Chapter Summaries

After Lin Mo left Lawless Island, Kuina arrived with Sendou and found Blackbeard confronting Marco and Whitebeard. As Whitebeard fought to protect Kuina, Sendou tested his strength, and Kizaru and Garp arrived after Lin Mo had already departed.

• Whitebeard advised Ace to stand by Lin Mo’s crew, and Enel and Marco agreed to end their match in a draw, with Marco set to join the Inkman temporarily after three months.
• Lin Mo, Ace, Perona, and Enel left Lawless Island, and Blackbeard led his crew ashore to confront Whitebeard and Marco.
• Kuina and Sendou dropped onto the island, where Kuina searched for Lin Mo and Sendou challenged Shiryu of the Rain to a sword fight.
• Blackbeard tried to stop Kuina from leaving, but Whitebeard intervened and told her to go while he faced Blackbeard’s crew.
• Sendou blocked Whitebeard’s strike to test his strength, but Whitebeard overpowered and sent him flying.
• Kizaru and Garp arrived and realized Lin Mo had already left.

Kaku’s unexplained aggression nearly led him to kill Ace and Enel, but Ace discovered that giving Kaku what he wanted could calm him. The Inkman reached Kuraigana Island, where Lin Mo visited Hawk-Eye’s castle for a drink.

• Kaku attacked a seasoning shopkeeper after their bargaining turned sour, and Ace intervened while Enel refused to help.
• Kaku attacked Ace and then Enel, but Enel stopped him from killing Ace and warned him about the captain’s reaction.
• Kaku’s murderous intent subsided after the shopkeeper offered a steep discount and gave him a knife, and Ace realized that satisfying Kaku’s demands could prevent further violence.
• After nearly three days at sea, the Inkman passed Kuraigana Island, and Lin Mo chose to stop there for half a day because Hawk-Eye had red wine.
• Lin Mo, Perona, Enel, and the others went to Hawk-Eye’s castle, where Hawk-Eye invited Lin Mo for a drink and let Perona explore.

Zoro found the Inkman on Kuraigana Island and challenged Kaku, but Kaku fought without restraint and nearly killed him before suddenly leaving to check on Lin Mo’s chicken soup. Ace rushed to Zoro after Kaku cut his left eye.

• Zoro recognized Lin Mo’s ship and boarded the Inkman, where Ace and Kaku greeted him.
• Kaku told Zoro that Lin Mo had called him directionless, and Zoro challenged Kaku to a fight.
• Kaku and Zoro moved to the forest, where Kaku’s ruthless attacks badly injured Zoro and forced Ace to intervene.
• Kaku attacked Ace with a Seastone net, then continued fighting Zoro despite Zoro trying to end the match.
• Kaku cut Zoro’s left eye, then suddenly ran back to the Inkman to check on Lin Mo’s chicken soup.
• Ace went to examine Zoro’s bleeding eye and asked if he was all right.

Lin Mo visited Hawk-Eye, discussed why he was delaying their promised fight, and left with Perona and ten bottles of wine. On the way to the Inkman, he reunited with Zoro, who challenged him, lost instantly, and then set off toward Hawk-Eye’s Castle in the direction Perona indicated.

• Zoro wandered around Kuraigana Island, repeatedly returning to the shore before losing his way deeper into the island.
• Lin Mo and Hawk-Eye drank together, and Hawk-Eye questioned Lin Mo about his secrets, connections, and delayed promise to fight.
• Lin Mo took ten bottles of wine from Hawk-Eye’s cellar and left the Castle with Perona.
• Zoro found Lin Mo and asked about Kuina before challenging him to a fight; Lin Mo blocked Zoro’s attack and sent him flying with one blow.
• Perona pointed Zoro toward Hawk-Eye’s Castle, and Zoro initially walked the wrong way before turning around.

Lin Mo and his crew reached Baterilla Island, where Ace hoped to visit the place of his birth. Lin Mo received Ryūjin Jakka as his check-in reward, while Ace set off after him on the island.

• Lin Mo and his crew sailed toward Baterilla Island, and Ace asked Rakuyo aboard the Inkman for a brief visit.
• Rakuyo checked on Ace and thanked Lin Mo for looking after him before leaving when Kaku’s five-minute limit expired.
• Three days later, the Inkman reached Baterilla Island, and Lin Mo left the ship while Ace revealed he had always wanted to visit a place in the South Blue.
• Herald and Enel stayed aboard to guard the Inkman while Lin Mo landed on Baterilla Island.
• The system awarded Lin Mo the new weapon Ryūjin Jakka and informed him about its Shikai and Bankai releases.
• Ace transformed into fire and followed Lin Mo onto the island.

Lin Mo brought Ace to Baterilla Island, where Ace found his mother Rouge’s grave and faced Xiaoyan’s anger over her death. As Ayako learned that Ace had arrived and worried Xiaoyan might challenge him, Lin Mo suddenly saw a spinning vision upon entering town.

• Ace asked Lin Mo to visit Baterilla Island so he could see his mother, and Lin Mo revealed that they had already arrived there.
• Ace asked to stay for at least three days, then searched the town for Rouge and met an elderly woman who recognized him and led him toward her grave.
• The old woman introduced her grandson Xiaoyan, who accused Ace of causing Rouge’s death but eventually took him to her grave.
• Ace thanked Xiaoyan and his grandmother for tending Rouge’s grave, then stayed behind to speak with his mother.
• Lin Mo met the blind girl Ayako, who identified him as a newcomer by his smell and footsteps, and continued into town without answering her.
• Erbai told Ayako that Ace had arrived and feared Xiaoyan would challenge him; as Lin Mo entered town, the scene before him began to spin.

Lin Mo and the others were trapped in a strange game world that drew in people from across the South Blue, including Buggy and Galdino. After the voice controlling the world announced its trials, Ace and Red-Hair tried attacking the darkness, only for their attacks to be reflected back at them.

• Lin Mo, Ace, Garp, Kizaru, Red-Hair, and Lucky Roux appeared in the strange space, where boxes on glowing pedestals produced an axe and a wooden stick.
• Buggy and Galdino were pulled from a nearby island into the space, and Buggy mistook everyone there for illusions until Lucky Roux's bullet cut his cheek.
• An ethereal voice announced that the group were chosen lucky ones who could leave only by passing its trials.
• Lin Mo told Ace to destroy the world, but the darkness swallowed Ace's Fire Fist and sent it back at him.
• Red-Hair slashed at the sky with Griffon, and the reflected sword aura swept down, making Garp shield Ace and sending Buggy and Galdino flying.

Lin Mo and the others were trapped in a game world and completed a blade-breaking contest, where Galdino came last and Buggy chose Lin Mo as his teammate for the next round. When Ace and Garp refused to play together with their assigned partners, the unseen host threatened them using images of Luffy, Alvida, Beckman, and Kaku bound to crosses.

• The host explained that the eight players had to clear three games, with the seven highest individual scores allowed to leave and the last-place player trapped forever.
• Everyone chose a mystery-box tool and used it to break falling blades; Kizaru scored first, while Galdino finished last with 11 points.
• The players rolled a die to determine teammate choices, and Buggy chose Lin Mo while the remaining teams became Lucky Roux and Garp, Borsalino and Ace, and Shanks and Galdino.
• Ace and Garp protested their assigned teams, but the host warned that harm could come to people close to them if they refused to cooperate.
• The host showed images of Luffy, Alvida, Beckman, and Kaku bound to crosses, prompting Ace and Garp to demand their release and making the others question who had captured them.

Ayako admitted that she had trapped the group in her Game-Game Fruit world to punish Ace on behalf of her friend Xiaoyan, though she had no way to release everyone safely. Garp urged her to find a way to develop her ability, while the group remained stuck facing the game’s deadly rules.

• Lin Mo dragged Ayako out of hiding, and she confessed that the pictures of captured companions and the promised billion Beli prizes were fake.
• Ayako explained that her Game-Game Fruit had pulled the group into her world, and the others realized Ace was her intended target while Lin Mo had been brought along by chance.
• Ayako said she had used her ability to stand up for Xiaoyan, who hated Ace, and admitted that she had only wanted to teach him a lesson.
• Ayako revealed that one of the eight participants would remain trapped until death unless they completed the games, and that killing her could trap them all forever.
• Garp encouraged Ayako to develop her ability and search for another way out, but Ayako insisted she would accept the consequences of her choice.

Ayako and the others debated how to escape the game world, where one person had to stay behind or die for everyone else to leave. Red-Hair won a rock-paper-scissors match against Garp to decide the outcome, but Buggy protested, and Kizaru proposed killing someone at random.

• Ayako panicked after realizing the others’ deaths could endanger Baterilla Island, and Garp reassured her that they would find another way out.
• Garp told Lin Mo that Kuina had been on Whitebeard’s island and had likely gone looking for him; he also said Whitebeard was safe after Teach fled from a confrontation.
• Kizaru suggested drawing lots to choose who would stay behind, but Buggy, Galdino, Ace, and Garp objected, leading Red-Hair to propose a single match between representatives.
• Lin Mo refused to fight Garp and persuaded Red-Hair to take his place; Red-Hair and Garp settled the match with rock-paper-scissors, which Red-Hair won.
• Buggy protested the result and asked to draw lots instead, but Lucky Roux rejected restarting the decision, and Kizaru suggested killing someone at random.

Lin Mo refused to let Ace remain trapped in Ayako’s game world and threatened her until she released everyone else, leaving only him and Ace behind. Enel found Ayako on Baterilla Island and forced her to free them after injuring Xiaoyan.

• Garp and Ace argued over who would stay in Ayako’s game world, but Lin Mo decided Garp should remain and confronted Ayako when Ace insisted on staying.
• Ayako vanished and sent everyone except Lin Mo and Ace out of the game world, then refused to release the two of them.
• Lin Mo warned Ayako that his crew member Little White could catch her, and she realized Enel was nearby on Baterilla Island.
• Enel seized Ayako and demanded to know where Lin Mo and Ace were, then struck Xiaoyan when he rushed to defend her.
• Ayako apologized and used her ability to pull Lin Mo and Ace out of the game world.

Lin Mo's crew returned to the Inkman, where Kuina rejoined them and learned about Kaku's emotional state and the crew's plan to restore him. After Kuina urged Kaku to rest and reminded him of his ties to the crew, Lin Mo watched Kaku alone at the railing.

• Lin Mo's Conqueror's Haki knocked Ayako, Xiaoyan, and most of the island unconscious, and Ace interpreted the outburst as punishment for them.
• Kuina returned to the Inkman and reunited with Perona, then learned that Shusuke had gone with Lin MuMu to the Revolutionary Army and that Ace had joined the crew.
• Kuina learned from Perona that Kaku had lost his emotions and that the crew hoped gathering all the Poneglyphs would restore him.
• Kuina asked Kaku to spar, but he refused because Lin Mo had forbidden him from fighting the crew, so she practiced swordsmanship alone.
• Kuina spoke with Kaku at the railing about his lost emotions, his bond with the crew, and the need to rest, and Kaku agreed to gradually adjust his sleep schedule.
• Lin Mo watched Kaku alone at the railing and silently kept an eye on him.

Lin Mo accepted a dangerous subworld mission in hopes of finding a wish that could restore Kaku’s emotions, leaving Enel and the others to guard his dormant body. He arrived in the Hunter x Hunter world, where he began Greed Island’s card-collecting game.

• Lin Mo learned that a subworld mission could grant a wish, but death in either world would kill him in both, and he decided to take the risk.
• Lin Mo told Enel, Kuina, Perona, Ace, and Kaku to protect his dormant body, and Enel agreed to stay behind.
• Lin Mo activated the mission, lost consciousness, and was transported to the Hunter x Hunter world.
• A Greed Island guide explained the Ring, the Card Book, and the rules for collecting one hundred designated cards.
• Lin Mo finished the briefing and prepared to begin the game.

Lin Mo entered Greed Island, learned how its card-based spells worked, and followed Gon and Killua to hear experienced players explain the dangers of the game. The group began discussing ways to obtain item cards, but the explanation was still underway.

• Lin Mo entered the game and was attacked with a Tracking card, but he resisted the attack and learned that players used cards to cast spells.
• Lin Mo reached Andonibaru and investigated the Monthly Tournament before an explosion drew him toward a dead player.
• Gon and Killua learned that the explosion was caused by another player's Nen and followed a man who offered to explain the game.
• Lin Mo followed Gon and Killua and joined a gathering where experienced players warned newcomers about player hunters, investigative spells, and the Bomber.
• Gon and the other players began listing ways to obtain item cards, including finding them and trading with other players.

Lin Mo subdued the group that stole Gon and Killua’s Sword of Truth and began testing a Theft spell card. After learning he needed a target’s name, he ordered the spell to attack Patt.

• Lin Mo’s pressure knocked down the group’s members before they could cast spells.
• Lin Mo collected their Theft, Tracking, exchange, and defensive cards.
• Lin Mo realized he needed to know a target’s name to use Theft.
• Lin Mo learned that a nearby man was named Patt and commanded Theft to attack him.

Lin Mo tried to heal a sick child in Greed Island but learned the village’s curse could only be treated with an in-game method, then followed Gon and Killua and met Biscuit. Biscuit explained why she was teaching the boys and questioned Lin Mo’s intentions.

• Lin Mo failed to heal the village child with the Mystical Palm Technique and concluded that a card-based method was needed.
• Lin Mo caught up with Gon and Killua as they fought monsters and collected cards to sell for money.
• Biscuit taught Gon and Killua to use Gyo so they could find and defeat the creature controlling an armored puppet.
• Biscuit introduced herself as a Hunter and Nen instructor, then revealed that she had been following Gon and Killua because they were her student’s students.
• Biscuit noticed Lin Mo watching from a boulder and challenged him about following the boys; Lin Mo asked why she was following them, and Biscuit answered that she was looking after her student’s students.

Lin Mo left Biscuit to reach Masadora, where he began robbing players of their cards to complete his task. Meanwhile, Biscuit started training Gon and Killua by forcing them to fight the man who had attacked her.

• Biscuit sensed a hidden attacker and arranged for Gon and Killua to circle back while she drew him out.
• The attacker cut off Biscuit’s hair, learned she was fifty-seven, and challenged her to a fight, but she quickly defeated him.
• Biscuit agreed to train Gon and Killua after learning Gon was searching for his father, Ging Freecss, and set a two-week test against the defeated man.
• Lin Mo failed to use an Accompany card to reach Masadora because he had never visited the city, then used Flash Step to travel there.
• Lin Mo began intimidating players outside a card shop and taking their Specified Pocket cards, leaving him with seventy-nine toward his goal of one hundred.

Lin Mo forced Tsezguerra to surrender nine cards and explain Greed Island’s Spell Cards, then learned how to obtain One-Pound Beach. He traveled with a shifty player to Soufrabi, where he discovered that claiming the card required a team of fourteen challengers.

• Lin Mo materialized the Wine-Producing Spring, learned from Tsezguerra that its water needed a week to turn into wine, and agreed to meet him about a card trade.
• Lin Mo overpowered Tsezguerra and his companions with Conqueror’s Haki, took nine cards he lacked, and made Tsezguerra explain the Spell Cards.
• Lin Mo stored water from the Wine-Producing Spring in a flask, then searched Masadora’s library and found that One-Pound Beach was obtained by defeating fourteen pirates near Soufrabi.
• A shifty-looking player offered to take Lin Mo to Soufrabi with an Accompany Card in exchange for permission to copy One-Pound Beach.
• The player brought Lin Mo to Soufrabi and explained that a team of fourteen challengers had to defeat the pirates, leaving Lin Mo needing ten more people.

Lin Mo recruited Biscuit and planned to use Gon and Killua to help win A Plot of Beach, while his crew on Baterilla Island came under attack from Garp, Kizaru, and Aokiji. After three days of collecting Greed Island cards, Lin Mo returned to the training pit and knocked Binolt away with one punch.

• Lin Mo agreed to give Biscuit the original A Plot of Beach card in exchange for her help, and set a three-day deadline for Gon and Killua to be ready.
• Enel destroyed Garp and Kizaru’s battleships, but Kuina, Ace, and Enel soon faced Kizaru, Garp, and Aokiji on Baterilla Island.
• Kuina ordered Perona to take Lin Mo’s body away with Kaku, but Kizaru appeared on the Inkman’s deck and blocked her escape.
• Lin Mo collected ninety-two specified cards over three days and found no other suitable recruits for his team.
• Lin Mo returned to the training pit, where Biscuit said Gon and Killua needed five more days, then punched Binolt away before Gon could finish warning him to run.

Lin Mo brought Gon, Killua, and Biscuit to join Hachi and other players in a challenge for the card A Plot of Beach. The tavern’s occupants agreed to an eight-win sports contest, and Lin Mo’s side lost the opening boxing match.

• Biscuit explained that Lin Mo had recruited players to win A Plot of Beach, and Gon and Killua agreed to help under the original terms.
• Lin Mo used an Accompany Card to take the group to Soufrabi, where Hachi and Tsezguerra introduced them to the skeptical participants.
• At the tavern, Lin Mo kicked a man through the door after the man attacked him, and the tavern’s occupants led the challengers to their leader.
• The leader proposed a contest in which each side needed eight wins, with the hosts choosing sports and allowing Nen-created equipment.
• A fighter from Hachi’s side lost the boxing match after his opponent used teleportation to land a decisive blow.