Chapter Summaries

Billy Schmidt demanded that Bogard and the Marines be requisitioned to protect the visiting Celestial Dragon, while Smoker lost his respect for the Marines after seeing Billy attack Wen Fu. Tsugikuni Yoriichi refused Billy’s demand and knocked him unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki.

• Billy Schmidt attacked Wen Fu, and Smoker tried to defend him before Billy lifted Smoker by the collar.
• Billy identified himself as the Celestial Dragon’s bodyguard and ordered everyone to kneel and welcome Saint Jegerlcia Couse.
• Billy recognized Bogard and then announced that Bogard and his Marines had been requisitioned to protect the Celestial Dragon.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi asked what would happen if the Marines refused, and Billy threatened that anyone who disobeyed would die.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi unleashed Conqueror’s Haki, knocking Billy unconscious, and treated his silence as agreement.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi knocked Billy Schmidt unconscious in a bar, then encouraged Smoker to join the Marines and change them from within. After Billy woke with his memory and intelligence seemingly gone, Bogard kept Yoriichi aboard the ship, where they witnessed a black tornado tear through Seiga Island.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi calmly drank his juice while the bar patrons fled, and Bogard paid Wen Fu and Smoker compensation and urged them to leave Seiga Island.
• Bogard carried Billy Schmidt away, and Tsugikuni Yoriichi told Smoker to join the Marines when he grew up and help change them before leaving the bar.
• Billy Schmidt woke aboard the ship seemingly stupid and unable to remember what had happened, leaving Bogard relieved but unsettled about Yoriichi's Conqueror's Haki.
• Bogard delivered Billy Schmidt to the World Government ship and ordered Yoriichi to stay aboard because the Celestial Dragons had arrived on Seiga Island.
• A black tornado suddenly swept through the island's western city as Bogard nagged Yoriichi about acting rashly.

Dragon rejected Garp’s attempt to persuade him to return to the Marines and declared his support for the Freedom Army, which sought to overthrow the existing order. After seeing Saint Jegerlcia Couse threaten to take a little girl from her mother, Dragon abducted the Celestial Dragon and fled, with Garp pursuing him.

• Yoriichi and the Marines watched Garp and Dragon’s clash unleash Conqueror’s Haki that shook the harbor and affected people across Seiga Island.
• Saint Jegerlcia Couse toured Seiga Town while its residents knelt, then threatened a woman by demanding to take her daughter to Mary Geoise.
• A powerful blast and wind disrupted Couse’s procession as Dragon appeared and condemned the Marines for protecting World Nobles.
• Garp landed in the street and ordered Dragon to release Couse, but Dragon defended his decision to leave the Marines and join the Freedom Army.
• Dragon seized Saint Couse and escaped in a violent wind, while Garp and Couse’s guards rushed after them.

Dragon appeared aboard Garp’s ship after confronting his father and captured a Celestial Dragon, then invited Tsugikuni Yoriichi to join him. Yoriichi rejected Dragon’s revolutionary path and revealed his plan to reform the Marines from within, leaving Garp silent as he kept Dragon’s Den Den Mushi.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Bogard waited aboard the Dog-head Warship while Garp and Dragon’s confrontation on Seiga Island fell quiet.
• Dragon appeared on deck with a captured Celestial Dragon and greeted Bogard and Tsugikuni Yoriichi.
• Dragon gave Tsugikuni Yoriichi a Den Den Mushi and invited him to join his cause, but Garp arrived and warned him not to lead Yoriichi astray.
• Dragon threw the Celestial Dragon toward the sea, vanished as a breeze, and Garp sent Bogard to rescue the captive.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi told Garp he would not follow Dragon and said he aimed to become Fleet Admiral and reform the Marines.

After Dragon’s kidnapping of the Celestial Dragons, Tsugikuni Yoriichi received a promotion to colonel at Marine Headquarters’ ceremony. The gathering then turned to its main purpose: planning a war to destroy the Roger Pirates.

• The World Government placed a 1.5-billion-Beli bounty on Dragon, while Marines who helped Garp rescue the Celestial Dragons received commendations.
• Kong held a rank conferment ceremony at Marine Headquarters, where Bogard and Tsugikuni Yoriichi joined the other Marines who took part in the rescue.
• Bogard was promoted to brigadier general, Tsugikuni Yoriichi was promoted from major to colonel, and the other Marines received promotions.
• Zephyr warned Garp not to interfere with Yoriichi’s development, but Garp said he would train him, and the two argued.
• Kong began a combat meeting and announced that the Marines would wage war to encircle and destroy the Roger Pirates.

After learning the Marines were preparing to stop the Roger Pirates from reaching the Final Island, Tsugikuni Yoriichi attended the war council and discussed his future with Zephyr and Garp. He chose to go to sea after the war and agreed to serve as Kuzan’s aide to gain sailing experience.

• The Marines held a war council to assign officers to a plan for encircling the Roger Pirates, while Tsugikuni Yoriichi attended only to understand the operation.
• Zephyr and Garp advised Tsugikuni Yoriichi to return to the Boin Archipelago and continue training after the war, but Yoriichi said he wanted to go to sea because his physical growth had slowed.
• Zephyr accepted Yoriichi’s wish to sail, and Kuzan offered him the vacant aide position on his ship.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi agreed to become Kuzan’s aide and joked that he would not stoke the boiler.

Kuzan brought Tsugikuni Yoriichi to inspect his shabby G-5 warship and meet the crew he would serve alongside. Yoriichi discovered that the ship was run-down and its Marines were inexperienced recruits, but he accepted his new post and greeted them.

• Kuzan took Tsugikuni Yoriichi to the harbor to show him his ship and introduce him to the crew.
• Yoriichi inspected the weathered warship and questioned whether it could withstand pirate cannon fire.
• Kuzan showed Yoriichi his private room and study, then gathered the crew to introduce him as his deputy.
• Yoriichi realized the crew lacked combat experience, but greeted them and accepted his place in the G-5 Branch.

As the Marines entered the New World, Tsugikuni Yoriichi joined Kuzan’s warship and watched Kuzan struggle to command the crew through the dangerous seas. When pirates attacked, Yoriichi disabled their ships with three sword slashes, allowing Kuzan to order the Marines to fire.

• The Marines began moving into the New World toward Water Seven, while pirates attacked their warships and forced Garp to depart early.
• Donquixote Doflamingo read news of the Marines’ major move and celebrated what he saw as his opportunity.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi boarded Kuzan’s ship on January 7th and remained an unhelpful observer as Kuzan guided the warship through rough seas.
• Kuzan froze the sea to keep a huge wave from capsizing the warship, then complained that Yoriichi had not helped.
• Three pirate ships appeared, and Yoriichi cut their main masts with three slashes, leaving Kuzan’s crew able to aim their cannons and fire.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi persuaded Kuzan to make his inexperienced Marines fight the pirates boarding their warship instead of ending the battle himself. Yoriichi killed the pirates’ Vice Captain Dick and then knocked out the attackers with Conqueror’s Haki, leaving the recruits to face the aftermath.

• Kuzan and Tsugikuni Yoriichi agreed to board the pirate ships because the Marines needed their supplies and could not afford to keep exchanging cannon fire.
• Yoriichi urged Kuzan to let his recruits experience real combat, and Kuzan ordered the warship to close in and prepare for boarding.
• The pirates boarded first and charged the warship’s Marines, who were badly outmatched by the New World fighters.
• A pirate attacked Yoriichi, who killed him with a swift strike, and Kuzan identified the dead man as Vice Captain Dick.
• Yoriichi released his Conqueror’s Haki and caused the pirates swarming toward him to collapse unconscious.

After a week of battles in the New World, Kuzan's Marines had gained experience but remained outmatched by the pirates, whom Tsugikuni Yoriichi often had to defeat. A distress call from Winter Crow Island ended in screams and threats, prompting Kuzan and Yoriichi to set course to intervene.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi knocked out the pirates attacking Kuzan's warship with Conqueror's Haki, and the Marines salvaged supplies before he destroyed the pirate ships.
• Kuzan began using encounters with pirate crews to train his Marines, freezing enemy ships after cannon exchanges while he and Tsugikuni Yoriichi intervened when the crew was overwhelmed.
• After a week and more than a dozen battles, Kuzan's Marines defeated a pirate crew led by a pirate with a twenty-million-Beli bounty, whom Tsugikuni Yoriichi also stopped with Conqueror's Haki.
• A Marine brought Kuzan an emergency Den Den Mushi call from Winter Crow Island, where a Branch E-64 Marine pleaded for help before screaming and falling silent.
• A pirate threatened the Marines over the call and caused another scream, so Kuzan and Tsugikuni Yoriichi agreed to respond, and Kuzan went to locate Winter Crow Island.

Kuzan diverted his warship toward the uncharted Winter Crow Island after receiving a distress call, but the Marines instead found and rescued a castaway girl. She woke in Kuzan’s quarters and asked where she was.

• Kuzan searched the sea chart for Winter Crow Island, while Tsugikuni Yoriichi realized it was missing from Marine records and suspected the call was unusual.
• A Marine reported finding a young girl adrift ahead of the warship, and Kuzan ordered the crew to rescue her.
• Kuzan carried the hypothermic girl to his quarters, wrapped her in his cloak, and used Observation Haki while the crew fetched the doctor and supplies.
• The ship’s doctor treated the girl in a barrel of warm water as the Marines teased Kuzan about her wet clothes.
• The girl woke and asked Kuzan where she was.

Kuzan and Yoriichi followed rescued girl Sharon Lily’s Vivre Card toward the Yaga Islands, while Yoriichi grew increasingly uneasy about their string of coincidences. As they reached land, Kuzan revealed that Lily had lured them into a trap, but Yoriichi had already placed his sword at her shoulder.

• A Marine sergeant told Yoriichi an embellished story about Kuzan rescuing Lily, and Yoriichi asked whether the girl had awakened.
• Kuzan showed Yoriichi Lily’s Vivre Card and explained that she came from the Yaga Islands, where the Liza Kingdom relied on Winter Crow Island’s harbor.
• Yoriichi questioned the suspicious coincidences surrounding their distress call and Lily, but Kuzan dismissed his theory and asked whether he believed in fate.
• Yoriichi ordered the warship to follow Lily’s Vivre Card, and the crew reached the Yaga Islands after three days at sea.
• Lily asked Kuzan to stay in the islands, then clung to his arm; Kuzan noticed the fragrance and accused her of setting a trap.
• Kuzan warned Lily not to underestimate the Marines, while Yoriichi’s black sword rested on her shoulder.

Kuzan and Tsugikuni Yoriichi exposed Sharon Lily’s suspicious influence just as a band of armed men arrived aboard submarines, led by a man who claimed Lily was his daughter. The leader attacked Kuzan, who froze his arm, and demanded to know his identity as the fight began.

• Kuzan explained that Yoriichi’s warning had made him suspicious of Sharon Lily and that her lingering fragrance had affected him.
• Several submarines surfaced beside the warship, and armed men boarded under the command of a towering, savage middle-aged man.
• The middle-aged man crushed a young Marine’s gun and demanded that Yoriichi release his daughter, Sharon Lily.
• Kuzan challenged the man’s claim that Lily was his daughter, provoking him to attack with an Armament Haki-coated fist.
• Kuzan re-formed beside the man and froze his arm, then asked who he was and warned that his answer would determine his future.

Kuzan and Tsugikuni Yoriichi confronted Sharon Lawrence after he boarded their Marine warship and attacked Kuzan. Yoriichi sent Sharon into the sea, but Kuzan stopped him from killing the man because he wanted to confirm something.

• Kuzan revealed that he had eaten the Ice-Ice Fruit, and Sharon attacked him, punching him through the cabin wall.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi appeared and severed Sharon's frozen right arm, then demanded that he explain why he had boarded the warship.
• Sharon identified himself as Sharon Lawrence, a Marine Hunter, and charged at Yoriichi.
• Sharon Lily and Kuzan called out to stop Yoriichi from killing Sharon.
• Yoriichi dodged Sharon's punch and struck him with the flat of his blade, sending him flying into the sea.
• Kuzan emerged from the cabin and told Yoriichi to spare Sharon because he wanted to confirm something.

Sharon Lily revealed that she was the Sharon Kingdom's princess and that her father, King Sharon, led the attack on the Marines to resist the Celestial Dragons' demands. After hearing how the kingdom's burdens and the Marines' role had fueled the rebellion, Kuzan and Tsugikuni Yoriichi fell silent, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi subdued King Sharon and questioned why he hated the Marines.
• Sharon Lily told Kuzan that the attackers were the Sharon Kingdom's Royal Guard and that King Sharon was her father.
• The Royal Guard accused the Marines of serving the Celestial Dragons and helping oppress the Sharon Kingdom.
• Sharon Lily explained that the kingdom's Heavenly Gold payments and worsening piracy had crippled its shipping-based economy.
• Sharon Lily revealed that she had been taken hostage by Marines during the kingdom's effort to expel them, and that her rescue by Kuzan had been accidental.

Kuzan struggled to decide what to do with Sharon Lawrence and the Sharon Kingdom guards after the Marine Branch massacre. When Lawrence attacked him again, Tsugikuni Yoriichi killed Lawrence and explained that he would carry the hatred of the dead while following his own will.

• Kuzan weighed whether to kill or release Sharon Lily and the Sharon Kingdom guards, unable to settle his conscience either way.
• Sharon Lawrence returned to the deck and admitted that his people had attacked the Marine Branch, then punched Kuzan through the deck.
• Kuzan reappeared, asked Tsugikuni Yoriichi for advice, and admitted that he felt lost about what to do.
• Sharon Lawrence tried to kill Kuzan with another Haki-coated punch, but Tsugikuni Yoriichi slashed Lawrence's neck and sent his head flying.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi told Kuzan that he would bear the hatred of the dead and act according to his own will without losing his way.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi killed Sharon Lawrence after declaring that he could not forgive the king for murdering Marines, while Kuzan stopped Sharon Lily from attacking Yoriichi and froze the kingdom’s guards. The Marines imprisoned the guards and sailed for Easton Island, leaving Yoriichi to report the incident to Headquarters.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi beheaded Sharon Lawrence, and Sharon Lily grieved over her father’s body before charging Yoriichi with a stolen sword.
• Kuzan seized Sharon Lily’s wrists and stopped her attack as Yoriichi explained that he would punish the Celestial Dragons and could not excuse Sharon Lawrence’s crimes.
• Sharon Kingdom’s guards charged at Yoriichi, but Kuzan used ICE WORLD to freeze them and ordered that they be sent to Impel Down.
• Sharon Lily screamed and fainted, and Kuzan carried her into the cabin before leaving the scene to Yoriichi.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi ordered the guards imprisoned and changed the ship’s destination to Easton Island, where the Marines would rest and resupply before he reported to Headquarters.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi contacted Dragon with the location of the Sharon Kingdom, then secretly investigated the kingdom’s Marine Branch while his damaged warship was repaired. He defended killing King Sharon to Kuzan as justice for his fellow Marines, leaving Kuzan alone with his doubts.

• Tsugikuni Yoriichi called Dragon and told him to meet him in the New World at the Sharon Kingdom.
• Dragon told his wife that Yoriichi had called, then left in a breeze to go meet him.
• Shipwrights began repairing the warship, and Tsugikuni Yoriichi questioned them about the Sharon Kingdom before secretly visiting its Marine Branch.
• Kuzan challenged Tsugikuni Yoriichi over killing King Sharon, whom the citizens considered kind and beloved.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi said he had a clear conscience because he had avenged his Marine companions, then left Kuzan staring at the sea.

Kuzan secretly freed the Sharon Kingdom guards, but Yoriichi discovered the escape and killed them before they could leave the pier. Yoriichi dismissed Kuzan’s authority as Commodore and returned to the cabin, leaving Kuzan to gather the bodies.

• Kuzan froze the cabin door and opened a hole into the warship’s prison, creating an ice path for the Sharon Kingdom guards to escape.
• Yoriichi woke, sensed the prisoners fleeing, and cut through the frozen cabin door when the Marines could not open it.
• Yoriichi prepared to strike the escapees, but Kuzan appeared and urged him to let them go, so Yoriichi hit Kuzan into the deck.
• Yoriichi used Geppo to block the guards at the pier and killed them with a rapid sword strike.
• Yoriichi told Kuzan that being Commodore made no difference and went inside, while Kuzan collected the bodies.

After the prisoners escaped, Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Kuzan clashed over justice but gradually resumed their old rapport while sailing to Water Seven. When they reached the island, Yoriichi spotted a straw-hatted youth who fled into an alley.

• A sergeant told Tsugikuni Yoriichi that the prisoners had escaped, and Yoriichi sent him to report it to Kuzan.
• Kuzan admitted he disagreed with Yoriichi's actions and said he would not send Sharon Lily to Impel Down; Lily later woke and left the ship with Kuzan.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi collected the bodies of his comrades, selectively reported the incident to Zephyr, and received orders to repair the ship and continue to Water Seven.
• After nearly two months at sea, Kuzan and Tsugikuni Yoriichi arrived at Water Seven, where the townspeople questioned why Marines had come.
• Tsugikuni Yoriichi spotted a straw-hatted youth holding apples, and the youth darted into a dark alley as Yoriichi smiled at the coincidence.