Recaps

Boer asked Kaido to introduce him to Charlotte Linlin so they could test a way to create Devil Fruit weapons by having Homies eat ability users’ hearts. Kaido flew him to Totto Land and attacked Whole Cake Chateau to announce their arrival, leaving Boer facing Linlin as the two Emperors prepared to discuss the plan.

• Kaido mocked Boer for retreating from Bernia, but Boer asked him to call in the favor he owed and arrange a meeting with Charlotte Linlin.
• Boer explained that he had briefly extracted a dead ability user’s Devil Fruit power and proposed using Linlin’s Homies to eat ability users’ hearts, potentially mass-producing Devil Fruit weapons.
• Excited by the prospect of a powerful army, Kaido transformed, took Boer with him, and flew toward Totto Land.
• Kaido summoned thunderclouds over Whole Cake Island and blasted Whole Cake Chateau with a Bolo Breath.
• Charlotte Linlin emerged on Zeus and deflected the blast with Ikoku Sovereignty, then confronted Kaido as he introduced Boer and proposed discussing a big deal.

Boer demonstrated his power to Kaido and Linlin, then helped Linlin turn Katakuri’s trident into a weapon with the Mantis Fruit’s ability. Linlin accepted the business deal, but her greed toward Boer’s invention left its terms unresolved.

• Linlin challenged Boer with Conqueror’s Haki, and Kaido and Boer answered with their own, creating a three-way clash that left Boer’s domain steady against both Emperors.
• Boer seized Zeus from Linlin, compressed the Homie, and stripped lightning from it, prompting Linlin to invite him and Kaido inside to talk.
• Boer praised Totto Land’s exchange of lifespan for food, safety, and dignity, and Linlin summoned prisoners and took their souls to make soul-infused cakes for her guests.
• Kaido revealed that he wanted Boer and Linlin to create Devil Fruit Weapons, and Boer demonstrated by combining the Mantis Fruit user’s heart with Linlin’s soul infusion in Katakuri’s trident.
• The trident transformed into a mechanical mantis with the Mantis Fruit’s ability, and Linlin declared that she would take the deal.

Sengoku weighed the World Government’s order to issue Aaron Ball a bounty against the danger of provoking him. He chose to defer the wanted notice while raising Nico Robin’s bounty, leaving Aaron under surveillance and setting a potential bounty of 1.8 billion Beli if he attacked Marine or World Government facilities.

• Sengoku discussed Kizaru’s report that Boer would not attack Marines unless they struck first, and the Five Elders’ divided proposal to issue Aaron Ball a bounty.
• Garp cited Aaron’s disaster relief and Bernia’s prosperity as reasons not to make him an enemy, while Sengoku argued that Aaron had supported the Revolutionary Army.
• Tsuru urged Sengoku to weigh the gains and risks, and Kizaru pointed out that the Five Elders had pushed the decision onto the Marines.
• Sengoku wrote a recommendation to defer Aaron’s wanted notice and maintain restriction and surveillance, while raising Nico Robin’s bounty to 220 million Beli.
• Sengoku set 1.8 billion Beli as the bounty Aaron would receive if he attacked Marine or World Government facilities.

Boer rejected marriage offers from Linlin and Kaido, then proposed that they unite to take revenge on Cipher Pol rather than hunt Devil Fruit users indiscriminately. Linlin and Kaido considered his strategy as the alliance formed around Cipher Pol as its first target.

• Linlin offered Boer marriage to her daughters, prompting Kaido to accuse her of trying to exclude him from their plans.
• After Linlin and Kaido stopped arguing and asked what he wanted, Boer said he wanted world peace, then declared that he wanted Cipher Pol to run with rivers of blood.
• Boer warned that hunting minor powers and individual Devil Fruit users would turn the world’s ability users against the Emperors.
• Boer argued that targeting Cipher Pol as retaliation would give their campaign a justification and discourage others from supporting the agency.
• Kaido, Linlin, Katakuri, and the others responded favorably as Boer invited the two Emperors to ally with him and seek justice against Cipher Pol.

Boer joined Kaido and Linlin on a raid of Rustpatch Island, where they seized Devil Fruit powers and turned them into living weapons. After Boer erased the evidence of the attack, the group set off for its next stop, the Pidoka Kingdom.

• Kaido showed Boer a map of targets, and Linlin revealed her interest in the Balance-Balance Fruit while teasing Kaido about Yamato’s mother.
• Yamato confronted Kaido about the katydid he had accidentally smashed when she was young, and Kaido promised to get her a living one.
• Kaido carried Boer and Linlin to Rustpatch Island, where Boer blocked communications and marked Tuka, Vivi Nona, and Masta for capture.
• Kaido and Linlin devastated the island; Boer extracted Vivi Nona’s power and made her into a butterfly Homie, while Linlin and Boer turned Masta’s and Tuka’s powers into weapons for Kaido.
• Boer collapsed the ground to bury the battle’s traces, then left with Kaido and Linlin for the Pidoka Kingdom.

Boer stopped Linlin and Kaido from abducting a doctor in Pidoka Kingdom, then confronted them over their disregard for the alliance’s goals. After Boer destroyed a Cipher Pol 7 base alone to demonstrate his power, Linlin and Kaido agreed to let him choose their next targets.

• Boer warned Linlin and Kaido that attacking Pidoka Kingdom to seize the doctor would endanger civilians and provoke Whitebeard, and Marco arrived to defend the island.
• Linlin backed down, and Boer told Marco that she had spared his life before the group left Pidoka Kingdom.
• Boer told Linlin and Kaido that their alliance depended on mutual need and restraint, then said he would handle the next Cipher Pol base himself.
• Boer used his electromagnetic powers to destroy the Cipher Pol 7 fortress and its personnel while leaving the rest of the island unharmed.
• Boer set the terms for continued cooperation, and Linlin and Kaido accepted his authority to choose their targets as they flew toward the Cipher Pol 6 West Blue Second Base.

Boer led Kaido and Linlin in a devastating attack on Grey Harbor Outpost, capturing four Devil Fruit users and turning their powers into living weapons. A reporter recorded the massacre and Boer’s blood-written message, while the group flew toward the third Cipher Pol base.

• Boer used electromagnetic perception to identify four CP6 Devil Fruit users and discovered Duke secretly recording from the bushes.
• Kaido and Linlin destroyed Grey Harbor Outpost while Boer’s lightning cage trapped its defenders and protected the four marked targets.
• Kaido and Linlin subdued Gail, Butler, Saul, and Harvey, and Boer assigned their abilities to weapons intended for the two Emperors.
• Boer and Linlin extracted the four Devil Fruit powers and infused them into weapons, then Boer wrote “Revenge” in blood for Duke’s camera.
• White Sail City’s residents witnessed the destruction, and Kaido, Linlin, and Boer flew toward the next Cipher Pol base as Duke’s recording continued.

The Marines celebrated the appointment of Aokiji, Kizaru, and Akainu as Admirals while senior officers worried about the absent Aaron Ball. After learning that Ball, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin had destroyed four Cipher Pol bases and were turning agents into living Devil Fruit weapons, the Five Elders ordered Sengoku to mobilize the Navy.

• Kong presented Aokiji, Kizaru, and Akainu with their Admiral insignia at Marineford as the soldiers cheered.
• Garp, Tsuru, Sengoku, and Zephyr discussed the new Admirals and worried about Aaron Ball’s disappearance.
• Fisher Glass photographed the three Admirals together for the World Economy News Paper.
• Saint Saturn summoned the Five Elders and shared reports that Aaron Ball, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin had wiped out four Cipher Pol bases and created living Devil Fruit weapons from captured abilities.
• Saint Nusjuro questioned whether the trio’s technology could threaten the immortality granted by Imu to the Holy Knights and the Five Elders.
• The Five Elders decided not to alert Imu, and Saint Warcury ordered Sengoku to mobilize the Navy.

After a newspaper exposed Kaido, Big Mom, and Boer turning Devil Fruit powers into living weapons, Marco, Whitebeard, Shanks, the Revolutionary Army, and the Marines reacted to the threat. Across the seas, fear of being harvested as raw material drove pirates and criminals to restrain themselves and even hope the Marines would stop the alliance.

• Marco recognized Boer from the newspaper and warned Whitebeard, who ordered his commanders and allied captains to lie low while he watched the alliance’s next move.
• Shanks and Benn Beckman agreed the new weapon technology could shatter the balance of the seas, and Shanks prepared to contact old friends.
• Robin begged Ginny to take her to Kuma so she could reach Boer, while Dragon refused to contact him until his revenge had run its course.
• Sengoku ordered Devil Fruit User officers to remain at Marine bases under heavy escort and tasked the Science Unit with finding countermeasures.
• After reading the report, Hawk turned his pirate crew toward Marine-patrolled waters, and small pirate crews and underworld groups across the region curbed violence to avoid drawing the alliance’s attention.

Kaido and Linlin argued over the Devil Fruit Weapons while Boer left them to await the World Government’s response and went to Onigashima’s bathhouse. After Yamato and Katakuri raced their living weapons, Boer spent a peaceful soak with them, Ulti, and Page One.

• Kaido offered Linlin the Rewind-Rewind Fruit Rag in exchange for the Eye of Surveillance and the Asura Twin Polar Swords, but Linlin proposed a different division of the weapons.
• Boer said the alliance had already struck its first blow and left the hall to see whether the World Government would negotiate or fight.
• Yamato showed Boer her living katydid weapon, then raced Katakuri and his mantis weapon around Onigashima and won their clash.
• At the bathhouse, Boer used metal to cover Yamato when she began undressing, and Ulti arrived to protect her.
• Ulti attacked Boer with a water-pressure blast after he teased her, then blushed and pulled Yamato away from him.
• Boer relaxed in the hot spring with Yamato, Ulti, Katakuri, and Page One as food arrived outside.

Boer teased Ulti at the hot spring before Red Hair and Whitebeard arrived at Onigashima. After the Emperors clashed, Boer demonstrated the Magnet-Magnet Fruit’s overwhelming power, then dismissed his attack and joined the other four Emperors for a formal meeting.

• Boer asked Ulti to massage him, withstood her attacks, and left her flustered after catching her in his arms.
• Boer warned Kaido and Linlin that Red Hair and Whitebeard had arrived, and the four Emperors faced one another offshore.
• Kaido and Linlin combined their attack while Whitebeard and Red Hair answered with their own powerful strikes, creating a massive collision over the sea.
• Boer summoned a huge plasma sphere and immobilized both visiting crews with magnetic force, warning that his power could overwhelm the Four Emperors.
• Boer dismissed the plasma spheres and released the ships, then landed on the Moby Dick with Kaido and Linlin to meet Whitebeard and Red Hair.

Boer confronted the four Emperors as Red-Hair tried to stop his revenge by warning of the cost to their crews and offering terms for peace. Boer accepted Red-Hair’s proposal only to buy time, then flew away, leaving Red-Hair to negotiate with the World Government and Kaido furious over the lost alliance.

• Boer assured Whitebeard and Red-Hair that his revenge targeted Cipher Pol, while Red-Hair warned Kaido and Linlin that a full Marine assault could devastate their territories and families.
• Boer challenged Red-Hair’s warnings, used Yasopp’s abandoned son Usopp to provoke the Red Hair Pirates, and endured Red-Hair’s Conqueror’s Haki.
• Doflamingo told Kaido that the World Government had cut off financial and material dealings with the Beasts Pirates and Big Mom Pirates, while Red-Hair offered Boer a new territory and promised to negotiate protection for him and Nico Robin.
• Boer nodded to Red-Hair’s offer, then flew away in a burst of lightning and warned that he would visit Mary Geoise if the World Government refused his terms.
• Kaido attacked Red-Hair over the loss of his plans, but Red-Hair stopped him and Kaido ultimately withdrew; Linlin followed, while Whitebeard prepared a feast and Red-Hair said he would try to reach an agreement.

Sengoku warned the Five Elders that a war against Kaido, Linlin, and Boer could devastate the Navy and leave Mary Geoise exposed, while Shanks delivered Boer’s conditions for peace. Saint Nusjuro accepted them publicly, then secretly devised a trap to provoke Boer into attacking and give the World Government a pretext to mobilize against him.

• Sengoku presented the war simulations, warning that the Navy would suffer catastrophic casualties and might need an Ancient Weapon to hold Kaido, Linlin, and Boer in place.
• Sengoku warned that Kaido and Linlin could join Boer in attacking Mary Geoise if the Government destroyed their territories and alliance.
• Shanks entered the conference, described Boer’s ability to rain Plasma Bombs on Mary Geoise, and delivered conditions demanding the revocation of bounties, Cipher Pol’s reorganization, and an end to retaliation against Boer.
• Saint Nusjuro accepted Boer’s conditions, but after Shanks and Sengoku left, he ordered Cipher Pol to blame a senior agent for the Bernia affair and proposed waiting for the alliance to dissolve.
• Saint Nusjuro planned to use Saint Charlos as bait in Bernia, with Garp and Aokiji assigned as his bodyguards, hoping Boer would attack and give the Government grounds to wage war.

Boer, overwhelmed by emptiness after losing his goals and home, sought milk at a coastal bar and asked the Revolutionary Army to bring him to Robin. In Baltigo, Robin confronted him about his violence, her guilt, and his hidden identity, then ended their relationship, leaving Boer to depart while Ginny stayed with her.

• Boer flew across the New World, then stopped above a coastal town and wondered where he was going after Bernia had disbanded and his revenge had been halted.
• Boer entered the Rusty Anchor, calmed two groups of pirates with magnetic field suppression, and drank hot milk prepared by the bartender.
• Boer asked the bartender to contact Kuma and tell him that he missed his rose, then left with an old guide after improving the wounded captain’s sword.
• Boer arrived in Baltigo and reunited with Robin, who tearfully told him she wanted to end their relationship and blamed herself for his transformation into a ruthless killer.
• Robin questioned Boer about his knowledge and suggested he was a traveler from the Great Kingdom; Boer admitted he did not know the meaning of his existence but said she mattered to him.
• Ginny took Robin aside and urged Boer to leave, and Boer walked away without looking back.

Boer learned that the World Government had set a trap around Saint Charlos’s visit to Bernia, with Chloe and Allison among the targets. He chose to return alone to protect them, leaving Robin with Dragon and promising to come back for her.

• Robin cried to Ginny, saying she loved Boer but feared that her presence brought misfortune to everyone around her.
• Dragon praised the success of Boer’s development model and invited him to join the Revolutionary Army, but Boer said he had not yet found his own path.
• Dragon told Boer that Saint Charlos’s visit to Bernia was a trap, and that Chloe and Allison had been marked as targets; Garp and Kuzan would escort Charlos.
• Boer decided to go to Bernia despite the danger and asked Dragon to protect Robin while he was away.
• Dragon offered to help with Kuma, but Boer refused and left, saying he would return for Robin after settling matters.

Boer returned to Bernia, killed Saint Roschard, and reunited with Chloe Kent, who begged him to end her suffering. After making Chloe disappear, Boer confronted Garp and Aokiji as they moved to stop him.

• Boer surveyed Silver City and saw Saint Roschard abusing the people of Bernia while Garp and Aokiji restrained themselves from intervening.
• Boer ordered the kneeling crowd to leave, then used magnetic pressure to crush Saint Roschard inside his bubble suit.
• Boer freed Chloe Kent from her chain, and she confronted him over his departure and Allison’s death before asking him to say he loved her.
• Boer told Chloe he loved her and Allison, then made Chloe disappear when she begged him to end her pain.
• Aokiji sealed the street in an ice dome, while Garp and a Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agent prepared to stop Boer.
• Boer donned his battle armor, told Garp and Aokiji that their justice was sickening, and began fighting them.

Kizaru received orders to capture or kill Aaron Ball in Bernia while Boer fought Garp and Aokiji inside the Ice Dome. Boer destroyed the Cipher Pol agents and unveiled his Dominator Armor, but Garp launched a powerful attack at its energy core as the battle continued.

• Strawberry informed Kizaru that Saint Roschar had been killed in Bernia by Aaron Ball, and Kizaru set off for the kingdom.
• Boer demanded that Garp and Aokiji release the Navy soldiers, and Aokiji used Ice Pillar: Return to evacuate them from the dome.
• Boer killed a hidden CP Agent and evaded Garp and Aokiji’s combined assault, then opened a hole in the dome and rapidly killed more Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents.
• Garp and Aokiji cornered Boer, but Boer awakened the Magnet-Magnet Fruit’s power and formed the seventy-meter Dominator Armor · White Calamity from nearby metal.
• Boer heated the dome with Flame Prison, forcing Aokiji to expend strength countering the heat while Garp leaped toward the armor’s energy core and attacked with Fist Bone: Galaxy Split.

Boer fought Garp and Aokiji in the Sovereign Armor, trading devastating blows with the two Marines as they worked together to overcome its defenses. Garp and Aokiji toppled the giant with a combined ice-spear attack, but Boer’s consciousness remained active inside the frozen armor.

• Boer used force fields and a sudden displacement to deflect Garp and Aokiji’s opening assault, then struck Garp with the armor’s palm and helped freeze him.
• Garp and Aokiji attacked the armor’s joints, while Boer repelled them, broke off frozen limbs, and battered them with the construct’s weapons.
• Garp smashed through the armor’s head, but Boer revealed that he was elsewhere and trapped Garp with metal tentacles while preparing a powerful energy attack.
• Aokiji wounded Boer and disrupted the charging weapon, and Garp escaped the tentacles and struck Boer with a furious barrage.
• Garp and Aokiji combined their attacks, using Garp’s ice-spears to pierce Boer’s defenses before launching Aokiji as a massive spear that froze the armor and toppled it.
• Boer’s consciousness sank into the ice, but his azure eyes opened in the darkness.

Boer fought Garp and Aokiji with his electromagnetic armor and overloaded Superconducting Matrix, while condemning the Celestial Dragons and refusing to recognize them. The battle ended in a catastrophic burst of energy that Aokiji tried to contain, as Kaido and Kizaru clashed in the skies above the New World.

• Boer transformed his armor and Superconducting Matrix, disrupting Garp and Aokiji’s Observation Haki before attacking them with lasers, metal weapons, and magnetic-field attacks.
• Garp and Aokiji countered Boer together, but Boer wounded them and used metal constructs and blinding light to overwhelm Garp’s senses.
• Garp trapped Boer and struck his armor with eighteen Haki-infused punches, while Aokiji forced Boer to retreat with an ice attack.
• Boer overloaded the Superconducting Matrix and transformed into a crimson lightning bird, injuring Garp and Aokiji before his energy ran out.
• Boer fell, and the damaged Superconducting Ring began releasing enough energy to destroy the Royal Capital; Aokiji froze and hurled Garp out of the Ice Dome, then sealed himself and Boer in ice as the ring erupted.
• Above the New World, Kizaru blocked Kaido’s route toward Bernia, and the two prepared to fight.

After the explosion at Bernia, Garp and Aokiji recovered in Marine Headquarters, where Aokiji doubted that Aaron Ball had died. Aaron survived by transforming into a magnetic current and reconstructing himself on a deserted East Blue island, but he awoke with a body split between flesh and energy and an unstable, painful power.

• Tsuru visited the wounded Garp, who called Aaron a fine young man despite the destruction he had caused.
• Aokiji told a Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agent that Aaron might have survived, recalling that Aaron had smiled and seemed to transform as the explosion began.
• Aaron’s consciousness became a strand of magnetic current and drifted through the planet’s magnetic field until it reached a calm magnetic loop near an island in the East Blue.
• Aaron reconstructed his body from energy and matter, but his half-magnetized form overwhelmed him with pain and electromagnetic information.
• A lightning bolt struck Aaron and revived him, after which he discovered he could control magnetic fields and clouds but that using his power increased his hunger and pain.
• Aaron formed black metal armor, failed to fly because his new body was unbalanced, and resolved to adapt to his half-finished awakening.

Boer learned to control his awakened electromagnetic senses and use his powers to feed and hydrate his divided body before heading toward Hamlet Fishing Village. There, Kyle sounded the alarm and charged at the armored stranger, unaware that Boer was approaching the village.

• Boer narrowed his electromagnetic perception to a hundred meters and discovered that slowly drawing energy through magnetic tendrils eased the pain between his blue and flesh-and-blood halves.
• Boer caught and cooked a giant grouper with his magnetic powers, gathered and purified rainwater, and replenished his body with food and drink.
• Boer identified his location as East Blue, decided to seek out Luffy and Garp, and set off toward a nearby fishing village while his hair grew long and black.
• At Hamlet Fishing Village, Kyle brooded over the village's exploitation and his desire to escape, while remembering his father Woolf's warnings and the combat training arranged with Henrik.
• Kyle spotted Boer approaching in black armor, rang the village alarm, and rushed toward him with a broken sword to buy the villagers time to hide.

Boer, calling himself Aaron, demonstrated his power to Hamlet Village by creating a mound of salt and fresh fish, then offered to stay and help the villagers profit from salt. Woolf and the villagers welcomed him cautiously, and the chapter left them imagining a chance to escape poverty.

• Kyle confronted Boer at the village entrance, while Woolf and the villagers gathered behind him in alarm.
• Boer said he needed to stay in the village and reassured Woolf that he had no enemies there.
• Boer used his powers to form a crystal dragon that delivered salt and fresh fish, and the villagers rushed to collect the gifts.
• Boer asked Kyle to invite him inside and suggested that his presence could mean the village would never lack salt.
• At the watchtower, Boer introduced himself as Aaron and told Woolf he could produce salt and help the village trade it for useful goods and make money.
• Woolf, Henrik, Buluolan, Kyle, and the other listeners reacted with excitement at the possibility of changing the village’s fortunes.

Boer proposed a way for Hamlet Village to trade his nearly free salt despite the gangs and authorities controlling the market, while Arlong’s return to Fish-Man Island transformed him into a violent leader. The chapter left Hamlet Village cautiously hopeful and Arlong’s influence spreading among Fish-Man extremists.

• Kyle and the young fishermen offered to help sell Boer’s salt, but Woolf and Henrik warned that bandits, officials, nobles, and the Viper Gang made direct trade dangerous.
• Boer urged the villagers to establish Hamlet Village as a safe salt-trading point and said he could use violence if the gangs interfered.
• Woolf began considering leaving with Kyle and others when Boer eventually departed, as the village’s old peace seemed impossible to restore.
• In 1516, Arlong returned to Fish-Man District instead of going to the East Blue and defeated Hody Jones and his followers.
• Arlong unified Fish-Man District through force and formed a hunting squad that attacked human slave traders and other threats.
• Arlong saved Queen Otohime from an assassination attempt, strengthening his standing as the iron-fisted symbol of Fish-Man extremism.

Boer tested whether he could convert his flesh into a more stable magnetic state, then promised to protect Hamlet Fishing Village’s fishermen while refusing Woolf’s offer to make him their lord. As Boer settled into staying for a year, Kyle’s villagers began spreading affordable salt to nearby settlements, drawing interest toward Hamlet.

• Boer drew geomagnetic energy into his body and partially converted his right side, but stopped when the process threatened to drain his life essence.
• Boer crushed a giant Sea Tiger over the beach and replenished his depleted biological energy by drinking its blood, while Woolf watched in terror.
• Boer gave the children Sea King scales and announced a village feast, then refused Woolf’s request to become their lord but promised to deal with the sea beasts for the next year.
• Kyle led Hamlet’s villagers to nearby settlements to trade samples of their pure, inexpensive salt, prompting local families to consider visiting Hamlet.

Nami was nearly forced into a sexual bargain by Omar at Saint Laurent Noble Academy, but Carina and two Marines intervened. As she headed to G16 Marine Base to draw charts, Nami reflected on the dangers and compromises that shaped her life and her goal of saving one hundred million Beli so she could leave and chart the world’s seas.

• Omar cornered Nami at the academy and offered her fifty thousand Beli to spend a night with him, then ordered his companions to take her when she refused.
• Carina called Nami over with two Marines, forcing Omar to withdraw and allowing Nami to escape.
• Carina urged Nami to leave the academy and recalled how they had become partners after Fuka recruited Nami for her charting and handwriting skills.
• Nami agreed to meet Carina on the pedestrian street after she finished drawing charts for G16 Marine Base.
• On the carriage ride to the base, Nami resolved to keep studying and working until she could save one hundred million Beli and set sail.