Recaps

Yas took command of the upgraded Leviathan and led its crew toward the New World, where they entered the Sea of Tombstones. The ship’s instruments failed as a sudden, violent storm engulfed them.

• Yas ignored Sengoku’s protest and left Fleet Admiral Kong’s office with the Golden Den Den Mushi.
• Yas returned to the Leviathan, where Brannew, Bullet, and the crew welcomed him as the youngest rear admiral in Navy history.
• Brannew reported that the Leviathan had received Diamond Alloy armor, prototype laser cannons, and anti-gravity stabilizers that allowed short flights.
• Yas ordered the crew to sail for the Devil Sea, and all five hundred soldiers vowed to follow him into danger.
• The Leviathan crossed Reverse Mountain and entered the Sea of Tombstones, where its Log Pose shattered and a sudden storm darkened the sky.

A living Magnetic Storm Cluster overwhelmed the Leviathan, while Yas calmly walked onto the deck to face its lightning. The chapter ended as a massive purple lightning pillar struck toward Yas and the ship.

• The navigator identified the storm as a Magnetic Storm Cluster, and Brannew ordered the crew to activate the Leviathan's defenses.
• The energy shield failed, and giant waterspouts battered the ship as the Marines panicked.
• Yas left his cabin with his tea and walked onto the storm-lashed deck despite Brannew's warnings.
• Yas spread his arms beneath the storm, and a colossal pillar of purple lightning crashed down toward him and the Leviathan.

Yas absorbed the magnetic storm’s destructive lightning, transforming the Black Lightning God’s Armor and greatly increasing his strength. After demonstrating his new power, he spotted the Whitebeard Pirates’ flagship, the Moby Dick, and its crew demanded the Marine ship identify itself.

• Yas let the magnetic storm’s enormous lightning pillar strike him and absorbed all of its energy without harming the Leviathan or its crew.
• The storm vanished, and Yas emerged in a full-body Black Lightning God’s Armor, with his strength increased more than tenfold.
• Yas tested his power by silently annihilating a distant floating island, but still felt hungry for stronger energy.
• Yas sensed a huge ship approaching through the mist and recognized the Whitebeard Pirates’ flagship, the Moby Dick.
• Bullet identified the Moby Dick, and a voice from the ship warned the Marines that they had entered Pops’s territory and demanded their identities.

Yas faced the Whitebeard Pirates after the Leviathan entered their waters, and Whitebeard sensed the destructive power within his armor. Marco attacked Yas after the Marine insulted him, setting up a fight at the Leviathan’s bow.

• The Leviathan encountered the Moby Dick in Whitebeard’s territory, terrifying the Marines aboard.
• Yas ignored the Whitebeard Pirates’ demands and focused on the power of the crew before him.
• Marco prepared to attack Yas, but Whitebeard stopped him after sensing Yas’s dangerous energy.
• Yas challenged Whitebeard, enraging the pirates, and Marco launched himself toward Yas in his phoenix form.
• Yas dismissed Marco as unworthy of being his appetizer.

Yas effortlessly withstood Marco's full-strength kick and shattered Jozu with a black lightning strike. Whitebeard rose to face Yas himself.

• Marco attacked Yas with a powerful kick, but Yas's armor repelled it and the recoil broke Marco's leg.
• Marco recovered with his phoenix flames and retreated to the Moby Dick, while Yas taunted the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Jozu charged Yas with Shining Impact, but Yas struck him with a black lightning arc that shattered his diamond body.
• Whitebeard stood up and announced that he would deal with Yas himself.

Whitebeard challenged Yas after Yas declared that the strongest man would become his stepping stone. Yas met Whitebeard’s full-power strike head-on, and their opposing attacks collided in an enormous explosion.

• Whitebeard rose from his throne, unleashing a terrifying presence that shook the sea and overwhelmed the Marines aboard the Leviathan.
• Yas welcomed Whitebeard’s power and identified himself as Rear Admiral Yas, declaring that Whitebeard would be his first stepping stone to becoming the strongest.
• Whitebeard armed Murakumogiri with Conqueror’s Haki and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit’s power, then unleashed a slash that split the sea and sky.
• Yas activated Black Lightning Demon Armor: Maximum Output and punched directly into Whitebeard’s slash.
• Yas’s black lightning fist and Whitebeard’s white slash collided, shattering space and erupting into an immense sphere of light.

Yas and Whitebeard traded a devastating head-on clash that wrecked both warships and left Yas injured but exhilarated. Whitebeard praised Yas as a tough hedgehog, and Yas announced that their fight was only getting serious.

• Yas's collision with Whitebeard's full-strength strike unleashed a shock wave that battered the Moby Dick and nearly crippled the Leviathan.
• After the storm subsided, Whitebeard stood with bloody cuts on his hands while Yas remained standing with cracked armor and blood at his mouth.
• Yas laughed as his body absorbed the clash's energy and began evolving further.
• Whitebeard admired Yas's toughness and called him a tough hedgehog over the Amplifying Den Den Mushi.
• Navy soldiers cheered for Yas, who told Whitebeard that the warm-up was over and asked how many more punches he could take.

Yas and Whitebeard ended their battle without a victor, as their damaged ships and crews could not risk fighting on. After the clash made Yas famous worldwide, he began building the strength he needed to conquer the New World.

• Whitebeard called off the fight, and Yas agreed to withdraw despite wanting to continue.
• After Whitebeard sailed away, Yas spat blood, dismissed his injuries as minor, and ordered Brannew to repair the Leviathan and recruit fierce Marines.
• Three days later, Morgans published a front-page report naming Yas the Tyrannosaurus, and his fame spread across the world.
• Ambitious Marines applied to join Yas aboard the Leviathan, while Yas wondered whom to challenge next.

Yas and the battered survivors of the Leviathan arrived at G-5, where Vergo tried to assert his authority over the celebrated rear admiral. As Yas ignored him, urgent messages revealed that officers and the highest levels of Marine and government leadership were taking notice, leaving Vergo stunned by an order from Fleet Admiral Kong's office.

• The wounded Leviathan reached G-5, where Vergo and his officers disparaged Yas and planned to discipline him.
• Brannew, Bullet, the Leviathan's crew, and Yas disembarked, silencing the assembled G-5 Marines with their imposing presence.
• Vergo ordered Yas to halt, submit to an investigation, and write a ten-thousand-word report, but Yas kept walking and asked if Vergo thought himself worthy.
• A communications soldier reported that more than three hundred field-grade officers wanted to leave their units and serve under Yas, while urgent calls arrived from CP0, the Five Elders' office, and Fleet Admiral Kong's office.
• Vergo read a newly decrypted directive from Kong's office and froze in shock and fear.

Yas took full command of G-5 and transformed its soldiers and his veterans through brutal training, Chakra instruction, and a new enhancement serum. Just as he prepared to begin his fleet’s hunt, CP0’s Rob Lucci ordered him to escort a Heavenly Tribute shipment to Sabaody Archipelago.

• Fleet Admiral Kong gave Yas full command of G-5, and Vice Admiral Vergo and the branch’s officers were left powerless to resist.
• Yas ordered G-5’s Research Department to develop an enhancement serum and tasked Bullet with tripling the soldiers’ strength through brutal training.
• Yas introduced Chakra to his five hundred veterans and demonstrated his absolute defense by withstanding Bullet’s strongest attack without moving.
• After a month, G-5’s soldiers had greatly improved, the veterans could use Chakra, and the Leviathan-Modified had been refitted with new armor, laser cannons, and levitation devices.
• The Research Department delivered the T1 Tyrannosaurus Serum, which temporarily increased strength, speed, and recovery, and Bullet tested it successfully.
• Rob Lucci contacted Yas through the Golden Den Den Mushi and ordered him to escort a Heavenly Tribute shipment to Sabaody Archipelago.

Yas accepted the Heavenly Tribute escort mission because it promised a chance to fight powerful pirates, then reached Sabaody and frightened Saint Charlos unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki. As the fleet prepared to depart, Yas spotted Ochoku and Silver Axe leading a vast pirate force toward them.

• Yas asked Rob Lucci whether the escort mission would attract powerful enemies, and Lucci revealed that the tribute included a legendary Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit.
• Yas ordered his crew to sail for Sabaody Archipelago, where Saint Charlos waited with the tribute fleet and angrily whipped a navy captain for Yas’s lateness.
• Yas arrived aboard the Leviathan and refused to kneel to Saint Charlos, then knocked him unconscious with a precise burst of Conqueror’s Haki.
• Yas asked Rob Lucci to begin the escort, but his Mantra Haki detected hundreds of approaching pirate ships led by Ochoku and Silver Axe.

Ochoku and Silver Axe attacked the Marine escort fleet to kill Yas, whom they saw as a future threat to “God.” Yas’s enhanced Marines fought back, and he confronted the two pirate officers as they launched a combined attack on the fleet.

• Yas spotted Ochoku and Silver Axe approaching, while their crews panicked at the legendary pirates’ arrival.
• Ochoku ordered his fleet to focus its fire on the Leviathan, explaining that killing Yas was their mission.
• Brannew ordered the Marines to inject Tyrannosaurus Serum, and the Leviathan’s laser cannons destroyed most of the incoming shells.
• Bullet and the enhanced Marines charged the pirate fleet, turning the battle into a fierce, evenly matched fight.
• Silver Axe leaped toward the Leviathan as Ochoku raised a massive island from the seabed to crush the fleet.
• Yas vanished as the two attacks closed in and declared that he, not the treasure, had been their true target.

Yas swiftly defeats Silver Axe and overwhelms Ochoku, but stops before killing him when Captain John appears and a far more formidable presence emerges from the fleet. The chapter ends with the unidentified man in a shabby Marine uniform recognizing Yas and praising his strength.

• Yas vanishes from Silver Axe and Ochoku’s sight, then breaks Silver Axe’s spine with a single punch and sends him crashing into the island.
• Yas appears before Ochoku and shatters the enormous island beneath him with a stomp, leaving Ochoku badly injured and unable to fight back.
• Yas prepares to kill Ochoku, but senses a deadly threat and turns toward the fleet as Captain John arrives on an ancient three-masted ship.
• Ochoku calls to Captain John for help, while Yas senses an even greater pressure coming from the fleet’s flagship.
• A middle-aged man in a shabby Marine uniform steps out beneath a plain black flag and recognizes Yas as the fighter Whitebeard called “one tough hedgehog.”

Zephyr used overwhelming pressure to freeze the battlefield, then attacked the Celestial Dragons’ flagship to test Yas. Yas intercepted the strike, but Zephyr prepared to escalate the fight.

• Zephyr’s godlike pressure subdued the pirates and Marines, though Yas remained unaffected and grew eager to fight him.
• Zephyr flicked an Armament Haki shock wave toward the flagship carrying Saint Charlos.
• Yas rushed in and blocked Zephyr’s Finger Pistol with his armored fist, cracking the Black Lightning Demon Armor on his right arm.
• Zephyr showed surprise at Yas’s defense, then raised both fists and challenged him to withstand more punches.

Yas ordered the escort fleet to withdraw, then stood alone against Zephyr and the Rocks pirates to protect the Marines behind him. As Yas charged Zephyr with his Black Lightning Demon Armor at full power, Captain John launched a surprise attack at his back.

• Rob Lucci panicked and ordered the fleet to retreat, but Yas refused to withdraw from the fight.
• Yas ordered Brannew and Bullet to take command and pull the escort fleet twenty kilometers away from the battlefield.
• Zephyr recognized Yas's resolve as reminiscent of Garp and Sengoku, but declared Yas would be a sacrifice for the coming new era.
• Zephyr charged Yas, who activated his Black Lightning Demon Armor and rushed forward to meet him.
• Captain John appeared behind Yas and thrust his golden sword toward Yas's back while Zephyr attacked from the front.

Yas fought off Captain John’s ambush with the Black Lightning Demon Armor, then met Zephyr’s full-power Crusher Impact head-on. Both fighters were driven back, and Zephyr discovered that Yas had dented his mechanical arm.

• Captain John attacked Yas from behind, but the armor’s automatic black-lightning counterattack burned him and hurled him into the sea.
• Zephyr struck Yas with his full-power Crusher Impact, and Yas answered with a black-lightning-charged punch.
• Their fists collided and forced the sea down before a towering wave scattered the escort and pirate fleets.
• The impact drove Yas back and cracked his armor, while Zephyr landed on the sea with a dent in his Crusher.
• Zephyr stared at the damage and confronted Yas with killing intent.

Zephyr used Armament Haki’s Internal Destruction to gravely injure Yas and seemed poised to finish him. Yas survived, understood the technique, and copied it into a Black Lightning attack that he launched at Zephyr.

• Zephyr revealed Internal Destruction and struck Yas through his armor, devastating his internal organs.
• Yas crashed into the sea as the marines despaired and Zephyr’s pirates celebrated.
• Zephyr prepared to deliver a final blow, but Yas rose from the water, badly wounded and exhilarated by what he had learned.
• Yas compressed his remaining Black Lightning into a destructive vortex and named the technique Black Lightning Secret Technique Collapse.
• Yas crossed the distance to Zephyr and drove his vortex-wrapped fist toward the older man’s heart.

Yas gravely wounded Zephyr with a Black Lightning-enhanced internal-destruction punch, then used his last strength to erase Silver Axe when he charged in. The battlefield was left stunned by Yas’s devastating power as Ochoku watched in fear.

• Yas struck Zephyr with Black Lightning Secret Technique Collapse, badly damaging his internal organs and sending him crashing across the sea.
• Yas’s Black Lightning armor crumbled, leaving him exhausted and gravely injured, while Zephyr remained wounded nearby.
• Silver Axe injected himself with a drug that greatly amplified his strength at the cost of burning through his life force.
• Silver Axe charged at Yas, ignoring Zephyr’s warning, and Yas gathered his remaining Black Lightning into one finger.
• Yas used One-Finger Nukite to strike Silver Axe between the eyes, disintegrating him completely into black ash.
• Ochoku and the other witnesses stared in terror at Silver Axe’s erasure.

Yas forced Zephyr to withdraw after erasing Silver Axe, despite having almost no strength left. As Yas finally collapsed, the awakened Saint Charlos shouted at him, and Yas asked whether he was speaking to him.

• Ochoku was paralyzed by fear after Yas erased Silver Axe, while Yas challenged the wounded Zephyr to continue their fight.
• Zephyr recognized Yas as a rapidly evolving monster but decided not to risk his life and ordered Ochoku to withdraw with John.
• Ochoku's men retrieved the unconscious John and fled with the surviving Rocks Pirates, leaving the Heavenly Tribute and Mythical Zoan Fruit behind.
• Yas watched the retreat without pursuing, concealing that only his will kept him aloft.
• Zephyr promised to crush Yas in their next encounter and sailed away; Yas then began to lose consciousness.
• Saint Charlos woke and shouted at Yas to come down and kneel, and Yas asked, "Are you talking to me?"

Yas used his Conqueror’s Haki to reduce Saint Charlos to an idiotic state, then collapsed from exhaustion. As the Leviathan took control of the escort fleet and returned to G-5, Rob Lucci requested that Yas’s threat level be raised above the Four Emperors.

• Saint Charlos insulted Yas and ordered him to lick his shoes, while Rob Lucci pleaded with him to stop.
• Yas pierced Saint Charlos’s mind with killing intent, frightening him into idiocy.
• Yas collapsed, and Bullet caught him as Brannew ordered the Marines to seize the escort fleet, its Heavenly Tribute, and its Mythical Zoan Fruit.
• The Leviathan led the fleet back toward G-5 with Saint Charlos aboard, while Rob Lucci watched without resisting.
• Rob Lucci called to request that Yas’s threat level be raised above the Four Emperors, and the person on the other end asked what Yas had done.

After waking from three days of unconsciousness, Yas learned that he had been promoted to Vice Admiral and named a Navy Hero, but he focused on the Marines lost in battle and the limits of his Haki. He began developing a technique that fused Conqueror’s Haki with Black Lightning, which he named Divine Punishment.

• Rob Lucci told Sengoku that the New World now had five Emperors of the Sea instead of four.
• Yas woke in the G-5 Branch hospital after three days and learned that he had been promoted to Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral and awarded the title of Navy Hero.
• Brannew reported that 312 Marines had died and 864 were seriously wounded, and Yas ordered tenfold death benefits, stronger Tyrannosaurus Serum, and triple training intensity for Bullet’s troops.
• Yas analyzed his battle with Zephyr and concluded that his Haki skills lagged behind those of veteran fighters despite his immense strength and defenses.
• Yas conceived a way to fuse Conqueror’s Haki with Black Lightning and named the technique Divine Punishment.

Yas attempted to fuse Conqueror's Haki with Black Lightning and discovered that his kingly will could devour the lightning's source energy, creating a new power he called Divine Punishment. Seriously injured by the backlash, he ordered Brannew to find a remote island where he could train in seclusion.

• Yas concentrated his Conqueror's Haki around his body and tried repeatedly to fuse it with Black Lightning, but the powers violently rejected each other.
• Yas realized that he might need to conquer Black Lightning with his will rather than blend the two powers together.
• Yas unleashed his Conqueror's Haki to devour Black Lightning, briefly creating a new source power and suffering severe injuries as the energies clashed.
• Yas pressed the emergency call button and ordered Brannew to find the largest, toughest, most deserted island so he could enter seclusion.

Yas secluded himself on the Tomb of the Giant God to transform his will and body, then fused his Conqueror’s Haki and Black Lightning into a new power called Divine Punishment. Just as he awakened it, Garp urgently ordered him to Marineford, reporting that Rocks had attacked God Valley.

• Brannew located the lifeless Tomb of the Giant God, and Yas ordered the Leviathan’s crew to retreat one hundred kilometers before beginning his seclusion.
• Yas repeatedly tempered his soul with Conqueror’s Haki until his will transformed into something as resilient as steel.
• Yas used Black Lightning Secret Technique Collapse to erase the island, then repeatedly subjected his own body to Internal Collapse until it could withstand the destructive power.
• Yas fused his transformed will with his Black Lightning essence, creating Divine Punishment and forcing the storm clouds to gather around him as the Marines aboard the Leviathan fell to their knees.
• Garp called Yas on the Golden Den Den Mushi and ordered him to return to Marineford immediately, warning that Rocks had attacked God Valley.

After Rocks attacked God Valley, Garp urged Yas to join the war effort, but Yas revealed a frightening new power and refused to help save the Celestial Dragons. He decided to test Divine Punishment on the storm above the sea before heading to God Valley to face Rocks.

• Garp called Yas to warn him that Rocks had attacked God Valley and that the Marines were mobilizing for war.
• Yas’s divine presence overwhelmed Garp through the Den Den Mushi, and Yas said he had only gotten a little stronger.
• Garp invited Yas to join him and Roger at God Valley, but Yas refused to help the Celestial Dragons and said he wanted to fight Rocks.
• Yas descended to the sea and examined Divine Punishment, which he had formed by fusing his Conqueror’s Haki with Black Lightning.
• Yas chose the thunderclouds as his first test and imagined shaping his power into a divine spear.

Yas forged the Divine Punishment Spear and erased the Devil Sea’s ancient thunderstorm with a single strike. Monkey D. Garp arrived and confronted Yas, stunned by the scale of his power.

• Yas shaped his black-and-red lightning into a spear and named it the Divine Punishment Spear.
• Yas threw the spear into the thunderclouds, erasing the storm and revealing a clear sky over the Devil Sea.
• Yas judged the attack’s power insufficiently precise and decided he needed to develop his Conqueror’s will further.
• Yas sensed a powerful figure approaching and recognized the presence as Monkey D. Garp.
• Garp crashed into the sea near Yas, saw the vast hole left in the sky, and asked if Yas had caused it.