Recaps

Lucas stabilized his Vampire-Vampire Fruit Beast Form and traveled with Baccarat toward the West Blue. After crossing the Red Line, they seized a slave-catching ship and set sail for the West Blue.

• Lucas recovered from his injuries while Baccarat practiced Rokushiki aboard the steamship.
• Lucas swallowed a blood-red pill, tested his Beast Form, and found that his transformation increased his allure to Baccarat.
• Lucas told Baccarat they were heading to the West Blue, and they crossed the Grand Line to the Red Port.
• Lucas and Baccarat flew to the New World side of the Red Port and took over a slave-catching ship after its crew killed one another under Baccarat's luck-draining ability.
• Lucas and Baccarat sailed away from the Red Port toward the Calm Belt and the West Blue.

Lucas used Baccarat’s luck to search West Blue for Nico Robin, killing criminal gangs and draining their blood from afar. Gambino Jason revealed Robin’s hiding place before his attempt to shoot Baccarat backfired and killed him.

• Lucas kissed Baccarat to share her luck, then began searching West Blue for Nico Robin.
• Lucas demonstrated his ability to draw blood from afar as he and Baccarat wiped out gangs, pirates, and human traffickers across the islands.
• On the twenty-third day, Lucas discovered that the last gang leader he had captured was Gambino Jason, a major figure in West Blue’s underworld.
• Jason told Lucas that Nico Robin was hiding in an abandoned building in the island’s southern warehouse district.
• Jason tried to shoot Baccarat as Lucas and Baccarat left, but his pistol exploded and he died from the resulting injuries.

Nico Robin was captured by Lucas, who revealed that the World Government would see him as a threat and offered to use his Life Energy to make her an adult. Robin chose to absorb it, and the painful transformation began.

• Robin hid in a cramped room after bounty hunters captured her and planned to hand her over to the World Government.
• Robin attacked Lucas and Baccarat with her Flower-Flower Fruit, but Lucas shattered her sprouted arms and knocked her unconscious with Conqueror's Haki.
• Lucas brought Robin aboard his ship and told her that someone above the Gorosei had lived for eight hundred years, then revealed he wanted her.
• Robin mistook Lucas's interest for a threat, but he assured her he had no interest in her current appearance and offered to make her an adult using his Life Energy.
• After weighing the risks and her desire to uncover history, Robin touched the blood sphere and began growing rapidly through excruciating pain.

Robin discovered that Lucas knew her private wishes and learned from him that Jaguar D. Saul was alive in Elbaf with the books from Ohara. Meanwhile, West Blue underworld bosses blamed Lucas for Jason’s death and planned to hunt him down.

• Robin woke in an adult body, dressed in clothes Baccarat brought, and asked her what kind of person Lucas was.
• At dinner, Robin accused Lucas of reading her mind after he served her favorite foods, but he neither confirmed nor denied it.
• Lucas told Robin that Jaguar D. Saul was alive in Elbaf and had taken the scholars’ books, leaving Robin overwhelmed with relief and grief.
• Robin asked Baccarat whether Lucas could really read minds, but Baccarat said she did not know.
• In the West Blue, Capone Bege warned three underworld bosses that they were no stronger than the dead Jason, while his men reported seeing Lucas with a Red-Hair woman.
• The bosses identified Lucas and his companion as the Resort Island casino robbers and decided to use Du Feld’s bounty and hire Daz Bonez to kill them.

Lucas and Robin teased each other before Lucas learned that Lafitte was serving as sheriff in the Karth Kingdom on Gerra Island. Robin was touched by Lucas’s thoughtful gift, but the sounds from his neighboring cabin ended her budding feelings in anger.

• Robin ordered sticky gum for Lucas as payback for his teasing, and he swallowed it without complaint.
• Lucas asked a dessert shop owner about a brutal sheriff and learned that Lafitte was in the Karth Kingdom on Gerra Island.
• Robin used her arms to feed Lucas the gum in a quiet alley, but he calmly dissolved it with electricity.
• Lucas bought Robin a copy of Brag Men, a book she had cherished since her childhood in Ohara.
• Robin considered staying with Lucas after reading the book, then heard ambiguous sounds from his cabin and angrily dismissed her feelings as an illusion.

Lucas recruited Lafitte to help him integrate West Blue’s criminal underworld, testing his abilities by revealing his modified Vampire-Vampire Fruit Hybrid Form. Lafitte survived Lucas’s overwhelming attack and pledged his allegiance.

• Lafitte rescued a woman from an attacker in an alley and brutally punished the criminal.
• Lucas confronted Lafitte in the oak grove and offered him a job integrating West Blue’s criminal underworld through hypnosis.
• Lafitte asked to witness Lucas’s full strength, and Lucas transformed using a special Rumble Ball.
• Lucas sent Lafitte crashing into a crater with a single finger flick, and Lafitte pledged his allegiance to him.

Baccarat and Robin stopped Daz Bonez from assassinating Baccarat, and Lucas confronted him about his dream of becoming a hero. After Daz revealed that four underworld bosses had hired him, Lucas invited him to work for him and become a true hero.

• Robin chose an ugly patchwork doll at a street stall, while Daz Bonez followed her and Baccarat out of town and attacked Baccarat.
• Baccarat dodged Daz Bonez's blade attack and punched him into a crater despite his steel-hard body; Robin's attempt to restrain him with her Flower-Flower Fruit arms had failed.
• As Daz lay trapped in the ground, Robin wrestled with thoughts of seeking strength by relying on Lucas, then rejected the idea.
• Lucas arrived and challenged Daz's belief that serving as an assassin could fulfill his dream of being a hero.
• Daz confessed that the remaining four bosses had hired him, and Lucas pulled him from the ground with electromagnetic force and offered him work.

Daz Bonez defeated his employer Frank and chose to act as a hero, while Lucas learned that the Amigo Pirates had a submarine that could solve their need for a new ship. The group realized none of them knew how to operate it.

• Daz Bonez cut down Frank’s gang, survived Frank’s explosives and gunfire, and left Frank grievously wounded for Lafitte to interrogate.
• Frank told Lafitte where the other bosses were based and whether they had hired other assassins under hypnosis.
• An old man asked Daz Bonez whether he would rule the neighborhood, and Daz assured him he would not stay; the old man thanked him as a hero.
• Baccarat asked Lucas what they would do about their failing ship, and Lucas received Lafitte’s report that the Amigo Pirates had a submarine.
• Lucas and Baccarat celebrated the prospect of taking the submarine, but Robin, Lucas, and Baccarat admitted that none of them could operate it.

Lucas and the Amigo Pirates defeated Largo and his crew, and Lucas acquired the reborn Ami Ami no Mi. Robin learned to operate their submarine, and the crew set course for Flower Country.

• Largo and Corto attacked Lucas, Robin, and Baccarat, but Lucas reflected Corto’s bullets and killed him and several pirates.
• Lucas tore apart Largo’s thorny net, then used blood control to kill him and extract the Ami Ami no Mi’s Lineage Factor into an apple.
• Lucas stopped the fleeing Amigo Pirates with his powers, drained their blood, and gathered their Beli and weapons.
• Robin used a manual and Baccarat’s luck to pilot the submarine safely into the sea.
• Robin asked where they were headed, and Lucas said they were going to Flower Country.

Shiki accepted Du Feld’s compensation for the Amigo Pirates, while Du Feld planned to recruit the Charlotte Family to capture the pair who robbed his casino. On a deserted island, Lucas and the women repainted their Submarine black and named it Eos.

• Shiki took Du Feld’s money and said he would overlook the Amigo Pirates’ deaths for Linlin’s sake.
• After Shiki left, Du Feld told his butler he would go to Totto Land and ask the Charlotte Family for reinforcements.
• Lucas and Baccarat finished repainting the Submarine black, and Baccarat and Robin suggested names for it.
• Lucas named the Submarine Eos and said he planned to refit it into the most technologically advanced ship on the seas.

The Capone Family prepared to face the threat to its territory, and Lafitte and Daz Bonez attacked its fortified defenses but were forced to retreat. Lucas accepted their failure and decided to deal with Capone Bege himself.

• Capone Bege told his officers to stay calm, arguing that the Capone Family had the most manpower and that his Devil Fruit gave them an advantage.
• Lafitte and Daz Bonez followed a map to a fortress and were bombarded by cannons and machine guns.
• Daz Bonez’s blades failed to break through the fortress wall, and its gunfire drove him back.
• Lafitte kicked Daz Bonez clear of another cannon volley and flew them out through the fortress’s firing blind spot.
• The Capone Family celebrated its defense, while Lafitte reported the failed mission to Lucas.
• Lucas said Lafitte and Daz Bonez had proved their capabilities and declared that he would handle Capone Bege himself.

Lucas and his companions destroyed the Capone Family and took control of its businesses. The chapter left Lafitte tasked with building the Eternal Financial Group and equipped with training manuals for Haki and Rokushiki.

• Capone Bege ordered the Capone Family to prepare for battle after a wounded patrolman reported an attack, then Lucas, Baccarat, and Robin arrived at the family headquarters.
• Lucas repelled the fortress’s cannon fire, transformed with a Rumble Ball, and punched the fortress into the air, severely wounding Bege and ejecting the family members inside.
• Baccarat killed many attackers with Rankyaku Ran, Robin broke Gotti’s limbs and neck, and Lucas drained the blood and life energy from the remaining Capone Family members.
• Lafitte hypnotized Bege into revealing his secrets, and Lucas extracted Bege’s Lineage Factor before killing him.
• Lucas instructed Lafitte to consolidate the mafia families’ businesses into the Eternal Financial Group and gave him a booklet detailing Haki and Rokushiki training.

Marine Colonel Sicily investigated the Capone Family’s destruction, and Kuzan suspected Lucas and a silver-haired woman were involved. On Transparent Island, Absalom stalked Lucas’s group and died when Lucas extracted his blood and the Clear-Clear Fruit’s Lineage Factor.

• Colonel Sicily investigated the Capone Family stronghold, photographed Gotti’s corpse, and sent his report to Marineford.
• Kuzan reviewed the report and suspected that the killer might be connected to a silver-haired woman he knew.
• Baccarat bought matching rings for herself and Lucas, and Lucas said he liked his ring.
• Absalom watched Baccarat and Robin, then followed them invisibly along the forest trail toward the dock.
• Absalom reached for the women, but Lucas’s blood spikes forced him out of invisibility and extracted his blood and Clear-Clear Fruit Lineage Factor, leaving him dead.

Robin struggled to trust Lucas, but when Kuzan found the Eos and confronted them, Lucas faced him in battle. Lucas and Kuzan unleashed powerful attacks across the abandoned town, and their fight remained unresolved.

• Robin spent the night debating whether she could trust Lucas and accept the safety he offered.
• The Eos docked at an abandoned island town, where Kuzan appeared and terrified Robin.
• Lucas reassured Robin, then challenged Kuzan over his crimes and his pursuit of Nico Robin.
• Lucas attacked Kuzan with his metal sword and Beast Form, but Kuzan shattered the sword and wounded his arm.
• Lucas and Kuzan traded powerful attacks, freezing and destroying the town as Lucas's lightning threatened Kuzan's Haki.
• Kuzan evaded Lucas's kick and lightning-charged punch, then dispersed into ice particles to escape their collision.

Lucas fought Kuzan for three days and nights, repeatedly sustaining injuries as his Life Energy repaired him and his Armament Haki grew stronger. Robin watched them battle and began to believe Kuzan was not invincible, leaving her feeling that she might finally stop running.

• Robin watched Kuzan and Lucas fight and dismissed Baccarat’s claim that Lucas was fighting for her sake.
• Lucas and Kuzan traded attacks using their Haki and Devil Fruit powers, with each narrowly countering the other.
• The battle continued for three days and nights as Kuzan repeatedly broke through Lucas’s Armament Haki, gradually refining it.
• Baccarat and Robin watched Lucas take repeated injuries, while Robin endured the battle with food, tea, and brief rests.
• Robin’s fear of Kuzan faded as she watched him fight Lucas evenly, and she began to believe her days of running away could end.

Lucas defeated Kuzan in a staged fight so Robin would believe her nightmare was overcome, then explained that he sought strength to live freely and protect his family and their dreams. Clarifying his purpose advanced his Conqueror’s Haki, and Kuzan left after entrusting Robin to him.

• Lucas and Kuzan fought across the ruined battlefield, with their Haki evenly matched.
• Lucas used a series of attacks to overpower Kuzan and brought his apparently defeated body to Robin.
• Robin thanked Lucas, then fled with Baccarat after twisting Kuzan’s head with her sprouted arms.
• Lucas revealed that Kuzan had only pretended to lose and explained that their three-day fight had helped him strengthen his Haki.
• Kuzan asked why Lucas wanted power, and Lucas said he wanted to live freely and protect his family and their dreams.
• Lucas’s clarified resolve strengthened his Conqueror’s Haki, and Kuzan departed, leaving Robin in his care.

Aboard Eos, Lucas and Robin grew closer after Robin invited him to stay, while at Marine Headquarters Gion learned Lucas was with other women and decided to confront him. The chapter ended with Gion resolving to find Lucas and ask him directly about their relationship.

• Lucas practiced shaping his electricity and blood mist, then brought Robin a bowl of soba noodles.
• Robin thanked Lucas for helping her overcome her inner demons and invited him to stay with her.
• Lucas teased Robin until she used her power to toss him onto the bed, and he left her room the next morning while she slept beside him.
• Jion told Gion that a silver-haired man resembling Lucas had been seen with two women and urged her to date him instead.
• Gion rejected Jion, then sat behind her closed door and resolved to find Lucas and question him face-to-face.

On the Eos, Robin felt her health restored and playfully punished Lucas after he teased her, while a tiny ear secretly listened to their conversation. At Marine Branch 81, Gion confronted the rampaging Marine Hunter Kaby, who survived her attack and denounced the Marines as hypocrites.

• Robin said she felt energetic and free of the lingering effects of her past hardships, and Lucas urged her to smile and live well.
• Robin twisted Lucas's limbs with her ability after he joked that he could not love a dead person, then left; an ear grown from his clothes overheard Lucas and Baccarat talking about her expressions.
• Kaby, an eight-meter-tall Short-Faced Bear, rampaged through Marine Branch 81 and killed its commander while bullets bounced off him.
• Gion arrived and cut Kaby across the chest with Kompira, declaring him under arrest in the name of Absolute Justice.
• Kaby rose from the rubble despite his wound and shouted that the Marines were hypocrites who had no right to speak of justice.

Gion defeated Kaby, who died after recounting how Marines and Celestial Dragons had killed his family at God Valley. Lucas confirmed the story, shaking Gion’s faith in Marine justice, before introducing Baccarat as his wife and provoking Gion’s fury.

• Gion defeated Kaby, but he refused medical help and died from blood loss after explaining that Celestial Dragons had killed his wife and son at God Valley while Marines forced them back into the hunting grounds.
• Gion met Lucas on his submarine and told him Kaby’s story, hoping he would confirm that the man had lied.
• Lucas told Gion that Figarland Garling had discovered the surviving Davy Clan at God Valley, confirming the truth and deepening her disillusionment with the Marines.
• Baccarat appeared and announced that she had learned Armament Haki, then waited anxiously as Lucas introduced her as his wife.
• Lucas declared that both Gion and Baccarat were his wives, and Gion drew Kompira and slashed at him.

Lucas told Gion, Robin, and Baccarat about Golden Lion Shiki’s plan and the threat posed by the Big Mom Pirates. Gion challenged Baccarat to a sparring match, which ended in a draw after Baccarat demonstrated her overwhelming physical strength, and the two women reconciled.

• Lucas moved the Eos to open waters and recounted his troubles with Golden Lion Shiki and Du Feld to Gion, Robin, and Baccarat.
• Lucas explained that Shiki planned to use artificially enhanced giant animals, and Gion relaxed after deciding the threat was manageable.
• Gion challenged Baccarat to a fight and promised not to use Haki, while Baccarat agreed not to use her Devil Fruit ability.
• Baccarat broke through Gion’s Tekkai with a punch, and the two women exchanged attacks until Lucas stopped the match and declared a draw.
• Baccarat offered Gion her hand and praised her, and Gion accepted it as the two women set aside their grievances.

Lucas healed Gion and Baccarat, then told Gion that justice meant letting everyone live safely and peacefully. Gion left after saying she knew what she should do, while Lucas arranged for Lafitte to move treasure near the Jewel Ice Bed.

• Lucas used Life Energy in his blood to heal Gion and Baccarat’s wounds.
• Gion examined her healed back, then pounced on Lucas and spent the night with him.
• The next morning, Gion asked Lucas what justice meant, and he described a world where people could live safely, eat, and avoid slavery.
• Gion said she would no longer ask Lucas to become a Marine and left the captain’s quarters.
• Robin brought Lucas seafood risotto, and Lucas pretended that her laxative prank had made him sick.
• Lucas secretly contacted Lafitte and ordered a fleet to stand by near the Jewel Ice Bed to transport treasure.

Chinjao repeatedly failed to break the ice sealing his treasure, while his son Saiwu and daughter-in-law Brook tried to comfort him. Lucas arrived with Baccarat and another companion, killed a Happo Navy messenger, and challenged Chinjao for the treasure; Chinjao charged at him.

• Chinjao drove off Treasure Thieves and smashed his head into the ice, but could not reach the treasure beneath it.
• Saiwu helped Chinjao up, and Chinjao doubted that his son could ever break the ice.
• Brook watched as a Happo Navy man ran up with a warning, but Lucas killed him by draining his Life Energy.
• Baccarat urged Lucas to kill Chinjao for the treasure, and Lucas declared that he wanted it.
• Chinjao rejected Lucas's demand and charged at him.

Lucas and his allies fought Chinjao, Saiwu, and Brook on the ice, using their abilities to disrupt the Happo Navy warriors. The fight left Saiwu dueling Baccarat and Brook strained and hiding behind an ice mountain as Robin continued to attack her.

• Chinjao suppressed Lucas's blood-manipulating ability with Armament Haki, but Lucas struck his belly and sent him crashing into an ice-crystal mountain.
• Baccarat's luck interference disrupted Saiwu's attacks until he used Armament Haki to dispel it, then pole-vaulted toward her and forced her to evade with Soru and Geppo.
• Baccarat attacked Brook with a Vacuum Slash, but Brook's frozen arm caused her to miss the slash and leave Saiwu to block it with Armament Haki.
• Robin's apparent body turned into petals as Brook's axe struck, and Robin restrained Brook with forty arms before Brook burst free with Armament Haki.
• Robin trapped Brook in another net of arms, but Brook broke loose again and escaped behind an ice mountain, exhausted from repeatedly using Haki.

Brook tested Robin’s ability and discovered that it depended on line of sight, but Robin revealed her position and launched an aggressive assault. Robin defeated Brook after exhausting her Haki and leaving her badly injured.

• Brook used Hasshoken to repel Robin’s sprouting arms and confirmed that Robin needed line of sight to attack.
• Robin revealed herself floating above the ice field on wings made of arms and attacked Brook from above.
• Brook charged toward open ground, but Robin blocked her escape with giant arms and twisted her body with more arms.
• Brook used her remaining Haki to resist Robin’s repeated blows, but her Haki ran out and her bones cracked as she fell.
• Robin landed, exhausted and gasping, after defeating Brook.

Lucas defeated Chinjao after learning Hasshoken during their day-and-night battle, and his final attack drained Chinjao’s blood and life. Elsewhere, Baccarat killed Saiwu while Lafitte and Daz Bonez subdued the Happo Navy, and the story left Lucas standing over Chinjao’s fallen body.

• Baccarat shattered Saiwu’s naginata, struck him into the air, and killed him with Rankyaku: Bloody Bat.
• Daz Bonez and Lafitte defeated the Happo Navy members at the Jewel Ice Bed, then waited aboard the ship as the battle inland continued.
• After fighting Chinjao for a day and night, Lucas demonstrated that he had learned Hasshoken and overpowered Chinjao’s attacks.
• Lucas countered Chinjao’s Hasshoken Secret Technique: Muzuiryu: Muzuirikugi with a blood-red, electric-charged punch.
• Lucas used Higanbana to draw Chinjao’s blood and life energy into a vortex, leaving Chinjao a withered corpse.