Chapter Summaries

Garen ambushed the injured Blackbeard Teach to test his strength, and the two fought fiercely aboard the Goubuli. Ma Qiao’s bodyguards intervened before Teach could finish Garen, allowing Garen to escape aboard the warship while Teach remained behind.

• Garen charged Teach and cut off his left ear, but Teach stopped the bleeding with a bandage and retaliated with a powerful Armament Haki punch that sent Garen crashing into Jack.
• Garen used Soru to dodge Teach’s next attack, then struck him with Decisive Strike and Demacian Justice, leaving Teach badly wounded.
• As Teach prepared to attack again, Ma Qiao sent Graves, the weapon master, and Xin Zhao to surround Garen, and their attacks helped distract Teach.
• Garen threatened to bring Teach to justice and fled toward the warship, while Graves covered his escape with a smoke grenade.
• Garen reached the warship, and the Twitch sailed away, leaving a Fish-Man lying at the scene.

Ma Qiao sailed toward the New World with Teach and Jack, rescuing Jack and helping the two pirates become friends through a ninja game. After passing through Sabaody with Teach and Jack hidden aboard, the Goubuli reached the New World, where Ma Qiao vowed to end the existing order his own way.

• Ma Qiao and Graves hauled Jack aboard, where the starving Jack ate Teach’s desserts and the two nearly fought.
• Teach saw his 560-million-Beli bounty and asked Ma Qiao to watch for information about the Dark-Dark Fruit; Ma Qiao agreed.
• Ma Qiao gave Teach and Jack game Den Den Mushi, and the three bonded while playing Infinite Tsukuyomi during the voyage.
• Ma Qiao hid Teach and Jack aboard the Goubuli while passing the Sabaody checkpoint, where he spotted Caitlyn training as a Marine.
• The Goubuli reached the New World, and Ma Qiao vowed to end the world’s order by his own methods.

Ma Qiao and Jack visited the Moby Dick with Teach, where Whitebeard welcomed them and celebrated Teach’s return. When Whitebeard asked how to give Teach a role, Ma Qiao proposed making him head of a new Revolutionary Army liaison department, leaving the Whitebeard Pirates impressed by his connections and advice.

• Ma Qiao restrained Jack from approaching the Moby Dick, Whitebeard’s flagship, and the two were welcomed aboard as guests.
• Whitebeard thanked Ma Qiao and Jack for bringing Teach back and hosted a banquet celebrating him.
• Ace offered to give up his position as Second Division Commander so Teach could take it, but Teach insisted he was too injured and declined.
• Thatch offered Teach the Fourth Division Commander position, but Teach refused that as well.
• Whitebeard asked Ma Qiao how to arrange a position for Teach, and Ma Qiao proposed creating a Revolutionary Army Liaison Department with Teach as its head.
• Jack revealed that Kaido had hired Ma Qiao as his son’s tutor, and the Whitebeard Pirates’ officers marveled at Ma Qiao’s connections.

After a feast aboard the Moby Dick, Ma Qiao met Izo on deck and confronted him about Wano Country’s rulers and the Kozuki prophecy. He left Izo with a challenge to help him someday and a way to contact Momousagi, while Izo remained uncertain about what Wano needed.

• Ma Qiao stayed sober while the Whitebeard Pirates, Jack, and Ace got drunk, then found Izo awake under the full moon.
• Izo drew his guns after Ma Qiao revealed personal details about him and his younger brother Kikunojo, but lowered them when Ma Qiao said he meant no harm.
• Ma Qiao questioned why Izo had not avenged Oden and challenged him to consider whether bloodline alone made someone fit to rule Wano Country.
• Izo admitted that Wano was sick for reasons beyond Kaido, and Ma Qiao asked him to help change the country someday if he no longer trusted the Kozuki prophecy.
• Ma Qiao gave Izo a can of cola and a mobile Den Den Mushi with instructions and Momousagi’s QQ, then left Izo holding it and thinking.

Ma Qiao left the Whitebeard Pirates with Jack and planted hidden Vision Wards as they traveled toward Wano Country. Kaido arrived in a destructive fall, shared Ma Qiao’s liquor, and carried the group in dragon form to Onigashima.

• Whitebeard gave Ma Qiao the Goubuli, while Teach stayed aboard the Moby Dick and bought a game Den Den Mushi with his secret savings.
• Ma Qiao had Jack navigate toward Onigashima and planted Forest Guardian Vision Wards on islands along the route.
• Kaido crashed into a valley, and Ma Qiao sent his bodyguards to help the injured before Jack carried him to the crater.
• Kaido climbed out unharmed, and Tahm Kench offered him a jar of Short-Lived Ghost Vodka, which Kaido drank and praised.
• Kaido transformed into an azure dragon and carried Ma Qiao, Tahm Kench, and Jack over Wano Country to Onigashima.

Ma Qiao tried to reach Yamato by pretending to be a fellow Kozuki Oden fan and telling her exaggerated stories about Oden’s life. After Yamato warmed to him, Ma Qiao claimed Yasuo was Oden’s younger brother and offered to show Yamato the truth about Kozuki Sukiyaki and Kurozumi Orochi.

• Kaido returned to Onigashima, drank Ma Qiao’s wine, and asked his All-Stars where Yamato had gone.
• King and Queen told Kaido that Yamato was causing trouble on the back mountain, so Jack guided Ma Qiao there.
• Ma Qiao found Yamato reenacting Oden’s Mountain God incident and returned in samurai clothes with Yasuo, claiming to be Oden’s fan and Yasuo to be Oden’s younger brother.
• Ma Qiao recited Oden’s exploits, and Yamato became emotional and accepted him as a fellow fan.
• Ma Qiao claimed Yasuo was born after Oden’s death to Kozuki Sukiyaki, then offered to take Yamato to see the truth about Sukiyaki and Kurozumi Orochi.

Ma Qiao used Thresh’s Dark Passage to separate Yamato’s soul from her body, then prepared to take her to Amigasa Village in Wano Country. The chapter ended with Ma Qiao, Yasuo, and Tahm Kench teleporting away with Yamato’s soul in the lantern.

• Thresh’s Dark Passage evolved to imprison souls, and Ma Qiao had raised the skill to level five.
• At Kaido’s banquet, Jack went to check on Ma Qiao and Yamato, then mistakenly believed the pair were alone together in Yamato’s room.
• Jack and Ulti peeked into the room and saw Yamato lying in Ma Qiao’s arms, but kept the scene from Kaido.
• Ma Qiao revealed Yamato’s tiny soul inside his lantern and explained that her body had to stay fresh for her soul to return.
• Ma Qiao, Yasuo, and Tahm Kench teleported to Amigasa Village with Yamato’s soul, where Graves, Xin Zhao, and Jax had already placed a Vision Ward.

Ma Qiao met starving Tama in Amigasa Village and traded her straw hat for toad oil and food, while arranging for his guards to deal with nearby thugs. After leaving to prepare for a banquet, he left Tama to give the oil to the sick Yasuo.

• Ma Qiao watched Tama walk home and told Yamato that Tama was secretly Kozuki Yasuo's younger sister, though Yasuo reacted skeptically.
• Tama found Yasuo collapsed with a fever and used Komachiyo to carry him toward town in search of a doctor.
• Ma Qiao and Tahm Kench sold toad oil in town, and Tama offered a straw hat in exchange for medicine for Yasuo.
• Ma Qiao praised Tama's hat and gave her a bottle of toad oil along with fresh food for Amigasa Village, while his guards prepared to quietly handle lurking thugs.
• Ma Qiao left for Onigashima and told his guards not to frighten the children; Tama then realized she had forgotten Yasuo and poured the toad oil down his throat.

Ma Qiao sold Toko healing toad oil and met Komurasaki, then hurried back to Yamato before her soul ran out of time. After returning to her body, Yamato grabbed Ma Qiao and prepared to shake him in revenge, while Queen witnessed the scene outside her bedroom.

• Ma Qiao explained that the toad oil was safe for humans and left with Yamato’s soul in a lantern after Yasuo recovered from drinking it.
• Toko caught up with Ma Qiao and bought a bottle of toad oil, then Komurasaki arrived and invited him into her palanquin.
• Ma Qiao rejected Komurasaki’s invitation and hurried away, while Toko showed her that the toad oil healed a cut on her finger.
• Ma Qiao returned Yamato’s soul to her body, and Yamato grabbed him to shake him as payback for rattling her lantern.
• Queen dropped his cigar when he saw Yamato holding Ma Qiao outside her bedroom.

Queen brought Yamato and Ma Qiao to receive Donquixote Doflamingo and Caesar Clown, who pitched artificial Devil Fruits to the Beasts Pirates. Ma Qiao exposed Caesar’s past deception involving the Big Mom Pirates, leaving Caesar frozen with fear.

• Queen persuaded Yamato to attend the reception hall while Kaido was away, and Ma Qiao accompanied her.
• Queen confronted Jack for hiding what he knew about Yamato and Ma Qiao, then left them to continue to the reception hall.
• Yamato and Ma Qiao met Donquixote Doflamingo and Caesar Clown, and Ma Qiao challenged Doflamingo’s choice of scientist.
• Queen revealed that he had worked with Vegapunk in MADS, while Caesar claimed he could produce artificial Devil Fruits for the Beasts Pirates.
• Ma Qiao threatened to expose Caesar’s false human-gigantification research scheme to Charlotte Linlin, and Caesar froze in fear.

Ma Qiao captured Caesar and planned to exploit his gas, fertilizer, and gigantification research for the Big Bird Consortium. While Yamato eagerly prepared to leave Onigashima with Ma Qiao, Tenguyama Hitetsu grew suspicious of the food delivered to Amigasa Village, and the Nidai Kitetsu trembled as though afraid.

• Doflamingo abandoned Caesar after learning he had taken a commission from Big Mom, and Caesar was left stranded after his plans with Kaido also failed.
• Ma Qiao approached Caesar with an offer involving fertilizer, but Caesar tried to escape and attack him before Graves and Xin Zhao stopped him.
• Ma Qiao's bodyguards defeated Caesar and sealed him in a portable vacuum cleaner, while Ma Qiao considered using his research for gas, fertilizer, and pharmaceutical businesses.
• Ma Qiao planned to have Dr. Mundo and Singed question Caesar about his experiments, and to send Garen to rescue any children involved.
• Yamato impatiently urged Ma Qiao to begin their departure, while Queen and Jack overheard them and arranged food to restore Ma Qiao's strength.
• Tenguyama Hitetsu suspected the toad-oil merchant's gift was connected to the thugs killed along Tama's route, then saw the Nidai Kitetsu tremble in apparent fear.

Ma Qiao and Tahm Kench brought food to Amigasa Village, where Yamato met Tama and Tenguyama Hitetsu recognized Yasuo as a loyal Kozuki retainer. After the feast, Ma Qiao left a promise to keep supplying the village and a teasing message for Tama.

• Ma Qiao, Tahm Kench, and Tama prepared a feast for the hungry villagers, while Yamato emerged from the Lantern and spoke with Tama.
• A gas explosion startled the villagers, but Ma Qiao and Tahm Kench escaped unharmed, and the feast continued through the night.
• Tenguyama Hitetsu confronted Ma Qiao in the woods and recognized Yasuo's Sandai Kitetsu and Kozuki loyalty tattoo.
• Yasuo and Tenguyama Hitetsu discussed their shared loyalty to the Kozuki Family, and Hitetsu revealed that he was Kozuki Sukiyaki.
• Yamato questioned whether she should become Kozuki Oden, and Ma Qiao told her that everyone should be themselves.
• Ma Qiao left Amigasa Village before Tama returned, leaving a note promising regular food deliveries and urging her to become a bewitching female scholar.

After Kaido learned that Buggy had entered the Grand Line, he asked Ma Qiao to investigate the Buggy Pirates and proposed sending Yamato undercover among them. Yamato agreed on the condition that Ma Qiao accompany her, and Kaido won her first affectionate address in years by approving the plan and offering Ma Qiao generous incentives.

• Ma Qiao woke hungover in Yamato's room, accepted breakfast, and went with her to meet Kaido.
• Queen and Jack speculated about Ma Qiao and Yamato after learning he had spent the night in her room.
• Kaido studied a Cipher Pol letter warning that Buggy had entered the Grand Line and feared the New World could not accommodate another emperor.
• Ma Qiao explained his new-media intelligence network to Kaido, who asked him to find information about the Buggy Pirates.
• Kaido proposed that Yamato join the Buggy Pirates undercover, and Yamato agreed only if Ma Qiao went with her.
• Yamato called Kaido "Father" for the first time in years, and Kaido offered Ma Qiao tax-free liquor and cigarette imports to secure his cooperation.

Ma Qiao sailed away from Onigashima with Yamato, while keeping in touch with Vivi and Nami and worrying about Vivi’s safety in Alabasta. He began planning to teach Vivi new skills as the Goubuli continued its journey.

• Ma Qiao sailed with Yamato aboard the faster Goubuli and warned her that Kaido’s explosive cuffs could be dangerous.
• Ma Qiao video-called Vivi and Nami, who teased him about his barbecue sauce and the client he was traveling with.
• Yamato barged into the bathroom and continued acting like a man, leaving Ma Qiao unsure how to interpret her behavior.
• Ma Qiao used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to Shurima and check on Vivi, whose father Cobra had reportedly been missing.
• Ma Qiao chose Grasping Roots, Z-Drive Resonance, and Primal Surge to teach Vivi alongside her existing Flying Thunder God Technique.

Ma Qiao accompanied Yamato around Sabaody Archipelago, bought gifts for his friends, and ran into Galdino, who boasted about his success in Baroque Works. After slave traders knocked Galdino down and ruined his purchases, Ma Qiao encouraged him to pursue revenge, leaving the two heading after them.

• Ma Qiao brought Yamato to Sabaody Archipelago and spent the day accompanying her on rides and shopping.
• Ma Qiao secretly bought gifts for Vivi, Nami, Reiju, and Nico Robin while Yamato shopped.
• Ma Qiao met Galdino, who bragged about earning 380 million Beli for Baroque Works and being entrusted with buying supplies.
• Galdino showed Ma Qiao the furniture he had bought for the organization, and Ma Qiao warned him that Mr. 0 preferred crocodile-skin sofas.
• A reindeer pursued by slave traders crashed into Galdino, and the traders trampled him and destroyed the furniture.
• Ma Qiao told Galdino the attackers were poor armed men, and Galdino set off with Ma Qiao to get even.

Tony Tony Chopper tried to rescue Doctor Hiriluk from Saint Charlos, but Mr. 3 Galdino struck the Celestial Dragon and beat him while empowered by Ma Qiao’s Courage aura. Miss Goldenweek found Galdino attacking Saint Charlos and burst into tears.

• Saint Charlos tortured the dying Hiriluk and ordered his servants to prepare to skin him.
• Chopper charged into the execution platform, grabbed Hiriluk, and tried to escape, but Saint Charlos shot him and his servants trapped them in a net.
• Saint Charlos shot and killed his pirate mount after the man protected him from Chopper’s antlers.
• Galdino, clad in wax armor and bolstered by Ma Qiao’s Courage aura, punched Saint Charlos and repeatedly beat him.
• Miss Goldenweek arrived, saw Galdino beating a Celestial Dragon, and burst into tears.

Ma Qiao watched Galdino assault Saint Charlos, then arranged for Tahm Kench to treat the injured Hiriluk while Galdino took Charlos hostage and escaped toward the docks. As Marines approached, Garen and Darius arrived aboard the New Twitch to carry out Ma Qiao’s plan.

• Galdino beat Saint Charlos under the influence of Ma Qiao’s Courage Aura, then realized the danger and begged for mercy as Charlos’s servants moved to seize him.
• Chopper recognized Ma Qiao and asked for help saving Hiriluk; Ma Qiao sent Tahm Kench and Miss Akali to treat him and help them escape.
• Galdino stopped pleading, took Charlos hostage with a wax dagger, and revealed that he had stolen two Den Den Mushi to prevent Charlos from summoning an Admiral.
• Galdino used a wax shackle to bring Miss Goldenweek aboard the Big Top and retreated toward the docks with Charlos as a hostage.
• Garen and Darius arrived aboard the New Twitch in Marine uniforms, with Darius determined to succeed in his first mission for Ma Qiao.

Galdino’s escape attempt was interrupted by Cho’Gath, while Darius rescued Saint Charlos at the cost of his arm and Garen turned the incident into a public-relations triumph for the Root Division. The chapter ended with Yamato and Ma Qiao finding a huge floating wax sphere at sea.

• Galdino used Akali’s fog to flee with Miss Goldenweek, but Cho’Gath surfaced and overturned his lifeboat.
• Darius appeared, drove Cho’Gath away, and rescued only half of Saint Charlos.
• Garen gave reporters a remorseful interview and praised the Root Division’s readiness, while Darius claimed pride in sacrificing his arm for the Celestial Dragons.
• Cho’Gath spat a large wax sphere into the sea and returned to the deep water.
• Yamato spotted the sphere from the Goubuli, and Ma Qiao suggested fishing it out and smashing it open.

After Baroque Works publicly disavowed Galdino for attacking a Celestial Dragon, Crocodile fainted when he learned the news and later feared the consequences of the scandal. Ma Qiao then recruited Galdino to join him on a documentary assignment with the Buggy Pirates.

• Garp, Zephyr, and Crocodile received Baroque Works’ online statement disavowing Galdino and condemning his actions as personal.
• Garp and Zephyr searched for news about Galdino and found reports that he had beaten a Celestial Dragon before apparently being eaten by a Sea King; Crocodile fainted after reading them.
• Crocodile woke in Old Xi Hospital and considered whether he could avoid trouble by refusing to admit he led Baroque Works.
• Ma Qiao’s public statement and the news coverage helped frame Galdino’s crimes as assault and kidnapping, and the World Government raised his bounty to 300 million Beli.
• Near the Grand Line’s entrance, Ma Qiao offered Galdino a place on a documentary trip with the Buggy Pirates, and Galdino accepted the prospect of protection from Emperor Clown Buggy.

Buggy returned to the Grand Line to pursue Captain John’s treasure and struggled to choose an Emperor’s Deputy for his crew. After Galdino joined him, Buggy learned that the Marines had threatened him with an Admiral’s wrath because he had beaten up a Celestial Dragon.

• Buggy argued with his crew over who deserved to become his Emperor’s Deputy and insisted that ability mattered more than seniority.
• Buggy explained that he had returned to the Grand Line to find the missing pieces of Captain John’s damaged treasure map and prepared to film a treasure-hunt documentary.
• Buggy met Ma Qiao, who introduced Galdino as a pirate with a bounty of three hundred million Beli seeking to join his crew.
• Buggy welcomed Galdino, photographed them together, and posted about his new subordinate on Weibo.
• Buggy saw the Marine Headquarters account warn him to face an Admiral’s wrath, then learned from Galdino that he had beaten up a Celestial Dragon.