Recaps

Lucas staged Germa’s destruction, overpowering Judge’s forces while Judge watched remotely. After the battle footage was secured, Lucas ordered Judge to remain hidden and redirect Germa’s research under his control.

• Lucas hurled a clone soldier into Germa’s giant snail, destroying it and sending the territory on its back into the sea.
• Judge remotely activated his golden-suited clone, which mourned Stealth Black and accused Lucas of killing his child.
• Lucas declared Germa’s end, struck Judge’s clone with a blood wave, and endured a barrage of beam guns as his burns rapidly healed.
• Lucas released an ultrasonic shockwave combined with Busoshoku Haki, crushing the clone soldiers and Judge’s clone while Stussy recorded the staged battle.
• Lucas told Judge to stay hidden because the public believed Germa had perished, then ordered him to suspend existing projects and follow Lucas’s research directions.

Daz Bonez arrived on Hardebain Island to find the Bomb-Bomb Fruit, which the arms dealer’s patrol leader Gem used to terrorize the townspeople. After killing a patrolman who attacked him, Daz Bonez followed his Observation Haki to the patrol camp.

• Gem used an explosive booger to destroy a vegetable seller’s basket, humiliate her, and grope her while his patrolmen watched.
• Daz Bonez reached Hardebain Island in a diving suit and used Observation Haki to locate nearby people.
• Daz Bonez asked the townspeople who could make explosions, drawing patrolmen who demanded to know why he sought Gem.
• A patrolman fired at Daz Bonez, who cut the bullet in half and killed the shooter with a flying slash.
• Daz Bonez followed the patrol’s presences to their camp, where the patrolmen were eating and drinking with women serving them.

Daz Bonez defeated Gem and the arms dealers’ guards, then helped the island’s laborers and their families escape aboard a pleasure boat. The rescued residents thanked the women as the boat prepared to take them to safety.

• Gem ordered his drunken gunmen to shoot Daz Bonez, but their bullets bounced harmlessly off him.
• Daz Bonez used Soru and his blade-like arms to slaughter the gunmen, then knocked Gem unconscious and carried him away.
• Daz Bonez asked the women aboard the pleasure boat to evacuate the laborers and their families, promising to deal with the guards himself.
• Daz Bonez tied up Gem, used Observation Haki to locate the guards, and defeated them in less than fifteen minutes.
• The laborers and their families boarded the pleasure boat, where they thanked the women for helping them escape.

Lucas successfully fused the Clay-Clay Fruit with the Bomb-Bomb Fruit, tested the new explosive clay ability, and gave the resulting fruit to Scarlet. Meanwhile, Crocodile discovered that someone had wiped out his arms-dealer operation on Hardebain Island and left him searching for a new source of income.

• Lucas tested the fused Clay-Clay and Bomb-Bomb abilities on a trafficker, confirmed both fruits' factors coexisted, and executed her.
• Lucas gave the resulting Devil Fruit to Scarlet after Gion declined it.
• Lucas instructed Stussy to search for someone with a temperature-control ability for his next fusion plan, mentioning Charlotte Oven's Heat-Heat Fruit as a possible target.
• Crocodile arrived at the arms dealers' ruined headquarters on Hardebain Island and sensed no living people anywhere on the island.
• Crocodile examined the scene, suspected a swordsman or great swordsman had killed the arms dealers, and left to find a new source of income.

Scarlet returned to Aplunan Island to destroy its trafficking dens, and Violet pressured her into letting her come along. After seeing Scarlet kill traffickers and hearing her justify it through the law, Violet followed her to another den, where Scarlet killed its unrepentant leader.

• Violet used her knowledge of Scarlet's private life to force her sister to let her accompany her.
• Scarlet destroyed a contraband drug warehouse, and Violet became sick at the sight of the bodies.
• Scarlet used Clay Creations to clear the battlefield and argued that the traffickers were legally no longer human.
• Violet followed Scarlet to another traffickers' den despite being told she could go home.
• Scarlet blasted the den's leader through a wall, then killed him with Flying Shigan.
• Violet read the leader's thoughts and fell silent after his death.

Marco and Jozu confronted Lucas on the Yulo Peninsula, where Lucas’s clone soldiers and the two Whitebeard Pirates clashed in a fierce battle. As Lucas attacked Marco with a crimson slash, Jozu caught it barehanded and hurled it into the sky.

• Karma’s pirate ship reached the Yulo Peninsula, and Marco and Jozu went ahead while the rest of the crew remained behind.
• Lucas ordered his clone soldiers to fire on Marco, who retaliated with an Azure Flame attack before Jozu landed among the soldiers.
• Lucas attacked the two captains with a Blood Tornado, and Jozu met it head-on with his diamond body and Shining · Collision.
• Marco tried to speak with Lucas, but Lucas blasted him with an electromagnetic cannon and drew Dracule to continue fighting.
• Lucas sent a crimson slash toward Marco, and Jozu caught it with his hands and hurled it into the clouds.

Lucas fought Jozu while Marco tried to reach Weevil, but Lucas’s allies joined the battle instead. Stussy confronted Marco as Weevil’s publicly recognized sister and demanded to know where he was.

• Jozu charged Lucas to hold him back, but Lucas struck him with an electromagnetic, Haki-coated palm and sent him crashing into a deep crater.
• Lucas told Issho to stay out of the fight and gave everyone else permission to act.
• A swarm of clay bats attacked Marco before he could finish calling for Weevil, and Marco regenerated his head with his Phoenix powers.
• Stussy leaped from the clay bat, transformed into a fox-like form, and attacked Marco with Haki-coated claws.
• Marco defended himself without pursuing an opening and asked Stussy where Weevil was.

Stussy, Baccarat, Scarlet, and Hina joined forces against Marco, while Lucas defeated Jozu with a powerful blood spear. Jozu ended the chapter injured and sinking into the sea as half-fishmen rushed to rescue him.

• Stussy transformed into a giant white fox and attacked Marco, while Baccarat, Scarlet, and Hina joined the fight against him.
• Lucas reflected that Jozu was not strong enough to challenge him, despite being a Whitebeard Pirates commander.
• Jozu charged Lucas in a diamond form, powering up with Busoshoku Haki.
• Lucas struck Jozu in the chest with his Haki-infused Vortex Blood Spear, shattering his armor and cracking his diamond body.
• Jozu flew into the sea, and several half-fishmen dove in to haul him up.

Marco’s regenerative Phoenix abilities kept him fighting the women for more than half a day until Lucas stepped in. Lucas overwhelmed Marco with a powerful punch, but Marco healed and launched another attack, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Marco’s stamina and regeneration frustrated Scarlet, Hina, and Baccarat as their long battle continued.
• Marco struck the women with Haki-coated kicks, and Lucas stopped them from getting back up before joining the fight.
• Lucas severed Marco’s wing, then smashed Marco’s Azure Flame Goose attack and knocked him into a crater with a supersonic punch.
• Marco healed his wounds and reconsidered his plan, deciding he could win by dragging out the fight.
• Marco flew back into the sky and fired his Phoenix Brand at Lucas.

Lucas defeated Marco and Jozu in a prolonged battle, forcing Marco to retreat with the badly injured Jozu. With the Whitebeard Pirates gone, Lucas released Weevil from Castle Space and gave him a marshmallow, though Marco warned that Whitebeard would come for them.

• Lucas evaded Jozu’s diamond punch and knocked him unconscious with a powerful kick, then countered Marco’s attack and blasted him apart with an electromagnetic cannon.
• For three days and nights, Lucas repeatedly overwhelmed Marco, but Marco recovered each time through the Phoenix Fruit’s flames.
• Lucas warned Marco that continuing would exhaust him and kill him, then pointed out that Jozu was near death and needed treatment.
• Marco carried Jozu back to their ship, covered his wounds with his remaining flames, and warned Lucas that Whitebeard would not be as easy to reason with.
• Lucas released Weevil from Castle Space and distracted him with a giant marshmallow.

In Wano, Golden Lion Shiki prepared for Queen to operate on him while Kaido watched. In Vira, Don Accino slaughtered pirates and civilians before Gion confronted him, and they prepared to fight.

• Shiki asked Kaido whether he could trust him, and Kaido said the young man who opposed Shiki would have to prove himself.
• Shiki threatened Queen and lay on the operating table, and Queen began approaching with his toolbox after Kaido nodded.
• Don Accino defeated a pirate crew in Vira, killing their captain and taking down their flag.
• Gion attacked Don Accino and confronted him over the civilians he had killed while fighting pirates.
• Don Accino formed two thermal bombs and threatened Gion as she prepared to stop him.

Gion defeated and captured Don Accino after cutting through his heat-resistant body with Haki, while Lucas helped Stussy develop an electrically charged Hybrid Form. Lucas then considered how to assess Baccarat’s fighting strength, leaving her capabilities uncertain.

• Don Accino hurled thermal bombs at Gion, but she used Soru to close in and cut him with her Haki-coated sword.
• Don Accino was shocked that Gion’s blade wounded him, then collapsed unconscious after she cut him repeatedly.
• Gion restrained Don Accino with Seastone handcuffs, noting that he might suit her husband’s search for someone with temperature-control abilities.
• Lucas trained Stussy to copy a fox Mink’s fur distribution, giving her a Hybrid Form that carried high-voltage electricity.
• Lucas considered his allies’ combat abilities and decided he needed to test Baccarat’s strength while she trained with a several-ton barbell.

Lucas tested the women’s physical strength on Rusukaina Island, finding that Baccarat had reached Gear Fourth-level power while Robin and Stussy matched Gear Third and Scarlet and Hina matched Gear Second. Back at Yulo Peninsula, he discovered Don Accino had been captured, killed him, and obtained a Heat-Heat Fruit for his planned synthesis.

• Lucas brought the women to Rusukaina Island and had Baccarat test her strength against a giant ape.
• Baccarat defeated the giant ape with Hasshoken and Tekkai Kenpo, demonstrating attack power comparable to Gear Fourth Luffy.
• Robin, Stussy, Scarlet, and Hina defeated other beasts, leading Lucas to assess their physical levels as comparable to Gear Third or Gear Second Luffy.
• Lucas returned with the women to Yulo Peninsula and found Don Accino bound in Seastone chains.
• Lucas used his senses to identify a familiar presence in his bedroom, then killed Don Accino and obtained a Heat-Heat Fruit.

Lucas reunited with Gion, persuaded her to stay as his wife, and held a wedding before setting off with Hina to find the Flame-Flame Fruit. On Ant Hell, he found the fruit and fused it with the Heat-Heat Fruit’s temperature ability, then gave the enhanced blue fruit to Hina, who ate it.

• Lucas embraced Gion, and she agreed to stay with him as his wife after he asked her not to leave again.
• Lucas agreed to respect Gion’s wish to wait for Golden Lion’s Float-Float Fruit instead of taking a different ability.
• Lucas held a wedding for Gion, then left with Hina for East Blue to retrieve the Flame-Flame Fruit.
• Lucas used the Luck-Luck Fruit to find Ant Hell near Dawn Island and knocked out the island’s creatures with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Lucas found the Flame-Flame Fruit inside a giant bird on an ancient pirate ship and merged it with the Heat-Heat Fruit’s temperature ability.
• Lucas gave Hina the enhanced blue Flame-Flame Fruit, and she bit into it.

Hina and Lucas remained near Gothic Island while searching for the Slip-Slip Fruit, and Lucas planned to leave East Blue after one last attempt. On Varok Island, Betty’s efforts to defend the new king’s revolution faltered under the old king’s artillery until Lucas descended onto the battlefield.

• Hina destroyed a fleeing pirate ship with blue flames infused with Busoshoku Haki, and Lucas said they would leave after one final search for the Slip-Slip Fruit.
• The old king returned to Varok Island with his army to reclaim the throne from the commoners’ elected king, who had abolished oppressive taxes.
• Betty used her Encouragement Fruit to rally the civilian army, but the old king ordered his cannons to fire on them.
• Betty charged into battle and fought with her flagpole, then collapsed after a cannon blast and faced a second volley.
• Lucas unleashed Conqueror’s Haki that knocked out the soldiers, and Betty glimpsed him descending onto the battlefield before losing consciousness.

Betty woke in Lucas’s home after he rescued her and learned that he wanted to court her. She agreed to give him a chance to prove he could help her pursue her dream, but overheard him with Hina next door and grew angry.

• Betty woke in an unfamiliar room, remembered Lucas rescuing her, and worried that he might expect her to repay him by becoming his wife.
• Lucas brought Betty sweet almonds and admitted that he had saved her because he was attracted to her.
• Betty told Lucas that helping oppressed people mattered more to her than romance, and Lucas offered to help her achieve that goal.
• Betty agreed to give Lucas one chance to prove himself, while Lucas went next door and embraced Hina.
• Betty enjoyed the almonds until she heard Lucas with Hina through the wall and angrily accused him of courting her while being with another woman.

Betty inspected Aplunan Island and two neighboring countries, then accepted Lucas’s invitation to join his family after seeing how the Eternal Financial Group had improved people’s lives. Lucas explained that he helped his wives achieve their dreams, while Gion and the others agreed not to let enemies use hostages to threaten him.

• Betty saw that the Eternal Financial Group’s facilities and policies had improved life on Aplunan Island, and the king credited Mr. Eos for the changes.
• Betty visited two neighboring islands and found that people there were also well-fed, warmly clothed, and hopeful about the future.
• Betty told Lucas she believed joining his family would let her help more people, but asked whether he would help oppressed strangers of his own accord.
• Lucas admitted he did not have a grand ideal of saving people and would not help strangers out of his own heart, but said he would support his wives’ dreams.
• Lucas described how he had helped his wives pursue their dreams, and Betty agreed to join his family.
• Gion told the women not to plead for hostages if enemies ever tried to use them against Lucas, and they agreed.

Lucas discovered that Betty's Encouragement Fruit could enhance his physical strength through prolonged intimate contact, and Betty confirmed the ability's unusual trigger. She then asked what had happened to the civilians from the Rade Kingdom, and Lucas began to tell her.

• Lucas tested his strength and accidentally blasted a hole through the villa's enormous front door.
• Scarlet checked on Lucas, then sent clay dolls to repair the door while Betty emerged from the bathroom.
• Lucas told Betty his theory that her ability's effects on him required prolonged intimate contact, and she agreed to test it after breakfast.
• After more than an hour, Betty saw Lucas's enhanced physique and admitted that her ability had a shameless hidden use.
• Betty asked about the civilians from the Rade Kingdom, and Lucas began recounting what happened after she passed out.

Lucas arrived in the Rade Kingdom, rescued Betty, and killed the king after finding the battlefield littered with casualties. Dragon arrived and explained the king’s crimes, then contacted Revolutionary Army headquarters after Lucas departed.

• Dragon descended onto the docks and headed toward the royal city.
• Lucas placed the unconscious Betty in Castle Space and instructed Hina to care for her.
• Lucas drained the old king’s blood, leaving him dead, while sparing the other soldiers.
• Dragon met Lucas and explained that the king had bombarded civilians before fleeing and returning to attack.
• Lucas left the battlefield, and Dragon called Revolutionary Army headquarters on an encrypted line.

Lucas gave Betty a custom banner spear, while Scarlet scolded them for wrecking the living room. At the Yulo Peninsula, Zatoichi intercepted Whitebeard’s approaching crew with a massive tsunami, which Whitebeard shattered before Marco and Vista helped protect the ship; Whitebeard’s commanders then insisted they wanted to fight for themselves.

• Lucas gave Betty a five-meter banner spear, and Betty’s test swing scattered furniture around the living room.
• Scarlet reprimanded Lucas and Betty, who cleaned up and fled to the training grounds; Stussy teased Scarlet, and Robin retreated after hearing Stussy’s remark.
• Zatoichi sensed the Moby Dick approaching the Yulo Peninsula and identified Whitebeard, Marco, and Jozu among its crew.
• Zatoichi attacked the Moby Dick with a towering tsunami, and Whitebeard split the wave and the sky with a single punch.
• Marco and Vista helped break up the seawater threatening the deck, prompting Whitebeard to rebuke them.
• Marco and the other commanders told Whitebeard they wanted to stop relying on his protection, and Whitebeard reacted with anger and pride.

Whitebeard arrived at the Yulo Peninsula and demanded that Lucas hand over Weevil, while Lucas mocked him over Stussy and fought him. Whitebeard struck Lucas out of the air and sent him crashing into the sea.

• Issho obeyed Lucas's order to stand down and returned to the beach as the Moby Dick stopped offshore.
• Whitebeard leaped from the Moby Dick to the coast and split Lucas's incoming blood wave with a Flying Slash.
• Whitebeard demanded that Lucas hand over Weevil, and Lucas mocked him by pointing out that Stussy was also his daughter.
• Whitebeard slashed at Lucas without using his Devil Fruit or Haki, and Lucas countered with a scarlet slash from Dracule.
• Lucas used Razor to circle Whitebeard, but Whitebeard anticipated him with Observation Haki and shattered the air with a punch.
• Whitebeard's punch forced Lucas into view and sent him flying into the sea, coughing up blood.

Lucas continued fighting Whitebeard after surviving a blow that sent him into the sea, testing the limits of his abilities against Whitebeard’s superior Haki. Whitebeard dispersed Lucas’s massive blood-and-lightning attack, then declared that he had run out of patience and prepared a Sky-Splitting Strike.

• Lucas escaped the closing sea and powered up with lightning before launching a high-speed attack at Whitebeard.
• Whitebeard stopped Lucas’s blade with Busoshoku Haki, and Lucas discovered that his blood-control ability could not affect someone whose Haki greatly surpassed his own.
• Lucas hurled Dracule at Whitebeard and unleashed his 200 Million Volts: Massive Jet, engulfing him in a wave of blood and lightning.
• Whitebeard released his Conqueror’s Haki to erase Lucas’s attack, while Teach privately dismissed Lucas’s power.
• Whitebeard praised Lucas’s potential, then stomped into the air and announced that his patience had run out before preparing Sky-Splitting Strike.

Whitebeard crushed Lucas with a single attack, but his fight was interrupted when he recognized his children Stussy and Weevil. Weevil attacked him over his mother’s suffering and defended Lucas, leaving Whitebeard shaken by the family ties he had neglected.

• Whitebeard’s Conqueror’s Haki-infused blow badly injured Lucas, who contacted Stussy and Weevil for help rather than risk a larger battle.
• Stussy arrived and punched Whitebeard back, and he recognized her as his daughter by her resemblance to Buckingham.
• Weevil charged Whitebeard while accusing him of abandoning him and his mother, and Marco intercepted Weevil’s attack to protect his father.
• Whitebeard stopped Marco from striking again and blocked Weevil’s Naginata with one finger.
• Weevil said he protected Lucas because Lucas fed him and treated him well, and Whitebeard softened as he recognized his own youthful loyalty in his son.

Whitebeard accepted Lucas and Stussy’s explanation and left Weevil in their care after warning Lucas to keep him on the right path. After Whitebeard departed, Stussy worried that their deception might be exposed, while Lucas reassured her that no one could prove it.

• Whitebeard pushed Weevil back and sent Marco to fight him, then told Lucas he would leave Weevil in his care but would hold him responsible if Weevil went astray.
• Lucas promised he had enough money to support Weevil, and Stussy offered Whitebeard a crate of rum while apologizing for attacking him.
• Whitebeard said Oliver and his son had broken the rules by trafficking people, declared the matter settled, and left with Marco aboard the Moby Dick.
• Stussy collapsed into Lucas’s arms after the ship disappeared and asked what would happen if their deception came to light.
• Lucas reassured Stussy that the World Government had no reason to expose their lie, and Weevil asked how he had done before happily eating Lucas’s rice balls.

Lucas struggled for seven days to understand Conqueror's Haki Infusion, then concluded that he needed to face intense pressure to master it. After healing his injuries with Life Energy, he returned to the villa, where Gion whisked him away for a bath before the other women could reach him.

• Lucas practiced projecting Conqueror's Haki but could not reproduce Whitebeard's infused punch.
• Hina and Betty smoked in the villa until Gion confiscated their cigarettes for breaking Lucas's house rules.
• After seven days of training, Lucas studied Luffy's and Zoro's breakthroughs and decided that pressure was necessary to master Conqueror's Haki Infusion.
• Lucas used Life Energy to heal the damage Whitebeard had caused, but the regeneration turned his tanned skin pale again.
• Gion dragged Lucas to the bedroom for a bath while Baccarat, Betty, Hina, and Stussy arrived too late.