Recaps

Boer seized control of Bernia’s underworld and built an alliance of nobles, artisans, and the royal family around a new arms industry. The consortium then ran into political obstruction and a miners’ rebellion, so Boer set out to resolve the mineral shortage himself.

• Aaron Ball, calling himself Boer, recovered his memories on the island, ate the Magnet-Magnet Fruit, and killed the surviving pirates who had attacked his village.
• After a year of training, Boer stopped Greatsword Thatch’s attack on a merchant ship, defeated the pirates, and recruited Thatch and Roland to help him establish a base in Bernia.
• Thatch and Roland drew ambitious nobles into a scheme against the Hunter Family, while Camille lured Daniel Kent into arranging a meeting with Boer.
• Boer defeated Marquis Kent’s forces at the family manor, then fought and subdued Locke Hohen before bringing him to a banquet with Bernia’s nobles.
• Boer formed the Bernia Steel Heavy Industry Consortium, assigned Thatch to organize the Kingdom Security Company, and secured the royal family’s support in exchange for an annual payment.
• Boer recruited smiths and engineers, and Copperhammer Augustine and Hunter Winster began planning machine tools and mother machines to support industrial production.
• Thatch and Roland reported criminal resistance, unreliable weapons sales, and noble interference, so Boer ordered Roland to map the kingdom’s mineral deposits.
• Chloe explained that the Mine Protection Squad controlled the northern mines after miners rebelled against the Mountain Viscount, and Boer sent her to help Roland before leaving to address the shortage himself.

Boer built factories, roads, and housing while using his growing power to aid Bernia’s miners and slum residents. His weapons and strength drew the Marines and other powers toward him, leaving him balancing cooperation with the threat of conflict.

• Boer built and powered the Metal Smelting Center, while an audit revealed that Commonwealth nobles had embezzled funds and he forced them to account for it.
• Boer began building sturdy homes for the slum residents and defeated Rear Admiral Raymont before proposing a weapons and trade arrangement with the Marines.
• Boer brought food and supplies to the mining district, promised tax-free crown protection and roads, and asked Hans and Blake to give Dragon his regards.
• Boer extended roads and trade infrastructure, while rumors about his blades spread across the Four Blues and Chinjao’s Happo Navy moved toward Bernia.
• Boer defeated Chinjao and then fought Borsalino, whose report recommended cooperation and surveillance instead of forced conscription.
• Boer forged Chinjao a spear and arranged for Caiyi to help train his Armament Haki in exchange for custom weapons for the Happo Navy.
• Boer hosted Kizaru and the Marine officers at a banquet featuring Sea King meat, displaying the resources and strength he had gathered in Bernia.

Boer strengthened his ties with Robin, negotiated a West Blue alliance with Dragon, Kuma, and Bege, and led Robin to an ancient tomb containing a message about freedom and truth. He expanded his forces and confronted growing scrutiny from Cipher Pol and the Marines.

• Boer refined Kompira for Gion, donated twelve hundred blades to the Marines, and began training to increase his strength.
• Boer studied Caiyi’s Armament Haki, found that magnetic interference could obstruct it, and learned to form a full suit of Haki armor.
• Boer welcomed Nico Robin to Bernia, offered her protection and a place in his life, and put her in charge of the kingdom’s affairs.
• Boer defeated Pica and Buffalo, confronted Doflamingo, and negotiated a partnership to sell Black Blades and commission famous swords.
• Boer recruited Capone Bege into discussions with Dragon and Kuma, then proposed using the Revolutionary Army, Bege’s network, and Bernia to organize and supply a West Blue alliance.
• Boer and Robin explored the Death Burial Mounds, uncovered an ancient tomb, and recovered a scroll that described courage, wisdom, trust, freedom, and truth as the true inheritance.
• Boer accepted special metals and the Bandage-Bandage Fruit from Buffalo, rescued the Kingdom of Jeff Hardy from Ralph Pito, and helped Hokushin Ichiteru regain his strength and join his company.
• Cipher Pol agents investigated Boer and Robin, Mihawk set out to examine Boer’s weapons, and Miriam died after spying on Boer at the Earl’s Estate, prompting Boer to accuse the Marines or World Government of sending her.

Boer strengthened Bernia through alliances and reconstruction while confronting the exploitation and violence tied to his growing power. After challenging Kaido in Wano and defeating the Fierce Tyrant Pirates, he returned to Robin and faced the work of rebuilding and processing Seastone.

• Sengoku and the Marines chose to cooperate with Boer while warning him not to provoke them, as Lucci set out for Bernia to avenge Miriam.
• Boer visited Dressrosa, built ties with Doflamingo, and watched his weapons sell at an auction that also exposed him to the trade in enslaved people.
• Robin comforted Boer as he questioned his compromises and declared that he wanted to overturn the nobles’ and Celestial Dragons’ order, while Ginny arrived to coordinate Revolutionary Army cooperation.
• Lucci and his Cipher Pol 9 companions attacked Boer, but he defeated them and let them leave, and Garp then apologized to Robin for Ohara’s destruction and warned Boer about Cipher Pol.
• Mihawk dueled Hokushin Ichiteru in Bernia, and Boer stopped the fight after both swordsmen were gravely wounded, and Judge later offered a Germa alliance, and Boer accepted cloned women as collateral but arranged for them to die peacefully.
• Kaido attacked Bernia, and Boer drove him off after a fierce battle, and Boer then left for Wano, damaged its foundations to pressure Kaido, and returned with political concessions and plans for a seastone-processing chain.
• After an assassination attempt and the collapse of the Wilson Family, Boer weighed the risks of seeking stronger opponents, and he later defeated the Fierce Tyrant Pirates and left their surviving slaves for the Marines to handle.
• Boer returned to Robin, who described the Seastone research projects, and the two embraced before agreeing to go home for Elena’s dinner.