Chapter Summaries

Maud learned that Mr. Issho and the Marines had mistaken the Maud Pirates for a threat, but changed their minds after seeing them help Lor Island fight the plague. Mr. Issho kept Maud’s crew on the island to continue helping, while news of their presence reached Aokiji, who headed toward Lor Island.

• Serves arrived with Marines and Mr. Issho, while Philo interrupted Serves and revealed her connection to him.
• Maud challenged Mr. Issho over whether he intended to hand the Maud Pirates over to the Marines, and Mr. Issho gave no direct answer.
• Mr. Issho and Serves learned that Maud’s crew had helped Lor Island’s residents, so they abandoned plans to oppose them and asked them to keep treating the plague.
• Mr. Issho promised to shield the crew from interference, while Serves falsely reported that they had left Lor Island to delay a Marine Headquarters warship.
• After reports spread that the Maud Pirates were still on Lor Island, Aokiji heard the news at sea and recognized the coincidence.

As Maud and the Marines worked to eradicate Lor Island’s plague, news of his presence drew Marines and bounty hunters toward the island. When a band of outlaws arrived to claim the reward on Maud, Issho made their ship and ladder vanish, leaving them stranded on the shore.

• Aokiji decided to visit Lor Island after considering Maud’s recent activity, then froze a Sea King that attacked him.
• Vice Admiral Momonga set sail for Lor Island, while other Marines and bounty hunters also headed there to pursue Maud.
• Maud, Luo, and the Marines continued treating villages, and their work brought the plague under control across Lor Island.
• Issho sensed a ship approaching the northern coastline and walked toward it; Maud abandoned his hunt and followed.
• A bald outlaw leader and his men landed to claim Maud’s bounty, but Issho made their ship, ladder, and the people on it vanish.

Kuma arrived on Lor Island, erased the outlaw crew that had come to kill Bagard. Maud, and said he wanted to inspect the plague treatment before a group of bounty hunters found them.

• Kuma asked the outlaws why they had come to Lor Island, and their bald leader admitted they intended to take Bagard. Maud's head.
• Kuma used his Paw-Paw Fruit ability to make the bald leader and his fleeing subordinates vanish, then headed inland.
• Kuma met Issho and said he had come because of the plague, not to confront the Maud Pirates.
• Maud welcomed Kuma's request to see the plague treatment and led him and Issho toward the village.
• Two or three hundred bounty hunters arrived, spotted Maud, and froze when they saw Kuma with him.

Maud used Issho’s strength to defeat bounty hunters who came for his billion-worth head, gaining experience from their deaths. He returned to the village and found Philo angry that Kuma had been allowed to observe Luo’s surgery while she had not.

• Issho used Hell Journey to knock out more than half of the bounty hunters, then returned to the village with Kuma while Maud stayed behind.
• Maud killed the remaining bounty hunters with sword waves and recorded the eligible victims in Hunter’s Notebook, gaining experience points.
• Maud buried the corpses in nearby pits to prevent them from causing another plague and looked forward to more bounty hunters arriving.
• Maud returned to the village and found Philo pecking at the Operating Room wall because Luo had let Kuma observe the surgery but would not let her in.
• Maud wondered whether Kuma and Luo could extract Devil’s Power intact, but decided not to reveal the possibility because the Marines might exploit it against imprisoned ability users.

Maud teamed up with Lafitte and Issho to hunt the bounty seekers arriving on Lor Island, rapidly increasing his strength until his physique reached six stars and his Haki reached four stars. On the eleventh day, a Marine warship arrived at the island’s coast.

• Maud called Sabo to ask whether he had sent Kuma to Lor Island, then assured Sabo he would keep Kuma’s Revolutionary Army identity secret.
• Lafitte joined Maud’s hunt, and they agreed to make use of Issho’s protection to gather experience from the bounty seekers.
• Over the next ten days, Issho subdued the bounty seekers while Maud collected their heads and gained enough prey points to reach six-star physique and four-star Haki.
• On the eleventh day, a warship arrived at Lor Island, where the Marines aboard spotted empty ships along the coastline.

Maud fought Vice Admiral Momonga and defeated him while sparing his life, then helped Lafitte knock out the Marines. Aokiji arrived after the battle, recognized how much Maud had grown, and questioned whether Issho was the reason Maud had stayed.

• Vice Admiral Momonga led several hundred Marines inland and found Maud, Lafitte, and Issho waiting on the plain.
• Maud asked Issho to stand aside and fought Momonga, realizing that his six-star strength let him commit fully to each attack.
• Maud defeated Momonga with a hidden blade strike and spared his life, then knocked down the approaching Marines with Lafitte.
• Aokiji watched Maud and Lafitte defeat the Marines, while Momonga realized Aokiji had been observing the battle.
• Aokiji arrived by bicycle, remarked on Maud's growth, and asked whether Issho was why Maud had not fled.

Aokiji arrived to confront Maud, but Issho stepped between them to protect Maud and Lafitte. Maud and Lafitte left for the village while Issho drew Aokiji away, and a flaming meteor fell toward the Marines as the two prepared to clash.

• Aokiji recognized Issho and questioned his relationship with Maud, while Issho said they were friends and prepared to defend him.
• Maud judged that Issho and Aokiji would avoid fighting without restraint because of the civilians on Lor Island.
• Maud told Issho that he and Lafitte would return to the village, then left with Lafitte despite the Marines’ confusion.
• Issho slashed the air and invited Aokiji to move elsewhere, and a flaming meteor descended toward their location.
• Maud reassured the worried Lafitte that Issho would be fine, and they continued toward the village.

After Aokiji and Issho fought to a standstill, Aokiji warned Vice Admiral Momonga not to treat Issho as an enemy or pursue the Maud Pirates. Aokiji then arrived uninvited at the village feast, where he found Kuma among Maud and the others.

• Maud returned to the village with Lafitte, where Kuma told him he had come out to check on their safety.
• Aokiji told the injured Vice Admiral Momonga to pretend the day’s events had not happened and identified Issho as the bounty hunter Fujitora.
• Vice Admiral Momonga argued that the Marines could not ignore Issho, but Aokiji ordered him to leave Issho and the Maud Pirates alone.
• Aokiji instructed Momonga to stay on Lor Island while the Marines dealt with Serves’s false reports.
• At a feast with the Heart Pirates, Issho sensed someone approaching, and Aokiji appeared at the table.
• Aokiji noticed Kuma seated with the group and fell silent in surprise.

Aokiji joined Maud and the others for a meal after fighting Yixiao, but Maud made him pay despite Aokiji having no money. When Aokiji asked Jaya about Gaban and voiced concern that Maud could become a hidden danger, Maud said he would have joined the Marines if he had not received a bounty, leaving Aokiji struck by the thought that he had missed out on Maud.

• Aokiji tried to take a seat at Maud's table, then made an ice chair between Pekkin and Shakky when Maud refused him.
• Maud demanded one hundred Beli for the meal, and Aokiji, who had no money, turned to Yixiao for help.
• Yixiao welcomed Aokiji to eat, and Jaya gave him wooden bowls and chopsticks.
• Aokiji asked Jaya about Gaban, but Maud interrupted her answer by feeding Beli a chicken leg.
• Aokiji told Maud he was concerned about his future and a possible hidden danger, and Maud said he would have joined the Marines if he had not been given a bounty.

Maud reflected that he would have preferred to join the Marines, but he chose a life of freedom and set aside the matter. After Aokiji left, Maud used Kuma’s help to end Lor Island’s plague, then prepared to sail toward a destination connected to the Shichibukai position and test whether Luo could extract Baby-5’s Devil Fruit power.

• Maud told Aokiji he would have preferred to become a Marine, but he wanted a free life and had no interest in the great treasure.
• Aokiji ate with the group, then left without confronting the Marines hiding nearby.
• Maud asked Kuma to help remove the virus from Lor Island’s patients, and the plague was eradicated within a few days.
• Maud decided to leave Lor Island that evening for a destination connected to the Shichibukai position, bringing Luo and Lafitte aboard the Netherworld.
• Lafitte hypnotized Baby-5 and learned that the Weapon-Weapon Fruit resembled a pineapple.
• Maud gave Luo a pineapple and prepared to test whether Luo could use the Op-Op Fruit to transfer Baby-5’s Devil Fruit power into it.

Luo tested Maud’s theory that the Op-Op Fruit could preserve and redirect a Devil Fruit’s power, successfully creating a new Weapon-Weapon Fruit from Baby-5. Maud accepted the fruit and invited Luo to an island ship.

• Luo knocked Baby-5 unconscious and used Room to prepare for the operation while Maud and Lafitte watched.
• Luo placed Baby-5’s heart and a pineapple together inside the heart’s protective membrane, following Maud’s theory about controlling the Devil Fruit’s source.
• Luo killed Baby-5, and the pineapple changed into a Devil Fruit as the heart stopped beating.
• Maud celebrated the successful creation of the Weapon-Weapon Fruit, and Luo handed it to him.
• Maud invited Luo to go with him to an island ship.

Maud’s crew prepared to leave, and he invited Philo to join them before Kuma sent the Netherworld and Polar Dive flying to Thriller Bark. Issho and Kuma stayed behind, discussing Kuma’s ability and Maud’s knowledge of it.

• Maud said goodbye to Issho and invited Philo to join his crew, and Philo accepted.
• Beli snatched Philo’s Crow Mask, prompting Jaya to reclaim it and Beli to return it to Philo after getting a lump on her head.
• Maud thanked Kuma, who sent the Netherworld away with his paw; the Heart Pirates boarded the Polar Dive, and Kuma sent it flying after them.
• Issho asked Kuma where he had sent the ships, and Kuma revealed their destination was Thriller Bark.
• Kuma remarked that Maud seemed to understand his ability well, and Issho said he had experienced that himself.

Gion arrived at Lor Island after the Maud Pirates had left, and Aokiji explained that Kuma had sent them flying an extraordinary distance. The Maud Pirates landed in Thriller Bark, where Absalom secretly approached their ship and discovered that Maud and the others could see him.

• Gion reached Lor Island and asked Aokiji why he had let the Maud Pirates escape.
• Aokiji told Gion that Kuma had attacked the Maud Pirates and urged her to investigate what had happened on the island.
• After three days and nights in the sky, the Netherworld landed in the sea inside Thriller Bark, followed by the Polar Dive.
• Maud sent Lafitte to bring the Netherworld to shore and waited for someone to approach.
• Absalom boarded the Netherworld invisibly, lusted after Jaya and Philo, and realized Maud, Lafitte, and Jaya could see him.

Maud’s crew captured Abrosam, a user of the Clear-Clear Fruit, and used Luo’s ability to extract the fruit from him after Maud killed him. As Maud turned his attention toward the zombies on the island, several Small Animal Zombies watched in terror from the forest.

• Maud caught the invisible Abrosam as he tried to leave and restrained him until he became visible and passed out.
• Lafitte hypnotized Abrosam to extract information, and Maud recorded it in Hunter’s Notebook.
• Maud killed Abrosam during the operation, and Luo forced the Devil Fruit spirit into a nearby fruit to create the Clear-Clear Fruit.
• Maud tossed Abrosam’s corpse into the sea and looked toward the castle forest, wondering what experience the island’s zombies might yield.
• Several Small Animal Zombies watched from the forest and realized that Abrosam had been killed without a sound.

Maud discovered that killing Zombies did not earn experience, then returned to the Netherworld and directed his crew to use salt against Thriller Bark’s Zombies before Gecko Moria acted. The crew prepared to continue their plan to kill Moria and obtain his Shadow-Shadow Fruit.

• Two Small Animal Zombies mourned Abrosam’s defeat, and Maud kicked the Pig-Head Zombie, expelling its shadow.
• The Dog-Head Zombie, Douglas Gill, revealed Doctor Hogback, Princess Perona, Moria, and the General Zombies’ locations while insisting he would not betray his lords.
• Maud recorded Gill’s name in Hunter’s Notebook and kicked him, but killing him yielded no experience.
• Maud returned to the Netherworld and told everyone to use salt against as many Zombies as possible before Moria made a move.

Maud and his companions reached Thriller Bark to hunt Gecko Moria, splitting up to search the island while carrying salt to exploit Moria’s weaknesses. Philo revealed her dangerous habit of testing mushrooms on herself, and Maud noticed she seemed to know Doc Q before he set out with Beli transformed into a sword.

• Maud chose to attack Gecko Moria after Kuma’s free Plane Ticket changed his plans from hunting Sand Crocodile Crocodile.
• Maud’s group carried bags of salt into Thriller Bark’s foggy forest, and Maud claimed the intelligence about Moria’s weaknesses came from the Revolutionary Army.
• Philo ate a spotted mushroom to test its effects, collapsed from paralysis, then recovered and collected the remaining mushrooms to make poison.
• Maud asked Philo whether she knew Doc Q, and her reaction suggested she recognized the name, though she denied knowing him.
• Maud split the group up, sending Luo’s party left and Lafitte and Jim right while Jaya stayed behind to guard the Polar Dive.
• Maud remained with Philo and Beli, then Beli transformed into a white long sword that Maud called the famous blade White Weasel.

Maud and Philo reached Thriller Bark’s cemetery, where they fought the zombies that emerged from the ground. Maud effortlessly defeated more than a hundred of them with Beli transformed into a saber and twin pistols, drawing Moria’s attention from the castle.

• Maud took Beli, transformed into the White Weasel saber, and Philo through the forest toward Thriller Bark’s castle.
• Zombies emerged from the cemetery graves, and Maud assigned the left side to Philo.
• Philo used sea salt and her joint technique to defeat zombies, including one more than three meters tall.
• Maud cut down sixty-seven zombies with the White Weasel, then had Beli transform into twin pistols and shot the rest.
• Moria watched Maud from the castle balcony and called him an overconfident rookie.

Maud and Philo fought their way through Moria’s zombie forces and entered Hogback’s manor. Maud killed Hogback and waited for Moria to respond, while Philo freed Cindry from her zombie state.

• Moria watched Maud from the castle balcony but chose to let his subordinates handle him.
• Maud defeated the graveyard zombies with Gin’s pistol forms, then left with Philo for the manor.
• Hogback heard the gunfire and learned from spider mice that Abrosam had been killed.
• Maud entered the hall, admitted he had killed Abrosam, and swiftly beheaded Hogback.
• Philo subdued Cindry and freed her from the control of her shadowless corpse.
• Maud looked toward the ceiling and waited for Moria, who had still not confronted him.

Maud waited in Hogback’s hall with Philo until Swordsman Ryuma arrived to avenge Abrosam. Maud defeated Ryuma with one slash and claimed the famous sword Shusui, while the spider mice realized only their master could stop him.

• Maud sheathed Chidori, brewed tea in Hogback’s hall, and invited Philo to drink with him.
• Swordsman Ryuma arrived, recognized Maud as the killer of Abrosam, and challenged him to a duel.
• Maud and Ryuma clashed swords, and Maud quickly overpowered Ryuma with one hand.
• Maud explained that zombies could not use Haki, then summoned Beli as a sword and cut Ryuma down with a Haki-coated slash.
• Maud caught Shusui as it fell, while Philo and the spider mice witnessed his strength.

Brook discovered that his shadow had returned and set out to investigate what had happened. At Thriller Bark, Maud prepared for the next attack, sent Philo to handle the mansion’s zombies, and Lafitte confronted Perona’s ghosts.

• Brook noticed his shadow had returned, connected it to the strange sounds he had heard overhead, and tried to determine their direction.
• Maud tested Shusui and noticed Beli’s transformed blade now closely resembled it, while Philo asked what they should do next.
• Maud gave Philo the salt and tasked her with dealing with the mansion’s zombies as a swarm of bats gathered outside.
• Lafitte and Jim encountered Perona’s Negativity Ghosts, and Jim collapsed after they passed through him.
• Lafitte avoided the ghosts and struck at Perona, but his sword wave passed through her as she sent the ghosts after him.