Chapter Summaries

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.

Vidal searched an encyclopedia of unknown Devil Fruits and used his sensing ability to examine promising choices. He became surprised by the first fruit in a new pair, but its identity remained unrevealed.

• Vidal restored Bullet’s stamina with Photosynthetic Energy while Zephyr praised the ability and declined Vidal’s offer to heal him.
• Vidal found the recorded fruits too ordinary and asked to examine fruits without descriptions.
• Zephyr ordered Bullet back to the dorm to rest, then left with him.
• Vidal examined two pairs of unknown Devil Fruits and sensed images of their abilities.
• Vidal dismissed a glass-producing fruit and a plant-type fruit, then reacted with surprise to the first fruit in the next pair.

Vidal examined several unrecorded Devil Fruits at Marine Headquarters and weighed their abilities against their potential. He chose the mysterious golden Zoan fruit over the Rust-Embroider Fruit, leaving with it and the green fruit he had selected earlier.

• Vidal recognized the fruit on page forty-seven as the Berry-Berry Fruit and passed on it, then asked to inspect the fruits on pages thirty-one and fifty-four.
• Vidal identified the reddish-brown fruit as the Rust-Embroider Fruit belonging to Shu and considered its uses in combat.
• Vidal opened the other box and sensed a beast’s roar from a golden-yellow Zoan Devil Fruit, which prompted him to reconsider his choice.
• After weighing the golden fruit against the Rust-Embroider Fruit for about ten minutes, Vidal kept the golden fruit and had the other one taken away.

Garp decided to take Bullet under his wing after the boy graduated from Zephyr's Special Training Camp, while Vidal and Sakazuki grew closer as roommates. The second Z Island melee began without Sakazuki, and Kong received word that Sengoku had found traces of the John Pirates.

• Garp recalled calls from Kong, Tsuru, and Dragon about Bullet, then agreed to personally train him after his graduation.
• Garp left his cave to train by pounding the island's mountains with Haki-coated fists before facing Chinjao.
• Vidal and Sakazuki studied together and bonded over their disagreements about how to prune bonsai.
• The second Z Island melee arrived, but Sakazuki watched its live broadcast from a warship because he had failed his monthly exam.
• Kong received a report that Admiral Sengoku had found traces of the John Pirates.

Admiral Sengoku led a massive Marine force to surround the John Pirates, and John prepared to fight rather than surrender. The chapter ended as Sengoku unleashed his power and John met his attack with his swords, while resenting Sengoku’s Conqueror’s Haki.

• Sengoku arrived with seven warships and nearly seven thousand Marines to confront the John Pirates.
• John asked how the Marines had found them, and Sengoku said they had received an unknown tip.
• John refused to surrender and told Moria to stay behind the fighters and avoid dying.
• Ochoku and "Silver Axe" prepared to fight alongside John and the crew.
• Sengoku transformed amid golden light and declared that John would be imprisoned at Impel Down, while John drew his swords and clashed with his attack.

The Marines opened a full-scale assault on the John Pirates, while Sengoku and John fought above the battlefield. Ochoku and Silver Axe overwhelmed the Marines’ forces, leaving Vice Admiral Cornell and other officers struggling to hold them back.

• Three veteran vice admirals and nearly a hundred officers intercepted the John Pirates’ slashes as seven Marine warships bombarded their ships.
• Ochoku burst through a warship’s deck and began slaughtering the marines around him with his great sword.
• Vice Admiral Cornell confronted Ochoku, and the two began a fierce duel with support from Marine officers and hundreds of marines.
• Vice Admiral Amyz and Vice Admiral Rupert attacked Silver Axe, but his shield and axe kept them at bay and killed several officers and many marines.
• The John Pirates retained an apparent advantage despite their smaller numbers, while the outcome still depended on John’s fight with Sengoku.