Recaps

Yas unleashed Three-Finger Nukite against Garp’s Galaxy Meteorite, piercing Garp’s strongest Armament Haki and defeating him at the cost of severe injuries. As Marineford’s Rear Mountain lay in ruins and Sengoku rushed toward the blast, Yas taunted the battered Garp.

• Yas concentrated his remaining Lightning Release Chakra and Haki into three fingers and attacked Garp’s Galaxy Meteorite with Three-Finger Nukite.
• Yas pierced Garp’s Armament Haki and fist, causing Garp to scream as his Galaxy Meteorite collapsed.
• Yas’s attack triggered a massive explosion that destroyed the Rear Mountain and sent Marineford’s alarm to its highest level.
• Sengoku saw the mushroom cloud above Zephyr’s Special Training Ground and raced toward the Rear Mountain.
• Yas and Garp faced each other across the crater, both badly wounded, with Garp unable to continue fighting.
• Yas taunted Garp, saying his fists were not much after all.

After Yas seriously injured Garp in a sparring match, Marine leaders debated whether the uncontrollable prodigy was a threat or an asset. Sengoku proposed making Yas the leader of a rule-free special unit, while Garp asked for Yas to be promoted so their next fight would be less embarrassing.

• Sengoku arrived at the crater and learned from Zephyr that Yas had overwhelmed both him and Garp during what was meant to be training.
• Garp praised Yas as a monster before collapsing, and Yas fell unconscious after releasing the breath he had been holding.
• Sengoku briefed Fleet Admiral Kong, Tsuru, and Zephyr on Yas's unprecedented Haki abilities and his battle with Garp.
• Kong questioned whether Yas could be trusted, while Sengoku argued that the Marines should guide him and revise their rules.
• Sengoku proposed a special forces unit answering only to Kong, with Yas as its leader.
• Garp, newly conscious, said he wanted to fight Yas again and suggested promoting him first.

Sengoku secured Yas an unprecedented promotion to colonel, command of a five-hundred-member fleet, and authority to act first against pirates with bounties below one hundred million Beli. As Yas recovered from his fight with Garp and unlocked Black Lightning, he learned his first assignment would take him to the New World, where an emergency report revealed the Rocks Pirates might be trying to resurrect an ancient demon.

• Sengoku persuaded Kong to promote Yas outside normal regulations and grant him command of a special fleet with limited authority to act first against pirates.
• Three days after fighting Garp, Yas awoke in the Marineford infirmary and received a system reward that raised his Third Raikage Template fusion to 45% and unlocked Black Lightning.
• Sengoku gave Yas his colonel's appointment and a top-secret dossier, then told him his first assignment would be in the New World.
• A wounded intelligence officer reported that the undercover agent Bluebird had gone missing on Hachinosu after transmitting footage of the Rocks Pirates conducting a sacrificial ritual with captured Devil Fruit Users.
• The officer said the Rocks Pirates appeared to be trying to resurrect an ancient demon, and Sengoku asked what they intended to resurrect.

After learning that Rocks was gathering over a hundred Devil Fruit users for a ritual to resurrect an ancient demon, Marine leaders realized they had no way to stop him. Yas recovered and volunteered to hunt Rocks, and Fleet Admiral Kong approved his mission.

• An intelligence officer reported that Rocks had captured over a hundred Devil Fruit users and planned to resurrect an ancient demon, while the Marines had lost contact with their operative at Hachinosu.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, Garp, and the others discussed Rocks's strength and the danger posed by his crew, including Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Big Mom, and Kaido.
• Kong pointed to Yas on the screen as the Marines' remaining option, and Yas woke, heard about the ritual, and asked whether Rocks was tougher than Garp.
• After Garp confirmed that Rocks was the toughest man he had fought, Yas pulled free of his life-support tubes, healed rapidly, and demanded to know where Rocks was.
• Kong approved Sengoku's proposal and ordered Captain Yas to hunt Rocks.

Fleet Admiral Kong sent Yas and a newly assembled elite fleet aboard the Leviathan to Barterila, where they were to intercept Rocks' crews and recover intended sacrifices. As the ship headed for the New World, Yas clashed with his skeptical adjutant Brannew over command, and the chapter ended with Yas threatening to punish him for defiance.

• Kong ordered Yas to lead five hundred Marines to Barterila and hunt down Rocks' subordinate crews carrying captives back to Hachinosu.
• Garp showed Yas the Leviathan, a heavily armed Poseidon-class warship, and Yas met his crew, including Bullet and executive officer Brannew.
• Brannew doubted Yas' ability to command the fleet and took charge of navigation and battle preparations as the Leviathan sailed for the New World.
• Brannew urged Yas to consult him on plans, but Yas rejected his advice and had Bullet declare that the fleet followed Yas' will and orders.
• Brannew condemned Yas' command style as a dictatorship, and Yas raised his hand and challenged him to discover the consequences of defying him.

Yas forced Brannew and the five hundred Marine elites to submit by demonstrating Black Lightning’s erasure power, establishing his absolute authority aboard the Leviathan. When the Bloodjaw Pirate Crew appeared ahead, Yas ordered the fleet to ram their ship.

• Yas told Brannew that he was the law aboard the Leviathan and erased a special-alloy weight plate with Black Lightning.
• Brannew knelt, apologized, and pledged his obedience, and the elite soldiers followed his example.
• Yas explained that the erasure technique consumed substantial chakra and Haki and decided he needed to grow stronger.
• A lookout spotted the Bloodjaw Pirate Crew, and Brannew identified its leader, Bloodjaw Carlos, as a notorious pirate backed by a senior officer of the Rocks Pirates.
• Yas ordered the Leviathan to battle stations, target the enemy ship, and ram it.

Captain Yas ordered the Leviathan to ram the Bloodjaw Pirate Crew’s flagship, the Razor, despite Brannew’s objections and the crew’s fear. As the ships neared collision, Yas appeared at the Leviathan’s prow, dismissed the pirates as too weak for his Three-Finger Nukite, and vanished.

• Yas ordered Brannew to maintain course and prepare the Leviathan to ram the Razor, and Brannew reluctantly relayed the command.
• The Leviathan’s recruits panicked, while Bullet rallied them by praising Yas’s past feats.
• Bloodjaw Carlos mocked the approaching Marines and urged his pirates to attack and capture the Leviathan.
• As the ships closed in, Yas stepped through the bridge window and appeared at the Leviathan’s prow.
• Carlos taunted Yas, who called the pirates too weak for his Three-Finger Nukite and then vanished.

Yas boarded the Razor in an instant and slaughtered its pirates with One-Finger Nukite, leaving only Bloodjaw Carlos alive. As Carlos launched a desperate club attack, Yas unleashed a surge of black lightning.

• Yas vanished from the Leviathan's bow and appeared on the Razor's deck as the two ships collided.
• Carlos rallied his panicked pirates with a reward, and they charged Yas from every direction.
• Yas used One-Finger Nukite and his lightning-fast movement to kill the pirates, leaving only himself and Carlos standing.
• Carlos backed against the captain's cabin, then made a final attack with his spiked club.
• Yas let the club descend and unleashed destructive black lightning as he asked Carlos if he was done talking.

Yas annihilated Bloodjaw Carlos and the pirates aboard the Razor with Black Lightning, then discovered a Devil Fruit user among the captives. The boy attacked Yas with the Chain-Chain Fruit, and Yas answered with an ordinary punch whose force began to ripple through space.

• Yas unleashed Black Lightning, erasing Carlos, his weapon, and the pirates on the Razor’s deck.
• The Marines watched the attack on the Leviathan’s screen, and Brannew ordered them to board the enemy ship and support Yas.
• Yas judged that he had wasted most of Black Lightning’s power and resolved to hone his control through combat.
• Yas sensed survivors in the Razor’s hold and found captives in seastone cages, including a boy with the Chain-Chain Fruit.
• The boy attacked Yas with chains, but Yas dismissed the assault and threw an unarmed punch that sent ripples through space.

Yas freed the captives aboard the Razor with a single punch that destroyed the Chain-Chain Fruit user's trap, shattered a Seastone cage, and tore through the ship. As the survivors escaped to the Leviathan, Yas sensed a powerful threat approaching through the fog and faced Iron Whip Garseron, a Rocks Pirates officer, who offered him a choice between slavery and death.

• Yas's punch pulverized the Chain-Chain Fruit user's chains and arms, blasted through a Seastone cage, and opened a huge hole in the Razor.
• Brannew was injured by the shock wave, then followed Yas's order to rescue every living captive and bring them to the Leviathan.
• Yas returned to the Razor's deck as the ship began sinking and detected a cold, malicious presence approaching through the fog.
• Garseron's enormous ship emerged, and Brannew identified him as the Rocks Pirates' Eighth Division captain with a 130 million Beli bounty.
• Garseron revealed a Smoke-Smoke Fruit user and demanded that Yas either kneel as his slave or be torn apart.

Iron Whip Garselon ordered Smoker to capture Yas, confident that the Smoke-Smoke Fruit made him invulnerable. Yas effortlessly struck Smoker through his Logia form, and as Smoker engulfed the sea in poisonous smoke, Yas charged in with a two-finger attack.

• Garselon taunted Yas and ordered Smoker to capture him alive for his collection.
• Smoker attacked Yas with smoke snakes, but Yas coated his fist in Armament Haki and struck him out of his smoke form.
• Yas told Smoker that his abilities and reactions were too weak, while Smoker struggled to understand how Yas had hit him.
• Smoker unleashed Smoke Prison, filling the area with poisonous smoke that drained the oxygen.
• Yas revealed that he could see through the smoke and charged into it with Hell Stab-Finger Nukite.

Yas killed Smoker by piercing his body and destroying the Devil Fruit essence within him, then faced the last surviving enemy, Garseron. After Garseron attacked with a living snake whip, Yas trapped him and his ghost ship inside a vast black lightning net and began to crush it.

• Yas used Two-Finger Nukite to pierce Smoker through the smoke and destroy the Smoke-Smoke Fruit, killing him.
• Garseron and the Marines aboard the Leviathan watched in shock as Smoker died; the Marines hailed Yas, and Brannew ordered the gunports aimed at the enemy flagship.
• Yas declared Garseron the last enemy, and Garseron chose to fight rather than flee.
• Garseron revealed his King Cobra snake whip and unleashed Ten Thousand Snakes Strangulation at Yas.
• Yas cast Black Lightning: God's Cage, surrounding Garseron, his snake phantoms, and the ghost ship in a vast net, then contracted it.

Yas erased Garseron, his Ghost Ship, and its crew with Black Lightning: God's Cage, leaving the Navy stunned by his power. After returning to the Leviathan, he singled out a captured Devil Fruit user and demanded information about the New World, Rocks, and the Sacrificial Ritual.

• Yas's Black Lightning: God's Cage erased Garseron's venomous snake phantoms and destroyed the Ghost Ship, killing Garseron and the pirates aboard.
• Brannew canceled the naval bombardment and ordered the crew to remain silent as they welcomed Yas back.
• Yas returned to the Leviathan and ordered the soldiers to separate the captives whose auras marked them as pirates.
• Yas confronted the captured Bison-Bison Fruit user and demanded information about the New World, Rocks, and the Sacrificial Ritual, threatening to search his soul.

Yas used Soul Search on a captured Bison-Bison Fruit user and learned that the Rocks Pirates planned to awaken an ancient weapon called “God” with a Sacrificial Ritual on Hachinosu. He ordered his ship to Midas Island to seize Captain John’s treasure and left the other prisoners facing a grim choice.

• Yas ignored the bison user’s pleas and used black lightning to tear through his soul and extract his memories, killing him.
• Yas learned that Rocks planned to sacrifice the souls and fruit essences of over a hundred ability users to awaken an ancient weapon codenamed “God.”
• Yas discovered that Captain John’s fleet maintained a major treasure base on Midas Island and ordered Brannew to sail there at full speed.
• Yas declared Captain John’s treasure his own and told the remaining prisoners to choose between becoming fuel for his ship or sacrifices for the ritual.

Yas forced three captured Devil Fruit users into service under Chakra-Suppressing Collars and ordered the rest killed before taking the Leviathan to Midas Island. He claimed Captain John’s golden vault as his own, and Gildo ordered the island’s defenses to open fire.

• Yas killed most of the captured Devil Fruit Users, spared the Silent-Silent Fruit, Sticky-Sticky Fruit, and Heal-Heal Fruit users for his fleet, and had Bullet fit them with control collars.
• Yas ordered Brannew to provide information about Midas Island and calculate the fastest route there.
• The Leviathan reached Midas Island, where Brannew warned Yas that the island’s defenses were active and heavily fortified.
• Gildo, the Gold-Gold Fruit user commanding Midas Island, threatened the Navy crew and demanded their ship for Captain John.
• Yas declared that Captain John’s vault belonged to him, and Gildo angrily ordered his men to fire on the Leviathan.

Yas unleashed a massive lightning-laced tsunami that destroyed Midas Island and defeated Gildo’s forces. With Gildo among the survivors, Yas ordered Brannew to retrieve him so he could learn where Captain John’s next treasure cache was and who he planned to deal with.

• Gildo ordered his cannons to bombard the Leviathan, and Yas ignored calls to evade or defend.
• Yas used wind and lightning energies to create a vast vortex that swallowed the golden cannonballs and became a towering, electrified tsunami.
• Gildo raised a golden barrier, but the tsunami shattered it and swept across Midas Island, killing most of its pirates and sinking the island.
• Gildo survived on a reef as Yas’s warship remained intact, and Yas ordered Brannew to salvage the treasure and bring Gildo aboard.
• Yas said he would question Gildo about Captain John’s next treasure cache and planned deal.

Yas learned that Captain John planned to trade rare Zoan Devil Fruit users for IQ with a Golden Lion agent at the Fallen Sky Islands, so he took the Leviathan there. The ship entered an ambush led by Dr. Indigo, who prepared to attack it with his famous sword.

• Yas interrogated Gildo, who revealed that Captain John was heading to the Fallen Sky Islands to trade ten rare Zoan Devil Fruit users for IQ from one of the Golden Lion's men.
• Yas ordered Bullet to kill Gildo and directed the Leviathan toward the Fallen Sky Islands.
• The Leviathan navigated the dangerous wreckage until Yas sensed an ambush, but Golden Lion pirates surrounded the ship.
• Dr. Indigo recognized the Leviathan and ordered his pirates to capture its crew as test subjects.
• Yas sensed Conqueror's Haki from Indigo, who drew Sakura Ten and threatened to cut through the ship.

Yas unleashed Conqueror's Haki, disrupted Indigo's Flying Slash, and shattered it with his fist. He formed a new Black Lightning armor and advanced on Indigo, challenging him to see whether Sakura Ten could mark his body.

• Indigo attacked Yas with Lion Style: Thousand-Cut Valley, a massive Flying Slash.
• Yas released Conqueror's Haki, knocking out hundreds of pirates and briefly disrupting Indigo's slash.
• Yas punched the Flying Slash apart without being injured.
• Indigo recognized Yas's Conqueror's Haki and questioned how someone so young could possess it.
• Yas formed Black Lightning armor and approached Indigo, asking to test whether Sakura Ten could leave a mark on him.

Yas effortlessly withstood Dr. Indigo’s attacks, seized and snapped his Supreme Grade Blade, Sakura Ten, and left Indigo exhausted and terrified. Yas then announced that his turn to attack had begun.

• Dr. Indigo charged Yas with Sakura Ten, but the blade could not scratch Yas’s black lightning armor and the recoil injured Indigo’s hand.
• Yas seized Sakura Ten, shocked Indigo into dropping it, and snapped the legendary sword in two.
• Enraged, Dr. Indigo attacked Yas with Lion Style: Chaotic Slashing, but Yas stood unharmed with his hands behind his back.
• Brannew and the Marines watched the fight on the Surveillance Den Den Mushi as Indigo exhausted himself and lost his will to fight.
• Yas asked whether Indigo had finished warming up and said it was his turn.

Yas used Lightning Body Flicker to overwhelm Dr. Indigo, whose attacks and Observation Haki proved useless against him. Cornered on his flagship, Indigo revealed a case of green IQ syringes and threatened to unleash their power on Yas and everyone nearby.

• Yas vanished from Dr. Indigo’s sight and struck him from behind, then flicked him across the Swan Flagship’s deck.
• The Leviathan crew watched Yas’s speed in stunned silence, and the Silent-Silent Fruit user identified it as Lightning Body Flicker.
• Yas appeared on the Swan Flagship and advanced on the wounded Indigo, who invoked the Golden Lion’s name to threaten him.
• Yas said he intended to face the Golden Lion after dealing with Indigo, leaving Indigo convinced he had no escape.
• Indigo broke into his quarters, seized a case of green IQ syringes, and threatened to unleash their power on Yas and everyone nearby.

Dr. Indigo used the IQ serum to turn the Swan Flagship and its surroundings into a monstrous biological hell, but Yas erased the mutated creatures and Indigo with Black Lightning. Yas answered a call from Golden Lion Shiki and claimed Indigo’s possessions, threatening to take Shiki’s head next.

• Dr. Indigo injected himself with the IQ serum and fused with the Swan Flagship, spreading mutations across the surrounding sea.
• Yas crushed the monstrous flagship and nearby mutated creatures into a sphere with Black Lightning: Planetary Devastation: Modified.
• Yas unleashed Black Lightning and erased the sphere, Indigo, and the biological hell from existence.
• Yas answered a ringing Golden Den Den Mushi and heard Golden Lion Shiki demand to know whether Indigo had obtained the goods.
• Yas told Golden Lion Shiki that he had killed Indigo, taken his things, and would soon claim Shiki’s head as a collectible.

After destroying Dr. Indigo’s ambush and recovering the IQ research, Yas returned to Marineford, where the leaders were stunned by his latest victories. Fleet Admiral Kong promoted him to Rear Admiral and announced a public ceremony for the next morning.

• Yas crushed the Den Den Mushi after telling Golden Lion Shiki he would come for his head, then gave Bullet the IQ research and blueprints for Brannew to safeguard.
• Brannew’s report detailed the destruction of several pirate forces and Dr. Indigo’s fleet, with no Marine casualties.
• Kong, Garp, and Sengoku discussed Yas’s victories and feared he had become even more dangerous than Rocks and Golden Lion combined.
• Yas returned to Marineford and dismissed Garseron and Indigo as too weak to make him fight seriously.
• Kong announced that Yas had been promoted from Marine captain to Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral, with a public ceremony scheduled for the next morning.

Yas showed no interest in his promotion to Rear Admiral, insisting that he only wanted to fight and train, while Fleet Admiral Kong decided to let him serve as the Marines’ weapon against the age’s dangers. At Marineford, Yas appeared before tens of thousands for his promotion ceremony as powerful figures around the world watched.

• Yas dismissed his promotion as a source of meetings and paperwork and told Fleet Admiral Kong he wanted stronger enemies and more time to train.
• Fleet Admiral Kong stopped Sengoku from confronting Yas and decided that Yas’s power should not be wasted on administrative duties.
• Garp supported letting Yas fight pirates, while Sengoku worried that Yas would drive the Marines into an unpredictable future.
• Tens of thousands of Marines gathered at Marineford for Yas’s promotion ceremony, where Gion and Kuzan were among the officers watching.
• Yas walked onto the platform in his combat clothes as Marines and powerful figures across the world focused on him.

At his promotion ceremony, Yas showed complete indifference to becoming the youngest rear admiral in Marine history and silenced Marineford with precisely controlled Conqueror’s Haki. He asked Fleet Admiral Kong whether the ceremony was over, then demanded to know who his next prey was.

• Fleet Admiral Kong asked Yas if he had anything to say after announcing his promotion to rear admiral.
• Yas gave a casual “Oh,” ignored the new uniform, and pinned the rear admiral insignia to his black combat uniform.
• When Sengoku scolded him, Yas unleashed Conqueror’s Haki that silenced the Marines and precisely intimidated the vice admirals.
• Gion recognized Yas’s extraordinary control of Conqueror’s Haki, while Kuzan sensed the immense power within him.
• Yas asked Kong if the ceremony was over and demanded to know who his next prey was.

After Yas rejected a safe assignment and demanded to enter the New World's most dangerous waters, Fleet Admiral Kong granted him unprecedented freedom to hunt powerful pirates. The chapter ended with Kong warning Yas that the Marines would not protect him if his ambition went too far.

• Yas asked the Marines who his next prey would be, while Garp praised his boldness and Sengoku struggled to contain his anger.
• In Kong's office, Yas refused an assignment near the Calm Belt and pointed to the New World's most dangerous battlefield.
• Yas declared that he would hunt Captain John, Golden Lion Shiki, and Rocks D. Zebek to become the strongest.
• Garp supported Yas, and Kong approved his route and granted him free-fire authority, independent operations, and unconditional Marine support.
• Kong warned Yas that the Marines had given him a weapon to fight darkness, not permission to challenge the heavens.