Recaps

Ron’s tailed beasts teased Linlin by claiming he had arranged an attack, so he returned them to his body. Linlin then revealed that she had brought Ron’s impersonator to him, and Ron prepared to use high-powered electricity against the man’s immortal body.

• Kurama, Gyuki, and Son Gokū accused Ron of directing their attack on Linlin, while Linlin demanded that Ron repay her with a favor.
• Gyuki blurted out that Ron had planned to kill Linlin, so Ron used his command to return all three tailed beasts to his body.
• Ron told Linlin that the beasts had attacked because they sensed her malice, but he noticed that the malice was still present.
• Fake Ron emerged behind Linlin and tried to stab her, but his attack bounced off her body after she had released the Haki suppressing his immortal body.
• Linlin explained that she had caught Ron’s impersonator and brought him there, then told Ron that Zeus was absent and the attacker also had an immortal body.
• Ron decided he could repeatedly shock Fake Ron with high-powered electricity.

Ron watched the impostor die before he could punish him, then later a new bounty poster featuring Ron arrived aboard the Saber of Xebec. Kaido and Annika saw the poster, while Rocks realized Ron had used Madara Uchiha's name to saddle him with gambling debt.

• The impostor spewed black smoke, shriveled, and exploded into a skeleton, leaving Ron furious that he had died before Ron could act.
• Ron refused Linlin's suggestion to grind the skeleton's bones, saying a few seconds of grief were enough.
• Rocks confronted Whitebeard over more than ten million in gambling debt, then found a separate bill charging sixteen million Beli to Madara Uchiha and guessed Ron was behind it.
• A News Coo delivered a newspaper to Kaido, and Annika paid it a hundred Beli for the paper.
• A new bounty poster fell from the newspaper, and Annika and Kaido recognized Ron in the portrait.

Kaido and the Roger Pirates reacted to Ron’s new 4.3-billion-Beli bounty, with Rayleigh wondering whether the Rocks Pirates could unite. The chapter ended with Gaban dismissing that possibility because he knew how divided the crew was.

• Kaido saw Ron’s 4.3-billion-Beli bounty and angrily suspected that Ron and Linlin had planned something without him.
• Stussy warned Gloriosa that even a comrade could be dangerous among the Rocks Pirates, while Marlon dismissed Stussy’s claim to kindness.
• Rayleigh showed Ron’s new wanted poster to Gaban, and they recalled how Ron and the Rocks Pirates had once robbed them.
• Roger laughed off Ron’s bounty and said that freedom mattered more to him than fame or fortune.
• Rayleigh asked what would happen if the Rocks Pirates united, but Gaban argued that their members were too self-interested and treacherous to do so.

Garp led three Marine warships toward the Roger Pirates, and Roger chose to confront him to test his new Devil Fruit ability. After their powerful clash, Ron and Linlin returned to Hachinosu, where Annika and Kaido greeted them.

• A lookout warned Rayleigh and Gaban that Garp was approaching with three Marine warships.
• Rayleigh and Gaban urged Roger to avoid fighting, but Roger decided to test his new ability and leaped toward Garp.
• Rayleigh reminded Roger that, as a Devil Fruit User, he could drown if he fell into the sea.
• Roger and Garp coated their fists in Conqueror's Haki and collided in midair, creating a massive shock wave over the sea.
• Garp taunted Roger for eating a Devil Fruit, and Roger said the fruit had chosen him.
• Ron and Linlin returned to Hachinosu, where Annika welcomed them and Kaido complained that they had left him behind.

Ron returned to the Rocks Pirates’ ship and was welcomed with teasing before Rocks forced him to make up his missed training. At a rowdy banquet, Whitebeard asked Ron why the World Government hated him, and Ron claimed he had fought the King of the World and the Five Elders before they fled.

• Ron joked with Kaido by offering him Oven as a local specialty, and Linlin stopped him from giving the child away.
• Rocks summoned Ron to make up the training he had missed while away, dismissing Ron’s excuse that he had caught a cold.
• At Rocks’s banquet, Linlin scolded Golden Lion, Ron, and Kaido over their antics with the children, while praising Annika for sharing cake.
• Whitebeard watched the lively gathering, laughed, and asked Ron what he had done to anger the World Government.
• Ron claimed he had fought the King of the World and the Five Elders, then said they fled when they could not kill him; Golden Lion and Silver Axe dismissed his story.

Ron recounted his encounter with Imu and invited Kaido to visit the Holy Land Mary Geoise with him. Meanwhile, Kong carried out a World Government Buster Call under Saint Garling’s orders, then received a wanted poster and a demand to capture the woman pictured alive.

• Ron told Whitebeard that Imu had appeared and chased him, and Whitebeard laughed at his account.
• Ron asked Kaido to raise his bounty and visit the Holy Land Mary Geoise with him, but Kaido refused.
• Kong learned that most island residents were rebuilding their homes, but Saint Garling ordered him to begin the Buster Call without waiting for the missing people to return.
• Kong gave the order, and Marine ships bombarded the island until it was destroyed.
• Saint Garling handed Kong a wanted poster and asked him to capture the woman pictured alive.

Saint Garling persuaded Kong to help lure Shakky to Amazon Lily so the God's Knights could capture her. A week later, Ron and Kaido trained on Hachinosu until Kaido revealed that Rocks had gone on a date with a woman.

• Saint Garling told Kong he wanted Shakky as a toy, not a wife, and proposed using Amazon Lily to draw her out.
• Kong hesitated, but Saint Garling pressured him to help and promised to remember the favor.
• Ron and Kaido continued training their Haki under Rocks, while Ron advanced quickly and Kaido struggled through repeated injuries.
• Linlin left Hachinosu with her children to keep them safe from the Navy and World Government.
• Annika brought breakfast to Ron and Kaido, and Kaido teased Ron about Rocks going on a date with a woman.

Ron, Kaido, and Annika went to spy on Rocks’s date with Alice, and Silver Axe joined them at the tavern window. Silver Axe claimed to translate the pair’s conversation by lip-reading, leaving the others unsure whether he was making it up.

• Annika told Ron that Rocks had asked Whitebeard how to make a woman’s heart flutter, and that he was meeting Alice.
• Ron invited Annika to watch Rocks’s date, and Kaido soon followed after claiming he would train.
• Ron, Kaido, and Annika watched Rocks and Alice talking together through a tavern window on Hachinosu.
• Silver Axe squeezed in beside them and claimed he could read lips.
• Silver Axe invented a romantic-sounding exchange between Rocks and Alice, while Kaido questioned his translation.

Rocks tried to court Alice with a small axe, while Ron and the others watched from outside the tavern. The chapter ended with Loki alone in Elbaf's Underworld, wondering whether Rocks would return and keep their promise.

• Rocks gave Alice a lightweight axe as a present, and she laughed at his choice.
• Ron, Kaido, Silver Axe, and Annika watched the date through the tavern window until Kaido pushed them down after they were spotted.
• Alice asked Rocks about Ron, and Rocks said Ron was still with the Rocks Pirates and was slowly changing the crew.
• Harald celebrated Elbaf joining the World Government and told Loki to abandon his plans to join the Rocks Pirates.
• Loki sat by the sea, disappointed and wondering whether Rocks would return and honor their promise.

Gloriosa learned that the Navy planned to attack Amazon Lily in seven days and discussed finding allies with Shakky. With Roger injured, they considered asking the Rocks Pirates for help, while Shakky also weighed whether Ron’s strength made him a useful ally.

• Loki remembered Rocks and decided he would seek him out when the time came, whether Rocks returned or not.
• Gloriosa read that the Navy planned to strike Amazon Lily in seven days and was angered by the fabricated charges against the island.
• Gloriosa called Shakky, who said Roger was badly injured after fighting Garp and suggested asking the Rocks Pirates for help instead.
• Gloriosa agreed to ask the Rocks Pirates for help, despite doubting they would stand their ground against a difficult opponent.
• Shakky asked about Ron, and Gloriosa repeated his claims about defeating the King of the World and the Five Elders, then said she suspected he was weaker than Roger.

Gloriosa sought help for Amazon Lily and asked Annika to find out what Whitebeard would demand. Whitebeard agreed to help because Annika asked, leaving her to tell Ron the news.

• Shakky suggested that Newgate could be persuaded to help Amazon Lily, and Gloriosa decided to ask Annika to approach him.
• Annika visited Whitebeard at the tavern and asked what price he would require to help Amazon Lily.
• Whitebeard initially refused, saying the island had nothing to do with him and he wanted no treasure.
• Whitebeard changed his mind and agreed to help because Annika was the one asking.
• Annika thanked Whitebeard, and he told her to inform Ron before she left.

Rocks and the Rocks Pirates agreed to help Annika defend Amazon Lily from the Navy, despite there being no profit in the trip. The crew prepared to depart, and Annika waited excitedly to share the news with Gloriosa.

• Alice persuaded Rocks to stop and hear Kaido, who said that he, Ron, Newgate, and Silver Axe were going to help defend Amazon Lily from the Navy.
• Rocks decided to join the mission and invited Alice to come along.
• Rocks announced the crew's destination and purpose aboard the Saber of Xebec, and everyone agreed to help Annika without asking for profit.
• Annika thanked the crew, while Marlon and Streusen bickered and Kaido tried to stir them up.
• Gloriosa returned to the ship after speaking with Shakky and saw Annika smiling and waving from the railing.

Gloriosa learned that the Rocks Pirates agreed to help Amazon Lily because Annika asked them, and the crew prepared to set out. At Marine Headquarters, Saint Garling learned the Rocks Pirates had departed and reacted with fear before Kong suggested he confront them.

• Annika told Gloriosa that the entire Rocks Pirates crew had agreed to help without payment because they wanted to help her.
• Golden Lion clarified that he was helping Annika, not Amazon Lily, and Gloriosa thanked Annika for securing the crew's support.
• Kong told Saint Garling that the Kuja Pirates, the Roger Pirates, and other crews were converging on Amazon Lily as Marine deployments were completed.
• A report announced that the Rocks Pirates' warship had departed Hachinosu, and Saint Garling reacted with alarm at the crew's name.
• Kong suggested that Saint Garling take on the Rocks Pirates while the Marines handled the Roger Pirates.

Kong agreed to intercept the Kuja Pirates at Fish-Man Island, while Ron decided to travel alone to the Holy Land Mary Geoise. Rocks revealed that it held a world-overturning National Treasure and that its ruler had changed since his earlier visit.

• Saint Garling urged Kong to intercept the Kuja Pirates at Fish-Man Island, and Kong reluctantly agreed.
• The Rocks Pirates reached an island near the Red Line and chose to repair the Saber of Xebec’s coating rather than fly over the Red Line.
• Ron told Rocks he intended to visit the Holy Land Mary Geoise, but refused Rocks’s offer to accompany him.
• Rocks told Ron that the Holy Land held a powerful National Treasure and that the King of the World he had seen there was different from the one he had encountered years earlier.

Ron ignored Rocks’s warning and went to the Holy Land Mary Geoise, where he attacked a Celestial Dragon who refused to answer his questions about Devil Fruits. After killing her, he turned to face three Celestial Dragons who had arrived with chained captives.

• Rocks warned Ron that the King of the World might possess a powerful National Treasure and urged him to avoid provoking him, but Ron insisted on visiting Mary Geoise.
• Three Celestial Dragons discussed buying a giant and Saint Bernie’s mermaid pet as they walked along the Holy Land’s stone road, dragging chained figures behind them.
• Ron found a castle, repeatedly rang its doorbell, and called out that he had a community care delivery.
• A white-robed woman opened the door, insulted Ron, and swung at him; Ron broke her wrist and demanded to know where her family kept its Devil Fruits.
• When the woman threatened him instead of answering, Ron killed her with an air shock wave.
• Three Celestial Dragons arrived and questioned Ron as he stood on the porch.

Ron infiltrated the Holy Land, subdued its guards, and forced Saint Bernie to give him a Devil Fruit: the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon Form. Imu and the Five Elders chose to watch and wait, while Ron left Saint Bernie behind; someone then knocked at the door claiming to deliver community welfare.

• Ron used Conqueror's Haki to knock out the guards protecting the Celestial Dragons, alerting Imu and the Five Elders to his arrival.
• Imu ordered the Five Elders to wait and observe unless Ron became an outright threat to the Holy Land.
• Ron dragged Saint Bernie through a mansion and made him hand over the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon Form.
• Ron let Saint Bernie go and left with the Devil Fruit tied to his belt.
• Saint Bernie tried to report the intruder, but someone knocked and announced a community welfare delivery.

Ron continued killing Celestial Dragons while searching the Holy Land for Devil Fruits, and the Five Elders tried to prevent God's Blade from confronting him. After finding Pangaea Castle eerily deserted, Ron opened the great hall door and came face-to-face with the Five Elders.

• Ron broke into Saint Bernie’s room, killed him, and demanded more Devil Fruits.
• A guard told the Five Elders that four Celestial Dragons had been killed and that God's Blade had mobilized.
• Saint Saturn ordered the guard to cancel God's Blade’s search and keep the Holy Land’s forces out of Ron’s way.
• Ron learned that families passed their best Devil Fruits to the Five Elders, so he decided to search Pangaea Castle.
• Ron entered the empty castle and opened the great hall door, where the Five Elders were waiting.

Ron encountered the Five Elders in Pangaea Castle, but they repeatedly refused to pursue him, leaving him unsure whether Imu’s power had trapped him in an illusion. Imu then appeared before him with a Devil Fruit and asked why he wanted them, while Ron remained on guard.

• Ron found the Five Elders inside Pangaea Castle, then closed the door and fled when they neither spoke nor moved.
• Ron returned to the room, activated Sage Mode and Nine-Tails Mode, and drew out intense malice from the Five Elders as they transformed into beast forms.
• Ron escaped through the castle wall, but the Five Elders again did not follow him outside.
• Ron formed a Tailed Beast Bomb and wondered whether Imu had already affected him with an ability.
• Imu emerged from black mist holding a Devil Fruit, told Ron she meant no harm, and asked whether Devil Fruits could provide him with energy.

Ron distrusted Imu’s calm assurances and attacked him with a Tailed Beast Bomb before fleeing Mary Geoise with the Devil Fruit Imu dropped. He fought through two pursuers and escaped as the Five Elders arrived, leaving them to deal with the aftermath.

• Ron rejected Imu’s offer and launched a Tailed Beast Bomb at him.
• Imu transformed and contained the bomb in black mist as the Five Elders emerged in monstrous forms.
• Ron picked up Imu’s dropped Devil Fruit, packed it away, and ran as the bomb exploded behind him.
• Two fighters blocked Ron’s path, but he used Eight Gates to break their combined attack and kick them apart.
• Ron continued across Mary Geoise and escaped as a streak of golden light while the Five Elders found the dead pursuers.

After Imu ordered the Five Elders to erase all information about Ron, Ron landed at Red Port and escaped without being stopped by Tsuru. He exchanged the Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit for a new reward and unlocked Wood Release.

• Imu ordered the Five Elders to cancel Ron's bounty and remove information about him.
• Ron fell from the Holy Land Mary Geoise into Red Port, emerged from the crater, and left the crowd.
• Tsuru recognized Ron as the Rocks Pirates' notorious newcomer but let him walk away, then returned to the Marine Base.
• Ron used the roulette to consume the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Mermaid Form, and received Five-Tails and the Wood Release unlock.

Ron gained Wood Release and realized he had the chakra and abilities needed to use its strongest techniques. At Red Port, Tsuru encountered Ron and was taken with him toward Amazon Lily, prompting Sengoku and Garp to rush there.

• Ron received memories of Wood Release techniques and confirmed that his abilities and chakra met their requirements.
• Tsuru called Sengoku from Red Port and told him she had encountered Ron, who had jumped down from the Holy Land Mary Geoise.
• Marines reported that Ron had broken into the base and demanded that Tsuru take him to Amazon Lily and bring the person in charge to meet him.
• Tsuru ended her call with Sengoku and accepted that she would have to find a way to survive.
• Sengoku told Garp that Tsuru was being taken hostage to Amazon Lily, and Garp set off at once while Sengoku prepared to follow.

Ron persuaded Tsuru to take him to Amazon Lily while the Rocks Pirates prepared to leave without him. As the Marines advanced toward Amazon Lily and the Roger Pirates hurried to defend it, Roger and Rayleigh spotted a lone ship ahead.

• Ron told Tsuru to take him to Amazon Lily and agreed to spare the Marines if they followed his instructions.
• Rocks told Kaido that Ron had been sent to handle a task and would meet them at Amazon Lily.
• Shakky returned to Amazon Lily, ordered the Kuja Pirates to prepare for the Marines' early attack, and requested a Den Den Mushi.
• Roger and Rayleigh raced through the Calm Belt on a speedboat after Shakky warned them that the Marines had moved ahead of schedule.
• Roger spotted a ship ahead and suggested attacking it, but Rayleigh doubted it was the Marines because it was alone.

Ron encountered Roger and Rayleigh as they approached the Marine warship on their way to reinforce Amazon Lily, and challenged them to fight. He left the clash imminent, insisting he would help Amazon Lily only after defeating them.

• Roger and Rayleigh saw the approaching warship's Marine flag and suspected it had been left behind to intercept reinforcements.
• Ron changed into a Marine uniform aboard the warship while Tsuru ignored repeated calls from Garp until Ron ordered her to answer.
• Garp checked that Tsuru was safe, and Ron suddenly vanished from the lounge and appeared atop the ship.
• Roger recognized Ron and returned to his speedboat as Tsuru came onto the deck with Marine soldiers.
• Rayleigh asked whether Ron had left the Rocks Pirates and explained that he and Roger were heading to reinforce Amazon Lily.
• Ron told Roger and Rayleigh he wanted either to be killed by them or to kill them himself, then promised to help Amazon Lily after beating them.

Ron fought Roger and Rayleigh after refusing to let them pass, while Tsuru remained aboard the departing warship. The chapter ended with Ron summoning an enormous thousand-armed Buddha from the frozen sea.

• Roger asked Ron to settle their grievances after Amazon Lily's crisis, but Ron activated Nine-Tails Mode and made clear they would fight.
• Roger attacked Ron with Divine Departure, but Ron met the sword wave with a Conqueror's Haki-coated punch, matching Roger's strength.
• Ron froze the sea, shattering Roger and Rayleigh's speedboat and trapping them on the ice; Tsuru chose to stay aboard the warship.
• Roger accused Ron of holding a grudge over being refused a place on his ship, while Ron blamed Roger for later believing Ochoku and joining the attack against him.
• Roger and Rayleigh attacked Ron together, but his Haki-coated Chakra Arms blocked their blades.
• Ron entered Sage Mode and summoned True Several Thousand Hands, raising a gigantic thousand-armed Buddha above the ice.

Tsuru watched Ron reveal a gigantic Thousand-Armed Buddha, while Roger and Rayleigh debated whether to retreat or fight through it. Ron unleashed a barrage of wooden fists that drove both pirates back, then froze the surrounding sea and strengthened more fists with Haki.

• Tsuru saw Ron summon the Thousand-Armed Buddha and realized the Navy's intelligence had not revealed the full extent of his abilities.
• Roger refused Rayleigh's suggestion to retreat, and the two agreed that Roger would occupy Ron while Rayleigh tried to seize the naval warship.
• Ron unleashed Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, sending thousands of wooden fists raining down on Roger and Rayleigh.
• Roger enlarged his body and met the wooden fists with Haki, while Rayleigh tried to defend himself with his sword and was repeatedly driven into the sea.
• Ron noticed that Roger had eaten the same kind of Devil Fruit as Luffy, then used Ice Release to freeze the sea.
• Ron coated more of the descending wooden fists in Haki, preparing to attack Roger and Rayleigh on the frozen surface.