Chapter Summaries

Garp and the Marines fought Roger’s crew, but after Tsugikuni Yoriichi survived Rayleigh’s attack, the pirates defeated the Marines and escaped. Oden left with Bogard’s swords, vowing to win them back after becoming stronger.

• Rayleigh stopped pursuing Tsugikuni Yoriichi, and Garp and Roger returned to their crews before Roger and Garp resumed their argument about the young fighters.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi sensed that Roger’s lungs had little vitality, while Garp explained that he had brought Yoriichi and Aokiji to witness the strength of the pirates.
• Oden defeated Bogard, Aokiji fought Scopper Gaban to a standstill, and Kyros held off several pirates before Roger rallied his crew to overwhelm the Marines.
• Roger’s crew defeated the Marines and withdrew; Roger departed aboard the Oro Jackson after striking the ice with Divine Departure, while Garp let them go.
• Nekomamushi noticed Oden had lost his swords, and Oden accepted the loss as spoils of war and vowed to grow stronger and reclaim them.

After the Roger Pirates departed, Garp’s Marines recovered and Tsugikuni Yoriichi discovered that Oden’s abandoned sword Enma drew out Haki. Yoriichi demonstrated a powerful flowing-Haki slash, then revealed that Roger was seriously ill, leaving Garp troubled by what the revelation meant.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi helped Garp’s crew carry the wounded aboard and learned that no Marines had died despite the defeat.
• Garp recalled Roger’s interest in collecting Poneglyphs and worried that the World Government would take notice.
• Aokiji and Tsugikuni Yoriichi examined Oden’s abandoned swords, and Garp warned Yoriichi not to handle the Demon Blade Enma.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi wielded Enma and produced a powerful flying slash with flowing Haki, astonishing Garp.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi said he had learned the technique by watching Oden fight Bogard and told Garp that Roger was seriously ill.
• Garp accepted that Roger’s strength had declined and fell silent as he considered the news.

On the return voyage to Marineford, Tsugikuni Yoriichi combined Haki with his Breathing Technique and grew stronger while Garp’s battered crew recovered. When the Marines reunited with their families at the dock, Zephyr came aboard and invited Yoriichi home, leaving him smiling at the prospect of going with his teacher.

• Garp brought his damaged warship to the G-63 Branch for repairs, then resumed the voyage to Marineford with his injured crew.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi tested his new Haki-infused Sun Breathing, unleashing a slash that cut a mark nearly a hundred meters across the sea.
• Yoriichi incorporated flowing Haki into Soru and became so strong in hand-to-hand combat that Aokiji avoided sparring with him and Garp recognized his rapid growth.
• After three months at sea, Garp returned to Marineford and granted the Marines half a month of leave to reunite with their families.
• As Yoriichi prepared to leave the ship alone, Zephyr boarded and told him he had come to take him home, and Yoriichi agreed to go with his teacher.

After returning to Marine Headquarters, Tsugikuni Yoriichi moved into Zephyr’s home and showed how much he had improved during his three months with Garp. Zephyr recognized Yoriichi’s progress in a spar and began teaching him Life Return as the next step in his training.

• Yoriichi settled into Zephyr’s home, where Garp’s swords Enma and Ama no Habakiri joined his blade Dawnbreaker on the sword rack.
• Yoriichi met Zephyr in the morning and said he wanted to continue training after learning new techniques on Garp’s ship.
• Yoriichi struck Zephyr with a bamboo sword, surprising him by using Soru and Armament Haki to break through his defense.
• Zephyr tested Yoriichi’s reactions with a fast punch, then praised his progress in Soru, Armament Haki, and Observation Haki.
• Zephyr advised Yoriichi to expand his Haki coverage and build its strength and endurance.
• Zephyr asked whether Garp had taught Yoriichi Life Return, then told him it was fundamental to strengthening the body and offered to teach it.

After mastering Life Return, Tsugikuni Yoriichi agreed to enter the Marine Academy despite Zephyr's concerns about the risks. Zephyr brought him to the academy, where he introduced Yoriichi to the students and challenged them to try to defeat him.

• Zephyr taught Tsugikuni Yoriichi Life Return, which Yoriichi mastered in half a day and used to recover from Haki training more quickly and refine his Breathing Technique.
• Zephyr told Yoriichi that Fleet Admiral Kong wanted him to enroll early in the Marine Academy, but warned him that academy voyages could be dangerous.
• Yoriichi chose to join the academy, explaining that Marines needed real battlefield experience; Zephyr agreed to take him to classes and promised to lead the students' sea training when he could.
• The next morning, Zephyr gave Yoriichi a Marine uniform and brought him to the academy, where Yoriichi spotted Kyros among the students.
• Zephyr introduced Yoriichi to swordsmanship and physical-training instructor Victor, then declared Yoriichi the strongest student and offered a promotion to anyone who could defeat him.

Zephyr presented Tsugikuni Yoriichi as the Marine Academy’s strongest and provoked the cadets to challenge him. Kyros stepped forward under pressure, and Yoriichi pretended to struggle against his attacks, leaving the watching Marines hopeful for promotion.

• Zephyr challenged the Marine cadets to face Tsugikuni Yoriichi and threatened to demote everyone if nobody stepped forward.
• Kibin and the other cadets pressured Kyros into challenging Yoriichi, and Zephyr praised Kyros for volunteering.
• Kyros drew his greatsword and attacked Yoriichi, who deliberately dodged and made the fight appear close.
• The cadets cheered as Yoriichi seemed to struggle, and they began to believe they might have a chance at promotion.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi defeated Kyros, then faced the Marine Academy students who challenged him for promotions. He swiftly defeated them all, including Momonga, and introduced himself as a new student.

• Yoriichi disarmed Kyros and narrowly won their duel, prompting Marines to eagerly volunteer to challenge him.
• Momonga asked Zephyr who would be promoted if the Marines attacked together, and Zephyr promised to promote everyone by one rank if they won.
• Zephyr privately urged Yoriichi to reveal his strength and teach the Marines a lesson without killing or crippling anyone.
• Yoriichi knocked down more than twenty Marines in a single exchange, then struck Momonga and sent him flying.
• Yoriichi defeated the entire group in three minutes and announced that he was joining the Marine Academy.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi trained at the Marine Academy for three months, strengthening his body and Armament Haki until he could coat his whole body. Zephyr then told him that he and Kyros would travel to the West Blue for field training, while the other students were bound for the Grand Line.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi attended Marine Academy classes and sparred with his fellow students while training his Haki and physique.
• Yoriichi's Armament Haki coverage expanded, and his strength grew through regular training and sparring with Zephyr.
• After three months, Yoriichi could coat his entire body in Armament Haki and maintain full output in battle for an hour.
• Yoriichi sparred with Zephyr, who praised his progress and said he could withstand attacks at seventy percent of Zephyr's strength.
• Zephyr told Yoriichi that he and Kyros would travel to the West Blue with Colonel Kane in one week for field training.
• Zephyr explained that the other Marine Academy students would train on the Grand Line because Yoriichi and Kyros were rookie Privates Third Class.

Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr approved Colonel Kane’s performance and selected him to supervise Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros during their sea training. Kane took the two recruits aboard his warship to Marine Branch 133 in West Blue, while Zephyr watched them depart.

• Garp and Zephyr waited with Sengoku for Colonel Kane to arrive at Marine Headquarters.
• Sengoku praised Kane’s record at Branch 133 and gave him an official document for promotion to brigadier general after a six-month rotation.
• Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr agreed that Kane’s peaceful jurisdiction and capable forces made Branch 133 a suitable training post for Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros.
• Sengoku assigned Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros to Kane, who arranged their accommodations aboard his warship and set sail for West Blue.
• Zephyr watched the warship leave the harbor in silence.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros were assigned to stoke the boilers aboard a Marine warship bound for Branch 133, where Yoriichi concealed their cadet status and invented a Pirate Hunter background. After Joseph Kaso reported to Colonel Kane, Kane realized the pair were hiding something and decided to play along.

• Kyros questioned why he and Yoriichi had to tend the boilers, and Yoriichi warned him not to mention they were Marine Academy cadets.
• Joseph Kaso introduced himself and asked about the recruits, so Yoriichi claimed they had been Pirate Hunters rescued by a rear admiral and Kyros backed up the story.
• Joseph said he would speak to Captain Hage about giving them different work, then left the engine room.
• Joseph told Colonel Kane that the recruits seemed ordinary and remarked that Yoriichi’s sword looked valuable.
• Kane grabbed Joseph, asked how nice the weapon was, then concluded the recruits were concealing their identities and decided to play along.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros arrived at Marine Branch 133 and settled into their new squad. During their first patrol, Yoriichi spotted a ship that Squad Leader Santos identified as a merchant vessel, but it raised a pirate flag and sounded an alarm.

• Colonel Kane returned to Anger Town with his Marines, whose respect for him made Yoriichi reconsider his suspicions about the colonel.
• Sergeant Santos welcomed Yoriichi and Kyros to his squad, showed them their dormitory, and explained their patrol duties.
• Yoriichi and Kyros joined the squad and received their first sea patrol assignment the next morning.
• Yoriichi spotted an unmarked ship approaching the patrol vessel and questioned Santos's claim that it belonged to the Lolo Trading Company.
• The approaching ship raised a flag bearing a Pink Skull, and a piercing shriek rang out.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi protected the Marine patrol ship from the Rage Pirates’ cannon fire, then flew to their ship and killed Captain Rage. He demanded to know who had sent the pirates, offering to spare whoever answered.

• Santos ordered the Marines to evade after a cannonball struck the sea, but the patrol ship suddenly stopped.
• Yoriichi sensed many presences on the bridge and told Kyros to investigate while he defended the ship.
• Yoriichi destroyed two volleys of cannonballs with Flying Slashes and used Geppo to approach the pirate ship.
• Captain Rage ordered his gunners to shoot Yoriichi, but Yoriichi landed on deck and beheaded him.
• Yoriichi asked the pirates who had sent them and said whoever answered would live.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi interrogated the surviving Rage Pirates and learned that the Lolo Trading Company had ordered them to destroy his Marine patrol ship. He spared them according to his promise, then split their ship with a slash and continued toward the patrol ship.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi questioned the pirates after killing Captain Rage, and one revealed that the Lolo Trading Company’s president had sent them.
• The pirates explained that the Rage Pirates operated as the Lolo Trading Company’s slave-trading arm and had been ordered to attack the patrol ship at a specific time and place.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi suspected that people in Marine Branch 133 had arranged the attack because they feared an investigation into their activities.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi promised to spare the pirates who answered, then flew away from their ship with Geppo.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi sent a slash down onto the pirate ship, splitting it in two and leaving the pirates to drown as he returned toward the patrol ship.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi returned to the patrol ship and found Kyros surrounded by surviving Marines amid a massacre. After Kyros killed the men accusing him, Yoriichi realized they had fallen into a trap.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi split the pirate ship with a Flying Slash, confirmed it sank, and returned to the patrol ship.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi followed the smell of blood into the bridge, where Fabrice Simich accused Kyros of killing Sergeant Santos and the other Marines.
• Kyros explained that Simich’s squad had fired on him first, while Simich had plotted to kill Kyros and another target for a reward from a powerful Mia Kingdom boss.
• Kyros charged Simich and the seven other Marines after they raised their guns, then cut them all down.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi entered the bridge and concluded that they had fallen into a trap.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi deduced that a Marine combat unit and pirates had joined forces to destroy their patrol ship and kill its crew, possibly to hide a secret within Marine Branch 133. He told Zephyr what had happened and proposed detaining everyone who might be involved, while Zephyr agreed to send investigators.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi found Sergeant Santos and the other Marines on the bridge dead, then tried to contact Marine Headquarters through the Den Den Mushi, but the call was cut off.
• Kyros told Tsugikuni Yoriichi that members of the combat unit had killed the Marines on the bridge and attacked him.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi reasoned that the pirate attack and the combat unit's killings were coordinated, and that someone within the Marines had leaked the patrol route.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi called Teacher Zephyr and described the attack, suspecting that higher-ups at Marine Branch 133 were hiding a damaging secret.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi proposed detaining everyone who might be involved so Zephyr could investigate, and Zephyr agreed to send people while warning them to be careful.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros returned to Marine Branch 133 under Zephyr’s orders to arrest its senior officers, but Colonel Kane’s fleet opened fire on them. Yoriichi reached Kane’s ship and held a sword to the colonel’s neck, demanding that he obey.

• Zephyr authorized Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kyros to act at their discretion within Marine Branch 133.
• Yoriichi and Kyros returned to the branch’s naval port and found its warships blocking the entrance.
• Colonel Kane ordered the fleet to fire on their patrol ship, and Yoriichi flew toward the main warship while Kyros defended their vessel.
• Kane ordered the warships to target Yoriichi, but Yoriichi cut through the cannonballs and landed on Kane’s deck.
• Yoriichi told Kane that Zephyr had ordered him to arrest all officers of Officer rank and above, then placed his sword against Kane’s neck when Kane called him a traitor.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi arrested the officer-ranked Marines of Branch 133, defeating Colonel Kane when he resisted. After securing the fleet and ordering it back to base, Yoriichi left the officers imprisoned while Headquarters verified his claim that Zephyr had ordered the arrests.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi confronted Colonel Kane and said he had orders from Zephyr to arrest Branch 133's officer-ranked officers.
• Kane transformed with his Elephant-Elephant Fruit and attacked, but Yoriichi overwhelmed him and knocked him unconscious.
• Yoriichi ordered the Marines to bind the officers, then personally subdued those who resisted.
• Yoriichi had chief petty officers contact Marine Headquarters to verify his orders.
• Yoriichi visited the other warships, arrested their officers, gathered the fleet in the flagship's prison, recalled Kyros, and ordered the fleet to return.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi discovered that Marines at Branch 133 had attacked the returning warships, suggesting a conspiracy within the branch. After Marine Headquarters confirmed his promotion and authorized his investigation, he reached the port and ordered the Marines there to surrender their weapons.

• Marines at the port fired on the returning warships, setting two patrol ships ablaze and forcing their crews to flee.
• Yoriichi intercepted the cannonballs with Flying Slashes, ordered the warships to follow the flagship without returning fire, and sent Kyros to guard the brig.
• Birch told Yoriichi that Headquarters had confirmed his identity as a major and approved his review of Branch 133.
• The chapter explained that Sengoku promoted and backed Yoriichi after Garp told him Yoriichi had killed the Logia pirate Nyuk with one slash.
• Yoriichi landed at the port, identified himself to the armed Marines, and ordered them to put down their weapons.

Yoriichi took control of Marine Branch 133, restrained its officers, and kept the branch running while Headquarters confirmed his identity and sent examiners. Ten days later, Kuzan arrived as the examiner, surprising Yoriichi.

• Yoriichi knocked the branch lieutenant colonel unconscious and ordered the Marines to disarm and detain officers of Officer rank and above.
• Yoriichi had the branch sergeants contact Headquarters through a Den Den Mushi, and Headquarters confirmed his identity.
• Yoriichi put the non-commissioned officers in charge of daily duties while he took over Marine Branch 133.
• Yoriichi sent Kyros to lead teams against pirates, and Kyros gained a reputation through several successful sorties.
• Ten days after Yoriichi took control, Kuzan arrived from Headquarters as the examiner, and Yoriichi questioned whether he was fit for the job.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi briefed Kuzan and Victor on suspected corruption at Marine Branch 133, and Kuzan began reviewing its officers. Yoriichi then investigated the Lolo Trading Company at an auction, where he spotted apparent fake pirate slaves and recognized something familiar about the next captive.

• Kuzan and Victor arrived at Marine Branch 133, where Kuzan warned Yoriichi that his mass arrests had brought criticism upon Zephyr.
• Yoriichi explained his suspicions about Branch 133 and showed Kuzan and Victor the bloodied patrol ship, convincing Kuzan that the branch needed a serious investigation.
• Kuzan took over the branch's affairs and began reviewing its officers while Yoriichi went to investigate the Lolo Trading Company.
• At the company's auction, Yoriichi noticed that five men sold as pirate slaves had no killing intent or scars, and he suggested they might expose the company's crimes.
• Yoriichi, Kuzan, and Kyros decided to wait until the auction ended before approaching the five captives, then watched the auction introduce a white-haired scholar whom Yoriichi found familiar.