Recaps

Luffy and his companions arrived at the research facility with Kin'emon’s lower body, prompting confusion over how they had encountered him. After Luo left a note for Luffy and escaped with Smoker’s heart, the Straw Hat Crew headed to the back of the mountain to meet him.

• Luffy said the crew had encountered a dragon while eating, killed it, and found Kin'emon, while Moonlight correctly pieced together what had happened.
• Smoker suspected the crew had eaten Vegapunk’s artificial dragon, then tried to pursue Luo through a Seastone-reinforced door as Luo escaped with his heart.
• Kin'emon introduced himself and asked the crew to find his upper body, and Sanji and the others recognized his voice from a Transponder Snail call.
• Robin asked about Luo’s note, and Luffy read that Torao wanted them to wait for him at the back of the mountain.
• The Straw Hat Crew set off for the back of the mountain while Luo entered the research facility carrying Smoker’s heart.

Luo returned to the laboratory with Smoker's heart and exchanged it for Monet's, while Vergo and Caesar continued their plans to produce SMILE. He then formed an alliance between the Straw Hat Pirates and the Heart Pirates to destroy the factory, take down Doflamingo, and ultimately defeat Kaido.

• Luo brought Smoker's heart to Vergo, Monet, and Caesar, who wanted to use the captured Marines for experiments.
• Monet traded her own heart for Smoker's, while Vergo and Caesar insisted that Luo still had to fulfill their agreement.
• Luo appeared before the Straw Hat Crew and proposed an alliance against Kaido, revealing that he wanted to reclaim his heart and oppose Joker.
• Luffy accepted the alliance immediately, and the Straw Hat Pirates and Heart Pirates agreed to defeat Kaido.
• The alliance chose to destroy the SMILE factory and then deal with Doflamingo, undermining Kaido's plans for the Beast Pirates.

Luo revealed that Doflamingo created the SMILE Artificial Devil Fruits and assigned the Straw Hat Crew and Moonlight their tasks in the laboratory. As Smoker led the G-5 Marines into action, Moonlight confronted Vergo, Monet, and Caesar in the monitoring room.

• Luo explained that destroying the laboratory’s SAD materials was the way to stop SMILE production and divided up the crew’s tasks, sending Moonlight after Vergo and his heart.
• Smoker reunited with the G-5 Marines, then led them through the laboratory to recover his heart and investigate the illegal activity.
• Vergo ordered the Centaur Patrol to deal with Smoker, rejected Monet’s suggestion to send the PH Unit, and prepared to confront the Marines himself.
• Moonlight used his Observation Haki to find the monitoring room and broke through its door to confront Vergo.
• Monet recognized that the PH Unit had not appeared and activated the control command to summon them.

Moonlight overwhelmed Vergo, took Luo’s heart, and broke through Monet’s attempts to contain him. Vergo and Caesar fled while Monet stayed behind to attack Moonlight, who pierced her chest with his sword.

• Vergo hardened himself with Armament Haki and charged Moonlight with his secret technique, Demon Bamboo.
• Moonlight broke Vergo’s flute and defeated him with one sword strike, taking Luo’s heart.
• Monet transformed and trapped Moonlight in a Dome Snow House while Vergo and Caesar tried to escape.
• Moonlight cut through Monet’s snow defenses, injuring Vergo and Caesar and severing Vergo’s arm.
• Vergo grabbed Caesar and fled as Monet attacked Moonlight with her bladed wings.
• Moonlight pierced Monet’s chest with his sword when she charged at him.

Moonlight defeated Monet and headed to support Robin’s group while Vergo and Caesar took refuge in the SAD Control Room. Meanwhile, Luo, Zoro, and Luffy confronted them, and Robin’s group discovered children inside the Biscuit Room as the PH Unit pursued them.

• Monet froze the area around Moonlight, but he cut her down and left to find Robin’s group.
• Vergo brought Caesar to the SAD Control Room and explained Moonlight’s strength before trying to report to Joker.
• Luo, Zoro, and Luffy interrupted Vergo’s call and attacked him and Caesar.
• Sanji’s cigarette smoke exposed Robin’s group, forcing them to flee from the PH Unit into the Biscuit Room.
• Robin’s group found unusually large children inside and rushed toward another door as their pursuers closed in.

Nami and the Straw Hat Crew turned back to save the children in the Biscuit Room, despite the danger posed by the PH Unit. As the PH Unit prepared to attack, Moonlight appeared and incapacitated them all.

• The children begged Nami's group to save them, but Usopp initially led everyone onward because they could not risk taking on more burdens.
• The PH Unit entered the Biscuit Room and prepared to shoot the fleeing Straw Hat Crew.
• Nami turned back to protect the children, and Robin, Usopp, Sanji, and the others followed her.
• Franky and Robin led the children away while the PH Unit prepared to use another weapon against the Straw Hat Crew.
• The PH Unit members suddenly collapsed, and Moonlight emerged from the darkness with his sword.

Moonlight and the others discovered that Caesar had been using kidnapped children as experimental subjects, and Moonlight knocked the children unconscious when the medicine made them attack. The crew hurried out of the freezer, while the chapter revealed that Doflamingo was the true master behind the Punk Hazard Research Institute.

• Moonlight told the crew he had recovered Luo's heart and suggested leaving the children in the Marines' care.
• The crew entered a freezer and learned that Caesar had frozen prisoners alive to use as human specimens.
• A child explained that Caesar had given the children medicine disguised as candy, and the medicine made them go berserk.
• The children attacked the crew, so Moonlight used Conqueror's Haki to knock them unconscious.
• Moonlight explained that the crew needed to find Chopper before they could determine how to help the children, and everyone hurried outside.
• In Dressrosa, Doflamingo was shown relaxing in his estate as the true master behind the Punk Hazard Research Institute.

Doflamingo learned from Vergo that someone planned to destroy the Donquixote Family’s research facility on Punk Hazard. When he revealed Moonlight was among the intruders, the family realized the mission would be far more dangerous than they had expected.

• Baby-5 attacked Doflamingo with a cannon after he killed another man she had hoped to marry, and he trapped her in an invisible string net.
• Vergo told Doflamingo that someone intended to destroy the research facility on Punk Hazard.
• Doflamingo told his crew that Marines were present but were not the main concern, because a powerful enemy was there too.
• Doflamingo named Moonlight, the Straw Hat Pirates’ vice-captain, as the enemy who made the situation dangerous.
• The Donquixote Family members recalled Moonlight’s battle with Hawkeye, his Black Blade Kusanagi, and his feats at Marineford, and they grew wary.

Doflamingo sent the Donquixote Pirates’ elite officers to defend Punk Hazard from the Straw Hat Pirates. On the island, Moonlight and Chopper went back into the research institute to make an antidote for the poisoned children, while Luffy, Zoro, and Luo were trapped as Caesar and Vergo prepared to unleash Death Land.

• Doflamingo ordered the Donquixote Family’s elite officers to head to Punk Hazard and flew there ahead of them.
• Moonlight asked Chopper to diagnose the unconscious children, and Chopper confirmed they had been drugged and said he could make an antidote.
• Moonlight and Chopper returned to the research institute to prepare the antidote while the others guarded the children and stayed in contact with Luffy’s group.
• Kin'emon quietly disappeared while the Straw Hat crew members were occupied.
• Caesar used Vacuum World to catch Luffy, Zoro, and Luo off guard, allowing Vergo to help imprison them in a Seastone cage.
• Caesar and Vergo left the room after preparing to unleash Death Land and kill everyone on the island.

Moonlight and Chopper rescued Luffy, Zoro, and Luo from a Seastone cage, then went searching for an antidote and found addictive pills given to the children. While Chopper investigated the pills, Moonlight uncovered Kozuki Momonosuke hiding in a secret chamber.

• Luo worried that Caesar's poison gas would kill him, Luffy, and Zoro, but Moonlight cut open their Seastone cage and returned Luo's heart.
• Luffy and Zoro angrily confronted Moonlight for making them crash headfirst into the floor, but he left with Chopper for the laboratory.
• Luffy and Luo rushed after Caesar and Vergo to stop them from releasing a dangerous weapon, while Zoro got lost and ran into Smoker, Tashigi, and the G-5 Marines.
• Moonlight and Chopper found candy-like pills that addicted the children who took them, and Chopper began investigating their ingredients.
• Moonlight sensed someone in a hidden chamber and found Kozuki Momonosuke inside.

Moonlight rejected Momonosuke’s plea, saw through his and Kin'emon of the Foxfire’s false father-son story, and let them keep their secrets while warning them not to cause trouble. As Chopper worked on the antidote for Death Land, Zoro finally found his way and ran into the G-5 Marines.

• Moonlight exposed Momonosuke’s claim that he had been starved and beaten, then shut him inside the secret room.
• Kin'emon of the Foxfire found Momonosuke, and the two pretended to be father and son until Moonlight saw through them.
• Moonlight chose not to demand the truth, warned Kin'emon of the Foxfire and Momonosuke to behave, and left to deal with the poison gas crisis.
• Moonlight asked Chopper about the antidote, and Chopper said he had developed it but needed more time and a larger dose.
• Zoro found a way out, encountered the G-5 Marines, and ran away.

Zoro got lost while evading Smoker and Tashigi, then stumbled into Caesar and Vergo’s secret chamber and faced Caesar’s poisonous Death Land weapon. Meanwhile, Chopper’s antidote helped the children recover, and Moonlight’s group reunited with Kin’emon and Momonosuke, whose Devil Fruit transformation revealed Vegapunk’s creation.

• Zoro evaded Smoker, Tashigi, and the G-5 Marines, but accidentally led them into a strange part of the research facility where they became lost.
• Strange human-animal hybrids surrounded Smoker and the Marines, while Zoro cut through a wall and found Caesar and Vergo in a secret chamber.
• Caesar transformed into poisonous gas and unleashed Death Land, forcing Zoro to flee so he could warn his companions.
• Chopper gave the children the antidote, and their condition stabilized as Nami, Robin, and the others praised him.
• Kin’emon of the Foxfire introduced himself and his son Momonosuke to the crew, and Momonosuke transformed into a pink dragon, revealing that he had eaten a Devil Fruit created by Vegapunk.
• Nami and Robin picked up Momonosuke, but Moonlight’s glare made him flee back behind Kin’emon, who then scolded the women while Sanji called him a hypocritical old lecher.

Moonlight sensed Luffy, Zoro, and Luo fleeing Caesar’s deadly poison gas and organized an evacuation, splitting Ice Island with a single slash to clear a route to the Thousand Sunny. Meanwhile, Vergo sealed the fugitives inside the research facility behind a Seastone barrier, leaving them trapped as Caesar’s poison gas closed in.

• Moonlight used Observation Haki to find Luffy, Zoro, and Luo fleeing Death Land alongside Smoker’s group, then ordered Sanji to evacuate everyone to the Thousand Sunny.
• Moonlight split Ice Island in half with a sword slash, creating a direct route for the others to reach the ship.
• Moonlight sensed Luffy and the others nearing the facility exit as Vergo activated its mechanisms and blocked their way with a massive Seastone wall.
• Vergo declared he intended to kill everyone to complete his mission, while Caesar arrived and sent Death Land toward the trapped group.

Moonlight rescued Luffy, Zoro, Luo, Smoker, and the others from Caesar’s Death Land, then killed Vergo with a single slash. After Caesar escaped, the group learned that his secret storehouse held a far more powerful version of Death Land, leaving them facing an even greater threat.

• Caesar unleashed Death Land as Luffy, Luo, and Smoker were weakened by the Seastone cage and Zoro fought Vergo.
• Moonlight arrived and cut through the Seastone barriers and poison gas with Kusanagi, rescuing everyone.
• Vergo tried to detonate the bombs on his body, but Moonlight’s Haki-infused slash reduced him and the bombs to ash.
• Caesar fled, and the group left the laboratory to reunite with Robin while Smoker and the G-5 Marines thanked Moonlight’s crew.
• Moonlight used Observation Haki to locate Caesar near the place where ice and fire met.
• Luo revealed that Caesar’s secret experimental storehouse contained the true Death Land SMILE, vastly more powerful than the gas they had just survived.

Luffy, Luo, Zoro, and Smoker tried to stop Caesar, but his true Death Land SMILE erupted from the laboratory and spread a deadly blood cloud across the island. Caesar connected with New World big shots to show off the weapon as everyone fled.

• Luffy, Luo, Zoro, and the Marines joined forces to stop Caesar before he could unleash the true Death Land.
• On Burning Island, Nami and the others saw a blood-red cloud rise from the island’s center and form an enormous monster.
• The laboratory exploded, and the blood cloud dissolved the ground, plants, and people in its path.
• Luo warned Luffy and the others to run, while Smoker ordered the Marines to flee from the spreading cloud.
• Caesar laughed as he revealed Death Land SMILE to New World big shots over a Video Transponder Snail and claimed it could destroy an entire country.

Moonlight stopped Death Land’s advance and faced Caesar on Burning Island. Caesar’s Vacuum World failed to catch Moonlight, who prepared to attack him.

• Caesar celebrated Death Land’s success as its blood mist pursued Luffy and the others onto Burning Island.
• Moonlight struck the gigantic creature in the mist with a crescent-shaped Sword Aura, slowing its advance.
• Moonlight told Luffy, Zoro, Luo, and the G-5 Marines to escape while he held off the mist, and they left.
• Moonlight cut a passage through the blood mist and sent Caesar flying before confronting him.
• Caesar used Vacuum World to remove the air within ten meters, but Moonlight had already moved beyond its range.

Moonlight survived Caesar’s attacks, defeated him, and spared him after Caesar offered information about Vegapunk. Moonlight took Caesar to the Thousand Sunny, where Luffy’s group had reunited with Nami and prepared to set sail.

• Caesar’s Gas Incineration explosion engulfed Moonlight, but Moonlight emerged unharmed with Armament Haki covering his body.
• Caesar attacked with Blue Flame Sword: Burning Slash, but Moonlight’s sword aura overwhelmed the strike and injured Caesar.
• Caesar begged Moonlight for his life and offered information about Vegapunk, so Moonlight agreed to spare him.
• Moonlight took Caesar toward the Thousand Sunny, while Luffy’s group reunited with Nami and prepared to meet him.
• Smoker and the Marines boarded their warship with the rescued children to take them somewhere nearby.

Moonlight returned with Caesar, whom Luo captured as part of his plan, and the Straw Hats and G-5 Marines celebrated together despite Luo's warnings. Moonlight stayed on watch and spotted Doflamingo approaching through the sky.

• Moonlight brought Caesar back to the gathered Straw Hats and Marines, and Luo took Caesar's heart to keep him under control.
• Luo said the first stage of their plan had succeeded and warned Luffy that Doflamingo would make a move, but Luffy invited the G-5 Marines to celebrate.
• The G-5 Marines joined the Straw Hats for a barbecue and drinks while Luo watched Caesar and Moonlight kept guard from the lookout.
• Moonlight spotted a blond man in sunglasses and a pink feathered coat flying toward them through the distant clouds.

Doflamingo arrived at the island, and Luo used Caesar's heart to force him to give up his Shichibukai position by the next morning. Before Doflamingo could respond, the Donquixote Pirates arrived in force, setting the crew against the Straw Hat Pirates.

• Luo and the G-5 Marines recognized Doflamingo as he descended onto the island, while Luffy and his crew watched.
• Luo held Caesar's heart and threatened to crush it if Doflamingo made a move.
• Luo demanded that Doflamingo step down as a Shichibukai before the next morning's newspaper came out, citing Caesar's importance to the SAD production and Doflamingo's deal with Kaido of the Beasts.
• Luffy and the others realized that Doflamingo was behind the island's tragedy and the experiments on its people and children.
• The Donquixote Pirates arrived aboard a large ship with their elite officers, bringing their crew into a confrontation with the Straw Hat Pirates.

The Donquixote Pirates arrived in force to confront Luo, the Straw Hat Crew, and the G-5 Marines. Moonlight destroyed their ship with a single slash, and Luffy declared that he would fight Doflamingo because Luo was his friend.

• Doflamingo arrived with the Donquixote Pirates and demanded to know why the Straw Hat Pirates were standing with Luo.
• Buffalo attacked Luffy and the others with a spinning bomb, but Moonlight cut it apart with a Sword Aura.
• Moonlight's Sword Aura broke through the Donquixote Pirates' attacks and split their ship in two, forcing the crew to abandon it.
• Luffy said Luo was his friend and vowed to send Doflamingo flying for the cruelty he had inflicted on Punk Hazard.
• Doflamingo and his subordinates mocked Luffy's ideals, but Luffy insisted he was serious and would defeat them.

Luo forced Doflamingo to retreat by threatening Caesar, and the Straw Hat Crew continued toward Dressrosa with Kin'emon of the Foxfire and Momonosuke aboard. During a fishing contest, Momonosuke gave Chopper the idea to use a bomb as bait, which left the deck covered in fish and soaked the crew.

• Luo threatened Doflamingo with Caesar, and Doflamingo withdrew after warning that the Straw Hat Crew and Donquixote Pirates were now enemies.
• Luffy and the others set sail for Dressrosa with Kin'emon of the Foxfire and Momonosuke, while Smoker and the G-5 Marines departed separately.
• After three calm days at sea, Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper competed to catch fish as Zoro sparred with Moonlight and the others relaxed.
• Momonosuke told Chopper to use a bomb as bait, and the explosion filled the deck with falling fish and seawater.
• Usopp and Luffy knocked Chopper and Momonosuke on the head after realizing Momonosuke had suggested fish bombing instead of fishing.

Momonosuke accidentally summoned Moomoo, who revealed that someone had ordered Sea Beasts to capture Caesar. Breed used his power to turn the Sea Beasts against the Straw Hat Crew, seized Caesar, and declared his ambition to become king of the New World.

• Momonosuke's earlier attack brought Moomoo out of the sea, and Luffy recognized the Sea Beast from Arlong Park.
• Chopper translated Moomoo's warning that someone had ordered Sea Beasts throughout the area to capture Caesar.
• Moonlight spotted Breed standing atop a Sea Beast, and Breed commanded the surrounding creatures to attack the Thousand Sunny.
• Chopper learned that Breed was controlling the Kung Fu Dugong with the green rings around their necks.
• Breed's command sent the crew into the sea, where Moomoo and the Kung Fu Dugong rescued them, while Breed captured Caesar and proclaimed his ambition to rule the New World.

Breed used the Pet-Pet Fruit and Green Rings to control Sanji and Luo, turning them against the Straw Hat Crew. Moonlight let Breed's ring catch him but continued walking toward him, apparently unaffected by the control.

• Luffy dismissed Breed's ambition, and Sanji attacked him over the destruction of his desserts.
• Breed trapped Sanji with a Green Ring and forced him to attack Zoro; Chopper explained that the rings made their targets obey Breed.
• Luo attacked Breed but was blocked by a controlled Sea Beast and then captured with a Green Ring.
• Moonlight walked toward Breed despite warnings, allowing a Green Ring to wrap around him.
• Breed tried to control Moonlight, but Moonlight continued forward and challenged the apparent limits of Breed's power.

Moonlight resisted Breed’s Pet-Pet Fruit by identifying that it required both restraint and an audible command, allowing the Sea Beasts to defeat Breed. After the crew learned Doflamingo had withdrawn from the Shichibukai and given up the throne of Dressrosa, Luo remained suspicious and added Moonlight to the plan for their arrival.

• Moonlight explained that Breed’s control required a target to be restrained and hear his command, and showed that earplugs could block the ability.
• The Sea Beasts covered their ears, surrounded Breed, and beat him before thanking Luffy’s group and leaving to form the Sea Beast Pirates.
• The crew continued sailing with Caesar, who became more obedient as he recognized he was safer with the Straw Hat Crew than with Breed.
• A newspaper reported that Doflamingo had withdrawn from the Shichibukai and abdicated as King of Dressrosa.
• Luo suspected Doflamingo would not give up so easily and decided to add Moonlight to the plan for the crew’s arrival at Dressrosa.

The Straw Hat crew's plan to destroy Doflamingo's SMILE factory and confront him began as Moonlight's group met Doflamingo at Green Bit. Doflamingo revealed that Admiral Fujitora had come to arrest the pirates, leaving Moonlight facing the blind Marine swordsman.

• The crew arrived at Dressrosa and split up, with Moonlight, Luo, Caesar, Robin, and Usopp heading to Green Bit while the others pursued their assigned roles.
• Usopp and Robin admitted they feared Doflamingo would not cooperate, and Doflamingo descended to meet Luo's group.
• Luo demanded that Doflamingo destroy the SMILE factory before Caesar would be returned, and Doflamingo mocked Luo's confidence.
• Doflamingo summoned Fujitora, a new Marine Admiral, who announced that he had come to arrest pirates.
• Fujitora recognized Moonlight and Kusanagi, and Moonlight drew the Black Blade and pointed it at him.