Chapter Summaries

Xie Wen reunited with Zephyr, while Binz’s attempt to impress the Palicoes with his plant-based Devil Fruit ability ended in ridicule. Vergo considered how to handle the situation, but Klee Meow and Shirahoshi exposed his intent to harm Robin.

• Zephyr welcomed Xie Wen aboard the Toot Toot Forward and praised his work against pirates, while Xie Wen wondered whether Edward Weevil might fill the Shichibukai vacancy.
• Klee Meow and the Palicoes pressed Binz to demonstrate his ninjutsu, so he used his Devil Fruit ability to grow vines in Sanji Meow’s garden.
• Sanji Meow scolded Binz for ruining the vegetables, and Klee Meow, Meowrah, and Ai Haibara Meow mocked his weak, inconvenient, and ugly ability until he collapsed in embarrassment.
• Vergo worried about Baby 5 and Buffalo’s fate and considered his next move, then fixed his attention on Nico Robin.
• Klee Meow sensed Vergo’s hostile intent and warned Xie Wen, while Shirahoshi confirmed that Vergo wanted to harm Robin.

Xie Wen protected Robin from Vergo by claiming the World Government had approved her joining his crew, prompting Vergo to leave and report his interpretation to Doflamingo. After the Marines departed, the crew joked about the trouble Robin might attract and reassured her through their relaxed attitude.

• Vergo revealed Robin's identity as the wanted Nico Robin and accused Xie Wen of harboring her.
• Xie Wen claimed Robin's place aboard his ship had been approved by the World Government, and Vergo left to report the matter to Doflamingo.
• Zephyr warned Xie Wen that Robin would attract the attention of powerful pirates before departing with Ain and Binz.
• Ai Haibara Meow explained that Xie Wen's claim gave Robin's presence legitimacy with the Marines, while Hua Mei Meow discussed how Doflamingo might spread the news and encourage attacks.
• The crew joked about profiting from the trouble Doflamingo could cause, and Robin silently groomed the cats to show her gratitude.

Doflamingo learned that Nico Robin and merfolk were aboard Xie Wen’s ship, then tried to spread the news to other powerful pirates. After Xie Wen captured Buffalo and Baby 5, the two negotiated a ransom and agreed to meet on Misteria Island.

• Doflamingo ordered Trebol to tell Big Mom and the Beasts that Nico Robin had joined the Sapphire Star.
• Xie Wen called Doflamingo and revealed that he had captured Buffalo and Baby 5.
• Doflamingo reassured Buffalo and Baby 5, then became furious when Xie Wen taunted him about killing Rosinante.
• Xie Wen demanded two Paramecia Devil Fruits and two famous swords, and Doflamingo accepted the price.
• Doflamingo said he would arrive at Misteria Island shortly to complete the exchange.

Xie Wen traded Buffalo and Baby 5 back to Doflamingo for Devil Fruits and swords, then checked the Hunter’s Notes for new entries and fragments. The Notes recorded Shirahoshi as Poseidon, while Xie Wen prepared to summon another Palico.

• Doflamingo arrived aboard the Toot Toot Forward and exchanged the Devil Fruits and swords for Buffalo and Baby 5.
• Robin declined Xie Wen’s offer to let Baby 5 stay, explaining that the crew’s secrets made it too dangerous.
• Hua Mei Meow reminded Xie Wen to check whether the Devil Fruits and swords had yielded fragments.
• The Hunter’s Notes produced a weapon-pool fragment and recorded the Dice-Dice Fruit and another unfamiliar Devil Fruit, but neither of Doflamingo’s swords yielded a fragment.
• Xie Wen found a new entry identifying Shirahoshi as Poseidon and reasoned that Ancient Weapons had to be acquired before they could be recorded.
• Xie Wen decided to summon another Palico.

Xie Wen let Klee Meow choose which Devil Fruit to use for the summon, and she picked the Density-Density Fruit. After the summoning seemed delayed, the crew found Suika Ibuki inside a liquor barrel in the storeroom.

• Xie Wen considered the remaining Devil Fruits and ruled out several options for the new Palico summon.
• Klee Meow chose the Density-Density Fruit after Xie Wen refused her suggestion of the Bomb-Bomb Fruit.
• Xie Wen used the Summon Ticket, but the new Palico did not appear immediately.
• Hua Mei Meow sensed movement inside the ship, and Xie Wen followed her to the storeroom.
• Xie Wen found Suika Ibuki with her head buried in a barrel of liquor and recognized her as the new Palico.

Xie Wen met Suika Meow, discovered her extravagant Monster Hunter accessories, and explained the One Piece world and the Density-Density Fruit to her. Suika eagerly ate the fruit after learning it could make her bigger so she could drink more.

• Xie Wen recognized Suika Meow’s density-control ability and found that her chains and tail pendant were exceptionally heavy.
• Xie Wen discovered Suika Meow’s horns were Rajang Hardhorn ornaments and her Ibuki Gourd was made from rare Monster Hunter materials.
• Suika Meow woke up, introduced herself as a fighting-type Palico, and immediately offered Xie Wen liquor.
• Xie Wen explained that Suika Meow was in another world and offered her the Density-Density Fruit, explaining its powers and drawbacks.
• Suika Meow learned the fruit could enlarge her body, then ate it so she could drink more liquor at once.

After waking with a hangover from Suika Meow’s welcome feast, Xie Wen recovered with Sanji Meow’s soup and rounded up the cats for baths. The chapter ended with Suika Meow protesting as Xie Wen began washing her first.

• Xie Wen woke with a hangover and remembered that Suika Meow had kept handing him drinks until he blacked out.
• Little Plushie and Klee Meow teased Xie Wen about smelling of booze, and he ran into Robin wearing only a bath towel.
• Klee Meow brought Xie Wen Sanji Meow’s hangover soup, which eased his headache.
• Xie Wen caught Meowrah, Shalmeow, Link Meow, Meow Jūshirō, and Hua Mei Meow to give them baths.
• Hua Mei Meow blamed Suika Meow for getting everyone drunk, so Xie Wen picked her up and brought her to the bathroom.
• Suika Meow stiffened when Xie Wen started the bath and cried out in protest.

Suika Meow shared the story of her strength and adventures, while Xie Wen discovered that Klee Meow’s Naruto stories were shaping Shirahoshi’s ideals. Shirahoshi chose Naruto as a model for protecting Fish-Man Island, and Xie Wen prepared to tell her another story.

• Suika Meow’s drinking habits led several adult cats to join her for drinks, and she told Xie Wen how her immense strength earned her the name “Felyne Demon God.”
• Suika Meow recounted defeating a Golden Lion while drunk, becoming a Hunter cat, and answering a summons that promised fine drinks.
• Xie Wen noticed Shirahoshi listening seriously to Klee Meow’s Naruto stories and worried she might be inspired by Nagato’s ideas.
• Shirahoshi told Xie Wen she sympathized with Nagato but wanted to become a protector like Naruto.
• Xie Wen encouraged Shirahoshi, then offered to tell her a story about Nezha wreaking havoc in Heaven.

While waiting for their Log Pose to record Misteria Island, Xie Wen and his companions opened their restaurant and let Shirahoshi explore the island on her own, with the cats secretly watching over her. Shirahoshi stood up to prejudice and attackers, while Robin and Shalmeow’s maid outfits sent Sanji Meow into a dramatic collapse.

• Xie Wen and the cats opened the Palico Restaurant, rejected nobles who demanded special treatment, and beat up a man who tried to buy Shirahoshi.
• Shirahoshi went into town alone to observe the humans, while Xie Wen and the cats followed from a distance for her safety.
• After children threw stones and called her a monster, Shirahoshi fought back lightly and lectured them.
• Shirahoshi defeated attackers without help, handed them to the sheriff, and found that the townspeople became more wary and polite toward her.
• Robin took Shalmeow to have maid outfits made, and Sanji Meow fainted at the sight of them before Ai Haibara Meow revived him with her new medicine.
• Sanji Meow woke up and praised Xie Wen’s excellent taste in maids.

After Nico Robin joined Xie Wen’s crew, Morgans and Kuma offered help as pirates across the New World began targeting them. Xie Wen arranged publicity for Shirahoshi and learned that his old advice had helped the Revolutionary Army grow.

• Morgans called Xie Wen about the news that Nico Robin had joined his crew and warned that powerful pirates would target them.
• Xie Wen told Morgans that Shirahoshi was the daughter of King Neptune and explained why she had gone to sea.
• Morgans became emotional over Shirahoshi’s story and promised to oversee reporting on Fish-Man Island, while Xie Wen put off an interview.
• Kuma offered help for Xie Wen and said Dragon could arrange trusted allies because of Robin and Xie Wen’s past support for the Revolutionary Army.
• Kuma told Xie Wen that his suggestions had helped the Revolutionary Army win over and support kings of Affiliated Nations.
• Xie Wen declined immediate help, then let Klee Meow, Ai Haibara Meow, and Bonney take the Den Den Mushi.

Xie Wen prepared the Palico Research Commission for the powerful pirates now targeting Nico Robin and his crew. Big Mom and Kaido dispatched forces to capture Robin, while Ochoku began planning a secret operation of his own.

• Xie Wen reassured Jinx Meow and Suika Meow, then assigned combat duties and protection responsibilities to the stronger cats.
• Charlotte Linlin ordered Katakuri to bring her Nico Robin, Xie Wen, and the cooking-capable Cat Minks; Katakuri agreed to take Cracker but refused Pekoms.
• Kaido flew off in a drunken rage before King ordered Jack to capture Nico Robin alive or kill her if capture proved impossible.
• Ochoku weighed the danger of provoking Big Mom and Kaido, then summoned Triff for a secret mission to seize Nico Robin.

While relaxing at sea, Xie Wen followed Klee Meow’s discovery of a purple haze and identified the island beneath it as likely Punk Hazard. The crew sailed toward the island, planning to bring the Toot Toot Forward ashore so Shirahoshi could avoid exposure to the poison gas.

• Klee Meow interrupted Xie Wen’s nap to show him a purple haze in the distance.
• Xie Wen and the cats turned the Toot Toot Forward toward the haze and spotted an island beneath it.
• Xie Wen suspected the island was Punk Hazard, and Ai Haibara Meow recalled its connection to Kizaru and Germa’s research.
• Ai Haibara Meow and Suika Meow discussed ways to protect Shirahoshi from the poison gas, but their suggestions proved impractical.
• Shirahoshi offered to stay aboard the ship, but Ai Haibara Meow suggested sailing the Toot Toot Forward directly onto the island.

Xie Wen and his companions reached Punk Hazard aboard the transforming Toot Toot Forward and began searching its abandoned research facilities for Vegapunk’s work. Ai Haibara Meow analyzed the island’s poison mist, explaining how its persistent effects could threaten even people with strong constitutions.

• Klee Meow transformed the Toot Toot Forward into its Magnamalo form and landed it safely on Punk Hazard.
• Xie Wen realized the island might hold valuable abandoned technology and decided to search its facilities for the laboratory containing the Artificial Devil Fruit.
• Meowrah eagerly anticipated studying Vegapunk’s research, while Xie Wen explained that the World Government’s Science Unit was likely more advanced than Germa.
• Ai Haibara Meow reported that the poison mist was not highly toxic but lingered in the body and could accumulate with prolonged exposure.
• Ai Haibara Meow explained that Caesar had traded immediate lethality for penetration and persistence, making the poison more effective against people with strong constitutions.

Xie Wen and his companions searched Punk Hazard’s buildings but found only supplies and equipment, not the missing research or survivors. Ai Haibara Meow built a poison gas detector from a Dial, and Xie Wen decided to follow the gas toward its source to draw the survivors out.

• Xie Wen led Klee Meow, Robin, Shalmeow, and the Four Heavenly Kings of the Little Furball Cats through a building while wearing Raid Suits to protect them from the poison gas.
• Klee Meow guided the group to an ammunition depot, and they searched nearby buildings before returning to the ship with assorted supplies and equipment.
• Hua Mei Meow’s team returned with little salvage, and Xie Wen worried that their searches were delaying their hunt for the Sakura Dragon Fruit and the poison-gas creature.
• Robin suggested searching areas with thinner gas to find survivors, but Xie Wen chose to search for the thickest gas so they could locate its source.
• Ai Haibara Meow modified a Dial into a poison gas detector, which Xie Wen planned to use to track the gas source.

Xie Wen and the cats found Smiley, a huge toxin conglomerate that had eaten the Salamander Fruit, and debated how to capture it for research. When Smiley attacked, Klee Meow used the Toot Toot Forward’s flames against it, but Smiley regenerated and Klee Meow prepared a hotter attack.

• Xie Wen and the others found Smiley resting in the ruins where Caesar had detonated a poison gas bomb.
• Ai Haibara Meow explained that Smiley’s Devil Fruit nature made it difficult to capture or preserve for research, and she and Xie Wen considered neutralizing its toxins.
• Smiley charged the Toot Toot Forward, and Klee Meow struck it, scattering its head into poison blobs that soon re-formed.
• Ai Haibara Meow told Klee Meow to use controlled flames, and Klee Meow burned away part of Smiley’s body, but the poison mist returned and restored it.
• Klee Meow activated Purple Flame Burst Mode and attacked Smiley with Orochinagi.

Xie Wen and the crew subdued Smiley with Klee Meow’s violet flames, then used Suika Meow’s ability to shrink it. Xie Wen left Smiley in Ai Haibara Meow’s care, tasking her with reducing its toxicity or isolating it before it could remain safely aboard the ship.

• Klee Meow trapped Smiley in a Four Violet Flames Formation and attacked it until it shrank and surrendered.
• Xie Wen had Klee Meow lower the flames, then asked Smiley to absorb the poisonous mist and confirmed it would obey him.
• Smiley could not discard its clones, so Xie Wen called Suika Meow to try shrinking it.
• Suika Meow touched Smiley with her Armament Haki-coated paw and shrank it to about the Palicoes’ size.
• Xie Wen assigned Smiley to Ai Haibara Meow and told her to weaken its toxicity or make it an isolation suit.

Suika Meow fought and defeated the fire dragon that came after the Toot Toot Forward, and Sanji Meow prepared its meat for a feast. Smiley watched the dragon’s defeat and ate with the others, relieved it had surrendered earlier.

• A fire dragon flew out from behind the mountains after Klee Meow’s commotion, and Suika Meow volunteered to fight it.
• Suika Meow enlarged herself, dodged the dragon’s attacks, and battered it with her Ibuki Gourd.
• Suika Meow caught the dragon with a chain, threw it toward a mountain, and slammed it around until it could no longer move.
• Xie Wen rewarded Suika Meow with Cat Murder Chicken, while Sanji Meow butchered the dragon and cooked its meat with help from Meow Jūshirō and Link Meow.
• The cats stopped chewing on Shirahoshi’s tail to join the feast, and Smiley ate dragon dishes fed to it by Ai Haibara Meow.

Xie Wen and the cats named Smiley Sherry, then split up to attract Punk Hazard’s survivors while Sherry was taken to the laboratory. Xie Wen discovered Sherry’s image in Shirahoshi’s Hunter’s Notes entry and wondered whether it hinted at a new summoning pool.

• Xie Wen asked Klee Meow to name Smiley, but she gave up the choice, so Ai Haibara Meow named her Sherry.
• Scarlet Tiger-sama suggested using the Dudu Paolumu and a red cloth to draw out the island’s survivors, and the group split between the sky and the ground.
• Ai Haibara Meow and Meowrah took Sherry to the laboratory, while Shirahoshi, Jinx Meow, and Hua Mei Meow boarded the Dudu Paolumu.
• Sanji Meow went to process dragon meat, while Meow Jūshirō and Link Meow sparred and Suika Meow followed them; Xie Wen and Robin waited together.
• Xie Wen searched his Hunter’s Notes for Sherry and found her picture on Shirahoshi’s page, leading him to speculate that the page could reveal another summoning pool.

Xie Wen learned that the poisoned survivors on Punk Hazard could not recover their legs, and refused to help the pirate group beyond rescuing them from the gas. After questioning them, he gained information about the island’s research facilities and a rough map to guide his search for the Sakura Dragon Fruit.

• Ai Haibara Meow told Xie Wen that the survivors’ legs could not be healed because the poison had already killed their cells.
• Xie Wen refused to reveal a cure, and Chape and the other survivors promised they would never return to piracy.
• Shirahoshi sympathized with the survivors, while Klee Meow recognized Xie Wen’s lie and bit his ear before licking the mark in apology.
• Xie Wen asked Chape and the others about Punk Hazard’s research facilities, and Hua Mei Meow used their answers to draw a rough map.
• Ai Haibara Meow and Meowrah deduced some research projects from the survivors’ accounts, giving Xie Wen leads for finding the Sakura Dragon Fruit.

Xie Wen searched the abandoned experimental base and found the Sakura Dragon Fruit, an artificial Mythical Zoan. The Hunter’s Notes gave him only a Zoan Fragment, and he kept the fruit for a possible new companion while Ai Haibara Meow studied the base’s research data.

• Xie Wen entered the mountain base with several cats and Shirahoshi, forcing open sealed doors as they searched its research institutes.
• Xie Wen found the Sakura Dragon Fruit in a laboratory in Building B and explained to Ai Haibara Meow that it was copied from Kaido’s Lineage Factor.
• Xie Wen refused to let Ai Haibara Meow examine the fruit because he planned to save it for a new companion, and she began searching the base’s computers for research data with Meowrah and Shalmeow.
• Xie Wen used the Hunter’s Notes on the fruit and received only a No. 2 Fragment, which he combined with the Zoan Pool’s No. 1 Fragment.
• Shirahoshi offered to ask her father and Jinbe to find more Zoan Devil Fruits, but Xie Wen declined and kept the Sakura Dragon Fruit for a future use.