Recaps

Koshiro explained how the Revolutionary Army’s Body-Enhancement Drug helped save Hongye and Kuina and allowed him to overcome his physical limits. He then fought Athena on an uninhabited island and lost after her relentless attacks broke through his defense.

• Koshiro recounted how Dragon gave Hongye a Body-Enhancement Drug that helped her survive childbirth and how the drug and combat training strengthened him.
• Athena and Yingyue challenged Koshiro to a fight, while Kakarot told Vian to rest because she had not recovered from her injury.
• Lilith transported the group to an uninhabited island, where Athena and Koshiro began their sword fight with opposing sword intents.
• Athena and Koshiro exchanged flying slashes before closing in to clash at close range as Kakarot, Hongye, and the others watched.
• Athena overwhelmed Koshiro with a sustained assault, found an opening in his defense, and defeated him.

Kakarot gave Koshiro insight into combining his Guardian Sword Intent with the killing power of the blade, opening a new path for his swordsmanship. Koshiro then fought Yingyue, and both adapted to each other’s techniques as the duel continued.

• Athena told Koshiro that his swordsmanship lacked offensive power, and Koshiro admitted he had reached a bottleneck.
• Kakarot suggested that Koshiro use the killing power of his sword to protect others, giving Koshiro a breakthrough in his Sword Intent.
• Koshiro thanked Kakarot and said the new insight had made his swordsmanship feel more complete and powerful.
• Yingyue challenged Koshiro and launched a rapid assault with her Phantom Shadow Sword Intent, leaving him wounded as he defended.
• Koshiro began counterattacking with the killing intent in his Guardian Sword Intent, while Yingyue learned from his defensive techniques.

Yingyue and Koshiro finished a close swordsmanship duel, then returned to Isshin Dojo, where Dragon asked Koshiro to train Revolutionary Army comrades and introduced Kuma and Ginny to Kakarot. During the banquet, Dragon reported that the Revolutionary Army had expanded across remote islands and was using the Makeover Fruit to infiltrate powerful groups.

• Yingyue and Koshiro fought an evenly matched duel that left both wounded but helped them advance their swordsmanship.
• Kakarot greeted Dragon, who asked Koshiro to teach swordsmanship to the Revolutionary Army and brought Kuma and Ginny to meet him.
• Kakarot welcomed Kuma and Ginny, then everyone gathered for a banquet at Isshin Dojo.
• Ginny asked about Heavenly Punishment, and Kakarot explained its members' strength before sending her to join Lilith and the others.
• Dragon told Kakarot that the Revolutionary Army had recruited across remote islands and replaced the upper ranks of corrupt groups using a comrade's Makeover Fruit.

Kakarot and his companions discussed the Revolutionary Army’s plans, then traveled through the East Blue, visiting villages and islands and observing how their people lived. They left Goa Kingdom and continued their journey without visiting Foosha Village.

• Kakarot and Dragon agreed that the Revolutionary Army would go underground and focus on training revolutionaries and administrators.
• Kakarot visited Cocoyasi Village, where local revolutionaries helped the villagers prosper through the orange trade, and learned that Bellemere had joined the Marines.
• Kakarot traveled to Syrup Village and met Yasopp, whom he judged harshly for the family he would later leave behind.
• Kakarot and his companions explored Rare Animal Island, met Gaimon, and chose not to disturb the secret Revolutionary Army base in the hill.
• Kakarot visited Orange Town and Shells Town, then found that Dragon had established a group protecting poor people near Goa Kingdom’s garbage dump.
• Kakarot and his companions continued their East Blue journey without visiting Foosha Village.

Marine warships arrived at Loguetown in force, alarming the pirates gathered for Roger’s execution, while Kakarot and his companions discussed the Marines’ plans and the Revolutionary Army’s strength. Kakarot said they could soon strike back at the World Government and Celestial Dragons, leaving Lilith eager for their campaign to begin.

• Marine warships approached Loguetown, frightening the gathered pirates and prompting Moria, Mihawk, Shanks, Buggy, and Crocodile to consider the danger.
• Kakarot and his companions discussed the Marine buildup, and he explained his encounter with Kuzan and what he had deduced about the Marines’ preparations.
• Lilith asked when they would take revenge on the Celestial Dragons, and Kakarot and Lina comforted her.
• Kakarot declared that the Revolutionary Army had grown powerful enough to collect a debt from the World Government, and Lilith eagerly agreed.

Kakarot and Lilith secretly visited Roger in his Loguetown cell, where he asked the Revolutionary Army to protect his wife, Portgas D. Rouge. After they agreed, Roger warned that the World Government would target pregnant women in the South Blue, and Kakarot promised Heavenly Punishment would intervene; they left as someone approached the cell.

• Kakarot and Lilith used their pocket dimension to pass the Marines' guards and enter Roger's cell undetected.
• Roger recognized Kakarot and Lilith, and Kakarot told him that his arrival in this world had changed whether his vision was prophecy or truth.
• Roger explained that he remained committed to his own pursuits, and Lilith asked whether he needed their help.
• Roger asked Kakarot and the Revolutionary Army to care for Portgas D. Rouge, and Kakarot agreed.
• Kakarot explained that the World Government might kill pregnant women in the South Blue to eliminate Roger's child, and Lilith vowed to stop them.
• Roger sensed someone approaching and invited Kakarot and Lilith to watch his execution; they vanished into the pocket dimension.

Kakarot and the Anti-Crime Adventure Group watched as Pirate King Roger was executed in Loguetown after he revealed that he had left his treasure for anyone to find. Roger’s final words ignited the Great Pirate Era, while a pregnant blonde woman in South Blue vowed to protect their child.

• Kakarot sensed powerful figures gathered in Loguetown while he and the Anti-Crime Adventure Group relaxed in the execution square.
• Roger walked to the execution platform as Shanks, Buggy, Mihawk, Crocodile, and Roger Pirates around the world watched.
• A man asked Roger where his treasure was, and Sengoku ordered the executioners to kill him immediately.
• Roger declared that he had left all his treasure for anyone who could find it, stirring the crowd into cheers.
• Two blades pierced Roger’s chest, ending his life as the first Pirate King.
• A blonde woman watching the broadcast in South Blue touched her swollen belly and vowed to protect her child.

After Roger’s final words sent pirates rushing for the harbor, Sengoku’s Marines trapped them with Kuzan’s ice and Sakazuki’s magma, then moved to arrest them. The operation discouraged many would-be pirates, while Doflamingo watched the destruction and Mihawk focused on Kakarot and the others’ powerful Sword Intents.

• Pirates raced toward Loguetown’s harbor after Roger announced that his treasure was waiting to be found, while wary pirates and Mihawk, Crocodile, and Moria watched from the sidelines.
• Kuzan froze the harbor sea with Ice Age as pirate crews began boarding their ships.
• Sakazuki used Meteor Volcano to destroy the ships and shatter the ice, leaving pirates stranded in the freezing water.
• Sengoku ordered more than ten thousand Marines to arrest the trapped pirates, and the live broadcast made many ordinary people reconsider becoming pirates.
• Doflamingo remarked on the destructive power of Logia Devil Fruits, while Mihawk sensed powerful Sword Intents from Kakarot and the others.

After Roger's death, Shanks resolved to carry on his captain's will while Kakarot invited future powers to meet him. They gathered with Kakarot in a tavern, where he welcomed Shanks and Buggy and faced the assembled group.

• Shanks watched the Marines and remembered Roger, resolving to find someone who could inherit his will, while Buggy feared being captured.
• Garp mourned Roger and felt troubled by the words Roger had left unsaid during their recent visit.
• Kakarot asked Lilith to invite Mihawk, Crocodile, Moria, Shanks, and other future powerhouses to find him, and they chose to follow; Doflamingo joined immediately.
• Sengoku judged that the Marines could not safely challenge Kakarot's group and let them leave, focusing instead on strengthening Marine Headquarters and stabilizing the seas.
• Kakarot's group waited in a tavern as Mihawk, Crocodile, Moria, and Doflamingo took seats around him; Shanks and Buggy arrived, and Kakarot welcomed them.

Kakarot gathered Mihawk, Crocodile, Moria, Shanks, Buggy, and Doflamingo to offer them a chance to grow stronger for the coming war against the World Government. After his companions overwhelmed them with their auras, Kakarot revealed that Kuzan and Sakazuki were Admiral-level fighters and left everyone awaiting the details of his offer.

• Kakarot told Mihawk and the others he could offer them an opportunity to grow stronger quickly for the coming conflict.
• Kakarot had the Anti-Crime Adventure Group members unleash their auras, leaving Mihawk and the others gasping under the pressure.
• Kakarot explained that Kuzan and Sakazuki were Marine Vice Admirals with Admiral-level strength, shocking the group.
• Buggy compared the auras he sensed to Roger's strength, while Mihawk, Crocodile, and the others reacted with awe and a desire to become stronger.
• Kakarot revealed that Shanks and Buggy had sailed with Roger, and everyone turned their attention back to him as they waited for his next words.

Kakarot described his crew’s extraordinary strength and revealed that a special potion could greatly accelerate training and expand physical potential. The gathered young fighters eagerly asked how to obtain it, while remaining wary of Kakarot’s intentions.

• Kakarot challenged Mihawk, Crocodile, Moria, Doflamingo, Shanks, and Buggy to compare their strength with his young crew’s.
• Kakarot said most of his companions were just over eighteen and already had Admiral-level or greater strength, astonishing the group.
• Shanks praised Kakarot’s crew, and Kakarot explained that he had ended his fight with Roger when Roger’s illness worsened.
• Kakarot explained that strong physiques supported all fighting styles and that his crew used a potion to boost training and potential.
• Doflamingo asked how they could obtain the potion, while the others weighed their desire for power against their suspicion of Kakarot’s motives.

Kakarot offered to help the pirates grow stronger so they could join his organization’s future assault on Mary Geoise and the World Government. After they accepted his support, Garp warned Sengoku that Kakarot and his companions had become so powerful that confronting them felt like facing the hidden forces in Mary Geoise.

• Kakarot told the pirates he wanted them to grow strong enough to take part in his organization’s attack on Mary Geoise and the World Government.
• Shanks asked whether Kakarot’s organization was behind the Mobile Den Den Mushi and Camera Den Den Mushi, and the pirates reacted with shock at the revelation.
• Crocodile, Moria, Mihawk, Shanks, and the others decided to accept Kakarot’s help, though Mihawk and Shanks focused on improving their swordsmanship.
• Kakarot gave each of them a Spatial Ring filled with potions for two or three years of training.
• Sengoku asked Garp whether the Marines should pursue the pirates, but Garp refused and warned that Kakarot’s group now inspired the same dread he had felt in Mary Geoise.

Kakarot took Mihawk and Shanks into the Calm Belt, where he overwhelmed the Sea Kings with his Conqueror’s Haki and made one carry their ships toward an island with powerful beasts. Witnessing his presence caused Shanks to question whether Roger’s dream and instructions still made sense.

• Kakarot parted from Doflamingo and the others in Loguetown, taking Mihawk and Shanks toward the Calm Belt while Buggy stayed behind to seek treasure.
• The ships entered the Calm Belt, where Lilith and the others saw enormous Sea Kings rise around them.
• Kakarot unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, changing the weather and knocking out the Sea Kings except for one huge creature he spared.
• Kakarot ordered the surviving Sea King to take the ships to an island with powerful beasts, and it lifted them and swam away.
• Mihawk and Shanks witnessed Kakarot’s overwhelming Haki, and Shanks began doubting Roger’s instructions and his own beliefs.

Kakarot and his companions reached a hot, humid island filled with powerful beasts after a frightened Sea King carried their ships there. They explored the forest and approached a colossal serpent watching them from a tree.

• The ships reached the island, and Kakarot dismissed the trembling Sea King, which fled underwater.
• Lilith admired the island’s air, while Kakarot speculated that a mysterious substance concentrated on untouched islands helped powerful beasts grow.
• Kakarot led his excited companions onto the island and followed a winding path east.
• Kakarot sensed a powerful, sinister presence ahead as an enormous serpent watched the group approach from a towering tree.

Kakarot and his companions followed a gigantic snake’s trail through the jungle and discovered the three-hundred-year-old Titan Python coiled around a towering tree. The Titan Python sensed their approach and watched them without hostility as the group came face to face with it.

• Lina found a huge snake scale, and Kakarot reflected on how she had become more open and lively after sharing her feelings in Loguetown.
• Lilith and the others discovered a trail twenty meters wide, which Lina identified as the Titan Python’s path.
• Vian urged the group to hurry toward the enormous snake, eager to see how powerful it was.
• The Titan Python sensed Kakarot’s group approaching and judged that, despite their great strength, they posed no clear threat.
• Kakarot and his companions reached the towering tree and saw the Titan Python coiled around it.

Kakarot and his companions encountered a colossal, intelligent python coiled around an ancient tree and learned that she was called Jörmungandr, the World Serpent. After explaining their visit, Kakarot invited her to spar with his companions, and she agreed.

• Kakarot and his companions approached an enormous tree wrapped in a giant black python whose presence rivaled Hades's.
• Jörmungandr wrote to the group with her tail, showing that she understood human speech and could communicate in writing.
• Kakarot told Jörmungandr that his party had come to explore the island, meet its Beast Kings, and invite willing ones to see the wider world.
• Jörmungandr identified herself as the World Serpent, a name humans had given her, and Kakarot agreed to call her Jörmungandr.
• Kakarot proposed that his companions spar with Jörmungandr and share food afterward, and she accepted.

Kakarot arranged a spar between Simba and Jörmungandr, and Simba transformed into his Sulong form before attacking her. Jörmungandr sent Simba flying with a powerful tail strike, but he recovered and returned to fight.

• Kakarot led the others away from the clearing, leaving Hades, Simba, Ailik, and Troius Jeno behind.
• Hades, Ailik, and Troius Jeno stepped aside, and Simba transformed into his Flame Lion Human-Beast Form and then his Sulong form.
• Simba charged Jörmungandr and wounded her with a Ryuo Haki-coated claw strike.
• Jörmungandr stopped the bleeding with her muscles and struck Simba with her Armament Haki-coated tail, hurling him thousands of meters away.
• Simba survived the impact, recovered, transformed into his Sulong form again, and returned to continue the fight.

Simba sparred with Jörmungandr, improving his Haki and physical strength before conceding when his injuries and exhaustion became too much. Ailik and Troius Jeno then took turns fighting Jörmungandr to train, while she carefully controlled her strength.

• Simba attacked Jörmungandr’s tail and sharpened his Observation Haki while his Armament Haki and body grew stronger from the clashes.
• Kakarot judged that Jörmungandr’s displayed strength equaled roughly 1.5 Admirals, and warned that Simba was nearing his limit.
• Jörmungandr sent Simba flying, and he conceded before thanking her for the spar; she agreed to spar with him again.
• Ailik asked Jörmungandr to restrain her strength and fought using only martial arts and Color Haki, withdrawing once his body and Haki reached their limits.
• Troius Jeno chose to set aside his Quick-Quick Fruit powers and began sparring with Jörmungandr to train his physique and Haki.

Hades and Jörmungandr unleashed their full power in a brutal battle that devastated the clearing and left both badly wounded. When their fighting spiraled toward madness, Kakarot stopped them with his Conqueror's Haki, and they separated with their reason restored.

• Hades transformed into his nearly two-hundred-meter Titan Giant Form and challenged Jörmungandr to test their strength.
• Jörmungandr attacked Hades with her Haki-coated jaws and body, and the two clashed with Conqueror's Haki that split the sky.
• Jörmungandr tried to constrict and bite Hades while he used six arms to hold her back and his Hellfire Demon Ant mouthparts to wound her.
• Hades and Jörmungandr continued their savage fight, bleeding and destroying the surrounding forest as their ferocity grew into madness.
• Kakarot released his Conqueror's Haki, dispelled the dark clouds, and brought Hades and Jörmungandr back to their senses.

After Hades and Jörmungandr ended their fierce battle, Kakarot invited Jörmungandr to become human with a Devil Fruit, only to learn she was already a user. Jörmungandr transformed into her Dark Night Fairy form, and Kakarot wondered whether her unusual size came from her enormous original body.

• Jörmungandr and Hades praised each other after Kakarot stopped their battle, and Hades used gravity to smooth the damaged ground.
• Kakarot invited Jörmungandr to become human with a Devil Fruit, but she revealed that she was already a Devil Fruit User.
• Jörmungandr transformed from her giant snake form into a black-haired woman with transparent, patterned wings.
• Lilith and the others approached Jörmungandr in surprise, and she told Yingyue that she had eaten the Mythical Zoan Dark Night Fairy Form Devil Fruit.
• Kakarot explained that Jörmungandr looked like a fairy because of her wings and wondered whether her size came from her enormous original body.

Jörmungandr recounted how Celestial Dragons destroyed the village where she had lived, and how she later returned to the island to grow strong. Lina and the others invited her to join their fight against the World Government, and she accepted before celebrating with them.

• Emily and Iris recognized Jörmungandr as the witch from a West Blue legend who had killed Celestial Dragons 150 years earlier.
• Jörmungandr said she had left the island with shipwreck survivors, spent more than thirty years in their village, and watched the villagers grow old while she remained unchanged.
• Jörmungandr recounted that Celestial Dragons destroyed the village and killed its people, while she escaped captivity, sank their ship, and drowned several of them.
• Jörmungandr said she returned to the island, grew strong enough to become its ruler, and Kakarot wondered whether she had forgotten a harsher truth about her past.
• Lina, Lilith, and Yingyue invited Jörmungandr to join their Revolutionary Army, and she accepted, wanting to see human society again.
• The group held a feast around a bonfire, and Jörmungandr watched their celebration as her loneliness began to fade.

After a peaceful night on Jörmungandr’s island, Kakarot learned about two powerful beasts and began investigating the mysterious grove around the ancient tree. He suspected the island might be connected to another strange island, and the group prepared to seek answers from Grandpa Turtle.

• The group slept in the branches of the ancient tree, and Bailing’s plants had covered the scorched ground by morning.
• Jörmungandr told Kakarot that Little Croc was an ancient Emperor Crocodile with formidable strength and defense.
• Jörmungandr described Grandpa Turtle, a huge, very old sea turtle who lived in the northern bay and slept for decades at a time.
• Kakarot asked about a secluded place with a strange radish-shaped plant, and Jörmungandr explained that the grove around the tree matched his description.
• Kakarot suspected a connection to another island in the Calm Belt and proposed asking Grandpa Turtle what he knew about the tree and the grove.

Kakarot investigated Jörmungandr’s memories of the giant tree and suspected that a mysterious powerhouse had planted it. He ordered Lina to contact Dragon and search the Calm Belt for similar places, then silently promised to save whatever was calling to him from the tree.

• Kakarot asked Jörmungandr whether she had visited the giant tree before eating her Devil Fruit, and she realized she had never been there despite exploring the island.
• Jörmungandr relayed Grandpa Turtle’s account of a powerful creature visiting the island, and Lilith suggested it might have planted the tree.
• Lina asked whether they should destroy the tree, but Kakarot sensed a faint plea from it and told her to wait.
• Kakarot instructed Lina to tell Dragon to search the Calm Belt for similar places, starting with islands that had powerful Beast Kings and then checking the rest.
• Kakarot reassured his companions that the Revolutionary Army would handle the danger and silently promised the tree he would save it.
• A breeze passed, and the disgust Lina, Lilith, and the others had felt toward the tree disappeared.

After a month of training, Kakarot learned that Marines and World Government CP agents were heading to the South Blue to search for pregnant women, whom they might execute. He sent the Anti-Crime Adventure Group openly to protect civilians and confront the forces arriving on the islands.

• Lina told Kakarot that Marine warships and CP ships had arrived in the South Blue and would soon search for pregnant women.
• Kakarot gathered the Anti-Crime Adventure Group and explained the threat, then announced they would act openly under their own name.
• Kakarot instructed the group to kill CP agents, but to spare Marines who treated civilians humanely and kill those who attacked or abused them.
• Kakarot assigned Jörmungandr to accompany Fenty, grouped Nasha with Tara and Tal, and grouped Fanny with Will and Wick.
• Kakarot sent the group out using spatial power to reach the islands where the Marines and CP agents would appear.

Kakarot and Lina left Little Croc behind as a worldwide livestream announced that the Anti-Crime Adventure Group was moving to stop the Navy and World Government from eliminating pregnant women in the South Blue. People across the world watched and argued over the accusation, while former slaves shared accounts of the Celestial Dragons’ crimes.

• Kakarot flirted with Lina, and Little Croc mistook their affection for mating before Kakarot and Lina departed in a flash of silver light.
• Mobile Den Den Mushi users around the world received a notification for a livestream about the Anti-Crime Adventure Group’s mission in the South Blue.
• The livestream’s shocking headline stirred anger among commoners and anticipation among pirates, while many oppressed people gathered to watch.
• World Government and Navy supporters defended them in the comments, prompting others to accuse them of serving the Celestial Dragons.
• Former slaves spent their Snail Paste and wealth to recount the Celestial Dragons’ crimes to the livestream audience.