Recaps

Roy began Seastone resistance training on Raijin Island while the crew waited three months for the first fusion clones to mature. Everyone struggled through their first day under the bracelets’ suppression, but they completed their training.

• Roy returned to Raijin Island, reported that the bloodline transplant would take three months, and announced harder training in the meantime.
• Roy distributed Seastone bracelets of varying purity and put on the strongest one, causing his Gravity Domain to vanish and leaving him weakened.
• Yamato grabbed an 80%-purity bracelet and collapsed, so Roy replaced it with a weaker one; Jack, Ulti, Page One, and Maria chose bracelets they could manage.
• Roy ordered everyone to wear their bracelets during training and complete their usual routines under Seastone suppression.
• The crew struggled through the day’s exercises, while Charon resolved to focus on Fish-Man Karate and the Six Powers; Roy praised everyone’s effort after training ended.

Roy and the Roy Pirates trained on Raijin Island for three months, while Roy learned that Seastone suppression made Armament Haki Internal Forging more efficient. When Dr. Gracia reported that bloodline transplants produced far weaker results than expected, Roy suggested the genes might improve as they integrated into their hosts, and the experiments continued as the crew stayed to train.

• Roy discovered that Seastone suppression condensed the circulation of Armament Haki and improved Internal Forging, encouraging the crew to train harder.
• Yamato noticed the crew's unusual training, but Roy brushed off his questions with an excuse.
• Dr. Gracia told Roy that bloodline transplant subjects gained only a fraction of the expected Oni and Lunarian traits, and that weaker hosts suffered greater attenuation.
• Roy proposed that the transplanted genes might grow and integrate over time, prompting Dr. Gracia to plan long-term observations and revise the cultivation process.
• Roy decided the crew would remain on Raijin Island to keep training while Dr. Gracia improved the experiments.

During another three months of training on Raijin Island, Tesoro neared the threshold of Rumble-Rumble Fruit Awakening while Roy guided the crew through increasingly demanding exercises. The chapter ended with the group stronger and Tesoro holding back from rushing his Awakening.

• Tesoro trained in the lightning pool, gradually enduring its deeper and more dangerous currents as he sensed a will within the lightning.
• In the middle of the third month, Tesoro told Roy he felt close to Awakening, and Roy warned him not to force the process.
• Savi, Enel, and Pea improved their Seastone resistance and Internal Forging, and Roy approved Savi's attempt to wear an 80%-purity wristband after testing him.
• Bullet combined Armament Haki with his fruit ability, while Hawk Eyes sharpened his swordsmanship until it surpassed Roy's.
• Vera mastered Life Return and began trying Internal Forging, while Jack and the other Beasts Pirates also grew stronger.

After a year and a half of training on Raijin Island, Tesoro absorbed the island’s lightning and reached the threshold of awakening his Rumble-Rumble Fruit. Roy warned his crew that major changes were coming to the seas and urged them to prepare for the coming era.

• Jack, Ulti, Page One, Maria, and Yamato made major gains through Roy’s training, with Yamato advancing especially quickly.
• Tesoro transformed into a giant of lightning and drew power from the thunderclouds over Raijin Island.
• Tesoro returned to human form and told Roy he had seen lightning’s essence and was close to awakening his Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Roy told Tesoro not to rush and to keep strengthening his body and Haki while waiting for the opportunity to awaken.
• Roy said the Roger Pirates were nearing Laugh Tale, the Golden Lion would not abandon his ambitions, and the Navy was increasing its activity, so the crew needed to prepare for upheaval.

After Kaido reported Kozuki Oden’s return to Wano Country and his meeting with Kurozumi Orochi, Roy ordered the Roy Pirates to secure their research base and return immediately. Roy decided that if Oden threatened the base, he would kill him despite the risk of offending Roger and Whitebeard.

• Kaido told Roy that Kozuki Oden had returned to Wano Country, contacted his former followers in Kuri, and met Kurozumi Orochi in the Flower Capital.
• Roy refused to have the Roy Pirates directly target Oden because of their ties to Roger and Whitebeard, but left Oden’s handling to Kaido and assigned his crew to protect the research base.
• Roy gathered his crew, ordered Stella to coordinate with Kaido’s side, Tesoro to prepare the Ark Maxim, and Bullet and the others to gather supplies for an immediate return to Wano Country.
• Roy asked Mihawk about Oden’s strength, and Mihawk said Oden had been among the strongest Great Swordsmen and had likely grown stronger while sailing with Roger.
• Roy told Mihawk he would kill Oden if he threatened the research base, even if that meant offending Roger and Whitebeard.

Roy returned to Wano Country and learned that Kurozumi Orochi had secretly met with a World Government envoy, raising concerns that CP agents were investigating the Beasts Pirates’ base and Wano’s secrets. He sent Kaido and King to confront Orochi and monitor Kozuki Oden while he set out to deal with the agents himself.

• Roy arrived at the base near Onigashima with Bullet and ordered him to prioritize its defense.
• Kaido and King showed Roy reports about Kozuki Oden’s activities and Kurozumi Orochi’s secret meeting with a World Government envoy.
• Roy suspected CP agents were pursuing Wano’s secrets, including its seastone technology and King’s Lunarian heritage, and assigned the defense of the research base to his men.
• Roy ordered Kaido to visit Orochi’s shogun’s mansion publicly and King to track Oden’s movements without approaching him.
• Kaido sailed toward the Flower Capital with Queen, Jack, and elite pirates, while King flew toward Kuri and Roy left Onigashima before dawn.

Roy searched Flower Capital for the CP0 team and captured one of its members to interrogate him about the team’s mission. He learned that CP0 was investigating Onigashima’s research base and had approached Kurozumi Orochi, while Kaido’s fleet headed toward the capital.

• Kurozumi Orochi learned that Kaido was approaching Flower Capital with Queen, Jack, and at least a hundred pirates, and ordered his retainers to receive him normally while secretly reinforcing the mansion’s guards.
• Roy searched the city and identified three CP0 operatives, including a disguised painter watching the shogun’s mansion.
• Roy confronted the painter in his attic hideout and immobilized him when he tried to attack.
• Roy read the painter’s memories and learned that CP0 had sent four people to investigate the research base on Onigashima and assess its research and threat level.
• The painter revealed that CP0 had prioritized contact with Kurozumi Orochi rather than Kozuki Oden, and that Navy intervention depended on the team’s assessment report.

Roy pursued CP0 agents after they discovered his presence, killing one and tracking another to a warehouse where the team planned to request a Buster Call. Roy let Number Three leave to send a report and request reinforcements, then intercepted him to ensure the intelligence he sent would not be genuine.

• Roy caught a CP0 agent at a fish stall, but the agent poisoned himself before Roy could learn where the team leader was.
• Roy found a note from the CP0 member who escaped the teahouse and tracked him to a warehouse.
• Roy overheard the CP0 team leader order Number Three to leave Wano Country, send backup intelligence, and request reinforcements on the scale of a navy fleet.
• Roy decided to let Number Three carry out the plan while intending to replace the real intelligence with false information.
• Roy intercepted Number Three in a secluded alley and used Command: Stillness.

Roy manipulated CP Number Three into sending false intelligence to the World Government, then confronted Captain White Face in the warehouse. White Face revealed his Clone Fruit ability, and Roy trapped the three attackers in his Chaos Domain.

• Roy extracted the contact point, backup, and communication details from CP Number Three, then planted false intelligence and ordered him to destroy and alter the records before leaving Wano Country.
• Roy returned to the warehouse and told Captain White Face that Number Three would deliver a false report claiming there was no research base and that Kurozumi Orochi wanted to trade Seastone.
• Captain White Face used a Six Powers technique to suppress his presence and attack Roy, but Roy detected and blocked him, forcing him to remove his mask and fight openly.
• Captain White Face revealed that the Clone Fruit let him create three real bodies sharing his consciousness, memories, and power, and the three attacked Roy together.
• Roy activated Command: Chaos Domain, distorting the attacks within a ten-meter area and slowing or redirecting the three White Faces.

Roy defeated White Face after surviving the clones’ combined self-destruction and captured the injured CP agent. At the shogun’s mansion, Kaido confronted Kurozumi Orochi about his dealings with the World Government and learned that Kozuki Oden had demanded Orochi step down.

• Roy used his abilities to restrain the three White Faces, but they detonated themselves in a final attack.
• Roy defended himself from the blast, found the real White Face beneath the rubble, and knocked him unconscious before taking him away.
• Kaido arrived at the shogun’s mansion and forced Orochi to admit that a CP0 envoy had offered support in exchange for Seastone processing technology.
• Kaido asked Orochi about Kozuki Oden, and Orochi confessed that Oden had visited three days earlier and demanded that he surrender the shogun’s position.
• Orochi told Kaido that he had refused Oden’s offer to step down and receive protection for himself and the Kurozumi Family.

Kaido agreed to protect the Kurozumi Family after learning that Kozuki Oden's attack had cracked Semimaru's barrier. On the voyage back to Onigashima, Roy warned Kaido that Oden could spark an uprising that would endanger their research base, and began considering how to handle him.

• Kurozumi Higurashi told Kaido that Oden had attacked Orochi and cracked Semimaru's barrier during the failed negotiations.
• Higurashi, Semimaru, and Orochi asked Kaido to protect the Kurozumi Family in exchange for their continued service, and Kaido agreed to face Oden himself.
• Roy returned to Kaido's ship after arranging for a CP agent to carry false information back to Mary Geoise.
• Roy warned Kaido that Oden could rally Wano Country's people and expose their research base if civil unrest broke out.
• Roy considered using hostages to undermine Oden's support and waiting until the Great Pirate Era distracted the World Government and Navy.

Roy proposed that Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi destroy Kozuki Oden’s reputation by forcing him to dance publicly in exchange for hostages, while Oden and his retainers planned to overthrow Orochi and free Wano Country. The chapter left Oden resolved to kindle resistance among loyal samurai and daimyo.

• Roy advised Kaido to have Kurozumi Orochi seize Oden’s supporters and threaten to kill hostages unless Oden danced naked in the Flower Capital.
• Kaido approved the plan and instructed Kurozumi Orochi to appear motivated by personal hatred while keeping the hostages under heavy guard.
• Kurozumi Orochi eagerly agreed to seize people close to Oden and publicly announce the terms.
• Denjiro and Ashura Doji told Oden that Orochi had tightened security, Kaido had met with Orochi, and suspicious strangers might be World Government agents.
• Oden rejected a direct assault on the Flower Capital and planned to target Orochi, find a way past the Barrier-Barrier Fruit, and contact loyal samurai and daimyo.
• Oden reflected on Wano Country’s isolation and the need for change and contact with the outside world.

Kozuki Oden went to Kurozumi Orochi’s residence after learning that Orochi had taken more than five hundred people connected to the Kozuki Family hostage. Faced with Orochi’s demand that he endure public humiliation to save them, Oden agreed, leaving his own honor and plans for Wano’s future at stake.

• Oden resolved to open Wano Country’s borders, unaware that Orochi had secretly arrested more than five hundred people connected to the Kozuki Family.
• Kin'emon told Oden that Orochi had summoned him alone, and Oden went to the shogun’s residence despite his retainers’ warnings.
• Orochi presented Oden with terms requiring him to dance naked in public and remain isolated for three years in exchange for the hostages’ release and the shogun’s position.
• Orochi threatened to kill ten hostages each day if Oden refused, while Semimaru’s barrier prevented Oden from attacking him.
• Oden weighed his dignity against the hostages’ lives and Wano’s future, then agreed to Orochi’s terms.

Kozuki Oden accepted Orochi’s three-year demand to protect the hostages and began publicly dancing in the Flower Capital, damaging his reputation. Roy returned to Onigashima’s research base, where he told his companions that Oden was unlikely to threaten them for the next three years.

• Kozuki Oden agreed to dance for three years in exchange for the hostages’ safety, and Orochi promised to keep them unharmed.
• Kaido and King discussed how the humiliation would weaken Oden and the Nine Red Scabbards, while Kaido said he intended to break Oden gradually.
• Kozuki Oden returned to Kuri, and Kozuki Toki comforted him and pledged her support.
• Kozuki Oden danced in the Flower Capital as tens of thousands watched, and many people began to lose respect for him.
• Roy watched Oden’s dance, then returned to Onigashima and told Savi, Enel, Tesoro, and the others that Wano would be relatively stable for the next three years.

After Dr. Gracia reported that transplanted Oni and Lunarian bloodlines were gradually growing stronger, Roy sought a way to accelerate their development. He brought Charon’s E Energy Steroids to the laboratory, where initial tests revealed a promising mechanism, but the results had yet to be explained.

• Wano Country gradually stabilized as Kozuki Oden continued his naked dance and most samurai and daimyo fell silent.
• Roy used his spiritual power to find spies and had Tesoro keep the research base under surveillance.
• Dr. Gracia told Roy that transplanted Oni and Lunarian bloodlines had strengthened over three months, though their potential and growth rate remained uncertain.
• Roy summoned Charon and brought his E Energy Steroids to Dr. Gracia as a possible way to accelerate bloodline development.
• Charon agreed to tests, and Dr. Gracia analyzed the drug alongside Charon’s blood and physical readings.
• Dr. Gracia reported that the E Energy Steroids had a more sophisticated mechanism than he had expected.

Roy arranged for Dr. Gracia to study bloodline fusion using the E Energy Steroids, then prepared to test whether he could extract a Devil Fruit ability from the captured CP agent White Face. He brought White Face to a bare laboratory equipped with a seastone box, seawater channel, and fresh fruit, leaving the extraction attempt about to begin.

• Roy told Dr. Gracia to research a growth drug and monitor the bloodline-transplant test subjects while they trained.
• Roy learned Bullet had gone to the deserted island east of Onigashima to fight Kaido and develop his combination of demonic aura and Conqueror’s Haki Coating.
• Roy explained that he had implanted false memories in White Face and used the CP agent to send misleading intelligence to the World Government.
• Roy decided White Face’s mission was over and prepared to test whether he could extract the agent’s Devil Fruit ability.
• Roy ordered his companions to keep the plan secret, but they followed Savi as he carried White Face to Roy’s laboratory.

Roy used a controlled neurotoxin and a sealed Seastone setup to try to extract the Devil inside a dying CP agent. After initially detecting nothing, the group opened the box and found a strange grayish-white Devil Fruit among the ordinary fruits.

• Roy explained that Vera's slow-release neurotoxin would let them control the CP agent's time of death, then injected him and sealed him in a Seastone box surrounded by seawater and barriers.
• Roy monitored the agent's vital signs as the toxin paralyzed him, and the agent died when the countdown reached zero.
• Roy and the others waited ten minutes but detected no sign that a Devil Fruit had appeared.
• Roy removed the barriers and drained the tank, then Savi opened the box and moved aside the ordinary fruits.
• Savi found a spiral-patterned grayish-white fruit beneath the others and recognized it as a Devil Fruit.

After the Roy Pirates successfully extracted a Devil Fruit, the crew discussed using the technology to obtain more powers. Roy ordered everyone to keep the process secret, leaving the extraction method known only to those present.

• Savi, Enel, and Tesoro discussed hunting Devil Fruit users and taking their powers.
• Bullet returned after fighting Kaido for two days, reported their draw, and said the battle had given him ideas for combining Demonic Aura with Conqueror's Haki Coating.
• Roy ordered Bullet to let Vera treat his injuries and rest before training again.
• Savi told Bullet that the crew had successfully extracted the Clone-Clone Fruit from a captured CP0 agent, and Roy handed Bullet the fruit to inspect.
• Hawk Eyes warned that hunting powerful Devil Fruit users carried great risks, and Roy stopped the discussion to order everyone to keep the extraction technology secret.

Roy prepared the Roy Pirates’ research base and training program while waiting for the upheaval caused by Gol D. Roger’s discovery of Laugh Tale. After Roger was declared Pirate King, Roy decided to leave Wano Country to recruit capable, like-minded companions and specialists.

• Roy ordered Tesoro to protect the research base, Stella to gather intelligence, and Bullet to help train the test subjects without killing them.
• Dr. Gracia began gravity training with thirty test subjects while Roy practiced Internal Forging and tried to awaken his Telekinesis-Telekinesis Fruit.
• Kozuki Oden continued dancing naked, Kurozumi Orochi tightened his exploitation of Wano Country, and Kaido’s rule grew more secure as the Roy Pirates advanced their research and training.
• The Roy Pirates learned that Gol D. Roger had conquered the Grand Line and named its final island Laugh Tale, prompting the Navy and World Government to mobilize.
• Roy told his crew they would leave Wano Country to recruit strong, promising people who shared their vision, including scientists, doctors, craftsmen, and intelligence experts.

Roy organized a recruitment voyage, preparing the Roy Pirates to leave Wano Country and search for promising allies while Kaido watched over their base. After setting sail with Yamato aboard, Roy reviewed Stella’s intelligence on possible recruits, including Kyros, Crocodile, and Bartholomew Kuma.

• Roy ordered Stella to compile a watch list of promising newcomers, specialists, craftspeople, and powerful people who had broken with major powers, while the crew prepared to leave Wano Country.
• Roy told Kaido about the voyage, and Kaido agreed to guard the base and let Yamato join the crew despite the risks.
• Tesoro and the base’s scientists upgraded the Ark Maxim, and the crew gathered aboard with Yamato before Roy ordered them to set sail.
• Stella presented intelligence on potential recruits, including Kyros in Dressrosa, Crocodile, and Bartholomew Kuma from the Sorbet Kingdom.
• Roy judged Kyros, Crocodile, and Kuma worth investigating and considered recruiting Kuma for his bloodline and future fighting ability.

Roy planned how to recruit Kyros, Crocodile, and Kuma before the Ark Maxim continued toward Dressrosa. When three pirate ships attacked, Savi, Enel, and the others defeated them in a brief battle and the crew resumed its voyage.

• Stella told Roy that Kuma had been visiting islands troubled by pirates, where he appeared to help residents and treat the wounded.
• Roy decided to postpone approaching Kuma and focus first on testing Kyros in Dressrosa.
• On the third day at sea, Charon spotted three pirate ships closing in on the Ark Maxim.
• Roy sent Savi, Enel, Pea, and the others to fight, while Tesoro destroyed the incoming cannonballs.
• Savi, Enel, and the crew defeated the attackers in under ten minutes, and Tesoro searched the ships for treasure before the Ark Maxim continued toward Dressrosa.

Roy and his companions visited Dressrosa’s colosseum to observe the undefeated Kyros, then followed him to a poor district after his matches. Kyros returned home and greeted a young woman, leaving Roy’s group still watching him.

• Roy and his companions arrived in Dressrosa, and Stella told Roy that Kyros fought at the colosseum each afternoon.
• Roy and his companions watched Kyros defeat Baldo and three other challengers with precise, restrained swordsmanship.
• Roy explained that Kyros’s focus on victory rather than killing could be a weakness in a real fight, and decided to wait before approaching him.
• Roy and his companions followed Kyros from the colosseum into a commoners’ district, where he shared candy with children and urged one boy to learn a trade.
• Kyros reached his tidy home, where a young woman greeted him and thanked him for his hard work.

Roy visited Kyros at home and invited the undefeated gladiator to join the Roy Pirates, offering him powerful training and protection for Dressrosa. After revealing that he knew Scarlet was Princess Scarlet, Roy left Kyros weighing the offer and his family’s safety.

• Roy spotted Kyros with Scarlet and decided to approach him despite the complications of Kyros having someone important in Dressrosa.
• Roy visited Kyros’s cottage, revealed that he was the captain of the Roy Pirates, and invited Kyros to join his crew.
• Roy urged Kyros to prepare for threats to Dressrosa and offered him the chance to train with Great Swordsman Hawk Eyes Mihawk, Demon Heir Bullet, and Roy himself.
• Roy demonstrated his swordsmanship by cutting the tabletop with sword energy, then promised the Roy Pirates would support and protect Dressrosa.
• Roy exposed Scarlet as Princess Scarlet, and Kyros drew close to his sword while demanding to know what Roy wanted.

Roy tried to persuade Kyros to join the Roy Pirates by warning him that growing global turmoil and Doflamingo’s possible plans threatened Dressrosa. Kyros chose to seek King Riku’s view before deciding, and he and Scarlet headed to the palace.

• Roy warned Kyros and Scarlet that the coming upheaval could leave Dressrosa vulnerable to pirates and powerful fighters.
• Roy argued that joining the Roy Pirates could give Kyros the strength to protect Dressrosa, then gave him three days to decide.
• Roy revealed that Doflamingo might try to reclaim Dressrosa, alarming Kyros and prompting Scarlet to confirm that King Riku had noticed the Donquixote Family’s secretive activity.
• Scarlet urged Kyros to decide out of hope rather than fear, and Kyros resolved to ask King Riku what he knew.
• Kyros and Scarlet traveled through the streets under cover of darkness and reached the palace’s rear gate.

After King Riku confirmed Doflamingo was infiltrating Dressrosa, Kyros and Scarlet joined the Roy Pirates, and Dressrosa formed an alliance with the crew. The Ark Maxim left for Alabasta, where Roy planned to approach Crocodile.

• King Riku told Kyros and Scarlet that Doflamingo likely sent underworld figures to infiltrate Dressrosa and seize control gradually.
• Kyros and Scarlet joined the Roy Pirates, and Roy assigned Mihawk and Bullet to train Kyros.
• King Riku gave Roy an alliance badge and promised to strengthen Dressrosa's defenses against Doflamingo.
• The Ark Maxim departed Dressrosa with Kyros and Scarlet aboard, and they promised to return once they were stronger.
• Roy set his sights on Crocodile as the crew sailed toward Alabasta.