Recaps

Vidal took Enel into the forest to eat, but McKinley and the God's Army confronted them over trespassing and hunting. Vidal turned the forest against the soldiers, then left with Enel for home.

• Vidal shared roasted meat with Enel and prepared to leave the war-torn Upper Yard with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit nearby.
• McKinley and the God's Army surrounded Vidal and Enel, demanded enormous fines, and threatened them with Cloud Drift.
• Vidal restrained four soldiers with growing weeds, then used the forest's plants to attack the rest of the God's Army.
• Vidal bound McKinley into a tree and left with Enel.

Vidal returned to Navarone Fortress aboard a ship that fell from the sky, carrying little Enel and causing the base to raise the alarm. After the Marines recognized him, Vice Admiral Cornell welcomed his return, and officers discussed Vidal’s place in the selection matches.

• Marines at Navarone Fortress discussed the upcoming selection matches and the spot reserved for Vidal, who had mastered all Six Powers at seventeen.
• A small sailing ship fell from the sky into the fortress lagoon, prompting an alarm and bringing Vice Admiral Cornell’s adjutant to report the arrival.
• A Marine reported that Vidal had returned, and Vice Admiral Cornell hurried to the window before telling someone to inform Enid.
• Vidal stood on the ship’s deck holding little Enel as Marines surrounded them, then several officers appeared and greeted him.
• The officers debated whether Vidal needed to enter the selection matches and worried about his eventual report to headquarters, while Vidal understood the situation through his family’s Den Den Mushi calls.

Vidal introduced Enel as his adopted son, and Cornell and Enid welcomed the boy into the family. As Vidal prepared to take Enel to Marine Headquarters, Cornell told him about the other promising trainees in the upcoming camp, and Vidal wondered whether his own future was about to begin.

• Vidal explained that he had adopted Enel on Sky Island, and Cornell and Enid accepted him as their grandson.
• Enid took Enel to get a treat, while Vidal told Cornell he planned to bring Enel to Marine Headquarters and enroll him in its school.
• Cornell told Vidal that Monkey D. Dragon, Sakazuki, and Borsalino were among the camp's strongest trainees, and Vidal asked whether Dragon had a Devil Fruit.
• Vidal went to his greenhouse-like bedroom, settled into his hammock, and wondered if everything was finally about to begin.

At Navarone Fortress, Marines gathered to watch the final round of a contest whose winners would enter Admiral Zephyr’s special training camp, while Sergeant Major Vidal was offered as an alternate route. Vidal recognized Comil’s potential as a future vice admiral, and Vincent revealed a new technique as his fight with Ogden intensified.

• Vice Admiral Cornell announced that the winners would enter Admiral Zephyr’s special training camp and that losers could earn a place by defeating Vidal.
• Comil and Miles stepped aside as Vincent and Ogden began the first match.
• Vidal recognized Comil and told Cornell that Comil had the makings of a vice admiral and would join him next year.
• Vincent used his speed and kicking techniques against Ogden’s durable defense as their fight grew more intense.
• A field officer pointed out that Vincent had mastered Rankyaku.

Vincent defeated Ogden with consecutive Rankyaku, and Comil beat Miles in a sword fight. Vidal then entered the arena to face Vincent, leaving their match about to begin.

• Vincent struck Ogden with two close-range Rankyaku attacks, and Rear Admiral Dewitt stopped the second blade of air as Ogden was taken away.
• Comil and Miles fought with swords until Comil disarmed Miles and won.
• Vidal watched the fight with Vice Admiral Cornell and then stepped into the arena as the next competitor.
• Little Enel cheered for Vidal from the stands while Lady Enid reassured him.
• Vincent volunteered to face Vidal first so Miles and Ogden could recover, and Rear Admiral Dewitt approved the match.

Vidal defeated Vincent and Ogden in succession, demonstrating his speed and strength while naming his fighting style Konoha Style. The hall fell silent after Ogden was knocked unconscious, and Vidal turned to face the two men still waiting.

• Vincent used Soru and Rankyaku against Vidal, but Vidal silently stayed in his blind spot and evaded him.
• Vincent asked to face Vidal head-on, and Vidal countered his flying kick with Konoha Great Whirlwind, injuring his leg.
• Vidal told Vincent to seek treatment and named his taijutsu style Konoha Style before Vincent was carried away.
• Ogden stepped forward despite his injury and challenged Vidal, who promised not to dodge his attack.
• Vidal met Ogden's punch, struck through his Tekkai, and knocked him unconscious with a blow to the abdomen.

Vidal tested the swordsmanship of Miles and Comil, quickly defeating Miles and then overwhelming Comil with his Seed Machine Gun. Comil’s swords shattered under the attack, leaving the duel unresolved as he struggled to evade Vidal’s barrage.

• Miles challenged Vidal, but Vidal stopped his thrust with Shigan, shattered his sword, and defeated him in seconds.
• Vidal advised Miles to master Haki so he could protect his sword, and Miles went to watch Comil’s duel.
• Comil attacked Vidal with two swords, but Vidal evaded every strike while Comil used Kami-e in his opening thrust.
• Vidal unleashed Shigan: Seed Machine Gun, forcing Comil to dodge with Kami-e as the barrage tore holes in his clothes and wounded his arms.
• Comil shielded himself with both swords, but Vidal’s barrage shattered them.

After winning a place in Zephyr's special training camp, Vidal traveled to San Faldo to meet his old friend Issho. The two caught up over noodles, and Vidal explained that he would leave for Marineford early next year and be unable to leave for at least two years.

• Vidal ended his fight with Comil, concluding the selection tournament and securing his place in Zephyr's special training camp.
• Vidal sailed alone from the G-8 Branch toward San Faldo, considering whether he might recruit the thirteen-year-old Douglas Bullet.
• Vidal arrived in San Faldo and met Issho, his friend of five years, at the harbor.
• Vidal and Issho went to a noodle shop and discussed Issho's experiences confronting evil across the seas.
• Vidal told Issho he would enter Zephyr's training camp at Marineford early next year and wanted to meet before spending at least two years there.

Vidal told Issho about a gifted young soldier on Garuzburg Island and invited him to help bring the boy back. As the South Garuzburg army’s powerful child soldier Bullet was trapped in a valley, his brutal past and belief in strength alone came to light.

• Vidal and Issho discussed the leak of Admiral Zephyr’s family information before Vidal invited Issho to Garuzburg Island to meet a thirteen-year-old battlefield prodigy, and Issho agreed to go.
• The chapter described how the rival kingdoms’ war made Garuzburg Island a haven for arms dealers, slave traders, bounty hunters, and other underworld forces.
• Bullet’s battlefield victories had made him a celebrated hero of the South Garuzburg Kingdom and a target of the North Garuzburg Kingdom and the underworld.
• Bullet’s Bullet Unit was surrounded in a valley, and Bullet ordered his soldiers to hold out until reinforcements arrived.
• Bullet recalled being abandoned as a baby, becoming a child soldier under Douglas Gray, surviving an ambush by jealous companions, and deciding to trust only his own strength.

Vidal taught Issho about the potential of his Gravity Fruit, describing its applications, Golden Lion Shiki’s abilities, and Devil Fruit Awakening. Issho left the conversation eager to develop his powers, while Vidal reflected on his own progress and an old defeat by his father.

• Vidal told Issho that his fruit was the Gravity Fruit and explained its potential for gravity, repulsion, and attraction.
• Vidal described techniques Issho could learn, including creating black holes, and Issho praised Vidal’s knowledge.
• Vidal explained how Golden Lion Shiki used the Float-Float Fruit and argued that Issho’s fruit could surpass it.
• Vidal taught Issho about Devil Fruit Awakening, and Issho asked whether Vidal had awakened his own fruit.
• Vidal admitted he had not and reflected that he was twenty, not yet a field officer, and had lost to his Vice Admiral father four years earlier.

Vidal challenged Issho to a wagered fight before leaving for Marineford, hoping to recruit him into the Marines. On Garuzburg Island, an exhausted Bullet found a strange blue fruit and was about to eat it when a shadow snatched it away, leaving him face-to-face with an approaching figure.

• Vidal invited Issho to join the Marines as his adjutant, but Issho refused because he still wanted to travel.
• Issho challenged Vidal to a fight before Vidal left for Marineford, and Vidal proposed that the outcome determine when Issho would join the Marines.
• They agreed that Vidal would owe Issho a favor if Issho won, while Vidal would not press Issho to join if Vidal lost.
• Bullet, abandoned without reinforcements and hunted by the North Garuzburg Kingdom's forces, struggled through the forest while exhausted, hungry, and thirsty.
• Bullet found a strange blue fruit and kept it, then decided to eat it when he could not escape his pursuers.
• A black shadow snatched the fruit from Bullet's hand and left it hanging in a tree as a tall figure leaped onto a nearby trunk.

Bullet confronted Darnell, a werewolf hunting him for his bounty, while Vidal and Yixiao watched from above and intervened with Vidal’s ability to control trees. Vidal planned to keep the Combine-Combine Fruit from Bullet until he was strong enough to choose whether he truly wanted it, then went to meet him.

• Darnell identified himself as a wolf Zoan user and attacked the exhausted Bullet, who prepared to fight back.
• Vidal’s control of the surrounding trees trapped Darnell in vines and crushed him to death.
• Vidal and Yixiao revealed they had found Bullet after traveling to Garuzburg Island and learning he was being hunted.
• Vidal took the Combine-Combine Fruit away from Bullet, believing it did not suit him and wanting him to consider his choice later.
• Vidal and Yixiao prepared to go down and take Bullet away.

Vidal and Issho rescued the injured Bullet from Garuzburg Island, and Vidal used his Photosynthetic Energy to heal him as he slept. They searched for an uninhabited island while Bullet recovered, leaving him likely to wake in much better condition.

• Vidal brought Bullet aboard their boat and left Garuzburg Island with Issho, after Bullet chose to cooperate rather than resist.
• Vidal used wooden strips to restrain Bullet and treated his wounds with Photosynthetic Energy, causing Bullet to relax and fall asleep.
• Vidal laid the sleeping Bullet on a wooden bed and explained to Issho that his healing ability came from Photosynthetic Energy.
• Vidal and Issho decided to seek an uninhabited island, where Bullet could fight Vidal after he recovered.
• By morning, Bullet was still asleep, and Vidal guessed that his body was using the rest to recover from exhaustion and hidden injuries.

Vidal, Issho, and Bullet sailed toward a battle where Marines were being overwhelmed by Byrnndi World and his pirates. Colonel Benson feared his forces would be wiped out before reinforcements arrived.

• Vidal and Issho heard cannon fire and sensed a powerful enemy attacking injured Marines.
• Vidal decided to investigate, and Issho agreed to go with him rather than leave his friend alone.
• Issho invited Bullet to hide, but Bullet insisted on joining them.
• Issho sped their boat toward a battle between three Marine warships and a pirate ship.
• Colonel Benson watched Byrnndi World hurl cannonballs at the Marines and hoped reinforcements would arrive soon.

Byrnndi World devastated a Marine warship with his More-More Fruit and nearly killed Colonel Benson, but a rapidly grown tree blocked the fatal shot. Vidal and Issho arrived aboard a flying ship, and World prepared to face them.

• Colonel Benson and his two lieutenant colonel adjutants attacked Byrnndi World, who broke their combined slashes with his More-More Twenty-Fold Slash.
• World fired a bullet amplified twentyfold at Benson, but a giant mangrove suddenly grew from the sea and took the hit.
• Benson survived and searched for the person who had saved him, while World spotted a small ship descending from the sky.
• Byrnndi Binjack warned World that the newcomers were probably not from the Flying Pirates, then left for the cabin at World's insistence.
• World recognized Vidal and Issho aboard the ship and dismissed Bullet as a lesser threat.

Vidal rescued Colonel Benson and the marines by unleashing his Red Tree World Advent, surrounding the battlefield with a vast forest that captured fighters and carried the marines to safety. Byrnndi World then broke through the trees with a thirtyfold slash and attacked Vidal and Issho, who prepared to meet his strike together.

• Vidal identified himself as Vice Admiral Cornell’s son and ordered Benson to evacuate the marines while he and his companions held off World.
• Vidal used Red Tree World Advent to raise mangroves from the sea, bind the pirates, and bring marines from nearby ships and cabins to Benson’s warship.
• Benson and two lieutenant colonels began organizing the wounded and other marines for withdrawal.
• World destroyed the incoming branches with Momo: Thirty-Fold Slash, then launched a powerful blade of air toward Vidal’s boat.
• Issho drew his sword to counter World’s attack as Vidal prepared to join him.

Vidal and Issho struggled against Byrnndi World as his superior strength and abilities pushed them to the brink. After World learned how quickly Vidal could recover in sunlight, he decided to end the fight quickly.

• Vidal summoned the Apis Divine Bull to block World's shock wave, while Colonel Benson's warship withdrew from the battlefield.
• Vidal and Issho fought World with the bull and mangroves supporting them, but World outmatched them in speed, strength, and Haki.
• World shattered Issho's sword and blasted him downward, but mangrove branches caught him before he hit the sea.
• Vidal rushed to protect Issho, fought World in the air, and was sent crashing into the Apis Divine Bull.
• Vidal's body quickly recovered under the sunlight, and World realized he needed to finish both opponents quickly.

Vidal and Issho fought Byrnndi World, who used his More-More Fruit to overwhelm them with sixtyfold speed and power. Vidal survived a near-fatal kick by escaping through a mangrove, while Issho took up Vidal’s new Photosynthetic Energy-storing wooden sword, Shinra.

• Issho asked Vidal to make him a sturdy sword, and Vidal created a wooden longsword that could store Photosynthetic Energy and help heal its wielder.
• World shattered the Apis Divine Bull and defeated Vidal and Issho in a clash, but Vidal’s energy quickly restored him and Shinra supported Issho.
• World pursued Vidal and broke through his Wood Ingot Wall, then crushed Vidal’s arms and chest with a kick.
• Vidal escaped the fatal attack by turning his body into wood and passing through a branch into a connected mangrove.
• World questioned how Vidal had dodged the attack, and Vidal refused to explain his ability.

Vidal and Yixiao combined their strongest attacks against Byrnndi World’s hundredfold-speed charge, but World broke through and continued toward them. The clash left World weakened while Vidal and Yixiao retreated several hundred meters.

• Vidal revealed that the body World had attacked was a Wood Clone and explained how he could travel through connected wood.
• World unleashed his Momo 100x Speed technique and coated himself in Armament Haki, forcing Vidal and Yixiao to prepare for a decisive clash.
• Vidal fired the Sun's Holy Wheel from the Apis Divine Bull as Yixiao sent a Flying Slash toward World’s charge.
• World’s attack pierced the bull and its beam, and Yixiao used repulsion, gravity, and a raised sea wave to slow him down.
• World burst through the wave with his momentum and Haki diminished, while Vidal and Yixiao put several hundred meters between themselves and him.

Vidal and Issho struggled to withstand Byrnndi World’s Hundredfold Speed until a Marine fleet appeared with Vice Admiral Garp. World recognized the danger and fled with his crew, leaving Vidal and Issho behind.

• Vidal assessed his dwindling stamina and injuries while trying to learn how long World could sustain Hundredfold Speed.
• World charged again before Vidal could draw him into conversation, and Issho said it was time to leave.
• Five Marine warships appeared, and Vice Admiral Garp called out to World and invited him to Impel Down.
• World recognized Garp, abandoned the fight, and escaped with his crew by boosting a cannonball to propel their ship away.
• Vidal and Issho watched in astonishment as the battle ended with World’s sudden retreat.

After helping defeat the World Pirates, Vidal and Issho recovered Bullet and learned he wanted to follow them to become stronger. Vidal announced he intended to adopt Bullet and take him to Marine school, leaving Bullet furious but under Vidal’s determined care.

• Vidal and Issho spotted Bullet rowing toward them after the battle, and Vidal guessed the boy had found Douglas Gray in the cabin.
• Bullet explained that he had broken Gray’s limbs, drained his blood, and thrown him into the sea.
• Bullet told Vidal he wanted to follow him and become stronger, and Vidal told him to call him Dad because he planned to adopt him.
• Vidal explained that he had already adopted Bullet’s younger brother and would take Bullet to Marine school, while Bullet angrily rejected the idea.
• Vidal ruffled Bullet’s hair and resolved to build a family bond with him over time.

Vidal, Issho, and Bullet met Vice Admiral Amyz and learned that the Garp they had seen was only an illusion created by Amyz’s Devil Fruit. Amyz invited Vidal to the G-2 Branch, where he could meet the other special training camp trainees.

• Vidal and Issho boarded the warship to meet the Marine hero, bringing Bullet with them.
• Colonel Benson greeted Vidal, and Vice Admiral Amyz introduced himself as commander of the G-2 Branch and praised Vidal for protecting his comrades.
• Vidal introduced Issho as his friend and a swordmaster, then explained that he had adopted Bullet and planned to take him to Marineford.
• Vidal asked where Vice Admiral Garp was, and Amyz revealed that the Garp who appeared before them was an illusion made with the Phantom-Phantom Fruit.
• Amyz invited Vidal to rest at the G-2 Branch and meet the other special training camp trainees.

After defeating Byrnndi World, Vidal declined Vice Admiral Amyz’s invitation to visit Zephyr’s training camp and discussed his plans to change the world with Issho. The chapter ended with Issho agreeing to fight Vidal a month before leaving for Marine Headquarters, after training his Gravity Fruit and Armament Haki.

• Vidal declined Vice Admiral Amyz’s invitation to visit Zephyr’s training camp, and Amyz ordered his men to recover the marines’ bodies and tow the damaged warships.
• Aboard the airship, Vidal healed Issho, who said he planned to visit Alabasta and meet Prince Nefertari Cobra.
• Vidal told Issho that he had joined the navy to change the world from the top down by gaining power within it.
• Vidal challenged Issho to fight, but Issho proposed waiting until a month before they left for Marine Headquarters so he could train his fruit power and Armament Haki.

Vidal took Bullet to an uninhabited island for a meal and a training fight, using the battle to teach him the Six Powers and strengthen their bond. After three rounds of healing and beatings, Bullet rested on the beach with more gratitude toward Vidal, while Issho recognized that Vidal had been teaching him.

• Vidal challenged Bullet to fight, and Bullet accepted while insisting Vidal had been the one to ask.
• Vidal found an uninhabited island, built a cabin, and prepared a barbecue with Issho while Bullet watched.
• Vidal fed Bullet meat and fresh juice, then took him aside to train.
• Vidal repeatedly beat and healed Bullet while demonstrating physical techniques, including the Six Powers.
• Bullet realized Vidal was teaching him through the fight and felt more warmth and gratitude toward him.
• Issho told Vidal he had been teaching Bullet, and Vidal said he would explain the Six Powers in detail after they returned.

Vidal and Issho exchanged ideas about the Six Powers and Haki, and Issho discovered that his Observation Haki could sense malice and hostility. The three of them then began sharing Haki knowledge, with Bullet invited to learn alongside Vidal.

• Vidal explained how to train in the Six Powers, especially Geppo, and Issho agreed to practice them.
• Issho said he wanted to learn Armament Haki and offered to teach Vidal about Observation Haki.
• Issho explained that the Gravity Fruit seemed to extend the range of his Observation Haki through spreading waves.
• At Vidal's prompting, Issho discovered he could sense malice and hostility in addition to ordinary emotions.
• Vidal urged Issho to develop the ability and invited Bullet to join their Haki lesson.