whether Leo’s apparent foresight came from using the Revolutionary Army’s power to make his ideas real, and Ace invited him to join and judge for himself.

• News of Leo’s new book spread through the Revolutionary Army, and Issho looked forward to reading it.
• Ace and Marco discussed why the Revolutionary Army was excited about Leo’s work while the pirates struggled to get timely information through their intelligence networks.
• Ace said Leo’s views had repeatedly proven correct, crediting the Commander-in-Chief’s foresight.
• Marco wondered whether Leo used the Revolutionary Army’s resources to make his ideas come true.
• Ace told Marco he could find out for himself by joining the Revolutionary Army.

After Big Mom's defeat, Marco and Jozu pushed the Whitebeard Pirates to cooperate with the Revolutionary Army, and the survivors traveled to its headquarters on Jaya Island. There, Ace and the others learned that Leo still had not updated his writing.

• The Revolutionary Army kept captured Big Mom Pirates alive, angering some Whitebeard Pirates who opposed joining the Revolutionary Army.
• Marco and Jozu argued that the Revolutionary Army's strength and expanding influence made joining it the best course, and Marco used his authority to get the Whitebeard Pirates to follow its arrangements.
• The Whitebeard Pirates counted their losses and, after Whitebeard's funeral, set sail with the Revolutionary Army for Jaya Island.
• Ten days after the decisive battle, Ace and the others arrived at Jaya Island and discovered that Leo still had not written an update.

When the Whitebeard Pirates visited Jaya Island, Ace explained how the Revolutionary Army’s Credit System had transformed merchant trade by establishing verified identities, credit, and trust. Marco recognized that merchants’ confidence in the Revolutionary Army’s certification was so strong that they would lend it money or supplies, leaving the pirates to conclude that it could not be defeated.

• The chapter described how the Revolutionary Army’s Credit System rewarded merchants for transactions and let them use verified credit as a sign of status and a means of payment.
• Merchants initially resisted the system because it exposed their dealings and made them pay taxes, but they came to value the trust and security it provided.
• A merchant extended goods on credit to another merchant after the Revolutionary Army verified his reputation, and the two later repaid the debt, joined forces, and founded a major chamber of commerce.
• As Marco, Jozu, Vista, and Ace explored Jaya Island, Jozu praised the merchants’ honesty, but Marco said the Credit System—not their character—had made their trade possible.
• Marco realized that merchants trusted the Revolutionary Army’s certification so completely that they would lend it money or grain, and he concluded that the Revolutionary Army could not be defeated.

Marco and Ace showed the Whitebeard Pirates how the Revolutionary Army’s merchant connections and vast supplies could make it difficult to defeat, then toured a diverse city with strong security and a bustling marketplace. Marco wondered whether the abundance of merchants and goods had made prices unbearably high.

• The Whitebeard Pirates realized that the Revolutionary Army could recover from repeated defeats by buying supplies and building ships, and understood why Marco had chosen to work with them.
• Marco explained to the Whitebeard Pirates how merchants bargained over small price changes because those margins multiplied across large quantities.
• Ace described the city’s diverse residents, while Namul asked whether so many different people threatened public security.
• Ace explained that Revolutionary Army snipers patrolled the city and that crimes committed there were strictly punished.
• Marco asked whether the city’s many merchants and goods had driven prices unbearably high.

Ace explained to the Whitebeard Pirates how transport costs, risk, and competition shaped prices in a city under the Revolutionary Army’s protection. The crowd then knelt and greeted Lord Leo.

• Ace tasted a sour fruit sold by a bearded merchant, and the merchant explained that it was used in drinks and could help prevent scurvy.
• The merchant revealed that he had bought a basket of fruit for two hundred Beli and sold it for up to twenty Beli each, shocking the Whitebeard Pirates’ commanders.
• Ace pointed out that the Revolutionary Army had reduced the merchant’s risks and costs, making twenty Beli a fair price in the city.
• Ace explained to Marco that city goods could be cheaper than rural goods because merchants had reliable buyers in cities, while rural goods could remain unsold.
• The crowd suddenly knelt and cried out, “Lord Leo!”