Recaps

Usopp saw a real pirate ship approaching Syrup Village, but the villagers dismissed his warning as another lie. Meanwhile, Mark and Daisy arrived seeking Kuro’s Silent Step and learned that Kuro was living under the name Klahadore as Kaya’s family’s butler.

• Usopp ran through the village warning that pirates were coming, but the villagers mocked him and threw stones at him.
• Usopp spotted a large pirate ship bearing a dark skeletal angel flag and hurried back to warn the villagers, who still refused to believe him.
• Mark and Daisy reached Syrup Village while Chiu Chiu stayed behind to guard their ship.
• Mark asked an elderly villager for directions to Kaya’s home and learned that her family was known as the Lohrels.
• Mark identified Klahadore as the pirate Kuro, and Daisy recognized him as the former captain of the Black Cat Pirates, believed to have been killed by the Marines.

Mark met Usopp and told him about Yasopp, then headed to Kaya's house to confront Kuro. At Lougher Manor, Kuro learned that a young man named Kuro had come looking for him.

• Mark and Daisy encountered Usopp, who recognized Mark as a pirate by the blood on his axe.
• Mark told Usopp that Yasopp had sent him and described Yasopp as a powerful sniper and pirate; Usopp grew excited about becoming like his father.
• Mark sent Daisy to take Usopp aboard the Moss and continued alone toward Kaya's house.
• At Lougher Manor, Kuro told the sheep-headed man he was going into town to buy Prolan for Kaya's afternoon tea.
• The sheep-headed man told Kuro that another young man named Kuro had come looking for him, and Kuro clenched his fist.

Mark confronted Kuro in a forest outside Syrup Village and demanded the training method for Silent Step. After observing Kuro’s footwork during their fight, Mark learned the technique and Shakushi, leaving Kuro stunned.

• Kuro left the estate carrying his black briefcase and followed Mark to a forest east of Syrup Village.
• Mark demanded Kuro’s Silent Step training method, but Kuro attacked him with his Ten-Blade Cat Claws.
• Mark dodged Kuro’s first attack and struck him hard enough to break several ribs and send him through trees.
• Kuro used Shakushi to attack at extreme speed, and Mark studied his footwork with Observation Haki while evading his slashes.
• Mark adapted Silent Step and used the technique to kick Kuro, then demonstrated that he had learned Shakushi as well.

After learning Silent Step from Kuro, Mark spared him and sailed away from Syrup Village after sharing a meal and saying goodbye to Usopp. Mark’s new sixty-million-Beli bounty stirred the East Blue, drawing reactions from Krieg and Shanks.

• Mark told Kuro to abandon pirate methods if he truly wanted to retire, then returned to the Moss without killing him.
• Mark welcomed Usopp aboard, cooked for him and Chiu Chiu, and asked if Usopp had a message for Yasopp.
• Usopp wished Yasopp would return safely, and Mark and his crew left Syrup Village without inviting him aboard.
• News spread that Mark had received a sixty-million-Beli bounty for wiping out the Arlong Pirates, defeating the White Ghost Pirates, and destroying a Marine branch.
• Krieg ordered Gin to help him destroy a Marine branch after seeing Mark’s bounty.
• Shanks saw Mark’s wanted poster and proposed a party for Mark and the Moss Pirates.

After learning that Mark and Daisy had sent word and formed the Moss Pirates, Gaban celebrated Mark’s progress toward his dream. Mark then attacked a Marine warship from the 77th Marine Branch, killing Commodore Bulin Bulin and disabling the Marines aboard.

• Aunt Ma brought Gaban a wanted poster for Mark and told him that Mark and Daisy’s crew was named the Moss Pirates.
• Gaban thanked Mura for the news and said he would wait for Mark’s name to resound across the seas.
• Commodore Bulin Bulin ordered his warship to fire on the Moss Pirates despite his adjutant’s warning about their strength and sixty-million-Beli bounty.
• Mark sent Chiu Chiu to carry him toward the 77th Marine Branch warship while Chiu Chiu cut down the incoming cannonballs with lightning.
• Chiu Chiu struck Marines who aimed at Mark, and Mark killed Commodore Bulin Bulin with a punch.
• Mark used Black Hole against the remaining Marines on the warship.

After Mark’s crew destroyed the 77th Marine Branch’s officers, the Marines raised Mark’s bounty and gave Chiu Chiu a comically small one as the Moss Pirates continued toward Loguetown. There, Smoker prepared to confront Mark, while his knowledge of the Pirate King’s former crew explained why the Marines feared provoking them.

• Sengoku learned that Commodore Bulin Bulin and the 77th Marine Branch’s main officers had been wiped out, so he raised the Moss Pirates’ danger rating and sent a report to Smoker.
• Mark received the updated posters: his bounty rose to 70 million Beli, while Chiu Chiu received a 10 Beli bounty and Daisy remained without one.
• Chiu Chiu protested his low bounty, and Mark and Daisy laughed before the crew resumed its journey toward Loguetown.
• In Loguetown, Tashigi warned Smoker about Mark, and Smoker declared that he would destroy the Moss Pirates if they came to town.
• Smoker told Tashigi that the Marines feared the Pirate King’s former crew and avoided provoking Rayleigh, whose influence could lead to another great sea war.

Mark and the Moss Pirates faced Krieg’s fleet, which ambushed them on the way to Loguetown because Krieg resented Mark’s high bounty. As cannon fire overwhelmed the crew, Mark used the Dark-Dark Fruit’s powers to fly toward Krieg’s ship with a mass of explosives, leaving Krieg and his pirates shooting at him.

• Mark carved Chiu Chiu’s likeness while sailing, then spotted more than a dozen ships approaching.
• Krieg explained to Gin that he had ambushed Mark to prove he deserved the East Blue’s highest bounty.
• Krieg ordered his fleet to surround the Moss and fire, while Mark, Chiu Chiu, and Daisy destroyed the incoming cannonballs.
• Mark used Dark Water to gather cannonballs and Attraction Force to launch himself toward Krieg’s ship with explosives in hand.
• Krieg and his pirates opened fire on Mark as he flew toward them.

Mark attacked Krieg’s crew aboard the Dreadnought Saber, then unleashed his Liberation ability and buried the ship beneath debris. He killed Bara and Gin and confronted the unharmed Krieg.

• Mark hurled a barrage of cannonballs at the Dreadnought Saber, damaging the ship as its crew struggled to stop them.
• Mark spread black mist across the ship, but Krieg attacked the mast and tried to send Mark into the sea.
• Mark used Liberation to bury the Dreadnought Saber under stored debris, killing most of the crew and badly injuring Gin and Bara.
• Mark killed Bara and Gin with his Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• Mark approached Krieg, who remained unharmed in his cracked golden armor.

Mark defeated Krieg and slaughtered the pirates aboard nearly every ship, growing stronger through his ability to gain power by killing. After returning to the Moss, he reassured Daisy that he did not have Bloodlust Syndrome and revealed his unusual ability.

• Mark blocked Krieg’s War Spear with one hand, shattered it, and killed Krieg with his Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• Mark boarded the fleeing pirate ships and used Silent Step to kill their crews, increasing his Constitution and strengthening his Attraction Force.
• Daisy worried that Mark’s slaughter of thousands of pirates meant he had Bloodlust Syndrome, while Chiu Chiu told her not to worry.
• Mark discovered he could pull himself across seawater with Attraction Force, captured the remaining pirate ships in Dark Space, and returned to the Moss.
• Mark told Daisy and Chiu Chiu that killing enemies made him stronger and said the ability had awakened after he ate the Dark-Dark Fruit.

After learning that ordinary enemies barely increased his strength, Mark continued toward Loguetown with Daisy and Chiu Chiu. There, Smoker learned the Moss Pirates had arrived and led Marines to confront them, while preparing for Mark’s presumed Logia powers.

• Mark concluded that fighting weaker opponents gave him little strength, then prepared lunch before the Moss continued toward Loguetown.
• When Daisy asked how news of Krieg’s defeat had spread, Mark blamed Morgans’s seagull network and speculated that the World Government had infiltrated the World Economic News.
• Two days later, Mark, Daisy, and Chiu Chiu arrived in bustling Loguetown, where Chiu Chiu carried their shopping and supplies.
• A Marine soldier reported the Moss Pirates’ arrival to Colonel Smoker, who set out to find them.
• On the way, Smoker told Tashigi to evacuate nearby residents and reviewed Marine intelligence about Mark and Chiu Chiu.
• Smoker’s group reached a broad plaza, where a Marine pointed out the members of the Morse Pirate Ship.

Mark visited the execution platform in Loguetown before Smoker confronted him and tried to stop his crew from escaping. Mark wounded Smoker, took his Seastone Jitte, and continued fighting as his Dark Fist clashed with Smoker’s Smoke-Smoke Fruit powers.

• Mark climbed onto the execution platform and sent Chiu Chiu and Daisy back to the pirate ship when Smoker arrived.
• Smoker attacked Chiu Chiu as he carried Daisy away, but Mark blocked the White Fist and let them escape.
• Mark used Silent Step and his Mountain-Splitting Axe to wound Smoker and knock away his Jitte, which Mark took for himself.
• Smoker accused Mark of using Armament Haki, then attacked again with White Vines after Tashigi came to support him.
• Mark’s Dark Fist collided with Smoker’s White Vines and spread Dark Flame across the area.

Mark killed Tashigi and fought Smoker, whose grief drove him to unleash a powerful smoke assault. Mark overwhelmed him with Dark Emperor, destroying much of Loguetown, but Smoker survived the blast.

• Tashigi attacked Mark, but he pierced her chest with his Armament Haki-covered hand and killed her.
• Smoker transformed into smoke and attacked Mark with a barrage of fists, striking him despite Mark's Observation Haki and Silent Step.
• Mark's Dark Water failed to affect Smoker's dispersed smoke, so Mark formed Dark Emperor instead.
• Smoker exhausted himself and returned to human form as Mark approached with Dark Emperor.
• Mark hurled Dark Emperor at Smoker, and the explosion devastated the square and half of Loguetown, killing and injuring countless people.
• Mark sensed a survivor in the wreckage and realized the badly wounded Smoker had survived the blast.

Mark was forced to flee after Hina and Headquarters Marines interrupted his attempt to kill the unconscious Smoker, and he suffered severe wounds while escaping. The Moss sailed away, and Daisy healed Mark’s pierced arm as he vowed to remember the lesson.

• Hina arrived with Headquarters Marines and stopped Mark from striking Smoker, forcing him to retreat under a barrage of bullets and Black Guns.
• Mark reached the Moss but was pierced in the arm by Hina’s Black Gun; Chiu Chiu carried him aboard while Daisy helped him and Chiu Chiu started the ship.
• The Moss escaped toward the Red Line, and Hina ordered the Marines to save Smoker and reassess the danger posed by the Moss Pirates.
• Daisy used her healing power to close Mark’s wound, and Mark thanked her while resolving to grow stronger.

Mark, Daisy, and Chiu Chiu crossed Reverse Mountain and arrived at Twin Cape, where Mark sought out lighthouse keeper Crocus to obtain a Log Pose. After using Gaban’s name to gain Crocus’s trust, Mark invited him to a feast.

• Daisy guided the Moss safely up Reverse Mountain while Mark steered and Chiu Chiu stood ready at the bow.
• Mark, Daisy, and Chiu Chiu entered the Grand Line and decided to celebrate with a feast at Twin Cape.
• Mark recognized Crocus as the lighthouse keeper and doctor who cared for Laboon, and hoped to get a Log Pose from him.
• Crocus inspected the crew with Observation Haki and grew curious about the young pirates.
• Mark told Crocus that Gaban had mentioned him, then invited him to join the feast.
• Crocus ate Mark’s cooking with enthusiasm while Chiu Chiu eagerly ate alongside him.

Mark told Crocus that he wanted to recruit more companions and get a pirate ship of his own. Crocus revealed serious structural problems with the Moss, leaving Mark convinced they needed a shipwright and a safer vessel.

• Mark said his crew needed new members and their own ship, and estimated that he had about five hundred million Beli to spend.
• Crocus recommended the Solomon Shipyard but warned that the Moss would not survive the New World.
• Chiu Chiu defended the Moss, so Crocus proposed a test and Mark agreed.
• Crocus exposed cracks where the main mast joined the deck and damp, rotting wood inside the keel.
• Mark, Daisy, and Chiu Chiu recognized the danger, and Mark became more determined to find a shipwright.

Mark accepted Crocus’s warning about the Dark-Dark Fruit’s power to steal abilities, then received a Log Pose and sailed with Daisy and Chiu Chiu to Solomon Shipyard. Their storm-damaged ship arrived there, and a shipwright who was Jerry’s disciple offered to take them to his master.

• Crocus guided Mark toward Solomon Shipyard and explained that the Dark-Dark Fruit could seize other people’s powers and had once empowered a dangerous pirate crew.
• Mark insisted that he would use the fruit’s strength to pursue his ambitions, and Crocus hoped he would not repeat the fate of its previous user.
• Crocus gave Mark an old Log Pose after Mark remembered he had forgotten to ask for one.
• Mark, Daisy, and Chiu Chiu reached Solomon Shipyard after a hailstorm battered the Moss with holes.
• A middle-aged shipwright recognized Mark’s interest in Jerry, confirmed that Jerry was his master, and led the group into Solomon Island.

Mark and his companions met Master Jerry at Solomon Shipyard and asked him to build them a ship. Mark chose the best ship Jerry could make, but the enormous price prompted Chiu Chiu to protest.

• Baroen led Mark and his companions to Master Jerry’s estate, where they met Housen, Jerry’s true disciple.
• Baroen explained how Jerry had taught the island’s shipwrights and adopted Housen after Housen’s parents died.
• Jerry agreed to build a ship for Mark after hearing that Crocus had sent him.
• Mark asked Jerry to build the best ship to protect his companions at sea.
• Jerry quoted 1.2 billion Beli for materials and another 100 million for labor, and Chiu Chiu angrily challenged the labor cost.

Mark agreed to pay Jerry 1.3 billion Beli to build a ship based on Jerry’s model, which could escape natural disasters and fire powerful compressed-air cannons. With only 500 million available upfront, Mark offered his old pirate ship and kept several cannons, but Baroen explained that even the Adam Wood main beam would cost over 700 million.

• Chiu Chiu insulted Jerry’s labor fee, and Housen threatened the bird before Mark intervened and warned Housen not to insult his companion.
• Jerry explained the cost and timeline for building a top-tier ship, then showed Mark a three-masted model and demonstrated its defenses against simulated disasters.
• Mark accepted the design and agreed to pay 1.3 billion Beli, while Jerry said he would use Adam Wood and premium ironwood for the ship.
• Mark said he could pay 500 million upfront and offered his pirate ship, keeping its thirty-two-pound cannon and four twenty-four-pound cannons.
• Baroen explained that the Adam Wood main beam alone cost more than 700 million, though Jerry’s supplier connections could secure enough additional materials.

Mark arranged to begin rebuilding his pirate ship despite lacking the full payment, then sailed toward the Wind-Snow Twin Islands to raise the remaining money. Meanwhile, Mihawk and Whitebeard saw Mark’s updated bounty poster, and Whitebeard recognized him as the descendant of an old acquaintance.

• Mark agreed to pay 500 million Beli upfront for ship materials and learned that the Wind-Snow Twin Islands were a nearby pirate gathering spot.
• Mark paid for the Moss, refused to sell its valuable cannons, and left Daisy and Chiu Chiu to supervise the shipyard work while he sought more money.
• Mark sailed alone toward the Wind-Snow Twin Islands after borrowing a small sailboat.
• Mihawk saw Mark’s new bounty poster and split a noisy twin-masted sailboat apart with a single slash.
• Whitebeard showed Mark’s bounty poster to Marco and said Mark was the descendant of an old acquaintance.

A worldwide bounty update revealed Mark of the Moss Pirates as a 16-year-old Supernova with a 120-million-Beli bounty, drawing attention from Whitebeard's crew, Doflamingo, and pirates across the seas. Teach secretly struggled with the news that Mark had eaten the Dark-Dark Fruit, while the chapter ended with Wind Island tavern patrons reacting in disbelief to Mark's bounty.

• Marco and the others read Mark's bounty poster, and Whitebeard suggested that Mark was likely a junior of an old acquaintance from Moss Town.
• Teach took the poster into the cabin and panicked after seeing that Mark had eaten the Dark-Dark Fruit, then hid it when Thatch approached.
• Doflamingo showed Trebol Daisy's nine-million-Beli bounty and said the Moss Pirates were strong enough to keep her safe.
• Mark's 120-million-Beli bounty made him the youngest Supernova in history and spread the Moss Pirates' fame around the world.
• At a Wind Island tavern, pirates spotted Mark's poster and questioned whether a 16-year-old could really have a 120-million-Beli bounty.

Mark gathered information about the pirate crews ruling Wind-Snow Island and targeted Viper Links, captain of the Viper Pirates, to seize money and gain experience. He confronted Links at the Merck Tavern and attacked him with Dark Water.

• Mark learned that six major pirate crews controlled Wind-Snow Island and decided to take them down one by one for their money and experience.
• Mark waited at the Merck Tavern for Viper Links, whose crew owned the establishment.
• Links arrived and began checking the tavern accounts while the other pirates watched him with fear and respect.
• Mark asked Links to lend him money and then his head, prompting the cautious captain to spring back.
• Mark used Dark Water to attack Links.

Mark killed Viper Captain Linx and raided the Viper Pirates' estate, using his Devil Fruit powers and axe to overwhelm the crew. He finished the chapter trapping the fleeing pirates inside as he slaughtered them.

• Mark used Armament Haki to pierce Linx's chest and kill him, then asked the bartender for help.
• Mark brought the bartender to the Viper Pirates' estate and told him to wait outside and collect the money.
• Mark entered the estate, killed three pirates in the courtyard, and used Observation Haki to locate the others.
• Mark used Dark Water to pull tens of millions of Beli from a gambling table into a sack.
• The Viper Pirates attacked Mark, but he cut them down with his axe and used Dark Water to prevent the survivors from escaping.

After killing Viper Linx and taking his crew’s money, Mark recruited Marcus to safeguard it and revealed his identity as captain of the Moss Pirates. Mark headed to confront Quilado of the Collision Pirates, who remained unaware of the threat.

• Mark took five hundred million Beli from the Viper Pirates’ estate and set off with Marcus for lunch.
• After news spread that Linx had been killed, Mark asked Marcus to keep his money safe and offered him a reward or a chance to settle somewhere safe.
• Mark revealed his face, and Marcus recognized him as Rod Mark, the sixteen-year-old captain of the Moss Pirates.
• Mark told Marcus that he planned to attack the Collision Pirates next, then went with him to their base.
• At the Golden Splendor Ballroom, Quilado dismissed the danger posed by whoever killed Linx and boasted that he would kill any attacker.

Mark killed Quilado and a woman at the Golden Splendor Ballroom, then went with Marcus to the Green Lizard Pirates’ casino and killed Giant Lizard Jack. As Jack’s officers attacked him, Mark used Silent Step to appear behind them and struck with Dark Fist.

• Mark killed Quilado and the woman in his private room, then left the Golden Splendor Ballroom without confronting the Collision Pirates.
• Mark and Marcus headed to the Green Lizard Pirates’ casino, where Mark disguised himself to avoid being recognized as Linx’s killer.
• Mark passed the guards by claiming he was Quilado’s man and went to the third floor, where Giant Lizard Jack planned to take over Merck Tavern.
• Mark killed Jack with the Mountain-Splitting Axe before he could speak, saying afterward that he needed to borrow money.
• Jack’s officers attacked Mark with blades and bullets, but Mark used Silent Step to appear behind them and unleash Dark Fist.

Mark tortured a surviving pirate to learn where the Green Lizard Pirates kept their money, then slaughtered the crew and opened their treasury. He and Marcus found a vast fortune, and Mark left its safekeeping to Marcus as they considered how to move it.

• Mark spared one wounded pirate and tortured him until he revealed the Green Lizard Pirates' treasury location.
• A group of pirates rushed in, and Mark killed them after they attacked him and called for revenge for Jack.
• Mark chased and slaughtered the Green Lizard Pirates throughout their casino while Marcus watched in fear.
• Mark and Marcus found the treasury behind a locked basement door, where they saw about two billion Beli in cash along with gold and valuables.
• Mark asked Marcus to keep the treasure safe, and Marcus agreed but asked how they would transport it.