Recaps

Nami secretly spent half a month studying the Laws with Vic, hiding that she learned to borrow their power after only three days because she wanted more time with him. Vic discovered her act, praised her talent, and gave her Pure Gold earrings before she returned to camp.

• Nami turned down Sanji's suggestion that they eat alone, and Vic watched them leave before reflecting on her feelings for him and how she had changed since childhood.
• Nami visited Vic every day to meditate on the Laws, while Vic used illusions to keep Sanji from discovering where she was.
• Vic confronted Nami about pretending to be a beginner, and she admitted she had hidden her progress to spend more time with him.
• Nami told Vic it had taken her three days to borrow the Power of Law, and he praised her talent and gave her Pure Gold earrings.
• Nami returned to camp smiling with her new earrings, and Robin recognized them and felt envious.

Nami demonstrated her growing control of the Laws by unleashing extreme weather across Zou, and Vic praised her progress before spending two months with her in an illusion. Vic returned to his base, where Ain asked about her still-unawakened Return-Return Fruit ability.

• Nami showed Vic how she could summon rain, lightning, snow, blizzards, heat, fog, ice, and destructive winds across Zou.
• Vic praised Nami's progress and spent two months with her in an illusion before urging her to claim she had eaten a Devil Fruit if anyone asked about her abilities.
• Vic returned to his base, where S-Dog and Ain ran to greet him.
• Vic asked Ain whether her Return-Return Fruit ability had awakened, but it still had not.

Vic traced Ain’s Return-Return Fruit to the Laws of Time and helped her awaken it by showing her an illusion of vast changes across history. At a celebration banquet, he told Fisher Tiger that Shirahoshi was Poseidon, the mermaid who could command the Sea Kings.

• Vic realized that Ain’s Return-Return Fruit was connected to the Laws of Time and that she needed to witness the passage of time to understand its power.
• Vic brought Ain into an illusion depicting thousands of years of change, and she awakened her Return power less than a month later.
• At a celebration banquet, Vic asked Fisher Tiger about Shirahoshi’s communication with the Sea Kings.
• Fisher Tiger said Shirahoshi had mastered communicating with the Sea Kings, who called her their king.
• Vic revealed that Shirahoshi was Poseidon, the current king of the Sea Kings, and Fisher Tiger understood why they obeyed her.

Vic heard that Law and Kid had returned to the New World, while both captains pursued Road Poneglyph rubbings after recovering and growing stronger. Their crews later joined forces near Whole Cake Island, where Kaido and Big Mom’s alliance made taking the third rubbing by force seem impossible.

• Vic learned that the Heart Pirates and Kid Pirates had reappeared, then spent the next six months studying the Law of Space and training his Haki.
• Shanks and Buggy’s crew searched for the last Road Poneglyph, while Law and Kid also pursued rubbings to advance their ambitions.
• Kid returned to Wano Country and received a Road Poneglyph rubbing from Momonosuke and Kozuki Sukiyaki; Law secretly obtained the same rubbing and later took one from Zou.
• Law met the Straw Hat Pirates in Zou, shared a banquet with them, and left with a rubbing; Luffy’s crew departed soon afterward, with Luffy having mastered the Voice of All Things.
• Law and Kid separately found Kaido’s Beasts Pirates stationed at Whole Cake Island alongside Big Mom’s crew, and their Heart Pirates and Kid Pirates formed a temporary alliance to seek Big Mom’s rubbing.

Law and Kid infiltrated Whole Cake Island, defeated King and Katakuri, and took a rubbing of Big Mom’s Road Poneglyph. Two years later, their crews had reached Lodestar Island, but the search for Laugh Tale remained stalled without the fourth Road Poneglyph.

• Law and Kid exploited a busy day on Whole Cake Island to search for the Road Poneglyph while Kaido and Big Mom drank at a banquet.
• Law fought Katakuri and learned Future Sight, while Kid fought King and discovered Conqueror’s Coating, defeating him with it.
• Law and Kid defeated their opponents and escaped with a rubbing of Big Mom’s Road Poneglyph while Kaido and Big Mom remained drunk.
• Law gave Kid a copy of the Zou rubbing as agreed, leaving the Kid Pirates and Heart Pirates with three Road Poneglyph rubbings each.
• Two years passed, and the Kid Pirates and Heart Pirates reached Lodestar Island but could not find Laugh Tale without the fourth Road Poneglyph.

Vic visited Gion, the Marines, and the Revolutionary Army before asking Shanks about the missing fourth Road Poneglyph. Shanks admitted he had no useful information from Roger’s ship, leaving Vic without a new lead.

• Vic received Luffy’s call about the Straw Hats’ unsuccessful search and decided to visit old friends and acquaintances.
• Vic visited Gion, then checked on the Marines and found that his chosen officers had become influential among the mid-ranking ranks.
• Vic visited the Revolutionary Army and saw Vegapunk’s Seraphim program growing with Gild Tesoro’s financial support.
• Vic went to Shanks’s base and asked about the last Road Poneglyph and what Roger’s crew had known.
• Shanks said he and Buggy had been apprentices who paid little attention to navigation, so he could not help Vic find the missing Poneglyph.

Vic helped Shanks realize that Roger’s crew left for Laugh Tale in mid-August because the island appeared at a specific time, giving Luffy a possible clue for finding it. Shanks then agreed to have Vic regrow his missing arm, and Vic requested a Sea King feast for the treatment.

• Vic urged Shanks to reconsider why Roger had left for Laugh Tale without waiting for Buggy to recover.
• Shanks realized the crew had been pressed for time and remembered that Laugh Tale appeared around the middle of August, which Vic could tell Luffy.
• Vic asked Shanks what Roger had said to him and wondered whether the tattoo on Shanks’s back held a clue to the missing Road Poneglyph, but Shanks could not recall anything meaningful.
• Vic offered to regrow Shanks’s missing arm, and Shanks agreed to undergo the treatment.
• Vic told Shanks to have his cook prepare a Sea King feast to provide the energy needed to grow the arm.

Vic regrew Shanks' left arm, then returned to his base and read Oden's travel journal to learn more about Roger's route. The journal revealed vivid scenes of the Roger Pirates' voyage but no codes or secret messages.

• Vic sent Shanks' noisy officers away and regrew Shanks' left arm while Beckman watched.
• Shanks admired his new arm and thanked Vic, who joined the crew's feast before leaving without telling Red-Hair about the God Realm.
• Vic returned to the base and asked Yamato for Oden's travel journal.
• Yamato insisted she had never used the journal as toilet paper and explained that reading it had made her admire Oden.
• Vic read the journal and relived the Roger Pirates' voyage in his mind, but found no codes or secret messages.

Vic deciphered the guide hidden in Oden’s logbook and Shanks’s tattoo, revealing Laugh Tale’s location and the time it appeared. He decided to keep the fourth Road Poneglyph from Luffy so he could delay the final battle with Imu until their allies had time to grow stronger.

• Vic spent days studying Oden’s logbook and realized the entries after the torn-out Laugh Tale pages concealed a clue.
• Vic translated the later entries into Ancient Script and uncovered the steps for decoding Shanks’s tattoo.
• Vic decoded the tattoo and combined its writing with the other three Road Poneglyphs to find Laugh Tale’s coordinates and entry window.
• Vic returned the logbook to Yamato and resolved not to give Luffy the fourth Road Poneglyph.
• Vic planned to delay Luffy’s discovery of the One Piece and use Pure Gold and the Soul Tree to prepare Luffy and others to confront Imu later.

Vic learned that Luffy had found the fourth Road Poneglyph and planned to go to Laugh Tale, threatening Vic’s effort to delay the coming war. Luffy had discovered it in Loguetown after returning from Foosha Village to see the dying old mayor, and Vic accepted that he could not stop him.

• After three years, Vic had brought his comprehension of the Law of Space close to great perfection while Luffy and the others continued studying Laws.
• Luffy called Vic and announced that he had found the fourth Road Poneglyph and could now reach Laugh Tale.
• Vic feared that Luffy’s discovery would expose their plans to Imu and the World Government before Joy Boy’s allies could reveal the Void Century’s truth.
• Luffy explained that he had returned to Foosha Village because the old mayor had died, then sensed the Poneglyph while resupplying in Loguetown.
• Luffy found the fourth Road Poneglyph and the Supreme Great Grade Sword Ace on a mountain behind Loguetown.
• Vic offered condolences for the mayor and congratulated Luffy, realizing he could no longer stop him from going to Laugh Tale.

Vic waited on Lodestar Island and studied the Law of Space while Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates prepared to find Laugh Tale. After locating its entrance, the crew stood ready for it to open, while Vic still lacked the inspiration to perfect his understanding of space.

• Vic gathered his companions, traveled to Lodestar Island, and secluded himself in a cave to study the Law of Space.
• Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates left Loguetown with all four Road Poneglyphs and sailed toward Lodestar Island.
• After reaching Lodestar Island, the Straw Hat Pirates rested, then followed the Road Poneglyph coordinates to locate Laugh Tale’s entrance, with Vic following them.
• Vic failed to complete his mastery of the Law of Space before the entrance appeared, and he waited in an alternate space as the Straw Hat Pirates waited aboard the Thousand Sunny.
• The chapter recalled the Straw Hat Pirates’ ten-year journey and described Luffy’s desire for freedom and Zoro’s ambition to defeat Vic.

The chapter reflects on how the Straw Hat Pirates’ dreams had developed during ten years at sea and how several of them depended on reaching Laugh Tale. As they approached the island, the crew felt excitement alongside uncertainty about what would happen to them after their voyage ended.

• Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, and Brook each pursued their dreams through the crew’s ten years of travel, while Robin and Luffy’s goals converged on reaching Laugh Tale.
• Jinbe carried the Fish-Man Race and Merfolk’s dream of living on the surface, while Aokiji joined to pursue his goals of ending the Great Pirate Era and overthrowing the World Government.
• Vic recognized that Aokiji’s goals aligned with those of Luffy and his father and steered him toward the Straw Hat Pirates.
• The Straw Hat Pirates reached the entrance to Laugh Tale and expected to become the second crew after the Roger Pirates to sail around the world.
• The crew wondered whether they would keep adventuring together or disband after reaching Laugh Tale, and felt anxious about losing their life together at sea.

Vic entered Laugh Tale ahead of the Straw Hat Pirates, recorded the Ancient Script covering a stone mountain, and left before Luffy came ashore. Back on Lodestar Island, he deciphered Joy Boy’s message and learned that Joy Boy’s plans were meant to protect the future of the world and humanity.

• When Laugh Tale’s entrance appeared under the full moon, Vic entered the alternate space before the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Vic found a stone mountain covered in Ancient Script and memorized its inscriptions, along with a giant spotted egg Roger had left at its summit.
• As Luffy and the others approached the island, Vic escaped through a spatial gate and returned to Lodestar Island.
• Vic recreated Laugh Tale’s mountain in his illusory world and deciphered Joy Boy’s message.
• After reading Joy Boy’s account, Vic realized that Joy Boy had made contingencies to oppose Imu for the sake of the world and humanity, not for revenge or power.

Vic learned that Joy Boy’s account traced the conflict on Qingning Star back to the arrival of moon-dwelling Space Wanderers 900 years ago. After decades of war between the visitors and the Sun Kingdom’s people, Joy Boy investigated the visitors’ origins during a truce.

• Nine hundred years ago, Space Wanderers arrived from the moon and asked the Sun King to let them settle on Qingning Star.
• The Sun King agreed to let the visitors live on islands, but over the next fifty years they exploited the natives, and conflict between the groups worsened.
• The visitors launched a surprise attack on the Sun King and his retainers, and the strongest fighters on both sides died in battle.
• Joy Boy led the natives against the visitors, while Imu led the Twenty Kingdoms’ Allied Forces through decades of fighting and truces.
• During a truce, Joy Boy traveled to Sky Island, the moon, and outer space to investigate the visitors’ origins.

After hearing the Moon People’s account, Joy Boy visited the dead moon and explored space, learning that the Space Wanderers were notorious planet-destroying parasites. He returned to Qingning Star determined to defeat Imu, but after losing, he arranged for Queen Lily to preserve the truth and tools for future generations before dying, unable to fulfill his promise to the Fish-Man Race.

• Joy Boy learned that Moon People had fled the moon to Sky Island, while others had been enslaved by the Space Wanderers.
• Joy Boy traveled to the moon and found it lifeless, with ruins that supported the Moon People’s account of the invaders.
• Joy Boy explored space and discovered the Space Wanderers had a reputation for exhausting planets and moving on to new worlds.
• Joy Boy returned to Qingning Star and resolved to defeat the Space Wanderers led by Imu, but he lost the war.
• With Queen Lily’s secret help, Joy Boy left behind the Poneglyphs, the truth of Laugh Tale, and clues to the Ancient Weapons and Ancient Giant Robot before he died.

Vic reflected on Joy Boy’s preparations to defeat Imu, including hidden gold, weapons, and a path to the God Realm, and concluded that Imu’s ambition had made Qingning Star safer from the danger Joy Boy feared. He still believed Imu and the World Government had to be overthrown, while he remained inside his illusion on Laugh Tale.

• Vic realized Joy Boy had hidden a mountain of gold in the Dimensional Ring, which Vic had obtained before Luffy could find it.
• Vic considered how Joy Boy had left weapons, ancient robots, gold, and instructions for reaching Mystery Island and using the Soul Fruit to enter the God Realm.
• Vic praised Joy Boy for preparing future generations while concealing his plans from Imu, then reflected that Joy Boy had underestimated Imu’s ambition.
• Vic reasoned that Imu protected Qingning Star because its Law Fruits could grant power and its Perennial Youth Operation legend promised eternal life.
• Vic concluded that Imu and the World Government still had to be overthrown because Imu would not tolerate rival powerhouses and allowed the Celestial Dragons to persecute Qingning Star’s natives.

After absorbing Joy Boy’s message, Vic prepared to face Imu and traveled to Raijin Island to strengthen the Divine Staff with the island’s source of black lightning. He planted the staff in an altar-like platform at the island’s center, where it fit perfectly.

• Vic emerged from his day-long seclusion with a clearer understanding of Qingning Star and the danger posed by outsiders.
• Vic took the Divine Staff, hoping it would amplify his power in his coming battle with Imu.
• Vic used spatial power to reach Raijin Island and walked toward its central region as the Divine Staff absorbed the island’s lightning.
• Vic found a tiered black platform with a hole at its center and planted the Divine Staff in it.
• Vic saw that the Divine Staff fit the platform perfectly, as though it had once belonged there.

Vic absorbed the black lightning into the Divine Staff, uncovered rings of Pure Gold buried beneath Raijin Island, and left for Lodestar Island. He arrived to find the island ravaged by fierce battles between powerful fighters.

• Vic watched Raijin Island’s lightning and thunderclouds disappear as the Divine Staff absorbed the black lightning.
• Vic tested the island with a Conqueror’s Haki strike, but the black circular platform remained intact.
• Vic uncovered rings of Pure Gold beneath Raijin Island, removed them, and left the platform behind.
• Vic sensed violent battles and familiar auras on Lodestar Island as he opened a spatial gate.
• Vic emerged on Lodestar Island and found powerful fighters battling across the heavily damaged island.

Vic joined Dragon and the Revolutionary Army on Lodestar Island, where they were fighting CP0 after learning the World Government planned to attack Luffy. He explained Luffy’s connection to Joy Boy and shared Joy Boy’s written account with the others as the final battle drew near.

• Vic appeared beside Dragon and asked why the Revolutionary Army was fighting the World Government on Lodestar Island.
• Dragon explained that the Revolutionary Army had evacuated civilians after learning the World Government planned to strike Luffy and his crew, and he asked why finding the One Piece had provoked such a response.
• Vic told Dragon that Luffy shared Joy Boy’s ability and that the World Government feared the One Piece Joy Boy had left behind.
• Vic transmitted Joy Boy’s account into the minds of Dragon, Sabo, Kuma, and the other Revolutionary Army members, then warned them to prepare for the final battle.
• Vic watched the Seraphim fight CP0 and noted that Seraphim from different production batches varied in age and size.

Vic observed the adult Seraphim fighting CP0 and assessed their abilities, durability, and copied powers. The battle continued with CP0 struggling against the Seraphim, while three previously unseen Seraphim modeled on Doflamingo, Crocodile, and Gecko Moria were revealed.

• Vic watched S-Hawk withstand Lucci’s awakened Rokuogan before counterattacking with a slash that nearly split Lucci and the hill behind him.
• Adult S-Snake fought several CP0 agents with her strength and Love-Love Fruit, petrifying one agent and others who were captivated by her appearance.
• The younger S-Snake relied on her Love-Love Fruit and Laser Beams while dodging CP0’s attacks.
• S-Shark used his ability to swim through rock and ground to gain the advantage over several CP0 agents.
• Vic saw teenage Seraphim based on Doflamingo, Crocodile, and Gecko Moria, and learned that S-Bird had been given the String-String Fruit ability.

Vic explained that the Seraphim were gaining combat experience through their fight with CP0, while Dragon and Sabo reacted to Joy Boy’s account of the World Government’s origins. The chapter ended with Sabo asking Vic whether Imu had used the Perennial Youth Operation to live for so long.

• The Seraphim fought CP0 agents, and Vic recognized that their battle was training them to adapt and make fewer mistakes.
• Vic compared his accelerated combat analysis to an AI’s ability to calculate responses faster than a human could.
• Dragon questioned the truth of Joy Boy’s account, and Vic said the World Government’s suppression of history gave people reason to believe it.
• Sabo connected Imu to the figure he had seen at Pangaea Castle and asked Vic whether Imu had undergone the Perennial Youth Operation.

Vic explained his theories about Imu's longevity and the origins of Haki, and reassured Kuma that Bonney would not be held responsible for her Celestial Dragon ancestry. The group was left considering how Haki and Devil Fruits related to the wider universe.

• Vic said Imu might have survived for centuries through the Perennial Youth Operation or his own strength, though he could not confirm which.
• Kuma worried that Bonney's Celestial Dragon ancestry would put her at risk after the World Government fell, but Vic reassured him that her mixed heritage did not make her part of the Celestial Dragons.
• Vic explained that he would judge Celestial Dragons by their actions, punish those who had committed evil, and erase the memories of those who had not.
• Ivankov asked how Celestial Dragons could use Haki when Joy Boy's message said Haki did not exist elsewhere in the universe.
• Vic offered three possible explanations and said he believed Haki and the Laws system had originally coexisted, with Haki balancing Devil Fruit powers.

Vic realized Haki might let Qingning Star’s God Realm fighters challenge the Celestial Dragons, but feared he had learned this too late to affect the coming battle. Meanwhile, Sakazuki led nearly the entire Marine force toward Lodestar Island to destroy the Straw Hat Pirates, who he believed had obtained the One Piece.

• Vic considered that Haki could counter superior God Realm forces and thought he might retreat into the universe, master Haki, and later return to confront Imu and the Celestial Dragons.
• Vic and the others discussed Joy Boy’s message as a massive Marine fleet raced toward Lodestar Island.
• Ryokugyu saw that Sakazuki, the Admirals, Garp, Sengoku, Tsuru, Zephyr, and nearly all available Marine forces had joined the deployment.
• Sakazuki told Ryokugyu that war with the Four Emperors was inevitable and that their mission was to wipe out the Straw Hat Pirates on Lodestar Island.
• Sakazuki said the Straw Hat Pirates posed a greater threat than the Revolutionary Army because Straw Hat Boy had obtained the One Piece, and he lamented the Marines’ setbacks with Vegapunk and the Seraphim.

The Marines mobilized under Akainu to confront the Straw Hat Pirates, while Ryokugyu eagerly volunteered to face Luffy and Garp considered the contingency Vic had prepared for the war. Meanwhile, Ace gathered allies to head for Lodestar Island and learn the truth about the One Piece, despite warning them of the danger.

• Akainu told Ryokugyu that the Five Elders had ordered the Marines to make the Straw Hat Pirates pay, and Ryokugyu eagerly claimed Luffy as his opponent.
• Akainu assessed the veterans traveling with him, while Garp recalled that Vic had predicted the war and planned to send Garp to Mary Geoise if Vic could not defeat Imu.
• The Straw Hat Pirates left Laugh Tale for Lodestar Island, where Luffy could resupply while Robin translated Joy Boy’s message.
• Ace warned Buggy, Marco, Hawk-Eye, and Crocodile that joining his mission to find out what the One Piece was would put them in danger.
• Buggy, Marco, Hawk-Eye, and Crocodile each gave their reasons for joining Ace, including family ties to Luffy and the prospect of Pluton appearing.

The news that the Straw Hat Pirates had obtained the One Piece drew emperors, Worst Generation pirates, and Luffy’s allies toward them. On Lodestar Island, Dragon ordered the Seraphim to stop collecting combat data and kill the World Government forces, turning the battle into a massacre.

• Ace, the Cross Guild, Shanks, Kaido, Big Mom, Kid, Law, and other prominent pirates set out for the One Piece and the coming conflict.
• Law, Kid, and other members of the Worst Generation headed toward Luffy, while Luffy’s followers came to support him.
• Dragon grew anxious after reading Joy Boy’s writings and learning that Imu had targeted his son, then ordered Koala to have the Seraphim kill the World Government forces.
• Koala ordered the Seraphim to unleash their full strength, and they quickly killed several CP0 agents.
• S-Hawk, S-Snake, S-Shark, S-Bird, S-Crocodile, and S-Bat used their abilities to slaughter the people around them.