Recaps

Leo persuaded Boa Hancock to become a Shichibukai and leave Amazon Lily with him, then led the Kuja Pirates across the Calm Belt. After sparing the Cutlass Pirates and finding the Flame-Flame Fruit among their treasure, Leo began testing whether he could bring the crew under his control.

• Leo told Boa Hancock about the World Government’s plans and urged her to join his campaign, but she initially sent him away without answering.
• Leo won over the Amazon women with stories, trained in Haki, and advised Hancock on negotiating with Tsuru for the Shichibukai position.
• Hancock accepted the Shichibukai offer after securing conditions for Nine Snake Island, then agreed to leave with Leo while Gloriosa stayed behind.
• Leo secretly planned to travel to Sky Island for the Lightning-Lightning Fruit as the Kuja Pirates sailed across the Calm Belt.
• The Kuja Pirates defeated the Cutlass Pirates, and Leo persuaded Hancock to spare them in exchange for their obedience until they escaped the Calm Belt.
• Leo discovered that William had the uneaten Flame-Flame Fruit, considered eating it, then returned it to its chest and focused on training.
• Leo organized the Cutlass Pirates’ food and supplies to keep order aboard their ship, then challenged them to send their weakest fighter against him.

Leo transformed the Cutlass Pirates into a disciplined force, defeated Iska’s Marines, and persuaded pirates and defecting Marines to join his Revolutionary Army. As the group sailed toward Jaya Island, he laid out a strategy of spreading revolutionary ideas and placing trusted recruits inside the Marines.

• Leo abandoned his plan to win the Cutlass Pirates over through accommodation and ordered them to obey him unconditionally.
• Leo drilled the pirates in formation and rotating musket volleys, turning them into a force capable of stopping a Marine attack.
• The Kuja Pirates defeated Ace and the Spade Pirates, and Leo identified Ace as Roger’s son before inviting him to join his cause.
• Leo’s formation killed or wounded more than thirty Marines and forced Iska’s surviving crew to surrender.
• After the battle, Leo freed the Cutlass Pirates and urged them to fight the forces that had driven them into piracy, and all ninety-eight joined him.
• Six wounded Marines, dozens of bound Marines, Ace and the Spade Pirates, and Iska joined Leo’s ranks as the Revolutionary Army took shape.
• Leo rejected assassination and outlined a strategy to build power, win allies, spread revolutionary ideas, and place recruits across Marine branches.
• As the ships sailed toward Jaya Island, Leo trained the recruits, sent Iska back to the Marines undercover, and revealed that he had once been a Celestial Dragon’s slave.

Leo captured Mock Town, recruited new allies, and turned the town into a base while preparing an expedition to Sky Island. He began organizing and educating the captured pirates as soldiers, leaving his forces ready to build the equipment needed to reach the Golden City.

• Leo taught the Marines and pirates to identify potential allies and enemies, then trained the Marines in Observation Haki before parting from them near Jaya Island.
• Leo led the Pirate Revolutionary Army in capturing Mock Town, where the soldiers defeated the pirates and treated both their own wounded and their captives.
• Leo appointed Nico Robin Minister of the Propaganda Department, welcomed Van Augur and Raphael into his forces, and celebrated the victory with his troops.
• Leo named Ace captain of the Second Special Attack Force and gave her the Flame-Flame Fruit, which she ate and mastered.
• Leo claimed Mock Town as his territory, arranged business deals and auctions with its merchants, and recruited Mont Blanc and the Monkey Mountain Alliance Army to help build equipment for reaching the Golden City.
• Leo and his allies built hot air balloon prototypes and tested a paraglider while the Monkey Mountain Alliance Army prepared the foundations for their project.
• Leo trained the captured pirates, taught them about firearms, and found that none had escaped, so he organized them into units and squads under collective responsibility.
• Leo assigned Robin to record the pirates’ information and had the new recruits practice running, bayonet drills, and live-fire exercises alongside the Revolutionary Army.

Leo led his forces to Sky Island, defeated Enel, and brought the Shandians and Sky Islanders together under a shared government. He began building a new country through laws, education, economic reforms, and the use of Sky Island’s resources.

• Leo trained the pirates, demonstrated hot air balloons, and led an expedition carrying balloons and parachutes toward Sky Island.
• Wyper and the Shandians welcomed Mont Blanc Cricket after learning that Jaya remained below, then Leo confronted Enel.
• Enel defeated the Shandians, but Ace and Hancock fought him in turn, and Hancock ultimately turned him to stone.
• Leo’s group reached Angel Island and announced that it would rule Sky Island, then Leo brought the Shandians and Sky Islanders together as citizens of one nation.
• Leo guided the representatives in drafting a public Covenant covering laws, shared responsibilities, and land, while explaining that the government must record and teach history.
• Leo led the people to ring the Golden Bell, and Noland the Great Serpent celebrated its return as the Shandians began relocating to Jaya’s interior.
• Leo and his allies tested Wind Dials, found the Shandians’ Golden City, and gathered its gold to support Sky Island’s credit and economic plans.
• Leo proposed a country without currency and began organizing a public education system, appointing Gan Fall Minister of Education and assigning him to train teachers.