Recaps

Vidal declared that he intended to become Fleet Admiral and demonstrated his strength against Strawberry and Comil. As he fought them, he also used his powers to stop two of the twelve criminals from escaping.

• Vidal announced that he would become Fleet Admiral and make Strawberry and Comil his trusted commanders, drawing reactions from Kong and Sengoku at Marine Headquarters.
• Strawberry challenged Vidal, who released his powerful presence and faced him in battle.
• Strawberry attacked with Soru, but Vidal blocked his slash with a tree and struck him into a crater.
• Comil joined Strawberry, and Vidal surrounded them with five more trees whose branches forced the swordsmen to defend themselves together.
• Two criminals tried to flee, but thorny vines grew around them and trapped them in pain.

Vidal subdued Comil and Strawberry with his plant powers, then offered them beans that rapidly healed their injuries and restored their stamina. The two accepted the beans, while Vidal considered what to call his Senzu Bean-inspired creation.

• Vidal used sharp thorns to kill several pirates and revealed that seeds had appeared on the survivors' bodies.
• Vidal trapped Comil and Strawberry among six trees and overwhelmed them with branches and endless blades of leaves.
• Vidal stopped Comil and Strawberry with wooden spears erupting from the ground and showed them that he controlled the ground beneath them.
• Vidal withdrew the spears and gave Comil and Strawberry green beans that healed their wounds.
• Vidal explained that his Green Beans restored injuries and stamina, but could not heal severe injuries or replace more than one meal.

As the island’s nighttime battle intensified, Borsalino swiftly eliminated trainees who entered the central area, while Dragon defeated a Zoan-user pirate and chose to spare him. Sakazuki killed the helpless pirate and confronted Dragon over whether captured criminals should be executed, leaving the two trainees at odds.

• Borsalino used his speed and light-based attacks to defeat Vivian and Haishizi near the island’s center.
• Dragon overpowered the rabbit Zoan user, broke his limbs, and left him unable to fight.
• Sakazuki killed the injured pirate with a Magma Fist and accused Dragon of being too soft on criminals.
• Dragon argued that captured pirates should be handled according to the law, while Sakazuki insisted that pirates deserved to die.
• Dragon and Sakazuki stood firm in their opposing views as their confrontation grew more serious.

Dragon and Sakazuki fought fiercely during the special training camp, with Dragon’s Haki allowing him to hurt Sakazuki but neither gaining a decisive advantage. Meanwhile, Vidal and five fellow trainees rested at his wooden compound, where twenty-four criminals were imprisoned, and prepared for the coming battles.

• Sakazuki and Dragon clashed head-on, and Dragon began to lose ground against the force and heat of Sakazuki’s magma fists.
• Dragon used Soru and Armament Haki to strike Sakazuki from behind, revealing a way to bypass his Logia defenses.
• Sakazuki adapted to Dragon’s attacks, but Dragon landed a Haki-coated kick that sent him sliding backward.
• The fight continued without a winner as the long night and the special training camp’s highest-level battle carried on.
• Vidal sat with Benson, Comil, Morgan, Yamakaji, Momonga, and Strawberry at his wooden compound, where they discussed the imprisoned criminals and prepared to rest before the next day’s fights.

Borsalino waited through the night before Sakazuki and Dragon arrived, already fighting fiercely. As Borsalino and Sakazuki prepared to gang up on Dragon, a gentle laugh interrupted them and announced the arrival of the last contender.

• Borsalino spent the night defending the central area, eliminating eleven trainees and several criminals while waiting for Sakazuki, Vidal, and Dragon.
• Sakazuki attacked Dragon with Great Eruption, and Dragon countered with a kick and Dragon Claw Fist.
• Sakazuki struck Dragon with Dog Biting Crimson Lotus, sending him into a river, but Dragon emerged alive and recognized how quickly Sakazuki was improving.
• Borsalino sided with Sakazuki and prepared to attack Dragon, while Sakazuki accepted the temporary alliance under the rules of the free-for-all.
• An unidentified contender arrived and apologized for being the last to reach the central area.

Vidal brought thirty captured pirates and six Navy trainees to join the confrontation, arranging for them to engage Sakazuki and Dragon while he took on Borsalino. The encirclement began as Vidal headed down to join the fight.

• Vidal arrived with six trainees and thirty pirates he had gathered during his search of Z Island.
• Vidal ordered the pirates to attack Sakazuki, promising they could leave Impel Down if they completed the task.
• Vidal asked the six trainees to keep Dragon occupied and said he would fight Borsalino.
• Benson, Comil, Yamakaji, Momonga, Strawberry, and Morgan charged at Dragon.
• Kong and Sengoku praised Vidal's command and preparation as he went down to join the battle.

Vidal and Borsalino avoided the ongoing battles, joined forces, and watched Sakazuki wear down his opponents while sharing fruit and discussing Haki. Once Sakazuki defeated the criminals, they moved to send him out of the competition.

• Vidal and Borsalino agreed to team up against the other candidates before fighting each other.
• Vidal created a table, chairs, and fruit in an oasis, where he and Borsalino relaxed and watched the battles.
• Borsalino asked about Haki, and Vidal explained that it let people touch Logia users' real bodies.
• Sakazuki defeated the last of the criminals, and Vidal and Borsalino approached him together.
• Borsalino aimed a laser at Sakazuki and told him he would have to leave the field first.

Vidal and Borsalino joined forces against the exhausted Sakazuki, turning the battle near the oasis into a spectacular clash of light, forest, and magma. The trainees watched the fight in disbelief as the three continued exchanging attacks.

• Vidal attacked Sakazuki with a forest of trees, while Borsalino blasted the trees apart with lasers.
• Vidal emerged from a tree and struck Sakazuki with an Armament Haki-coated fist, then clashed head-on with his Great Eruption.
• Sakazuki learned that Vidal was a Special Paramecia, and Borsalino struck him from behind with a beam of light.
• Vidal and Borsalino relentlessly attacked Sakazuki, who was weakened from his earlier fights and had to spend stamina reforming his magma body.
• The trainees aboard the warship watched the fierce battle on the light screen and wondered whether the fighters were really their fellow trainees.

Dragon fought off six Marines with overwhelming mastery of the Six Powers and Haki while Vidal and Borsalino attacked Sakazuki. Just as Sakazuki appeared close to defeat, Dragon shielded him from Borsalino’s beams and challenged him.

• Dragon used his speed, strength, and combat skills to repel the six Marines, knocking Morgan down during their assault.
• Dragon defeated Strawberry and Benson, leaving Comil, Momonga, and Yamakaji to charge him together.
• Vidal struck Sakazuki with a powerful kick, and Borsalino followed with beams as Sakazuki fell into the magma.
• Dragon intercepted Borsalino’s beams with his Armament Haki-coated fist and stood in front of Sakazuki, asking if he was too tired to stand.

Vidal and Dragon fought fiercely while Borsalino faced the badly wounded Sakazuki. The battle impressed Marine leaders and their families watching from afar, and the chapter ended with Garp cheering Dragon on while acknowledging Vidal's strength.

• Vidal chose to fight Dragon, while Borsalino agreed to take on Sakazuki.
• Vidal and Dragon exchanged Haki- and Six Powers-enhanced blows, with Dragon knocking Vidal into a crater before Vidal sent Dragon crashing through the jungle.
• Sengoku assessed the fighters and noted how Vidal's photosynthesis complemented his physical combat skills.
• Cornell and Garp watched the battle, with Cornell cheering Vidal and Garp warning Dragon not to lose.

Vidal trapped Dragon inside a jungle created by his Woods-Woods Fruit and used Wood Clones to keep attacking while he replenished his energy in the sunlight. As Dragon struggled to endure the assault, Borsalino continued wearing down Sakazuki, leaving both men in danger.

• Vidal activated Nativity of a World of Trees, surrounding Dragon with a dense jungle and blocking his escape.
• Vidal sent two Wood Clones to fight Dragon while he sat atop the foliage and replenished his Photosynthetic Energy.
• Dragon fought off the jungle and the Wood Clones but feared he could not endure the relentless attacks much longer.
• Garp watched the broadcast and realized Dragon had been trapped, but saw no one available to rescue him.
• Borsalino kept firing beams at the exhausted Sakazuki, who began to stagger amid the explosions.

Vidal defeated Dragon and challenged Borsalino after Borsalino knocked Sakazuki unconscious. Their fight escalated when Borsalino used his full speed, leaving Vidal struggling to keep up even with Observation Haki.

• Vidal recovered his strength while Dragon ran out of stamina and was tied up, securing victory in their first clash.
• Borsalino explained that he had knocked Sakazuki unconscious rather than team up with him, and Vidal agreed to fight him next.
• Vidal said Dragon was hanging from a tree, and two Wood Clones carried Sakazuki back to the oasis for safety.
• Borsalino attacked Vidal with Flash Kicks, but Vidal dodged them using Observation Haki and explained how he sensed Borsalino's movements.
• Borsalino increased his speed and struck from behind, forcing Vidal to block his attacks with kicks, limbs, and a summoned tree as their fight continued.

Vidal used his Forest-Forest Fruit to create a forest and discovered he could absorb Borsalino’s light beams as Photosynthetic Energy. Borsalino found a way to counter him by making two beams collide, engulfing Vidal in an explosion.

• Vidal raised a forest across the cooled ground, forcing Borsalino to stay airborne and wary of Haki-infused attacks.
• Borsalino fired a light beam at Vidal, who caught and absorbed it with Haki and his photosynthesis ability.
• Vidal realized Borsalino’s light could replenish his energy and taunted him with the possibility of absorbing his body directly.
• Borsalino fired two light beams that collided in front of Vidal, and their explosion swallowed him in a growing fireball.

Vidal and Borsalino’s free-for-all fight stalled when Vidal’s photosynthesis countered Borsalino’s light attacks, so Zephyr ended the match with Vidal, Borsalino, and Dragon as the last three. Afterward, Vidal discovered he could absorb light from Borsalino’s elemental body and declared that they were a match made in heaven.

• Borsalino detonated light beams above Vidal, but Vidal escaped inside a wooden ball and used Wood Clones to absorb Borsalino’s next beams.
• Vidal and Borsalino remained at a distance, unable to continue fighting, until Zephyr ended the free-for-all and named Vidal, Borsalino, and Dragon as the last three.
• Zephyr returned to the warship with the four recruits, and Sakazuki woke after eating one of Vidal’s Green Beans.
• Vidal offered Borsalino bananas for the rest of special training if Borsalino let him touch his elemental form.
• Vidal absorbed light from Borsalino through photosynthesis, then called them a match made in heaven and offered him a Green Bean.

Borsalino discovered that Vidal’s Green Beans restored stamina and could pair with his light-based ability, while Vidal offered the beans to the cadets and Zephyr. Back at Marineford, Zephyr announced the cadets’ self-study, monthly exams, and daily training schedule, leaving them with little time to sleep or study.

• Borsalino ate a Green Bean and felt his stamina return, prompting the others to recognize how his light could replenish Vidal’s Photosynthetic Energy.
• Vidal told Sakazuki he owed him a hundred thousand Beli for a Green Bean, offered free weekly beans to six cadets, and gave Zephyr ten in exchange for accepting the title of teacher.
• As the warship neared Marineford, Vidal gave interested cadets Green Beans to try and handed out the six cadets’ promised supplies.
• At Marineford, Zephyr told the cadets to study their course books independently, attend Sunday guidance sessions, and take monthly exams, with failures barred from that month’s free-for-all.
• Zephyr announced that the cadets would train on Z Island from six in the morning until six in the evening, leaving them surprised by how little time remained for study and sleep.

Vidal and Borsalino negotiated with the Navy’s top officers over mass-producing Green Beans, with Vidal setting sales terms and asking for Bullet’s future training placement. The deal also required Vidal to supply the next Special Training Camp class with free Green Beans.

• Vidal worried about the upcoming exam while Borsalino remained unconcerned because he did not mind missing the free-for-all.
• Zephyr showed Kong and Sengoku Green Beans and explained their restorative effects and how Borsalino could help Vidal produce more.
• Kong, Sengoku, and Zephyr summoned Vidal and Borsalino to discuss the beans’ price and production fees.
• Vidal agreed to sell Green Beans to the Navy for a hundred thousand Beli each, while reserving the right to sell them elsewhere at a higher price and asking the Navy not to pass them to the government.
• Vidal asked for Bullet to join the next Special Training Camp class and follow Garp after graduating, and Zephyr approved subject to Bullet keeping up.
• Vidal agreed to provide three free Green Beans per week to each student in the next class.

Vidal and Dragon received advanced Haki training while the rest of the trainees practiced the Six Powers and basic Armament Haki. Back at the dormitory, Vidal explained to Borsalino why he should develop skills beyond his Glint-Glint Fruit, then began telling him about Byrnndi World.

• Zephyr trained Sakazuki and Borsalino in the Six Powers and basic Armament Haki while restricting their Devil Fruit abilities until they caught up with the others.
• Zephyr assigned Vidal and Dragon separate Haki-focused combat training and began teaching them Armament Haki emission.
• Borsalino used his Glint-Glint Fruit to fly back to the dormitory ahead of the exhausted trainees.
• Borsalino complained that practicing Soru and Geppo was a waste for a Glint-Glint Fruit user, and Vidal argued that martial skills offered options if a fruit ability was unavailable or countered.
• Vidal told Borsalino that Byrnndi World could overwhelm him because Borsalino lacked the reactions, Haki, and martial skills to use his fruit's speed effectively.

After the first month’s exam, Vidal, Dragon, Borsalino, and Sakazuki joined forces to help Sakazuki improve his studying. The four friends then went to visit Vidal’s son Bullet at the Navy Academy.

• The recruits gathered in the No. 404 cathedral to check their rankings, where Borsalino placed first, Vidal eighth, Dragon thirty-fifth, and Sakazuki third from last.
• Dragon brought Vidal and Borsalino to his cottage and explained that Sakazuki had worked hard but struggled with the exam.
• Sakazuki showed them notebooks filled with passages he had copied from his textbooks three times, revealing why his study method had failed.
• Vidal offered to teach Sakazuki to memorize more effectively, and Dragon agreed to switch rooms with him for the next month.
• Vidal set out to visit Bullet at the Navy Academy, and Borsalino, Dragon, and Sakazuki followed to meet their friend’s son.

At the Navy Academy, Bullet rejected Gion’s request to spar because she was too weak to challenge him. He offered to fight her whenever she wanted if she could gather a hundred opponents to face him at once within two days, and Gion hurried off to try.

• Bullet inspected his poor report card and recalled how he had beaten the students who challenged him at the academy.
• Gion challenged Bullet to spar again, while Tokikake tried to dissuade her and confronted Bullet.
• Gion bowed and explained that she wanted Bullet as an opponent to help her become stronger.
• Bullet refused because Gion was too weak to make their fights worthwhile, then demanded that she gather a hundred opponents to fight him together within two days.
• Gion thanked Bullet and ran out to find opponents, while Tokikake hurried after her.

Gion assembled a hundred upper-year Academy students for Bullet to fight, and Bullet charged into them while Zephyr allowed the match to continue under supervision. After defeating the first ten, Bullet asked Gion to find another hundred.

• Gion brought a hundred upper-year students to the Sports Field and demanded that Bullet honor their agreement to be her sparring partner.
• Bullet told Gion and Tokikake to stay out of the way, then faced the hundred students as Borsalino, Vidal, Dragon, and Sakazuki arrived to watch.
• Zephyr ordered the Medical and Security Departments to stand by and went to the Sports Field to oversee the fight.
• Bullet charged the formation, and its first ten students advanced together while the remaining ninety watched.
• Bullet knocked down all ten students, then called to Gion and asked her to find another hundred.

Fourteen-year-old Bullet fought his way through the Marine Headquarters Academy’s hundred upperclassmen, impressing Borsalino, Dragon, and Sakazuki with his stamina and skill. As the original group dwindled, Zephyr sent two or three hundred older students to test Bullet’s limits.

• A burly upperclassman ordered twenty students to attack Bullet while the rest surrounded him, but Bullet knocked them down with basic physical combat.
• Borsalino, Dragon, and Sakazuki watched Bullet fight and reacted to his strength, while Vidal praised his son.
• Bullet broke through the students’ coordinated attacks and continued fighting as their numbers fell below forty.
• Tokikake considered joining the fight to get revenge, but Gion remained stunned by Bullet’s stamina.
• Zephyr ordered two or three hundred older students to the field, saying he wanted to see how many groups of a hundred Bullet could defeat.

Kong and Tsuru discussed Bullet’s strength and planned to use the Special Training Camp and Gion and Tokikake to help him form bonds with others. As Bullet’s exhausting fight continued, Vidal offered to heal the injured trainees and began a test treatment under Clifford’s supervision.

• Kong and Tsuru watched the fight and agreed Bullet should join the next Special Training Camp, with Kong considering Garp as his mentor.
• Tsuru suggested Gion and Tokikake join the camp early so they could become Bullet’s companions and help him connect with others.
• Bullet continued fighting for over five hours, defeating more than three hundred trainees while growing tired.
• Borsalino, Dragon, and Sakazuki discussed Bullet’s stamina and the limits of his fighting style as Vidal left to help the injured.
• Vidal explained his healing ability to Clifford, then began treating one trainee as a test.

Vidal healed the Navy Academy trainees by covering the Sports Field in restorative grass, then asked Borsalino to recharge it with light. Bullet defeated the humanoid polar bear with a new Iron Body Fist technique and declared his ambition to become the strongest Marine in history.

• Vidal healed an injured trainee and covered the Sports Field in grass that could treat minor injuries.
• Vidal told Clifford to protect the grass and explained that it stored energy from sunlight.
• Borsalino replenished the grass's energy with his light while Bullet continued fighting the trainees.
• Bullet used Soru and Iron Body Fist: Machine Gun to strike the humanoid polar bear and send him crashing through the trainees.
• Bullet flew out of reach with Geppo and declared that he would become the strongest Marine in history.

After Bullet defeated four hundred Navy Academy students and proclaimed his ambition, Zephyr knocked him into a crater and ordered the crowd to disperse. Vidal persuaded Zephyr to count Bullet’s feat as the first Hundred-Person Challenge, then asked for an additional reward beyond the promised promotion.

• Bullet declared his ambition before the Navy Academy, and Zephyr struck him down for his arrogance.
• Zephyr ordered everyone except Bullet, Gion, Tokikake, and the Special Training Camp students to disperse.
• Vidal introduced Bullet as his son, surprising Gion and Tokikake, while Zephyr proposed adding a one-versus-one-hundred challenge to academy rules.
• Vidal argued that Bullet’s victory over four hundred students should count as the first challenge record, and Zephyr agreed to award him a promotion and a choice of prize.
• Vidal asked Zephyr to increase Bullet’s reward beyond the promotion, suggesting the Devil Fruit and blade rewards.

After Bullet chose Devil Fruits as his reward, Vidal brought him to the Devil Fruit Administration Office to select two fruits. Zephyr also told Gion, Tokikake, and Bullet that they would enter the second Special Training Camp next year, and the chapter ended as the selection began.

• Zephyr let Bullet choose his reward, and Bullet chose Devil Fruits, saying he wanted to find a good one for his younger brother Enel.
• Zephyr advised Bullet not to eat a Devil Fruit yet, and Bullet confirmed that he only wanted one for Enel.
• Zephyr announced that Gion, Tokikake, and Bullet would enter the second Special Training Camp next year.
• Zephyr took Vidal and Bullet to the Devil Fruit Administration Office, where the person in charge presented two encyclopedias for them to choose from.
• Vidal considered how to select the fruits, and Zephyr asked for a Famous Sword encyclopedia as well.