Chapter Summaries

Vincent confronted Old Felo over the Feloce people’s humiliating struggle to survive, and Dragon decided to join him in returning to the Feros Kingdom and rising up. John recognized Dragon’s change, then was summoned to Colonel Rory Burns’s office, where Burns finally noticed him smoking.

• Old Felo checked that Vincent was safe, while John warned Dragon to watch himself and returned to his meal.
• Vincent showed Old Felo his pirate-flag design and urged him to return to the Feros Kingdom to overthrow the nobles.
• Old Felo tore up the design and argued that survival mattered more than dignity, but Vincent condemned the desperate work and exploitation facing the Feloce people.
• Dragon was inspired by Vincent’s defiance and decided to accompany him to the Feros Kingdom and rise up.
• John recognized Dragon’s transformation, then waited in Colonel Rory Burns’s office until Burns looked up and noticed him smoking.

John joined the Navy and found the comforts of base life appealing, while Vincent outlined to Dragon a plan to seize tax money from Leon Kingdom before it paid the Heavenly Tribute. The story left John heading into town to buy an estate and Vincent and Dragon preparing to gather weapons for an uprising.

• Burns suspected John might be stronger than him, but welcomed him into the Navy after John denied knowing the rules against interfering in local affairs.
• John used Mantra to read Burns's thoughts and reflected on the benefits of Navy life, including free meals, helpful subordinates, and a future salary.
• John decided the Navy dormitories were too cramped and shabby, so he headed into town to buy an estate.
• Vincent showed Dragon four crates of flintlock rifles and said an uprising needed force before it could overthrow the old order.
• Vincent explained that he planned to seize the taxes Leon Kingdom collected before paying the Heavenly Tribute, not to rob the tribute itself.

Dragon and Vincent agreed to seize Shells Town’s share of the tax revenue to fund their uprising, while John began searching for Buckingham Stussy. The chapter left John pursuing information about Stussy through both Morgans and an Underworld broker.

• Dragon rejected Vincent’s initial plan to take tax revenue that the Leon Kingdom needed for its Heavenly Tribute, fearing ordinary people would suffer more.
• Vincent argued that Shells Town owed the Feloce people compensation for building the port, and Dragon agreed they could take the town’s share before leaving.
• Vincent told Dragon that an acquaintance in the Marines could supply them with weapons, and Dragon reluctantly accepted the explanation.
• John dismissed a female agent who tried to wager her estate against his, then used electromagnetism to shut the estate gate.
• John offered Morgans money for Buckingham Stussy’s whereabouts, negotiated the price to eighty million Beli, and also placed a bounty with an Underworld intelligence broker.

John waited for his Underworld search for Stussy to lead him to Vegapunk, whose research he wanted for S.I.Q.'s evolution. Half a month later, he sailed with the 153rd Branch Marines on an operation while clashing with his fellow Marines over Sabrina.

• John decided against recruiting the MADS team and planned to seek out Vegapunk through a bounty for Stussy’s whereabouts, avoiding the World Government’s notice.
• Half a month later, the Marines of the 153rd Branch rushed to board their warship, and John appeared in the crow’s nest as they complained about him.
• John insulted the Marines and ordered them to prepare the ship, while Captain Reed got them moving under threat of punishment.
• Reed pleaded with John to stop provoking the Marines, then recalled how John had won over Sabrina and later rejected her.
• John told Reed that he and Sabrina had agreed they were only having fun, and blamed her for breaking their agreement by asking him to marry her.

John learned that the Morgan Pirates were led by a King Cobra Zoan user and set out to pursue them despite Reed’s suspicions about the mission. At sea, the Morgan Pirates and the Isaiah Gang celebrated together while Noreen watched uneasily, after the merchant captain had called the Marines for help.

• Reed warned John that the mayor and the Minister of Military Affairs might retaliate over Sabrina, but John dismissed the threat.
• Reed briefed John on King Snake Morgan, whose pirates collected protection money and repeatedly evaded Marine operations.
• John suspected the merchant ship’s distress call concealed a trap, but ordered Reed to speed up and attack the Morgan Pirates.
• The Isaiah Gang’s merchant ship and Morgan’s pirate ship anchored together and held a joint celebration.
• Noreen, a Felose waitress and the ship’s only Felose person, watched the gathering uneasily after the captain called the Marines for help.

Noreen witnessed the pirates’ scheme and was assaulted by Savage Cat while the merchant captain prepared a trap for the approaching Navy. John ignored Reed’s orders and launched a cannonball at the merchant ship, destroying its deck and killing the navigator as Savage Cat and his pirates watched.

• The merchant captain dragged Noreen below deck, while the pirates ignored her cries for help.
• A Navy warship appeared, and the pirates staged the gang members as hostages while Savage Cat emerged from the cabins.
• The merchant captain told Savage Cat that Sabrina had been violated by a Navy man who was approaching, and Savage Cat vowed to make him suffer.
• The navigator reminded Savage Cat that Captain Morgan had ordered them to lure the Navy into Soul-Loss Bay, but Savage Cat refused to wait.
• John hurled a cannonball at the merchant ship despite Reed’s protests, killing the navigator and engulfing the staged hostages in flames.

John destroyed a merchant ship with a lightning-wrapped cannonball after discovering that its lone innocent victim had been tortured beyond saving. He forced Reed and the Marines to help pursue the pirates, while Savage Cat led the pirate ship toward Soul-Loss Bay to meet Captain Morgan.

• John blasted the merchant ship apart, then demanded more cannonballs as the Marines accused him of harming civilians and refused to help.
• John threatened to execute anyone who opposed him, and Reed ordered the Marines to hand over the cannonballs.
• A Marine revealed that the warship's cannonballs had been thrown into the sea, so John ordered the crew to row the warship alongside the pirate vessel.
• The pirates tried to escape after the explosion damaged their ship, while Savage Cat threatened the helmsman for fleeing.
• The helmsman reminded Savage Cat that Captain Morgan had ordered them to lure the Marines to Soul-Loss Bay, and Savage Cat agreed to rendezvous with Morgan before taking revenge on John.

John pursued a pirate ship with the Marines, but their warship struck hidden reefs in Soul-Loss Bay. After claiming he could clear the way with his sword, he unleashed a purple beam that destroyed the reefs as the pirates watched.

• John enjoyed chasing the fleeing pirates while Reed worried that the strange recruit might secretly be a pirate.
• Reed recognized Soul-Loss Bay and warned the crew about its reefs, but the warship struck one and lurched violently.
• John blamed the helmsman, then learned the Marines believed he was the navigator and tried to shift responsibility onto them.
• John claimed he was a great swordsman, and Reed handed him his treasured blade, Greedy Wolf.
• The pirates debated whether to wait for the Marines, but John unleashed a purple beam that blasted the hidden reefs into powder.

John and Reed brought their warship to Soul-Loss Town, where King Snake Morgan ruled a gathering place for East Blue outlaws and powerful pirates. As John assessed Morgan’s hidden influence, he asked Reed to inflate the pirate’s threat in his report.

• Reed confronted John for throwing his beloved Greedy Wolf, then agreed to supervise the rowers after John promised him a Supreme Grade Blade.
• Savage Cat urged the pirates to flee toward Captain Morgan, and they rowed faster after John’s display left them terrified.
• John’s warship approached Soul-Loss Town, where pirates and other outlaws gathered along the coast to meet it.
• Savage Cat reported to King Snake Morgan, who welcomed him as his subordinate while higher-bounty pirates stood behind him.
• Reed recognized several notorious pirates among Morgan’s followers, and John concluded Morgan had secretly united much of the East Blue’s pirate forces.
• John asked Reed to make Morgan sound like a billion-Beli threat in his report, but Reed said he lacked the skill.

John attacked the pirates after they mocked him, killing Butcher Wade and using Haki to devastate their ranks. As he searched for King Snake Morgan, Death Coil Moro and Ghost Axe Beckett launched a surprise attack from behind.

• Reed urged John to retreat and call for Colonel Burns, but Burns did not answer.
• John charged into the pirates, killed several, and seized Butcher Wade by the throat.
• The pirates fired at John, but the bullets bounced off him, and he learned from their words that some of them knew Armament Haki.
• John strangled Wade, then unleashed a Haki shockwave that blasted the pirates and left many dead or injured.
• John searched for the vanished King Snake Morgan, while Moro and Beckett struck him from behind and Reed shouted a warning.