Recaps

Kaya, Garp, Harald, and Rocks clashed in a four-way battle on Hachinosu as Kaya challenged Garp over the World Government and the Navy. Their powerful attacks collided in a burst of white light that shook the island.

• Kaya and Garp traded punches while arguing about the Navy and the World Government, and Kaya asked Garp whether he had considered changing things.
• Harald returned and carried Garp as he charged Rocks, while Kaya attacked Harald with Heilig Pfeil.
• Garp and Rocks exchanged blows as Harald pressed forward, and Kaya blocked Garp with a Reishi lightsword before attacking again.
• Rocks struck Garp with his sword, but Garp recovered and joined Harald in unleashing their ultimate attacks.
• Rocks launched a Haki-powered wave of sword energy, while Kaya fired a massive Heilig Pfeil, and all four attacks collided over Hachinosu.

The battle on Hachinosu ended as Sengoku joined Garp and Harald against Rocks and Kaya, while the Marines and pirates withdrew or stopped fighting. The surviving Marines sailed away to regroup and planned to question the captured Quincy about their unusual powers.

• Sengoku found Kong and Tsuru, then went to locate Garp and Zephyr while Kong and Tsuru headed for the coast.
• Sengoku joined the battle between Garp and Harald and Rocks and Kaya, but Kaya blocked their combined attacks with Blut Vene Anhaben.
• Rocks saw that the other fighting had ended and that the Marines were retreating, then sheathed his sword and accepted that the war was over.
• The surviving Marines escaped aboard a few damaged warships after Shiki stole most of their fleet, and Zephyr confirmed that he had lost an arm.
• Kong, Tsuru, Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr discussed the casualties and Kaya's strength, then decided to question the captured Quincy after they returned.

Kaya assembled five Quincy and invited them to join him and Rocks on a trip to God Valley for the Celestial Dragons’ Human Hunting Competition. On his way to Shakky’s bar, Kaya met Basard, who asked for greater power and became the Sternritter with the Schrift H: The Heat.

• Kaya gave Ganzui blood wine, awakening his Quincy power and Schrift E: The Explode, and gathered him with Keel, Maron, Kaido, and John as his Quincy group.
• Kaya invited the five Quincy to travel with him and Rocks, then explained that the Celestial Dragons planned a Human Hunting Competition at God Valley in West Blue.
• Kaya told the Quincy to gather early the next morning if they wanted to go, then left for Shakky’s bar.
• Basard emerged from the ruins and begged Kaya to make him stronger, so Kaya accepted him as a Sternritter and gave him blood wine.
• Basard’s wounds healed, and Kaya awakened his Schrift H: The Heat.

Kaya and Rocks discussed the coming human hunt on God Valley, where Rocks revealed that his wife and child were there. Kaya prepared to go for his own reasons, and Gloriosa joined them after gaining a new power.

• Kaya met Rocks, Shakky, and Gloriosa at the tavern and charged his expensive drink to Rocks.
• Rocks revealed that God Valley was his homeland and that his wife and child were there, confirming he would go there.
• Kaya said he had another reason for going to God Valley and did not explain it to Rocks or the others.
• Gloriosa joined Kaya and Rocks after drinking Kaya’s blood-infused liquor and gaining the Love ability.
• Kaya and Rocks declared their contest to become King of the World, agreeing they first had to overthrow the current king.

Kaya and Rocks gathered a large group of pirates and set out for God Valley to rescue Rocks’s family and confront the World Government. As Kaya carried them through the air, he told Big News Morgans that God Valley would disappear and dictated the report he wanted published.

• Kaya and Loki met John, Maron, Keel, Kaido, Gloriosa, Newgate, and Charlotte Linlin at the lighthouse before Rocks arrived.
• Rocks revealed that his wife and son were on God Valley and that the World Government was pursuing them, then disbanded the Rocks Pirates so everyone could choose whether to join him.
• The group stayed with Rocks, and Kaya used his Spiritual Power to lift part of Hachinosu into the sky and carry them toward God Valley.
• Kaya called Big News Morgans, who said his people were preparing a story about their departure.
• Kaya told Morgans that God Valley would disappear and instructed him to report that Kaya, Rocks, and other pirates had wiped out the Celestial Dragons and Marines and dealt the World Government a crushing defeat.

Marines and Celestial Dragons began a massacre and hunting competition on God Valley, while Teach’s mother tried to protect him. The Rocks Pirates crashed into the island, and Loki urged them to start a rebellion.

• Garling killed the woman who had borne his twin sons, while Marines rounded up and attacked God Valley’s civilians.
• A young Marine questioned the brutality of the operation but continued following orders as he was warned to put on a gas mask.
• Teach’s mother held him close and promised that she and his father would keep him alive.
• The Celestial Dragons began their hunting competition, displaying the Davy Clan slaves as the crowd jeered and threw weapons.
• A massive stone slab crashed onto God Valley, and Charlotte Linlin, Newgate, and others emerged from the smoke.
• Loki jumped out and called on the group to raise hell.

Kaya rescued Magnolia and her twin sons, then gave Monkey D. Dragon a way to enter the world of shadows. On God Valley, Rocks reunited with Alice and Teach before confronting Garling in battle.

• Kaya healed Magnolia, returned Shamrock and Shanks to her, and hid the three of them in a space inside a shadow.
• Kaya gave Monkey D. Dragon a Quincy Medallion and vanished, leaving Dragon conflicted about the Marines’ role in the slaughter.
• Garling rallied the Holy Knights as Rocks arrived and rescued Alice and Teach from the Davy Clan’s captors.
• Rocks urged the others to flee deeper into the island, and Alice ran with Teach rather than stay behind as a burden.
• Garling confronted Rocks over Shakky, and their swords clashed.

The Rocks Pirates fought the Holy Knights, whose bodies repeatedly regenerated after being destroyed. After Rocks revealed that Conqueror's Haki coating could slow their regeneration, Newgate struck back, and Keel tested whether his Reishi bullets could kill them.

• The Holy Knights confronted Loki and the others, and Newgate blasted them apart, but their bodies quickly regenerated.
• Ganzui used a deliberately off-target arrow to explode the ground beneath the Holy Knights, yet they recovered and launched a counterattack.
• Loki, John, Ganzui, Maron, Keel, and Gloriosa battled the Holy Knights, while Saint Shepherd Sommers charged at Gloriosa.
• Newgate observed the Holy Knights' repeated regeneration as Rocks announced that Conqueror's Haki coating could slow it.
• Newgate coated his naginata with Haki and cut down several Holy Knights, while Keel shot a fleeing gunman and wondered if his ability could break immortality.

Kaya took the Azure Dragon and Paw-Paw Fruits from a God Valley warehouse and faced Jaygarcia Saturn Saint, who demanded to know who he was. The Five Elders appeared in monstrous forms, and Kuma stood up to question the injustice of a world where some were born nobles and others slaves.

• Kaya collected the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon, the Paw-Paw Fruit, and the warehouse treasure before Ivankov and Kuma arrived to search for prizes.
• Jaygarcia Saturn Saint confronted Kaya and asked who he was, and Kaya identified himself as a Quincy.
• Five pentagram arrays appeared, and Charlotte Linlin and Kaido arrived as the Five Elders were transported to God Valley.
• Kaya told Kaido he had already taken the two Devil Fruits, and Kaido backed down while Charlotte Linlin welcomed the chance to see the Five Elders' true forms.
• The Five Elders appeared as enormous monsters, and Kuma stood up and questioned why the World Government's highest authorities were monsters while slaves remained enslaved for generations.

Kaya confronted the Five Elders at God Valley and used Quincy spells to withstand their attacks and destroy two of their monsters. Kaido remained at his side, shaken by the power of Sanctuary Praise.

• Kaya persuaded Charlotte Linlin to take Ivankov and Kuma away by revealing Kuma’s Buccaneer and Giant heritage, while Kaido chose to stay and fight the Five Elders.
• The Five Elders attacked Kaya and Kaido, and Nusjuro struck at Kaya with his blade while Saturn’s shock wave knocked Kaido into the ground.
• Fengxi unleashed a Conqueror’s Haki roar and Itsumade rained fire, but Kaya shielded the area with his Sanctuary Praise spell.
• A sandworm erupted beneath Kaido as Bakotsu launched a lightning-fast sword slash, and Kaya answered with a barrage of Heilig Pfeil that killed both monsters.
• Kaido asked whether he could learn Kaya’s Quincy techniques, and Kaya declared that the Quincy stood above all else.

Kaya and the arriving Sternritter learned that Quincy spiritual attacks could defeat the Holy Knights, while the Five Elders faced them at Elbaf. Newgate then led a demonized, controlled Rocks and other transformed figures to the group, and Kaya prepared to act with Auswählen.

• The Sternritter arrived and Maron explained that concentrated Quincy spiritual attacks could kill the Holy Knights.
• Kaya told the group that the Five Elders had arrived, and Loki openly threatened the World Government as Saturn questioned Elbaf’s allegiance.
• Newgate emerged from the forest pursued by demonized Rocks and other transformed figures, warning that Rocks was controlled and a more terrifying presence was on the island.
• The Five Elders realized Imu had acted personally and connected the dark figure above the forest to the missing Gunko.
• Kaya recognized the calamity in Rocks, raised his fist, and invoked Auswählen.

Garp and the Marines witnessed Quincies dying in a mysterious blue light before Kong ordered Garp to reinforce God Valley, where Rocks had appeared. The same light devastated Quincy forces at sea and on Hachinosu, leaving Basard alive and demanding answers from the Quincy king.

• Garp saw captured Quincies in the Marines' underground laboratory scream and disintegrate into bones beneath a pillar of blue light.
• Kong learned that Rocks and his crew had appeared at God Valley and ordered Garp to lead reinforcements there, despite Garp's protests.
• Kodo watched blue light engulf the Quincies who had defeated his crew, while Sege collapsed after recognizing that the power was taking everything from them.
• On Hachinosu, blue pillars struck Quincies across the island, stripping away their bodies and killing Eileen and the others pursuing Basard.
• Basard realized that the light carried Quincy Spiritual Power and shouted at Your Majesty, asking why he had killed his own people.

Kaya and the Quincy transformed with Spiritual Power and fought the demonized Davy Clan and the Elders as Imu appeared through Gunko. Kaya removed the corrupting power from Rocks, who regained control and survived.

• A torrent of Spiritual Power aged Kaya and strengthened the Quincy, who revealed their Vollständig forms and charged into battle.
• Newgate told Kaya that Gunko had possessed Rocks, and Kaya recognized that Imu had arrived.
• Kaya fought Rocks and heard him plead to be killed, but told him to live and raise his son.
• Kaya used Sankt Altar to pull a black mass of power out of Rocks and cast it onto the ground.
• Rocks regained clarity, collapsed, and joked that he had nearly been played to death.

John, Kaido, and their allies overwhelmed the Five Elders, leaving Fengxi badly injured beneath the other monsters. Elsewhere, Gloriosa struggled to keep the demonized Davy Clan down while recoiling from their apparent affection for her.

• John enlarged a metal robot and battered Gyuki while Kaido overpowered Itsumade and twisted his neck.
• Ganzui and Maron bombarded Fengxi with explosions and missiles, leaving him gravely wounded but alive.
• Loki threw Fengxi into the air, where John and Kaido knocked Gyuki and Itsumade onto him.
• John, Kaido, Loki, Ganzui, and Maron celebrated their victory and joked about earning bounties.
• Gloriosa fought the demonized Davy Clan with arrows, repeatedly knocking its members down as they kept getting back up.

Gloriosa subdued the demonized Davy Clan with her new ability, and Kaya restored Rocks to normal. As they regrouped on God Valley, a terrifying magical storm engulfed the island, while an unseen force felled most of the Celestial Dragons in Mary Geoise.

• Gloriosa used Slave Arrow to stop the demonized Davy Clan members, who became infatuated with her.
• Rocks returned to normal after Kaya removed the power forced into him, and Gloriosa learned that Gunko had taken control of him.
• Gloriosa led Rocks and the Davy Clan back to Kaya and the others, where Newgate welcomed Rocks back.
• A black lightning bolt struck God Valley, and storm clouds, a giant pentagram, and black mist plunged the island into a nightmare.
• A strange wave reached Mary Geoise, causing many Celestial Dragons to collapse as the remaining ones wondered whether a hidden lord had acted.

Saint Nerona Imu arrived at God Valley and restored Saturn, Mars, and Warcury, then clashed with Kaya as Rocks attacked. The Five Elders returned to battle, and Ganzui was struck by an old centaur swordsman.

• Imu unleashed his supreme Conqueror's Haki across God Valley, knocking out the fleeing Celestial Dragons, slaves, and Marines.
• Loki charged Imu but was defeated in one exchange, losing his hands and feet.
• Imu revealed himself as Saint Nerona Imu, the King of the World, and restored Saturn, Mars, and Warcury with demonic aura.
• Kaya confronted Imu, while Rocks attacked him with Dark Sea Abyss; Imu dodged and left behind explosive little devils that engulfed those nearby in flames.
• An old centaur swordsman emerged from the smoke and struck Ganzui, while the Five Elders returned to battle.

Imu restored the Five Elders, who resumed fighting the Quincy but remained outmatched as their opponents gained the upper hand. Meanwhile, Kaya faced Imu, who warned that David and the Quincy would destroy the world.

• Imu repaired the Five Elders and restored them to their former state, allowing them to fight the Quincy again.
• John used Second Transmutation to defend his robot from Nusjuro, while Ganzui bombed Nusjuro and Nusjuro charged Keel.
• Keel revealed that his six wings were his real guns, blasted holes through Nusjuro, and broke his blade so that his attack missed.
• Kaido overpowered Fengxi, while Gyuki’s venom attack was intercepted and Newgate and Gloriosa struck back against Gyuki.
• Loki blocked Itsumade’s flames and held open the sandworm’s jaws as Maron self-destructed inside it, blasting it in two.
• The Sternritter Quincy kept the Five Elders at a disadvantage as Kaya faced Imu, who said David and the Quincy would destroy the world.

Kaya and Rocks fought Imu together as the battle threatened to tear God Valley apart. Imu retreated into the sky and tried to attach a fragment of demonic energy to Kaya, but Kaya burned it away and declared that no one would interrupt them.

• Rocks and Imu clashed while Kaya’s Reishi sword shattered Imu’s attack with the Heavenly Punishment Sword.
• Imu flew above the battlefield and unleashed a devastating sword strike, but Rocks emerged unharmed and attacked with Kaya.
• Imu transformed his weapon into the Sword of Anger and fought both men as cracks split God Valley.
• Kaya and Rocks continued pursuing Imu, driving the battle to the valleys beside a massive mountain.
• Imu formed a small bell of demonic energy and secretly attached a fragment of it to Kaya.
• Kaya recognized the fragment, burned it away with Reishi Concentrated Flame, and said no one would interrupt them.

Kaya and Imu fought above God Valley while Imu used a Grudge Demon Sword to take Rocks out of the battle. Kaya revealed overwhelming swordsmanship and Conqueror’s Haki, ending the fight’s exchange with a slash that split God Valley in two.

• Imu marked Rocks with demonic energy and pierced him through the chest with a Grudge Demon Sword, temporarily taking him out of action.
• Kaya recognized that Imu had marked both him and Rocks, while Imu declared that Kaya and his bloodline had to be eliminated.
• Imu summoned the Holy Life Spear and clashed with Kaya above the clouds in a battle of Spiritual Power and Haki.
• Kaya linked his sword strikes into a seemingly endless attack and cut Imu’s shoulder when he could not defend in time.
• Kaya matched Imu’s Conqueror’s Haki with Azure lightning, then unleashed a slash that cleared the clouds and split God Valley in half.

The pirates subdued the Five Elders while Kaya fought Imu, but the mortally wounded monsters suddenly revived with black-flame weapons. Fengxi killed Loki with a giant axe, leaving Kaido stunned as the battle turned against the pirates.

• Keel taunted the captured Nusjuro, while Newgate and the others held down Saturn, Fengxi, and the other defeated monsters.
• Ganzui and Maron blasted the sandworm, and John suggested that killing Imu and the Five Elders could bring down the World Government.
• The five wounded monsters roared as black flames gathered around them, and the sandworm reassembled before cutting through Ganzui's armor and wounding him.
• Itsumade broke free of John's restraints and slashed John, while Saturn attacked Newgate with a black-flamed sword that filled in Newgate's space cracks.
• Fengxi threw Loki and Kaido off his back and beheaded Loki with his axe, while Kaido stood stunned.

The Five Elders awakened their ancestral weapons and turned the battle against the pirates, while Imu wounded Kaya with the Sea God Sword. Kaya laughed at the injury and challenged Imu’s confidence in the weapons’ abilities.

• Imu declared that inherited will was meaningless, and Kaya mocked him for how he had treated the Celestial Dragons’ descendants.
• Nusjuro revealed Muramasa and stabbed Keel, while Ju Peter displayed the Sword of Anger and Saturn wielded the life-draining Void Sword.
• The Five Elders unleashed their ancestral weapons, forcing the pirates into a stalemate as Itsumade attacked John with fire and lightning.
• Fengxi used the awakened Xingtian Axe to behead Loki and wound Kaido, then challenged the remaining pirates to surrender.
• Imu cut Kaya with the Sea God Sword, and Kaya laughed as he claimed Imu was far behind him when it came to mechanics.

Loki revived repeatedly through the Power of God and became a giant of light, while Keel unlocked his final form and killed Nusjuro. Imu used black fire to ensure Nusjuro could not regenerate, and Kaya vowed that all five Elders would fall.

• Kaido charged Warcury with the Hammer of Fudo Myoo, but Loki revived and grew into a giant warrior.
• Warcury transformed into Fengxi and split Loki in two with the Xingtian Axe, but Loki reassembled himself through golden Spiritual Power and became a giant of light.
• Keel opened his eyes for the third time, transformed into El Thor: Final Form, and pierced Nusjuro through the forehead.
• Nusjuro burned away into a skeleton as Imu declared that he would no longer regenerate.
• Kaya rejected Imu's claim that the fight was over and vowed that all five stars would fall.

Loki split God Valley in two and killed Itsumade, while the remaining Elders prepared to keep fighting. Keel unleashed God's Trumpet, erasing the Elders and everything on their half of the island.

• Loki split God Valley down the middle with his enormous sword, forcing the people nearby to take to the air as seawater flooded the gap.
• Loki caught Itsumade's black lightning with his sword, causing the bird to bleed and fall, then tore him apart and killed him.
• Warcury and Ju Peter accepted that the Elders might be sacrificed if Imu defeated Loki, and prepared to continue the fight.
• Keel transformed into a giant bird of light and gathered Reishi to form a massive horn.
• Keel fired God's Trumpet, whose golden light erased the remaining Elders and everything on their half of God Valley.

After Kaya and the others destroyed the Five Elders, Imu transformed and confronted Kaya, who began unlocking his Quincy power. Kaya revealed that he could perceive Imu’s weapons on a higher, narrative level, then opened his four eyes and awakened Schrift “A,” The Almighty.

• Keel’s beam destroyed half of God Valley and killed at least three of the Five Elders, prompting John, Ganzui, Maron, Gloriosa, and Newgate to react to their defeat.
• Imu suffered backlash from the Five Elders’ deaths, then transformed into a more powerful half-demon form and drew several weapons.
• Kaya felt his sealed power beginning to awaken, released his sword into Reishi, and recited the stages of the Quincy king’s return.
• Imu attacked Kaya repeatedly, but his blades and divine weapons could not harm him, while Kaya identified the weapons’ origins.
• Imu realized Kaya was perceiving his weapons from a higher narrative level, and Kaya opened four eyes and awakened Schrift “A,” The Almighty.

Kaya defeated an apparent body of Imu at God Valley, then opened a shadow passage and brought the exhausted survivors to his Shadow Realm. He welcomed them to the empty, pitch-black dimension, leaving them bewildered about where they had arrived.

• Imu surrounded himself with eighteen weapons and prepared to attack Kaya, but Kaya used The Almighty to make Imu and the weapons explode.
• Kaya held Imu’s vacant head and realized his power had receded because he had not yet fully analyzed the world; he concluded that he needed to become omniscient to unseal The Almighty completely.
• Kaya invited the others to visit his kingdom, while the survivors of the battle collapsed or struggled to remain conscious in the ruins of God Valley.
• Kaya opened a passage through his shadow and led the others through it, with Newgate following after a brief hesitation.
• Kaya welcomed the group to the Shadow Realm, where they found themselves standing in a seemingly endless, pitch-black world.