Recaps

Sanji discovered that the water-damaged Den Den Mushi he had received could turn money into call credit and recover after eating. After Sanji fed it mushroom soup, it searched for magazines and found a private collection of the complete “North Blue Girls” series.

• An old fisherman gave Sanji a water-damaged Den Den Mushi as thanks, and Sanji accepted it before returning to work.
• Sanji found the Den Den Mushi crawling out of his clothes and watched it swallow his savings, converting 1,180 Beli into call credit.
• Sanji feared the Den Den Mushi had died after he shook it, then rushed to town to buy its favorite mushrooms.
• Sanji cooked mushroom soup for the Den Den Mushi, which swallowed the soup and basin and appeared to recover.
• Sanji considered selling the Den Den Mushi, but it searched for “nice magazines” and found the complete “North Blue Girls” series.

Sanji discovered Ma Qiao’s collection of North Blue Girls on the touchscreen Den Den Mushi, while Ma Qiao introduced Tashigi and Garp to its games and social app. Garp became engrossed in the device, so Ma Qiao offered Tashigi a replacement.

• Sanji opened the flagged website on the Den Den Mushi and spent an hour reading North Blue Girls before stopping because of his nosebleed.
• Ma Qiao showed Tashigi how to use the touchscreen Den Den Mushi and its built-in games.
• Ma Qiao registered Tashigi for Big Bird QQ, set her profile picture and nickname, and praised her dream of collecting Famous Swords.
• Garp took the Den Den Mushi from Tashigi and eagerly asked Ma Qiao to teach him how to use it.
• Ma Qiao saw that Garp was absorbed in the device and offered Tashigi a new Den Den Mushi.

Ma Qiao used Garp’s interest in a phone game to introduce him to the Big Bird Den Den Mushi and repeated his claims about Arlong and the burned Marine supplies. The chapter ended with Garp and Smoker reacting to Ma Qiao’s claim that Arlong had fought Admiral Kizaru.

• Garp played Snake on the Big Bird Den Den Mushi until a credit notification distracted him, then recharged it with over a million Beli.
• Ma Qiao guided Garp to first place on the Gluttonous Sea Kings Leaderboard under the ID [Iron Fist Garp] and considered making an anti-fraud app.
• Sanji saw [Beautiful Marine Swordswoman Who Loves Meat] on his screen and tried messaging her.
• Garp accepted a Den Den Mushi from Ma Qiao, who repeated that Arlong’s ally had burned the 16th Branch’s supplies.
• Smoker emerged and asked whether Ma Qiao planned to take down the Sun Pirates’ remnants.
• Ma Qiao identified Arlong as the target and claimed he had fought Admiral Kizaru, surprising Garp and Smoker.

Garp canceled Smoker’s pursuit of Ace and recruited Ma Qiao to help educate his grandson, Luffy. After the banquet, Garp mistakenly accepted a stranger’s friend request on his new Den Den Mushi and gave him the 16th Branch’s address to deliver meat.

• Garp ordered Smoker to join him in dealing with the Sun Pirates’ remnants, canceling the ambush for Ace at Reverse Mountain.
• Smoker bought a Big Bird Den Den Mushi from Ma Qiao, and Garp bought another as a gift for his grandson.
• Garp asked Ma Qiao to educate his grandson, and Ma Qiao promised to think of something despite doubting he could keep Luffy from becoming a pirate.
• During the night, Garp mistook messages on his Den Den Mushi for a malfunction and fed it nearly ten million Beli.
• Garp accepted a friend request from Stranger Mr. Prince and sent him the 16th Branch’s address after he offered to deliver meat.

Ma Qiao discovered that Portgas D. Ace had eaten all his prepared bait, then helped turn Ace’s theft and attempted arson into sensational newspaper coverage. As Ace and Deuce celebrated their unwanted notoriety, Twitch begged Vice Admiral Garp to help him punish Ace.

• Ma Qiao found Ace’s note in the empty bait barrel, added more Vision Wards, and began considering whether the Good Guy Twitch needed replacing with a larger ship.
• A newspaper accused Ace of stealing food and setting a Marine warship on fire, while Kuro read the report from a village clinic and blamed Twitch, Galdino, and the Marines for his troubles.
• Ace celebrated his new fame with Deuce, who complained that the paper had ignored him and that he did not want to become a pirate.
• Ma Qiao rewarded a News Coo for delivering the newspaper, which he had submitted the previous day.
• Twitch showed Vice Admiral Garp Ace’s taunting notes and pleaded for help, claiming Ace had eaten their supplies and tried to burn their ship.

After Ace burned the Good Guy Twitch, Garp tried to protect his grandson from being sent to Impel Down and offered the crew a replacement warship. Ma Qiao recognized that the ship’s damage could be blamed on Ace and left Garp reflecting on whether things might have gone differently if they had met earlier.

• Morgan claimed credit for helping save the Good Guy Twitch, while Twitch blamed him for the damage.
• Smoker told Garp that Ace had eaten the Flame-Flame Fruit and challenged them, but Garp focused on Ace’s note and concealed his worry about exposing Ace’s parentage.
• Garp redirected attention to the Sun Pirates and gave Twitch a business card to order a replacement warship at the Galley-La shipyard, with Sengoku paying the cost.
• Ma Qiao saw the warship’s damage as a chance to make Ace take the blame and praised Garp for understanding his grandson’s hidden pain.
• Garp said he wished he had met Ma Qiao earlier, then returned to his flagship looking like an ordinary old man.

Ma Qiao refused Smoker’s ship and arranged to have the damaged Twitch patched up at Samville Island, where Nami recognized the Marines as men from the corrupt 16th Branch. The chapter left Nami wary of Ma Qiao, whom she believed was leering at her.

• Garp’s flagship sailed to Loguetown so Smoker could bring a warship and reinforcements, while Ma Qiao refused to join them and planned to hold Garp to his promise of a replacement ship.
• Smoker took the fake Kuro hanging from Nezumi and promised Ma Qiao the eight million Beli bounty later.
• Morgan arranged for the Twitch to be towed to Samville Island, where a local shipyard could repair it.
• Nami guided the damaged warship into the dock and told Morgan repairs would take at least two days, or one day for a simple patch-up.
• Nami recognized the vessel as belonging to the 16th Branch and suspected that Ma Qiao was a pervert after he stared at her.

Nami lost hope that the Marines would rescue her village after seeing Captain Nezumi and his men act corruptly, then learned that Seastone was embedded in the Twitch and decided to investigate it. She reached the ship at night and dove into the water to search for the valuable mineral.

• Nami recalled wishing for a righteous Marine to arrive for her sixteenth birthday, but judged Captain Nezumi and his Marines to be just as corrupt as the old 16th Branch.
• The Twitch’s repairs were nearly finished after shipwrights replaced damaged and sound timber with cheap lumber.
• Nami overheard shipwrights say that the Marines’ ship carried Seastone, a rare Grand Line gemstone worth more than gold.
• Nami decided to examine the Twitch, telling herself she wanted to learn about Seastone while still needing money to buy back her village.
• After dark, Nami put on her swimsuit, hid her T-shirt, and dove into the sea beside the Twitch.

Nami investigated strange stones embedded in the Twitch’s hull, but Ma Qiao caught her when she lunged for a floating ten-thousand-Beli note. He imprisoned her in an aquarium and began questioning her, while Nami tried to deceive him and waited for a chance to attack.

• Nami found that the strange stones in the Twitch’s hull could not be pried loose and decided to fetch tools to cut through the plank.
• Nami spotted a ten-thousand-Beli note in the water and swam toward it, where Ma Qiao caught her with his fishing rod.
• Ma Qiao tossed Nami into an aquarium and reclaimed the banknote from her shallow Four-Dimensional Pocket.
• Nami feared Ma Qiao might be a slave trader, but he denied it and said he despised slave traders.
• Nami tried to manipulate Ma Qiao with a helpless act, but he questioned her and recorded her answers instead.
• Nami gave Ma Qiao her real name and age but fabricated her other details, then suspected he was waiting to recover his strength and prepared to attack.

Nami tried to escape Ma Qiao by smashing an aquarium and using a dirty trick, but his Courage skill stopped her kick. The next morning, she woke handcuffed aboard the Root Division’s ship and questioned Ma Qiao about the marines’ training and his love-made breakfast.

• Nami smashed the aquarium, sprayed Ma Qiao with geoduck liquid, and kicked at his crotch, but his Courage skill protected him.
• Ma Qiao handcuffed Nami to a railing, and she woke the next morning wearing a loose white shirt.
• Ma Qiao introduced himself and explained that the assembled marines belonged to the Root Division and had returned to the ship by midnight.
• Ma Qiao said the Root Division marines were elite recruits being disciplined and trained by Garen and Qiangsen.
• Ma Qiao ate a homemade bento while urging Garen to keep lifting a cannon, and Nami teased him about the woman who had made it.

Ma Qiao brought the handcuffed Nami back to Cocoyasi Village with more than two hundred Marines, leaving her uneasy as the villagers watched their arrival. He said they would wait for a few people before revealing why they had come.

• Nami tried to persuade Ma Qiao to unlock her handcuffs by offering to play different roles, but he recorded her claims about her sister Nojiko.
• The repaired Twitch sailed southeast through calm waters, and Ma Qiao told Nami they were heading to Cocoyasi Village.
• Ma Qiao predicted heavy rain, and Nami confirmed that the weather suggested a storm was coming.
• Nami stepped onto Cocoyasi's beach and recalled how Arlong had destroyed her happy childhood with Nojiko and Bellemere.
• More than two hundred Marines disembarked and formed up while Nami hid behind Ma Qiao and worried about the villagers seeing her.

Ma Qiao waited in Cocoyasi Village as Nami and the villagers tried to understand why the marines had come. After Ma Qiao killed a Fish-Man sentry with a flicked booger, Smoker arrived with reinforcements and the man Ma Qiao had requested.

• Genzo approached Twitch to ask why the marines had come, and Ma Qiao told him to wait with the others.
• Nami spoke about Fish-Men’s strength, then watched Ma Qiao’s booger strike and kill Ajo, an Arlong Pirates officer.
• Ma Qiao explained that human training could also produce great strength, while Twitch dismissed an umbrella so his men could share the rain with Ma Qiao.
• Smoker arrived aboard a larger warship with Tashigi and five hundred elite Loguetown marines.
• Smoker tossed a suited man carrying a folder toward Ma Qiao, prompting Nami to duck behind Ma Qiao and distrust the marines again.

Ma Qiao and the Marines honored Bellemere and exposed how the East Blue's 16th Branch had abandoned her and covered up its corruption. The Marines formed the Root Division, while Nami, overcome with grief, asked Ma Qiao for help at her mother’s grave.

• Ma Qiao met Wallace, the deputy editor-in-chief of the East Blue Daily, and led the Marines and Genzo to Bellemere’s grave with Nami.
• The Marines saluted Bellemere, and Ma Qiao comforted the sobbing Nami.
• Twitch presented an archived newspaper and revealed Bellemere’s service, her death at the hands of the Fish-Men, and the 16th Branch’s corruption.
• Twitch ordered Nezumi’s former men to remove the word “justice” from their uniforms and established the Root Division.
• Ma Qiao placed a daisy on Bellemere’s grave, and Nami fell to her knees and asked him for help.

At Bellemere’s grave, Ma Qiao comforted Nami as Twitch, Garen, and the Marines honored her, while Ma Qiao secured Garp’s support for the memorial and the Root Division’s restructuring. Twitch announced plans to make Bellemere a lasting symbol of the 16th Branch, and Nami wept with relief that her adoptive mother’s heroism had been recognized.

• Ma Qiao helped Nami stand, and Twitch and Garen knelt at Bellemere’s grave before the other Marines joined them.
• Tashigi cried and knelt, while Smoker hid his tears and left with her for their ship.
• Wallace hesitated to publish photos of Twitch kneeling, but Ma Qiao showed him Garp on a Den Den Mushi and assured him they had connections at the top.
• Ma Qiao spoke with Garp, who supported the memorial and the acknowledgment that justice was flawed.
• Twitch declared that Bellemere’s grave would become a spiritual symbol of the 16th Branch, with a statue and yearly visits planned after its reorganization.
• Nami cried as she realized Bellemere would be honored, and Ma Qiao let her cry against his chest.

After Arlong’s threats were exaggerated into a sensational account, Ma Qiao told Nami and reporter Wallace that Garp was commanding the operation against the Arlong Pirates. Ma Qiao then brought the cuffed Nami home, where Nojiko attacked him and was stopped by Garen.

• As Nami warned Ma Qiao about Arlong’s strength, Ma Qiao embellished her claims with increasingly outrageous feats, angering her and confusing Wallace.
• Ma Qiao told Wallace that Garp had arrived at the 16th Branch base to command the war, with Captain Twitch as deputy commander, and Nami felt reassured by Garp’s involvement.
• Nami asked Ma Qiao to remove her handcuffs, but he refused and said she would serve her sentence and work as his customer service representative.
• Ma Qiao kicked open the door to Nami’s home and suggested they search for stolen goods.
• Nojiko leapt from a ceiling beam to attack Ma Qiao, but Garen caught her, and Genzo rushed in to stop her.
• Nami told Nojiko that Ma Qiao was not a bad person, though he was a little lecherous.

After confiscating Nami’s buried treasure, Ma Qiao teased her and headed with Smoker to confront Arlong. He rejected sympathy for Arlong’s gang, leaving Smoker wary of Ma Qiao’s dangerous political implications as the Marines prepared to attack before Garp arrived.

• Garen found Nami’s buried treasure, and Ma Qiao confiscated the goods for the 16th Branch.
• Ma Qiao told Nami she could have used the money to hire Baroque Works to kill Arlong, then gave Nojiko a Den Den Mushi recording that embarrassed Nami.
• Ma Qiao and Smoker reached Arlong Park, where Smoker worried about facing a powerful Fish-Man before Garp arrived.
• Ma Qiao said Arlong and his gang were not worthy of sympathy, comparing them to Kunlun Slaves and criticizing their attacks on innocents.
• Smoker realized Ma Qiao was indirectly criticizing the Celestial Dragons and asked whether the Marines should attack Arlong before Garp arrived.

Arlong learned that Marines had arrived at Arlong Park and recognized the battered Good Guy Twitch as the ship Borsalino had sailed on seven years earlier. Remembering Fisher Tiger’s death and his own defeat by Borsalino, Arlong prepared to confront the ships.

• Arlong sent Hachi to find A Zhang, but watchmen reported that Marines from the 16th Branch had arrived.
• Arlong went to the beach and saw the White Hunter and Good Guy Twitch, then recognized the latter as Borsalino’s old ship.
• Arlong remembered how villagers on Foolshout Island had betrayed Fisher Tiger, who died from his wounds after a Marine ambush.
• Arlong recalled attacking a warship at Foolshout Island and being stopped by Borsalino, then decided to tear apart the ship now before him.

Arlong’s Fish-Men attacked the White Hunter, but Twitch and Garen fought them off while Ma Qiao let the Root Division handle the encounter. Twitch’s frustration with Garen’s kill-stealing ended the fight on a sour note.

• Arlong ordered Kuroobi and the other Fish-Men to sink the ship, while Smoker and Ma Qiao decided Twitch and his companions could handle the attack.
• Twitch used his crossbow and Noonquiver to pick off the Fish-Men as the Root Division fired on them from the warship.
• Kuroobi and Chew attacked Twitch with their finishing moves, but Garen blocked both attacks with Courage.
• Garen killed Kuroobi with Decisive Strike, then used his ultimate to kill Chew before Twitch’s third bolt could land.
• Twitch shouted at Garen for taking both kills.

The Marines attacked Arlong Park, and Arlong showed his strength by biting apart cannonballs. Smoker flew in to confront him, frightening Arlong into trying to escape underwater, but Hachi’s call brought Momoo up from the sea and knocked Arlong back onto the beach.

• Tashigi directed the White Hunter’s cannon fire and net shells to trap Fish-Men along the shore.
• Arlong caught three cannonballs in his teeth and crushed them, terrifying Nami.
• Nami urged Ma Qiao and Smoker to wait for Vice Admiral Garp, but Smoker chose to trust Ma Qiao’s assessment and flew toward Arlong.
• Arlong recognized Smoker as a Logia user and decided to escape into the sea rather than abandon his treasure.
• Hachi called Momoo, who leaped from the sea and knocked Arlong back onto the beach.

Ma Qiao stopped Smoker from attacking Momoo, then used his Playful Trickster skill to reach and cow her into submission. Momoo retreated and supported the Fish-Men, leaving Ma Qiao with a new source of fresh milk for his students.

• Momoo emerged from the sea and struck Arlong, while Nami misunderstood Ma Qiao’s question about whether the sea cow could produce milk.
• Ma Qiao jumped onto Smoker’s shoulders and asked him to spare Momoo, then used Smoker as a pivot to leap onto her head.
• Ma Qiao punched Momoo, threatened to hit her again, and made her retreat obediently to the sidelines.
• Momoo cheered for the Fish-Men and provided every kind of support except fighting.
• Ma Qiao explained that he had subdued Momoo so she would accept him as her master and provide milk for his students.

Ma Qiao and Smoker fought Arlong, who tried to protect his crew and escape the Marines. Ma Qiao killed Arlong with Garen’s ultimate skill and said he would fulfill Fisher Tiger’s dying wish.

• Arlong attacked Ma Qiao and Smoker from the sea, but they struck him down and questioned his claims about the Arlong Pirates’ strongest fighter.
• Ma Qiao claimed Hachi had once performed CPR on Dark King Rayleigh, stunning the battlefield and drawing Wallace’s attention.
• Arlong charged Tashigi, wounded her, then threw Hachi clear of the fight and ordered him to flee and seek Jinbe.
• Ma Qiao confronted Arlong and used [Demacian Justice] to kill him, promising to fulfill Fisher Tiger’s dying wish.

After Arlong’s defeat, Nami was arrested while Ma Qiao’s group secured Fish-Man Paradise and prepared to reinforce Smoker. Smoker was overwhelmed by Silvers Rayleigh, who then clashed with Garp, and their collision split the sky.

• The Marines defeated Arlong’s remaining Fish-Man officers, and Nami stood cuffed beside Arlong’s charred corpse.
• Tashigi praised Ma Qiao and Twitch for sealing off Fish-Man Paradise to preserve evidence against the corrupt 16th Branch.
• A distant crash shook the area, and Ma Qiao ordered Garen to intensify his training and Tashigi to prepare supplies before they went to support Smoker.
• Smoker cornered Hachi, but Silvers Rayleigh hurtled in, struck Smoker, and told Hachi to take the unconscious Fizz back to Fish-Man Island.
• Garp appeared at sea, and Rayleigh and Garp exchanged a punch and kick that sent Smoker flying and split the sky.

Ma Qiao rescued Smoker, Tashigi, and Wallace from the chaos of Garp and Rayleigh’s spar, then returned to Arlong Park to claim the spoils. He sent Tashigi to help clear out Arlong’s remaining forces while he planned to use Scan to find the hidden treasure himself.

• Ma Qiao and Tashigi reached the battlefield, where Garp and Rayleigh’s spar had devastated the beach, and carried the unconscious Smoker away.
• Tashigi apologized for doubting Ma Qiao’s justice, and Ma Qiao hurried her and Smoker toward Arlong Park to escape the fighting.
• Ma Qiao rescued Wallace from flying debris and carried him away despite his protests that he still needed to take battle photos.
• After setting Smoker down, Ma Qiao prepared to search Arlong Park, and Nami offered to help him find Arlong’s treasure.
• Ma Qiao ordered Tashigi to take Nami and help defeat Arlong’s remaining followers while he searched for evidence and treasure.

Ma Qiao and the Root Division altered Arlong’s financial records before turning the seized treasure into Q Coins, while Nami woke free of her handcuffs and hurried back to the docks. There, Tashigi explained that the Marines were distributing 200 million Beli to the islanders and pointed Nami toward Ma Qiao’s relief plan.

• Ma Qiao reviewed Arlong’s ledger, which listed 845 million Beli, and had Root Division experts prepare a falsified account for Marine Headquarters.
• Nami woke from a dream, realized her handcuffs were gone, and shared breakfast with Nojiko, who secretly recorded her sleep-talking.
• Nami rushed to the docks after learning the Marines were still on the island and saw villagers queued under Root Division soldiers’ direction.
• Tashigi told Nami that the Root Division was distributing 200 million Beli seized from Arlong’s lair to the victims.
• Tashigi claimed Arlong had spent more than 30 million Beli a year on dental care, then showed Nami a notice for Ma Qiao’s relief and development plan.

After Arlong’s defeat, Ma Qiao organized Cocoyasi Village’s recovery and planned to expand the Big Bird Consortium across the East Blue. He recruited and strengthened Gangplank, then sent him back undercover among the Krieg Pirates.

• Smoker questioned Ma Qiao’s spending on the villagers, and Ma Qiao explained his plan to have the Marines organize local businesses and farming.
• Ma Qiao left the clinic after feeding Smoker baskets of oranges and turned to the cleanup, while Garp led a Marine crackdown at the 16th Branch.
• Twitch reported that Garp had smashed up the 16th Branch buildings, prompting Ma Qiao to plan a repair-funding request and consider hiring the Big Bird Corporation’s construction team.
• Ma Qiao summoned Ryze to Cocoyasi Village and made him the Big Bird Group’s East Blue representative.
• Ma Qiao summoned Gangplank, spent Beli to raise him to level 6 and unlock his skills, then sent him back to work undercover with the Krieg Pirates.