Recaps

In early 1512, Noah reviewed the results of modifying the Sky Empire’s New World territory, including calmer weather, newly discovered mineral deposits, and treasure recovered from shipwrecks. He approved a narrower geological reinforcement plan and decided to expand seabed exploration, beginning with the North Blue.

• Robin reported that geological modifications had reduced extreme weather and presented recommendations to limit further work, which Noah accepted.
• Robin showed Noah a revised plan to connect stable islands with underground geological reinforcements, and Noah approved it.
• Robin gave Noah records of hundreds of mineral deposits, including Seastone and Dyna Stone, discovered beneath the Sky Empire.
• Robin presented the treasure recovered from shipwrecks and ruins, including eighteen Devil Fruits that brought the Liberator Organization’s stockpile to fifty-eight.
• Noah called for more seabed exploration, and Robin said she had arranged for the Sky Empire to survey the North Blue’s seabed.

Vic and his companions discovered Pure Gold inside a giant lanternfish and rescued Olga and Dr. Acier. Noah analyzed the metal, reproduced it with his magnetic powers, and explained that its life-extending effects came with a cost: those exposed could no longer grow or become stronger.

• Vic trapped an enormous lanternfish in a stone forest and found Pure Gold inside its lure.
• Pica brought Olga and Dr. Acier out of the lanternfish, and the group used gestures and drawings to communicate with them.
• Noah arrived with Robin and discovered how Pure Gold produced light that stabilized telomeres in living creatures.
• Noah used magnetic fields to synthesize more than a hundred kilograms of Pure Gold.
• Noah covered most of the Pure Gold with iron sand and warned Robin that its effects prevented the body from growing or getting stronger.

Noah brought Pure Gold to the Moon Palace City surgical laboratory so Luo could study how it might be combined with human cryopreservation to extend life. Noah and Luo also considered the risks of using Zoan Devil Fruit information to achieve immortality, while Noah concluded he had no need to wear Pure Gold yet.

• Noah sent the lanternfish to live in the Sky Empire under orders not to attack human ships or islands, and sent Dr. Acier and Olga to the moon.
• Noah brought Dr. Acier to the new materials laboratory and took most of the Pure Gold to the surgical laboratory for Luo to examine.
• Luo confirmed that Pure Gold could grant eternal youth and immortality but prevented cells from dividing, stopping the wearer from growing stronger.
• Noah explained that he hoped to combine Pure Gold with human cryopreservation to greatly extend a person's lifespan.
• Noah and Luo discussed using the Op-Op Fruit to fuse Zoan Devil Fruit information with a user's soul, but Noah suspected the recipient would need to have awakened their fruit to avoid becoming a mindless beast-man.

Noah visited the City of Light and watched students organize support for the Kingdom of Dawn’s war and compete in martial arts. At Carnegie Comprehensive College, he spotted promising fighters as he considered selecting elite prospects to receive Devil Fruits.

• Noah visited the City of Light without notifying its administrators and watched students promote military recruitment and support for the war against the World Government.
• Ann told her friend she had signed up for the fleet pilot assessment so she could help liberate her hometown from the nobles.
• Noah watched an experienced student support group persuade newly arrived students to contribute to the Kingdom of Dawn’s war effort.
• Noah went to Carnegie Comprehensive College to observe a martial arts competition for students who might continue training at Dawn Military Academy.
• Bai Lang defeated the physically stronger Ruru by using tactical attacks, and Noah recognized him as a promising prospect for Devil Fruit training.

Noah reviewed the Liberator Organization’s military strength as its moon-based factories produced Mecha Warriors and a new class of Devil Fruit-powered Mecha Beast Kings. He concluded that Vegapunk’s Seraphim and Pacifista posed little danger, while satellites could help locate the more serious Mother Flame research before it matured.

• The Donquixote Family grew rapidly under Carina, codenamed Mirage, and Tesoro, whom Noah gave the Gold-Gold Fruit.
• Tesoro quickly developed his Gold-Gold Fruit abilities and approached elite Vice Admiral strength.
• The World Government accelerated Vegapunk’s Seraphim project using blood samples collected from the Shichibukai.
• The Liberator Organization deployed hundreds of thousands of Mecha Warriors and developed seven awakened Zoan-powered Mecha Beast Kings.
• Noah judged that mass-produced Mecha Beast Kings could overwhelm the Seraphim and Pacifista, while the Mother Flame remained the real threat.
• Noah relied on more than three hundred satellites to detect high-energy reactions and eventually pinpoint Vegapunk’s experiments.

The Donquixote Family seized the Nubia Kingdom through a civil war engineered by Doflamingo and Tesoro, who installed Tesoro as King Darwin. The Liberator Organization’s influence across West Blue continued to grow, while Noah avoided a decisive conflict with the World Government to prevent Joy Boy’s faction from benefiting.

• Carina watched the Nubia Kingdom’s civil war through the Mirror Palace’s surveillance mirrors as Doflamingo and Tesoro secretly manipulated both sides.
• Tesoro led his forces into the royal palace, killed the first prince, and used his gold powers to control the old king.
• Tesoro defeated the rebels, executed their leaders, and exiled more than twenty thousand participants, bringing Nubia under Donquixote Family control.
• Three days later, Tesoro forced the old king to abdicate and became the twenty-fourth king of Nubia as Darwin.
• The Donquixote Family moved its headquarters to Nubia, while the World Government warned Doflamingo but failed to recognize his ties to the Liberator Organization.
• The Liberator Organization expanded its secret control across West Blue, and Noah held off on a decisive battle to prevent Joy Boy’s faction from taking advantage of the conflict.

Carina and the Distillery's Mirror Image Squad monitored Amazon Lily and uncovered Rayleigh training Luffy, Sabo, and Ace. The chapter leaves Carina with the boys' identities confirmed and their surprising family ties revealed.

• Carina's Mirror Image Squad used the Mirror World and its clones to expand the Distillery's intelligence operations.
• An agent reported suspicious activity on Amazon Lily, and Carina observed Rayleigh speaking with Granny Nyon through a mirror.
• Rayleigh and Granny Nyon sensed they were being watched, so Carina switched to hidden surveillance Den Den Mushi before leaving the mirror room.
• Carina reviewed the recordings and saw Rayleigh training Luffy, Sabo, and Ace.
• Carina received records identifying Luffy as Garp's grandson and Dragon's son, Ace as Roger's posthumous son, and Sabo as a runaway noble.

Noah launched an assault on Amazon Lily, separating the island from Rayleigh and the three brothers by pulling Rusukaina into the Door-Door Fruit’s inner world. He defeated Hancock and captured her as the twenty-second Major Arcana Apostle, triggering a transformation in his Card-Card Fruit and leaving him stronger than ever.

• Noah summoned his officers and the Strategic Support Squad, then moved the battlefield into the Door-Door Fruit’s inner world to avoid detection by the Marines and World Government.
• Joshua blocked nearby Den Den Mushi signals as Ray pulled Rusukaina Island into the inner world, where Vic, Lilian, Kuro, and the squad confronted Rayleigh, Luffy, Ace, and Sabo.
• Noah used his magnetic power to calm the sea after Rusukaina was removed, then entered Amazon Lily with Robin, Lilith, Ray, and Joshua.
• Hancock’s Love-Love Fruit power failed against Noah’s group, and Noah removed her frontal lobe while Joshua killed Granny Nyon and Robin and Lilith subdued the Boa sisters.
• Noah captured Hancock as The Lovers card, completing his set of 22 Major Arcana Apostles and awakening a qualitative change in his Card-Card Fruit.

Noah fused his soul with the Card-Card Fruit, gaining immortality and three permanent innate abilities, while the 22 Major Arcana Apostles awakened their Devil Fruits. Confident in his growing power, he entered the Door-Door Fruit’s inner world with Joshua and Ray, where Rayleigh and Vic were fighting.

• Noah inscribed his soul into the Card-Card Fruit and selected Kaido’s Azure Dragon, Bege’s Castle, and Barton’s Swap abilities as permanent innate abilities.
• Hancock and the other 21 Major Arcana Apostles awakened their Devil Fruits, gaining powerful new abilities.
• Noah left the cleanup of Amazon Lily to Hancock, Robin, Lilith, and Mary before taking Joshua and Ray through a wormhole into the Door-Door Fruit’s inner world.
• Noah’s group found Rayleigh and Vic clashing with Conqueror’s Haki, while Lilian watched Luffy and his brothers.

Noah forced Luffy to declare his dream, then crushed him until Sun God Nika took control of his body and fought back. Noah overpowered Nika, while Sabo and Rayleigh learned that the Liberators had killed people close to Luffy and intended to eliminate his allies.

• Noah asked Luffy, Ace, and Sabo about their dreams, then bound Luffy and crushed him after he declared he would become Pirate King.
• Luffy awakened as Sun God Nika, but Noah struck him with overwhelming strength and froze his body until Nika took control.
• Sabo and Rayleigh learned that the Liberators had killed Garp, Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates, and the Kuja Pirates, making their conflict with Luffy's allies irreconcilable.
• Noah fought Nika with his combined abilities and the powers of the Major Arcana Apostles, while Nika's attacks failed to defeat him.
• Nika realized Luffy's body was rapidly losing vitality, and Noah struck him in the face as the battle continued.

Noah defeated Nika, stripped the Sun God power from the Gum-Gum Fruit, and transferred its cleansed information to Lilian, who became the new Sun God. He then killed Rayleigh, Ace, and Sabo, and Kuro brought him the newly respawned Gum-Gum Fruit.

• Noah used a combined attack to split Nika apart, then exchanged the copied Nika fruit power with the real one and stripped Nika's soul information from the Gum-Gum Fruit.
• Noah extracted Nika's memories and divided them among hundreds of prisoners, leaving Nika's soul empty before suppressing it.
• Noah transferred the cleansed Sun God information entity to Lilian, whose Flame-Flame Fruit devoured it as she imprinted her will and became Sun God Lilian.
• Rayleigh pleaded with Noah to spare Ace and Sabo, but Noah killed all three and dissolved Rayleigh's corpse.
• Kuro brought Noah the freshly respawned Gum-Gum Fruit.

Imu and the Five Elders sensed an early awakening of Nika’s presence, while Noah’s group wiped out the Kuja Pirates and left Amazon Lily. Kuma found the island deserted, then visited Dragon in prison and told him the children were gone, leaving Dragon grieving and blaming himself.

• Imu and the Five Elders felt a powerful presence they identified as the awakened Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, and the Elders ordered Vegapunk to prioritize the Mother Flame and Seraphim projects.
• Lilith, Robin, Mary, Hancock, and the others eliminated the Kuja Pirates except for the young children, and Noah led the group away through a Garganta.
• Shakky saw Rayleigh and Gloriosa’s Vivre Cards burning, and Kuma took her to Amazon Lily, where they found no trace of the three brothers.
• Kuma refused to accept that Luffy had died, kept the events on Amazon Lily secret, and went to Marineford to ask to see Monkey D. Dragon.
• Kuma met Dragon in Infinite Hell and told him he had failed to protect the children and that Morley was missing.
• After Kuma left, Dragon cried and blamed himself for not keeping Luffy by his side.

Marine Rear Admiral Andrew discovered that Amazon Lily had fallen silent, a nearby island had disappeared, and the Kuja Pirates had been buried in a mass grave. The Marines and World Government blamed Shiki and the Sky Empire, while Cipher Pol began searching for a replacement Shichibukai.

• Andrew noticed that the Kuja Pirates no longer sent ships to watch the Marine patrol and discovered that an island northwest of Amazon Lily had vanished.
• Andrew reported the disappearances to Marine Headquarters, and Tsuru confirmed she could not reach Hancock by Den Den Mushi.
• Tsuru ordered Andrew to investigate Amazon Lily, where he found the island deserted and a grave marking the Kuja Pirates and Amazon Lily Kingdom as dead.
• Tsuru informed Sengoku, who blamed Shiki and reported the loss to the Five Elders.
• The Five Elders ordered Cipher Pol to assess new Shichibukai candidates and informed the remaining Shichibukai that Hancock and the Kuja Pirates had been wiped out.

The Whitebeard Pirates attacked the Flying Pirates on Asuka Island and captured Van Bordeaux, recovering a purple Devil Fruit. That night, Teach killed Thatch, ate the Dark-Dark Fruit, killed Marco and the rest of the Whitebeard crew, and left with Van Bordeaux to begin the Blackbeard Pirates.

• Marco, Thatch, Teach, and the Whitebeard Pirates ambushed the Flying Pirates on Asuka Island, while Marco chased down and captured Van Bordeaux.
• Thatch revealed a Devil Fruit recovered from the Flying Pirates, and Marco declared Van Bordeaux a sacrifice for the islands his crew had plundered.
• Teach killed the drunken Thatch and ate the Dark-Dark Fruit from the box.
• Teach killed Marco, absorbed the Phoenix Fruit's power, and killed the Whitebeard Pirates on the island and ship.
• Teach released Van Bordeaux and sailed away aboard the Flying Dutchman, declaring the start of the Blackbeard Pirates.

Blamenco discovered that Thatch, Marco, and the other Whitebeard Pirates who went after the Flying Pirates had died, prompting Whitebeard to launch a pursuit toward Asuka Island. The Distillery tracked Teach to the Dressrosa Kingdom while Teach and Van Bordeaux stopped to rest, with Teach planning to become a Shichibukai.

• Blamenco found that Thatch, Marco, and the others' Vivre Cards had burned away, while Teach's remained intact, and he informed Whitebeard.
• Whitebeard gathered his commanders and ordered the fleet and its forty-three affiliated crews to head for Asuka Island.
• Iron Kuma learned of the deaths and ordered the Distillery to investigate the Whitebeard Pirates, Teach, and Asuka Island.
• The Distillery traced Teach and Van Bordeaux flying toward the Dressrosa Kingdom with the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Teach and Van Bordeaux landed on a deserted island to rest, and Teach considered becoming a Shichibukai to protect himself from Whitebeard.

Teach planned to become a Shichibukai while the Liberator Organization monitored his movements and considered whether he had obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit. On Asuka Island, Shakky sought Whitebeard’s protection and suggested that the person who destroyed Amazon Lily had used Shiki’s identity.

• Teach weighed ways to trigger a war that could give him cover to enter Impel Down, but he could not identify a suitable target or safely predict when the conflict would begin.
• A Distillery agent spotted Teach and Van Bordeaux at Turandot Port, and Tomani ordered Champagne and Kuma to monitor Teach while they investigated whether he had obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Whitebeard recovered Thatch’s body and recognized that someone Thatch knew had stabbed him.
• Shakky told Whitebeard that Rayleigh, Gloriosa, and Hancock had died in the Amazon Lily incident and asked for his protection.
• Shakky argued that Shiki could not have massacred Amazon Lily, citing a nearby island’s unexplained disappearance, and concluded that if Shiki was responsible, he was not the real Shiki.

Shakuyaku uncovered Teach’s whereabouts, but Whitebeard could not safely pursue him, while the Liberator Organization tracked Teach and Van Bordeaux as they fled to Paradise. Lured by rumors of a Sky Island above Jaya, the pair flew there, unaware that Moria was closing in on them.

• Shakuyaku discovered that Teach was hiding near Dressrosa, but Whitebeard hesitated to send forces into waters watched by Marine bases and admirals.
• Teach and Van Bordeaux left Dressrosa for Paradise, and the Liberator Organization’s satellite tracked their ship while its forces prepared to ambush them.
• Teach and Van Bordeaux stopped on Jaya, where they overheard Boss Deli discussing a possible Sky Island and City of Gold above the island.
• After leaving the bar, Teach and Van Bordeaux returned to their ship and flew through the Cumuloregalis Cloud to the White-White Sea.
• Teach waited for daylight aboard the Flying Dutchman as Moria silently approached, and Teach’s vigilance began to fade.

Moria and Luo captured Teach and uncovered the secrets of his three-part body and the Dark-Dark Fruit, then stripped away his memories and cut him apart for research. Teach disappeared from the seas while the Whitebeard Pirates could only search for him from the New World.

• Moria ambushed Teach and Van Bordeaux with Seastone weapons and shackles, then summoned Luo to examine Teach.
• Luo discovered that Teach contained three sets of genes and could consume another Devil Fruit, prompting Moria and Luo to discuss genetic armor research.
• Teach offered to cooperate and reveal a secret, but Moria exposed his knowledge of extracting Devil Fruits and used a contract to take his memories.
• Moria learned that Teach’s mother had combined him with his two younger sisters and that the Dark-Dark Fruit could make a slain user's Devil Fruit reappear nearby.
• Luo took separate blood samples and cut Teach into pieces for research, while Moria turned Van Bordeaux into a living corpse general.
• Shakky found no trace of Teach after Jaya Island, and the Whitebeard Pirates were left searching helplessly from the New World.

Noah began the final modifications to Teach and then moved to seize Impel Down for the Liberator Organization. After Magellan refused to surrender, Noah revealed that he could handle the World Government’s hidden CP Agents, leaving Magellan wavering.

• Luo replaced Teach’s brain with a cloned one stripped of its prefrontal lobes, then Noah gave Teach a place among the Apostles and used the Swap-Swap Fruit to exchange his Phoenix Fruit with Black Maria’s Rosamygale Fruit.
• Noah turned the Rosamygale Fruit and Uncle Joseph’s Silverback Gorilla Fruit into Gene Armor, giving the Rosamygale armor back to Black Maria and allowing Uncle Joseph to preserve his cover.
• Noah arrived at Impel Down, where Vic reinforced the prison, Joshua secured its communications, and Moria subdued the hidden CP Agents.
• Anduin and the Seven Deadly Sins took charge of their assigned prison levels while Noah confronted Magellan in the warden’s office and offered him a new boss.
• Noah showed Magellan that Sadi, Hannyabal, Domino, Saldeath, and the Jailer Beasts had been captured, but Magellan still refused to surrender.
• Noah assured Magellan that the Liberator Organization could deal with the hidden CP Agents and compared its ability to the Red Count’s, leaving Magellan to understand what he meant.

Noah secured Magellan’s agreement to surrender Impel Down to the Liberator Organization without joining its war against the World Government, while Anduin defeated Shiryu. After screening and reorganizing the prison, Anduin explained that controlling it would prevent the World Government from using its prisoners against the Liberator Organization.

• Magellan agreed to surrender and persuade Impel Down’s staff, provided he would not have to fight the World Government.
• Shiryu challenged Noah, but Anduin blocked his attacks and forced him to surrender.
• Magellan tried to convince the officers to cooperate while Mary, Enel, and the others screened the prison staff for hidden CP Agents and World Government loyalists.
• After more than three months, the Liberator Organization absorbed Impel Down, replaced some of its personnel, and assigned the replaced guards to the prison on the moon.
• Anduin told Magellan and Domino that Morley had created Level 5.5 and revealed that Dragon and Ivankov knew about its secret passage.
• Anduin explained that the World Government might recruit prisoners to fight the Liberator Organization, and Magellan agreed to cooperate with the plan to secure Impel Down.

Anduin brought Magellan to Andy and Luo, who diagnosed the severe effects of his Venom-Venom Fruit and devised a treatment that replaced it with the Locust Fruit and turned its power into Gene Armor. After three days, Magellan tested the armor and proposed converting the Devil Fruits of Impel Down’s prisoners into Gene Armor.

• Andy and Luo examined Magellan and found that the Venom-Venom Fruit had damaged his organs and altered his cells to produce toxins.
• Anduin suggested extracting the Venom-Venom Fruit to make Gene Armor, and Andy and Luo planned to combine it with poison-resistant technology and an insect Zoan.
• Magellan chose the Locust Fruit, and Andy used a prisoner and The Devil Contract to transfer it to him while removing the toxins from his body.
• Andy and Luo created Venom Gene Armor, which Magellan claimed with a drop of blood three days later.
• Magellan tested the armor’s poison abilities and endurance, then suggested converting the Devil Fruits of Impel Down’s prisoners into Gene Armor.

Anduin explained why the Liberator Organization was taking control of Impel Down and ordered the recovery of Byrnndi World, Ivankov, and Inazuma. Shiryu’s group collected World from Infinite Hell, while Dragon sensed trouble and summoned Kuma.

• Anduin told Magellan that the Liberator Organization planned to recover Devil Fruits by openly removing prisoners from Impel Down, starting with Byrnndi World, Ivankov, and Inazuma.
• Anduin explained that the Kingdom of Dawn sought to overthrow everything outside its system, while the World Government tolerated pirates to preserve its hold over its Affiliated Nations.
• Shiryu, Pride, Envy, and the jailers passed Douglas Bullet and Count Patrick Redfield on their way to World’s freezer cell, with Gene Armor blocking Redfield’s mind-reading Observation Haki.
• Pride used a card to absorb the ice containing World, and Shiryu escorted the group toward Freezing Hell before returning to train.
• Dragon watched Shiryu’s group from his cell, crushed Kuma’s special beetle, and Kuma sensed the signal and sent himself flying toward him.

Pride’s group extracted the Hormone-Hormone, Snip-Snip, and More-More Fruits while concealing Ivankov and Inazuma’s fate from Kuma. Kuma visited Dragon and then found Ivankov and Inazuma frozen in Impel Down, leaving without learning what had happened to their Devil Fruits.

• Pride ordered Luo to remove Inazuma and Ivankov’s Devil Fruits, and Luo cut out Ivankov’s frontal lobe before Pride took their memories and Envy froze them.
• Pride stored Ivankov and Inazuma in a secluded cell, then released World from storage, killed him, and recovered the More-More Fruit.
• Magellan reported Kuma’s visit to Anduin, who ordered Shiryu, Pride, and Envy to watch Kuma and Dragon closely.
• Lust escorted Kuma to Dragon’s cell, where Shiryu, Pride, and another official monitored their brief conversation.
• Magellan took Kuma to see Ivankov and Inazuma, who had been frozen, and Kuma agreed to have them transferred to Infinite Hell.
• Kuma left Impel Down, while Sadi and Lust watched him depart.

The Liberator Organization confronted Dragon in Impel Down, stripped him of the Hurricane Fruit, and turned him into a Living Dead General. They planned to use his memories to deceive Kuma while continuing to build their forces for the coming battle.

• Shiryu, Pride, and Envy brought Dragon to a hidden level of Impel Down, where Karasu accused him of betraying the Revolutionary Army by allowing Luffy to pursue his dream.
• Shiryu revealed that they served the Liberator Organization, and Pride and Envy told Dragon that the group had killed Garp and Luffy and targeted White Soil Island to lure him into their grasp.
• Pride weakened Dragon with an inhibitor, took his blood signature on Devil Contracts, and removed his Devil Fruit power without killing him.
• Moria arrived and helped Luo extract Dragon's memories and turn him into a Living Dead General, while the group recovered the Hurricane Fruit.
• Pride gave Dragon's memories to Moria to hide in a shadow and use to fool Kuma, as the Liberator Organization continued harvesting Impel Down's Devil Fruit users and expanding its forces.

Shakky told Kuma that she suspected the Sky Empire was connected to the missing Kingdom of Dawn and that Shiki might have been transformed through an Op-Op Fruit soul swap. Unable to prove the link through investigation, they planned to capture Hermit and use Kuma’s ability to extract his memories.

• Kuma arrived at the Barbizon Islands and met Shakky, who shared the findings of her investigation into the Sky Empire.
• Shakky explained that Shiki had changed drastically and proposed that his soul might have been swapped using the Op-Op Fruit.
• Shakky theorized that the Sky Empire could be part of the Kingdom of Dawn, possibly hidden inside a Devil Fruit user’s special space.
• Kuma and Shakky agreed they needed evidence linking the Sky Empire and the Liberator Organization before the World Government could act.
• Shakky identified Hermit as a possible capture target and proposed using Kuma’s ability and her secret weapon to seize him.