Chapter Summaries

After their deadly training on the island, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Ronan returned to the Merry with dramatically stronger bodies. The crew found an Eternal Pose to Alabasta and decided to leave Miss Goldenweek behind on the island.

• Dorry and Brogy praised the returning warriors and said goodbye as Ronan's Group carried dinosaur meat toward the Merry.
• Nami and Usopp anxiously greeted the group, then recoiled at how much Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Ronan had grown.
• The crew explained their grueling training, and Nami's relief at their safe return eased her worries.
• Ronan spotted Miss Goldenweek on deck, and Vivi recognized her as Mr. 3's partner.
• Nami revealed that Miss Goldenweek had an Eternal Pose pointing to Alabasta, allowing the crew to head there without waiting for the Log Pose.
• Luffy asked Miss Goldenweek to join them, but she refused, so he decided to leave her on the island.

After the Straw Hat Pirates left Little Garden, the Island Eater attacked the Merry, forcing the crew to face it without help. Luffy activated Second Gear: Vajra Giant Mode and launched a giant Haki-coated attack as the ship headed into the monster’s mouth.

• Ronan reflected on completing the Indestructible Vajra Body and taking his first steps into Haki as the Merry sailed away from Little Garden.
• The Island Eater rose from the sea and opened its enormous jaws over the Merry.
• Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji prepared to fight, while Luffy told Nami to steer the ship straight into the goldfish’s throat.
• Nami trusted Luffy and ordered the Merry to charge at full speed, despite Usopp and Vivi’s panic.
• Luffy transformed into a six-meter crimson giant and covered his arms in Armament Haki.
• Luffy shouted “Giant Rocket Launcher” and began his attack on the Island Eater.

Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji blasted a tunnel through the giant goldfish, allowing the Merry to escape and the beast to sink. As the crew recovered at sea, Usopp advanced his training and the four fighters cultivated Vajra Breathing at the initial stage of the Indestructible Diamond Body.

• Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji combined their attacks to tear a passage through the giant goldfish, and the Merry sailed through it to safety.
• The wounded goldfish wailed and sank beneath the sea as Nami, Vivi, and Usopp celebrated the crew's survival.
• Luffy explained his Second Gear, while Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji reflected on their strength and combat techniques.
• Usopp completed the Second Stage of Thirteen Protectors' Horizontal Training and vowed to visit Elbaf someday.
• Ronan, Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji practiced Vajra Breathing, cultivating the initial stage of the Indestructible Diamond Body.

Ronan identified Vivi’s high fever as the deadly Kishia virus she contracted in Little Garden, and the Straw Hats changed course toward Drum Kingdom to find a doctor. As the Merry headed for the winter island, Ronan anticipated recruiting Chopper.

• Ronan and the others practiced their breathing technique on the Merry while Nami stood with Vivi on the upper deck.
• Vivi collapsed with a dangerously high fever, and Nami caught her as Luffy, Sanji, and Ronan rushed to help.
• Ronan examined Vivi and found a Kishia insect bite, recognizing the ancient virus and warning that shipboard medicine could not treat it.
• Vivi urged the crew not to delay her journey to Alabasta, but Nami and Luffy insisted on finding her a doctor first.
• Nami charted a northern course, and the Merry sped toward Drum Kingdom as Ronan looked forward to meeting Chopper.

As the Merry searched the frozen sea for an island where Vivi could receive treatment, Ronan recognized a strange man standing atop a submarine as Jess, one of Wapol's officers. The submarine began surfacing, bringing the crew face-to-face with the group that could lead them to Drum Island.

• Nami warned that Vivi would not survive the week-long journey to Alabasta and urged the crew to search north for an island with a doctor.
• Ronan and the others spotted a man standing on the waves, and Ronan recognized him as Jess, one of Wapol's chief officers.
• Ronan realized Jess was standing on the White Iron Pirates' submarine, the Bury King, and identified him as a guide to Drum Island.
• The seawater beneath Jess began boiling, and Nami warned the crew as the submarine burst from the sea in a huge explosion.

The White Iron Pirates, led by Wapol, attacked the Merry and surrounded Ronan's crew. Wapol demonstrated his Munch-Munch Fruit by eating a steel sword, and Ronan considered how to obtain the valuable Wapol Metal he would eventually create.

• A massive steel warship surfaced beside the Merry, and Usopp recognized the Pirate Flag of the White Iron Pirates.
• Wapol ordered his soldiers to seize the Merry's treasure and Log Pose, and they boarded the ship using barbed ropes.
• Ronan looked to Luffy for the order to fight, but Luffy watched the warship without reacting to the soldiers' encirclement.
• Wapol jumped onto the Merry, insulted the crew, and bit through and swallowed a steel sword.
• Ronan recognized Wapol's Munch-Munch Fruit and thought about obtaining the self-repairing Wapol Metal for weapons or future ship upgrades.

Wapol demanded the Straw Hats’ ship and began eating Merry’s railing, provoking the crew. Usopp stood up to Wapol’s soldiers and discovered that his training had made him impervious to bullets, while Luffy, Ronan, and Zoro joined the fight against the attackers.

• Wapol demanded directions to Drum Kingdom, then decided to take the Straw Hats’ treasure and ship after they could not provide a Log Pose or Eternal Pose.
• Wapol bit through part of Merry’s railing and deck, enraging Luffy and prompting Usopp to defend the ship.
• Usopp stood firm when a soldier attacked him, knocked the man down with a punch, and survived a volley of bullets without injury.
• Luffy kicked soldiers off the deck, Ronan struck down more with his Ebony Staff, and Zoro used a spinning attack to knock several soldiers unconscious.

Ronan and the crew defeated Wapol and his soldiers after they attacked the Merry, then stopped Luffy from throwing Wapol overboard. Ronan revealed that Wapol’s Munch-Munch Fruit could produce Memory Alloy, and the crew decided to use him to reinforce the Merry.

• Sanji, Zoro, Luffy, and Ronan defeated Wapol’s soldiers, while Usopp celebrated his newfound strength.
• Ronan knocked Wapol unconscious as he tried to escape, and Jess and Kuromarimo abandoned their captain by diving away in the Bury King submarine.
• Luffy prepared to throw Wapol into the sea, but Ronan stopped him and explained the Munch-Munch Fruit’s abilities and its potential to produce Memory Alloy.
• Usopp realized the alloy could reinforce the Merry, and Nami ordered the crew to tie Wapol up and make use of him.

Ronan forced Wapol to use his Devil Fruit to process metal while the Straw Hat Pirates searched for help for Vivi. Merry reached Drum Island, a snowy nation renowned for its medical technology, and the crew prepared to find a doctor.

• Ronan captured Wapol and forced him to eat scrap metal and try to produce self-repairing shape-memory alloy.
• Wapol's first metal output failed Ronan's test, so Ronan ordered Usopp to keep feeding him scrap.
• Sanji spotted an island through the snowstorm, and the crew recognized it as Drum Island.
• Merry entered Drum Island's icy canal, where Luffy celebrated the snow and Nami scolded the others for wearing too little clothing.

The Straw Hats reached Drum Island seeking a doctor for the unconscious Vivi, while Wapol secretly feared the islanders would discover he had no doctors left to offer. Dalton and hundreds of armed villagers confronted the Merry, then recognized Wapol and turned their weapons on the former king.

• Luffy and Zoro described how body-tempering made them comfortable in the cold, while Ronan reminded Usopp to keep up his cultivation.
• Wapol begged Ronan to let him return to his throne and offered treasure, but Ronan insisted he stay until he created Memory Alloy.
• Nami asked Wapol where to find a doctor, and he hid the truth that his Doctor Hunt had killed or exiled nearly all the island's doctors.
• The Merry sailed through a waterfall into an estuary, where hundreds of armed villagers surrounded the ship and Dalton ordered the pirates to leave.
• Luffy said they had come for a doctor to treat Vivi, but Dalton recognized Wapol and the villagers redirected their weapons toward him.

Luffy's crew confronted Dalton and the militiamen on Drum Island while seeking a doctor, and Nami offered to take Wapol away in exchange for directions. After a militiaman fired at Nami, Ronan deflected the bullet and Luffy struck Dalton, who transformed into a bison and stopped his comrades from firing.

• Luffy told Dalton that the crew had come to find a doctor, and Nami proposed taking Wapol away if the militiamen told them where the doctor was.
• A young militiaman rejected Nami's offer and shot at her, but Ronan knocked the bullet away with his staff.
• Sanji and Luffy reacted angrily to the attack, and Luffy charged Dalton with a powerful punch that bent his sword and sent him crashing into the rocks.
• The militiamen raised their guns to fire at Luffy, but Dalton transformed into a bison and ordered them to lower their weapons.

After Luffy subdued Dalton’s militia, Dalton agreed to guide the crew to Drum Island’s only doctor, Dr. Kureha, so she could treat Vivi’s high fever. The group reached Big Horn Village and learned that Dr. Kureha lived in a castle atop Drum Mountain, with no way to contact her.

• Luffy forced Dalton’s militiamen to lower their weapons, and Dalton apologized and agreed to lead the group to the doctor.
• Ronan warned the villagers not to harm Nami and knocked Wapol into a boulder when he continued to rant during the trek.
• Dalton brought the group to a house in Big Horn Village, where Sanji laid Vivi on a bed and Nami covered her with quilts and a cold cloth.
• Dalton explained that Dr. Kureha, known as the Witch, was the country’s only remaining doctor and lived in a castle atop Drum Mountain.
• Sanji demanded that Dr. Kureha be brought to them, but Dalton said they had no way to contact her.

Luffy and Sanji returned from Drum Mountain with a recovering Vivi and Chopper, whom Luffy had recruited as the crew’s doctor. As the crew prepared to leave Drum Island, a vast cherry blossom spectacle filled the sky, and Chopper mourned Dr. Hiriluk as he began his journey.

• Ronan sent Luffy and Sanji to carry Vivi up Drum Mountain and told Luffy to bring back a doctor for the crew.
• Two days later, Luffy and Sanji returned with Vivi and Chopper, a blue-nosed reindeer who pulled their sled.
• As the Merry Go prepared to leave, cannons fired from Drum Mountain and pink dust turned the falling snow into a towering cherry blossom spectacle.
• Chopper watched the blossoms in tears, remembering Dr. Hiriluk and Doctorine, while Dr. Kureha bid him farewell from the mountaintop.

The Straw Hat Pirates welcomed Tony Tony Chopper as their ship doctor with a party after leaving Drum Island. As Merry sailed toward Alabasta, twelve Baroque Works ships appeared and began surrounding the crew.

• Usopp, Sanji, Nami, and Ronan helped Chopper overcome his sadness at leaving Drum Island and welcomed him as a companion.
• Luffy officially introduced Tony Tony Chopper as the Straw Hat Pirates' ship doctor, and the crew celebrated with a party.
• Merry left Drum Island's cold waters and entered the warm, dry climate sea area near Alabasta.
• Zoro spotted ships gathering around Merry, and Usopp identified all twelve as Baroque Works warships.
• Ronan calmly assessed the enemy fleet as it closed in around Merry in a fan-shaped formation.

Vivi watched the Straw Hats destroy Baroque Works’ fleet and its elite agents in seconds, leaving her shaken by the crew’s strength. The Merry continued toward the distant desert kingdom of Alabasta.

• Vivi and Nami identified the approaching force as roughly two hundred Baroque Works Billionaires aboard twelve warships.
• The enemy fleet fired its cannons, and Zoro sliced the incoming cannonballs apart while Luffy ordered the Merry forward.
• Luffy smashed six warships with an Armament Haki-enhanced Gum-Gum Whip.
• Ronan destroyed three fleeing ships with a shockwave from his Ebony Staff, and Zoro cut two more apart with his swords.
• Sanji set the final flagship ablaze with a flaming kick, annihilating the fleet and its agents.
• Vivi questioned whether the crew’s strength came from training, and Luffy announced their arrival at Alabasta was near.

Luffy and Ronan's Group entered Naha Na and found pirates and Rebel Army soldiers slaughtering civilians. Luffy ordered the villains killed, and after the group wiped them out, he stood atop the city's clock tower as survivors mourned and gave thanks.

• Vivi broke down upon seeing Naha Na burning and begged the attackers to stop hurting her people.
• Luffy ordered Ronan, Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp to kill every pirate and anyone slaughtering civilians.
• Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp attacked the streets and killed the pirates and corrupt Rebel Army soldiers.
• After half an hour, the city fell silent, and terrified civilians emerged from hiding to mourn their dead and weep with relief.
• Luffy stood atop the clock tower ruins as the setting sun stretched his shadow across the city.

After learning that the Rebel Army had reached Alabasta’s capital, Vivi joined Luffy and the others in setting out to confront the crisis. Ronan and Nami forced Wapol to turn wreckage into a powerful desert vehicle, and the group raced toward the capital.

• Vivi learned from Naha Na’s mayor that the Rebel Army had launched a full-scale assault and surrounded Alabasta’s capital.
• Luffy vowed to defeat the mastermind behind the chaos, and Vivi resolved to go to the capital with the group.
• Ronan ordered Wapol to eat carriages and rubble, while Nami demanded that he make a fast desert vehicle.
• Wapol used his Gulp-Gulp Fruit to create the Wapol-Go Desert Cruiser from metal, stone, and wreckage.
• Luffy and the others boarded the cruiser, and Wapol drove them out of Naha Na toward Alabasta’s capital.

Koza's Rebel Army overwhelmed Alabasta's capital, and Cobra tried to stop the slaughter by taking responsibility for the drought and killing himself. Vivi and the others arrived too late and found Cobra dead in the plaza.

• Koza led two million rebels against the King's Army, whose defenses collapsed as the fighting reached the inner city.
• Cobra appeared on the palace balcony and pleaded with Koza to spare the city's innocent residents.
• Cobra stabbed himself in the heart and fell from the balcony, dying after asking the people to love their country.
• Vivi and the others arrived in the Wapol Battle Tank and found Cobra's body in the plaza.
• Vivi collapsed beside Cobra and cried out for her father.

As the Rebel Army charged the royal forces, Luffy sent Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji to stop the battle while he challenged Crocodile. Ronan killed Koza and announced that rebels who surrendered would be spared, bringing the army’s advance to a halt.

• Vivi confronted Koza as Crocodile’s agents urged the Rebel Army to kill the royal family and charge the palace.
• Luffy ordered Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji to stop the attack with minimal casualties, then leaped onto the palace spire and called out Crocodile.
• Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji fought through the Rebel Army’s ranks, leaving a trail of devastation.
• Ronan broke through to Koza, smashed his head, and killed the high-ranking rebels who tried to flee.
• Ronan raised Koza’s headless body and declared that rebels who surrendered would not be killed, silencing the battlefield.

After Ronan killed Koza, Crocodile appeared and declared his plan to seize Alabasta and search for Pluton. As Baroque Works agents closed in on Luffy’s companions, Luffy trusted them to fight and charged Crocodile.

• Ronan lifted Koza’s dead body on his Ebony Staff, breaking the Rebel Army’s resolve.
• Crocodile appeared above the battlefield and announced he would destroy the palace, take over Alabasta, and search for Pluton.
• Luffy condemned Crocodile for treating the kingdom’s people as expendable, provoking Crocodile with a reminder of his defeat by Whitebeard.
• Crocodile revealed that Mr. 1, Miss Double Finger, and Mr. 2 Bon Clay were moving to attack Zoro, Ronan, and Sanji.
• Luffy trusted his companions to handle the agents and charged Crocodile.