Recaps

Deidara used his C4 Bombs to slaughter Saint Jima Carl’s attendants and the nobles gathered in the street while Nagato’s group watched. After Akatsuki left, Nagato’s power twisted Saint Jima Carl to death, leaving the defense force horrified at the death of a Celestial Dragon.

• Nagato allowed Deidara to attack the attendants, and Deidara planted miniature C4 Bombs inside them.
• Deidara detonated the bombs, killing the lead attendant and blasting nobles as the crowd panicked.
• Deidara continued setting off explosions across the street, while Saint Jima Carl tried to shoot him with her golden cane.
• Nagato stopped Saint Jima Carl with an invisible force, then led Akatsuki away with Deidara.
• The defense force arrived and watched Saint Jima Carl twist and bleed to death as her former slave celebrated.

Nagato continued his assault on Mary Geoise and entered the slave prison, where he rescued the young Boa Hancock and her sisters from Saint Rosward and his attendants. He told the girls to escape into the sunlight and keep running.

• Nagato told Morgans that the destruction of Mary Geoise had only begun as a black hole formed over Saint Jima Carl's death site and dragged buildings and guards into it.
• In the prison beneath Mary Geoise, Hancock comforted Marigold and Sanda as they feared the cruelty surrounding them.
• Saint Rosward ordered his attendants to brand the three sisters as slaves and take them away.
• Kakuzu's earth spikes impaled Saint Rosward and the attendants just as they were about to brand the girls.
• Nagato and his group emerged from the darkness, and Nagato told Hancock, Marigold, and Sanda that they were free and should run without looking back.

Nagato and the Akatsuki rescued Hancock, Mary, Sanda, and the other ordinary slaves from Mary Geoise, while refusing to free the imprisoned pirates. The liberated slaves fled through a tunnel to the sunlight as Nagato prepared to leave.

• Nagato broke the explosive slave collars worn by Hancock and her sisters, then blasted a tunnel from the underground prison to the surface.
• Hancock thanked Nagato and led Mary and Sanda through the tunnel after he urged them to run far away.
• Nagato ordered the Akatsuki members to scatter through the prison and rescue the other slaves, while Morgans photographed the escape.
• The Akatsuki members ignored the imprisoned pirates' pleas and left them locked in their cells.
• Nagato reflected that the Empire's salvation had given him the power to illuminate others and vowed to make his enemies experience the pain they had inflicted.

Hancock and her sisters escaped into the forest while the Five Elders ordered Mary Geoise sealed and learned that the slave center had been destroyed. Nagato’s group fought through the Land of the Gods, and Nagato confronted a frightened Celestial Dragon.

• Hancock led Sandersonia and Mary farther into the forest as guards pursued them, and she insisted their benefactors would be all right.
• The Five Elders ordered Mary Geoise sealed and the intruders hunted, then learned that Nagato’s group had destroyed the slave center.
• Nagato and Akatsuki entered the Land of the Gods, where armored guards and Marines tried to stop them.
• Nagato repelled the Marines’ gunfire, while Akatsuki attacked the guards with earth spikes and explosive spiders.
• A Celestial Dragon shot a Marine colonel who retreated, then panicked when Nagato confronted him and challenged his claim to be a god.

Nagato killed a Celestial Dragon in Mary Geoise, confronted CP0 and the Five Elders, and declared that the Empire would punish the World Government and claim the world. The Akatsuki teleported outside Mary Geoise, leaving Nagato hovering above the Five Elders as they wondered what he planned to do.

• A Celestial Dragon shot at Nagato, who dodged the bullet and crushed the man’s head while another Celestial Dragon watched in terror.
• CP0 arrived to protect the Celestial Dragons, who regained their confidence and argued over how they would torture Nagato.
• A sword-wielding Five Elder attacked Nagato with a massive slash, but Nagato stopped it with an invisible repulsive force.
• Nagato challenged the Celestial Dragons’ privileges and declared that the Empire would impose its highest punishment and begin a new chapter for the world.
• Deidara warned Kakuzu that Nagato was going crazy, and Kakuzu teleported Morgans and the Akatsuki outside Mary Geoise using a prepared Flying Thunder God formation.
• Nagato floated into the sky while the Five Elders watched uneasily and wondered what he intended to do.

Nagato revealed his Six Paths power and unleashed Super Shinra Tensei on Mary Geoise, while Hancock and her sisters watched from the Red Earth Road. The chapter ended as a blinding light and violent tremors spread across the island.

• Hancock, Mary, and Sanda reached the Red Earth Road but found no safe way down.
• The sisters heard Nagato's voice and watched him hovering above Mary Geoise.
• The Five Elders tried to stall Nagato, while Celestial Dragons demanded that he be captured and tortured.
• Nagato entered Six Paths Mode and blocked attacks from the sword-wielding Five Elder and the book-holding Five Elder with his Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Nagato declared that Mary Geoise would feel the world's pain and unleashed Six Paths Super Shinra Tensei.
• A blinding white light and violent tremors swept across Mary Geoise as Hancock and her sisters watched from afar.

Nagato unleashed Six Paths-level Super Shinra Tensei, obliterating Mary Geoise and killing the Celestial Dragons and forces who tried to stop him. Hancock saw Nagato as her light, while Morgans recorded the destruction and realized the world was about to change.

• Nagato's Super Shinra Tensei overwhelmed the Five Elders, Cipher Pol 0, and the Fleet Admiral, sweeping across Mary Geoise and the Red Line.
• The blast crushed buildings and sent ruins tumbling into the sea as slaves watched in shock.
• Hancock climbed the rubble and saw that Mary Geoise had become a vast, barren crater, then understood Nagato's power as the force that had broken her despair.
• Morgans realized his Observation Haki had foretold the destruction and wondered at the power of the mysterious figure who commanded Nagato.
• Morgans retrieved another camera and photographed Nagato above the crater and the destroyed Mary Geoise.

Nagato destroyed Mary Geoise, while Imu warned the surviving Five Elders that the Empire behind Akatsuki possessed power beyond Uranus and must not be provoked. News of the destruction spread worldwide, and Whitebeard suspended his crew’s movements as he anticipated a turbulent new era.

• Nagato found the Five Elders and other officials gone from Mary Geoise, then withdrew his Six Paths form after concluding they had escaped through spatial abilities.
• The Five Elders, Celestial Dragons, and officials were scattered and injured on a hidden island after escaping Mary Geoise, and Imu warned them not to provoke the Empire or refuse its demands.
• Imu revealed that Akatsuki’s Empire came from the stars and wielded power surpassing Uranus, leaving the Five Elders terrified.
• News that Mary Geoise and the World Government headquarters had been destroyed spread across the world, alarming the Revolutionary Army, pirate crews, and Navy.
• Whitebeard ordered his sons to pause their movements in the New World and warned Marco that an even more turbulent era was beginning.

After Nagato destroyed Mary Geoise, Golden Lion Shiki learned that the Empire had done it and decided to return to the sea to meet the force. As chaos spread across the world, Nagato and Akatsuki prepared to leave, and Nagato told Morgans that he was still an ordinary human.

• A pirate officer told Golden Lion Shiki that Mary Geoise had been destroyed by the Empire, the force behind Akatsuki.
• Shiki recalled Akatsuki’s capture of Sengoku and decided to end his retirement and meet the Empire.
• Shiki announced his return to the sea as the destruction of Mary Geoise sent forces across the world into conflict.
• Nagato returned to Akatsuki’s ship and said their mission was complete.
• Morgans asked Nagato whether he was a god, and Nagato explained that overwhelming power did not make him anything other than human.

Hancock, Mary, and Sanda escaped Mary Geoise but were intercepted at sea by Vice Admiral Chaton, who learned that the Holy Land had been destroyed. Nagato arrived, and Chaton realized he was facing the man responsible.

• Hancock and her sisters spotted approaching Navy ships, hid beneath their boat, and were discovered by Vice Admiral Chaton.
• Chaton pulled the sisters aboard and chose not to return them to the Holy Land, then questioned Hancock about what had happened.
• Hancock told Chaton that Mary Geoise had been destroyed, leaving him shocked by the scale of the disaster.
• Nagato and Deidara arrived on a large ship, and Nagato appeared beside Chaton as the sisters called him their benefactor.
• Chaton felt Nagato's overwhelming pressure and realized he was likely the one who destroyed Mary Geoise.

Nagato drove off Chaton’s Marines and rescued Hancock and her sisters, who asked him to take them home to Nine Dragon Island. Three days later, they arrived at the Empire, where Hancock and Morgans were stunned by its enormous ironclad ships.

• Nagato confronted Chaton, who ordered his Marines to ignore Nagato’s ship and continue on their way.
• Nagato took Hancock and her sisters aboard, and Hancock learned his name was Uzumaki Nagato.
• Deidara told Hancock that Nagato already had someone in his heart, but she remained hopeful and asked to return to Nine Dragon Island.
• Kakuzu offered to take the sisters home after the group reported its mission, and they agreed.
• Three days later, Hancock and her sisters saw the Empire’s giant ironclad ships, while Morgans was shocked by the harbor’s transformation.

Nagato brought Morgans and Hancock with her sisters to meet Hane, where Morgans learned the Empire’s strength and was invited to join its propaganda department. Hane arranged an Empire escort for the sisters’ return to Amazon Lily and proposed diplomatic relations.

• Nagato led Morgans and Hancock with her sisters through the palace grounds, where Morgans was unsettled by the Empire’s powerful guards and learned about its captains and vice-captains.
• Hane welcomed Nagato’s group while encouraging Small World to practice walking, and Nagato introduced Morgans and the Amazon Lily heirs.
• Hane invited Morgans to join the Empire’s propaganda department, but Morgans declined and offered closer cooperation through the World Economy News Paper.
• Hane offered to send a warship and diplomats with Hancock and her sisters to Amazon Lily to establish initial diplomatic relations, and Hancock eagerly agreed.

Hane announced that the Empire would make its arrival known by attacking Marine Headquarters, and he planned to lead the Imperial Navy himself. As the fleet set out from Nameless Island, the navy learned that the Empire's ironclad warships were heading for Marineford.

• Hane told the Imperial officials that the Empire would target Marine Headquarters and personally lead the naval expedition.
• Hiashi led the gathered officials in wishing Hane a triumphant return.
• Imperial troops and supplies moved through Nameless Island to the harbor as residents cheered for the Uchiha and spies reported the Empire's mobilization.
• At Marine Headquarters, Steel Bone Kong told the officers that the navy had lost contact with the World Government, and Garp urged them to prepare and uphold order.
• A navy soldier reported that the Empire's ironclad warships were sailing toward Marineford.

Hane led the Imperial fleet to Marine Headquarters, where it overwhelmed the Marines’ defenses with a devastating bombardment. As the fleet advanced toward the shattered fortress, Hane planned to cripple the World Government’s trump card and bring the Marines under his command.

• Hane and Mei Terumi approached Marine Headquarters with dozens of Imperial ironclad warships.
• Steel Bone Kong ordered the Marines to fire the fortress cannons at the approaching fleet.
• Mei Terumi ordered the Imperial ships to evade and return fire, and their shells tore through Marine Headquarters’ walls and defenses.
• Hane ordered the Imperial fleet to continue toward the ruined fortress, intending to seize the Marine force for his command.

Hane led the Imperial Fleet to Marineford and offered the Marines submission or defeat, prompting Garp to defend the Justice Gate. After their clash, Hane overwhelmed Garp and sent him crashing into the fortress wall.

• Garp leaped down to block the Justice Gate, and the Marines rallied at the sight of their hero.
• Hane halted the Imperial Fleet and demanded that the Marines join his Empire or submit by force.
• Steel Bone Kong rejected Hane's offer, and Hane challenged the Marines' claim to justice before Garp attacked him.
• Hane stopped Garp's powerful punch with one finger, and their collision battered Marineford and scattered the fleet's warships.
• Garp continued attacking, but Hane's counterattacks injured him before Hane struck his chest and hurled him into the fortress wall.

Hane overwhelmed the Marines at Marine Headquarters, defeating Kizaru and Steel Bone Kong after already bringing Garp to his knees. Aokiji abandoned his attack as Hane remained unchallenged.

• Kizaru attacked Hane at the speed of light, but Hane vanished behind him and flicked him into a rubble wall with a Brain Crash.
• Steel Bone Kong transformed into a fifty-meter-tall, Haki-coated gorilla and struck at Hane with a flaming punch.
• Hane stopped Steel Bone Kong’s punch with one hand, crushed his fist, and slammed him repeatedly into the ground.
• Garp tried to rescue Steel Bone Kong, but Hane hurled him into Garp, and both crashed through buildings into a massive statue.
• Aokiji saw Hane’s strength and withdrew the ice arrow he had prepared to attack with.

Hane forced Steel Bone Kong and the Marines to choose between surrender and annihilation by summoning a massive meteorite over Marineford. Steel Bone Kong surrendered to save his forces, and Hane effortlessly reduced the meteorite to dust.

• Mei Terumi dressed Hane in a cloak while Garp and Kong emerged from the ruins, shaken by their defeat.
• Hane demanded Steel Bone Kong's submission and offered to recognize the Marines' independence if they survived one final test.
• Hane summoned an enormous meteorite over Marineford, sending the Marines fleeing toward the sea.
• Steel Bone Kong knelt and announced that the Marines would submit to Hane to save his troops.
• Hane blew a black gale that turned the meteorite to dust, shocking Garp, Steel Bone Kong, and the others with the extent of his power.

Hane accepted Steel Bone Kong and the Marines’ surrender, then brought their leaders aboard an Imperial warship and introduced them to the Empire’s forces and technology. The Marine officers watched the Imperial Navy destroy a pirate ship with radar-guided artillery, realizing naval warfare had changed.

• Steel Bone Kong accepted defeat and asked Hane whether Sengoku and the other captured Marines were safe; Hane assured him the Empire treated prisoners fairly and ordered him to report to headquarters.
• Hane used the ocean to rescue the Marines struggling in the sea, stunning Steel Bone Kong, Garp, and the others with his power.
• Steel Bone Kong led Garp, Aokiji, Kizaru, and other Marine officers aboard the Imperial warship, where Hane assigned them to serve under Marshal Mei Terumi and told them to address him as Your Majesty.
• During the voyage, Imperial Navy officers showed the Marines the warship’s rapid-fire guns and radar, which could detect vessels within one hundred nautical miles.
• After radar detected nearby pirates, the Imperial Navy deployed drones to identify their ship and destroyed it with a cannon shot, leaving the Marine officers stunned by the new era of naval warfare.

The Navy joined the Empire, which expanded its territory, drove pirates from its waters, and divided the Grand Line. Sengoku grew to support the Empire, but he and Garp were ordered to investigate a Navy officer who had helped a slave ship slip through Imperial territory.

• Imperial warships destroyed pirate ships, and an Imperial Navy rear admiral persuaded a Marine Headquarters rear admiral that the Empire would eliminate piracy.
• At the beginning of the sixth year of the Great Pirate Era, the Navy pledged allegiance to the Empire, which annexed surrounding lands and issued a worldwide pirate prohibition order.
• Sengoku’s experience serving in the Imperial Navy changed his view of the Empire, and he resolved to build up its Navy.
• Garp told Sengoku that Chief Minister Hiashi had reprimanded the Navy after the Intelligence Department uncovered a Navy officer’s role in sending a slave ship toward the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Sengoku and Garp vowed to find the officer responsible after Rear Admiral Ao intercepted the ship and saved hundreds of slaves.

The Five Elders tried to persuade Doflamingo to return to the Celestial Dragons, but an Empire crackdown and an unexpected visitor interrupted their negotiations. The Five Elders abandoned Doflamingo and feared the Empire’s power and its possible discovery of the Celestial Dragons’ origins.

• The Five Elders sent Cipher Pol 0 to meet Doflamingo and urged him to reclaim his Celestial Dragon status, threatening that Rosinante could take his place.
• A Donquixote Family member reported that the Empire had seized their slave-hunting ship, arrested its crew, and dismantled their undercover network in the former navy.
• Doflamingo realized the Empire was moving against his family just as a cold voice sounded from the hall’s shadows and pale-blue spiral eyes appeared.
• The Five Elders ended their call and cursed Doflamingo for provoking the Empire, then agreed to abandon him and let Rosinante inherit the family branch.
• The Five Elders recalled Imu’s warning that beings from the stars possessed power greater than the Sky Dragons and feared the Empire would uncover their origins.

Nagato confronted Doflamingo over slave trafficking, but Doflamingo agreed to abandon his criminal businesses and bring the Donquixote Family into the Empire. Nagato accepted them as a subordinate unit of the Special Operations Office and took the group to explore the country and gather intelligence.

• Nagato confronted Doflamingo and Cipher Pol 0, demanding that Doflamingo come quietly to answer for slave trafficking.
• Doflamingo offered to bring the Donquixote Family into the Empire and give up drug trafficking and slave trading, and Nagato accepted the family into a subordinate department of the Special Operations Office.
• Nagato ordered Doflamingo to share what he knew about Underworld forces and show him around the kingdom, which the Empire planned to target next.
• Deidara questioned why Doflamingo was following Nagato, and Nagato announced that Doflamingo was a new member of Akatsuki.
• Kakuzu initially lamented losing Doflamingo's bounty, then warmly welcomed him after Nagato said the new member would increase future rewards.
• Nagato told Akatsuki to follow Doflamingo, learn about the country, and gather intelligence while taking a break from missions.

Nagato and the Akatsuki members visited an auction house in the Prodence Kingdom, where they killed the attendees and took a Devil Fruit. Doflamingo mistook the slaughter for evidence that the Empire allowed anything beyond its laws, and Nagato left without correcting him.

• Nagato condemned the Prodence Kingdom’s gladiatorial violence as Doflamingo explained how the Great Pirate Era had revived its arenas.
• Nagato and the Akatsuki members attended the island’s grand auction, where nobles bid fifty million Beli for a painting of a tortured slave from the Celestial Dragons’ collection.
• The auction’s finale was a yellow Devil Fruit, which Nagato and the others recognized as a source of abilities they regarded as Kekkei Genkai.
• Kisame filled the auction venue with fog, and the Akatsuki members killed the nobles and pirates before Nagato took the Devil Fruit.
• Doflamingo laughed at the attack and assumed the Empire permitted anything not forbidden by law, while Nagato told the group to leave without explaining his misunderstanding.

Six months earlier, Tsunade and Jiraiya led the Hancock sisters toward Amazon Lily as peace envoys, crossing the Calm Belt and learning about its dangers and customs. Tsunade reached the island’s vicinity with a new understanding of the Empire’s power and growing frustration that she could not awaken Conqueror’s Haki.

• Tsunade warned Jiraiya not to compromise the Empire’s reputation, while the Hancock sisters privately called him lecherous and greasy.
• The Imperial warship crossed the boundary into the Calm Belt, where the sudden shift from stormy skies to calm weather amazed the passengers.
• Hancock asked Tsunade to pose for a photograph with her and her sisters, while Tsunade shoved Jiraiya aside when he tried to join them.
• Sea Kings attacked the ship, but its cannons drove them away, and Tsunade captured several with her Monstrous Strength to feed the crew.
• Hancock explained Amazon Lily’s custom of women seeking men at sea and raising daughters on the island, while Tsunade questioned the children’s family lives.
• After discussing Haki, Tsunade learned that Conqueror’s Haki required the potential to become a king and angrily wondered why she could not awaken it.

The Kuja Pirates encountered an ironclad warship in the Calm Belt while still grieving the disappearance of Hancock and her sisters. When the Amazon Lily Empress recognized the ship’s golden flag, she realized it belonged to the Empire that had destroyed Mary Geoise.

• Tsunade learned that an approaching ship had been detected, and Hancock and her sisters hoped it came from Amazon Lily.
• The Kuja Pirates discussed their guilt over losing the Hancock sisters and then argued about finding men to father strong children.
• A lookout spotted a massive iron ship without sails or oars approaching through the Calm Belt, and the Kuja Pirates alerted their Empress.
• The Amazon Lily Empress watched the warship approach and recognized its flag as the symbol of the Empire that had destroyed Mary Geoise and slaughtered the Celestial Dragons.

Gloriosa reunited with Hancock and her sisters aboard the Imperial warship, then rejected Tsunade’s offer to establish diplomatic relations and incorporate Amazon Lily into the Empire. The sides parted peacefully but warily, with Tsunade warning that Amazon Lily might regret refusing.

• Gloriosa brought Amazon Lily’s ship alongside the Imperial warship and boarded it, where Hancock and her sisters rushed to greet her.
• Hancock explained that Nagato had rescued them, and Gloriosa thanked Tsunade and Jiraiya before learning the Empire wanted formal relations with Amazon Lily.
• Tsunade proposed peacefully incorporating Amazon Lily into the Empire, but Gloriosa refused and unleashed her Conqueror’s Haki, which the Imperial soldiers withstood.
• Hancock tried to ease the confrontation, but Gloriosa warned her against siding with the Empire or developing feelings for her male rescuer.
• Tsunade accepted Gloriosa’s refusal for the moment and warned that Amazon Lily might regret it; Gloriosa returned to her ship apprehensive about the Imperial battleship.