Chapter Summaries

Buggy sank the Steel Cutlass Pirates’ ship, but Garen, Nami, and Wallace survived and reached the Buggy Pirates’ vessel. As Buggy’s crew swarmed Garen, he prepared to use the gathered pirates as targets for combat training.

• Buggy destroyed the Steel Cutlass Pirates’ ship with Buggy Bombs and ordered his crew to collect the wreckage.
• Garen, Nami, and Wallace surfaced on debris, and Buggy decided to rob Garen of his armor and greatsword.
• Garen paddled the debris raft to the Buggy Pirates’ ship and confronted Buggy, then taunted him about his red nose.
• Buggy ordered his crew to attack, but the pirates hesitated until Garen urged one to shoot him with a musket.
• Garen pretended to fall after the shot, and the pirates rushed in and surrounded him as he thanked them for gathering together.

Garen slaughtered Buggy’s pirate grunts, then reached level 4 and gained the Mirror Image skill. He used it to ambush Buggy, whose body was left scattered and unable to move, and Buggy nervously corrected his boast about his bounty.

• Garen used Judgment to kill the densely packed pirate grunts, driving the survivors to flee.
• Buggy tried to make Mohji and Cabaji confront Garen, but both backed away, leaving Buggy reluctant to attack.
• Garen reached level 4 and received the new skill Mirror Image as a random reward.
• Garen used Mirror Image and Fatal Strike to rush Buggy, who split his body apart with the Chop-Chop Fruit.
• Garen’s strike hit Buggy and left his scattered body parts unable to move, prompting Buggy to claim his bounty was fifteen million Beli.

Garen used Fatal Strike and Buggy’s stranded foot to defeat and restrain the pirate captain, while Nami negotiated for Buggy’s treasure instead of his head. The chapter left Buggy at Garen and Nami’s mercy, with Wallace eager to report Garen’s joking claim of Celestial Dragon ancestry.

• Garen used Fatal Strike to disable Buggy’s Devil Fruit ability, then grabbed one of Buggy’s feet as Buggy fled.
• Garen struck Buggy’s foot with Fatal Strike, dropping Buggy’s scattered body parts onto the deck and ending the Buggy Pirates’ resistance.
• Nami and Garen discussed claiming Buggy’s bounty, and Nami threatened to take his head unless he offered enough treasure.
• Buggy raised his offer from one million to five million Beli, but Garen and Nami dismissed the amount as inadequate.
• Garen joked that he was a descendant of the dragon of the great Celestial Empire, and Wallace started preparing to write the story down.

Wallace mistakenly concluded that Garen was a Celestial Dragon, while Nami forced Buggy to surrender his hidden treasure. Garen hesitated over whether to kill Buggy, but Buggy attacked and was struck down again, ending the chapter pleading for help.

• Wallace inferred that Garen was a Celestial Dragon, and Garen warned him not to write nonsense about it.
• Nami refused to accept Buggy's initial offer and made him lead the group to his captain's quarters.
• Nami found Buggy's treasure chest, then uncovered a hidden second compartment containing valuable jewels and the Secret Buggy Bomb formula.
• Nami left Buggy's fate to Garen, who weighed the rewards of killing him against the danger of angering his powerful connections.
• Buggy attacked Garen in desperation, but Garen used Fatal Strike to scatter him and then told him that no one would come to save him.

Garen and the others came under fire again when a mysterious solid cannonball tore apart the Buggy Pirates' ship. Garen intercepted it to save Nami and Wallace, then helped gather the treasure chests as the ship sank, wondering who had attacked them.

• Buggy cried for help as Garen prepared to strike him, but an explosion suddenly shook the captain's cabin.
• Garen, Wallace, and Buggy escaped the collapsing cabin and found the ship blasted into two sections, with Nami and the others clinging to the wreckage.
• A second solid cannonball struck the ship, and Garen realized it was headed straight for him, Nami, and Wallace.
• Garen used Fatal Strike and Courage, then cut the cannonball in half with his greatsword, redirecting its fragments away from Nami and Wallace.
• Garen crashed into the wreckage but stood up unharmed, and Nami urged him to help take the treasure chests into the sea.
• Garen helped Nami gather the chests while worrying that the cannonball had taken a quarter of his health despite his damage reduction.

Garp and the Marines sailed into the East Blue, where he destroyed Buggy’s ship by hand-throwing cannonballs. When Garen cut one of Garp’s shots apart, Garp ordered the warship toward him and prepared another attack, while Garen tried to force Buggy’s crew to take him aboard their lifeboat.

• Garp woke aboard the Marine warship and learned from Smoker that they had reached the East Blue.
• Garp spotted a pirate ship and hurled cannonballs at it, destroying it with two shots before throwing a third.
• Garp noticed that someone had cut apart one of his cannonballs, and Tashigi reacted with astonishment at the unknown swordsman’s skill.
• Garp ordered the Marines to steer toward the wreck and aimed another cannonball at Garen.
• Garen and his companions clung to a broken plank while Buggy’s crew escaped aboard a lifeboat, and Garen threatened Buggy with his feet in hand.

Garen regained control of the situation after falling into the sea and capturing Buggy, but a gigantic warship appeared just as he demanded the remaining pirates surrender. The chapter left Garen facing a new threat and regretting his boast.

• Buggy agreed to let Cabaji cut off his leg so the crew could escape, but a cannonball struck Garen and knocked him into the sea before they could do it.
• Buggy ordered Cabaji and Mohji to take Nami and Wallace hostage, and they rode Richie toward the two companions.
• Garen surfaced aboard Buggy's lifeboat and held Buggy at swordpoint, forcing Cabaji and Mohji to stop their attack.
• Garen demanded the remaining pirates surrender, but a gigantic warship appeared behind him and sent a strange cloud of smoke straight toward the lifeboat.

Garen fought Smoker, a Marine Logia user, and used Mirror Image and his silence effect to knock him into the sea. As Buggy reacted to Garen’s victory, an unidentified person appeared behind Garen and grabbed his shoulder.

• Smoker ignored Garen’s claim that he was not a pirate and attacked him, but Garen’s Fatal Strike passed through Smoker’s smoke body.
• Smoker struck Garen down, so Garen used Mirror Image to leave a fake body in his place and attack Smoker from behind.
• Garen’s blow dispelled Smoker’s smoke transformation, and Garen sent him flying into the sea before the silence effect wore off.
• Buggy was stunned that Garen had defeated a Logia user, while Garen dismissed the power of Logia Devil Fruits.
• An unidentified person laughed, grabbed Garen’s shoulder, and remarked on his bold words.

Garp’s Marines brought Garen, Nami, Wallace, and Buggy’s crew aboard their warship after capturing them, while Smoker recovered from his defeat. Wallace learned that Garen had beaten a Marine Headquarters colonel and that Garp himself had subdued him, leaving Wallace eager to turn the arrest into a major story.

• Garen protested that he was not a pirate as Marines escorted him and his companions onto Garp’s warship; Nami guarded the treasure, while Wallace photographed the ship.
• Cabaji said arrest was better than being killed by the Pirate Hunter, while Buggy nervously recognized Garp following behind him.
• Garp teased Smoker about losing his first East Blue battle, and Smoker explained that Garen’s strange sword had disabled his Devil Fruit ability.
• Garp inspected the captured suspects on deck and focused on Buggy, who tried to hide his face.
• Wallace heard Marines discuss Garen’s defeat of Smoker and Garp’s intervention, then eagerly recorded the details and photographed Garp.

Garp recognized Buggy as a former apprentice crewman of Gol D. Roger and offered him a place in the Marines instead of executing him. When Buggy refused, Garp threatened his crew, prompting Cabaji, Mohji, and Richie to enlist and leaving Buggy reconsidering his refusal.

• A Marine clerk confirmed that Garen was not a wanted pirate and that Buggy was the only wanted pirate present, while Nami claimed she and Garen were victims.
• Garp recognized Buggy as a former crewman of Gol D. Roger who had sailed alongside Shanks, shocking the Marines, Buggy's crew, and reporter Wallace.
• Marine analysts wildly speculated about Garen's strength after learning he had subdued Buggy, while Buggy admitted his past as a Pirate King crewman.
• Garp invited Buggy to join the Marines, but Buggy refused, so Garp warned that Buggy, Cabaji, Mohji, and Richie could be executed.
• Cabaji, Mohji, and Richie asked to join the Marines, and Buggy lamented that he had refused only because he could not bear to leave his old subordinates behind.

Buggy and two subordinates joined Garp’s Marines, while Garen accepted Garp’s offer to spar. Garen’s sword struck Garp despite his attempt to dodge, leaving Garp with a shallow wound and a torn uniform as the onlookers marveled at Garen’s strength.

• Buggy put on a Marine Justice Cloak and told Wallace that he had stayed in the East Blue out of a desire to protect the world, while claiming his earlier attack had been a misunderstanding.
• Garp invited Garen to spar after learning that he had defeated Smoker, and Garen accepted after asking Garp not to go too far.
• The Marines gathered around Garp and Garen on deck, while Wallace and Tashigi pushed through the crowd to watch.
• Garen used Fatal Strike and swung his greatsword at Garp, whose Observation Haki sensed danger when the blade changed direction and accelerated toward him.
• Garp used Shave to escape, but Garen’s sword still cut his shoulder and tore his Justice Cloak and sleeve, astonishing the spectators.

Tashigi interpreted Garen’s plain, guaranteed-hit sword strikes as the legendary Ippon Ken Dou, while Garp investigated how Garen’s sword had briefly suppressed his Haki. Garen invented the Knight Fruit to explain his powers, then revealed a new ability while Garp held his greatsword.

• Tashigi told Wallace that Garen’s simple, consistent swordsmanship resembled the legendary Ippon Ken Dou, and Wallace recorded the title “Ippon Ken Dou Swordsman.”
• Garp recalled that Garen’s sword strike had landed despite Soru and temporarily silenced both Observation Haki and Armament Haki.
• Garp examined Garen’s greatsword, asked how it could suppress Haki, and found no unusual materials or craftsmanship to explain the effect.
• Garen claimed he had the Paramecia-type Knight Fruit and said its power came from the justice in his heart, which allowed him to overcome the sea’s rejection.
• Garp accepted Garen’s explanation and asked what else the Knight Fruit could do.
• Garen told Garp to hold tightly to the greatsword and named his next ability “A Knight Never Dies Barehanded!”

Garen tested his equipment-retrieval ability against Garp, then endured Garp’s increasingly serious attacks during their sparring. The chapter ended with Garp preparing to strike again while Garen lay in a crater, pretending to be hurt.

• Garen recalled his Greatsword, dragging Garp across the deck and flinging him into the sea before the sword returned to Garen.
• Garp leaped back aboard, praised the Greatsword’s ability, and punched Garen through the deck during their sparring.
• Garen used Courage and Mirror Image to evade Garp, but Garp detected and struck his invisible real body with Armament Haki.
• Garen played dead after the punch nearly emptied his Health Bar, but Garp mistook his still-steady aura for resilience and prepared to test his limits again.

Garen rejected Garp’s offer to join the Navy, explaining that he wanted to follow his own sense of justice. He then asked Garp to help free Cocoyasi Village from the Arlong Pirates and exaggerated Arlong’s credentials to make the threat seem serious.

• Garp offered to teach Garen Rokushiki if he joined the Navy, but Garen declined because he believed the Navy’s justice could not change the Goa Kingdom.
• Garen described his own justice as freedom, equality, fairness, and the rule of law, with his sword defending people where law could not reach; Garp accepted his choice and warned him to stay true to it.
• Nami worried that Garen’s refusal meant he could not use the Navy to save Cocoyasi Village from the Arlong Pirates, so Garen promised to handle the problem.
• Garen asked Garp to help eliminate the Arlong Pirates, then claimed Arlong had served Fisher Tiger, was closely connected to Jinbe, and had survived a confrontation with Kizaru.
• Garen concluded that Arlong was at least as strong as a Marine Headquarters vice admiral, leaving Garp and the gathered Marines to consider the supposed threat.

Garp recognized that Arlong was far weaker than Garen’s embellished account suggested and assigned Smoker to handle the Arlong Pirates on the way to Loguetown. Nami gained hope that Cocoyasi Village would be freed, while Garen explained why he had known her identity and ended the chapter evasively discussing his armor.

• Garp checked Arlong’s bounty and saw through Garen’s exaggerated description of Arlong’s past.
• Nami told Garp that Cocoyasi Village lay three days west along the East Blue Current, and Garp decided it was on the way to Smoker’s post in Loguetown.
• Garp ordered Smoker to suppress the Arlong Pirates, and Smoker accepted the assignment.
• Nami thanked Garen, who admitted he had recognized her as an Arlong Pirates officer and the Cat Burglar, then claimed he helped because she was the Knight’s Lady he had his eye on.
• Garen reassured Nami that Smoker could defeat Arlong, and the group asked a Marine soldier to bring them dry clothes.
• Nami asked why Garen never removed his armor, and he told her not to look too deeply into it.

Garen and Nami left Vice Admiral Garp’s warship aboard Smoker’s small vessel, bound for Loguetown, where Garen hoped to collect their bounties. Nami celebrated their haul until she realized Buggy’s fifteen-million-Beli bounty was no longer theirs to claim.

• Garen learned that Nami was sixteen and estimated that the story began less than two years before the original plot.
• Smoker’s Marines lowered their small vessel from the hold of Garp’s warship, and Tashigi explained that Smoker had lost resources after clashing with Marine Headquarters’ logistics chief.
• Wallace pointed out that Garen could collect his bounty from Smoker in Loguetown, but Smoker said they would need to wait until the base’s command handover.
• Garen and the Marines parted from Garp, while Buggy remained aboard Garp’s warship in a Marine uniform.
• Nami counted their treasure and expected to claim 25 million Beli in bounties, then realized Buggy’s 15-million-Beli bounty was gone.

Smoker discovered that Loguetown’s Marines were corrupt and had made deals with pirates, then rushed to confront the garrison commander. Tashigi led the Marines toward the base while Garen prepared to join the anti-corruption fight.

• Smoker, Garen, and their companions saw pirate ships sailing openly around Loguetown despite the Marine warship nearby.
• Wallace explained that Loguetown’s Marines took a cut of bounty payments and that Commander Hammer let paying pirates pass while arresting those who refused.
• Smoker learned that Commander Hammer had not expected him to arrive twenty days early and might not have had time to hide the evidence.
• Smoker carried Wallace toward the Marine base in a cloud of smoke and ordered Tashigi to bring the Marines after him.
• Tashigi ordered the thirty Marines to prepare for battle as Garen declared he would help Smoker fight corruption.

Smoker investigated Wallace’s accusations against the Loguetown Marines, but the guards mistook him for a pirate and led him toward a pirate gathering organized by Commander Hammer. When Hammer learned that Marines from Headquarters had arrived, he prepared to confront Smoker, his incoming replacement.

• Smoker brought Wallace to the Loguetown base, where guards mistook Smoker for a pirate and invited him to Commander Hammer’s gathering.
• Wallace called Smoker’s crew the White Smoke Pirates, and a guard led them toward the gathering behind the base.
• Commander Hammer drank tea in his office while Lieutenant Charles managed the pirate toll station operating nearby.
• Hammer reflected on Smoker’s transfer and resented the young colonel, whom he viewed as a threat to his own prospects.
• A subordinate reported that Marines had arrived at the docks, including a righteous-looking man in a white suit at their head.
• Hammer ordered his subordinate to gather cash and treasure, bring out the Seastone Bullets, and summon Lieutenant Charles.

Smoker and Wallace discovered Marines selling supplies and contraband to pirates in Loguetown, where Lieutenant Charles demanded payment for Transit Permits. When Smoker challenged him, Charles offered him thirty million Beli to ambush a Marine squad, and Smoker accepted.

• Smoker and Wallace entered a warehouse and found Marines selling supplies and secret charts to pirates.
• Lieutenant Charles announced that Transit Permits cost five million Beli per crew and threatened pirates who resisted.
• Charles stomped a protesting pirate into the floor, then confronted Smoker when he refused to pay.
• After Commander Hammer summoned Charles, Charles returned and offered Smoker thirty million Beli to ambush a Marine squad.
• Smoker agreed to take the job.

Garen and Nami accompanied Tashigi and Smoker’s Marines to the Loguetown base, where Commander Hammer mistook Garen for Colonel Smoker. Nami accepted Hammer’s invitation to discuss matters inside, leaving Tashigi and the soldiers waiting outside as Hammer misread Nami as Smoker’s adjutant and confidante.

• Tashigi led thirty of Smoker’s elite Marines from the docks to the Loguetown Marine base with Garen and Nami beside her.
• Commander Hammer welcomed Garen as Colonel Smoker and tried to greet him, but Garen’s silence left Hammer anxious.
• Hammer offered gifts and urged the supposed Smoker to enter the base and discuss matters, and Nami eagerly accepted.
• Nami claimed to be Smoker’s adjutant and led Garen into the base while Tashigi and the Marines waited outside.
• Commander Hammer concluded that Garen was susceptible to wealth and women and relaxed as he escorted Garen and Nami inside.