Recaps

Imu froze the battlefield with Time Stop, while Luffy and Teach struggled to fight him without setting aside their blood feud. As Doflamingo from another world urged Sakazuki to join forces against Imu, the Navy’s choice remained unresolved.

• Sakazuki led Navy officers up the Red Line and declared that he would destroy both pirates and the Celestial Dragons to end the cycle of suffering.
• Imu used Time Stop to freeze the arriving Navy officers, while Teach and Luffy resisted the effect but attacked each other instead of cooperating.
• Imu knocked Luffy and Teach away and mocked them for fighting among themselves.
• Doflamingo confronted the Navy officers and proposed joining forces against Imu, but Sakazuki refused to accept his terms immediately.
• An old man atop a golden colossus shouted at Sakazuki to order the Navy to eliminate the allied forces.

Akainu openly rebelled against the Celestial Dragons as Marines and former allies turned against Imu, whose time-stopping power kept the battle near a stalemate. Imu unleashed her full Haki, and the chapter ended as an azure-lit fighter overwhelmed an opponent in a head-on clash.

• Akainu killed an elder and ordered Cipher Pol Aigis Zero, the Celestial Dragons, their servants, and the Five Elders’ forces to stop resisting or die.
• Ryokugyu attacked the agents with vines, while another fighter challenged the bald elder wielding First Generation Kitetsu with a gravity-powered slash.
• Tsuru said the returning forces were on their way, prompting Cipher Pol agents to grow cautious as the battle shifted toward preserving their strength.
• Imu used her three heads and six arms to unleash a barrage of slashes, then froze the battlefield with her time-stopping ability.
• Doffy from another world healed Kuzan and another former Admiral, allowing them to return to the fight alongside Akainu against Imu.
• Imu unleashed overwhelming Haki that disrupted space and time, then struck at a retreating figure whose azure-lit fist overwhelmed his black Haki.

Doflamingo escaped through Imu’s rift and returned to what he thought was his home world, only to discover that years had passed and he had arrived on a Sky Island. The Golden Lion confronted him and offered to explain the changes while setting boundaries around the Tontatta Tribe and Artificial Devil Fruit business.

• Imu opened a rift to another world, and Doflamingo used his threads to confirm it led to his home world before stepping through.
• Doflamingo emerged on an island and captured Wicca, then realized the land was a Sky Island rather than Green Bit.
• The Golden Lion arrived to protect Wicca and demonstrated his strength by cutting through a mountain.
• The Golden Lion told Doflamingo that he had been gone for years and that the Tontatta Tribe was under his protection and would no longer work for the Donquixote Family for free.
• Doflamingo agreed to go with the Golden Lion to learn what had happened while he was away.

Six years after the Battle of the Holy Land, Doflamingo reunited with Golden Lion Shiki and learned that the Donquixote Family had news about Rossi. Meanwhile, Luffy and his companions arrived at Mock Town, where Bellamy and the Donquixote Family confronted them over their hunt for pirates.

• Doflamingo heard Shiki recount how the Holy Land battle shattered the old balance of power and left him trapped in a tiny body.
• Shiki explained that he had taken charge of the Tontatta Tribe and used the Donquixote Family’s Artificial Devil Fruit technology to rebuild his forces.
• Doflamingo spoke with Sugar and reassured Trebol and the other Family members that he would return, but they interrupted him to say they had news about Rossi.
• Luffy’s crew landed at Mock Town, where Nami and Zoro faced frightened pirates while Luffy trained with a ten-ton weight.
• Robin reflected on her past as Franky encouraged her to keep looking ahead, repeating Rossi’s advice.
• Bellamy arrived with Donquixote Family associates and claimed control of the island, while Nami challenged him over protecting the pirates.

Luffy and his companions defeated Bellamy and the pirates who had been exploiting children in Mock Town, then accepted Cricket’s invitation to his home. In Dressrosa, Luo received permission from Lord Trebol to investigate, with orders to bring Luffy back intact because Doffy was interested in him.

• Luffy revealed that the metal block was real, then struck Bellamy and sent him crashing through a wall.
• Nami and the others rounded up the fleeing pirates, and Bellamy warned Luffy that Mock Town’s businesses operated under the Donquixote name before admitting defeat.
• Cricket invited Luffy and his companions to his home and warned that Bellamy’s defeat could bring trouble from the Family; Luffy agreed to go while promising to keep watch over the pirates.
• In Dressrosa, a girl reported Bellamy’s defeat to a room of Donquixote Family members, and Luo stopped another girl from acting without permission before going to see Lord Trebol.
• Lord Trebol allowed Luo to handle the situation and ordered him to take Monet and Ulti, bring the captives back intact, and avoid harming Luffy, whom Doffy was watching closely.

Cricket warned Luffy and his companions that the Donquixote Family might be using the detained children as bait, while he and his allies prepared to investigate the legendary Golden City above the clouds. At Mock Town, a young Donquixote agent arrived, punished Bellamy’s group for tarnishing the Family’s name, and gave Bellamy a chance to redeem himself.

• Cricket warned Luffy that the Donquixote Family was powerful and that the detained people might be bait, then urged the group to leave the island before dawn as ships approached.
• Mont Blanc Cricket explained his plan to ride a Knock Up Stream toward the sky in search of the Golden City, and Luffy’s companions agreed to join him.
• Cricket, Masira, and Monkey began modifying a black speedboat for the ascent while a dangerous visitor approached the waters.
• A Donquixote warship docked at Mock Town, and Bellamy reported that Luffy, Zoro, and a woman were with shipwreck salvagers on the other side of the island.
• The young agent severed the left arms of Bellamy and the others for tarnishing the Family’s name, then told Bellamy his future depended on how he performed.

The Straw Hats and Mont Blanc Cricket sailed into the Knock Up Stream aboard the Black Cat, while Luo and Ulti pursued them in the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo. Both ships rose toward the sky as their crews recognized each other as potential enemies, leaving the coming encounter unresolved.

• Ulti kept the severed arms so their owners might have them reattached someday, and Luo learned that Mr. Rossi’s location had been confirmed.
• Mont Blanc Cricket completed the Black Cat’s modifications, and Luffy invited him aboard as the ship departed with the Saruyama Alliance.
• Lami used seabirds to track the Black Cat, and Luo ordered the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo to pursue it.
• The Black Cat entered the giant whirlpool with Cricket and the Straw Hats, while they told Cricket they wanted to see Sky Island and the Golden City for themselves.
• Robin recognized the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo’s two-dragon flag as the rival ship drew alongside them in the whirlpool.
• The Knock Up Stream launched both ships skyward, and Luo ordered Ulti not to fire on the Black Cat because someone was watching over it.

Luo and the Donquixote Family’s young officers reached the White-White Sea alongside the Straw Hat Pirates, where Rossi confirmed that Sky Islands and Noland’s story were real. As Cricket celebrated Noland’s vindication, Ulti challenged Luffy in the hope of winning Rossi’s attention.

• Luo led Ulti, Page One, Monet, Baby 5, and Lami toward the Sky Island, while Rossi spoke through Luffy and warned both crews to hold their breath before entering the White-White Sea.
• The Black Cat and the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo broke through the suffocating cloud barrier and settled on the sea of clouds.
• Rossi explained how Sea Clouds and Island Clouds formed and confirmed that Jaya’s Golden City had been swept into the sky, proving that Noland had told the truth.
• Cricket wept and celebrated Noland’s vindication, and Luffy steadied him before he could bow.
• Ulti challenged Luffy and demanded that Rossi join her side if she won, but softened immediately when Rossi addressed her.

The Straw Hat and Black Cat crews encountered Sky Island warriors and fought a brief, destructive clash before both sides stopped and began talking. The warriors allowed the ships to travel on a Super Express Shrimp, while Lami explained her ability to communicate with creatures and apologized to Chopper for startling him.

• Nami and a swordswoman fought fiercely aboard the ships until Rossi stopped them and directed them to continue their match above the vessels.
• Wyper recognized the larger ship from the Great Demon King’s past attack on Sky Island, while the warriors witnessed the fighters’ immense power.
• A warrior fired a scorching torrent at Luffy, who canceled it with an attack of his own, and another man lowered the ships back onto the cloud sea.
• The crews exchanged words instead of continuing the fight; Nami and the green-haired Swordsman acknowledged their opponents’ skill, while Sanji served refreshments to Robin, Monet, and Baby 5.
• Luo threatened Chopper after mistaking his shout at Lami for disrespect, but Page One and Baby 5 restrained him and Chopper hurriedly called himself a raccoon dog.
• About thirty minutes later, the ships traveled atop a Super Express Shrimp, and Lami explained that her Devil Fruit let her communicate with creatures before apologizing to Chopper.

Rossi explained that he was stranded on the sun and could communicate through Luffy, while Lami could receive his signals but not understand them. He set a nonlethal contest to find Shandia’s Golden Bell, and the teams began their first test on Sky Island.

• Rossi explained that he could only communicate by sending Observation Haki signals through Luffy, and Luo suggested Lami’s Whisper-Whisper Fruit might receive them.
• Lami picked up Rossi’s signals but could not decode them, so Rossi reassured her and said he was glad she could communicate with him at all.
• Rossi admitted that he and Diamante had taken most of Shandia’s gold, but said the legendary Golden Bell might still be on Sky Island.
• Rossi challenged the two teams to find the Golden Bell first, promising to grant the winners one wish, and Mont Blanc Cricket thanked him.
• The Giant Shrimp carried the ships to an island guarded by Sky Island Warriors, where Rossi ordered the young fighters not to kill anyone.
• Ulti knocked aside the warriors without killing them, while Luffy went ahead to search for the Golden Bell and dodged a volley of arrows.

Doflamingo returned to the Donquixote Family, learned of Rossi’s plans through Lami, and vowed that Rossi would soon return. Meanwhile, Luffy’s group defeated Sky Island’s warriors and learned that the Shandia would let Mont Blanc’s descendant pass, though their promised beacon had been taken by the Demon King.

• Doflamingo reunited with Trebol and the Family, whose members welcomed him back after years of fighting in his absence.
• Jinbe explained that he and the Sun Pirates had joined Dragon’s Revolutionary Army, while Tani described the strength of her White Dragon Pirates.
• Lami relayed Rossi’s message that he was traveling with the bounty hunter Luffy and would return to the Family once Luffy was strong enough.
• Wyper and Gan Fall saw that Ulti, Chopper, Nami, and the others had overwhelmed Sky Island’s warriors, and Luffy ordered Chopper to treat the wounded.
• Wyper confirmed that Mont Blanc descended from Noland and said the Shandia would let him pass, but explained that the Demon King had taken the beacon years earlier.
• Nami rejected Wyper’s claim that the promise could never be fulfilled.

Gan Fall and the others learned that Luffy had found the Golden Bell above Sky Island, and its ringing fulfilled an ancient promise. At Hachinosu, Ochoku received reports of escalating conflicts before a golden ship led by Diamante approached with hostile intent.

• Gan Fall told Nami that the Sky Island residents had searched for the Golden Bell for generations and had never forgotten the Shandia vow.
• Luffy used his electric detection web to find the Golden Bell on a small cloud island above Sky Island and rang it, moving Wyper and Mont Blanc Cricket as the ancestral promise was fulfilled.
• Ye Zong reported to Ochoku that Kaido had captured Doma and the Decalvan Brothers, Big Mom's sons had been attacked, and only one of the Monster Quintuplets remained alive.
• Xu Quan burst through the auction house wall to warn Ochoku that a powerful enemy had reached Hachinosu, and Ochoku hurried to respond.
• The Five Peaks fleet left Hachinosu's harbor and formed a wedge against the approaching golden ship, which a lookout identified as the Family's vessel carrying Diamante.

The Donquixote Family attacked Hachinosu, destroying the Five Peaks fleet and advancing toward the island with Doflamingo and a force of Zoan fighters. Ochoku recognized the threat and ordered Xu Quan to evacuate his people, while Ye Zong stayed beside him as the Ark Maxim approached.

• A fleet commander recognized Fourth and Fifth hanging from the Ark Maxim’s mast and ordered his ships to spread out, fire on the ship, and watch for the Sea Emperor.
• Diamante and Trebol revealed that the Donquixote Family had intercepted the Five Peaks men, while Doflamingo returned to Hachinosu with hundreds of Zoan fighters.
• Ochoku arrived at the docks and saw the Five Peaks ships sinking as the Ark Maxim advanced with Doflamingo and the Donquixote Family aboard.
• Ochoku ordered Xu Quan to take his people and escape through the rear harbor, and Xu Quan obeyed.
• Ochoku apologized to Ye Zong for their life of hardship, but Ye Zong chose to remain with him as the Ark Maxim drew near.

Doflamingo destroyed Hachinosu with Mamaragan and defeated Ochoku, while Xu Lie tried to escape with Wang Ao. The chapter ended with Oni killing the two boys and Ochoku warning Doflamingo that his own end would come.

• Doflamingo summoned sixteen bolts of lightning that devastated Hachinosu and left only its skull-shaped foundation.
• Xu Quan ordered his grandson Xu Lie to take Wang Ao to a concealed submarine and escape the island.
• Xu Lie and Wang Ao encountered Oni, who killed them after Wang Ao fled in the wrong direction.
• Doflamingo pierced Ochoku's chest with a thread lance, and Ochoku admitted defeat before warning that Doflamingo's end would come.

Doflamingo’s destruction of Ochoku and the Five Peaks Pirates shook the world’s powers. As Whitebeard prepared to step aside, Teach accepted leadership of the Whitebeard Pirates, while Charlotte Linlin learned of Ochoku’s death and suspected Doflamingo.

• Doflamingo killed Ochoku and annihilated the Five Peaks Pirates, prompting the four major powers to halt their fighting and investigate.
• Marco told Whitebeard and the captains that Doflamingo’s Family had destroyed Hachinosu and defeated Ochoku in less than ten minutes.
• Whitebeard judged that Doflamingo had grown formidable, then told Teach that the future belonged to him and that the old generation needed to clear the deck.
• Whitebeard confronted Teach about his battlefield decisions, and Teach accepted the responsibility of leading the Whitebeard Pirates with the crew’s support.
• Teach declared that he would protect the Whitebeard Pirates, while Ace joked about growing a beard.
• On Whole Cake Island, Charlotte Linlin heard Ochoku was dead and wondered whether Doflamingo had killed him.

The sea’s powers reacted to Doflamingo’s return and the destruction of the Five Peaks Pirates as Rossi trained his students and Doflamingo reaffirmed his loyalty to the Family. The chapter ended with Lami warning that their return to the struggle for the Throne could make the whole world turn against them.

• Perospero told Charlotte Linlin that Doflamingo had destroyed the Five Peaks Pirates, and the Family considered what Rossi’s return and their space-piercing invention could mean for the balance of power.
• A cloaked man on White Soil Island worried that Doflamingo’s return would make the already unpredictable conflict harder to navigate.
• Rossi, controlling Luffy, taught Zoro, Nami, Sanji, Robin, Luo, and the others that Devil Fruits, Haki, technique, and mindset shaped victory between opponents of unequal strength.
• Doflamingo told the Family that he was back, while Rossi trained Luffy, a young swordsman, and a horned girl aboard the ship.
• Lami warned Doflamingo that they might have to face the entire world, explaining that their renewed strength could draw every faction into a fight over the Throne.

Doflamingo and Rossi prepared for the Family to face a coalition of enemies, while Rossi traveled with Luffy’s crew to Water 7. After Robin explained how the World Government’s seizure of the city had led Rossi to war against the Celestial Dragons, several factions began taking notice of the crew’s arrival.

• Lami warned Doflamingo that the World Government, Navy, powerful figures, and Revolutionary Army could all become enemies of the Family, and Doflamingo vowed to defend Dressrosa.
• Rossi told Doflamingo to draw attention while Luffy’s power grew, saying he would return after Luffy could release electricity continuously.
• Luffy’s crew arrived at Water 7, where the spotted-hat man and his companions parted ways and asked them to care for Lord Rossi.
• Robin explained that the Family had once controlled Water 7 and that the World Government’s seizure of the city had driven Rossi and the Family into war against the Celestial Dragons.
• Luffy’s crew entered Water 7, and local factions received reports identifying them, including Robin as the Devil of Ohara.

Paulie and Iceburg’s shipwrights assessed the Straw Hat Pirates’ badly damaged ship and offered an exorbitantly costly repair using moldable steel. The crew could not afford it, leaving Luffy struggling to accept that they might have to let their companion go.

• Paulie canceled his schedule to visit Dock One, where Sicily and a Navy admiral confronted pirates threatening shipwrights over a payment dispute.
• Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates arrived seeking repairs, while Rossi recognized Rob Lucci working undercover among the shipwrights.
• Kaku inspected the ship and reported severe damage, saying it was beyond ordinary repair and would last only a few months even if fixed.
• Iceburg proposed repairing it with moldable steel for two billion Beli, far beyond the crew’s funds.
• Nami said the crew might need another ship, but Luffy clung to the figurehead and insisted the ship was their companion; Robin offered jewelry worth about a hundred million Beli.

Sanji agreed to give up his Raid Suit’s memory metal to help restore the Black Cat, while Rossi sensed trouble approaching Water Seven. As Aqua Laguna neared, Chopper reported that Robin had vanished, and Zoro concluded she had left of her own choice.

• Sanji offered the memory metal in his Raid Suit to repair the Black Cat, and Luffy and Chopper worried about what he would lose by giving it up.
• Luffy offered to pay for the ship, but Zoro said the crew would grow stronger through their own efforts and challenge Hawk-Eyes and Rossi.
• Iceburg began examining the Raid Suit, while Commodore Sicily slipped away to call a woman; nearby, a pink-haired horned man questioned a pigeon-carrying man about his plans.
• Nami learned that Aqua Laguna would flood Water Seven that night and urged Luffy and Zoro to seek shelter.
• Chopper arrived in tears and told Luffy, Zoro, and Nami that Robin had disappeared from the library.
• After searching the library, Zoro said Robin could only have disappeared because she had chosen to leave.

Luffy and the crew found Robin with Cipher Pol agents at Iceburg’s office, where she insisted she had to leave to pursue her goal. Before they could resolve the confrontation, a devastating blast from the sky obliterated the courtyard and seemingly destroyed the man in the cat mask.

• Nami defended Robin as one of the crew, and Luffy used his Electromagnetic Matrix to search Water 7 for her.
• During Aqua Laguna, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, and Chopper found injured shipwrights at Iceburg’s office and encountered Sicily fighting masked Cipher Pol agents.
• Luffy recognized Robin among the agents, and Robin said she could not achieve her goal by traveling with the crew.
• As Zoro and Nami challenged Robin’s choice, Rossi spoke through Luffy and objected to hiding everything.
• A blinding force descended from the clouds, vaporized the courtyard into a vast crater, and left only a charred fragment where the cat-masked man had stood.

Luffy stopped Nico Robin from sacrificing herself to protect the crew, defeated Who's-Who, and confronted the agents who had been pursuing her. Robin chose to continue sailing with the Straw Hats, while Rob Lucci attacked Roronoa Zoro.

• Luffy struck Who's-Who into a crater with a lightning-charged attack, leaving the disguised agents stunned.
• The agents removed their masks and admitted to Iceburg that they had sought the blueprints, while Luffy demanded to know why Robin had acted as she did.
• Who's-Who transformed into a saber-toothed tiger and attacked Luffy, who caught his fangs with Armament Haki and hurled him through the city.
• Luffy told Robin that she had underestimated the crew, and Nami, Zoro, Sanji, and Chopper urged her to return to the ship.
• Robin wept and said she wanted to continue the voyage, see the same seas, and keep smiling.
• Rob Lucci lunged at Luffy, but Zoro stepped forward to face him as Lucci transformed and used Finger Pistol: Spotted.

Zoro, Sanji, Nami, and Chopper fought Cipher Pol No. 9 agents amid Water 7’s disaster, while Rossi watched from afar. As the battles continued, the wounded Who’s-Who tried to flee but spotted a figure approaching across the sea.

• Zoro met Lucci’s Finger Cannon barrage with his Three-Sword Style: Black Rope Dragon Twister, and they acknowledged each other’s strength.
• Kaku recognized Sanji as a Vinsmoke and attacked with twin swords and Tempest Kick, but Sanji held him off and healed from a chest wound.
• Nami and Kalifa traded attacks, with Nami using her axe and pistol to disrupt Kalifa’s whip strikes.
• Chopper’s pill-enhanced strength clashed evenly with the horned man’s Hard technique, shaking the ruins around them.
• Rossi watched the young fighters face the World Government’s elites, then noticed another presence enter the battlefield.
• Wounded Who’s-Who fled toward Water 7’s outskirts, but stopped when he saw a slender figure racing toward him across the sea.

Sanji, Chopper, and Zoro fought Cipher Pol agents as the Straw Hats gained ground, but Marine Admiral Kuzan arrived and froze the harbor and city. He confronted Luffy over protecting Nico Robin, leaving the crew facing an overwhelming threat.

• Sanji used his awakened physical abilities to gain the advantage over Kaku, while Chopper defeated Blueno with a powerful hoof strike.
• Zoro answered Lucci’s speed and finger-bullet attack with his Nine-Sword Style, damaging him internally, but Lucci shifted to evasion.
• Robin shielded Luffy as he ate to recover, while Iceburg recognized a familiar pattern in the fighters’ sudden increases in strength.
• Kuzan froze the sea, harbor, and city, then approached the Straw Hats as Sicily and three black-clad figures escaped.
• Kuzan addressed Luffy and identified Nico Robin as Ohara’s only relic, and Luffy stepped forward and shouted for him to stop.

Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates fought Kuzan to protect Robin, while Kuzan privately tested whether she had found companions she could trust. Just as the exhausted crew refused to abandon her, a mysterious shadow took over Luffy’s body and confronted Kuzan on the glacier.

• Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, and Chopper stood between Kuzan and Robin, refusing to let him take her without evidence.
• Kuzan recalled Robin’s escape from Ohara and revealed that he had quietly kept Cipher Pol’s pursuit from reaching her.
• Kuzan battled the Straw Hat Pirates while holding back, freezing their attacks and wearing them down.
• Kuzan offered the crew Navy positions if they left Robin, but Luffy rejected the offer and insisted they would not abandon their friends.
• A shadow suddenly touched Kuzan’s shoulder, prompting him to counter with his Ice Phoenix: Beak Strike.
• The shadow occupying Luffy’s body faced Kuzan atop the glacier as Zoro and Nami watched.

Rossi explained his presence in Luffy’s body to Kuzan, who warned him that the New Holy Land was making moves against the Donquixote Family. After Water 7 began repairing the crew’s ship, Rossi revealed that trouble had broken out at home, and Zoro asked to go with him.

• Rossi told Kuzan that Luffy had agreed to their cooperation, and the two ended their encounter without fighting.
• Kuzan warned Rossi that the New Holy Land had been making moves and urged him to return to his territory.
• Water 7 announced that an arriving Marine Admiral had defeated the pirates and dealt with the tsunami, while Iceburg thanked the crew and offered to repair their ship.
• The crew requested a cold-storage room, long-range cannons, a library, open space, and a large bronze statue for their ship.
• Robin asked where Rossi was, and he explained that he had returned home and was diverting his attention to watch events there.
• Zoro asked Rossi to let the crew accompany him to Dressrosa.