Chapter Summaries

Aokiji, Kyros, and Tsugikuni Yoriichi disrupted the Lolo Trading Company’s slave auction, rescuing a woman and fighting the guards. The woman learned they were Marines, and Aokiji asked her name and how she had become a slave.

• Kyros urged Aokiji to intervene after seeing a woman being auctioned, and Aokiji confronted the host about where the slaves came from.
• Kyros identified the group as Marines and announced an investigation into the Lolo Trading Company’s suspected ties to pirates, but the guards attacked him.
• Kyros killed several guards, while Tsugikuni Yoriichi drew his sword in self-defense and cut down the guards who attacked him.
• Aokiji froze the guards and host who rushed him, turning the area around him into ice.
• Aokiji broke open the woman’s frozen cage, freed her, and asked her name and how she had become a slave.

Aokiji freed Nico Olvia, who revealed she was from Ohara, while Tsugikuni Yoriichi freed the slaves held beneath the auction venue. The chapter ended with Yoriichi learning that Monk had been sold by Marines and offering to take him to confront them.

• Aokiji freed Nico Olvia from her cage, and she said pirates had captured her after attacking her exploration ship.
• Nico Olvia told Aokiji and Kyros that she came from Ohara, and Yoriichi recognized her resemblance to Nico Robin.
• Yoriichi found the slave pens beneath the venue and cut open every cage, telling the captives they were free.
• Monk said Marines from Branch 133 had sold him into slavery, and Yoriichi offered to take him to kill them.
• Monk clutched Yoriichi's leg and broke down sobbing.

The investigation at Marine Branch 133 exposed Colonel Kane’s alliance with the Lolo Pirates and the corruption beneath the Mia Kingdom’s peaceful surface. After Zephyr told Yoriichi his apprenticeship was over, Yoriichi agreed to return to Headquarters within ten days.

• Aokiji and Victor’s investigation revealed that Kane and the Lolo Pirates had conspired to control the Mia Kingdom through crime and collusion.
• Yoriichi continued training and fighting pirates while the freed slaves returned home; Aokiji escorted Nico Olvia, and Monk and Kyros received new ranks and assignments.
• Aokiji and Victor submitted a preliminary report on the Branch 133 investigation to Marine Headquarters.
• Zephyr called Yoriichi, praised his accomplishments with sarcasm, and ordered him to return to Headquarters because his apprenticeship had ended.
• Yoriichi agreed to prepare for his return and meet Zephyr within ten days.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi returned to Marineford after his brief West Blue internship, having become a Headquarters Major and exposed corruption at Marine Branch 133. Zephyr and Garp greeted him at the docks, where they praised his growing strength and argued over their influence on him.

• Zephyr waited at the docks for Yoriichi, and Garp joined him, prompting Zephyr to blame Garp for Yoriichi’s conduct in the West Blue.
• Garp defended Yoriichi’s decisive actions, while Zephyr said he had approved Yoriichi’s promotion to Major and believed he was the future of the Marines.
• Yoriichi reflected that his short internship had taught him little beyond establishing his reputation, earning his new rank, and meeting Nico Olvia.
• Victor pointed out Zephyr and Garp as the Marine Branch 133 warship approached Marineford.
• Yoriichi used his improved speed to reach the docks before the gangplank was lowered, and Zephyr and Garp praised his progress.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi returned early from his West Blue internship because Fleet Admiral Kong wanted him trained at Marine Headquarters and taught to follow Marine rules. Zephyr arranged for Garp to take him to the Boin Archipelago, where he could develop his body through extreme training.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi returned to Marine Headquarters with Instructor Victor while Kyros stayed in the West Blue to assist Aokiji.
• Zephyr told Yoriichi that Fleet Admiral Kong had ordered his early return and planned to restrict his time at sea.
• Zephyr explained that Kong wanted Yoriichi to mature into an outstanding Marine rather than become headstrong like Garp.
• Zephyr told Yoriichi that Garp would take him to the Boin Archipelago in three days for intensive training to develop his body and Life Return.

Zephyr sent Tsugikuni Yoriichi to the dangerous Boin Archipelago for training, apparently to protect him from Fleet Admiral Kong’s interest in him. As the Dog-head Warship departed, Garp reassured Yoriichi about Zephyr and gave him an illustrated Devil Fruit guide.

• After returning to Marine Headquarters, Tsugikuni Yoriichi trained at Zephyr’s home and repeatedly tried to make Rosinante practice swordsmanship.
• On the third morning, Zephyr hurried Yoriichi onto the Dog-head Warship, warned him about Boin Archipelago, and told him to contact Zephyr regularly.
• Garp ordered the ship to set sail while Zephyr watched it disappear, then told Kong he would accept punishment for disobeying orders.
• Kong objected to Zephyr sending Yoriichi away, but Zephyr said the sea would make him a fine Marine and that Yoriichi’s own sense of justice was enough.
• Garp gave Yoriichi an illustrated Devil Fruit guide, told him not to eat anything carelessly on Boin Archipelago, and urged him to meet Zephyr’s expectations.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi arrived at the Boin Archipelago, where he discovered that the island was a living creature that swallowed animals. He found abundant food and began using its energy to strengthen his physique, leaving himself training on the island.

• After half a month at sea, Garp and Tsugikuni Yoriichi reached the Boin Archipelago, and Garp warned the Marines to stay aboard when he sensed the island was alive.
• The island’s petals closed around a huge mouth, and Garp’s warship was swept away while Yoriichi escaped into the air with Geppo.
• Yoriichi recognized the archipelago as the place where Kuma sent Usopp and entered the forest to explore.
• Yoriichi slashed through a creature disguised as dense forest, then used Observation Haki to search for food and a place to settle.
• Yoriichi found a waterfall of ramen and ate several bowls, restoring his strength and discovering that the food could fuel his training.
• Yoriichi used Life Return and repeated bursts of Geppo and Haki to consume and expend the food’s energy, growing his physique stronger.

After a month of intense training on the Boin Archipelago, Tsugikuni Yoriichi demonstrated his growing strength before a warship arrived carrying Vice Admiral Borsalino. Borsalino appeared behind Yoriichi, who instinctively attacked him with the back of his sword, and the two faced each other after Borsalino dodged.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi cut a giant bear in half and reflected on how much his strength had increased during a month of training.
• Yoriichi returned to his cliffside shelter and spotted a G-18 warship approaching the island.
• Yoriichi answered a Den Den Mushi call, but Vice Admiral Borsalino spoke through it and appeared behind him in a flash of light.
• Yoriichi swiftly attacked Borsalino with the back of his Haki-coated sword, but Borsalino transformed into light and dodged.
• Yoriichi greeted Borsalino and apologized, explaining that he instinctively reacted to someone standing behind him.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi fought Borsalino, who had come on Zephyr’s assignment to assess Yoriichi’s strength. Yoriichi used the Realm of Selflessness to slip past Borsalino’s Observation Haki and struck him hard enough to send him crashing through trees.

• Borsalino said Zephyr had sent him to meet Tsugikuni Yoriichi, then refused Yoriichi’s invitation to eat and prepared to fight.
• Yoriichi and Borsalino exchanged attacks, with Borsalino blocking Yoriichi’s sword and Yoriichi deflecting Borsalino’s kick.
• Borsalino lost track of Yoriichi’s presence when Yoriichi entered the Realm of Selflessness.
• Yoriichi struck Borsalino in the abdomen with his sword hilt, sending him through more than a dozen trees.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi defeated Vice Admiral Borsalino with the Realm of Selflessness, which hid his Haki from Observation Haki. Borsalino ended the assessment and left, promising to tell Zephyr about Yoriichi’s strength and arrange a more suitable opponent.

• Yoriichi struck Borsalino while concealing his presence and Haki, leaving Borsalino shocked by what he recognized as Observation Killing.
• Yoriichi helped Borsalino up and explained that he had learned to hide his presence and Haki, though he could not clearly explain how.
• Borsalino declined Yoriichi’s invitation to continue fighting, saying a close-combat trial would be too dangerous and using his Devil Fruit would defeat the assessment’s purpose.
• Borsalino promised to report Yoriichi’s strength to Zephyr and departed aboard his warship.
• Yoriichi wondered who Zephyr would send next and guessed the opponent might be skilled in physical combat.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi continued training on the Boin Archipelago and wondered how much stronger he had become. His next trial opponent, Vice Admiral Monkey D. Dragon, arrived in a warship that descended from the sky.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi adapted to his growth spurt and realized his swordsmanship had improved, though he lacked a sparring partner to measure his strength.
• While Tsugikuni Yoriichi meditated, Monkey D. Dragon called and introduced himself as the trial opponent sent by Zephyr.
• Dragon told Tsugikuni Yoriichi he had arrived at the Boin Archipelago and spotted him from above.
• A waterspout caught Dragon's falling warship and lowered it into the sea beside Tsugikuni Yoriichi's residence.
• Dragon greeted Tsugikuni Yoriichi from the warship, and Yoriichi concluded that Dragon was unmistakably Garp's son.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi began his trial against Monkey D. Dragon, a Marine vice admiral, and showed him the strength of his swordsmanship. The chapter ended with Yoriichi realizing that Dragon had blocked his silent attack through his Devil Fruit ability, not Observation Haki.

• Monkey D. Dragon introduced himself to Tsugikuni Yoriichi and explained that he would be his opponent for the trial.
• Dragon recognized Dawn as a Supreme Grade Sword, and Yoriichi said the blade had been with him for as long as he could remember.
• Yoriichi opened the fight with a Flying Slash, which Dragon caught with his Haki-covered claw.
• Yoriichi vanished and attacked Dragon's neck, but Dragon blocked the strike with his claw.
• Yoriichi realized Dragon had sensed the breeze from his attack with his Devil Fruit ability rather than Observation Haki.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi tested his Observation Killing against Monkey D. Dragon, who revealed that his Wind-Wind Fruit let him sense air currents and trap Yoriichi in an awakened storm. Yoriichi broke through the tornado with a flaming sword strike, and Dragon met his attack with a haki-coated claw.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi pulled back after his clash with Dragon and asked how Dragon had detected his attack.
• Dragon explained that his Observation Haki had not sensed Yoriichi; he had felt the air shift with his Wind-Wind Fruit.
• Dragon used his awakened Logia powers to surround Yoriichi with a powerful tornado and challenged him to endure its attacks with Armament Haki.
• Yoriichi's slashes failed to stop the wind wall, and the storm's debris, wind blades, and lightning began to threaten him.
• Yoriichi used Sun Breathing—Twelfth Form—Flame Dance to break out of the tornado and charge Dragon with a flaming blade.
• Dragon praised Yoriichi's strength and thrust his claw-shaped, lightning-wreathed hand toward the blade.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi fought Dragon to test his strength, but Dragon’s Conqueror’s Coating and awakened Logia made him a formidable opponent. After Yoriichi’s Haki and stamina nearly ran out, Dragon stopped the battle, and Yoriichi asked how to obtain and train Conqueror’s Haki.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Dragon clashed, damaging the Baron of Stomach as their fight moved into the air.
• Dragon blocked Yoriichi’s attacks with Conqueror’s Coating while using Armament Haki to counterattack and test him.
• After more than ten minutes of fighting, Yoriichi’s Haki and stamina dwindled, so Dragon called a halt.
• Dragon brought Yoriichi a first-aid kit and praised his strength, while Yoriichi realized Dragon had not fought at full speed.
• Yoriichi recovered briefly, then asked Dragon how to obtain and train Conqueror’s Haki.

Dragon told Tsugikuni Yoriichi that Conqueror's Haki could not be trained, then revealed Yoriichi had already awakened it. Dragon offered to draw it out with a method of his own and struck Yoriichi with a Conqueror's Haki-coated fist.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi asked Dragon how to train Conqueror's Haki, and Dragon said no one knew how to awaken or strengthen it.
• Yoriichi resigned himself to relying on his other abilities until Dragon revealed that Yoriichi had already awakened Conqueror's Haki.
• Dragon said he could try to draw out Yoriichi's dormant Haki, and Yoriichi agreed.
• Yoriichi explained that simply releasing Conqueror's Haki probably would not help him sense it, since he had not grasped the feeling during earlier encounters.
• Dragon gathered Conqueror's Haki around his fist and punched toward Yoriichi's lower abdomen, telling him not to die.

Dragon tested Tsugikuni Yoriichi’s strength on the Boin Archipelago, then returned to Marine Headquarters and reported his progress. Yoriichi continued training alone until a Dog-head Warship arrived at the end of Marineford Era 1498 to take him away.

• Dragon punched Tsugikuni Yoriichi into a mountainside, where Yoriichi survived but was left badly hurt.
• Dragon stayed on the Boin Archipelago for half a month, then sailed back to Headquarters and told his officer the island was nurturing the Marines’ future.
• Yoriichi demonstrated a powerful slash before Zephyr called to praise his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki Coating and told him to keep the ability secret.
• Zephyr told Yoriichi that Garp would personally check on him and left new clothes and bedding at his shelter for New Year’s Eve.
• Yoriichi spent the following months eating, training, meditating, and checking in with Zephyr as the seasons passed.
• At the end of Marineford Era 1498, a Dog-head Warship arrived, and someone aboard called out to pick Yoriichi up.

Garp found Tsugikuni Yoriichi on the island and told him the Marines were preparing to confront the Roger Pirates. Yoriichi left with Garp for the East Blue, where Bogard revealed that Monkey D. Dragon had run away from home.

• Garp arrived on the island and used Observation Haki to locate Tsugikuni Yoriichi, who emerged from the forest.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi tested his Conqueror’s Haki against Garp’s, but Garp overwhelmed him.
• Garp told Yoriichi that the Marines were gathering their forces to encircle and eliminate the Roger Pirates, and asked him to come to the East Blue before returning to Marine Headquarters.
• Yoriichi packed his belongings, sealed his cave, and boarded Garp’s warship.
• Bogard told Yoriichi not to disturb Garp and explained that Monkey D. Dragon had run away from home.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi learned that Dragon had left the Marines after refusing to carry out a Buster Call against the Rank Kingdom for failing to pay Heavenly Gold. Garp and Yoriichi discussed what justice meant, and Garp continued toward Seiga Island to find Dragon using his Vivre Card.

• Bogard told Tsugikuni Yoriichi that Dragon had left the Marines after a classified mission failure.
• Yoriichi questioned Garp about Dragon, and Garp revealed that Dragon had refused the Buster Call and destroyed nearly twenty warships.
• Garp explained that the World Nobles had ordered the attack on the Rank Kingdom because it failed to pay Heavenly Gold.
• Yoriichi said he would keep the things he wanted when justice and the World Nobles could not coexist, and Garp reflected on the path Yoriichi might take.
• Garp headed for Seiga Island in the East Blue to find Dragon, whose Vivre Card he possessed.

Garp's Marines arrived at Seiga Island, where Garp went to meet his son Dragon while Yoriichi joined Bogard's patrol. A World Noble sailed toward the island, and the chapter ended with the Marines entering a bar and drawing laughter when a red-haired Marine asked for juice.

• Garp ordered the crew to resupply and rest while Bogard led a patrol to search for pirates.
• Garp invited Yoriichi to accompany him to meet Dragon, but Yoriichi declined and joined Bogard's patrol instead.
• A World Noble arrived near Seiga Island aboard a luxurious cruise ship, eager to compare the island with Mariejois.
• Bogard led Yoriichi and three other Marines east across the island, using Observation Haki to find people with a strong presence.
• At Rock Bar, a red-haired young Marine asked the bartender what kinds of juice he had, prompting the bar's patrons to erupt in laughter.

At Rock Bar, Tsugikuni Yoriichi met young Smoker after the boy brought him fresh juice and declared his wish to join the Marines. When a rude young man kicked at Smoker, Wen Fu stepped in to protect him and was sent crashing into a wall with the boy.

• The Marines ordered drinks at Rock Bar, and Wen Fu arranged for Smoker to bring juice for Yoriichi.
• Yoriichi recognized Smoker, praised his orange juice, and listened as Smoker said he wanted to become a Marine.
• Bogard encouraged Smoker to join the Marines when he grew up, and Smoker happily headed for the door.
• Smoker ran into a young man in a black suit, who insulted him and swung a kick at him.
• Wen Fu shielded Smoker from the kick, and they both crashed into the wall.