Chapter Summaries

Ortolan extorted Doflamingo for 20 billion Belly in exchange for arranging his appointment as a Shichibukai, then decided to demand the same fee from Crocodile. He left Momonga to collect Crocodile’s supposed debt while he was at the Sabaody Archipelago.

• Doflamingo asked Ortolan what he had to do to prove his value, and Ortolan demanded 20 billion Belly to secure his Shichibukai appointment.
• Doflamingo accepted the deal after Ortolan threatened to block his appointment even if Mary Geoise supported him.
• Ortolan considered charging future Shichibukai candidates a recommendation fee and wrote Crocodile an IOU for 20 billion Belly.
• Ortolan ordered Momonga to contact Crocodile and collect 20 billion, claiming Crocodile owed the money because he had become a Shichibukai for free.
• Momonga questioned Ortolan’s scheme, but Ortolan insisted no Marine regulation prohibited it and told him to pursue all future Shichibukai for payment.
• On Spring Queen Island, Crocodile sneezed while preparing to head to Alabasta and wondered who was plotting against him.

Ortolan visited Shakky’s Bar to find Gildo Tesoro, whom Shakky recognized as the hardworking Diligent Tesoro. Shakky contacted Tesoro and agreed to bring him to the bar, leaving Ortolan waiting with Rayleigh.

• Ortolan went to Shakky’s Bar on Sabaody to ask Shakky for help locating Gildo Tesoro.
• Shakky recognized Ortolan and invited him inside, where he found Rayleigh asleep on a sofa.
• Ortolan asked Rayleigh whether Douglas Bullet had truly fought him to a draw, then set the question aside.
• Ortolan described Tesoro, and Shakky explained that he was known for working seven jobs around the island.
• Shakky agreed to call Tesoro and have him come to the bar in exchange for Ortolan pretending he had never visited.
• Shakky called Tesoro with a Den Den Mushi while Ortolan sat with Rayleigh to wait.

Tesoro was summoned by Shakky to meet an important client while Rayleigh learned that Ortolan had married Portgas D. Rouge and raised her son, Ace, as his own. The chapter ended with Tesoro arriving at Shakky’s tavern to meet Ortolan.

• Tesoro counted his savings and resolved to find more work so he could rent a safer home with a private bathroom for Stella.
• Shakky called Tesoro and told him an important client specifically wanted to meet him, so he headed to Grove 13.
• Ortolan revealed to Rayleigh that he knew about several former Roger Pirates and had helped save Tom from the CP Agency.
• Ortolan told Rayleigh that Portgas D. Rouge was his wife and that their son was named Bane Portgas Ace, leaving Rayleigh stunned and grateful.
• Rayleigh offered to help Ortolan in the future, and Tesoro entered the tavern to meet him.

Ortolan recruited Tesoro and agreed to help him free Stella, the woman he had promised to save. At the slave shop, Ortolan attacked the owner and called the Marine base, beginning his effort to deliver justice.

• Tesoro recognized Ortolan and feared he had come to arrest him, but Ortolan invited him to join his work in the New World.
• Tesoro said he could not leave Sabaody until he freed Stella, so Ortolan offered to help him deliver justice.
• Tesoro led Ortolan to the shop where Stella was displayed for sale as a slave.
• The shop owner admitted to selling slaves and threatened Ortolan, who revealed he was one of the authorities above him and kicked the man through a wall.
• Ortolan picked up a Den Den Mushi and called the Marine base on Sabaody.

Ortolan enlisted Strawberry and five hundred Marines to shut down the slave shops on Sabaody Archipelago, execute their owners, and seize their illegally obtained money. As Ortolan left with Tesoro and Stella, Tesoro concluded that wealth depended on force and showed he shared Ortolan’s ruthless outlook.

• Strawberry arrived with five hundred Marines after Ortolan called him and agreed to act against the slave shops despite their powerful backers.
• Ortolan ordered the Marines to close every slave shop on the street, execute the owners, and confiscate their funds under charges of trafficking and threatening a senior Marine officer.
• Strawberry’s Marines carried out the executions while Ortolan asked Tesoro whether he had any other problems to resolve.
• Ortolan, Tesoro, and Stella prepared to leave, and Strawberry agreed to load the seized money onto Ortolan’s ship.
• Tesoro reflected that economic wealth needed guns to defend it, then told Ortolan that he would take his neighbor’s grain store, prompting Ortolan to welcome him as a good fit for G-5.

Ortolan learned that Garp might be acting strangely because Dragon had married, then assigned Tesoro to study G-5’s economic problems. Meanwhile, Smoker confronted Issho and claimed his new Shichibukai status protected him from Marine pursuit, but Issho demanded twenty billion Beli from him.

• Sengoku questioned Ortolan about his actions in Mary Geoise and asked whether he knew why Garp seemed unusually cheerful and planned to visit the East Blue.
• Ortolan checked the calendar, guessed that Dragon had married, and decided not to tell Sengoku or ask Garp about it.
• Ortolan gave Tesoro documents about G-5’s economic problems and asked him to propose solutions before the fleet reached the base.
• Smoker showed Issho a document confirming that he had become a Shichibukai and declared that the Marines could no longer pursue him.
• Issho demanded that Smoker pay G-5 twenty billion Beli, but Smoker denied owing anything and ordered his crew to turn the ship around.

Ortolan inspected G-5’s new shipbuilding base and learned that hiring enough workers would make the project prohibitively expensive. He decided to use prisoners from Impel Down as unpaid labor and ordered plans to develop other industries, leaving G-5 poised to turn its pirate workforce into revenue.

• Ortolan reviewed Master Tom’s shipyard plan and ordered Momonga to buy production equipment using money deducted from Doflamingo’s 200 billion Belly.
• Master Tom estimated that wages for twenty thousand workers would cost 24 billion Belly a year, and explained that the shipyard would need years to train workers and become efficient.
• Ortolan decided to use pirates from Impel Down as laborers and told Momonga to arrange a fleet to escort prisoners to the shipbuilding base.
• Ortolan ordered Tesoro to devise plans for additional industries that could employ the pirates and bring more money to G-5.

Ortolan returned to G-5 and learned that Smoker refused to repay a two-billion-Beli debt after becoming a Shichibukai. He asked Katakuri to beat Smoker and bring him back alive, while Gion remained wary of G-5’s dubious dealings.

• Ortolan returned from Shipbuilding Island and welcomed Gion, who had arrived to establish an intelligence outpost at G-5.
• Issho reported that G-5’s soldiers were improving through combat and said Smoker had refused to repay Ortolan’s two-billion-Beli debt.
• Ortolan learned that Crocodile was in Alabasta and postponed dealing with him, then asked Katakuri to beat Smoker without killing him.
• Katakuri agreed to send Smoker to G-5, and Ortolan boasted that he could handle anyone in the New World.
• Gion questioned Ortolan about doing business with pirates, but he and the others insisted they were righteous Marines and said Sengoku knew about their operations.

Ortolan asked Tesoro to prove his worth by proposing ways to improve G-5’s finances. Tesoro outlined several business plans built around merchant fleets trading with Whole Cake Island, and Ortolan signaled that G-5 would pursue opportunities the Marines officially forbade.

• Ortolan asked Tesoro to present suggestions for G-5’s finances, while Momonga and Issho questioned whether he was capable.
• Tesoro explained that New World merchants endured extreme dangers because scarce goods and high prices made trade there exceptionally profitable.
• Tesoro proposed that G-5 establish a merchant association offering safe trade access to Whole Cake Island in exchange for fees.
• Tesoro suggested that G-5 also buy goods in bulk for resale and create its own merchant fleet to handle trade from the Four Seas to the New World.
• Ortolan acknowledged that the Marines did not allow such commercial activity, then declared that G-5 could break the rules under its admiral authorization.

Sengoku approved Ortolan’s request for pirate prisoners after learning how badly Impel Down was overcrowded. He agreed to send fifty thousand prisoners to G-5, where Ortolan planned to use them as laborers for shipbuilding and mining.

• Sengoku reviewed G-5’s request for pirate prisoners and Magellan’s plea for funds to expand Impel Down.
• Magellan told Sengoku that Impel Down was receiving thousands of pirates each month and could no longer hold them.
• Unable to reach Ortolan, Sengoku called Gion and learned Ortolan was speaking with Doflamingo about a joint business venture involving the Big Mom Pirates.
• Sengoku asked Ortolan to protect Rosinante, who had infiltrated the Donquixote Family, and Ortolan agreed.
• Ortolan explained that he wanted pirate laborers to build warships and later mine for the Marines.
• Sengoku raised the transfer from twenty-five thousand prisoners to fifty thousand, and Ortolan welcomed the extra laborers.

Katakuri delivered the captured Smoker to Ortolan at G-5, where Ortolan demanded a 200 billion Beli renewal fee for Smoker’s Shichibukai status. Smoker agreed to pay, and Ortolan promptly welcomed him as an honored guest.

• Katakuri defeated Smoker on Mosquito Island and took him to G-5 after accusing him of borrowing money and refusing to repay it.
• Katakuri asked Ortolan to attend Big Mom’s upcoming Tea Party, and Ortolan accepted because it offered valuable business connections.
• Ortolan pitched Katakuri a plan to sell North Blue goods in Totto Land, but Katakuri told him to explain it to Big Mom’s financial staff at the Tea Party.
• Ortolan confronted Smoker over an unpaid 200 billion Beli guarantee fee and threatened to hang him if he refused to renew his Shichibukai status.
• Smoker agreed to pay the fee, and Ortolan ordered Issho to prepare tea and treat him as a distinguished visitor.

Ortolan secured Smoker’s Shichibukai renewal for 20 billion Belly and advised Doflamingo on how to pressure Mary Geoise into granting him the same position. He then asked Doflamingo for a profitable, labor-intensive industry to employ the pirates he had imported from Impel Down.

• Ortolan unlocked Smoker’s Seastone shackles after Smoker’s little brother delivered the 20 billion Belly renewal fee, making Smoker a full Shichibukai.
• Ortolan told Smoker he could pay for extra help if he ran into trouble, and Smoker hurried off to the docks.
• Ortolan explained to Doflamingo that every Shichibukai would have to pay the same guarantee fee and that he intended to collect Crocodile’s debt with interest.
• Doflamingo said Mary Geoise had rejected his efforts to secure a Shichibukai position, so Ortolan advised him to hijack Celestial Gold ships and promised the Marines would stage an ineffective pursuit.
• Doflamingo agreed with Ortolan’s advice, and Ortolan asked him to recommend a profitable labor-intensive industry for the 50,000 to 60,000 pirates he had imported from Impel Down.

Ortolan and Doflamingo discussed developing the Calm Belt for mining, timber, farming, and trade, while arranging cheap food for Ortolan’s incoming pirate labor force. Doflamingo then proposed stockpiling Lead-Platinum before Frevance’s disease outbreak caused the kingdom’s production to collapse, and Ortolan considered the opportunity.

• Doflamingo suggested that Ortolan develop the Calm Belt’s resources and use it as a trade route connecting the North Blue to the New World.
• Ortolan realized Calm Belt farms could supply food for G-5 and the future New Marines, and praised Doflamingo’s idea.
• Ortolan asked Doflamingo to arrange a continuous supply of cheap, stale grain to feed the pirate laborers arriving from Impel Down.
• Doflamingo asked about Ortolan’s unpaid debt, but Ortolan postponed repayment and offered to settle it after earning money from a new investment.
• Doflamingo explained that Lead-Platinum Disease could devastate Frevance within two years and proposed stockpiling Lead-Platinum before prices rose, then taking over the kingdom’s mines.

Ortolan expanded G-5’s forces, pirate-labor pipeline, and regional influence while keeping most of his troops off the official books. In April 1501, Moria’s attack on Kaido ended in disaster, while Mihawk’s draw with Shanks brought the Red Hair Pirates to public attention.

• Ortolan supported Tom’s shipbuilding and Sea Train projects, arranged monthly pirate-prisoner deliveries from Impel Down, and grew G-5 to seventy thousand Marines, though Headquarters officially recorded only twenty-five thousand.
• Gion, Issho, and Tokikake trained G-5’s expanding forces as the Marines established garrisons in seven countries and islands.
• Moria attacked the Beasts Pirates’ base in Wano Country while Kaido was drunk, but Kaido later defeated him and killed all of Moria’s crew.
• Mihawk fought Shanks to a standstill in the Whitebeard Pirates’ territory, making the Red Hair Pirates famous as they entered the New World.

Ortolan visited Borsalino and Orbia at the Marines' Science Unit on Punk Hazard, where he learned about a new warship designed to travel safely through the Calm Belt. After secretly checking that Borsalino could be trusted, Ortolan proposed involving him in a route and trading scheme with Doflamingo, and Borsalino agreed after confirming with Sengoku.

• Ortolan arrived at Punk Hazard and reunited with Borsalino and Orbia, who told him Robin was thriving in Marineford and hoped to join the Marines' Science Unit.
• Borsalino explained that Dr. Vegapunk's new warships used Seastone to avoid attracting sea creatures and could potentially cross the Calm Belt safely.
• Ortolan told Borsalino that his monthly madness had eased after repeated beatings and revealed that he had come to ask about the warships.
• Borsalino activated a signal jammer, and Ortolan discreetly checked that he was trustworthy before describing his plan to open a Calm Belt route to the North Blue and trade goods with Doflamingo.
• Borsalino initially protested that the plan violated Marine discipline, then contacted Sengoku using an encrypted Den Den Mushi and returned ready to cooperate.

Ortolan secured access to Seastone warship technology through Borsalino and toured Punk Hazard’s research base. He learned about Devil Fruit-powered weapons and saw an artificial Azure Dragon fruit that Vegapunk considered a failure because it turned its user pink.

• Ortolan asked Borsalino for the technical documents on combining Seastone with warships, and Borsalino arranged their transfer to Vice Admiral Bane’s warship as a Marine test.
• Borsalino led Ortolan through the research base and showed him an invisible chameleon dagger made using Devil Fruit materialization technology.
• Borsalino explained that the dagger technology was costly and largely shelved, though Dr. Vegapunk thought former MADS researchers might have developed similar technology.
• Borsalino showed Ortolan an artificial Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan type, Azure Dragon, made using Kaido’s Lineage Factor.
• Borsalino said Dr. Vegapunk had refused Mary Geoise’s orders to hand over the fruit and deemed it a failure because its dragon turned pink.

Ortolan reunited with Dr. Vegapunk at Punk Hazard, where Vegapunk asked to study his unusual constitution and blood for medical research. After Vegapunk offered him an artificial Devil Fruit, Ortolan agreed to provide a blood sample and called him a good friend.

• Dr. Vegapunk greeted Ortolan enthusiastically and asked to examine the mental illness he had heard about from Borsalino.
• Ortolan refused an examination, but Vegapunk asked to take his blood to study his extraordinary constitution and enrich the Lineage Factor database.
• Vegapunk explained that the research might advance medicine and help cure Admiral Zephyr's congenital asthma, and promised to keep Ortolan's sample out of weapons research.
• Ortolan asked about the artificial Devil Fruit, and Vegapunk immediately gave it to him as a reunion gift.
• Ortolan accepted Vegapunk's offer to draw blood and told him to call him Ortolan.

Ortolan planned to develop G-5 using Seastone shipping routes and resources from the Calm Belt, while arranging to attend Big Mom’s Tea Party with Admiral Sengoku’s approval. Sengoku then sent him to persuade Moonlight Moria to become a Shichibukai, leaving Ortolan eager to deal with the pirate in his own way.

• Ortolan told Admiral Sengoku he planned to open a route through the Calm Belt and secretly use pirate labor from Impel Down to develop its resources.
• Sengoku warned Ortolan to keep the Calm Belt plan confidential and agreed to report Ortolan’s Tea Party visit as a covert intelligence mission.
• Sengoku questioned Ortolan about collecting a 20-billion-Beli guarantee fee from Shichibukai and said he supported the practice.
• Sengoku told Ortolan that Headquarters had approved inviting Moonlight Moria to become a Shichibukai, but Moria wanted an important Marine to negotiate with him.
• Ortolan agreed to meet Moria and persuade him to serve as a Shichibukai, then joked that Moria had offended Sengoku, whom he called the Marines’ abbot.

Ortolan arrived at Porispian Island and swiftly defeated the pirates fighting in the harbor. Shanks spotted him from a mountain and ordered his crew to flee, fearing the Marine he called a jinx.

• Gangsters and pirates reacted to a Marine G-5 warship entering Porispian Island's harbor.
• Ortolan disembarked with Vergo and learned that King Kong Club Billy Cole and Big Bucktooth were rookie pirates.
• Ortolan used Chain Lightning to electrocute the pirates and ordered Vergo's Marines to capture the survivors for labor in the Calm Belt.
• Ortolan headed inland to find Moria while Vergo's soldiers rounded up the surviving pirates.
• Shanks saw the lightning from his mountain picnic, recognized Ortolan, and told Yasopp and the crew to pack up and flee.

Shanks tried to flee the island after learning Ortolan was there, but Mihawk challenged him before he could escape. Ortolan joined the fight and overpowered Shanks, who escaped to his ship with his arm intact, while Mihawk agreed to seek him out after more training.

• Shanks led the Red Hair Pirates down the mountain to escape Ortolan, but they encountered Mihawk, who immediately challenged Shanks to a sword fight.
• Ortolan sensed their clash and rushed to the town, where his hammer strike forced Shanks and Mihawk to retreat.
• Ortolan struck Shanks with his Warhammer and sent him flying, but Shanks used the force to escape; Mihawk then cut Ortolan's arm slightly with a slash.
• Ortolan asked Mihawk to become a Shichibukai for twenty billion Beli, and Mihawk declined the fight, saying he would return after two years of training.
• Shanks boarded his departing ship with his arm intact and claimed that this proved he had grown stronger.