Chapter Summaries

Ma Qiao tested whether rubber shoes and Fizz’s agility could counter Enel’s lightning, then abandoned the attack and prepared Plan B. At Marineford, Garp sold Sengoku a Den Den Mushi and investment app before they read a dubious article about raising boys.

• Ma Qiao sent Garen and Fizz to God's Kingdom to test Enel’s lightning, and Fizz dodged it while Garen’s rubber soles were destroyed and he lost some health.
• Ma Qiao fled before the four Priests arrived, agreed with the Shandians to attack God's Kingdom later, and returned to Shurima Town with his party using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Vivi confronted Ma Qiao about delaying her Flying Thunder God training, and he promised to tutor her after the New Year.
• Garp gave Sengoku a Big Bird Den Den Mushi and urged him to invest through a retirement app, but Sengoku declined to commit his savings.
• Garp and Sengoku opened a message containing an article that claimed to offer expert advice on raising adolescent boys, and Garp gradually appeared to agree with it.

Ma Qiao used health advice to persuade Garp to arrange a wisdom tooth extraction for Luffy, while Sengoku rejected Akainu's request to expand the Marines and assigned him to oversee spring recruitment. The chapter ended with Garp booking a dental appointment and demanding another six months of leave.

• Ma Qiao planned to obtain a tissue sample from Luffy by arranging a wisdom tooth extraction and set about winning Garp over with online health tips.
• Garp misunderstood Sengoku's concerns about an operation, then told him he had taken on a promising young disciple from East Blue.
• Akainu asked Sengoku to expand Marine forces before spring recruitment, but Sengoku rejected the request because he would not cut benefits or increase the Heavenly Tribute.
• Sengoku put Akainu in charge of recruitment and warned him to guard against Cipher Pol stealing recruits or planting spies.
• Garp found Big Bird General Hospital's dental advertisement, booked a wisdom tooth extraction, and demanded another six months of leave from Sengoku.

Ma Qiao recruited Kennen, Akali, and Shen, then began building a hospital and developing Shurima as a medical and industrial center. He planned to use a flatbread policy to shift Alabasta away from grain production, confident that his Big Bird Consortium could control the food supply.

• Ma Qiao recruited Kennen, Akali, and Shen, bought them skins, and used their medical outfits to establish the idea for Big Bird General Hospital; Garp booked an appointment and wellness packages.
• Ma Qiao organized construction of the Big Bird Public Welfare General Hospital and considered recruiting medical talent from Drum Kingdom to make Shurima a medical capital.
• Ma Qiao inspected the hospital construction site as Vivi photographed him and questioned his popularity and his criticism of Cobra’s rule.
• Vivi worried that Shurima had produced no grain for Cobra and suggested using Dance Powder to blame the resulting rain on him, but Ma Qiao said it was too soon.
• Ma Qiao explained a flatbread policy that relied on imported grain and proposed applying it to Alabasta while turning the country into a manufacturing center controlled by the Big Bird Consortium.

After Nami and Vivi saw a photo of Vinsmoke Reiju, the chapter shifted to Judge, who worried about Germa 66’s lack of powerful allies and became absorbed in an online novel. It ended with Judge learning that Reiju had vanished during a battle in the Dibernie Principality.

• Ma Qiao finished demonstrating his strength to the people and returned to the mayor’s office with Vivi.
• Nami showed Vivi a photo of Reiju standing amid the ruins of a battlefield, and the two women called her a shameless vixen.
• Judge reflected on his ambition to conquer the North Blue and considered seeking powerful outside support for Germa 66.
• Judge recalled discovering the Dian Niang App, arguing with readers about a novel that mocked the Vinsmoke family, and finding a different novel whose struggling bandit leader reminded him of himself.
• A messenger told Judge that Yonji had reported Reiju’s sudden disappearance during a battle in the Dibernie Principality.

Ma Qiao used Sanji to pressure Reiju into helping secure an alliance between the Buggy Pirates and the Vinsmoke Family, while Buggy and Vinsmoke Judge began negotiating a secret partnership. The chapter ended with Judge considering a compromise over Buggy’s request for Germa cloning technology.

• Reiju woke shackled in a cell and attacked what she thought was an enemy, only to destroy Shaco’s clone.
• Ma Qiao identified himself as Mr. 3 of Baroque Works and told Reiju that Buggy wanted Germa’s cloning technology in exchange for an alliance.
• Ma Qiao showed Reiju a photograph of Sanji and threatened to endanger his Navy service, prompting Reiju to agree to cooperate.
• Buggy and Vinsmoke Judge quickly became friendly and formed a secret alliance so Germa could keep its status as a World Government Member State.
• Judge hesitated to trade Basic Cloning Technology for Buggy’s Buggy Ball formula, and Reiju suggested a compromise.

Ma Qiao opened Shurima Hospital and hired Reiju, whose arrival made Vivi and Nami suspicious. Meanwhile, Garp dragged Luffy to the hospital, trying to persuade him to join the Marines, and met Zoro on the way to the docks.

• Ma Qiao welcomed Reiju to Shurima Hospital and introduced her to its medical team despite knowing she had uncovered his Mr. 3 disguise.
• Reiju joined the hospital to work on cloning technology and grew close to Akali while Vivi and Nami watched her warily.
• Vivi questioned Ma Qiao about Reiju, and he insisted she was only his personal physician.
• Garp took Luffy to a restaurant, paid with his Big Bird mobile Den Den Mushi, and tried to tempt him into joining the Marines with promises of meat.
• Luffy insisted he would become the Pirate King, and Garp asked Zoro for directions to the docks as Luffy invited him to join his crew.

Garp brought Luffy and Zoro to Ma Qiao’s hospital, where Zoro’s head injury and Luffy’s wisdom teeth became the focus of treatment. While Garp enjoyed Kennen’s electric massage, Luffy was restrained for surgery, and Reiju flirted with Ma Qiao outside the operating room.

• Garp accidentally struck Zoro, then brought him and Luffy to the hospital after worrying that Zoro had brain damage.
• Ma Qiao tested Zoro with poetry, causing him to break his ropes, but Garp pinned him down again.
• Nami agreed to work the hospital front desk after Garp paid for treatment for himself and the two young men.
• Kennen gave Garp an electric massage while Dr. Mundo, Akali, and Shen prepared Luffy for wisdom tooth surgery.
• Luffy broke his restraints, but Shen redirected his attack and Akali restrained him with Seastone Handcuffs.
• Reiju questioned whether Luffy would survive the operation, then offered to give Ma Qiao a pleasurable experience.

Ma Qiao oversaw Luffy’s recovery and Zoro’s treatment while Garp took responsibility for both Straw Hats. Zoro’s new direction-finding device left him furious, but seeing Luffy suffer alongside Garp inspired him to ask Luffy to set sail with him and change the world.

• Shen reassured Garp that Luffy had only fallen asleep during surgery, and Garp scolded him before carrying him off with beef jerky for his liquid diet.
• Reiju recognized Garp and left to report his presence to Vinsmoke Judge, while Ma Qiao reflected on the spies around him.
• Akali preserved Luffy’s teeth for the plan against Enel, and Dr. Mundo operated on Zoro to fix his sense of direction.
• Dr. Mundo revealed that Heimerdinger’s patent had allowed him to install directional birds in Zoro’s head, and Zoro chased him through the hospital before Nami knocked him down.
• After seeing Garp force food into Luffy’s mouth, Zoro asked Luffy to sail with him to Laugh Tale and shouted that they would change the world together.

Ma Qiao’s scientists combined the Vinsmoke Family’s cloning research with Sun God’s Tooth technology while developing armor to counter Enel’s lightning. Reiju began to suspect Ma Qiao was an elite Celestial Dragon, and the chapter ended with Ma Qiao inspecting the scientists’ first tooth-based armor.

• Garp sent Luffy and Zoro back to Foosha Village instead of taking them to Marineford, where they resolved to train before setting sail.
• Ma Qiao recruited Singed and joined Heimerdinger, Dr. Mundo, and Viktor in studying the Vinsmoke Family’s cloning materials, quickly exposing Reiju’s deliberate flaws.
• The Piltover and Zaun teams built separate machines using Sun God’s Tooth Cloning Technology, leaving Reiju stunned by their scientific skill and guessing Ma Qiao was an elite Celestial Dragon.
• Reiju bit Ma Qiao’s earlobe again after he warned her that the cloning technology was now part of their cooperation, and she invoked his threat concerning her brother Sanji.
• Dr. Mundo presented Ma Qiao with Enamel Type 01, a light, flexible armor made from a specially cultivated giant tooth, but Ma Qiao declined to try it on.

Ma Qiao funded Heimerdinger and Viktor’s research into Nika Cells, then sent the God-Slaying Squad and fifty armored Shandia warriors to fight Enel on Sky Island. While Ma Qiao stayed behind to secure contracts with the Shandia chief, the expedition pushed past Enel’s Priests and reached Enel, who was battered by the tooth-armored force.

• Heimerdinger presented Nika Cells cultured from dental pulp stem cells, and Ma Qiao redirected the researchers to study them while funding their work and letting Reiju join as an intern.
• Ma Qiao equipped the God-Slaying Squad with armor made from Luffy’s teeth, and Vivi persuaded Nami to stay behind and watch Reiju.
• Ma Qiao joined the squad at Cloud-Hidden Village, where Garen demonstrated that the tooth armor could withstand Enel’s lightning; fifty Shandia warriors then joined the expedition.
• Ma Qiao stayed in the village to sign contracts with the Shandia chief and ordered Tahm Kench to defeat Enel quickly to protect the consortium’s interests.
• Tahm Kench led the expedition past the four Priests’ trial areas, sending Shandia warriors to hold them off while the main force charged Enel’s shrine.
• Enel unleashed increasingly powerful lightning attacks, but the tooth-armored fighters overwhelmed him and left him exhausted.

Ma Qiao’s forces defeated Enel and drove Gan Fall away as the Shandia reclaimed Shandora. After celebrating their victory, they transformed Enel into a dream-bound brain and an electricity-generating body, securing power for the Big Bird Consortium’s Shandora branch.

• Garen prepared to execute the defeated Enel, but Tahm Kench swallowed him instead, while Twisted Fate defeated the fleeing Priests.
• Tahm Kench rejected Gan Fall’s claim to authority and hurled him away, declaring Shandora would belong to the Shandia and the Big Bird Consortium.
• Wyper returned to Cloud-Hidden Village with news of the victory, and the Shandia thanked Ma Qiao before joining his celebration banquet.
• Tahm Kench spat out Enel, and Dr. Mundo’s team separated his brain from his body and placed it in Nika Cells.
• Heimerdinger monitored Enel’s brain as it dreamed, while the Nika Cells in his body made him eat meat and generate electricity for the Big Bird Consortium’s Shandora branch.

After Enel’s defeat, Ma Qiao celebrated with the Shandia people, collected the gold he had contracted for, and invested the proceeds in research, construction, and stronger heroes. As he considered recruiting more bodyguards, Vivi confronted him over eight months of fruitless Chakra training.

• The Shandia people celebrated their victory, and Tahm Kench beat Kashii God into becoming a beast of burden.
• Ma Qiao collected gold worth 60 billion Beli and gave the Shandia people an equal weight of soil as a gift.
• Ma Qiao allocated 15 billion Beli to research and funded a Shandora industrial park, hero upgrades, and equipment.
• Ma Qiao reassigned Twisted Fate to Buggy’s crew and moved Ashe from combat duty to managing the tobacco and alcohol business.
• Ma Qiao spent a week considering new recruits until Vivi threw his underpants at him and demanded an explanation for her failed Chakra training.

Ma Qiao used his blood to pass the Flash skill and ten years of his lifespan to Vivi, who misunderstood the cost and grew closer to him. He then revealed plans to use Dance Powder in Shurima, where Jinx was recruited to develop a rocket capable of delivering it into the clouds.

• Ma Qiao admitted that Ma Family Kung Fu required a bloodline inheritance, then gave Vivi his blood and transferred the Flash skill to her.
• Vivi hit the door while testing Flash, then feared Ma Qiao had sacrificed his lifespan to empower her; Ma Qiao let her believe it and she embraced him.
• Vivi used Flash in her work as Ma Qiao's photographer, while struggling with the fact that her work supported his campaign against Alabasta's royal family.
• Ma Qiao told Vivi he planned to use Dance Powder in Shurima rather than follow Mr. 0's original plan to frame the Nefertari royal family.
• Ma Qiao recruited Jinx as his twenty-fourth hero and tasked her with building a precise rocket launcher able to carry at least a hundred kilograms of Dance Powder into the clouds.

Kizaru printed a massive report at Marineford and learned Sengoku had ordered the printing room to make paper and ink from food ingredients. Kizaru and Akainu then visited the hospital for Zephyr’s surgery, where Sengoku was pressed to review Akainu’s recruitment plan as the operation began.

• Kizaru asked Captain Allison Gale to print the thick report from his Military Affairs Communicator, and Gale wondered whether another war was coming.
• Sengoku ordered Gale to make environmentally friendly printing paper and ink from ingredients such as carrot juice, vegetable fiber, cream, and honey.
• Kizaru met Akainu, who invited him to visit their former teacher, Black Arm Zephyr, for his surgery.
• Kizaru and Akainu arrived at the Marineford hospital, where Garp, Tsuru, Sengoku, and Kuzan were waiting.
• Akainu gave Sengoku the annual spring recruitment plan to review, and Sengoku accepted the documents just as the operating room chimed.

After Zephyr emerged from surgery with his new mechanical Crusher arm, Garp and Sengoku took him on a convalescent trip to Alabasta to keep him away from dangerous pirates and help him recover. As the three Marines relaxed aboard their ship, a massive pirate fleet appeared on the horizon.

• The chapter recounted how Zephyr lost his family and students, left the Marines, and later died after fighting King Luffy, while noting that he had not yet turned against the Marines in the present.
• Zephyr emerged from surgery with the Seastone Crusher arm and demanded the latest bounty list, but Tsuru ordered him to take six months of leave.
• Garp persuaded Zephyr to convalesce in Alabasta, and Sengoku joined them on the trip by taking leave as well.
• Garp and Sengoku concealed the rising dangers at sea from Zephyr so he would not go hunting pirates while still recovering.
• Garp said he hoped a mysterious young man could heal Zephyr's emotional wounds, while Sengoku questioned whether the young man was more capable than Tsuru.
• As Sengoku relaxed aboard the passenger ship approaching Alabasta, a massive fleet of pirate ships appeared on the horizon.

Don Krieg tried to restore his authority by taking the Krieg Pirates into the Grand Line, but Zephyr destroyed his fleet and killed him after Krieg attacked. Zephyr was poisoned and his injured arm was aggravated, and a wooden barrel exploded in front of him as Garp and Sengoku rushed to help.

• Don Krieg took his remaining loyal followers into the Grand Line, planning to raid two men on a small boat and then buy ships in Water 7.
• Krieg attacked Zephyr and Garp, but Zephyr smashed all fifty pirate ships and seized Krieg.
• Krieg used his M.H.5 Poison Gas Bomb, poisoning Zephyr before Zephyr crushed Krieg and killed him.
• Zephyr moved to finish off Gin, but a flying barrel struck near him and aggravated the surgical wound connecting his body to his mechanical arm.
• Garp and Sengoku rushed toward Zephyr as the barrel exploded in front of him.

Gangplank rescued Gin from Zephyr after Garp secretly held back during their clash, while Ma Qiao learned that the plan involving Krieg had cost him an entire fleet. Back at the laboratory, Reiju demonstrated the deadly poisonous effects of her snails and teased Ma Qiao.

• Gangplank appeared before Zephyr and took Gin, while Garp’s snack-bag attack tested Gangplank but did little harm because Garp held back.
• Sengoku recognized Gangplank and said the World Government was considering him and Fire Fist Ace as Shichibukai candidates.
• Gangplank claimed Gin as his brother and escaped Zephyr’s attack by using Recall.
• Ma Qiao read Gangplank’s report and mourned the fleet lost when Zephyr defeated Krieg and his men.
• Reiju fed mushrooms to colorful snails, whose poisonous trails melted nearby plants and stone, then teased the alarmed Ma Qiao.

Ma Qiao tested artificial rain in the barren mountains near Shurima, and the brief rainfall brought a burst of plant and animal life. To keep the region green through its dry season, he summoned Maokai, Zyra, and Amumu, then tried to motivate Amumu by playing on his feelings for Annie.

• Ma Qiao told Twitch to increase his poison intake and arranged for Gangplank to provide poison gas bombs for a training exercise.
• Garp told Ma Qiao that Sengoku might visit and that Marine Headquarters could move its convalescent base to Alabasta.
• Jinx reported that Fishbones was ready, and Ma Qiao took the rocket launcher to the barren mountain with Nami and Vivi.
• Nami explained the local monsoon patterns and warned that low rainfall and intense sunlight would make it difficult to sustain a reservoir.
• Jinx fired a rocket carrying Dance Powder into a cloud, producing a short shower that brought out flowers, frogs, and other life in the valley.
• Ma Qiao summoned Maokai, Zyra, and Amumu underground, then used a photograph of Annie and Teemo to spur Amumu to work harder.

Ma Qiao expanded Shurima’s greenery and began organizing schooling for its children, then welcomed Garp, Sengoku, and the gravely ill Zephyr to town. Dr. Mundo examined Zephyr and recommended amputating his arm.

• Ma Qiao had Zyra and Maokai grow saplings and thorn seeds, then had Tahm Kench carry some to town for planting.
• Vivi reported that more than nine hundred children were old enough for school, and Ma Qiao planned a school for younger children while older ones could study through workplace classes.
• Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr arrived at Shurima’s docks and were welcomed by the town’s children.
• Garp and Sengoku rushed Zephyr to the hospital, where Nami charged them for Dr. Mundo’s expert consultation.
• Dr. Mundo found that Zephyr’s wound was infected and necrotic, worsened by poison gas and his unstable convictions, and recommended amputating his arm.

Garp and Sengoku brought Zephyr to Big Bird Medical Services, where Dr. Mundo and Shen replaced his infected mechanical arm with a Nika Cell arm. After Zephyr barely suppressed the cells’ attempt to consume him, Ma Qiao collected the Marines’ treatment payment and prepared to launch Project: Freedom for him.

• Garp reassured Sengoku that the Big Bird Consortium hospital could save Zephyr, then fell asleep while they waited.
• Dr. Mundo amputated Zephyr’s infected arm, and Shen transplanted Nika Cells that rapidly grew into a new arm and destroyed the toxin paralyzing him.
• The Nika Cells began draining Zephyr’s strength, so Dr. Mundo used his skills and adrenaline to help him suppress their backlash; Ma Qiao then had Akali embed red beads in the arm.
• Zephyr woke and thanked Garp, praising the living arm as better than his old mechanical one, while Sengoku worried that the hospital might be trading in organs.
• Dr. Mundo warned Ma Qiao that Zephyr could suffer a backlash in a few years, and Ma Qiao ordered treatment for Garp and Sengoku before planning Zephyr’s physical therapy and wellness care.
• Nami delivered the thirty million Beli Sengoku paid for the treatments, and Ma Qiao decided to begin Project: Freedom for Zephyr.