Recaps

Adventurers battled shinobi and summoned creatures as they climbed the Heavenly Ladder, suffering heavy losses along the way. On the fiftieth floor, Hawk-Eye fought Sakumo Hatake and broke his sword, but recognized the strength of his swordsmanship.

• The Adventurers fought Stone shinobi on the first floor, where Hawk-Eye cut a path to the next level and the shinobi were eventually defeated.
• The Adventurers cleared the second through fifth floors, losing thousands of fighters, including a famous Supernova, to the shinobi’s varied abilities and genjutsu.
• After the fifth floor, the Adventurers faced monsters and powerful guardians, and Hawk-Eye killed Gamabunta on the twenty-fifth floor.
• Hawk-Eye met Sakumo Hatake on the fiftieth floor, and the two swordsmen fought while Zoro watched in awe.
• Hawk-Eye broke Sakumo Hatake’s sword with a powerful Sword Aura attack and solemnly acknowledged his opponent’s skill.

The adventurers struggled through the increasingly dangerous floors of the Heavenly Ladder Tower, with Might Guy and Uchiha Itachi nearly overwhelming them. They defeated Itachi on the seventieth floor, but his black flames badly burned several adventurers before the tower expelled them.

• Might Guy's powerful Taijutsu devastated the adventurers on the sixty-fifth floor, though he exhausted himself and dissolved before they could be wiped out.
• The adventurers recovered on each floor and began working together, but Itachi's Genjutsu and schemes threw them into confusion on the seventieth floor.
• Itachi trapped Hawk-Eye in a Genjutsu where he endured seventy-two hours of sword-inflicted agony, then left him enraged and attacking nearby adventurers.
• Fujitora restrained Hawk-Eye and used gravity to pin Itachi down, allowing Hawk-Eye to strike him while Itachi set an adventurer ablaze with black flames.
• The black flames resisted every attempt to extinguish them, and the Heavenly Ladder eventually ejected the burning adventurers when their suffering reached its limit.

The Adventurers struggled against Nine-Tails on the 80th Floor as the broadcast revealed the Holy Church’s overwhelming strength and alarmed the World Government. Sengoku learned from Axel that the tournament allowed unlimited challenges until someone claimed the Holy Grail, with the Twin Gods still waiting above.

• Nine-Tails repeatedly attacked the Adventurers, who coordinated their efforts to pin him down with Fujitora’s gravity and Senior’s ability to liquefy the ground.
• The tournament broadcast frightened the World Government, and the Sword-Wielding Five Elder left to seek Lord Imu.
• The Adventurers’ attacks failed to stop Nine-Tails, who broke free and charged Senior while some Adventurers were eliminated.
• Resurrected Adventurers complained to Sengoku about the guardians’ strength, and Sengoku called Marshal Axel for an explanation.
• Axel told Sengoku that challenges were unlimited until someone obtained the Holy Grail and that the Twin Gods awaited farther up the ladder.

After Sengoku announced that challengers had unlimited attempts, the Adventurers resumed the tower climb and overcame its guardians through teamwork. As powerful fighters, including the Four Emperors, joined the competition, the Holy Church used the trials to demonstrate its strength and track those who registered as Adventurers.

• Sengoku announced unlimited attempts, prompting Senior, Ace, and the other challengers to return to the Celestial Ladder Pyramid.
• The Adventurers formed teams, reached the eightieth floor, and defeated the Nine-Tails at the cost of half their elite fighters.
• Minato confronted the Adventurers on the eighty-first floor, but they restricted his speed and forced him to concede.
• The Adventurers passed floors eighty-one through eighty-five, then struggled against the Holy Church's Golden Holy Knights and Holy Light Cleric Legion Commanders.
• Powerful fighters from across the seas, including the Four Emperors, joined the competition after learning that the final challenge was against the Twin Gods.
• The Holy Church allowed former-era offenders to register as Adventurers and reform, but declared that deliberate evil would not be forgiven.

Hashirama appeared on floor 97 and overwhelmed the assembled fighters with his wood techniques and giant Buddha. Whitebeard’s attack nearly cut the Buddha apart, but Hashirama vanished when his time ran out, leaving the remaining battle to Madara.

• Hashirama arrived on floor 97, entered Sage Mode, and attacked the fighters with Wood Release.
• Hashirama grew a vast forest whose poisonous flowers incapacitated many Adventurers, while Ace and Kaido tried to destroy it.
• Hashirama summoned True Several Thousand Hands, captured Kaido, and threw him down, injuring him.
• Whitebeard, Shanks, Hawk-Eye, and the others attacked the giant Buddha, but its many arms kept them at bay.
• Whitebeard struck the Buddha with a space-cutting blade that forced Hashirama to dodge and take the fight seriously.
• Hashirama began fading as his time expired and said he would leave the rest to Madara.

After the Adventurers defeated Hashirama, they entered the ninety-eighth floor and fought Madara, whose overwhelming attack left nearly everyone down. Ace, Diamond Jozu, Kaido, and Senior survived and advanced to the finals.

• After Hashirama vanished, the Adventurers discussed the Holy Church's hidden strength, and Ace traded insults and blows with Kaido before Shanks stopped them.
• The Adventurers entered the ninety-eighth floor, where Madara greeted them and attacked as they charged him together.
• Madara dodged their attacks and used the Great Fire Blaze Technique, while Whitebeard's strike shattered space and forced Madara to retreat.
• Madara transformed his eyes into the Rinnegan and used Super Shinra Tensei to knock down the Adventurers, but Whitebeard's shock waves damaged him severely.
• Madara admitted he had been careless and disappeared, while Ace, Diamond Jozu, Kaido, and Senior remained as the only survivors on the floor.

On the 99th floor, Kaguya trapped Ace, Kaido, Jozu, and Senior in the Infinite Tsukuyomi, where each experienced an ideal life. Senior recognized that his peaceful life with Lu Jiunai was false, broke free, and was told to proceed to the next floor.

• Kaguya welcomed the four adventurers to the final trial and declared that whoever reached the 100th floor first would claim the Holy Grail.
• Kaguya activated the Infinite Tsukuyomi, trapping the four in dream worlds beneath a blood-red moon.
• Ace dreamed of a happy childhood with Roger and his mother, while Kaido and Jozu experienced their own ideal lives.
• Senior questioned the inconsistencies in his dream life with Lu Jiunai and realized that the woman was not the wife he remembered.
• Senior cried out that he would cure Lucian and save their child, breaking the illusion and returning to the 99th floor.
• Kaguya welcomed Senior back and urged him to continue to the next floor.

Senior claimed the Holy Grail and wished for his family to live happily together, bringing Lucian and their son back to life. The first Ladder Tournament ended with the crowd celebrating the Holy Church and Senior reunited with his family.

• Kaguya told Senior how to invoke the Holy Grail and warned him to make a personal wish.
• Senior entered the passage, reached the Holy Grail, and wished for himself, Lucian, and their son to live happily as a family.
• The Holy Grail granted Senior's wish, restoring Lucian and their infant son beside him.
• Senior promised Lucian he would give up piracy and support their family, and Lucian embraced him.
• The Adventurers celebrated the Ladder Tournament and the Holy Church, and Sengoku declared the tournament concluded.

After the Ladder Tournament ended, Jozu and Kaido emerged from the final-floor Genjutsu, while Ace accepted that his reunion with his parents had only been a dream and vowed to return for the Holy Grail. Kaido attacked Kaguya and was swiftly defeated; Sengoku took him into custody, and the tournament was declared over for five years.

• Jozu emerged from the Genjutsu shaken by how real its world had felt, while Ace mourned the dream of his parents and promised to return for the Holy Grail.
• Kaido rejected the truth about the Genjutsu, punched Disaster Jack into nearby Adventurers, and confronted Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr.
• Kaguya appeared and Kaido transformed into a dragon to attack her, but her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack crushed him before he could land a blow.
• Kaguya ordered the Adventurers' Guild to punish Kaido according to its rules, and Sengoku led Garp and Zephyr in taking him away.
• Sengoku announced that the Ladder Tournament had ended and that the next one would be held in five years, and the Adventurers dispersed.

Imu revealed that an Outsider beyond the world's rules empowered the Holy Church and warned the World Government to fight only if challenged, while abandoning the Five Elders. At Holy Church Headquarters, Axel announced a full-scale counteroffensive against the World Government and ordered the coalition to protect civilians.

• Imu told the Sword-Wielding Five Elder that a being beyond the world's rules had altered Ohara's timeline and chosen the Holy Church as its following.
• Imu blamed the World Government for alienating the people, struck the Sword-Wielding Five Elder, and declared she would no longer protect him or the other Five Elders.
• The Sword-Wielding Five Elder returned to the Council Hall and told the two surviving Five Elders that Imu had abandoned them.
• Axel convened Holy Church leaders, the Adventurers' Guild, and Dragon's Revolutionary Army at Holy Church Headquarters to announce a full-scale counteroffensive.
• Sengoku and the Holy Light Clerics Legion accepted Axel's orders, while Dragon questioned the timing before hearing that the World Government would have no allies.
• Axel told the assembled forces to protect ordinary people's lives and property, and they all pledged to obey.

The Holy Church formally declared war on the World Government, prompting celebration among reporters and a tentative show of defiance against nobles in the Drum Kingdom. The Sword-Wielding Five Elder prepared the World Government’s defenses while warning a young Celestial Dragon that Imu had abandoned them.

• Nako told Vivian that the Holy Light Cleric Army and Adventurer Guild forces had mobilized for the New World as revolutions spread across noble-ruled countries.
• Vivian and Nako went to the Holy Church’s diplomatic embassy, where Ambassador-General Kaijia formally declared war on the World Government in the year 1520 of the Sea Circle Calendar.
• A young man in the Drum Kingdom announced the declaration to the people, and a noble ordered guards to seize him before backing down and releasing him.
• The Sword-Wielding Five Elder ordered the God's Army deployed and the Sabaody Archipelago's defenses prepared, while telling officials to ignore requests for aid from member nations.
• The Sword-Wielding Five Elder told a newly promoted CP0 officer that Imu had abandoned them and warned him not to reveal his Celestial Dragon identity if the World Government lost.

Axel’s forces defeated the Celestial Dragons’ defenses at Sabaody and confronted Imu, who revealed that they were the world’s magnetic poles and negotiated the Celestial Dragons’ fate. Imu accepted Axel’s condition that all adult Celestial Dragons die, leaving the Five Elders captive and the World Government defeated.

• Axel ordered the Holy Church’s mechas to trap the nine members of God's Army, then sent Holy Knights and adventurers to seize the island as the World Government’s soldiers surrendered.
• Axel led the five Legion Commanders toward the World Government Building after Kumata reported that the battle was over.
• Imu revealed that they were Uranus and the world’s two magnetic poles, warning that their loss of control could cause massive civilian deaths.
• Axel demanded the deaths of all adult Celestial Dragons, and Imu agreed to obey while asking that their descendants be spared.
• Imu vanished, and Axel ordered the five Legion Commanders to restrain the three remaining Five Elders.

The Holy Church consolidated its rule by suppressing the remaining pirate and criminal forces. Big Mom surrendered to Whitebeard and the others, while Doflamingo was killed as the Church prepared to hold its first World Congress.

• The Holy Church spread into the New World, punished aristocratic nations, and joined forces with the Revolutionary Army and Adventurers' Guild to root out pirates.
• Big Mom clashed with Akainu, then surrendered to Whitebeard, Red-Hair Shanks, and the Three Admirals to spare her children and crew.
• Doflamingo fled from the Holy Church's arrests, but a golden Holy Light Cleric killed him before he could reach the coast.
• Will and Fengsha confirmed that the enemies had been dealt with, and Will said the Church's first World Congress was the next priority.

At the first World Conference of the Radiant Federation, kings gathered at Marineford and discussed the limits the Holy Church would place on their power. Dragon prepared to welcome new members to the Federation while Garp caused a scene by confronting his son.

• The Kings of Kenya and Rodri discussed the end of the Heavenly Tribute and the Holy Church’s planned restrictions on kings, and King of Rodri warned his friend not to resist.
• Dragon arrived at Parliament Hall with Tatsumi and other officials, and the kings greeted him as prime minister.
• Garp confronted Dragon, struck him with a switch, and complained that Dragon had neglected his family and left him to raise Luffy alone.
• Dragon left Garp behind and told Tatsumi that taking his father seriously was a mistake.
• Dragon led Tatsumi and the other officials to welcome representatives of other races joining the Radiant Federation.

The first World Conference of the Radiant Year began as Dragon and Axel presented the new government's policies and answered questions from kings and minority races. The assembly left the Tontatta with a promise of medical roles and Holy Light protection, while kings faced a clear warning against resisting the new order.

• Reporters and delegates from the world's races and factions gathered for the conference, where Elbaf greeted Leo and Princess Mansherry.
• Dragon opened the assembly and distributed documents outlining the new government and its policies.
• A New World king objected to losing royal powers, and Belo Betty warned that kings who demanded privileges could be treated as enemies of the new era.
• Axel told the assembled kings that the Holy Church would protect fairness for the majority and eliminate those who undermined it.
• The Mermaid Princess asked whether minority races could travel freely, and Axel promised equal legal rights and protections.
• Princess Mansherry asked how the Tontatta could fulfill their responsibilities, and Axel offered them medical officer positions and Holy Light Cleric protection.

At the world meeting, Axel urged the assembled races to cooperate and keep developing, revealing that the Holy Church had discovered evidence of space pirates and planned to reach the stars. He announced that Azure Star’s Starport could usher in interstellar travel within five to ten years, leaving the crowd fervently celebrating the Holy Church.

• Axel praised Princess Mansherry and the Tontatta for supporting the New Government and called for equality and peaceful coexistence among all races.
• Axel warned that the world still faced powerful enemies and revealed that space pirates had once attacked the ancient civilization.
• Axel showed the delegates an image of Azure Star from space and explained that the Holy Church’s surveillance technology and discoveries came from outer space.
• Whitebeard and Red-Hair Shanks reacted to the vision of space, while the Adventurers watched Axel’s presentation eagerly.
• Axel showed the Starport being built in orbit and said it could enable interstellar travel within five to ten years.
• The meeting attendees and the people of Marineford shouted, “Long live the Holy Church!”

The Holy Light Clerics entered a despairing New World to investigate its cause and discovered police officers abusing a hungry, red-eyed girl they called a cursed child. After the captain killed one officer who attacked them, the team prepared to confront the others.

• The Holy Light Clerics flew to a walled city and entered it in stealth to investigate the world's despair.
• The team spotted a little girl fleeing police officers and followed them to abandoned villas.
• The officers beat the girl for stealing bread and planned to blind her with varanium because of her red eyes.
• The captain stopped an officer's bullets in midair and redirected them, killing him.
• The captain told the team to act quickly against the remaining officers as they came out.

The Holy Light Clerics rescued Irene from men who had tortured her for stealing bread, and Aiki punished the man who had tried to gouge out her eyes. After learning Irene and other Cursed Children were hungry and living in a blocked sewer, the Clerics agreed to help them.

• The Holy Light Clerics killed Banzai and two men who attacked them as they entered the building.
• Aiki seized the fat man, while Elsa carried the injured Irene outside and used holy light to soothe her.
• Aiki blinded the fat man as punishment and left him alive, telling him to live with the lesson.
• Irene told Aiki and the Clerics that she was a Cursed Child with no parents and that her sick Granny and little sisters were hungry in a sewer blocked from the city.
• The Holy Light Clerics promised Irene they would care for the children and asked her to lead them to the sewer.

Aiki and the Holy Light Cleric Squad followed Irene into the sewer and found her starving little sisters. Elsa discovered the girls carried dangerous mutations, leaving Aiki to weigh how to help them while the world's power limit prevented a stronger priest from joining the group.

• Aiki and the Holy Light Cleric Squad entered the sewer with Irene, reassuring her that they would not look down on her home.
• Irene led them to her little sisters, who hid in fear until she introduced the group and handed out Elsa's candy.
• Elsa treated the girls with holy light and discovered their mutated genes could eventually turn them into monsters.
• Elsa said she could only suppress the mutations, while a stronger priest could seal or redirect them.
• Aiki explained that the world's power limit meant bringing in a stronger priest would force the other clerics to leave, hindering their efforts to help more children.

Elsa discovered that Irene’s Granny had died and led the children in mourning before promising to care for them. Elsewhere, police blamed Cursed Children for a violent attack, and Rentaro and Enju left the scene after hearing the crowd condemn them.

• Elsa learned that Irene’s Granny had been dead for three days and could not be revived because her soul had already scattered.
• The Holy Light Clerics prayed for Granny, and her body dissolved into motes of light as the children watched.
• Elsa promised the children they might see Granny again if they studied, then explained the Holy Light Clerics’ calling.
• At the villa, the blinded and mutilated Fat Du blamed Cursed Children for attacking him and demanded revenge.
• Rentaro and Enju reached the police cordon, where a bystander said a Cursed Child had attacked officers and called the children monsters.
• Enju quietly left with Rentaro after hearing the crowd’s hatred, and Rentaro hurried after her.

Elsa brought Irene and the other Cursed Children out in public, where they met Rentaro and Enju. After Enju joined the girls at play, Elsa’s companions drove off a hostile crowd, and Rentaro agreed to visit their home.

• Enju asked Rentaro whether he would hate her if Cursed Children had killed police officers, and he reassured her that she was one of a kind to him.
• Elsa led Irene and the other girls through the street in pretty clothes and promised they would live in a big house and study.
• Enju ran over to Elsa’s group and asked to play, and Irene and the other girls happily gathered around her to hear about Celestial Pearl Girl.
• Elsa invited Rentaro to their place, and he introduced himself and thanked her for looking after Enju.
• When a hostile crowd confronted them, Elsa signaled to the Holy Light Clerics, and Yuta used a Fear Technique to scatter the people.

Rentaro followed Elsa and the Cursed Children to their new manor, where he learned that Elsa’s group planned to spread their faith in Tokyo. Elsa condemned Tokyo’s treatment of the children and vowed that her order would protect and try to cure them.

• Rentaro followed Elsa and the girls from the city center to their lavish manor, where the children eagerly explored the grounds.
• Rentaro asked Elsa about her group, and she explained that they were clergy who had come to spread their faith while their captain handled official matters.
• Elsa criticized Tokyo for mistreating the Cursed Children, and Rentaro struggled to defend the city’s people.
• Rentaro challenged Elsa’s belief in the Holy Light, and she explained that it guided people without forcing them to believe.
• Elsa told Rentaro that her group would protect the children who followed the light and would do everything possible to cure them.

Rentaro visited Elsa’s Manor with Enju, who befriended the girls and considered studying with Elsa instead of attending school. Aiki returned after failing to meet Prime Minister Tendo and planned to try again the next day, while Elsa and Aiki later judged Rentaro’s goodwill to be limited.

• Elsa reassured Rentaro that she hoped to cure the Cursed Children and invited him and Enju to stay for dinner.
• Enju watched Celestial Pearl Girl with the girls and said she might study with Elsa if her guardian agreed.
• Aiki returned and welcomed Enju, then told Rentaro he had failed to meet Prime Minister Tendo and would try again tomorrow.
• Elsa and Aiki escorted Rentaro and Enju home after dinner, then Elsa said Rentaro had some goodwill, but not much.

Aiki learned that Tokyo mistreated Cursed Children and that officials had rejected his attempt to register a church, so he planned to establish a Civil Security Agency called Holy Light instead. Rentaro agreed to keep watch on Elsa's group for Enju, then returned with her to find Kisara starving and to tell her about the foreigners taking in Cursed Children.

• Aiki told Elsa that Tokyo treated fighting Cursed Children as disposable weapons and abandoned those who could not fight.
• Aiki explained that officials had rejected his church registration, so he planned to open a Civil Security Agency named Holy Light.
• Rentaro warned Enju to avoid Elsa's group, but Enju insisted on staying friends with them, and Rentaro agreed to keep watch on them.
• Rentaro and Enju returned to the agency, where Kisara attacked Rentaro with a wooden sword because she was starving.
• After Rentaro gave Kisara instant noodles, he told her about Elsa's group taking in Cursed Children and preaching in Tokyo.

Ria approved sending a Medical Fruit and other Holy Fruits to the advance team in the New World so they could treat and protect the Cursed Children. In Tokyo, the Holy Light Civilian Police Office faced a hostile mob, and its clerics blocked the crowd’s thrown stones.

• Ria learned that the advance team had found a world hostile to the Cursed Children and ordered the clerics not to force the faith on its people, but to act boldly to save the children.
• Ria gave the intelligence officer a Medical Fruit made by the Holy Church and authorized sending more Holy Fruits and clerics to help the children protect themselves.
• Residents gathered outside the Holy Light Civilian Police Office in Tokyo, encouraged by people with malicious intentions to demand that it stop sheltering Cursed Children.
• A blond-haired man confronted the clerics and urged the crowd to drive them out; when he pointed at one cleric, the cleric broke his finger.
• The crowd hurled stones at the clerics, and one cleric stopped them with an invisible barrier.