Recaps

Noah used a lobotomy and the power of his tarot card to turn Brian into the first Card Apostle, a loyal servant who retained Brian’s memories and abilities. He realized that creating Apostles for all 78 tarot cards could awaken the Card-Card Fruit, but finding suitable Devil Fruit Users would be difficult.

• Ray opened a wormhole in Brian’s forehead, and Noah removed Brian’s prefrontal lobe.
• Brian awoke without emotions, and Noah explained to Mary why he showed no sympathy for pirates who preyed on civilians.
• Noah used the Page of Wands card to transform Brian into an Apostle who obeyed him and could use Haki and the Cat-Cat Fruit.
• Noah tested the Apostle’s resistance to Conqueror’s Haki and determined that creating Apostles for all 78 tarot cards could awaken the Card-Card Fruit.

Noah turned Barton into The Devil: Pan Barton and used Barton's stored vitality to heal his hidden injuries. He took control of Barton's plan to seize the Rum Kingdom and replaced the fake king with Uncle Joseph, preparing to transfer the king's memories.

• Noah made Barton a Major Arcana Tarot Card Apostle, and Barton sold him vitality that healed his injuries and eased his fatigue.
• Noah gathered the group and rejected Barton's plan to kill the fake king because Marines, the World Government, and the kingdom's nobles could foil it.
• With Barton's palace agents' help, Lilith and Ray drugged the fake king and brought him to Noah's underground laboratory.
• Noah and Ray removed the fake king's frontal lobe, then Barton swapped faces with him and transferred the fake king's face and his own Life Return mastery to Uncle Joseph.
• Uncle Joseph used Life Return to match the fake king's appearance, and the group prepared to transfer the fake king's memories to him.

Noah and his allies eliminated the fake king’s surveillance network and staged a purge that transferred control of the Rum Kingdom to the Noah Family. The kingdom’s people came to see King Rum VIII and Barton as saviors, while Powell became the scapegoat.

• Ray and Lilith discovered the fake king’s recording and exposed his plan to leave evidence with three slave watchers, then destroyed the Den Den Mushi and Vivre Cards at their hideouts.
• Noah exchanged the three former pirate slaves’ vitality for a silver coin, eliminating them, while Uncle Joseph ordered the nobles to attend a farewell banquet in Sucrose Town.
• At the Honey Palace, Noah disguised as Powell accused the nobles with records of misdeeds and led the punishment knights and Lilith in killing them as Joseph pretended to resist.
• Barton arrived and fought Noah, then slaughtered the punishment knights after Noah pretended to be dead, leaving the decent nobles alive.
• Barton revealed the palace recording, and King Rum VIII announced tax relief, employment, and a crackdown on loan sharks, turning public opinion against Powell and securing the Rum Kingdom for the Noah Family.

After the Marines escorted Rum VIII and other kings away, Noah’s group began consolidating its secret control over the Rum Kingdom. Noah kept his plans hidden from the World Government while preparing to expand the Noah Family’s strength.

• Bogard told Garp that a minister had colluded with pirates and slaughtered nobles in Sucrose Town, but Garp focused on delivering the kings and Heavenly Tribute to Mary Geoise.
• Noah watched the Marine fleet depart and rejected any thought of recruiting Garp or his family into the Noah Family.
• Noah’s group established an underground base in northeastern Rum Island and arranged for Ray to leave a spatial coordinate point there.
• Ray, Vic, and Anthony left for the Oykot Kingdom to search for the Sound Wave-Sound Wave Fruit, while Noah’s group stayed to strengthen its hold over Rum.
• Mary used her emotion-sensing Observation Haki to help identify spies, who were quietly reassigned, while the Noah Family purged Sugarcane Town and Mackerel Town.
• The Noah Family took control of Barton’s hidden funds and used them to create jobs and provide relief, while keeping its changes inconspicuous and paying the Heavenly Tribute.

After a volcanic eruption unleashed a massive tsunami, Noah and his allies worked to weaken it before it reached Rum Island. The island’s residents evacuated safely, while the tsunami continued onward with its remaining force.

• Anthony spotted a volcanic eruption from the merchant ship and ordered Ray and Vic to teleport the crew to Mackerel Town.
• Noah gathered the Rum Kingdom members, sent Barton to evacuate the southwestern coast, and went with Jay, Lilian, and Ray to an island in the tsunami’s path.
• Jay built a V-shaped graphite breakwater, while Lilian vaporized seawater to create a hollow that weakened the approaching waves.
• Noah made more hollows by sealing seawater in cards, then released the stored water onto the tsunami as Lilian attacked it with flames.
• The tsunami struck the breakwater at less than twenty meters high, and it reached Rum Island after the coastal residents had evacuated.

Lilian explored the newly formed volcanic island to study radioactive material deep in the magma and advance her Flame-Flame Fruit. She failed to achieve Elemental Decay Mode but developed new ideas for Flame God Mode and steam-based techniques before returning to the Rum Kingdom, while Ray, Vic, and Anthony reached the Oykot Kingdom.

• Noah sent Lilith and Lilian to the undersea volcano’s newly formed island so Lilian could study the magma and radioactive material.
• Lilian descended into the magma and used her Thermal Sensing Observation Haki to locate substances releasing heat, but she could not simulate elemental decay.
• Lilith warned Lilian not to push herself toward Elemental Decay Mode before her body was strong enough to handle it.
• Lilian spent more than half a month studying the magma and devised preliminary concepts for Flame God Mode and the Steam Dragon Series.
• Lilian and Lilith returned to the Rum Kingdom, while Ray, Vic, and Anthony arrived in the Oykot Kingdom.

Anthony and his companions searched Oykot Kingdom for the Sound Wave-Sound Wave Fruit, eventually finding it on North Wind Island and having Anthony eat it. As they prepared to leave for the Organ Islands, a bespectacled man tried to assassinate Anthony but was easily subdued.

• Anthony, Ray, and Vic planned to search Oykot Kingdom’s inhabited islands first and spread word that they would buy unusual plants.
• After several days of searching, Ray and Vic bought a Zoan Snake-Snake Fruit, Model: Rattlesnake, and sent it to Noah for identification.
• Anthony and his companions searched across Oykot Kingdom for more than three months before buying the Sound Wave-Sound Wave Fruit from a farming household on North Wind Island.
• Anthony ate the Sound Wave-Sound Wave Fruit and prepared to sail with Ray and Vic toward the waters north of the Organ Islands.
• A bespectacled man entered Anthony’s cabin at night and attacked him with ten blades, but Anthony’s neck stopped the weapons and he incapacitated the would-be assassin.
• Anthony told Vic to have Mary assess the captive for modification and to let him return to nature if he had no value.

Nearly three years after Noah’s rebirth, the Noah Family had grown stronger, richer, and more organized, while Joseph pushed the Rum Kingdom’s reforms after witnessing the horrors of Mary Geoise. Noah planned to use the kingdom as a temporary staging point before taking some family members to Paradise in June 1504 to seek a safer base.

• Joseph returned from Mary Geoise, where what he had seen convinced him to intensify the Rum Kingdom’s reforms and train harder.
• Nearly three years after Noah’s rebirth, Noah and the ten other core members of the Noah Family had grown substantially in strength and established their roles within the family.
• The family had recruited more than two hundred young orphans and over two thousand peripheral members, and its funds and Rum Kingdom tax revenues could support its growth for years.
• Noah decided the Rum Kingdom was unsuitable as the family’s permanent base because it was a World Government affiliate with limited land and rising-sea risks.
• Noah planned to regroup in the Rum Kingdom until June 1504, then take some family members to Paradise, where he judged their chances of survival to be good.

Noah reviewed Kuro’s interrogation report and sent him to the Noah Family’s secret training camp for reform and assessment. Kuro began grueling training and classes, realizing the camp’s lessons could make him a target of the World Government.

• Noah read Mary’s report on Kuro and approved giving him B-level treatment while keeping him away from the family’s secrets and monitoring whether he changed.
• Noah rejected Lilith’s suggestion to kidnap scientists, insisting the Noah Family maintain its principles despite operating in secret.
• Kuro arrived at Torrent Bay’s training camp, where Brian secretly observed him under Noah’s instructions.
• Kuro joined the trainees for a forty-kilometer run, ate sea beast meat, and used vitality-infused ointment to recover from the day’s exertion.
• Kuro attended general education and science classes, then panicked when he saw the Book of Dragon Slaying and understood the danger of anyone learning what he had studied.

Anthony discovered that the Golden Lion had moved Barak Island into the sky and alerted Noah, who devised a plan to capture him. Noah and Ray then sent Lilith to lure the Golden Lion, who began to believe she could serve as his navigator after she demanded a Celestial Dragon’s head.

• Anthony read that Sakazuki had killed the Wild Beast Pirates’ Steel-Steel Fruit user.
• Anthony and Ray found that Barak Island’s Eternal Pose pointed northeast, and Anthony identified the island among the clouds as a floating base moved by the Golden Lion.
• Anthony used a coded call to summon Noah, who consulted his tarot cards and planned a capture attempt.
• Noah and Ray brought Lilith to a nearby deserted island, where she disguised herself as a pirate and sailed alone to attract the Golden Lion.
• The Golden Lion capsized Lilith’s boat and grabbed her, but she claimed she would navigate for him only if he brought her a Celestial Dragon’s head.

Lilith helped Noah infiltrate Golden Lion’s floating islands and put Golden Lion to sleep, allowing Noah and his allies to defeat the pirates and capture the island’s officers. Noah then hesitated over how to handle Golden Lion’s head injury and powerful Devil Fruit, since the Op-Op Fruit was unavailable and his divination showed no chance of success with immediate modification.

• Lilith used her knowledge of Golden Lion’s weakness to poison him and put him to sleep, then opened a wormhole for Noah and Ray.
• Noah, Ray, Mary, Jay, and Anthony attacked the floating islands; Noah knocked out and sealed away Indigo, while the group began clearing the pirates.
• Noah defeated Scarlet by disabling his injured knee with an Armament Haki-coated card and striking him with internal destruction.
• Ray and Jay defeated the Fish-Man swordsman and the remaining pirates on the beast islands.
• After securing the islands, Noah considered the IQ Plants and research data but worried that Golden Lion’s condition could not be safely treated without the Op-Op Fruit.
• Noah used tarot cards to divine the result of modifying Golden Lion and, seeing no chance of success, chose a more conservative approach.

Noah relocated the IQ Plants, villagers, beasts, and floating islands to Sikasis Island, where Lilith and Mary began building a community and defenses. Sikasis Island became a more self-sufficient stronghold, while Anthony and Vic found the Paste-Paste Fruit in the Domini Islands.

• Noah opened his secret base on Sikasis Island, brought over the IQ Plants and feathered villagers, and sealed Golden Lion’s modified beasts and floating islands in cards.
• The feathered villagers accepted the Noah Family’s rule, and Lilith and Mary captured Sikasis Island’s strange birds.
• Lilith formed a two-hundred-member aerial cavalry and began researching how IQ Plants might increase the birds’ size.
• Lilith subdued the Hell Black Ants and planned a food exchange between them and the feathered villagers.
• Lilith established hidden sentry posts and a subterranean labyrinth, while Noah filled Sikasis Island’s small beaches with pieces of floating islands.
• As Sikasis Island’s initial remodeling neared completion, Anthony and Vic found the Paste-Paste Fruit on a deserted island in the Domini Islands.

After Kuma ate the Steel-Steel Fruit and massacred Red Maple Town, Noah sent Lilith and Ray to hunt down the Poker Pirates. They killed the crew, captured Kuma, and Noah turned him into a Card Apostle, leaving him with three Devil Fruit abilities represented by cards.

• Kuma ate the Steel-Steel Fruit and slaughtered the villagers of Red Maple Town before the Poker Pirates sailed away.
• Noah learned that the Poker Pirates had resupplied on Alidu Island and sent Lilith and Ray to find them, ordering them to spare only Kuma.
• Lilith and Ray caught up with the Poker Pirates, defeated the crew, and knocked Kuma into the sea.
• Ray retrieved Kuma, and Lilith paralyzed him before they returned with him to Rum Kingdom through a wormhole.
• Noah used a tarot card to transform Kuma into [King of Wands: Kuma], bringing his total to three Card Apostles.

Noah and Ray built a secret tunnel through the Red Line from the East Blue toward the North Blue, using the concealed cliffs of the Tidal Sea as their entrance. After more than a hundred days, Ray reached the far side and found calm waters that were unsuitable for the tunnel’s exit.

• Noah brought Ray to Starfish Island, and they secretly traveled to the Red Line to find a route into the North Blue.
• After surveying dangerous coastal areas, Noah chose the secluded Tidal Sea and had Ray dig a tunnel into the Red Line cliffs.
• Noah planned oxygen and supply stations and laid stone tracks for electric trains to support ordinary family members using the tunnel.
• Noah installed defenses and self-destruct devices at Tidal Base, while Ray established a wormhole coordinate point there.
• After more than a hundred days of digging, Ray reached the North Blue side and opened a small passage in a cliff above calm water.

Noah and Ray finished concealing a tunnel exit in the dangerous Coral Sea and searched the North Blue for the Op-Op Fruit. In Flevance, they found Trafalgar Law and Lami suffering from Amber Lead Syndrome, and Noah offered their father, Doctor Andy, two ways to deal with the disease.

• Noah and Ray moved their tunnel exit to the Coral Sea, using its acid-producing coral and hazardous mists to conceal it.
• Noah and Ray searched North Blue islands for Devil Fruits, then reached Barclay Island and discovered neighboring countries were preparing to destroy Flevance.
• Noah and Ray observed Doctor Andy trying to encourage Flevance's despairing residents and followed him to Trafalgar Hospital, where Law, Lami, and other children were ill.
• Andy and Mirei worried over Law and Lami's worsening Amber Lead Syndrome, and Noah arrived at their research room offering two ways to deal with it.

Noah explained that the neighboring kingdoms planned to destroy Flevance for the wealth tied to Amber Lead, then recruited Andy to help evacuate its people before the attack. The Noah Family emptied the villages, mining town, and city, sealed the residents away, and seized the kingdom’s remaining valuables.

• Noah showed Andy and Mirei evidence that the four neighboring kingdoms were tightening their blockades and explained how falling Amber Lead exports had made Flevance a target.
• Noah offered to seal the residents away until a cure could be found, and Andy agreed to help gather the people for medical examinations.
• Andy, Mirei, and Noah evacuated the thirteen villages around Flevance City, sealing more than 130 orphans and Andy’s children first.
• Mary, Lilith, Ray, and Jay took control of the mining town, killed more than 536 overseers and others with serious offenses, and sealed the remaining residents.
• Noah and the Noah Family took control of Flevance City, sealed its residents, and collected 83.6 billion Beli along with valuables worth about 160 billion Beli.

The Noah Family escaped Flevance before the allied kingdoms arrived, while the World Government concealed the truth and ordered the survivors hunted. After treating Andy and Mirei and training Luo, Noah found the Op-Op Fruit and persuaded Luo to eat it so he could save Lami.

• The Five Elders blamed Flevance’s destruction on an explosion, sealed the area, and ordered a Buster Call against the escaped survivors once they were found.
• Andy and Mirei recovered from Amber Lead Syndrome using Noah’s vitality and IQ compounds, though the costly treatment could not be used on everyone.
• Noah prioritized treating Luo and told him the Op-Op Fruit could cure Lami and the other orphans, while Luo studied medicine, combat, and Haki.
• After months of searching islands for Devil Fruits, Noah, Ray, and Luo found the Op-Op Fruit in a peach grove.
• Noah persuaded Luo to eat the fruit, and Luo ate it before the group left the village quietly.

Noah’s group reached Swallow Island, where Luo trained with his Op-Op Fruit while Noah and Jay established a Den Den Mushi eavesdropping station. After intercepting a call revealing that a girl with the Snow-Snow Fruit had been found in the Angubo Archipelago, Noah set out to reach Monet and Sugar before Doflamingo’s family could.

• Noah, Luo, and Ray reached Swallow Island and found Bepo, Penguin, Shachi, and other orphans there.
• Luo trained with Ray, using ultrasound and Observation Haki to dodge attacks as he improved his Op-Op Fruit abilities.
• Noah and Jay tested a signal-collecting device and established the Noah Family’s second telephone eavesdropping station beneath Swallow Island.
• The station identified Donquixote Family communications and recorded Doflamingo and Diamante discussing a girl with a possible Snow-Snow Fruit ability in the Angubo Archipelago.
• Noah suspected the girl was Monet and decided to rescue her and Sugar before Doflamingo could reach them.
• Noah ordered Ray and the others to sail the Nautilus toward the Angubo Archipelago.

Noah found Monet and Sugar on Makate Island, subdued them, and captured Diamante after luring him into seawater. He brought the sisters aboard the Nautilus and asked Monet to join the Noah Family, leaving her willing to work for them if Sugar stayed safe and was not made to work before adulthood.

• Noah learned that pirates had been killed near Makate Island and traveled there with his companions.
• Noah located Monet and Sugar, resisted Monet’s Blizzard, and knocked the sisters unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Noah used seawater cards to weaken and capture Diamante, then killed the Donquixote Family members who had accompanied him.
• Noah brought Monet and Sugar aboard the Nautilus and asked Monet to join the Noah Family.
• Monet agreed to work for Noah if he protected Sugar and did not make her sister work before adulthood.

Noah returned to the Rum Kingdom after months of growth and organized the expanding Noah Family into a new leadership structure. He announced seven departments and assigned their heads, then began outlining five ranks for the family.

• Noah made Diamante his fourth Apostle and developed ways to use the Glint-Glint and Steel-Steel Fruit abilities.
• Over nearly half a year in the North Blue, Noah and his companions found three Devil Fruits and captured two pirates with Devil Fruits, while Doflamingo searched for Diamante and Tsuru's Marines pursued him.
• Noah returned with his companions to the Rum Kingdom secret base and celebrated the new year with the family's core members.
• Noah proposed a Round Table of seven rotating elders to lead the departments of Internal Affairs, Military Affairs, Commerce, Supervision, Science and Education, Industry, and Resources.
• Noah appointed Lilith, Joshua, Uncle Joseph, Mary, Brian, Jay, and Ray to head the seven departments, with Anthony and Tomani serving as deputies in their assigned roles.
• Noah said the family would be divided into five ranks: patriarch, elder, officer, elite, and newcomer.

Noah turned the Golden Lion into the Apostle Shiki, raising the Noah Family’s strength and giving it a way to travel through the air and across the Calm Belt. He then brought Shiki, Ray, and Tomani to the White Sea near Jaya Island to reach the Sky Islands and seek the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

• Tomani received the Art-Art Fruit, while Noah reserved the Hobby-Hobby Fruit for Sugar until she was older and sealed the Crow-Crow Fruit in a card.
• Luo removed the helm from the Golden Lion’s brain, repaired his injuries with Andy’s help, and Noah transformed him into the Apostle Shiki.
• Noah recognized that Shiki’s Float-Float Fruit would enable the Noah Family to travel safely across the Calm Belt and reach the Sky Islands.
• Noah, Shiki, Ray, and Tomani used the Nautilus to cross the Calm Belt and headed for Jaya Island, hoping to obtain the Rumble-Rumble Fruit before Enel.
• Noah guided the Nautilus through the Cumuloregalis Cloud to the White Sea, where the vessel continued toward Heaven’s Gate.

Noah took control of Sky Island and made its residents citizens of the Kingdom of Dawn, promising them new land and a shared future. He reorganized the nearby Sky Islands and settled cured Flevance survivors on Sikasis Island, while the Shandia watched the changes from a distance.

• Noah confronted Gan Fall, revealed Roger had died, and demanded that Gan Fall surrender Sky Island to him.
• Gan Fall submitted, and Noah announced to 3,259 residents that Sky Island would join the Kingdom of Dawn.
• Noah brought a deserted island beside Angel Island and gave it to the residents, winning their admiration.
• Noah moved Winged People from Sikasis Island to Sky Island, established the Paradise Sky Governorate across five islands, and renamed God's Island Upper Jaya Island for the Shandia.
• The Shandia noticed the new Sky Islands but held back, while Luo led cured Flevance survivors to settle on Sikasis Island.

Noah captured three Shandia warriors, brought the Shandia People into the Kingdom of Dawn, and moved them to Upper Jaya Island. At the ruins of Shandora, he revealed that Noland’s report of gold had likely put their ancestors in danger from the Lvneel Kingdom.

• Tomani used illusions to capture Laki, Mantis Kamakiri, and Braham, then brought them aboard Noah’s ship.
• Noah subdued Wyper and the Shandia People with Conqueror’s Haki and offered them a place on God’s Island if they joined the Kingdom of Dawn.
• The Shandia chief pledged the tribe’s loyalty, and Noah transported all 1,273 Shandia People to Upper Jaya Island.
• Noah intimidated the Sky Lord Nola into becoming the island’s guardian and led the Shandia People to the ruins of Shandora, where he showed them the Golden Bell and Poneglyph.
• Noah explained that Noland’s report about Jaya’s gold had prompted a Lvneel Kingdom expedition and could have led to the Shandia People being attacked, leaving the chief and tribe distressed.

Noah took control of Birka, uncovered Moon People blueprints for the Ark Maxim, and ordered Enel sent to retraining. After Ray found the Rumble-Rumble Fruit in a wrecked ship near Birka’s Cloud Drifting Punishment site, Noah claimed the powerful fruit for the Noah Family.

• Noah traveled with Shiki and Ray to Birka, where his Conqueror’s Haki subdued the island’s god and priests, and the Noah Family took control.
• Noah found Moon People technological blueprints, including plans for the Ark Maxim, and considered using graphene batteries, wind turbines, and gasbags to build medium-sized flying ships.
• Noah ordered Mary to send the defiant Enel to the training camp, while Mary reported that twenty-eight wicked Birka residents had been executed.
• After the Rumble-Rumble Fruit was not found in Birka’s temple, Noah directed Ray to search the Cloud Drifting Punishment area.
• Ray found the fruit in a hidden compartment aboard a wrecked sailing ship, and Noah examined it with delight.

Noah gave Joshua the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Joshua rapidly developed its lightning and magnetism powers. After reorganizing the Sky Islands and strengthening their defenses, Noah led his companions down to Jaya Island, marking the Noah Family’s first official entry into the Grand Line.

• Noah brought Joshua to Birka and gave him the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, which Joshua ate before demonstrating its powers.
• Joshua used electricity and magnetism to develop many techniques, and Noah judged that he could rival an Elite Vice Admiral.
• Noah transferred Monet to lead the Paradise Sky Governorate and assigned Tomani to intelligence work under the Department of Supervision.
• Noah moved Birka’s residents to Field Island and stationed air cavalry in Birka as an outpost.
• Noah made plans to secure the Sky Islands and entrusted the work to Monet, Chief Karei, Gan Fall, and Usha.
• Noah traveled with Shiki, Ray, Wyper, and the others to Jaya Island, marking the Noah Family’s first official arrival in the Grand Line.