Recaps

After Pero killed Sakazuki, Sengoku abandoned the execution of Ace and ordered the Marines to let him go. Ace returned to the Moby Dick as the Marines’ morale collapsed, while Sengoku accepted responsibility for the defeat.

• Sengoku tried to execute Ace, but Garp stood between them and blocked his way.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to let Ace go, then lost his strength and fell back into his chair.
• Mr. 3 unlocked Ace’s Seastone Handcuffs and helped him leave the Execution Platform.
• Ace crossed the battlefield and reunited with Whitebeard aboard the Moby Dick.
• The Marines dropped their weapons and discarded their uniforms as Kizaru warned Sengoku that the World Government would blame him.
• Sengoku told Kizaru he would resign, then silently acknowledged that Whitebeard had won.

Pero saved Ace and ended the war, prompting the World Government to put an enormous bounty on him. As the Whitebeard Pirates prepared to leave Marineford, Luffy arrived with escaped prisoners, and Sengoku saw a chance to redirect attention from the Marines’ defeat.

• Whitebeard thanked Pero for saving Ace, and the commanders welcomed Ace back aboard the Moby Dick.
• Pero told Whitebeard he had intervened because he disliked the story’s ending and accepted an invitation to the crew’s banquet.
• The Five Elders condemned the Marines’ defeat and ordered an eight-billion-Beli, kill-on-sight bounty for Pero.
• Luffy arrived at Marineford aboard a falling warship with escaped prisoners from Impel Down.
• Sengoku recognized Luffy’s many powerful connections and began planning to use him to shift attention away from the Marines’ defeat and Pero.

After the world learned of Pero’s role in ending the Paramount War, his unprecedented eight-billion-Beli bounty spread across the seas. As the Whitebeard Pirates celebrated aboard the Moby Dick, Ace saw a newspaper photograph that made him panic and rush to Whitebeard.

• Newspapers reported Pero’s defeat of Akainu and his role in forcing Sengoku to end the war, while the World Government issued him an eight-billion-Beli wanted poster.
• In a Loguetown tavern, pirates and bounty hunters reacted to Pero’s bounty and discussed how high bounties could not be cashed in.
• The Whitebeard Pirates continued their banquet in the Calm Belt, and Whitebeard thanked Pero for saving Ace as the crew raised a toast.
• Ace caught a fresh newspaper from a News Coo and saw a photograph of a smiling boy wearing a straw hat.
• Ace’s drunkenness vanished, and he ran toward Whitebeard shouting that something was wrong.

Sengoku decided to execute Luffy despite Garp's furious objections, while Whitebeard first refused to let Ace return to Marineford. After seeing Ace's anguish, Whitebeard changed his mind and ordered his fleet to turn back for Luffy.

• Garp confronted Sengoku and demanded to know what would happen to Luffy.
• Sengoku told Garp he had no choice but to execute Luffy, and Garp left after warning that Sengoku would regret it.
• Ace told Whitebeard that the Marines had captured Luffy while he tried to save Ace.
• Whitebeard refused Ace's plea to return, while Marco and Vista warned that the Marines were setting a trap.
• Whitebeard comforted Ace and ordered Marco to bring the affiliated pirate crews back to Marineford.

After leaving the Moby Dick, Pero killed the pirates attacking a village, discovered its residents were pirates themselves, and sank the island. He arrived at a town where his eight-billion-Beli wanted poster had stirred excitement, then entered a tavern as terrified patrons recognized him.

• Pero declined Whitebeard’s offer to stay, thanked Ace briefly, and flew away from the Moby Dick.
• Pero killed the pirates attacking a burning village, then used Super-Vision to discover the villagers were armed pirates who had been preying on other pirates.
• Pero sank the island and unleashed enormous tsunamis that erased it and everyone on it.
• Pero reached a town and saw his new eight-billion-Beli wanted poster marked “ONLY DEAD”; passersby discussed how his killing of Akainu had emboldened pirates.
• A scar-faced Bounty Hunter tried to grab Pero, but an invisible force threw him and his companions aside and immobilized them.
• Pero entered the tavern, where the patrons recognized him and reacted in terror.

Pero became a notorious figure after defeating Admiral Sakazuki and drew a crowd while exploring a town. After he killed Saint Charlos for abusing a young girl and destroyed the Rosward manor, he learned that the teleportation cooldown had 49 days remaining, while Saint Rosward ordered the Marines to destroy the island.

• Pero entered a tavern, frightened its patrons away, ate seafood rice, and then strolled through town as a crowd followed him.
• A young Marine wanted to arrest Pero, but an older Marine stopped him, warning that Pero had defeated Admiral Sakazuki.
• Pero saw Saint Charlos forcing a young girl to crawl like a horse, disintegrated the slaves Charlos sent after him, and killed Charlos when he declared Pero would become a slave.
• Pero helped the girl up and used Heat Vision to melt the Rosward manor; the arriving Marines chose not to confront him, and a veteran urged a young Marine to flee with him.
• Pero decided he would cleanse the world before leaving and learned from the System that 49 days remained on the teleportation cooldown.
• In Mary Geoise, Saint Rosward learned his son's Vivre Card was burning, killed a slave, and ordered the Marines to sink the island.

Sengoku chose to lead a Buster Call against Pero after the World Government ordered him to avenge the Celestial Dragon killed on Bali Island. As Whitebeard’s forces and the Revolutionary Army converged on Marineford, Sengoku believed the Marines were doomed and gave up hope.

• Sengoku received word that Whitebeard’s fleet was returning to Marineford, but he refused Garp’s suggestion to release Luffy.
• Sengoku learned that Pero had killed Saint Rosward’s second son and destroyed the Celestial Dragon estate on Bali Island, then received the Five Elders’ order to launch a Buster Call.
• Sengoku led a depleted fleet toward Bali Island with Kizaru, while Kuzan refused to join and Garp stayed behind at Marineford.
• Kizaru suggested that Pero’s attack might be a ploy connected to Whitebeard, and Sengoku concluded that Whitebeard was forcing the Marines to divide their forces.
• A Marine soldier reported that Whitebeard’s Pirates and the Revolutionary Army had both arrived near Marineford, leaving Sengoku convinced the Marines could not hold the island.

After killing a Celestial Dragon, Pero kept Muji at his tavern while the island emptied in fear of a Buster Call. Old Billy arrived and revealed that a Celestial Dragon had murdered his wife and daughter; Pero offered him the chance to take revenge with a golden sphere of energy, leaving Billy poised to accept.

• Pero refused to let Muji flee, promising to protect him in exchange for his cooking.
• Pero heard Sengoku and Kizaru discuss a Buster Call and began planning to eliminate Celestial Dragons and create followers to act for him.
• Old Billy entered Muji’s tavern and told Pero he wanted to join him.
• Old Billy recounted how a Celestial Dragon enslaved and killed his wife and daughter while the Marines ignored their pleas.
• Pero formed a golden sphere of energy and asked Old Billy if he wanted to take revenge himself.

Pero gave Billy a golden power that healed and transformed him, granting him extraordinary abilities. After learning that Marines carrying out a Buster Call were on their way, Billy flew off to prepare to uphold his own vision of justice.

• Pero forced a golden sphere into Billy and restrained its power with Adamantine Sealing Chains as Billy's wounds healed and his body grew young and strong.
• Billy's new powers overwhelmed his senses, giving him heightened vision and hearing and the ability to hover; Pero told him the painful adjustment was normal.
• Pero offered Muji the chance to gain power, but Muji refused because he wanted to focus on food and his tavern.
• Muji read a newspaper report that the Marines had handed over Monkey D. Luffy after the Whitebeard Pirates and Revolutionary Army intervened at Marineford.
• Pero told Billy that Marines conducting a Buster Call would arrive soon, and Billy flew above Bali Island in his Marine cloak, determined to uphold his own justice.

Billy confronted the Marine fleet sent to destroy Bali Island with a Buster Call and fought Sengoku and Kizaru, demanding that they join his effort to overthrow the Celestial Dragons. After healing from their strongest combined attack, Billy revealed his power was connected to Pero, while a World Government agent appeared and threatened to replace the Marines.

• Sengoku ordered the fleet to prepare a Buster Call, and he told Kizaru he planned to retire after the battle.
• Billy confronted the fleet, condemned the Marines’ service to the Celestial Dragons, and asked Sengoku and Kizaru to join him; when they refused, he attacked Sengoku.
• Billy fought Sengoku and Kizaru, healed his injuries with a burst of golden light, and began evading and countering their attacks with increasing skill.
• Sengoku and Kizaru combined their Buddha Shockwave and Yasakani no Magatama against Billy, but his wounds rapidly healed, and he demanded once more that they join Pero.
• Sengoku recognized that Billy’s power was connected to the man from Marineford and called on the fleet to act; a white-suited figure emerged from the flagship’s shadows and threatened to replace the Marines.

Pero watched the battle from Bali Island as Billy fought Sengoku, Kizaru, and Kaku, then switched places with Billy when he began to lose ground. Pero confronted the Marines and killed Kaku with a single air bullet, leaving Sengoku and Kizaru facing him.

• Kaku arrived from CP0, insulted Sengoku, and tried to recruit Billy before Billy struck him and sent him flying.
• Kaku joined Sengoku and Kizaru in attacking Billy, who fought back until Kizaru kicked him into the sea; Billy emerged and continued fighting.
• Pero watched the battle with Muji from the tavern and, seeing Billy fall behind, told him to switch places.
• Billy vanished and Pero appeared before Sengoku, Kizaru, and Kaku; Pero revealed his eight-billion-Beli bounty, and Kaku challenged him.
• Kaku's Rankyaku slashes failed to damage Pero, and Pero's air bullet shattered Kaku's swords and killed him.

Pero defeated Sengoku’s forces, recruited Kizaru, and announced plans to attack the World Government and pirates. He took Kizaru to Totto Land to try its food, arriving above Whole Cake Island as Kizaru warned that their entrance amounted to a declaration of war.

• Pero watched Kaku fall into the sea, then offered Sengoku and Kizaru a chance to join him in cleansing the world.
• Pero severed Sengoku’s arms, spared his life, and threatened to attack the World Government in a little over forty days before taking Kizaru to Bali Island.
• Pero left Billy in charge of the island as his first base and told him he would target the Celestial Dragons and then the pirates.
• Kizaru suggested visiting Big Mom’s Totto Land for its food, and Pero raced there with Kizaru following behind.
• Prometheus and Zeus spotted Kizaru heading toward Whole Cake Island and hurried back to warn Big Mom; Pero arrived above the island with Kizaru and prepared to descend.

Pero and Kizaru entered Whole Cake Island and were summoned to Charlotte Linlin’s tea party. They reached the cake castle, where Linlin greeted Pero eagerly.

• Pero questioned a living sunflower, which revealed that Charlotte Linlin was at the island’s center.
• Perospero confronted Pero and Kizaru, then turned a fleeing pirate ship and its crew into a candy sculpture.
• Perospero attacked Pero after he asked to see Linlin, but Linlin roared for Perospero to bring both visitors to her as honored guests.
• Perospero led Pero and Kizaru to the cake castle and opened its doors to reveal Linlin waiting at a lavish feast.
• Charlotte Linlin grinned at Pero and welcomed him by name.

Pero and Kizaru attended Charlotte Linlin’s tea party, where Linlin demanded that they join her family. After she attacked Pero, he struck her through Whole Cake Chateau and across the sea, then left with Kizaru, while the Charlotte Family feared that Linlin was dead.

• Pero and Kizaru entered Charlotte Linlin’s chocolate castle and joined her at the table.
• Linlin invited Pero and Kizaru to become her citizens, then told Pero to become her son and call her Mama.
• Pero rejected Linlin’s demand, and she transformed her hat into a sword and began to prepare an attack.
• Pero struck Linlin in the stomach before she finished her stance, sending her through Whole Cake Chateau and across the sea to a distant island.
• Pero criticized the cake, took a box, and vanished with Kizaru as the Charlotte Family cried out for Mama.

Pero destroyed Totto Land with a massive whirlpool, killing Charlotte Linlin, then took Kizaru to Fish-Man Island to find deep-sea fish. Prometheus and Zeus returned to the ruins and discovered that their creator, Big Mom, was dead.

• Pero declared that he would end the era of pirates and the World Government, then used his power to shatter and sink Totto Land's islands.
• Kizaru witnessed Pero's destructive power and realized that the world's rulers were about to change.
• Pero chose Fish-Man Island as their next destination and protected Kizaru from the seawater before taking him beneath the sea.
• Kizaru saw Charlotte Linlin pinned beneath the ruins on the seabed, dead, before Pero brought him back to the surface.
• Prometheus and Zeus returned to find Totto Land gone and discovered Charlotte Linlin's body, realizing their creator's soul had been extinguished.

Sengoku awoke on Bali Island to learn that the World Government had branded the Buster Call Marines rebels, and he accepted that Kuzan should remain acting Fleet Admiral. As he walked through the dispirited camp, a young Marine asked whether they could return, and Sengoku could not answer before Billy called to him.

• Gion told Sengoku that they were on Bali Island, that the Buster Call had failed, and that the World Government had issued warrants for the Marines involved.
• Sengoku learned that Kuzan had been appointed acting Fleet Admiral and said he no longer wanted the position.
• Gion explained that Old Billy had taken them in and reattached Sengoku's arms, while the surviving Marines were camped at the harbor.
• Sengoku saw the Marines' injuries and dismay as he walked through the camp, then could not answer a young Marine who asked whether they could return.
• Billy called out to Sengoku.

Billy confronted Sengoku over the justice that had failed to protect his wife and daughter, then declared his intent to make the Celestial Dragons pay. After Sengoku learned he had been removed as Fleet Admiral, abandoned Marines began rallying behind Billy and his call for a new justice.

• Billy challenged Sengoku to say whether Marine justice protected civilians or the Celestial Dragons, and vowed to make the Celestial Dragons pay blood for blood.
• A News Coo delivered a newspaper announcing Sengoku’s removal from office and Kuzan’s succession as Fleet Admiral.
• Sengoku accepted that the World Government had cast him aside, told Billy he would not stop his vengeance, and withdrew to the shore.
• Billy urged the abandoned Marines to join him in creating a justice that protected civilians, despite a Vice Admiral accusing him of seeking only revenge.
• The young Marine who had once questioned Sengoku about justice removed his uniform and pledged to follow Billy, prompting more Marines to join him.

Pero and Kizaru traveled toward Fish-Man Island after Pero decided to postpone destroying the Celestial Dragons, then encountered and killed Hody Jones. They headed for the island, while Kizaru secretly took Hody’s Energy Steroids.

• Pero told Kizaru he would wait to gather the scattered Celestial Dragons before exterminating them, and the shadowy figure on a throne in Pangaea Castle sensed their presence.
• Hody Jones sensed an unusual presence in the sea and raced toward Pero and Kizaru, attacking Kizaru with his trident.
• Hody took an Energy Steroid to boost his strength and mocked Kizaru, but Pero caught his trident and pinned him to the seabed.
• Pero repeatedly slammed Hody’s head against the seabed and killed him while demanding directions to good food on Fish-Man Island.
• Pero set off for Fish-Man Island, and Kizaru secretly took the Energy Steroids from Hody’s belongings before following.

Pero entered Fish-Man Island with Kizaru and went to Ryugu Palace, where King Neptune feared the powerful newcomer wanted his territory or Shirahoshi. Pero said he had come for good food, but when the banquet offered mostly familiar desserts, he asked for deep-sea fish, leaving Neptune to summon Hody Jones for help.

• Pero passed through Fish-Man Island’s protective bubble with Kizaru and headed for Ryugu Palace.
• A guard told King Neptune that Pero resembled the man with an eight-billion-Beli bounty who had killed Admiral Akainu.
• Neptune invited Pero to the palace with the highest honors, but Pero arrived first and said he wanted good food.
• Neptune arranged a banquet, but Pero recognized the desserts and asked where the deep-sea fish were.
• Neptune remembered that merfolk did not eat fish and sent a guard to bring Hody Jones from the Fish-Man District.

At Ryugu Palace, Pero learned that Hody Jones had died after their encounter and told King Neptune he planned to attack the Celestial Dragons and pirates. After rejecting the Fish-Man District’s sashimi, Pero heard about the Baratie restaurant in the East Blue and left the palace with Kizaru.

• A guard reported that Hody Jones had been found dead outside the Fish-Man District, apparently suffocated after taking Energy Steroids.
• Kizaru realized Pero had killed Hody, but Pero claimed he had only gone to ask for directions.
• Pero told King Neptune he planned to visit Mary Geoise in about a month to eliminate the Celestial Dragons, then target the pirates.
• Princess Shirahoshi timidly pleaded with Pero not to hurt anyone else, and Pero remarked that a loud-voiced creature slept inside her.
• Pero tasted the sashimi prepared by the Killer Whale Brothers, disliked it, and asked King Neptune for better food.
• King Neptune mentioned the Baratie in the East Blue, and Pero recognized it before praising Neptune’s children and leaving with Kizaru.

Pero and Kizaru visited Baratie, where news of Luffy’s capture and the Whitebeard Pirates’ attack had reached the East Blue. Pero’s enormous bounty was recognized, leaving the restaurant in fearful silence as Zeff realized a dangerous figure had arrived.

• Pero and Kizaru flew to Baratie, a sprawling floating restaurant in the East Blue.
• Cooks discussed Luffy’s capture and the Whitebeard Pirates’ renewed attack on Marineford.
• Iron-Head Gin recognized Pero’s face on an eight-billion-belly wanted poster and fled by jumping into the sea.
• The diners recognized Pero and fell silent, and Zeff came out of the kitchen to see what had happened.
• Zeff recognized Pero and feared that someone so dangerous had come to the East Blue.

Pero and Kizaru ate at Zeff’s Baratie, where Pero recognized the flavor of a sauce Zeff had learned from a chef called New Oriental. After promising to spare Zeff when he cleansed the world of Celestial Dragons and pirates, Pero vanished with Kizaru, leaving Zeff convinced the world was about to change.

• Pero forced Kizaru into a seat at the Baratie, and the frightened diners fled while Zeff complained about the lost business.
• Pero paid Zeff with gold jewelry and ordered several dishes, then praised the seafood fried rice and asked about its familiar flavor.
• Zeff explained that he had learned cooking tricks and a sauce called Lao Gan Ma from a chef from New Oriental.
• After finishing the meal, Pero offered Zeff a request, but Zeff said he only wanted to run his restaurant in peace.
• Pero promised to spare Zeff when he removed the world’s parasites, then grabbed the still-eating Kizaru and vanished with him.

Pero and Kizaru encountered Kuzan after he had resigned from the Marines, then faced Zephyr and his NEO forces. After Pero stopped Zephyr’s attack and showed the former Marines an image of Bali Island’s new navy, he urged them to go there and seek answers.

• Pero and Kizaru found Kuzan riding his bicycle over the sea and learned that he had resigned and that CP9 was running Marine Headquarters.
• Zephyr arrived with several warships, accused Kuzan and Kizaru of betraying justice, and attacked them alongside Pero.
• Kuzan evaded Zephyr’s blows without retaliating, but Zephyr’s relentless attacks soon overwhelmed him.
• Pero froze Zephyr’s mechanical arm until it shattered, then criticized both Zephyr’s destructive justice and Kuzan’s tendency to run away.
• Pero showed Zephyr, Kuzan, and Kizaru an image of Billy rallying abandoned Marines on Bali Island and told them to go there, where Sengoku and the others were waiting.

Kaido read news about Pero and looked forward to fighting him, while Pero left Kuzan and Zephyr to decide whether to visit Bali Island. After Pero rescued an island from Beasts Pirates raiders, he found a chart to Onigashima and set off for Wano Country with Kizaru.

• Kaido read a newspaper report about Pero and said he wanted to fight the man who had defeated Sakazuki.
• Pero left Kuzan and Zephyr to decide whether to go to Bali Island, and Kizaru told them Sengoku and the others were there.
• Kuzan invited Zephyr to visit Bali Island with him after Pero and Kizaru flew away.
• Pero and Kizaru found Beasts Pirates raiding an island, and Pero killed the crew and searched their leader.
• Pero found a nautical chart marking Onigashima and flew with Kizaru toward Wano Country.

Pero carried the exhausted Kizaru toward Wano, pausing on an uninhabited island to catch fish and cook lunch. After they set off again, they reached the stormy waters near Onigashima and spotted a banquet underway.

• Pero carried Kizaru toward Wano, and Kizaru complained that the flight was exhausting him.
• Pero landed on a small island so Kizaru could rest, then used his power to pull fish and a giant squid from the sea.
• Pero made Kizaru gather firewood, and the two grilled and ate their catch on the beach.
• After lunch, Pero and Kizaru resumed their journey and entered the turbulent waters around Onigashima.
• Pero spotted the floating island and its banquet, then suggested they go mooch a meal.