Chapter Summaries

Hatchan arranged for Galley-La to repair the battle-damaged ship before the group sailed to the New World. Sabo and Koala returned from meeting Garen full of admiration for him, while Hatchan grew alarmed at their claims and ended the chapter convinced they had been brainwashed.

• Kaku inspected the ship and told Hatchan it needed at least three days of repairs, so Hatchan agreed to keep the group in Water 7.
• Koala and Sabo returned with tearful eyes, and Sabo said he was happy after reuniting with Luffy through Garen's Den Den Mushi.
• Koala told Hatchan they had met Garen, and Sabo claimed Garen was a good comrade of the Revolutionary Army rather than a Celestial Dragon.
• Koala said Garen knew secrets about the Revolutionary Army and had helped her understand its true mission, alarming Hatchan.
• Hatchan asked Sabo whether Garen had killed his family, and Sabo confirmed that he had, leaving Hatchan sure that the pair had been brainwashed.

Garen went to the Franky Family to recruit Franky to build an airship, revealing that he knew Franky’s connection to Tom and the Pluton blueprints. Franky refused, so Garen threatened to expose him to undercover World Government agents unless he agreed.

• Garen and Nami arrived at the Franky Family’s ship dismantling yard, and Garen silenced the gangsters’ music with a flying sword slash.
• Franky confronted Garen, but put on pants when Garen threatened him and then dismissed his subordinates to speak privately.
• Garen revealed that he wanted Franky to build an airship and acknowledged that Franky was Tom’s apprentice.
• Franky refused because he had sworn never to build another ship after Tom’s execution over the armed vessels Franky had made.
• Garen warned Franky that Spandam’s agents were undercover in Water 7, searching for the Pluton blueprints, and said he knew their identities.
• When Franky still resisted, Garen threatened to report his possession of the Pluton blueprints unless he built the ship.

Kaku and Kalifa learned that Revolutionary Army officer Fish-Man Hatchan was in Water 7 and received orders from Spandam to keep him there while CP9 reinforcements arrived. They left their secret meeting after Pauli stumbled upon them, apparently misunderstanding what he had witnessed.

• Kaku told Kalifa that he had identified Fish-Man Hatchan’s ship at the docks.
• Kalifa and Kaku reported Hatchan’s presence to Spandam, who ordered them to keep him in Water 7 and said reinforcements would arrive by Sea Train.
• Spandam told the four undercover agents to stay hidden unless they had to intervene, despite Kalifa’s concern that the incoming CP9 members could not capture Hatchan without Rob Lucci.
• Kaku and Kalifa opened the storage-room door and found Pauli outside.
• Kalifa and Kaku restrained Pauli, but he insisted he had heard nothing and left in tears after apparently misreading their situation.

Teach and Ace agreed to help the Franky Family against Garen, while Garen persuaded Franky to build an airship in Alabasta and considered hiring Franky's men. The two groups met at Franky's shipyard, where Teach identified himself to Garen.

• Teach and Ace heard the Franky Family lackeys describe how their boss had stayed behind to face a dangerous enemy, and they agreed to help him.
• Teach invoked the Whitebeard Pirates, winning the lackeys' trust as they revealed their enemy was Garen.
• Franky agreed to go to Alabasta and build Garen's airship after Garen offered him safety, housing, land, and a large salary.
• Garen suggested recruiting Franky's men too, then walked out to confront the men and their two helpers when they arrived at the shipyard.
• Teach stepped forward and introduced himself to Garen as Marshall D. Teach.

Ace confronted Garen over Franky, but Franky said he had chosen to work for Garen. After Garen sealed Ace’s Devil Fruit Ability, Teach recognized the power he had sought for decades and attacked him, while Ace mistook Teach’s rage for an act of friendship.

• Teach tried to avoid getting involved after learning that the man facing him was Garen, but followed Ace to uphold his image as a trustworthy brother.
• Ace demanded that Garen release Franky, but Franky said he had agreed to work for Garen and told his underlings not to interfere.
• Ace attacked Garen with his flames, but Garen emerged unharmed and then sealed Ace’s Devil Fruit Ability with his greatsword.
• Teach recognized Garen’s power as resembling the Dark-Dark Fruit and, overcome with rage, punched Garen away.
• Ace watched Teach attack and believed he had unleashed his strength to protect his captain out of friendship.

Garen fought Teach, using his skills to wound him before Teach pretended to be defeated so Ace would not suspect his true strength. Ace prepared to fight Garen, but a distant shout about Luffy and Sabo being friends stopped him.

• Teach attacked Garen with a barrage of punches, but Garen blocked them and wounded Teach with his sword-wave skill.
• Garen tried to flee, then blasted Teach with Excalibur and followed with Twilight of the Gods and Demacian Justice.
• Teach appeared battered but remained strong, and he pretended to collapse so Ace would believe he had been defeated.
• Ace rushed to Teach, called him a brother, and vowed to settle Teach's score with Garen.
• Ace ignited flames in his hands, but a distant voice shouted that Luffy and Sabo were also friends, and Ace's flames went out.

Kalifa and Blueno reported Ace and Garen's arrival in Water 7 to Spandam, who gave them evasive instructions about approaching Garen respectfully. After Blueno left through a wall, Kalifa ran into Pauli, who misunderstood what he had seen and asked her to contact him next time.

• Blueno told Kalifa that Ace and Garen had arrived in Water 7 and that the Whitebeard Pirates intended to confront Garen.
• Kalifa called Spandam to ask whether Garen was a Celestial Dragon, but Spandam avoided answering and told her to treat him as a Shichibukai while showing him respect.
• Kalifa told Blueno to leave through the wall rather than use a door, and they emerged in the alley behind Galley-La Company.
• Pauli saw Blueno leave the alley and then encountered Kalifa, mistakenly connecting the scene to his earlier suspicion about her and Kaku.
• Kalifa warned Pauli not to reveal what he had seen, and Pauli asked her to contact him next time.

CP9 debated how to capture Hatchan without provoking Ace and the Whitebeard Pirates, and decided to seek Garen’s help. At a banquet, Garen made peace with Teach and persuaded Ace, Sabo, and Koala that his service to the World Government was a compromise made to protect people, winning their admiration and Teach’s sympathy.

• Lucci concluded CP9 risked drawing the Whitebeard Pirates into a fight and agreed to request Garen’s help on the World Government’s behalf.
• Garen and Teach exchanged insincere praise and declared themselves friends after their earlier fight, while Ace reunited with Sabo and became close to Garen.
• Ace asked why Garen served the World Government, and Garen said he did so to pursue his dream of becoming an ally of justice.
• Garen explained that compromise let him protect more than a million people, and Koala challenged him with his own teachings about violent revolution.
• Garen claimed he lacked the strength to defy the World Government and endured humiliation for the people he protected, moving Ace and Teach.

Garen visited Water 7 under the pretext of discussing business with the Galley-La Company and proposed building Sea Trains in the East Blue. After Nami and Iceberg began negotiating the project, Garen wandered through the factory and accepted Kalifa’s invitation to talk alone when he learned Nami would be occupied for several hours.

• Garen met Iceberg and Kalifa at the Galley-La Company, while Nami complained about Kalifa’s behavior.
• Garen proposed hiring Galley-La’s staff to build Sea Trains for Demacia Company in the East Blue, and Iceberg offered the company’s expertise and workers.
• Garen insisted he would fund the railway project despite its high cost, and Iceberg pledged to help realize Master Tom’s dream.
• Garen left Nami to negotiate the project’s finances with Iceberg and the company’s staff while he toured the shipbuilding facilities.
• Kalifa invited Garen to her private lounge, and after learning Nami would be busy for several hours, Garen asked where she wanted to take him.

Kalifa mistook Garen’s request to chat privately for a demand for intimacy and submitted to him, but Garen clarified that he only wanted to speak before realizing she had come to discuss CP9 business. Kalifa revealed her identity as a CP9 agent and produced a Den Den Mushi so Chief Spandam could talk to Garen.

• Kalifa nervously followed Garen to her private lounge, believing he might expect her to submit to him.
• Kalifa undid her hair and clothes, then threw herself into Garen’s arms, but Garen asked why she was making a move when they were supposed to chat.
• Kalifa learned that Garen had hurried because he feared Nami would discover him chatting alone with another woman.
• Garen realized Kalifa might not have come only to chat and asked whether she had another purpose.
• Kalifa confirmed that she was a secret CP9 agent and revealed a Den Den Mushi, explaining that Chief Spandam wanted to speak with Garen.

Nami discovered the Sea Train budget far exceeded the original estimate and went looking for Garen, who was with Kalifa. Garen then assembled CP9 agents for an operation against Revolutionary Army rebels and convinced Rob Lucci to join by warning of the powerful Marshall D. Teach.

• Nami realized the Sea Train required far more money than planned and demanded to know where Garen was.
• Pauli told Nami that Garen had gone to the company dormitory with Kalifa, and Nami rushed there.
• Garen gathered CP9 agents at Blueno's bar and praised them before discussing the operation against Revolutionary Army rebels.
• Lucci said he and the other undercover agents could not risk exposing their identities, but Garen insisted Lucci accompany him.
• Garen claimed that Marshall D. Teach was powerful enough to threaten even him, and Lucci agreed to join the mission.
• Lucci told Kalifa to report the intelligence about Teach to their superiors.

Garen accompanied Rob Lucci and CP9 to raid the inn where Hatchan and Revolutionary Army members were staying, while pretending to flirt with Kalifa. On the second-floor corridor, Garen confronted Lucci about his past and called for Captain Ace as the ambush began.

• Lucci and Kalifa discussed the Revolutionary Army's evacuation of the inn and identified Hatchan and other leaders as targets.
• Garen flirted with Kalifa in front of CP9, leading Lucci to assume she had persuaded Garen to help through intimacy.
• Lucci ordered Garen to attack the second floor with him while the other five CP9 agents targeted the Revolutionary Army crew on the third floor.
• Garen sent Kalifa away from the operation, then entered the inn with Lucci and the agents.
• On the second-floor corridor, Garen questioned Lucci about killing five hundred hostages during a past mission, then shouted, "Captain Ace! I brought the cops!"

Garen and his allies cornered Rob Lucci in Water 7, but Lucci tried to expose Garen’s secret alliances by collapsing the inn and drawing witnesses. Garen wounded Lucci with his flaming sword, yet his allies refused to join the fight, leaving Garen and Teach to face him as other CP9 agents approached.

• Sabo, Hatchan, Ace, Teach, and Garen surrounded Lucci and revealed their identities, leaving him stunned by Garen’s apparent ties to the Revolutionary Army and pirates.
• Lucci transformed and unleashed Six King Gun, destroying the inn and making enough noise to attract the city’s residents and the other CP9 agents.
• Garen realized Lucci wanted witnesses to expose him and charged, severing Lucci’s left arm with his flaming sword.
• Lucci cut off the rest of his burning arm and stopped the bleeding, while Ace, Sabo, and Hatchan refused to interfere in the duel.
• Garen urged his allies to help before the other CP9 agents arrived, but Teach alone joined him in attacking Lucci.

Garen, Teach, Ace, and Sabo defeated Rob Lucci before he could expose them to the approaching CP9 agents. They staged a fight for the witnesses, leaving their true identities and alliance concealed.

• Teach struck Lucci with a devastating punch, and Garen slashed Lucci's other arm, leaving him badly injured and ablaze.
• Lucci spotted Kalifa, Kaku, and Blueno approaching and tried to reveal the attackers, but Ace raised a vast curtain of fire that blocked their view.
• Sabo joined Garen and Teach, and Lucci charged them before Garen finished him with Demacian Justice.
• Sabo and Hatchan thanked Garen, and Garen stopped the others from leaving openly because CP9 and nearby citizens were watching.
• Garen, Ace, and Sabo agreed to stage a fight; the fire curtain fell, and Garen attacked Ace and Sabo as Teach stood beside them.

Garen staged a battle with Teach that made spectators believe Teach was a peerless powerhouse, then blamed the mission’s failure on Teach and reported the deaths of Lucci and five other CP9 agents. Kalifa grieved for her comrades as Garen urged her to report Teach’s strength to the World Government.

• Garen fought Teach and deliberately made their clash look evenly matched, then fired Excalibur past Teach so the spectators thought he had survived the attack unharmed.
• Garen let Teach knock him more than a hundred meters away, where he pretended to be too badly wounded to rise, while Ace dragged Teach away and Sabo and Hatchan slipped off into the darkness.
• Kalifa, Kaku, and Blueno approached Garen, who claimed Teach had defeated him and pointed out Lucci’s charred corpse as proof of the mission’s losses.
• Garen told Kalifa that five more agents had died beneath the rubble, and the agents mourned Lucci and their fallen comrades.
• Garen comforted the grieving Kalifa and urged her to report Teach’s terrifying strength to the World Government.

After the Water 7 incident made Teach famous and earned him a 600 million Beli bounty, he returned to the Whitebeard Pirates with Ace. Whitebeard made Teach commander of a newly created Zero Division, despite Teach’s reluctance.

• Reports and rumors portrayed Teach as a fearsome force, and Marine Headquarters issued him a 600 million Beli bounty.
• Sabo and Ace exchanged Vivre Cards before returning to the Revolutionary Army, while Garen and his companions returned to Alabasta.
• Teach and Ace escorted the ships from Water 7 to Whitebeard’s territory and went to the Moby Dick to report to Whitebeard.
• At the celebratory banquet, Ace praised Teach’s strength, and Fossa and Thatch offered to give up their division commander positions for him.
• Whitebeard proposed forming a new division for Teach and made him commander of the Zero Division after Teach reluctantly accepted.

A month after construction began, Franky completed Alabasta’s first airship, and Garen’s group gathered for its launch and test flight. After arguing over its name, they reluctantly settled on Franky’s choice, Big Salted Fish.

• Franky presented the 245-meter helium airship he had built with his crew and described its engines, capacity, and expected speed.
• Garen agreed Franky could return to Water 7 after the test flight, but required him to train more workers and help establish research institutions there.
• Garen proposed naming the airship Kirov, but Nami, Vivi, and Robin objected and offered alternative names.
• The group put their name suggestions into a box, and Franky’s slip reading “Big Salted Fish” was drawn.
• Garen protested the name but gave in after seeing the others’ expectant looks.

Garen and his companions prepared to test the Big Salted Fish, but Marine Admiral Blue Pheasant Kuzan appeared and demanded Nico Robin come with him. Garen stood between them and vowed to protect Robin as the two prepared to fight.

• Franky and the crew finished preparing the airship, and Garen invited Nami, Vivi, and Robin on its trial flight.
• Nami objected to Garen's name for the airship before Kuzan unexpectedly appeared at the factory.
• Garen identified Kuzan as a Marine Admiral and shielded Robin when Kuzan revealed he had come for her.
• Kuzan demanded Robin return with him, while Garen refused and promised to protect her.
• Robin began walking toward Kuzan, but Garen took her hand and stood against the Admiral; Robin's favorability toward him increased.
• Kuzan spread freezing air as Garen faced him, and the confrontation appeared to turn into a fight.

Garen fought Admiral Kuzan in Alabasta, using his enduring flames and a sword that could seal Devil Fruit abilities to counter Kuzan’s ice. Kuzan recovered and switched to Armament Haki-coated ice gauntlets, sending Garen flying and showing that he still lacked an admiral’s strength.

• Franky assured the airship crew that his invention would be safe, just as Kuzan’s power froze Alabasta’s desert and trapped Garen in ice.
• Garen melted free with Justice Rage and charged Kuzan with increased speed, then destroyed Kuzan’s giant ice bird with his flaming greatsword.
• Garen melted Kuzan’s ice blade and landed a Fatal Strike that briefly sealed Kuzan’s Devil Fruit ability.
• Kuzan recovered and praised Garen’s unusual abilities, then formed Armament Haki-coated Iceborn Gauntlets.
• Kuzan struck Garen with a black ice fist, sending him smashing through the ice, and said he lacked the strength of a Headquarters admiral.

Kuzan tested whether Garen would keep protecting Nico Robin even at the cost of his future, while Robin chose to trust Garen. Garen declared that he would not abandon his companions, but Kuzan continued the fight to see how long he could stand.

• Kuzan struck Garen with overwhelming force as Nami reassured Robin and Robin decided to entrust her life to Garen.
• Garen realized Kuzan was testing his resolve, deliberately took a punishing hit, and let his armor and sword disappear by claiming his Devil Fruit Ability had reached its limit.
• Kuzan asked whether Garen would still risk his future for Nico Robin, and Garen insisted that he would never abandon his companions.
• Robin cried with relief as Kuzan praised her for finding a reliable companion.
• Kuzan announced that he would test how long Garen could stand before him, then punched him again.