Recaps

Hector fought the Mountain in the arena while Jessica watched and begged her father to survive. After the Mountain deafened himself to escape Freck’s orders, Hector exploited his wounded chest and prepared one last attack.

• Jessica begged Hector to stay alive, and Hector promised her he would win.
• Hector attacked the Mountain with Armament Haki, but their clash shattered Hector’s left forearm and sent him flying.
• The Mountain’s wound reopened as he pounded his chest, and Hector bound a broken naginata to his damaged left hand.
• Unable to endure Freck’s commands, the Mountain stabbed blades into his ears and then struck Hector with overwhelming force.
• Hector rose behind the Mountain, dodged his grasp, and drove his fist into the bleeding wound while shouting for Jessica to go back to the sea.

After Lu Ye won the gladiatorial match, he left the arena and started back with the other Celestial Dragons, but gunshots drew him back. He found Augustus and Freck had bound and shot Hector, Jessica, and the Mountain, and Augustus offered him money as compensation.

• Lu Ye ordered the Donquixote Family doctors to treat Hector and help conceal his mark, then left the arena with Doffy and the others.
• As the group departed, three gunshots sounded, so Lu Ye, Doffy, Rosy, and Mjosgard turned back to investigate.
• Lu Ye found Sullivan and the medical staff forced to kneel while CP Agents guarded the wounded Hector, Jessica, and the Mountain, who were hanging from the arena mesh with gunshot wounds.
• Augustus introduced himself as Freck's father, claimed his family had accidentally killed Lu Ye's slaves, and offered checks totaling 3.25 billion Beli.

After Jessica was killed, Lu Ye awakened the Timidity trait and received a final mission to act alone against the forces disrupting the seas. He attacked Augustus and Freck in the arena while Saint Garling ordered his agents to observe, leaving the two Celestial Dragons badly injured and Lu Ye at risk of punishment.

• Lu Ye saw Jessica's blood, awakened the Timidity trait, and received a mission declaring that he had no teammates or reinforcements and answered only to his own justice.
• Lu Ye confronted Augustus and Freck over Jessica's death and dodged Freck's gunshot before crushing the weapon's muzzle.
• Flora identified Lu Ye's Observation Haki, and Hoffman reported the situation to Saint Garling, who ordered the agents not to intervene and to record Lu Ye's actions.
• Lu Ye beat Freck, slammed Augustus to the ground, and pinned both men with iron rods as their agents were held back by Hoffman, Flora, and Evan.
• Lu Ye gave Doffy and Rosy the checks he had taken from the two Celestial Dragons, then burned Augustus and Freck with hot oil and smashed their bubble helmets.

Lu Ye killed Augustus and his son after they killed a slave he wanted to free, and Garling confronted him over the murders. Lu Ye tried to justify the killings by claiming pureblood Celestial Dragons were superior, but Garling left his fate unresolved as his laughter rang through the North Star Colosseum.

• Mjosgard put his bubble helmet over the Fish-Man slave, and Garling arrived to ask what had happened.
• Lu Ye admitted killing Augustus and his son, and Garling kicked him through several walls before ordering the area cleared.
• Lu Ye attacked Garling, who pierced his chest with a Flying Finger Pistol and asked whether he had come to his senses.
• Lu Ye claimed he killed Augustus and his son to defend pureblood dignity, then declared that he wanted to kill every dirty-blooded Celestial Dragon.
• Garling said Lu Ye still had to be executed under the current rules, but Lu Ye challenged him to a future fight and Garling burst into laughter.
• Outside, Doffy vowed to avenge Longinus, while Mjosgard decided he would ask his mother about being adopted into her family.

After surviving Garling’s beating, Lu Ye learned that Garling had arranged a future challenge and a training path for him. Garling rewarded Sullivan and ordered him and Hoffman to guide Lu Ye’s training, confident Lu Ye would follow his own ambitions without asking about the plan.

• Lu Ye emerged from the arena with Garling, reunited with Doffy and Rosy, and told Mjosgard that he and Garling had agreed to fight to the death when he turned twenty if he could not surpass him.
• Hoffman took Sullivan to Garling’s residence after Garling ordered them summoned once Lu Ye’s Haki had faded.
• Garling explained that he had chosen Sullivan as Lu Ye’s private butler because Sullivan would not expose him to cruel slave games while he was young.
• Garling rewarded Sullivan with a Zoan-type Bat-Bat Fruit, Model: Fruit Bat, and told him the fruit would help him survive while caring for Lu Ye.
• Garling ordered Hoffman and Sullivan to guide Lu Ye’s training, predicting that Lu Ye would keep advancing without asking about the plan.

Lu Ye convinced Homing and Liana not to abandon their Celestial Dragon status, warning that the family would face deadly hatred if they left the Holy Land. After learning about the World Government’s oppressive order and the timeline leading to Luffy’s rise, Lu Ye rejected waiting for someone else to overthrow it and resolved to reform it himself.

• Hoffman explained that the Path of the Strong was a dangerous training program, and Lu Ye learned that Garling had ordered Hoffman not to interfere with his participation.
• Homing proposed that the family leave the Holy Land, but Lu Ye warned that commoners might target them because of the Celestial Dragons’ crimes; Doffy agreed, and Homing reconsidered.
• Lu Ye told Homing that becoming ordinary people could wait until the seas grew peaceful, then declined his father’s invitation to read together.
• Lu Ye studied Jinbao’s information about the World Government, the affiliated nations, slavery, and the lawless seas, and realized Luffy would set sail in thirty-two years.
• Lu Ye rejected waiting for Luffy to overthrow the Celestial Dragons and declared that he would reform the World Government by placing power in a cage, beginning his efforts the next day.

Pucott woke to the sound of Lu Ye training outside and went to order him to stop, only to be struck down when he challenged him. Lu Ye announced that he would continue his training in the Holy Land every day, leaving the other Celestial Dragons dismayed.

• Pucott recalled the previous night's slave fights and dreamed up a new idea for an underwater gladiator match.
• After hearing loud impacts, Pucott learned that Lord Saint Longinus of the Donquixote Family was working at a forge and went outside to confront him.
• Pucott found Lu Ye training with a huge iron ball while his attendants supported him and displayed banners inviting challengers.
• Lu Ye offered Pucott a chance to fight, then punched him in the belly when Pucott refused and mocked him.
• Lu Ye told the Celestial Dragons he would train until sunset, with breaks every thirty minutes, and said he would do this starting today.

After Lu Ye beat several Celestial Dragons, they gathered in Pucout's bedchamber to curse him and discuss whether the Holy Knights would punish him. They learned that Longinus had killed Augustus and Freck, then resolved to seek Lord Garling and demand revenge.

• Lawrence and other injured Celestial Dragons joined Pucout in his bedchamber and cursed Lu Ye for beating them.
• Old Nielsen warned the gathered Celestial Dragons that the Holy Knights' Path of the Strong used Celestial Dragons as targets to help chosen candidates grow.
• Pucout dismissed the warning until a clear voice reported that Longinus had killed Augustus and Freck at the North Star Colosseum.
• Lawrence discovered that Shalria had entered the room to listen to them curse Longinus, and she left to tell him what they had said.
• Charlos confirmed Augustus and Freck were dead, prompting Pucout and Lawrence to call for Lord Garling and demand Longinus's punishment.

Hoffman taught Lu Ye the stages of Armament Haki, from Hardening and Infusion to projecting Haki and damaging targets internally. Lu Ye began practicing, determined to grow stronger with the help of his unusual abilities.

• Hoffman demonstrated Armament Haki Hardening and explained that Lu Ye needed to learn to control where he directed his Haki.
• Hoffman showed Lu Ye Armament Haki Infusion, outward projection known as Ryuo, and Internal Destruction.
• Lu Ye asked whether Internal Destruction was Armament Haki's final form, and Hoffman explained that the strongest could fuse Armament Haki with Conqueror's Haki.
• Lu Ye tested his Haki by punching an iron ball and resolved to keep training.
• Lu Ye recalled Jinbao's account of a superhuman ten-year-old in Pallet Town and looked around for the guandao Jinbao had mentioned.

Pucout and Lawrence sought Garling’s help against Longinus, but Garling refused to let the Holy Knights intervene and revealed that Augustus and Freck had been declared dead in a sea disaster. After learning that Longinus had claimed Garling’s permission for the Path of the Strong, Garling summoned Hoffman, while Lawrence planned to appeal to the Five Elders.

• Pucout and Lawrence led injured Celestial Dragons to the Holy Knights’ headquarters and asked Garling to punish Longinus for beating them.
• Garling said Longinus was a child and told the Celestial Dragons they could fight back themselves, as long as they did not kill him.
• Garling said Augustus and Freck had perished at sea, that the North Star Colosseum would return to World Government management, and that the matter was closed.
• Lawrence asked whether Garling was protecting Longinus because of the Path of the Strong, and Pucout explained that Longinus’s flag claimed Garling’s special permission.
• Garling ordered a CP Agent to summon Hoffman and left, while Lawrence proposed asking the Five Elders to station Marine Admirals in Mary Geoise.

Garling learned that Longinus had challenged the Holy Land and defended his right to follow the Path of the Strong. After the Five Elders summoned Longinus, Garling confronted them in the council hall, where their dispute over the selection plan remained unresolved.

• Hoffman told Garling that Longinus had shared meat with everyone and seemed concerned for Sullivan, but Garling insisted Longinus’s kindness came from seeing others as no threat.
• A CP Agent informed Garling that the Five Elders had summoned Longinus, and Garling went to the council hall.
• Longinus was carried into the council hall, then took the empty seat beside the Five Elders while Garling arrived and sat on a sofa brought in by Hoffman.
• Garling challenged the Five Elders for summoning Longinus and defended the Path of the Strong selection plan, calling sacrifices by lesser Celestial Dragons a contribution.
• The Five Elders criticized Garling for hiding the selection criteria and letting fear spread through the Holy Land, while Garling questioned their failure to stop Roger and Rocks’ remnants.

Lu Ye challenged the Five Elders over the Celestial Dragons’ weakness and proposed drastic changes to protect the Holy Land. The Five Elders rejected both proposals, and the chapter ended with Doffy sneezing at Pangaea Castle’s school.

• The Five Elders confronted Garling over injuries caused by the Path of the Strong, and Lu Ye claimed responsibility while mocking their weakness.
• Lu Ye argued that the Celestial Dragons’ behavior tarnished their bloodline and challenged the Five Elders to live without protection.
• Lu Ye proposed executing the weaker Celestial Dragons, but Garling objected that turning against their own would endanger the whole clan.
• Lu Ye proposed redirecting the Heavenly Tribute to capable, pure-blooded Celestial Dragons, but the short, blond-haired Elder refused because his own family had disappointing offspring.
• Lu Ye said he would sacrifice his parents and two older brothers if it served the Celestial Dragon families’ interests, while the Celestial Dragons in the corner trembled.
• At Pangaea Castle’s school, Doffy sneezed and blamed the wind after enjoying Third Brother’s barbecue.

Lu Ye proposed a clan system that would assess Celestial Dragons, punish those deemed useless, and reward those who served the family. After the Five Elders tentatively accepted the idea, Lu Ye challenged their understanding of who the World Government’s real enemies were.

• Homing arrived at the council hall with food, and Lu Ye seated him beside the Elders and offered everyone roast meat.
• Lu Ye proposed a clan system in which the Knights assessed Celestial Dragons and assigned them roles and Heavenly Tribute according to their abilities and merit.
• Garling supported the proposal, and the Five Elders agreed to consider it.
• Lu Ye questioned why the Five Elders treated commoners as irrelevant and mocked the balding Elder for identifying only pirates as enemies.
• Lu Ye argued that competing interests could turn apparent allies into enemies, using two neighboring gangs as an example.

Lu Ye persuaded the Five Elders that Celestial Dragons needed the lowborn as allies and that nobles and Marines could not be trusted, prompting them to agree to reconsider Longinus's third proposal. Outside the council hall, Pucout and the other Celestial Dragons begged Lu Ye for forgiveness, and he warned them that their complaints had helped cause cuts to their Heavenly Tribute.

• Lu Ye argued that Celestial Dragons and lowborn shared an interest in peace, and that winning ordinary people’s loyalty would strengthen the World Government.
• Lu Ye warned the Five Elders that kingdom nobles might betray them and that Marines could turn against the Celestial Dragons in the name of justice.
• The bald Elder called for the Five Elders to discuss Longinus's third proposal again, and the other Elders agreed; Garling supported the decision.
• Lord Jupiter asked Homing which book had inspired Lu Ye’s street-gang metaphor, and Homing identified The Martin Family of Cook Street.
• Pucout and the other Celestial Dragons encountered Lu Ye in the corridor and fell to their knees, begging for forgiveness.
• Lu Ye reminded the Celestial Dragons that their complaints had led to reduced Heavenly Tribute, then told Pucout to call him daddy when begging next time.

Lu Ye explained his plan to use Celestial Dragon privilege and clan rules to restrain the powerful while helping commoners, and argued that Joy Boy—not Imu—could be seen as the villain. After returning to the street, he found Shalria eagerly greeting him and then fawning over Flora.

• Homing staggered back to his palace after meeting Lu Ye and the Five Elders, and Lu Ye sent Sullivan and the Hoffman Squad to escort him.
• Lu Ye told Jinbao that clan rules could bind Celestial Dragons and give commoners room to live, while also giving him cover to kill those who broke the rules.
• Lu Ye defended Imu and argued that Joy Boy’s history as a pirate and would-be liberator made him the villain, while Jinbao played a recording of Doffy saying that the victor was justice.
• Lu Ye claimed his arrogant Celestial Dragon behavior was an undercover persona, but Jinbao said it resembled his usual personality.
• Lu Ye reached Pucout's palace street, where Shalria greeted him and then ran to hug Flora when she returned with Sullivan and the Hoffman Squad.

Lu Ye forced Pucout to submit, stripped his home of nearly all its gold, and made him join a protection racket called the Villains. With Pucout leading the way, Lu Ye and the Hoffman Squad went to collect protection money from Lawrence.

• Flora comforted Shalria, who then identified Pucout as someone who had spoken badly about Lu Ye.
• Pucout knelt before Lu Ye and called him Sixth Master, and Lu Ye took his gold cross pendant.
• Lu Ye looted nearly all the gold in Pucout's home and demanded protection money in exchange for his help.
• Lu Ye recruited Pucout and declared that his organization would be called the Villains.
• Pucout led Lu Ye and the Hoffman Squad to Lawrence's home, where Lu Ye ordered them to collect protection money and began tearing out gold fixtures.

For five days, Lu Ye and his crew robbed Celestial Dragons across Mary Geoise, while their victims joined in to settle old grudges. On the sixth morning, Garling’s son challenged Lu Ye to a fight over the Hoffman Squad and his own hidden name.

• Lu Ye’s raids drew support from injured Celestial Dragons, who offered targets, agents, and help carrying gold so they could settle grudges with their neighbors.
• Lu Ye had Sullivan register the eager Celestial Dragons into his gang, while Rosy, Charlos, and Shalria began visiting Pucout’s home for food and entertainment.
• On the sixth morning, Lu Ye met a red-haired boy in Knights’ clothing who introduced himself only as Figarland and claimed he wanted to test Lu Ye.
• Rosy explained that Figarland was Garling’s five-year-old son and revealed that his forgotten first name was Rosinante, provoking the boy’s fury at her and Doflamingo.
• Figarland challenged Lu Ye, wagering that he would take back the Hoffman Squad if Lu Ye lost and promising to reveal his name if he won.
• Lu Ye agreed to fight and mocked Figarland by saying he would name a future dog after him.

Lu Ye fought the red-haired boy, using the battle to develop his Observation Haki and counter the boy’s speed. After defeating him with Bagua Black Hand, Lu Ye earned the boy’s respect, though he still refused to reveal his name.

• The boy attacked Lu Ye with Soru and Shigan, while Hoffman explained that he could not answer questions during the fight.
• Lu Ye covered his eyes and sharpened his Observation Haki as the boy’s blows repeatedly injured him.
• Lu Ye adapted to the boy’s speed and matched his attacks, impressing the Celestial Dragon onlookers.
• Lu Ye used elbows and follow-up hand strikes to defeat the boy three times, explaining that his Bagua Black Hand concealed multiple moves.
• The boy praised Lu Ye, declined to reveal his name, and offered to help him choose the best dog from the Flower Country.

Lu Ye learned about the Six Powers and began practicing Soru, then recalled his life in 1981 G City, where he learned Bagua Hand Black from Master Zheng. The chapter ended with Lu Ye eager to train in the ruthless fighting style.

• Hoffman explained the Six Powers to Lu Ye, who realized his Armament Haki and Life Return were flawed and asked to learn the techniques anyway.
• Lu Ye spent the evening grilling meat with Doffy and Rosy, then teased Doffy by imitating his future speeches and laugh.
• Lu Ye practiced Soru in his bedroom while Jinbao asked about his Bagua Black Hand.
• In a flashback to 1981 G City, Master Zheng urged Lu Ye to learn Bajiquan, but Lu Ye said he preferred tactics that avoided fair fights.
• Master Zheng offered to teach Lu Ye Bagua Hand Black, a style focused on exploiting openings to end fights quickly, and Lu Ye eagerly accepted.

Lu Ye watched the Celestial Dragons panic over a strict graduation assessment and gave them advice for the personal virtue exam. The chapter ended with Pucout and Charlos attempting their exams, with Charlos relying on Lu Ye’s three-character answer.

• Lu Ye finished a gold Guan Yu pendant and learned that Celestial Dragons would face a four-category assessment, with failed students losing most of their Heavenly Tribute and their right to leave Mary Geoise.
• The assessment required full marks in martial prowess, intelligence, noble etiquette, and personal virtue, and the enraged Celestial Dragons begged Lu Ye for help.
• Lu Ye told them to treat commoners as their own children and taught illiterate Charlos a thousand common characters.
• During the personal virtue exam, Pucout struggled with questions about a beautiful woman and an injured child, then wrote that his slave mount should tread lightly over the child.
• Charlos copied Lu Ye’s answer, “Forgive him,” from a tattoo on his calf.

Lu Ye met with the Five Elders after his examination and argued that he could help the World Government control the sea. They approved his future service and invited him to learn the truth about the sea in the Room of Authority.

• A masked agent brought Lu Ye to the Room of Authority, where he casually ate and drank in front of the Five Elders.
• The Five Elders questioned Lu Ye about calling himself Sixth Master, and he declared that he wanted to pacify the sea while joining both the Knights and the World Government.
• The Elders reviewed Lu Ye’s examination scores, which included perfect marks in several assessments but only a hundred points in wisdom.
• Lu Ye suggested that the Five Elders were held together by secrets and implied he could understand the forces controlling the sea.
• The Five Elders said Lu Ye could take the thirteenth seat in the Knights after completing the Path of the Strong and offered him a future World Government role.
• The Five Elders invited Lu Ye to attend the Room of Authority after training each day to learn about the sea, and introduced themselves by their Warrior God titles.

Cliff Rebel, the self-styled Muscle Bat King, prepared to defend Cook Street and Happiness Town from the Giant Lion Pirates despite knowing he faced an overwhelming enemy. After Captain Vancarlo struck him down and demanded money and people, Rebel stood again and refused to let the town’s residents be taken as slaves.

• Cliff Rebel wrote a farewell letter to Editor-in-Chief Pompeid, recalling how he became a gang boss and how a masked man had confronted him shortly before the Martin Family vanished.
• Rebel learned that the Giant Lion Pirates were demanding one hundred million Beli and a hundred young women and children from Happiness Town, while the kingdom’s guards protected only the noble’s street.
• Rebel sent the residents to shelter and confronted the pirates at the harbor with Hess and Amber.
• Captain Vancarlo struck Rebel with his spiked club, and Rebel offered the pirates a two-million-Beli check pooled from the residents and his writing earnings.
• Vancarlo and his vice captain discussed taking the town’s women and children, prompting Rebel to rise with his bat and declare that Happiness Town was free and its people would not become slaves.

Rebel and Cook Street’s neighbors fought the Giant Lion Pirates until Evan arrived looking for Muscle Bat King. Evan learned Rebel’s identity, destroyed the pirates, and prepared to take the badly injured Rebel to the Holy Land, where Saint Longinus ordered him to plant a Villains’ flag on Rebel’s ancestral grave.

• The vice captain injured Rebel, Hess, and Amber, but Hess used Golden Pitch to help Rebel strike the vice captain; Vancarlo then crushed Hess with his spiked club.
• Vancarlo sent Rebel and Amber flying, and Cook Street’s neighbors rushed to defend them and beat the vice captain unconscious.
• Evan arrived asking for Muscle Bat King, wounded Vancarlo with Flying Finger Pistol, and learned from Amber that Rebel was the novelist he sought.
• Evan knocked out Rebel, then obliterated Vancarlo, the pirates, and their ship with an Armament Haki punch.
• Evan called Saint Longinus, who told him to bring Rebel to the Holy Land and plant a Villains’ flag on his ancestral grave.

Lu Ye trained in the Six Powers, improved his Observation Haki, and turned the Room of Authority into a combined office, library, and training space. The Five Elders limited his renovations, and his daily routine continued with another dawn wake-up call.

• Lu Ye trained in the Six Powers, but Hoffman said he had exceptional physical gifts and still lacked skill in applying his strength.
• Flora demonstrated localized Tekkai, and Lu Ye eagerly asked her to teach him the technique.
• Lu Ye practiced Rankyaku, accidentally destroyed his clothes, and showed off his explosive kick while his Observation Haki kept improving.
• Lu Ye insulted Saturn and the Five Elders over their sparse Room of Authority, then arranged for workers to renovate it for his books, training, and cooking.
• The Five Elders returned and rejected Lu Ye's pool and meeting room plans, while Garling watched the dispute from a windowsill.
• Lu Ye finished his internship, resumed training and reading at night, and started the next morning by waking everyone with his golden bells.

After learning that Charlos had cheated in the Celestial Dragon assessment and that a protest was underway, Lu Ye went to Pangaea Castle and violently crushed the demonstrators. He left the terrified crowd lying silent as he continued toward the Room of Authority.

• Hoffman told Lu Ye that Charlos had cheated in the assessment and that Celestial Dragons were protesting in Pangaea Castle.
• Lu Ye went to the protest with Sullivan and the Hoffman Squad despite Saint Garling's warning to avoid killing anyone.
• Lu Ye struck Celestial Dragons at the back of the crowd with a golden scepter, shattering their helmets and driving some to flee.
• Lu Ye battered his way through the protesters, leaving Celestial Dragons injured and others screaming for help.
• Lu Ye shouted for everyone to get down, silenced the crowd, and walked toward the Room of Authority.