Recaps

Yas forced the Leviathan Fleet to follow his orders and diverted it to attack the Rocks Pirates’ Third Flying Fleet at Bakira Island. After arriving, he rose into the sky and unleashed an attack that split it open.

• Yas ordered the Leviathan Fleet to hunt the Rocks Pirates at Bakira Island instead of going to God Valley.
• Pokato and other officers protested, but Yas threatened to sink their ships, forcing Pokato to submit.
• Yas explained that his Mantra Haki had revealed the Rocks Pirates’ hidden fleets and that Shiki’s Third Flying Fleet was poised to strike the Marines’ rear.
• Two days later, the Leviathan Fleet reached Bakira Island, where Shiki’s pirates prepared to attack the approaching Marines.
• Yas rose high above the fleet, raised his hand, and split open the sky with a black-and-red attack.

Yas annihilated Bakira Island and Golden Lion Shiki's Third Flying Fleet with a storm of Black-and-Red Lightning, leaving the Marines stunned by his power. As Yas prepared to move on to the next hunting ground, he sensed several heartbeats reviving beneath the ruins.

• Yas unleashed a barrage of Black-and-Red Lightning that vaporized the pirate fleet and devastated Bakira Island.
• Brannew, Bullet, Pokato, and the other Marines watched in shock as the island became a lifeless wasteland.
• Pokato realized why Garp and Sengoku had protected Yas and reconsidered what justice meant.
• Yas returned to the Leviathan, ordered the fleet to regroup, and announced they would head to another hunting ground.
• Yas sensed several survivors reviving beneath Bakira Island's ruins and showed interest.

Yas discovered that Queen, King, and the Allosaurus user had survived his Divine Punishment thunderstorm thanks to their Ancient Zoan vitality, and welcomed the chance to fight them. The chapter ended with Yas piercing Queen's abdomen with One-Finger Nukite and declaring the All-Stars too weak to make him use a stronger technique.

• Brannew and Bullet found no signs of life on Bakira Island, but Yas sensed survivors beneath the ruins.
• Queen, King, and the Allosaurus user emerged from the crater, scarred but rapidly healing, and mocked Yas's thunderstorm as a scraping massage.
• Yas left the Leviathan and challenged the three Ancient Zoan users, eager for a satisfying fight.
• Queen, King, and the Allosaurus user transformed into their enormous beast forms and surrounded Yas.
• Yas vanished and pierced Queen's abdomen with One-Finger Nukite, then dismissed the All-Stars as too weak to face his Three-Finger Nukite.

Yas effortlessly countered King and Jack’s coordinated attack, then killed Jack with a single step to the head. He turned his attention to the stunned King and challenged him to come down.

• Queen discovered that Yas’s finger had pierced his defenses and left a destructive force in his body that prevented his wound from healing.
• King attacked Yas from the sky while Jack transformed into a mammoth and struck from below.
• Yas dodged both attacks with a single step and appeared atop Jack’s head.
• Yas killed Jack by stepping on his skull, then told King that it was his turn.

Yas killed King with a distant Divine Punishment strike after King fled, then faced Queen as the enraged All-Star charged him with a final attack. Yas met Queen head-on with Three-Finger Nukite, and the chapter ended just before their collision.

• King ignored Queen and fled into the sky, hoping his speed would keep him beyond Yas's reach.
• Yas used One-Finger Nukite: Divine Punishment to destroy King from dozens of kilometers away.
• The marines aboard the Leviathan watched King's death in shock, while Queen lost control after seeing his companions fall.
• Queen hardened himself with Armament Haki and charged Yas with his horns, intent on taking him down with him.
• Yas raised three fingers and rushed toward Queen with Three-Finger Nukite as their final collision approached.

Yas defeated Queen by piercing his horn and skull, then tore away the beast’s neck frill and underlying flesh with his bare hands. He returned to the Leviathan and ordered the stunned Marines to deal with the two survivors, Jack and Queen, who were still alive.

• Yas used Three-Finger Nukite to shatter Queen’s horn and batter his skull, leaving him near death.
• Yas grabbed Queen’s neck frill and tore it, along with flesh and vertebrae, from the living beast, killing him.
• The Marines aboard the Leviathan watched in terror, while Bullet praised Yas’s overwhelming power.
• Yas returned to the Leviathan in a clean Justice Coat and pointed out that two figures still showed signs of life beside Jack and Queen’s corpses.
• Yas impatiently warned the Marines to handle the survivors before he took them apart himself.

Yas forced Pokato’s fleet to obey him by threatening to tear the pirates apart, then watched as the Navy captured the barely living Queen and Jack. After Brannew reported a vast treasure vault beneath Bakira Island, Yas headed to investigate, while a bloodied Golden Den Den Mushi began to glow among the ruins.

• Yas threatened to tear the pirates apart, and Pokato ordered the Landing Force and other troops to capture them immediately.
• Navy soldiers reached Bakira Island and bound the critically wounded Queen and Jack with seastone chains.
• Yas watched the capture footage and told Bullet he would only consider fighting him once he could last three moves.
• Brannew reported that the Navy had discovered an underground fortress apparently shared by Golden Lion’s and Kaido’s forces, including a giant treasure vault.
• Yas ordered Brannew to take him to the vault, while a Golden Den Den Mushi flickered to life beneath rubble.

Yas claimed the enormous Bakira Island treasury for his Divine Punishment fleet, defying Marine regulations and turning his soldiers into a force loyal to him. As the Marines celebrated their plunder, a recruit answered a Golden Den Den Mushi and told Golden Lion that his fleet and island were gone.

• Yas and his Marines entered the underground treasury on Bakira Island and learned it held at least five hundred billion Beli in treasure.
• Yas rejected Pokato's demand to report the treasure and declared that half would fund his fleet while the other half would reward the participating soldiers.
• Yas rallied the Marines with promises of wealth and glory, and they cheered and rushed to claim the treasure.
• Pokato realized that Yas's fleet had become a private army devoted to him and plunder.
• A recruit found a ringing Golden Den Den Mushi and answered Golden Lion Shiki's call.
• The recruit told Golden Lion that his fleet and island were gone, and Shiki reacted with furious disbelief.

Golden Lion Shiki ordered his fleets to hunt Yas after learning that Yas had destroyed Bakira Island, while the world’s major powers reacted to the news. As Yas’s fleet headed for another Rocks Pirates supply depot, Roger’s ship blocked its path and a swordsman killed a Marine major with a glance.

• Golden Lion Shiki learned that Yas had destroyed Bakira Island and annihilated his Third Flying Fleet, then ordered his fleets to find Yas.
• Newgate, Roger, and the Five Elders read Morgans’s report and reacted to Yas’s attack and growing power.
• Yas prepared to raid Sakana Island, a Rocks Pirates supply depot, while his Marines celebrated their loot.
• The Leviathan Fleet spotted the Roger Pirates’ ship blocking its route, and Brannew identified its flag.
• A man aboard the small boat killed a drunken Marine major from several nautical miles away with a slash delivered through his gaze, and Yas took notice.

Yas confronted Silvers Rayleigh between the Marine and Roger Pirates’ fleets after Rayleigh killed a Marine major with a distant sword strike. The chapter ended as Yas launched a lightning-fast One-Finger Nukite at Rayleigh’s forehead.

• Rayleigh killed a Marine major from several nautical miles away, and Vice Admiral Pokato identified him as the Dark King.
• Yas ordered Bullet to protect the Leviathan and went alone to meet Rayleigh above the sea.
• Rayleigh revealed his identity and released his Conqueror’s Haki, then drew his sword and unleashed a powerful sword intent.
• Yas remained unmoved, challenged Rayleigh to kneel, and appeared before him at a speed that even Rayleigh’s Observation Haki barely caught.
• Yas thrust One-Finger Nukite toward the space between Rayleigh’s brows.

Yas nearly killed Silvers Rayleigh with his overwhelming speed, but Rayleigh's instincts let him evade the first strike. When Yas appeared through Rayleigh's storm of sword slashes and aimed to cripple his wrist, Gol D. Roger intervened, challenging Yas himself.

• Yas's finger strike nearly pierced Silvers Rayleigh's head, but Rayleigh narrowly dodged and suffered a cut across his nose.
• Buggy and Shanks were stunned by Rayleigh's injury, while Gol D. Roger recognized Yas's powerful Haki and welcomed the challenge.
• Yas attacked Rayleigh again, but Rayleigh unleashed a storm of sword slashes to expose his position.
• Yas passed through the slashes and targeted Rayleigh's sword hand, but Roger's powerful slash forced him to abandon the attack.
• Roger drew Ace, stepped into the fight, and invited Yas to face him.

Yas overwhelmed Roger and Rayleigh, but halted his attack when he sensed Rayleigh entering the true realm of Pluton. Rayleigh prepared his ultimate sword technique, Reincarnation, and challenged Yas to face it.

• Roger unleashed a Conqueror's Haki slash at Yas, but Rayleigh intercepted Yas's finger with his Supreme Grade Sword and was sent crashing onto the Oro Jackson's deck.
• Yas caught Roger's strengthened slash bare-handed and annihilated it, leaving Roger and the crews stunned.
• Yas began gathering a Divine Punishment thunderstorm to destroy the Roger Pirates, then stopped when he sensed something beyond the clouds.
• Rayleigh entered the true realm of Pluton, and Yas dispersed the thunderclouds to face him with two fingers.
• Rayleigh named his ultimate sword strike Reincarnation and asked Yas if he was ready to face it.

Yas broke Rayleigh’s Reincarnation domain and crippled him with a two-finger Hell Stab. Roger swore revenge, while Yas ordered Bullet to fight him and gave him ten minutes.

• Rayleigh unleashed his Reincarnation domain, immobilizing the Marines and drawing out their vitality, will, and memories.
• Yas dismissed Rayleigh’s domain and shattered it with the power of penetration.
• Yas thrust two fingers through space, piercing Rayleigh’s chest from afar and collapsing the domain.
• Roger rushed to Rayleigh and found him alive but completely crippled, then vowed to kill Yas.
• Yas told Bullet to fight Roger and threatened to tear them both apart if Bullet failed within ten minutes.

Yas declared that he would defeat both Roger and Bullet, provoking Bullet to attack Roger with a ten-minute time limit in mind. Roger erased Bullet’s opening barrage with Divine Departure and struck him down, leaving Bullet injured on the Leviathan’s deck with nine minutes remaining.

• Yas told Roger and Bullet he would take them both apart, shocking the crews and drawing a wild laugh from Roger.
• Bullet angrily challenged Roger to fight at full strength and launched a rapid-fire barrage from his combined weapon, Bullet Armament.
• Roger handed the injured Rayleigh to Crocus and met Bullet’s barrage with Divine Departure, erasing the shells with his sword attack.
• Roger’s slash struck Bullet and carved a deep gash into Bullet Armament, hurling Bullet back onto the Leviathan’s deck.
• Yas observed that Bullet had been defeated in one exchange and told him that nine minutes remained.

Bullet recovered from Roger’s attack, transformed the Leviathan into a colossal steel body, and fought Roger in a devastating clash. As Roger prepared a potentially fatal strike, Bullet awakened a darker power and began his Final Combine God Descent.

• Bullet regenerated from his severe injuries and eagerly challenged Roger to continue the fight.
• Bullet used the Combine-Combine Fruit to transform the Leviathan into his hundred-meter-tall Bullet Armament God Form.
• Roger and Bullet’s clash sent shock waves across the sea, forcing the Oro Jackson and the Leviathan Fleet several kilometers back.
• Yas watched the battle and noted that Bullet’s steel construct was nearing its limit.
• Roger shattered Bullet’s helmet and moved to cleave the steel giant through its back, while Bullet resolved that he could not lose before Yas acknowledged him.
• As Roger’s sword neared his back, Bullet released a destructive pulse, transformed his armor into black liquid metal, and announced his awakening and Final Combine God Descent.

Bullet awakened the Combine-Combine Fruit and fought Roger in a destructive battle that lasted a day and night, ending in a draw. As they prepared to continue, Yas appeared and effortlessly erased the battlefield and stripped them of their gathered strength.

• Bullet awakened his Combine-Combine Fruit, transforming into a powerful dark Demon God and frightening the Roger Pirates.
• Roger compressed his Conqueror’s Haki into his sword and charged Bullet, beginning a clash that shattered space around them.
• Roger and Bullet fought across a day and night, leaving both battered and exhausted as their duel ended in a draw.
• As Roger and Bullet prepared to launch one final attack, Yas appeared above them and called their battle a boring farce.
• Yas restored the damaged sky and sea with an invisible force, then stripped Roger and Bullet of their strength, leaving Roger stunned by Yas’s power.

Yas condemned Roger and Bullet’s battle as crude and lacking true mastery, leaving Roger newly inspired to seek a greater adventure while Yas rejected his invitation to join the pirates.

• Yas told the exhausted Roger and Bullet that their clash had disappointed him and that their power lacked technique and control.
• Yas criticized Bullet’s awakening as brute destruction and dismissed his draw with Roger as two fighters recklessly exhausting themselves.
• Roger reflected on Yas’s critique, recognized the difference between raw power and mastery, and began to regard Yas with awe.
• Roger invited Yas to join his crew, explore the world, uncover the eight-hundred-year-old secret, and find Laugh Tale.
• Yas rejected Roger’s invitation, saying he had no interest in the pirates’ adventure.

Yas revealed that he intended to purge everyone he considered trash and create a world shaped by his own will. Roger withdrew with his injured crew, but warned Yas that Rocks’s plans and the will of D were tied to God Valley, leaving Yas shaken and murderous.

• Yas mocked the Roger Pirates’ dream as childish play and said he had come to purge the world of those he considered trash.
• Roger realized that he and Yas were irreconcilable and ordered his exhausted crew to retreat rather than face a battle that would kill them all.
• Roger carried the crippled Rayleigh back aboard the Oro Jackson as the ship turned away, and the Marines cheered their apparent victory.
• As the Oro Jackson departed, Roger urged Yas to go to God Valley to learn what Rocks truly wanted and warned him not to let the will of D devour him.
• Yas’s composure broke, and he reacted to Roger’s warning with a surge of killing intent.

After Gol D. Roger warned Yas not to let the will of 'D' consume him, Yas nearly unleashed Divine Punishment but held back as Roger escaped. Yas then ordered the Navy Special Conscription Plan, declaring that he would build a fleet of his own and kill anyone who opposed him.

• Gol D. Roger warned Yas not to let the will of 'D' consume him, and Yas erupted with killing intent that froze the sea and terrified Bullet, Vice Admiral Pokato, and the Navy officers.
• Yas prepared to strike the fleeing Oro Jackson with Divine Punishment, but lowered his hand because Roger was too far away and seemed to know the truth about him.
• Yas ordered Brannew to keep Queen the Plague and Jack the Drought alive and to have the fleet repair Bullet's toy using whatever materials were needed.
• Yas told Brannew to inform Fleet Admiral Sengoku that he was immediately launching the Navy Special Conscription Plan to build a fleet of his own, and threatened to kill anyone who stood in his way.

Morgans publicized Yas’s defeat of the Roger Pirates and his plan to form a personal fleet, alarming the Marines, the Five Elders, and other powerful figures. A defeated Bullet asked Yas how to become stronger, and Yas summoned his soldiers to face a brutal trial that could lead to evolution or death.

• Morgans published a front-page report claiming Yas had crippled Rayleigh and driven Roger away, and that Yas would establish a fifty-thousand-strong Divine Punishment Fleet.
• Kong, Garp, and Sengoku reacted to the news, while Sengoku condemned Yas’s recruitment plan as rebellion and Kong questioned whether they could stop him.
• The Five Elders declared that Yas threatened their rule, but admitted they lacked a way to eliminate him; Whitebeard and Shiki also reacted to the news.
• On the Leviathan, Bullet knelt before Yas, admitted defeat, and demanded to know how he could become stronger.
• Yas told Bullet he would first experience true hell, then ordered all personnel to assemble for a trial that could bring evolution or death.

Yas forced his fleet to choose between dangerous evolution training and dismissal, then demanded fifty thousand young Marines from Sengoku and offered to cover all costs. Sengoku directed him to obtain approval from Zephyr, whom Yas regarded as a perfect partner, and Yas ordered Brannew to find Zephyr’s training base.

• Yas challenged his soldiers to choose between remaining weak and risking death for a chance to evolve, and Bullet, Brannew, and over eighty percent of the fleet chose evolution.
• Yas contacted Sengoku and demanded personnel records for fifty thousand fit Marines aged fifteen to twenty-five from across the Marine forces and recruit camps.
• Yas offered five hundred billion Beli to pay for the recruits’ training, equipment, ships, salaries, and death benefits, and gave Sengoku three days to provide the list.
• Sengoku said Yas needed approval from chief instructor Zephyr, and Yas reacted with interest when he learned Zephyr’s identity.
• Yas ordered Brannew to locate Zephyr’s training base so they could meet.

Yas arrived at Demon Island and recruited Zephyr to train an army for his campaign to end the Great Pirate Era. Zephyr accepted, and Yas announced that the soldiers would first receive a baptism from him.

• Zephyr learned that Yas’s Divine Punishment fleet was approaching Demon Island and ordered the island’s defenses to prepare without firing.
• Yas appeared before Zephyr and overwhelmed him with his presence before explaining that he wanted Zephyr to train his army.
• Zephyr criticized Yas’s brutal methods, but Yas condemned Marine justice and invoked the pirates who had killed Zephyr’s family and escaped punishment.
• Yas offered Zephyr power, money, and an army, and Zephyr accepted while warning that his training would be hell.
• Yas said the soldiers would receive a baptism from him before Zephyr’s training began, leaving Zephyr confused.

Yas used black-and-red lightning to baptize Navy soldiers, forcing their bodies to evolve despite the deadly risks. After Brannew survived and displayed immense new strength, the soldiers eagerly lined up for the transformation, and Yas challenged Zephyr to begin his training.

• Yas announced that his baptism could kill thirty percent of its subjects or leave survivors mentally impaired, but the soldiers chose to proceed.
• Bullet urged the soldiers to face the danger, and Brannew volunteered to be baptized first.
• Yas sent black-and-red lightning into Brannew, subjecting him to three minutes of agony as his body was destroyed and rebuilt.
• Brannew survived with greatly increased strength, speed, senses, and thinking ability, and demonstrated his new power with a punch that produced fist pressure.
• The soldiers rushed to Yas for baptism, while Zephyr called the transformed troops a Demon Legion and asked what Yas was creating.
• Yas agreed with Zephyr's description, claimed the title of Demon King, and challenged him to begin the training.

Yas revealed that he was building a Demon Legion and challenged Zephyr to train its first three hundred recruits. After Zephyr’s usual exercises proved effortless for the newly empowered soldiers, Yas crushed them beneath ten times gravity and forced them to continue, leaving Zephyr to witness Yas’s brutal idea of daily evolution.

• Yas confirmed that he was the Demon King commanding the three hundred newly baptized soldiers and invited Zephyr to begin training them.
• Zephyr ordered the soldiers to run one hundred laps carrying one hundred kilograms, but they treated the task as a warm-up and stunned him with their strength and speed.
• Yas increased the island’s gravity to ten times normal and ordered the soldiers to complete Zephyr’s exercises under the crushing pressure or die.
• The soldiers struggled forward despite broken bones and severe injuries, refusing to quit as Zephyr watched in horror.
• Yas called their ordeal evolution, told Zephyr it was only the first day, and questioned whether he was qualified to train them.

Yas assigned Zephyr to turn the soldiers into killers and ordered them to hunt pirates at night, using the hunts to select his elite Divine Punishment Espada. The soldiers began forming squads under a ruthless competition, while Zephyr wondered what kind of world Yas intended to create.

• Zephyr accepted that conventional training would not work and vowed to teach the soldiers killing techniques.
• Yas ordered Brannew to announce daytime evolution training and nighttime pirate hunts led by Zephyr.
• Yas ordered the soldiers divided into thirty squads, each required to return before dawn with a target’s head or face elimination.
• Yas named his ten strongest agents the Divine Punishment Espada and promised the top squads a deep Baptism while threatening the lowest-scoring squad with elimination.
• Yas released the gravity field and gave the soldiers an hour to form squads before the first hunt began.
• Zephyr watched the soldiers regard one another as rivals and wondered what kind of world Yas wanted to create.