Chapter Summaries

Luffy and Zoro fought the pirates while Xia Chen revealed his overwhelming strength by striking Captain Kuro and knocking out the remaining lackeys with Conqueror’s Haki. The group divided their opponents, leaving Luffy to face Kuro and Zoro to fight the Nyaban Brothers.

• Usopp panicked as pirates surrounded the group, but Luffy arrived and knocked down the attackers with a Gum-Gum Pistol.
• Luffy and Zoro charged into battle, driving back the pirates, while Jango prepared to attack Luffy with his iron ring.
• Captain Kuro confronted Jango and berated the pirates, so Xia Chen punched Kuro and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Xia Chen left Kuro for Luffy and offered to handle the lackeys while Zoro took on the Nyaban Brothers.
• Xia Chen released a powerful aura that knocked out the pirate lackeys, prompting Zoro to realize he had used the same power on the butler before.
• Luffy excitedly asked to learn Xia Chen’s ability, and Xia Chen promised he could learn it someday.

Xia Chen stopped Kuro from taking Kaya hostage, and Luffy defeated the Black Cat Pirates’ leader after their fight. Kaya gave the crew a ship, and Usopp joined them as they prepared to leave Syrup Village.

• Kuro used Silent Step to rush Kaya, but Xia Chen appeared first and knocked him away from her.
• Luffy fought Kuro and began keeping up with his speed, but Xia Chen ultimately knocked Kuro unconscious when he attacked indiscriminately.
• Zoro defeated the Nyaban Brothers, and Kuro’s plan to attack Syrup Village was foiled.
• Kaya gave the crew a light sailing ship, and Usopp joined them after Xia Chen and Luffy called him aboard.
• The author announced that the Treasure Island storyline would be brief before the story moved to the next arc.

Xia Chen’s Indestructible Vajra Body reached an intermediate level after the crew landed on Treasure Island, greatly increasing his strength. The crew later saved Yosaku from scurvy and decided to find a cook, with Johnny recommending the sea restaurant Baratie.

• Luffy drew a poor pirate flag, so Usopp made a better one as the Going Merry approached Treasure Island.
• Xia Chen checked in on Treasure Island, gained an intermediate Indestructible Vajra Body, and stayed aboard to adjust to his increased strength while the others explored.
• After a day on the island, Luffy and the others returned to the Going Merry and told Xia Chen about what they had seen.
• Johnny thought Luffy and Usopp had caused Yosaku’s death, but Xia Chen recognized Yosaku’s scurvy and ordered them to bring Nami’s fresh tangerines.
• Luffy and Usopp fed Yosaku oranges, and Yosaku’s condition improved; Xia Chen then explained the importance of a balanced diet at sea.
• Luffy proposed finding a cook, and Johnny recommended the sea restaurant Baratie.

Xia Chen and the Straw Hats reached the Baratie, where Sanji offered Nami a free meal but excluded the others. Don Krieg and Gin arrived starving, and Sanji served them fried rice despite the chefs’ hostility.

• Luffy spotted the Baratie, and Xia Chen knocked out Fullbody’s Marines with Conqueror’s Haki before they could attack the Going Merry.
• The crew reached the restaurant and eagerly ate a large meal, with Nami paying for everyone.
• Sanji offered Nami wine and food while bluntly refusing to treat Xia Chen and the others.
• Don Krieg and Gin entered the Baratie, starving and begging for food, while Patty demanded that they leave.
• Sanji went to the kitchen and returned with fried rice for Don Krieg and Gin, who began eating on the floor.

Don Krieg demanded food and the Baratie, but Zeff ordered the cooks to feed his crew while Xia Chen waited for the arrival of Hawk-Eyes. When Zoro challenged Hawk-Eyes and refused to retreat despite being wounded, Hawk-Eyes recognized his resolve and drew the Black Blade Yoru to fight him seriously.

• Don Krieg ordered Sanji to prepare food for a hundred pirates, and Sanji agreed because he was a cook.
• Zeff stopped Patty from confronting Don Krieg, and Don Krieg recognized Zeff as Red-Leg Zeff before threatening to take the Baratie.
• Xia Chen stayed aboard while Luffy kept trying to recruit Sanji, knowing Sanji would not join before certain events unfolded.
• Hawk-Eyes arrived after cutting the Krieg Pirates' ship in half, and Zoro challenged him as the swordsman he hoped to defeat.
• Hawk-Eyes blocked Zoro's attacks with a tiny knife and pierced his chest, but Zoro refused to retreat because he could not afford to lose.
• Hawk-Eyes respected Zoro's resolve, put away the tiny knife, and drew the Black Blade Yoru.

Zoro lost to Hawk-Eyes, and Xia Chen challenged the world’s greatest swordsman after claiming to be Shanks’s nephew. Their clash revealed Xia Chen’s strength and Armament Haki, and he began to press Hawk-Eyes with a flurry of attacks.

• Zoro used Three Thousand Worlds against Hawk-Eyes, was defeated, and chose to face his final blow without turning his back.
• Xia Chen stopped Luffy from attacking, then challenged Hawk-Eyes when the swordsman declined to fight him.
• Xia Chen claimed Shanks was his uncle and used Luffy’s straw hat as proof, persuading Hawk-Eyes to accept the challenge and draw Yoru.
• Xia Chen attacked Hawk-Eyes with an iron staff, and their clash unleashed a shock wave that drove the onlookers more than a thousand meters away.
• Hawk-Eyes recognized Armament Haki on Xia Chen’s staff, while Xia Chen launched a succession of attacks and began to show signs of suppressing him.

Xia Chen and Hawk-Eyes continued their fierce battle, displaying overwhelming power and Xia Chen’s rapid healing. As Don Krieg’s men moved to seize the Baratie, Xia Chen asked Hawk-Eyes to face one final move despite his dwindling stamina.

• Xia Chen told Hawk-Eyes that he had learned the Six Powers from Garp, then struck him with Rokuogan and dodged Hawk-Eyes’s devastating flying slash.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Nami watched the battle in awe, while Nami secretly boarded the Going Merry and Don Krieg ordered his men to seize the Baratie.
• Xia Chen met another flying slash with Thunder Bagua and knocked it into the sky before charging back into battle.
• After another clash, Xia Chen was covered in wounds and nearly out of stamina, but his Devil Fruit’s healing ability rapidly restored most of his injuries.
• Xia Chen told Hawk-Eyes that he had one final move and asked him to give him pointers.

Xia Chen fought Hawk-Eyes, lost, and declared that he wanted to live freely without restraints. After returning to the damaged Baratie, he learned that Nami had left and joined Luffy and the others in setting out for Arlong Park, where Sanji asked to join them.

• Xia Chen used his Meteor attack against Hawk-Eyes, but admitted defeat after the battle.
• Hawk-Eyes asked Xia Chen about his dream, encouraged him to keep pursuing freedom, and departed.
• Xia Chen returned to the Baratie, found Luffy asleep and Don Krieg collapsed, and watched the remaining pirates flee with Don Krieg.
• Xia Chen learned that Nami had gone to Arlong Park and agreed with Luffy to go after her.
• Sanji waited outside the cabin and asked to join Xia Chen and the others on their adventure.

Sanji joined Luffy’s crew, and the group used Xia Chen’s Conqueror’s Haki to ride a sea cow toward Cocoyasi Village. After Xia Chen received new eye powers and a demonized form from the system, an uncontrollable urge to slaughter overwhelmed him, leaving his crewmates alarmed.

• Sanji thanked Zeff tearfully and joined Luffy and the others on their boat.
• On the way to Cocoyasi Village, Xia Chen subdued a giant sea cow with Conqueror’s Haki, and the group tied it to the boat to pull them along.
• The sea cow crashed into a wall near the island, sending the boat flying before it landed beside Zoro.
• Xia Chen checked in at Cocoyasi Village and gained golden eyes that could detect weaknesses and fire powerful energy beams.
• A system bug granted Xia Chen the unstable Great Sage Equal to Heaven Fruit Demonized Form.
• Xia Chen collapsed and rolled across the deck as a violent urge to slaughter took hold, while Luffy and the others rushed to help him.

Xia Chen lost control of a malfunctioning power and flew toward Arlong Park after comforting Nami, while Luffy and the others reunited with Usopp and set out to reclaim their navigator. Nami joined her companions with renewed hope, but Zoro warned them that Xia Chen’s overwhelming killing intent meant he might be in danger.

• Xia Chen’s killing intent overwhelmed him, so he sent Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Yosaku away before diving into the sea and transforming as he slaughtered approaching sea beasts.
• Luffy and the others learned from Usopp that Nami had stabbed herself to protect him, then decided to go take back their navigator.
• Nami despaired as the villagers marched to confront Arlong and repeatedly stabbed the Arlong Pirates tattoo on her arm.
• Xia Chen stopped Nami, comforted her, promised to deal with Arlong, and flew toward Arlong Park.
• Luffy and the others found Nami, who welcomed them and said Xia Chen had already gone to Arlong Park.
• Zoro told Nami that Xia Chen had acted strangely on the ship and radiated terrifying killing intent, raising concern about his condition.

Xia Chen’s killing intent drove him to slaughter Arlong and every Fish-Man in Arlong Park, while he struggled to regain control of himself. Luffy, Nami, Zoro, and the others arrived to find the villagers asleep and Xia Chen standing amid the carnage, leaving them wary and unsure how to help him.

• Nami described Xia Chen’s blood-red appearance and cold demeanor, prompting Zoro to urge everyone to hurry to him.
• Xia Chen knocked the villagers of Cocoyasi Village unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki before entering Arlong Park.
• Xia Chen killed the Fish-Men who attacked him, then crushed Arlong’s neck and slaughtered the remaining Fish-Men.
• Luffy and the others found the villagers asleep and unharmed, then entered Arlong Park and saw Xia Chen surrounded by blood and bodies.
• Zoro stopped Nami from approaching Xia Chen, warning that his strange condition could make him dangerous.

Xia Chen confronted the system over the demonized form’s uncontrollable killing intent and negotiated to make it controllable instead of removing the form. After testing his newfound control and terrifying Luffy and the others, he returned to normal and asked Luffy if he now looked recognizable.

• Xia Chen regained his clarity and demanded that the system explain the bug in his demonized form.
• The system explained that the form carried the Great Sage Equaling Heaven’s dark side, and Xia Chen demanded compensation for its dangerous killing intent.
• Xia Chen asked the system to remove the killing intent, but it said the intent was essential to the form and offered to make it controllable instead.
• Xia Chen accepted, activated the demonized form, and discovered he could wield its killing intent without losing control.
• Luffy and the others were overwhelmed by Xia Chen’s killing intent, and Usopp fell onto his backside while Zoro felt a trace of fear.
• Xia Chen deactivated the form and asked Luffy if his normal appearance now looked familiar.

After Xia Chen killed Arlong and freed Nami, the Straw Hats celebrated with the people of Cocoyasi Village. The chapter ended with Nami smiling beside a solitary grave on a hillside.

• Xia Chen explained that his evolved ability had briefly overwhelmed him with killing intent, but that he could now control it.
• Xia Chen told Nami she was free, and she happily celebrated her freedom with the crew.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji argued with Xia Chen after he insulted them, then attacked him together.
• Two days later, Xia Chen stole the meat in front of Luffy with his System Space and ran off as Luffy shouted after him.
• Sanji and Zoro discussed Zoro’s recovery during the village banquet, while Sanji went off to pursue women.
• Usopp entertained the villagers with exaggerated stories of his bravery as Nami sat smiling beside a grave.

Nami reflected on Bellemere and planned to give the villagers her savings, while Xia Chen revealed he had collected a fortune from several sources. After Nami took the treasure and gave him only a small share, Xia Chen left in a huff, and Nami looked fondly at the sun tattoo on her arm.

• Nami told Bellemere she intended to become a pirate, and Xia Chen found her sitting alone and joined her.
• Xia Chen noticed the sun added to Nami's tangerine-and-pinwheel tattoo, but did not ask what it meant.
• Nami said she planned to leave her hundred million Beli to the villagers, and Xia Chen offered to contribute from his own savings.
• Nami pressured Xia Chen into admitting he had taken Beli from Kuro, Arlong Park, and a Marine, then made him show her the treasure.
• Nami gave Xia Chen only a hundred thousand Beli from the fortune, and he stormed off while she laughed and gazed tenderly at her sun tattoo.

Xia Chen and the Straw Hats left Cocoyasi Village as Nami said goodbye to the villagers, then continued sailing. Several days later, the crew found wanted posters in the newspaper, including Luffy’s poster, which Usopp claimed showed him too.

• Xia Chen hid most of the treasure he had taken from the Arlong Pirates and the Marine Branch, then joined the crew in loading supplies onto the Going Merry.
• Xia Chen told the crew to weigh anchor before Nami had finished saying goodbye, and the ship began leaving Cocoyasi Village.
• Nami ran through the villagers, jumped aboard the Going Merry, and returned their wallets, prompting their curses to turn into farewells and blessings.
• Several days later, Nami complained about the newspaper’s price before finding two wanted posters tucked inside it.
• Luffy celebrated his twenty-five-million-Beli bounty, while Usopp claimed he appeared on the poster as the back of his head.

Xia Chen received a 300-million-Beli bounty and teased the Straw Hats until they attacked him. Meanwhile, Buggy and Alvida planned to go after Luffy, and Hawk-Eyes showed Red Hair Luffy’s wanted poster along with a puzzling poster of Red Hair’s supposed nephew.

• Xia Chen revealed his 300-million-Beli wanted poster, which named him Demon King Xia Chen, leaving Luffy, Usopp, Sanji, and Zoro stunned.
• Xia Chen mocked the others’ smaller bounties, and the four Straw Hats attacked him together before he fought back.
• Buggy and Alvida agreed that Luffy was their common enemy, while Buggy ignored Xia Chen’s poster because he did not recognize him.
• Hawk-Eyes arrived at Red Hair’s island and showed him Luffy’s wanted poster, delighting Red Hair.
• Hawk-Eyes also mentioned bringing Red Hair’s nephew’s poster, leaving Red Hair confused.

Red Hair learned that Xia Chen was his nephew and heard Hawk-Eyes explain how their duel had contributed to Xia Chen’s 300-million bounty. In Loguetown, Xia Chen checked in and upgraded his Observation Haki as the crew prepared to leave the East Blue.

• Red Hair learned about Xia Chen and said he wanted to meet his nephew, while Hawk-Eyes recalled fighting Xia Chen and praised his strength.
• On the Going Merry, Zoro repeatedly challenged Xia Chen, who blocked his sword and asked how his progress toward the Realm of Cutting Iron was going.
• Sanji announced that the crew had reached Loguetown, and Xia Chen looked forward to meeting someone there and checking in at the island.
• Xia Chen checked in at Loguetown and upgraded his Observation Haki to intermediate, improving his sensing range and perception.
• Xia Chen checked his system panel and saw his current fruit, abilities, and Haki levels.

Xia Chen split from the others in Loguetown and tried to avoid Smoker, but the Marine recognized him as Demon King Xia Chen. Xia Chen faked fear and indignation, then took Smoker’s apology money before leaving with another payday.

• Xia Chen and the others reached Loguetown and went their separate ways to explore the town.
• Xia Chen overheard Smoker questioning a pirate mistaken for Luffy and tried to leave unnoticed.
• The pirate fired at Smoker, whose body turned to smoke, and Marines subdued the frightened attacker.
• Smoker recognized Xia Chen from his bounty poster and asked if he was Demon King Xia Chen.
• Xia Chen pretended to be an innocent civilian and shouted that Smoker was hitting him when Smoker stopped his punch just short of his face.
• Smoker apologized by giving Xia Chen a little over a hundred thousand Beli, and Xia Chen pocketed the money.

Xia Chen found Dragon in a Loguetown tavern and revealed that he knew Dragon was Luffy’s father. After earning Dragon’s trust by claiming Garp had told him, Xia Chen challenged him to test his own strength, and they left to find a secluded place to fight.

• Xia Chen sensed Dragon’s presence and entered a quiet tavern in Loguetown, where he greeted him by name.
• Dragon pressed Xia Chen with Conqueror’s Haki and questioned how he knew who he was.
• Xia Chen identified himself as Luffy’s vice-captain and claimed Garp had told him about Dragon’s relationship with Luffy.
• Dragon relaxed after believing Garp had vouched for Xia Chen, and the two discussed Dragon’s reputation and Xia Chen’s confidence.
• Xia Chen challenged Dragon to test his strength, and Dragon agreed to fight him somewhere secluded.
• Xia Chen vanished from the tavern, and Dragon followed him.

Xia Chen defeated Smoker after refusing Dragon's invitation to join the Revolutionary Army, then returned to Loguetown and forced Luffy to flee as the Marines closed in. Luffy was launched out of town while Xia Chen stayed behind.

• Dragon invited Xia Chen to join the Revolutionary Army, but Xia Chen refused and said he preferred being a pirate.
• Smoker arrived at the battlefield, recognized Xia Chen, and attacked him, but Xia Chen dodged and sent him flying with a single blow.
• Dragon stopped Smoker from pursuing Xia Chen, warning him that he could not win.
• Xia Chen returned to Loguetown as lightning struck and rain began, then urged Luffy to escape before the Marines arrived.
• When Luffy stopped after Buggy called out to him, Xia Chen kicked him toward the outskirts of town.