Recaps

Ace defeated Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates in Alabasta while Lin Yuan and Whitebeard Newgate watched. The crew lay beaten, with Ace sparing only Molly.

• Ace easily dodged Luffy's Armament Haki Gatling and knocked him into the sand with a punch.
• Luffy activated a steam-powered transformation and continued fighting Ace, but Ace repeatedly overpowered him.
• Zoro, Sanji, Fisher, Higgins, Molly, and Usopp joined Luffy, but Ace sent most of them flying and shrugged off Molly and Usopp's attacks.
• Lin Yuan and Whitebeard Newgate arrived with Kagehachi and Brûlée to watch Ace fight the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Ace unleashed Fire Daruma and struck down the crew, sparing Molly while declaring their defeat and criticizing Zoro's swordsmanship compared with Kuina's.

Ace defeated the Straw Hat Pirates and warned them about the power of the Five Emperors and the Abyss Chamber of Commerce. Lin Yuan and Whitebeard Newgate discussed Luffy’s future potential before Lin Yuan went after Ace, leaving Luffy determined to surpass his brother.

• After Ace beat the Straw Hat Pirates, Zoro asked about the Five Emperors, Kuina, and Lin Yuan, and Ace warned that their current strength was far from enough.
• Ace said Kuina was as strong as he was and that he would not rank among the Abyss Chamber of Commerce’s top twenty without further growth, then left after telling Luffy to keep training.
• Whitebeard Newgate questioned whether the badly beaten Luffy could become Pirate King, but Lin Yuan said the Straw Hat Pirates could grow strong enough to challenge Kaido in two years.
• Lin Yuan and Whitebeard Newgate joked about Luffy seeking revenge and encountering Garp alive, then Whitebeard Newgate returned to his base while Lin Yuan went after Ace.
• Luffy struggled to his feet and vowed to surpass Ace the next time they met.

Ace intercepted Blackbeard on an uninhabited island and learned that Teach planned to use him to force Whitebeard into a battle with the Marines. Ace attacked, but Blackbeard’s Dark-Dark Fruit protected him, and the two continued fighting as Ace tried to avoid being caught by the spreading darkness.

• Ace tracked Blackbeard to an uninhabited island, where Teach admitted he had been waiting to capture him and hand him over to the Marines.
• Blackbeard revealed that he wanted Whitebeard Newgate’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit and planned to use Ace to provoke a final battle between Whitebeard and the Marines.
• Ace attacked Blackbeard with Fire Fist and Firefly: Fire Daruma, but Teach’s darkness shielded him from the explosions.
• Blackbeard spread darkness across the ground with Black Hole, forcing Ace to retreat and avoid being grabbed.
• Ace erupted in flames and defied Blackbeard as their fight continued.

Ace battled Blackbeard, whose Dark-Dark Fruit and Haki pushed him to unleash increasingly powerful flames. After Blackbeard swallowed and released Ace’s giant fireball, Ace revealed that he had drawn the others into a thousand-meter ring of flame and engulfed them in a fiery tornado.

• Blackbeard charged Ace with his darkness, but Ace dodged and blasted him with explosive flames before clashing with him using an Armament Haki-coated fist.
• Ace realized Blackbeard’s Haki was stronger than his own, then attacked with Fire Pistol and a massive fireball as Blackbeard’s crew joined the fight.
• Blackbeard swallowed Ace’s enormous fireball and released it over the sea, where it exploded and devastated the shore.
• Blackbeard ordered his crew to capture the exhausted Ace, and Jesus Burgess and the other pirates rushed toward him while Lafitte and Van Augur held back.
• Ace drew the flames around the battlefield together and unleashed Flame Ring, trapping Blackbeard and the attacking pirates in a towering tornado of fire.

Ace fought Blackbeard on an uninhabited island, but exhausted himself before he could defeat him. Blackbeard later revealed Ace’s lineage to Sengoku, who arranged to have Ace publicly executed at Marineford, setting the stage for a major event.

• Ace’s flame tornado killed Burgess and many of Blackbeard’s pirates, but Ace’s final demon-fire attack failed to overcome Blackbeard’s darkness.
• Ace used his last strength to attack Blackbeard, then passed out; Blackbeard ordered Lafitte and Van Augur to leave with him.
• After recovering, Blackbeard told Sengoku that Ace was Roger’s son and sought a Shichibukai position in return.
• Sengoku agreed to make Blackbeard a Shichibukai and announced that the Marines would execute Roger’s bloodline at Marineford in one month.

Lin Yuan planned a small elite force to rescue Ace from Marineford while the Marines secretly assembled 100,000 troops for the execution. As both sides prepared for war, Blackbeard waited near the Calm Belt, eager to begin his own plan.

• Whitebeard Newgate, Garp, Katakuri, and the others gathered with Lin Yuan to discuss rescuing Ace.
• Lin Yuan decided to send only a hundred people and assigned Mihawk, Hancock, and Bartholomew Kuma to help protect Ace.
• Lin Yuan revealed a plan centered on Yamato, Katakuri, Mihawk, and Whitebeard Newgate, while promising to join them later.
• Lin Yuan arranged for Tesoro to send Mihawk and the others to Marineford in secret, where they would reveal themselves after the Marines summoned the Shichibukai.
• Sengoku fortified Marineford and gathered 100,000 Marines, unaware of Lin Yuan's plans.
• Blackbeard waited near the Calm Belt with Lafitte and Van Augur, celebrating the war he hoped would bring him power.

As Ace’s public execution approached, Lin Yuan prepared his allies for the coming battle and traveled toward Impel Down. He learned that Blackbeard planned to attack the prison the next night and decided to be there.

• Lin Yuan told Whitebeard Newgate and the others to rest at the estate before using Brûlée’s ability to reach Marineford, then flew off alone.
• Lin Yuan met Garp and Big News Morgans at another estate, and Morgans agreed to arrange a secret broadcast of the coming battle.
• Garp promised not to intervene at Marineford, while Lin Yuan assured him that Ace’s rescue had been arranged and urged him to disguise himself.
• Lin Yuan flew toward Impel Down and learned from Monet that Blackbeard planned to attack it the next night.
• Lin Yuan told Monet he would be there and asked her to have Brûlée prepare, then considered how to reach Impel Down’s sixth level.

Lin Yuan infiltrated Impel Down using his Time Corridor ability and found Ivankov, Morley, and their allies on level 5.5. He sent them through Brûlée’s Mirror Space and then headed toward level 6 to find Bullet and Redfield.

• Lin Yuan entered Impel Down unseen with Time Corridor after Ace’s warship had departed.
• Lin Yuan reached level 5.5, revealed himself to Ivankov and Morley, and said he would help them escape for Dragon’s sake.
• Lin Yuan contacted Brûlée and arranged for Ivankov, Morley, Inazuma, Bon Clay, and the others to enter Mirror Space.
• Morley showed Lin Yuan a passage to level 6, and Lin Yuan sent the group through the mirror.
• Lin Yuan explored level 5.5, then headed toward level 6 to find Bullet and Redfield.

Lin Yuan used Observation Haki to survey Impel Down’s level six and secretly offered Redfield a place in his plans to overthrow the World Government. Redfield agreed to meet him after Lin Yuan promised to free him that night and provide the Mythical Zoan Vampire Fruit.

• Lin Yuan sensed the darkness surrounding the prisoners on level six and decided to focus on Bullet, Redfield, and their Devil Fruits.
• Lin Yuan contacted Redfield privately and offered to take him out of Impel Down and recruit him.
• Redfield questioned Lin Yuan’s strength and motives, then became interested when Lin Yuan revealed he had the Vampire Fruit.
• Lin Yuan said his goal was to overthrow the Celestial Dragons and the World Government, and Redfield agreed to see how he would escape.
• Lin Yuan promised to free Redfield that night and warned him not to betray him, leaving Redfield intrigued.

Lin Yuan approached Bullet and offered to free him in exchange for a fight, while news of Lin Yuan’s strength stirred Bullet and Redfield’s interest. After Blackbeard began his move above, Lin Yuan appeared on Level Six, silenced the prisoners with Conqueror’s Haki, and ordered the Devil Fruit Users to step forward.

• Lin Yuan offered to free Bullet and challenged him to follow Lin Yuan if he lost their fight, while allowing him a yearly rematch.
• Bullet asked the prisoners about Lin Yuan, and a raspy-voiced pirate described Lin Yuan’s reputation and reported that Garp had died at his hands.
• Redfield regretted losing the chance to take revenge on Garp, while Bullet’s fighting spirit flared at the news of Lin Yuan’s strength.
• Blackbeard set his plan in motion with Lafitte, Van Augur, and his recruited subordinates, and Lin Yuan went to Level Six and looped its surveillance equipment.
• Lin Yuan used Conqueror’s Haki to burst the head of a pirate who threatened him, then ordered the Devil Fruit Users to step forward.

Lin Yuan emptied Impel Down’s sixth level by taking its Devil Fruit Users into the Mirror Space and killing the remaining prisoners. He freed Bullet and Redfield and escaped with them, leaving Blackbeard to find the level deserted.

• Lin Yuan ordered the Devil Fruit Users, including Catarina Devon, into the Mirror Space.
• Lin Yuan killed the other prisoners and stored their bodies, then killed the frozen Byrnndi World and placed his corpse in a coffin.
• Lin Yuan cut apart Bullet and Redfield’s cells and shackles, then led them through the mirror to escape.
• The mirror vanished, leaving the sixth level empty and without any trace of blood.
• Blackbeard arrived with Lafitte and Van Augur, found no prisoners, and ordered them to search the other levels.

Lin Yuan killed the forty-odd prisoners in the Mirro-World and sealed their bodies with fruit to extract their Devil Fruits. He then fed Bullet and Redfield, promised Redfield the Bat-Bat Fruit, and invited them to watch Whitebeard Newgate fight Marine Headquarters.

• Lin Yuan asked the prisoners to reveal their Devil Fruit abilities, then killed them with a swift sword strike when they asked him to remove their restraints.
• Lin Yuan and Bullet and Redfield threw the corpses into a Seastone cube, where Lin Yuan placed fruits to extract the prisoners’ Devil Fruits.
• Lin Yuan told Bullet that he had defeated Garp but had not killed him, and postponed Bullet’s request to fight until he had recovered.
• Lin Yuan gave Bullet and Redfield food and wine, then showed Redfield a Mythical Zoan Bat-Bat Fruit, vampire form, and reaffirmed that he would discuss terms with him later.
• Lin Yuan invited Bullet and Redfield to watch Whitebeard Newgate fight Marine Headquarters, and both men reacted with excitement.

Lin Yuan recovered the More-More Fruit and dozens of other Devil Fruits from Byrnndi World's coffin, then watched the Marines prepare for Ace's execution at Marineford. As Sengoku revealed Ace's parentage, Whitebeard Newgate appeared in the plaza to save him.

• Lin Yuan opened Byrnndi World's coffin, took the More-More Fruit, and recovered thirty-nine more Devil Fruits from the stored bodies and fruit.
• Lin Yuan burned the remaining corpses and fruit, then left the Mirror World with Bullet and Redfield to watch the coming battle.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to carry out their plan at Marineford, and the Marines took their positions the next morning with the Admirals, Vice Admirals, and Shichibukai.
• Sengoku ordered Ace brought to the execution platform and revealed that Ace was the son of the Pirate King, whose pursuit had caused his mother to die in childbirth.
• Cloaked figures appeared across the plaza as Whitebeard Newgate emerged to face the Marines and save Ace.

Whitebeard Newgate arrived at Marineford with a small masked force and attacked as the Marines tried to stop him. The battle spiraled into chaos when Whitebeard Newgate, Yamato, Katakuri, Hancock, Mihawk, and Sengoku unleashed their Conqueror's Haki, leaving nearly everyone else unconscious.

• Whitebeard Newgate appeared at Marineford with more than a hundred cloaked, masked figures and demanded that Sengoku release Ace.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to fire, but Whitebeard Newgate used Air Quake to stop the projectiles and Seaquake to raise a massive tsunami.
• Kuzan froze the tsunami with Ice Age as the Marines moved to attack the masked fighters.
• Whitebeard Newgate signaled Yamato and Katakuri, who joined him in releasing Conqueror's Haki and knocked out most of the Marine forces.
• Hancock and Mihawk unleashed their Conqueror's Haki, and Sengoku responded with his own, plunging Marineford into chaos.

Lin Yuan’s Conqueror’s Haki tactic left most of Marineford’s Marines incapacitated, and Whitebeard Newgate’s forces began fighting the remaining officers. As the battle turned against the Marines, Sengoku ordered Ace’s immediate execution.

• Lin Yuan told Bullet and Redfield that Whitebeard Newgate and the entire Whitebeard Pirates belonged to him, then said the real fight was about to begin.
• Tsuru stopped Sengoku from unleashing his Conqueror’s Haki, and Sengoku ordered Sakazuki, Kuzan, Borsalino, the Shichibukai, and the surviving officers to attack.
• Enel intercepted Borsalino, Yamato confronted Kuzan, and Katakuri and the other cloaked fighters engaged the Marines.
• Tsuru told Sengoku that Lin Yuan had likely joined the battle and identified Enel as Borsalino’s opponent, while Sengoku admitted they were in trouble.
• Sengoku saw the Marine officers losing despite their numerical advantage and ordered Ace to be executed immediately.

Ace broke free from execution and joined the battle as Sengoku tried to stop him, while Blackbeard waited for Whitebeard Newgate to weaken. The chapter ended with Whitebeard Newgate badly wounded, Sengoku ordering the Shichibukai to attack him, and Blackbeard leading his crew toward the fight.

• Sengoku ordered Ace's execution, but Ace shattered his switched Seastone Handcuffs and blasted the Marine officers guarding him.
• Ace and Sengoku exchanged attacks, while Morgans secretly continued broadcasting the battle and Lin Yuan revealed that he had arranged Ace's escape.
• Blackbeard and his injured crew arrived at Marineford, and Blackbeard waited for Whitebeard Newgate's illness and age to give him an opening.
• Sakazuki took advantage of Whitebeard Newgate's distraction to punch a hole through his side, and Whitebeard retaliated by sending Sakazuki flying.
• Sengoku ordered the Shichibukai to help Sakazuki surround Whitebeard Newgate, and Blackbeard led his crew into the attack.

Whitebeard Newgate and the Marines were attacked by the Shichibukai, who revealed they had turned against the Marines and slaughtered Blackbeard’s Impel Down recruits. Whitebeard Newgate faced Teach and overcame his Dark-Dark Fruit with Conqueror’s Haki, leaving the battle at the moment his Quake Kill struck.

• Sakazuki, Blackbeard, and the Shichibukai charged Whitebeard Newgate, but the Shichibukai suddenly changed targets and attacked the Marines and Blackbeard’s men.
• Mihawk, Jinbe, Crocodile, Gecko Moria, and Bartholomew Kuma killed Blackbeard’s newly recruited escapees, while Kuma struck and severely wounded Sakazuki.
• Crocodile declared that the Shichibukai were pirates who would not obey Sengoku, and Hancock and Ace blocked Sengoku when he tried to join the fight.
• Blackbeard begged Whitebeard Newgate for mercy, then used the Dark-Dark Fruit to absorb his Air Quake.
• Whitebeard Newgate coated his fist with Conqueror’s Haki and unleashed Quake Kill, bypassing Blackbeard’s Devil Fruit power.

Whitebeard Newgate nearly killed Blackbeard with a Conqueror’s Haki-coated punch, then tried to lead his allies away after crushing Marine morale. Sengoku and the Marines counterattacked, splitting Marineford and reigniting the battle as a strange black substance spread beside Blackbeard.

• Whitebeard Newgate struck Blackbeard into the ground, leaving him gravely injured and stunning everyone with his strength.
• Whitebeard Newgate called his allies to gather and escape with Ace, but Sengoku transformed into a golden Buddha and attacked with eighteen shockwaves.
• Whitebeard Newgate countered Sengoku with Space Burst, and their clash split Marineford in two before leaving both men wounded.
• Borsalino voiced reluctance to fight, while Sengoku fell and the plaza was left with a bottomless abyss.
• Borsalino fired Yasakani no Magatama at Whitebeard Newgate and the cloaked figures, prompting Enel and Kuzan to launch counterattacks.
• Black substance began spreading beside the nearly defeated Blackbeard as the battle resumed.

Marineford’s battle intensified when Blackbeard revealed a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit alongside his Dark-Dark Fruit, transforming into a massive tentacled creature. Whitebeard Newgate confronted him as the battle resumed, and the chapter ended with Whitebeard striking back with Murakumogiri.

• Lin Yuan told Redfield that the battle would continue because others still hoped to profit and someone would come to stop it.
• Whitebeard Newgate noticed Blackbeard’s hiding place, ordered Yamato, Mihawk, Ace, and Bartholomew Kuma to hold off the Marines, and attacked the ground.
• Blackbeard revealed his Mythical Zoan, Octopus Form, Deep-Sea Hollow Fruit, and transformed into a huge tentacled monster.
• Sakazuki attacked Yamato’s group while the battlefield was distracted, but Monet blocked his magma with a blizzard and gave everyone time to resume fighting.
• Blackbeard attacked Whitebeard Newgate with his extended tentacles, and Whitebeard countered with Murakumogiri, declaring that he was also a master swordsman.

Whitebeard Newgate and Dracule Mihawk cut down Blackbeard, who used the Dark-Dark Fruit to stop their follow-up attacks. As the battle raged on, Marine soldier Koby called for the Marines to surrender, and Lin Yuan ordered Enel to kill him.

• Whitebeard Newgate fought Blackbeard, whose severed tentacles regenerated and whose Dark-Dark Fruit nullified Whitebeard Newgate's Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Dracule Mihawk intervened after Lin Yuan alerted him to Blackbeard's sneak attack, and he and Whitebeard Newgate joined forces against Blackbeard.
• Mihawk and Whitebeard Newgate struck Blackbeard with simultaneous slashes, leaving him badly wounded until he released the Dark-Dark Fruit's Black Hole power to block them.
• Koby shouted for the fighting to stop and declared that the Marines surrendered, drawing anger and disbelief from Sengoku and the other fighters.
• Lin Yuan recognized Koby and ordered Enel to kill him.

Enel killed Koby under Lin Yuan’s orders while Whitebeard Newgate and Dracule Mihawk pushed Blackbeard to the brink. Lin Yuan then launched a plan to assassinate summoned Marine officers and secure control of Marine bases and branches.

• Enel dodged Borsalino’s fight and struck Koby with lightning, burning him to ashes.
• Whitebeard Newgate and Dracule Mihawk jointly attacked Blackbeard until he began plotting his escape.
• Lin Yuan ordered his allies to begin the plan, and they unleashed their full strength against the Marines.
• Ace, Erza, Emile, and others assassinated Marine officers, focusing on base commanders summoned by Sengoku.
• Lin Yuan’s agents killed the commanders to create vacancies he expected the Abyss Chamber of Commerce’s recruits to fill.

After the Marines admitted defeat, Whitebeard Newgate killed Blackbeard and confronted Sengoku over the war’s outcome. Red-Haired Shanks arrived to stop the fighting, but a crowd of powerful fighters turned to face him.

• Sengoku admitted the Marines had lost, while Tesoro refused to let him decide when the war ended.
• Jinbe withdrew from the Shichibukai and Fish-Man Island, leaving Sengoku bewildered by the strength of the opposing fighters.
• Whitebeard Newgate defeated Blackbeard, who begged for mercy, then killed him with Murakumogiri and checked on Ace.
• Whitebeard Newgate told Sengoku that his plan had failed and asked whether he would admit defeat.
• Red-Haired Shanks arrived with his crew and demanded that everyone stop, but more than a dozen admiral- and emperor-level fighters turned to face them.

Red-Haired Shanks arrived at Marineford intending to mediate between Whitebeard Newgate and the Marines, but both sides treated the Red Hair Pirates as a threat. Shanks left under pressure, while Lin Yuan watched from above as the confrontation settled.

• Whitebeard Newgate and Fleet Admiral Sengoku reacted angrily to Shanks's arrival and demanded to know why he had come.
• Beckman noticed that Whitebeard Newgate's side had the advantage, while Sengoku and Whitebeard agreed to drive the Red Hair Pirates away before resuming negotiations.
• Shanks said he wanted to preserve the world's balance because Lin Yuan might otherwise swallow everyone, leaving both sides shocked.
• Enel and Borsalino attacked Shanks, and the Red Hair Pirates drew their weapons before Beckman warned them to stop.
• Whitebeard Newgate and Sengoku gave Shanks three minutes to leave, so he withdrew with his crew without interfering.

After the war ended, Whitebeard Newgate secured an agreement from Sengoku and led his allies away, while the Marines counted their dead and regrouped. Lin Yuan met with Lafitte and Van Augur, who revived Blackbeard, and prepared to kill him again.

• Whitebeard Newgate agreed to end the war after Sengoku promised not to pursue Ace or the Shichibukai who had helped for two years.
• The Marines counted more than three thousand dead, including over 150 captains or higher-ranking officers, while Borsalino took command.
• Lin Yuan watched from above with Bullet and Redfield, then followed the people who had taken Blackbeard's corpse.
• Tesoro arranged for Hancock and the others to leave their former homes and withdraw from the world.
• Lafitte and Van Augur revealed they were Lin Yuan's subordinates and restored Blackbeard to life.
• Blackbeard celebrated his survival, and Lin Yuan declared he would personally send him on his final journey.

Lin Yuan confronted and killed Blackbeard, then rewarded Lafitte and Van Augur with powerful Devil Fruits. After finding Blackbeard’s fruits, Lin Yuan remembered that weapons could eat Devil Fruits and tried feeding one to Mandala.

• Blackbeard tried to flee, but Lin Yuan used Time Reversal to bring him back.
• Blackbeard failed to recruit Bullet and Redfield, and Lin Yuan cut him down and sealed his body in a Seastone coffin.
• Lafitte received the Mythical Zoan Dog-Dog Fruit, Nine-Tailed Fox Form, while Van Augur accepted the Paramecia Warp-Warp Fruit.
• Lin Yuan opened the coffin and found the Dark-Dark Fruit and Blackbeard’s Mythical Zoan Fruit among the returned fruits.
• Lin Yuan stabbed Mandala into a Devil Fruit to see whether the sword could eat it.