Recaps

The alternate-world Doflamingo arrived at Champion Island, rescued Law from Blackbeard, and gathered powerful figures to recruit them for his campaign against the Red Line. Blackbeard accepted the invitation, while Law and Kuzan’s positions remained uncertain.

• Tesoro delivered a decoded Marine report, and Doflamingo ordered his floating island to Champion Island after learning that Blackbeard and Law were fighting.
• Blackbeard overpowered Law with his Devil Fruit abilities, but Doflamingo intervened with a Super Electromagnetic Gun and saved him.
• Doflamingo’s powerful allies arrived, and he freed Law’s frozen subordinates Shachi and Penguin from an ice block.
• Law confronted the middle-aged Doflamingo, and the suited Doflamingo stopped them before inviting Kuzan to join his army.
• Kuzan deferred to Blackbeard, who accepted Doflamingo’s invitation to take part in the assault on Mary Geoise.

Doflamingo gathered Trafalgar Law and Charlotte Pudding on Champion Island and explained that he needed their help to find a way back to his own world. Law agreed, Pudding chose to join them, and Law began briefing Doflamingo on the world’s strongest forces.

• Doflamingo freed Charlotte Pudding from her Seastone shackles and led her and Trafalgar Law toward the floating island, while Blackbeard and the other prisoners remained on the thread-bound island.
• Doflamingo drew Law and Pudding into a tent and showed Law memories of his own world, asking for his strength to help find a way back.
• Law agreed to help Doflamingo return to his world, and Pudding chose to stay with them rather than return to Totto Land.
• Doflamingo asked Law for reliable intelligence about the world’s strongest fighters, and Law described the Navy, Dragon’s Army, and the divided pirate forces.
• Law reported that Sabo had recently killed a Celestial Dragon during an assault on Mary Geoise and escaped, raising his reputation beyond Dragon’s.

Doflamingo redirected his Family toward Egghead Island to recruit Vegapunk and gather strength, while Zoro, Nami, and Luffy faced the Black Sails Pirates and their gigantic Kraken. The Kraken overwhelmed the ships, and Luffy insisted on finding a cook before fighting it as Zoro and Nami struggled to approach.

• Doflamingo discussed the Four Emperors with Luo, then changed the Family’s destination from Red-Haired’s territory to Egghead Island after considering Vegapunk’s abilities.
• Zoro routed the Black Sails Pirates at Baratie, while Nami shot a fleeing pirate and Luffy destroyed an enemy ship with lightning.
• Captain Logan ordered Kraken to deal with the retreating pirates, and the enormous sea monster emerged and devoured their ship.
• Rossi recognized the North Blue Kraken and offered to help, but Luffy asked him to wait because he needed to find a cook first.
• Nami steered the Black Cat through the violent waves as Zoro realized his sword could not seriously injure the mountain-sized Kraken.

Luffy fought a giant sea creature and was overwhelmed by seawater, but Sanji rescued him and Rossi used electromagnetic force to kill the monster. The Black Sails Pirates surrendered, while their captain, Black Flag Logan, was missing.

• Luffy attacked the North Blue Kraken with lightning, but its water jets drowned him and a tentacle struck him into the sea.
• Zoro tried to reach Luffy through the waves, while Nami called for the teacher to help him.
• Sanji flew into the sea, rescued Luffy, and carried him back toward the ship.
• Rossi used a metal coin and electromagnetic paths to fire a projectile into the Kraken's brain core, killing it.
• Luffy and Sanji landed on the deck as the Black Sails Pirates surrendered, and a pirate said Black Flag Logan had fled.

Luffy, Sanji, and the others defeated Black Flag Logan and sailed to Loguetown, where the boy and the voice sharing his body reflected on the Pirate King’s execution and the purpose behind his final words. The chapter ended with the two consciousnesses discussing the hidden aim of the public execution.

• Luffy and the voice in his left cheek deduced that Logan could shrink himself and exposed him hiding at the mast.
• Sanji attacked Logan at close range, defeated him with a series of powerful blows, and sent him crashing through the ship.
• Several days later, the crew reached Loguetown, where Luffy’s appetite and training prompted the voice to explain how food could become strength.
• The crew split up to explore and restock in Loguetown, while the boy went with the man to see the Execution Platform.
• At the platform, the boy and the voice discussed how the Pirate King’s death had drawn people toward the sea and suggested his final words were bait meant to bring together people who could overturn the world’s order.

Rossi’s consciousness watched Luffy declare that he would end the era, while the crew sailed toward the coming conflict. On deck, Zoro and Nami sparred with their new weapons, and Nami revealed a sudden change in her strength.

• Rossi recalled rejecting fate and choosing to challenge the powers atop the Red Line, then found himself in Luffy’s body on the Execution Platform in Loguetown.
• Luffy declared that he would end the era, drawing laughter from the crowd until Marines arrived and a soldier identified him as the rumored “Thunder Fist.”
• Luffy left the platform and joined Sanji, Zoro, and Nami, while Rossi reflected that his consciousness was growing stronger in preparation for its return and the final battle against Imu.
• On the ship, Zoro showed off Yubashiri, while Nami hefted her Giant Axe, Blood Roar, and challenged him to a spar.
• Zoro gained the upper hand and brought his sword to Nami’s throat, but Nami suddenly tensed her body and raised her axe for another attack.

Nami awakened the bloodthirsty axe by using Rossi’s explosive technique, breaking Zoro’s new sword and learning that the weapon drained its wielder’s vitality. She resolved to master it, while the chapter also showed Buggy’s rise to Emperor status through a misunderstanding and young Doffy training Luo in Haki.

• Nami struck Zoro’s crossed swords with the giant axe, shattering one of his new blades before she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Rossi explained that the axe absorbed its wielder’s vitality and had awakened after feeding on Nami’s power.
• Nami decided to grow strong enough to wield the axe without letting it consume her.
• Buggy became one of the Four Emperors after his followers’ flyers convinced the world that he led the Cross Guild.
• Young Doffy told Luo to strengthen all Three Types of Haki as they sparred, while Luo struggled to find an opening against him.

A version of Doffy from another world led a coalition of pirates toward Egghead Island, where he intervened in the battle between Luffy and Lucci. After demonstrating his overwhelming strength, he faced the white-haired Luffy and identified himself as a Doffy from another world.

• Luo admitted that the suited young man’s Haki and control had overwhelmed his Op-Op Fruit, and the young man compared his power to Imu’s.
• Pudding told Lord Doffy that Flying Island had entered Egghead Island’s waters, and Doffy led the group toward the island.
• The group spotted a damaged World Government warship near Egghead Island, and Blackbeard speculated that Vegapunk had fallen out with his employer.
• Doffy flew ahead to investigate Egghead Island and arrived as Luffy and Lucci clashed, catching both of their attacks and unleashing a destructive shock wave.
• Doffy fought Lucci, caught his claw attacks, and evaded his threads before the white-haired Luffy demanded an explanation.
• Doffy told Luffy that he came from another world and that its supreme being had thrown him there.

Doflamingo from another world asked Luffy to help storm the Red Line, and their clash nearly devastated the surrounding sea and Egghead Island. After Luffy refused, Doflamingo tried to persuade him by invoking the Straw Hat crew’s safety, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Doflamingo from another world invited Luffy to join his campaign against the Celestial Dragons and the hidden god they worshipped.
• Luffy charged at Blackbeard, but Doflamingo intercepted him and fought him with a powerful Haki-infused thread attack.
• Luffy’s Gear Fifth fist collided with Doflamingo’s attack, and the shock wave battered Karai Bari Island and nearly sank Egghead Island.
• Nami warned Luffy that Dr. Vegapunk’s brain waves were collapsing, so Luffy stopped fighting to protect his companions and Vegapunk.
• Luffy refused Doflamingo’s offer to conquer Mary Geoise, even after Doflamingo promised him power and glory.
• Doflamingo recognized Flam among the Straw Hat crew and argued that Luffy should eliminate threats to protect the people he valued.

Doflamingo pressed the Straw Hat Pirates to join his journey to Mary Geoise, and Crocodile revealed that Vivi was at Red Harbor. After Luffy agreed to go, Kizaru arrived and surrendered, while Shaka offered Vegapunk’s support and the Seraphim.

• Franky questioned young Doffy about Mr. Tom, but Jinbe pulled him back as the Straw Hat Pirates refused Doflamingo’s request.
• Crocodile told the Straw Hats that Vivi and her people were at Red Harbor and warned that a war on the Red Line could put them in danger.
• Luffy agreed to go to Mary Geoise to protect Vivi, even if it meant temporarily standing alongside Blackbeard.
• The three remaining Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents feared they could not escape, and Kizaru arrived before immediately surrendering.
• Shaka identified himself as one of Vegapunk’s satellites, offered to join the Straw Hats, and drew Doflamingo’s attention to the Seraphim.

The alliance accepted Vegapunk’s offer and Kizaru agreed to accompany them to Mary Geoise, while Luffy’s crew continued training during their journey through the Grand Line. Crocodile sent Nico Robin to deal with the Phantom Group, and Mr. 3 and Miss Goldenweek ended up pleading for mercy aboard the Black Cat.

• Vegapunk explained that his Lunarian-blooded, Shichibukai-based creations matched the originals in strength, and Blackbeard warned that they were formidable.
• Doflamingo invited Vegapunk to join the alliance, and Kizaru said he would travel with them to Mary Geoise to see who could define justice.
• On the Black Cat, the crew trained under the voice inhabiting Luffy’s body, which offered Chopper lessons in Electro and told Vivi to build her strength and learn Haki.
• Crocodile ordered Nico Robin to go to Whiskey Peak after hearing that the Phantom Group had destroyed most of Baroque Works’ forces there.
• Mr. 3 and Miss Goldenweek knelt aboard the Black Cat and begged the heroes to spare them.

Luffy’s crew confronted Nico Robin and learned that Crocodile led Baroque Works and was behind Alabasta’s unrest. As they sailed toward Rainbase, they discovered Crocodile was a Shichibukai comparable to Hawk-Eyes Mihawk.

• Galdino tried to bargain with Luffy’s crew, while Miss Goldenweek stayed beside him.
• Vivi identified Nico Robin as Mr. 0’s deputy and connected Baroque Works to Alabasta’s turmoil.
• Luffy asked Robin about Crocodile and declared that defeating him would save Vivi’s country; Robin then dissolved into sand-like fragments and left.
• Luffy’s crew locked up Galdino and Miss Goldenweek as they continued toward Rainbase.
• A crew member explained that Crocodile was a Shichibukai and compared his strength to Hawk-Eyes Mihawk, leaving the others stunned.

Luffy and his companions reached Alabasta as Vivi tried to lead them toward Yuba and explain how drought and suspected Dance Powder use had driven the country toward war. In the ruined city, Koza accused King Cobra of stealing rain for the royal palace, leaving Vivi confronted with the rebellion’s cause.

• The Straw Hats resolved to face the danger in Alabasta, and Vivi asked Luffy to take her to Yuba, where people displaced by the drought had gathered.
• Rossi explained that millions might die as people fought over scarce water, and Luffy and the others disembarked at Erumalu before Vivi stopped them for heading the wrong way.
• In Rainbase, Crocodile dismissed the Straw Hats as weak but singled out Luffy as a Logia user and decided to confront them himself.
• Luffy and his companions crossed the desert into a war-torn city, where Vivi began untying the bodies of soldiers hanging at the gate.
• Koza accused King Cobra of using Dance Powder to bring rain to the palace while worsening drought elsewhere, and he said the rebels had taken up arms to reclaim the rain.

Rossi revealed that Crocodile was behind the conflict and had arrived at Yuba with a devastating sandstorm. Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Sanji fought Crocodile, but his sand body let him evade their attacks as the battle continued.

• Rossi told the group that Crocodile had orchestrated the conflict and was already at Yuba, where a massive sandstorm advanced on the city.
• Crocodile descended into Yuba with Nico Robin and admitted to Vivi that he had planned the war and did not care about the people.
• Zoro and Nami attacked Crocodile, but he repelled them with a sand-forged scimitar and his golden hook, injuring both fighters.
• Sanji struck Crocodile from behind, only for his head to burst into sand, while Luffy intercepted a blade rising from beneath him with a lightning attack.
• Luffy trapped Crocodile's sand body in a net of lightning, but Crocodile dispersed into grains and re-formed behind him.

Crocodile overwhelmed Luffy and the Straw Hats, but an unknown will took control of Luffy’s body and revealed a presence that Crocodile recognized as Rossi. Rossi confronted Crocodile with lightning-powered spatial movement and appeared behind him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Crocodile struck Luffy aside, broke the blond boy’s leg, and dried out Zoro’s right arm with his sand blade.
• Luffy transformed into lightning and then searing light, burning Crocodile before Crocodile impaled him with his golden hook.
• A powerful presence took control of Luffy’s body, healed the wound, and frightened Crocodile into thinking Rossi had returned.
• Crocodile reasoned that the figure was not truly Rossi and attacked with a sandstorm while the injured Straw Hats retreated.
• The figure dispersed into lightning and reappeared behind Crocodile, declaring that Crocodile had already been killed once as Crocodile unleashed Sandstorm Burial Ground.

Rossi, controlling Luffy’s body, fought Crocodile through a devastating sandstorm and used rain to stop Crocodile from turning into sand. After defeating him, Rossi revealed that he knew Crocodile was seeking Pluton and offered to share its coordinates if Crocodile could beat him, before bringing up Uranus.

• Crocodile unleashed a vast sandstorm that swept away civilians and rebels, forcing Rossi to fight through the chaos.
• Rossi used a blade and lightning to strike Crocodile repeatedly, but Crocodile survived and believed his Haki made him invincible.
• Rossi called down rain, which collapsed the sandstorm and prevented Crocodile from turning into sand.
• Rossi defeated the rain-soaked Crocodile and told him that relying on Pluton instead of his own strength had weakened him.
• Rossi revealed that he knew Crocodile was seeking Pluton and offered to give him its coordinates if Crocodile could defeat him.
• Rossi began telling Crocodile about witnessing Uranus’s power, but the chapter ended before he explained further.

Rossi drove Crocodile away and left him questioning his strength, while the Straw Hat Pirates recovered from the battle and reunited with Vivi. In another space-time, Vegapunk showed Doflamingo his laboratory and explained his plan to connect people to a network of shared knowledge.

• Rossi told Crocodile that relying on Pluton would not make him strong, and Crocodile withdrew after promising to face Rossi as his true self next time.
• Rain fell over the desert and ended the rebels’ will to fight, while Chopper examined the injured Straw Hat Pirates and found Luffy’s wounds had healed through Life Return.
• Nami comforted Vivi, Luffy apologized to his crew, and Zoro and Sanji spoke about growing stronger after their defeat.
• Vivi invited the recovering crew to eat, and Rossi watched them from above, hoping their experience would spur them to train without damaging their foundations.
• In another space-time, Vegapunk showed Doflamingo his brain laboratory and described his plan to create a network for recording and sharing knowledge.

Doflamingo redirected his coalition toward Marine Headquarters after learning that the Revolutionary Army was moving against the Red Line, while Law briefed him on the Marines’ forces. The chapter ended with Sakazuki furious over an Admiral’s outright surrender.

• Shaka reported that Kuma had left the Revolutionary Army’s base and was under attack near Red Line Port, prompting Doflamingo to plan a pincer assault with the Revolutionary Army.
• Doflamingo changed Karai Bari Island’s course toward the Red Line as fleets from across the New World gathered to attack Marine Headquarters.
• Law briefed Doflamingo on the Marines’ Admirals, veterans, and candidates, while Kizaru listened and reacted to the report about Ryokugyu.
• Law explained that he was helping for the sake of his other-world counterpart, Lami, and the people they cared about.
• Sakazuki smashed his desk and condemned an unnamed Admiral for surrendering outright.

The Marines prepared to defend Mary Geoise and their New World fortress as the allied fleet led by Doflamingo advanced, while Imu readied herself to face Joy Boy. At the fortress, Akainu attacked the approaching island with magma, but Blackbeard’s darkness swallowed the assault.

• Sakazuki ordered the Marines to fight the allied forces, and told Garp and Sengoku to return after rescuing Koby from Hachinosu.
• Imu dismissed the Five Elders’ apologies, confirmed that an awakened Nika user had joined the allied force, and prepared to fight Joy Boy.
• A combined pirate fleet attacked the Marines’ New World fortress, but its defenders held the walls against the assault.
• A fleet detached from the battle and headed toward Red Harbor to search for the princess entrusted to them by the captain in the straw hat.
• Akainu confronted Doflamingo at Karai Bari Island and unleashed a torrent of magma, which Blackbeard’s darkness absorbed.

The Navy’s top fighters clashed with the allied forces as the rising island neared the Red Line. Hawk-Eyes cut down Ryokugyu, who regenerated and kept fighting, while Golden Lion struggled to hold back two enormous falling masses and Fujitora faced a powerful armored opponent.

• Crocodile and Tesoro used sand and Haki-coated gold to counter Akainu’s lava attack as young Doflamingo fought the Fleet Admiral with his threads.
• Ryokugyu unleashed a forest that threatened the allied forces, and Doflamingo ordered the fighters to target his real body.
• Hawk-Eyes sliced through the forest and split Ryokugyu’s giant tree form, but Aramaki regenerated from a shoot and prepared to hold him off.
• Fujitora summoned a massive meteor, and Golden Lion stopped it with his Float-Float Fruit before Fujitora brought down a second enormous mass.
• A black-armored man struck Fujitora with City Crusher, but the blind swordsman halted the punch with gravity and his blade.

The allied forces reached the Red Line as the Marines withdrew, revealing Akainu’s plan to lead a strike against the Holy Land and everyone entrenched there. Blackbeard’s forces stood before Mary Geoise, intent on confronting the hidden ruler.

• Tsuru stopped Luffy from reaching Akainu and weakened his arm with the Wash-Wash Fruit, while the allied forces gained the advantage elsewhere on the battlefield.
• Doflamingo realized the Marines were stalling, and Akainu attacked Karai Bari Island, breaking off a fragment and forcing the Marines to withdraw.
• Karai Bari Island reached the summit of the Red Line, where Akainu assembled senior Marines and ordered them to eliminate their enemies before marching on Mary Geoise.
• Akainu declared that the Marines would eradicate the Celestial Dragons and the hidden power behind them, and Fujitora accepted the plan.
• Karai Bari Island’s wreckage crashed at the edge of the Red Line, and Blackbeard urged Doffy to give the order to attack Mary Geoise.

Doflamingo’s alliance attacked the Holy City, with Byrnndi World’s enlarged explosive shell devastating the Celestial Dragons’ city but failing to damage the castle’s silver barrier. The assembled fighters began testing the barrier and realized it was governed by rules rather than ordinary strength, leaving the castle and its occupant untouched.

• Doflamingo had Luo teleport Byrnndi World to the Red Line and asked him to demonstrate his destructive power.
• Byrnndi World enlarged a cannon shell a hundredfold, and its blast killed ordinary agents and devastated the Holy City.
• The blast failed to penetrate the silver halo surrounding the castle, while the surviving fighters gathered among the ruins.
• A black-clad swordsman and a metallic-skinned fighter attacked the halo, but it resisted their strikes.
• The swordsman concluded that the barrier was governed by rules rather than hardness, and the metallic-skinned fighter stopped attacking.

The Straw Hat Pirates waited outside the castle as its gates opened and the powerful figures entered, but a mysterious woman suddenly appeared and gravely injured the crew. Luffy and Teach confronted her, and Teach realized she was Imu as her overwhelming power drove him back.

• A young man in a pink coat touched the castle’s silver halo, causing it to surge and the gates to open; he, the sword-wielding man, the burly man, and the other figures entered the darkness.
• Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates waited among the ruins, with the crew preparing for danger while the surrounding overlords remained frozen by the authority of the white-robed figures.
• A tall woman appeared among the Straw Hat Pirates and shattered Zoro’s slash, extinguished Sanji’s flames, and injured the crew with a wave of Haki.
• Luffy attacked the woman in Gear Fifth, but she caught his fist and nullified his power; Teach identified her as Imu and used Black Vortex against her.
• Imu struck Teach at close range, and their clash unleashed a black-and-white shock wave that split the Red Line as Teach struggled to withstand her strength.

Imu used her moonlight power to halt time across Mary Geoise, freezing the fighters who had attacked her. She struck Doflamingo while he was immobilized, then turned toward Mihawk.

• The man in the suit used white threads to stitch the injured Straw Hat Pirates back from the brink of death.
• Akainu unleashed a storm of magma against the pirate alliance, while the Corrupt King and the former Chief Warden began moving away in secret.
• Blackbeard, Mihawk, Doflamingo, and another fighter attacked Imu together, but she activated “Halt This Place” and froze the battlefield.
• Imu walked among the frozen attackers and punched Doflamingo in the chest, expecting the damage to destroy him when the moonlight faded.
• Imu turned toward Mihawk, who remained frozen in his sword-slashing stance.

Imu froze time and severely wounded Mihawk and Doflamingo, but Teach broke her domain with the Dark-Dark Fruit, and Doflamingo survived and healed Mihawk with a new use of his String-String Fruit. Luffy rejected Imu’s offer to rule beside her as the Five Elders and the other fighters began battling around them.

• Imu stopped time, cut Mihawk across the chest, and overwhelmed Teach until he used the Dark-Dark Fruit to shatter her frozen-time domain.
• Doflamingo redirected the Haki erupting inside him by turning his body into an infinite loop of strings, then used his strings to repair Mihawk’s wounds.
• Luffy charged at Imu, rejected her offer to rule the world together, and vowed to send her flying for hurting his friends.
• The Five Elders arrived with surviving guards, and the Straw Hat Pirates and Teach’s officers engaged them and the Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents.
• Imu revealed that her Mythical Zoan was the Human-Human Fruit, Moon God Form, and that her moonlight stopped time; Teach called on his allies to support him as darkness spread around him.