Recaps

Roronoa Zoro arrived in Cocoyasi Town to challenge Garen but took a construction job because he had run out of money. At the worksite, he met Monkey D. Luffy, who shared his ambition to challenge Garen, and the two recognized each other’s determination before Luffy was called back to work.

• Zoro reached Cocoyasi Town and followed a hiring notice to the construction site, where he applied to be a carpenter.
• Zoro demonstrated extraordinary woodworking by carving and polishing lumber with his katana, earning a position as a senior technician.
• Zoro met Luffy, whose enormous hunger and claim that he would defeat Garen amused the other workers.
• The workers doubted Luffy’s ambitions and laughed when he named Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Sengoku, and Garp, his grandfather.
• Zoro introduced himself as Roronoa Zoro and said he believed in Luffy’s dream, then shared his own goal of becoming the world’s greatest swordsman.
• Luffy said he would challenge Garen after eating and called his dream becoming King of Navigation, before a worker summoned him to move bricks.

At the Sea Train groundbreaking banquet, Sanji stood up for the workers when a noble demanded that Luffy and the others be thrown out. Garen arrived and ordered Demacia Company to stop compromising with unreformed nobles, promising to hold off the World Government.

• Zeff praised Garen for bringing workers, Marines, merchants, and nobles together at the banquet, while Sanji dismissed the gathering as mere show.
• Sanji investigated a dispute and learned that Luffy had eaten food from a noble's table because he was hungry.
• When the noble demanded that the workers be expelled, Sanji instead threw the noble out of the banquet hall.
• The noble threatened to report Sanji to Demacia Company's leaders, and Garen appeared and questioned the company's partnership with nobles.
• Garen told Wallace that Demacia Company would make no more compromises, said he would hold off the World Government, and ordered his attendants to seize the noble.

Garen arrived at the company banquet with Nami, while Luffy and Zoro prepared to challenge him after they finished eating. Sanji learned about Garen’s rumored relationships and grew furious, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Garen had a troublesome nobleman removed, then entered the banquet with Nami, drawing the guests’ attention.
• Sanji spotted Nami beside Garen and felt heartbroken and jealous, then realized Hancock was not there.
• Zoro drew his sword to challenge Garen, but Luffy persuaded him to wait until after their meal.
• Luffy and Zoro explained that they wanted to use Garen as a test of their dreams, and Sanji shared his dream of finding the All Blue.
• Sanji heard workers gossip about Garen’s relationships with Nami, the princess of Alabasta, his secretary, and possibly Tashigi, then angrily denounced him.

At the banquet, Sanji mistook Garen’s generosity toward Tashigi for another attempt to seduce a woman, while Garen gave Tashigi two swords once wielded by Golden Lion Shiki. The chapter ended with Zoro mistaking Tashigi for his childhood friend Kuina, leaving Sanji and the onlookers baffled.

• Sanji’s coworkers warned him not to challenge Garen and explained Garen’s influence in Cocoyasi Village, deepening Sanji’s resentment.
• Smoker and Tashigi arrived at the banquet, and Garen greeted them while Tashigi thanked him for the famous swords he had previously given her.
• Garen presented Tashigi with Sakura Ten and Kareki, the paired swords of Golden Lion Shiki, and encouraged her to become a great swordsman.
• Sanji accused Garen of deceiving Tashigi with gifts, drawing Zoro’s attention when he heard about the famous swords.
• Zoro rushed to Tashigi and called her Kuina, but she said she had never met him, leaving Sanji and the coworkers stunned.

Zoro challenged Garen to a swordsman's duel, while the crowd and Sanji mistook the situation for a fight over Tashigi. Garen intimidated Zoro with the famed swords he had collected, then went to fetch a suitable weapon, returning with a kitchen knife.

• Zoro realized Tashigi was not Kuina and apologized for mistaking her for someone else.
• Sanji accused Garen of stealing Zoro's love and deceiving Tashigi, prompting Garen to protest to Nami.
• Zoro challenged Garen to a duel, insisting it was only between swordsmen despite Sanji urging him to win Tashigi back.
• Garen asked Tashigi to display four famed swords and warned Zoro about the strength of their former owners.
• Zoro tied on his bandana, clenched a third sword in his mouth, and accepted the challenge despite Garen's killing intent.
• Garen decided not to use his greatsword, left to find a suitable weapon, and returned with a kitchen knife.

Garen overwhelmed Zoro with a devastating sword slash, then spared him and challenged him to grow stronger. He also defeated Luffy and demonstrated advanced uses of the Gomu Gomu Fruit, leaving Luffy eager to train and Sanji backing away from a challenge.

• Zoro attacked Garen with Three-Sword Style: Demon Slash, but Garen evaded his strikes with ease.
• Garen unleashed a massive sword slash that carved through the beach and sea, frightening Zoro and silencing the onlookers.
• Zoro accepted the lesson and bowed, and Garen spared him while telling him to return when his swordsmanship had improved.
• Luffy challenged Garen, who knocked him into a trench and then evaded his Gomu Gomu no Pistol.
• Garen demonstrated Second Gear, Third Gear, and Fourth Gear techniques, then told Luffy to master them before challenging him again.
• Garen asked who else wanted to challenge him, and Sanji quietly stepped back.

Garen made Sanji endure a brutal lesson and ordered him, Luffy, and Zoro to train for the next few days. After Zeff fired him, Sanji accepted Luffy’s invitation to join his crew and pursue the All Blue, though their plan to train at a construction site left him uneasy.

• Garen punched Sanji until his face swelled, then announced that he would train him, Luffy, and Zoro while staying in Cocoyasi Village.
• Luffy invited Sanji to become the cook on his future ship and pursue the Pirate King, prompting Sanji to share his dream of finding the All Blue.
• Sanji refused because he did not want to leave Zeff, but Zeff fired him and urged him to stop denying his dream.
• Sanji accepted Luffy’s invitation and agreed to join the crew to pursue the All Blue.
• Luffy and Zoro planned to train until the following year and said they would start at a construction site, leaving Sanji dismayed.

Garen faced questions from Nami’s family about his rumored romances, then bid farewell to Tashigi as she left the East Blue for a Marine post in the New World. He gave her a training manual, unaware that she believed it was a rare, priceless text.

• Akin, Nojiko, and Nami questioned Garen about rumors linking him to Hancock, Vivi, and several other women, and he denied the allegations.
• Tashigi arrived and told Garen she was resigning as Demacia Company’s chief instructor because she and Smoker had been promoted and assigned to Marine G-5.
• Tashigi offered to return the four famed swords Garen had given her, but Garen let her keep them and encouraged her to accept her Marine post.
• Garen warned Tashigi to call him if she faced danger and gave her a training notebook containing techniques from Garp, Mihawk, and Boa Hancock.
• Tashigi tearfully thanked Garen and left, while Garen revealed that her supposedly priceless manual was a mass-produced book published by Demacia Company.

Garen published a training manual containing Rokushiki, Mihawk’s swordsmanship insights, and Nine Serpent Island’s Haki methods, prompting a furious debate at Marine Headquarters. The Navy ultimately kept the book as training material, while Akainu’s conflict with Blue Pheasant over the Fleet Admiral position intensified.

• Before leaving Cocoyasi Village, Garen confirmed to Wallace that he would publish the manual and argued that spreading training knowledge would not cause chaos.
• Marine Headquarters received copies of the book, and Akainu demanded that it be banned as a provocation against the Navy.
• Sengoku asked who would be sent to arrest Garen, and Akainu realized the Admirals were unwilling or unable to take him on.
• Akainu and Blue Pheasant’s opposing views of justice surfaced as their powers filled the Fleet Admiral’s office with heat, cold, and a storm.
• Kizaru argued that the Navy could benefit from the book’s Haki training methods, and Akainu agreed to keep it as Marine training-camp material.

Kaya gave Usopp a copy of Swordmaster, inspiring him to swear he would become a warrior of the sea after Kuro insulted his father. Kuro initially dismissed Usopp’s ambitions, but learning that Yasopp was a senior officer of the Red Hair Pirates made him decide to train hard himself.

• Kaya gave Usopp Swordmaster, a book on growing stronger, and Usopp eagerly accepted it despite being unable to afford its price.
• Kuro berated Usopp for touching Kaya and mocked his father Yasopp, prompting Usopp to declare he would become a warrior of the sea.
• Usopp left with Swordmaster, while Kuro dismissed the book and reflected on why he preferred gaining wealth legally rather than risking his life as a pirate.
• Kuro read Swordmaster and found that Yasopp was listed among the Red Hair Pirates’ senior officers and top experts from East Blue.
• Kuro realized Usopp had been hiding his potential and resolved to train hard to protect himself.

Alvida struggled to keep her pirate crew afloat as Demacia Company’s crackdown and rising weapon prices squeezed East Blue’s pirates. Meanwhile, Koby and Helmeppo encountered a swordsmanship textbook, and Helmeppo’s new resolve to serve justice led him to fight his fugitive father, Axe-Hand Morgan.

• Alvida paid her dissatisfied lackeys a meager share of the spoils and kept the money to fund her crew.
• Koby picked up a discarded copy of “Swordmaster: From Beginner to Mastery” and recognized Garen’s emblem.
• Joseph welcomed Helmeppo as a qualified Demacia soldier and gave him the swordsmanship textbook.
• Helmeppo returned home and found Axe-Hand Morgan robbing him for money.
• Helmeppo drew his sword against Morgan, but Morgan defeated him and took his valuables.
• Morgan noticed Helmeppo’s copy of “Swordmaster: From Beginner to Mastery” and showed interest in it.

Garen accompanied Kentucky to Swallow Island to recover stolen Germa 66 cloning materials, but found the lab ransacked and the research gone. He decided to draw Germa 66 to them by reopening Kentucky's restaurant, where Enel ended up working the counter.

• Garen, Nami, Kentucky, and Enel visited Kentucky's former shop on Swallow Island, where Nami quickly found the entrance to the underground secret room.
• Kentucky discovered that the lab equipment and cloning materials had been destroyed or taken, leaving a threatening note from Germa 66.
• Garen touched the note's pink lip print, which spread across the paper and caused his Health Bar to drop before he crushed it.
• Kentucky admitted he had no backup of the research, but Garen decided to make Germa 66 come to them by reopening the restaurant.
• The next day, Kentucky Fried Chicken advertised its reopening across the island, and Enel worked behind the ordering counter.

Enel struggled to serve noisy children at Kentucky Fried Chicken while Garen enforced the rule that customers were gods. Kentucky reunited with Trafalgar Law and his companions, and Garen recognized them before Penguin and Shachi ordered huge amounts of food after seeing him pull Nami into his lap.

• Enel frightened a group of children with his glare and electricity, then used harmless sparks to entertain them and take their orders.
• Bepo, Shachi, Penguin, and Trafalgar Law arrived, and Nami learned that the talking white bear was a local regular.
• Kentucky recognized Law and his companions as former regulars, and Bepo excitedly welcomed Kentucky back after hearing he had been kidnapped.
• Garen watched Law's group and told Nami he had not expected to meet them there, but he did not explain further.
• Garen pulled Nami onto his lap to eat with him, prompting Penguin and Shachi to order dozens of family buckets from Enel.

Law and his friends learned that the Polar Tang was nearly ready, but the Donquixote Family had begun searching for him. At Garen’s fried chicken shop, a dispute over Nami and a gang’s extortion attempt led Garen to reveal his strength, leaving Law’s group stunned and uneasy.

• Law told Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo that the Polar Tang was nearly finished and that the Donquixote Family had found his trail.
• Penguin and Shachi asked for Nami to deliver their fried chicken, prompting Garen to confront them over their demand.
• A gang boss threatened Garen with a compensation demand over the shop’s family bucket and Colonel Chicken Nuggets.
• Garen claimed he was a retired Marine colonel and used Shave to beat the gang members and throw them out.
• Law, Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo admitted they could not follow Garen’s movements, and Garen turned his attention back to them.

Garen defeated Luo and his companions, then recruited them to work for him rather than handing them over to Doflamingo. The next day, Luo used his Op-Op Fruit powers to prepare chicken in the shop kitchen.

• Penguin, Shachi, Bepo, and Luo tried to leave, but Garen stopped Penguin and Shachi and revealed that Luo was his real target.
• Luo used Room: Takt to cut Garen's arms, but the attack failed against Garen's data-based body, and Garen quickly defeated Luo and sealed his ability.
• Enel transformed into lightning and struck Bepo, who transformed into Volibear and endured the attack.
• Luo surrendered and offered to go with Garen to Doflamingo, but Garen explained that he was not allied with the Donquixote Family and recruited Luo and his companions instead.
• Garen told Luo to start at the grassroots level, and the next day Luo used his Devil Fruit powers to sort, coat, and fry chicken in the kitchen.

Diamante, Baby 5, and Buffalo arrived at Kentucky Fried Chicken to capture Law, but Garen kept them at bay while Baby 5 was drawn into helping Kentucky mop. Outside, Reiju concluded Kentucky was tied to the Donquixote Family, and Yonji stormed into the shop, prompting Diamante to mistake Germa 66 for Law’s new backing.

• Diamante, Baby 5, and Buffalo entered Kentucky Fried Chicken seeking Law, who Garen said had gone out to buy ingredients.
• Baby 5 searched the kitchen, then began mopping when Kentucky asked her to, while Garen told his staff to wait for Law’s return.
• Reiju and Yonji watched from outside, and Reiju decided Kentucky had gained protection from the Donquixote Family.
• Yonji charged through the glass door and attacked Diamante, who realized Law apparently had Germa 66 backing him.

Reiju fought Buffalo and baby-5 while Yonji battled Diamante, as Garen watched from the wrecked fried chicken shop. Reiju defeated Buffalo and turned back toward baby-5, while Garen finished off the unconscious Buffalo after he landed nearby.

• Yonji and Diamante exchanged fierce blows, while Reiju blocked Buffalo and baby-5 from joining the fight.
• Diamante ordered Buffalo and baby-5 to fight Reiju as he continued battling Yonji.
• Garen watched Reiju fight and asked Nami to bring out the shop’s remaining cola and fries.
• Buffalo and baby-5 launched their spinning missile attack, but Reiju dodged the explosion and struck Buffalo with a venomous kick.
• Buffalo fell unconscious in front of Garen, who finished him off and then watched Reiju turn toward baby-5.

Reiju defeated Baby 5, while Garen killed Buffalo and revealed that the Donquixote Family had mistaken Kentucky for an ally. As Diamante and Baby 5 fled, they ran into Luo and Yonji, and Baby 5 told Doflamingo that Germa 66 was sheltering Luo.

• Reiju defeated Baby 5, and Diamante ordered her to retreat with him while Yonji chased after them.
• Reiju found Buffalo dead beside Garen, who admitted killing him and explained that the Donquixote Family had come looking for trouble.
• Garen told Enel to follow Reiju, while Luo headed back toward the fried chicken shop and encountered Diamante and Baby 5.
• Diamante attacked Luo, but Yonji arrived and began fighting him, making Diamante believe Luo had joined forces with Germa 66.
• Baby 5 answered Doflamingo's call and reported that the mission had failed, Buffalo was likely dead, and Germa 66 was sheltering Luo.

Yonji and Reiju attacked the Donquixote Family while seeking Luo, and Doflamingo ordered his forces to retreat after learning Germa 66 was involved. Yonji defeated Diamante, then boasted to Reiju that he had openly challenged Doflamingo, leaving her alarmed by the danger he had created.

• Doflamingo confirmed through Diamante that Germa 66's Reiju and Yonji were attacking, then ordered Diamante and Baby 5 to abandon the mission and retreat.
• Yonji taunted Doflamingo over the Den Den Mushi and refused to yield the person he wanted, prompting Doflamingo to threaten Germa 66 before hanging up.
• Diamante tried to break away with his Bullfighting Scepter, but Yonji trapped his sword with his cape and seized him with an extending technological glove.
• Yonji swung Diamante through buildings and into the ground, knocking him unconscious, then turned his attention toward Baby 5.
• Reiju arrived and found Diamante down; Yonji told her he had insulted Doflamingo and declared war, nearly making Reiju faint with alarm.

Garen stopped Yonji from attacking baby-5, recruited her as his subordinate, and demanded Germa 66's cloning technology from Reiju and Yonji. Reiju and Yonji fled into the sky, where they encountered Golden Lion Shiki and realized he might help them against Garen.

• Yonji attacked baby-5, but Garen caught his fist and blasted him away with a lightning-and-flame-powered sword strike.
• Garen asked baby-5 to become his subordinate, and she eagerly agreed.
• Garen revealed that he wanted Germa 66's cloning technology, but Reiju refused to surrender it.
• Reiju and Yonji used their battle suits to fly away from Swallow Island and believed they had escaped Garen.
• Reiju and Yonji encountered Golden Lion Shiki in the sky, and Reiju recognized his hatred of Garen as a possible opportunity.

Reiju and Yonji led Golden Lion to Garen, hoping to use their clash to reach Kentucky, but Golden Lion revealed he was working with Garen and helped capture them. Garen demanded Germa’s Cloning Technology, and when they refused, he sent Enel to begin torturing them.

• Reiju told Golden Lion that Garen was on Swallow Island, and Golden Lion insisted that she and Yonji take him there.
• Golden Lion carried Reiju and Yonji back to Swallow Island on a floating rock, where they found Garen and his companions, including Kentucky.
• Reiju offered to help Golden Lion fight Garen, but Golden Lion used his Float-Float Fruit to trap her and Yonji in rock while Garen held his sword to their necks.
• Reiju realized that Golden Lion and Garen were working together, and Golden Lion admitted he had warned her about Garen’s deceitful methods.
• Garen demanded Germa’s Cloning Technology, but Yonji refused to betray Father, so Garen ordered Enel to take them away for torture.

Garen interrogated Reiju and Yonji about their father and Germa, then revealed he intended to recruit Germa 66 rather than kill them. Reiju tried to seize the initiative by poisoning Garen through a kiss, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Garen killed Diamante after asking him an unanswerable question, then had Golden Lion hide the body.
• Garen questioned Reiju and Yonji about their father, while Enel electrocuted Yonji to pressure Reiju.
• Reiju refused to reveal Germa's secrets because she believed Garen would kill her and Yonji to conceal what they knew about him and Golden Lion.
• Garen said he wanted to recruit Germa 66 and its scientists, but Reiju remained distrustful and considered using her poison against him.
• Reiju asked Garen to lean close, then kissed him to deliver poison and regain the upper hand.

Reiju tried to poison Garen into revealing where her father was, but he resisted the venom and turned the confrontation to his advantage. After threatening Yonji with Enel’s electric shocks and revealing that Sanji was in his custody, Garen secured Reiju’s promise to cooperate, though she could not guarantee her father would let her return to Germa 66 headquarters.

• Reiju injected Garen with deadly venom and demanded that he let her and Yonji leave safely, but Garen revealed that he had resisted the poison.
• Garen ordered Enel to increase Yonji’s electric shocks until Reiju agreed to cooperate.
• Reiju explained that Germa 66’s headquarters moved across the seas and that she needed to contact her father to learn its location.
• Garen threatened Reiju with the news that Sanji was in his hands, convincing her to cooperate fully.
• Garen asked Reiju for her Den Den Mushi so she could call her father, but she did not answer.

Garen learned that Judge planned to prepare Germa 66 for war against the Donquixote Family and decided to take his crew to the New World. As the group set out, Nami noticed a smear of pink on Garen’s lips and confronted him about what he had done in the secret chamber.

• Judge accused Reiju and Yonji of provoking Doflamingo, and Reiju lied that the Donquixote Family had tried to steal Germa’s cloning technology through Dr. Kentucky.
• Reiju told Judge that Yonji had been badly injured and was unconscious, prompting Judge to declare war on Doflamingo and order her to reach the New World within twenty days.
• After Judge ended the call, Garen learned that Germa’s giant snails could reach the New World in about twenty days and decided to go there himself.
• Garen freed Reiju, then left the secret chamber with her and Enel while Golden Lion carried the chained Yonji.
• Garen told Nami to steer the crew toward the entrance to the New World near Holy Land Mariejois, and Nami found a vivid pink smear on his lips.

Garen and his crew traveled toward the New World, while Reiju reflected on her life beyond Germa and grew uneasy when Garen planned to leave her behind. A call for help prompted Garen to head out alone, saying the destination was only twenty thousand meters away.

• Nami collapsed from poison left on Garen's lips, and Reiju detoxified her by sucking the venom from her mouth; Nami then believed Garen had been forced into kissing Reiju.
• Five days later, Garen, Nami, Reiju, and the others reached the Red Line aboard the airship, while Golden Lion trained Enel, Luo, Bepo, Baby 5, and the others on the giant snail's back.
• Garen joked about dropping the giant snail on Holy Land Mariejois, and Reiju realized he was no model Shichibukai and suspected he had been involved in the Celestial Dragons' deaths at Sabaody.
• Garen asked Reiju to suggest somewhere fun to visit, but she refused to go ashore because her early arrival might make her father suspicious; Garen said he and Nami could go without her.
• Garen received a call asking for help, promised to arrive soon, and left the airship alone despite Nami's concern, saying his destination was twenty thousand meters away.