Recaps

Uchiha Xin left Enies Lobby to be destroyed by the islands and tsunami, then transported Kalifa to the Divine Palace on Sky Island. In the ruins, Kumadori rescued the barely living Lucci, while the rest of CP9 and the Marines remained missing.

• Kalifa questioned Uchiha Xin for not saving Enies Lobby's ten thousand people, and he said the World Government and CP9 had made no claim on his help.
• Falling islands triggered a massive tsunami that destroyed the Gates of Justice and sank the World Government ships, while Enies Lobby was reduced to ruins.
• Uchiha Xin told Kalifa he did not know whether Lucci and the others had survived, then transported her to the Divine Palace on Sky Island.
• Kumadori emerged from the wreckage on driftwood with Lucci wrapped in his hair, having used Life Return to survive the falling islands.
• Kumadori searched the ruins, found no other survivors, and kept Lucci alive until he finally opened his eyes.

Lucci reported Enies Lobby's destruction, Shiki's death, and Kalifa's abduction by Uchiha Xin, prompting the World Government to leave the matter to Sengoku. At Marineford, Sengoku confronted Garp after learning that Ace was Gol D. Roger's son, while Garp defended Ace as an innocent child.

• Lucci learned from Kumadori that Enies Lobby had been destroyed, the other CP9 members were missing, and Uchiha Xin had taken Kalifa.
• Lucci used a damaged transponder snail to report Shiki's death, Uchiha Xin's victory and acquisition of the Float-Float Fruit, CP9's defeat, Kalifa's abduction, and Enies Lobby's destruction.
• The Five Elders reviewed the report and decided to leave Uchiha Xin's case to Sengoku and the Marines.
• Sengoku received the Enies Lobby report and confirmation that Ace was Roger's biological son, based on corroborating intelligence.
• Sengoku angrily accused Garp of hiding Ace's identity and entrusting him to Dadan, while Garp insisted that Ace was innocent and had nothing to do with Roger.

Sengoku convened a supreme war council after Enies Lobby was destroyed and Uchiha Xin killed the Golden Lion. The Marines reviewed the battle report and concluded that Xin’s strength far exceeded their previous estimates.

• Sengoku summoned the admirals and Vice Admiral Tsuru to discuss the urgent crises, including Ace’s planned execution and Enies Lobby’s destruction.
• Sengoku received the Five Elders’ report confirming that Enies Lobby had been destroyed, CP9 had been nearly wiped out, and Shiki the Golden Lion had died in battle with Uchiha Xin.
• Sengoku berated Kizaru for speaking casually about the disaster, and Kizaru straightened up and acknowledged the reprimand.
• Tsuru and Garp read the battle report, and Garp said Shiki had remained a formidable opponent despite his age and injuries.
• Aokiji and Tsuru noted that Xin had killed Shiki without apparent injury or exhaustion, and the council recognized that his strength exceeded their previous assessment.

Sengoku rejected Akainu and Garp’s attempts to prioritize Uchiha Xin over Ace’s execution, then approved Tsuru’s plan to make Xin a target of the entire sea. The Marines announced Xin’s three-billion-Belly bounty and new epithet, Thunder Emperor, leaving him framed as an Emperor apart from the Four Emperors.

• Akainu demanded permission to capture Uchiha Xin, but Sengoku ordered him to stay and focus on Ace’s execution and the coming war with Whitebeard.
• Garp argued that Xin posed a greater threat than Ace, but Sengoku recognized his effort to save Ace and insisted the execution would proceed.
• Aokiji asked how the Marines would handle Xin, and Tsuru proposed publicizing his crimes and raising his bounty to draw the Four Emperors and other pirates after him.
• Sengoku approved a three-billion-Belly bounty and replaced Xin’s epithet, The Bloody One, with Thunder Emperor.
• The Marines distributed Xin’s new bounty poster worldwide and introduced him as a separate Emperor outside the Four Emperors.

Uchiha Xin’s three-billion-Belly bounty and the Marines’ “Thunder Emperor” title spread across the seas after they revealed he had killed Shiki and destroyed Enies Lobby. The Four Emperors reacted to his rise, while Kaido dismissed the Marines’ attempt to rank Xin above them and ordered his search for Zunesha to continue.

• The Marines published Uchiha Xin’s record, including Shiki’s death and Enies Lobby’s destruction, silencing doubts about his bounty and title.
• Whitebeard recognized Xin’s strength and ordered an investigation, but said Xin would have to challenge him to stand above him.
• Kaido called Xin a worthy opponent and initially ordered his men to find him.
• Charlotte Linlin ordered her people to approach Xin with an offer to marry one of her daughters and join Totto Land.
• Shanks and Beckman suspected the Marines wanted to provoke conflict, but decided to find Xin and meet him.
• After Jack confirmed Shiki’s death, Kaido refused to play into the Marines’ scheme and ordered the search for Zunesha to continue for what the Kozuki Clan had left on its back.

Kaido focused on finding Zunesha and expanding his army of ability users, while Charlotte Linlin decided to pursue Uchiha Xin as a son-in-law. On the Moby Dick, Whitebeard explained that the Navy had promoted Xin’s title and bounty to make the New World’s pirates target him, and said Xin’s place among the strongest would be settled by a real fight.

• Kaido ordered Jack to accelerate the search for Zunesha and the production of Artificial Devil Fruits.
• Charlotte Linlin decided to arrange a marriage between Uchiha Xin and one of her daughters, and told Perospero to find him.
• Marco and Jozu objected to the Navy’s claim that Xin stood above the Four Emperors, while Whitebeard dismissed their concern over the newspaper’s title.
• Whitebeard explained that Sengoku had publicized Xin’s feats and raised his bounty to lure Kaido, Linlin, and other pirates into pursuing him.
• Whitebeard said Xin’s strength could not be ranked by the Navy and that a fight would reveal whether he surpassed the Four Emperors.

Whitebeard ordered his crew to keep searching for Ace, while Shanks redirected the Red Hair Pirates toward the first half of the sea to find Uchiha Xin and judge his strength for himself. Uchiha Xin returned to the Divine Palace on Sky Island, where Perona waited outside after deciding not to interrupt him and Kalifa.

• Whitebeard grew more uneasy about Ace’s disappearance and ordered Marco and Jozu to mobilize allied pirate crews to search for him.
• Shanks and Beckman concluded that the Marines were using Uchiha Xin’s new title to provoke the sea, but that his feats were genuine.
• Shanks ordered the Red Force to sail for the first half of the sea so he could meet Uchiha Xin, using Hawk Eyes to help locate him.
• Uchiha Xin returned to the Divine Palace and spent the night with Kalifa, using the Power of the Limit to protect her and help her recover.
• Perona came to see Uchiha Xin but heard Kalifa inside the closed room, so she left with Kumashi and returned the next morning.

Uchiha Xin received a new three-billion-Belly bounty and learned that the Navy had named him the sole Emperor alongside the Four Emperors. The chapter ended with him dismissing the bounty as barely up to standard.

• Uchiha Xin left Kalifa's room, and Perona saw that Kalifa was exhausted after their night together.
• Uchiha Xin told Perona that Kalifa's treatment would change once she submitted, and Perona followed him outside.
• Uchiha Xin watched Tashigi train the enhanced Sky Island soldiers and asked Perona why she had come to see him.
• Perona gave Uchiha Xin his latest wanted poster, showing a three-billion-Belly bounty and the title Thunder Emperor.
• Perona explained that the Navy had publicized Uchiha Xin's victories and called him the sole Emperor alongside the Four Emperors.
• Uchiha Xin called his new bounty barely up to standard, leaving Perona stunned.

Uchiha Xin dismissed his three-billion bounty as merely adequate and discussed the slow preparations to relocate Fish-Man Island to Sky Island. He agreed to send soldiers to rescue captured fish-men, but Perona pointed out that Sky Island had no route down to the Blue Sea for them to use.

• Perona questioned Uchiha Xin's reaction to his three-billion bounty, and he said the amount was still too low for his strength and called his new title, Thunder Emperor, barely usable.
• Uchiha Xin asked Perona about relocating Fish-Man Island, and she explained that Neptune's preparations were slowed by the island's millions of residents, their concerns, and the work of sorting supplies and buildings.
• Uchiha Xin told Perona to have Neptune keep preparing and said he would handle the relocation when the time came.
• Perona relayed Neptune's request for help rescuing fish-men and merfolk captured by pirates and slave traders, and Uchiha Xin agreed to assign Tashigi's trained Sky Island soldiers.
• Uchiha Xin said hundreds of soldiers had vice-admiral-level physiques and could learn the Six Powers and Haki, but Perona pointed out that they had no way to descend from Sky Island to the Blue Sea.

Perona confronted Uchiha Xin about the lack of a way for the Sky Island Legion and Fish-Man Island’s residents to reach the Blue Sea, and he admitted he had overlooked the problem. He called Robin, Nami, Tashigi, Vivi, and Perona to discuss a solution, then began examining an azure orb of light.

• Perona told Uchiha Xin that intelligence gathering and military operations were impossible without a reliable route between Sky Island and the Blue Sea.
• Uchiha Xin acknowledged that Divine Transference had made him overlook the Legion’s travel needs and the coming relocation of millions from Fish-Man Island.
• Uchiha Xin said he would gather Robin, Nami, Tashigi, Vivi, and Perona to discuss the travel problem.
• Perona reluctantly agreed to fetch the others after warning Uchiha Xin not to trick them again.
• Uchiha Xin stayed on the platform and raised an azure orb of light, causing nearby rubble to float.

Uchiha Xin revealed the Float-Float Fruit essence as a solution to Sky Island's transportation problem. After the others raised the danger of combining it with existing Devil Fruit powers, Shyarly asked whether he had resolved the conflict, and Uchiha Xin confirmed it.

• Uchiha Xin summoned Robin, Nami, Tashigi, Vivi, Perona, Shyarly, and Shirahoshi to discuss Sky Island's mobility problem.
• Tashigi and Nami explained why Moonwalk, rebuilding a route, and the Knock Up Stream could not reliably transport the legion to the Blue Sea.
• Uchiha Xin revealed the Float-Float Fruit essence extracted from Shiki the Golden Lion and explained that it could merge directly with someone's body.
• Nami, Robin, and Perona worried that existing Devil Fruit users might die if they took a second power, while Vivi and Shirahoshi listened.
• Shyarly asked whether Uchiha Xin had resolved the conflict between two fruit powers, and he confirmed that he had.

Uchiha Xin demonstrated a modified Float-Float Fruit essence that could be used alongside other Devil Fruit abilities and had no seawater or Seastone weakness. He showed that it could make living people fly, while explaining that those empowered would still need to remain within the user's range.

• Uchiha Xin explained that the modified Float-Float Fruit would not conflict with existing Devil Fruit abilities and could function in seawater and around Seastone.
• Uchiha Xin revealed that the modified fruit could make living people fly, then demonstrated it by lifting Perona, who flew around the meeting room with Kumashi.
• Uchiha Xin made Nami, Vivi, and Tashigi fly, and Tashigi tested how quickly she could maneuver without using Moonwalk or stamina.
• Perona and Tashigi observed that the power could let people travel without ships, including the Sky Island legion flying to the Blue Sea.
• Uchiha Xin gave Shirahoshi the ability to fly and explained that empowered people would remain aloft even if unconscious, but would stop flying if they moved beyond the user's range.
• Uchiha Xin said the fruit's basic abilities were already fully developed, so a user could immediately control objects, grant levitation, and remotely control them.

Uchiha Xin explained that he had modified the Float-Float Fruit to remove its seawater and Seastone weaknesses and let it grant flight to others, though it could no longer develop or awaken. After the group agreed to keep his ability secret, Shirahoshi declined the fruit, and Nami and Tashigi also ruled themselves out.

• Uchiha Xin explained that the modified Float-Float Fruit offered its full basic power immediately but had lost the potential to develop or awaken.
• Robin, Nami, and Tashigi recognized the fruit's value and agreed to conceal Uchiha Xin's ability to modify Devil Fruits from the outside world.
• Uchiha Xin offered the fruit to Shirahoshi, but she declined because she could already float and wanted someone else to have it.
• Perona teased Uchiha Xin over his reaction to Shirahoshi's praise, and he told the others to choose among themselves.
• Nami declined the fruit because she already had the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Tashigi declined because swordsmanship remained her focus.

After the others declined the Float-Float Fruit, Robin chose to fuse with it, using her awakened Flower-Flower Fruit to bypass its distance limit and give the Sky Island Legion flight anywhere in the world. Uchiha Xin helped her test the new ability and created a permanent life-link mark for Perona, leaving Robin able to grant flight without maintaining petals.

• Perona and the others declined the Float-Float Fruit, and Robin volunteered to take it.
• Robin explained that her awakened Flower-Flower Fruit could maintain a connection across a hundred thousand kilometers, allowing her to extend the Float-Float Fruit's power to the legion remotely.
• The group agreed Robin was the best choice, and Uchiha Xin fused the Float-Float Fruit's essence with her life essence without causing a conflict.
• Robin restored the conference room's floating objects and gave Perona flight; Perona flew outside the Divine Palace and returned with the ability still active.
• Uchiha Xin used Robin's hair to create a permanent petal-shaped life-link mark on Perona, which would keep the Float-Float Fruit connected without Robin continuously supplying power.

Uchiha Xin and Robin gave several women permanent links to Robin’s Float-Float Fruit, allowing them to fly independently. With travel between Sky Island and the Blue Sea now possible, Tashigi proposed leading warriors to Fish-Man Island to investigate slave-trading routes and rescue captives, and Uchiha Xin assigned Robin to join her.

• Uchiha Xin used the Power of the Limit to fix patterns linking Nami, Tashigi, Vivi, Shyarly, Shirahoshi, Perona, and Robin to Robin’s Float-Float Fruit, letting them fly without her active control.
• Nami, Vivi, and Shirahoshi flew around the Divine Palace square while Sky Island warriors watched, and Tashigi told the warriors they could earn the ability by passing their assessment.
• Perona flew down from Sky Island toward the Blue Sea to test the pattern’s range and gather information, leaving Kumashi behind.
• Tashigi asked Uchiha Xin to let her take one hundred enhanced Sky Island warriors to Fish-Man Island to gather records of missing people and pursue slave traders.
• Uchiha Xin agreed to send Robin with Tashigi to help organize intelligence and investigate the slave-trading routes.

Robin and Tashigi took a hundred Sky Island warriors to Fish-Man Island, while Shyarly tried to leave the Divine Palace without telling anyone. Uchiha Xin stopped her and forced her back to his room; afterward, he examined his system and learned how its dependent quotas and new Devil Fruit slots worked.

• Robin and Tashigi led a hundred Sky Island warriors toward Fish-Man Island, with Robin using the Float-Float Fruit to let them fly.
• Shyarly tried to slip out of the Divine Palace, but Uchiha Xin used gravity to stop and confront her.
• Uchiha Xin carried Shyarly to a room, where she struggled until she was exhausted; he then restored her strength and covered her with a blanket.
• Uchiha Xin checked his system and learned that each world could have ten dependents, with Perona listed in both worlds.
• Uchiha Xin learned that the Dark-Dark Fruit's devouring ability provided five separate Devil Fruit slots, one of which held the Mark-Mark Fruit.

Uchiha Xin visited Kalifa after Enies Lobby’s destruction and demanded that she manage Sky Island and the Divine Palace. When she refused, he used the Level Eight Eye of God to impose submission without changing her memories or personality, beginning to brand the command into her soul.

• Uchiha Xin left Shyarly sleeping and went to Kalifa’s room.
• Kalifa confronted Uchiha Xin over Enies Lobby’s destruction and the fate of Lucci and the others, while he said he had no obligation to save the World Government’s people.
• Kalifa attacked Uchiha Xin, but he restrained her easily and told her to manage Sky Island and the Divine Palace.
• Kalifa refused to serve him and said she would rather die than submit.
• Uchiha Xin immobilized Kalifa with the Eye of God and began imposing submission while leaving her memories and personality intact.

Uchiha Xin completed the Divine Servant Brand on Kalifa, binding her loyalty while preserving her memories and personality, and assigned her to manage Sky Island. The next morning, Perona reported that Hawk Eyes Mihawk was waiting on a blockaded island to challenge Uchiha Xin and reclaim Black Blade Yoru.

• Kalifa’s resistance to Uchiha Xin’s Divine Servant Brand collapsed, and she swore that her life, strength, and loyalty belonged to him.
• Kalifa confirmed she would obey Uchiha Xin even if he ordered her to kill Lucci, and she accepted responsibility for managing the Divine Palace and Sky Island.
• Kalifa sorted the accumulated administrative records and received authority from Uchiha Xin to coordinate Sky Island’s affairs.
• Perona reported that Hawk Eyes Mihawk had appeared on an island in the first half of the sea and was demanding another duel with Uchiha Xin to reclaim Black Blade Yoru.
• Kalifa dismissed Mihawk’s challenge as foolish, saying he had already been defeated and would have less courage if he had seen Uchiha Xin slay Golden Lion.

Uchiha Xin set out to challenge Hawk Eyes and bring the world’s greatest swordsman under his command, leaving Kalifa in charge of Sky Island. Before departing, he sealed Tailed Beast power inside 362 enhanced warriors, dramatically increasing their strength.

• Kalifa told Perona she had accepted her place and would manage the affairs of the Divine Palace and Sky Island for Uchiha Xin.
• Uchiha Xin decided to go to Hawk Eyes, intending not only to defeat him but to make him serve under his command.
• Uchiha Xin left Kalifa in charge of Sky Island’s administration, supplies, army, and renovations before teleporting away.
• Kalifa assembled 362 enhanced warriors in the Divine Palace plaza while Gan Fall, officials, and residents watched.
• Uchiha Xin divided Tailed Beast power into 362 masses and sealed one inside each warrior, causing Chakra Cloaks to appear and the plaza to crack under their growing power.

Uchiha Xin sealed Tailed Beast power into Sky Island’s warriors, earning the residents’ worship and leaving Kalifa to train them. He then traveled to Fish-Man Island, where Perona, Robin, and Tashigi waited as Hawk Eyes’ challenge drew near.

• Uchiha Xin sealed Tailed Beast power into hundreds of Sky Island warriors, and the residents knelt to recognize him as their true god.
• Uchiha Xin told Kalifa to train the warriors and keep them on Sky Island until they passed their assessment.
• After Perona reported that Hawk Eyes had arrived at the dueling island, Uchiha Xin used Divine Transference to reach Fish-Man Island.
• Perona teased Uchiha Xin about Kalifa managing Sky Island, and he reassured her that he could replace Kalifa if she wanted.
• Robin and Tashigi met Uchiha Xin, and he corrected Tashigi by saying that Hawk Eyes had challenged him, not the other way around.

Uchiha Xin prepared to travel with Perona, Robin, and Tashigi to Hawk Eyes' duel against him on a secluded island, where the Red Hair Pirates had gathered to watch. As Shanks and his crew discussed Hawk Eyes' renewed strength and the sword Shanks had lent him, Uchiha Xin and his companions had yet to arrive.

• Tashigi admitted that she wanted to watch Hawk Eyes' swordsmanship, while Robin and Perona warned her that Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates had sealed off the island.
• Robin and Perona urged Uchiha Xin to take them along, and Uchiha Xin used Divine Transference to bring them and Tashigi to the island.
• The chapter described the island Shanks had found near the Red Line and chosen as the secluded site for Hawk Eyes' duel.
• Shanks and his crew discussed why Hawk Eyes had challenged Uchiha Xin again and recalled Hawk Eyes warning Shanks not to interfere.
• Beckman and Shanks sensed that Hawk Eyes had grown stronger despite losing Black Blade Yoru, and Lucky Roux noted that Shanks had lent him a sword.

Uchiha Xin arrived on the island with Robin, Perona, and Tashigi to face Hawk Eyes, who challenged him to reclaim Black Blade Yoru. Hawk Eyes recognized that Tashigi had become a top-tier master swordsman, surprising the Red Hair Pirates as the confrontation began.

• Uchiha Xin and his companions emerged from a spatial ripple on the island where Hawk Eyes and the Red Hair Pirates were waiting.
• Perona, Robin, and Tashigi prepared for possible trouble while Hawk Eyes focused on Uchiha Xin.
• Hawk Eyes said he had rebuilt and strengthened his swordsmanship after losing to Uchiha Xin, and declared that he would reclaim Black Blade Yoru.
• Uchiha Xin accepted the challenge, believing the gap between them had grown wider since their last fight.
• Hawk Eyes sensed Tashigi's controlled sword intent and judged that she had entered the ranks of top-tier master swordsmen.
• Shanks and the other Red Hair Pirates reacted with surprise, and Shanks admitted that Tashigi's swordsmanship was no weaker than his own.

Shanks and Hawk Eyes recognized Tashigi’s extraordinary swordsmanship, which she had gained through her bond with Uchiha Xin. Uchiha Xin made Hawk Eyes defeat Tashigi before he could challenge him, then revealed Black Blade Yoru, leaving Hawk Eyes gripping his borrowed sword.

• Shanks realized Tashigi had become a top great swordsman through Uchiha Xin, and Beckman concluded she had not always been this strong.
• Tashigi and Hawk Eyes clashed sword intents, and Uchiha Xin told Hawk Eyes to defeat her before challenging him again.
• Tashigi eagerly accepted the duel, and Hawk Eyes agreed while insisting he would still fight Uchiha Xin afterward.
• Hawk Eyes drew the Supreme Grade Sword he had borrowed from Shanks, but Uchiha Xin stopped Tashigi and summoned Black Blade Yoru.

Uchiha Xin gave Tashigi Black Blade Yoru and made defeating Hawk Eyes the price of keeping it. Tashigi attacked Hawk Eyes and matched his swordsmanship with her strength, but their fight was still underway.

• Uchiha Xin offered Black Blade Yoru to Tashigi and promised she could keep it if she beat Hawk Eyes.
• Tashigi accepted the sword, tested its power, and challenged Hawk Eyes.
• Hawk Eyes accused Uchiha Xin of insulting him by giving away Black Blade Yoru, then vowed to defeat Tashigi and reclaim it.
• Tashigi charged Hawk Eyes and drove him back in their first clash, surprising the Red Hair Pirates.
• Hawk Eyes countered with several sword-energy slashes, and Tashigi cut through them and spun Black Blade Yoru to meet the next attack.

Tashigi fought Hawk Eyes with Black Blade Yoru, adapting to his swordsmanship and growing stronger as the battle continued. Hawk Eyes regained control of the tempo, but Tashigi adjusted to his counters and left the fight in a renewed stalemate, still improving.

• Tashigi overwhelmed Hawk Eyes with fast, forceful attacks, driving him across the island as the Red Hair Pirates watched.
• Shanks said Hawk Eyes had underestimated Tashigi and Black Blade Yoru, while his anger had slowed his judgment.
• Hawk Eyes calmed himself, countered Tashigi’s attacks, and began controlling the tempo with precise redirections.
• Tashigi adapted to Hawk Eyes’ techniques, cut his cuff, and explained that he had realized her growth too late.
• Tashigi continued adjusting her swordsmanship with each clash, and Shanks observed that she was still getting stronger.