Chapter Summaries

After learning Whitebeard's location was their main target, Xie Wen decided to fly toward the Aldris Waters rather than spend at least twelve days sailing there. Dudu carried the Toot Toot Forward into the air, and Ai Haibara Meow overcame her nerves before retreating to do experiments.

• Xie Wen got Shanks's location from Morgans, then asked Hua Mei Meow to find the Aldris Waters on the Hunter's Notes map.
• Hua Mei Meow estimated that sailing there would take at least twelve days, so Xie Wen decided they would fly.
• Dudu transformed the Toot Toot Forward into her Valstrax form, while Xie Wen and the other kittens comforted the nervous Ai Haibara Meow.
• Dudu took off smoothly, and Ai Haibara Meow relaxed enough to leave Xie Wen's arms and brag that she was not scared.
• Xie Wen teased Ai Haibara Meow about her excitement, and she hurried off to do experiments.

Xie Wen and the cats spotted a moving island on the map and continued toward the Aldris Waters. After a fleeing pirate ship appeared, Xie Wen let Hua Mei Meow take the helm and pursue it.

• Dudu noticed a tiny island fragment moving on the Hunter’s Notes map, and Hua Mei Meow confirmed it was in motion.
• Xie Wen marked the possible destination for a later visit and continued toward the Aldris Waters.
• The Toot Toot Forward reached the waters and descended to sea level while Dudu returned to her Klabautermann form for pets.
• A pirate ship fled before Xie Wen’s crew could ask for directions.
• Xie Wen let Hua Mei Meow steer after the ship, and she ordered the cats to pursue it at full sail.

Xie Wen forced Demalo Black and his crew to lead him to the Whitebeard Pirates, then approached the Moby Dick after they abandoned ship. He had Klee burn their vessel and prepared to meet Whitebeard as the crew noticed him.

• Xie Wen and Robin failed to recognize the fleeing pirates’ flag, so Hua Mei Meow and Kaido Meow maneuvered the Toot Toot Forward to intercept them.
• Demalo Black falsely claimed his crew served Whitebeard, then admitted they were small-time pirates who had only seen Whitebeard’s fleet from afar.
• Xie Wen ordered Black to take him to Whitebeard, and Black’s crew rowed until they spotted an island and the Moby Dick with three auxiliary ships.
• Black and his crew jumped overboard to escape, but Xie Wen let them go and had Klee burn their abandoned ship.
• The Whitebeard Pirates noticed the flames, and Xie Wen announced that he would go meet Whitebeard.

Xie Wen and Shirahoshi visited Whitebeard aboard the Moby Dick with seven cats, while the rest stayed to guard the Dudu. After meeting Ace and Marco, Xie Wen stood before Whitebeard, who challenged him with Haki.

• Xie Wen and the cats chose who would visit the Moby Dick and who would remain aboard the Dudu, with Shirahoshi joining the visiting party.
• Xie Wen boarded the Moby Dick with Shirahoshi and seven cats, where Marco greeted them warily until Ace recognized Xie Wen.
• Xie Wen joked that he had come to capture Ace, and Ace believed him and prepared to fight.
• Xie Wen explained that Shirahoshi wanted to meet a friend of her father's, so Marco led the group to Whitebeard.
• Xie Wen sensed Whitebeard's declining condition as he studied him, and Whitebeard released Haki toward Xie Wen while calling him the Sapphire Star brat.

Xie Wen brought Shirahoshi to meet Whitebeard, and her gratitude helped ease Whitebeard’s hostility toward him. Whitebeard welcomed Xie Wen aboard the Moby Dick and called for a feast, while Suika Meow approached him to trade liquor.

• Xie Wen and Hua Mei Meow clashed their Conqueror’s Haki with Whitebeard’s, and Whitebeard accused Xie Wen of being a Navy lapdog.
• Shirahoshi thanked Whitebeard for protecting Fish-Man Island, and Whitebeard warmly welcomed her and offered to help her.
• Shirahoshi and Ace tried to improve Whitebeard’s opinion of Xie Wen, but Whitebeard insisted pirates need not care whether Xie Wen’s targets were villains.
• Whitebeard stopped holding a grudge against Xie Wen, welcomed him aboard the Moby Dick, and called for a feast.
• Jinx Meow fired a signal to summon Robin and Meow Jūshirō, while Klee Meow, Meowrah, and Kaido Meow stayed aboard their ship.
• Suika Meow asked Whitebeard to share his liquor and offered to trade him some from her collection.

Xie Wen and his companions visited the Whitebeard Pirates, where Suika Meow challenged Whitebeard to drink her concentrated liquor. Xie Wen met Blackbeard and, wary of his strength and Ai Haibara Meow’s sense of malice, decided not to confront him yet.

• Suika Meow offered Whitebeard her potent homemade liquor, and he demanded another bowl after she mocked his drinking capacity.
• Xie Wen joined Ace to meet the Whitebeard Pirates while Shirahoshi spoke with Fish-Men and the other cats kept watch or went off to drink.
• Teach asked about Klee Meow and tried to talk with Robin, who rejected him and moved behind Xie Wen.
• Xie Wen sensed Teach’s formidable presence and considered him a dangerous future enemy, while Ai Haibara Meow warned that he gave her a bad feeling.
• Xie Wen decided to avoid provoking Teach for now and considered pursuing the Dark-Dark Fruit or waiting until Teach defected.

Xie Wen and his companions challenged the Whitebeard Pirates’ praise of Kozuki Oden, arguing that he had failed Wano Country as a ruler. Ace still wanted to free Wano from Kaido, but Xie Wen declined to help, while Whitebeard ended up drunk after Suika Meow outdrank him.

• Ace introduced Xie Wen and his companions to the Whitebeard Pirates’ division commanders, including Izo, who came from Wano Country.
• Ai Haibara Meow complained about Oden, and Izo demanded that she explain her insult.
• Xie Wen argued that Oden might have been a good companion but had been an incompetent ruler, and Shirahoshi said he bore responsibility for Wano Country’s downfall.
• Ace insisted that Wano’s people still deserved to be freed from Kaido, but Xie Wen refused to join the fight.
• Izo withdrew to sulk, and Xie Wen discovered that Suika Meow had gotten Whitebeard drunk.

Suika Meow served the Whitebeard Pirates liquor so potent that she knocked out Whitebeard, Jozu, and more than half the crew. Xie Wen spared the unconscious Teach, and the chapter ended with the cooks arriving and Thatch being introduced.

• Suika Meow revealed that Whitebeard had passed out after only three bowls of liquor, and Marco treated him.
• Jozu tried Suika Meow's liquor, collapsed after one bowl, and prompted the other pirates to line up for drinks.
• Suika Meow used her gourd to serve the crew super-concentrated liquor, leaving more than half the Whitebeard Pirates passed out on the deck.
• Xie Wen considered killing the unconscious Teach but decided against it because of his ties to Ace and Shirahoshi and his confidence in handling Teach later.
• Marco directed Ace and the few sober crewmates to clear the deck, and the cooks arrived with Sanji Meow and a large pile of food.
• Ace introduced the head chef, Thatch, as the Fourth Division commander, and Xie Wen recognized him as Teach's future victim.

After Whitebeard and the other pirates recovered from Suika Meow’s powerful liquor, they traded rare drinks for more of it and repeatedly drank themselves unconscious. Xie Wen joined them with a weaker brew but collapsed with a stiff neck, blaming his recent extra updates.

• Marco confirmed Whitebeard and the other passed-out pirates were all right, and Xie Wen left Whitebeard’s care to him.
• Whitebeard woke up, praised Suika Meow’s liquor, and asked for more; the pirates offered valuables, but she wanted unfamiliar booze instead.
• Whitebeard sent his crew to fetch their liquor, and Xie Wen encouraged Suika Meow to trade for the bottles she liked.
• Suika Meow served the selected drinks, and the pirates repeatedly drank until they collapsed and woke again while Whitebeard sipped cautiously with Marco and Ace watching him.
• Xie Wen drank a cup of weaker liquor and immediately collapsed, clutching his throat as his neck stiffened.

Xie Wen and the Whitebeard Pirates recovered from Ai Haibara Meow’s potion prank and their drunken banquet, then prepared to leave the island. Before departing with Shirahoshi and the cats, Xie Wen received a Devil Fruit from Whitebeard and gave him barrels of sake in return.

• Ai Haibara Meow’s prank made Xie Wen writhe after he drank the liquor, and Ace suffered the same fate when he tasted it.
• The banquet ended after the pirates repeatedly got drunk and sobered up, and Xie Wen returned to the Toot Toot Forward with the cats.
• Klee Meow and the other cats kept Xie Wen busy until dawn, after which he explored the island to finish uncovering its map.
• Xie Wen took Shirahoshi to say goodbye to Whitebeard, who gave him a package containing a Devil Fruit.
• Xie Wen gave Whitebeard several barrels of non-concentrated Ibuki Sake and left the island with Shirahoshi and the cats.

Xie Wen examined Whitebeard’s gift and discovered that the Devil Fruit was a Zoan Bat-Bat Fruit that could give Ai Haibara Meow the flight ability she wanted. During a peaceful voyage toward a moving island, Ai Haibara Meow completed a Medicine Aggregate that could switch among three potion effects, though the chapter left its Angel Potion as little more than a tasty counterpart to Satan Potions.

• Xie Wen found a Vivre Card and a Zoan Bat-Bat Fruit in Whitebeard’s package, then gave the fruit to eager Ai Haibara Meow.
• Xie Wen and his companions sailed leisurely toward the moving island, using a Log Pose Marco had provided.
• Ai Haibara Meow emerged from her laboratory with a silvery-white bat Medicine Aggregate she had created with Sherry’s help.
• Ai Haibara Meow explained that the aggregate could switch among Potion, Satan Potions, and Angel Potions by adjusting its components.
• Ai Haibara Meow said Angel Potions tasted good, while Xie Wen reacted warily to the mention of Satan Potions.

Xie Wen and Ai Haibara Meow named the White Bat Vermouth and discussed how to develop their potion-carrying creatures. Ai Haibara Meow outlined plans for a Tiger-Tiger Fruit base and asked Xie Wen to find her Mythical or Ancient Zoan fruits.

• Xie Wen suggested naming the White Bat Vermouth, and Ai Haibara Meow agreed.
• Ai Haibara Meow explained that Sherry's base form could not be changed further, but its ability to switch between potions made it valuable.
• Ai Haibara Meow described how her modified Demon Drug could draw on the properties of Demondrug, deadly poison, and aging medicine.
• Ai Haibara Meow said she planned to make the Tiger-Tiger Fruit's base form from solid powder, using alloy shavings strengthened by Suika.
• Xie Wen offered to find the Devil Fruits Ai Haibara Meow wanted, and she asked for Mythical Zoans or Ancient Zoans to study.

Ai Haibara Meow and Meowrah advanced their research, while Xie Wen considered how to support a teleportation device project. As the crew sailed on, Hua Mei Meow brought news that the last vacant Shichibukai seat had been filled.

• Ai Haibara Meow used Suika Meow's alloy and the Tiger Fruit to create Jean, a metal tiger who served as a mount for the cats.
• Meowrah built a Mechanical Sphere and told Xie Wen that her teleportation research needed a material capable of affecting space.
• Xie Wen decided to ask Morgans and Shakky to search for Space-Type Devil Fruits that could provide a Spatial Core.
• Kaido Meow continued developing his Haki and Sakura Dragon Fruit abilities, though he showed no signs of awakening Conqueror's Haki.
• Hua Mei Meow brought Xie Wen the latest newspaper and reported that someone had filled the final vacant Shichibukai seat.

Xie Wen learned that Cavendish had become the final Shichibukai and suspected the Navy had kept him hidden, perhaps to treat his split personality. He set the matter aside, only for an unexpected reunion with Cavendish to loom soon.

• Xie Wen considered possible candidates for the last Shichibukai and learned from the newspaper that it was Cavendish.
• Xie Wen reasoned that the World Government had made Cavendish a Shichibukai to protect him and contain his grudge against Xie Wen.
• Xie Wen and Hua Mei Meow contacted their intelligence networks and learned Cavendish had vanished from public view after Aokiji took him away.
• Xie Wen suspected Aokiji had brought Cavendish to Vegapunk for help with his split personality, then decided to stop investigating.
• Xie Wen unexpectedly faced the prospect of meeting Cavendish again sooner than he had anticipated.

Xie Wen learned that the World Government would trade Dyna Stone for his participation in an ambush on Big Mom, alongside the Marines and other Shichibukai. He bargained for a higher reward and left Cody protesting after treating three pieces of Dyna Stone as agreed.

• Xie Wen received a call from Uncle Cody, who confirmed the World Government would trade Dyna Stone for help ambushing Big Mom.
• Xie Wen realized the World Government had used his Tea Party revelations to plan an attack and had made Cavendish a Shichibukai as part of the arrangement.
• Cody argued that Xie Wen needed to join the battle because Big Mom would keep targeting him, and said Marines and other Shichibukai would take part.
• Xie Wen demanded three pieces of Dyna Stone and either a Mythical Zoan or a spatial transportation Devil Fruit as additional compensation.
• Cody rejected the Devil Fruit requests, and Xie Wen claimed Cody had agreed to give him three pieces of Dyna Stone, leaving Cody objecting.

Xie Wen secured three Dyna Stones from Cody in exchange for completing the World Government’s mission to ambush Big Mom, but he planned to avoid fighting seriously. He left the cats out of the operation, and Klee Meow agreed to wait nearby and help him escape if needed.

• Xie Wen regretted asking Cody for three Dyna Stones, then decided Jinx Meow could eat the extra one.
• Xie Wen told Klee Meow and Jinx Meow that they would have to wait for the Dyna Stones until he finished his mission.
• Klee Meow agreed to fight Big Mom to get the Dyna Stones, but Xie Wen said he would go alone and planned to coast through the ambush.
• Xie Wen doubted the World Government could capture Big Mom, especially if she chose to flee, and resolved not to risk himself for the plan.
• Klee Meow agreed to stay outside with the Dudu and help Xie Wen escape, and Jinx Meow and Suika Meow accepted her decision.

Xie Wen arrived at Obstein for the World Government’s operation against the Four Emperors and met Jinbe and Cavendish, but the Marines’ relaxed preparations made him doubt that the island was meant to be the final battlefield. He joined Jinbe at the mayor’s house, still unsure what the Marines were planning.

• The other Shichibukai received the summons; Boa Hancock resisted until Kizaru blasted her with lasers, then agreed to join them.
• Xie Wen arrived at Obstein and noticed that the island’s civilians had been evacuated, though the Marines seemed unconcerned and had set up no defenses.
• Cavendish demanded that Xie Wen return his sword, but Xie Wen ignored him and greeted Jinbe instead.
• Xie Wen used Observation Haki and noticed that Cavendish had controlled his surging second personality without losing consciousness.
• Jinbe told Xie Wen that the Marines were hosting the Shichibukai at the mayor’s house and led him there, while Xie Wen wondered whether Obstein was really the intended battlefield.

Xie Wen met the Shichibukai and Marines at the gathering, where Akainu confronted him over protecting Nico Robin and their opposing views of justice. Kizaru’s arrival stopped the confrontation, and Akainu left after warning Xie Wen.

• Xie Wen entered the hall, greeted Mihawk, and traded barbs with Doflamingo while Jinbe joined him.
• Jinbe and Mihawk warned Xie Wen that Doflamingo was dangerous, and Xie Wen said he planned to make trouble for him with someone else’s help.
• Akainu praised Xie Wen but urged him to hand Nico Robin over to the Marines or kill her.
• Xie Wen rejected Akainu’s justice and provoked him, prompting Akainu to threaten him and begin turning his fists to magma.
• Aokiji tried to restrain Akainu, and Kizaru arrived with Boa Hancock and stepped between Akainu and Xie Wen.
• Akainu regained his composure, warned Xie Wen to hope he never fell into his hands, and left.

After Akainu confronted Xie Wen, Kizaru tried to smooth things over, while Aokiji abandoned his attempt to discuss Robin with him. Xie Wen explored Obstein Island, concluded it was a decoy site for the ambush on Big Mom, and used Meowrah’s antenna to contact Klee Meow despite the signal jamming.

• Kizaru reassured Xie Wen after Akainu left and departed with Aokiji, who gave up on speaking with Xie Wen about Robin.
• Doflamingo tried to provoke distrust between Xie Wen and the other Shichibukai, while Hancock ignored the men and sat apart.
• Xie Wen left the mayor’s residence to explore Obstein Island after Hawk-Eye and Jinbe declined to join him.
• Xie Wen noticed that the Marines on the island were too weak for it to be the site of Big Mom’s ambush and suspected the island was a decoy and reinforcement point.
• Xie Wen found that the Den Den Mushi signal was jammed, then attached Meowrah’s antenna and reached Klee Meow.

Xie Wen kept in touch with the cats while the Marines confined the Shichibukai on Obstein Island, then trained with Jinbe and Hawk-Eye as they waited for the operation to begin. Kizaru finally led them to the coast, where a submarine surfaced and transformed into a machine resembling Dudu Valstrax.

• Xie Wen called Hua Mei Meow, who explained that the cats were already tracking Big Mom and that Shalmy had sensed other pursuers nearby.
• Xie Wen chatted with Klee Meow about the Research Commission’s daily life before ending the call and returning to the mayor’s residence.
• The Marines granted the Shichibukai’s requests while keeping them from leaving the island or contacting the outside world, and Xie Wen trained with Hawk-Eye and Jinbe.
• Xie Wen asked Jinbe to teach him Fish-Man Karate and Fish-Man Jujutsu so he could pass the techniques on to Shirahoshi.
• Kizaru announced that the operation had begun and led the Shichibukai to the coast, where a submarine emerged and transformed into a Dudu Valstrax-like machine.