Recaps

Sephiroth aided Alabasta through its drought, defeated Crocodile, and secured new political ties while recruiting Robin and expanding Babylon’s influence. He then intervened in Fish-Man Island, established Babylon’s government, and arrived at Elegia as the rebuilding began.

• Sephiroth helped Vegapunk develop weapons for clone soldiers and named the planned warriors Pacifistas.
• Sephiroth agreed to help Vivi in exchange for Alabasta joining Babylon’s pact, then brought rain to Erumalu and Yuba.
• Sephiroth and his allies captured Baroque Works agents, exposed Crocodile’s plot, and defeated him at the palace.
• Sephiroth showed Robin the Poneglyphs at Alabasta and offered her a place in Babylon as a scholarly adviser.
• Sephiroth strengthened alliances with Alabasta and other kingdoms, while taking action against Wapol and expanding Babylon’s resources.
• Sephiroth killed Vander Decken, helped Shirahoshi and her companions, and secured Neptune’s agreement to arrange Fish-Man Island’s immigration.
• Sephiroth convened Babylon’s Grand Congress and appointed partners and officials to roles across its government.
• Sephiroth arrived at Elegia with Babylon’s settlers, where Uta and Gordon met him as the kingdom’s rebuilding began.

Sephiroth recruited Uta and Tashigi, expanded Babylon’s influence in Wano, and prepared to exploit a Celestial Dragon hunting game. Disguised as Bondrewd, he attacked the event on Jade Island, killed Celestial Dragons, and confronted the Holy Knights while civilians and slaves fled.

• Sephiroth brought Uta aboard the Red Tears after she joined the band, then fought Shanks from afar with a lightning storm that damaged the Red Force.
• Sephiroth recruited Tashigi in Loguetown, gave her Yubashiri, and bought the Barrier-Barrier Fruit from Bartolomeo.
• Sephiroth visited Wano Country, secured trade agreements with Orochi, obtained Poneglyph knowledge from Kozuki Sukiyaki, and learned of preparations for a Celestial Dragon excursion.
• Sephiroth ordered the Praying Hands to investigate the hunting event, then planned to seize its Devil Fruit prizes and expose the World Government as Bondrewd.
• The Marines invaded Jade Island, killed resisting natives, and began a three-week hunt of the survivors and released slaves.
• Bondrewd attacked the island, fused Saint Pulminge and others into a chimera, and triggered underwater strikes that disrupted the Marines’ ships and communications.
• Bondrewd killed guards and Celestial Dragons while surveillance Den Den Mushi broadcast his attacks, giving natives and slaves a chance to escape by boat.
• Bondrewd fought Sommers and Gunko, then faced Shamrock and the other Holy Knights with ice and an electrically charged mist.

Bondrewd attacked the World Government, escaped its forces, and drew attention to the mysteries of his Obelisks and the Sixth Magic. Meanwhile, Sephiroth’s circle expanded as Hancock gave birth, Elaina ate a Devil Fruit, and Zephyr agreed to join Sephiroth’s growing forces.

• Bondrewd fought the Holy Knights, killed three of them, stole four Devil Fruits, and escaped after summoning a meteor to destroy the Main Venue.
• The Five Elders blamed Bondrewd for the disaster, set his bounty at 5,564,800,000, and ordered him captured alive as Shining revealed his history with Babel and Bondrewd’s pursuit of ascension.
• Shining told Vegapunk that Bondrewd’s Third Magic had left him a half-finished product of Heaven’s Feel, and Sephiroth explained Wish Magic to Achiu before Achiu refused to resurrect his wife.
• Cipher Pol Aigis Zero found a strange Obelisk and book linked to Bondrewd, while the Five Elders and Vegapunk connected them to ancient magic and a possible Sixth Magic.
• Shanks watched Uta’s memories through a helmet Sephiroth provided, and Hancock gave birth to their daughter Lycoris.
• Cavendish joined the Shichibukai, and Vegapunk demonstrated PX-1, a Pacifista cloned from Vice Admiral Ronse, to Shining and Hina.
• Elaina ate the Unicorn Fruit and gained powers that could influence luck and reveal established facts, while the Five Elders suspected that a Sixth Magic had appeared.
• Shuzo attacked Panz at the Food Valten festival, but Yamato and Sephiroth stopped the NEO Marines, and Sephiroth recruited Zephyr by offering generous funding and soldiers’ pay.

Sephiroth’s alliances and Uta’s reunion with Shanks unfold before he brings Robin to Elbaf to reunite with Saul. After meeting the Giants and confronting Loki in the Underworld, Sephiroth tells him the Celestial Dragons were involved in Harald’s death and warns that the God's Knights will come for him.

• At Big Mom’s birthday party, Galette planted spider robots and transmitters in the treasure-room corridor, allowing Sephiroth to obtain images of both Poneglyphs.
• Sephiroth held his wedding banquet, met Judge and other allies, and later brought Panz and Lily to Little Garden, where Dorry and Brogy learned of Harald’s death and decided to return to Elbaf.
• Sephiroth recruited Issho, while Uta’s performance brought Shanks to Kuraigana Island, and Uta’s memories returned, Tot Musica emerged, and Sephiroth and Uta defeated it together.
• Dragon visited Sephiroth with intelligence about Bondrewd, and Sephiroth gave Melise a Sika Deer Zoan Fruit before examining new technologies on the moon.
• Sephiroth told Robin that Saul had survived Ohara, then took her, Yamato, Hancock, and Ulti to Elbaf, where Robin reunited with Saul and saw the rescued books from Ohara.
• At the Elbaf feast, Sephiroth demonstrated his Conqueror’s Haki, heard Jarul explain Elbaf’s accounts of Nika, and asked to visit Loki in the Underworld.
• Sephiroth’s group reached Loki’s chains, where Sephiroth challenged Loki’s admiration of Rocks, revealed the Celestial Dragons’ role in Harald’s death, and warned that the God's Knights would come for Loki within three years.