Recaps

Lorne used his regenerative power and accumulated Grit to battle Big Mom, then concentrated his strength and Conqueror’s Haki into a punch that broke through Napoleon and struck her. Big Mom spat blood as the clash tore open the clouds and sent towering waves against the island.

• Lorne’s wounds repeatedly healed under Battlefield Valor, filling his Blood Reservoir and driving his Grit beyond its previous limit.
• Big Mom offered Lorne a place as Totto Land’s royal consort, but he insulted her, resisted her lightning and flaming sword attacks, and struck through her Armament Haki.
• Lorne and Big Mom fought in midair as he dodged attacks and endured others to build his strength, while Big Mom’s stamina and Haki dwindled.
• Lorne unleashed a dark-gold punch against Big Mom’s flaming, lightning-wreathed sword, and the collision split the thunderclouds and stirred enormous waves.
• Lorne’s punch cracked Napoleon and penetrated Big Mom’s defenses, making her spit blood.

Lorne fought Big Mom in a brutal battle, using True Damage and rapid recovery to withstand her attacks and injure her. As the deserted island broke apart beneath them, Lorne used Crushing Blow to disrupt Big Mom and prepared a Haymaker.

• Big Mom merged Zeus and Prometheus into her body and charged at Lorne with flames and lightning.
• Big Mom struck Lorne, but Battlefield Valor rapidly healed his broken shoulder, and he retaliated with True Damage.
• Lorne and Big Mom traded heavy punches as the island collapsed, while Smoothie and Jack argued in the Fearless's lower hold.
• Kuina ordered the Fearless to retreat, and the deserted island split apart with Lorne and Big Mom still fighting.
• Lorne used Crushing Blow to pull Big Mom off balance and gathered his Grit and Conqueror's Haki for a Haymaker.

Lorne fought Big Mom through a day and night, using her attacks to strengthen his Conqueror’s Haki Infusion while his Battlefield Valor rapidly healed his injuries. By the end, Big Mom had lost much of her stamina and Haki, while Lorne’s presence had grown more ferocious, leaving her deeply apprehensive.

• Lorne blasted Big Mom into the sea with a dark-gold fist, but she returned on a seawater Homie and unleashed Zeus’s lightning.
• Lorne endured the lightning, healed rapidly, and charged Big Mom with Decimating Smash, clashing with Napoleon’s Mother Flame and her Haki-coated fist.
• Lorne and Big Mom fought across the sky, Deserted Island, and sea until their battle shattered the island and sent the Fearless rocking in the distant waves.
• Ryan, Bakel, Kuina, and Carrot watched from the Fearless as Kuina recognized that Lorne was honing his Conqueror’s Haki Infusion with Big Mom’s attacks.
• The battle continued through the night as Lorne’s healing and attacks persisted, while Big Mom burned through more than half her stamina and Haki and grew apprehensive of him.

Lorne drove Big Mom into the sea, but her hunger pangs began before she could continue the fight, forcing her to retreat to Totto Land. After recovering aboard the Fearless, Lorne sailed away unaware that a News Coo had photographed the battle.

• Lorne struck Big Mom with a powerful Haymaker, sending her crashing into the sea with a serious chest wound.
• Big Mom surfaced on a seawater Homie as her hunger pangs began, and she realized that losing control could leave her vulnerable to Lorne.
• Lorne taunted Big Mom, who threatened revenge for Smoothie and Perospero's fleet before fleeing with Zeus and Prometheus toward Totto Land.
• Ryan, Bakel, Kuina, and the others joined Lorne on the reef, then helped him return to the Fearless to recover.
• Lorne sailed away aboard the Fearless while a News Coo carried photographs of the battle to the world.

Morgans published a front-page story portraying Lorne as a monster who rivaled the Four Emperors after he wounded Big Mom, and the news spread across the seas. Lorne warned his crew that Kaido and Linlin would retaliate, while Marine leaders argued over how to handle the powerful former Marine.

• Morgans ordered the newspaper to headline Lorne as the Uncrowned King and publish photographs of Big Mom wounded.
• Ryan, Bakel, Kuina, and Carrot celebrated the news aboard the Fearless, but Lorne cautioned them about Big Mom, Kaido, and their captured prisoners.
• Lorne ordered the Marines to strengthen their watch and sent Kuina and Carrot back to training.
• Sengoku confronted Garp over Lorne's actions, while Tsuru argued that Lorne was still helping the Marines.
• Akainu called for Lorne to be eliminated, but Kuzan warned that fighting him could drive him to join the Revolutionary Army or pirates.

The Navy and the Four Emperors reacted to Lorne’s defeat of Big Mom and capture of Jack and Smoothie, while Kaido decided to retrieve Jack himself. Lorne went down to the Fearless’s hold, where the chained Jack challenged him to another fight.

• Sengoku ordered the Navy to monitor the Four Emperors as Garp left to go fishing.
• Big Mom demanded a fleet, but Katakuri urged her to wait and see how Kaido responded to Lorne’s capture of Jack and Smoothie.
• Kaido ordered King to locate the Fearless and declared that he would rescue Jack and kill Lorne himself.
• Whitebeard and Marco discussed Lorne’s likely struggle against the emperors, while Shanks and his crew chose to watch events unfold.
• Lorne entered the Fearless’s lower hold, where Jack, bound in Seastone chains, challenged him to fight again.

Lorne’s crew sailed into uncharted waters, following Carrot’s Vivre Card toward Zou while planning to recruit the Mink Tribe as allies against Kaido and Big Mom. As Carrot demonstrated Electro and described Zunesha, the sky suddenly darkened.

• Lorne warned the chained Jack and Smoothie to behave, then returned to the deck of the Fearless.
• Ryan reported that the ship had changed course southwest, and Carrot said her Vivre Card pointed toward Zunesha.
• Lorne explained that the Mink Tribe’s Electro and Sulong abilities could help his crew face the Four Emperors, and he said they needed allies.
• Ryan told Lorne that the crew had entered uncharted waters where the Log Pose no longer worked, so Lorne ordered everyone to follow the Vivre Card.
• Carrot demonstrated Electro while sparring with Kuina and described Zunesha as a giant elephant carrying Zou on its back.
• The crew listened to Carrot’s description as the sky suddenly darkened.

A storm surrounded the Fearless with Sea Kings, and Lorne ordered Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina to defeat them without his help. The three began fighting back, but the ship remained surrounded as the battle continued.

• Lorne sensed numerous powerful creatures gathering beneath the stormy sea and ordered Ryan, Bakel, and Kuina to prepare for battle.
• Sea Kings and giant sea beasts surfaced around the Fearless, and Lorne declared that he would not intervene, ordering his crew to defeat them and save the ship themselves.
• Ryan directed the Marines to shoot a giant jellyfish's tentacles while Bakel blocked its attack and Kuina cut its body in two.
• A giant sea turtle charged the Fearless, and Ryan struck its shell with an Armament Haki-coated fist, knocking it off course before the recoil sent him tumbling across the deck and left him spitting blood.

Ryan, Kuina, Bakel, and the Marines fought the Sea Kings attacking the Fearless while Lorne deliberately held back so his subordinates could grow stronger. The battle reached a crisis when the largest Sea King lunged at the bow, with the defenders unable to stop it in time.

• Carrot electrocuted a Giant Sea Snake, while Kuina dodged venom and killed another with a sword strike that deepened her understanding of swordsmanship.
• Ryan led the Marines in a shield-and-spear formation against a Sea King, encouraging them to stand firm as Lorne listened but refused to intervene.
• Jack and Smoothie realized Lorne was using the attack to train his subordinates, and Smoothie concluded that he was building a formidable force.
• A huge crocodile-headed Sea King surged from the sea and opened its jaws over the Fearless's bow.
• Ryan could not reach the bow, Bakel was trapped by tentacles, and Kuina was driven back, leaving the ship exposed to the Sea King's attack.

Kuina awakened Ryuo in the midst of the battle against the crocodile Sea King and dodged its lethal claw. She prepared a powerful iaijutsu strike as the Sea King attacked again, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Ryan and the Marines repelled the crocodile Sea King's bite, but smaller sea snakes overwhelmed the deck, and one broke Ryan's ribs.
• Kuina's sword slash failed to stop the Sea King's tail, which struck her through the deck and left her exposed to its claw.
• As the Sea King's claw descended, Kuina recalled Lorne and Koshiro's teachings and learned to let her Haki flow into Wado Ichimonji.
• Kuina awakened Ryuo, evaded the claw, and appeared above the Sea King with Wado Ichimonji glowing cherry-red.
• Kuina began an iaijutsu strike as the Sea King swept its tail at her again.

Kuina defeated the enormous crocodile leader, saving the Fearless and its crew from the sea beasts. After the storm, Lorne’s crew reached Zunesha and began climbing toward the Mink Tribe’s homeland.

• Kuina cut the crocodile leader in half, driving the remaining sea beasts away and saving the crew.
• Lorne praised Kuina, gave Ryan medicine for the wounded, and ordered Ryan and Bakel to train harder.
• The Fearless emerged from the fog and found Zunesha blocking its path; Carrot explained that the crew would have to climb up the elephant’s leg.
• Bakel fired a cable into Zunesha’s skin, and Lorne ordered Ryan to guard the ship and the imprisoned Jack and Smoothie.
• Carrot led Lorne, Kuina, Bakel, and twenty Marines up the cable, then asked Lorne whether he was a mink because of his beast ears.

Lorne brought Carrot and the Marines to Zou, where Mink Tribe warriors initially challenged them before Duke Inuarashi and Boss Nekomamushi arrived. The rulers rejected Lorne’s offer to cooperate and prepared to test his strength, leaving the groups on the brink of a fight.

• Lorne led the group up the elephant’s leg, and the Marines reached Zou after a difficult climb through the clouds.
• Mink Tribe warriors surrounded the newcomers, but Carrot stopped them and told Captain Sicilian that Lorne had saved her.
• Duke Inuarashi and Boss Nekomamushi appeared, welcomed Carrot back, and questioned Lorne’s identity and reasons for coming.
• Lorne proposed cooperation and warned that Kaido’s and Big Mom’s forces might retaliate because their people were prisoners aboard his ship.
• Nekomamushi and Inuarashi drew their weapons and unleashed their auras, while Lorne stepped forward to face them.

Lorne overwhelmed the Mink Tribe leaders and warriors with his fused Grit and Conqueror's Haki, then argued that Zou needed his protection from Kaido and Charlotte Linlin. He proposed an alliance in which Zou would send elite fighters to join the Independent Suppression Force while he drew the Four Emperors' attention.

• Lorne unleashed his dark golden Haki, knocking out the Mink Tribe warriors and forcing Sicilian, Boss Nekomamushi, and Duke Inuarashi to struggle against its pressure.
• Lorne withdrew his Haki and asked Boss Nekomamushi and Duke Inuarashi to talk, earning their willingness to hear his proposal.
• Lorne warned the leaders that Kaido and Charlotte Linlin could target Zou because Jack and Smoothie were aboard his ship.
• Lorne proposed an alliance: he would draw the Four Emperors' attention, and Zou would provide elite warriors to sail with the Independent Suppression Force.

Lorne persuaded Zou’s rulers to cooperate against the Four Emperors while letting them remain to defend their homeland. Carrot volunteered to sail with him, but after Lorne tested her strength, she failed to make him move.

• Lorne explained that he wanted an alliance with the Mink Tribe and outlined how he would weaken the Four Emperors’ forces without leaving Zou exposed.
• Inuarashi and Nekomamushi agreed that their interests aligned with Lorne’s, but said they had to stay on Zou and protect it.
• Carrot volunteered to represent the Mink Tribe and join Lorne’s crew, while Sicilian objected and Kuina vouched for Carrot’s speed and Electro.
• Lorne challenged Carrot to make him take one step back with her strongest attack, promising to take her to sea if she succeeded.
• Carrot struck Lorne’s Haki-coated finger with her electric attack, but he remained unmoved and knocked her backward with a gentle push.

Lorne formed an alliance with the Mink Tribe and agreed to take Carrot along for training. During the celebration on Zou, he heard a mysterious plea for help that seemed to come from deep within Zunesha, leaving him intent on the island’s hidden secrets.

• Duke Inuarashi asked Lorne to let Carrot travel with him as the Mink Tribe’s representative, and Lorne agreed on the condition that she keep up with his training.
• Lorne and Duke Inuarashi shook hands to confirm their alliance, and Lorne promised that the Four Emperors would not set foot on Zou while he was there.
• The Mink Tribe held a bonfire celebration, where Carrot showed off her Electro techniques and Bakel sparred with a porcupine-headed Mink warrior.
• Boss Nekomamushi praised Lorne before drinking himself unconscious, while the banquet gradually quieted.
• Lorne heard a pulsing call for help through his Voice of All Things and sensed it came from somewhere deep within Zunesha.
• Kuina asked Lorne what was wrong, and he told her he had heard an interesting sound while watching the dark forest.

Lorne followed a mysterious call into a forbidden forest on Zou, with Carrot secretly accompanying him. The voice identified itself as a forgotten Guardian and warned that a defensive line was about to collapse and an enemy was about to wake up.

• Lorne left the celebration, and Carrot followed him into the forest despite the warnings of Kuina and the others.
• Lorne caught Carrot following him and learned that Inuarashi and Sicilian had forbidden anyone from entering the forest, where secrets of Zunesha were buried.
• Lorne and Carrot ventured deeper into the forest, where dead plants and unusual gravity appeared, and Lorne shielded Carrot with his Haki.
• The call grew clearer to Lorne and asked him to break its chains and come to the altar.
• The voice called itself a forgotten Guardian, mentioned a collapsing defensive line and Kozuki betrayal, and warned that an enemy was about to wake up before fading away.

Lorne and Carrot discovered ancient ruins hidden in Zou, where a mechanical behemoth awakened and attacked them. Lorne withstood its first strike, and the machine escalated the fight by deploying floating cannons.

• Lorne led Carrot through an eerie blue mist to an ancient altar and warned her that the disturbed soil suggested something was buried nearby.
• The blue orb turned red and announced that its defense mechanism would eliminate unauthorized life-forms.
• A ten-meter mechanical wolf rose from underground, covered in Armament Haki, and identified Lorne as an extremely high threat.
• Lorne met the behemoth’s claw with a punch, damaging its forelimb and forcing it backward.
• The behemoth classified Lorne as a disaster-class threat and deployed dozens of floating cannons around him and Carrot.

Lorne used the Ancient Mechanical Guardian’s laser attack to train Carrot in Observation Haki, then overwhelmed the guardian with his powers. The guardian began a self-destruct sequence, and Lorne chose to face the explosion rather than retreat.

• Lorne told Carrot to close her eyes and use changes in the air to sense the incoming lasers, guiding her through her first dodges.
• When Carrot failed to evade a laser from behind, Lorne blocked it with Iron Body and urged her to keep practicing.
• Lorne used Crushing Blow to pull the Floating Cannons and Mechanical Behemoth together, destroying the cannons and slamming the guardian into the ground.
• Lorne pierced the guardian’s Armament Haki barrier with Haymaker, critically damaging its core and sending it crashing into a stone pillar.
• The guardian started self-destructing, but Lorne stood his ground as Carrot urged him to run.

Lorne taught Carrot how to read and counter the floating cannons before destroying several with a lightning-fast strike. The Mechanical Beast escalated the fight by activating its close-combat program and swinging at Lorne.

• Lorne told Carrot to shelter behind a stone pillar while he endured the floating cannons' laser barrage with Armament Haki.
• Lorne explained that the cannons followed programmed firing patterns, and Carrot used her hearing to locate one and short-circuit it with Electro.
• The disabled cannon repaired itself and returned to the air, so Lorne destroyed three cannons at once with Finger Pistol: Yellow Lotus.
• The Mechanical Beast raised Lorne's threat level and activated its Close-Combat Eradication Program.
• The Mechanical Beast charged and swung its mechanical arm at Lorne while Carrot warned him to watch out.

Lorne tested himself against the Mechanical Beast while teaching Carrot how to evade its attacks and keep her balance. After overpowering the machine, he faced its charging main cannon as Carrot warned him not to take the blast head-on.

• Lorne blocked the Mechanical Beast’s opening strike with Iron Body and judged its strength to exceed an ordinary Marine Vice Admiral’s full-powered blow.
• Lorne used Kami-e to evade the Mechanical Beast’s hammer and vibrating blades while explaining the technique to Carrot.
• Lorne told Carrot to use Geppo to stay above the seismic waves, and she steadied herself in midair.
• Lorne used Crushing Blow to pull Floating Cannons into the Mechanical Beast’s tail whip, then grabbed the whip and swung the machine into the ground.
• The damaged Mechanical Beast raised its threat level and began charging its main cannon as Carrot urged Lorne to dodge.

Lorne endured the Mechanical Beast’s destruction beam, converting its damage into power before destroying the monster with one punch. He then approached the altar and saw the mysterious item at its center.

• Lorne told Carrot not to stop him and absorbed the Mechanical Beast’s destruction beam, using his regenerative ability to survive and fill his Grit.
• Lorne advanced through the beam as his dark-gold Grit shield tore it apart, then struck the Mechanical Beast’s core with Haymaker.
• Lorne’s punch shattered the Mechanical Beast, leaving it as scattered scrap metal.
• Lorne walked to the altar and looked at the mysterious item glowing at its center.

Lorne discovered a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Divine Dragon Form, but his Sett Bloodline absorbed it through his palm before he could pick it up. As the Divine Dragon Power fought his bloodline and tore through his body, Lorne’s regeneration kept him alive while Carrot watched from the edge of the altar.

• Lorne identified the fruit on the altar as the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Mythical Zoan type, Divine Dragon Form, and told Carrot it could be worth ten billion Beli.
• Lorne reached for the fruit, and his Sett Bloodline reacted before the fruit transformed into light and burrowed into his body through his palm.
• Lorne ordered Carrot to stay back as the Divine Dragon Power clashed with his Sett Bloodline and shattered the bones in his right arm.
• Lorne’s Battlefield Valor and Golden Grit activated, repairing his injuries and shielding him as the power began tearing through his organs.
• Carrot backed away from the energy storm, astonished as Lorne’s life force grew stronger despite his worsening injuries.

Lorne fused the divine dragon power into his Sett bloodline and awakened the [Sett Dragonmancer Skin] form. After reassuring Carrot, he left to test whether the sea still weakened him, despite her warnings that the experiment could kill him.

• Lorne used Armament Haki and his regenerative power to bind and absorb the divine dragon energy into his Sett bloodline.
• A huge blue dragon phantom appeared behind Lorne as he fully awakened the [Sett Dragonmancer Skin] form and gained control over golden lightning.
• Lorne told Carrot that his power had grown and promised to teach her how to combine Electro with Haki.
• Lorne decided to enter the sea to test whether the Devil Fruit's side effects affected him, and Carrot warned him that he could drown or fall to his death.
• Lorne reassured Carrot that he would not risk his life and continued toward the sea.

Lorne jumped from Zunesha into the sea to test his new Devil Fruit powers and whether seawater weakened him. Protected by his Dragonmancer Form, he plunged deeper and reached six thousand meters, while Carrot and the others waited above.

• Lorne dismissed Carrot’s concerns and leaped from Zunesha into the ocean to test his new power.
• Carrot told Kuina, Ryan, and Bakel that Lorne had jumped into the sea, and Kuina urged them to wait for him.
• Lorne activated Dragonmancer Form and fell through the clouds, protected by golden lightning armor.
• Lorne struck the sea at full speed, creating towering waves and plunging into the depths.
• Lorne descended past a deep-sea squid and glowing fish, enduring increasing water pressure as he reached six thousand meters.

Lorne tested his Divine Dragon abilities in the deepest part of the sea and discovered that seawater did not weaken him but amplified his powers and senses. After demonstrating his control over ocean currents, lightning, and water, he faced two ancient beasts, Tunhai and Lieyuan, who came to devour him.

• Lorne descended to the ten-thousand-meter trench and found that the seawater did not drain his strength, while his Divine Dragon bloodline made him feel at home in the ocean.
• Lorne discovered that currents enhanced his underwater punches and that water amplified his Observation Haki and Voice of All Things.
• Lorne controlled the seawater to create a vast whirlpool, a water dragon, a trident, and a defensive shield, then charged the water dragon with lightning.
• Tunhai and Lieyuan approached Lorne, identifying him as prey and recalling that they had once eaten a giant who called himself the God of the Sea.
• Lorne confronted the two colossal beasts and prepared to test his new fists on them.