Recaps

Leo assigned roles and responsibilities to the Sky Islanders and his allies, preparing them for self-sufficiency and defense while warning them not to mistake a revolutionary model for a finished society. The meeting ended with the Empress asking what role Leo had planned for her.

• Leo appointed the Chief to lead logistics, Wyper to lead hunting and Haki training, and McKinley to train the youth soldiers, explaining that food shortages and new dangers required preparation.
• Leo named Michael minister of education in Mock Town, reassigned Deuce and Van Augur to lead combat and musket training, and chose Ace, Lafitte, and Nico Robin to accompany him to the East Blue.
• Leo declared that Sky Island could serve as a model for the revolution, but said others had to build such a life themselves rather than exploit the Sky Islanders or rest on their achievements.
• The Empress raised her hand and asked Leo what he intended for her to do.

Leo explained why he needed the Empress to guard Mock Town while he traveled to the East Blue with Ace and their companions. He revealed that Sabo had survived and become the Revolutionary Army’s second-in-command, leaving Ace shaken and more closely bound to Leo’s cause.

• Leo asked the Empress to hold Mock Town against the Marines and other Shichibukai while he went to the East Blue with Ace and the others.
• Ace questioned how Leo knew about his brothers, and Leo explained that CP0 monitored Garp, Dragon, Luffy, and Ace.
• Leo told Ace that Dragon had rescued Sabo during the Kingdom of Goa operation and that Sabo was now the Revolutionary Army’s young Chief of Staff.
• Ace erupted in flames and demanded to know whether Leo was telling the truth, and Leo assured him that he never lied.
• Leo resolved to unite Ace and Robin with his cause by relying on truth and shared opposition to the Celestial Dragons.

Ace sought Leo’s help to prepare for a future fight with Sabo, while Enel asked Leo how he could improve his lightning abilities. Leo advised Ace to train his physical combat and use flames to accelerate himself, then told Enel he was being constrained by the word “lightning.”

• Leo explained that Sabo had become the Revolutionary Army’s second-in-command, had trained his Observation and Armament Haki, and might defeat Ace.
• Ace asked Leo for help strengthening himself, worried that Sabo would outmatch him when they met again.
• Leo advised Ace to develop his physical skills and Logia abilities, using flames to accelerate his body and make his attacks faster and stronger.
• Ace left to train against the animals in the forest as Enel watched and recalled Ace’s unusual movement.
• Enel asked Leo for his opinion on lightning, and Leo said Enel was being constrained by the word “lightning.”

Leo explained how Enel could change from a self-important tyrant into someone whose actions matched his words, then outlined his plan to spread revolutionary ideas worldwide using Sky Island’s communication Dials. He left Nico Robin with the promise of teaching her a powerful disguise technique, while warning that the plan would draw the World Government’s attention.

• Leo watched Enel leave to test his idea and reflected that Enel still acted like a pirate rather than a merciful ruler.
• Leo explained that people could be persuaded by truth and by actions that matched words, and considered what people in the One Piece World wanted.
• Nico Robin asked Leo why he was helping Enel while she examined the Dials.
• Leo explained that Shadow Dials and Sound Dials could broadcast his voice and image around the world, making Sky Island a strategic base for spreading revolutionary ideas.
• Nico Robin warned that broadcasting the ideas would make the World Government and CP Agency pursue them, but Leo said Ace, Enel, and Robin could help protect the plan.
• Leo told Nico Robin he could teach her to use her disguise technique, and she instinctively searched for an escape route.

Leo had Nico Robin use her Flower-Flower Fruit to disguise his face, giving him a new identity that could delay the World Government from discovering who he was. After seeing the result, he asked Robin to recreate a face he had drawn, leaving everyone surprised by the image.

• Leo explained that even a successful disguise would only delay the Navy and the Celestial Dragons' spies from identifying him.
• Nico Robin carefully reshaped Leo's facial muscles while the others gathered to watch.
• Leo inspected his transformed face in a mirror and saw that he looked like a fierce, completely different person.
• Robin explained that the disguise would vanish if Leo left her line of sight and that she could only preserve it in recordings.
• Leo drew a face and asked Robin whether she could change his appearance to match it, prompting everyone to cry out in surprise.

Leo disguised himself as Akainu to record a lesson intended to undermine the Celestial Dragons’ order and make them distrust the Admiral. After finishing the first recording, he asked the stunned group for their thoughts.

• Leo explained that Akainu’s commitment to order made him a useful face for spreading their ideas, and that they aimed to make the Celestial Dragons reject him rather than recruit him.
• Nico Robin transformed Leo’s face into Akainu’s, and Leo ordered fifteen copies of the lesson recorded on Voice Dials and Shadow Dials.
• Leo filmed himself as Akainu, introduced the lesson, and taught for more than thirty minutes about how to overthrow a king.
• Nico Robin signaled that the Shadow Dials had run out, and Leo ended the recording before asking the silent crowd what they thought.

Leo explained why he had begun spreading instructions for rebellion before revolutionary ideology: the first volume would distract the Navy and buy time for his plans. While the group waited for their unfinished ship, they prepared to leave Sky Island by loading gold into hot-air balloons and planning a dangerous jump down.

• Leo gave Ace three reasons for distributing the rebellion manual first: it would attract ambitious people, damage Akainu's reputation, and divert the Navy and CP Agency.
• Leo's layered plan aimed to drive a wedge between Akainu and the Navy, mislead them about the Dials, and buy time to build strength before releasing a second volume.
• Leo explained that Enel and other compromised fighters were necessary because the Revolutionary Army lacked top-tier combat power.
• Leo's group waited for shipwrights in Mock Town to build their unusual warship, which would use Dials to support a long voyage.
• Before the ship was finished, Leo's group prepared to load gold ingots into hot-air balloons and jump from Sky Island with parachutes.

Leo prepared the Pirate Revolutionary Army to descend from Sky Island using parachutes and Flying Squirrel Suits, while sending Shandia's gold ahead by Hot Air Balloon Octopuses. After the group jumped, Wyper watched them disappear and wondered if the invaders had really left.

• Leo explained that parachuting would become mandatory training for the Pirate Revolutionary Army and prepared the group’s descent equipment.
• Wyper sent ten baskets of ancestral gold down with Hot Air Balloon Octopuses, and Lafitte flew after them to guide them to Mock Town.
• Leo checked his equipment and Hancock’s, then jumped from the edge of Sky Island.
• Ace, Hancock, Rindou, Nico Robin, Michael, Van Augur, and the others followed in Flying Squirrel Suits.
• Wyper watched the group vanish into the clouds and wondered if their visit had been a dream.

Leo and his companions descended into Mock Town with gold from the Golden City, while their display of power helped secure the landing site. The town erupted in greed at the sight of the treasure, but the Revolutionary Army kept the crowd at bay.

• Leo, Ace, Hancock, and Enel tested their Flying Squirrel Suits during the descent, while the rest of the Revolutionary Army used parachutes.
• Enel landed on Leo's shoulder and rode him through the air until Ace knocked Enel away with a fiery charge.
• Leo and his group landed in Mock Town after the balloon octopuses, where Revolutionary Army soldiers and the Special Attack Team had already secured the plaza.
• Enel landed beside the gold, and the crowd realized he was another Logia Devil Fruit user allied with Leo.
• Leo ordered Ace and the others to unload the gold, and the heavy blocks struck the ground as onlookers watched.
• The people of Mock Town shouted that Leo's group had emptied the Golden City and surged with greed, while the Revolutionary Army's presence restrained them.

Leo displayed 390 tons of gold and announced a 10-billion-Beli plan to transform Mock Town into a prosperous modern city. He left amid an escort, intent on using the merchants’ capital to help defeat a greater feudal power while keeping the new economic force under control.

• William reported that the gold inventory totaled 390 tons, and the gathered Revolutionary Army soldiers and Amazon warrior women marveled at its weight and value.
• Leo announced plans to invest 10 billion Beli in Mock Town, including extending the Sea Train, recruiting Water 7 shipwrights, and building resorts, shops, auction houses, and trading companies.
• Merchants focused on Leo and the gold as his investment promise drew their attention and stirred their desire to make money.
• Leo considered capital a monster he could harness to crush another feudal monster, then left the gold under escort.

Leo inspected the refitted pirate ship he had commissioned from Mock Town’s merchants and prepared to test it with Ace. The ship had been rebuilt with propellers and a modernized design, and the chapter ended as Leo saw how drastically it had changed.

• Leo gathered Mock Town’s merchants to inspect the pirate ship they had refitted using his order and funding.
• The merchants led Leo, Ace, and his subordinates to the newly built shipyard by the harbor.
• Leo and his group examined the galleon, which had been refitted to carry more than fifty people.
• Leo noticed that the ship’s stern had been altered with metal propellers and an externally mounted rudder.

Leo launched a warship modified to use Ace’s flames to drive its propellers, and Ace’s first sea trial sent it racing across the water. The ship reached thirty knots, while Leo planned to gather allies and talent for his rebellion.

• Leo ordered the merchants to launch the specially modified flagship for Ace.
• Enel and Ace boarded the ship, and Leo and the others followed by rope ladder.
• Ace took the helm and directed his flames through pipes to power the stern propellers.
• The ship accelerated out of the dock and reached thirty knots, astonishing everyone aboard.

The author thanked readers and explained the bonus chapters owed for recommendation votes, monthly votes, and rewards, promising to work through the backlog. The author also recounted the troubled launch of the book and ended by thanking editors and readers while promising a fuller explanation later.

• The author set out the bonus-chapter conditions and said six chapters were owed for recommendation votes, with more owed for monthly votes and rewards.
• The author said nine chapters had been owed in May and asked readers to keep track of the promised updates.
• The author explained that after abandoning The Last Swarm in November 2019, the author delayed the new book while the pandemic disrupted daily life.
• The author described delays in review and changes to Qidian's New Book Ranking rules that left the book with little time on the rankings.
• The author blamed the weak update pace on personal difficulties, thanked Responsible Editor Xiao Yuan and Chief Editor Green Bean, and promised a fuller explanation after clearing the bonus-chapter debt.

After Ace tested the galleon at more than 30 knots, Leo organized Mock Town’s shipbuilding, military training, and development while preparing for the World Government to discover them. With the town running under its assigned leaders, Leo and Lafitte prepared to leave for the East Blue to find Dragon.

• Ace returned the galleon to port after pushing it beyond 30 knots and became convinced it could make a round trip to the East Blue within thirty days.
• Leo anticipated that CP0 spies would investigate Hancock’s territory and planned for the Revolutionary Army to face a guerrilla war once the World Government found them.
• Kureek became foreman of Mock Town’s shipyard, and the Monkey Mountain Alliance Army shifted into shipbuilding work.
• Leo divided the Pirate Revolutionary Army into the Musket Squad, led by Michael with Van Augur as vice-captain, and the Special Attack Team, led by Deuce with William as vice-captain.
• Leo entrusted Mock Town’s development to Rindou and Ran, kept Enel’s subordinates on Sky Island, and left the town operating in an orderly manner.
• Lafitte prepared to accompany Leo to the East Blue.

Leo secretly sailed from Mock Town toward Loguetown aboard the new warship, leaving Boa Hancock in charge and entrusting the town to the Revolutionary Army officers. The ship departed under Ace’s guidance, while Leo enforced wartime discipline and banned drinking until they reached their destination.

• Leo departed Mock Town with Ace, Nico Robin, Enel, Lafitte, and a small crew, while merchants and pirate officers saw them off.
• Hancock worried about Leo leaving without her, and Leo reassured her by placing everything in Mock Town in her hands.
• Ace steered the warship toward Loguetown using an Eternal Pose as the ship traveled without sails at more than thirty knots.
• Leo called on the Revolutionary Army officers to protect Mock Town and wait for his return, and they saluted him.
• Lafitte offered Leo fine liquor, but Leo refused and reminded him that alcohol was forbidden during the voyage.

Leo explained to Nico Robin that steady training could make him stronger, even though he was currently the weakest person aboard, and challenged her to stop relying so heavily on her Devil Fruit. His words left Robin feeling a new urgency to improve her combat abilities.

• Leo began exercising aboard the ship, interrupting Nico Robin's reading.
• Nico Robin mocked Leo for training despite being the weakest person on board.
• Leo told Robin about a people who overcame natural disasters through generations of effort and compared their persistence to his training.
• Leo pointed out that Robin relied too much on her Flower-Flower Fruit and was also the weakest among the Devil Fruit users aboard.
• Robin reflected on her limited Devil Fruit development and felt a strong sense of crisis as others advanced their Haki and combat skills.

Marine Headquarters debated whether to punish the Empress for taking control of an unclaimed island without permission. Sengoku leaned toward a warning, but Garp, Kizaru, and Aokiji argued that her actions benefited the Marines, leaving Tsuru to decide whether to compromise.

• Sengoku scolded Garp for loudly eating senbei during the meeting, and Garp asked why they were discussing the Empress’s occupation of an island.
• Tsuru explained that the Marines wanted to warn the Empress for acting without permission, since her conduct challenged the newly established Shichibukai system.
• Garp argued that the Empress’s move helped the Marines by reducing their workload and lowering the threat to Impel Down.
• Kizaru and Aokiji agreed with Garp, while Akainu insisted that the Empress should be severely punished.
• Sengoku asked Tsuru for her opinion, and Tsuru weighed her desire to warn the Empress against the political need to compromise.

Leo explained why the Marines would likely legitimize Hancock’s actions by granting her Mock Town and Jaya Island, then continued the voyage past Alabasta and through the Calm Belt. The ship reached Loguetown, where Roger had been executed.

• Leo explained that the Marines would weigh their authority against the benefits Hancock had brought them and would likely make her actions official by granting her Mock Town and Jaya Island.
• Leo reflected on Doflamingo’s secrets and the World Government’s reasons for compromising with him.
• Leo and the others passed Alabasta without going ashore, and Leo considered why Crocodile’s ambitions there would have brought the Marines down on him.
• The ship traveled along the Red Line and crossed the Calm Belt into the East Blue.
• Leo and his companions arrived at Loguetown, the town where Pirate King Roger had been executed.

Leo led his companions to Loguetown, encouraging Ace to confront the place where his father was executed while the group explored separately. They split up in town, with Ace heading for the execution platform and Leo and Nico Robin going to the Marine office.

• Nico Robin asked whether the crew should visit Loguetown, and Leo urged Ace to face the town and his feelings about Roger.
• Ace brought the ship toward Loguetown’s crowded port, where pirates and tourists gathered under the watch of a Marine base.
• Lafitte stayed aboard to guard the ship while Leo, Nico Robin, Ace, and Enel went ashore.
• Leo arranged for the group to reunite at the ship at three in the afternoon, then Enel set off to explore and Ace headed for Roger’s execution platform.
• Leo led the disguised Nico Robin toward the Marine office.

Leo and Nico Robin went to the Marine office in Loguetown to seek out Smoker, whose ideals Leo believed made him a potential ally. At the gate, they encountered Tashigi arguing that she should be allowed to join the Marines, and Leo invited her to come with them.

• Leo brought Nico Robin to the Marine office in Loguetown, hoping to find Smoker and recruit him as an ally.
• Leo and Nico Robin saw Tashigi arguing with two Marine guards who refused to let her join.
• Tashigi insisted she could hunt pirates and serve alongside men despite the Marines' objections.
• Leo asked Tashigi why she would not come with him instead.

Ace stood before the platform where Roger had been executed, reflecting on its significance. Elsewhere, Leo persuaded Tashigi to leave the Marines and talk with him, intending to teach her his idea of justice.

• Ace stood in the square and silently contemplated the execution platform where his father, Roger, had declared the start of a new era.
• Leo asked the Marine guards whether Captain Smoker was in command, then claimed Smoker was a friend who would soon arrive in town.
• Leo asked the guards to let him take Tashigi away after the Marines rejected her application, and they agreed as long as she chose to go.
• Leo told Tashigi he was not a Marine but pursued justice, and she agreed to talk with him at a nearby tavern.

Leo persuaded Tashigi to leave the tavern with him and Robin, promising to show her true justice. Enel spotted two strong newcomers and went to test them, while Leo brought Ace to the execution platform, where Ace reflected on the sight his father had seen before his death.

• Leo introduced himself to Tashigi as a Partner of Justice and invited her to join him in seeing the real world and true justice.
• Leo, Robin, and Tashigi left the tavern, while Leo's unseen trick made several pirates chasing them fall over.
• Enel explored Loguetown with Mantra, detected two strong arrivals, and flew off to test their strength.
• Leo found Ace in the execution square and told him to climb the platform and look at the sight his father had seen.
• Ace transformed into fire, reached the execution platform, and remembered the accusations and abuse he had faced before his death.

Enel secretly watched Smoker and Hina argue aboard an experimental Marine warship, disappointed that neither could sense his presence. Smoker and Hina suddenly attacked him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Hina and Smoker argued over the ship’s route as they traveled toward Loguetown.
• Enel watched from the mast after knocking out the lookout, and judged that Smoker and Hina lacked Observation Haki.
• Smoker charged at Enel with his jitte while Hina launched her Devil Net at him.

Enel revealed himself as a powerful Logia user and struck down the Marines who rushed to surround him. Smoker and Hina tried to use Seastone and their Devil Fruit abilities against him, but Enel unleashed a massive current on them.

• Enel dodged Smoker and Hina’s attacks and landed on the deck.
• Hina warned the Marines to retreat, but Enel struck down more than one hundred of them with lightning.
• Smoker and Hina called for Seastone handcuffs and prepared to attack Enel together.
• Enel recognized the Seastone in Smoker’s jitte and questioned whether Smoker still had a physical body.
• Enel turned himself into a discharge device and engulfed Smoker and Hina in electricity.

Enel overwhelmed Smoker, Hina, and the Marines, then captured the two officers and took them to Leo’s ship. When Leo returned with Tashigi, Ace, and the others, he found Smoker and Hina tied beneath the mast and was left bewildered.

• Enel used his long-range Mantra and lightning to knock out Smoker and Hina on the Marine ship.
• Enel shocked Smoker through his seastone-tipped jitte and incapacitated the Marines who surrounded him.
• Enel reshaped Smoker’s jitte into a long metal rod and explored the ship while Smoker and Hina tried to reach it.
• Enel shackled Smoker and Hina with seastone handcuffs, loaded them onto Bilonger, and drove toward Leo’s warship.
• Leo returned with Tashigi, Ace, and the others and found Smoker and Hina tied beneath the mast.