Recaps

Yas destroyed the Rocks Pirates’ forces at Bakira Island, crippled Rayleigh, and drove Roger away after clashing with the Roger Pirates. He then began building a fifty-thousand-strong fleet, using a dangerous baptism and Zephyr’s training to create a force that would evolve by day and hunt pirates by night.

• Yas redirected the Leviathan Fleet to Bakira Island, where his Black-and-Red Lightning annihilated Shiki’s Third Flying Fleet and devastated the island.
• Yas killed Jack, King, and Queen in battle, then ordered the surviving All-Stars captured and claimed half the enormous treasure beneath Bakira Island for his fleet.
• Yas met Silvers Rayleigh and Gol D. Roger at sea, crippled Rayleigh with a long-range strike, and ordered Bullet to fight Roger.
• Bullet awakened his Combine-Combine Fruit and fought Roger for a day and night before their duel ended in a draw, but Yas stopped them and stripped them of their strength.
• Roger invited Yas to join his crew and warned him about the will of D, but Yas refused and let the Oro Jackson retreat after ordering the Navy Special Conscription Plan.
• Yas demanded fifty thousand young Marines from Sengoku and recruited Zephyr to train his growing force, while promising the soldiers a dangerous baptism that could kill them.
• Yas baptized Brannew, whose strength and abilities increased, then subjected three hundred soldiers to tenfold gravity as Zephyr began their training.
• Yas ordered the soldiers into thirty squads for nightly pirate hunts, named his ten strongest agents the Divine Punishment Espada, and threatened elimination for the lowest-performing squad.

Yas annihilated Golden Lion Shiki and his forces, earned the codename Azure Thunder, and purged the East Blue of pirates. After confronting Roger in Loguetown, Yas learned the Underworld had placed an S-rank bounty on him and sailed to meet it.

• Brannew’s recruits defeated Morton, then joined Sakazuki and Borsalino in a contest to kill Charcoal Dom’s pirates, which Yas used to demonstrate his approach to justice.
• Yas subjected the recruits and the future Admirals to brutal training, then destroyed Shiki’s monsters attacking G-5 and challenged Shiki at Merveille.
• Yas defeated Shiki, destroyed Merveille, and halted its fall before compressing the continent into dust, prompting the World Government to promote him to Admiral Candidate.
• Yas chose the codename Azure Thunder and took leave in Foosha Village, where he learned of pirates terrorizing the East Blue and vowed to eliminate them.
• Yas erased the East Blue’s pirate crews and flew to Loguetown after sensing Roger’s Conqueror’s Haki.
• Roger and Yas clashed over freedom and order, and Yas overpowered Roger’s final Haki before leaving him and Rayleigh behind.
• Roger told Rayleigh to unite Whitebeard and the other survivors against Yas, while the Underworld issued Yas an S-rank bounty and Yas sailed toward it.

Yas crushed the assassination plot against him, seized the Time-Time Fruit after defeating Kaido and Big Mom, and accepted the mission to confront the Rocks Pirates at God Valley. There he spared the Celestial Dragons after stopping their hunt of the island’s natives, purified God Valley’s resentment, and awaited the arrival of Rocks and another unknown fleet.

• Yas destroyed Van Augur, Stussy, and Du Feld’s attacking forces, then learned from Du Feld that Captain John had organized the assassination plot.
• Yas killed Captain John on the Island of the Dead, took his treasure, and heard Sengoku report that Whitebeard had declared the Marines and Yas his enemies.
• Yas defeated Kaido and unleashed a devastating thunderstorm against Big Mom’s forces before recovering the Time-Time Fruit from beneath Kuraigana Island.
• Yas spared Kaido and Big Mom after a Five Elders member ordered him to do so, then exchanged the fruit and Captain John’s Treasure Core for the First Kitetsu.
• Yas accepted the Five Elders’ mission to confront the Rocks Pirates at God Valley, where the Celestial Dragons were using the island’s natives as prey.
• Yas stopped Saint Charlos from shooting a child and terrified the Celestial Dragons, but spared them and went into the jungle to await the real threat.
• Yas purified the resentment afflicting God Valley as Rocks D. Zebek’s fleet approached, while a CP0 agent reported another fleet led by a skull-and-straw-hat ship.

Yas confronted the Rocks Pirates at God Valley, killing Big Mom, Whitebeard, and Rocks as the island and surrounding sea were devastated. After destroying the darkness released by the Dark-Dark Fruit, Yas declared the battle over, while Shiki claimed the era and set out to find ONE PIECE.

• Rocks and the Rocks Pirates stormed God Valley, and Rocks singled out Yas on the mountain as his target.
• Roger and Rayleigh arrived to steal the Road Poneglyph, and Yas noticed an ancient object beneath the temple that resonated with his Time-Time Fruit.
• Yas killed Big Mom with One-Finger Nukite, immobilized Kaido, and withstood Rocks’s Dark Hole with his Lightning Armor.
• Yas erased the surrounding pirate fleets with Divine Punishment: Heavenly Thunder Star Burial, then killed Whitebeard during their clash as God Valley began to sink.
• Garp and Roger intervened before Yas could unleash Final Purification, and Yas stopped Roger’s Divine Departure while revealing his awareness of the object beneath the Road Poneglyph.
• Yas abandoned the order to protect Saint Charlos, pierced Rocks with One-Finger Nukite, and defeated him after surviving his darkness, demon transformation, and final attack.
• Roger tried to destroy the Dark-Dark Fruit, but it burst apart and unleashed darkness that swallowed God Valley, the surrounding sea, and Yas.
• Roger and Garp carved a passage through the darkness, allowing Yas to strike its hidden singularity with Godslayer and destroy it, and Shiki then declared the Rocks Pirates finished and claimed the era for himself.