Recaps

Figarland Lynn turned Gild Tesoro’s entertainment city into a vast technology hub and entered its laboratory alone to begin his research. A month later, with the Marines guarding the facility as tensions rose among the Four Emperors, Kizaru insisted that protecting the hub mattered more than a potential clash between them.

• Lynn completed the technology hub, including a laboratory stocked with materials and liquid gold, and ordered Kizaru to guard it.
• Lynn entered the laboratory alone with his Droplet and began work, while Tesoro learned from Gion and Chaton that Lynn had invented a Droplet capable of rivaling an admiral.
• Tesoro felt relieved that he had joined Lynn instead of opposing him, and Gion and Chaton arranged stricter security around the island.
• A month later, Gion reported that the G-5 Branch and Marine Headquarters were on high alert as the Four Emperors stirred.
• Kizaru told Gion that the hub’s importance exceeded that of a fight between the Four Emperors.

Lynn delivered the Navy its first Droplet after completing it in one month, giving Gion a Head Controller so the Navy could test the weapon and guard his laboratory. Gion demonstrated its speed and attack power, leaving Tesoro badly injured and confirming that the Droplet rivaled an Admiral.

• Lynn emerged from his laboratory with two Droplets and gave Gion a Head Controller, explaining that the Navy could use the first unit to learn its controls and protect his laboratory.
• Gion placed the Controller against her forehead and discovered that she could direct the Droplet with her thoughts.
• Gion made the Droplet fly at tremendous speed, impressing Kizaru, Chaton, and Tesoro.
• Gion sent the Droplet to attack Tesoro, who tried to block it with gold and Armament Haki but was struck hard and sent flying.
• Tesoro accepted that the Droplet had Admiral-level attack power and was shocked that Lynn had built it in one month.

Gion tested the newly built Droplet against Tesoro, whose awakened Gold-Gold Fruit and Golden Giant form could not withstand its attack. The Marines watched the Droplet prove its immense strength, while Kizaru said its shell could endure an Admiral’s full-force attack.

• Gion ordered Tesoro to use his full strength as the Droplet prepared to attack, and Tesoro awakened his Gold-Gold Fruit ability.
• Tesoro gathered nearby gold into a Golden Giant and challenged Gion to have the Droplet attack at full strength.
• Tesoro launched Golden Divine Punishment, but the Droplet pierced through the attack and smashed through the Golden Giant.
• Tesoro admitted defeat and withdrew his Golden Giant form as Gion praised the Droplet’s easy control and power.
• Kizaru said the Droplet’s shell could withstand a full-force attack from one of the Three Admirals and noted that two more units were still expected.

Tesoro failed to infiltrate, bind, or restrain Droplet, while Kizaru took the first machine back to Marine Headquarters. There, Kaido crashed into the Plaza seeking another death, and Sakazuki attacked him with a massive magma strike.

• Tesoro used Gold Powder and liquid gold to test Droplet, but its surface resisted infiltration and it broke free of his binding.
• Chaton explained Droplet’s smooth, absolute-zero exterior, and Tesoro admitted that Figarland’s invention surpassed his efforts.
• Sengoku called Kizaru back to Marine Headquarters, and Kizaru rode Droplet there at full speed.
• Kaido smashed into Marineford’s Plaza, where his drunken breath disoriented nearby Marines.
• Sengoku confronted Kaido, then Sakazuki hurled a massive Magma Block at him, alarming Sengoku about the Plaza’s destruction.

Kaido invaded Marine Headquarters again and fought Akainu, shrugging off the Admiral’s attacks while demanding more opponents. As Garp and Aokiji prepared to join the battle, Borsalino rapidly approached Marine Headquarters from the sky.

• Kaido survived Akainu’s opening magma strike, transformed into human form, and charged into battle with his kanabo.
• Akainu and Kaido exchanged powerful attacks across the Plaza while Aokiji stayed nearby, ready to intervene.
• Sengoku and Garp watched the fight, and Sengoku recalled that the Marines had once captured Kaido for experiments.
• Kaido used Thunder Bagua to force Akainu back and challenged Aokiji and Garp to fight him as well.
• Garp rolled up his sleeves, Aokiji spread ice across the Plaza, and Borsalino appeared, descending rapidly toward Marine Headquarters.

Kizaru returned to Marineford with Droplet, and Sengoku ordered the new weapon to test itself against Kaido. After Droplet’s first charge stunned the Navy with its strength and durability, Kizaru sent it accelerating toward Kaido as he prepared a Roaring Thunder Bagua.

• Kizaru arrived at Marineford riding Droplet, delighting Sengoku, Garp, Aokiji, and the informed Vice Admirals.
• Sengoku ordered Kizaru to have Droplet attack Kaido, who dismissed the weapon as an unworthy external object.
• Droplet charged Kaido, and he blocked it with his Kanabo as its impact shattered the ground beneath him.
• Kaido pushed Droplet back, and Kizaru widened the distance before accelerating it for a stronger strike.
• Droplet changed direction and charged again, while Kaido raised his Kanabo and unleashed an enhanced Roaring Thunder Bagua.

Kizaru used the Droplet to attack Kaido, demonstrating that the Navy’s weapon could withstand the Emperor’s strongest blows and maneuver under Kizaru’s control. Kaido grew increasingly furious as repeated strikes failed to damage it.

• Kizaru drove the Droplet at full speed into Kaido, who struck it with Roaring Thunder Bagua and knocked it into the sea without leaving a mark.
• Garp and Sengoku praised the Droplet’s toughness, and Kizaru used the Controller to call it back into the air.
• Sengoku presented the Droplet to Kaido as the Navy’s secret weapon, while Kaido suspected it was a technological creation but remained confident in his own strength.
• Kizaru sent the Droplet at Kaido again, steering it to evade, change angles, and repeatedly attack after Kaido’s counters.
• Kaido grew impatient and struck the Droplet with all his strength several times, but it remained undamaged and just as agile.

Kaido fought the Marines’ Droplet for hours, but even his Conqueror’s Haki-infused attack failed to damage it. He tried to leave, only for Kizaru to send the Droplet after him as the Marines laughed at his frustration.

• Kaido unleashed Bolo Breath at the Droplet, but its smooth surface diverted the flames and it continued battering him.
• Kaido used Conqueror’s Haki-infused Three Worlds... Ragnaraku to smash the Droplet into a crater, but it emerged completely unharmed.
• Kaido admitted he no longer felt like dying and transformed into a dragon to fly away.
• The Droplet struck Kaido as he rose, then pursued him through the clouds while he tried to knock it away.
• Garp, Sengoku, and Kizaru laughed as Kaido fled, unable to escape the Droplet’s relentless attacks.

After Kaido retreated from Marineford, the Navy learned that the Droplet had taken damage but was rapidly repairing itself. The Gorosei authorized the Navy to put the weapon into service, and Sengoku prepared to use it to strike at pirates in the New World.

• Kaido escaped after the Droplet fought him, and Kizaru recalled the weapon to Marineford.
• Kizaru reported that the Droplet had only 11% of its tolerance remaining, but it was already repairing itself.
• Sengoku told the Gorosei that the Droplet had driven Kaido away and described its capabilities.
• The Gorosei praised Figarland Lynn's invention and gave Sengoku permission to keep the Droplet.
• Sengoku declared that the Navy would officially deploy the Droplet against pirates in the New World.

After learning that the Droplet had held off Kaido at Marine Headquarters, Doflamingo and Big Mom recognized the threat posed by Figarland Lynn’s creation. Doflamingo set out to meet Lynn, while Big Mom ordered her intelligence network to investigate him and the Droplet.

• Doflamingo heard how the Droplet had withstood Kaido’s attacks at Marine Headquarters and recalled its connection to Figarland Lynn.
• Doflamingo decided to visit Lynn at Gran Tesoro, and ordered his men to prepare the ship.
• Big Mom learned that the Droplet had held Kaido back and demanded that her ministers investigate Lynn and the Droplet at any cost.
• Katakuri and Perospero privately considered that the Droplet might be reproducible, making it a serious threat.

Red-Haired Shanks learned that Figarland Lynn had invented Droplet, the technological product that stopped Kaido, but continued on to meet Whitebeard. The Whitebeard Pirates received detailed reports about Droplet and wondered who had created it.

• Shanks decided to visit Whitebeard in person after Whitebeard tore up his letter, despite his crew preparing for a possible battle.
• An informant told Shanks that Figarland Lynn, a Celestial Dragon, had invented Droplet, which stopped Kaido at Marine Headquarters.
• Shanks recalled knowing Lynn's father and told his crew to watch for news about Lynn before sailing to see Whitebeard.
• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates heard that Droplet could move at extreme speed, strike with Admiral-level force, and withstand Kaido's attacks.
• The Whitebeard Pirates wondered whether the scientist rumored to be five hundred years ahead of the world had invented Droplet, and looked to Whitebeard for his thoughts.

The Revolutionary Army learned that Celestial Dragon Figarland Lynn had created the Droplet, a device capable of withstanding Kaido, and feared the World Government would produce more. Monkey D. Dragon ordered an operation to eliminate Lynn at Gran Tesoro, while the Beasts Pirates reacted to news of Kaido’s encounter with the Droplet.

• Whitebeard and his crew learned that Figarland Lynn, a Celestial Dragon and technological genius, had invented the Droplet.
• Monkey D. Dragon and Revolutionary Army officers recognized the threat the Droplet posed and ordered Terry Gilteo to locate Lynn.
• Terry Gilteo’s intelligence agent reported that Lynn was at Gran Tesoro, where resources and marines suggested he had established a laboratory.
• Dragon ordered the Revolutionary Army to assemble its forces and eliminate Lynn before he could make more Droplets.
• At Onigashima, the Beasts Pirates gathered to discuss news that the Droplet had stopped Kaido when he went to Marine Headquarters.

Kaido returned to Wano Country after the Droplet stopped his attacks, confirming the reports and ordering the Beasts Pirates to investigate its Celestial Dragon inventor. Meanwhile, the Marines deployed the Droplet against their chosen New World target, Chinjao.

• Jack, Queen, and King discussed reports that a Droplet invented by a Celestial Dragon had resisted Kaido, and King called for a thorough investigation.
• Kaido returned to Wano Country, confirmed that the Droplet had endured his attacks, and described its strange shape, hardness, and ability to strike from unnatural angles.
• King told Kaido that reports credited a Celestial Dragon with inventing the Droplet, and Kaido ordered his subordinates to investigate the inventor and the weapon.
• The Beasts Pirates began investigating while Lynn focused on developing Sophon Technology and Four-Emperor-grade Droplets.
• Captain Golden Divine Punishment Bone, Hina, Onigumo, and Dalmatian sailed to the New World with a Droplet to capture Happo Navy leader Chinjao.

Vice Admiral Onigumo and the Marines used the Droplet to ambush Chinjao and the Happo Navy. The Droplet struck Chinjao into the sea, and Dalmatian ordered the Marines to capture the crew.

• Onigumo explained that the Marines intended to use the Droplet to capture Chinjao, despite their small force.
• The Marine warship intercepted the Happo Navy's vessel, and both sides exchanged cannon fire.
• Chinjao and his crew mocked the Marines for attempting to capture them with only a hundred soldiers.
• Onigumo activated the Droplet with a Controller, and Chinjao prepared to attack him.
• The Droplet smashed through Chinjao and the ship, sending Chinjao into the sea.
• Dalmatian ordered the Marines to attack and capture the Happo Navy.

Onigumo and another vice admiral used the droplet to defeat Chinjao and the Happo Navy, revealing the weapon’s power to the world. As news spread, the Shichibukai reacted with alarm and curiosity, while Hancock decided her people would have to investigate the droplet themselves.

• Onigumo and another vice admiral led the marines as the droplet struck down Sai, Boo, Chinjao, and the Happo Navy, and Onigumo captured Chinjao.
• Hina and Golden Divine Punishment-Bone watched the swift defeat, while Onigumo told Chinjao that the droplet was a technological weapon even the Four Emperors could not break through.
• Newspapers spread news of the droplet’s victory across Sabaody Archipelago and the Grand Line, and the public assumed Vegapunk had invented it.
• Dracule Mihawk read about the weapon, while Gecko Moria called the World Government for information and then ordered Perona to investigate it.
• Hancock and Gloriosa discussed the droplet on Amazon Lily, and Hancock decided they would investigate it themselves after learning the World Government would not share its secrets.

Sengoku and Garp discussed the Droplet’s success before Vegapunk’s satellite Lilith arrived at Marineford to examine it. Vegapunk was astonished by the Droplet’s unknown material and asked Sengoku who had invented it.

• Sengoku celebrated the Droplet’s success and argued with Garp about Chinjao and Lynn.
• Lilith arrived at Sengoku’s office and asked where the Droplet was, but she rushed out when Marines announced its return.
• Onigumo and Dalmatian returned to Marineford with the Droplet after defeating the Happo Navy.
• Lilith inspected the Droplet and learned from Sengoku that it was exceptionally smooth, cold, and resistant to damage.
• Vegapunk failed to identify the Droplet’s material and asked Sengoku who had invented it.

Vegapunk learned that Figarland Lynn had invented Droplet and eagerly studied its records, while Sengoku prepared the Navy’s next move. As Sengoku weighed how to respond to the Red Hair Pirates meeting Whitebeard, Lynn launched Sophon over Golden Technology City.

• Sengoku told Vegapunk that Celestial Dragon Figarland Lynn invented Droplet, and Vegapunk declared the invention surpassed the Great Kingdom and himself.
• Sengoku refused to hand Droplet over for research but gave Vegapunk its records to study.
• Sengoku named Cavendish as the Navy’s next target after Chinjao, then received word that the Red Hair Pirates were heading to meet Whitebeard.
• Akainu Sakazuki offered to confront the Emperors, but Sengoku ordered him to prepare for battle while the Navy observed their meeting.
• Lynn’s Black Laboratory shook, launched Sophon into the sky, and spread its translucent black layers over Golden Technology City.

After a month in the laboratory, Lynn launched Sophon above Golden Technology City and tested its ability to interfere with Haki. The test confirmed that Sophon could suppress all three types, leaving the Marines shocked by the invention's power.

• Lynn emerged from his laboratory and saw Sophon deployed above Golden Technology City.
• Gion, Chaton, and Tesoro greeted Lynn, who introduced Sophon as a noncombat invention more useful than Droplet.
• Lynn asked Tesoro to release his Conqueror's Haki, but Sophon suppressed it within its coverage range.
• Tesoro and the Marines tested Observation Haki and found their perceptions disrupted, especially over long distances.
• The group tested Armament Haki and discovered that Sophon weakened it so severely that some could not maintain it.

Lynn introduced Sophon, a technology that interfered with all three types of Haki within a ten-kilometer range, shocking the Marines and Sengoku. He hinted that its true danger lay in another function, but the chapter ended before he explained it.

• Lynn explained that Sophon could interfere with Observation Haki, Armament Haki, and Conqueror's Haki within ten kilometers.
• Gion, Chaton, Tesoro, and the others reacted with shock to Sophon's range and power.
• Gion reported Sophon's discovery to Sengoku, who was astonished and discussed its potential with Garp, Kizaru, and Aokiji.
• Lynn clarified that Sophon affected everyone within its range indiscriminately, including allies.
• Tesoro asked Lynn to explain what made Sophon's true aspect terrifying.

Lynn demonstrated Sophon’s real-time surveillance, showing that it could monitor Gran Tesoro in extreme detail and see underground while also interfering with Haki. After Sengoku notified the Gorosei, he realized Sophon could help with the meeting between Red-Haired and Whitebeard.

• Lynn explained that Sophon’s main strength was real-time remote surveillance and demonstrated its functions with three projectors.
• Sophon displayed a high-definition aerial view of Gran Tesoro, zooming in on Chaton and the others.
• Lynn showed Sophon monitoring every part of Gran Tesoro and penetrating underground to reveal its foundations and buried gold.
• Lynn explained that Sophon could hide in Two-Dimensional Space and support real-time calls and video.
• Sengoku arranged to notify the Gorosei about Sophon and thought of using it for the meeting between Red-Haired and Whitebeard.

Lynn sent the Sophon to monitor Red-Haired Shanks meeting Whitebeard, while the Gorosei and Sengoku watched through a projection feed. As Shanks boarded the Moby Dick, a mysterious black object hurtled toward the ships.

• Sengoku asked Lynn to send the Sophon to monitor Red-Haired Shanks’s meeting with Whitebeard, and Lynn launched it using the coordinates Sengoku provided.
• The Gorosei called Lynn, learned about the Sophon’s monitoring and Haki-interference capabilities, and joined Sengoku in watching its feed.
• Shanks reassured Yasopp, Lucky Roux, and the others before taking a boat to the Moby Dick with a gourd of wine for Whitebeard.
• As Shanks stepped onto the Moby Dick’s ladder, a black object sped toward the ships, alarming both crews and drawing Whitebeard’s attention.

Whitebeard and Red-Haired Shanks’s crews failed to hit the strange object that appeared above them, which unfolded and vanished from sight. Lynn then used the Sophon to secretly watch and hear the two Emperors, leaving the Marines and Gorosei amazed by its surveillance power.

• Beckman, Marco, Vista, and the other pirates attacked the approaching Sophon, but none of their shots or slashes hit it.
• The Sophon rose above the clouds, unfolded across the sky, and disappeared, becoming undetectable even to Observation Haki.
• Red-Haired Shanks boarded the Moby Dick, and Whitebeard asked him about the strange object before they turned to their conversation.
• Lynn adjusted the Sophon’s view and enlarged the live image of Whitebeard and Red-Haired Shanks, while the Marines and Gorosei watched and heard them unaware.
• The Gorosei, Sengoku, Garp, and the Admirals praised Lynn’s invention after seeing that the Sophon could monitor the Emperors without being detected.

Lynn demonstrated Sophon’s close-range surveillance and its ability to interfere with Haki as it monitored Red-Haired Shanks and Whitebeard. Shanks realized his Conqueror’s Haki was being restricted and warned Whitebeard that something was interfering with him.

• Sengoku, the Gorosei, and the others watched Sophon’s footage and marveled at its surveillance capabilities.
• Shanks released his Conqueror’s Haki aboard Whitebeard’s ship, noticed it was being suppressed, and increased his effort until nearby crew members collapsed.
• Marco objected to Shanks knocking out the young crew members, while Whitebeard dismissed Shanks’s talk of a new era.
• Chaton explained that Shanks’s Haki was exceptionally powerful, and Lynn enlarged the footage to show Shanks straining as he released it.
• Whitebeard noticed Shanks’s strained expression, and Shanks told him his Conqueror’s Haki was being restricted by something.

Red-Haired Shanks and Whitebeard discovered that an unseen force disrupted their Haki and suspected Figarland Lynn's technology was responsible. Their deduction alarmed the Navy and the Gorosei, who ordered Lynn's protection, while Shanks began warning Whitebeard about the World Government.

• Shanks noticed that his Haki was being disrupted, and Whitebeard confirmed that an unseen force restrained his own Haki as well.
• Shanks and Whitebeard suspected Lynn's technology had interfered with them, unaware that Sophon was monitoring their meeting.
• The Gorosei and Navy realized the Emperors had linked the disruption to Lynn, and Sengoku ordered Gion and Chaton to protect him strictly.
• Lynn remained calm, believing the Navy's protection and funding would support his future technological work.
• Shanks warned Whitebeard that the World Government might target him and asked what he planned to do.

Shanks warned Whitebeard that Blackbeard had made his move and urged him to stop Ace from pursuing Teach. After Whitebeard and Shanks discovered that an invisible technology was suppressing their Haki, their crews searched for its source and came up empty-handed, until Beckman reported that the Red Hair Pirates had found something.

• Shanks showed Whitebeard the scar Teach had given him and urged him to stop Ace from pursuing Blackbeard.
• Whitebeard and Shanks clashed, then realized that their Observation, Armament, and Conqueror's Haki were being interfered with.
• Whitebeard and Shanks informed their crews of the Haki interference, and Marco and the others searched for its source.
• Lynn told the Marines that Sophon was hidden in two-dimensional space and could not be found or hit.
• Marco returned without finding the source, then Beckman arrived on Whitebeard's ship and announced that the Red Hair Pirates had found something.