Recaps

Katakuri urged Charlotte Linlin to seek allies against Bai Yu, and King arrived with Bullet and a mysterious regenerative monster. King claimed the monster was the key to defeating Bai Yu, leaving the Big Mom Pirates stunned and eager to hear his explanation.

• Katakuri said the Big Mom Pirates could either surrender to Bai Yu or cooperate with others, then summoned potential allies.
• Bullet entered and clashed Conqueror's Haki with Charlotte Linlin before Katakuri reminded him that he had come for revenge.
• King explained that Kaido had sent him to gather forces in Wano, but he fled after Kaido's Vivre Card Piece burned to ash.
• King summoned a black, winged monster that survived Charlotte Linlin's Emperor Sword and rapidly healed its wounds.
• King produced a bottle and declared it the key to defeating War Demon Bai Yu.

King offered Charlotte Linlin Devil's Medicine, which could multiply a user's strength, and recruited her to help take revenge on Bai Yu. He planned to use the medicine to target people Bai Yu cared about and clip his wings before killing him.

• King revealed that the Five Elders had supplied Devil's Medicine, which awakened the devil within a user and greatly increased their strength.
• Charlotte Linlin asked why Kaido had died if the medicine was so powerful, and King explained that Kaido had rejected it as an insult.
• King began to leave when Charlotte Linlin questioned whether Bai Yu could truly be defeated, but she stopped him and promised to kill Bai Yu with the medicine.
• King said he had a foolproof plan to exploit Bai Yu's attachment to old ties and strike at those close to him before confronting Bai Yu.

After leaving Wano Country, Bai Yu arrived at a bustling island with Kozuki Hiyori, Yamato, and his retainers. He invited the women to a bathhouse, where Hiyori misunderstood his intentions before discovering the baths were separated by gender.

• Three days after the battle in Wano Country, Bai Yu's group docked at an island, where reports had made Bai Yu the sole emperor and Blackbeard a new Four Emperor.
• Kozuki Hiyori and Yamato asked Bai Yu where they were going, and he said he wanted to find a bathhouse and invited them along.
• Hiyori assumed the bath would be a chance to get closer to Bai Yu and asked Yamato to cooperate with her.
• Bai Yu explained that the bathhouse had separate men's and women's baths, then went inside alone.
• Carina and Nami comforted the embarrassed Hiyori and said Bai Yu had teased them in similar ways before.

After an awkward bathhouse encounter, Bai Yu took advantage of a quiet day to drink alone and reminisce about Windmill Village. At a tavern, he met a masked giant who claimed to have drunk with the Pirate King and dismissed the current Pirate Emperor as a brat.

• Carina and Nami followed Kozuki Hiyori into the bathhouse and went searching for Yamato.
• Yamato joined Bai Yu in the men's bath, realized she was a woman, and fled after the women outside screamed.
• Bai Yu left the bathhouse and went to a tavern, where he thought about Makino and his time in Windmill Village.
• A masked old man sat beside Bai Yu, bought him Bloody Marys, and claimed he had once drunk with the Pirate King.
• The drunk old man said he would challenge the current Pirate Emperor if they ever met, unaware that Bai Yu was sitting beside him.

Bai Yu encountered an old pirate who claimed the old era surpassed the new one and demonstrated his power by slaughtering pirates in a tavern. The old man carried Bai Yu away to show him how thirty years of pent-up rage could destroy an island, and Bai Yu recognized him as Bandy World, the World Destroyer.

• Bai Yu questioned the old man about whether he had once drunk with Roger, and the old man said he had returned after thirty years to remind the world of his terror.
• A pirate from the Big Mom Pirates attacked the old man, who caught and shattered the blade with Armament Haki.
• The old man hurled enlarged blade fragments through the tavern, killing the attacker and dozens of other pirates.
• The old man challenged Bai Yu to compare the old era with the new era, and Bai Yu said the old era had been strong.
• The old man put Bai Yu on his shoulder and raced away to show him how thirty years of pent-up rage could destroy an island.
• Bai Yu identified the old man as Bandy World, the World Destroyer, who possessed the More-More Fruit and had a five-hundred-million-Beli bounty.

World brought Bai Yu aboard the Groceade, the massive ship his crew had built during his imprisonment, and declared that they would attack the Celestial Dragons at Sabaody Archipelago. Despite Byrnndi Jack’s warning that the World Government might be luring them into a trap, World ordered the crew to set sail and test the ship’s cannon.

• World showed Bai Yu the enormous Groceade as it emerged into the harbor, and its arrival frightened the pirates at the docks.
• World carried Bai Yu aboard and reunited with Byrnndi Jack, Gairam, Sebastian, and Nightingale.
• World explained that he had brought Bai Yu along to witness the strength of the old era and announced his plan to attack the Celestial Dragons at Sabaody Archipelago.
• Byrnndi Jack warned that Marine Headquarters or the World Government might have set a trap, but World dismissed the danger.
• World ordered the World Pirates to set sail and said he would use the Groceade’s cannon to destroy any scheme against them.

Bai Yu was taken aboard World's enormous ship, while Smoker and CP0 arrived at Sabaody Archipelago to confront World's remnants and meet the new Marine Admiral, Ryokugyu. The chapter ended as Ryokugyu sensed the target approaching across the sea.

• Byrnndi Jack urged Bai Yu to stay out of danger aboard the Groceade, and Bai Yu decided to contact Fujitora and the others before testing the Five Elders' plans.
• World used his More-More Fruit to set the enormous Groceade sailing.
• Smoker and Tashigi arrived at Sabaody Archipelago with Marine warships as Rob Lucci and former CP9 members arrived aboard another ship.
• Rob Lucci taunted Smoker and Tashigi about Bai Yu and announced that CP0 had come to welcome the new Admiral replacing him.
• Tashigi questioned where the other World Military Draft candidate, Fujitora Issho, had gone, and Ryokugyu said he wanted to test their opposing ideas of justice.
• Ryokugyu sensed World's ship approaching and declared that the target had arrived.

World's giant ship, the Groseade, arrived at a Marine ambush, where he turned the Marines' cannon fire back on them and Smoker intercepted it. A masked youth then urged World to fire on the newly appointed CP0 and leave, and World began preparing a hundredfold cannon attack as the agents faced him.

• Seven Marine warships opened fire on the approaching Groseade, and World slapped their cannonballs back while using the More-More Fruit to enlarge them tenfold.
• Smoker used Smoke Wave to intercept and destroy the enlarged cannonballs, earning cheers from the Marine soldiers.
• Rob Lucci dismissed Smoker's defense and led six other CP0 agents toward the Groseade.
• A masked youth told World that the approaching figures were CP0, urged him to bombard them at a hundredfold, and warned that a troublesome person was on the island.
• World agreed to fire and ordered Byrnndi Jack to ready the ship's cannon, leaving the CP0 agents alarmed by its size.

World fired a hundredfold-enhanced cannonball at Rob Lucci and the CP0 agents, unleashing an explosion that overwhelmed Smoker’s smoke defense. As the shock wave threatened the Sabaody Archipelago, a Marine with long, wavy hair raised a massive wall of trees to block it.

• Smoker warned the Marines to scatter because CP0 could not stop World’s cannon attack.
• World enlarged the cannonball a hundredfold, then accelerated it a hundredfold toward Rob Lucci and the other CP agents.
• Rob Lucci and the CP agents raised their strongest defenses, but the cannonball exploded and sent a huge shock wave across the sea.
• Smoker shielded seven fleeing warships with a massive cloud of smoke, but the blast hurled them back toward the Sabaody Archipelago.
• A Marine with long, wavy hair used Tree Iron Shield to raise an enormous wall of intertwined tree trunks before the shock wave reached the island.

Ryokugyu stopped World’s attack on Sabaody, while Smoker challenged Rob Lucci over whether the new Admiral could replace Bai Yu. World ignored Byrnndi Jack’s warnings and fired another hundredfold cannonball, leaving Bai Yu to watch as World’s strength and age became increasingly apparent.

• Ryokugyu used rapidly growing trees to repel the blast and tsunami threatening Sabaody.
• Smoker asked the battered Rob Lucci whether he still believed Ryokugyu could replace Bai Yu.
• World dismissed Byrnndi Jack’s concerns and declared that he would raze Sabaody even if he had to fight alone.
• World fired another Moa Moa 100x Cannonball toward Sabaody, and Bai Yu judged that World would struggle to make the attack more effective.

Bai Yu considered spending System Points to unlock an unknown system permission while the World Government fought Byrnndi World at sea. World collapsed from exhaustion after his attacks failed, and a dark figure reached him first, declaring that the old era had no ship left to carry it.

• The system offered Bai Yu an unknown permission for fifty thousand System Points, but he had only twenty-nine thousand one hundred and wondered whether to unlock it.
• World fired another accelerated cannonball at the Groseade, but Ryokugyu formed a giant wooden dragon that swallowed and suppressed the blast.
• Byrnndi Jack urged World to retreat, but World threw him aside and tried to fire again.
• World coughed blood and collapsed after exhausting himself with prolonged acceleration and repeated hundredfold attacks.
• A dark figure crossed the sea to World and told him that the old era had no ship left to carry it.

World’s old crew stayed by his side, resolving the misunderstanding that had weighed on him for thirty years, while Bai Yu’s allies arrived to stop Rob Lucci and the Wood Dragon. The rescue left World and his companions facing a new group of powerful young men.

• Rob Lucci attacked the exhausted World, but Sebastian blocked his strike and Nightingale knocked him away.
• Gairam steadied World as Byrnndi Jack and the others explained they had stayed behind thirty years earlier to build his dream ship and had meant to rescue him.
• World realized his crew had never abandoned him, and he wept with joy as they reunited.
• The Wood Dragon lunged at World and the others while Rob Lucci prepared to attack Bai Yu, but Sanji intervened and blocked him.
• Zoro destroyed the thousand-meter Wood Dragon with One Great Three Thousand Worlds and landed beside Bai Yu.
• Sanji and Zoro addressed Bai Yu as their captain, revealing they had come to rescue him and teasing him about pretending to be weak.

Bai Yu revealed himself to World and offered to carry the old era aboard the Groseade, while Marines and former companions reacted to his return. After Tashigi tested her improved swordsmanship against him, Smoker warned Bai Yu that Kizaru stood in his way if he intended to take World.

• Bai Yu removed his mask, offered World a place aboard his ship, and said he wanted the Groseade.
• Tashigi challenged Bai Yu with Kashu Sea Severing, cutting a Sea King in half and tearing only a slit in Bai Yu’s clothes.
• Bai Yu praised Tashigi’s slash and invited Smoker to fight, but Smoker declined and asked whether Bai Yu had come to interfere in the conflict over World.
• Kizaru appeared on a tree extending from Sabaody and said that taking World away would be difficult because he had pledged allegiance to Marine Headquarters.

Bai Yu faced Ryokugyu as Marine Headquarters’ former Admiral and new Admiral prepared to clash, while Rob Lucci tried to turn the Marines against Bai Yu. Fujitora revealed that he had joined Bai Yu, and Ryokugyu formed a giant Wood Dragon as Bai Yu agreed to settle their fight quickly.

• Rob Lucci warned Smoker to support Ryokugyu, but Smoker said he would back the Admiral if needed, and Bai Yu invited the Marines to attack him together.
• Tashigi confronted Rob Lucci over his dirty tactics, while Fujitora emerged and offered to fight Ryokugyu in Bai Yu’s place.
• Byrnndi Jack identified Fujitora as a World Military Draft Admiral candidate, and Fujitora revealed that the Five Elders had known for three days that he had joined Bai Yu.
• Rob Lucci urged Ryokugyu to let him help, but Ryokugyu refused and asked Fujitora why he had chosen Bai Yu over Marine Headquarters.
• Ryokugyu formed a thousand-meter Wood Dragon, and Bai Yu told Fujitora that he would handle the fight himself and end it quickly.

Bai Yu defeated Ryokugyu in an instant and let him live, prompting Ryokugyu to concede and allow Bai Yu’s group to leave. Watching the Marines’ admiration for Bai Yu, Ryokugyu understood why Fujitora had followed him and accepted that he could not replace him.

• Ryokugyu joked with Fujitora about fighting Bai Yu, but Fujitora predicted Bai Yu would win in five moves.
• Bai Yu appeared behind Ryokugyu in a flash and declared the outcome decided; Ryokugyu admitted defeat.
• World explained that Bai Yu’s speed had been too great to follow and said Ryokugyu might have died if Bai Yu had intended to kill him.
• Fujitora told Ryokugyu that Bai Yu was the reason he had chosen to follow him.
• Ryokugyu ordered Smoker and the Marines to withdraw, then conceded wholeheartedly and left for the Sabaody Archipelago on a Wood Dragon.

After Bai Yu forced Ryokugyu and CP0 to withdraw, he considered testing Byrnndi Jack and World, while the Marines praised his influence. In Mary Geoise, Daps ordered plans to replace Marine Headquarters and weaken the sea, revealing that the World Government had recovered the bodies and Devil Fruits of Nusjuro and Kaido.

• Ryokugyu admitted defeat and withdrew to Sabaody, while Sanji drove Rob Lucci and the rest of CP0 away with threats from Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu received 10,000 System Points for subduing the enemy without fighting, then told Byrnndi Jack and World that he wanted to test whether World was worth cutting down.
• In Mary Geoise, Sals warned Daps that Bai Yu had influenced Marine Headquarters, and Daps ordered Vegapunk to prepare the SSG Plan to replace the Marines.
• Daps ordered information about Blackbeard's chance to obtain two Devil Fruit powers leaked to Whitebeard, and commanded Rob Lucci's group to take the Devil's Medicine and carry out the Recovery Plan.
• Daps revealed experimental vessels containing the bodies of Nusjuro and Kaido, along with their recovered Devil Fruits, as he anticipated the coming harvest.

Bai Yu fought World aboard the Groseade and defeated him with a powerful slash, earning his surrender and respect. World warned Bai Yu about a fearsome old-era monster who had urged him to attack the Sabaody Archipelago.

• World used his More-More Fruit and Armament Haki to attack Bai Yu, but Bai Yu stopped his fist with Spiritual Pressure and golden heat.
• Bai Yu struck World with a powerful Zanpakuto slash that sent him crashing into an artificial mountain.
• World emerged wounded, called off the fight, and admitted defeat after seeing Bai Yu's strength.
• World thanked Bai Yu for resolving the knot in his heart and acknowledged that the new era had arrived.
• World warned Bai Yu about a monster on the level of Whitebeard and Roger who had proposed attacking the Sabaody Archipelago.

World revealed that Red Count Redfield feared Bai Yu after their encounter in Impel Down, explaining why World had sought him out to fight. After losing, World let go of his old grudge and planned to travel with Bai Yu and his companions, while Bai Yu wondered what Redfield intended to do to preserve his prime.

• World said Redfield had been imprisoned more than thirty years ago and was an old-era monster who could stand alongside Whitebeard and Roger.
• Bai Yu revealed that he had encountered Redfield on Impel Down’s Level Six, where Redfield had hidden rather than face him.
• World realized Bai Yu was the man Redfield had described as terrifying and said he would not have challenged Bai Yu if he had known.
• World accepted his defeat and asked to travel with Bai Yu and his old companions for the rest of his life.
• Bai Yu received three thousand System Points for defeating World and reflected on Redfield’s search for a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit to stay in his prime.

Bai Yu realized Red Count Redfield might be hiding in the Sabaody Archipelago to search for the Vampire Fruit and returned there to investigate. Before leaving, he warned Ryokugyu that the Five Elders might sacrifice Marine Headquarters and Sakazuki, and gave him a letter containing secrets about Wano Country.

• Bai Yu deduced that Red Count Redfield would seek information from a weaker but capable faction near Sabaody and flew there while World and Nightingale stayed behind.
• Onigumo scolded Smoker over the ruined dock, then boasted that he had once fought Bai Yu and could count as his first teacher.
• Bai Yu returned and called Onigumo Uncle, then asked Ryokugyu whether he wanted to join him; Ryokugyu declined and explained why he understood Fujitora's choice.
• Bai Yu told Ryokugyu he had come to find an old-era monster he believed was hiding in Sabaody and warned him that the Five Elders might treat Marine Headquarters and Sakazuki as disposable pawns.
• Bai Yu handed Ryokugyu a letter about secrets from Wano Country for Sakazuki and Sengoku, saying the seas were about to change.

Bai Yu warned Ryokugyu and the Marines that the seas were about to change, then left to pursue Redfield’s search for the Mythical Zoan Vampire Model Devil Fruit. He arrived at Shakky’s Rip-off Bar, where he recognized her as a likely remnant of the Rocks Pirates and former spymaster.

• Bai Yu told Ryokugyu that the coming upheaval could not be controlled and that he only cared whether its cause was worth cutting down.
• Bai Yu calculated that he needed 7,900 more System Points to unlock unknown permissions, while his Main Body Template remained at 88 percent.
• Bai Yu sensed that Redfield was still scheming and believed he was searching for the Mythical Zoan Vampire Model Devil Fruit.
• Bai Yu vanished from the Marines’ gathering and appeared at Shakky’s Rip-off Bar on Island 13 of the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Bai Yu ordered a Bloody Mary and concluded that Shakky had likely led the Rocks Pirates’ intelligence network.

Bai Yu visited Shakky to warn her that an old enemy was coming, but she doubted anyone could threaten her and Rayleigh. The newcomer arrived and effortlessly killed the pirates in the tavern, leaving Shakky to recognize him as a monster even Rayleigh might not be confident facing.

• Bai Yu met Shakky at her tavern and warned that an old fellow was coming who could threaten her life.
• Shakky questioned whether anyone could overcome her protector, Dark King Rayleigh, while Bai Yu waited for the newcomer.
• Seal and his pirates threatened Bai Yu, but their captain was killed when the door burst apart and splinters struck him.
• The remaining pirates charged the newcomer, who used his bat-handled umbrella to inflict fatal wounds on them.
• Shakky recognized the newcomer as an old monster who had stood against Pirate King Roger and the Whitebeard Pirates.

Redfield confronted Shakky at her tavern, demanding information about a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit with a bat form. Bai Yu stopped Redfield from killing Shakky, then introduced himself in a way that unsettled the Red Count.

• Redfield arrived at Shakky's tavern and used Conqueror's Haki to pressure her into revealing what she knew about the bat-form Devil Fruit.
• Shakky secretly contacted Rayleigh and claimed she did not know where the fruit was, but Bai Yu warned her that Redfield could read memories.
• Redfield admitted he knew Shakky had contacted Rayleigh and lunged at her, attacking with his claw and bladed umbrella.
• Bai Yu struck Redfield's umbrella with a drinking glass, giving Shakky time to escape his grasp.
• Redfield tried to read Bai Yu's memories and demanded his name, but Bai Yu's mind-reading ability failed.
• Bai Yu told Redfield, "I'm the one who'll scare you pissless."

Bai Yu ambushed Redfield at Shakky's bar and overwhelmed him with a relentless series of attacks. Their final clash destroyed the bar, while Shakky watched and wondered how Bai Yu had survived his battle in Wano Country.

• Bai Yu arrived at Shakky's bar and attacked Redfield without warning, sending him crashing through the doors into a tree.
• Bai Yu pursued Redfield with a giant golden skeleton and a powerful blade strike, forcing Redfield to defend with his umbrella.
• Bai Yu's shattered blade turned into a thousand fragments that Redfield knocked aside with rapid thrusts.
• Bai Yu's final fragment reformed into a thousand-meter blade aura, and Redfield met it with a Haki-coated long-range slash.
• Their attacks collided and shattered the surrounding ground, while the gale wrecked Shakky's Rip-off Bar.
• Shakky watched the clash and wondered how Bai Yu had survived fighting Kaido and the Five Elders in Wano Country.

Bai Yu transformed and unleashed a dragon-slaying slash against Redfield on Sabaody, while Rayleigh raced toward Shakky after receiving her distress signal. The strike shook the archipelago, and Rayleigh arrived to find the aftermath.

• Redfield emerged from the dust and challenged Bai Yu, boasting that the new era meant nothing to him.
• Bai Yu transformed, declaring that his blade could slay dragons, and Redfield realized the strike might be the one that killed Kaido.
• Redfield braced himself with all Three Types of Haki as Bai Yu unleashed a vast black slash that seemed to leave him nowhere to dodge.
• The slash sent shock waves across Sabaody, alarming the Marines and CP0, while Kaku and the others watched Rob Lucci's reaction.
• Rayleigh hurried toward Shakky after seeing her distress signal and learning Field Leilde was there, then arrived through the dust and was dumbfounded by what he saw.

Rayleigh arrived at the ruined Island Thirteen expecting to save Shakky, but found Bai Yu had defeated Redfield and Shakky was safe. Bai Yu revived Redfield with a Senzu Bean, intending to let him pursue the Bat-Bat Fruit and become a stronger opponent.

• Rayleigh reached Island Thirteen and found it shattered, with Redfield buried in the rubble and Shakky standing nearby unharmed.
• Bai Yu teased Rayleigh about his worried words for Shakky and explained that he had beaten Redfield.
• Redfield urged Rayleigh to kill him, refusing to die at Bai Yu's hands, while Rayleigh prepared to grant his request.
• Bai Yu stopped Rayleigh and fed Redfield a Senzu Bean, saying he wanted to see how strong Redfield would become with the Bat-Bat Fruit.
• Redfield's wounds and shattered heart healed instantly, leaving him and Rayleigh stunned.
• Bai Yu offered Redfield liquor and joked about beating him to death again.