Recaps

Roy postponed the attack on Mary Geoise and joined Luffy’s crew to seek answers on Laugh Tale, while Shamrock prepared the Holy Land’s defenses and hinted that he would let them proceed. The Thousand Sunny left Elbaf with Loki’s warship in tow, and Roy continued recovering as the crew sailed onward.

• Roy showed Robin the final Road Poneglyph rubbing, assigned Bullet and Kaido to guard the New World’s entrance, and decided to travel to Laugh Tale with Luffy.
• Shamrock learned that Akainu had refused to return to Mary Geoise, ordered Kong’s army to defend the Holy Land, and told the Celestial Dragons to shelter in Pangaea Castle.
• The Thousand Sunny departed Elbaf as Dorry and Brogy farewelled Luffy, while Loki followed aboard his towed warship.
• Chopper checked Roy’s health and ordered him not to fight for at least three weeks.
• Nami struck Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper for causing a commotion, and Roy caught them with his Telekinesis before lowering them back onto the deck.

Roy and the Straw Hat Pirates entered a fog-shrouded sea where their navigation tools failed and an unknown force eroded Roy’s Telekinesis barrier. Elsewhere, forces gathered across the world as Shamrock prepared for an approaching conflict.

• Roy and the Straw Hat Pirates shared a meal, and Roy told Luffy he wanted to learn Laugh Tale’s secrets rather than claim the Pirate King title.
• Luffy declared he would become the Pirate King, and Robin recorded him as captain with nine crew members and Roy as a passenger.
• Nami and Robin discovered that the magnetic field ahead had disrupted their compass and Log Pose, while Roy sensed an unknown presence in the fog.
• Roy and Loki felt a chaotic aura in the darkness as the Thousand Sunny waited offshore; meanwhile, Stella reported uneasy normality, Akainu objected to the Marines serving the World Government, and Shamrock watched an army assemble in Mary Geoise.
• The Thousand Sunny entered the fog, where visibility collapsed, the Log Pose spun wildly, and Roy’s Telekinesis barrier began to erode.

The Straw Hats and Roy reached Laugh Tale after fighting off a swarm of Sea Kings, then explored its eerily pristine, lifeless city. The chapter left them examining petrified giants as Robin suspected Boa Hancock's Devil Fruit power was involved.

• Roy and the crew fought off dozens of Sea Kings that charged through the fog, with Loki, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Franky, and Brook joining the battle.
• The fog parted to reveal a vast ruined island, and Robin identified it as Laugh Tale.
• Roy sensed a faint black aura rising from the tallest spire that felt connected to his Dark-Dark Fruit.
• The Thousand Sunny reached the deserted harbor, where automatic mooring ropes secured the ship, and Franky judged the technology far ahead of the World Government's.
• The crew explored the spotless, empty city and found a petrified giant and smaller figures in a plaza.
• Robin examined the giant statue and wondered whether Boa Hancock's fruit had caused its petrification.

Robin read that the nineteen kings had stolen the First King's power and banished the Great Kingdom to the end of the world, while Roger's monument said he had reached Laugh Tale too early and preferred Joy Boy's story. The crew split up to investigate different parts of the city, and Roy and Loki found an ancient chamber with faded murals.

• Robin read the library's stone slab, which said the nineteen kings had stolen the First King's power, banished the city, and left behind a seed awaiting the king's return.
• Robin and Roy discussed the nineteen kings and Roger's message, while Luffy wondered about Joy Boy and the One Piece.
• Roy assigned Luffy to search for records about Joy Boy and Nika, while he set out to uncover how the nineteen kings stole power and founded the World Government.
• The crew divided into search parties, with Franky staying at the harbor, Brook heading to the castle spire, and Roy and Loki exploring the eastern city.
• Roy used his Telekinesis to uncover a circular doorway, and he and Loki entered a stone chamber covered in faded murals.

Roy and Loki uncovered murals showing the Ancient Moon People’s arrival on the Blue Sea, the rise of a unified civilization, and its division into rival factions. The murals ended in deliberate-looking destruction, leaving Roy to conclude that this history was a separate, deeper secret from Davy Jones’s conspiracy.

• Loki recognized the murals’ style as older than Elbaf’s known ancient ruins and connected them to legends of the Ancient People from Beyond the Sky.
• Roy used Telekinesis to clear the murals, revealing the Blue Sea’s primitive state before the Ancient Moon People descended and brought advanced technology and order.
• The murals showed the Moon People’s civilization prospering before splitting into two factions that controlled competing technologies, after which the record abruptly ended.
• Loki realized that Giant Tribe civilization and ancient secrets had roots in the Moon People’s technology.
• Roy found no connection between the murals and Davy Jones’s account of the nineteen thieves, while he and Loki suspected someone had deliberately destroyed the remaining history.

Roy and Loki searched the ancient district while the Straw Hat Pirates uncovered evidence explaining the Moon People's ideological split and the collapse of their civilization eight hundred years ago. The chapter ended with the group reconstructing how the conservatives left the Blue Sea and the radicals' infighting plunged the continent into centuries of war.

• Roy and Loki split up to investigate mechanical wreckage and ancient texts for clues about the Moon People's division.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Usopp found carvings showing two Moon People factions with opposing ideals of exploitation and protection.
• Robin translated surviving texts revealing that the radical Moon People favored unlimited expansion, while the conservatives opposed plunder and sought harmony with nature.
• Franky identified separate technologies for warfare and resource extraction, and for ecological restoration and survival.
• The Straw Hat Pirates gathered in the central plaza and pieced together how conservative Moon People became the ancestors of Sky Islanders and Fish-Men.
• The group concluded that the remaining radicals fractured into kingdoms whose wars destroyed the Blue Sea's first civilization and began a prolonged dark age.

Robin recounted how the wishes of people suffering through centuries of war gave rise to four gods, whose opposing ideals sparked a devastating war. The Earth God and Sun God Nika defeated the Rain God and Forest God, but their deaths broke the world’s order, flooded the supercontinent into islands, and gave rise to the first Devil Fruits.

• Nami, Zoro, Luffy, and Roy reflected on the shared origins of the world’s races and the roots of its conflicts, while Roy warned that the deepest secrets were still hidden.
• Robin explained that the wishes of living beings gave rise to the Earth God, Rain God, Forest God, and Sun God Nika.
• The Rain God and Forest God sought to end war by eradicating mortals, while the Earth God and Sun God Nika fought to protect living beings and preserve balance.
• The four gods split into opposing camps, and their war devastated the Blue Sea continent and destroyed kingdoms and races.
• The Earth God and Sun God Nika defeated and killed the Rain God and Forest God, ending the war at the cost of the world’s ancient order.
• The Four Blues flooded and the supercontinent broke into islands, while divine power, living beings’ wishes, and lunar technology combined to create the first Devil Fruits.

The crew entered Laugh Tale’s central castle and discovered that Luffy’s touch activated a vision of the history hidden behind the Void Century. The vision revealed Davy Jones’s role in founding the Great Kingdom and the twenty kings’ secret preparations to overthrow him, ending as their betrayal approached.

• Roy concluded that the missing truths about Davy Jones, the nineteen creator thieves, and the World Government were hidden in Laugh Tale’s central castle.
• After resting and reviewing the island’s clues, Robin confirmed that the remaining secrets could only be in the castle, and Luffy led the group there.
• Luffy sat on the ancient throne, triggering a vision sealed away for eight hundred years.
• The vision showed Davy Jones, the surviving Earth God, joining Sun God Nika and twenty human kings to establish the Great Kingdom and restore order.
• The twenty kings secretly stirred conflict between Davy Jones and Nika while using Devil Fruits and ancient technology to enhance themselves.
• The twenty kings prepared their ultimate betrayal as the vision reached the moment it was about to begin.

The image revealed how Imu and the Twenty Kings betrayed Davy Jones and Joy Boy, destroyed the Great Kingdom, and erased a century of history. Roy identified unanswered questions about the nineteen thieves, Imu, and the surviving ancient kings, leaving the group aware that the larger conspiracy was still unfolding.

• The image showed Imu and twenty kings stealing Davy Jones's divine origin, prompting Joy Boy to retreat and preserve the truth in Poneglyphs.
• The theft caused the supercontinent to collapse, and Imu established the World Government on the Red Line before erasing a hundred years of history.
• Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Robin, and Loki reacted to the revelation and recognized the betrayal behind the Void Century and the World Government.
• Roy pointed out that Davy Jones had mentioned nineteen thieves while the image showed twenty rebellious kings, and named the missing identity as an unresolved mystery.
• Roy identified Imu's identity and plan, along with the survival and secret schemes of the nineteen ancient kings, as mysteries still ahead.

After the throne’s images revealed the founding kings’ betrayal, Roy argued that the truth was incomplete and that Joy Boy had left a hidden contingency in the hall. The crew searched without success, and the chapter ended with Robin examining the rear wall.

• Luffy and the others reacted with shock and anger to the images of the Twenty Kings betraying Davy Jones and rewriting history.
• Roy questioned why the World Government had feared Joy Boy for eight hundred years and why Roger had said they came too early, concluding that Laugh Tale held another secret.
• Robin suggested Joy Boy had left a deliberate plan for future generations, and Roy said the World Government feared his contingency.
• Luffy and the others searched the hall’s floor, pillars, walls, and energy for hidden entrances but found nothing.
• Robin tapped the stone wall at the back of the hall while Roy watched her investigate.

Robin uncovered a gigantic Road Poneglyph that recorded the erased history of the Ancient Moon People, Davy Jones, Joy Boy, and the World Government. She revealed that the Twenty Kings’ failed immortality ritual left the remaining nineteen kings trapped in permanent confinement beneath Mary Geoise.

• Robin opened a concealed compartment and found an enormous crimson Road Poneglyph.
• Robin deciphered the stone’s account of the World Government hunting Devil Fruit users and using forbidden experiments to defeat Joy Boy’s forces.
• Robin revealed that the Twenty Kings combined the Op-Op, Munch-Munch, and Array-Array Fruits with Davy Jones’s stolen power to pursue shared immortality.
• Nefertari Lily broke the Array-Array Fruit’s formation, abandoned the ritual, and led her family away to establish a kingdom in Alabasta.
• Robin explained that the incomplete ritual transformed the remaining nineteen kings but permanently confined them to the heart of Mary Geoise.

Robin revealed that Joy Boy had sealed three treasures inside the crimson stele, accessible only to someone who had fully awakened the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika. Luffy used Gear Fifth to open the stele and found something inside, though its contents remained unrevealed.

• The inscription revealed that the nineteen ancient kings had built a system of control and immortality, while Joy Boy had fought them and sealed his ultimate trump card inside the stele.
• Robin explained that only a fully awakened Nika inheritor could break the stele’s seal and retrieve the three treasures Joy Boy left behind.
• Usopp, Zoro, and Sanji connected the secret to Roger’s failure to unlock the treasures and the World Government’s efforts to suppress Nika.
• Nami and Chopper urged Luffy to claim the treasures, and Luffy entered Gear Fifth and pressed his hands against the stele.
• Luffy’s Nika power turned the stele into rubber and opened its interior, where he searched until he announced that he had found something.

Luffy pulled the One Piece from the stone stele, revealing two bottles of Origin energy and the Array-Array Fruit. Robin translated Joy Boy’s warning about the fruit’s role in the World Government’s immortality ritual, and while the others planned to seal it away, Luffy secretly opened the bottle of Nika Origin.

• Luffy pulled a chest from the stone stele, revealing the Davy Jones Origin, the Nika Origin, and a strangely patterned Devil Fruit.
• Roy picked up the Devil Fruit and asked Robin to translate Joy Boy’s parchment.
• Robin explained that the Origin powers could help Luffy and Roy evolve their abilities, while the Array-Array Fruit had been central to the Twenty Kings’ failed immortality ritual.
• Roy revealed that the World Government had hunted Nika and its successors to recover the fruit and complete the ritual.
• Nami, Zoro, and the others agreed to seal the Array-Array Fruit away, while Luffy secretly took the Nika Origin bottle and removed its stopper.

Luffy absorbed Joy Boy’s Nika origin power, greatly strengthening his body and abilities, while Roy secured the dangerous Array-Array Fruit and Davy Jones’s origin power. After uncovering every secret on Laugh Tale, the group left for the New World to face the World Government and the coming final battle.

• Luffy absorbed the Nika origin power and underwent a stable transformation that raised his combat strength beyond its previous peak.
• Nami scolded Luffy for acting recklessly, and Roy checked that his strengthened power was stable.
• Roy stored the Array-Array Fruit and Davy Jones’s origin power without absorbing them.
• Robin led a final search of Laugh Tale, and the group confirmed they had uncovered all its remaining clues and secrets.
• Roy ordered everyone to return to the New World, and the Thousand Sunny set sail toward the approaching war.

After leaving Laugh Tale, Roy and the Straw Hats reached Lodestar Island, where they agreed to join forces against the World Government. Roy left to reorganize Hachinosu’s forces, while the question of how they would govern the world after victory remained unanswered.

• The Thousand Sunny and Loki’s warship sailed away from Laugh Tale, and Luffy repeatedly asked Roy when they could fight again.
• At Lodestar Island, Hachinosu soldiers reported that their forces were gathering near the New World’s entrance as the World Government reinforced Mary Geoise and the Revolutionary Army kept the Navy occupied.
• Luffy proposed that Roy’s forces and the Straw Hats attack Mary Geoise together and overthrow the World Government, and Roy agreed to contribute Hachinosu’s forces, intelligence, and weapons.
• Luffy asked Roy how he would treat the world after the World Government fell, and Roy said they would discuss it after defeating their enemies.
• Roy announced that he was returning to Hachinosu to adjust troop deployments and reorganize the New World’s defensive lines.

Luffy challenged Roy to a fight to test his strength after absorbing Nika’s essence on Laugh Tale. On a deserted island, their battle began with Luffy’s attacks matching Roy’s physical toughness, but Roy gained the advantage with his powers.

• Luffy asked Roy to fight, and Nami found a deserted island northeast of their location.
• Luffy, Roy, and their companions sailed to the island aboard three ships.
• Luffy activated his Nika battle rhythm and struck Roy, who met his punch head-on.
• Luffy unleashed a rapid barrage of attacks, and Roy was surprised that Luffy’s toughness matched his own.
• Roy used Hundredfold Gravity and Mental Shock to stagger Luffy, then punched him in the chest.

Luffy challenged Roy to a fight, but Roy used his Telekinesis Domain and spatial movement to evade him and land repeated attacks. Luffy forced Roy out of hiding with a Conqueror’s Haki tornado, and Roy agreed to stop dodging and face him head-on.

• Luffy accused Roy of cheating with Telekinesis, then unleashed his powerful Conqueror’s Haki.
• Zoro, Sanji, and Loki shielded the others from Luffy’s Haki, while Roy recognized how much Luffy’s strength and spirit had grown.
• Roy enveloped the island in his Telekinesis Domain, slowing Luffy and using afterimages and spatial movement to evade his attacks.
• Luffy tried to disrupt the domain with Conqueror’s Haki but struck only a Telekinesis decoy, while Roy appeared behind him and hit him.
• Luffy spun into a Gum-Gum Tornado, using its wide-range Haki whirlwind to disrupt the domain and force Roy out of the void.
• Roy said he would stop dodging and give Luffy the head-on fight he wanted.

Roy and Luffy fought at full strength, with Roy using Shusui, Haki, Telekinesis, and a soul fire to match Luffy’s Gear Fifth attacks. Luffy recovered from Roy’s counterattack and prepared to charge again.

• Roy split off a ball of soul fire to sustain his Telekinesis Domain, then drew Shusui and invited Luffy to fight.
• Luffy unleashed Gear Fifth and clashed head-on with Roy, trading punches and sword strikes as the spectators watched.
• Zoro explained that Roy’s soul fire was assisting him with the domain and defense, effectively making the fight two against one.
• Luffy drove Roy into the ground with a Giant Pistol, but the soul fire’s Soul Impact briefly dazed him, allowing Roy to knock his fist aside and kick him into a crater.
• Luffy got back up, praised Roy, and declared that he had not lost; Roy told him to continue, and Luffy sprang up ready to fight again.

Luffy and Roy pushed their battle to its limit, with Luffy adapting to Roy’s Soul Fire before Roy compressed his Telekinesis Domain and defeated him. Refusing to give up, Luffy transformed into a giant several thousand meters tall and towered over Roy.

• Luffy detected the energy fluctuation before Soul Fire attacked, dodged Soul Impact, and struck Roy with Leo Bazooka, breaking Soul Fire’s barrier and forcing Roy back.
• Roy compressed his Telekinesis Domain around the fighters, intensifying the pressure, and Luffy met his attacks with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Roy’s clash with Luffy sent Luffy flying through the dust, leaving him injured but still determined to continue.
• Luffy declared he would not give up on his path to becoming Pirate King and rapidly expanded into a giant several thousand meters tall.

Roy and Luffy fought as thousand-meter giants, and their clash split the island before Roy won. Roy returned to Hachinosu to prepare for an all-out attack, while Luffy set out to gather his crew and allies for the coming war.

• Luffy transformed into a thousand-meter-tall giant, and Roy answered by manifesting a towering giant of black fog through the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Luffy and Roy exchanged punches, unleashing a blast that split the deserted island and sent tsunamis across the surrounding waters.
• Luffy regained consciousness amid the rubble, admitted defeat, and promised to beat Roy next time.
• Roy told Luffy to gather his crew and allies for the planned all-out attack, then sailed with his soldiers back to Hachinosu.
• Luffy and his crew sailed away to gather everyone and prepare for war.

Roy returned to Hachinosu, where he organized defenses for the coming assault and entrusted Vegapunk with analyzing Davy Jones's origin power. Meanwhile, Luffy's discovery of the One Piece sparked a surge of piracy that overwhelmed Marine forces, leaving them unable to challenge Roy in the New World.

• Roy returned to Hachinosu and learned from Tesoro and Kyros that the New World was under their control and their forces were ready to advance on the World Government.
• Roy ordered the troops back to their posts and told Tesoro to check war supplies, increase Seastone weapon production, and ensure casualty compensation was handled.
• Roy gave Vegapunk a sealed bottle containing Davy Jones's origin power from Laugh Tale and ordered him to analyze it without breaking the seal until it was confirmed safe.
• News spread that Straw Hat Luffy had found the One Piece and become Pirate King, inspiring a wave of new pirates across the Four Blues and the Grand Line.
• Akainu faced mounting requests for Marine reinforcements as the Revolutionary Army's attacks and the new pirate surge overwhelmed outposts.
• Tsuru and Aokiji explained that the Marines were stretched thin and could not reinforce the New World, where Roy's forces held control.

Roy assessed Hachinosu’s position and arranged for Tesoro to deliver Devil Fruit replicas to Dragon, keeping the navy occupied away from Mary Geoise. He then visited the Fish-Man settlement and proposed taking Shirahoshi to the Calm Belt to test her Poseidon power before the final battle.

• Shamrock ordered the navy left to handle the pirates and continued mobilizing troops at Mary Geoise for Hachinosu’s expected move.
• Roy reviewed Hachinosu’s defenses and asked Tesoro to deliver Devil Fruit replicas to Dragon so the Revolutionary Army would keep the navy’s forces tied down.
• Roy visited the Fish-Man settlement, where Neptune and Otohime told him their people were safe and living happily alongside humans.
• Roy met Shirahoshi and saw that she had become confident and cheerful since leaving Fish-Man Island.
• Roy told Neptune and Otohime he wanted to take Shirahoshi to the Calm Belt to test her control of Poseidon before the final battle.

Roy took Shirahoshi to the Calm Belt to test her Poseidon power, where her summons brought hundreds of Sea Kings to the surface. Roy sensed even larger, ancient Sea Kings awakening in the depths and realized they were waiting for the final battle.

• Neptune and Otohime hesitated to let Shirahoshi test her power in the Calm Belt, but Shirahoshi insisted, and Neptune agreed.
• Roy set out for the Calm Belt aboard the Ark Maxim with Shirahoshi, Bullet, Tesoro, Hawk Eyes, and Yamato.
• After the Ark Maxim entered the Calm Belt, Shirahoshi spread her will into the sea and summoned countless Sea Kings.
• Tesoro lifted the ship above the water as the Sea Kings gathered, while the crew watched in awe.
• Roy used Observation Haki to sense island-sized Sea Kings awakening in the deep, and he said the surfaced Sea Kings were only the appetizer.

Roy and the others tested Shirahoshi’s ability to command Sea Kings, revealing that she could control even the enormous ancient beasts of the deep. After Roy sent the Sea King army to assemble near the New World entrance, the group returned, aware that the World Government still had its own hidden weapons.

• Shirahoshi calmed the Sea Kings surrounding the Ark Maxim and made them move back together.
• More than a dozen supergiant Sea Kings surfaced and showed reverence and submission toward Shirahoshi.
• Roy ordered Shirahoshi to send all the Sea Kings to the waters at the entrance to the New World and keep them there until further orders.
• Tesoro said the Sea Kings could overwhelm the World Government’s Marines, but Roy warned that the Government had its own trump cards.
• Roy ordered the ship to turn back after Shirahoshi’s ability test was complete.

The Ark Maxim returned from the Calm Belt with Shirahoshi’s Sea King command secured, then encountered Kid and Law on the way to Hachinosu. Roy brought both pirates and their ships along, while Kid remained determined to challenge him.

• The Ark Maxim sailed back toward Hachinosu after Shirahoshi demonstrated her control over the Sea Kings.
• Kid and Law argued over Luffy becoming Pirate King and Kid’s plans to challenge Hachinosu.
• Roy arrived aboard the Ark Maxim and confronted Kid about threatening Hachinosu.
• Roy invited Kid to challenge him at Hachinosu and used Telekinesis to carry Kid’s and Law’s ships after the Ark Maxim.
• Kid and Law headed toward Hachinosu with Roy, and Kid vowed to test Roy’s strength.