Recaps

Rossi, Rayleigh, Whitebeard, and Redfield fought Imu above Mary Geoise, and Redfield’s surprise attack finally wounded her. Imu refused to retreat and began tearing open space, hinting at a new threat as the battle continued.

• Below the battlefield, Jora told the Donquixote coalition’s core members to support the fight above if anything changed.
• Imu parried Oden’s and Rossi’s attacks, then stopped Rossi’s and Rayleigh’s blades while their Haki clash devastated Mary Geoise and sent destructive waves through the fleets below.
• Redfield struck Imu from behind with his parasol, wounding her, and she unleashed a surge of power that forced Rossi, Rayleigh, and Redfield back.
• Rossi took Jora’s medicine and declared that Imu would lose, while Whitebeard continued using tremors to restrict her movement.
• Imu reached the edge of Whitebeard’s tremor field, promised not to run, and dug her fingers into empty space as Rossi sensed a new danger.

A second Imu emerged from a space rift and armed the Holy Knights with paper-made armor and bestowed powers, while the battered alliance prepared to face both Imus and the transformed Five Elders. As the Golden City began to move, the battle for the Holy Land was about to intensify.

• Rossi watched a second Imu step through a rift, and the two Imus agreed to deal with the invading forces before explaining what had happened.
• The Holy Knights reported that the Holy Land had been evacuated, and the book-holding Imu transformed them into an armored Angel Army with granted abilities.
• Whitebeard, Rayleigh, Kaido, and Big Mom prepared to fight; Big Mom consumed ten years of her lifespan and regained a lean, powerful form.
• Kaido transformed into a monstrous dragon-like creature, while Doflamingo used his threads to stitch Kozuki Oden's chest wound closed.
• The Five Elders revealed their formidable forms and abilities as Rossi urged Whitebeard to watch the space-controlling Imu.
• Doffy questioned whether the alliance could defeat their enemies, and the Golden City began to flow at the edge of the Red Line.

Rossi’s forces launched a coordinated assault on the Five Elders and two versions of Imu, while plague shells and powerful fighters overwhelmed the enemy’s ranks. The chapter left Rossi and Doffy charging the book-bearing Imu after Rossi spotted distrust between the two Imus.

• Vergo opened a gate that brought Marco, Teach, Katakuri, Wildfire, Plague, Gild Tesoro, and other allies to the battlefield.
• Queen’s plague shells infected the enemy troops, while Rossi confirmed that his allies had been given antibodies; Teach, Marco, Katakuri, and the other officers fought the agents and Armor Angels.
• Kaido and Kozuki Oden engaged the Five Elders, while Rayleigh, Whitebeard, the Red Count, and Dragon confronted other powerful foes.
• Whitebeard and the Red Count kept one Imu occupied as Charlotte Linlin attacked the book-bearing Imu, who countered with lightning blades and wounded her.
• Rossi noticed that the two Imus kept their distance from each other, then Doffy joined him in attacking the book-bearing Imu.

Doflamingo and Rossi wounded Imu, while Ivankov’s team infiltrated the ruins to destroy Uranus’s control center. One Imu withdrew from the battlefield, but the remaining Imu was trapped by Jora’s power and struck by a coordinated attack as the fighters braced for danger.

• Doflamingo ensnared Imu with Haki-coated threads, allowing Rossi to slash her back with Sandai Kitetsu.
• Lindbergh, Morley, and Ivankov advanced through a tunnel beneath the Red Line to find and destroy Uranus’s control center in the ruins of Pangaea Castle.
• The wounded Imu used the book at her waist to open a rift and leave, telling the Flat-Hat Five Elders to handle their world’s problem themselves.
• Doflamingo attacked the remaining Imu, and Jora used Spindle of Time to stop her as Whitebeard, Red Count, and Rossi prepared simultaneous strikes.
• Rossi and Whitebeard shouted for everyone to scatter as the three attacks hit Imu, while the attackers coated themselves in Armament Haki against an impending threat.

Imu unleashed a devastating spatial attack across the battlefield, but Doflamingo and Marco saved many of the wounded before Imu banished Doflamingo. Rossi and the other fighters continued to pressure Imu, leaving her injured and facing ten coordinated opponents as the Family’s officers subdued the masked agents.

• Imu opened her eyes and sent invisible threads tearing through space, killing or gravely wounding fighters and splitting the Red Line above the Marine Base.
• Doflamingo stitched the wounded with his threads while Marco treated them with blue flames, and Rossi charged Imu and stopped her spatial attack with his Haki.
• Imu erased the space around Doflamingo and banished him before Rossi could reach him, prompting Rossi to attack her in fury.
• Garp shattered falling Red Line rock above the G-1 Branch and sensed the battle raging atop the continent.
• Monkey D. Dragon attacked Imu with a hurricane, and another wounded fighter cut her arm while the other fighters closed in around her.
• Imu recognized that ten opponents were coordinating their attacks effectively, while the Family’s officers pinned down the masked agents.

Imu sent Rossi to the edge of the sun, where he survived by using his Devil Fruit to halt his body, while Doffy was transported to Impel Down’s Level 6 and began freeing Trebol and three other allies. Doffy faced three masked agents as they demanded he surrender, leaving the group on the brink of a fight.

• Imu seized Rossi and pulled him into the void despite his warning, then vanished with him from the battlefield.
• With Rossi gone, Trebol ordered the surviving allies to retreat as Imu challenged them to send the next fighter.
• Rossi found himself at the edge of the sun and used his Calm-Calm Fruit to block its forces, then stopped his bodily functions to survive without oxygen.
• Doffy arrived in the frozen Level 6 of Impel Down, freed Trebol, and used his powers to release three more allies from their cells.
• Three masked agents confronted Doffy, and their leader transformed into a tiger-man before demanding that Doffy surrender or be forced to do so.

Doflamingo broke out of Impel Down with a prisoner who resembled him, then encountered another Doflamingo from a different world. The visiting Doflamingo learned that this world's Doflamingo had killed Rossi and demanded an explanation for the events that had shaped his life.

• Doflamingo defeated the Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents pursuing him in Impel Down and reached Magellan.
• Doflamingo freed the blond prisoner from Level 6, and the prisoner asked who ruled the seas.
• Doflamingo and the prisoner passed Hannyabal and other guards, whom Doflamingo had immobilized with his String-String Fruit.
• Doflamingo faced Magellan at the prison exit and prepared to fight through the poison to escape.
• A Doflamingo from another world fought the imprisoned Doflamingo after learning that he had killed Rossi.
• The visiting Doflamingo stopped fighting and asked the Family officers to explain what had happened in their world.

A powerful Doflamingo from another world freed Impel Down’s prisoners and Donquixote Family members, then learned how his counterpart’s choices had led to the Family’s downfall. After confronting his middle-aged self over what he had protected, he flew alone toward the Navy fleet led by Fleet Admiral Sengoku.

• The suited Doflamingo refused to condemn his imprisoned counterpart for betraying Rossi, then ordered Torre to open the cells and invited the prisoners to join his assault on Imu.
• He freed Douglas, Shiki, Tesoro, and other Level 6 prisoners, claiming he could control them and would defeat them if necessary.
• As he freed the Donquixote officers, Doflamingo questioned their weakened condition and learned that Trafalgar Law had killed Vergo and helped overthrow the Family after Rossi cured Law’s Amber Lead Syndrome.
• Doflamingo confronted his middle-aged counterpart and asked what he had managed to protect; the older man could not answer as he recalled the people and ambitions he had lost.
• Doflamingo spared his counterpart, spotted a Navy fleet approaching, and charged alone toward the lead warship.

Three years after the Holy Land's destruction, pirates attacked Goa Kingdom and forced its discarded poor to storm the capital's wall. As Ace, Sabo, Luffy, and Dadan faced certain death, a mysterious voice offered Luffy a deal, and an entity in his body unleashed Conqueror's Haki to incapacitate the attackers.

• Pirates led by a burly captain bombarded Goa Kingdom's wall and forced scavengers from Border Town to climb it as human shields.
• Ace and Sabo helped the wounded Dadan toward the wall while Luffy cried out that he did not want them to die.
• Dadan embraced the three boys and prepared to shield them as the pirates and kingdom defenders aimed their weapons.
• A mysterious voice told Luffy it could save him in exchange for a future favor, and Luffy accepted.
• Luffy called everyone's attention and released a powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki, knocking out pirates and defenders across the hillside.
• Dadan recognized the Haki, and the being inside Luffy explained that it was neither a Devil Fruit power nor mind control.

Rossi remotely controlled Luffy, found a way to contact the Family, and explained that he needed Luffy’s help to return from the sun. As Rossi began guiding Luffy and his brothers amid a fractured world, Doffy confronted a Navy officer in a parallel space-time.

• Rossi controlled Luffy through the Goa Kingdom soldiers and reached the Royal Palace, where he found a Den Den Mushi and called the Family.
• Ace and Sabo arrived, and Rossi reassured them before releasing control so Luffy could reunite with his brothers.
• Rossi explained that he was stranded near the sun and needed Luffy’s talent to help bring him back; Ace and Sabo agreed to fulfill their agreement with Luffy.
• Rossi described a world divided among the World Government, the Navy, New World powers, and Dragon’s growing movement, then urged the boys to make a legend with him.
• In a parallel space-time, Doffy faced a magma-controlling Navy officer amid the wreckage of warships outside Impel Down.

Doflamingo defeated Akainu’s attacks and escaped Impel Down with the otherworldly Donquixote Family, while Magellan revealed that they had been thrown into this world by Imu. Aboard the flying ship, Doflamingo learned that Kaido and Big Mom had lost their places among the Four Emperors, leaving him to wonder how Kaido could have been defeated.

• Doflamingo sliced apart Akainu’s fleet, countered his magma attacks, and won their clash before leaving aboard Golden Lion’s flying ship.
• Akainu confronted the injured Magellan, who explained that the suited Doflamingo was an alternate-world visitor and that Imu had sent the Donquixote Family into their world.
• Akainu learned that the otherworldly Donquixote Family had stormed the Red Line and escaped Impel Down, then reflected on the prison breach and his mounting burdens.
• Trebol explained that the Four Emperors were Buggy the Clown, Red-Haired Shanks, Blackbeard Teach, and Straw Hat Luffy.
• The buzz-cut man told Doflamingo that Kaido and Big Mom had recently been removed from their thrones, and Doflamingo questioned how Kaido had lost.

Rossi trained Ace, Sabo, and Luffy in fighting and Haki while residing in Luffy’s body, then discovered that the cloud-patterned fruit he had expected to be gone was still untouched. The chapter ended with the fruit brought before him aboard a ship.

• Rossi used Luffy’s body to defeat Ace and Sabo in training and taught them to fight by exploiting opponents’ weaknesses.
• Rossi asked Luffy about Shanks and learned that the Red Hair Pirates had briefly visited Foosha Village and that Luffy had met Uta.
• Rossi promised to train Ace, Sabo, and Luffy until one of them awakened Haki, and Luffy vowed to help free him from the sun.
• After several weeks of training, a strangely shaped ship arrived, and a woman brought out a cloud-patterned fruit for Rossi to identify.
• Rossi recognized that the fruit was still there and fell silent, surprised that nobody had taken it.

Rossi gave Luffy the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and trained him, Ace, and Sabo as they developed their powers and Haki. After encouraging Ace to accept his birth and value the people who loved him, Rossi later found that no one but Luffy could hear his signal from the sun, while Luffy demonstrated his new lightning power by catching a giant sea creature.

• Rossi chose Luffy to eat the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Luffy accepted it, gaining the power of lightning.
• Ace awakened his Conqueror's Haki, while Sabo demonstrated his ability to evade attacks using Observation Haki; Luffy struggled to keep pace.
• Rossi warned Ace that his refusal to retreat could become stubbornness and told him that he was born from his mother's love, not bound by Roger's identity.
• Months later, Trebol and the others failed to hear Rossi's signal, and Rossi explained that only Luffy could receive it.
• Luffy used lightning to catch a huge sea creature, prompting Rossi to warn him that fishing with lightning could earn him a fine.

Months after the Family waited for news of their missing companions, the boy trained, hunted sea beasts, and captured the pirate Haerdeng for his bounty. After collecting the money, he left the tavern while a hooded figure quietly stopped a gunman from attacking him.

• The Family’s core members waited in an East Blue village, trusting the intact Vivre Card and deciding to finish building a ship before pursuing their goals.
• Three months later, the boy killed a sea beast with lightning and said he would leave once the ship was finished, while the Vivre Card in his pocket remained warm.
• The boy brought the captured pirate Haerdeng to the tavern and claimed the bounty, explaining that he had struck where Haerdeng’s shoulder dropped during a swing.
• After the boy insulted the tavern’s gathered toughs, a hooded figure blocked a gunman’s attempt to draw his weapon.
• The boy collected his money and left the tavern, while the scar-faced bartender and the hooded figure kept the other patrons subdued.

Zoro and Luffy joined forces after meeting in a tavern, then set out to find the real Hawk-Eyes with Ensign Morgan. When the search led nowhere, Morgan recruited them to hunt the Black Cat Pirates, and they boarded his warship as Rossi watched from within Luffy.

• Zoro cut through a bounty hunter’s gunstock and warned him not to dirty the tavern before Luffy asked him to join his crew; Zoro refused, saying he sought the title of strongest swordsman.
• Zoro learned that someone had spotted Hawk-Eyes nearby, and Luffy offered him a ride; Rossi watched as the two agreed to travel together.
• Ensign Morgan approached Zoro and Luffy, offered to help verify the Hawk-Eyes sighting, and explained that the Marines had no intelligence about it.
• In Orange Town, Zoro beat a four-million-Beli bounty hunter who falsely claimed to be Hawk-Eyes, while Luffy proposed that Zoro join his crew if he arranged a meeting with the real swordsman.
• Morgan asked Luffy and Zoro to help eliminate the Black Cat Pirates, promising them the full bounty; both accepted and boarded his warship.
• Rossi teased Luffy about the low bounties of East Blue pirates as the warship prepared to search for the Black Cat Pirates and the rumored Hawk-Eyes.

Luffy and Zoro faced Captain Kuro and the Black Cat Pirates aboard a Marine warship, where Kuro’s attack was stopped by Zoro and Luffy’s hidden instructor. After the battle, Luffy’s instructor revealed that he shared Luffy’s body and could take control when Luffy’s mental defenses weakened.

• The Marines fired on the Black Cat Pirates’ ship, and Kuro crossed the water to board their warship.
• Kuro attacked the Marines, but Zoro engaged him while Luffy tended to the wounded.
• Jango hypnotized the Marines and Luffy, allowing Kuro to wound Zoro during the distraction.
• Luffy’s instructor took control of his body and defeated Kuro and the Black Cat Pirates.
• After Luffy woke, he explained to Zoro that he and his instructor had always shared his body, and Rossi identified the instructor’s ability as a branch application of Observation Haki.

Luffy and Zoro reached Cocoyasi Village, where Nami and Bellemere confronted them just as Dracule Mihawk destroyed Don Krieg’s fleet. Mihawk arrived behind Zoro and demanded to know who had used Rossi’s name to summon him, leaving Zoro poised to face the swordsman.

• Luffy and Zoro set sail aboard the refitted Black Cat, while Rossi urged them to recruit essential specialists for their voyage.
• Nami, Bellemere, Kensuke, and the villagers confronted Luffy and Zoro, who explained they had captured the Black Cat Pirates.
• Nami warned the pair about Don Krieg’s approaching fleet, but Luffy sensed that the pirates were already being routed.
• Mihawk sliced apart Don Krieg’s ships and asked who had called him using Rossi’s name.
• Zoro prepared to challenge Mihawk, who suddenly appeared behind him before he could finish speaking.

Mihawk humiliated Zoro in a duel, then recognized his resolve and wounded him with the Black Blade. As Rossi watched through Luffy, a gold-armored man interrupted Mihawk’s departure and challenged the claim of supremacy.

• Mihawk dismissed Zoro with a glance that blasted him into the wreckage, then called him a frog trapped at the bottom of a well.
• Zoro attacked Mihawk with his three swords, but Mihawk deflected every strike with one finger and called him too weak to understand strength.
• Zoro refused to retreat, and Mihawk drew the Black Blade to give him the ending he deserved.
• Mihawk shattered two of Zoro’s swords, then cut a deep wound across Zoro’s chest after Zoro declared that a swordsman’s shame lay only in scars on his back.
• Rossi stopped Luffy from intervening and corrected Mihawk’s farewell, telling him to say he would wait at the very top.
• A gold-armored man challenged Mihawk’s claim to be the strongest, and the ghost and Mihawk turned their attention to Luffy.

The straw-hatted boy defeated the golden-armored invader while Mihawk learned that Imu had derailed their past plan and Doffy had vanished. In another world, Doflamingo found the Cross Guild and proposed an alliance to overthrow the Celestial Dragons and Imu, then singled out Mihawk for his interest.

• The straw-hatted boy struck down the golden-armored man with a lightning-fast blow and a powerful Thunderbolt, then swept the sea with a lightning net to defeat the remaining attackers.
• Nami watched the boy's power and wondered if she could use strength like his to break free of her world.
• Mihawk asked the boy's other consciousness about the battle four years earlier, and it explained that Imu had sent Doffy into an unknown rift and pinned it to the sun; it added that Imu wielded Sandai Kitetsu and had taken Rayleigh's arm.
• Doflamingo arrived on Karai Bari Island, sensed its hidden fighters, and entered a scarlet tent where Buggy, Hawk-Eyes, and Crocodile were gathered.
• Doflamingo introduced himself as a version from another world and asked the Cross Guild to storm the Red Line, overthrow the Celestial Dragons, and defeat Imu; Buggy asked to hear the plan.
• Doflamingo addressed Mihawk and said he was more interested in him than in the others, but Mihawk said he did not know anyone named Rossi.

An otherworldly Doflamingo fought Mihawk to a draw, then offered the Cross Guild information about Imu and Uranus in exchange for joining him on an assault on the Red Line. In Cocoyasi Village, Nami agreed to navigate for Luffy and Zoro on the condition that she could sink the flagship of every pirate crew they met.

• The otherworldly Doflamingo challenged Mihawk to a sword fight, and the two ended their clash in a draw.
• Crocodile assessed the strength of the gathered fighters and asked the otherworldly Doflamingo for information about Imu and Uranus.
• The otherworldly Doflamingo offered to reveal what he knew and asked the Cross Guild leaders to join his expedition to the Red Line.
• In Cocoyasi Village, Nami offered to join Luffy and Zoro as their navigator, while Rossi revealed that he was connected to Luffy and had earned the titles Black King and Calamity Crow.
• Nami agreed to take Luffy and Zoro to any sea if they let her sink the flagship of every pirate crew they encountered, and Luffy accepted.

Luffy, Zoro, and Nami trained aboard the Black Cat under Rossi’s guidance while setting out to find a ship and a teacher trapped in a cage. After supplies ran low, Luffy smelled food and led them to the seafaring restaurant Baratie, where Rossi sensed a familiar presence.

• Luffy and Nami decided to find a ship and rescue a teacher trapped in a cage, while Rossi explained how he had been imprisoned near the sun and agreed to guide them as a traveling companion.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Nami trained under Rossi, named their crew the Dream Chasers, and set sail toward their individual goals.
• When the crew ran low on food, Luffy used lightning to stun fish, and Rossi explained that Luffy’s appetite came from a body-refinement method taught by Garp.
• Luffy caught the scent of food from far away and guided the Black Cat toward the seafaring restaurant Baratie.
• Rossi recognized Baratie and sensed a familiar presence aboard.

Luffy and his crew arrived at the Baratie, where Sanji transformed into a black-armored berserker and slaughtered the pirates threatening the restaurant. After serving them a meal, Sanji refused Luffy’s invitation to join the crew because he feared losing control again.

• Nami steered the Black Cat toward the Baratie, and Luffy and Nami stopped diners from fleeing without paying by striking the sea with lightning.
• Sanji tried to negotiate with the armed pirates threatening the restaurant, but Nami’s gunshot hit him and triggered his transformation into black armor.
• Sanji attacked the pirates in a violent frenzy until Luffy intervened and told him to stop forcing himself to kill while crying.
• Sanji collapsed in distress, and Luffy invited him to join the crew; the chefs refused and asked the visitors to leave, but Luffy stayed to eat.
• Sanji served Luffy, Nami, and Zoro a meal, then explained that the unstable force inside him made it impossible for him to join them.
• Sanji rejected Luffy’s invitation and left the table, while Nami complained about his attitude.

Sanji’s memories revealed his violent childhood as a Vinsmoke and his escape from his family, while Luffy tried to recruit him to the crew. Sanji remained reluctant to leave Zeff, but Luffy waited for him to explain his past, as another man discussed Luffy and Impel Down.

• Rossi explained that Sanji was Vinsmoke Sanji, the third son of Germa 66, and Luffy insisted that he wanted him as the crew’s cook.
• Sanji remembered the Vinsmoke children’s slaughter of defenders, his sister telling him to flee, and his father declaring that he would execute him.
• Sanji refused Luffy’s invitation and said he hated the power in his battle suit, then apologized for snapping at him.
• Zeff urged Sanji to leave and pursue what he wanted, while Sanji worried about who would look after Zeff.
• The orange-haired boy told Sanji he would wait for him to share his story, and a blond man questioned a subordinate about Luffy and Impel Down.

Sanji and Luffy parted from the orange-haired youth as their island restaurant moved on, while Doflamingo’s group discussed Shanks and Buggy. Later, Logan’s Black Sails Pirates surrounded the floating restaurant, and Luffy’s mysterious teacher spoke through half of his face as the confrontation began.

• Sanji and the old man left the restaurant, while the orange-haired youth remained behind with his straw hat.
• Doflamingo chose Shanks as his first contact, questioned Buggy about his past with Roger, and declared he wanted to test himself against a Four Emperor.
• Nami used the money from selling the Black Cat’s seafood to restock supplies, and Luffy insisted Sanji join his crew as cook.
• Luffy’s teacher spoke through the left half of Luffy’s face and warned that five pirate ships were approaching the restaurant.
• The Black Sails Pirates surrounded the restaurant, and their captain Logan offered the cooks a choice between killing one another or entertaining his pet octopus.
• Luffy’s teacher recognized Logan as a dangerous figure hidden in the East Blue and questioned whether the Navy Hero had been neglecting his duties.

At the Baratie, Luffy stopped a cannon shell that a creature from Black Flag's glass container had reflected, then challenged the ship and urged Sanji to step forward for others. Elsewhere, Doffy trained the Donquixote officers and confronted his other-worldly counterpart, who agreed to fight him for strength.

• Patty fired a cannon shell at Black Flag, but a creature from his glass container deflected it toward the restaurant.
• Luffy caught the returning shell and told Sanji that power depended on who wielded it and whether they stood up for others.
• Doffy pressed Diamante, Pica, and the other Donquixote officers to strengthen their Haki and combat skills, and advised Pica to learn Fish-Man Karate.
• Doffy asked his counterpart to come with him, and the two discussed the counterpart's desire for power and a fight.
• The counterpart challenged Doffy, who accepted and demanded that he prove his resolve to carry the Donquixote name.