Chapter Summaries

A ghost ship emerged from the mist beside the Sunny Merry, and its singing skeleton terrified Nami, Usopp, and Chopper while Luffy and the others eagerly prepared to board. After Ronan reminded Nami of her Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers, she regained her confidence and hurried to join the others.

• A ruined ghost ship passed close to the Sunny Merry as a skeleton with an afro sang and held a tea bowl.
• Luffy excitedly wanted to chase the skeleton, while Usopp and Chopper panicked and Sanji stopped Luffy from rushing ahead.
• Zoro proposed drawing lots to decide who would accompany Luffy, and Nami drew the lot that sent her along.
• Ronan reminded Nami that her Logia powers and lightning could protect her from ghosts.
• Nami regained her confidence and hurried after Luffy, threatening to blast the skeleton if it caused trouble.

The Straw Hats encountered Brook aboard a fog-shrouded ghost ship, where Nami punched him for asking to see her panties. Sanji demanded that Brook explain who he was, why he was on the ship, and what had happened to it.

• Luffy led the group through the decaying ship while Nami clung to Ronan and Sanji guarded them.
• Brook appeared in the corridor, introduced himself, and said he had not seen living humans in decades.
• Brook complimented Nami and asked to see her panties, prompting Nami to punch him into a mast and leave a bump on his skull.
• Luffy asked Brook whether he could defecate, and Brook answered that he could.
• Sanji stopped the chaotic exchange and demanded that Brook explain his identity, the ship, his companions, and the fog.

Luffy invited Brook to join the crew, and Brook accepted before the Straw Hats had finished reacting to the living skeleton. The crew brought Brook to dinner aboard the Sunny Merry, where he ended with a skeleton pun.

• Luffy invited Brook to join his crew, and Brook cheerfully accepted.
• Brook introduced himself to the crew, asked to see Robin's panties, and was struck by Nami.
• Usopp confronted Brook with his anti-evil-spirit equipment, while Chopper first believed Brook was a dream and then fled in terror.
• Zoro challenged Luffy's decision to recruit Brook, but Ronan supported Luffy and Nami and Sanji admitted fault.
• Brook invited everyone to dinner, and Franky showed off the dining room while Sanji began preparing food.
• Brook talked about his decades without a proper meal, exposed his ribs, and made a skeleton pun.

Brook explained to the Straw Hats how the Revive-Revive Fruit brought him back as a skeleton after his pirate crew was wiped out in the Demon Sea Area. He ended by learning that Luffy considered him as bad at finding his way as Zoro, prompting Zoro to protest.

• Luffy laughed at Brook’s manners and jokes, while Zoro scolded Luffy for not knowing Brook’s name or what he was.
• Sanji served dinner, and Brook became emotional at the warmth of sharing a meal before asking Robin to trade octopus tentacles.
• Brook told Nami and the crew that he had eaten the Revive-Revive Fruit and had died decades earlier when his pirate crew was wiped out.
• Brook explained that his soul spent a year lost in the fog before finding his body, which had rotted down to bones.
• Luffy called Brook stupid for getting lost while looking for his own body and compared him to Zoro, who angrily objected.

Brook revealed that his shadow had been stolen and that sunlight would destroy him if he left the Demon Sea Area. Luffy offered to help him reclaim it, but Brook refused to endanger the crew and instead offered to play them a song.

• Usopp and Chopper feared Brook until a mirror showed that he had no reflection, and Brook explained that someone had stolen his shadow.
• Brook told the crew that sunlight would turn him to ash and described drifting alone through the fog after his companions died.
• Luffy invited Brook to join the crew, but Brook refused because leaving the Demon Sea Area would expose him to sunlight.
• Luffy insisted he would help Brook take back his shadow, but Brook withheld the thief's identity to protect the crew.
• Brook took a black handbag and offered to play a song, revealing that he had been the musician on a pirate ship.

The Straw Hats were trapped inside Thriller Bark after Brook's Negative Ghost appeared and Ronan destroyed it with Haki. Luffy decided to explore the island instead of sinking it, but Nami found that the Log Pose was unresponsive.

• Brook played a sea shanty until a Negative Ghost appeared and terrified him.
• Ronan destroyed the Negative Ghost with an Armament Haki-coated spear thrust.
• The Sunny Merry shook as enormous iron gates closed around the ship, and Brook realized the Drifting Wine Barrel had marked their location.
• Thriller Bark emerged from the fog as a massive island-sized ship, and Luffy first proposed sinking it.
• Zoro urged Luffy to explore instead, and Luffy agreed, while Nami noticed the Log Pose needle was unresponsive.

Brook revealed that the island was a giant moving warship from the West Blue and urged the crew to escape, but Luffy and the others chose to explore it. As they prepared to leave the Sunny Merry, an invisible intruder boarded and dropped the ship’s anchor into the sea.

• Brook warned the crew to escape the island, then vanished into the forest.
• Robin reasoned that the island was an enormous ship enclosing the Sunny Merry inside its walls, and Franky warned that they could not anchor safely.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Ronan decided to explore the island, while Robin joined them and Sanji urged them to protect her.
• Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji sensed an invisible enemy aboard the Sunny Merry and held back to observe it.
• The invisible enemy released the massive anchor from its gear assembly and sent it plunging into the sea.

Ronan killed Absalom after Robin dodged his attempted attack with Observation Haki, and Sanji mourned the loss of the Transparent Fruit before admitting he wanted its power to sneak into women’s bathhouses. As the sea around Thriller Bark turned violent, Zoro cut a canyon into the island to make a harbor for Sunny Merry.

• Robin used Observation Haki to dodge Absalom’s attempt to lick her cheek, and Absalom then attacked Ronan.
• Ronan struck Absalom with a palm strike that killed him and made his body visible.
• Sanji grieved that Absalom’s Transparent Fruit was lost, then confessed he had wanted its power to enter women’s bathhouses unseen.
• The currents around Thriller Bark grew dangerously turbulent, so Luffy asked the crew to find Sunny Merry a place to dock.
• Zoro unleashed a powerful sword slash that carved a canyon into the island, allowing seawater to flow in and form a natural harbor.

Ronan's Group explored a forest steeped in Ghostly Aura, where Luffy subdued a stitched three-headed hound and then captured a Stitched Unicorn and an uncle-faced tree man. The group brought the bizarre creatures back to the clearing, leaving Sanji wondering why Luffy wanted them.

• Ronan's Group entered the eerie forest and encountered a stitched three-headed hound that Luffy decided to tame.
• The hound bit Luffy without hurting him, then Luffy punched it into submission and rode it through the forest.
• Ronan's Group found a Stitched Unicorn drinking with a tree man whose face resembled a middle-aged uncle.
• Luffy chased and caught the tree man with his bug-catching net while Franky grabbed the unicorn by its tail.
• Luffy and Franky tied up the two creatures and carried them back to the clearing, where Sanji questioned Luffy's motives.

The Straw Hats discovered that the stitched creatures in the forest had serial numbers, suggesting someone was managing them, and then encountered ghosts that inflicted overwhelming negativity. Zoro discovered that his sword could cut the spirits, while Franky remained despairingly incapacitated.

• Luffy wanted to recruit a stitched tree and unicorn, but Ronan and the others convinced him to let them go.
• Robin spotted serial numbers on the stitched creatures, and Zoro and Ronan concluded that someone on the island was organizing them.
• Whispering ghosts appeared in the forest, and Luffy's net and Franky's flames passed harmlessly through them.
• One ghost pierced Franky and left him overcome with despair, while Sanji recognized the spirits' mental effects.
• Zoro cut through the ghosts with Wado Ichimonji, making them dissolve into phosphorescent light.

The Straw Hats fought a horde of Zombies in a Gothic graveyard, and Zoro identified Gecko Moria as the likely master behind the shadow-stealing army. Zoro and Sanji sensed people hiding in the forest and called them out, leaving the group braced for their arrival.

• Luffy sat down to eat in the graveyard, and a Zombie burst from its grave before he shoved it back underground.
• Nami destroyed a giant Zombie with Ten Million Volts: Thunder, turning the shadow inside it to ash.
• Zoro unleashed One Sword Style, 360 Pound Cannon, shredding hundreds of Zombies and freeing their shadows.
• Ronan explained that living people's stolen shadows powered the Zombies, and Zoro identified Gecko Moria as the likely culprit.
• Zoro and Sanji detected people hiding in the forest and challenged them to come out.

Luffy and Ronan's group encountered shadowless survivors who begged them to defeat Gecko Moria, but Ronan exposed their leader as a murderous pirate. Meanwhile, Moria learned his surveillance ghosts had been destroyed and recognized the newcomers as unusually powerful prey.

• A shadowless old man begged Luffy to defeat Gecko Moria and help the captives regain their shadows.
• Robin identified Moria as a Shichibukai, and Ronan sensed him approaching from the island's center.
• The old man described the captives' misery and their longing to stand in the sunlight, moving Franky to offer help.
• Ronan detected the old man's murderous past, and Luffy condemned him as a scoundrel while Zoro's threat drove the pirates into the forest.
• Perona told Moria that a swordsman had destroyed her surveillance ghosts, and Moria crushed the stone railing as he assessed the newcomers.

Gecko Moria recognized the Straw Hat Pirates’ 3.1-billion-berry bounty and chose to avoid a fight, agreeing to return Brook’s shadow. As the crew reunited with Brook, Zoro identified the legendary samurai zombie Ryoma and addressed him.

• Moria ordered his forces to retreat because he considered the Straw Hat Pirates too dangerous to confront.
• Moria met Luffy and readily agreed to return Brook’s shadow.
• Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, and Robin reacted to Moria’s cautious behavior and the crew’s fearsome reputation.
• Brook arrived, learned Moria had agreed to return his shadow, and thanked Luffy and the others.
• Zoro recognized Moria’s bandaged zombie as Ryoma, the legendary samurai, and spoke to him.

Zoro defeated Zombie Ryoma in a single strike, freeing Brook’s shadow and claiming the Black Blade Shusui. As Ryoma’s body crumbled, he entrusted the sword to Zoro, who honored the samurai and wished they could have fought in Ryoma’s era.

• Brook told Luffy that his shadow had been implanted in Zombie Ryoma and would return if Ryoma was defeated.
• Luffy left Ryoma to Zoro, who challenged the samurai and admired his Black Blade Shusui.
• Ryoma attacked with Humming Song Three Styles: Arrow Tail Slash, but Zoro defeated him with One Sword Style: Iaido: Death: Lion Song.
• Ryoma gave Shusui to Zoro as his body turned to ash, and Brook’s shadow returned to him.
• Zoro accepted Shusui and said he would pretend their fight had never happened.

Luffy and his crew accepted Moria’s invitation to feast at Thriller Bark after Brook chose to let go of their past conflict. Brook performed “Sake of Binks” for his new companions, and the song filled the castle as Luffy urged him to keep playing until dawn.

• Luffy asked Brook whether he wanted to enter Moria’s castle, and Brook agreed to leave the past behind and enjoy a banquet with his new companions.
• Moria hosted Luffy’s crew at the castle, where Sanji directed the Zombie chefs and the guests feasted together.
• Brook stood and dedicated a performance of “Sake of Binks” to Luffy and his companions.
• Brook’s song moved the crew, Moria, and the Zombies, while Ronan sensed Brook’s music cleansing souls.
• Luffy jumped onto the table and asked Brook to play another song until dawn, and Brook agreed.

Bartholomew Kuma arrived at Moria’s castle to deliver a message to Luffy, but first attacked Moria and incapacitated him with Bear Shock. When Kuma made Perona and Hogback disappear, Luffy fought back, and the chapter ended as Kuma met Luffy’s punch with his paw.

• Ronan sensed Kuma approaching and warned Luffy that a major problem had arrived.
• Kuma entered the castle, ignored Moria, and told Luffy he had come to deliver a message capable of changing the course of the Great Sea.
• Kuma used Bear Shock to blast Moria through the castle and into the forest, leaving him unconscious.
• Kuma went after Perona and Hogback, but Luffy transformed and attacked him with the Rubber Thunderbolt Ape King Gun.
• Kuma evaded Luffy’s attack and made Perona and Hogback vanish by touching their backs.
• Luffy charged at Kuma with a thunderous punch, and Kuma met it with the paw pad in his palm.

Kuma told Luffy and the Straw Hats that Ace and Blackbeard had been captured and that Ace would be publicly executed at Marineford to lure Whitebeard into battle. Ronan calmed Luffy and proposed a covert route to Impel Down, and the crew agreed to follow his plan to rescue Ace.

• Luffy's punch was reflected by Kuma's paw pads, and Kuma said he had come to deliver a message.
• Kuma revealed that Ace and Marshall D. Teach were imprisoned in Impel Down and that the World Government planned to publicly execute Ace at Marineford to draw out Whitebeard.
• Luffy vowed to save Ace, while Ronan urged him not to rush into an attack.
• Ronan proposed sailing to Sabaody Archipelago, coating the Sunny Merry, and approaching Impel Down underwater to avoid Navy surveillance.
• Luffy accepted Ronan's plan, and the crew prepared to rescue Ace.

The Sunny Merry encountered a slave ship while sailing toward Sabaody Archipelago, and the Straw Hat Pirates intercepted it. Dellinger identified the crew and tried to flee, but Luffy boarded the ship and demanded an explanation.

• Nami detected an approaching ship with her Observation Haki and revealed it was a slave ship.
• Robin explained that slave traders captured people and sold them, and Luffy ordered the crew to board and crush them.
• Dellinger recognized the Straw Hat Pirates and ordered his crew to turn around and escape.
• The Sunny Merry cut off the merchant ship, and Luffy leaped aboard as Dellinger identified himself as an officer of Doflamingo's Family.

Ronan and the Straw Hats rescued Camie, Hachi, and other captives from a slave-trading ship, killing its Doflamingo Family officer and the slave traders. When Ronan threatened Hachi over his past crimes against Nami, Nami chose to forgive him, and Ronan spared his life.

• Luffy confronted Dellinger, and Ronan killed the Doflamingo Family officer with his spear after learning the ship was carrying slaves.
• Zoro killed the remaining Slave Hunting Team members, and Robin led Camie, Hachi, and the other captives out of the hold.
• Nami recognized Hachi as a former Arlong Pirates officer, while Camie pleaded for his life and Hachi accepted responsibility for his past.
• Nami told Ronan to spare Hachi, and Ronan withdrew his spear.

As the Sunny Merry sailed toward the Sabaody Archipelago, Hachi served the crew takoyaki and nervously sought Nami’s opinion. Nami called it delicious, easing Hachi’s guilt, and the group ended the meal in cheerful exhaustion.

• Hachi cooked takoyaki for the crew as repayment for saving his life, and everyone praised the food.
• Hachi asked Nami how the takoyaki tasted, worried that she would reject him because of the Arlong Pirates’ past.
• Nami told Hachi the takoyaki was very delicious, and he burst into tears of relief.
• The crew ate until they were exhausted, while Hachi and Camie celebrated their enjoyment of the meal.
• Brook broke the peaceful mood with a loud fart and belch, and Nami struck him with her Iron Fist.