Recaps

After Ochoku’s attack left Lucas near death, the Vampire-Vampire Fruit Will appeared in his consciousness and Lucas began fighting it to awaken. Meanwhile, Imu received word that the Vampire was dead and believed the threat posed by the fruit’s ability had ended.

• The women bombarded Ochoku’s hiding place, then gathered around the gravely wounded Lucas as Baccarat transferred her luck to him.
• Lucas told the women telepathically to carry him to the Eos, then encountered the Vampire-Vampire Fruit Will in his consciousness.
• The Fruit Will explained that it awakened only when its user attempted to awaken, and Lucas attacked it with a blood sword.
• An agent told Imu that the mission was complete and the Vampire was dead.
• Imu recalled the former Vampire ability user’s immunity to effects on Lineage Factors and concluded that the new user’s death removed his concerns.

Lucas fought the Vampire-Vampire Fruit’s will in Consciousness Space and destroyed it, while the women aboard the Eos feared he would die from his sword wound. He woke in the captain’s quarters and asked them to pull out the sword.

• Lucas and the Fruit Will fought with identical blood techniques, and each attack made their bodies fade in Consciousness Space.
• Lucas remembered the women he loved and unleashed a greater blood wave, breaking apart the Fruit Will and collapsing Consciousness Space.
• Aboard the Eos, Baccarat and Robin worried over Lucas’s critical wound and identified Ochoku as the assassin who attacked him.
• Lucas opened his eyes in the captain’s quarters and asked one of the women to help him pull out the sword.

Lucas recovered after Gion removed the Seastone dagger, awakening his power and reuniting with his wives. After learning Hachinosu was gathering Heavenly Tribute to join the World Government, he planned to visit Punk Hazard for researchers and prepare for a future confrontation with Ochoku and the Government.

• Gion pulled the dagger from Lucas's heart, and his Life Energy healed him as he awakened with scarlet bat wings and greeted his wives.
• Lucas devoured a large meal and told Hina and the others he wanted to understand why Ochoku had attacked before seeking revenge.
• An intelligence agent reported that Hachinosu had launched a plundering campaign to gather Heavenly Tribute for membership in the World Government.
• Stussy realized the World Government had acted without informing her, and Lucas comforted her while Robin suggested using his supposed death as bait.
• Lucas announced that the group would visit Punk Hazard to recruit researchers and seek scientific help in stopping Ochoku's teleportation, after he had time to recover and prepare their protected nations.

Lucas demonstrated his awakened strength by stopping a falling island and lifting it overhead, while Cipher Pol agents watched from nearby ships. Meanwhile, Violet and Daz Bonez coordinated a purge of Cipher Pol operatives, leaving the intelligence network under attack.

• Lucas stopped the falling island with his bare hands and used Armament Haki to protect the ground beneath him.
• After adapting to the island's weight, Lucas did squats while holding it overhead, displaying strength comparable to an Ancient Giant.
• Cipher Pol agents disguised as merchants spotted the descending island, but a pillar of blue fire destroyed their ships and killed them.
• Daz Bonez killed two Cipher Pol agents in the Prodence Kingdom after Lucas's group ordered its operatives to stop sending routine reports.
• Violet used her Glint-Glint Fruit to identify hidden Cipher Pol agents and sent their locations to Daz Bonez through Lucas's group chat.

Lucas proposed uniting Dressrosa and four neighboring kingdoms into a federation while leaving their internal affairs and rulers under their own control. The kings requested time to consult their citizens, and Lucas gave them five days to decide.

• Lucas told King Riku, Elizabello II, and the other kings that he planned to establish a federation centered on the Yulo Peninsula without annexing their kingdoms.
• Lucas said Lafitte would head the federation, the kings would set its tax rate, and he would not collect a Heavenly Tribute.
• The king of Aplunan Island asked how the kingdoms would avoid food shortages if leaving the World Government cut off their trade, and Lucas offered them high-yield grain seeds to test.
• King Riku asked to consult the citizens before deciding, and Lucas gave the kings five days to gather their people and await his instructions.

Lucas helped the five nations establish the Eternal Federation by purging their World Government spies and moving their islands together near Yulo Peninsula. The federation’s kings abolished the Heavenly Tribute and withdrew from the World Government, and the citizens celebrated their new freedom.

• Lucas paid a blond-haired man to publicly curse the World Government and Celestial Dragons while Violet identified undercover agents in the crowd.
• Daz Bonez and Aramaki killed the identified Cipher Pol agents as King Riku calmed the citizens and explained who they were.
• Violet and the women helped purge the World Government’s intelligence networks from all five nations.
• Issho used gravity to move the five islands together near Yulo Peninsula, leaving the capital separate three nautical miles away.
• The five kings announced the Eternal Federation, withdrew from the World Government, abolished the Heavenly Tribute, and let citizens decide new tax rates.
• Citizens across the five islands celebrated the end of the Heavenly Tribute with bonfires, wine, songs, and dancing.

Borsalino enforced Punk Hazard’s lockdown after Caesar tried to keep a group of women at the research facility, and he defeated Caesar when the scientist attacked him. The women escaped to the harbor carrying hidden Vivre Card fragments, while Vegapunk continued experiments on Ron.

• Borsalino broke into Caesar’s dormitory and ordered the women from the Pleasure District to leave because the facility was under lockdown.
• Caesar attacked Borsalino with an explosive gas trap, but Borsalino survived by turning into light and revealed he was temporarily in charge.
• Borsalino kicked Caesar into an alloy wall, then let the women leave and summoned security staff to repair the damage.
• Sentomaru told Borsalino that Vegapunk was conducting biotechnology experiments on Ron.
• The women escaped to the harbor and rested among supply crates as hidden Vivre Card fragments slipped from their clothing.

Lucas arrived at Punk Hazard with Stussy and Issho, then unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki across the research facility and confronted Borsalino. After Borsalino escaped Lucas’s first strike, Lucas sent another Haki-wrapped slash at him.

• Lucas collected the Vivre Card scraps, praised the girls for enduring the cold, and brought them into Castle Space.
• Lucas asked Issho to take Punk Hazard away and covered Stussy with his coat as they approached the research area.
• Lucas’s Conqueror’s Haki swept through the facility, knocking down researchers and disrupting equipment while Borsalino remained standing.
• Lucas sent Stussy toward the research area and faced Borsalino, who demanded that he leave the World Government facility.
• Lucas clashed with Borsalino’s Ama no Murakumo using Divine Departure, breaking through his Haki armor and forcing him to escape as photons.
• Lucas launched a crimson, Haki-wrapped Instant Thunder Shadow Slash at Borsalino.

Lucas battled Borsalino at the research facility, using his awakened powers to seize Vegapunk and store him in Castle Space. Borsalino pursued his mission with deadly resolve and revealed the Glint-Glint Fruit’s Awakening, turning the night sky into blinding daylight.

• Borsalino was wounded by Lucas’s attack, then sent light clones after him while Lucas tried to draw him away from the research area.
• Borsalino ignored Lucas’s diversion and rushed toward Vegapunk’s laboratory, where Stussy escaped after warning Lucas through Telepathy.
• Lucas returned in Hybrid Form, trapped Borsalino in a giant Haki-coated hand of blood, and took the unconscious Vegapunk into Castle Space.
• Borsalino blasted apart Lucas’s blood hand with Yasakani no Magatama, but Lucas answered with a massive scarlet electromagnetic beam that drove him through the roof.
• Borsalino transformed into a golden sphere and awakened the Glint-Glint Fruit, turning the surrounding night sky into blinding daylight.

Lucas fought Borsalino over Punk Hazard while Stussy found and removed a summoning circle left by Saint Saturn. After Lucas injured Borsalino, Issho lifted the entire island and moved it away, leaving Borsalino stranded at sea.

• Stussy found the pentagram summoning circle beside the artificial lake and alerted Lucas.
• Lucas ordered Issho to lift the ground containing the circle and throw it into the sea.
• Lucas countered Borsalino’s light attacks with a giant metal fist and struck him with Haki, sending him tumbling toward the sea.
• Lucas ordered Issho to lift Punk Hazard and carry it away, leaving a crater that the sea quickly filled.
• Borsalino recovered, found his Den Den Mushi unconscious, and flew toward the nearest branch base.

The Gorosei discussed the Reverie’s political victories and the danger posed by the Eternal Financial Group before learning that Cipher Pol agents across Dressrosa and neighboring nations had vanished. After Borsalino reported events on Punk Hazard, Saint Saturn teleported to investigate and found himself trapped in the deep sea, where his mark kept reviving him until he called for help through the Mindscape.

• Saint Warcury and Saint Nusjuro praised Cipher Pol’s work at the Reverie, while Nusjuro warned that the Eternal Financial Group’s withdrawal could cut Heavenly Tribute by at least one-third.
• Guernica reported that Cipher Pol agents in Dressrosa and neighboring nations had lost contact and that their leaders’ Vivre Cards had burned away.
• Borsalino contacted the Gorosei and recounted what had happened on Punk Hazard, prompting Saint Saturn to teleport there using a magic circle.
• Saint Saturn emerged on the deep-sea floor, realized the magic circle had been moved as a trap, and was crushed repeatedly by the water while his mark restored him.
• Saint Saturn used the Mindscape to ask for rescue, and an irresistible force lifted him out of the deep sea.

Lucas recruited Vegapunk to recreate the Great Kingdom’s technology and assigned him to develop a device that could stop Ochoku from escaping by teleportation. He also secured Caesar’s loyalty and arranged for Judge and clones to join the scientists.

• Vegapunk woke after Lucas moved Punk Hazard and asked about the other scientists, whom Lucas had left on an island along the way.
• Lucas asked Vegapunk to reproduce the Great Kingdom’s technology, and Vegapunk agreed to work for him.
• Lucas told Vegapunk that Ochoku had ambushed him and asked for a device to interfere with the Teleport-Teleport Fruit; Vegapunk said it would be feasible if the fruit was not awakened.
• Lucas recruited Caesar by promising him free Pleasure District services for life and support for developing destructive weapons.
• Lucas contacted Judge and told him to come meet an old friend, bringing clones to assist Vegapunk and Caesar.

The women confronted Kalifa about being a World Government spy, and she agreed to join the Eternal Financial Group. Lucas then asked Vegapunk how to accelerate the mental and physical growth of young recruits, and Vegapunk revealed that the Ripe-Ripe Fruit could manipulate time and help create a Time House.

• Robin exposed Kalifa as a spy, and Betty threatened her until she agreed to join the women.
• Violet used her Devil Fruit ability to confirm Kalifa was sincere, and Baccarat welcomed her into the family.
• Lucas decided to send Kalifa to Amazon Lily for training and later discussed accelerated growth with the women.
• Stussy suggested Lucas ask Vegapunk about using technology to accelerate both physical and mental development.
• Lucas found Vegapunk on Punk Hazard, and Vegapunk proposed recreating the Time House using technology that controlled the flow of time.
• Vegapunk explained that the Ripe-Ripe Fruit could accelerate a target's flow of time, prompting Lucas to realize it could help build the Time House.

Lucas joined Vegapunk, Caesar, and Judge to create an Artificial Devil Fruit using Lineage Factor technology. Their first test succeeded in granting a prisoner a gorilla transformation, but Lucas killed him when he attacked Vegapunk.

• Lucas demonstrated that he could manipulate the Lineage Factors of artificial life, though his test clone exploded from instability.
• Lucas asked Judge to join Vegapunk and Caesar, and the scientists created an artificial fruit vessel in one day.
• Lucas infused the Lineage Factor extracted from a gorilla into the vessel, creating an Artificial Devil Fruit.
• Lucas brought a prisoner from Punk Hazard's prison for the test, and Judge forced him to eat the fruit.
• The prisoner transformed into a giant black gorilla and attacked Vegapunk, so Lucas made his blood erupt and killed him.

Lucas reached Wano Country and battled Kaido over Hakumai, where their attacks devastated the land and endangered its residents. Shimotsuki Yasuie stopped the samurai from confronting Kaido and led them to rescue people while they waited for the Kozuki Family to return.

• Lucas blasted apart the storm clouds at Wano Country's sea entrance, briefly clearing the weather before they quickly gathered again.
• Kaido sensed Lucas's improved Haki at Onigashima and flew to meet him above Hakumai.
• Lucas and Kaido exchanged powerful attacks, setting parts of Hakumai ablaze and filling the area with blood mist.
• Kaido's tornadoes swept residents and buildings into the air as the battle raged.
• Shimotsuki Yasuie ordered the samurai to sheathe their swords and led them to save the people.

Lucas defeated Kaido’s wind attack and clashed with him in a battle that devastated Wealth God Town, then offered ten Artificial Devil Fruits as a betrothal gift for Yamato. Kaido accepted the gift and approved the marriage, while Queen’s suspicion that Lucas had attacked Punk Hazard drew Kaido’s attention.

• Lucas crushed Kaido’s tornado pillars with a blood tornado and blood wave, but Kaido returned to human form and countered with Thunder Bagua.
• Lucas and Kaido traded powerful attacks, splitting the clouds and wrecking Wealth God Town.
• Lucas told Kaido he had come to take Yamato away and presented him with a chest of ten Artificial Devil Fruits as a betrothal gift.
• Kaido gave one fruit to a Beasts Pirates member, who transformed into a lion, and then approved Lucas’s marriage to Yamato.
• Lucas flew off to find Yamato, while Queen wondered whether Lucas had attacked Punk Hazard and Kaido watched several figures in the night.

Lucas took Yamato away from Onigashima after Kaido agreed, and Black Maria chose to join them. In Kuri, Lucas found Shinobu, killed her, and collected the reborn Ripe-Ripe Fruit before flying toward the Flower Capital.

• Yamato invited Black Maria to marry Lucas alongside her, and Black Maria accepted.
• Lucas arrived at the hot spring and told Yamato that Kaido had agreed to let her leave.
• Lucas stored Yamato and Black Maria in Castle Space and searched Kuri for Shinobu using his super hearing.
• Lucas found Shinobu practicing her Ripe-Ripe Ninja Art, drained her Life Energy, and killed her.
• Lucas collected the reborn Ripe-Ripe Fruit and flew toward the Flower Capital.

Lucas went to the Flower Capital pleasure district and took Komurasaki, whom he identified as Kozuki Oden and Kozuki Toki’s daughter, away before Kyoshiro could intervene. As Lucas left, the Time-Time Fruit reincarnated on a nearby tree, and he claimed it before Kyoshiro arrived.

• Kurozumi Orochi welcomed Lucas to Queen’s pleasure district, and Lucas asked him to bring Komurasaki.
• Lucas carried Komurasaki away while Kyoshiro struggled to protect her without revealing his identity.
• Lucas exposed Komurasaki’s identity as Kozuki Oden and Kozuki Toki’s daughter, then placed her unconscious in Castle Space.
• Lucas spotted the newly reborn Time-Time Fruit, picked it, and escaped before Kyoshiro reached the street.

A samurai terrorist group attacked District 11’s airport, but a young prince defeated them and revealed that he was waiting for his uncle and four retainers to arrive from the future. He flew toward the rice fields as the twenty-year mark of their time-travel journey arrived.

• Samurai attacked the airport, destroyed security robots, and declared they would restore Wano Country and the samurai system.
• A young prince arrived and protected the civilians from the scarred samurai’s Flying Slashes.
• The prince identified the attackers as suspects in an Artificial Devil Fruit store robbery and authorized lethal force under federal law.
• The prince killed the charging samurai with a Haki-enhanced punch and left the airport.
• Remembering his parents’ instructions, the prince flew toward the rice fields, expecting his uncle and four retainers to arrive after twenty years.

Eos met Momonosuke and the retainers who had been sent twenty years into the future, then killed them after they insisted on restoring the Kozuki rule and samurai system. The chapter ended with Eos executing Momonosuke as his body vanished.

• Kin'emon, Kanjuro, Raizo, Kikunojo, and Momonosuke emerged from a portal above a rice field in District 11, where Eos greeted Momonosuke as his uncle.
• Eos proved his identity by recounting details from the fall of Oden Castle, then asked the group what they planned to do in the changed world.
• Kin'emon, Raizo, Kikunojo, Kanjuro, and Momonosuke declared that they would preserve Bushido and restore Wano under the Kozuki Family.
• Eos attacked the group with his Void Sword, and his horned older brother caught him after the retainers' combined strike forced him back.
• Eos unleashed Vlad's Sigh, overwhelming the retainers' strongest attacks and killing Kin'emon, Raizo, Kikunojo, and Kanjuro.
• Eos killed the terrified Momonosuke, whose body and severed head vanished into nothingness.

Vegapunk showed Lucas the Time Spirit Room, a chamber where time passed more than three hundred times faster than outside, but explained that Lucas’s Haki prevented him from entering. Lucas decided to send Stussy and several women inside, and they began their years-long stay in the vast castle.

• Vegapunk revealed that the Time Spirit Room was created from the Lineage Factors of four Devil Fruits and made time pass more than three hundred times faster than outside.
• Vegapunk explained that Lucas’s Haki prevented him from entering, so Lucas abandoned the idea of training there himself.
• Lucas told his wives he planned to send someone into the room, and Stussy volunteered to accompany Hiyori, Kalifa, Yamato, Black Maria, and Violet.
• Lucas gave Stussy a new fruit made by combining the Ripe-Ripe Fruit and Time-Time Fruit, promising to restore the lifespan she lost and instructing her to give it to Hiyori when the time was right.
• Stussy led the women through the vortex into a vast castle, where she welcomed them to their stay together.

The Gorosei learned that Vampire had returned and established the Eternal Federation, so they approved an extraordinary Buster Call with three admiral-level combatants. Neng was ordered to command it, just as he discussed retiring with Kong.

• The Gorosei blamed Saint Saturn for failing to ensure Vampire was dead and agreed the Eternal Federation had to be crushed.
• Saint Saturn proposed sending Borsalino, Sakazuki, and Neng, using Full-Power Potions to restore Neng to his prime.
• The Gorosei unanimously approved the extraordinary Buster Call.
• Neng and Kong recalled Pure's death during the Reverie forty years earlier and discussed Neng retiring and recommending Kong as his successor.
• A messenger informed Neng that the Gorosei had ordered him to command the Buster Call.

After leaving the Time Spirit Room, Yamato challenged Lucas to a fight to prove her strength and claim him if she lost. Lucas overwhelmed her on the desolate island, but the battle continued after he struck her with a devastating slash.

• Stussy reunited with Lucas and asked to spend a month in his bedroom, while Kalifa, Hiyori, Violet, Black Maria, and Yamato emerged from the Time Spirit Room.
• Yamato challenged Lucas to fight, saying he could do whatever he wanted if he won, and the two traveled to a desolate island in the Calm Belt.
• Lucas kissed Yamato and filled her with Life Energy so she could withstand his attacks without him worrying about killing her.
• Yamato struck Lucas with Thunder Bagua, but he remained unmoved and knocked her into the ruins with a knee.
• After Lucas's Life Energy healed Yamato, she transformed into her Hybrid Form and attacked him with White Serpent Drive.
• Lucas slashed Yamato across the chest and abdomen, sending her crashing into the ruins, while her club failed to injure him.

Lucas pushed Yamato through an exhausting battle to turn the Haki foundation she had built during seven years of training into real strength. After surviving a near-fatal blow, Yamato awakened a new power, and Lucas took her into the Castle Space to recover.

• Lucas repeatedly fired electromagnetic cannons at Yamato, forcing her to defend herself until her stamina and Haki were nearly depleted.
• On the third day, Lucas struck Yamato with a powerful electromagnetic cannon that pierced her body, but his stored Life Energy healed her fatal wound.
• Yamato regained consciousness, sensed the power she had been seeking, and awakened black-and-red lightning around herself and A Jian.
• Lucas asked whether Yamato wanted to continue, and she kissed him before asking him to replenish her strength.
• Lucas left the Castle Ring guarded by blood bats, then brought Yamato into the Castle Space.

The World Government sent an unusually powerful Buster Call fleet toward the Eternal Federation, prompting Stussy to organize the federation’s defenses and evacuations. As the five kings hurried to shelter on the newly named Eternal Continent, a birdman reporter rushed to confront them.

• Violet spotted thirty Buster Call warships carrying Borsalino, Sakazuki, and Commander-in-Chief Neng, then alerted the federation’s leaders.
• Stussy identified the threat and assigned Issho to restrain Borsalino, Lafitte to evacuate civilians, and Violet to watch for infiltrating Cipher Pol agents.
• Stussy ordered Robin, Baccarat, and Black Maria to guard their home, then flew with Hiyori to confront Neng.
• The five kings hurried toward underground shelters in the Dressrosa District as the Eternal Federation prepared for the attack.
• A birdman reporter spotted the five kings together and rushed over, eager to speak with them.