Chapter Summaries

Mark attacked Arlong Park, killing Kuroobi and Chew before cutting through the fish-men with Daisy and Chiu Chiu. Arlong confronted him as the remaining fish-men retreated, and Mark unleashed Black Hole against the ground.

• Mark used Dark Water to pull Kuroobi close and killed him with Hand Stab.
• Mark blocked Chew's water attacks and killed him with a Darkness Power punch.
• Mark and his companions fought the attacking fish-men, with Mark cutting them down using the Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• Arlong ordered the fish-men to fall back and confronted Mark with his serrated blade.
• Mark forced Arlong's blade down and slammed his Darkness Power-covered hand into the ground with Black Hole.

Mark defeated Arlong and spared Hatchan, who carried Arlong’s body away. After revealing his connection to Cocoyasi Village and explaining how the Marines had lied about his family’s death, Mark invited Nami to join his pirate crew, but she refused.

• Mark crushed Arlong’s hands with a darkness attack, broke his neck, and used Black Hole to devour the other fish-men.
• Mark stopped Hatchan from attacking again and spared him, then Hatchan took Arlong’s body and left for the sea.
• Nami arrived and prevented Hatchan from fighting Mark, then asked who Mark and his companions were.
• Mark told Nami he had grown up in Cocoyasi Village and revealed that Marines had lied about his family’s deaths.
• Mark invited Nami to become his crew’s navigator, but Nami shook her head and refused.

Mark failed to persuade Nami to join his crew, then prepared to leave Cocoyasi Village aboard the remodeled Shark Superb. He departed as the Moss Pirates and told A-Jian to report his destruction of the 16th Marine Branch, seeking to build his reputation.

• Nami refused Mark's invitation, explaining that she had endured the villagers' rejection while trying to save Cocoyasi Village from Arlong.
• Mark accepted Nami's decision and met Nojiko and A-Jian, while Chiu Chiu's explanation helped reconcile Nami with the villagers.
• Chiu Chiu told Mark that the Shark Superb was ready, and Mark learned that A-Jian had been Bawatt's friend and comrade.
• Mark saw that Chiu Chiu had remodeled the Shark Superb to resemble a golden bird and boarded it with Daisy and Chiu Chiu.
• As the Moss Pirates sailed away, Mark told A-Jian to inform the Marines that he had destroyed the 16th Marine Branch.

Mark accepted Daisy as the Moss Pirates’ navigator and doctor, and the crew created its pirate flag before setting sail. Meanwhile, Red-Haired Shanks arrived in the East Blue to visit Luffy and Makino, and his crew spotted Mark’s ship.

• Daisy confronted Mark for deciding to let Nami join without asking her, and Mark apologized for overlooking her wishes and contributions.
• Mark named Daisy the crew’s navigator and doctor, recognizing her navigation skills, medical abilities, marksmanship, and Fruit power.
• Mark drew a pirate flag depicting a skull, darkness, and wings, and the crew painted it on their sail and banner to establish the Moss Pirates.
• Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates discussed their visit to Luffy and Shanks’s feelings of guilt toward Makino and Uta.
• Lucky Roux spotted an unfamiliar pirate ship, and Shanks recognized Mark and Daisy aboard it.

Mark and his companions met Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates while celebrating their recent windfall with a barbecue. After Mark refused Shanks’s invitation to join his crew, he set his sights on the New World and promised Daisy he could challenge the Celestial Dragons.

• Mark and Daisy shared a barbecue with Chiu Chiu, feasting on meat bought with the Arlong Pirates’ plunder and meat from a Sea King Mark had killed.
• Mark recognized Shanks’s Red Force and flew with Daisy and Chiu Chiu to meet Shanks and his crew.
• Shanks revealed he had come to check on Luffy and invited Mark to join the Red-Haired Pirates, but Mark refused as he had before.
• Mark declined to visit Luffy, calling him the inheritor of Roger’s will, and Shanks looked forward to the coming new era before they parted.
• Mark told Chiu Chiu that the Four Emperors were the New World’s strongest pirates and vowed that his own crew would become Four Emperors.
• When Daisy asked whether the Four Emperors could challenge the Celestial Dragons, Mark held her hand and promised that he could.

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.