Recaps

Lucas broke open the Jewel Ice Bed and brought its treasures to the Eternal Financial Group, then discovered that a massive, unnamed sword was a weapon called Dracule. Robin identified it as a royal heirloom with the quality of a Supreme Grade Blade, and Lucas hurried off to train with it.

• Lucas used his strength to split the ice field open, revealing centuries of treasure, and the Eternal Financial Group employees celebrated.
• Several days later, Lafitte delivered the inventory of the Jewel Ice Bed’s assets to Lucas at the group headquarters.
• Lucas noticed an unnamed, cross-shaped black sword in the inventory and asked Lafitte to bring it to him.
• Lucas gave Lafitte his compiled Hasshoken training method in return for his work.
• Robin identified the sword as Dracule, a Luluisa Kingdom royal heirloom comparable in quality to a Supreme Grade Blade.
• Lucas took Dracule to the training ground, leaving Robin smiling in the garden.

The Big Mom Pirates attacked the Yulo Peninsula, where Lucas’s coastal patrol prepared to defend the Eternal Financial Group’s territory. Lucas arrived before the forces clashed and split the nineteen hired pirate ships apart with flying slashes and Conqueror’s Haki, while the Charlotte Family remained aboard the flagship.

• A lookout sounded the alarm as twenty ships bearing the Big Mom Pirates’ flag approached the Yulo Peninsula.
• Lucas trained Baccarat and Robin in Hasshoken before sensing the attack and leaving the training ground with Dracule.
• Daz Bonez ordered the coastal patrol to stop its inaccurate cannon fire and prepare for close combat as the pirates mocked them.
• Perospero ordered Counter, Cadenza, and Cabalette to lead the charge while Du Feld urged him to take Lucas seriously.
• Lafitte rallied the patrolmen as the pirates leaped ashore, but Lucas flew in and unleashed Conqueror’s Haki and a barrage of slashes.
• Lucas’s attack knocked out the pirates on nineteen ships and split the vessels lengthwise, leaving the Charlotte Family on the flagship.

Lucas defeated Perospero’s brothers during the battle and forced Perospero to flee, then captured Du Feld. He healed Lafitte and Daz Bonez and ordered them to take over the God of Fortune Financial Group.

• Perospero sent Counter, Cadenza, and Cabalette to attack Lucas while Daz Bonez and Lafitte confronted the brothers on shore.
• Cabalette knocked Daz Bonez into rubble, and Counter and Cadenza defeated Lafitte with a joint attack.
• Lucas killed Counter and Cadenza with a blood stream attack, then killed Cabalette when he charged.
• Perospero fled across the sea, while Lucas knocked out Du Feld and brought him back to shore.
• Lucas healed Lafitte and Daz Bonez, urged them to learn Haki, and tasked them with extracting information from Du Feld and taking control of his financial group.

Lucas realized Baccarat’s Haki affinity had improved after her Lineage Factor was optimized, then devised a way to give his ring the Castle-Castle Fruit’s storage ability. The ring responded to his intentions without developing self-awareness, and he successfully stored and retrieved Dracule with it.

• Lucas told Baccarat her Haki affinity had improved, prompting her to leave and train harder.
• Lucas urged Robin to train too, then went to his study to consider who could use the Castle-Castle Fruit’s storage ability.
• Lucas realized he could use the lifespan-sharing Telepathy connection to control an inanimate object and gave one year of lifespan to his ring.
• Lucas extracted the Castle-Castle Fruit’s Lineage Factor and merged it into the Bat Ring.
• Lucas used the ring to store Dracule in the Castle Space and then retrieved it.

Lucas discovered that Devil Fruit rings remained at their initial development level, limiting their combat usefulness, and instead used the Munch-Munch Ring to test metal synthesis for training equipment. After the experiments produced only flawed metal, Robin suggested using Seastone, leaving Lucas considering it as a way to train both strength and resistance to its weakening effect.

• Lucas tested rings that had consumed the Castle-Castle, Clear-Clear, and Munch-Munch Fruits and found their development levels stayed fixed at the initial state.
• Robin brought Lucas samples of unusually hard metals and identified their origins and properties.
• Lucas used the Devour-Devour Ring to combine metal samples, but the resulting ingots were flawed and unsuitable for training equipment.
• Robin suggested Lucas try using Seastone for his training equipment before she left him alone in the study.
• Lucas considered training with Seastone to build strength and improve his tolerance for its power-draining effect.

Lucas met Queen in West Blue to exchange payment for Seastone equipment and asked whether Yamato had awakened Conqueror's Haki. He then whispered a proposal to Queen, who agreed to test Lucas's strength without holding back.

• King told Queen that Kaido had ordered him to deliver goods to West Blue and test Lucas's strength, and Queen reluctantly agreed.
• Yamato packed for the trip, eager to see Lucas again.
• Queen arrived at Yulo Peninsula, where Yamato leaped from the ship and joyfully embraced Lucas.
• Lucas paid Queen for the Seastone equipment, and the Beasts Pirates unloaded the goods onto the dock.
• Lucas asked whether Yamato had awakened Conqueror's Haki, then whispered a proposal to Queen.
• Queen agreed to fight Lucas and warned him that he would not hold back.

Lucas staged a fight with Queen to provoke Yamato into awakening Conqueror’s Haki, then defeated Queen after Yamato’s Haki erupted. The two men ended their performance with an apology and compensation for the employees.

• Lucas arranged for Queen to attack him while Yamato watched, hoping the danger would awaken her Conqueror’s Haki.
• Yamato ran to shield Lucas from Queen’s final blow, and her Conqueror’s Haki erupted, knocking out two weaker pirates.
• Lucas healed his injuries, transformed into Hybrid Form, and fought Queen with his electric beams, flaming fists, and Haki-coated kick.
• Lucas gave Queen a chance to stop the fight, and Queen accepted the excuse after completing Kaido’s test of Lucas.
• Lucas condemned Queen’s drunken behavior, Queen apologized, and the Beasts Pirates paid compensation to the Eternal Financial Group employees.

Lucas sent Yamato home after accepting her feelings and promising to reconsider once she had trained with Kaido for several years. He continued training and living routinely, and the chapter ended with the arrival of 1522 in the Sea Circular Calendar.

• Yamato confessed that she wanted to sleep with Lucas, and he told her she was too young and should train with Kaido before he would agree to her request.
• Lucas and Yamato made a pinky promise that he would keep his word after she learned Kaido’s techniques.
• The next day, Yamato boarded a Beasts Pirates ship and left the Yulo Peninsula.
• Lucas adjusted Baccarat and Robin’s training, then practiced punching a Seastone block to develop his own Fist Bone technique.
• Lucas maintained a regular routine, and time passed until the year 1522 of the Sea Circular Calendar.

Lafitte and Daz Bonez cornered Du Elsa, the last surviving child of Du Feld, but Charlotte Gala arrived and killed her before confronting them. Gala and Paude fought Lafitte and Daz, and the battle remained unresolved as Lafitte dodged Gala’s renewed attack.

• Lafitte and Daz Bonez pursued Du Elsa to her manor, intending to eliminate the last threat to their purge of the God of Fortune Financial Group.
• Daz Bonez attacked Elsa, but a flying slash knocked him into the manor’s vegetation as Charlotte Gala and Paude arrived.
• Elsa fled behind Gala, who struck her dead for speaking without permission, then vowed to avenge his three brothers killed by Lafitte.
• Gala attacked Lafitte, but Lafitte used Hasshoken and projected Armament Haki through his cane to badly injure Gala’s hand.
• Paude charged Lafitte, but Daz Bonez hit him with a Spiral Slash and sent him crashing into the pirates rushing from the manor.
• Gala treated his hand and attacked Lafitte again, but Lafitte vanished from the punch’s path and thrust his cane toward Gala’s side.

Lafitte and Daz Bonez defeated Gala and Paude during the battle against the Opard Pirates. The two enemies died, leaving the fight to continue.

• Lafitte pierced Gala’s Haki armor with a shockwave attack, then killed him with a cane thrust through his throat.
• Paude charged Lafitte, but Daz Bonez intercepted him and shattered his Armament Haki-coated greatsword.
• Daz slashed Paude, who revealed his Powder-Powder Fruit ability and repeatedly dissolved into dust to evade their attacks.
• Daz filled the sky with Armament Haki-infused slashes, forcing Paude to land with severe wounds.
• Lafitte shot Paude in the forehead, killing him.

Lucas defeated Gion in a sparring match, then learned that Marine Headquarters had taken notice of his effort to annex the God of Fortune Financial Group. Gion revealed she had come to West Blue because Jion had gone missing at a casino on Twin Snake Island.

• Lucas and Gion sparred at Eternal Financial Group's underground training ground, and Lucas won after breaking through Gion's Haki armor with his attacks.
• Lucas healed Gion's injuries in their bedroom and asked why she had come to West Blue.
• Gion told Lucas that Cipher Pol had informed Marine Headquarters about his plans to annex the God of Fortune Financial Group, and that Headquarters had begun watching him.
• Gion explained that Jion had spent several days at a casino on Twin Snake Island without answering calls or faxes, so Instructor Zephyr had sent her to bring him back.

After Lafitte and Daz Bonez returned from taking over the God of Fortune Financial Group, Lucas assigned Robin to sort through its businesses and decided the merged company needed a professional manager. He then asked Gion to take him to Twin Snake Island, and she agreed.

• Lucas praised Lafitte and Daz Bonez for taking over the God of Fortune Financial Group and gave them seven days of leave.
• Lucas asked Robin to review the group's businesses, convert those that could be made legitimate, and shut down the rest.
• Robin urged Lucas to recruit a business management professional, but he said he had no suitable candidate yet.
• Lucas asked Gion about Twin Snake Island, and she told him she had part of Jion's Vivre Card.
• Lucas asked Gion to take him with her when she went, and she agreed.

Lucas bought the casino on Twin Snake Island and recruited Issho as head of security for the Eternal Financial Group. Jion learned that Lucas was Gion’s husband, accepted their relationship, and left for the harbor.

• Jion and Issho sensed Lucas approaching Twin Snake Island with Gion, and Lucas landed outside the casino.
• Jion asked Gion who Lucas was, and she told him Lucas was her husband.
• Lucas bought the casino from Beer with three suitcases of Beli, making Issho his new employee and creditor.
• Issho verified that Beer had willingly sold the casino, then accepted Lucas’s offer to become head of security.
• Jion told Lucas to take care of Gion and walked away toward the harbor.

Issho investigated the Eternal Financial Group’s working conditions and agricultural research, then destroyed a pirate fleet sent by Golden Lion Shiki. After Lucas praised Issho’s decision, Issho taught him how to infuse his will into a blade, helping Lucas advance his swordsmanship.

• Issho questioned employees about the group’s crops and benefits, and their sincere answers left him astonished by Lucas’s business practices.
• Lucas realized Issho had mistaken the group’s practical goals for noble ideals while continuing his swordsmanship lesson with Gion.
• A fleet affiliated with the Flying Pirates arrived near the Yulo Peninsula, and Issho used Gravity Blade: Raging Tiger to crush all five ships.
• Lucas praised Issho for acting against Golden Lion and asked him to demonstrate how to infuse will into a sword.
• Issho showed Lucas how to cut a falling sticky note without harming it, and Lucas’s swordsmanship began to improve.

Borsalino arrived at Lucas’s headquarters under the pretext of investigating gray-market business and fought him to test his abilities. Lucas drove Borsalino into a crater and sent him away, while Shamrock recorded the clash from the World Government ship.

• Borsalino arrived at headquarters and ordered Lucas to come with him, prompting Lucas to refuse and draw Dracule.
• Lucas and Borsalino exchanged attacks, and Lucas shattered Ama no Murakumo before being knocked back by Borsalino’s Light-Speed Kick.
• Lucas struck Borsalino with a Haki-infused Blood Tornado and compressed blood projectiles, driving him into a deep crater.
• Lucas spotted a God's Knight recording the battle from the official ship and suspected the man was Shamrock.
• Lucas told Borsalino to leave, and Borsalino departed after deciding that the clash had fulfilled his assignment to test Lucas.

The Gorosei confirmed that Lucas possessed the Vampire-Vampire Fruit and debated how to deal with the threat of his immortality. They decided to try to control him, and Stussy received a mission to infiltrate his life and secure his loyalty.

• Warcury and the other Gorosei identified Lucas as a Vampire-Vampire Fruit user and agreed that his immortality threatened the World Government.
• Saturn argued against killing Lucas because they could not control where the fruit would reappear, and proposed bringing him under government control.
• Saturn selected Stussy, a top graduate skilled in brainwashing and infiltration, to approach Lucas and bind him through trust or intimacy.
• A masked Cipher Pol official gave Stussy the mission file, and she read the orders to gain Lucas's trust and secure long-term control over him.

Stussy received a new Cipher Pol assignment: win over Eos Lucas and use her position in the Eternal Financial Group to fund the Pleasure District plan. While Lucas and Issho prepared for an expected World Government attack, Stussy arrived alone for a job interview, revealing that the threat had taken the form of a honey trap.

• Guernica ordered Stussy to make Eos Lucas fall for her and become the Eternal Financial Group’s mistress while carrying out her original mission.
• Stussy returned to her quarters and reviewed business management, preparing for her new cover as a wealthy man’s wife.
• Lucas told Issho about Imu, the World Government’s leaders, and the threat he expected, then asked him to help defend the group.
• Issho agreed to protect Lucas, and the two gambled while waiting for an attack that never came.
• Stussy arrived on an unarmed passenger vessel and applied for a management job at the Eternal Financial Group.
• Lucas sent Issho to the security department and told Stussy that she had arrived on the last day of recruitment.

Lucas hired Stussy, posing as Selena, as his personal secretary, then knocked her unconscious and rewrote the loyalty anchor in her Lineage Factor to replace Vegapunk’s influence with his own. He left her alive and retained her individual will, while confirming that Lineage Factor optimization could extend the lifespans of his partners.

• Lucas verified Selena’s forged résumé with Ainoa Academy and hired her as his personal secretary.
• Stussy sorted Lucas’s paperwork while he discussed her identity and possible motives with Baccarat and Robin through telepathy.
• Robin warned Lucas that Stussy might still prioritize Vegapunk, whose influence over her could threaten Lucas’s plans.
• Lucas struck Stussy unconscious and used his blood to recompile her Lineage Factor, replacing Vegapunk’s loyalty anchor with his own.
• Lucas extracted his blood from Stussy and chose not to use the First Embrace, which could erase her will and prevent her from using Haki.
• Lucas reflected that Lineage Factor optimization had already pushed Baccarat and Robin’s remaining lifespans beyond a century.

Lucas used Telepathy to confirm that Stussy retained her independent consciousness after he recompiled her Lineage Factor, then drew intelligence from her thoughts and revealed that he knew she was a spy. He accepted her as his wife, unaware that her loyalty had been redirected to him, and asked for her answer as she leaned toward him.

• Stussy woke in Lucas's room to find apple pie waiting for her, and Lucas told her that she had fainted and he had brought her there.
• Stussy spent the day seducing Lucas, then deliberately drank extra wine and let him carry her to her room.
• The next morning, Stussy acted outraged, but Lucas told her he would take responsibility for her and call her Eos Stussy.
• Lucas claimed he could read the minds of people intimate with a Vampire-Vampire Fruit user, prompting Stussy to recall what the Gorosei had said about the fruit's abilities.
• Lucas told Stussy he accepted her as his wife, while Telepathy revealed that her loyalty had shifted from Vegapunk to him.
• Lucas asked Stussy for her answer, and she leaned toward him with a genuine blush.

Stussy reported to the Gorosei that she had gained Eos Lucas’s trust and claimed his lightning ability came from a Lineage Factor modification. After testing her and accepting her explanation, Saint Saturn let her remain undercover while arranging to monitor her; meanwhile, Stussy joined Lucas’s company and helped its business recover as Lucas returned to training.

• Stussy told the Gorosei that Lucas’s lightning ability came from a Lineage Factor modification and said he had promised to find a Devil Fruit that could extend her lifespan.
• Saint Saturn tested Stussy’s blood, found no evidence that Lucas had transformed her, and approved her explanation.
• Saint Saturn allowed Stussy to stop reporting in person and ordered an undercover agent from Guanhao Island to monitor her and send in blood samples.
• Saint Saturn’s four colleagues praised his plan to bring Stussy into their ranks as a future top-tier combatant.
• News spread that Eos Lucas had taken Stussy as another wife, and she began repairing problems at the Eternal Financial Group.
• Lucas returned to the training grounds, where Issho helped his strength steadily improve.

Buckingham proposed using a youth-restoring drug to impersonate Stussy and withdraw money from the Eternal Financial Group, offering the World Pirates a share. Bing Jack agreed on the condition that his group follow her, while both sides secretly planned to betray the other.

• Buckingham found Nightin and asked for a drug that could make her young again.
• Buckingham showed Bing Jack a newspaper photograph of Stussy and proposed impersonating her to withdraw money from the Eternal Financial Group.
• Bing Jack discussed the offer with Sebastian, Gairam, and Nightin before deciding the World Pirates would cooperate.
• Bing Jack insisted that his group follow Buckingham and wait on a nearby island while she collected the money.
• Buckingham agreed while plotting to have Weevil kill the World Pirates, and Bing Jack secretly planned to take all the money and abandon her.

Hina’s quick thinking exposed Buckingham’s attempt to impersonate Stussy and take Eternal Financial Group’s money, leading Lucas to track her to the World Pirates’ remnants. Lucas killed Buckingham and Bing Jack, then flew toward a powerful presence believed to be Weevil as his allies began their assigned fights.

• Buckingham arrived at the Lasgap branch posing as Madam Selena and demanded the cash reserves, but Hina alerted headquarters because her outfit violated Lucas’s dress rule.
• Robin, Stussy, and Lucas identified the impostor as the original Buckingham, who had regained her youth with Nightin’s medicine.
• Hina delayed the cash transfer long enough for Lucas to reach an island where Buckingham met Bing Jack and the World Pirates’ remnants.
• Lucas ordered Baccarat to fight Sebastian, Robin to fight Gairam, and Stussy to fight Nightin, while instructing them to kill only Sebastian and cripple the others.
• Lucas struck down Buckingham with Blood Chain Bullets and killed Bing Jack with an Electromagnetic Cannon.
• Lucas transformed into his Hybrid Form and flew toward the powerful presence on the island as three figures emerged from the Castle Ring.

Stussy, Robin, and Baccarat fought the remnants of the World's Pirate Crew on the beach, incapacitating their opponents. Nightin and Gairam were left alive but badly injured, while Sebastian fell unconscious after Baccarat struck his heart.

• Stussy defeated Nightin with a Rankyaku slash, then treated her wounds to keep her alive.
• Robin shattered Gairam's cube fortress with Hasshoken shockwaves and captured him in a giant hand.
• Baccarat dodged Sebastian's water attack and used a pebble's impact to disrupt his spinning technique.
• Baccarat struck Sebastian in the heart with a Haki-infused Hasshoken punch, and he collapsed unconscious.

Lucas fought Weevil, who looked like a young Whitebeard, and defeated him despite the boy’s immense strength and resilience. Choosing to subdue him rather than use him to fracture the Navy or let him go, Lucas began rewriting Weevil’s Lineage Factors.

• Weevil attacked Lucas, accusing him of making his mother’s presence disappear, and Lucas realized the boy looked like Whitebeard.
• Lucas wounded Weevil with Blood Blades, then struck him with a metal-coated club and a Rankyaku slash before launching Dracule into him.
• Weevil staggered out of the crater but fell into a deep coma while somehow remaining upright.
• Lucas weighed using Weevil to divide the Navy against sparing him, then decided to subdue him because of his talent and his own principles.
• Lucas cut his palm and used his blood to begin rewriting Weevil’s Lineage Factors.

Lucas captured Nightin to exploit her youth-restoration potion and brought Weevil into Stussy’s care under a cover story. After Vegapunk confirmed Weevil’s origins and mental defect, the Gorosei decided to let him remain with Stussy and control him indirectly through her.

• Lucas killed Gairam, made the Cube-Cube Fruit respawn, and gave Nightin the First Embrace to secure her potion formula.
• Lucas locked the youthful Nightin in Castle Space, then took the Eos toward the Yulo Peninsula with the others.
• Lucas had Stussy report that Buckingham had used her appearance to swindle money and that Weevil believed Stussy and Lucas were his sister and brother-in-law.
• Stussy relayed her report to Guernica, who brought it to the Gorosei.
• Saint Saturn asked Vegapunk to verify Weevil’s origins, and Vegapunk confirmed he was a Whitebeard clone with irreversible mental defects.
• The Gorosei decided Weevil would stay with Stussy and that they would influence his actions through her.