Recaps

Shakky arranged Uta’s concert in Dressrosa to build a path into the Sky Empire, hoping to seize Hermit’s memories and escape with Kuma’s help. Robin recognized Uta from the Empire’s intelligence and ordered a response, while Noah learned of the suspected threat.

• Shakky encouraged thirteen-year-old Uta before Uta performed “New Genesis” to a packed colosseum in Dressrosa.
• Shakky’s broadcast deal with Morgans boosted Uta’s popularity, and Morgans offered to arrange concerts in the Sky Empire if the ratings held.
• Shakky explained that she planned to use Uta’s Sing-Sing Fruit to trap Hermit in Sing World, take his memories, and escape with Kuma’s power.
• Robin recognized Uta in the newspaper, reviewed her intelligence file, and suspected Uta’s group intended to attack the Sky Empire.
• Robin and Black Maria left Sky Dome Island after secret orders were sent, and Noah received Robin’s report.

Robin and her companions secretly monitored Uta’s group after both parties arrived at Feini Island, while Uta and Shakky prepared for a future confrontation in the Sky Empire. Robin learned that they suspected the Sky Empire in Luffy’s death and overheard Shakky arranging a scouting mission, leaving her aware of their plans.

• Robin used Human Path to disguise herself as an ordinary woman and passed Uta, Shakky, and their companions without being detected.
• Uta and Buggy ate while Gordon worried about Uta’s ability to pull an opponent into Sing World, and Shakky assured him that Uta would train before reaching Torrent Province.
• Robin watched Uta’s group through a comic-like live broadcast and concluded that Uta’s Sing-Sing Fruit posed little threat to her.
• Robin realized that Uta and Shakky suspected the Sky Empire had killed Luffy, possibly because Shiki had moved an island.
• Shakky called an ally, who said he would enter Torrent Province in a week and scout its islands for the Hermit.
• Robin’s room mural recorded Shakky’s call, and Robin saw the updated comic afterward.

Robin identified Tyrant Kuma and alerted Shiki, who sent Bege and Shiru to capture him. Kuma was trapped in a sealed waterway and subdued, then asked Bege not to tell his daughter Bonney that he had died at their hands.

• Robin recognized Tyrant Kuma and sent Shiki a warning about his movements.
• Shiki used the Distillery to track Kuma and sent Bege and Shiru to capture him.
• Bege and Shiru waited at Gute Port and trapped Kuma’s passenger ship inside a castle waterway.
• Kuma tried to escape, but Shiru slowed him with his awakened Noro Noro Beam while Bege restrained him with Seastone-laced material.
• Kuma became powerless and asked Bege not to tell Bonney that he had died at their hands.

Robin and Black Maria captured Uta and Buggy after Shakky’s attack failed, and the Liberator Organization learned that Shakky had uncovered its ties to the Sky Empire. Noah called an emergency meeting, prepared for war with the World Government, and Shakky’s information began spreading through the Underworld.

• Kuma was stripped of his Devil Fruit ability and imprisoned in Skeleton Hell in Impel Down.
• Robin captured Uta and Buggy, while Shakky poisoned herself to avoid capture.
• Bege revealed that Shakky had joined the Whitebeard Pirates’ intelligence network and suspected the Sky Empire’s connection to the Kingdom of Dawn.
• Noah called an emergency meeting, where the Liberator Organization prepared to relocate civilians and begin a likely war within months.
• Whitebeard kept Shakky’s discovery quiet, but intelligence about the Sky Empire and the Liberator Organization spread through the Underworld.

After learning that the Liberator Organization had replaced Shiki’s soul and that the Sky Empire was preparing to evacuate civilians, the major powers made plans for the coming war. The Five Elders ordered an all-out campaign, and Sakazuki destroyed Hell Valley Island, killing the Marines stationed there.

• Whitebeard ordered his crews and affiliated pirates to assemble and resolved to put them through rigorous training.
• Streusen persuaded Charlotte Linlin to seek an alliance with Whitebeard, move their territories closer together, and abandon some lands between the Sky Empire and the World Government.
• The Five Elders concluded that Shiki’s soul might have been replaced and learned their agents had been killed while the Sky Empire evacuated civilians.
• Imu ordered the Five Elders to act with all their strength and buy Vegapunk time to develop the Mother Flame.
• Sengoku ordered Sakazuki to destroy a node island, and Sakazuki triggered Hell Valley Island’s volcano, killing the Marines at the base.

After Sakazuki destroyed Hell Valley Island, the navy and the New World’s factions prepared for the disasters and conflict to come. Blazing Sun ordered Morgans to expose the World Government’s actions as the Liberator Organization mobilized to seize the New World.

• Sakazuki left the submerged G0 Base, while Kuzan fortified G-1 Base with a vast ice wall in anticipation of earthquakes and tsunamis.
• Gion warned Kuzan against fighting Sakazuki, whose return to G-1 was uncertain because the New World’s factions would seek revenge.
• Charlotte Linlin agreed to abandon Totto Land and flee to the West Blue, while Whitebeard chose to stay and protect his homeland.
• Blazing Sun ordered Morgans to publicize the New World’s extinction crisis and blame the World Government and navy.
• Blazing Sun sent the reorganized army groups to take control of the New World while the organization’s core fighters confronted the navy and World Government.

King Riku and Elizabello II decided to surrender their kingdoms to the Liberator Organization to protect their people as the World Government’s conflict with the organization threatened the New World. In Fish-Man Island, Neptune ordered a major military recruitment as Jinbe warned that neutrality would be difficult to maintain.

• Scarlet proposed that Dressrosa give up its royal status and join the Liberator Organization, and Viola and King Riku agreed.
• King Riku ordered Kyros to calm the people and had Viola contact Big News Morgans to convey his offer to the Liberator Organization.
• Elizabello II told King Riku that Prodence would also surrender its royal status if the Liberator Organization guaranteed his family’s safety.
• Jinbe briefed Neptune and the Ryugu Kingdom’s court on the growing strength of the Liberator Organization and the World Government, and said Whitebeard did not need their help.
• Neptune worried that Fish-Man Island would eventually be forced to choose a side and ordered Jinbe to recruit fifty thousand soldiers from the Fish-Man District.

The Liberator Organization began taking control of Dressrosa as the World Government launched a massive assault. Both sides assembled their strongest forces, and the chapter ended as their Conqueror’s Haki clashed before the battle began.

• Joshua arrived in Dressrosa with the Liberator Organization’s forces, and King Riku handed him the kingdom’s records.
• Borsalino attacked Dressrosa with light bullets, but Mantis protected the kingdom with a barrier while Kuro organized the evacuation and search for CP Agents.
• Sakazuki attacked from underground with magma, but Kuro strengthened Mantis’s barrier, and Lilian stopped Kuzan’s advancing ice.
• Saint Saturn summoned the other Five Elders as the World Government deployed fourteen Admiral-level fighters; Noah and the Liberator Organization gathered their own forces to face them.
• Noah and the leaders on both sides unleashed Conqueror’s Haki, and Morgans announced the coming great war over a live broadcast.

The Liberator Organization and the World Government’s forces revealed seven Mythical Zoan users on each side and began fighting across the glacier. Judgment used the Yamata no Orochi Fruit’s powers to strip Saint Nusjuro of his emotions, then captured him with Hancock’s Love-Love Fruit ability.

• The Five Elders, the CP0 commander-in-chief, and Zilong revealed their awakened forms, and Kuro’s side answered with its own Zoan users, including Lilian in her Sun God Form.
• Lilian punched a hole through Saint Saturn with a nuclear-fusion-powered fist, and Black Maria bound him with Armament Haki-coated webbing and shocked him.
• The Zoan users split into matchups across the battlefield, with Judgment fighting Saint Nusjuro and Enel fighting Saint Mars.
• Judgment’s Yamata no Orochi aura filled Saint Nusjuro with desires that disrupted his Observation Haki, and Judgment cut him into pieces before striking him with eight emotion-erasing swords.
• Saint Nusjuro regenerated without his human emotions, and Judgment shot a pink arrow into his chest to capture him using Hancock’s Love-Love Fruit ability.

The Liberator Organization and the World Government fought across the ice field near Dressrosa, with the Liberators gaining the advantage as their combatants matched the Government’s strongest fighters. Sakazuki prepared a powerful underground attack, and Monet sensed a lethal threat just before a hidden Magic Card triggered a massive magma eruption beneath her.

• Kuzan ordered most Vice Admirals and Rear Admirals to retreat while Monet kept him occupied, and Doria sent robots against the Government forces.
• The chapter revealed that Cipher Pol had intercepted a call between King Riku and Elizabello II, while Noah had divined the Government’s plan to ambush Dressrosa.
• Sakazuki and Vic devastated Green Bit with magma and crystal attacks, while their Haki, strength, and stamina proved evenly matched.
• Toraji, Barry, and Lawrence failed to gain an advantage against Noah, and Saint Nusjuro remained under enemy control, shifting the battle toward the Liberators.
• Sakazuki launched a large-scale underground magma attack, and Monet activated a hidden Magic Card after sensing danger, causing a colossal magma pillar to erupt beneath her.

The Liberator Organization eliminated two World Government commanders and used Anthony's ability to turn Lawrence against his former allies, worsening the government's disadvantage. As the battle continued, Noah trapped Borsalino in a black hole, leaving the World Government's remaining fighters in grave danger.

• Ray arrived with Monet and Vic, and the barrier over Dressrosa vanished after the kingdom's population had been evacuated.
• Noah and Anthony killed Army Admiral Toraji, while Joseph and Shiru slowed and drained Air Force Admiral Barry.
• Anthony's Soul Resonance trapped Lawrence in his Magical Destiny Symphony, and Lawrence later joined the Five Elders and attacked Kuzan.
• Lilian damaged Saint Saturn, but Noah stopped the other Elders from giving Saturn time to recover.
• Borsalino struck Noah and tried to escape, but Noah's Black Hole Gravitational Field and Shiru's Slow Realm immobilized him and pulled him toward the black hole.

Noah summoned nearly all the Shichibukai to reinforce his side after Saint Saturn called in seven Holy Knights, leaving the World Government’s forces badly outnumbered. As the battle resumed, Whitebeard and Big Mom assessed the growing power and reach of the Liberator Organization.

• Saint Saturn summoned seven Holy Knights, and Saint Garling ordered them to attack Noah and his allies.
• Noah brought six fighters out of his shadow, joining Doria and gathering nearly every Shichibukai against the World Government’s forces.
• Noah taunted the Five Elders and their allies, who realized Saint Saturn could summon no further reinforcements before the battle erupted again.
• Whitebeard recognized the Dark-Dark Fruit’s power in Noah’s hands and suspected Teach was dead, while Shiki watched the Whitebeard Pirates to prevent them from intervening.
• Charlotte Linlin saw Doflamingo and Tesoro fighting alongside Noah and reconsidered her plans to attack West Blue’s Mafia families.

As the World Government’s forces collapsed across the seas, Issho revealed his allegiance to the Liberator Organization and brought the North Blue Marines over to the Kingdom of Dawn. Sengoku ordered the remaining forces to retreat and concentrate their defenses around Mary Geoise.

• At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku and Tsuru watched the disastrous battle at Dressrosa and discussed the difficulty of rescuing their forces.
• At Base 400, Issho had poisoned Marine officers killed, including Vice Admiral White Snake, and Vergo confirmed that purges at the North Blue bases were complete.
• Issho broadcast an appeal for Marines across North Blue to join the Liberator Organization and the Kingdom of Dawn.
• Rear Admiral Garry reported Issho’s defection, while intelligence chiefs reported rebellions and attacks across East Blue, Paradise, South Blue, and West Blue.
• The Germa Kingdom invaded the Pole Star Islands, and Sengoku ordered the Marines to withdraw toward Mary Geoise while requesting army and air force reinforcements.

Imu marked Dressrosa for destruction and sent the National Treasure toward the battlefield, while the Five Elders concealed its arrival from their allies. Tesoro overwhelmed Saint Figarland Garling, leaving the Holy Knight trapped in liquid gold.

• Imu, unsettled by the unfamiliar powers appearing in Dressrosa, marked the kingdom on a map and used the Empty Throne to send a mountain peak toward it.
• The Five Elders and Saint Garling received Imu's order to hold off the enemy until the National Treasure arrived in half an hour, but they kept the message secret from their allies.
• Tesoro used his awakened Gold-Gold Fruit and Haki to pressure Saint Figarland Garling with a Sea of Gold and regenerating golden beasts.
• Tesoro's clone drew Garling's attention while his Haki-coated severed hand seized the Holy Knight by the neck.
• Tesoro's body attached itself to Garling and poured liquid gold over him, leaving Garling unable to resist.

Tesoro killed Saint Garling, while Doflamingo used nuclear fusion to kill Saint Derek in a massive explosion that stunned the world. The surviving Five Elders recognized the deaths, Imu watched in fear, and Vegapunk began seeking data on the blast.

• Tesoro revealed that his golden clone was his real body and killed Saint Garling by crushing his brain and internal organs with gold.
• Huazha fought Saint Rode to a standstill after Rode sensed his uncle Garling's death.
• Doflamingo used the String Demon King's generators and nuclear fusion attacks to kill Saint Derek in a vast explosion.
• The surviving Five Elders, Kuzan, Sakazuki, Zilong, and Blood Wolf witnessed the explosion, while the Five Elders sensed Garling's and Derek's deaths.
• Morgans broadcast the explosion, frightening Imu as people around the world watched.
• Vegapunk identified the blast as the power of the Mother Flame and ordered Shaka to collect its data.

The Liberators continued crushing the World Government forces at Dressrosa, killing Zilong, Blood Wolf, and several other elite fighters while overwhelming the remaining Elders and God's Knights. Sakazuki's underground magma attacks briefly disrupted their advance, but Saint Saturn waited for the moment he had been anticipating.

• Saturn fought off Black Maria and Doflamingo, but Doflamingo pierced his abdomen while Lilian killed Army Admiral Zilong in a nuclear blast.
• Sakazuki sank into the magma and attacked from underground, throwing the battlefield into disarray and giving the World Government forces a brief reprieve.
• Noah slowed Blood Wolf with a Noro Noro Beam, burned him to ashes with the Temperature-Temperature Fruit, and sealed the Werewolf Fruit's information body in a card.
• Hancock pressured Fenny, while Moria trapped Saint Mimas with his shadow and Love-Love Fruit powers and secretly planted cards inside him.
• Shiru slowed Saint Leda and Doria killed him with a laser cannon; Saturn sensed the God's Knight's death and judged that the moment he had been waiting for was nearly at hand.

Noah blocked Uranus’s devastating attack with an iron sand cloud, then joined the Liberator Organization in exhausting the Ancient Weapon’s energy and bringing its ship down. With Noah capturing Uranus, resistance to the Liberator army began to collapse across the world.

• Joshua warned Noah that something was approaching the sky above Dressrosa, and the Five Elders and Holy Knights teleported away as Uranus unleashed its energy cannons.
• Noah used Iron Sand Realm, Float, and Heat Exchanger to absorb the attack and protect Dressrosa, while Kuzan escaped to the edge of its shadow.
• Morgans broadcast Noah’s defense of Uranus’s attack, and Imu and the Five Elders watched in shock as the World Government’s weapon ran low on energy.
• Noah formed an iron sand giant that revealed Uranus’s spaceship, and Lilian, Joshua, Doflamingo, Doria, and Vic battered down its energy shield.
• Noah used the Float-Float Fruit to stop the powerless Uranus ship in midair, and resistance to the Liberator army began suffering widespread defeats.

Noah took control of Uranus and uncovered records revealing how Imu and the Five Elders had seized it and started the war against Joy Boy and the Great Kingdom. He ordered Uranus modified for an attack on Mary Geoise the next day, then killed the surrendered Kuzan.

• Noah had Doria merge with Uranus and restart its backup power system.
• Noah read Uranus's historical records, which showed that Imu and the Five Elders had become administrators and taken control of the spacecraft.
• Noah concluded that Imu had stolen control of Uranus and that the war began over opposing plans for the coming catastrophe.
• Noah ordered Doria and the Liberator Organization's engineers to modify Uranus so Noah alone held its highest authority.
• Kuzan surrendered, but Noah reclaimed his Devil Fruit and killed him.

After the Battle of Dressrosa, the Kingdom of Dawn began imposing its rule through harsh purges and dismantling local powers. Its forces secured Loguetown and arrested the sea restaurant’s staff, leaving Sanji alone with his grief after Reiju departed.

• Noah’s Kingdom of Dawn enforced a takeover plan that stripped nobles of status, punished offenders, and planned to break up local powers through resettlement.
• Smoker surrendered Loguetown to Yamato and handed over the town’s records as Liberator forces arrived.
• When pirates and thugs looted Loguetown, Yamato killed them, including young Bartolomeo and his grandmother, despite Smoker’s shock.
• Reiju arrived at the sea restaurant and poisoned Zeff and the others before her fighters arrested them for their crimes.
• Reiju told Sanji he was free to live as an ordinary person, warned him to obey the law, and left him alone on the deck in the rain.

The Liberator Organization launched its assault on Mary Geoise while its forces attacked Marineford to pin down the navy. The chapter left the Battle of Marineford underway, with Sengoku and Aramaki facing powerful attacks from Kuro’s forces.

• Noah led the Liberator Organization’s fleet toward Mary Geoise while Imu ordered Sengoku to bring the navy’s remaining elites there and Magellan to release Impel Down’s prisoners.
• The Five Elders’ orders reached Marineford, but Sengoku, Tsuru, and the others were caught off guard when the Liberator fleet appeared nearby.
• Sengoku ordered Marineford’s forces to fire on the attackers as Kuro commanded the Liberator Organization’s assault on the fortress.
• Bon Clay froze the surrounding sea, and Carina boosted Turtle Island’s massive cannon shells until they devastated Marineford’s fortresses and warships.
• Sengoku destroyed a wave of shells with his shockwaves, while Nami and Caesar intercepted Aramaki with lightning and flames.

Kuro’s forces kept the Marines under pressure as Caesar, Nami, and King pinned down Aramaki, while Weevil battled Sengoku and Mary and Tomani cornered Tsuru. Tomani’s illusion drained Tsuru’s life, and Sengoku cried out in grief after sensing her death.

• Caesar, Nami, and King exploited the frozen battlefield to suppress Aramaki with fire, hail, and aerial attacks.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, and Kurouma led the Marine flag officers in a charge against Kuro’s forces.
• Weevil’s overwhelming strength drove Sengoku backward, while Carina used the Mirror World to save Weevil from a surprise attack.
• Mary and Tomani used their powers to outmaneuver Tsuru, and Tomani trapped her in an illusion that scripted her life force away.
• Tsuru realized she had been deceived, then died on the frozen plain.
• Sengoku sensed Tsuru’s life vanish and unleashed a shockwave that sent Weevil flying.

The Liberator Organization defeated the Navy at Marineford, where Weevil killed Sengoku and Kuro demanded the remaining soldiers surrender. Aramaki was killed in the Mirror World, and after the deadline Kuro ordered Marineford destroyed.

• Anduin, Weevil, Kuro, and others overwhelmed Sengoku, and Weevil killed him after Weevil's pink beam slowed him down.
• Kuro displayed Sengoku's severed head and gave the Navy half an hour to surrender and gather on the ice.
• Liberator forces divided the surrendered soldiers into groups and executed more than a hundred troublemakers.
• Yamato, Caesar, Nami, King, Bon Clay, and others cornered Aramaki as he tried to flee toward the Red Line.
• Bon Clay trapped Aramaki in the Mirror World and killed him with magma, recovering the Woods-Woods Fruit.
• After the deadline, Kuro bombarded Marineford with shells and Dyna Stone missiles until it sank into the sea.

The Liberator Organization attacked Mary Geoise, where Noah’s combined Conqueror’s Haki overwhelmed most of the World Government’s forces. Noah confronted Imu, discovered the extent of his copied Devil Fruit powers, and sent him flying, but Imu remained largely unharmed.

• Uranus and over a thousand Ark spaceships attacked Mary Geoise, and Bismarck and Mantis combined their defenses to block the bombardment.
• Saint Saturn learned that Marineford had fallen and Impel Down had rebelled, leaving the World Government outnumbered and short of powerful fighters.
• Noah and the Liberator warriors unleashed their combined Conqueror’s Haki, knocking out most of the World Government’s million-strong army.
• Noah charged Bismarck, but Imu intercepted him and revealed his awakened Copy-Copy Fruit and copied powers, including the Magma-Magma and Noro Noro Fruits.
• Noah deduced how Imu had used the Op-Op and Pet-Pet Fruits to perform the Eternal Youth Surgery on Nefertari Lily, while rejecting Imu’s offer of eternal life.
• Noah’s awakened Corrosion-Corrosion Fruit breached Imu’s Reflection defense, and Noah struck him with the Shattering Astral Fist, sending him flying hundreds of meters.

Noah used Seastone, stolen luck, and a surprise attack to destroy Imu, but Imu revived through Saint Nusjuro. Imu then absorbed the Five Elders and regained his true appearance as Noah prepared to face him again.

• Noah used wormholes and Seastone powder to force Imu to evade attacks while draining his luck with the Lucky-Lucky Fruit.
• Imu pulled Uranus toward Mary Geoise, but Doria fired its cannons and blasted much of the city and the Red Line.
• A Seastone Bullet struck Imu when he appeared behind Joseph, and Noah pulled him into the Castle Space and destroyed him with an Atomic Fission Fist.
• Imu revived in Saint Nusjuro's body, evaded Noah's amplified punch, and fled through the battlefield.
• Imu absorbed Saint Saturn, then forcibly summoned and devoured Saint Warcury, Saint Mars, and Saint Shepherd Ju Peter, returning to his true appearance.

As the battle on the Red Line sent falling rocks and tsunamis toward Fish-Man Island and the Sabaody Archipelago, the Liberator Organization fought to evacuate civilians and seize Sabaody. Hody and Vander Decken IX abducted Shirahoshi during the underwater evacuation, while Kuro sensed a gathering of giant Sea Kings near Sabaody.

• Jinbe and Neptune ordered Fish-Man Island's residents to evacuate toward the Sabaody Archipelago as the Red Line battle shook the island and debris crashed into the sea.
• Bon Clay froze the waters beneath the falling rocks, while Yamato froze approaching tsunamis near Sabaody; Kuro and the Liberator Organization then captured the archipelago as its criminals caused chaos.
• Hody forced Vander Decken IX to target Shirahoshi, and Decken sent the Flying Dutchman crashing into her ship during the evacuation.
• Hody wounded Fukaboshi, bound Shirahoshi, and escaped with Decken toward Water 7 as Shirahoshi's call summoned giant Sea Kings.
• Neptune found Fukaboshi gravely wounded but stayed to protect the fleeing fleet from falling rocks, while Kuro sensed more than a dozen giant Sea Kings approaching Sabaody.