Recaps

Sephiroth and Hancock held their wedding at Babylon's embassy in Amazon Lily, surrounded by Kuja friends and visiting legends. After the ceremony, Hancock told Sephiroth she wanted a child, leaving their future as a married couple beginning that night.

• Hancock worried over her wedding gown while Goldflower and her sisters helped her prepare.
• Sephiroth welcomed Rayleigh, Shakky, and Gaban at the embassy, while Reiju watched the legendary guests from a distance.
• Shakky officiated the Western-style wedding, and Sephiroth placed a ring on Hancock's finger.
• Hancock told Sephiroth how happy she was to marry him, and he recalled asking her to accompany him to Big Mom's birthday party.
• That night, Hancock told Sephiroth she wanted a child, and he understood her wish.

Sephiroth traveled toward Whole Cake Island with Reiju and the knights to attend Big Mom’s birthday invitation, while the Ashen and the Mechanical King joined their convoy. As Totto Land came into view, Sephiroth prepared to maintain friendly relations but remain ready to retaliate if anything went wrong.

• Reiju asked why Sephiroth had left Hancock at home, and he explained that his new wife was pregnant.
• Sephiroth told Reiju that he wanted a basically friendly relationship with Big Mom but was ready to retaliate without limits if necessary.
• The Red Tears entered Totto Land’s waters, where sugar fell from the sky, and Sephiroth ordered mechanical spiders to clear it from the ship.
• Sephiroth reflected that the knights had volunteered eagerly for the dangerous voyage after he reconsidered his decision to keep them out of harm’s way.
• Reiju asked about the Mechanical King, and Sephiroth explained that they were business partners and had both been invited by Big Mom.
• Whole Cake Island appeared on the horizon as the Red Tears and the Ashen approached.

Custard and Mozart welcomed Sephiroth and Babbage to Whole Cake Island and escorted them toward Whole Cake Chateau. During the journey, Mozart asked Sephiroth about his country, and he compared Babylon’s welfare system with Totto Land’s abundant comforts.

• Custard and Mozart waited at the harbor as the Red Tears and the Ashen approached Whole Cake Island.
• The ships’ maglev boards formed illuminated gangways, startling the Homies who had expected to connect the ships to the docks.
• Sephiroth, Reiju, and four silver-armored knights emerged from the Red Tears, while Babbage and four Mechanical Soldiers left the Ashen.
• Custard and Mozart welcomed the guests on Big Mom’s orders and led them through the city in Homies carriages.
• Mozart asked Sephiroth about Totto Land, and he described its plentiful food and comforts before explaining Babylon’s basic welfare provisions.
• The procession continued toward Whole Cake Chateau.

Sephiroth and Reiju arrived at Whole Cake Chateau as honored guests, where they discussed Big Mom’s likely motives and the possibility of a marriage alliance. Stussy, the Queen of the Pleasure District and a member of Cipher Pol Aigis Zero, came to meet Sephiroth and introduced herself as his fan.

• Sephiroth and Reiju rode to Whole Cake Chateau while Babbage traveled separately with Custard, who tried to gauge his interest in cooperation.
• Mozart escorted Sephiroth’s party to a VIP lounge, where Sephiroth and Reiju used telepathy to discuss the Homies, the Big Mom Pirates, and the possibility of a marriage alliance.
• Sephiroth warned Reiju that the Big Mom Pirates might make a serious proposal and told her to leave aristocratic matters to him and prepare to take shelter if trouble arose.
• A maid announced that Stussy wished to visit Sephiroth, and he agreed to receive her after telling Reiju that Stussy belonged to Cipher Pol Aigis Zero.
• Stussy entered the lounge, introduced herself as the Queen of the Pleasure District, and told Sephiroth she had come because she was his fan.

Sephiroth and Reiju arrived at Big Mom’s birthday celebration with the Underworld Emperors and the Mechanical King, Babbage. After a fairy-tale welcome and a security check, Sephiroth entered the venue while Babbage waited for an inspection by an Observation Haki expert.

• Sephiroth and Reiju rode a pig-drawn carriage to Whole Cake Island’s Inner City as Sephiroth used satellite surveillance to track the gathered forces.
• The Underworld Emperors and Babbage arrived, and Umit showed resentment toward Babbage over Titans’ shipping routes.
• Sephiroth joined the guests, where Morgans eagerly asked him for an exclusive interview and Stussy greeted him.
• Perospero welcomed the guests with a song-and-dance performance and created a candy suspension bridge to the Inner City.
• Haifaite collected the guests’ visible weapons, let Sephiroth and Reiju pass without a search, and Babbage requested an Observation Haki expert to inspect his mech.

Katakuri used Future Sight to discover that Babbage was only a brain inside his armor and let him enter Big Mom’s party, then hurried off to warn Mama. Inside the venue, Sephiroth and the other guests met Smoothie, sampled her unusual drinks, and received Babbage’s message that his task had gone smoothly.

• Haiffat hesitated to admit Babbage until Katakuri arrived and used Future Sight to verify his reason for keeping his armor on.
• Katakuri sensed that Babbage had no human body inside his armor, allowed him into the venue, and left to tell Big Mom what he had discovered.
• Sephiroth entered the party with Reiju, Stussy, Morgans, and the four other Underworld Emperors, where Skypieans greeted him with reverence.
• Smoothie welcomed the guests and offered drinks made from an Express Shrimp, Iron Cloud, and a woman who had swindled a hundred men.
• Sephiroth and Reiju chose Iron Cloud juice, while Morgans and the other Underworld Emperors ordered different drinks.
• Sephiroth received Babbage’s message that everything had gone smoothly.

At Big Mom’s sixty-fourth birthday tea party, Sephiroth observed the guests and the Charlotte Family while Babbage’s armor attracted attention. Big Mom opened the celebration, and the guests began feasting, leaving Sephiroth watchful of her daughters and intentions.

• Smoothie welcomed Babbage and served him Express Shrimp, which his armor analyzed aloud as a cocktail-like flavor match.
• Sephiroth received Babbage’s composition report and kept the armor’s brain-in-a-vat isolated from its systems.
• Morgans approached Babbage for an interview and took notes during the armor’s rigid chatbot conversation.
• Stussy tried to build familiarity with Sephiroth, while Reiju stayed beside him and watched the exchange.
• Sephiroth surveyed the Charlotte daughters, including six-year-old Tontatta Charlotte Normande, and noted their varied appearances.
• Big Mom emerged from the strawberry-cake-shaped house, welcomed the guests, and invited them to eat and drink.

At Big Mom’s birthday tea party, Sephiroth and Babbage presented gifts before Big Mom proposed a marriage alliance between Sephiroth and one of her daughters. Sephiroth considered the potential benefits of cooperating with Totto Land and examined the candidates, leaving his choice undecided.

• Sephiroth warned Reiju through Telepathy not to ask about the photograph of Nun Carmel, which Big Mom treated as an honored guest.
• The six Underworld Emperors, Sephiroth, and Babbage presented treasure chests to Big Mom, who collected them before opening any.
• Sephiroth gave Big Mom a set of Sky Island dials, while Babbage presented molecular gastronomy desserts, equipment, and recipes.
• After the banquet began, Big Mom asked Sephiroth whether he would marry one of her daughters and brought ten candidates forward.
• Sephiroth used Emotion Absorption to assess Big Mom’s intentions, considered cooperating with Totto Land, and noticed that only three of the nine other candidates were normal humans.

Sephiroth met ten of Big Mom’s daughters at a gathering arranged to discuss a marriage alliance. After considering their appearances and unusual traits, he agreed to marry both Galette and Melise, leaving Big Mom stunned.

• Sephiroth greeted Mozart, Snamon, and Galette, learning about their personalities and backgrounds as they introduced themselves.
• He exchanged pleasantries with the half-mermaid twins, Prim and Praline, and the longarm sisters Marble and Myukuru.
• Sephiroth met Kong Da and Panna, noting their unusual heights and mixed-tribe heritage.
• Snamon revealed the shy Melise, who said she was twenty-nine and belonged to the Half-Mink Tribe.
• Sephiroth told Big Mom he accepted the marriage alliance on the condition that he marry both Melise and Galette, surprising her.

Sephiroth negotiated a marriage alliance and cooperation with Big Mom, choosing Galette and Melise as his brides. When Big Mom’s Hunger Pangs began after he refused to marry them immediately, Sephiroth’s Mythical Zoan power fulfilled the crowd’s wish and restored her to normal, leaving him astonished by the ability.

• Sephiroth told Big Mom he wanted to marry both Galette and Melise, and he offered Babylon’s cooperation and Sky Island goods in exchange.
• Sephiroth explained that he valued Galette’s abilities and liked Melise’s appearance, while Big Mom questioned his choices and asked when he would marry them.
• Sephiroth requested to hold the weddings the following year, but Big Mom demanded that he marry her daughters immediately and threatened him when he refused.
• Sephiroth activated mechanized mind to resist Big Mom’s life-stealing power, but Big Mom’s Hunger Pangs struck before her family could bring out her birthday cake.
• Sephiroth transformed into the Great Angel, gathered the crowd’s shared wish into holy light, and threw it at Big Mom, ending her Hunger Pangs.

Stussy reported on the Great Angel’s abilities, trade deals, and marriage agreements after Big Mom’s tea party, while the CP0 Chief ordered her to infiltrate his circle. On their honeymoon in Babylon, Sephiroth and Hancock prepared for another wedding, and he explained the different meanings of gods in the world before Hancock rejected a call from Elder Nyon.

• Stussy told the CP0 Chief that the Great Angel had stopped Big Mom’s hunger pangs and speculated that his Mythical Zoan had extraordinary abilities.
• Stussy explained the trade arrangement between Totto Land, Babylon, and Titans, and said molecular cuisine had helped secure Big Mom’s cooperation.
• Stussy reported that Big Mom had agreed to engagements between two of her daughters and the Great Angel, while the CP0 Chief directed Stussy to pursue contact with him and assigned CP8 to investigate the Mechanical King.
• Sephiroth and Hancock toured Babylon and traveled to Birka, where they planned to hold another wedding the next day.
• Sephiroth explained the religious, mythological, and historical uses of the word god, and Hancock smashed a Den Den Mushi call from Elder Nyon rather than return to her duties as queen.
• Sephiroth promised to visit Hancock often, then led her into the church’s soundproof side hall.

Sephiroth and his crew dealt with pirates during a voyage aboard the Red Tears, then prepared to continue their disaster-relief mission. As Sephiroth went to check on Yamato, an encrypted alert about surveillance target No. 4 made him suspect a major incident at Punk Hazard.

• Yamato and Baby 5 helped Sephiroth defeat a pirate crew, and the knights took the surviving pirates aboard for screening.
• Yamato wondered whether their adventures resembled the sailing journeys in Oden’s journal, but decided that flying directly to adventures was more appealing.
• Reiju told Sephiroth that the Marines had officially recognized the Four Emperors, including Shanks.
• Sephiroth ordered the Red Tears to prepare for ascent and continue its route to provide disaster relief.
• An encrypted satellite message reported a major incident involving special surveillance target No. 4, and Sephiroth suspected it concerned Punk Hazard.

Sephiroth monitored the explosion at Punk Hazard, then established an alibi in Water 7 as Shining while the Marines transported Caesar. Bondrewd attacked the prison ship and confronted Caesar, leaving his capture imminent.

• Lilith reported that the explosion at Punk Hazard had obscured the island, and Sephiroth ordered her to monitor ships while he waited for the Marines to evacuate the area.
• Sephiroth traveled to the Kessoku Band office in Water 7 as Shining and discussed preparations for the band's music video with Kalifa.
• A Marine prison ship carrying Caesar sailed toward Enies Lobby, and Caesar protested his arrest to the escorting Marines.
• Bondrewd broke through the prison ship's wall, incapacitated the nearby Marines, and approached Caesar's cell.
• Caesar cowered and begged Bondrewd to stay away as Bondrewd prepared to open the cell.

Sephiroth captured Caesar, copied his scientific knowledge, and brought him to an isolated artificial sky island to work on Artificial Devil Fruit research. Caesar reluctantly agreed, but the chapter ended with him fainting after finding four Bondrewd lookalikes outside his room.

• Sephiroth restrained Caesar, scanned his mind, and transformed part of the prison ship into a Shuttle.
• Sephiroth fitted Caesar with seastone restraints, learned about his technologies and a safe house, then flew him to artificial sky island X.
• Sephiroth asked Caesar to work at his research institute, beginning with Artificial Devil Fruit technology and Zoan research.
• Caesar agreed to cooperate after Sephiroth promised him Zoan ability users as research material and warned him not to rush his work.
• Caesar opened his laboratory door, saw four Praying Hands resembling Bondrewd, and passed out.

Sephiroth returned to the Red Tears and led a relief mission to a tsunami-struck town, where he planned to turn aid into lasting economic cooperation. After the refugees received food, shelter, and medical care, he left Reiju to explain international aid to officials from the kingdom.

• Sephiroth returned to the Red Tears, where Yamato welcomed him and Reiju reported that they were forty-three minutes from the disaster-struck island.
• Sephiroth outlined plans to pursue mineral, agricultural, and commercial cooperation with the kingdom while discussing his recent acquisition of a Zoan Salamander Devil Fruit and a future Zoan fruit.
• The Red Tears arrived, and Sephiroth's knights distributed supplies, erected tents, treated the injured, dug wells, and installed water storage equipment.
• Kingdom officials arrived with a small supply of sawdust-mixed black bread and watched as the refugees received extensive aid from Sephiroth's forces.
• Sephiroth arrived at the camp, praised the Holy Knight, and left Reiju to speak with the kingdom's officials about international aid.

Sephiroth visited Monet on the moon before taking five captive Zoan users to Artificial Sky Island X so Caesar could replicate their Devil Fruits. After assigning Caesar research work, Sephiroth learned that the Marines had begun retreating from Target No. 4.

• Sephiroth arrived at the lunar Temple and visited Monet, who chose to remain on the moon because Sugar could not safely leave; they spent the day together.
• The next day, Sephiroth brought five captive Zoan users to Caesar at Artificial Sky Island X for fruit replication and eventual extraction.
• Caesar explained the limits and risks of replicating and transferring Zoan Devil Fruits, then asked permission to research fully artificial fruits, which Sephiroth granted.
• Sephiroth received a report that the Marines at Target No. 4 were retreating and praised the Knights for their work.

Sephiroth entered the sealed Punk Hazard and retrieved the Pink Dragon Fruit from the Third Research Institute. After discovering records about Vegapunk’s lineage-factor research and the Marine Science Unit’s attempts to collect his and the Great Angel’s lineage factors, he burned the documents and left the island with the fruit.

• Sephiroth used Optical Stealth and his elemental form to cross Punk Hazard’s poisonous fog and reach the Third Research Institute.
• Sephiroth found poisoned prisoners inside, put the dying survivors he encountered out of their misery, and located the Pink Dragon Fruit in a sealed glass cylinder.
• Sephiroth stored the fruit in an adamantine container and searched the institute for valuable records and research.
• Sephiroth found the Lineage Factor-1517 report, which documented samples collected from famous Devil Fruit users, including the Shichibukai.
• Sephiroth discovered that the Marine Science Unit had tried to obtain the lineage factors of Satellite Shining and the Great Angel, then burned the documents and left Punk Hazard with the fruit.

Nami longed to join Sephiroth on sea adventures, but he had called her to Babylon to give her a weather-controlling Devil Fruit. After eating it, Nami transformed into a pink dragon and then a dragon maiden, leaving the group to admire her new form.

• Nami complained to Carina and Nojiko that Sephiroth would not take her on dangerous sea trips, and Nojiko told her to be patient until she was older.
• Ulti and Yamato sparred at Babylon’s training grounds while Sephiroth and Baby 5 watched.
• Sephiroth brought Nami, Nojiko, and Carina to the training grounds and presented Nami with a fruit he called the Mythical Zoan Cherry Dragon Fruit.
• Nami ate the fruit and transformed into a pink dragon, then shifted into a dragon-maiden form with horns and scales.
• Sephiroth and the others admired Nami’s new appearance as she adjusted to her increased strength.

Nami began developing her Mythical Zoan Cherry Dragon Fruit powers, but Sephiroth learned that Ulti’s father, former Shichibukai Hanafuda, had been defeated by Ace and promised to find him. As Sephiroth set out, he received a non-mandatory draft order to deal with Ace and accepted it.

• Sephiroth explained the different ways Nami could develop her Cherry Dragon Fruit, and Nami chose to focus on its weather abilities.
• Lilith informed Sephiroth that Ace had defeated Hanafuda, refused the World Government’s offer to become a Shichibukai, and gained a 270 million bounty.
• Ulti revealed that Hanafuda was her father, and Sephiroth promised to find him and bring him back alive.
• Sephiroth left Babylon to search for Hanafuda, then received a non-mandatory draft order to deal with Ace and accepted the mission.

After Sephiroth rescued Hanafuda from a pirate alliance, he revealed that Hanafuda’s children served under him and that Ulti was his woman, leaving Hanafuda furious. On Broz Island, Ace’s crew celebrated defeating Hanafuda, but Deathly Lightning attacked as they prepared to rescue the stranded officer Mihal, while Naruto reacted strangely to the lightning.

• Hanafuda fought off a pirate alliance that had hunted him since he lost his Shichibukai title, but Sephiroth arrived and killed the pirates with blue lasers.
• Sephiroth confirmed Hanafuda’s identity, told him his children were now his subordinates, and revealed that Ulti was his woman, prompting Hanafuda to turn menacing.
• On Broz Island, Ace and the Spade Pirates celebrated Ace’s victory over Hanafuda and discussed their upcoming journey to Water 7.
• Deathly Lightning attacked the town with a barrage of thunderbolts, setting the tavern on fire as Ace warned his crew to scatter.
• Deuce headed to retrieve Mihal, who remained aboard the ship, while Naruto stared at the lightning and briefly showed an electric current in his eyes.

Sephiroth attacked the Spade Pirates as Satellite Shining, overwhelming Ace and his crew with lightning while Naruto secretly received orders to activate Overload Mode. As the battle escalated, Naruto apologized to Ace and launched himself toward Sephiroth, leaving Ace alarmed and Satellite Shining calling him a fake.

• Sephiroth arrived above the island as Satellite Shining and reviewed Naruto’s intelligence on the Spade Pirates.
• Sephiroth ordered Naruto to activate Overload Mode after Ace was defeated, and Naruto’s combat restrictions disengaged.
• Ace and Naruto fought together against Satellite Shining’s lightning while Deuce led the injured crew members to safety.
• Satellite Shining increased the attack, filling the sky with lightning and forcing Ace and Naruto into greater danger.
• Naruto apologized to Ace, powered up with electricity, and flew toward Satellite Shining, who called him a fake.

Naruto fought Satellite Shining in a destructive aerial battle but was defeated and fell from the sky. As Ace rushed to him, Bondrewd appeared and offered to repair him.

• Naruto challenged Satellite Shining, and the two exchanged high-speed attacks above the Spade Pirates.
• Satellite Shining overwhelmed Naruto with dark lightning, electromagnetic restraints, and plasma attacks, while Naruto repeatedly damaged and rebuilt his body.
• Naruto fired a final Seastone Bullet at Satellite Shining, but it hit only an afterimage, and Naruto shut down and fell.
• Ace ran to Naruto and called for him to wake up, but Naruto did not respond.
• Bondrewd appeared beside Ace and offered to repair Naruto, prompting Ace to insist Naruto was not a Puppet.

Ace unleashed powerful Conqueror’s Haki after Naruto was gravely injured, but Bondrewd and his stand-ins took Naruto away while Ace agreed to follow. Bondrewd then fought Satellite Shining in a spectacular lightning battle that left the island’s pirates and CP4 agents stunned.

• Ace realized he feared losing Naruto and erupted with Conqueror’s Haki, prompting Sephiroth to teleport away before returning.
• A Praying Hands stand-in appeared, and Ace refused to surrender Naruto until Bondrewd pointed out that Ace could not heal him.
• Ace agreed to go with Bondrewd and stay until Naruto was healed, while Bondrewd protected them from the storm with a superconducting Faraday cage.
• Satellite Shining attacked Bondrewd with a barrage of ball lightning as Ace, Naruto, and Praying Hands withdrew from the fight.
• Bondrewd countered Satellite Shining’s lightning with activated metal and an electromagnetic field, scattering the attack across the sky.

Satellite Shining overwhelmed Bondrewd in a massive battle that turned the island’s surface to glass, but Bondrewd survived through Zoaholic and escaped. CP4 agents were left to report the failure to capture him alive.

• The CP4 captain recorded Satellite Shining and Bondrewd’s battle while learning that Ace’s Conqueror’s Haki could affect physical matter.
• Satellite Shining and Bondrewd exchanged attacks using electricity, chemical reactions, lasers, and transmutation-based defenses.
• Sephiroth detected that the Spade Pirates had boarded Bondrewd’s submarine and that CP4 had reported its intelligence, so Satellite Shining transformed into Giant Trunade and struck Bondrewd with island-wide super lightning.
• Satellite Shining and CP4 found Bondrewd’s melted remains, but Bondrewd emerged from underground in another body and transferred his head to it using Zoaholic.
• Bondrewd apologized, flew away, and escaped capture; Satellite Shining then vanished, leaving CP4 agents unsure how to report what happened.

While the Spade Pirates waited for Naruto to recover on a hidden, moving sky island, Sephiroth tested a way to protect himself from seawater and received an invitation to advise the Marine Science Unit. He accepted the collaboration in Water 7, where Hina was assigned as his long-term Marine liaison.

• Wallace told Skull that the sky island moved, and Skull realized its mobility explained why the World Government and Marines could not find Bondrewd.
• Ace watched Naruto recover in the cultivation chamber and learned that Naruto’s mechanical parts were repaired while his biological components still needed time.
• Sephiroth tested an electromagnetic shield underwater and received the World Government’s message inviting Shining to advise the Marine Science Unit.
• Doll and Hina met Sephiroth at Shining Studio in Water 7, where he agreed to cooperate with the Marine Science Unit.
• Doll appointed Hina as the Marine liaison stationed in Water 7, and Sephiroth asked whether she could play guitar.