Recaps

Lucas trained under Issho’s maximum gravity while pursuing intelligence on the human traffickers who might have captured the Boa Sisters. After Stussy obtained a dossier through Cipher Pol, Lucas prepared to act without exposing her by forging a helmet from Memory Metal.

• Issho raised his gravity field to its maximum, and Lucas endured two and a half hours of training before recovering with Baccarat’s help.
• Lucas warned Stussy that her Cipher Pol assistant, Kalifa, was a security risk, but Stussy explained that giving Kalifa the First Embrace could expose them.
• Lucas asked Stussy for information on human traffickers, hoping to find the group that had captured the Boa Sisters in 1522.
• Stussy identified a trafficking group active near the Calm Belt between South Blue and the Grand Line and obtained a detailed dossier from Guernica.
• Lucas used Lightning Metallurgy to forge a pointed-ear black helmet from Memory Metal so he could act without drawing suspicion to Stussy.

Lucas attacked Eps’s slave ship after recording Eps’s dealings with a Celestial Dragon and discovered the captive Hancock and her sisters. He killed the traffickers and rescued the girls, leaving them unconscious inside his Castle Ring.

• Eps negotiated the sale of a Mink Tribe woman and promised a Celestial Dragon three Kuja captives, including Hancock and her sisters.
• Lucas arrived at the slave ship in a black armored suit and revealed that he had recorded Eps’s phone calls with a Black Den Den Mushi.
• Eps transformed into a chameleon and the traffickers charged Lucas, but Lucas knocked them out with Conqueror’s Haki and killed them with bioelectricity.
• Lucas forced Eps out of invisibility and killed him with a punch, then searched the ship for the captive girls.
• Lucas freed Hancock, knocked her unconscious, and placed her and her sisters in the Castle Ring.

Lucas rescued Hancock, Marigold, and Sandersonia and brought them aboard the Eos. Hancock quickly fell for him and agreed to marry him when she grew up, while her sisters warmed to him over a meal and agreed to explore with him.

• Lucas confirmed the island was clear, boarded the Eos, and took the submarine into the deep sea.
• Hancock awoke and confronted Lucas, who teased her about being captured and asked how she would repay him for saving her.
• Lucas proposed that Hancock marry him when she grew up, and she accepted after he claimed it fulfilled an elder's wish.
• Marigold and Sandersonia tried to caution Hancock, then met Lucas and grew impressed by his appearance and kindness.
• Lucas served the sisters Kuja-style food, and they introduced themselves while sharing a hot pot meal.
• Lucas offered to show the sisters around after they finished eating, and all three agreed.

Oven led the Charlotte Family’s pirate fleet toward the Yulo Peninsula, where Issho had concealed the island behind a Gravity Barrier. After Kong reported the incoming attack, he prepared the security officers and flew out to face the fleet, leaving the surviving enemies to his subordinates.

• The pirates found that an invisible barrier kept them from landing, and Oven promised them the chance to pillage the peninsula after defeating the Eternal Financial Group.
• Oven ordered the fleet of more than a hundred ships to charge toward the Yulo Peninsula.
• Issho dismissed the Gravity Barrier and left the casino as Kong summoned the security officers and reported the intercepted intelligence to Stussy.
• Lucas reassured Stussy that Kong could rival a Marine admiral, and she returned to signing her document without panic.
• Kong told the security officers he would make only one move and instructed them to handle the surviving enemies.
• Kong spread his gravitational field across the peninsula, then flew toward the approaching fleet.

Issho devastated the pirate fleet with a meteor strike, but Cracker, Oven, and Daifuku stopped one meteor from destroying their ships. The surviving pirates landed on the Yulo Peninsula, where the security team, Weevil, Lafitte, and Daz Bonez attacked them.

• Cracker, Oven, and Daifuku sensed Issho's overwhelming presence as he approached on a floating rock.
• Issho pulled ten meteors from space and sent them crashing toward the pirate fleet.
• Cracker, Oven, and Daifuku shattered one meteor, while the other nine destroyed most of the fleet and unleashed enormous waves.
• Oven urged the surviving ships toward shore, and Issho let the battered fleet reach the Yulo Peninsula.
• The security team opened fire on the landing pirates, and Weevil struck them with his Naginata.
• Lafitte and Daz Bonez attacked the routed pirates, killing them as they fled.

Weevil defeated Oven in their battle, but Cracker rescued the badly wounded Oven and escaped with Daifuku. The security team celebrated its victory over the invading forces as Stussy announced compensation for its casualties.

• Pirates tried to seize hostages, but an invisible pressure crushed them before they could reach the building.
• Oven attacked Weevil with a heated Naginata, but Weevil disarmed him and slammed him into the sand.
• Oven burned Weevil's hand and struck him with Hot Wind Fist, but Weevil used Busoshoku Haki to damage Oven internally and cut off his arm.
• Cracker stopped Weevil from delivering a second blow to Oven, raised Biscuit Soldiers to cover the retreat, and escaped by ship with Oven and Daifuku.
• The Biscuit Soldiers collapsed as the Charlotte brothers fled, and the security personnel cheered their victory.
• Stussy announced triple compensation for the families of the dead, civilian jobs at unchanged pay for the disabled, and a five-month salary bonus for survivors.

Gion left Marineford to pursue justice in non-member nations, while Lucas refined the Eternal Financial Group’s security plans and agreed to a newspaper interview. After reading the resulting front-page story, Mihawk recognized Lucas’s cross-shaped greatsword and decided he was worth challenging.

• Gion told Tsuru she intended to hunt pirates and bring justice to non-member nations, and Tsuru approved her decision to go alone.
• Lucas decided not to fully restaff the security team, instead training surviving members as snipers to reduce close-combat casualties.
• Lucas agreed to an interview with a World Economy News Paper reporter, whose embellished article was selected for the front page by Morgans.
• Mihawk challenged the G-3 branch commander to a sword fight, killed him, and left the island in his coffin-shaped boat.
• Mihawk read the newspaper’s front-page story about Lucas, recognized the cross-shaped greatsword in the photograph, and decided Lucas was worth fighting.

Lucas and Stussy secured land for Pleasure District’s first stronghold on a pirate-infested West Blue island, where Mihawk challenged Lucas to a sword fight. Their clash escalated across the harbor, ending with Lucas’s enormous slash bearing down on Mihawk’s boat.

• Lucas and Stussy killed the pirates who tried to accost them, then negotiated with the city hall and secured the island’s largest vacant plot.
• At the harbor, Mihawk arrived by boat and sent a Flying Slash at Lucas and Stussy as a test.
• Lucas blocked Mihawk’s attack with Dracule, and Mihawk introduced Yoru before accepting Lucas’s offer to fight despite his lack of devotion to swordsmanship.
• Mihawk unleashed a net of Flying Slashes, but Lucas pierced through it with a drill-shaped slash and impressed Mihawk with his arm strength.
• Mihawk sent successive waves of Flying Slashes toward shore, and Lucas countered with a massive crimson slash that swept up seawater into a water dragon aimed at Mihawk’s boat.

Lucas and Mihawk fought a devastating duel across the harbor, each landing serious wounds before the battle ended two days later with Mihawk conceding defeat. Lucas offered him a job, but Mihawk refused and sailed away, leaving Lucas and Stussy on shore.

• Mihawk and Lucas exchanged rapid sword attacks that wrecked the harbor and sent nearby pirates flying.
• Lucas summoned metal swords with Electromagnetic Force, but Mihawk cut through the swarm and struck down at him from above.
• Lucas wounded Mihawk with a Thunder Crescent Slash, and Mihawk answered with a Flying Slash that cut across Lucas's chest.
• Lucas and Mihawk unleashed massive attacks that devastated the surrounding area as their duel continued for two days.
• Mihawk admitted defeat and refused Lucas's offer to join the security department, saying he trusted no one and preferred to be alone.
• Mihawk sailed away in his coffin boat, while Stussy told Lucas that Cipher Pol intelligence linked his distrust to a past betrayal.

Lucas traveled to Aplunan Island to find a herb needed for Nightin’s universal Full-Power Potion, but rescued Princess Scarlet from pirates while passing nearby. Scarlet fell for him and invited him to the palace, while Kyros arrived too late and was rejected by her.

• Nightin told Lucas that she could make the ten-year Full-Power Potion but needed a herb from Aplunan Island to complete the twenty-year version.
• Lucas confirmed with Stussy that he could leave, told his wives, and flew alone toward Aplunan Island.
• Pirates who had abducted Scarlet prepared to assault her, but Lucas landed between them and drained the blood from everyone aboard both ships.
• Lucas freed Scarlet, carried her to shore, and reassured her that she was safe; Scarlet recognized him and quickly fell for him.
• Scarlet thanked Lucas and invited him to let her and her father show their gratitude, but Kyros arrived and interrupted them.
• Scarlet angrily accused Kyros of failing to protect her and called him a hypocritical murderer, and Kyros silently walked away.

Lucas reflected on Dressrosa’s poverty while staying at the royal palace, then listened as Scarlet vented about Kyros during a sleepless, rainy night. After Scarlet accidentally drank Lucas’s powerful liquor and woke hungover, she challenged his masculinity, and Lucas kissed her.

• Lucas considered how poverty affected Dressrosa’s people and accepted Scarlet’s invitation to stay at the palace.
• During a storm, Scarlet saw Kyros standing guard in the rain, grew irritated, and wandered to a balcony where she found Lucas.
• Scarlet complained to Lucas about Kyros for hours, then mistook his strong liquor for water and passed out after drinking it.
• The next morning, Scarlet questioned why Lucas had not taken advantage of her while she was unconscious and accused him of not acting like a man.
• Lucas insisted he was a man, and when Scarlet touched him and demanded proof, he kissed her.

Scarlet woke after spending the night with Lucas, who promised King Riku he would marry her and establish an Eternal Financial Group branch in Dressrosa. After leaving the kingdom, Lucas took Scarlet to Aplunan Island, where he made her kill an organ trafficker to begin preparing her for combat.

• Scarlet remembered confessing her feelings to Lucas and discovered that King Riku and Violet had waited outside her room and heard them.
• Lucas offered to publicly announce Scarlet as his wife and establish an Eternal Financial Group branch in Dressrosa, and King Riku agreed to the arrangement.
• King Riku announced Scarlet’s upcoming marriage, and Lucas arranged the branch’s construction with Lafitte before he and Scarlet departed Dressrosa.
• On Aplunan Island, Lucas collected medicinal herbs for Nightin and then found an organ trafficker to use as Scarlet’s first target.
• Scarlet killed the trafficker with a sword, struggled with the shock of taking a life, and told Lucas she was ready to continue.

Jigra led his organ traffickers to hunt Scarlet in Teroa, where she was looking for volunteers to test the Full-Power Potion. When the gang surrounded her, Scarlet killed them with Rokushiki, leaving the streets covered in blood.

• Jigra learned that Lucas and Scarlet had wiped out most of his outlying bases, so he gathered his elites and headed to the West Blue to retaliate.
• Scarlet told Baccarat, Robin, and Stussy about the criminals she had killed with Lucas and her fears that Dressrosa might also harbor similar horrors; Robin comforted her.
• More than two months later, the Full-Power Potion was ready for volunteer testing, and Scarlet volunteered to try it in Teroa.
• Jigra's gang spotted Scarlet in Teroa and surrounded her near an abandoned theater, demanding that she surrender her body.
• Scarlet used Geppo and Rankyaku to cut down the purple-suited attackers, then killed Jigra and his officers with the Rokushiki Secret Art: Tiger Roar Divine Fist.

Gion rescued Linda from Catarina Devon and defeated Devon after a fierce battle on the beach. Gion checked that Linda was alive, then carried Devon away and told Sister Tsuru that she had accidentally killed her.

• Catarina Devon killed Linda’s bodyguards and moved to take Linda’s head, but Gion arrived and protected her.
• Gion challenged Devon, who transformed into her Nine-Tailed Fox hybrid form and then into a griffin.
• Devon’s griffin form fought Gion in the air, but Gion overwhelmed her with a barrage of Armament Haki-coated sword slashes.
• Devon fell back onto the beach unconscious and badly wounded, while the aftershock knocked Linda unconscious but left her alive.
• Gion checked Linda’s condition, carried Devon away, and called Sister Tsuru to report that she had accidentally killed Devon.

After learning that the Gorosei planned to test Stussy’s undercover progress by sending a Celestial Dragon to the West Blue, Lucas sought a way to avoid exposing her while refusing to submit. Gion brought him Devon, a Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit user, and Lucas began turning her into a means to impersonate him during the encounter.

• Lucas confirmed that the Full-Power Potion had no side effects beyond temporary weakness after its effects wore off.
• Lucas learned through Kalifa’s thoughts that the Gorosei planned an obedience test involving a Celestial Dragon’s visit to the West Blue and Stussy luring him to the location.
• Lucas told his Telepathy network that he wanted to preserve Stussy’s cover but did not want to bow to the Celestial Dragon; Issho and Daz Bonez offered to kill him.
• Gion arrived with Devon, an unconscious Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit user, and Lucas realized she could impersonate him.
• Lucas began the First Embrace ritual on Devon and ordered his allies to capture female traffickers to replace the civilians and group employees at the Celestial Dragon’s stopover.

During Saint Pulming’s visit to Lasgap, he seized two women while Lucas and the townspeople could do nothing to stop him. Hina’s mother was taken from the hospital as her father was beaten down, leaving him with her final plea to live on.

• Hina left her sick mother behind during the evacuation after her mother urged her to escape the Celestial Dragons.
• Saint Pulming arrived in Lasgap with Vice Admiral Strawberry and took a frightened young woman from the kneeling crowd, with Lucas silently allowing it.
• After the male slave carrying Saint Pulming collapsed, Marines forced their way into a nearby hospital to find a doctor.
• Saint Pulming spotted Hina’s mother in the ward and ordered her taken as Hina’s father lunged at him.
• Holy Land Guards broke Hina’s father’s knee and pinned him down while Saint Pulming shackled Hina’s mother and dragged her away.
• Hina’s mother looked back at her husband and silently told him to live on.

Lucas learned that Celestial Dragons had taken Hina’s mother and promised to bring her back. Hina offered to become his fifth wife, but Lucas told her to wait until she was an adult before discussing marriage, then prepared to act against the Celestial Dragons.

• Robin told Lucas that the Celestial Dragons had taken Hina’s mother, and he went to the Lasgap branch to meet Hina and her father.
• Hina’s father begged Lucas to ransom his wife, and Lucas promised to rescue her without payment, praising Hina for her sharp judgment.
• Hina offered to become Lucas’s fifth wife after losing faith in the Marines, and Lucas said they could discuss marriage once she was an adult.
• After Hina and her father left, Robin asked Lucas whether he had considered the consequences of opposing the Celestial Dragons for an employee’s family.
• Lucas told Robin this would be the only time and recalled that Pulming had once shown murderous intent toward him.

Lucas attacked a World Government ship carrying Saint Pulming, killing the guards and CP agents before executing the Celestial Dragon. He rescued Hina's unconscious mother and left her in the Castle Ring for Nightin to treat.

• Saint Pulming ordered the CP squad captain to enslave a disrespectful man and capture his wives for the Celestial Dragon's amusement.
• Lucas killed two CP agents on deck and used Conqueror's Haki to incapacitate the ship's crew and guards.
• A CP0 agent attacked Lucas, but Lucas killed him with a blood-red punch.
• Lucas broke into Saint Pulming's cabin, found the Celestial Dragon unconscious among dead women, and smashed his head.
• Lucas found Hina's mother being kept barely alive, executed the female trafficker, and placed Hina's mother in the Castle Ring for Nightin to care for.

The Gorosei accepted the disappearance of Saint Pulming as a Sea King attack and planned to test Lucas’s loyalty before recruiting him into God’s Knights. At Eternal Financial Group, Lucas gave the Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit to Stussy and told her to conceal its true identity.

• Guernica reported that Saint Pulming and the official ship had vanished, and the Gorosei ordered the incident concealed while investigating Germa.
• The Gorosei concluded that Sea Kings had swallowed the ship and decided a God's Knight would test Lucas’s loyalty in three years.
• Lucas reassured Robin that he had covered up the attack by luring Sea Kings to the ship with blood.
• Lucas chose Stussy to receive the Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit because Gion had refused it and Stussy was next under his first-come, first-served rule.
• Lucas warned Stussy to pose publicly as a Dog-Dog Fruit, Fox Model user, and she took a bite of the Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit.

Golden Lion Shiki examined a photograph of Lucas and decided to visit Eternal Financial Group to settle his grudge, though his damaged memory left him unsure what had happened before. At the group’s headquarters, Lucas and his family shared a meal while Stussy explained her promotion and Robin assigned Kalifa more work.

• Indigo brought Golden Lion Shiki a photograph of Lucas and Stussy taken at a charity gala.
• Golden Lion Shiki recognized Lucas as the silver-haired brat whose forces had defeated his men, but his brain damage prevented him from recalling the details.
• Golden Lion Shiki decided to fly to Eternal Financial Group and confront them, then fell asleep again before leaving.
• Lucas questioned Stussy about her reward for helping stage the Cipher Pol operation, and she said her promotion to CP9 was already unusually generous.
• Lucas and Stussy joined the family for dinner, where Robin revealed she had left her work to Kalifa, who wanted to rise through Cipher Pol.

Lucas and the defenders of the Yulo Peninsula faced the returning Flying Pirates, led by Golden Lion Shiki. Lucas intercepted their aerial bombardment, then clashed with Shiki as the battle began in earnest.

• Issho sensed a malicious force approaching, and Lucas warned the family group chat before heading to the beach with Scarlet.
• A lookout spotted the Flying Pirates' fleet in the sky, and Lucas recognized Golden Lion Shiki as its leader.
• Shiki ordered his pirates to bombard the peninsula with heavy objects, but Lucas flew up and destroyed the barrage with [Fist Bone: Bloodstorm].
• Lucas fired [100,000,000 Volts: Electromagnetic Cannon] at Shiki's flagship, and Shiki split the beam with [Zanpa].
• Shiki unleashed [Lion: Chikigiri], and Lucas met the Flying Slashes with scarlet slashes from Dracule.

Lucas and Golden Lion Shiki continued their fierce aerial sword fight while the women attacked the Flying Pirates’ fleet. The security team stayed out of the battle, leaving Issho and Daz Bonez to play dice as their colleagues placed bets.

• Golden Lion Shiki pursued the falling Lucas and struck at him with Oto, but Lucas blocked his slash and launched himself back into the sky.
• Lucas and Golden Lion Shiki clashed blades, and Lucas challenged Shiki to fight at his peak before they were blasted apart by Haki.
• Robin, Baccarat, Stussy, and Scarlet approached the floating pirate ships as the pirates’ attacks repeatedly struck their own ships instead.
• Baccarat taunted the pirates, prompting them to abandon their firearms and steer their ships toward the women for boarding combat.
• Weevil tried to learn Geppo by stomping the ground, while Issho refused Daz Bonez’s offer to help and invited him to play dice.
• The security team members began secretly betting on the dice game.

Scarlet and Stussy fought aboard separate Flying Pirates ships and killed their captains along with the pirates on deck. Scarlet headed for another ship, while the account ended after Stussy defeated the mohawk captain.

• Scarlet used Soru, Rankyaku, and other Rokushiki techniques to kill the iron-masked captain and his crew.
• Scarlet used Geppo to rush toward the next pirate ship.
• Stussy transformed into her White Fox hybrid form and swiftly killed pirates aboard another Flying Pirates ship.
• Stussy countered the mohawk captain’s gunfire and killed him with a flurry of finger strikes and a claw swipe to the neck.

Baccarat and the others routed Golden Lion’s airborne pirates as Weevil learned Geppo and cut through a third of the fleet with one slash. Lucas’s blood-manipulating attack wounded Golden Lion, who reflected on the Float-Float Fruit’s limitation that he had to touch objects before controlling them.

• Baccarat looted the captain’s quarters and used Geppo to move between pirate ships, while her Luck-Luck Fruit turned the attackers’ gunfire against their own crews.
• Weevil learned to use Geppo, then sliced through a third of Golden Lion’s airborne ships with a wide flying slash, narrowly shaving Stussy’s fox ear.
• Stussy scolded Weevil for risking their allies, and Issho used gravity to catch him when he lost focus and fell.
• Scarlet and Stussy defeated resisting captains as Baccarat gathered treasure and worsened the fleeing pirates’ luck.
• Lucas clashed with Golden Lion and struck him with Blood Flow Wave, making the blood inside his body riot until Busoshoku Haki suppressed it.
• Golden Lion lamented that the Float-Float Fruit required physical contact, recalling that this limitation had kept him from overturning Roger’s ship and the surrounding seawater from afar.

Golden Lion attacked Lucas with his remaining pirate ships and a massive surge of seawater, but Lucas and Zatoichi stopped his advance. Golden Lion retreated from the fight, then launched one last seawater attack at the shore as Lucas countered it with blood dragons.

• Golden Lion sent his surviving pirate ships charging at Lucas, who destroyed them with Blood Shockwave.
• Golden Lion lifted a towering column of seawater toward Lucas, who used an elemental metal giant to split it apart.
• Golden Lion raced toward Yulo Peninsula, but Zatoichi blocked his path and struck him with Gravity Blade: Vengeance.
• Lucas taunted Golden Lion about the ship's wheel in his head, and Golden Lion chose to retreat rather than risk his life.
• Golden Lion hurled a gigantic seawater lion toward the shore, and Lucas met it with Blood Dragon Violent Bite.