Recaps

Gion fought Charlotte Linlin with her Float-Float Fruit and swordsmanship but was badly injured by Linlin’s lightning. Bullet took over the fight while Kalifa helped Gion, and Lucas left the battle to continue under Issho’s supervision.

• Charlotte Linlin shattered Gion’s stone defenses and overwhelmed her attacks with her Haki and Homies.
• Gion fought Charlotte Linlin at close range, but Linlin blocked her sword strike and blasted her with Zeus’s lightning.
• Gion collapsed amid the ruins, and Bullet charged out of the Air Door to replace her against Charlotte Linlin.
• Kalifa supported Gion, who regretted failing to push her Haki further in the fight.
• Shaka asked Lucas whether he would intervene, and Lucas pointed out that Issho was containing the damage and evacuating civilians.

Smoothie led a raid through an evacuated district, where Black Maria ambushed her and slaughtered her pirates using illusions and bloodsucking spiders. Smoothie emerged from the rubble, grew to twelve meters tall, and unleashed a massive Flying Slash at Black Maria.

• Smoothie and her pirates found the Dressrosa District deserted, so she ordered a retreat to the Queen Mama Chanter.
• Kalifa teleported Black Maria in front of Smoothie, and Black Maria blocked Smoothie's sword before punching her through a house.
• Black Maria ensnared the pirates with Beautiful Dream Bodies that embodied their loved ones, then used the illusions to kill them.
• Smoothie escaped the rubble and found her subordinates dead as Black Maria's spiders fed on their blood and grew larger.
• Smoothie enlarged herself with stored moisture and swung a towering Flying Slash at Black Maria.

Black Maria pressed Smoothie with her Beautiful Dream Body and Hasshoken attacks, while Perospero’s attack on the Pleasure District drew Pedro and Caesar into the fight. Perospero retreated from Caesar’s vacuum attack, and Caesar hurled a gas lasso after him.

• Black Maria used the Beautiful Dream Body to block Smoothie’s Flying Slashes, then attacked her with Haki-coated spider legs and Hasshoken shock waves.
• Perospero fired Haki-coated candy arrows at the Pleasure District headquarters, damaging nearby homes and prompting Pedro to charge him.
• Caesar emerged from the headquarters and used Karakuni to drain the air around Perospero and Pedro.
• Pedro retreated beyond the vacuum’s range, while Perospero also withdrew and complained that his plan had gone wrong.
• Caesar formed a gas rope and threw Gas Lasso at the retreating Perospero.

Perospero fled Caesar while Shiryu and Weevil fought Big Mom Pirates across the Federation. Charlotte Opera confronted Lafitte, whom he blamed for his brothers’ deaths, and launched an attack after Lafitte tried to provoke him.

• Perospero defended himself against Caesar with candy weapons, then escaped through the buildings to cause destruction elsewhere while Caesar pursued him.
• Shiryu cut down the Big Mom Pirates’ crew left aboard a tart ship at the harbor.
• Weevil decimated pirates outside the Presidential Palace, then left when Lafitte offered him a rice ball and told him to go elsewhere.
• Charlotte Opera remained to face Lafitte, driven by his desire to avenge his four dead brothers.
• Lafitte struck at Opera with a Haki-reinforced air attack, and Opera blocked it before launching himself at Lafitte with a cream-covered fist.

Lafitte defeated Charlotte Opera in a street battle, and Lucas killed Opera by draining his blood through an Air Door. In Aplunam District, Smoothie escaped her pursuers but found herself weakened by the lack of living creatures and attacked Black Maria with a high-pressure water jet.

• Lafitte used his Haki and Hasshoken to break through Charlotte Opera’s cream defenses and destroy his arm and shoulder.
• Lafitte signaled Lucas through a security camera, and Lucas opened an Air Door behind Charlotte Opera and drained the blood from his body.
• Smoothie fought her way out of Black Maria’s encirclement and charged from Dressrosa District into Aplunam District.
• Smoothie realized the deserted district left her without enough moisture to strengthen herself, so she attacked Black Maria with a high-pressure water jet.
• Black Maria used Hasshoken to shatter Smoothie’s water jet into droplets.