Recaps

Wu Biao defeated Basile, blocked Brice’s shots, and knocked Brice unconscious before charging through a crowd drawn by the ferocious beasts. He left the attackers sprawled and demanded their clothes, believing the crowd would help him get what he needed to start a fire.

• Basile slapped at Wu Biao, but Wu Biao struck him into the ground and sent him crashing into his four lackeys.
• Brice fired four flintlock bullets at Wu Biao, who blocked them with his fists while airborne.
• Wu Biao found Brice in a tree, broke the trunk with a punch, and left Brice unconscious beneath the falling tree.
• A crowd rushed Wu Biao to seize the ferocious beasts, and he charged into them, knocking people down.
• Wu Biao demanded that the crowd take off their clothes, convinced they could help him start a fire.

Wu Biao overwhelmed the recruit camp trainees inside the practical training grounds while Garp and Aokiji watched from outside the wall. Garp identified Wu Biao as his young recruit, and the assessment continued despite his warning to the instructors.

• Wu Biao defeated the trainees one after another and piled the immobilized, wailing recruits in the clearing.
• Aokiji detected an outsider inside the training grounds, and Garp arrived and asked him what was happening.
• Garp urged the instructors to pause the practical assessment, warning that his fifteen- or sixteen-year-old second lieutenant was inside.
• Rear Admiral Yukimura refused to halt the assessment, and Garp let the instructors proceed.
• Garp told Aokiji that Wu Biao was a troublemaking recruit he had fished out of the sea, though he showed fondness for the boy.

Wu Biao stripped the New Recruit Camp trainees to use their clothes to start a fire and roast beasts, but the still-living beasts fled with burning logs and set the forest ablaze. As the trainees struggled to escape, Wu Biao caught a scent and recognized Old Ka.

• Wu Biao stripped most of the trainees and separated them into piles, while Basile and the others stripped themselves to avoid being beaten further.
• Bertrand stole a young man's underwear and put it on.
• Wu Biao used matches and the trainees' burning clothes to light wood, then threw the ferocious beasts onto the fire to roast them.
• The beasts woke up, fled with burning logs, and spread fire through the surrounding forest.
• Wu Biao told the naked trainees to put out the flames by urinating, then searched for water and an exit through the smoke.
• Wu Biao caught a faint scent and said it was Old Ka.

A fire engulfed the recruits during Wu Biao’s training, prompting Garp, Aokiji, and the instructors to rush inside. After Aokiji froze the blaze, Wu Biao emerged naked and shivering, complaining that his little brother had frozen stiff.

• Garp and Aokiji noticed smoke rising from the forest, and Yukimura ordered Colonel Shu to dissolve the iron gate so they could enter.
• Garp and the others caught naked recruits that Wu Biao threw out of the burning forest, and the recruits explained that he had stripped them and used their clothes to start the fire.
• Aokiji used Ice Time to freeze the flames and the surrounding forest, leaving the recruits shivering in the cold.
• Wu Biao walked out of the frozen forest naked, rubbed his groin, and complained that his little brother had frozen stiff.

Garp dragged Wu Biao to meet Fleet Admiral Sengoku after Wu Biao caused chaos at the docks and recruit camp, warning him to behave. Wu Biao immediately insulted Sengoku by calling him “Old Warring States,” leaving the room stunned.

• Garp hauled the hungry Wu Biao through Marine Headquarters and warned him not to talk unnecessarily.
• Garp brought Wu Biao to Sengoku’s office, where Koby and Helmeppo stood among powerful Marine officers.
• Sengoku asked whether Wu Biao was the bald kid Garp had mentioned, and Garp punched Wu Biao before he could finish introducing himself.
• Garp made Wu Biao face Sengoku and apologize for causing trouble at the docks.
• Wu Biao apologized by calling Sengoku “Old Warring States,” and everyone in the room fell silent.

Wu Biao amused Sengoku and Tsuru with his irreverent nicknames and behavior while Garp tried to keep him in line. After Sengoku asked about his missing sheep, Garp realized Wu Biao had bundled it inside his cape, and Wu Biao fled with it to make hotpot lamb as the Marines gave chase.

• Wu Biao dodged Garp's punch, mocked him, and called Tsuru "Old Grandma Tsuru" after she invited him to call her Grandma Tsuru.
• Tsuru gave Wu Biao senbei, while Garp blamed Aokiji for eating Sengoku's missing crackers and stopped Wu Biao from sitting on the sofa.
• Sengoku sent Koby, Helmeppo, and Wu Biao out of his office, and Wu Biao asked Koby about Sengoku's rank before learning he was Fleet Admiral.
• Sengoku asked Garp whether he had seen his sheep, and Garp realized it was likely inside Wu Biao's bundled cape.
• Wu Biao kicked down the office door and ran off, declaring that Sengoku's sheep was his prey and that he would make hotpot lamb.
• Garp and Sengoku rushed after Wu Biao, while the vice admirals stood stunned.

Wu Biao fled Garp and Sengoku through Marine Headquarters after stealing Sengoku’s sheep, unaware that it contained classified intelligence and reports. He ducked into a room to roast the sheep and encountered a powerful, tattooed middle-aged man.

• Wu Biao hid the sheep in his cape and tried to evade Garp and Sengoku, smashing through walls as they pursued him.
• Garp and Sengoku argued over Wu Biao’s punishment, while Garp worried that the sheep’s death would destroy the classified documents stored inside it.
• Wu Biao grew angry at the pursuit and stopped running, deciding to roast the sheep instead of making lamb hotpot.
• Wu Biao entered a room occupied by an imposing middle-aged man trimming a potted plant and offered him a leg of the sheep.
• The middle-aged man paused and asked Wu Biao who he was.

Wu Biao barged into Akainu's room while fleeing Garp and Sengoku, intending to roast the Navy's sheep. He bit through its horn before Sengoku and Garp separated them, and Garp dragged him away as Sengoku was left with the injured sheep.

• Wu Biao asked Akainu for a light and prepared to roast the sheep he had stolen, but Akainu warned him not to eat it.
• Garp and Sengoku chased Wu Biao back to the Admirals' lounge, where they found him biting the sheep's horn.
• Wu Biao refused to let Sengoku take the sheep and kept chewing its horn while Garp tried to pull him away.
• Akainu refused to intervene, calling the scene too embarrassing, while Wu Biao and Sengoku struggled over the sheep.
• Garp separated Wu Biao from the sheep and threw him out the window, then dragged him away; Sengoku stayed behind with the sheep's broken horn.

Garp showed Wu Biao Luffy’s wanted poster and warned him that pirates were Marines’ enemies, but Wu Biao refused to judge people by their affiliations. After Sengoku summoned Garp, Garp suspected Wu Biao had caused trouble again and left to find out.

• Garp showed Wu Biao Monkey D. Luffy’s 100-million-Beli wanted poster and proudly described Luffy’s defeat of a Seven Warlord.
• Wu Biao said he would not fight Luffy, then told Garp that only criminals and people he disliked were his enemies.
• Garp reminded Wu Biao that pirates were Marines’ enemies, but Wu Biao said he found Garp likable and did not treat all pirates as enemies.
• Wu Biao and Garp finished eating and ran into Koby and Helmeppo, who said Sengoku wanted to see Garp.
• Garp wondered whether Wu Biao had caused trouble again, then went to see Sengoku and told Koby and Helmeppo to train with the little baldy.

Wu Biao trained Koby and Helmeppo in striking technique and demonstrated Soru, helping them improve their combat skills. Garp then told Wu Biao that he would join the recruit camp’s clearing mission against a small pirate crew, and Koby and Helmeppo volunteered to go too.

• Wu Biao criticized Koby and Helmeppo’s training, then showed Koby how to punch with proper technique.
• Koby broke a boulder with one punch and injured his fist, while Wu Biao advised Helmeppo to practice with his blades.
• Wu Biao demonstrated Soru for Koby and Helmeppo, who focused on learning by watching him.
• Garp returned and told Wu Biao that he would join the recruit camp’s clearing mission against a pirate crew whose captain had a bounty of thirty-five million Berries.
• Garp offered Koby and Helmeppo the chance to join the mission, and both accepted.

Wu Biao joined T-Bone and the recruit camp trainees for a mission to exterminate the Sword Tiger Pirates, whose captain Orlande had massacred the residents of three islands. As the Marines discussed possible routes and recruits formed groups, Bertrand revealed a fierce personal hatred of Orlande, while Odo confronted Bertrand over stolen underwear.

• T-Bone briefed the trainees on Orlande’s atrocities and vowed to kill him if their extermination mission failed.
• Wu Biao supported the mission, realizing that Marine intelligence could help him find sinners and restore his power.
• The trainees narrowed the Sword Tiger Pirates’ possible route from Honda Island to Harry Island or Bora Island, ruling out beast-infested Capri Island.
• Bertrand recruited trainees to join his group and declared that he and Brice would kill Orlande, while Basile suspected Bertrand had a personal reason to hate the pirate.
• Wu Biao sensed the resentment in Bertrand’s soul but could not read his memories without miasma.
• Bertrand invited Odo to join his group, but Odo refused and vowed revenge over the underwear Bertrand had stolen.

As the Marines sailed toward the Grand Line’s route junction, Koby questioned the training camp’s decision to pursue the Sword Tiger Pirates to Bora Island. He argued that the pirates’ damaged ship and the newest Log Pose’s charging time made that route unlikely, leaving the group’s chosen course in doubt.

• Wu Biao demonstrated the Crushing Punch for Koby and offered his usual instinctive, unreliable advice.
• Helmeppo introduced Bertrand, who said the training camp had chosen Bora Island as the route to pursue the Sword Tiger Pirates.
• Koby argued that the pirates’ damaged ship could not safely cross the Raging Waves Sea on the way to Bora Island.
• Koby explained that the pirates could not have repaired their ship at Honda Island because it lacked professional repair facilities and they stayed outside the harbor.
• Koby consulted a book showing that the newest Log Pose needed six days to charge at Honda Island before pointing toward Bora Island.

Koby deduced that the Sword Tiger Pirates were heading to Harry Island, and the Marine trainees changed course to follow them. At Marine Headquarters, officials learned that several pirate crews were gathering there and discovered they could not contact Colonel T-Bone, prompting them to send Smoker for support.

• Koby used Log Pose records and the available routes to conclude that the Sword Tiger Pirates were likely heading to Harry Island.
• Bertrand trusted Koby’s judgment and led the trainees to change course for Harry Island.
• Wu Biao returned to the ship with a sea beast, and Koby warned him that severe magnetic interference near Harry Island would disable communications.
• Brannew reported that several pirate crews had changed course for Harry Island, leading Sengoku to order the extermination mission terminated.
• Brannew reported that Marine Headquarters could not contact Colonel T-Bone, and Sengoku sent a support request to Smoker while Garp worried that the trainees were in danger.

Bertrand relived a traumatic memory during the storm, then spoke with Koby and Helmeppo about Akatsuki and its goal of defeating the Sword Tiger Pirates. The warship reached Harry Island, where Wu Biao dismissed the pirate captain as too weak to interest him.

• Bertrand’s bloody memories surfaced in the storm, and Koby and Helmeppo noticed his frightening, resentful gaze before he composed himself.
• Bertrand invited Koby and Helmeppo to join Akatsuki, whose immediate goal was to kill the Sword Tiger Pirates, but they declined.
• Koby and Helmeppo saw Wu Biao eating takoyaki and speaking cryptically with Brice about the gloomy surroundings.
• The warship reached Harry Island, and Colonel T-Bone ordered the recruits to check their equipment before landing.
• Koby and Helmeppo woke Wu Biao, who said he would leave the Sword Tiger Pirates’ captain to the recruits because he considered him trash.

Wu Biao led the Marines onto Harry Island, where he robbed and beat the dockside thugs while insisting he was not a Marine. Elsewhere, pirates planned to kill the Marine unit and use its defeat to establish their alliance’s reputation.

• Wu Biao arrived at Harry Island with Colonel T-Bone, Koby, Helmeppo, and the Marine recruits, then complained that he had no money for a meal.
• When dockside thugs mocked the Marines and claimed to be honest citizens, Wu Biao broke their leader’s hand and declared himself a robber.
• Wu Biao stopped the fleeing thugs by throwing a boat in their path, beat one man, and forced the group to hand over their wallets.
• Wu Biao invited Koby and Helmeppo to eat with the money he had stolen, while the recruits watched in disbelief.
• Pirates gathered on the coast learned that more than a hundred Marines had landed, and their leader proposed killing them to establish the alliance’s reputation and seize their warship.

At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku learned that the Five Elders wanted Crocodile’s vacancy filled while the recruit camp remained out of contact. On Harry Island, Wu Biao and the Marines uncovered a lead suggesting the Sword Tiger Pirates were hiding in the woods behind town.

• A liaison officer told Sengoku that the Five Elders had shown little concern about Shanks contacting Whitebeard but wanted Crocodile’s Seven Warlords vacancy filled quickly.
• Brannew reported that Marine Headquarters still could not contact the recruit camp, and Sengoku worried they had already landed on the island without support.
• Wu Biao ate at a tavern while other patrons whispered that the Marines were bullies, and Basile reported that nobody had seen pirate ships at the docks.
• Wu Biao offered the tavern owner the money on the table for information, and the owner said strangers had bought large amounts of food before disappearing into the woods behind town.
• T-Bone realized the pirates had likely avoided the official port, while Wu Biao explained that Koby’s warning and his instinct to eat after landing had led him to suspect pirates were nearby.

The recruit camp searched for the missing Bertrand and found him aiding the Sword Tiger Pirates. Brice tried to rescue him, but as Koby prepared to join the fight, Wu Biao stopped him.

• Brice showed Basile Bertrand’s pendant and said he had disappeared near the forest, prompting Basile to organize a search.
• Wu Biao sensed hundreds of people in the forest and headed toward them, followed by Colonel T-Bone.
• The Marines found Bertrand bound among the Sword Tiger Pirates, where he offered to help their captain, Orlande, escape the recruit camp.
• Orlande revealed that he had used Bertrand for information and aimed a gun at him, so Brice attacked and fired a signal flare.
• Koby resolved to help Brice despite his fear, but Wu Biao pressed him back down before he could rise.

Brice fought the Sword Tiger Pirates to let Bertrand escape, but Orlande recognized Brice as his former lifesaver and ordered the pirates to spare him. Wu Biao then used Conqueror’s Haki to stop the recruit trainees from rescuing Brice, leaving his fate in the pirates’ hands.

• Brice fought off the Sword Tiger Pirates while trying to free Bertrand, then shot Bertrand so the pirates would believe he was dead and pursue Brice instead.
• Bertrand escaped toward the forest, but Basile knocked him down, and Wu Biao confronted him about abandoning Brice.
• Orlande recognized Brice after his mask was knocked off and called him his lifesaver, while Brice ran out of flints and was surrounded.
• Bertrand admitted he did not want to save Brice, and Wu Biao declared that anyone who tried to rescue him would be killed.
• Wu Biao released Conqueror’s Haki to intimidate the trainees and ordered them not to approach Brice.

Seven years after a pirate raid destroyed their village and left Brice maimed, Brice confronted Orlande, the pirate they had once rescued. Orlande shot Brice and offered him a place on his ship, but Brice attacked him and refused to join.

• As children, Bertrand and Brice rescued Orlande after finding him drifting at sea, and Orlande recovered before leaving the village.
• After Bertrand's parents returned, a pirate crew led by Orlande raided the village during a storm; Brice hid Bertrand, and Marines later found Brice alive but badly wounded and missing his left eye.
• Seven years later, Orlande recognized Brice and mocked how much he had changed while Brice served in the Marines.
• Brice charged Orlande, who shot him in the thigh and arm before offering him the position of first mate on his ship.
• Brice refused the offer and bit Orlande's ankle; Orlande kicked him away and continued attacking him.

Wu Biao stopped the recruit camp from intervening while Brice was being beaten, arguing that Brice was a sinner for saving someone who caused many deaths. Bertrand admitted that Brice had changed, but Wu Biao rejected Bertrand’s attempt to explain his motives and ended the conversation with a blunt claim about how he dealt with people who grew apart.

• Wu Biao intimidated the recruit camp as Basile fell, and Bertrand watched Brice suffer at Orlande’s hands.
• Bertrand told Colonel T-Bone that Brice was not a traitor, but Wu Biao called him a sinner for indirectly causing deaths by saving another sinner.
• Bertrand accused Wu Biao of trying to make him return to fight beside Brice, but Wu Biao kicked him and denied it.
• Wu Biao asked whether Brice had changed, and Bertrand described how growing up could turn close companions into strangers.
• Wu Biao agreed that people changed as they grew up and said he had beaten up every worthless person who became a stranger to him.

Wu Biao explained that he refused to change himself and believed Brice had been trying to avoid changing too, prompting Bertrand to realize he still wanted to be with his old friend. Bertrand stepped in to save Brice, and the two reunited after confirming that neither had changed.

• Wu Biao told Bertrand that he had chosen to make the world adapt to him and said Brice had been training because he did not fit in and feared changing.
• Bertrand saw Brice badly wounded and mocked by pirates, then rushed forward to stop Orlande from having him killed.
• Bertrand used Soru and Finger Pistol to attack the pirates, then kicked Brice and asked whether he had changed.
• Brice smiled, took Bertrand's hand, and shot a pirate dead with his rifle while declaring that he had not changed.
• Bertrand apologized for his part in what happened and asked Brice to knock sense into him if he ever changed; Brice agreed.

Bertrand and Brice were nearly overwhelmed by the Sword Tiger Pirates until Basile and the New Recruit Camp opened fire under Wu Biao’s mistaken warning about hundreds of hidden enemies. Their shooting exposed the Marines’ position, and a large pirate force charged them, leaving Basile unable to explain how Wu Biao’s words had caused the disaster.

• Bertrand carried the badly wounded Brice while the two fought off Orlande’s pirates, and Brice urged Bertrand to escape without him.
• Wu Biao told the trainees that hundreds of people were hiding across the forest, and Basile used the claim to rally them into firing at the pirates surrounding Bertrand and Brice.
• The New Recruit Camp’s gunfire wiped out most of Orlande’s men but alerted the hundreds of pirates in hiding, who charged toward the Marines.
• A Marine rescued Bertrand and Brice and ordered the trainees to retreat while fighting, as Bertrand cursed the Marines for provoking the larger pirate force.
• The trainees blamed Basile for the attack, and Basile spat blood in frustration because Wu Biao’s warning had misled him.

Wu Biao charged alone into an army of nearly five hundred pirates and overwhelmed their front ranks with his fighting skill and strength. After surviving Roshio’s ambush and killing him, Wu Biao charged back into the pirates, eager to continue the battle.

• The recruits fled as famous pirates attacked, while Wu Biao laughed and charged straight at them.
• Wu Biao struck down dozens of pirates with punches and kicks, stunning Colonel T-Bone and the pirate captains.
• Roshio attacked Wu Biao from behind while other pirates pressed him from the front, and Wu Biao used Armament Hardening to survive the blow.
• Wu Biao emerged from the fallen tree with only a flesh wound and charged the pirates again.
• Wu Biao shattered Roshio’s broadsword and killed him with a punch, then turned back toward the pirate army.

Wu Biao fought through the pirate army with growing excitement, forcing Aibotaang to rally the pirates against him. He leaped into the middle of their forces, while the pirate captains charged in to overwhelm him.

• Aibotaang realized that Wu Biao had taken down many pirates and ordered his force to kill the Marine ensign.
• Colonel T-Bone joined the battle and accidentally drew Wu Biao's kick, which sent him flying backward.
• Wu Biao continued fighting as his strength recovered after he killed three sinners, while his battle instincts sharpened under the danger.
• Wu Biao used Geppo to leap over the front ranks and land in the middle of the pirate army.
• The pirate captains gritted their teeth and charged Wu Biao, planning to wear him down.

Wu Biao defeated the pirate alliance and exhausted himself after clearing the battlefield, while Smoker and his Marines arrived to rescue the new recruit camp. The chapter left Smoker's group facing the aftermath and the students who had watched Wu Biao fight.

• Wu Biao fought off the pirate captains, killed Orlande and the Sword Tiger Pirates with Rankyaku, and knocked the remaining leaders unconscious.
• Wu Biao's Conqueror's Haki caused many pirates to faint, and he then charged through the rest of the pirate force.
• Aibotaang fled into the forest, but Smoker captured him with White Bind and questioned him about the pirates and the students.
• Smoker led his Marines to the battlefield, where they found hundreds of defeated pirates, Wu Biao panting, and the new recruit camp students unharmed.
• Wu Biao collapsed onto the ground and complained that he was hungry, while the Marines and students stared in silence.