Recaps

Zangjing freed Helandou and offered the G-3 Branch prisoners a chance to join the Flying Pirates if they helped fight their way out. Outside the fortress, Vidal tested Zangjing’s slowing field and found that Haki let him move through it without difficulty, just as footsteps approached from the breach.

• Zangjing freed the prisoners from their purple paralysis and offered them a chance to join the Flying Pirates, warning them not to betray him.
• Zangjing handed out keys so the prisoners could unlock their restraints, and Blood Dragonfly Weizi freed himself by bending his cell bars.
• Zangjing led Helandou, Weizi, and the other prisoners toward an additional test outside the fortress.
• Vidal tested the purple field covering the gate and found that Haki let his hand move through it normally, shocking Vice Admirals Kuro and Light.
• Footsteps sounded from the breach in the fortress gate as Vidal faced the purple field.

Vidal confronted Zangjing as the Flying Pirates leader used his Slow-Slow Fruit power to make a moving tunnel through the purple dome. Vidal entered the dome using Haki Emission and discovered that the beam also suppressed his Woods-Woods Fruit, leaving their abilities at odds.

• Zangjing created a moving tunnel through the Slow-Slow Beam and led Helandou and the others toward the harbor.
• Vidal stepped into the dome, protected by Haki Emission, and challenged Zangjing and his crew to stay.
• Helandou identified Vidal as Rear Admiral Forest Vidal, known as Ryokugyu, and told Zangjing he had defeated Byrnndi World and killed Red the Aloof.
• Vidal tested his Woods-Woods Fruit against the beam and found that it stopped plants from growing, while coating seeds in Haki also prevented him from controlling them.

Vidal faced Zangjing alone while Helandou and the others escaped toward the harbor, then exchanged powerful blows with the Flying Pirates commander. After testing each other’s strength, Vidal judged that he could now fight Zangjing evenly using physical techniques and Haki.

• Vidal created a purple path to the dock and ordered Helandou and the others to escape while he held Zangjing back.
• Vidal sent Vice Admirals Kuro and Light after the fleeing group, leaving him alone with Zangjing before the fortress gates.
• Vidal and Zangjing charged at each other and clashed with Conqueror’s Haki and Fish-Man Karate.
• Zangjing knocked Vidal back in their exchanges, but Vidal’s toughness and skill impressed him.
• Vidal recognized Zangjing as a formidable opponent but concluded that his Emission-level Armament Haki let him counter Zangjing’s Slow-Slow Beams and fight him evenly.

Vidal entered his 'Respiration' form and launched a fierce assault on Zangjing, whose combined abilities made him a formidable opponent. Vidal drove Zangjing backward toward the port while Navy personnel and pirates watched in alarm.

• Zangjing gave in to jealousy and attacked Vidal with Five Thousand Brick Fist.
• Vidal transformed into his 'Respiration' form and caught Zangjing's fist, revealing his increased strength.
• Zangjing used electricity to break free, and Vidal charged at him with Top Buddha Palm.
• Zangjing met Vidal's palm with Electric Shock Brick Fist, but the impact badly hurt his arm and forced him back.
• Vidal relentlessly attacked as Zangjing fought back with Fish-Man Karate, Fish-Man Judo, and electricity, retreating toward the port.
• Navy personnel and pirates watched in shock as Vidal's strength surpassed what Vice Admirals Kuro and Light expected.

Vidal battled Zangjing, whose decades of training exposed weaknesses in Vidal’s Armament Haki, and pursued him when he tried to flee to the harbor. Zangjing used Time Seal to recover from Vidal’s Giant Horn, but Vidal figured out how to grow plants through the Slow-Slow Beams and trapped him with Wood Cage.

• Vidal and Zangjing exchanged powerful blows, and Vidal realized their clash was strengthening his Armament Haki.
• Zangjing tried to escape toward the harbor, but Vidal pursued him and struck him with Giant Horn.
• Zangjing activated Time Seal, which seemed to erase the damage and pain from Giant Horn.
• Vidal realized the Slow-Slow Beams were beams of light and used Wood Cage to trap Zangjing near the harbor.

Vidal trapped Zangjing in a self-healing wooden cage and fought him through the shrinking Slow-Slow dome, gradually wearing down the old man. As Vidal brought down a finishing blow, an arrow sped silently toward the plaza from the sea.

• Vidal realized he could grow plants underground beneath the Slow-Slow light and cover the parts that emerged with Armament Haki, then sealed Zangjing inside an Adam Wood cage.
• Vidal and Zangjing exchanged powerful attacks, and Zangjing used Time Seal to suppress his injuries and stamina.
• Vidal explained how Time Seal worked and continued attacking, while Zangjing struggled with its limits and the shrinking cage.
• Vidal’s Photosynthetic Energy sustained his repeated palm strikes until he battered Zangjing against the cage and forced him to use his third Time Seal.
• As Vidal raised a blackened palm for a finishing blow, an arrow approached the plaza from the sea unnoticed.

Zangjing’s life story showed how years of effort, loss, and hard-won power left him repeatedly defeated by people with greater talent. As a young man beat him again, his buried sorrow and anger erupted into a cry against the world’s unfairness.

• Zangjing recalled fleeing slave traders as a child, losing his parents, and finding refuge with a teacher in Flower Country, who named him and taught him.
• After his teacher died, Zangjing killed the thirty-two disciples who had driven him away, then left Flower Country as a fugitive.
• Zangjing traveled to Fish-Man Island and trained in Fish-Man Karate and Judo before entering the New World, where powerful Haki users repeatedly defeated him.
• At forty, Zangjing ate the Slow-Slow Fruit, developed its power, earned the name “Old Man of Time,” and turned down invitations from the Rocks Pirates and Shiki.
• Shiki defeated Zangjing with his swords and Haki, and years later another young fighter’s beating brought Zangjing’s grief and rage to the surface as he cried, “Why!!!!”

Vidal and the Marines were caught in a barrage of black arrows fired by Gentleman, whose attacks pierced defenses and forced them to protect themselves. Helandou escaped aboard a transformed warship while Zangjing remained trapped in a wooden cage that the arrows were close to breaking.

• Vidal tried to knock out Zangjing but was driven back when a black arrow pierced his air-based defense and struck his Haki-coated palm.
• Black arrows attacked Vice Admiral Kuro, Vice Admiral Light, and Sakazuki at the harbor, forcing them to abandon their assault on Helandou and the other officers.
• Helandou used his Wheel-Wheel Fruit to reach a warship and transform its hull into caterpillar tracks, sending it rapidly backward out of the harbor.
• Sakazuki attacked the escaping ship with Great Eruption, but two arrows pierced his magma and prevented him from destroying the hull.
• Vidal struggled to deflect the arrows as they kept coming, while Zangjing realized that their barrage was breaking the wooden bars trapping him.

Vidal defeated Zangjing inside the reinforced Wood Cage while a distant sniper’s arrows battered the prison. As Vidal prepared for what came next, the sniper realized that Zangjing’s presence had vanished.

• Vidal dodged the Void Archer’s Haki-coated arrows and sealed the gaps in the Wood Cage with Wooden Prison Sealing.
• Vidal bound Zangjing with four summoned trees and overwhelmed him with Top Buddha Palm, leaving him badly injured and captured.
• An arrow punched through the prison, but Vidal repaired the hole and reinforced the cage instead of leaving it.
• Seven or eight kilometers from G-3 Branch, the Void Archer lowered his bow when he sensed that Mr. Zangjing’s presence had disappeared.

Vidal killed Zangjing and helped turn the battle against the Flying Pirates into a rout. With Helandou escaping and Sakazuki attacking the remaining pirate ships, Vidal charged into the battlefield to test his Haki and unleashed his Flying Leaf Storm.

• Vidal emerged from the Wood Cage holding Zangjing, who had died from his wounds, and the pirates' morale collapsed.
• Helandou saw Zangjing's corpse and fled aboard his tracked warship, abandoning the pirates at the plaza.
• Vidal tossed Zangjing's body onto poisonous mushrooms, which dissolved it in green corrosive juice.
• Vidal ordered Sakazuki to destroy the five remaining pirate ships, and Sakazuki attacked them with waves of magma.
• Vidal charged into the pirate formation to temper his Haki, using Shigan: Seed Machine Gun and Rankyaku: Flying Leaf Storm to slaughter his opponents.

After the battle at G-3 Branch, Vidal discussed his latest achievements and promotion prospects with Sakazuki, then met with Vice Admiral Kuro, Vice Admiral Light, and other flag officers. The chapter ended with Vidal offering them blades comparable to Skillful Grade Blades.

• Gentleman heard Helandou claim that Zangjing had been killed by a young Marine and took him back to their ship to learn more.
• Vidal rested after the battle and complained to Sakazuki that his latest victory would not be enough to earn him an early promotion to Vice Admiral.
• Vidal and Sakazuki shared grape juice as Vice Admiral Kuro, Vice Admiral Light, and other flag officers joined them.
• Vidal praised Kuro's past achievements and learned that Kuro's Admiral candidacy had expired after he failed to advance his Haki and swordsmanship.
• Vidal asked the officers whether they owned Famous Swords and offered them blades comparable to Skillful Grade Blades.

Garp's fleet reached the ruined G-3 Branch, where he heard the battle report and praised Vidal for his role in defeating Zangjing's forces. Vidal secured Garp's promise to train Bullet and warned Sakazuki that he might have to remain at G-3 to face the Flying Pirates.

• Garp arrived at G-3 and joked about the pirates captured in wooden cages as Bogard warned that the Flying Pirates would retaliate for Zangjing's death.
• Vice Admiral Kuro formally reported the battle's heavy Marine casualties, destroyed ships, and the defeat of Zangjing's fleet, while Helandou had escaped.
• Garp comforted Kuro, praised Vidal, and agreed to take Bullet under his wing after the Special Training Camp.
• Vidal privately told Sakazuki that he might stay at G-3 as G-1's representative and face Helandou and the Flying Pirates in future battles.
• Vidal explained the properties of the black arrows to Sakazuki and warned him that his Armament Haki might not withstand them head-on.

Kong and Sengoku reviewed Vidal’s latest victories and struggled to decide how to reward him, while the Five Elders settled the issue without promoting him to Vice Admiral. Sengoku’s own promotion to Fleet Admiral remained on hold because the Marines lacked a suitable Admiral replacement, leaving Vidal’s future strength central to the plan.

• Kong gave Sengoku Garp’s report about Vidal’s support of the G-3 Branch and his defeat of Zangjing, in addition to his earlier kills of Mulian and Langram.
• Kong and Sengoku agreed Vidal’s deeds merited substantial recognition, and Kong said the Five Elders had resolved the reward problem without advancing Vidal’s rank.
• Kong and Sengoku agreed to bring Vidal back and keep him out of the New World for now because the Flying Pirates and Roger Pirates could target him.
• Kong told Sengoku his Fleet Admiral promotion had been delayed because the Marines needed an Admiral, and Sengoku concluded that Vidal was their likeliest future candidate for the position.

After receiving orders to return to Sabaody, Vidal arranged to leave the New World and discussed improving the Marines’ ships with Vice Admiral Edwin. He reached the G-1 Branch and decided to travel through Fish-Man Island, claiming he would build his own warship.

• Headquarters ordered Sakazuki and the G-1 officers to serve at G-3 under Garp for a year, while Vidal was ordered back to Sabaody.
• Vidal agreed to let Edwin keep using the paddle wheels and turbines and planned to discuss making them operable with Fleet Admiral Kong and Vegapunk.
• Vidal removed the devices from the warships except Edwin’s flagship before departing with Edwin and Humphrey.
• Vidal teased Sakazuki while the officers saw him off, and the group reached the G-1 Branch in under three hours.
• Vidal decided to pass through Fish-Man Island instead of taking the Bubble Cable Car and stunned Edwin and Humphrey by saying he would build a warship himself.

Vidal reached an agreement with Vegapunk on solar-powered ship systems, then built and coated a warship himself and began diving toward Fish-Man Island. Inside his Door-Door Fruit space, he confronted the bound Zangjing with seastone handcuffs, leaving Zangjing roaring in despair.

• Vidal and Vegapunk agreed that Vegapunk would design a solar-powered propulsion system for warships, with the Forest family supplying the paddlewheels and turbines.
• Vidal formed a Headquarters warship from the seabed, fitted it with sails, and coated it with a bubble using his Woods-Woods Fruit ability.
• Vidal sailed the warship out of G-1 and began descending underwater, with the Kung Fu Dugong joining him on deck.
• Vidal entered the Door-Door Fruit's space with the dugong and found Zangjing still bound and asleep.
• Vidal showed Zangjing a pair of seastone handcuffs and tried to put them on him, prompting Zangjing to roar in protest.

Vidal kept Zangjing prisoner in a parallel space and tried to make him teach Fish-Man Karate and Judo while serving as a sparring partner. Zangjing refused, but Vidal forced him to submit and left him under threat of twelve seeds planted in his body.

• Vidal put Seastone Handcuffs on Zangjing and explained that he wanted his martial arts, combat experience, and Armament Haki strength.
• Vidal offered Zangjing food, shelter, and continued life in exchange for teaching and sparring, but Zangjing refused and said he would rather die.
• Vidal loosened Zangjing’s restraints and put a wooden dagger beside him, daring him to kill himself.
• Zangjing picked up the dagger but could not stab himself, then dropped it and admitted Vidal had won.
• Vidal shot twelve wooden pellets into Zangjing, which healed into seeds lodged near his vital areas, and warned him that they could be used to keep him obedient.

Vidal and the Kung Fu Dugong descended in a bubble-coated warship toward Fish-Man Island, fending off Sea Kings with Conqueror’s Haki along the way. They reached the illuminated world ten thousand meters beneath the sea, where Vidal fixed his attention on Sunlight Tree Eve’s roots above Ryugu Palace.

• Vidal emerged onto the sinking warship with the Kung Fu Dugong and drove away an attacking Sea King with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Vidal discussed how the dugong might use Fish-Man Karate, Fish-Man Judo, and Armament Haki to fight underwater despite being a Devil Fruit user.
• Vidal created golden sunflowers to light the dark waters, attracting sea creatures that he repeatedly frightened away with his Haki.
• Vidal spotted undersea volcanoes and realized the warship was nearing Fish-Man Island.
• Vidal and the Kung Fu Dugong saw the glowing undersea world and Fish-Man Island, while Vidal looked toward the roots of Sunlight Tree Eve above Ryugu Palace.

Shiki learned that Zangjing might still be alive and mobilized the Flying Pirates toward G-3, while Vidal approached Sunlight Tree Eve beneath Fish-Man Island. Neptune sent the Neptune Army to intercept Vidal, who remained determined to reach the tree’s roots.

• Gentleman showed Shiki Zangjing’s partially burned Vivre Card and said it suggested Zangjing was still alive, though it was strangely motionless.
• Shiki ordered Gentleman to accompany him to meet Garp and set the Flying Pirates’ fleet toward G-3, leaving Helandou behind to recover.
• Vidal traveled beneath the sea toward Sunlight Tree Eve, prioritizing the tree’s roots over the other sights of Fish-Man Island.
• Neptune and his ministers saw Vidal’s warship approaching the light and decided to send the Neptune Army to stop him.
• Vidal spotted Neptune’s approaching ships, put on sunglasses he had made for himself and the little sea cow, and resolved to reach the tree’s roots.

Vidal used the Woods-Woods Fruit to block Neptune’s forces from reaching his warship as he approached Sunlight Tree Eve. He reassured Neptune that he would not harm the tree, but continued toward it to pursue his own plans.

• Neptune ordered the Marines aboard the approaching warship to stop, then sent the Neptune Army to capture them when they ignored him.
• Vidal raised an enormous wooden net from Sunlight Tree Eve’s roots, sealing off the waters above Ryugu Palace.
• The Minister of the Right and Neptune’s soldiers failed to break the enhanced wooden pillars with their weapons.
• Neptune unleashed a high-pressure seawater current that cracked several pillars, but they quickly healed without breaking.
• Vidal displayed a message promising not to harm Sunlight Tree Eve, easing Neptune’s fears as the warship continued upward.
• Vidal explained that he understood the Fish-Men’s attachment to the tree but would not abandon his plans to approach it.

Vidal touched Sunlight Tree Eve and received its memories and knowledge, discovering that it had been engineered to transmit air and sunlight to the deep sea. He learned that the project helped create Fish-Man Island and the enormous sea creatures, but found he could control only part of the tree.

• Vidal left the warship in a protective bubble and touched a root of Sunlight Tree Eve.
• Sunlight Tree Eve’s memories showed Vidal an earlier Mary Geoise, where Imu stood before twenty kneeling men, and later showed winged people planting the tree.
• Vidal learned that Sunlight Tree Eve had been made from Treasure Tree Adam and Yarukiman Mangrove, combining exceptional strength with the ability to transport air and sunlight.
• Vidal discovered that the tree had been created for a gigantification experiment and that Fish-Men built the original Fish-Man Island to guard its roots.
• Vidal concluded that increased oxygen had helped produce Sea Kings, sea beasts, and sea monsters, and wondered whether Elbaf’s giant tree served a related purpose.

Vidal returned from Sunlight Tree Eve and discovered that his Observation Haki let him see King Neptune’s past. He spoke with Neptune about closer relations between Fish-Man Island and the Marines, then revealed that he had rescued Fish-Men from Mary Geoise.

• Vidal decided to return to Sabaody to develop his body with Sunlight Tree Eve and continue his training.
• Vidal brought his warship down to King Neptune and the Neptune Army after the wooden net around Fish-Man Island retracted.
• When Vidal looked at Neptune, he saw the king’s experiences from the past year, realizing that Sunlight Tree Eve had changed his Observation Haki.
• Vidal greeted Neptune and said he hoped they could get along as neighbors.
• Vidal affirmed that Fish-Men and merfolk were people, then told Neptune he had rescued Fish-Men from Mary Geoise.

Vidal told King Neptune that he had rescued nineteen Fish-Man slaves from the Celestial Dragons and explained why he could not free them immediately. He proposed keeping them in his service as a Fish-Man special forces unit, leaving Neptune to decide whether to support the plan.

• Vidal revealed that he had exchanged magical creatures for nineteen Fish-Man slaves and would continue rescuing more from Mary Geoise.
• King Neptune thanked Vidal on behalf of the rescued Fish-Men and invited him to Ryugu Palace, but Vidal said he had to return to the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Neptune and Vidal went into the Phoenix-Tail Carriage, where Vidal explained that touching Sunlight Tree Eve had not harmed it and that he was interested in magical plants.
• Vidal said he could not release the rescued slaves right away because of the political trouble it could cause him as a Marine officer in the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Vidal proposed removing the slaves' explosive collars and brands, imposing other restraints, and forming a Fish-Man special forces unit to serve him.

Vidal left Fish-Man Island after offering King Neptune a way to contact him, then reunited with the hidden little manatee aboard his warship. In the parallel space, Vidal used his new Observation Haki to review Zangjing’s memories and learned about the Flying Pirates’ Grand Governor, Gentleman, and his Through-Through Fruit.

• Vidal asked King Neptune to write him a letter and gave him his private Den Den Mushi number before departing for Sabaody.
• Vidal called the little manatee out of its Air Door and explained why it had to remain hidden from people in Mary Geoise.
• Vidal entered the parallel space, where Zangjing requested water, toiletries, and clothes, and Vidal promised to bring them later.
• Vidal used Observation Haki on Zangjing and saw memories of the Flying Pirates and their Grand Governor, Gentleman.
• Vidal learned that Gentleman’s Through-Through Fruit let objects pass through defenses, and wondered whether his own new Observation Haki could be developed further.

Vidal returned to Sabaody Archipelago and staged a grand Marine escort through Inn Street before heading back to his base. Faced with a mountain of paperwork, he planned to explore Wood Clone techniques and called for Colonel Noel to discuss using his Wood-Wood Fruit ability.

• Vidal emerged near Sabaody Archipelago and arranged for Lieutenant Isoka to announce his return.
• Marines closed roads in Large District 70 and gathered at Inn Street’s harbor as music played across the archipelago.
• Nacil grumbled about Vidal’s grand entrance, while imprisoned Fish-Men reacted to hearing that he had returned.
• Vidal disembarked from his warship, ordered Marines to bring down his cart, and told Commodore Aile to add the ship to the base’s fleet.
• Back at the base, Vidal summoned Colonel Noel to discuss creating bodies for his magical creatures with the Wood-Wood Fruit.
• Vidal saw the paperwork piled on his desk and considered developing Wood Clone skills to reduce his administrative burden.

Vidal assigned Colonel Noel to manage a new Magical Creatures business for the Celestial Dragons after testing how many wooden clones Noel could shape at once. Vidal then implanted a special Consciousness Seed containing replayed images into a clone, hoping to create a true Wood Clone, but realized another condition was needed.

• Vidal asked Colonel Noel about District Zero and explained his deal to create Magical Creatures for the Celestial Dragons.
• Colonel Noel made a Wood Clone from a chair and demonstrated that he could shape five more clones at once.
• Vidal instructed Colonel Noel to establish a work area, handle orders, and recruit artists and scholars to design the Magical Creatures.
• After Colonel Noel left, Vidal gave a Wood Clone a special Consciousness Seed containing replayed images.
• Vidal implanted the seed in the clone, but suspected that creating a true Wood Clone required another condition.