Chapter Summaries

Norton and his crew attacked Arlong Park, where Nami cut away Arlong’s crew tattoo and faced the man who had tormented her. After Norton burned the charting room and defeated Arlong with a single slap, Nami shot Arlong dead.

• Nami cut the tattoo from her arm and declared that Norton would get justice for her as Sanosuke and Zoro fought Arlong’s men.
• Arlong wielded Kiribachi and battled Sanosuke, while Zoro defeated Chew and the other fish-men fell.
• Norton asked Nami to show him Arlong Park, then burned her charting room and its contents.
• Arlong broke away from Sanosuke and Zoro to charge Norton and Nami, but Zoro intercepted him before Norton and Nami reached the tower.
• Arlong discovered the charting room burning, then returned to the courtyard and attacked Norton, who knocked him into the park wall with a slap.
• Norton handed Nami a pistol, and she shot Arlong between the eyebrows.

Nami and her companions salvaged Arlong's treasure, celebrated Arlong's defeat with Nojiko, and faced Captain Nezumi's attempt to seize Nami and the money. Nezumi recognized Norton as the wanted King Slayer and fled, while Genzo discovered Norton's hundred-million-Beli bounty and urged him to leave Cocoyasi Village.

• Nami and seven pirates rushed into the burning Arlong Park, recovered treasure, and Norton gave each pirate about ten million Beli.
• Nami returned to Nojiko and told her Arlong was dead and the village was free; the sisters embraced and wept.
• Nami told Norton she wanted to share the salvaged money with the villages Arlong had bullied, and Genzo arrived to warn them that Marines were coming.
• Captain Nezumi surrounded the house and demanded Nami surrender her assets, but Norton stepped forward and Nezumi recognized him as the King Slayer before fleeing.
• Sanosuke pursued Nezumi, while Genzo found Norton's wanted poster and urged him to leave the village; the seven pirates confronted Genzo in Norton's defense.

After leaving Cocoyasi Village with Nami, Norton officially founded the Norton Pirates aboard the White Pearl and announced his plan to conquer the East Blue by recruiting its notable pirate crews. The crew began planning their next moves, and Norton told them to call him King.

• Nami told Nojiko to distribute her remaining treasure to Arlong's victims and left Cocoyasi Village to join Norton as his navigator.
• At dawn, the White Pearl set sail as villagers gave Norton supplies and Nami stole wallets from people at the harbor before saying goodbye.
• Norton gathered Sanosuke, Zoro, Nami, and Funing in the meeting room and declared the Norton Pirates officially founded.
• Norton announced he would build a powerful fleet by bringing notable East Blue pirate crews under his command, and Funing listed the crews they might pursue.
• Norton told his companions to call him King instead of captain.

Norton and Funing chose a pirate flag design for their crew while Kuro staged his death to escape the Marines and retire wealthy. When Kuro's Black Cat Pirates approached the White Pearl, Zoro and Sanosuke boarded their ship to fight, and Kuro vanished as the battle began.

• Norton and Funing selected a flag featuring a king-piece emblem, a cross-shaped scepter, and a silver skull, and Norton left Funing to paint it.
• Kuro ordered Jango to hypnotize Morgan into believing he had captured Kuro, then prepared to fake his death and disappear.
• Kuro spotted the approaching White Pearl and ordered the Black Cat Pirates to attack it and silence its crew.
• Nami spotted the Black Cat Pirates, but Zoro stopped her from warning Norton and went to confront them with Sanosuke.
• Zoro and Sanosuke boarded Kuro's ship, where Kuro ordered the Nyaban Brothers to kill them and then vanished; Sham blocked Sanosuke's attempt to pursue him.

Kuro boarded the White Pearl and attacked Sanosuke, but Norton stopped him effortlessly. Norton ordered Kuro to surrender or die as the ship’s battles continued around them.

• Sham and Sanosuke fought while Buchi attacked Zoro, whose opponents damaged the Black Cat Pirates’ ship.
• Kuro confronted the seven former Redbeard pirates aboard the White Pearl and prepared to kill them.
• Sanosuke blocked Kuro’s claw attack and fought him while the seven pirates stayed back.
• Norton abruptly stopped Kuro’s Shakushi by pinning his head to the deck, then ordered him to surrender or die.

Norton forced Kuro to surrender and take command of the Black Cat Pirates, then offered him a noncombat role managing the fleet once they reached the Grand Line. A few days into the voyage, Kuro suggested visiting a famous floating restaurant in the Sambas Sea to give Norton a change of pace.

• Norton defeated Kuro and made him choose between surrender and death, so Kuro agreed to become his subordinate.
• Norton let Kuro serve as his secretary and fleet manager after they entered the Grand Line, but demanded that he fight until then and warned him not to escape.
• Kuro told the Black Cat Pirates that he and his crew now served King, and ordered them to follow the White Pearl.
• During the voyage, Norton complained that the Cooking Corps offered too little variety, and Kuro suggested visiting a renowned floating restaurant in the Sambas Sea.

Norton and his crew visited Baratie, where the restaurant’s food revived his appetite and convinced him to bring its cooks under his command. After a newspaper exposed his hundred-million-Beli bounty, the customers fled, and Norton’s attempt to recruit Zeff escalated into a confrontation that ended with Sanosuke and Kuro blocking Baratie’s fighters.

• Patty welcomed Norton and his companions, and Sanji flirted with Nami and Funing before serving them Baratie’s signature dishes.
• Norton and his crew praised the meal, and Norton announced that he would bring Baratie under his command; Zeff refused.
• Patty showed Zeff the newspaper identifying Norton as a hundred-million-Beli criminal called the King Slayer, and the restaurant’s customers fled.
• A hungry man arrived, and Zoro recognized him as the man who had stolen and sold his swords.
• Zeff ordered Norton’s group to leave, but Norton challenged the staff to move him, and Sanosuke cut apart Patty’s Food Poisoning Bomb.
• Sanji attacked Norton, but Kuro blocked his kick while Norton remained seated and insisted he wanted the cooks’ loyalty.

Norton defeated Zeff in a fight, then tried to recruit him by promising they could search for the All Blue while bringing Baratie’s food to people around the world. Zeff began considering the offer, but Marines led by Smoker surrounded the Baratie, and Norton leaped onto their warship to face them.

• Zeff attacked Norton with a flurry of leg techniques, but Norton effortlessly blocked every strike and won the fight.
• Norton urged Zeff to join his crew, promising to help him find the All Blue and share Baratie’s cooking with the world; Zeff agreed to think it over.
• During Norton’s stay, he sampled dishes at the Baratie and pointed out flaws that prompted Zeff to ask whether they could truly find the All Blue, and Norton promised they would.
• Nami warned that three Marine warships had surrounded the Baratie, and Smoker demanded that Norton and his accomplices be handed over or the ships would sink the restaurant.
• Norton sent Nami and Funing back to the White Pearl, then leaped from the Baratie onto Smoker’s warship to confront him.

Norton overwhelmed three Marine captains and then destroyed their warship while fighting Smoker, whose Logia powers made him immune to Norton's physical attacks. Norton realized Smoker's Jitte contained seastone and moved to seize it.

• Norton dodged the coordinated attacks of Balto, Milia, and Kanter, then knocked all three captains unconscious in less than a second.
• Nami reassured Funing that Norton could handle the Marines, while Jango and the Black Cat Pirates panicked after recognizing Smoker.
• Norton struck Smoker with a punch, but Smoker's smoke body dispersed and re-formed without serious injury.
• Norton leaped above the warship and shattered its middle with a powerful shock wave, forcing Smoker to survive by transforming into smoke.
• Norton remembered the seastone in Smoker's Jitte, and Smoker tightened his grip on it as Norton vanished from sight.

Norton defeated Smoker and left Baratie, but Zeff and the cooks changed their minds and joined his voyage to find All Blue. The chapter ended with Marine Headquarters convening a meeting over Norton and his 100,000,000-Beli wanted poster.

• Norton took Smoker's Jitte and knocked him into the sea, leaving the surviving Marines to call for help and request reinforcements.
• Norton told Zeff he was leaving and urged him to join, but Zeff initially refused to abandon Baratie.
• Zeff secretly rowed after the White Pearl, and Sanji, Patty, and the cooks pursued him aboard Baratie and persuaded him to travel together.
• Baratie caught up with the White Pearl, and Zeff announced that he and the cooks would join Norton's journey to find All Blue; Norton welcomed them aboard.
• At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku opened a meeting with the Admirals, Vice Admirals, and intelligence officers about Norton and his wanted poster.

The Marines raised Norton's bounty to 200 million beli and ordered East Blue branches to treat his crew as a major threat, drawing attention from powerful figures around the world. As Norton’s fleet sailed toward Loguetown, he planned to recruit more pirates before entering the Grand Line.

• Sengoku assessed Norton’s destruction of three warships and Smoker’s defeat, raised his bounty to 200 million beli, and ordered Marines not to engage him without notifying Headquarters.
• Morgans rushed to feature Norton’s new bounty on the World Economy News Paper’s front page, while Doflamingo, Moria, Hancock, Crocodile, Jinbe, and Mihawk encountered the news.
• Jango watched the Black Cat Pirates’ ship struggle through rough seas as it followed the steady White Pearl and Baratie toward the Grand Line.
• Norton told Zeff and his officers that he planned to recruit the Buggy Pirates, the Krieg Pirates, and the Spade Pirates before entering the Grand Line.
• Zoro said he wanted to buy spare swords in Loguetown, then argued with Sanosuke and Sanji about his plans to defeat Sanosuke.
• Norton asked Funing and Kuro whether they had found any leads on Buggy, Don Krieg, or the Spade Pirates.

Funing's intercepted Navy communications led the Norton Pirates to waters where the Buggy and Krieg Pirates were active, but Norton diverted the crew to chase a treasure-carrying turtle. After cannon fire revealed a nearby ship, Norton jumped into the sea and left Nami in command as the others went to investigate.

• Funing told Norton that the Buggy and Krieg Pirates were nearby and revealed her rare Black Den Den Mushi to Nami.
• Kuro said the crews' captains had bounties of fifteen and seventeen million, while he had a bounty of sixteen million.
• The crew found a turtle with nine treasure chests chained to its back, and Norton ordered the White Pearl to pursue it.
• After the turtle disappeared underwater, cannon fire alerted the crew to another ship, and Norton jumped into the sea to chase the turtle.
• Norton put Nami in command, and she ordered the others to find the source of the cannon fire.

Norton captured the Treasure Turtle and defeated Buggy and his crew when they tried to take it from him. He demanded that Buggy join his ship, leaving Buggy facing Norton's overwhelming strength.

• Buggy rallied his crew to search for the Treasure Turtle and spotted it fleeing across the sea.
• Norton caught the Treasure Turtle, boarded Buggy's ship, and invited Buggy to join his crew.
• Buggy attacked Norton with his Chop-Chop powers, but Norton caught his attacks and pinned his arm.
• Cabaji and Mohji sent their attacks at Norton, who blasted them and the ship's loose objects away with a single punch.
• Norton sat on the Treasure Turtle and again told Buggy to become his subordinate.

Nami led the White Pearl’s crew into a confrontation with Don Krieg’s encircling fleet, declaring that they would bring the Krieg Pirates under Norton’s command. Zoro, Kuro, and Sanosuke began fighting Krieg’s commanders and Don Krieg, but the battles were still underway when the chapter ended.

• Nami, Zoro, Kuro, and Sanosuke spotted Don Krieg’s thirty-ship fleet, which began surrounding the White Pearl, the Black Cat Pirates’ ship, and Baratie.
• Don Krieg ordered his fleet to seize the White Pearl, while Zeff prepared Baratie to help if needed and Jango’s crew braced for battle.
• Nami refused to retreat and told Don Krieg that his pirates would submit to Norton; Don Krieg boarded the White Pearl with Gin, Pearl, and other pirates.
• Zoro attacked Pearl with Oni Giri, but Pearl’s armor turned aside the swords and left Zoro studying his opponent’s defenses.
• Kuro fought Gin, wounded him with a newly developed Phantom Image technique, and faced Gin as he vowed to take the fight seriously.
• Sanosuke dodged Don Krieg’s Battle Spear and threw Shuriken, but they failed to pierce Krieg’s armor as he continued attacking.

Sanosuke defeated Don Krieg by secretly trapping him with wires, but Norton returned and swiftly subdued the remaining fighters. Norton killed Don Krieg, destroyed a fleeing pirate ship, and demanded that the rest of the Krieg Pirates surrender or die.

• Don Krieg overwhelmed Sanosuke with his armor weapons and knocked him down, but Sanosuke revealed he had laid wires across the deck and trapped him.
• Norton returned to the White Pearl, knocked out Gin and Pearl, and pinned Don Krieg beneath his foot.
• The pirates recognized Norton as Silver-Haired Norton, the King Slayer, and watched him sink a fleeing ship with Don Krieg's Battle Spear.
• Norton offered Don Krieg a choice between surrender and death, then crushed his head when Don Krieg refused to submit.
• Norton turned to the remaining Krieg Pirates and demanded that they surrender or die.

Norton recruited the surviving Krieg Pirates, claimed a Devil Fruit from the treasure turtle, and set course for Loguetown. When a vast fog trapped much of his fleet, he discovered a legendary Mist Whale beneath the sea and dove down to subdue it for the fleet’s strategic advantage.

• The Krieg Pirates accepted Norton as their new leader after Don Krieg’s death, and Norton assigned the fleet to Gin’s future command.
• Nami opened the treasure chest from the treasure turtle and found a Devil Fruit, which Norton offered to anyone willing to eat it.
• Norton’s fleet sailed toward Loguetown, but thick fog separated the Baratie and over a dozen ships from the rest of the fleet.
• Norton sensed a huge heartbeat beneath the sea and explained that a Mist Whale was producing the fog.
• Norton decided to subdue the Mist Whale rather than kill it, then dove into the sea while Nami and the others waited aboard the White Pearl.

Norton found the Mist Whale beneath the sea, punched it into the air, and forced it to withdraw the fog and become his companion. The cleared sea exposed the Norton Pirates' fleet to a nearby Dog-Head Warship.

• Norton reached the Mist Whale, stopped it by pushing against its head, and punched it out of the sea.
• Norton ordered the Mist Whale to withdraw the fog and submit to him, then threw it back into the water when it obeyed.
• The whale's impact overturned many nearby ships, and it drew the fog back into its blowholes until the sea was clear.
• Norton named the Mist Whale Big Black and told Nami and Funing to prepare a feast while it righted the capsized ships.
• A lookout aboard a Dog-Head Warship spotted the Norton Pirates' fleet after the fog cleared.

Norton confronted Garp the Hero as the Marine attacked the Norton Pirates’ fleet, and the two fought in a spectacular exchange of blows. Norton escaped after Big Black capsized Garp’s warship, leaving Garp furious and promising to pursue him to Loguetown.

• Garp hurled cannonballs at the Norton Pirates, and Norton blocked one before using wind to send a barrage flying back toward Garp’s warship.
• Norton and Garp traded cannonballs as their ships drew close, then clashed with their fists, unleashing tremendous force across the sea.
• Garp’s Galaxy Impact knocked out nearly everyone aboard the White Pearl, but Norton met his punch and sent them both back to their ships.
• Norton called off the fight and ordered Big Black to flip Garp’s warship, allowing the White Pearl to sail away.
• Garp struck Big Black on the head, then called for reinforcements and vowed to send Norton to the execution block in Loguetown.

After escaping Garp, Norton’s fleet reached Loguetown, where he organized a controlled shore leave and prepared to recruit Fire Fist Ace. The marines recognized Norton at the harbor as he went to find Ace.

• Nami and the others woke aboard the White Pearl, and Norton explained that Garp’s Conqueror’s Haki had knocked them unconscious while Big Black capsized Garp’s warship.
• Norton, Funing, Nami, Kuro, and Buggy discussed how to bring thousands of pirates ashore without causing panic; Buggy suggested leaving guards on the ships and sending the rest ashore in groups.
• Zeff asked to bring the cooks to Loguetown to stock food, and Norton ordered Kuro and Sanosuke to enforce his rules against violence, robbery, and harassment.
• Norton concealed the fleet in Big Black’s mist and took the White Pearl to Loguetown with the pirates planning to go ashore aboard it.
• Funing spotted the Spade Pirates’ ship, and Norton set out to find Fire Fist Ace while marines recognized his flag and alerted headquarters.

Norton found Ace in Loguetown and invited him to join his pirate crew while the Marines prepared for Norton’s arrival. As the crew members shopped and patrolled the town, Smoker followed Garp’s order to watch Norton until Garp reached Loguetown.

• Ace ran from shopkeepers after eating without paying, and Deuce settled his bill.
• Norton introduced himself to Ace as King and invited him to join his crew.
• Smoker prepared to pursue Norton, but Garp ordered him to monitor the pirate and wait for Garp’s arrival.
• Nami and Funing shopped while Zeff, Sanji, and Patty bought supplies for the crew.
• Zoro bought Yubashiri and Kitetsu, then made Norton’s pirates pay for damaging a fruit stand and watched over the street.
• Sanosuke continued Norton’s surveillance as the White Pearl remained in the harbor and Marines increased their patrols.