Recaps

Locke defeated Sis after being beaten nearly to death, and the Kuma brothers carried the unconscious Locke toward the shore to find his ship. Meanwhile, Carmen appeared aboard the slave ship to protect the wounded Yun Zhinnan.

• Sis tricked Locke into attacking, grabbed him, and beat him until he could no longer resist.
• Sis lunged at Locke with a knife, but the blade stopped just short of his face; Locke escaped and stabbed Sis through the heart before passing out.
• The Kuma brothers defeated their opponents, treated Locke and their injured brothers, then carried Locke toward the coast to search for his ship.
• Aboard the slave ship, Carmen appeared in front of the wounded Yun Zhinnan as sailors surrounded her after he collapsed.

Carmen helped the enslaved people defeat the sailors aboard the slave ship and asked them to search for Locke. The searchers mistook the Kuma brothers for possible enemies before Carmen recognized Locke on the third brother’s back and brought them to the ship.

• Carmen’s rescued people beat the sailors and stopped only when she called them off.
• Carmen asked the healthier rescued people to search the island for Locke while she stayed aboard to care for the injured.
• A searcher encountered the Kuma brothers and followed them after noticing the injured man on the third brother’s back.
• The searchers surrounded the Kuma brothers and brought Carmen over to identify the man they carried.
• Carmen recognized Locke, heard the eldest brother explain what had happened, and led the three brothers to the slave ship.

Locke woke in his old apartment and spent the day revisiting his former life, meeting Zhao Lei and calling his mother before realizing the familiar world was not real. At night, he confronted Annie, the little girl who had brought him back, and asked who she was.

• Locke woke in his rented apartment, called Zhao Lei, and arranged to meet him that evening.
• Locke walked through the city to his old school and spent the afternoon reminiscing on campus.
• Locke met Zhao Lei at their old dry pot restaurant, but Zhao Lei left early after receiving a call from his new girlfriend.
• Locke called his mother and cried as they spoke for more than an hour.
• Locke noticed a little girl following him and asked who she was; she introduced herself as Annie.

Locke spoke with Annie in her dream and learned how she became a ghost after pirates attacked her island and destroyed most of it. Believing Locke had eaten the Divine Tree’s crystal to protect it, Annie asked to travel with him and guard him, and Locke agreed.

• Locke asked Annie why she had followed him, and she explained that she had been drawn to his dream world.
• Annie told Locke that she had been chosen to eat a fruit from the Divine Tree, but the villagers thought she had no powers.
• Pirates attacked the island, killed Annie and the other guardians, and tried to destroy the Divine Tree; Annie became a ghost and sank most of the island in a rage.
• Annie explained that she had saved Locke from Sis by trapping Sis in a nightmare, then pulled Locke into her dream to ask about the Divine Tree’s aura.
• Locke told Annie that he had eaten the Divine Tree’s crystal to keep it from the bad guys, and Annie asked to travel with him so she could protect him.
• Locke agreed to let Annie accompany him, and Annie happily began spinning around him.

Locke woke aboard the slave ship after recovering from his injuries and learned how Carmen and the freed slaves had defeated the crew. He discovered Annie had trapped the three Devil Fruit users in dreams to teach them to protect him as the Divine Tree, and persuaded her to let them go so he could speak with them.

• Locke woke aboard the slave ship, and Carmen told him she had freed the slaves and led them in defeating the crew.
• Carmen explained that the three Devil Fruit users had carried Locke aboard and treated his injuries, so Locke asked her to bring them to him.
• Carmen returned unable to wake the three, and Locke called Annie to appear.
• Carmen mistook the glowing Annie for a ghost, clung to Locke, and pretended to faint when Annie floated in the air.
• Annie admitted she had trapped the three in dreams to teach them that they had to protect the Divine Tree, which she said was Locke.
• Locke asked Annie to release the three so he could talk to them first, and Annie agreed.

Locke listened to the three bear-men brothers explain how a villager’s treasure-map scam stranded them on an island, where they ate three Devil Fruits and were captured by slave traders. After rescuing them, Locke heard their story and learned about their lives in Bear Bear Village.

• Carmen left Locke’s cabin after Annie disappeared, while Annie secretly watched and insisted that Locke belonged to her.
• Locke thought about his dream of his previous life and wondered whether his family there was safe beneath the stars.
• Annie brought Big Bear, Second Bear, and Panda to Locke, and the brothers thanked him for saving their lives.
• Big Bear explained that Laifu had tricked the brothers with a fake treasure map, drugged them, and abandoned them on an island.
• The brothers revealed that they had eaten three Devil Fruits to stave off hunger, lost their ability to swim, and were later captured by slave traders.

Locke listened to Big Bear and the others recount their stories, then offered to accompany them home without forcing them to join his crew. Five days later, Locke had mostly recovered, and the freed slaves were preparing to return home aboard the slave ship.

• Locke asked Big Bear and the other two what they planned to do, and they said they wanted to go home first.
• Locke agreed to accompany the three and promised not to force them to leave with him, while Annie watched them depart.
• Locke explained to Annie that he wanted to win them over through kindness, then told her a story about love and peace.
• Yun Zhinnan recovered faster than Locke, walking three days after waking while Locke only managed to get out of bed the day before.
• Locke had Carmen organize the slaves to return home and gave them the slave ship for their journey.

Locke prepared to leave the island for Bisi Island with his companions and gave Yun Zhinnan a Haki training manual. Yun Zhinnan recognized similarities between Haki and the True Qi he had cultivated since childhood.

• Locke ate with Carmen, Yun Zhinnan, and the three Kuma brothers and announced they would set off for Bisi Island.
• Locke reassured Carmen that his injuries had nearly healed, and Carmen agreed to the departure.
• Annie admitted she was nervous about leaving the island, and Locke reassured her about the outside world.
• Locke gave Yun Zhinnan a Haki training manual and asked him to read it.
• Yun Zhinnan said Haki resembled the True Qi he had cultivated since childhood, surprising Locke.

Locke and his companions discovered Bisi Island’s village had been burned and its people killed, including Big Bear’s beloved Ruhua and her father. Big Bear blamed the Navy, and after the soldiers surrounded the Phantom, Locke’s group confronted them while Carmen stopped their bullets.

• Locke and his companions arrived at Bisi Island and found the village burned, with corpses scattered among the ruins.
• Big Bear found Ruhua and her father dead, then accused the Navy ship that had departed earlier of massacring the village.
• Locke realized the Navy planned to frame his crew and hide while Annie checked that the soldiers had not damaged the Phantom.
• A Navy officer ordered the supposed pirates to surrender, and Big Bear charged the soldiers before they shot him down.
• Locke had Carmen drag Big Bear to safety, and she halted the Navy’s bullets in midair as Second Bear came to check on his injured brother.

Locke and his companions defeated the Marines who had attacked the village, and Second Bear and Panda avenged the villagers by killing them. After interrogating their officer, Sofira, Locke learned that Colonel Nezumi had ordered the attack and returned to check on his ship.

• Second Bear treated Big Bear, who identified the attackers as the people responsible for Ruhua and Master and urged revenge before passing out.
• Locke and Carmen disarmed the Marines, allowing Second Bear and Panda to charge into their ranks and kill them.
• Locke blocked the Marines' escape to their warship, while Yun Zhinnan captured Sofira and brought him before Locke.
• Sofira revealed that he was a lieutenant colonel from the East Blue's 16th Branch and that Colonel Nezumi had ordered the village attack.
• Locke let Second Bear and Panda deal with Sofira, then returned to his ship to check on Annie.

After Marines massacred the villagers, Locke helped the Kuma brothers bury the dead and agreed to help them get revenge. He set course for the East Blue 16th Marine Branch, destroying three Marine warships on the way as he reflected on his newly awakened Devil Fruit powers.

• Locke found Marines bleeding while asleep aboard the Phantom, learned Annie had used his dream-based attack technique, and threw the Marines into the sea.
• Locke and his crew searched the village, found that 284 of its 287 villagers had been killed, and helped the three Kuma brothers bury them.
• Big Bear demanded revenge, and Locke promised to help before announcing that the brothers had joined the crew and ordering the Phantom toward the East Blue 16th Marine Branch.
• The Phantom encountered three Marine warships marked with the number 16, and Locke summoned an ice giant that sank one ship and split the other two apart.
• As the Phantom continued sailing, Locke considered how his awakened illusions could attack directly and how Annie helped him recover forgotten techniques from his past life.

Locke continued cultivating aboard the Phantom while the Marines issued a bounty for his crew based only on a distant photograph of their ship. The crew learned they had been marked for fifty million Beli as they sailed toward the Marine 16th Branch.

• Locke sent Annie back to study navigation, then returned to cultivating Yun Zhinnan's nameless technique.
• Sengoku received a report that a pirate crew had slaughtered island residents and sunk four Marine warships, and he ordered a fifty-million-Beli bounty for everyone aboard their ship.
• Sengoku instructed the messenger to send Smoker to the Marine 16th Branch before he went to Loguetown to investigate the pirates.
• Three days after Locke dealt with the warships, Big Bear brought Locke a wanted poster aboard the Phantom.
• Locke saw that the Marines had used a distant photograph showing the Phantom's name, but no recognizable faces, as the basis for the crew's bounty.

Locke brought Carmen and his crew to the sea restaurant Baratie after learning it was nearby, where Carmen reunited with Sanji and challenged him to a cooking competition. The chapter ended as Locke impatiently urged them to begin, while his crew teased him for being jealous.

• Locke ordered the Phantom to approach Baratie after Big Bear reported spotting a restaurant at sea.
• Locke brought Carmen to Baratie, where Sanji rushed over to flirt with her.
• Carmen told Sanji she had learned cooking because of him and asked to compete with him.
• Locke interrupted Sanji and Carmen while his crew watched and teased him for being jealous.

Carmen defeated Sanji in a cooking contest, but tasting his sashimi made her reflect on a promise she had made to Locke. The Phantom crew departed, while Locke told Sanji he looked forward to meeting him again in the New World.

• Carmen and Sanji competed before the Baratie diners, making twice-cooked pork and salmon sashimi respectively.
• The diners favored Carmen's aromatic dish, and she won the contest by a wide margin.
• Carmen gave Sanji her recipe notebook and said she looked forward to competing with him again.
• Locke tasted both dishes, caught up with Carmen, and reassured her that he would always stay by her side.
• Carmen kissed Locke on the cheek and returned to her room, and Locke ordered the Phantom crew to set sail.
• Locke told Sanji to meet him in the New World and asked him to tell a moss-green-haired man that he awaited his challenge.

Locke and his crew attacked the Navy’s 16th Branch, aiming to take down its officers while sparing ordinary Marines where possible. The assault began with Locke’s devastating strike, but Yun Zhinnan was stopped by an elderly gate guard named Old Qin as Locke and the others fought through the branch.

• Locke sailed away from Baratie, leaving Sanji pondering his parting words, and a Navy officer with two cigars and a girl carrying a katana arrived at the restaurant.
• Locke prepared his crew for an attack on the Navy’s 16th Branch, leaving Carmen behind to guard the Phantom.
• Locke led Yun Zhinnan, the three Bear brothers, and Annie onto the island, where his Phantom: Fall attack smashed into the branch.
• The Bear brothers became locked in battles with several majors while Yun Zhinnan raced through the branch and was sent flying by Old Qin, the Marine guarding the gate.
• Locke destroyed Navy buildings as Annie’s ability knocked out Marines who came near him.

Smoker arrived at the Navy’s 16th Branch as Locke and his allies attacked, while Tashigi ordered the Phantom Pirates’ ship fired upon. At the branch, the three Bear brothers defeated four Navy majors, though Panda collapsed from his injuries afterward.

• Smoker learned that the 16th Branch was under attack and flew ahead to the island, leaving Tashigi to bring the marines after him.
• Tashigi spotted the Phantom Pirates’ ship and ordered the marines to sink it with cannon fire.
• The three Bear brothers transformed and fought four Navy majors, using the combat skills and Devil Fruit training Yun Zhinnan had taught them.
• Big Bear killed one major after Locke’s meteor briefly distracted him, and the brothers regrouped to help Panda against the remaining majors.
• The three Bear brothers defeated the majors, but Panda collapsed, so Second Bear checked his injuries while Big Bear guarded them.

Yun Zhinnan fought the marine soldier Old Qin, who repeatedly blocked his attacks with Iron Body and outmatched him in strength. Yun Zhinnan defeated Old Qin with Tenfold Speed God Kick but collapsed from the strain, while Big Bear and Second Bear arrived to protect him from the marines.

• Yun Zhinnan exchanged blows with Old Qin, who used Iron Body, Finger Pistol, and Shave to counter him.
• Yun Zhinnan increased his speed with Threefold and then Fivefold Speed God Kick, landing attacks but failing to break through Old Qin's defense.
• Old Qin kicked Yun Zhinnan away and argued that his attacks lacked strength, while Yun Zhinnan rose and prepared a stronger move.
• Yun Zhinnan used Tenfold Speed God Kick to send Old Qin flying, then repeatedly kicked him until he fainted.
• Yun Zhinnan collapsed after suffering the move's strain, and Big Bear and Second Bear arrived to stand between him and the marines.

Locke confronted Smoker while pursuing Colonel Nezumi, and used True Qi to injure Smoker despite his Smoke-Logia powers. As they resumed fighting, Smoker realized Locke’s Righteous True Qi could still hurt him even when he turned elemental.

• Locke found Colonel Nezumi and attacked, but Smoker intervened before the blade could strike.
• Nezumi fled, and Locke sent Annie after him while keeping Smoker from stopping her.
• Locke coated his Tang Dao in True Qi and wounded Smoker, who initially mistook the technique for Haki.
• Locke used a clone to attack Smoker, then spoke about admiring him and replacing the World Government.
• Smoker attacked again, but Locke relied on swordsmanship and True Qi, leaving Smoker at a disadvantage as he learned his elemental form could only lessen the damage.

Locke and his companions captured Colonel Nezumi and began retreating, while Carmen defended the Phantom from the Marines. Carmen recognized Tashigi as her dead friend Kuina, but Tashigi did not recognize her and threatened to wait for Smoker.

• Locke defeated Smoker, knocked him unconscious, and told him his name before catching up with Annie.
• Annie captured Colonel Nezumi, and Locke gathered her and the prisoner before ordering the others to retreat.
• Big Bear and Second Bear carried the injured Panda and Yun Zhannan toward the Phantom after hearing Locke's signal.
• Carmen used telekinesis to repel the Marines boarding the Phantom, but froze when she saw Tashigi and mistook her for Kuina.
• Carmen restrained Tashigi's Marines and tried to explain that she resembled an old friend, while Tashigi demanded to be released and warned that Smoker would arrive.

Locke and the Phantom Pirates left the devastated Marine 16th Branch with Colonel Nezumi bound for Bisi Island, while Sengoku learned of the attack and ordered Smoker to Loguetown. Garp recognized the badly injured Old Qin as a veteran from his ship.

• Locke returned to the pirate ship with Big Bear's group, sent Tashigi to see the defeated Smoker, and ordered the crew to sail for Bisi Island with Colonel Nezumi tied to the mast.
• Second Bear treated Panda and Yun Zhinnan, reporting that Panda had broken ribs and Yun Zhinnan needed a lengthy recovery but was not in danger.
• Sengoku learned from Smoker that the Phantom Pirates had wrecked the 16th Branch, killed four hundred Marines and fifteen senior officers, and taken Colonel Nezumi.
• Sengoku ordered Smoker to report to Loguetown, and Garp recognized Old Qin as a veteran from his former ship.

After the Phantom Pirates attacked a Marine base, Sengoku sent Garp to East Blue to capture them, while Locke repaired the ship and reflected on his past as the crew recovered. The chapter left Locke examining the crew’s updated bounty posters.

• Garp told Sengoku that the Phantom Pirates had beaten a former Marine colonel, and Sengoku ordered him to go to East Blue and bring them in.
• Locke spent the days after the Marine base battle repairing the damaged Phantom and fishing while reflecting on his past life and his family.
• Annie joined Locke at the bow, and Carmen sat beside him, resting her head on his shoulder as they fished together.
• Panda interrupted Locke and Carmen to announce that the Phantom Pirates’ bounty posters had been updated.

Locke’s crew examined their new wanted posters and reaffirmed their resolve to change the world, but their dwindling food supplies left them fishing for a meal. When the Simba Pirates approached intending to rob them, Locke flew aboard their ship and faced their captain and crew.

• Locke read the wanted posters and found that everyone in the Phantom Pirates except Annie had a bounty, including his own of 80 million Beli.
• Locke, Annie, Panda, Big Bear, and Second Bear condemned the Marines for blaming them for Bisi Island, and Locke declared that they would change the world.
• Locke sent Big Bear and Second Bear back to training, then learned from Carmen that the ship had run out of provisions and resumed fishing.
• Locke spotted the Simba Pirates’ ship and flew aboard after hearing that its crew planned to rob him.
• Simba’s crew boasted of their captain’s eight-million-Beli bounty, while Simba watched Locke warily after realizing he had appeared aboard without being noticed.

Locke defeated Simba and his pirates, took their supplies and treasure, and burned their ship before returning to Bisi Island. At the cemetery, Big Bear brought Colonel Nezumi before the villagers' graves and confronted him over their deaths.

• Locke played music for Simba's crew, then cut down the pirates and killed Simba when he attacked.
• Carmen and the bears joined Locke aboard the pirate ship, gathered its food, liquor, and nearly thirty million Beli, and helped set it ablaze.
• Locke's group returned to Bisi Island, where Big Bear, Second Bear, and Panda carried Colonel Nezumi to the cemetery.
• Big Bear and the others honored the dead, forced Nezumi to kneel, and woke him with cold water.
• Big Bear pressed Nezumi's face against a gravestone and demanded to know whether he had listened to his victims' pleas for mercy.

After avenging the villagers, Locke left Bisi Island with Big Bear and the others, then became lost at sea before reaching an uncharted island. While the group explored the island, Locke discovered an underground tunnel, and Carmen and Annie found a cabin as Big Bear and Second Bear rushed toward them.

• Big Bear executed Colonel Nezumi and poured molten iron over his corpse to create a kneeling statue, then mourned with Second Bear and the others at the graves.
• Locke led the group away from Bisi Island during a storm, and the Phantom lost its bearings after sailing through the rain.
• Yun Zhinnan spotted an island, and Locke brought the Phantom ashore after the crew had spent more than ten days without supplies.
• Locke sent the group to explore in different directions, then fell through a hole and found a man-made tunnel beneath the island.
• Carmen and Annie reached a hill with a wooden cabin and farmland, where Big Bear and Second Bear soon appeared from the jungle.

Carmen, Annie, Big Bear, and Second Bear reached the mountain cabin after defeating a giant tiger. They met Ace, who had dragged the tiger back and was trying to persuade the old man to tell him how to leave the island.

• Big Bear and Second Bear fled from a giant tiger, but Carmen stopped its charge and Annie knocked it unconscious.
• Big Bear and Second Bear told Carmen they had encountered the tiger while hunting, and the group climbed toward the cabin.
• Carmen found an old man outside the cabin, but he ignored her questions until a crash and cloud of dust announced someone's arrival.
• Ace dragged the defeated tiger to the cabin and asked the old man how to leave the island.
• The old man said Ace had to cook him something delicious before he would reveal the way out, then suggested Ace ask Carmen's group whether anyone could cook.
• Ace introduced himself politely to Carmen and the others.