Chapter Summaries

After the Explosion Black Cat Maria entered the Grand Line, Xie Wen rested while Hua Mei Meow handled the ship and helped Ai Haibara Meow join the group. Ai Haibara Meow finally let Xie Wen pet her, then fled in embarrassment after the other cats caught her enjoying it.

• The Explosion Black Cat Maria left the Calm Belt and entered the rough waters of the Grand Line.
• Hua Mei Meow ordered Xie Wen to help raise the sails, but he rested with Klee Meow and Ai Haibara Meow instead.
• Hua Mei Meow and Klee Meow kept Ai Haibara Meow beside Xie Wen, and he gently petted her as she gradually relaxed.
• Ai Haibara Meow enjoyed Xie Wen's petting until she noticed the other cats watching, then denied liking it, bit his hand, and ran away.

Xie Wen and the cats relied on Klee Meow’s uncanny luck to choose a course through the Grand Line, and her guidance led them to an island full of explosives. The chapter ended with Klee Meow delightedly exploring Explosion Island while Hua Mei Meow kept her from blowing it up.

• Xie Wen asked Klee Meow to point out a direction because their Log Pose could not yet guide them, and Hua Mei Meow agreed to follow her luck.
• Klee Meow’s chosen course brought the ship near a sudden thundercloud that struck the sea with lightning before disappearing, leaving stunned fish for the crew to collect.
• Ai Haibara Meow learned that Klee Meow’s luck could steer them clear of devastating danger, while Sanji Meow warned that letting her choose every route could lead them into explosions.
• Xie Wen and the cats followed Klee Meow’s direction to the previously unknown Explosion Island, where its many explosive plants thrilled Klee Meow.
• Hua Mei Meow kept watch over Klee Meow to prevent her from blowing up the island, while Xie Wen worried about what she might do with even more powerful explosives.

Xie Wen and the cats explored Blasting Town, where Klee Meow bought explosives and the group sampled local explosive liquor, but they failed to find an Eternal Pose. Xie Wen decided to ask Morgans for help locating one.

• Xie Wen led the cats around Blasting Town, buying Klee Meow a large assortment of explosives while the others gathered local food and books.
• Hua Mei Meow rejected the town's practical clothing, and Xie Wen and Meow Jūshirō sampled explosive liquor before leaving with a barrel.
• The group realized that none of the shops sold an Eternal Pose, so Ai Haibara Meow asked what they would do next.
• Xie Wen said he would contact Morgans for help now that they knew their location, then petted Ai Haibara Meow as she shyly leaned into his hand.

Xie Wen called Morgans from Explosion Island and arranged to receive an Eternal Pose in exchange for explaining how he crossed the Calm Belt. Morgans sent him toward St. Poplar Island, where a Devil Fruit auction and a chance to visit Water 7 awaited.

• Xie Wen told Morgans he had crossed the Calm Belt using Seastone on his ship and agreed to explain the method in exchange for an Eternal Pose.
• Morgans agreed to send the Eternal Pose, rejected Xie Wen’s suggestion that a News Coo guide him, and asked for a Vivre Card.
• Xie Wen offered to send Morgans a Vivre Card if he could find somewhere on Explosion Island that made them.
• Morgans revealed that the Eternal Pose pointed to St. Poplar Island, where a Devil Fruit auction would soon take place.
• Morgans warned Xie Wen about Spring Queen City and explained that St. Poplar Island’s Sea Train connection could help him gather travel-guide material and find more Eternal Poses.
• Xie Wen realized he could visit Water 7 to upgrade his ship and looked forward to receiving the Eternal Pose.

Xie Wen and the cats waited for Morgans’s News Coo to deliver an Eternal Pose to Explosion Island. After it arrived, Xie Wen handed it to Hua Mei Meow and ordered everyone to set sail.

• Xie Wen woke up surrounded by the cats, then teased Ai Haibara Meow when she tried to kick his face.
• Sanji Meow offered to make breakfast for the girls and angrily kicked Xie Wen when he asked for soup dumplings.
• Hua Mei Meow asked whether the Eternal Pose would arrive that day, and Xie Wen confirmed Morgans had said it would come in three days.
• Morgans’s News Coo landed on the Explosion Black Cat Maria and handed Xie Wen the Eternal Pose after pecking him away from its bag.
• Xie Wen gave the News Coo a piece of Vivre Card, passed the Eternal Pose to Hua Mei Meow, and ordered everyone to set sail.

Xie Wen took the cats around Spring Queen City to ask about an auction and entered a Heave-Ho Panda shop, where he encountered Stussy. Ai Haibara Meow reacted warily to Stussy, leaving Xie Wen to wonder whether she had awakened a special form of Observation Haki.

• Xie Wen toured Spring Queen City with the cats and avoided its Pleasure District while asking about the auction.
• Xie Wen entered a Heave-Ho Panda shop to order custom clothes for Ai Haibara Meow, who bristled and stared at a fitting-room door.
• Stussy emerged from the fitting room, and Xie Wen recognized her as the Queen of the Pleasure District and a CP0 agent.
• Stussy flirted with Xie Wen and joked about the cats, while Klee Meow sensed no malice and pulled a face at her.
• Stussy gave Xie Wen a lipstick-marked card and left, after which Ai Haibara Meow and Hua Mei Meow bit him for staring at her.

Xie Wen learned more about the cats’ Observation Haki and planned for a crowded auction where he wanted to buy both a Devil Fruit and Treasure Tree Adam. He sold a spare Devil Fruit and arrived at the auction alone, where he spotted Stussy and several wanted pirates.

• Xie Wen ordered tailored clothes for the cats, and Ai Haibara Meow confirmed she had just awakened Observation Haki.
• Hua Mei Meow revealed that her Observation Haki had awakened during a tornado and was especially suited to sensing weather over a wide range.
• Xie Wen learned that Spring Queen City’s auction would feature a Devil Fruit and Treasure Tree Adam, and he worried about having enough Beli to bid on both.
• Hua Mei Meow suggested selling Xie Wen’s spare Chopper fruit, while he chose to keep his swords for his own use.
• Xie Wen went alone to the auction, spotted Stussy and several wanted pirates, and waited for bidding to begin.

Xie Wen won Treasure Tree Adam at the Saint Blabo auction and watched the auction house sell his unidentified Reindeer Fruit for 820 million Beli. With the other bidders’ funds depleted, he expected to have a clear chance at the remaining Devil Fruit.

• Xie Wen outbid the pirates and bought Treasure Tree Adam for 230 million Beli.
• A disruptive pirate named Som and his first mate Kachien were shot dead after Som threatened the auction host, Lilia.
• Lilia presented Xie Wen’s Reindeer Fruit as an unidentified Devil Fruit, despite Xie Wen having told the auction house what it was days earlier.
• The bidders competed fiercely for the Reindeer Fruit, and one pirate bought it for 820 million Beli.
• Xie Wen concluded that the sale had drained the other bidders’ funds and left him well positioned to bid on the remaining Devil Fruit.

Xie Wen won the Giraffe-Giraffe Fruit at a bargain price and discovered its encyclopedia entry unlocked a new Zoan summoning pool. After Stussy warned him that pirates would target him, Xie Wen left the auction house carrying the purchased items, with a crowd following him.

• Xie Wen recognized the second Devil Fruit as the Giraffe-Giraffe Fruit, and he won it for 317.6 million Beli after other bidders backed away.
• Xie Wen checked the Hunter's Notes, unlocked the fruit's entry, and received a giraffe-patterned Summon Ticket fragment that changed to antler patterns when he rubbed it.
• Stussy approached Xie Wen, teased him about his wealth, and warned him that pirates would not let him leave with the Devil Fruit easily.
• Xie Wen realized Stussy's warning had made him a target and suspected she wanted him to fight the pirates before she intervened.
• Xie Wen completed the transaction and walked toward the harbor with two cases as the pirates followed him.

Xie Wen and his cats fought off the pirates who tried to surround their ship after the Devil Fruit auction. With Stussy nowhere in sight, they left Spring Queen City and set course for Water 7.

• Klee Meow greeted Xie Wen aboard the Explosion Black Cat Maria and warned him that pirates were gathering to attack.
• As the pirate ships pursued and surrounded them, Klee Meow launched upgraded Whoosh-Whoosh Bombs that incapacitated most of their crews.
• Xie Wen assigned the remaining pirates to Sanji Meow and Meow Jūshirō, kept Klee Meow aboard to guard the ship, and joined the cats in defeating the survivors.
• Xie Wen looted the pirate ships, failed to extract Devil Fruits from three users, collected their bounty heads, and sank the ships.
• Hua Mei Meow sensed no one else nearby, so Xie Wen raised anchor and sailed toward Water 7 using the Sea Train tracks and the pirates' navigational records.

After Xie Wen told Morgans that Stussy was a Cipher Pol agent, Morgans agreed to omit the cats from his report on the pirate crews’ defeat. Xie Wen and the cats arrived in Water 7, collected the pirates’ bounties, and then Xie Wen decided to split up with them.

• Morgans called Xie Wen to ask how he had defeated more than a dozen pirate crews so quickly, and Klee Meow credited her bombs.
• Xie Wen asked Morgans to suppress the story or leave the Mink Tribe members out of it, then revealed that he suspected Stussy was a Cipher Pol agent.
• Morgans refused to suppress the news entirely but promised not to mention the cats, and Xie Wen insisted that his epithet should be Sapphire Star rather than Cat Swordsman.
• Xie Wen and the cats traveled to Water 7, marveled at the city, and rented two small BULLs to get around.
• Xie Wen collected the pirates’ bounties at Water 7’s bounty office and decided to split up with the cats.

Xie Wen brought Klee Meow and Ai Haibara Meow to Water 7’s Galley-La Company to arrange a new ship built from Treasure Tree Adam, while Sanji Meow and Hua Mei Meow went shopping. At the shipyard, Xie Wen met Iceburg’s foremen and watched Rob Lucci and Kaku closely as Klee Meow eyed Lucci’s pigeon.

• Xie Wen assigned Sanji Meow to shop for ingredients with Seijūrō and Hua Mei Meow, then took Klee Meow and Ai Haibara Meow to help plan the ship’s infirmary, laboratory, and other facilities.
• Klee Meow asked for a laboratory, and Hua Mei Meow warned that it would become a solitary confinement room if Klee Meow blew it up.
• Xie Wen and the two cats traveled through Water 7 to the Galley-La Company’s Dock One and presented Peepley Lulu with the documents for his Treasure Tree Adam timber.
• Peepley Lulu went to summon Iceburg, while Ai Haibara Meow sensed that Rob Lucci and Kaku resembled a suspicious woman she had encountered before.
• Pauly greeted Xie Wen and complained that the shipwrights had been unable to touch the Treasure Tree Adam, while Klee Meow admired the pigeon on Lucci’s shoulder and called it delicious-looking.

Xie Wen asked Galley-La Company to upgrade the Explosion Black Cat Maria with Treasure Tree Adam wood and worked with the cats to choose a ship design and list their requirements. The chapter ended with the shipwrights preparing to finalize the new design.

• Klee Meow frightened Rob Lucci’s talking pigeon, and Xie Wen stopped her from trying to eat it.
• Peepley Lulu revealed his fondness for cats when he let Klee Meow play with his hair.
• Xie Wen asked Iceburg to upgrade the Explosion Black Cat Maria, and Kaku inspected the ship and confirmed it could be modified.
• Kalifa gave Xie Wen ship designs, and he and the cats chose a model and described their desired rooms, equipment, gardens, and cat figurehead.

Xie Wen agreed to have a new ship built in Water 7, then clashed with Franky after Franky tried to recruit his cats. Hoping to draw out Franky’s King Bulls, Xie Wen headed for Franky House and ran into the assembled Franky Family.

• Iceburg quickly drew up plans for Xie Wen’s ship, and Hua Mei Meow approved them.
• Xie Wen and the cats spotted Franky posing above a crowd, and Franky called down to recruit the cats into his Franky Family.
• Xie Wen struck Franky with Monster Hunter Style: True Crimson Horn, sending him flying, then left with the cats.
• Xie Wen learned that Franky had only recently returned to Water 7 and wondered whether he had already rescued his King Bulls, Sodom and Gomorrah.
• Xie Wen borrowed Klee Meow’s luck, rented a small BULL, and headed for Franky House, where he encountered the gathered Franky Family.

Xie Wen and the cats traveled from Water 7 to Puki and San Faldo, then returned to find the Explosion Black Cat Maria’s refit complete. They approved the ship’s cat-themed redesign but could not agree on a new name.

• Meow Jūshirō defeated Franky and the Franky Family with his Melynx Flash technique, and they stopped bothering Xie Wen.
• Xie Wen and the cats boarded the Sea Train, where Klee Meow explored the carriages with Hua Mei Meow and Sanji Meow while Xie Wen relaxed with Ai Haibara Meow and Meow Jūshirō.
• The cats enjoyed visiting Puki and San Faldo, and Xie Wen learned that Puki was an Affiliated Nation rather than a territory flying the Big Mom Pirates’ flag.
• Xie Wen brought the cats back to Water 7, where Iceburg presented their newly refitted ship, the Explosion Black Cat Maria.
• Xie Wen and the cats praised the ship’s smaller, brighter, cat-themed design, then offered several conflicting suggestions for its new name.

Xie Wen and the cats named their new ship the Toot Toot Forward and sailed from Water 7 toward the Calm Belt. After crossing into its still waters, they spotted a ship ahead that Hua Mei Meow suspected was carrying pirates.

• Xie Wen chose Klee Meow's proposed name, Toot Toot Forward, for the new ship after the cats agreed.
• Xie Wen paid Iceburg the remaining balance and sailed the Toot Toot Forward away from Water 7.
• Xie Wen and the cats traveled past several islands, cooked Sea Beasts and Sea Kings, and collected pirate bounties while building the Sapphire Star's reputation.
• Xie Wen and the cats crossed into the Calm Belt, taking turns rowing whenever Klee Meow went on strike.
• Hua Mei Meow spotted a ship ahead and told Xie Wen it looked like they had encountered pirates.

Xie Wen’s crew encountered the Kuja Pirates in the Calm Belt and clashed with Boa Sandersonia and Boa Marigold after refusing to surrender their treasure. Boa Hancock appeared after Xie Wen wounded Marigold, leaving the standoff poised for a confrontation.

• Xie Wen spotted the Kuja Pirates’ ship and warned his cats to avoid a fight, then approached the Perfume Yuda to negotiate passage.
• Boa Sandersonia demanded the Toot Toot Forward’s treasure, and Xie Wen refused to hand it over.
• The Kuja Pirates fired arrows at Xie Wen, who used a Haki-enhanced slash to deflect them and strike at the crew.
• Boa Marigold blocked Xie Wen’s attack in her Human-Beast Form but suffered a severe shoulder wound.
• Boa Hancock emerged from the cabin and ordered the Kuja warriors to stand down, while Xie Wen shook off her charm after she kicked a kitten aside.

Xie Wen fought Boa Hancock after she attacked his cats and discovered that the Love-Love Fruit had no effect on them. He injured Hancock but decided against killing her, then turned his sword on the Kuja Pirates who rushed to her defense.

• Hancock demanded the valuables aboard Xie Wen’s ship and attacked him with Mero Mero Mellow, but the cats were unaffected.
• Hancock tried to target the cats with Pistol Kiss, and Xie Wen interrupted her, sparking a fight between them.
• Xie Wen and Hancock traded blows until he overwhelmed her with a Demon Mode and Spirit Blade combination, leaving her with superficial wounds.
• Xie Wen considered killing Hancock to obtain a Love-Love Fruit fragment but backed down because of the political risks and his lingering attraction to her.
• The Kuja Pirates attacked Xie Wen in defense of Hancock, and he countered with Frenzied Round Dance.

Xie Wen and the cats defeated Boa Hancock’s forces and escaped, then sailed away to summon a new companion. As Xie Wen prepared the Summon Ticket, Sanji Meow urged him to wish for a beautiful big-sister Palico.

• Xie Wen’s spinning attack overwhelmed the Kuja warriors, and he split Boa Hancock’s Slave Arrow with Long Moon.
• Meow Jūshirō intercepted Boa Sandersonia’s attack on the cats and wounded her with an electrified thrust.
• Boa Hancock conceded defeat, and Xie Wen left without taking the Kuja Pirates for bounties.
• Boa Hancock ordered her subordinates to gather information on Xie Wen as the Toot Toot Forward sped away.
• Xie Wen used the Hunter’s Notes to complete his third white fragment and chose a secluded spot in the Calm Belt to summon a new companion.
• Sanji Meow reenacted the group’s earlier summoning ritual, and Xie Wen wished for a beautiful big-sister Palico.

Xie Wen learned how Ai Haibara Meow had been caught in a Rampage and flood before he summoned her, and comforted her with the other Palicoes. A new Summon Ticket brought down a heavily equipped Link Meow, but Xie Wen realized the newcomer appeared to lack both the Sheikah Slate and Purah Pad.

• Ai Haibara Meow told Xie Wen that a Rampage, an Almudron-controlled flood, and a Zinogre had separated her from her village before she was summoned.
• Xie Wen and the other Palicoes comforted Ai Haibara Meow, and she soon relaxed in his arms.
• Hua Mei Meow asked where the newly summoned companion was, and the group spotted a figure descending slowly with a paraglider.
• Xie Wen recognized the newcomer as Link Meow and grew excited at the thought of his abilities and equipment.
• Sanji Meow turned pale when he realized the newcomer was another boy, while Xie Wen noticed Link Meow carried no visible Sheikah Slate or Purah Pad.