Recaps

Vic slaughtered Imu’s summoned mythical beasts, but they revived through the Law of Immortality. Imu summoned a Western dragon and then three figures from her book, including Whitebeard, Roger, and another figure whom Garp recognized as the chapter ended.

• Vic beheaded the Azure Dragon and Kirin, then swiftly killed the other summoned mythical beasts.
• The mythical beasts’ corpses began reassembling as Imu’s Law of Immortality brought them back to life.
• Vic challenged Imu to fight him herself, but she summoned a Western dragon from her book.
• Usopp recognized the dragon as resembling their kind friend Xiao Guai, while Nami insisted it could not be him.
• Imu summoned three figures from the book, and Marco, Big Mom, Akainu, and Garp recognized Whitebeard, Roger, and the third figure.

Imu summoned Roger, Whitebeard, and Rocks to fight Vic, while their appearance stirred memories in Garp, Smoker, Ace, Kaido, and Katakuri. Vic survived their coordinated attacks and concluded that Imu’s creations possessed the originals’ abilities and fighting instincts, though not their memories or emotions.

• Garp recognized Roger, while Smoker reflected on the difference between the old Pirate King and Luffy; Ace, Kaido, and Katakuri also recognized the resurrected figures.
• Vic challenged Imu’s claim to rule the world, and Imu sent Whitebeard, Roger, and Rocks to attack him.
• Whitebeard’s shockwave shattered Vic’s body, but Vic reassembled himself using his mastered Law of Lightning.
• Rocks charged Vic with his saber as Roger’s slash curved around Rocks and cut Vic in two, but Vic recovered again.
• Vic realized Imu’s creations had the legendary fighters’ techniques, abilities, and instincts, but lacked their memories and emotions.

Vic battled Imu’s legendary illusions and mythical beasts, overwhelming the three revived legends before surviving the Western dragon’s powerful blast. As he fought back against the beasts, the dragon slowed and stiffened his movements with an icy effect, then attacked him with ten massive wind blades.

• Vic kicked Rocks into Luffy, and Luffy and Ace joined forces to fight him, reminding Garp of the God Valley Incident.
• Vic punched Whitebeard into Akainu, and Whitebeard struck Akainu with a Tremor-Tremor Fruit-powered punch.
• Vic sent Roger flying toward Garp, while Imu ordered her mythical beasts and the Western dragon to attack him.
• The Western dragon blasted Vic into a huge crater, but Vic emerged with no visible injuries and noted that its power exceeded the mythical beasts’.
• Vic dodged the beasts’ attacks and overwhelmed them, but the Western dragon slowed him with an icy chill and launched ten enormous wind blades at him.

Vic endured the western dragon’s combined elemental attacks and recognized the creature’s unusual strength. Loki and Elbaf’s giant warriors arrived in the valley, lifting the battlefield’s spirits and joining the fight alongside Luffy’s forces.

• The western dragon’s freezing cold and wind blades drove Vic into a mountainside, though he remained unharmed.
• Vic sensed powerful auras and identified the giant with horns as Loki.
• Loki led the New Giant Warrior Pirates and veteran Giant Warrior Pirates into the valley.
• The giants’ arrival raised the hopes of the battlefield, though some questioned Elbaf’s allegiance because of King Harald’s past ties to the World Government.
• Luffy welcomed Loki’s arrival, and Sai celebrated as Hajrudin and the rest of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet joined them.
• Usopp recognized Dorry and Brogy, who had come to fight despite Brogy’s unusable severed hand.

Loki arrived in the battle and struck down a retired Five Elder before sending Imu crashing through a mountain. As Luffy and Loki fought the World Government’s forces, Shanks arrived, bringing all four New World Emperors together.

• Loki smashed one of the retired Five Elders into the ground, then struck Imu with a lightning-wreathed hammer and sent her flying into a mountain.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, and Garp discussed Loki’s strength, Elbaf’s warriors, and Harald’s past dealings with the Marines.
• Luffy reminded Loki that Imu had an immortal body, and Loki recalled the tragedies that had marked their previous encounters.
• Shanks entered the valley, and onlookers recognized his powerful aura as the Four Emperors had all arrived.

Loki’s Giant Race warriors and Shanks’s group, including former Roger Pirates, arrived at the battlefield as the war’s opposing sides paused to take notice. Shanks reunited with Luffy and reflected on how he had brought the Gum-Gum Fruit to the East Blue and guided Luffy toward piracy.

• Vic sensed the arriving groups with Observation Haki and returned to the battlefield as Loki and Shanks entered the valley.
• Shanks, Rayleigh, Shakky, Gaban, and Crocus surveyed the devastation, while Rayleigh and the others recalled Roger’s sacrifice and their reasons for witnessing the historical moment.
• Buggy worried about the older Roger Pirates, while Luffy joyfully greeted them and remembered how each had helped the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Shanks praised Luffy for becoming a fine pirate and recalled meeting him at Makino’s bar after bringing the Gum-Gum Fruit to the East Blue.
• Shanks reflected that he had waited for the fruit’s chosen person, grown fond of Luffy, and guided him with stories before Luffy ate the fruit.

Luffy returned the straw hat to Shanks, who acknowledged Luffy and his crew as he gave the hat back to the Pirate King. Garling then tried to recruit Shanks to the Celestial Dragons’ side by invoking their family ties.

• Luffy reached Shanks and offered him the straw hat, saying he was ready to fulfill their promise.
• Shanks accepted the hat, acknowledged Luffy and his crew, then returned it to Luffy as the new Pirate King.
• Luffy happily put the straw hat back on his head and thanked Shanks.
• Garling asked Shanks whether he remembered who his father was and urged him to side with the Celestial Dragons.

Shanks confronted his father, Garling, who urged him to join the Celestial Dragons, but Dragon revealed that Garling had murdered Shanks’s mother. After Garling admitted it without remorse, Shanks vowed to kill him and avenge her.

• Garling urged Shanks to return to Mary Geoise and fight alongside the Celestial Dragons, but Dragon warned him not to trust his father.
• Dragon told Shanks that Garling had killed his mother, an ordinary woman from God Valley, after she gave birth to Shanks and Shamrock.
• Shanks questioned Garling, who admitted killing his wife because she had tried to stop him from taking their sons to Mary Geoise.
• Vic condemned Garling’s cruelty, while Shanks unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki and vowed to avenge his mother by killing him.

Shanks rejected his Celestial Dragon family and fought Garling and Shamrock, while the allied forces resumed battle against Imu and the Holy Land. Vic stayed with Rayleigh and Shakky, where they traded boasts and jokes about beauty, handsomeness, and Vic’s relationships with women.

• Shanks swore to kill Garling for his mother’s murder and said he would kill Shamrock if he stood in his way.
• Garling disowned Shanks, and Shanks responded that the rejection made it easier to kill him.
• Garling and Shamrock charged at Shanks, who answered with a Divine Departure as Luffy, Dragon, and their allies joined the renewed fighting.
• Imu returned to face Loki and dismissed the giant’s hammer blows as ineffective against an immortal body.
• Vic approached Rayleigh, Shakky, and the older legends, then asked Rayleigh whether Shakky had been more beautiful than Hancock.
• Rayleigh and Shakky argued over their past and Vic’s looks, while Vic joked that women had urged him to share his charms with everyone.

Imu stopped Loki’s powerful hammer strike with Armament Haki, then placed a Contract Inscription on the thunderclouds and turned them against him and Nami. Vic secretly diverted the lightning away from Nami, while Loki was left badly injured.

• Gaban praised Vic for conquering powerful women, and Shakky mocked Gaban for his relationship with a Giant woman.
• Loki attacked Imu with a hammer wrapped in lightning and Conqueror’s Haki, but Imu halted it with Armament Haki Emission and sent it flying back.
• Imu drew a Contract Inscription that entered the thunderclouds, cutting off Loki and Nami’s control of the lightning.
• Imu summoned more than a hundred lightning bolts from the clouds, striking Loki and sending several toward Nami.
• Vic redirected the bolts aimed at Nami, while Loki endured the lightning and nearly collapsed from his injuries.

Loki challenged Imu in a clash of Conqueror’s Haki, but Imu overwhelmed him and sent him crashing into a mountain. As Loki’s allies reacted to his defeat, Imu dismissed him and identified Roger, Garp, Vic, and Luffy as the opponents she truly feared.

• Loki revealed his Conqueror’s Haki as Imu answered with an even more overwhelming display, alarming Rayleigh, Gaban, and Vic.
• Loki charged Imu with his hammer, and their weapons and Conqueror’s Haki collided, unleashing a shock wave that tore through the valley and split the thunderclouds.
• After a three-second deadlock, Imu overpowered Loki and hurled him into a mountain, leaving him badly injured.
• Loki’s friends and family cried out in alarm as Imu dismissed him as an opponent with fixed limits.
• Imu reflected that she feared Roger, Garp, Vic, and Luffy because they could grow stronger through setbacks.

Vic confronted Imu after the other fighters failed to match her power, then turned her lightning against her forces and began cutting down the summoned creatures and legendary pirates. He beheaded the western dragon and appeared before Whitebeard just as Whitebeard swung a vibration-charged fist at him.

• Vic told Luffy to comfort Loki and stop him from challenging Imu again, then went to face Imu himself.
• Imu summoned a storm of lightning against Vic, but Vic redirected the bolts into her forces and disabled her control of the thundercloud.
• Imu ordered the mythical beasts and the trio made real from illusion to attack Vic.
• Vic moved behind the western dragon, dodged its destructive beam, and killed it with a single sword slash.
• Vic teleported in front of Whitebeard as Whitebeard attacked him with a vibration-charged fist.

Vic fought and killed the Whitebeard puppet, then urged Marco and the others to stop clinging to the past. A copy of Roger attacked Vic as the battle continued.

• Vic cut through Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit defense and severed half his palm, but Whitebeard counterattacked and sent him crashing through the ground.
• Vic recovered, saw Whitebeard regenerating, and decided the puppet was only a fake.
• Vic used his Speed Domain and Conqueror's Haki to smash Whitebeard's head, killing the puppet.
• Marco cried out over Whitebeard's death, and Rayleigh and Vic urged him to accept that the real Whitebeard was gone.
• Roger's copy charged Vic with Ace and swung a powerful slash at his waist and abdomen.

Vic defeated Roger, Rocks, and Imu’s summoned mythical beasts and legendary pirates, then confronted Imu in the air. Imu dismissed the fight as mere entertainment, leaving her true intentions and strength uncertain.

• Vic dodged Roger’s attack and cut down his copy with a single swing.
• Vic clashed blades with Rocks, then struck him with two deep chest wounds and sent him falling into the crater.
• Vic explained that Rocks’s Haki had not matched Garp’s and charged into the recovered mythical beasts, killing them all.
• Vic rose to face Imu and asked whether she would revive her summoned fighters for another attempt.
• Imu said there was no need to try again because she had only sent the fighters to play with Vic.

Vic and Imu argued over whether she could kill him before he mastered the Law of Space, and Vic challenged her to act before he became an even greater threat. The chapter ended with Vic launching a lightning-fast kick at Imu’s face, which she could not dodge.

• Vic concluded that Imu’s Laws seemed focused on support and questioned whether she could fight directly.
• Imu claimed she had defeated Joy Boy after countless battles and warned that she could show Vic a god’s wrath if he forced her to fight seriously.
• Vic told Imu that his approaching mastery of the Law of Space would eventually overcome her immortal body, so she needed to kill him first.
• Imu threatened Vic through his family and friends, but Vic countered that her Five Elders and God's Knights would die if the conflict continued.
• Vic charged at Imu with a lightning-fast kick, and Imu could not evade the blow aimed at her face.

Imu regenerated after Vic kicked her head apart, then unleashed her full power and transformed into a gigantic Human-Beast Form. Vic prepared to face her as the watching pirates and emperors reacted to her enormous size.

• Vic deliberately waited for Imu to regenerate after kicking her head apart, hoping to provoke her into revealing her strength.
• Imu regenerated and, furious at Vic's humiliation, vowed to destroy his soul and began a true battle.
• Imu transformed into a towering, armored beast as Vic retreated to a shattered cliff and watched her with Observation Haki.
• Imu reshaped herself into an enormous Human-Beast Form, and Vic questioned whether growing larger was wise.
• Big Mom compared Imu's size with Kaido's Human-Beast Form and mocked how small Kaido looked beside her.

Imu completed her enormous, full-power transformation and prepared to face Vic, while the fighters around them reacted to the display and continued their own battles. The chapter ended with Vic calmly confronting Imu as the final battle was about to begin.

• Law stared at Imu's transformation, and Katakuri suggested that Devil Fruit Awakening might not be the ultimate limit.
• Garp recognized Imu's aura from the battle at God Valley, while Garling urged Shanks to surrender and Shamrock brooded over his defeat.
• Shanks rejected Garling's offer and demanded to be killed if the enemy won rather than live without freedom or hope.
• Rebecca, Uta, Barat, and Wendy expressed their confidence in Vic as they faced their own opponents and watched the enormous shadow nearby.
• Imu completed her eighty-meter battle form, raised her claws, and threatened to make Vic's bones an offering to her loneliness.
• Vic faced Imu with his sword in hand as the battlefield fell silent before their final confrontation.

Imu revealed her monstrous Human-Beast Form and demonstrated the power of her Law artifact by splitting the sky, land, and sea with a single strike. As the battlefield faltered in fear, Vic urged his allies to keep fighting while he prepared to face her.

• Imu transformed into an eighty-meter-tall scaled beast and summoned her hundred-meter demonic trident.
• Imu lashed her spiked tail into the earth, carving a trench through the valley.
• Imu swung her trident once, opening an abyss through the land and sea and cutting a rift through the sky.
• The battlefield fell silent, and Hawk-Eye, Kuina, and Zoro recognized the overwhelming reach of Imu's attack.
• Vic shouted for his allies to ignore Imu's display and give everything they had to killing the other enemies.

Vic counterattacked Imu with a slash that tore through space and sent her flying off the island, lifting his allies’ morale and shaking her followers’ confidence. As the battle continued, Big Mom, Hawk-Eye, Kaido, and Red-Hair each reflected on Vic’s strength and what it meant for the war.

• Vic unleashed a slash that tore open space, and Imu blocked it with the Devil Trident before being hurled through a mountain and off the island.
• Vic’s allies celebrated his power and regained hope, while Imu’s subordinates reacted with worry, awe, and defiant loyalty.
• Big Mom felt relieved that Katakuri had stopped her from fighting Vic, while Hawk-Eye wondered what higher realm of swordsmanship Vic and Imu had reached.
• Kaido reflected that sparing Vic as a young navy soldier had been the right choice and believed Vic might help overthrow the World Government.
• Red-Hair acknowledged that even with his restored arm, he remained far weaker than Vic and Imu, and planned to ask Vic about his power if their side won.

Vic faced Imu after demonstrating his mastery of spatial swordsmanship, while Zoro and other observers reflected on Vic’s strength and the World Government’s past. Imu returned in her gigantic lizard form and struck Vic into a crater, where he calmly blocked her attack with Blood Wither.

• Zoro recalled Koshiro’s advice and realized the vast gulf between his swordsmanship and Vic’s.
• Law sensed a connection between Vic’s Space Slash and the spatial abilities of his Op-Op Fruit.
• Kizaru, Akainu, Fujitora, Sengoku, and Dragon considered Vic’s role in confronting Imu and changing the world.
• Imu flew back to the battlefield, landed with enough force to shake the island, and swung her Devil Trident at Vic.
• Vic was driven into a crater but blocked Imu’s blow with Blood Wither.

Vic and transformed Imu fought a contest of strength and speed without using Haki or Laws, and Vic wounded her with a precise two-sword attack. Imu’s immortal body healed the deep cuts almost immediately, leaving Vic unsure how he could defeat her.

• Imu’s trident overwhelmed Vic in midair, but his Armament Haki shield absorbed the force when he crashed into the ground.
• Vic drew his second sword, Allen, and used his Two-Sword Style to meet Imu’s next trident thrust head-on.
• Vic matched Imu’s immense strength, knocked her trident aside, and used Geppo to attack her neck with both swords.
• Imu blocked Vic’s swords, but he curled into a spinning attack that carved two deep wounds across her body and leg.
• Imu’s wounds healed before Vic could follow up, and he recognized that her immortal body made her difficult to defeat.

Loki returned to the battlefield and killed a retired Five Elders member, while Garp crushed a primordial demon with his Haki. Kuina rejected an offer of long life from an Elder and prepared to finish him off.

• Loki realized he was not the person Rocks had spoken of and returned to fight the Five Elders and God's Knights.
• Loki killed a retired member of the Five Elders with a blow from Iron Thunder.
• Garp used Galaxy Impact to shatter a primordial demon's Haki armor and destroy its head.
• A wounded Elder offered Kuina a position among the Holy Knights and a chance at eternal youth if she joined Imu's side.
• Kuina refused the Elder's offer and said she only wanted to cut him down.

Kuina killed a retired member of the Five Elders and went to aid Nami against Gunko while Dragon fought Maffey, his old enemy from God Valley. Dragon and Maffey traded blows and revealed their opposing views on strength and justice as their battle continued.

• Kuina killed the retired elder with a single sword strike, then headed toward Gunko to help Nami, who was struggling without lightning.
• Dragon and Maffey fought fiercely, each driven by decades-old resentment stemming from the God Valley Incident and Shamrock's abduction.
• Maffey recalled how Dragon had been a weak Marine recruit at God Valley and expressed regret that she had not killed him then.
• Dragon said Maffey's cruelty had driven him to grow stronger so he could overthrow the World Government's darkness and restore freedom.
• Maffey rejected Dragon's ideals, arguing that strength justified doing whatever one pleased, and prepared to charge him.

Dragon challenged Maffey’s account of history and defeated her attacks by using the Law of Wind to evade and reflect them. He tore the horn from her head, leaving Maffey alive but screaming in agony as the battle continued around them.

• Dragon questioned Maffey’s claim that the victors wrote history, pointing to the Poneglyphs and the war’s connection to the conflict from 800 years ago.
• Maffey attacked Dragon with a rapid sword technique, but he dodged her blades and broke the attack with an Armament Haki strike.
• Maffey fired a crimson beam from her horn, and Dragon’s defensive wind redirected it through her shoulder.
• Maffey followed with a purple lightning strike, but Dragon dodged it and announced he would rip off her horn.
• Dragon grabbed Maffey’s horn with his Haki-coated hand and tore it from her head, leaving her alive and in intense pain.

Dragon killed Maffey with her own horn and rushed to aid his allies. Elsewhere, Big Mom and Kaido struggled to damage Yeti, whose petrified body withstood their attacks and left him unharmed by Big Mom’s fire and lightning.

• Dragon drove his horn through Maffey’s heart, killing her and ending his third fight against an immortal Celestial Dragon powerhouse.
• Dragon confirmed Maffey was dead, sensed his allies’ auras with Observation Haki, and hurried toward another battle.
• Big Mom and Kaido teamed up against Yeti, whose petrified body was too hard for Kaido’s Thunder Bagua to crack.
• Big Mom struck Yeti with Heavenly Fire Thunder, but he emerged unhurt and mocked their attacks.