Chapter Summaries

Maud left the soldiers behind and took Luo toward the Hanging Lantern Vine, while Gion arrived in Dick City with Marines pursuing the Maud Pirates. The chapter ended with Gion and her men ascending toward the royal capital after Maud and Luo.

• Maud’s killing intent stopped the soldiers, and Luo abandoned his plan to seize the Hanging Lantern Vine’s roots so he could stay near Maud.
• Luo explained that the roots could cure a plague, and Maud offered to carry him up after Luo said the Human Ladder Box had been destroyed.
• Maud used Geppo to take Luo toward the whale’s head and told Lafitte to meet Sister Ya at the shipyard.
• Digal ordered the soldiers to pursue Maud and Luo, but they found the Human Ladder Box destroyed and lost sight of them.
• Gion arrived at Dick City with Wolf Rat and other Marines, saw Lao G’s corpse, and learned from Digal that Maud had gone upward.
• Gion used Geppo to ascend after Maud, followed by Marines who knew the technique.

Maud and Luo gathered Hanging Lantern Vine roots in the Aha Kingdom, where Vice Admiral Gion attacked them and forced Maud to fight while Luo devised an escape. Maud and Luo outmaneuvered the Marines, fled with King Digal as a hostage, and left Gion behind as Maud hinted they would meet again.

• Maud carried Luo to the top of the Human Ladder Box and headed toward the Aha Royal Capital while Luo collected Hanging Lantern Vine roots.
• Gion arrived with Wolf Rat and three other Marine officers, then attacked Luo and drove him back until Maud intervened.
• Maud fought Gion and lured her away while Luo used Shambles to switch a Marine officer into Maud's place, giving Maud a chance to escape with Luo.
• Wolf Rat blocked Maud's escape, but Maud evaded his Finger Pistol and cut him down before fleeing through the passageway with Luo.
• Maud took King Digal hostage, and Gion confronted him as he warned that they would meet again.

Maud escaped Leviathan Island aboard the Netherworld after using Digal as a hostage, then killed him once the ship was ready to depart. At sea, Maud asked Luo whether the Op-Op Fruit could remove and preserve a Devil Fruit ability, leaving Luo considering the possibility.

• Maud used Digal as a hostage to keep Gion and the Aha Kingdom’s forces from stopping him as he retreated to the shipyard with Luo.
• Maud killed Digal and escaped aboard the Netherworld, while Jaya blocked Gion’s attack with a matching slash.
• Gion returned to the harbor but was stopped by the Aha Kingdom’s soldiers and a noble demanding an explanation.
• Aboard the Netherworld, Luo recovered after drinking Jaya’s soup, and Maud asked him to contact his crew on Leviathan Island.
• Maud told Luo he wanted the Weapon-Weapon Fruit ability inside baby-5, then asked whether the Op-Op Fruit could remove and preserve an ability.

Maud proposed that Luo use the Op-Op Fruit to help him obtain baby-5’s Weapon-Weapon Fruit, offering the Maud Pirates’ support against Doflamingo in return. Luo accepted the alliance despite being unable to guarantee success, and Maud suggested testing the idea after Luo grew stronger.

• Maud explained how Luo’s Op-Op Fruit might separate and transfer a Devil Fruit’s power, broadening Luo’s ideas about his abilities.
• Maud offered the Maud Pirates as allies against Doflamingo if Luo helped him obtain baby-5’s Weapon-Weapon Fruit.
• Luo became wary when Maud revealed he knew about Luo’s plans, but Maud argued that his actions showed he was not working for the World Government or the Donquixote Family.
• Jim knocked baby-5 unconscious after she threatened Maud and his crew.
• Luo agreed to cooperate, while Maud said they could test ways to preserve a Devil Fruit’s power when its user died and noted that Luo needed to grow stronger first.
• Maud offered his hand to Luo and declared their cooperation begun.

Dada’s lavishly flattering report about Maud reached Marineford, where Tsuru warned Garp about the Maud Pirates’ growing strength. Garp went to Sengoku after recognizing Jaya’s resemblance to Gaban, and placed her photograph beside the crew’s new bounty posters.

• Dale confronted Dada about his excessively flowery article praising Maud, but Dada defended his writing style.
• The report reached Marineford, where Garp laughed at its praise of Maud and Tsuru noted that it would give Sengoku a headache.
• Tsuru showed Garp a photograph of Jaya and told him she was as strong as Gion, while Garp recognized a resemblance to Gaban.
• Garp went to Sengoku’s office, saw Maud’s new 360-million-berry bounty poster, and placed Jaya’s photograph beside the crew’s posters.

The Marines finalized the Maud Pirates’ bounties, prompting Sengoku and Garp to discuss the crew’s threat and investigate Jaya’s identity. As Maud’s fame spread, Cavendish grew furious at being overshadowed and ordered his pirates to burn every newspaper in a nearby town; the chapter ended with an old man examining two bounty posters at a Sabaody Archipelago tavern.

• The Marines set Maud’s bounty at 360 million Beli and gave Jaya a 30-million-Beli bounty, leading Garp and Sengoku to suspect Jaya was connected to Gaban and request an identity investigation.
• Sengoku and Garp considered the Maud Pirates’ combined bounties of 560,010,000 Beli and worried the rookie crew would cause serious trouble.
• Pirates across the world reacted to Maud’s glowing newspaper coverage and his jump from a 100-million to a 360-million-Beli bounty.
• Cavendish blamed Maud’s rise on a setup, burned Maud’s bounty poster and a newspaper, then ordered his crew to attack a town and destroy every newspaper there.
• At a Sabaody Archipelago tavern, a white-haired old man studied two bounty posters while a young woman stood behind the bar.

Rayleigh and Shakky discussed Maud and Jaya’s bounties, while Doflamingo reacted furiously to news and the Red-Haired Pirates received a letter from Maud for Yasopp. Yasopp celebrated the letter’s arrival, and Shanks wondered what choice Maud would make after reaching the New World.

• Rayleigh told Shakky he wanted to meet Maud and Jaya, and Hachi arrived and recognized Maud’s bounty poster as the Ghost Gun.
• Doflamingo shattered a glass, received news over a Den Den Mushi, and announced that he was going out despite an officer’s offer to accompany him.
• On a Winter Island, Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates learned that a News Coo had brought Yasopp a letter from Maud, ghostwritten by Dede Turkey.
• Yasopp read the letter, concealed its contents, and celebrated by pouring liquor down the News Coo’s beak.
• Shanks looked at Maud’s new bounty poster and wondered what Maud would choose when he reached the New World.

Maud and his crew sailed to Lor Island, where Luo hoped to reunite with his crew and address a devastating plague. As Maud proposed using the outbreak to train Luo, they reached a village and found its people preparing to burn a masked person alive.

• Bepo revealed that his bounty was 200 Beli, leaving Beli bitter about his own 10 Beli bounty.
• Maud and Luo discussed traveling to Lor Island, where a plague threatened to destroy the island.
• Maud suggested that Luo use the plague as a training opportunity to improve his Op-Op Fruit ability’s precision and endurance.
• The Netherworld docked at Lor Island, and Maud’s group put on protective suits made by Luo before heading toward a village.
• Maud’s group found villagers preparing to burn a person in a crow-shaped mask, and Luo called the villagers foolish.

Maud rescued a Plague Doctor from the islanders of Lor Island, who planned to burn her because they feared crows. As Luo examined the infected woman and Lafitte moved to handle the angry crowd, she described the disease before collapsing again.

• Luo explained that the Lor Islanders viewed crows as omens and had mistaken the Plague Doctor for a source of misfortune.
• Jaya asked if the Plague Doctor could be saved, but Maud disappeared and used Silent Step to rescue her from the fire.
• Maud admired the Crow Mask and told Luo that pirates could force treatment on patients who refused to cooperate.
• Luo used Room to examine the Plague Doctor, determined that she was infected, and began preparing to treat her.
• Maud sent Lafitte to hypnotize the enraged islanders, while the Plague Doctor rose and described the disease before collapsing.

Luo used the Op-Op Fruit to cure Philo of the plague on Lor Island, and the crew discovered that her Crow Mask changed her personality. As Maud’s group remained in the village, Commodore Serves arrived with supplies and learned that the Maud Pirates were on the island.

• Maud’s group entered the village with the hypnotized villagers and settled in an empty house, where Luo treated the unconscious woman with his Op-Op Fruit.
• The woman woke up cured and introduced herself as Philo, then showed a shy personality without her Crow Mask and a bold, talkative one while wearing it.
• Luo told Philo he would take over the plague, but Maud’s group stayed with her after Beli removed her mask and revealed its effect on her personality.
• Commodore Serves arrived near Lor Island with supplies and asked after Doctor Philo.
• A marine lookout spotted the Maud Pirates’ ship beneath the cliffs west of Lor Island, alarming Serves and his crew.

Serves avoided confronting the Maud Pirates on Lor Island and arranged to deliver supplies while seeking help from Mr. Issho. The chapter left Serves weighing whether to ask Issho to fight the pirates as Philo watched Maud and the others in a village.

• Serves steered his warship away from the Maud Pirates and reported their presence on Lor Island to Marine Headquarters.
• Serves and his Marines unloaded plague-relief supplies on the island’s eastern shore, lit a smoke signal at dawn, and left two scouts behind.
• Serves decided to patrol the waters around Lor Island while awaiting action from Headquarters.
• The adjutant suggested asking Mr. Issho for help, and Serves recalled how Issho had saved his Marines from a powerful pirate crew.
• At a village on Lor Island, Philo stared in disbelief at what Maud and the others were doing.

Luo exhausted himself performing high-intensity surgeries until he eradicated the plague in one village, then Maud's group traveled to another village to continue treating the outbreak. Meanwhile, Serves learned that the Maud Pirates were helping the villagers and that Philo had joined them, and Maud received a call on his Den Den Mushi.

• Philo watched Lafitte hypnotize villagers and pressed him to let her observe Luo's treatment, but Lafitte told her to stay inside because villagers were hostile toward her Crow Mask.
• Luo spent more than an hour operating on a critically ill patient, then continued treating patients despite his exhaustion to improve his abilities and keep pace with Maud.
• Maud, Beli, and Bepo brought beasts for Jaya's nutritional meals, while the group continued its coordinated efforts to treat the village's plague.
• After a week of relentless surgeries, Luo eradicated the plague in the village, and Maud's group departed for another of the island's eight infected villages with Philo accompanying them.
• Serves heard that the Maud Pirates were treating villagers and that Philo was with them, while Maud received a call on his wristwatch-style Den Den Mushi.

Maud received Sabo’s warning that Marines and bounty hunters might target the crew on Lor Island, then decided with the others to stay and await the Heart Pirates. Unbeknownst to them, Yasha and another powerful figure were also heading for the island.

• Sabo warned Maud that his underground-world bounty had risen to six hundred million and that the Marines knew he was on Lor Island.
• Maud and Sunny briefly caught up over the Den Den Mushi, and Sunny urged him to be careful while he treated the plague.
• Maud told the crew about the approaching Marines, and Lafitte reminded them that the Heart Pirates had not yet arrived.
• Jaya argued that the crew should stay and help the island’s residents, while Philo revealed that Marine Commodore Serves regularly brought supplies to Lor Island.
• Maud and the others chose to remain on Lor Island and wait for the Heart Pirates, unaware that Yasha and another powerful figure were on their way.

Maud and his allies nearly finished treating the plague in Lor Island’s third village before Issho arrived and revealed his overwhelming power. Maud recognized him as the future Admiral Fujitora and led the crew in a desperate flight toward the coast.

• Maud and the others treated the plague in the third village, while Luo endured nonstop operations that strengthened his body and control of the Op-Op Fruit.
• Issho entered the village and struck the ground with his staff, waking the hypnotized villagers.
• Maud recognized Issho as Fujitora, drew Chidori, and ordered Lafitte and Jaya to retreat when Issho’s Observation Haki focused on him.
• Maud and the others grabbed Luo, Beli, and Bepo and fled toward the coastline, while Philo followed them.
• Issho leisurely pursued the pirates, sensing the village’s restored vitality as he recalled what Serves had told him.

Maud and his companions fled the island, but Fujitora caught up and attacked them with a devastating Gravity Slash. Philo remained unharmed and angrily protested as the pirates were blasted away.

• Maud warned Philo that following the group would put her in danger, but she continued after them.
• Beli spotted Fujitora riding a flying stone, and Maud revealed that the Marine's strength rivaled an admiral's.
• Maud stopped to cover the others' retreat, but Jaya, Lafitte, Luo, and Bepo all stopped to face Fujitora with him.
• Fujitora accepted Maud's explanation for calling him Fujitora, then drew his blade and prepared an attack.
• Philo rushed forward to defend the pirates, but Fujitora unleashed Gravity Slash: Tiger and blasted Maud's group away while leaving her untouched.
• Fujitora said he would decide for himself whether the pirates were bad people, and Philo angrily insisted that they were not.

Philo tried to stop Issho from attacking the Maud Pirates, but he restrained her and fought Maud, Jaya, and Lafitte. After Luo used Room to rescue Maud and Lafitte, Issho summoned a meteor that began falling toward the crew.

• Philo defended the Maud Pirates and blocked Issho, who used gravity to immobilize her before continuing toward them.
• Maud attacked Issho, but Issho read his movements and crushed his stance with the Gravity-Gravity Fruit.
• Jaya and Lafitte attacked to help Maud, while Issho defeated their assaults with gravity and his sword.
• Lafitte drew Issho's attention, allowing Luo to use Room to switch him and Maud out of the gravity's reach.
• Issho praised the crew and summoned a meteor, while a figure wearing red sunglasses spotted it falling from the sky.

Maud and his allies survived Fujitora’s meteorite and felt the overwhelming gap between their strength and an admiral’s. Doflamingo arrived with a surprise attack, but Fujitora stopped it and declared that he did not regard Maud’s group as enemies.

• Maud, Jaya, and Lafitte split Fujitora’s meteorite into four pieces, and Luo used Shambles to remove their impact before they hit the ground.
• Maud questioned whether Fujitora was holding back, but Fujitora pressed the group down with Hell Journey, leaving Maud painfully aware of their weakness against an admiral.
• Fujitora sensed Maud’s frustration and approached without attacking, then detected Doflamingo’s Overheat threads aimed at Maud’s heart.
• Fujitora crushed Doflamingo’s threads with gravity before they could strike Maud.
• Doflamingo confronted Fujitora, who calmly said he did not regard Maud and the others as enemies.

Issho intervened to stop Doflamingo from attacking Maud, then released his gravity field after Maud promised not to flee. Maud tried to persuade Issho to help defeat Doflamingo, but when Issho refused, Maud immediately shot at Doflamingo.

• Doflamingo attacked Maud with Five-Color String, and Issho forced the attack into the ground with his gravity power.
• Luo restrained his hatred of Doflamingo, while Maud realized Issho's intervention meant they were no longer in immediate danger.
• Maud asked Issho to withdraw Hell Journey, promised not to run, and Issho dispelled the gravity field.
• Maud urged Issho to join them in eliminating Doflamingo, but Issho told him not to push his luck.
• Maud drew Dark Raven and fired an Armament Haki-coated bullet at Doflamingo, who had no time to dodge and prepared to take the hit.

Doflamingo attacked Maud and his crew with his awakened String-String Fruit, but Issho intervened and fought him to protect them. Doflamingo decided to abandon his attempt to kill Maud and take Luo, but a gunshot struck him as both sides prepared to back down.

• Doflamingo blocked Maud's Armament Haki bullet with an Armament Haki-coated wall of strings and unleashed his awakened White Waves attack.
• Issho used gravity to slam Doflamingo's white-string waves into the ground, then charged in and attacked him at close range.
• Doflamingo sent more waves of strings toward the battlefield, but Issho split through them and forced him to defend himself.
• Doflamingo realized Issho would fight him to the death for Maud's crew, so he gave up on killing Maud and taking Luo.
• A gunshot rang out, and blood burst from Doflamingo's body.

Maud shot Doflamingo while Mr. Issho restrained him, but Mr. Issho eased his pressure and Doflamingo escaped with a shoulder wound. Maud’s group learned Mr. Issho was not a Marine, but he said they still could not leave as Serves and the Marines arrived.

• Maud fired a surprise shot at Doflamingo, but Doflamingo crouched under Mr. Issho’s gravity and took the bullet in his shoulder blade.
• Mr. Issho eased his restraint, allowing Doflamingo to escape; Maud fired more shots as Doflamingo fled the island.
• Serves and the Marines arrived and watched Maud apparently drive Doflamingo away with his flintlock.
• Maud asked why Mr. Issho had held back, and Mr. Issho said he had not restrained his attacks but had never claimed to be a Marine.
• Mr. Issho told Maud’s group they could not leave, and Serves arrived to address Mr. Issho respectfully.