Chapter Summaries

Brook welcomed Patrick Redfield into the Cloud Wanderer Pirates after freeing him, then decided to loot Impel Down for confiscated weapons and Devil Fruit users. He began with the weapon vault, collecting several notable weapons before continuing his search.

• Patrick Redfield swore loyalty to Brook, and Brook welcomed him as a companion in the Cloud Wanderer Pirates.
• Brook freed Redfield from his chains and stored him and Moria in his ring.
• Brook decided to search Impel Down for confiscated weapons and imprisoned Devil Fruit users.
• Brook entered the weapon vault and took Shiryu of the Rain's Raiu for Zoro and Byrnndi World's battle axe for Moria.
• Brook collected Katarina Devon's poisoned blades for Perona and Redfield's umbrella to return to him.
• Brook continued browsing the vault's many confiscated weapons.

Brook emptied Impel Down’s treasury, then began capturing Sea Stone-chained Devil Fruit users on LEVEL 5 and LEVEL 4. After guards discovered him and Brook defeated Hannyabal, Saldeath, and the Blue Gorilla Jailer Beasts, Magellan approached as Brook prepared to continue his hunt.

• Brook took every weapon from the treasury and went to LEVEL 5 to capture prisoners wearing Sea Stone chains.
• Brook collected seventeen prisoners before a guard patrol spotted one disappearing and sounded the alarm.
• Brook used Conqueror’s Haki to knock out the guards and War Wolves, then captured two more prisoners and moved to LEVEL 4.
• Hannyabal and Saldeath attacked Brook with the Blue Gorilla Jailer Beasts, but Brook incapacitated the beasts, Hannyabal, and Saldeath.
• Brook captured six more Devil Fruit users on LEVEL 4 before sensing Magellan approaching.

Brook fought Magellan while escaping Impel Down, then returned to the Golden Scale with a shrunken Moria. Perona delightedly scooped up the tiny Moria, who struggled to preserve his dignity.

• Magellan arrived and attacked Brook with Poison Dragons, but Brook countered with his sword and Space Gates.
• Brook and Magellan exchanged more than a hundred attacks, with neither gaining the upper hand.
• Magellan summoned Hell's Judgement, so Brook concealed himself in mist and escaped with Apparition.
• Brook returned to the Golden Scale and revealed Moria, who was still shrunk to a tiny size.
• Perona hugged the chibi Moria while he protested and squirmed in her arms.

Brook revealed that he had taken shadows from Impel Down's LEVEL 6 prisoners and brought back a cache of weapons. Zoro claimed Raiu after letting the cursed blade drink his blood, and the story left him with the sword safely under his control.

• Perona refused to release the newly shrunken Moria, who reluctantly produced dozens of shadows for Brook.
• Brook revealed that he had visited Impel Down and borrowed shadows from the prisoners of LEVEL 6.
• Brook released weapons from Impel Down's armory, and Zoro seized the famed blade Raiu.
• Raiu drained Zoro's blood as the crew tried to stop him, but Brook let him continue.
• Raiu stopped drinking, healed Zoro's wound, and accepted his promise to feed it powerful enemies; Chopper gave Zoro a blood-replenishing pill.

Brook welcomed Patrick Redfield to the Cloud Wanderer Pirates and made him their combat instructor, then offered a possible way to restore his fading strength with the Mythical Zoan Bat Fruit, Vampire Form. Redfield became eager to pursue the fruit, and Brook asked Nami to look into the Blood Kingdom, said to lie on an island in the Calm Belt.

• Brook introduced Patrick Redfield, also known as the Lonely Red and the Red Count, as the Cloud Wanderer Pirates’ newest member and their combat instructor.
• The crew welcomed Redfield with a lively banquet, where he enjoyed their company without hearing their thoughts through his mental abilities.
• Redfield admitted that imprisonment and aging had weakened him, and he regretted not meeting the crew while he was still at his peak.
• Brook told Redfield that the Mythical Zoan Bat Fruit, Vampire Form could restore his youth and vitality, rekindling Redfield’s ambition to regain his strength.
• Brook asked Nami about the Blood Kingdom, and she searched her extensive sea chart for information about it.

Brook learned that the Blood Kingdom might lie at one of three unexplored Calm Belt islands, then set out with Redfield and Bon Clay to search for it and the New Human Kingdom. Their first stop turned out to be Kamabakka Kingdom, leaving Bon Clay overwhelmed with joy at finding his dream destination.

• Bon Clay shared a legend about the Blood Kingdom and identified three possible locations from his old navigation records.
• Brook agreed to take Bon Clay along, then chose Redfield and Bon Clay for a Calm Belt search while the rest of the crew stayed behind to train.
• Brook accidentally left Moria in chibi form, and Perona and Chopper chased after him for hugs while Hermione watched.
• Brook used Space Gate to bring Redfield and Bon Clay to the first marked island and sensed that it was Kamabakka Kingdom.
• Bon Clay recognized the New Human Kingdom below and broke down crying, and Brook encouraged him to go down and confirm it.

Brook and Redfield brought Bon Clay to Kamabakka, where Doris and Kena welcomed them and showed them the New Human Kingdom. Bon Clay joyfully joined its residents, and Brook asked Doris and Kena to let him stay until they returned to pick him up.

• Brook used the Space Gate to bring himself, Redfield, and Bon Clay to a beach on Kamabakka.
• Doris and Kena recognized Brook and Redfield, welcomed the companions, and guided them into the New Human Kingdom.
• Brook and Redfield saw Kamabakka’s unusual buildings and met its cheerful residents, while Bon Clay happily mingled with them.
• Brook told Doris and Kena that he and Redfield had private business and asked them to let Bon Clay stay until they returned.

Brook and Redfield left Bon Clay in the kingdom where he could pursue his dreams, then traveled to a hidden valley kingdom while searching for the ruins of the Blood Kingdom. Elder Kasa welcomed them to the Mountain Heart Kingdom and began showing them its way of life.

• Brook and Redfield arranged for Bon Clay to stay in the kingdom, promising to return for him after finding what they sought.
• Brook and Redfield traveled through a Space Gate to another marked island, which was not the ruins of the Blood Kingdom.
• Brook and Redfield explored the terraced valley of the Mountain Heart Kingdom and were confronted by guards led by Stone Scar.
• Elder Kasa introduced himself as the kingdom’s Listener, judged that Brook and Redfield meant no harm, and welcomed them as guests.
• Elder Kasa guided Brook and Redfield through the valley and explained how the kingdom’s ancestors had settled there to live in harmony with nature.

Brook and Redfield learned how the Mountain Heart Kingdom used the Heart Stone’s vibrations, and Brook sparred with its strongest warrior, Stone Scar. After Brook easily defeated him, Elder Kasa invited the visitors to dinner and served them juice made from Heart-Shaped Grass, which strengthened the bones.

• Elder Kasa explained that the Heart Stone powered the kingdom’s vibration techniques but lost its resonant strength beyond the island.
• Brook and Redfield watched the warriors train, and Stone Scar asked Brook for a friendly spar.
• Brook deflected Stone Scar’s spear attacks and kicked his Earth Pulse shockwave back at him.
• Stone Scar conceded defeat and bowed to Brook, while the watching warriors and Elder Kasa looked on in awe.
• Elder Kasa invited Brook and Redfield to dinner and told them the blue-purple drink was refined Heart-Shaped Grass juice that strengthened bones.

Brook and Redfield left the Mountain Heart Kingdom with Heart-Shaped Grass and Stone Howl Beasts, then reached the final marked island. They found the long-dead ruins of the Blood Kingdom and began searching for the Vampire Fruit.

• Brook accepted Elder Kasa's request to exchange Den Den Mushi numbers in return for a chance to call on him if the Mountain Heart Kingdom faced destruction.
• Brook drank the Heart-Shaped Grass juice, asked for plants to cultivate, and received three Heart-Shaped Grass plants from Elder Kasa.
• Elder Kasa gave Brook and Redfield a Heart Stone fragment, and Brook asked for several pairs of Stone Howl Beasts to take back for breeding.
• Brook and Redfield traveled through the final Space Gate and reached an island covered in the ruins of a dead city.
• Brook and Redfield recognized the ruins as a possible site of the Blood Kingdom's destruction and began searching toward the city center.

Brook and Redfield found the sleeping King Saladin beneath the castle and awakened him, discovering that his supposed immortality was failing. Saladin attacked Redfield, and their battle began as Brook’s Conqueror’s Haki rose to a new level.

• Brook and Redfield sensed a powerful living presence in the castle and used a Space Gate to reach a tomb deep underground.
• Redfield split open the coffin with a slash, waking Saladin, who angrily demanded to know who had disturbed his sleep.
• Brook sensed that Saladin’s immense life force was being consumed by a deathly aura and that he would die within two years.
• Redfield released his overwhelming Conqueror’s Haki, while Brook’s own Haki broke through its advanced barrier and rose to a higher level.
• Saladin leaped from the coffin and attacked Redfield with his sharpened nails, and Redfield met the strike with his umbrella.

Redfield fought Saladin while Brook waited for a chance to extract the Vampire Form Devil Fruit without killing him prematurely. When Saladin’s life and death energies fell out of balance, Brook seized the opening, extracted the fruit, and watched Saladin crumble into dust.

• Saladin attacked Redfield with sonic shrieks and crimson bats, but Redfield countered with his umbrella and repeatedly wounded him as his body regenerated.
• Redfield realized he could not kill Saladin without causing the Devil Fruit to reincarnate somewhere unknown, while Brook searched for a way to restrain him.
• Saladin’s life force began pouring out as the death energy in his body surged, and he rapidly aged and weakened.
• Brook appeared behind Saladin, used Confuse the Audience and Fleeting Life is Like a Dream to control him, and extracted the Zoan Bat Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Vampire Form.
• With the Devil Fruit removed, Saladin’s body was consumed by death energy and decayed into dust.

Redfield ate the Life-Life Fruit and used its Life Drain ability to restore some of his lost youth and strength. Brook discovered that a prisoner’s Lock-Lock Fruit might have extraordinary potential and extracted it for him.

• Redfield ate the Life-Life Fruit and learned that it granted him Life Drain and Blood Bat.
• Brook brought out a prisoner from Impel Down, who revealed that he had the Lock-Lock Fruit.
• Brook realized the Lock-Lock Fruit could manipulate concepts like confinement and might have immense potential, then knocked the prisoner unconscious and extracted the fruit.
• Redfield sent a Blood Bat to drain the prisoner’s life force, restoring some of his strength as his silver hair darkened and his wrinkles faded.

Brook and Redfield finished extracting Devil Fruits and restoring Redfield to his physical prime before returning to the New Human Kingdom to retrieve Bon Clay. At a banquet hosted by Doris and Kena, Brook discovered the medicinal effects of the food and asked them for its recipes.

• Brook extracted five more Devil Fruits from prisoners while Redfield absorbed life energy until his body reached its safe limit.
• Brook and Redfield used a Space Gate to return to the New Human Kingdom and found Bon Clay studying nail art with his sisters.
• Doris and Kena welcomed Brook and the rejuvenated Redfield and hosted a banquet in the central square.
• Brook sampled the medicinal dishes, noticed their subtle strengthening effect, and asked Doris and Kena for the recipes and preparation methods.

Brook traded a book of revolutionary writings called Quotations from Chairman, also known as the “Little Red Book,” for Kamabakka’s medicinal cuisine recipes. After Brook and his companions departed, Monkey D. Dragon arrived in person to meet Kena and Doris.

• Brook gave Kena a book to read, and she and Doris were captivated by its revolutionary ideas.
• Kena realized Brook knew of their Revolutionary Army ties and promised the force behind Kamabakka would assist him within its principles.
• Brook named the book Quotations from Chairman, or the “Little Red Book,” and Doris retrieved the complete handwritten Vitality Medicinal Cuisine Compendium in exchange.
• Brook accepted the compendium, then left the banquet with Bon Clay and Redfield after thanking Kena and Doris for their hospitality.
• After Brook departed, Monkey D. Dragon appeared before Kena and Doris, who were startled that the Revolutionary Army’s chief had come personally.

Dragon read the book Brook had given the Revolutionary Army and regretted the movement’s flawed strategy, while Brook chose to remain an uninvolved observer. The next morning, Brook emerged late from the cabin as the crew trained aboard the Golden Scale.

• Dragon arrived looking for Brook, learned that he had already left, and accepted the book from Kena.
• Dragon carefully read the book and vowed that he and Brook would meet.
• Brook reflected that the Revolutionary Army’s noble aims were undermined by its inability to protect uprisings, and considered safer strategies for building strength.
• Brook decided he would not personally take on the work of overthrowing the World Government and preferred to sail with his companions.
• The next morning, Brook came onto the Golden Scale’s deck late, and Nami scolded him for sleeping while Hermione and the others were already up.

Brook brought the Golden Scale crew to the Sabaody Archipelago through a Space Gate, where the group split up to explore. Redfield agreed to visit his old acquaintance, Silvers Rayleigh.

• Brook announced that the crew would leave their training waters and visit the Sabaody Archipelago, exciting the crew with plans for shopping, food, sightseeing, and stronger opponents.
• Nami gave Brook the direction, and he opened a Space Gate that brought the Golden Scale to the archipelago.
• Brook told the crew to explore in groups and contact them by Den Den Mushi if trouble arose.
• Nami set off with Conis, Laki, and Perona, while Sanji slipped away to look for special ingredients.
• Bon Clay took Chopper to the amusement park, and Moria invited Zoro to a tavern before correcting Zoro's wrong turn.
• Brook told Redfield that Silvers Rayleigh was on the island, and Redfield agreed to visit him.

Redfield told Brook the old story of Shakky and Rayleigh, including how Shakky secretly exposed the Rocks Pirates’ plan before the God Valley Incident. He agreed to visit Knock You Down BAR and ask Rayleigh about how their relationship began.

• Brook told Redfield that Rayleigh was at Knock You Down BAR in the No. 13 mangrove area with Shakky.
• Redfield recounted that Shakky had been a member of the Rocks Pirates and had secretly fallen for Rayleigh while their crews were enemies.
• Redfield explained that Shakky leaked Rocks’s plan to attack God Valley to the Marines, enabling Garp and Roger to defeat Rocks.
• Brook pressed Redfield for details about how Shakky had fallen for Rayleigh, but Redfield said Roger had not told him.
• Redfield agreed to ask Rayleigh about the story and headed toward Knock You Down BAR.

Brook and Hermione spent the day enjoying the Sabaody Archipelago amusement park before Marian called to say she had caused trouble. Brook brought Hermione to Marian and found Nami and the others outside a Human Auction House after they had beaten up a Celestial Dragon.

• Brook and Hermione visited the amusement park, riding the carousel, Ferris wheel, Bubble Rapids, roller coaster, and bungee jump while sampling local snacks.
• Marian called Brook anxiously, while Nami and Perona dismissed the trouble as beating up a fat pig.
• Brook recognized that the person they had attacked might be a Celestial Dragon and used a Space Gate to reach Marian.
• Brook found Nami, Perona, Conis, and Laki with Marian on a deserted shopping street, where Laki held a young girl near the Human Auction House.
• Brook reassured Marian and asked Nami to explain what had happened.

Nami investigated the Human Auction House after learning it controlled Sabaody’s rare-goods trade, then joined an auction to buy a frightened young Devil Fruit user. When Saint Charloss entered the bidding, Nami raised her offer, leaving the contest unresolved.

• During a shopping break, Nami questioned a dessert shop owner and learned that the Human Auction House monopolized rare goods and had a powerful backer.
• Nami, Laki, Conis, Perona, and Marian visited the Human Auction House and saw people being sold as slaves.
• The auctioneer presented a terrified young girl who had eaten the Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: Nekomata, and Marian bid 100 million Beli to save her.
• As the auctioneer prepared to close the sale, Saint Charloss bid 200 million Beli for the girl.
• Nami raised her bid to 210 million Beli, challenging Saint Charloss for the girl.