Chapter Summaries

Kuro escaped the warship with Lieutenant Nezumi and used Jango’s hypnosis to stage his own capture, killing his crew to cover his tracks. He tried to begin a new life as Klahadore, but the East Blue Daily exposed him as a notorious criminal and announced a 32 million Beli bounty.

• During the fire aboard the Twitch, “Galdino” fought the upright marine while Kuro seized Lieutenant Nezumi and escaped by boat.
• At camp, Kuro had Jango hypnotize Nezumi and a subordinate so the subordinate would impersonate Captain Kuro and Nezumi would believe he had captured him.
• After the hypnosis, Kuro used Spoon to kill Jango and all his remaining subordinates, then set out to become Klahadore.
• Two days later, Kuro tossed a strange Den Den Mushi into the sea and read the East Blue Daily aboard a cruise ship.
• The newspaper named Ulpo D. Kuro a wanted criminal with a 32 million Beli bounty and printed photographs linking him to the burning warehouse and his escape.

Kuro read a newspaper that blamed him for the stolen Marine supplies and gave him a 32-million-Beli bounty, then fainted from hunger before reaching Syrup Village. At Marineford, Vice Admiral Momonga praised Nezumi for supposedly exposing the corrupt supply network and decided to call in a favor.

• Kuro saw the newspaper’s photographs and concluded that Nezumi and Baroque Works had framed him for burning and stealing the military supplies.
• Kuro worried that Marines and criminals would silence him, but felt safer after discarding a possibly tracked Den Den Mushi and changing his identity.
• Kuro’s hunger and distress overwhelmed him, and he fainted aboard a cruise ship bound for Syrup Village.
• Vice Admiral Momonga told Vice Admiral Comil that Nezumi had uncovered corruption tied to the Sun Pirates’ remnants and the former 16th Branch.
• Comil credited Kuro’s supposed mastery of the Six Powers for Nezumi’s defeat, while Momonga praised Nezumi’s investigation and newspaper strategy.
• Momonga decided to call a senior who had returned to the East Blue to visit his grandson instead of attending the Marineford meeting.

Ma Qiao diverted the Good Guy Twitch to Loguetown to collect supplies, request Marine support, and claim a bounty for a hypnotized Black Cat Pirate. He spent the embezzled funds on leveling his crew and equipment while reaffirming his resolve to protect the justice in his heart.

• Ma Qiao returned to the Good Guy Twitch and set it on course for Loguetown to obtain supplies and reinforcements for dealing with Arlong and the other pirates allied with the 16th Branch.
• Ma Qiao planned to claim the bounty for Hairless Cat Sphinx, whom Jango had hypnotized into believing he was Kuro of a Hundred Plans.
• Morgan and his Marines boarded the Good Guy Twitch to help repair the storeroom, unaware that Ma Qiao had started the fire and sold the supplies.
• Ma Qiao justified keeping the missing supplies as a way to undermine the Celestial Dragons and protect justice in his heart.
• Ma Qiao spent the funds on leveling his retainers and buying equipment, then reviewed the crew's updated status.

Ma Qiao explained his and his companions’ equipment builds before Twitch’s Marines welcomed Morgan and his men aboard the Good Guy Twitch. Twitch invited Morgan to join the 16th Branch, and Qiangsen revealed the influential connections backing Twitch and Garen.

• Ma Qiao described Garen’s defensive build, Gangplank’s survival-focused skills, and his own plan to save for Frostfire Gauntlet while using Rejuvenation Beads.
• Morgan learned that the Good Guy Twitch was the 16th Branch commander’s flagship and that Twitch had come from the Grand Line to restore discipline.
• Twitch’s Marines held a banquet to thank Morgan’s troops for helping repair the storeroom, and Morgan admired Twitch’s habit of leaving fresh food for others.
• Twitch asked Morgan to join the effort to rebuild the 16th Branch, but Morgan said transfers between branches were difficult.
• Qiangsen told Morgan that Twitch was the nephew of a Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral and that two Headquarters Vice Admirals had praised Garen as a promising junior officer.

Twitch recruited Morgan and his sailors, forming a trusted inner circle while the ships sailed toward Loguetown. Their fishing trip was interrupted by Vice Admiral Garp’s Dog-Head Battleship, and Ma Qiao ordered Nezumi to approach and find out whether it was pursuing Ace.

• Twitch introduced Garen and Ma Qiao to Morgan, then secured Morgan’s transfer and command of his 118 sailors and warship.
• Ma Qiao proposed calling Twitch’s trusted inner circle Navy Justice’s Huge Root, or Root Division for short.
• While Ma Qiao prepared meat bait and chum, the Good Man Twitch was rocked by shells from a nearby warship.
• Twitch and his crew recognized the approaching vessel as Vice Admiral Garp’s Dog-Head Battleship, with Captain Smoker aboard.
• Morgan identified Spade Ace as a possible target of Garp’s pursuit, and Ma Qiao ordered Nezumi to approach the warship and investigate.

Twitch ordered his crew to bring their ship alongside Vice Admiral Garp and Smoker’s warship, while Smoker and Garp argued after Ace escaped again. Garp recognized the approaching Marines as Momonga’s young acquaintances and sent Smoker to confront them, leaving their meeting about to begin.

• Twitch ordered Qiangsen and the crew to bring their ship alongside Garp and Smoker’s warship.
• Smoker complained that Ace had escaped again, and Garp woke from a nap without seeming concerned.
• Smoker recalled how Garp’s missed cannon shots had damaged the White Hunter and how Garp had fallen asleep during the pursuit.
• A serious young woman objected to pirates being hung from the approaching ships, while Garp recognized the rat-head figurehead as belonging to Momonga’s acquaintances.
• Garp urged Smoker to deal with the local Marines, and Smoker flew toward the Great Guy Twitch as it came alongside.

Smoker boarded the ship to force the marines to take down the pirates, but Garen and Twitch fought back using their unusual abilities. The chapter ended with Twitch coating Smoker in burning, sticky slime while his Devil Fruit power was suppressed.

• Smoker swept past Qiangsen and Morgan and attacked Twitch, but Garen stepped in to protect him.
• Garen struck Smoker with Decisive Strike, wounding his shoulder and briefly silencing his Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability.
• Smoker attacked Garen with White Fist, but Garen endured the blow using Courage.
• Garen struck Smoker again to suppress his power, and Twitch circled behind him and covered him in sticky, corrosive slime.

Twitch and Garen teamed up against Smoker, using poison and a surprise attack to wound and humiliate him. Ma Qiao stopped their fight, secretly extorted money from Smoker in exchange for deleting the footage, and left the Marines believing he had ended the clash through persuasion.

• Twitch poisoned Smoker, slashed his butt, and escaped after triggering a burst of venom.
• Garen charged Smoker, who regained his Devil Fruit powers and prepared to fight back.
• Ma Qiao grabbed Garen and Smoker and stopped them from clashing, while his ability suppressed Smoker's Devil Fruit.
• Ma Qiao demanded payment to delete the footage, negotiated with Smoker, and accepted one million Beli.
• Smoker took the Den Den Mushi after Ma Qiao deleted the recording, while the Marines praised Ma Qiao for settling the fight through persuasion.

After Smoker lost to Ma Qiao’s group, Ma Qiao gave him diluted healing medicine, which quickly healed his shoulder wound. Smoker and Tashigi realized the potion was highly valuable, and Smoker wondered what it was worth.

• Garp urged the injured Smoker to return and fight Ma Qiao’s group, but Smoker headed to the infirmary with Tashigi.
• Ma Qiao boarded Garp’s ship, gave Garp the fishhook meat, and tossed Smoker a bottle of diluted Health Potion.
• Smoker resisted Tashigi’s efforts to treat his lower wound and drank a capful of the potion instead.
• Smoker showed Tashigi that his shoulder wound had rapidly healed, and she confirmed the medicine worked.
• Smoker asked how much the potion was worth, and Tashigi estimated it at one million Beli per bottle by comparing it with Giant Dung Beetle Dung Ball Pills.

Smoker realized Ma Qiao had given him medicine and a Visual Den Den Mushi out of kindness, then joined Garp’s banquet with Tashigi. Earlier, at the Baratie, Sanji fed hungry fishermen enslaved by the Krieg Pirates, and one offered him a wet Den Den Mushi.

• Smoker read Major Kuppas’s letter and realized Ma Qiao had given him the medicine to spare him embarrassment, so he told Tashigi not to mention it.
• Garp called Smoker to invite him to the banquet, and Smoker agreed to go while reminding Garp they were supposed to be hunting Ace.
• Smoker gave Tashigi the Visual Den Den Mushi to look after as they headed to the banquet.
• At the Baratie, Patty confronted Sanji for giving food to a poor customer, but Sanji pushed him away and carried leftovers to the rear deck.
• Sanji served food to elderly fishermen forced to work for the Krieg Pirates, and one fisherman offered him a wet Den Den Mushi.

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.