Recaps

Lucas trained in swordsmanship and endurance on the harsh shores of the Kingdom of Ye, then hunted a bear and walked through a gang battle in the slums without being challenged. At his shack, a familiar presence attacked him with a Haki-coated blade.

• Lucas completed ten thousand sword slashes, then swam and practiced Geppo in the stormy sea.
• A Marine woman arrived by warship and used Geppo to approach the island, but Lucas ignored her.
• Lucas killed a charging giant bear with a Vacuum Slash and carried its carcass toward the slums.
• Members of the Flying Group and Silver Axe Group stopped fighting and cleared a path for Lucas, who belonged to neither faction and intimidated them all.
• Lucas reached his shack, where someone with a familiar presence shattered the door and slashed at his face with a busoshoku-coated blade.

Lucas defeated Gion after a three-day fight, then recalled how he became a feared gangster and how their rivalry turned into love. Gion urged him to join the Marines, but Lucas refused and left to take care of something.

• Lucas disarmed Gion and shredded her uniform with sword auras, then carried the exhausted Marine into a ruined house.
• The next morning, Lucas remembered the massacre of his orphanage, his revenge on the Grey Wolf Gang, and how fighting Gion let him copy her techniques and brought them closer.
• Gion attacked Lucas and demanded to know why he would not become a Marine; he explained that he would not submit to the Celestial Dragons and had never chosen a life as a gangster.
• Lucas comforted and kissed Gion, then dressed and left to take care of something while she watched him go.

Lucas planned to leave the Kingdom of Ye after settling his remaining grudges, while Kaido and Kurozumi Higurashi met at the kingdom’s palace. Yamato reunited with Lucas, who entertained her with adventure stories as he plotted to win her loyalty before she encountered Kozuki Oden’s diary.

• Lucas walked through the slums and decided to put his departure to sea on the agenda after three days of fighting brought him no progress.
• Female marines aboard a warship discussed Vice Admiral Gion’s three-day battle with Lucas and whether she could bring him back.
• Kurozumi Higurashi reported to Kaido in the palace while Yamato waited outside and spotted Lucas approaching.
• Yamato ran into Lucas’s arms and complained that Kaido still treated her like a child.
• Lucas told Yamato fabricated adventure stories and privately planned to outcompete the influence of Kozuki Oden’s diary.

Kaido tested Lucas, then invited him to join his forces; Lucas refused, and Kaido left after warning him to grow stronger. With Kurozumi Higurashi promising not to interfere, Lucas headed to confront Roberts, who awaited him atop Shogun's Castle.

• Kaido pressured Lucas and offered to take him with him, but Lucas refused, saying he needed to grow on his own.
• Yamato shielded Lucas from Kaido, and Kaido withdrew his Conqueror's Haki before warning Lucas to choose his Devil Fruit carefully and meet him in Wano Country.
• Kaido transformed into an azure dragon, carried Yamato away, and left Lucas shaken by his power.
• Lucas asked Kurozumi Higurashi whether she would interfere with his plan to kill Roberts, and she agreed to stay out of it.
• Lucas strode toward Shogun's Castle while Roberts, the elderly acting leader of the Flying Group, stood atop its tower and anticipated his arrival.

Lucas defeated Roberts in a sword fight at Shogun's Castle and left him for dead, but Roberts survived briefly because his heart was on the right side. Before dying, Roberts called Golden Lion and asked him to avenge the Flying Group.

• Lucas confirmed that Roberts had ordered the Grey Wolf Gang to massacre the orphanage, then overpowered him despite Roberts's Two-Sword Style.
• Lucas battered Roberts with Rankyaku and sword energy before piercing his chest with his Katana and leaving the castle.
• Roberts revived because his heart was on the right side and crawled to a Den Den Mushi.
• Roberts told Golden Lion that Lucas had killed the Flying Group's brothers and begged him to take revenge.
• Golden Lion promised to avenge Roberts, who then died from his injuries.

After avenging Eos and wiping out the Flying Group, Lucas built a raft to leave the Kingdom of Ye, but Golden Lion Shiki dropped an island onto him and the surrounding sea. Shiki believed Lucas had died underwater and departed, leaving Lucas’s fate unknown.

• Lucas gained control of his Conqueror's Haki after avenging Eos, then found Gion had left a note promising to marry him after he served time in prison.
• Lucas killed the remaining members of the Flying Group and eliminated the gang completely.
• Lucas built a raft and set off from the Kingdom of Ye toward a nearby winter island.
• Golden Lion Shiki dropped an enormous island into the sea above Lucas, destroying his raft and unleashing towering waves and sea-lion-shaped attacks.
• After searching the sea with Observation Haki and finding Lucas's presence gone, Shiki assumed he had drowned and flew away.

After Adoya rescued Lucas in Toransu Town, he recovered from his near-fatal injuries by eating and drove off pirates who threatened her inn. He learned that an abandoned ancient temple lay outside town, where the Batto Batto no Mi, Model: Vampire was hidden.

• Adoya told Lucas that she had found him and brought him to Toransu Town.
• Lucas ate the food Adoya brought and rapidly healed his injuries through his unusual constitution.
• Lucas discovered he had no money, then followed Adoya downstairs when pirates demanded payment from her.
• Lucas knocked out two pirates, kicked their leader aside, and gave Adoya their money to cover his expenses.
• Lucas asked Adoya about ancient ruins, and she pointed him toward an abandoned temple outside town.

Lucas found the Batto Batto no Mi, Model: Vampire in a temple, ate it, and discovered its powers while attacking pirates threatening the inn. After draining their life energy, he healed his injuries and returned with his strength increased.

• Lucas opened the temple’s stone sarcophagus and ate the Batto Batto no Mi, Model: Vampire.
• At dinner, Adoya explained that the temple had been ignored because its stone coffin was too heavy for ordinary people to open.
• Lucas tested his new bat hearing, then heard pirates threatening to attack the inn and abduct a woman.
• Lucas flew to the rooftops and used ultrasonic waves to kill many of the pirates.
• Lucas sent blood-red bats to drain the remaining pirates, absorbing their Life Energy and healing his injuries.
• Lucas cleaned up the battlefield and flew back to the inn.

Lucas prepared to leave Toransu Town by buying navigational equipment and an abandoned pirate ship, then contacted Gion for information on the Flying Pirates. He planned to target Golden Lion’s affiliated crews to fund the instruments needed to refine the IQ potion.

• Adoya gave Lucas a hand-drawn map and learned he planned to leave the next morning.
• Lucas bought three Record Poses after discovering the nearest island was half a month away by merchant ship.
• Lucas paid the shipyard owner for an abandoned pirate ship and found it stocked with supplies and Communications-equipped Den Den Mushi.
• Lucas secretly called Gion, reassured her that he was safe, and asked her to gather information on the Flying Pirates’ affiliated crews.
• Lucas decided to target those crews for the Beli needed to acquire instruments for refining the IQ potion.

After Kozuki Oden was executed, Yamato dismissed him as a fool and compared him unfavorably to Brother Lucas. While wandering through the ruined Kuri, she found Oden’s logbook, condemned his selfish decision to abandon Wano, and threw it into a fire.

• Kozuki Oden was shot and fell into the boiling oil as Kurozumi Orochi declared himself Wano Country’s shogun.
• Yamato watched the execution, criticized Oden for trusting his enemies, and said he was nowhere near as good as Brother Lucas.
• Yamato walked through the burning Flower Capital toward Kuri while the Beasts Pirates brutally suppressed the rebellion.
• Yamato found Kozuki Oden’s Logbook among the ruins and read its account of his life and adventures.
• Yamato angrily judged Oden for pursuing freedom at the expense of Wano’s people, then threw his logbook into a burning house.

Lucas encountered a slaver ship captained by Airey and defeated her after she survived his Conqueror’s Haki. After drinking her blood, he discovered that he had gained the ability to produce electricity.

• Airey’s crew complained about the profits from human trafficking while she dismissed their suggestion to hunt mermaids near Whitebeard’s territory.
• Lucas heard the slavers from his nearby boat, destroyed his vessel, and crossed the air to land on Airey’s ship.
• Lucas’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked out every slaver except Airey, who recognized the power and offered him money to leave.
• Airey attacked Lucas with the Electro-Electro Fruit, but he dodged her strike and crushed her with a Haki-coated punch.
• Lucas drank Airey’s blood, leaving her dead, and noticed azure electricity crackling at his fingertips.

After realizing the Vampire Fruit might let him absorb Devil Fruit Lineage Factors, Lucas feared his body could not withstand the power and decided to find a doctor before recruiting companions. Searching Airey's ship the next morning, he found records linking her operations to Karma and a Log Pose pointing toward Dearena Kingdom, where he hoped to find passage to medical care.

• Lucas suspected his constitution and the Vampire Fruit had given him the ability to absorb Lineage Factors, and he worried that taking in too many could kill him.
• Lucas changed his plans and decided to find a reliable doctor before recruiting companions, then fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Lucas searched Airey's ship and found supplies, a Log Pose marked for Dearena Kingdom, and wax-sealed letters signed by Karma.
• Lucas recognized Karma as a human trafficker who had joined Whitebeard's crew, and suspected he had continued his criminal trade in secret.
• Lucas studied the Log Pose and decided that Dearena Kingdom might offer a passenger liner to carry him somewhere he could seek medical treatment.

After reaching the New World, Lucas set out for Drum Island to have Dr. Kureha examine his Lineage Factor. He reached the Red Port after defeating a pirate crew, where a resentful voice stopped him to ask questions.

• Lucas arrived at Dearena Kingdom after forty-one days at sea, sold Airey's ship, and bought passage to the Red Port.
• Lucas chose Dr. Kureha as the doctor to examine his Lineage Factor and boarded a passenger ship bound for the Red Port.
• Iron Hand Barnes and his pirates attacked the passenger ship, but Lucas killed Barnes with a Vacuum Slash and destroyed the three pirate ships with Rankyaku Ran.
• The Guard Corps captain claimed Barnes's bounty at a Marine base and handed all the Beli to Lucas.
• Lucas arrived at the Red Port on the New World side and was stopped by a resentful voice asking where he came from and whether he carried contraband.

At Red Port, Lucas encountered Jion, a marine officer resentful over Gion’s relationship with Lucas, but Jion failed to recognize him and let him go. Lucas then used his Vampire-Vampire Fruit powers to cross the Red Line toward Paradise, avoiding the Bubble Tram and the Celestial Dragons.

• Jion deliberately questioned Lucas at Red Port, suspecting him of carrying contraband or being a pirate spy.
• Lucas said he was going to Paradise to seek medical treatment because he might die without it.
• Jion realized he had mistaken Lucas for someone else and allowed him to leave.
• Lucas emerged from an inn, used black mist and bat wings to fly over the Red Line, and landed at Red Port on the Paradise side.

Lucas traveled by passenger ship toward Drum Island and discovered that it belonged to Du Feld’s heavily armed God of Fortune Financial Group. After days of safe sailing, Drum Island came into view.

• Lucas bought the earliest ticket to Drum Island and boarded the passenger ship.
• Lucas overheard pirates preparing to attack, but the ship’s cannons sank their vessel before most passengers noticed.
• A waiter told Lucas that the ship belonged to the God of Fortune Financial Group and described Du Feld’s connections and military-grade ship.
• Lucas recognized Du Feld as the Emperor of Usury and considered the possibility of seizing his criminal financial empire.
• The ship repelled several more pirate attacks and reached Drum Island on the fifth morning.

Lucas sought Kureha’s examination and learned the limits and effects of his Lineage Factor, then studied the technology under her for a month. On April 15, 1521, he left Drum Island with new knowledge and Kureha’s warning to keep his abilities secret.

• Kureha charged a family one-quarter of their assets to treat their daughter, then returned to her home in Big Horn Village.
• Lucas asked Kureha about Lineage Factor and underwent a comprehensive examination, telling her about his body, Vampire-Vampire Fruit, and Airey’s lightning Lineage Factor.
• Kureha explained Lucas could absorb at most one more compatible Devil Fruit Lineage Factor and that his genes would make women who slept with him younger and stronger, while preventing them from bearing his children unless they reached a racial barrier.
• Lucas paid Kureha to teach him Lineage Factor extraction and separation, and spent a month training and learning the techniques.
• Lucas mastered Lineage Factor identification, separation, and Zoan transformation wavelength alteration, then left Drum Island as Kureha warned him not to expose his abilities or die.

Lucas killed Wapol on Drum Island and used a technique taught by Kureha to extract the Munch-Munch Fruit’s Lineage Factor and create a new Devil Fruit. He absorbed Wapol’s remaining Life Energy and left with the newly formed fruit.

• Wapol swallowed the head chef after demanding food, then left the palace to search for more.
• Lucas tracked Wapol through the blizzard and struck him down when the Munch-Munch Fruit could not swallow his attack.
• Lucas drained Wapol’s blood, Life Energy, and Devil Fruit fluctuations, killing him and separating the Munch-Munch Fruit’s Lineage Factor.
• Lucas transferred the Lineage Factor into a fruit, which transformed into a Paramecia Munch-Munch Fruit.
• Lucas absorbed the remaining Life Energy, found it barely strengthened him, and examined the new Devil Fruit.

Lucas arrived at Resort Island and chose to strengthen himself before recruiting companions, then entered a casino owned by Du Feld’s God of Fortune Financial Group. He recognized Baccarat and made a deal to use her luck while he handled any trouble, leaving them ready to gamble together.

• Lucas reached Resort Island after leaving Drum Island and decided to secure his third Devil Fruit before recruiting companions.
• After resting, Lucas entered Du Feld’s casino intending to make money without gambling.
• Lucas recognized Baccarat as a user of the Luck-Luck Fruit and asked her to lend him her luck.
• Lucas offered Baccarat thirty percent of their winnings and promised to handle any danger.
• Baccarat accepted Lucas’s proposal.

Lucas and Baccarat robbed a casino vault after Lucas defeated its guards and extracted a new Bear-Bear Fruit from the brute. Back at the inn, Lucas offered Baccarat wealth and eternal youth, and she agreed to follow him.

• Lucas won seventeen consecutive gambling hands, while the croupier's attempt to rig the dice failed.
• The croupier led Lucas and Baccarat to a trap, where a bear-zoan brute killed him and attacked them.
• Lucas shattered the brute's paw with Busoshoku Haki, killed him, and used his Vampire-Vampire Fruit ability to create a new Bear-Bear Fruit.
• Lucas and Baccarat packed the vault's Beli into suitcases and returned to the inn.
• Lucas kissed Baccarat and shared life energy that rejuvenated her, then offered her wealth and eternal youth in exchange for joining him.
• Baccarat accepted Lucas's offer and began unbuttoning her top.

Lucas and Baccarat traveled through the Calm Belt aboard a steamship while Baccarat adjusted to her extraordinary strength and Lucas hunted Sea Kings for food. Over dinner, Baccarat recalled how she had nearly fallen into a casino trap before Lucas approached her, and the two shared a tender moment.

• Baccarat accidentally snapped the ship’s mast, and Lucas told her to leave the sails alone and lift weights instead.
• Baccarat continued training as Lucas killed a giant Sea King with lightning and cut its meat into pieces using his blood powers.
• Lucas and Baccarat ate dinner together, and he asked how she had ended up at the casino where they first met.
• Baccarat explained that she had gone to the casino to earn startup money but had heard that past winners had disappeared.
• Baccarat wondered whether Lucas had appeared because of her luck, and they smiled at each other.

Lucas and Baccarat searched Marine bases in South Blue for a nautical chart to Kutsk Island, using Baccarat’s Luck-Luck Fruit to cause chaos and avoid direct violence. After finding the chart at the fourth base, Lucas explained that he spared Marines out of regard for Gion, but would fight back if they came after him.

• Lucas and Baccarat reached South Blue, bought matching black trench coats, and decided to search Marine bases for a chart to Kutsk Island.
• Baccarat drained the luck of two Marine guards, causing one to shoot the other, and she and Lucas slipped into the first base.
• Baccarat’s power caused Colonel Maynard and nearby Marines to fall into a series of accidents while Lucas and Baccarat searched the navigation archives, but they found no chart for Kutsk Island.
• Lucas and Baccarat repeated their break-ins at several bases and found the chart they wanted at the fourth one.
• At dinner, Lucas told Baccarat his first woman was a Marine and said he would wipe out Marines if they forced a fight.
• Baccarat and Lucas returned to their inn, where Baccarat drew him toward the bathroom.

After several South Blue bases suffered strange accidents, the Navy identified a likely Lucky-Lucky Fruit user and assigned Kuzan to investigate. Kuzan agreed to cut his vacation short and leave the next day.

• Maynard reported that his base and three other South Blue bases had suffered a string of bizarre injuries and accidents.
• A communications operator consulted the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia and identified the Lucky-Lucky Fruit as a possible cause.
• Kong reviewed the South Blue records, found no known user, and chose Kuzan to investigate.
• Kuzan reluctantly accepted Kong's assignment and said he would leave the next day.

Lucas and Baccarat found the Clank-Clank Fruit on Kutsk Island, allowing Lucas to combine its magnetic Lineage Factor with his lightning and develop Electromagnetic Force. He tested his new power and learned he could draw metal from the earth and fire an electromagnetic cannon without a projectile, though the shot was still weak.

• Baccarat and Lucas split up on Kutsk Island to search for the gray, lightning-protruded fruit.
• Baccarat found the Clank-Clank Fruit growing on a crooked tree and called Lucas over.
• Lucas extracted the fruit’s Lineage Factor and combined it with the lightning dormant in his cells, awakening Electromagnetic Force.
• Lucas drew metallic elements from the soil and formed them into a wave of metal.
• Lucas fired an electromagnetic cannon into a tree, producing a small hole, and resolved to keep developing the attack.

Lucas and Baccarat resupplied on an island while Lucas bought ingredients to develop a Rumble Ball that would refine his Beast Form. Kuzan tracked Lucas down and demanded he surrender for attacking Marine bases, but Lucas refused and the two prepared to fight.

• An East District boss threatened Lucas and Baccarat, but Lucas stopped the man's bullet and sent it back, killing him.
• Lucas bought medicinal ingredients to develop a Rumble Ball that could refine his Vampire-Vampire Fruit transformation without weakening him.
• Lucas noticed Kuzan searching for them, gave Baccarat instructions, and then approached the Marine Vice Admiral.
• Kuzan confronted Lucas over the Marine base attacks and ordered him to come along, but Lucas refused.
• Kuzan and Lucas readied their powers as the people nearby fled the suddenly freezing street.

Lucas fought Kuzan through a full day and night, but neither could decisively defeat the other while Kuzan held back to protect civilians. They agreed to part ways, and Lucas left the South Blue as Kuzan reflected on his rivalry with Jion.

• Kuzan trapped Lucas in Ice Time Capsule, but Lucas broke out and attacked with a blood spear and Blood Dragon Bullet.
• Kuzan froze Lucas's blood constructs while Lucas countered with blood bats and other shapes, and their battle continued through the night.
• Baccarat waited aboard the steamship, worried about Lucas but unwilling to risk distracting him.
• Lucas proposed that they stop fighting, and Kuzan admitted he could not fight without endangering the island's civilians.
• Lucas promised to leave the South Blue and walked away, while Kuzan wondered whether Jion could ever match him.