Recaps

World slaughtered pirates who refused to obey him, then planned to exploit the Marines’ gathering of the Shichibukai to attack Marineford. Meanwhile, Granny Nyon diagnosed Boa Hancock, who had fallen ill after returning from Marineford, as lovesick.

• World killed pirates who refused his orders and frightened the remaining crew into submission.
• Byojack warned World that the Marines were mobilizing the Shichibukai and an Admiral against them.
• World dismissed Byojack’s concerns and planned to use Boa Hancock’s position to infiltrate the gathering and attack Marineford.
• Marigold and Sonia summoned Granny Nyon to examine Hancock, who had been bedridden and unable to eat since the war.
• Granny Nyon announced that Hancock was lovesick, astonishing everyone in the room.

Granny Nyon discovered that Hancock had lovesickness, and Hancock revealed her feelings when she heard that Luo Chen would join the Shichibukai summoned to fight B World. At Marineford, Tsuru explained to Akainu and Kizaru why the World Government had called the Shichibukai directly to face the World Destroyer.

• Granny Nyon told Marigold and Sonia that Hancock was suffering from lovesickness, but they could not identify the man she loved.
• A maid delivered a World Government summons for the Shichibukai, and Granny Nyon read that Dracule Mihawk, Buggy the Two Thousand Clown, and Luo Chen had replied.
• Hancock abruptly sat up when she heard Luo Chen's name and declared that she would go too, prompting Granny Nyon to suspect that he was the man she loved.
• At Marineford, Akainu complained that the World Government had bypassed him to summon the Shichibukai against B World.
• Tsuru explained that B World had escaped a Marine-led operation thirty years earlier and that the government had summoned the Shichibukai because his More-More Fruit made him a grave threat.

Luo Chen accepted the World Government’s invitation to join the battle against the World Destroyer, B World, and set sail for the supplied coordinates with his companions. Hancock also decided to take part so she could see Luo Chen, but Granny Nyon persuaded her to recover her health before going.

• Luo Chen told his crew he would accept the invitation without leaving them behind, and George identified the government’s coordinates as about a day and a half away.
• Luo Chen and his companions set sail for the location of the joint battle against B World.
• Hancock told Granny Nyon that she wanted to join the battle because Luo Chen would be there, and Marigold and Sonia recalled her interest in him began when he defended a rebel Marine colonel from the Celestial Dragons.
• Hancock demanded to leave at once, but Granny Nyon reminded her she needed to eat and recover before meeting Luo Chen.
• Hancock agreed and ordered the maids to prepare food so she could regain her strength and look her best.

World attacked the Kuja warriors outside Amazon Lily and demanded that Boa Hancock come out to face him. After Ran called the palace for help, Marigold and Sonia decided to investigate without disturbing Hancock, who was still eating.

• Hancock hurriedly ate to regain her strength while Marigold arranged for more food.
• World dodged the Kuja warriors’ Haki-imbued arrows, boarded their ship, and defeated Ran’s squad with his More-More Fruit powers.
• Ran contacted the palace and reported the attack; World allowed the warriors to wait for support under threat of further harm.
• Maria rushed to tell Marigold and Sonia that World had attacked the patrol outside Kuja.
• Marigold and Sonia chose to confront World themselves, deciding not to interrupt Hancock’s meal.

World abducted Marigold and Sonia to lure Boa Hancock into surrendering, while Hancock learned of the capture and received the Vivre Card he left behind. Meanwhile, Luo Chen and his companions sailed toward World's location, with Luo Chen eager to fight him.

• World carried Marigold and Sonia away from the Kuja ship and left a Vivre Card, threatening that Hancock should come for her sisters.
• Byojack questioned World’s plan, and World explained that he expected Hancock to come after her sisters and intended to capture her without a fight.
• Hancock discovered that Marigold and Sonia were missing, heard the warriors’ account of World’s attack, forgave them, and took the Vivre Card.
• Luo Chen asked George about their course toward World’s location, then settled down to wait despite his eagerness to fight World.

Buggy arrived near World's ship and plotted to use the Marines as a distraction, while Hancock learned about World's history and the danger he posed. World imprisoned Marigold and Sonia and revealed his plan to lure Hancock into a trap so he could use her identity to enter Marineford and Mary Geoise.

• Buggy boasted to his followers that he would defeat World, then told Mr. 3 they would summon the Marines and escape while they fought.
• Granny Nyon told Hancock and Ran that World had once terrorized pirates, Marines, and the World Government before traitors helped capture him and he was imprisoned in Impel Down.
• Granny Nyon warned Hancock not to underestimate World, but Hancock insisted that her beauty made her fearless.
• World returned to his ship with Marigold and Sonia and ordered Sebastian to lock the two captives away.
• World told Byojack, Nightin, and Gairam to wait for Hancock, intending to use her identity to pass through the Gate of Justice and attack Marineford and Mary Geoise.

World prepared to capture the Pirate Empress and treated arriving Shichibukai as potential bargaining chips, while Luo Chen and Hancock reached his island ship. The chapter ended with World sending Sebastian to confront Luo Chen.

• Gairam told World that Buggy's pirate ship had approached nearby, but World dismissed the crew as another possible bargaining chip.
• Byojack agreed to support World’s plan, and Gairam and Nightin accepted his decision to follow their captain.
• Luo Chen and his crew found World's island-sized ship, and Luo Chen used Soru to go aboard alone.
• Hancock ignored Granny Nyon's warning, set off with Salome, and ordered her pet toward World's ship to rescue Marigold and Sonia.
• Byojack spotted Luo Chen on the surveillance screen and identified him to World as a Shichibukai.
• World ordered Sebastian to welcome Luo Chen, intending to make him another bargaining chip.

Luo Chen entered the hidden passage and fought Sebastian, while Hancock confronted Nightin as World used her sisters to force her surrender. Hancock refused and attacked, but Marigold and Sonia were lowered out of reach as the fight began.

• Luo Chen followed the Vivre Card into a hidden doorway and faced Sebastian, one of World's four officers.
• Luo Chen and Sebastian traded powerful blows, destroying the nearby trees, rocks, and ground.
• Nightin showed Hancock that Marigold and Sonia were held in an iron cage and demanded that Hancock surrender.
• World appeared on a screen and told Hancock to submit, but she petrified and shattered the screen with her Pistol Kiss.
• World ordered Nightin to defeat Hancock and lowered Marigold and Sonia underground; Hancock's Mero Mero Mellow petrified Nightin's needles, but the cage disappeared below.

Luo Chen defeated Sebastian while fighting his way toward Bundy World, who challenged him to a battle. Hancock defeated Nightin by turning her to stone, and both pirates headed for the underground cabin where World was waiting.

• Luo Chen used his techniques and Observation Haki to overcome Sebastian’s attacks and blast him into the control room wall.
• World recognized Luo Chen as a Shichibukai, challenged him, and waited as Luo Chen continued toward the hidden underground entrance.
• Nightin attacked Hancock with Kampo Kenpo, but Hancock dodged her blows and avoided her poison mist.
• Hancock used her beauty to stun Nightin, then turned her to stone with Mero Mero Mellow.
• Hancock headed toward the underground cabin where World was.

Luo Chen and Hancock were separated in Gairam’s cube maze before meeting again and fighting the officer. Buggy arrived with his followers, and Luo Chen tricked him into going after World while he stayed to face Gairam.

• Luo Chen and Hancock fell through Gairam’s Cube Trap and followed separate cube passages toward an exit.
• Hancock found Luo Chen and bashfully answered that she had accepted the World Government’s summons to fight World.
• Gairam introduced himself and attacked them with cube projectiles, which Luo Chen punched aside.
• Buggy entered with his pirate followers and met Luo Chen and Hancock.
• Luo Chen teased Buggy into accepting the task of finding World, and Buggy hurried away with his men.
• Gairam emerged from the dust, angrily raised his hammer, and confronted Luo Chen and Hancock.

Hancock reunited with Luo Chen, defeated Gairam, and joined him on the way to rescue Marigold and Sonia from World. World learned that his men had fallen and set out to face Luo Chen and Hancock, while Buggy stalled his own group as Mr. 3 worried about his planned duel.

• Hancock knocked Gairam unconscious after he interrupted her conversation with Luo Chen, then remembered she had come to rescue Marigold and Sonia.
• Luo Chen invited Hancock to travel with him toward World's cabin, and she accepted.
• Byojack told World that Nightin and Gairam had been defeated, and World insulted them and warned Byojack not to challenge his authority.
• World left the monitoring room to confront Luo Chen and Hancock, while Byojack regretted that he could not explain their past to his brother.
• Buggy led his group in circles instead of heading to World, and Mr. 3 quietly asked whether Buggy truly intended to challenge him.

Buggy secretly led his crew in circles to avoid fighting World, while Luo Chen and Hancock reached World’s ship and confronted him. After Hancock’s sisters were threatened, Luo Chen intercepted World’s attack, and the two prepared to fight.

• Buggy whispered to Mr. 3 that he was stalling and planned to avoid danger, and Mr. 3 agreed to help him deceive the pirates.
• Cabaji and Mohji realized Buggy was leading them in circles but pretended not to notice.
• Luo Chen and Hancock found World, who welcomed them and prepared to duel Luo Chen.
• Hancock demanded that World reveal where her sisters were, and Byojack raised Marigold and Sonia in an iron cage.
• World dropped the cage toward flames and attacked Hancock as she tried to save her sisters.
• Luo Chen knocked the cage to safety and clashed with World, then the two landed and sized each other up.

Luo Chen fought World while Hancock and her sisters withdrew, and Buggy's followers urged him to join the battle. As Akainu attacked World's island ship, Luo Chen and World prepared to settle their duel with one decisive strike.

• Hancock rescued Marigold and Sonia, but Luo Chen stopped her from interfering as World attacked them; Hancock left after asking Luo Chen to visit the Kuja Pirate Ship later.
• Luo Chen and World traded powerful blows, with Luo Chen using Soru and Cannon Fist against World's amplified attacks.
• Buggy's followers urged him to confront Luo Chen and World, so Buggy pretended to lead them toward the fight while Mr. 3 shared his disbelief at their devotion.
• Luo Chen and World continued battling across the training ground, leaving it devastated without either gaining the advantage.
• Akainu arrived with the government's pursuers and bombarded World's island ship with volcanic fists, prompting Luo Chen and World to agree to decide the duel in one strike.

Luo Chen defeated World and nearly killed him, but Byojack begged him to spare his brother, so Luo Chen left World alive. World then confronted Byojack about their past betrayal and helped hold up the gun platform Akainu had damaged.

• Luo Chen overpowered World with his Super Dragon Fist Blast and knocked him into the floor.
• Luo Chen began a killing strike, but Byojack rushed in and begged him to spare World, offering his own life instead.
• Byojack explained that he and the former World Pirates still loved and followed World, and Luo Chen chose to leave him alive.
• World stood and questioned why Byojack had forgiven him, while Byojack said the crew would sacrifice everything for their captain.
• World said he had used Byojack after escaping Impel Down because he could not forgive the betrayal from thirty years earlier, then braced the damaged gun platform Akainu had loosened.

Bundy World fired a giant cannonball at Akainu’s warships, but Dracule Mihawk sliced it apart before World collapsed and his island ship exploded. Luo Chen flew to Hancock’s ship, where she welcomed him to her room to discuss an important matter.

• Bundy World used his More-More Fruit to enlarge a cannonball and launch it at Akainu’s warships.
• Dracule Mihawk cut the giant cannonball in half with a sword slash, and its explosion rocked the warships.
• World collapsed unconscious as his island ship’s propulsion system exploded in flames.
• Hancock spotted Luo Chen flying away from the smoke and ordered her crew to sail toward him.
• Hancock hurried to her room while Marigold and Sonia brought Luo Chen aboard and led him inside.
• Hancock greeted Luo Chen privately, and he asked what important matter she wanted to discuss.

After a private meeting with Hancock, Luo Chen returned to his ship and agreed to spar with Phil, while Mihawk and Perona quietly departed. At Marine Headquarters, Akainu refused the Seven Deadly Sins’ demand to credit the World Destroyer’s defeat to Joker, defying their claim that Orange had ordered it.

• Luo Chen left Hancock with Marigold and Sonia, who found her gazing dreamily after him and could not learn what had happened.
• Mihawk and Perona discussed his unspoken interest in Luo Chen, then departed without drawing attention.
• Luo Chen returned to his ship and agreed to spar with Phil over the sea after Catherine told George to finish his training.
• Luo Chen and Phil dueled, allowing Phil to hone his skills and Luo Chen to master his newly advanced Haki.
• Akainu refused two masked Seven Deadly Sins representatives’ demand to alter reports and credit Joker with defeating the World Destroyer, rejecting Orange’s authority over the Marines.

Masked Seven Deadly Sins members Mammon and Asmodeus pressured Fleet Admiral Sakazuki to help them capture Catherine and deal with Luo Chen. After the Five Elders ordered the Marines to cooperate, Sakazuki reluctantly agreed to comply.

• Tsuru stopped Sakazuki from attacking Mammon and Asmodeus and explained that the Seven Deadly Sins were elite Cipher Pol agents who answered directly to the Celestial Dragons.
• Mammon revealed that the Seven Deadly Sins were backing Saint Orange and had been ordered to retrieve his fiancée, Catherine, and deal with Luo Chen.
• A call from the Five Elders ordered Sakazuki to cooperate with the secret Celestial Dragon organization, but he rejected the order and hung up.
• The Five Elders discussed Sakazuki's defiance and trusted Tsuru to guide him toward the government's preferred decision.
• Tsuru persuaded Sakazuki to yield, and he agreed to cooperate this once.

Luo Chen and his companions were surrounded by the Big Mom Pirates after Katakuri offered them an invitation to Mama's tea party. Luo Chen refused and the battle began, leaving the Isel under attack from dozens of warships.

• News spread that Buggy had received credit for the Marines and Shichibukai's campaign against World, while Luo Chen's crew faced the Big Mom Pirates.
• Katakuri offered Luo Chen an invitation to Mama's tea party and asked him to accept it.
• George mistook Cracker, the Third Sweet Commander, for a nobody and learned that Cracker was one of the Big Mom Pirates' strongest fighters.
• Luo Chen rejected the invitation and challenged the Big Mom Pirates to settle things through battle.
• Katakuri ordered his fleet to attack, and Luo Chen's crew counterattacked from the Isel.

Luo Chen and the Charlotte Family began their battle after he formally declared war on Big Mom and challenged Katakuri. Their clash on Big Mom's flagship continued with neither fighter yet gaining a decisive advantage.

• Cracker charged toward the Isel, and Katakuri ordered the fleet to follow while Luo Chen assigned Phil and George to fight Cracker and told Catherine and the others to defend the Isel.
• Luo Chen flew to Katakuri's flagship and formally declared war on Big Mom and the Charlotte Family.
• Luo Chen and Katakuri clashed with Rain Burial and Mogura, then exchanged attacks as Katakuri used Observation Haki to evade Luo Chen's arrows.
• Luo Chen's Fu Cloud Slash drove Katakuri into the cabin wall, but Katakuri ordered the Chess Soldiers not to interfere and resumed the fight.
• Katakuri's Mochi Thrust narrowly missed Luo Chen, and their next attacks collided, canceling each other out and knocking several Chess Soldiers into the sea.

Luo Chen and Katakuri fought fiercely at sea, with Luo Chen using his sword and wings to counter Katakuri’s mochi powers. Nearby, Mammon and Asmodeus watched the battle and delayed attacking the Luo Chen Pirates, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Luo Chen clashed with Katakuri, blocked his mochi bullets, then severed his Haki-coated arms with Severing Blade Slash.
• Katakuri regenerated his arms and awakened his mochi ability, turning the deck into mochi and attacking Luo Chen with tentacles.
• Luo Chen flew above the deck, dodged and cut through the tentacles, then met Katakuri’s Mochi Thrust with Startled Swan.
• Mammon refused Asmodeus’s suggestion to attack immediately, choosing to watch the fight rather than risk heavy losses.
• Luo Chen and Katakuri continued their evenly matched battle as the storm intensified around them.

Luo Chen’s crew fought Katakuri and Cracker as a growing storm threatened to trap them at sea. Cracker revealed his Biscuit Soldiers and overwhelmed the crew, but Phil struck back and sent Cracker crashing through the railing.

• Katakuri kept Luo Chen occupied while George and Catherine warned that a superstorm was approaching and urged the crew to end the fight and escape.
• Catherine cut down a group of Chess Soldiers as George and Phil continued battling Cracker.
• Phil shattered Cracker’s biscuit sword and deduced that the Cracker before him was an armor-like puppet created by his ability.
• Cracker summoned more Biscuit Soldiers, which attacked the crew and smashed through the deck as Phil warned everyone to flee.
• Phil used Instant Flow Thrust Punch to knock Cracker’s Biscuit Soldier into the railing, blasting a human-shaped hole through it.

Phil ordered George to turn the Isel around and escape while Catherine and the others held off Cracker's forces. Luo Chen and Katakuri remained locked in battle as a catastrophic storm approached, and the chapter ended with the Isel breaking through the encirclement under pursuit.

• Phil ordered George to take the Isel away while the others held off the enemy, and Catherine cleared a path for him as Violet and Lulith went to assist.
• Luo Chen and Katakuri traded powerful attacks, ignoring urgent calls from Smoothie and Snack as the storm worsened.
• Snack and Smoothie worried that the approaching storm would overwhelm their ships, while Mammon decided to leave with Asmodeus and seek another chance to intervene later.
• Singh threw the Biscuit Soldier carrying Cracker into the Charlotte warship, and Catherine and the others cleared the Isel of invading Biscuit Soldiers.
• George turned the Isel toward a weak point in the encirclement, and Cracker ordered his forces to pursue as cannonballs exploded behind the fleeing ship.

Luo Chen and the Isel fought through the Sweet Commanders’ pursuit as Smoothie drained her subordinates to grow stronger. They escaped by air just as a violent storm formed, forcing Katakuri and the other commanders to abandon the chase and flee the waters.

• Smoothie used her sword to drain her subordinates and enlarge herself, then sent a Flying Slash after the Isel.
• Catherine deflected Smoothie’s attack, while Luo Chen fought Katakuri long enough to escape toward the Isel.
• Luo Chen lifted the Isel into the air with eight shackles, and Phil destroyed the pursuing ships’ cannonballs with a powerful elbow strike.
• A hurricane formed, and Katakuri ordered his crew to stop pursuing and leave the dangerous waters.
• Cracker, Smoothie, and Snack received Katakuri’s message and turned their ships toward safer waters.

Luo Chen and his companions escaped their pursuers, and Luo collapsed from exhaustion after towing the Isel to safety. Katakuri planned to draw Luo Chen to Whole Cake Island, while Perospero reported the failed mission to Big Mom and received orders for Katakuri.

• Luo Chen dropped the Isel into the sea and fell asleep on the deck after his companions escaped their pursuers.
• Katakuri told Cracker, Smoothie, and the others that Luo Chen would come to Whole Cake Island and promised to take responsibility for the failed mission.
• Perospero decided to tell Big Mom the truth after hearing Katakuri’s account of the failed delivery and battle.
• Perospero told Big Mom that Luo Chen and his companions had refused the invitation and escaped after a major battle.
• Big Mom ordered Perospero to have Katakuri meet with her when he returned, then dismissed Perospero and Pudding.

Luo Chen’s crew set sail for Totto Land, and he urged Catherine to overcome her fear of powerful enemies as they headed toward Big Mom’s tea party. Meanwhile, Asmodeus and Mammon prepared for their arrival, while Katakuri went to face Big Mom’s punishment alone.

• Monbuma paid the sailors who loaded supplies onto the Isel, and Luo Chen ordered the crew to sail after the Log Pose stored the island’s magnetic field.
• Catherine questioned Luo Chen’s decision to go to Totto Land, but he told her that her fear and lack of confidence had stalled her growth as a swordsman.
• Catherine accepted Luo Chen’s advice, and he looked forward to facing Katakuri in Totto Land.
• Asmodeus told Mammon that Luo Chen’s group was heading to Totto Land, and Mammon said Stussy had arranged an identity for him so he could prepare there.
• Smoothie, Cracker, and another companion offered to share Katakuri’s punishment, but Katakuri refused and went to Whole Cake Chateau alone to face Big Mom.