Recaps

Good revealed the Hoenn Government’s hidden scale to Cipher Pol 9 and made them choose between serving him and dying; Lucci accepted and took an assassination mission. As Good considered recruiting Aokiji, he learned that Drake and Hawkins had joined the Beasts Pirates.

• Good explained the Hoenn Government’s seventeen affiliated nations and expanding fortress network, while Cipher Pol 9 realized how little the World Government knew about it.
• Good disclosed that Stussy had concealed the Hoenn Government’s growth from the World Government and threatened Cipher Pol 9 with death if they refused to join him.
• Lucci agreed to work for Good, and Good assigned Cipher Pol 9 to assassinate more than a hundred corrupt political figures in the North Blue within three months.
• Lucci and his companions reviewed the targets and set out on the mission, while Good watched them leave and reflected on winning their loyalty.
• Good read that Aokiji had resigned from the Navy and considered approaching him for support.
• Speed told Good that Drake and Hawkins had joined the Beasts Pirates.

Good planned to recruit Aokiji and Marines into the Hoenn Government, while Drake was assigned to command Hoenn Fortress. Aokiji entered the New World and tried to visit a Hoenn residential community, but after being turned away, he drank alone and brooded over leaving the Marines.

• Good decided to investigate Aokiji and have Drake meet him, hoping to recruit them as figures for the Hoenn Government.
• Kuzan told Zephyr he had left the Marines because he was tired of serving under Sakazuki, then set off to explore the New World.
• Good appointed Drake commander of Hoenn Fortress's First Corps and asked him to recruit Kujaku and Grus, but Drake said they would not defect.
• Speed reported that Aokiji had entered the New World, so Good prepared to set sail and brought Drake along.
• A security guard denied Kuzan entry to the Hoenn Residential Community, and Kuzan later read a newspaper about his departure from the Marines while drinking at a tavern.

Good showed Kuzan the Land of Laborers, where the Beasts Pirates had built a thriving industrial country, and explained that sharing profits with ordinary people had secured their prosperity. Kuzan began to understand Good’s confidence in Hoenn, but the chapter left his doubts unresolved.

• Good offered Kuzan the position of Hoenn’s Fleet Admiral, and Kuzan accepted his invitation to visit the Land of Laborers.
• Good and Kuzan toured the city, where laborers warmly welcomed Good and invited them to watch a blade-forging competition.
• At the competition, Kuzan was impressed by the workers’ enthusiasm and the country’s development despite its recent founding and pirate rule.
• Kuzan asked how Good had built the country, and Good said he had killed the wealthy elite and shared profits so ordinary people could live securely.

Good showed Kuzan the scale and principles of the Hoenn Government, persuading him that it offered a path beyond the World Government’s rule. Kuzan was left excited by the cause and increasingly drawn to joining Hoenn as its Navy Admiral.

• Good told Kuzan he could someday fight Akainu as a Hoenn Navy Admiral and predicted he would win.
• At Hoenn Fortress, Good explained the Hoenn Government’s three branches and its growing navy to Kuzan.
• Good said the Beasts Pirates remained separate allies and explained that Kuzan was the best candidate to lead the Hoenn Navy.
• Good described Hoenn’s elected leaders, equal treatment under the law, and refusal to collect Heavenly Tribute.
• Good declared that changing the world required sacrifice and called for the destruction of the World Government, while Kuzan laughed and welcomed the idea.

Kuzan agreed to become Fleet Admiral of the newly established Hoenn Government after Good promised him a chance to help its people. News of Kuzan’s defection, Hoenn’s rapid expansion, and its political ideals shook the Marines, World Government, pirates, kings, and Revolutionary Army, while Dragon realized what Good’s actions meant.

• Kuzan asked Good why he was building Hoenn, and Good said he wanted everyone in the world to pay him rent.
• Akainu learned that Good was recruiting Aokiji, while newspapers announced Hoenn’s founding, Kuzan’s appointment as Fleet Admiral, seventeen Affiliated Nations, and the Whitebeard Pirates’ disbandment.
• The Five Elders recognized Hoenn as a major threat but hesitated to start an all-out war while the Marines’ recruitment drive continued.
• At Hachinosu, pirates reacted to Marco and most of Whitebeard’s division commanders joining the Groudon Company, while Kaido and King struggled to understand the news.
• Kings and nobles across the World Government’s Affiliated Nations ordered Hoenn’s newspapers suppressed after reading its messages about democracy, freedom, and human rights.
• The Revolutionary Army Commanders debated Hoenn’s ideology, and Dragon realized that Good’s actions had clarified what he had seen in the Land of Laborers.

Good sailed aboard the Groudon toward Alabasta to aid the drought-stricken country, while pirates across the New World fought over Totto Land and Katakuri left home to train. The chapter ended with Good summoning the shrine priestess for a divination and pulling fur from her tail when he suspected she had not actually performed one.

• Dragon apologized to the Army Commanders and asked to be alone after reconsidering his ideas about freedom.
• Good told Kuzan that he planned to help countries in need and open a market for free trade.
• Pirates including Buggy, Crocodile, Ochoku, and Shiki made their moves, while Totto Land endured repeated attacks from challengers seeking to prove themselves.
• Brûlée and the Charlotte siblings found Katakuri's note saying he had gone off to train and wrongly assumed he was protecting them from their enemies.
• Good sailed past Laboon aboard the Groudon and set course for Alabasta, then learned that Katakuri had killed Catarina Devon.
• Good summoned the shrine priestess after suspecting her divination was insincere and grabbed her tail, causing her to lose another patch of fur.

Good traveled to Alabasta to establish diplomatic relations with the Hoenn Government and offer help during its food shortage, but King Cobra refused to agree. The chapter ended with Good asking whether Cobra’s refusal represented the World Government, Alabasta, or its people.

• Good paid the shrine priestess to divine the fate of the Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Nine-Tailed Fox, but she repeatedly drew misfortune and stormed off.
• Igaram told Cobra that Alabasta had run out of money to buy food, and Cobra vowed to find a solution.
• Good arrived at Nanohana Port with his subordinates and sent them to enjoy themselves while he headed west to meet Alabasta’s king.
• Cobra, guarded by Pell and Chaka, met Good beside the Sandora River and asked why he had come to Alabasta.
• Good presented documents proposing formal diplomatic relations between Alabasta and the Hoenn Government, but Cobra refused.
• Good asked Cobra whether he was refusing on behalf of the World Government, Alabasta, or its people.

Good pressured Cobra to cooperate with the Hoenn Government and claimed ruined land in Alabasta, while the World Government prepared to counter Hoenn through economic warfare and a stronger military presence. As the Groudon Company began recruiting locals to rebuild Aruba, Princess Vivi approached Good with a newspaper.

• Good urged Cobra to establish diplomatic relations with the Hoenn Government, then declared he was taking the ruined land across the river.
• The Five Elders received Hoenn’s demands for recognition, a nonaggression treaty, and free trade, and Saint Nusjuro identified the threat as economic warfare.
• The Five Elders planned to fight Hoenn through market competition and tariffs, considered Aramaki and Issho for Admiral positions, and ordered one candidate to Alabasta.
• The Groudon Company advertised well-paid construction jobs to Alabasta’s residents to recruit local workers and pressure Cobra into accepting Good’s terms.
• Vivi approached Good at Nanohana Port with a newspaper, while Pell hurried over and scolded her for coming without notice.

Good received Hoenn’s first supply fleet in Alabasta and proposed expanding trade and manufacturing there, while Vivi urged her father to cooperate with the Hoenn Government. The chapter left Cobra weighing the proposal as Marine Admiral Aramaki headed toward Alabasta despite orders not to act recklessly.

• Vivi continued asking Good about Hoenn’s ideals, and Good confirmed the newspaper’s report of the new Marine Headquarters Admirals, Issho and Aramaki.
• Vice Admiral Drake delivered Hoenn’s first fleet of supplies to Alabasta, despite his doubts about his undercover assignment and his growing sympathy for the people.
• Good arranged for samples and prices to be sent to King Cobra and asked whether Alabasta wanted weapons, while Vivi resolved to urge her father to establish relations with Hoenn.
• Aramaki ignored his subordinate’s warning and flew ahead toward Alabasta on his first mission as a Marine Admiral.
• Cobra examined the affordable goods, and Vivi explained Good’s plan to make Aruba a trade hub and Alabasta a manufacturing center.
• Cobra sighed over his concerns and said he would speak to Good.

Aramaki arrived in Alabasta, met Good at a campsite outside Nanohana, and agreed to face him after Good demanded he landscape a construction site. The chapter ended as Aramaki transformed and attacked Good with his Woods-Woods Fruit.

• Aramaki landed in the Alabasta desert and headed for Nanohana, hoping to meet Good before visiting King Cobra.
• Good sensed Aramaki approaching and released his Haki, drawing the Admiral to a campsite outside town.
• Aramaki shared drinks with Good and admitted that he had come to meet him on his own initiative.
• Good asked Aramaki to turn the Aluba Ruins construction site into an oasis, then threatened to beat him if he refused.
• Aramaki transformed into a giant tree man and attacked Good with his Woods-Woods Fruit.

Good fought Admiral Ryokugyu, whose enormous tree form repeatedly regenerated from the earth, while Cobra hurried to the battlefield to prevent the clash from becoming another war. Good ended the fight by compressing the ground, forcing Aramaki back into human form and leaving him trembling.

• Good blocked Aramaki’s wooden fist, then struck him with a powerful Haki-coated punch and blasted a hole through his tree body.
• Aramaki regenerated from a new shoot and attacked with his Thorn Forest, but Good smashed the spiked vines apart and continued fighting him.
• Workers in Aruba heard the battle, while Pell informed Cobra that Marine Admiral Ryokugyu was fighting Good near Nanohana.
• Cobra sailed with Chaka to mediate, and the royal party saw the vast forest created across Alabasta’s barren land.
• Good compressed the battlefield’s ground to about a third of its size, crushing Aramaki’s buried roots and shrinking him back into human form.

Good defeated Aramaki and forced him to plant trees in Aruba, then publicized the work alongside King Cobra. Aruba was transformed and negotiations went smoothly, leaving Good’s group with extensive control of the city as the tree-planting photograph spread through the world.

• Good crushed Aramaki’s underground roots, injured him, and made him promise to plant trees.
• Good brought Aramaki and Cobra to Aruba, where they posed for photographs while planting saplings for the press.
• Good ordered Aramaki to plant trees throughout designated areas and establish a windbreak around the city.
• Over three days, Good transformed Aruba with trees and diverted tributaries from the Sandora River.
• Cobra agreed to terms giving the Groudon Company control over Aruba for a hundred years, followed by a token annual tax.
• Good received a newspaper featuring the tree-planting photograph and headlines celebrating cooperation.

Good used the Tree of Peace publicity to strengthen support for peace and expand trade with the World Government’s affiliated nations. Half a month later, the news encouraged those nations to pursue relations with Good’s side, and the story shifted to the ambitious but impoverished Goa Kingdom.

• Aramaki learned that the press had portrayed him as a peace ambassador, and Sakazuki angrily reprimanded him over the failed mission.
• The Yibeier Peace Committee awarded Aramaki its Peace Medal, while his Marines praised him for supposedly yearning for peace.
• Good praised the newspaper coverage and decided that public opinion would help him shift conflict into economic competition.
• Good ordered Qikara to send envoys to the Affiliated Nations, promote Aruba Trade Port, and offer land-based trade funding.
• Half a month later, the peace publicity encouraged the Affiliated Nations to pursue trade, and the narration introduced the Goa Kingdom’s ambitions and need for money.

The Groudon Company’s trade drew interest from the Goa Kingdom, Water 7, and other nations, while Good urged Kuzan to recruit senior officers for the Hoenn Navy. As Aruba Trade Port took shape, envoys from more than half the Affiliated Nations arrived seeking weapons, and Good wondered why the World Government had yet to respond.

• The Goa Kingdom’s king welcomed Hoenn’s envoy and eagerly considered buying weapons and selling unwanted territory to the Groudon Company.
• Alice urged Iceburg to cooperate with the Groudon Company, and they agreed to consider making Alabasta the terminus of a new Sea Train route.
• Good told Kuzan that Saul was alive on Elbaf and pressed him to recruit officers, including Smoker, for the Hoenn Navy.
• Aruba Trade Port rapidly took shape as envoys from more than half the Affiliated Nations arrived seeking the Beasts Pirates’ weapons.
• Good watched transport ships carry the Land of Laborers’ goods along the Golden Route and questioned why the World Government had not reacted.

Good responded to the North Blue’s collapsing kingdoms by bargaining to buy Lubni and ordering Lucci to secretly support rebellions, using the unrest to pressure royal families into selling their countries. As Hoenn’s trade advantage and influence grew, the Five Elders recognized the threat, and Saint Nusjuro prepared a countermeasure.

• Good ordered Aokiji to handle Avalo Pizarro’s seizure of power and offered Lubni no more than 10 billion Beli for its kingdom.
• Good dismissed the World Government’s attempt to compete in Alabasta and directed Lucci to secretly support or start rebellions in the North Blue.
• The Lubni royal family sold its country to Hoenn and left under escort, encouraging other North Blue rulers to consider fleeing.
• The Five Elders reviewed reports showing Hoenn’s goods cost less than half as much as equivalent goods and feared losing the affiliated nations and trade revenue.
• Saint Nusjuro told the other Five Elders he had devised a countermeasure and pointed it out on a map.

The World Government imposed tolls and tariffs at Reverse Mountain to undermine Hoenn’s trade, but the Affiliated Nations kept buying from the Groudon Company, and Aruba Port’s trade flourished. Alarmed that trade would strengthen the nations, the Five Elders decided to raise tariffs further, leaving Hoenn with grounds to challenge the World Government’s policy.

• The Five Elders planned to build toll checkpoints at Reverse Mountain and punish the Lubni Kingdom for defecting to Hoenn.
• Good read about turmoil in the New World, then learned that the Notis Kingdom had agreed to be acquired by Hoenn.
• Speed told Good that the World Government was building at Reverse Mountain, and Good saw the move as a chance to oppose it on just grounds.
• The World Government imposed tolls and tariffs of up to 30% on ships passing Reverse Mountain, while threatening nations that refused to pay.
• Swok told angry envoys at Aruba Trade Port that the Groudon Company would raise prices because of the tariffs and had protested to the World Government.
• The Five Elders learned that trade through Aruba Port was growing despite the tariffs and ordered the rate raised to 50% or 70% to curb the Affiliated Nations’ development.

The Hoenn Government announced a military exercise near Reverse Mountain on the same day the World Government planned to impose steep tariffs, turning the trade dispute into a global show of force. As Marine and Revolutionary Army fleets headed toward the area, broadcasts spread worldwide, and the chapter left the standoff awaiting its first moves.

• The Five Elders welcomed the Hoenn Government's protest over Reverse Mountain tariffs, while the World Government announced a 70% tariff and a cheaper trade port at Nanohana Port.
• Good dismissed the World Government's tariff maneuver and ordered an announcement of a Hoenn Government military exercise, with Kuzan ready to take part.
• Dragon sent the Revolutionary Army to Reverse Mountain to observe the exercise and learn more about the Hoenn Government's strength.
• Brannew urged the Marines to respond, but Tsuru and Sengoku warned that attacking first would damage public opinion; Akainu ordered Ryokugyu and Fujitora to lead an exercise of their own.
• A fleet of over a hundred Marine vessels sailed toward Reverse Mountain as reporters and Hoenn Residential Communities broadcast the developing standoff worldwide.

Good and the Hoenn Navy claimed the waters around Reverse Mountain as an exercise area and ordered the Navy to withdraw from the World Government toll station. After the Navy evacuated its staff, Good confronted Aramaki and Fujitora, arguing that the toll station was an illegal structure on public land.

• Good saw that the Navy had sent Aramaki and Fujitora, then ordered the Hoenn fleet to mark off its exercise area at sea.
• A Hoenn officer warned the Navy to stay clear, and Fujitora and Aramaki decided to inspect the situation at Reverse Mountain rather than risk a larger clash.
• Antelope warned Hina that the Hoenn fleet would conduct a live-fire exercise on the toll station, prompting Hina to evacuate its staff.
• Good met Aramaki and Fujitora on the shore and said Hoenn would fully compensate the World Government for the toll station's destruction.
• Good challenged the World Government's right to build a toll station and collect transit duties in the public waters around Reverse Mountain.

Good argued that the World Government had no right to impose tariffs at Reverse Mountain and presented Hoenn’s trade port as a force for peace and prosperity. The World Government, losing control of the live broadcast, sent Saint Nusjuro and a fleet to attack the reporters as Kuzan waited for them to fire first.

• Good challenged Aramaki’s claim that the World Government could govern every region and demolish the toll station.
• Good told Fujitora and Aramaki that Reverse Mountain trade could help countries prosper, reduce wars, and feed ordinary people.
• Reporters reacted emotionally to Good’s speech, while Aramaki and the Five Elders panicked over the broadcast’s effect on public opinion.
• Saturn ordered the broadcast stopped, but learned Hoenn controlled it; Saint Nusjuro then ordered the fleet to kill the reporters and find the transmitting Den Den Mushi.
• Saint Nusjuro led nearly a hundred warships toward Reverse Mountain, and Kuzan told the Hoenn Navy to wait until the World Government fired first.

The Marines opened fire on the reporters at Reverse Mountain, triggering a battle between the Hoenn Navy and Marine Headquarters. As both sides clashed, Aramaki transformed to face Good, insisting that victory mattered more than justice.

• Saint Nusjuro ordered the Marine fleet to fire, and the shelling struck the reporters gathered on shore.
• The Hoenn Navy rescued the wounded while Speed intercepted shells, and Aokiji froze the sea to trap the Marine fleet.
• Doberman ordered thirty thousand Marines, including ten Vice Admirals and ten Pacifistas, to disembark and attack Hoenn’s forces.
• Drake charged the Marines in his Allosaurus form and attacked Kujaku and Grus when they tried to stop him.
• Saul and Jinbe joined Hoenn’s advance as both armies fought across the ice.
• Aramaki transformed into a giant tree man and told Good that winning the war mattered more than having justice on one’s side.

Good and Fujitora’s fight was interrupted when Fujitora summoned a meteor, which Good shattered over the battlefield. Aokiji arrived and froze Aramaki, leaving the Hoenn Admiral struggling to withstand his former Marine counterpart’s overwhelming cold.

• Fujitora drew his Cane Sword and summoned a meteor toward the coastal battlefield as Good prepared to fight seriously.
• Kuzan arrived, and Good leaped into the sky and shattered the meteor with a punch, sending burning fragments across the battlefield.
• Good and Aramaki blamed Fujitora for the falling debris, but Aokiji froze Aramaki’s enormous tree body.
• Aramaki escaped the ice by growing a new body and tested Aokiji’s cold with vines before attacking him at close range.
• Aokiji unleashed a freezing battlefield that overwhelmed Aramaki, while Good noticed Aokiji’s power as he fought Fujitora.

The Navy’s officers attacked the coast to destroy Hoenn’s broadcast Den Den Mushi, but Smoker blanketed the battlefield in smoke and cut the live feed. The Navy then announced Saint Nusjuro’s arrival and ordered lower-ranking Marines to withdraw as a pentagram appeared over the coast.

• Marine officers charged toward Reverse Mountain to locate and destroy the Den Den Mushi Commander, while Hoenn’s forces rushed to stop them.
• Speed defeated Vice Admiral Tosa and fought Vice Admiral Urban as the Navy struggled to break through the defenders.
• Smoker and Karula clashed while Carrot disarmed Tashigi and spared her.
• Smoker covered the battlefield and the Den Den Mushi Commander with smoke, interrupting the broadcast.
• The Navy announced that Saint Nusjuro was about to land and ordered Marines below commodore rank to withdraw without looking at him.
• A huge pentagram magic circle appeared on the coastal battlefield as Doberman repeated the warning.

Good fought Saint Nusjuro at Reverse Mountain, using his Groudon Form and powerful attacks to grievously damage the Five Elder, who regenerated from the injuries. The other four Five Elders arrived through magic circles, and their monstrous forms appeared beside Nusjuro as the confrontation escalated.

• Saint Nusjuro emerged from a magic circle and struck Good with a powerful sword slash, sending him into the Red Line.
• Good transformed into his Groudon Form and battled Nusjuro with Brick Break, Precipice Blade, Solar Beam, and Thunderbolt.
• Good's attacks left Nusjuro badly damaged, but the Five Elder regenerated, revealing that he could not easily be killed.
• Good warned Aokiji, Fujitora, and Ryokugyu to keep their distance, then focused on sensing the earth as Nusjuro contacted the other Five Elders.
• Four more magic circles opened beside Nusjuro, and black sludge formed into the monstrous shapes of a worm, a boar, a spider, and a bird.

Good fought the Five Elders in his Groudon form and reshaped the Red Line battlefield into a landscape of erupting volcanoes. He unleashed Omega: Ultimate Eruption against their combined attack, leaving the sky punched through by the clash.

• The Five Elders attacked Good from all sides, but his defensive stance let him survive their combined assault.
• Good wounded Saint Shepherd Ju Peter and burrowed underground, then defeated him with a magma-filled pillar of rock that exploded through his body.
• Good drew up the Red Line’s natural energy, raised volcanoes, and transformed the battlefield into a sea of magma.
• Good gathered his power and fired Omega: Ultimate Eruption at the Five Elders’ combined counterattack.
• The clash cleared an enormous hole through the dark clouds, stunning the naval soldiers watching below.

Good’s battle with the Five Elders ended when Dragon and the Revolutionary Army intervened, forcing the Elders and Navy to withdraw. Good then sank Reverse Mountain to create a strait, and Dragon decided to bring the Revolutionary Army into the Hoenn Government.

• Good pretended to be badly wounded while the Five Elders considered attacking him, but Dragon arrived with the Revolutionary Army and declared that he had come to stop the war.
• The Five Elders withdrew after weighing the combined strength of the Hoenn Government and the Revolutionary Army, and the Navy retreated as well.
• Good revealed that he had faked the extent of his injuries to lure the Elders into the magma pit, then decided to fill the abyss by sinking Reverse Mountain.
• Good sank Reverse Mountain, creating a strait that connected the seas and amazed viewers, the Hoenn Navy, and the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon told his officers that he wanted to lead the Revolutionary Army into the Hoenn Government.