Recaps

Chen Fan and Nami left Cocoyasi Village and crossed into the Grand Line, where they rescued Vivi from Baroque Works and agreed to help her face Crocodile. The crew sailed toward Alabasta while Baroque Works repeatedly pursued them.

• Chen Fan helped Nami leave Arlong behind, then defended Cocoyasi Village from Mouse Captain’s cannon attack before sailing away with her.
• Chen Fan received a 100 million Beli bounty, found a Devil Fruit, and reached Loguetown, where he escaped Tina’s arrest by taking Tashigi hostage.
• Chen Fan, Nami, and Tashigi fought Sea Kings in the Calm Belt with Little One’s help, then entered the Grand Line and were swallowed by Laboon.
• Chen Fan met Crocas, received a Log Pose, and helped Laboon accept that his old pirate friends might never return before sailing on toward Whiskey Island.
• Mr. 5 and Ms. Valentine attacked Igram and Vivi, and Chen Fan defeated them and extracted their Devil Fruits.
• Vivi asked Chen Fan to save Alabasta from Crocodile, and he agreed while refusing Igram’s plan to use himself as a decoy.
• Nicole Robin visited the ship, kissed Chen Fan, and urged him to defeat Crocodile before she departed.
• Chen Fan drove off Baroque Works ships as the crew sailed toward an island, while Vivi and Igram worried that their route might be a trap.

Chen Fan traveled with Vivi to Alabasta, overcame Baroque Works and intervened as the Rebel Army and Kingdom Army fought. He defeated Crocodile after rescuing Robin, while Alabasta’s people faced the aftermath of the conflict.

• Chen Fan and his companions visited Little Garden, where he saved Vivi from a dinosaur and split the Island Eater in two before they continued to Alabasta.
• Tina confronted Chen Fan at sea, but he escaped her Navy ship and later reached Rapeseed Port with his companions as the Rebel Army attacked the capital.
• Chen Fan fought Baroque Works agents at the capital, defeated them, and hurried to the palace, where Crocodile held King Cobra captive and revealed his plot against Alabasta.
• Chen Fan’s sound attack interrupted the fighting between the Kingdom Army and Rebel Army, and he warned them that a bomb would explode before confronting Crocodile at the palace.
• Chen Fan sent Vivi to find the bomb while Kouza worked to reveal the truth and Robin took King Cobra to search for the Poneglyph.
• Chen Fan battled Crocodile, using whirlwinds and a blood-red-aura blade to withstand his sand attacks and wound him with the swords of fallen soldiers.
• Chen Fan threw the clock-tower bomb into the sky before it detonated, then learned from Vivi that Crocodile had gone to the royal tomb and flew after him.
• Crocodile attacked Robin beneath the tomb after she said the Poneglyph revealed nothing about Pluton, but Chen Fan arrived and knocked Crocodile unconscious.

After defeating Crocodile, Chen Fan challenged the Navy escort and fought Aokiji to take Crocodile away. He killed Crocodile, escaped with Vivi and his crew, and the story shifted to Mariejois.

• Chen Fan defeated Crocodile in the royal tomb, rescued Robin with Cobra, and left Cobra to take responsibility for restoring order in Alabasta.
• Rain ended the drought, Robin reunited with Nami and Tashigi, and the Marines arrested Crocodile after Navy Headquarters revoked his Warlord title.
• Vivi visited Chen Fan in disguise, revealed herself, and spent the night with him.
• Chen Fan confronted the Marine escort at the harbor and defeated several Vice Admirals, while Aokiji arrived and challenged him.
• Chen Fan and Aokiji fought across the frozen sea as Strawberry called Navy Headquarters for reinforcements, prompting Sengoku to send Kizaru.
• Chen Fan wounded Aokiji but abandoned his attempt to take Crocodile when more Admirals were sent, then killed Crocodile with Finger Pistol in front of the Marines.
• Chen Fan escaped aboard his ship with Vivi, who revealed she had chosen to leave Alabasta and join him, and Tina ordered the Marines to return to Navy Headquarters.
• Chen Fan accepted Vivi’s choice and teased her and Nami before the narrative shifted to the Five Elders in Mariejois.

Chen Fan killed Blackbeard and took the Darkness Fruit, but collapsed as Ace and other pirates pursued him. Nami and the others crossed the Calm Belt with help from Little One and were captured on Amazon Lily, where Chen Fan remained unconscious in the women’s custody.

• The Five Elders raised Chen Fan’s bounty to five hundred million beli, concealed Aokiji’s defeat, and considered Blackbeard for Crocodile’s former Warlord position if he killed Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan sailed to Jaya Island, where Blackbeard confronted him and Van Augur fired at Nami and the others, and Chen Fan caught the bullets and killed Van Augur.
• Chen Fan fought Blackbeard, overcame his Darkness Fruit, and killed him before extracting the Darkness Fruit and collapsing aboard his ship.
• Ace learned that Chen Fan had killed Blackbeard and pursued him, while pirates attacked Chen Fan’s ship and Nami realized it was heading into the Calm Belt.
• Robin guided the ship into the Calm Belt, where Sea Kings destroyed the pursuing pirate fleet and Little One appeared to protect Chen Fan’s ship.
• Little One summoned other Sea Kings to fight its opponents as an octopus carried Nami, Robin, Vivi, Tashigi, and the unconscious Chen Fan to an island.
• Armed women captured the group and took them to Amazon Lily, where Granny Zha discovered Chen Fan was a man and the women crowded around him while he remained unconscious.