Recaps

After surviving the Zoldyck Family’s Wish Machine, Maud awoke in the body of a teenage captive in what might be the world of One Piece. His Hunter’s Notebook still worked but had been reset, and as gunfire erupted outside, an armed intruder aimed a gun into his room.

• Maud woke in an unfamiliar room and realized his soul had crossed into the body of a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy.
• Maud recovered memories of the boy’s parents being killed by pirates and the boy being sold to a Slave Ship before a cannonball struck his cell.
• Maud summoned Hunter’s Notebook and found that his ability remained, but its recorded requirements and past results had been erased.
• Maud suspected he was in the world of One Piece and considered new hunting requirements, including combat, swordsmanship, physical strength, Devil Fruit abilities, and Haki.
• Maud heard gunfire outside for several minutes, then moved beside the door when footsteps approached.
• The door opened, and a gun barrel pointed into the room at Maud from an unusual angle.

After waking from a seven-day coma, Maud learned that Sunny had rescued him from the Slave Ship and returned his pocket watch. Sunny led him to meet Saul, where Maud recognized the young red-haired Kid and realized he was in the world of One Piece.

• Sunny confronted Maud at gunpoint, then explained she and her companions had considered selling his body on the black market if he did not wake up.
• Sunny returned Maud's pocket watch, and he saw photographs that stirred painful, incomplete memories of his family.
• Sunny advised Maud to destroy the photograph bearing his signature and adopt an alias, then took him to meet Saul.
• A young red-haired Kid argued with Saul over buying Keanu's gun in the shop.
• Maud recognized Kid and identified him as a potential target for Hunter's Notebook.

Maud assessed the dangerous world of Mad Hatter Town while Saul refused to sell Kid a pistol and knocked out a pirate who threatened him. After learning Maud’s identity, Saul handed him a short sword and told him to kill the unconscious pirate, leaving Maud ready to act but asking to use the bathroom first.

• Maud inferred that he had arrived in the lawless Mad Hatter Town in the West Blue and quietly regarded Kid as a possible future target.
• Saul refused to sell Keanu's Pistol to Kid, who stormed toward the shop’s exit.
• Evan Watt, the eleven-million-Beli captain of the Ghost Blade Pirates, entered and threatened Kid, but Saul knocked him unconscious with a slap.
• Sunny identified Watt and explained that Maud’s family had recently been killed when pirates robbed their merchant ship.
• Saul gave Maud a short sword and told him to kill Watt; Maud accepted, then asked to use the bathroom first.

Maud used Hunter's Notebook to record Watt's information and killed him to complete his first hunt, which improved Maud's constitution and began healing his wound. After washing up, Maud returned to the shop and met Arthur, who had come to collect Watt's body.

• Maud wrote down his need to improve his constitution and recorded the limited information he knew about Evan. Watt in Hunter's Notebook.
• Maud stabbed the unconscious Watt to death, completing his first hunt and gaining a small improvement to his health and healing.
• Saul cautioned Maud against dwelling on his anger, and Maud agreed while keeping the Notebook's power secret.
• Maud noticed that his wound had stopped hurting, washed his hands, and considered Mad Hatter Town a dangerous but promising hunting ground.
• Maud returned to the shop and saw Arthur, who looked surprised that Maud had woken up.

Maud woke up in Saul’s shop and met Arthur, the undertaker who had treated him and tried to assess his condition. After Arthur left, Maud cleaned the shop, and Sunny asked how he had dodged Arthur’s grab.

• Arthur admitted that he had lied to Saul about Maud’s chances of waking up to secure the treatment job.
• Maud dodged Arthur’s sudden attempt to grab him, and Arthur realized he could not sell Maud as merchandise while Saul was watching.
• Arthur stitched the corpse’s wounds, collected his payment, and carried the body away.
• Saul closed the shop for the day, and Sunny gave Maud food and water before he cleaned the bloodstains.
• Sunny asked Maud how he had dodged Arthur, and Maud looked at her in confusion.

Maud settled into his room at the shop and used Hunter's Notebook to organize his memories of One Piece. Meanwhile, Sunny grew suspicious of Maud and told Saul that he was different from the others.

• Sunny pressed Maud to explain how he had dodged Arthur's hand, then gave him a written list of rules for staying at the shop.
• Sunny reviewed her notebook, added Maud's full name with a question mark, and decided to talk with Saul.
• Maud read Sunny's rules, summoned Hunter's Notebook, and began writing down his memories of One Piece.
• Maud considered possible targets such as the Arlong Pirates and wondered how he could travel between the Blues.
• Sunny told Saul that Maud was abnormal and different from the others, and Saul agreed that Maud was very different.

Maud woke early, ate breakfast, and cleaned the shop while learning more about its weapons and Sunny’s strict routines. He discovered that Saul had gone to Flower Street for morning training, leaving Maud to wonder what that meant.

• Maud woke after barely sleeping, ate breakfast with Sunny, and asked what kind of place Mad Hatter Town was.
• Sunny told Maud to clean the table and shop within half an hour, and he carefully cleaned the shelves without touching the weapons.
• Maud examined the flintlock guns and thought about finding one to use for hunting, but resisted taking a secondhand weapon.
• Sunny measured and straightened every item on the shelves before opening the shop for business.
• Maud asked where Saul was, and Sunny said Saul had gone to Flower Street for his morning training and usually returned before lunch.

Maud waited in Sunny’s quiet weapon shop until three men arrived, while Arthur and Kid dealt with separate developments elsewhere in Mad Hatter Town. The chapter left Kid without the gun he wanted and nearly out of money, as the masked man offered to buy it for him.

• Maud realized Sunny’s weapon shop stood in a quiet residential alley and considered asking Saul for a gun.
• Three men entered the shop, and the man in the middle joked with Maud about whether he had bumped into him.
• Arthur was called back to work as an Undertaker after another slave riot at Pig Farm, and he heard a rumor about a Devil Fruit and famous sword at an upcoming auction.
• Kid told the blue-masked man that the weapon shop owner had refused to sell him the gun.
• Kid admitted he had spent almost all the money, leaving the masked man speechless.

Shanks and his crew visited Saul's Weapon Shop, where Shanks tried to buy wine despite Saul's ban and Yasopp bought two guns. When Yasopp left his deteriorating old flintlock for Saul to keep, Maud offered to carry it on his journey.

• Shanks greeted Sunny and said he had come to buy wine, but she told him Saul had forbidden selling it to him after his crew took two reserved barrels.
• Shanks asked whether Saul was home, and Lucky Roux paid for the wine and headed down to the cellar while Sunny tried to stop him.
• Yasopp bought a smoothbore flintlock and a short-barreled flintlock, then left his worn old gun for Saul to keep rather than sell it.
• Maud offered to take Yasopp's old gun and carry it with him on his journey.

Maud asked Yasopp for an old flintlock blunderbuss and proved his skill by shooting through a narrow gap in the shop door, earning the gun. As Shanks and Saul argued over liquor, Maud watched from the back room and realized they seemed to be old acquaintances.

• Maud interrupted Yasopp and asked for the old flintlock blunderbuss, agreeing to prove he could use a gun.
• Yasopp handed Maud a loaded pistol and challenged him to demonstrate his skill.
• Maud fired through a narrow gap in the shop door, convincing Yasopp to give him the blunderbuss.
• Shanks praised Maud's marksmanship, while Yasopp wondered how the boy had acquired such a natural shooting stance and gun sense.
• Lucky Roux brought out the liquor, and Saul rushed in to angrily confront Shanks over selling it.
• Maud retreated to the back room and watched as Saul and Shanks bickered like old acquaintances.

Maud realized he had no ammunition for his musket, then asked Yasopp for bullets and gunpowder. Yasopp gave him some and rambled about naming the gun, leaving Maud unable to get a word in.

• Maud realized he had no bullets or gunpowder for the musket Yasopp had given him.
• At dinner, Saul rejected Shanks's invitation to join his ship and told him to stop visiting to buy alcohol.
• Maud followed Yasopp to the hallway and asked him for ammunition.
• Yasopp gave Maud some bullets and gunpowder, then offered him a cigarette.
• Yasopp talked over Maud while suggesting names for the gun, including Usopp, his son's name.

Maud settled into her work at Sunny’s weapons shop and learned that the Pig Farm held kidnapped slaves, while Arthur’s auction booklet revealed a Devil Fruit would be sold at the end of the month. As Maud considered the auction and her chances of getting stronger, Killer entered the shop.

• Maud woke early, exercised, ate Sunny’s breakfast, and cleaned the shop before another quiet day of business began.
• Arthur visited the shop, asked after Saul, complained about the Pig Farm riot, and left an auction booklet for Saul.
• Sunny explained that the Pig Farm was a food-production base staffed largely by kidnapped people and warned Maud that injured captives were often discarded.
• Sunny discovered that the auction booklet listed a Devil Fruit, and Maud decided she might attend the auction despite having no money.
• Killer, a member of Kid’s crew, entered the shop as Maud recognized him.

Killer learned that Yasopp had bought Keanu’s Pistol, and he and Kid abandoned their plan to take it after realizing Yasopp belonged to the Red-Haired Pirates. Kid left Mad Hatter Town in frustration, but first punched a man carrying an auction booklet and noticed the booklet after it fell.

• Killer offered Sunny four million Beli for Keanu’s Pistol, but Sunny told him Yasopp had bought it the previous afternoon.
• Killer left to tell Kid, while Maud watched him go and browsed the auction booklet, noting its weapons, Fish-Man slaves, rare sword, and Devil Fruit.
• Kid decided to find Yasopp and take the gun, and he and Killer sought out dealers who could help them locate him.
• Kid and Killer remembered Yasopp was connected to the Red-Haired Pirates, so Kid decided they should leave town instead of confronting him.
• A man reading an auction booklet collided with Kid, who punched him and sent him flying; Kid then noticed the fallen booklet.

News of a Devil Fruit auction drew pirates to Mad Hatter Town, while the Marines struggled to respond to the threat. Auction house owner Ralph expected the Five Great Gangs to drive the price above one billion, and a recovered Maud chose his neighbor as his next target.

• Pirates flocked to Mad Hatter Town after news spread that a Devil Fruit would be auctioned there, while West Blue's Marine branches monitored the town but could not gather enough forces to intervene.
• Ralph discussed the Devil Fruit's expected price with the man who had brought it from the Grand Line and predicted that Begg of the Gangsters was most likely to win it.
• Maud recovered from his injuries at Saul's Weapon Shop, removed his bandages, and discovered that his next target was his neighbor.

Maud cautiously settled into Saul’s weapon shop and sought permission to kill his neighbor Albert Red as practice. Saul agreed, and Maud later lay in wait to snipe Red, but two men entered the alley and Maud hesitated as an unseen observer watched him.

• Maud asked Sunny whether Saul would object to him killing Albert Red, and Sunny confirmed the information she had gathered about their neighbors.
• Maud told Saul he wanted to kill Red to practice, and Saul warned him to bear the consequences while implicitly agreeing.
• Three days later, Maud hid on a rooftop with Usopp and waited for Red to return through the alley.
• Red approached with another person, leaving Maud to weigh whether he could risk firing his single-shot flintlock as someone secretly watched him.

Maud used Usopp to shoot Red and his companion from a distant sniping position, astonishing Sunny with his apparent talent for guns. Afterward, Maud gained a major physical boost, while Saul tried to encourage Sunny to keep learning despite her doubts.

• Maud chose to take the shot and repositioned himself to line up Red and his companion with one bullet.
• Maud killed Red and his companion with a single shot, then escaped as people emerged to investigate the gunshot.
• Saul asked Sunny what she thought of Maud's shot, and Sunny questioned whether she should keep learning to use a gun.
• Saul told Sunny that talent came in many forms and began recalling how he had once struggled to find his own path.
• Maud returned to the weapon shop, put away Usopp, and found a new star in Hunter's Notebook after gaining much greater physical strength.

After killing two men, Maud trained and considered his next target while the Sharp Horn Pirate Ship departed without Captain Kazt, who sent Lagron to investigate the killings. Lagron sought out Wolf Rat, whose sudden appearance startled him.

• Maud observed the alley where the two corpses had been found, then returned to the weapons shop to train and decided to wait two days before hunting again.
• At the port, Captain Kazt ordered Lagron to stay in Mad Hatter Town and investigate the deaths of two crew members, including a navigator.
• The Sharp Horn Pirate Ship sailed without Lagron as he watched it leave and regretted missing the voyage.
• Lagron went to a secluded bar and asked the bartender whether Wolf Rat was there.
• Wolf Rat spoke from behind Lagron, who turned and asked whether the thin man was Wolf Rat.

Lagron hired Wolf Rat to track down the sniper who had killed his companions, and the scent trail led them to Saul's Weapon Shop. That evening, a customer entered the shop and quietly inspected Saul, Sunny, and Maud before buying a cleaver and leaving.

• Lagron paid Wolf Rat to find the killer who had ambushed the Sharp Bull Pirates.
• Wolf Rat followed the sniper's scent trail to Saul's Weapon Shop and warned Lagron to give up the search.
• Wolf Rat said the killer was neither Saul nor the scarred woman, revealing that a third person was in the shop.
• Lagron left after Wolf Rat completed the job and returned to the bar.
• That evening, a shifty-eyed customer inspected Saul, Sunny, and Maud, bought a cleaver from Saul, and left.

Saul offered to teach Maud how to use a gun, and Maud accepted despite preferring swordsmanship. After learning that pirates were investigating Maud, Saul killed Lagron with a long-range shot, leaving the tavern in an uproar.

• Lagron sent a pirate into the weapons shop to investigate Maud, then went to the bar district to gather information.
• Saul offered to teach Maud marksmanship, arguing that Maud had the talent to become a strong sniper.
• Maud said he would rather learn swordsmanship, but agreed to train with Saul after considering the benefits.
• Saul decided to protect Maud from the pirates who had come looking for him and took an old flintlock pistol from the shop.
• Saul shot Lagron from several thousand meters away, killing the nineteen-million-Beli pirate and alarming the tavern crowd.

After Lagron’s death, Wolf Rat feared that the unseen shooter would kill him too, but survived a gunshot outside Tatam’s bar. Maud then hunted Gaden and another man, killing Gaden and overpowering his companion before leaving with two more stars in Hunter’s Notebook.

• Wolf Rat told Tatam that Lagron’s death was a deliberate hit and feared the shooter would target him next.
• Wolf Rat walked out of the bar to face his fear, heard a gunshot, and then laughed with relief when he realized he was alive.
• Two days later, Maud set out at night with two flintlock pistols and a dagger to hunt his chosen prey.
• Maud slipped into the building and found Gaden and a muscular man asleep together.
• Maud stabbed Gaden to death, then pinned down the muscular man and asked him if they could talk.
• Maud left the building, and two stars appeared on Hunter’s Notebook.

Maud raised his physique by hunting three more neighbors and began Saul’s leg-focused sniper training on the day Mad Hatter Town filled with auction visitors. As the town descended into violence, Begg of the Gangster and Lafitte appeared on its streets.

• Maud hunted neighbors three, four, and five, increasing his physique from fifteen to twenty times that of an ordinary person.
• Crowds of pirates, underworld figures, bounty hunters, and undercover Marines packed Mad Hatter Town for the auction, while Sunny lamented that she could never obtain the Devil Fruit.
• Saul gave Maud a weighted-leg training regimen and explained his humorous hierarchy of sniper realms, which Maud recognized as advice to improve his ability to run away.
• Gunfire and killings spread through the town as visitors arrived for the auction.
• Begg of the Gangster led his suited followers down Gambling Street, while Lafitte left a trail of knife-slain bodies on Wine Street.

Steel Pipe and Clara entered Mad Hatter Town under aliases to gather information about troop deployments around the Labor Factory. They reached the pirate-filled streets without drawing attention, where violence had already broken out.

• Steel Pipe, Clara, and Haku arrived at Mad Hatter Town aboard a stolen pirate ship and reminded one another to use their aliases.
• Steel Pipe and Clara disguised themselves and set off to investigate the Labor Factory while Haku stayed behind to guard the ship.
• Steel Pipe sensed killing intent and guided Clara aside as the Sharp Bull Pirates passed them.
• Clara identified the pirates and explained that their captain, Kazt, was a Zoan Devil Fruit user and that the crew might have attacked a Bolgin merchant ship.
• Steel Pipe and Clara walked into town, where they saw pirates fighting, looting bodies, and cheering over the violence.

Maud considered sneaking out during the dangerous night, but Sunny warned him to stay inside and gave him her intelligence notebook. After he promised to get Sunny a Devil Fruit someday, she wrote down his advice, leaving Maud determined to fulfill his promise in the future.

• After Saul left for the auction, Sunny bolted the shop door and warned Maud not to go out that night.
• Sunny gave Maud her notebook of intelligence on pirates with medium-to-high bounties and explained that she had prepared it in case Saul could no longer protect her.
• Maud thanked Sunny, then asked what kind of Devil Fruit she wanted and discussed which types might suit her.
• Sunny recorded Maud's Devil Fruit advice, while Maud silently promised himself he would get her one someday.

Mod disguised himself as the Undertaker and waited outside the auction, studying Sunny’s Notebook and considering the Sharp Bull Pirates as targets. As he headed toward Cape Street, Kazt and his crew confronted Wolf Rat at the Night Color bar.

• Mod put on a mask and Death Armband, checked his weapons and ammunition, and watched the streets from a rooftop instead of entering the auction house.
• Mod read Sunny’s Notebook, noted that its information about Kid was mostly speculation, and found his own entry crossed out.
• Mod focused on the Sharp Bull Pirates because their captain, Kazt, was a Zoan user whose durability could make him a valuable target.
• Mod left for Cape Street an hour before the auction began.
• Kazt led about thirty Sharp Bull Pirates into the Night Color bar while the rest surrounded it, and he confronted Wolf Rat, who remained calm.

After Lagron’s assassination, Wolf Rat gave Kazt information about the culprit, and Kazt postponed retaliation to attend the auction. Meanwhile, Maud gathered information in a tavern near the auction house, where a blond youth in a black top hat entered.

• Wolf Rat quickly offered Kazt everything he knew, and Kazt left with his crew after receiving the information.
• Wolf Rat told Tatam he had cooperated to avoid trouble before the auction, though he expected the pirates might die afterward.
• Wells questioned the reliability of Wolf Rat’s information, but Kazt deferred investigating until after the auction.
• Kazt and two officers entered the Mad Hatter Auction House with their funds, intending to bid on several items, including a fish-man slave.
• Maud listened to pirates’ conversations in a nearby tavern and watched for arrivals until a blond youth in a black top hat entered and noticed his table.