Recaps

Sommers was ordered to capture Bondrewd, who ravaged the island and killed or captured Celestial Dragons while Marine forces tried to stop him. As Bondrewd drew reinforcements into a losing fight, the fleeing natives and slaves found a chance to escape by boat.

• Sommers tortured a family with his thorns, then received Shamrock’s order to capture Bondrewd without killing him.
• Bondrewd attacked a Marine force protecting three Celestial Dragons, killed their guards, and captured the Celestial Dragons for Sephiroth’s research.
• Bondrewd used chlorine gas to kill more guards and Celestial Dragons, while a surveillance Den Den Mushi broadcast the massacre.
• Bondrewd burned approaching Marine soldiers with white phosphorus and destroyed shells fired by a lieutenant colonel’s artillery unit.
• The Marines focused on Bondrewd and an underwater enemy, allowing natives and slaves to flee the island by boat.

Bondrewd fought Saint Shepherd Sommers and demonstrated several copied Devil Fruit abilities before Shamrock joined the battle. As the Holy Knights confronted him, Bondrewd unleashed a powerful electrical attack through a chemically altered mist.

• Saint Shepherd Sommers intercepted Bondrewd, and the two discussed their shared ideas about love before Sommers tried to capture him.
• Bondrewd turned the ground into quicksand, blocked Sommers’s thorn whip, and struck him with an enormous fireball.
• Gunko attacked Bondrewd with her arrows, but he froze her and shattered her body before Shamrock arrived and forced him back with a slash.
• Bondrewd used an ice shock wave against the three Holy Knights, who scattered to avoid it.
• Bondrewd summoned two obelisks and created an ion-rich mist that amplified his electrical attack, leaving the Holy Knights shocked by his apparent Rumble-Rumble Fruit power.

Sephiroth remotely controlled Bondrewd as he fought Shamrock, Gunko, and Saint Shepherd Sommers, using a vast array of simulated Devil Fruit abilities and surviving their attacks. The Holy Knights discovered little about Bondrewd’s nature, while he completed the first stage of data collection and taunted Gunko.

• Shamrock struck Bondrewd with Conqueror’s Coating, but Bondrewd regenerated and injured Shamrock by touching him.
• Bondrewd attacked the Holy Knights with lava, explosions, flying debris, earth lions, and poisonous dragons, while the trio countered and tried to capture him.
• Bondrewd turned invisible, ambushed Gunko, and severed her head, but she regenerated and revealed that her immortality persisted despite bodily separation.
• Shamrock and his companions resumed their assault, but Bondrewd used laser pulses and a diamond barrier to withstand their attacks.
• Bondrewd escaped in a smoke cloud by riding an invisible arrow, then announced that the first stage of data collection was complete and mocked Gunko.

Bondrewd overwhelmed Shamrock, Gunko, Sommers, and Kiringham’s Nightmare Legion with his copied abilities and radiation attacks. Saint Saturn arrived, destroyed Bondrewd’s body, and found his core, but Bondrewd’s warning revealed that a second attack was already falling toward the port where the Celestial Dragons had gathered.

• Shamrock, Gunko, and Sommers pressed Bondrewd in close combat, but he copied their abilities and defeated their coordinated attacks.
• Kiringham’s Nightmare Legion joined the battle, and Bondrewd wiped out the soldiers and killed the three Holy Knights with a devastating radiation pulse.
• Saint Saturn arrived, cut Bondrewd down, and discovered that his core was hidden inside his damaged head.
• Bondrewd warned Saint Saturn about a second attack as his core shattered, and Gunko spotted a blazing object falling toward the port where the Celestial Dragons had gathered.

Saint Saturn intercepted Bondrewd’s falling chemical “baleful star” at the Port, only to learn Bondrewd was attacking the Main Venue, where he stole four Devil Fruits. Imu possessed Gunko and transformed two Vice Admirals and nearby troops into demons, while Bondrewd revealed his own dragon wings and prepared to show Imu his soul.

• Saint Saturn raced to the Port and cleaved the falling baleful star, but its chemical contents exploded and caused more casualties among the Marines and Celestial Dragons.
• Lord Imu told Saint Saturn that Bondrewd was at the Main Venue, so Saint Saturn teleported there while Bondrewd attacked Kiringham and the defenders.
• Bondrewd defeated three Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents, drove back two Vice Admirals, and stole the Cerberus, Harpy, Quiet-Quiet, and Paper-Paper Devil Fruits before the God's Knights arrived.
• Gunko transformed into Imu, unleashed overwhelming Conqueror’s Haki, and turned the two Vice Admirals and unconscious soldiers into demons.
• Imu offered Bondrewd destruction or submission, but Bondrewd sprouted enormous dragon wings and invited Imu to witness his soul.

Bondrewd summoned a legion of Praying Hands from the dead and refused Imu’s order to become commander of the God's Knights. Imu sent Shamrock and Sommers to capture him, and the battle between the Praying Hands and the Demon Marines and Nightmare Soldiers began.

• Bondrewd used eight obelisks and Transmutation to create thousands of armored Praying Hands from organic and inorganic matter.
• Saint Saturn condemned Bondrewd’s treatment of life, but Imu rebuked him and ordered him to kneel.
• Imu declared that Bondrewd would become commander of the God's Knights, but Bondrewd refused.
• Imu ordered Shamrock and Sommers to capture Bondrewd, while Kiringham revived the Nightmare Soldiers.
• Bondrewd fought Shamrock and Sommers as the Praying Hands clashed with the Demon Marines and Nightmare Soldiers, adapting to attacks and regenerating when struck down.

Sephiroth used Bondrewd and his pre-positioned forces to cover his retreat, while Imu and the God's Knights tried to stop him. A meteor strike devastated the venue, Bondrewd escaped, and Kizaru arrived to find the God's Knights furious.

• Sephiroth used the Black Stone Obelisks to control the Praying Hands and staged their equipment as if he had transmuted it on-site.
• Shamrock, Sommers, and Imu attacked Bondrewd, but he resisted Black Transmutation and regenerated after Imu's shotgun blasted apart much of his body.
• Bondrewd summoned a meteor from orbit, destroying the main venue and leaving Imu, Saint Saturn, and the God's Knights to revive in the crater.
• Bondrewd and his forces vanished during the destruction, leading the God's Knights to suspect he had escaped by teleportation.
• Gunko returned to normal, and a teleportation circle carried Saint Saturn away.
• Kizaru arrived by cannon shell and found the four God's Knights glaring at him.

Imu ordered the Five Elders to bring Bondrewd before them, and the Elders set his bounty at the Pirate King’s record while deciding to blame him for the incident. The Marines learned Bondrewd had to be captured alive, while Sephiroth, posing as Bondrewd, put Caesar to work studying the captured Celestial Dragons; three days later, the bounty announcement shook the world.

• Imu reviewed Bondrewd’s file, bounty poster, and photographs, then ordered the Five Elders to bring him before them.
• Saint Saturn described Bondrewd’s many Devil Fruit abilities and his apparent lack of Haki, and the Elders debated how to respond.
• The Five Elders set Bondrewd’s bounty at 5,564,800,000, decided to blame him for the incident, and planned to investigate Shining indirectly.
• Sengoku told Garp, Tsuru, Akainu, and Aokiji that Bondrewd had to be captured alive, prompting disbelief from the three men.
• Sephiroth, posing as Bondrewd, told Caesar to examine the captured Celestial Dragons for secrets in their Lineage Factor.
• Three days later, the World Government announced Bondrewd’s record-matching bounty and charges, stirring speculation among the Four Emperors, the Golden Lion, and the Revolutionary Army.

Bondrewd’s record-shattering bounty alarmed pirates, the Revolutionary Army, and the World Government, while Big Mom and Kaido considered his biotechnology and stolen Devil Fruits. In Water 7, Cipher Pol Aigis Zero and Hina questioned Shining, who revealed that Bondrewd belonged to an organization called the Tower of Babel.

• Bondrewd’s wanted poster named him the world’s most evil criminal and listed a bounty of 5,564,800,000, prompting Golden Lion Shiki to laugh at his attack on the Celestial Dragons’ event.
• Big Mom ordered Perospero to find Bondrewd and considered a marriage alliance, while Kaido called her to discuss his modified Zoan army and the stolen Devil Fruits.
• Dragon’s Revolutionary Army reviewed intelligence on Bondrewd’s attack, discussed rescuing survivors, and considered but postponed contacting or cooperating with him.
• Shining rehearsed a song with Perona, Brook, and Kalifa before Hina and two Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents arrived to question him about Bondrewd.
• Shining told Hina and the Cipher Pol agents that Bondrewd came from the Tower of Babel, an organization like MADS, and that he and Babbage had once belonged to it.

Shining recounted Babel’s collapse and Bondrewd’s dangerous abilities to Cipher Pol Aigis Zero, while concealing the truth behind his story. Later, he revealed to Kalifa that Heaven’s Cup involved psionic ascension and soul materialization, hinting that Babel’s accident had transformed him too.

• Shining told Cipher Pol Aigis Zero that Bondrewd founded Babel with Babbage, and that their dispute over genetic and mechanical ascension ended with Babel’s members becoming Praying Hands.
• Shining explained that Bondrewd could transform matter, adapt to opponents, and survive through Zoa holic and the Life-Echo Stone, but he claimed not to know about Heaven’s Cup.
• After Cipher Pol Aigis Zero and Hina left, Shining told Kalifa that Babel’s project was called Redefining Humanity and that Bondrewd and Babbage had pursued genetic and mechanical ascension.
• Kalifa visited Shining that night to ask about Heaven’s Cup, but he pulled her into his room before she could begin her prepared questions.
• Shining told Kalifa that Heaven’s Cup was psionic ascension, or soul materialization, and that it was the real reason he hated Bondrewd.

Shanks told Whitebeard about Bondrewd’s seemingly unbeatable ability and the possible alliance between Big Mom and Kaido, while withholding Bondrewd’s origins. Sephiroth attended Uta’s successful Dressrosa concert, then revealed that he was Shining, leaving Uta to react by biting him in a playful scuffle.

• Shanks arrived at the Moby Dick and warned Whitebeard about Bondrewd, explaining his ability and the threat posed by Big Mom and Kaido’s apparent agreement.
• Sephiroth stayed with pregnant Hancock in Amazon Lily before leaving to attend Uta and the others’ concert in Dressrosa.
• Uta, Carina, Nami, Baby 5, and Tashigi performed successfully at the Corrida Colosseum, while Sephiroth watched with Rebecca.
• Backstage, Uta praised Shining’s songs, prompting Sephiroth to take her aside and reveal that he was Shining.
• Uta bit Sephiroth in protest at his revelation, and they tumbled into a playful scuffle.

Sephiroth stayed on Amazon Lily to care for Hancock during her pregnancy, but went to the Eighth Research Institute as Shining for a meeting with Vegapunk. He met Vegapunk’s newly created satellites and learned that Vegapunk had made progress reproducing the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s powers.

• Sephiroth stayed close to Hancock on Amazon Lily and said he would remain there through her delivery and recovery.
• Hina contacted Shining and arranged for him to visit the Science Unit’s Eighth Research Institute the next morning.
• Shining arrived at the institute and met Lilith, who revealed herself as Vegapunk’s second satellite, along with Shaka and the other satellites in their cultivation tanks.
• Vegapunk showed Shining the satellites and explained their roles, including York’s responsibility for eating and sleeping.
• Vegapunk took Shining to work and told him he had analyzed Shining’s powers and made progress reproducing the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s abilities.

Vegapunk showed Shining weapons based on his abilities, then used a discussion about Devil Fruits and Bondrewd’s magic to probe Shining’s condition. Shining explained that he was a half-finished result of the Third Magic, while the Five Elders debated whether to report the revelations to Imu.

• Vegapunk demonstrated compact electromagnetic weapons modeled on Shining’s abilities, including a costly plasma rifle and a gun that disrupted a target’s nerve signals.
• Vegapunk brought Shining to the Logia Laboratory, where he claimed that Shining’s elemental form showed an unusual connection to a Devil Fruit’s soul.
• Shining connected the discussion to Bondrewd and said the Third Magic had caused his current condition, leaving him a half-finished product of Heaven’s Feel.
• Shining described five kinds of magic and revealed that the Sixth Magic was Bondrewd’s unfinished goal, Imaginary Realization.
• The Five Elders considered reporting Shining’s revelations to Imu, then turned toward Saint Saturn to make him go.

Sephiroth used Bilca’s collective faith and Wish Magic to create a self-repairing, nearly indestructible grimoire, then explained his limited wish-granting abilities to Achiu. He offered to use Wish Magic to help clone Achiu’s deceased wife, but Achiu refused, and Sephiroth prepared to leave Bilca.

• Sephiroth appeared above Bilca’s temple plaza in his Great Angel form and used Emotion Release to connect the city’s residents before the ceremony produced a mechanical grimoire.
• Sephiroth told Achiu that his Great Angel form could fulfill feasible wishes by using absorbed thoughts, and he explained how he had created the grimoire with faith and scientific materials.
• Achiu tried the grimoire and learned how its incantations and song enabled molecular-level Disintegration.
• Sephiroth offered to use Wish Magic to complete the missing lineage factor needed to clone Achiu’s deceased wife, while warning that the result would not truly be her.
• Achiu refused the offer, choosing to tell Olga the truth when she reached adulthood, and Sephiroth took back the grimoire and prepared to leave for the Kuja.

Law and Alpha negotiated with Bondrewd’s auction through Caesar, securing the Calm-Calm Fruit for Kuma in exchange for a mysterious document. After they left, Shanks contacted Babbage to ask for the Great Angel’s personal contact information.

• Babbage told Law and Alpha that Bondrewd was holding an anonymous barter auction for four Devil Fruits, including the Calm-Calm Fruit.
• Alpha presented one page of a three-page document, and Caesar accepted it as payment for the Calm-Calm Fruit, arranging a trade near the Sorbet Kingdom.
• Law thanked Babbage for helping Kuma obtain the fruit and left with Alpha, who planned to report what she had learned.
• Shanks called Babbage and asked him to provide the Great Angel’s personal contact information.

Shanks contacted Babbage for a way to reach the Great Angel, while Sephiroth spent time on Amazon Lily with Robin, Hancock, and the visiting Uta and her companions. Yamato won over the Kuja warriors in the arena, and the chapter ended with Sephiroth reuniting with Hancock.

• Shanks asked Babbage for help contacting the Great Angel, and Babbage authorized him to visit a Titans outpost for a communications device.
• Sephiroth told Robin that Red-Haired Shanks wanted to get involved, then teased her about their relationship and suggested they marry in Birka.
• Yamato defeated Kuja warriors in a hundred-opponent arena challenge and earned their admiration as the White Demon.
• Uta, Nami, Carina, Tashigi, and Baby 5 watched the matches and struggled with Kuja culture, while Marguerite guided them.
• Baby 5 sensed Sephiroth arriving, and he teleported to the throne room and embraced Hancock.

The Five Elders discussed their failure to locate Bondrewd and considered how to monitor Sephiroth, the Great Angel, while Cipher Pol Aigis Zero investigated the Praying Hands. The agents discovered an ancient Poneglyph-like structure and a strange mechanical book, then prepared to report their findings to the Five Elders.

• The Five Elders reviewed their unsuccessful efforts to find Bondrewd and the eleven kidnapped Celestial Dragons, whose locations kept changing.
• Saint Mars suggested continuing to watch Sephiroth and using Heaven’s Gate as an opportunity to gather intelligence on him.
• Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents fought the Praying Hands on an uncharted West Blue island, while the Praying Hands melted away after defeat.
• The agents found a Poneglyph-like structure resembling Bondrewd’s Obelisk and discovered they could not damage it, even with Haki-coated Seastone.
• A Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agent uncovered a hidden compartment containing an ornate mechanical book, and the captain decided to report it to the Five Elders.

Tashigi defeated a Kuja warrior in the arena, while Uta fretted over her standing among the Kuja and Nami and Carina fought in a two-on-two match. After receiving word that the book had arrived, Sephiroth left the arena to speak with Robin and continue his plan involving the Golden Lion.

• Tashigi used her Observation Haki and refined swordsmanship to defeat a Kuja warrior in the arena.
• Uta admitted she wanted to fight but accepted that she could not compete normally, and Sephiroth reassured her as Marguerite explained the Kuja's admiration for him.
• Nami wielded a massive axe against a Kuja warrior while Carina fought another with a rapier, drawing cheers from the crowd.
• Sephiroth received a report from the Praying Hands that the book had been delivered and ordered them to continue the plan involving the Golden Lion.
• Sephiroth left the arena to speak with Robin, telling Baby 5 to look after Uta.

Sephiroth told Robin that his fabricated Poneglyphs had fooled their intended targets, then the Five Elders learned that the discovered ruins dated back a thousand years and began to suspect Bondrewd’s claims about magic. The chapter left them wondering whether another millennium would bring the Sixth Magic.

• Sephiroth visited Robin in Kuja Castle’s library and told her the fabricated Poneglyph had drawn the World Government’s attention.
• Robin praised the convincing forgery and asked Sephiroth about its ancient history and the existence of magic; he said magic, or something like it, was real.
• The Five Elders examined a strange book recovered by Cipher Pol Aigis Zero and learned that its writing matched the text on Bondrewd’s Obelisks.
• Vegapunk reported that the ruins had naturally weathered for about a thousand years and described the book as resembling a Devil Fruit that had become a book.
• The Five Elders recalled Bondrewd’s mention of the Sixth Magic and speculated about what might happen after another thousand years.

Shanks visited the Titans outpost in Sleepy Valley Town and learned about Uta through Sephiroth’s memory device. At Kuja Castle, Hancock gave birth to her and Sephiroth’s daughter, whom they named Lycoris.

• Shanks and several Red Hair Pirates arrived at Titans-controlled Sleepy Valley Town and met its mayor, Adoa.
• Mechanical Guards guided Shanks to the outpost, where Sephiroth contacted him and offered a helmet containing information about Uta.
• Shanks watched the helmet’s memory of Uta’s story and was shaken by what he learned.
• As Hancock’s due date approached, Sephiroth and the others gathered at Kuja Castle, where Hancock went into labor.
• Hancock gave birth to a daughter who showed a trace of Armament Haki, and Sephiroth and Hancock named her Lycoris.

In January 1519, the World Government invited Cavendish to become a Shichibukai, and he eagerly accepted the chance to claim the spotlight. A week later, Sephiroth returned to Sky Island with the Magnet-Magnet Fruit, where family antics awaited him and the newspapers revealed his marriage alliance with Germa.

• The World Government sent Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents to invite Cavendish to join the Shichibukai, and he accepted enthusiastically.
• Sephiroth returned to Sky Island with the Magnet-Magnet Fruit after his Artificial Angels defeated Kid and his crew in the South Blue.
• Sephiroth found Bonney had used her power to turn herself and Elaina into adults, while Gilgamesh wore the Sanguinius Armor.
• Sephiroth separated the armor from Gilgamesh and teased him with the Magnet-Magnet Fruit as food, prompting Gilgamesh to call for his mother.
• Isabella read that Sephiroth had entered a marriage alliance with Germa and that Cavendish had officially joined the Shichibukai.

Cavendish accepted his Shichibukai appointment in a highly public ceremony at Marine Headquarters, while Sephiroth trained Gil and Shining visited Vegapunk’s lab to see the completed first Pacifista. The chapter revealed that the World Government planned to abolish the Shichibukai once the Seraphim were ready, leaving Cavendish as a temporary seat-filler with a newly supplied Mythical Zoan.

• Cavendish arrived at Marine Headquarters and accepted the World Government’s Shichibukai appointment before reporters and the Marines.
• Sephiroth taught Gil to use electromagnetic force to accelerate coins, then negotiated with him over his video-game reward.
• Shining met Hina at the Marine Science Unit No. 8 Research Institute, where Vegapunk showed them the first completed Pacifista, modeled after Vice Admiral Ronse.
• Sentomaru revealed that the World Government wanted to abolish the Shichibukai, and Kizaru said Cavendish had become a Mythical Zoan Kamaitachi Fruit user.
• Hina recognized Ronse on the Pacifista frame after learning that he had volunteered for the project.

Vegapunk demonstrated PX-1’s combat capabilities to Shining, Hina, Kizaru, and Sentomaru, then celebrated the successful test with a bonfire party. Shining danced with Hina as the researchers and Marines joined in the festivities.

• Vegapunk brought Shining and Hina to the testing grounds to watch PX-1’s live combat evaluation.
• PX-1 destroyed five tracked robots using lasers, an electromagnetic cannon, plasma, and an electrically charged axe.
• Shining, Hina, Kizaru, and Vegapunk discussed PX-1’s strengths and its role alongside the Marines and Seraphim.
• Vegapunk declared the test and the first construction phase successful, then invited everyone to a bonfire party.
• Shining served barbecue pizza and champagne while Hina and the others ate and celebrated.
• Shining took Hina into a dance beside the bonfire, and the researchers, Marines, Vegapunk, Sentomaru, and Kizaru joined in.

Sephiroth returned to Sky Island, where Hanafuda’s unknown Devil Fruit became Elaina’s after she bit it, transforming her into a unicorn. As Sephiroth tried to comfort his crying daughter, Lilith contacted him about Golden Lion, but he put off her urgent news and braced for her reaction.

• Sephiroth returned to the Temple and learned from Baby 5 that Isabella wanted to see him.
• Isabella showed Sephiroth an unidentified Devil Fruit that Hanafuda had brought back, and he decided to keep it in his room while he investigated it.
• Sephiroth played with Elaina in the sitting room while Baby 5 prepared refreshments.
• Elaina opened the treasure chest and bit the Devil Fruit, then transformed into a tiny unicorn and cried over its terrible taste.
• Lilith contacted Sephiroth with news about Golden Lion, but he told her to come home and see what had happened to Elaina.

Elaina accidentally ate the Unicorn Fruit, and Sephiroth discovered that its powers included luck and revelation. Meanwhile, a Cipher Pol team found ancient ruins tied to Bondrewd and Rainbow Mist, leading the Five Elders to suspect that a Sixth Magic had appeared and debate reporting it to Imu.

• Elaina cried after eating the Unicorn Fruit, then fell asleep in Lilith’s arms as her unicorn traits faded.
• Sephiroth tested Elaina’s abilities with coin tosses and found that she could influence luck and reveal established facts.
• Lilith told Sephiroth that a Cipher Pol agent had led the World Government to ruins while pursuing a Flying Pirates crew in the East Blue.
• Chris guided Barton’s pirates to the ruins, where CP Agents attacked and exposed a strange Obelisk made from Poneglyph material.
• The Five Elders connected the Obelisk, Rainbow Mist, and a four-thousand-year-old sample to the pattern of the Five Magics, and suspected a Sixth Magic had appeared.
• Saint Warcury urged the Five Elders to report the discovery to Imu, while the others looked to Saint Saturn to do it.