Recaps

Zoro trained through the night, inspired by Yasuo’s extreme workout and surprised by how quickly he recovered after drinking Sauce-Scented Bomb. Meanwhile, Stelly and Princess Sally Nantokanette plotted to kill her father and brother so Stelly could claim the throne, while preparing to escort the Heavenly Tribute out of the city.

• Zoro completed ten thousand weighted sword swings, then saw Yasuo’s post about finishing a hundred thousand frog jumps and starting sit-ups.
• Zoro noticed his exhaustion had faded unusually quickly and wondered whether Sauce-Scented Bomb was helping him recover.
• Zoro drank from his sake gourd and resumed training until he collapsed at dawn.
• Yasuo slept comfortably in the mountain bandits’ hideout, his Moments post already scheduled to send.
• Stelly and Princess Sally Nantokanette discussed ways to kill the king and the prince, while Stelly worried about escorting the Heavenly Tribute out of the city.

Stelly’s Heavenly Tribute procession was robbed after Luffy’s honey mishap brought Zoro and the Goa Kingdom soldiers into a hornet attack. Three days later, Stelly blamed the loss on the Sun Dog bandits and urged the Mary Geoise envoy to call a Buster Call.

• Stelly halted the tribute procession to demand iced honey water and followed a vendor’s cries to Zorojiro’s roadside restaurant.
• Zoro brought out a covered dish, but it contained Luffy, who had eaten the honey and pulled a hornet’s nest from his pants.
• Yasuo and the Sun Dog Bandit Group found the soldiers, Zoro, Stelly, and Luffy battered by hornets, then carried off the Heavenly Tribute.
• Stelly and his party arrived naked at the west coast docks three days later, where Horton Tucker threatened to send Stelly to Shalria if he could not explain the missing tribute.
• Stelly blamed the robbery on Naraku, also known as Sun Dog, and asked Horton to request a Buster Call.

Horton Tucker and Stelly faced the loss of the Celestial Dragons’ tribute, then discovered the Sun Dog Bandit Group had stolen another tribute shipment and freed slaves. Horton pressed the supposed Golden Den Den Mushi’s button, triggering a Youth Edition Buster Call signal, while Kizaru was summoned to Marine Headquarters and went back to sleep after dismissing the summons.

• World Government employees told Horton Tucker that the Sun Dog Bandit Group had stolen the Eta Kingdom’s Heavenly Tribute and freed slaves from the Krinia Kingdom.
• Horton opened the box Kizaru had given him, found a sickly, yellow Den Den Mushi, and pressed its button at Stelly’s urging.
• Horton learned that his ship was beyond repair and found no other vessels at the harbor, so Stelly suggested taking the king’s pleasure boat from the royal capital.
• At Marine Headquarters, a Marine told Kizaru that the Police Communicator Buster Call: Youth Edition had been activated and that Sengoku wanted his advice.
• Kizaru said he could not remember who had received the devices, offered no recommendation, and turned off the office lights to resume sleeping.

Old Sally abandoned the Goa Kingdom to flee to Mary Geoise, but Graves killed him and Stelly at the royal dock. A fleet of ten Navy warships then arrived, carrying five captains who announced their mission to restore order.

• Old Sally handed the throne to Stelly and prepared to flee with Horton Tucker, while nobles crowded aboard the royal cruise ship.
• Old Sally ordered Princess Sally Nantokanette taken aboard and declared that he had left the kingdom to the Outlook Family.
• Graves appeared on the ship, shot Old Sally and Stelly, then escaped using Flash, a smoke bomb, and Quickdraw.
• Horton Tucker watched the Navy fleet block the river and realized the client whose valuables he had hoped to take was dead.
• Twitch, Smoker, Garen, Hina, and Darius arrived with ten warships and proclaimed their intent to uphold justice and restore order.

Marine forces launched a limited Buster Call: Youth Edition in Goa Kingdom, where Twitch questioned Stelly’s claim to the throne. Garen then revealed evidence that Sabo was alive, and Twitch prepared to make Ma Qiao regent while Sabo traveled.

• Horton Tucker saw ten Marine warships and five young Headquarters Colonels arrive, and the ships began a deterrent bombardment of the dock.
• Twitch assigned Smoker and Hina to blockade the waterway while he, Garen, and Darius led troops into the city; the Colonels approved his plan by vote.
• Twitch questioned Stelly’s claim to the throne and explained that Sabo, as the Outlook Family’s eldest son, was first in line to inherit it.
• Sett knocked Sally Nantokanette unconscious when she obstructed the Marines, while Sanji tried to intervene.
• Twitch was about to declare Stelly king after he claimed Sabo was missing, but Garen presented a photograph and a letter as evidence that Sabo was alive.
• Garen identified Sabo in the photograph as Ma Qiao’s nephew and proposed that Ma Qiao serve as regent while Sabo traveled the world.

Ma Qiao returned to Shurima and met Crocodile, who was struggling to reclaim Baroque Works’ money and began considering a new plan to seize Alabasta. Garp then told Ma Qiao that he had been appointed the Goa Kingdom’s second lord regent.

• Ma Qiao visited customers at the internet café, where Crocodile asked about the Baroque Works restructuring and acquisition.
• Ma Qiao explained that he would protect Baroque Works’ assets and enforce identity checks, leaving Crocodile worried that he might never recover his money.
• Crocodile resolved to target King Cobra and steal Alabasta, though he knew he would need to plan carefully.
• Garp handed Ma Qiao a Den Den Mushi and announced that, under King Sally’s will and with the Outlook Family’s certification and World Government mediation, Ma Qiao had become the Goa Kingdom’s second lord regent.

Ma Qiao prepared to take over the Goa Kingdom as regent, with Vivi at his side as his fiancée, while reporters accepted a spotless official account of the royal family’s downfall. The chapter ended with Ma Qiao and Vivi boarding the Fathead Fish, the first vacuum airship made from Ma Qiao’s own biological material, to travel to the kingdom.

• Ma Qiao rejected the royal outfit Vivi prepared and persuaded her to keep acting as his fiancée while they took responsibility for the Goa Kingdom.
• Reporters investigated the transfer of power and accepted the account that Sali and his son had looted the kingdom before a dismissed royal guard officer killed them.
• Ma Qiao paid the Goa Kingdom’s heavenly tribute himself, and the World Government recognized his authority as regent.
• Ma Qiao gave reporters vague assurances that he would respect the local nobles and rely on them to govern.
• A Fathead Fish vacuum airship arrived, and Ma Qiao revealed that it had been made from his own biological material.
• Ma Qiao and Vivi boarded the airship to depart for the Goa Kingdom.

Ma Qiao, Vivi, Nami, and Yamato flew toward the Goa Kingdom aboard the Fathead Fish, but an unknown Sky Island struck the airship and raised concerns about a possible threat near Shandora. After Nami safely guided them through the clouds, they arrived at the Goa Kingdom, where Nami warned Vivi that its conditions were worse than Alabasta’s during the drought.

• Vivi bit Ma Qiao and demanded to know why Nami and Yamato had joined what was supposed to be their trip together.
• The Fathead Fish jolted after hitting something in the clouds, and Nami sent Heimerdinger to repair the damaged rudder.
• Nami concluded that the airship had struck an uncharted Sky Island, marked its location, and named it Cat Cat Island.
• Ma Qiao considered whether the island could be Golden Lion’s territory and decided to investigate after handling matters in the Goa Kingdom.
• Nami guided the airship through the clouds to the Goa Kingdom and warned Vivi that it was worse than Alabasta during the drought.

Ma Qiao, Vivi, and the others arrived at the Uncertain Substance Terminal and saw the pollution and desperate poverty hidden behind the Goa Kingdom’s glamorous image. The nobles welcomed Ma Qiao as the new regent, and he asked to be taken to the palace so he could issue his first order.

• Vivi questioned the stench around the Goa Kingdom, and Ma Qiao gave her and the others hazmat suits designed by Zaun’s scientists.
• At the Uncertain Substance Terminal, Ma Qiao and Vivi saw untreated waste, poisoned land, and impoverished people living among the garbage.
• Ma Qiao explained how the Goa Kingdom separated its poor from its wealthy inner city and compared its inequality to Mary Geoise.
• Commoners laid themselves on the ground so nobles could walk over them, while the scavengers hoped in vain that the city dwellers had brought out garbage.
• The nobles mistook Ma Qiao and his companions’ clothing for Celestial Dragon fashion and welcomed them as the new rulers.
• An elderly noble said King Sally had emptied the royal palace of its jewels, and Ma Qiao asked to be taken there to issue his first order.

Ma Qiao attended a welcoming banquet in the Goa Kingdom palace, where the nobles tried to exploit the treasury deficit and extort money from him. After they insulted and threatened him, Ma Qiao and his companions fought back, and Earl Powell called the Marines for help.

• Ma Qiao arrived at the palace with Vivi, Nami, and Yamato, and the nobles speculated that he might be a Celestial Dragon.
• Earl Powell led the group to a banquet of shabby furnishings and bad food while the nobles complained about the kingdom’s finances.
• The nobles demanded fifty billion Beli from Ma Qiao, claiming the money was needed to cover the treasury deficit and secure their loyalty.
• Ma Qiao splashed wine on Earl Powell and called the nobles trash, then sent the nobles who attacked him flying as his companions fought the guards.
• Earl Powell accused Ma Qiao of rebellion and dialed the Marines’ emergency number, threatening him with the three Marine Headquarters colonels in the country.

Ma Qiao used the Marines and Root Division to purge rebellious nobles in the Goa Kingdom, then announced plans to abolish the class system and rebuild the kingdom around public work, education, and pig farming. His first policy speech sparked fierce opposition from the capital’s townspeople, but he pressed ahead with the reforms.

• Earl Powell called on the Marines to arrest Ma Qiao, but Darius killed a noble who challenged him as Root Division elites secured the palace.
• Twitch justified Ma Qiao’s authority by pointing to his payment of the Heavenly Tribute, and Ma Qiao ordered Garen to deal with the nobles before leaving with Vivi, Nami, and Yamato.
• Over the next three days, the Root Division executed nobles who resisted labor reform or rebelled, while Ma Qiao spared some lesser offenders by assigning them labor.
• The Big Bird Consortium’s news network downplayed the purge, and reports from Twitch’s and Darius’s factions blamed each other for misconduct.
• On May 5, 1519, Ma Qiao announced that the Goa Kingdom would abolish its class system, build 130 pig farms, and send citizens to learn farming and other work.
• Ma Qiao promised free basic education for children under fourteen and further study at Shurima University for top students, while the capital’s townspeople protested his reforms.

Ma Qiao rebuilt the Goa Kingdom by expanding pig farming, supporting scavengers, and raising public approval, then learned he had to attend the postponed Reverie in Mary Geoise. Crocodile invited him to travel alongside King Cobra’s delegation, and Ma Qiao agreed once he heard Cobra would pay the expenses.

• Ma Qiao used jobs, welfare, and medical care to integrate scavengers into the Goa Kingdom’s production drive, while Sejuani and Bristle helped establish a booming pig-farming industry.
• By September, the kingdom had stabilized, and its people had begun calling Ma Qiao “Daddy Ma,” prompting him to forbid the nickname and send Stelly and his wife to work at a state-owned pig farm.
• Ma Qiao visited his internet café to discuss Navy food procurement but found Garp and Zephyr absent and encountered Crocodile instead.
• Crocodile told Ma Qiao that the Reverie postponed from 1518 would take place in Mary Geoise, where the Goa Kingdom was expected to send its regent.
• Crocodile revealed that he was King Cobra’s sworn younger brother and would escort him to the Reverie, while privately planning to take over Alabasta by eliminating Cobra and his daughter.
• Crocodile offered to have King Cobra cover the travel expenses, and Ma Qiao agreed to go with him.

Ma Qiao met Cobra aboard Alabasta's royal yacht and discovered that Tahm Kench had become a wealthy vocational-school owner who had taught Cobra to cook. As the yacht reached Mary Geoise, Cobra promised to revive Alabasta's economy, leaving Ma Qiao worried about what his plans would bring.

• Ma Qiao greeted Cobra and Crocodile aboard the royal yacht, while Cobra showed off his new confidence and cooking ambitions.
• Ma Qiao summoned Tahm Kench, who explained that his vocational college had made him a famous educator and the second-richest person in Shurima.
• Tahm Kench insulted Cobra's leadership before realizing that his former cooking student was the king, and Cobra vowed to improve Alabasta's economy.
• Ma Qiao paid to install an air conditioner and generator on the yacht while Crocodile joined nightly dungeon runs and Cobra continued his cooking lessons.
• Tahm Kench rigorously trained Cobra until his cooking improved, and the yacht finally approached Mary Geoise near the end of August.

At the Reverie, Ma Qiao built alliances with Cobra and Neptune, then proposed a World Government rapid-response force to stabilize affiliated nations. The proposal gained support, and the World Government representative steered the debate toward appointing Marine Colonel Darius as its commander.

• Ma Qiao met Garp, Cobra, Neptune, and Fizz at Red Port, then invited Cobra and Neptune to dinner and secured their approval for Big Bird Consortium investment plans.
• Ma Qiao visited the Empty Throne and used his Scan skill on it, receiving a startling result.
• At the Reverie, Ma Qiao and Cobra supported Fish-Man Island’s equal-rights proposal, but Neptune failed to win a majority.
• Ma Qiao proposed a permanent rapid-response force to restore stability and mediate disputes among affiliated nations, prompting heated debate.
• The World Government representative distributed guidance to selected kings, who backed the force and suggested Colonel Darius as its commander.

Ma Qiao’s proposal for a World Government-controlled rapid-response force alarmed Sengoku and Tsuru, though Sengoku took comfort from Ma Qiao’s involvement and the Big Bird Consortium’s role. At the Reverie, Cobra’s plan to make Alabasta a culinary capital left Ma Qiao wondering whether he would have to claim the throne.

• The World Government backed Ma Qiao’s proposal for a rapid-response force of young Marine officers under its direct control.
• Little Peanut delivered a record of the Reverie meeting to Sengoku, who learned of the proposal while Garp joked with him over a bento.
• Sengoku told Tsuru about the plan, and she worried that the officers’ sense of justice would be distorted by Mary Geoise’s influence.
• Sengoku noted that the Big Bird Consortium would supply the force and felt reassured because Ma Qiao had proposed it.
• Cobra presented his plan to make Alabasta the world’s culinary capital, prompting Ma Qiao to consider the laws of personal unions and his place in the line of succession.

At the Reverie, Ma Qiao watched Cobra defend Alabasta’s affordable hospitals against Wapol’s threats, then arranged a farewell barbecue with Cobra and Neptune. When Doflamingo warmly greeted Ma Qiao, Crocodile was left unexpectedly jealous and disheartened.

• Ma Qiao observed the kings’ absurd proposals at the Reverie and saw Wapol accuse Alabasta of undermining the Drum Kingdom’s medical business.
• Cobra defended Alabasta’s affordable hospitals, refused to back down from Wapol’s threats, and offered him half the proceeds from the Alabasta Food Festival as compensation.
• After the weeklong conference, Ma Qiao invited Cobra and Neptune to a barbecue and discussed most-favored-nation trade terms with them.
• Doflamingo greeted Ma Qiao warmly at Red Port and clasped his hand, walking past Crocodile’s attempted greeting.
• Crocodile withdrew his hand and wondered why seeing Doflamingo embrace Ma Qiao made him feel so hurt.

Ma Qiao learned that Doflamingo wanted him to promote SMILE and received a warning from Senor Pink not to spread it. After a barbecue left the Fathead Fish Airship without propulsion, Nami calculated that it would have to make an emergency landing in the North Blue.

• Doflamingo offered Ma Qiao thirty percent of SMILE sales revenue to promote the product, and Ma Qiao asked to inspect its samples and production site.
• Senor Pink told Ma Qiao that Lucian’s condition was worsening and asked him not to help spread SMILE because it harmed people.
• Ma Qiao returned to the Fathead Fish Airship, where Nami, Vivi, Cobra, Heimerdinger, and Rumble joined him for a barbecue.
• Two days later, Nami discovered that Rumble had used the airship’s propulsion gas for the barbecue and blamed him and Heimerdinger for the loss of power.
• Nami determined that the airship could not resist the air currents without power and ordered an emergency landing in the North Blue.

Trafalgar Law returned to the poisoned ruins of Flevance with the Heart Pirates, explaining how the World Government concealed the truth behind Amber Lead disease. The Fathead Fish airship crash-landed nearby, bringing Ma Qiao’s group into contact with Law and his crew.

• Trafalgar Law brought the Heart Pirates to Flevance to find materials for repairing their submarine and recalled how the World Government had covered up the cause of Amber Lead disease.
• Bepo noticed the Fathead Fish airship falling toward them, and Law used Room to move his companions out of danger before it crash-landed.
• Nami emerged from the airship and scolded Rumble, while Heimerdinger, Ma Qiao, and Vivi followed her outside.
• Bepo attacked Nami to protect Rumble and Heimerdinger, but a frost shield stopped his kick and froze his body.
• Trafalgar Law used Room and Kikoku to remove the frost and Amber Lead toxins from Bepo’s leg.
• Ma Qiao applauded Law’s ability and asked whether he would work at their Medical Service Center.

Ma Qiao defeated Trafalgar Law and offered him a place in his hospital, then learned that Heimerdinger had found medical methods to treat Amber Lead disease. Law agreed to join Ma Qiao’s organization if he could truly cure the disease, but demanded an apology at the graveyard if the claim was false.

• Ma Qiao revealed his Penguin-Penguin Fruit powers, and Law switched places with Penguin to attack him.
• Ma Qiao teleported behind Law and struck him with an ice-enhanced punch, freezing him and the ground around him.
• Penguin acknowledged Ma Qiao as the true lord of penguins and begged him to spare Law, while Ma Qiao explained that Nami had only been playing with Rumble.
• Law warned Ma Qiao’s group that the local toxins could cause Amber Lead disease, but Vivi produced protective suits and Heimerdinger analyzed the soil and air.
• Heimerdinger announced several possible medical treatments for Amber Lead disease, and Law offered to join Ma Qiao’s organization if the cure worked.

Ma Qiao let Trafalgar Law scan his body for Amber Lead contamination, revealing an extraordinary physique and heavy-metal dust in his respiratory tract. A toad Fish-Man used Mikael's Blessing to remove the particles and heal minor damage, leaving Law amazed by the device.

• Ma Qiao handled contaminated snow and told Law that he would soon be his future boss.
• Law used ROOM and Scan to examine Ma Qiao, discovering his extreme muscle and bone density and Amber Lead dust in his body.
• Law warned that Ma Qiao's descendants could inherit the contamination, and Nami struck him with a can.
• Ma Qiao summoned a toad Fish-Man, who used an orange crucible to bathe him in a healing radiance.
• Law completed an enhanced scan and saw the Amber Lead dust vanish and minor damage heal as Ma Qiao identified the device as Mikael's Blessing.

Ma Qiao told Trafalgar Law that Brook was a real, conscious talking skeleton and offered to let him speak with his dead parents. He introduced Yorick, the Shepherd of Souls, and began planning to use his powers to restore Flevance as a home for the dead.

• Ma Qiao showed Law, Vivi, Nami, and the Heart Pirates a video of Brook playing the violin, explaining that Brook retained his memories and consciousness.
• Law asked whether Brook could truly remember his former life, and Ma Qiao said reuniting a soul with its own remains was difficult.
• Ma Qiao told Law that his friend Yorick could communicate with the dead and summon souls with their memories and personalities intact.
• Ma Qiao considered rebuilding Flevance as a kingdom of the dead, where souls could live and work for the Big Bird Consortium.
• Ma Qiao invited Law to visit the cemetery and speak with his parents before Yorick arrived.

At the 19th Navy Branch, Colonel Pieru worried after Captain Caitlyn beat Fullbody and then went to investigate reports of a haunting near forbidden Sea Area 75. Fullbody followed her alone, planning to bring Nezumi and Spandam into a scheme against her, leaving Pieru fearing for Caitlyn’s safety.

• Pieru learned that Caitlyn had beaten Fullbody after he harassed a woman, and Fullbody left the office vowing revenge.
• Pieru discovered that Caitlyn had defeated Bellamy and driven off the Heart Pirates while investigating dangerous rookie crews.
• Pieru ordered his assistant to tell Caitlyn to stay at the branch, but learned she had already gone to investigate a reported haunting near Sea Area 75.
• Pieru heard that Fullbody had gone after Caitlyn alone and intended to enlist Nezumi and Spandam, prompting Pieru to fear they would harm her.

Annie captured Basil Hawkins after defeating the Hawkins Pirates, while Twitch’s Root Division Navy arrived in the North Blue with Drake also in custody. The townspeople rallied around Twitch, and Fullbody reached the crowded docks as locals petitioned to have him stay.

• Basil Hawkins foresaw that his own chance of survival was 1% as a World Government judicial ship approached.
• Annie ignored Spandam’s orders to avoid the Hawkins Pirates and set out to fight them.
• Annie defeated Hawkins and his crew with her fire, and Hawkins surrendered before Cipher Pol agents shackled him with Seastone Handcuffs.
• Annie ordered Hawkins hung from the mast and celebrated winning the hunting competition.
• Two days later, Fullbody arrived in a North Blue town and heard that Caitlyn had captured Hyena Bellamy and Twitch’s Root Division Navy had brought in Hawkins and Drake.
• Fullbody found the docks packed with townspeople praising Twitch and signing a petition for him to remain in the North Blue.

Caitlyn, Twitch, and Annie competed to capture North Blue pirates while their forces converged near the forbidden sea around Flevance. As Fullbody’s clash with Caitlyn and Annie escalated, Yorick’s black mist appeared over the sea, and the Marines heard singing and saw movement within it.

• Ma Qiao assigned Leona to support Caitlyn and sent Pyke, Lux, Yuumi, Draven, and Varus to assist other Retainers in their operations.
• Annie and Twitch arrived with Hawkins and X. Drake captured, and Fullbody taunted Caitlyn about her comparatively modest capture of Bellamy.
• Caitlyn shot Fullbody in the shoulder, and Sanji kicked him onto Annie’s ship after Fullbody threatened her.
• Annie burned Fullbody’s fingers and pressured him to sign over part of his family’s Sabaody Archipelago property, but he demanded to call Spandam first.
• Yorick spread [Mourning Mist] over the sea, concealing Flevance as the Shadow Isles, and the assembled Marines heard singing and saw something moving in the black mist.

Admiral Kizaru investigated Fullbody’s supposed Amber Lead disease and ghost possession, then found Caitlyn and her friends near the forbidden sea. He took Lux as his disciple and left without discovering that the ghosts were real, as Ma Qiao and the Shadow Isles’ dead began building a new legend.

• Kizaru arrived at the 19th Branch, heard Pieru’s report, and visited the deranged Fullbody in the infirmary.
• Kizaru learned that Caitlyn had gone to Niu'er Island with Lux and another friend, then hurried off to find them.
• Kizaru questioned Caitlyn and her friends, learned she had staged the ghosts to cover her attack on Fullbody, and decided to let her go.
• Kizaru asked Garen for permission to take Lux as his disciple and assured her that Marine Headquarters would not investigate the incident further.
• Kizaru departed without entering the Shadow Isles, while Ma Qiao, Tahm Kench, Yorick, and Karthus gathered the dead and began a new legend.