Chapter Summaries

Leo welcomed Van Augur and Raphael into his crew after they chose to join him in Mock Town. He led his companions back to the plaza and declared victory after their battle.

• Raphael descended into the clearing and offered to join Leo, revealing his Mythical Zoan Siren Form.
• Leo accepted Raphael and Van Augur, recognizing their talents and Raphael's ability to fly.
• Leo handed Nico Robin the inventory of the spoils and reassured her that she was their companion.
• Leo reached the plaza, where the wounded pirates had been treated and the Revolutionary Army members awaited him.
• Leo raised his fist and shouted that they had won, prompting the Cutlass Pirates to cheer.

After the Pirate Revolutionary Army defeated the pirates in Mock Town, Leo reviewed their losses and gains and praised their discipline and medics. He revealed that their goal was Sky Island, where a vast amount of gold awaited them.

• Leo ordered the troops to form ranks and reported that they had killed 122 enemies, lost fifteen men, and suffered twenty wounded.
• Leo told the army that discipline had won them the battle and praised them as the world's most elite soldiers.
• Leo announced that they had captured around fifteen ships, seized about 200 million Beli, taken more than 420 prisoners, and gained access to Mock Town's resources.
• Leo recognized the medics for saving thirty-six wounded pirates, drawing applause from the pirates whose companions they had treated.
• Leo revealed that he had brought them across the Calm Belt to reach Sky Island and claim its enormous store of gold.

Leo assigned Lafitte to find a South Bird and inform an islander that the group would ascend to Sky Island in ten days. He reorganized Ace’s pirates into a new force and gave her a Logia Devil Fruit, which she accepted and ate.

• Leo sent Lafitte to the island’s east coast to deliver a message and search for a South Bird.
• Ace brought the defeated Hyena Bellamy to Leo, who ordered him shackled with Seastone.
• Leo had Nico Robin record merit citations for the Scimitar Group, the Spade Pirates, Ace, Michael, and Masked.
• Ran delivered a chest containing a Logia Devil Fruit to Leo, who named Ace captain of the newly established Second Special Attack Force.
• Leo told Ace he trusted her and handed her the fruit, and Ace took a bite.

Leo reflected on the importance of personal strength, accepted that he was not suited to eating the Flame-Flame Fruit, and gave the fruit to Ace. After Ace awakened its power, Leo unified the group with a salute and ordered the captured pirates to begin training while he prepared to reach Sky Island and confront Enel.

• Leo decided that his strength as a commander mattered more than obtaining the Flame-Flame Fruit, and planned to rely on Ace and Hancock to face Enel on Sky Island.
• Ace ate the Flame-Flame Fruit, gained control of its flames, and thanked Leo.
• Leo led everyone in adopting a fist-to-chest salute that strengthened their sense of unity.
• Leo ordered the pirates to undergo five days of basic training under the Special Attack Team's supervision.
• Leo gave himself ten days to absorb the pirates into his forces before leaving for Sky Island with Ace and the three Hancock sisters.

Leo summoned Mock Town’s merchants and laid out his plans for controlling the town’s businesses and holding a lucrative bidding process. The merchants eagerly considered competing for the contracts, while Leo’s followers began training the captured pirates.

• At Leo’s command, his followers divided more than four hundred captured pirates into groups for training, while the Spade Pirates kept watch over town.
• Leo ordered Robin to summon every merchant, and she used her Flower-Flower Fruit to deliver his message throughout Mock Town.
• The merchants gathered in the square and introduced themselves to Leo.
• Leo announced that he intended to claim Mock Town as territory, but promised to leave the merchants’ businesses alone if they paid rent every year.
• Leo invited the merchants to bid on a two-hundred-million-Beli procurement order and to buy the captured pirate ships and supplies, exciting them with the prospect of profit.

Leo used the Empress’s Shichibukai status to attract merchants and secure supplies for developing Mock Town as a base for the Revolutionary Army. He began auctioning seized treasure to finance the plan and reflected on the World Government’s power to mint Beli.

• Leo planned to use the Empress’s name and Marines’ recognition to establish Mock Town as a Revolutionary Army base.
• Leo offered merchants long-term partnerships in exchange for canvas, Adam Tree trunks, gunpowder, weapons, pig iron, lumber, and Devil Fruits.
• The merchants saw a chance to profit from Mock Town’s future as a town backed by a Shichibukai and set their prices.
• Leo signaled Nico Robin to start auctioning the seized treasure.
• Nico Robin announced five hundred kilograms of gold and jewels for auction, with bidding starting at zero Beli.
• Leo considered how the World Government’s control of currency let it print Beli and distribute it across the Four Seas.

Leo’s auction of the Kuja Pirates’ treasures and ships exposed how badly merchants had underpaid them, while his transparent ship ratings began building commercial credibility. Lafitte arrived with Chestnut Head and the Monkey Mountain Alliance Army, bringing the South Bird Leo wanted and an unexpected force for future engineering work.

• Leo explained that the Kuja Pirates’ regular merchants had likely cheated them for years, and Hancock’s officers reacted with anger.
• Leo graded and disclosed the condition of each ship before auctioning it, aiming to build a trusted rating system independent of the World Government.
• The Yuda fired a signal flare to announce an arrival, and Lafitte descended carrying the South Bird Leo had requested.
• Lafitte reported that Chestnut Head, Commander-in-Chief of the Monkey Mountain Alliance Army, had arrived with the group.
• Leo recognized the Monkey Mountain Alliance Army’s salvage skills and radar detection abilities as valuable assets for his plans.

Leo arranged for Lafitte to bring Mont Blanc and his adopted sons to Jaya Island, where he was coordinating a major supply purchase. The chapter ended as Mont Blanc’s family arrived at the square, crowded with merchants and workers handling the transactions.

• A messenger snake asked Ran whether the Kuja Pirates should intercept the Monkey Mountain Alliance, and Ran sent it back with her answer.
• Mont Blanc, Gorilla, and Orangutan left the Monkey Mountain Alliance in a small boat and headed for Jaya Island’s western shore.
• Lafitte met Mont Blanc and his adopted sons at the harbor and escorted them to the auction house, which Leo had turned into a purchasing convention.
• Leo managed the merchants’ bidding and completed supply deals while Robin watched his fair but tightly controlled negotiations.
• Mont Blanc’s family arrived as the merchants’ workers rushed to clean up wreckage, inventory goods, and transport supplies.

Leo revealed that he planned to reach the Golden City by building a hot-air balloon and asked Mont Blanc to help with the work. Mont Blanc agreed, and Leo’s plan began with an embarrassing display of how weak he was compared with Mont Blanc.

• Mont Blanc arrived after Lafitte summoned him and asked Leo how they would reach the Golden City.
• Leo said they would assemble a huge sphere, fill it with hot air, and use it to carry people into the sky.
• Leo asked for the Monkey Mountain Alliance Army’s help to build the balloon, gliders, and parachutes.
• Mont Blanc agreed to lend Leo the Alliance Army’s strength so he could find the Golden City and clear his family’s name.
• Mont Blanc squeezed Leo’s hand so hard that Leo yelped and sprang to his feet, stunning Robin, Lafitte, Mont Blanc, Gorilla, and ape.

Leo arranged to rebuild Mock Town and organize the newly joined pirates into a productive workforce. As the town’s renovation began, he recognized that the Monkey Mountain Alliance Army’s coordinated salvage work made them suited to assembly-line production.

• Leo ordered Lafitte to map Mock Town and had Robin identify building owners so he could plan an exchange-based demolition and reconstruction.
• Lafitte, Van Augur, and Robin watched Leo and wondered how he had earned the Pirate Empress’s favor and gathered powerful followers.
• Pirates led by the Revolutionary Army drilled around Mock Town while Van Augur and Michael watched the town and surrounding waters from a church.
• The Monkey Mountain Alliance Army began preparing the foundations outside the city after effectively joining Leo’s team.
• Leo decided the Ape Pirates and Gorilla Pirates could use their coordinated salvage and diving work to perform specialized assembly-line labor.

Leo oversaw the construction of three experimental hot air balloons and several smaller flying devices, while Mock Town’s merchants set sail with his procurement lists. Lafitte tested a paraglider and loved the experience, leaving Leo’s balloon project unfinished.

• Leo used steel strips and canvas to build three hot air balloon prototypes and spent money on his experiments.
• Mock Town’s merchants took Leo’s procurement lists and sailed on pirate ships to buy goods along the Grand Line.
• The Monkey Mountain Alliance Army completed the three hot air balloons, though they had not yet been inflated.
• Leo gave Lafitte a basic paraglider to test, and Lafitte flew into the sky with it.
• Lafitte discovered that he could glide easily by pulling the canopy and fell in love with the paraglider.

Leo made the captured pirates train, fed them, and kept them occupied with an evening lesson on firearms. The chapter ended with Michael and Van Augur called on to explain how guns worked, despite struggling to put their instincts into words.

• Leo arranged enough food for the Revolutionary Army and more than four hundred captured pirates to eat their fill.
• After training the pirates ran roughly ten kilometers, Leo’s group sold most of their ships, leaving the captives with few chances to escape.
• Leo decided the pirates would attend night school and gathered them after dinner for a lesson on firearms.
• Leo claimed guns could threaten most powerful fighters and asked Van Augur and Michael to explain firearm principles.
• Van Augur and Michael stepped forward but stammered because they did not know how to explain what they had learned by instinct.

Leo taught the pirates the principles behind firearms and began explaining why muskets were inaccurate. He left them with a diagram showing a musket ball tumbling inside an oversized barrel before flying out on an erratic path.

• Leo reflected that concentrated gunfire had allowed ordinary pirates to challenge stronger enemies and decided to teach them about firearms.
• Leo called William over to bring a large blackboard, while Nico Robin used her powers to arrange oil lamps around the crowd.
• Leo drew a gun barrel and explained how gunpowder pressure propelled a projectile forward.
• Leo asked why muskets were inaccurate and began explaining how inconsistent barrel and projectile sizes made the ball tumble before it left the barrel.

Leo taught the pirates how coordinated musket volleys could overcome irregular bullets and outnumbered enemies, leaving them impressed and reluctant to flee. The next morning, he incorporated them into the First Army and imposed collective punishment to bind them together as a unit.

• Leo explained why silk-wrapped bullets were more accurate and how groups of musketeers could use volleys to defeat larger enemy forces.
• The pirates spent the night reconsidering their plans to escape, drawn by Leo’s knowledge, fair treatment, and generosity.
• Leo found that no pirates had left and declared that they would all remain with his forces.
• Leo assigned the pirates to the First Army for training, separated the prisoners into their own unit, and ordered groups of eight to elect squad leaders.
• Leo announced that an escape by any pirate would bring punishment upon the entire squad.

Leo reorganized the captured pirates into squads and began training them, using collective responsibility to discourage escape and build a unified force. As Nico Robin handled their records and questioned the value of educating them, Leo pushed ahead with his plan to integrate them into the Revolutionary Army.

• Leo relied on the prisoners’ decision to stay and arranged them under a collective-responsibility system that would disrupt their old organizations and keep escape attempts in check.
• Leo assigned Nico Robin to record the pirates’ information, and she used her Flower-Flower Fruit to process the workload rapidly.
• Nico Robin questioned the point of teaching pirates to read, while Leo maintained that anyone could be educated and rise to become a leader.
• Leo divided the pirates into groups and squads with designated leaders, then had them run laps under Revolutionary Army supervision.
• After lunch, the pirates practiced bayonet drills with wooden rifle models and took part in live-fire exercises alongside Revolutionary Army members.

Leo and Masked trained the pirates in battlefield first aid, literacy, and long-distance marches as they prepared for Leo’s planned flight. On the day of the test flight, the city’s residents gathered to watch, while the pirates unexpectedly organized themselves into teams around the clearing.

• Masked taught the pirates battlefield first aid, showing them how to treat bullet and blade wounds.
• Leo began teaching the pirates to write the letter A using prepared worksheets and boards.
• On the fourth day, Leo doubled the training load and had the pirates run long distances while carrying weights.
• The pirates rested on the sixth day as the city’s residents gathered to see whether Leo could make something fly.
• The Revolutionary Army struggled to keep order, but the pirates formed small teams and watched the clearing with guarded expressions.

Leo’s hot-air-balloon experiment succeeded with Ace supplying the heat, and the first balloon rose above Mock Town as its people watched in amazement. It remained tethered to the ground while Ace continued to fire it upward.

• Leo explained that Ace’s weightless elemental form made him an ideal source of heat for the balloons and instructed him to control his flames.
• Ace stood in the rattan basket as Sandersonia, Marigold, and William lifted the balloon into position.
• Ace directed flames into the balloon, heating its air until the limp fabric expanded and stood upright.
• The balloon began to rise, astonishing the Empress, merchants, and townspeople.
• Ace poured blue flames into the balloon, which climbed six or seven meters before its anchored cables kept it from taking off.

Leo’s team successfully launched hot-air balloons in Mock Town, demonstrating a new means of transportation and giving the recruits a concrete example of how they could change the world. As the team tested different designs and prepared further experiments, Lafitte and the others saw that the pirates had grown more disciplined and united.

• Ace stopped heating the balloon once it reached the rope’s limit, then jumped down and told Leo he wished Iska could see their work.
• Leo reflected on the balloon as an invention that could improve people’s lives and contrasted it with Fisherman Tom’s remarkable Sea Train technology, which still could not protect him from the World Government.
• Ace inflated a lighter wooden-framed balloon, while pirate captives explained to the townspeople that the team was testing flight duration and range.
• Ace raised all three balloons as Nico Robin recorded results, and Leo planned tests for cooling time, load capacity, and altitude.
• Lafitte watched the experiments and, with Van Augur and Nico Robin, recognized that the recruited pirates had become more cohesive, disciplined, and united.

Leo’s group drew merchants’ attention with their hot air balloons, but Leo had already bought up the supplies they would need to copy them. As he considered how to spread his ideas and manage the growing organization, he realized he was overworked and wished he could use a Clone-Clone Fruit.

• Three hot air balloons attracted crowds in Mock Town, and merchants decided to build balloons of their own.
• The merchants discovered Leo had already bought up the available supplies, leaving them unable to compete without traveling across the Grand Line.
• Leo valued Sky Island’s Dials for their practical uses and their potential to spread propaganda through sound and images.
• Leo weighed the difficulty of training revolutionary leaders who could both understand his ideas and become strong fighters.
• Leo worked for five days with help from Nico Robin, Van Augur, Lafitte, and the Spade Pirates, then wished a Clone-Clone Fruit would appear so he could divide his workload.

Leo prepared his forces and equipment for an expedition to Sky Island, completing hot-air balloon and parachute tests and deciding who would go. He rested with Hancock before the planned departure the next day.

• Pirate soldiers finished their training and dug deep trenches around Mock Town to defend against a possible Navy attack.
• Leo’s team produced thirty hot air balloons and three hundred parachutes after buying supplies in Mock Town.
• Leo chose the expedition party, including Hancock, Rindou, Ace, Nico Robin, Van Augur, and Lafitte, and planned to bring wavering pirate soldiers.
• Leo declared the ninth day a day of rest and relaxed in Hancock’s embrace before the next day’s departure.