Recaps

Good met Hancock and the Cross Guild on Lodestar Island, where he recruited them for a future war against the Celestial Dragons. The Beasts Pirates arrived as the Cross Guild considered Buggy’s plan for finding the One Piece without Road Poneglyphs.

• Hancock ran into Good and became flustered, while pirates charging ashore surrendered to his killing intent; Good ordered them to bring their captain.
• Good told the Cross Guild he planned to attack Mary Geoise after the One Piece was found and said they would join the war alongside other allied forces.
• Crocodile asked how Hoenn would treat the underworld after the World Government fell, and Good promised not to interfere with Utopia as long as it followed the rules and avoided harming the outside world.
• Good asked whether the Cross Guild had found any Road Poneglyphs, and its members admitted they had found none.
• Buggy proposed waiting for other contenders to reveal the One Piece’s location, then racing to find it, and Good approved of the idea.
• A subordinate announced that the Beasts Pirates’ fleet had arrived, and Good welcomed the news.

Kaido and the Beasts Pirates attacked the Red Hair Pirates as the rival crews converged on Lodestar Island. Good learned that the Straw Hat Pirates had arrived and went to meet them, while Luffy and his crew approached the island determined to fulfill their dreams.

• Kaido celebrated having three Road Poneglyph rubbings and set out eager for a fight.
• Shanks led the Red Hair Pirates toward Lodestar Island, where Kaido attacked their ship with a Bolo Breath.
• The Beasts Pirates charged the Red Force, forcing Shanks's crew to fight their way ashore.
• Good learned that the Straw Hat Pirates had been spotted in the eastern waters and went with Speed to meet them.
• Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates approached Lodestar Island, saw the battle, and Luffy declared that he would become Pirate King.

Good confronted the Straw Hat Pirates on Lodestar Island and wagered their Road Poneglyphs and the crew’s future on a fight. As the battle began, Capone Bege realized the Straw Hat Pirates were doomed and that his plan to take the One Piece had collapsed.

• Luffy sensed a familiar presence battling a dragon as the Straw Hat Pirates approached Lodestar Island.
• Groudon Good raised land beneath the Straw Hats’ ship, trapping it inside stone barriers, then appeared with an ally.
• Sanji and Robin recognized Good from the organization they had worked for during the crew’s separation, and the others identified him as Hoenn’s supreme commander and the Beasts Pirates’ vice-captain.
• Luffy admitted that the Straw Hat Pirates had two Road Poneglyphs, and Good offered to wager his three against theirs, adding that a loss would earn the crew any one request while a win would disband them.
• Good said he would fight the Straw Hat Pirates alone and led them to another battlefield as the crew agreed to face him.
• Capone Bege learned that Good and the Straw Hat Pirates had started fighting and concluded that his plan to take the One Piece had failed.

Good faced the Straw Hat Pirates and effortlessly withstood the combined attacks of Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji. After Nami fell to Good’s lightning, the three heavy hitters regrouped and launched a powerful joint attack.

• Bege ordered his crew to retreat rather than risk being mistaken for Straw Hat allies.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji struck Good together, but he stood unharmed and deflected Luffy’s Kong Gatling.
• Nami attacked Good with lightning, but he redirected the attack and knocked her unconscious with a heart-shaped lightning bolt.
• Sanji charged Good in anger, and Good caught his flaming kick before Zoro slashed at his wrist to free him.
• Zoro, Luffy, and Sanji regrouped and unleashed a combined attack on Good.

Good overwhelmed the Straw Hat Pirates, impaling Sanji, Zoro, and the others while defeating Luffy and Robin. As Good prepared to leave, Luffy broke free and his presence began to grow stronger.

• Sanji warned his companions to ignore his injuries, but Good appeared among them and gravely wounded Franky, Usopp, and Brook while overpowering Robin and Chopper.
• Luffy entered Gear Fourth: Snakeman and attacked Good, but Good caught his fist and blasted him into a trench with Megaton Flame Punch.
• Zoro used Asura to slash Good, leaving only a minor wound, before Good impaled him with a stone pillar.
• Good raised stone pillars to capture the Straw Hat Pirates and planned to take Robin as the Beasts Pirates' translator.
• Good turned back when Luffy broke free from his pillar and his presence began to grow stronger.

Luffy fought Good and briefly displayed improved Haki, Future Sight, and Conqueror’s Haki Infusion, but Good overwhelmed him and left him near death. Zoro reached Good and knelt before him, while Good waited to see whether Luffy would die or awaken as Nika.

• Luffy used Gear Second and attacked Good with Gum-Gum Red Roc, but Good pierced his fist and trapped him among pillars of magma.
• Luffy glimpsed the future and escaped the magma cage with Gum-Gum Escape Rocket.
• Good concealed his presence from Luffy, then overpowered Luffy’s Conqueror’s Haki and slashed him nearly in two.
• Good made a stone throne and watched Luffy’s faintly breathing body, waiting for him to die or rise as Nika.
• Zoro, badly wounded and without his swords, reached Good and dropped to his knees, pressing his forehead to the ground.

Good brought Nico Robin and the four Road Poneglyphs to Hoenn Resort, where Robin translated the coordinates to Laugh Tale. As Zoro fought Hawk Eyes, Good offered Robin a future helping rebuild Ohara, giving her a reason to return home.

• Good declared the Straw Hat Pirates disbanded, took Nico Robin and the Red Road Poneglyph copies, and left the injured Luffy and Sanji alive.
• Good gave Robin all four Road Poneglyphs, and she translated their coordinates while navigators calculated that Laugh Tale lay two hundred meters underwater in the New World.
• Robin asked to accompany Good to Laugh Tale, and Good agreed; she learned that her companions had been sent home while Zoro stayed to challenge Hawk Eyes.
• Robin watched Zoro duel Hawk Eyes as Good said Zoro was certain to lose in his battered state.
• Good invited Robin to help rebuild Ohara, and Robin found new courage in the prospect of returning to her home.

The Beasts Pirates wore down the Red Hair Pirates while Kaido defeated and killed Red Hair after their final duel. The Red Hair Pirates fled, and Buggy mourned Shanks aboard the Cross Guild's ship.

• Hawk Eyes defeated Zoro in their duel, then urged his only student not to throw his life away.
• The exhausted Red Hair Pirates struggled against the Beasts Pirates, whose overwhelming numbers and attacks left them near defeat.
• Kaido and Red Hair drank before their final round, and Kaido's Drunken Dragon Bagua overwhelmed Red Hair.
• Red Hair realized Good had united the Underworld and that the era he had hoped for had failed alongside Luffy's chance to become Nika.
• Three hours later, Red-Haired Shanks died and the Red Hair Pirates fled, while Buggy wept upon hearing of Shanks's death.

After the Beasts Pirates announced they had gathered all four Road Poneglyphs, Good and Kaido led a grand pirate fleet to Laugh Tale. There, Robin deciphered the history of the Void Century and the One Piece, while Good learned that restoring the world required the Mother Flame and Nika’s power.

• Mr. 3 told Buggy that the Beasts Pirates had sent Shanks’s body and left the funeral arrangements to him.
• The Beasts Pirates announced they had all four Road Poneglyphs and invited the other forces to Laugh Tale; Good persuaded Kaido that sharing the journey would cement their leadership.
• Kaido led the New World Pirate Grand Fleet toward Laugh Tale, and the fleet submerged after its ships were coated.
• Good summoned Desolate Land to illuminate the underwater ruins, where the pirates found Roger’s message and the Poneglyphs.
• Robin deciphered the history of Joy Boy, the Great Kingdom, the Twenty Kingdoms, and the origins of the Void Century’s conflict.
• Good learned that the One Piece was a device meant to lift the world, but it required the Mother Flame and Nika’s power to operate.

Kaido declared his intent to lead the pirates against the Celestial Dragons, while the Hoenn Navy and the World Government assembled for the approaching final war. The chapter ended with Imu’s demonic forces guarding the Holy Land as the enemy drew near.

• Kaido told the pirates about his betrayal by the rulers of Vodka Kingdom and called for war against the Celestial Dragons.
• Luo, Cross Guild, and Katakuri’s Totto Land fleet joined the march toward the Holy Land, while Buggy disappeared.
• Fleet Admiral Kong ordered the Marines to abandon Headquarters and gather at the Holy Land as the Hoenn Navy advanced.
• The Five Elders reported that the Mother Flame, Seraphim, and Holy Knights were ready, and Imu promised the Holy Land would be impregnable.
• Dorry, Brogy, demonic giants, and transformed Impel Down prisoners waited at the Holy Land’s elevator port.

Good transformed into Groudon and led the allied fleets’ assault on the Holy Land after sinking it to sea level. The battle turned into a rout for the defenders, but the Seraphim and their Four Emperor counterparts clashed as Groudon advanced toward the Celestial Dragons’ castle.

• Aramaki sensed that the Holy Land was sinking during an earthquake and realized someone had caused it.
• After the tremors stopped, the Hoenn Navy, New World pirates, and kingdom fleets surrounded the Holy Land and launched their attack.
• Good transformed into Groudon and led the charge while Aokiji froze the sea and the Azure Dragon and Groudon blasted through the defenses.
• Kong deployed Pacifistas and Seraphim, but Doll and the other Hoenn Vice Admirals fought back with their prepared counters.
• Seraphim-Golden Lion, Seraphim-Whitebeard, little Linlin, and Seraphim-Kaido fought the Seraphim-Shichibukai.
• Groudon advanced toward the Celestial Dragons’ castle while Aokiji and the Admirals guarded his flanks.

Good reached the Flower Room and attacked Imu with his Precipice Holy Sword, causing Pangaea Castle to explode in a pillar of golden light. Elsewhere, the Holy Land burned and the invading forces fought the Holy Knights as Law confronted Doflamingo.

• Fujitora summoned ten meteors that struck Gods' Domain, setting it ablaze as Celestial Dragons fled and pirates hunted those who escaped.
• The Five Elders and Holy Knights faced Groudon, Hoenn officers, and their allies outside the crumbling Pangaea Castle.
• Law confronted Doflamingo, accused him of returning to the Celestial Dragons, and fought him.
• Good unleashed Primal Reversion, melted the surroundings, and burned the Five Elders to ashes when they attacked him.
• Good entered the Flower Room, found Imu with a face identical to Princess Vivi's, and swung his Precipice Holy Sword at her.
• Pangaea Castle exploded in a golden pillar of light, while Law sheathed his blade and told Doflamingo that his side was finished.

Good overwhelmed Imu in her demon form after transforming into Primal Reversion Groudon, while the battle for the Holy Land continued around Pangaea Castle. The chapter ended with Imu reeling from Good’s slap and realizing she could not defeat him.

• Doflamingo watched Pangaea Castle burn and welcomed the Holy Land’s collapse as his life ended.
• Hajrudin and the young Giants clashed with the Blue and Red Ogres and the older Giant Warrior Pirates, while Saint Killingham summoned nightmare monsters to reinforce the Holy Land’s forces.
• Kaido bombarded Pangaea Castle with Draco Meteor, then fought Shamrock, who wounded Kaido with Cerberus before Kaido’s magma-coated Flame Dragon Torch burned the hound and melted Shamrock’s arm.
• Good transformed into Primal Reversion Groudon and broke through Imu’s attacks, destroying her Domi Reversi magic circle and blocking her escape.
• Good struck Imu across the face with Solar Fist, leaving her humiliated and convinced that she could not defeat him.

Good defeated Imu and ended the World Government’s rule, establishing the Hoenn Government in its place. One year later, the changed world had entered a new era, with the first Hoenn Reverie convening at Groudon City.

• Imu surrendered to Good and agreed to remove the immortality she had granted, causing the demonized Giants, Holy Knights, Marines, and soldiers to lose their borrowed vitality.
• Good’s allies and the assembled fighters surrounded Imu, and she shot herself after Good refused her offer to help him rule the world.
• The Hoenn Government’s flag rose over the Holy Land, and news spread worldwide that the World Government had fallen; the fighters acknowledged Good as King of the World.
• One year later, the Red Line was gone, the seas had become supercontinents, and piracy had declined as adventuring became a leading new profession.
• Representatives of nations and races gathered for the first Hoenn Reverie in Groudon City, where royals and nobles joined the Hoenn United Nations and accepted its new system.

Good left Kuzan to preside over the nations' meeting and departed to find Yamato. He planned to explore the new world with his wife at a slower pace and have children.

• The representatives of the various nations waited for Good without daring to hurry him.
• Good packed his bags while Qikara reminded him that everyone was waiting.
• Good instructed Qikara to have Kuzan chair the meeting.
• Good vanished after saying he would find Yamato and return when he felt like it.
• Good planned to travel with his wife, enjoy the new world, and have a couple of children.