Recaps

Rossi agreed to let the Straw Hat Pirates accompany him toward Dressrosa, where hostile forces had gathered. After departing Water 7 by Sea Train with the modified Black Cat in tow, they passed a Marine inspection and entered a tunnel through the Red Line toward the New World.

• Rossi accepted the Straw Hat Pirates' request to accompany him and sensed powerful hostile presences around Dressrosa.
• The Straw Hat Pirates traveled aboard a Sea Train with Iceburg while it towed the modified Black Cat.
• Iceburg explained that New Red Port housed a Marine-controlled tunnel through the Red Line into the New World.
• Marine Vice Admiral Tianqing reviewed Iceburg's transit application, recognized several crew members, and scanned the train with Observation Haki before allowing it onward.
• The Sea Train entered the tunnel, and Iceburg explained that Devil Fruit abilities had enabled its construction.

The Straw Hat crew crossed the Red Line by Sea Train and set out for Dressrosa, unaware that a massive war was already raging there. Doflamingo faced Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, and two members of the Five Elders as the battle intensified.

• Iceburg explained that Morley and Pica had carved the tunnel through the Red Line, then gave Nami a Dressrosa-patterned Log Pose and wished the crew well.
• The Black Cat left the Sea Train at the fortress harbor, and the crew departed for Dressrosa to find Rossi’s kin, Trafalgar Law’s group, and a way to help their teacher.
• Jinbe used Fish-Man Karate: Sea Vortex to sink dozens of attacking ships, while Diamante killed attackers who breached the defenders’ positions; more enemy fleets soon filled the sea.
• Doflamingo confronted Kaido and Charlotte Linlin on Dressrosa’s northern coast, with Gary and Tani beside him, before Jaygarcia Saturn and another Five Elder appeared.
• Tani fought Jaygarcia Saturn, who erased her White Dragon’s final beam, while Gary attacked the other Elder and Doflamingo battled Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin joined forces against Doflamingo, and Linlin’s flaming sword Athena unleashed a massive strike across the battlefield.

A coalition attacked Dressrosa, where the Donquixote Family and its allies fought back amid a naval assault and battles across the island. Luffy’s crew arrived to help, while a streak of lightning raced toward the clash in the sky.

• Doflamingo evaded a sweeping fire attack and struck at the massive shield-bearing fighter with black threads as three combatants clashed in the sky.
• The fleet polluted the sea to weaken its underwater defenders, and a woman intervened when Jinbe surfaced before fighting her brother’s forces.
• The white-haired woman refused her brother’s order to stand down and fought him as pirates, Dressrosa soldiers, and beast-headed fighters clashed on the coast.
• Luffy and his crew approached the island, and Luffy heard a voice asking for his help.
• Ulti and Luo fought on the southern coastline; Karen was badly wounded, and Luo continued battling as Zoro, Drake, and the others joined the defenders.
• A streak of lightning crossed Dressrosa and shot toward the battle in the sky, prompting someone to call out.

Rossi, controlling Luffy’s body, fought Big Mom and seized Zeus, then joined him to Luffy as armor and a lightning blade. He rushed Kaido and called for a switch, leaving Luffy’s body swelling under the strain of the attack.

• Big Mom intercepted Rossi’s attack, but Luffy’s body dodged her strikes and absorbed her lightning.
• Rossi captured Zeus and drew more lightning into Luffy’s body while Big Mom recognized his connection to Rossi and the Monkey family.
• Rossi persuaded Zeus to join with Luffy, forming lightning armor and a transformed blade.
• Rossi struck Kaido with the lightning blade, which pierced the dragon’s scales.
• Rossi called “Switch” and then “Chaos” as Sanji moved toward another group of fighters and Luffy’s body began to swell under the strain.

Rossi revealed himself while fighting Kaido, but the enemy forces withdrew after securing their objective. The Family discovered that Tieshidaino had been killed, and Gary’s response suggested she did not know the Doctor had died—or that he had created her.

• Rossi fought Kaido in a body that was not his, and Kaido recognized him through his swordsmanship.
• A bald old man with a map-shaped birthmark ordered the allied forces to withdraw, and the besiegers pulled back from Dressrosa.
• The Family’s officers found Tieshidaino dead in the laboratory after a World Government infiltrator had killed him with corrosive mercury.
• Gary recovered Tieshidaino’s goggles and viewed his final recorded calculations, while Vergo said the Cold Crow would leave port the next day.
• Gary told the officers that surviving mattered more than individual strength, then seemed confused when she saw Tieshidaino’s body and asked whether they knew about his latest toy.

Dr. Tieshidaino revealed that he could reconstruct himself after death, and Enel and the others prepared the Black Cat for a journey into space to retrieve Rossi. As the crew set off, Kaido’s forces learned that Zeus had fallen into their enemies’ hands.

• Dr. Tieshidaino explained that he had encoded his body and memories into the air and could reconstruct himself after death.
• The one occupying Luffy’s body proposed building a new power core, and Enel made one with his Arms-Arms Fruit ability.
• Luffy, Nami, Robin, Zoro, Sanji, Chopper, Enel, and Jora prepared to take the Black Cat into space, with Jora estimating the trip to the sun would take about fifteen days.
• Enel explained how the crew could survive in space, and Jora reassured them that they had supplies and a way to return safely.
• At Kaido’s stronghold, an angry figure learned that Zeus had fallen into their enemies’ hands and demanded to know why the others had failed to stop it.

The World Power Center and Kaido’s forces agreed to destroy the Donquixote Family while preparing to block the Navy and the rebel army. Meanwhile, Luffy’s crew flew beyond the atmosphere to the moon, where Rossi led them toward the buried city of the Great Kingdom.

• Kaido and the five supreme councilors agreed to erase the Donquixote Family and stop interference from the Navy and the rebel army.
• Nami piloted the Black Cat into space, and the crew watched the sun rise over the shrinking planet before traveling for two days.
• Rossi explained through Luffy that the moon was the origin of the Great Kingdom and of the peoples of Sky Island, Shandia, and Birka.
• Rossi used Luffy’s lightning to search the moon and led the crew to a deep crater concealing underground structures.
• Jora created a lantern, and Rossi blasted open a passage into the buried city, which Jora entered first.

Enel’s priestly bloodline activated the dormant city of Birka on the moon, and the Straw Hat Pirates continued their journey aboard the Black Cat toward the sun to rescue Rossi. As the ship turned back near the sun, Rossi revived from his eight-year stillness and began forcing his way out of the fireball.

• The visitor used Zeus’s lightning to power Birka, awakening its systems and prompting its mechanical guards to recognize Enel as a provisional council member.
• Enel learned that Birka and his ancestors’ stories were real, while the visitor comforted him and offered him control of the city.
• Robin identified the city’s records as Ancient Script, but Zoro reminded the crew to continue their mission, so they departed for the sun aboard the Black Cat.
• The Black Cat flew through space for nearly seven days, but the crew could not approach the sun safely, and Luffy decided to handle the final stretch alone.
• Rossi ended his eight-year stillness above the sun’s surface and used Silence: Black Domain to freeze the surrounding solar turmoil before launching himself upward.

Rossi escaped the Sun by riding a solar flare and rejoined Luffy and the others aboard the Black Cat, where he recovered from his injuries. On the journey back, he sensed a ship belonging to space pirates, left to investigate, and the pirate captain was shown being told about the Black Cat.

• Rossi used a solar flare and Conqueror's Haki Coating to escape the Sun's Corona and ride the solar wind toward the Black Cat.
• Rossi landed on the Black Cat, reunited with Luffy, and reassured him before recovering from his burns with Life Return after eating.
• Rossi encouraged Nami and the others, while Luffy said the trip had been too easy and wanted a chance to fight.
• Rossi sensed a metal starship crewed by Raiders approaching and left the Black Cat to meet it, with Nami chasing after him with Dials.
• A weasel-like crew member told the Raider captain that they had detected an intelligent lifeform's starship and urged him to look at it himself.

Rossi destroyed a Space Pirates warship and left its crew and technology with Enel before the Black Cat continued toward the blue planet. In Dressrosa, Kaido’s son Yamato faced a gigantic stone colossus, while King attacked and a figure raised stone pillars to intercept his fireballs.

• Rossi shrugged off the Space Pirates’ weapons, breached their warship, and captured its crew.
• Rossi handed the prisoners and their advanced ship over to Enel, who welcomed the chance to examine its technology.
• The Black Cat set sail for the blue planet after leaving the prisoners with Enel.
• In Dressrosa, Yamato blasted apart the colossus’s enormous fist and declared that he would inherit everything from Kaido.
• The colossus formed black-coated fists and attacked Yamato again as a black Pteranodon swept over the city and rained fireballs on the defenders.
• A man emerging from the earth raised stone pillars to intercept the fireballs.

The Family’s forces were collapsing as Doflamingo faced the Five Elders, Big Mom, and Kaido. Rossi returned to Dressrosa, knocked Kaido into the earth with one blow, and stood unharmed after Big Mom’s fire attack as he prepared to counter.

• Pica ordered the soldiers to fall back, then used his power to raise a barrier while Smoothie refused Charlotte Cracker, Charlotte Snack, and Charlotte Katakuri’s offer to surrender.
• The Five Elders, Big Mom, and Kaido surrounded Doflamingo, who challenged them to fight despite the hopeless odds.
• Lami arrived with a message from Rossi for Kaido, and Rossi’s black-red pressure swept over Dressrosa as he descended from the sky.
• Kaido transformed into a dragon and charged Rossi, but Rossi struck his head and drove him deep underground.
• Rossi reunited with Doflamingo and challenged the Five Elders and Big Mom; Big Mom engulfed him in flames, but he emerged unscathed and disappeared from the magma.

Rossi returned from the sun and defeated the Five Elders in seconds, shifting the balance of power at Dressrosa. With Kaido’s forces fleeing and the Charlotte Family approaching, Rossi spared Charlotte Linlin and left her to reconcile with Smoothie.

• Rossi extinguished the obese woman’s flame and faced the Five Elders as they unleashed their powers.
• Rossi crushed the Tyrannosaurus Rex user with his Conqueror’s Haki, shattered First Generation Kitetsu, killed its wielder, and broke the golden-bearded elder’s arm.
• Rossi killed the mercury-bodied elder and the flat-capped elder, leaving all five Elders dead within seconds.
• King, Queen, and Jack fled Dressrosa with Yamato, while Smoothie and Katakuri headed toward the battlefield.
• Doffy marveled at Rossi’s strength, and Rossi explained that surviving the sun had made him stronger.
• Rossi spared Charlotte Linlin because of the marriage alliance, and Smoothie urged her mother to return to Totto Land and pursue her dream of peaceful gatherings.

After Rossi defeated the World Government coalition in Dressrosa, he reunited with Doflamingo and the battered Family, while reports of his victory stunned the Marines and Revolutionary Army. The Family prepared to confront Imu, and the outside world reconsidered its plans in the wake of Rossi’s return.

• Charlotte Linlin accepted Smoothie's chance to withdraw, and Katakuri led his brothers away while Rossi let the remaining troops flee.
• Rossi checked the wounded and reunited with the surviving Family members, including Bainessarna, Tani, Jinbe, and Doflamingo.
• Rebecca, Lami, Law, Ulti, Page One, Monet, Baby 5, and X Drake joined the gathering, while Luffy celebrated keeping his promise to Rossi.
• Reports that Rossi had defeated the Five Elders and driven off the coalition spread across the sea, leaving Garp and Sengoku stunned and the Marines hesitant to act.
• Dragon and Ivankov read the Dressrosa report and learned that Rossi had returned.

Rossi walked alone into Mary Geoise, ignored its defenses, and confronted Imu over the return of his sword, Sandai Kitetsu. In Dressrosa, the injured Straw Hat allies waited without knowing how Rossi was faring.

• Dragon and the Okama King discussed Rossi’s strength and the upheaval they expected, as the world waited for his next move.
• After eating a huge meal in Dressrosa, Rossi told the Straw Hat Pirates to enjoy themselves while he went to deal with Imu.
• Rossi approached Mary Geoise on foot, endured its artillery without harm, and froze the Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents who attacked him.
• An elderly Celestial Dragon led Rossi through the fortress to Imu, who held Sandai Kitetsu and challenged him to take it back.
• In Dressrosa, Luffy’s stories annoyed the recovering Luo, while Lami listened and another patient asked whether they knew how Rossi was doing.

At Dressrosa, Luffy and Lami could not contact Rossi while he fought Imu, but X Drake insisted Rossi could not lose. Rossi and Imu clashed in Mary Geoise as the Holy Land collapsed around them, while powerful witnesses watched to see who would shape the world’s future.

• Ulti asked Luffy and Lami why they could not reach Rossi, and Luffy explained that Rossi usually contacted them first and was likely busy fighting Imu.
• X Drake declared that Rossi could not lose, even against Imu, who had ruled for eight hundred years.
• Rossi confronted Imu on her throne and demanded that she return a sword to its rightful owner, but Imu told him to take it himself.
• Rossi and Imu fought through the collapsing castle, matching each other’s Future Sight as their clashes tore apart the building and sent waves of Haki across Mary Geoise.
• The Haki storm knocked out guards and agents, and the white-robed agents fled as Sengoku, Garp, Tsuru, Dragon, and other powerful figures watched from the ruins.

Rossi confronted Imu before the gathered powers on the Red Line, catching her blade and then wielding Sandai Kitetsu in a clash that split the continent and sea. He wounded Imu and warned that next time he would cut more than her hair, but she concluded that he was not Joy Boy.

• Imu unleashed azure slashes that destroyed the castle and forced the hidden fighters into view.
• Rossi caught Imu’s blade between his hands, then took Sandai Kitetsu from her at the cost of a shallow scratch.
• Rossi revealed Sandai Kitetsu as a Black Blade and struck Imu with a slash that split the Red Line and cleaved the sea.
• Imu attacked through folded space, while Rossi parried her strikes and said she had grown rusty since Joy Boy’s death.
• Rossi broke through Imu’s spatial compression with a thrust, severed strands of her hair, and threatened her with a stronger strike next time.
• Imu smiled with regret and said Rossi was not Joy Boy.

Imu unleashed a catastrophic attack that destroyed much of the Red Line, but Rossi survived and countered by cutting through her miniature world and fighting her directly. As the battle continued across the shattered continent, Imu became increasingly bloodied and appeared to welcome the violence.

• Imu used Void Returns to Silence, disintegrating more than half of the crimson continent and destroying the new Holy Land; Garp, Tsuru, and Sengoku fled the blast.
• Rossi survived inside the Power of Silence and prepared to strike Imu as she formed a miniature world into a barrier.
• Rossi cut through Imu’s spatial world with Oni Giri: End, releasing its inhabitants and prompting the Navy’s fighters to rescue survivors.
• Fisher Tiger ordered the others to leave Fish-Man Island’s palace before the collapsing Red Line buried them, while Blackbeard and his companions retreated to sea.
• Rossi and Imu fought at close quarters across the crumbling continent, and Imu’s attacks grew wilder as she thanked Rossi and licked her bleeding hand.

Rossi defeated Imu in a final exchange of fatal blows, then understood her centuries-long wish for death and closed her eyes. Thirty days later, rulers and powers gathered amid the Red Line’s ruins to discuss the future after Imu’s rule ended, while the Family’s rise became a celebrated story.

• Imu and Rossi struck each other’s hearts at the same time, but Rossi’s Eternal Night Domain anchored him to space and prevented Imu from banishing him.
• Imu explained through her memories that after eight hundred years of immortality and loneliness, she had waited for Joy Boy to end her life; Rossi understood her wish and said goodbye as she died.
• Thirty days later, Elizabello II and Dagama surveyed the shattered Red Line and discussed the fall of Imu and the Celestial Dragons.
• The Family invited nations and powers to the ruins to discuss a new world order, and many hoped Rossi’s leadership would bring peace.
• Morgans’s book, The Family’s Rise and Fall, made Rossi and Doflamingo celebrated figures, and powerful leaders came in response to the Family’s summons.

Elizabello II attended a new world conference where nations and former enemies gathered under the Family’s rule, while Rossi explored the moon and considered the Family’s future among the stars. A message from the navy and a queen’s demand drew Rossi back from the moon, leaving the planned space expedition for later.

• Elizabello II arrived at the strait and saw the unprecedented conference, attended by rulers, navy leaders, and representatives of many races.
• Doflamingo presided over the conference while Rossi remained away on the moon.
• Rossi showed the younger members of the Family the planet and explained how the Abyssal Channel connected the seas.
• Enel reported that captured space raiders had provided star-system charts and plans for a Space Curvature Engine.
• Lami told Rossi that Smoothie wanted to set a wedding date and that Gion wanted to speak with him.
• A messenger reported that a queen would not recognize the conference unless Rossi attended, so he and the young people prepared to return.

The Red Line bridge plan won unanimous approval, and Rossi and Gion married in the new city built across the ravine. As the couple looked toward their future together, a forgotten egg deep in the ravine began to glow.

• The races unanimously approved the Red Line bridge, and Doflamingo reflected on how the plan let the old man rest in peace.
• Ryokugyu and Conis began cultivating a greenhouse on the moon while Dr. Alan watched the lunar project progress.
• Three months later, Gion and Rossi married during the new city's navigation-opening celebration, with their friends and allies in attendance.
• After the banquet, Gion asked Rossi if he regretted giving up the stars, and he said the people beside him mattered more.
• A forgotten egg in a dark crevice beneath the ravine began to glow with ancient patterns.