Recaps

Lucas challenged Zatoichi to an all-out battle so he could learn a new technique under pressure. Zatoichi escalated the fight with a massive gravity attack, and Lucas faced the oncoming mudslide as the battle continued.

• Lucas recovered at home and asked Zatoichi to fight him without holding back.
• Zatoichi opened the battle with a flying slash that Lucas countered, and Lucas transformed and charged at him with lightning speed.
• Zatoichi trapped Lucas beneath a gravity field and summoned meteorites from space.
• Lucas broke free, destroyed the falling meteorites with an electromagnetic cannon, and attacked Zatoichi, who repelled him with another gravity strike.
• Lucas asked Zatoichi to get more serious, so Zatoichi unleashed Gravity Blade: Fruit Shape, driving a towering mudslide toward him.

Lucas and Issho continued their fierce battle, trading powerful attacks that tested each other’s gravity, Haki, and elemental abilities. The fight remained unresolved as Lucas sent a rain of Haki-coated blood spears toward Issho.

• Lucas reshaped a metal palm into Haki-coated iron spears, pierced Issho’s mudslide and gravity field, then fired a compressed blood attack that cracked Issho’s defenses.
• Lucas used an ultrasonic shockwave to distract Issho, then struck from above with a 100,000,000-volt electromagnetic cannon that blasted a crater into the ground.
• Lucas charged Issho and forced him backward with a flurry of sword strikes and flying slashes.
• Issho halted his retreat and destroyed Lucas’s incoming slashes with Gravity Blade: Checkpoint Break.
• Lucas countered Issho’s gravity beam with Riptide Burial, then turned the scattered blood into Haki-coated spears and launched Bloody Hunt at him.

Lucas and Issho fought for ten days, destroying Spring Island and exhausting themselves as they battled with Haki, gravity, and blood-based attacks. Their final clash split the clouds above the sea, but the battle’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Lucas summoned ten thousand Armament Haki-coated swords and sent them through Issho’s gravity field toward him.
• Lucas and Issho continued fighting in the sky after their battle destroyed Spring Island, with Lucas spending far more Haki to overcome Issho’s stronger Busoshoku Haki.
• Lucas used his blood powers against Issho, who suppressed the attack with Haki, and Lucas charged forward to end the battle.
• Issho unleashed his final gravity attack, and Lucas met it with Dracule infused with black-red lightning.
• Lucas and Issho’s attacks collided in a massive explosion that tore open the clouds and churned the sea, leaving the fight’s result unknown.

Two years after the Stealth Black Incident, Judge trained the Vinsmoke children at Germa Kingdom’s new sky-bound base, where Sanji had become a powerful fighter. Sanji defeated a wanted criminal but ignored Judge and left with Sora, while Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji continued their training under Judge’s scorn.

• Judge relocated Germa Kingdom to a floating base in the New World and oversaw Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji’s training.
• Sanji fought a wanted criminal with a bounty over ten million Beli in the arena.
• Sanji used Concassé to defeat the criminal, who died after crashing into the electric fence.
• Judge praised Sanji, but Sanji went to Sora instead, and she led him away to prepare food.
• Judge berated Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji for lagging behind Sanji, and they resumed training.

Tea Beard's pirate raid on Dressrosa was stopped by Lafitte, while Lucas agreed to help Flevance after Betty showed him reports of the coming war. At the Flevance border, allied soldiers shot two civilians with Amber Lead Disease, and an unexpected guest arrived at the joint command headquarters.

• Tea Beard attacked Dressrosa's docks, claiming Vampire had died, and Repant fought to defend the town.
• Lafitte hypnotized Tea Beard into attacking his own crew, then Tea Beard slit his own throat after the pirates were defeated.
• Betty asked Lucas to help Flevance, and he agreed after learning neighboring nations were preparing for war and considering the Op-Op Fruit's value.
• At Flevance's border, soldiers shot two civilians with Amber Lead Disease, and a recruit questioned the order before his commander silenced him.
• An unexpected guest arrived at the allied nations' temporary joint command headquarters.

Lucas and Betty entered Flevance after securing permission to remove its Amber Lead cosmetics, only to find the country’s people dead and the land ravaged. Lucas rescued Trafalgar Lami and Trafalgar Law, then destroyed Flevance with a vast sea of lightning.

• Betty told the allied commander that Eternal Financial Group would clear Flevance in exchange for its remaining Amber Lead cosmetics, and Lucas played the part of a henpecked husband.
• The commander secured several kings’ approval, and Lucas and Betty crossed into Flevance, where they found corpses throughout the country.
• Lucas used Observation Haki to locate the last two survivors and found Trafalgar Lami badly burned inside a burning hospital.
• Trafalgar Law charged Lucas with a dagger, but Lucas knocked him unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki and placed both siblings in Castle Space for Betty and Nightin to care for.
• Lucas unleashed a sea of lightning that reduced Flevance, its corpses, and the Amber Lead-contaminated soil to ruins, also killing soldiers still near the border.

After Judge outlined three ways to cure Luo and Lami’s Amber Lead Syndrome, Lucas chose to sacrifice some of his lifespan so Sora could operate on them. While they underwent surgery, Lucas reflected on the underground network and strength he had built to prepare for a future break with the World Government.

• Betty told Gion, Baccarat, Scarlet, Hina, Stussy, and Robin how the World Government had concealed the danger of Amber Lead and allowed Flevance’s people to die.
• Judge examined Luo and Lami and proposed organ replacement, surgery using the Op-Op Fruit, or an operation supported by Lucas’s Life Energy.
• Luo chose organ replacement, but Lucas overruled him and agreed to provide his Life Energy for the operation.
• Lucas gave Luo and Lami his blood, and Sora began operating on them while he waited outside.
• Lucas reflected on his underground businesses, expanding intelligence network, and repeated battles with Issho as he prepared for a future conflict with the World Government.

Sanji asked Lucas to train him so he could better protect his family, and Lucas showed him a range of kicking techniques and Busoshoku Haki applications. In Prodence Kingdom, Betty narrowly avoided being targeted by Macro’s slave-catching gang when Fisher Tiger intervened, then warned him to control his men.

• Sanji asked Lucas to train him because he feared he could not protect his family from an enemy as strong as the CP0 agent who had attacked Germa.
• Lucas spent more than five hours demonstrating kicking techniques and Busoshoku Haki applications to Sanji, who remembered them but declined to learn swordsmanship.
• Betty sensed a group of fish-men watching her in Prodence Kingdom and deliberately entered a narrow alley to draw them away from the crowded street.
• Macro and his gang moved to abduct Betty, but Fisher Tiger arrived and knocked them all down.
• Fisher Tiger apologized to Betty and asked Macro what he had been trying to do; Betty told Tiger to keep his men under control and left.

Lucas reunited with Hancock and checked in with Reiju, Koala, and Baby 5 before meeting Lami and Luo after Lami’s successful operation cured their Amber Lead Disease. He arranged for Luo to study swordsmanship in East Blue and agreed to consider Lami’s feelings after she spent several years training in a women-only country.

• Lucas called Hancock, asked after Reiju, Koala, and Baby 5, and caught up with them before ending the conversation.
• Lami rushed out of the operating room and embraced Lucas, while Luo joined her in thanking him for curing their disease.
• Luo solemnly pledged his life to Lucas, and Lami jokingly tried to offer herself to him before Luo stopped her.
• Lucas asked Luo to study at a swordsmanship dojo in East Blue, and Luo immediately agreed.
• Lucas told Lami he would consider her feelings after she trained for a few years in a country inhabited only by women, and Lami eagerly accepted.

After Lucas learned that Macro's Fish-Men had targeted Betty, he arranged for Sakazuki to raid their ship under the pretense of enforcing the law. Sakazuki killed Macro's gang, and the chapter left him charging at Fisher Tiger.

• Lucas asked Gion to identify the nearest Marine commander, and she named Sakazuki at the G-3 Branch.
• Lucas secretly filled Macro's ship with powder and planted an altered drug ledger in its captain's cabin.
• Sakazuki led Marines to the ship, where they found the powder and arrested two female dealers.
• When Macro and his crew returned, Sakazuki burned the ledger and killed Tans, Gyaro, and Macro with magma.
• Fisher Tiger confronted Sakazuki over the deaths, and Sakazuki declared Tiger a target before launching an attack.

Eos Lucas intervened when Sakazuki attacked Fisher Tiger, then fought Sakazuki to let Fisher Tiger escape. Lucas’s powerful slash burned Sakazuki through his defenses, but Sakazuki reformed and charged back into the fight.

• Dracule blocked Sakazuki’s magma fist and saved Fisher Tiger from being killed.
• Lucas mocked Sakazuki and signaled Fisher Tiger to retreat, prompting Sakazuki to pursue him.
• Lucas transformed into his Hybrid Form and intercepted Sakazuki with Dracule.
• Sakazuki attacked Lucas with Dog Bite Crimson Lotus, and Lucas countered with 500 Million Volts: Thunder God Tenmei Flash.
• Lucas’s slash split Sakazuki’s magma hound and tore through his Armament Haki, leaving a severe burn on his chest.
• Sakazuki reformed from the magma and charged at Lucas again.

Lucas and Sakazuki exchanged devastating attacks until Sengoku ordered Sakazuki to stop fighting and return, citing Prodence’s status as an allied nation. After the Marines withdrew, Gion admitted she had contacted headquarters to prevent the battle from destroying the country.

• Sakazuki attacked Lucas with Great Eruption and Meigo, while Lucas countered with Blood Domain Veil and sent Sakazuki crashing into the earth.
• Lucas recovered from his severe chest wound, surprising Sakazuki, then asked whether the Marines would compensate the civilians’ families.
• Doberman delivered Sengoku’s order for Sakazuki to return and stop pursuing the matter because Prodence was an allied nation.
• Sakazuki reluctantly incinerated Macro’s sailboat and its cargo, then boarded the Marine warship and departed.
• Gion told Lucas she had contacted Marine headquarters to interrupt the fight, and Lucas said she had done well.

Lucas handled the aftermath of the battle in Prodence, then advised Fisher Tiger to take his younger brothers on an adventure so he could guide them. After leaving Lami in Hancock’s care on Amazon Lily, Lucas set off with Luo toward the East Blue.

• Lucas apologized to Elizabello II for the damage, and Dagama knocked out a citizen who tried to demand compensation from him.
• Lucas told Stussy to arrange a visit to the bold citizen, then left Prodence after politely declining Elizabello II’s banquet.
• Fisher Tiger learned that Macro and his group were involved in the illegal drug trade and worried his other younger brothers might follow them.
• Lucas suggested Fisher Tiger form an adventure group and take his younger brothers out to see the sea, and Tiger agreed to discuss it with them.
• Lucas took Lami to Amazon Lily, entrusted her to Hancock, and departed with Luo for the East Blue.

Koushirou watched Zoro defeat an adult swordsman at Isshin Dojo, but Kuina swiftly beat Zoro in their sparring match. A silver-haired young man and an expressionless boy in a spotted fur hat arrived as the dojo students argued about talent.

• The narration described how Shimotsuki Furiko, Shimotsuki Kozaburo, and their companions left Wano and founded Shimotsuki Village in the East Blue.
• Zoro defeated an adult swordsman by striking his wrists and disarming him, earning praise from the dojo students.
• Kuina challenged Zoro and knocked him backward with a single precise strike.
• Koushirou defended Kuina and denied that she had received special training when Zoro's friends accused him of favoritism.
• A silver-haired young man and an expressionless boy wearing a spotted fur hat arrived and said that people differed in talent.

Lucas left Luo at Koushirou’s dojo to learn swordsmanship, then demonstrated his overwhelming skill to Zoro, Kuina, and the students. He departed claiming he would soon become the world’s greatest swordsman, while Zoro and Kuina eagerly questioned Luo about him.

• Lucas asked Koushirou to teach Luo swordsmanship, explaining that his many wives made training the boy himself inconvenient.
• Koushirou agreed to let Luo stay at the dojo, and Lucas left him tuition and advice.
• When Zoro asked how strong he was, Lucas forged a metal sword with Electromagnetic Force and cut through the clouds with a flying slash.
• Zoro asked if Lucas was the world’s greatest swordsman, and Lucas said he was not yet but soon would be.
• Zoro and Kuina both asked Luo to tell them about Lucas, while Koushirou watched them with satisfaction.

A desperate old man traded two Ancient Species Devil Fruits to the Eternal Financial Group for Full-Power Potions, then escaped into the sea while Hanafza pursued him. Hanafza confronted Lafitte at the auction house, and their dispute turned violent when Hanafza attacked.

• A white-haired old man reached the Dressrosa auction house and traded a Pachycephalosaurus Form fruit and a Spinosaurus Form fruit for four Full-Power Potions.
• The old man drank one potion, regained his youthful strength, and escaped into the sea after telling Hanafza that the fruits had gone to the Eternal Financial Group.
• Hanafza ordered his crew ashore and went alone to demand the fruits from Lafitte.
• Lafitte refused to return the fruits, and Hanafza threatened him before swinging his spiked metal ball at him.

Hanafza and Lize Draco attacked civilians in Dressrosa, and Kyros failed to stop them. After Violet spotted the battle, Stussy identified the Lizard Pirates and prepared to intervene with Hina.

• Lafitte dodged Hanafza's spiked-ball attack as rubble killed civilians in the street.
• Kyros charged Hanafza with a Haki-coated Flying Slash, but Hanafza overwhelmed him and left him badly wounded.
• At the palace pool, Stussy asked Violet to investigate the crash, and Violet spotted Lafitte and Kyros fighting Hanafza and Lize Draco.
• Stussy identified Hanafza, Lize Draco, and Iguna as members of the Lizard Pirates and judged Lafitte unable to handle all three alone.
• Stussy and Hina decided to go to the street and help.

Hanafza and his men attacked Lafitte, but Scarlet and Hina arrived to defend the allied side and engage them. As Lafitte and Kyros evacuated civilians, Lize surrounded Scarlet with living scales and explained how they concealed her location.

• Iguna slammed Lafitte into the ground, and Hanafza demanded that Lafitte hand over two Devil Fruits.
• Scarlet attacked Hanafza with explosive Clay Birds, while Hina struck at him with blue flames infused with Busoshoku Haki.
• Hanafza ordered his crew to fight, sending Lize after Scarlet and Iguna after Stussy.
• Lafitte and Kyros used hypnosis to evacuate civilians, and Lafitte reassured Kyros that Lucas had trained the women well.
• Lize surrounded Scarlet with powder made from her shed scales and explained that the living particles hid her location from Observation Haki.

Scarlet defeated Lize by exploiting her immunity to explosions, while Stussy faced Iguna in the evacuated town. The chapter left Stussy and Iguna about to clash as she waited for her husband to return.

• Scarlet detonated a Clay Bat to scatter Lize’s powder and blasted her out of hiding, unharmed by the explosion.
• Lize fled among the buildings, then attacked Scarlet with poisoned scale needles and a rapid barrage of strikes.
• Scarlet detonated an explosion at point-blank range, sending Lize crashing into the Corrida Colosseum wall and knocking her unconscious.
• Iguna confronted Stussy in his Hybrid Form while she waited on a rooftop in her Sulong-like form.
• Iguna charged Stussy and launched his Rock Claw Rift Slash.

Stussy fought Iguna, an armored lizard fighter, and overwhelmed him with her Haki, speed, and electricity. She left him buried in the ruins, badly wounded and losing consciousness.

• Iguna attacked Stussy with Haki-coated claws, but she deflected most of the force and sent a current through his arm.
• Iguna charged Stussy with his Mane Shoulder Charge, but she stopped him with a tail strike and countered his Rock-Smashing Tail Hammer.
• Stussy paralyzed Iguna with electricity and knocked him from the rooftop into the street.
• Iguna unleashed his Rock Lizard Siege Cannon, but Stussy stopped his charge with a Haki-coated electric punch.
• Stussy said Iguna’s bounty should be doubled, then kicked him into a ruined building, leaving him buried in rubble and fading into unconsciousness.

Lucas returned to Dressrosa and reunited with Stussy and Scarlet, who told him about the Beasts Pirates’ attack. In the Flower Field, Hina fought Hanafza until Lucas arrived, and Hanafza transformed into a Tyrannosaurus Rex to continue the battle.

• Lucas embraced and kissed Stussy and Scarlet when they greeted him in Dressrosa.
• Scarlet told Lucas that trouble had occurred in Dressrosa, and he praised her and Stussy for defeating their opponents.
• In the Flower Field, Hina evaded Hanafza’s chain-scythe attack by becoming blue flames and struck him with Fire Fist.
• Hanafza burst through Hina’s flames with a Busoshoku-coated spiked ball and sent her flying, but she reformed from blue flames.
• Lucas arrived and told Hanafza that he could take the Devil Fruits if he defeated Lucas’s people.
• Hanafza transformed into his Tyrannosaurus Rex Beast Form and charged at Hina.

Hina fought Hanafza, a cyborg Ancient Zoan, and proved strong enough to overpower him in a direct clash. Hanafza recovered and escalated the battle with his mechanical weapons, ending the chapter as he tried to ensnare her with his chained spiked ball.

• Hina met Hanafza’s Tyrannosaurus Bomb head-on and sent him crashing into the ground, shattering his teeth.
• Hanafza recovered through his Zoan abilities, changed into Hybrid Form, and armed himself with a scythe while Lucas judged Hina capable of facing ordinary members of God's Knights.
• Hanafza extended his mechanical arm to attack Hina, but she dodged and wrapped its joints in a blue fire whip.
• Hanafza broke the fire whip with Armament Haki and launched a flying scythe slash, which Hina evaded before kicking his shoulder.
• Hanafza attacked with his scythe and a hidden chained spiked ball, but Hina heated the ball with fire threads and forced him to defend against the heat.
• Hanafza swung the chained spiked ball around Hina, attempting to bind her with the Haki-coated chain.

Hina defeated Hanafza by using blue flames to overwhelm his weapons, exhaust his Haki, and burn through his defenses. Hanafza fainted after Hina mocked the cost of repairing his modifications.

• Hina evaded Hanafza's traps and burned his mechanical arm before striking him beneath the ribs.
• Hanafza attacked with his jaws and scythe, but Hina escaped and forced him to withdraw the overheated weapon.
• Hanafza unleashed a spinning storm of scythe slashes and chain-swept steel, while Hina gathered the flames she had spread across the battlefield.
• Hina used Blazing Hell to engulf Hanafza, gradually draining his Haki and burning his scales, flesh, and mechanical arm.
• Hanafza collapsed after losing his strength, and Hina taunted him about the cost of his modifications until he fainted in rage.

Wounded Hanafza dismissed Iguna and Lize and set off alone to visit his family, leaving Lize heartbroken. After watching him depart, Violet reflected on her own forbidden feelings for Lucas, who decided to follow Hanafza.

• Hanafza refused Lize's offer to tend his wounds and told Iguna that their captured companions should remain prisoners.
• Hanafza ordered Iguna and Lize to recover and leave him, but Iguna reluctantly obeyed while planning to follow him later.
• Hanafza rejected Lize's plea to accompany him, saying his heart belonged to his late wife, and Iguna led her away.
• Hanafza took out his wooden lizard pendant, rested, and then headed toward the harbor alone.
• Violet watched Hanafza's departure and privately compared Lize's unrequited love with her own feelings for Lucas, her brother-in-law.
• Lucas put on the Transparent Ring and told Violet he would follow Hanafza to see where he went.

Lucas secretly followed Hanafza and stopped his pursuers without killing them. Hanafza reached the remote island where his children lived and saw Ulti protect Page One, who believed their father had abandoned them.

• Lucas used Deep Sleep, invisibility, and magnetic levitation to follow Hanafza through the forest unnoticed.
• Lucas drained blood from the men plotting to attack the injured Hanafza, leaving them unconscious rather than killing them.
• Several days later, Hanafza arrived at a remote island and entered its impoverished town.
• Hanafza saw children bullying Page One and realized the boy was his son.
• Ulti chased the bullies away with her spiked club, then gave Page One the bread and promised to protect him.
• Ulti told Page One that Hanafza had abandoned them after their mother died, while Hanafza watched from nearby.