Recaps

Vic defeated Ling with a single Ryuo-coated punch without drawing his sword, then discussed Rebecca’s Haki training and explained that his own rapid awakening had required hard fights and help from others. The fight ended with Ling unconscious and Rebecca still determined to awaken Armament Haki.

• Vic struck Ling in the face with Ryuo and sent him flying, leaving him unconscious and badly injured beside Lao Jiu.
• Ain celebrated Vic’s victory, and Konan admitted that she had underestimated his strength.
• Vic told Rebecca he had avenged her, then asked whether she had felt Haki surging during her fight with Ling; Rebecca said she had not.
• Vic urged Rebecca to keep training her body and explained that awakening Armament Haki required time, effort, and strength.
• Rebecca challenged Vic by pointing out that he had awakened Haki within weeks of learning Tekkai.
• Vic explained that fights with Onigumo and Garp had helped him awaken Haki early, while Lao Jiu listened and reflected on the monsters he had faced.

Vic encouraged Rebecca to keep measuring herself against strong people and warned Barnett not to neglect Haki and the Six Powers while developing his fruit ability. With Frodeku using Future Sight to guide him, Barnett defeated Lao San, leaving Wendy as the only enemy still standing.

• Rebecca reconsidered Vic's advice and recognized that comparing herself with powerful Marines could drive her to improve.
• Lao Jiu reflected that his lack of strong opponents had held back his Armament Haki, though he accepted that his circumstances could not be changed.
• Frodeku used Future Sight to guide Barnett past Lao San's attacks, and Barnett battered Lao San unconscious.
• Vic asked Barnett about the value of Observation Haki and urged him to prioritize Haki and the other Six Powers over developing his fruit ability.
• Lao Si realized that his brothers had been defeated and began thinking about how to survive.

Wendy defeated Lao Si and spared him so Vic could question the captured fighters. Lao Si agreed to reveal their powerful backer, despite Ling and Lao Jiu warning him that talking would leave them no chance of survival.

• Barnett decided to study Kami-e and Shigan after gaining insight into Haki, while Wendy used Observation Haki to seriously wound Lao Si.
• Wendy cornered Lao Si, pierced his shoulder, and stopped when he surrendered.
• Vic ordered Lao Si to wake the unconscious prisoners, and Lao Si slapped Lao San and Ling awake.
• Vic asked the prisoners who backed them, but Ling and Lao Jiu refused to answer while Lao San glared at Lao Si.
• Lao Si said the others were orphans and offered to talk, prompting Ling and Lao Jiu to warn that he would not survive if he revealed their secrets.

Lao Si revealed that he and the others belonged to secret World Government intelligence agencies and explained their role in undermining the country. Vic questioned him about the smoke flowers and their connection to the Celestial Dragons, while Rebecca and Barnett restrained Ling and Lao Jiu.

• Lao Si identified himself and the others as members of Cipher Pol and warned Vic and his group to leave after learning the truth.
• Vic told Rebecca and the others about the revelation, and they realized that saving the country could put them at odds with the World Government.
• Ling and Lao Jiu tried to attack Lao Si, but Rebecca and Barnett pinned them down while Vic questioned Lao Si.
• Lao Si admitted the World Government had sent them to ruin the country because it refused to pay the Heavenly Tribute or become an Affiliated Nation.
• Lao Si explained that smoke flower petals became an illegal drug and its leaves were made into cigars for the Celestial Dragons.
• Rebecca slapped Ling when he tried to silence Lao Si, and Vic asked whether smoke flowers needed particular soil to grow.

Lao Si revealed how the World Government planned to addict an island’s people and ruin its farmland, leaving the country dependent on the government. Vic decided to kill the agents to protect the secret, and as the fight began, Ling and Lao Jiu underwent a strange transformation.

• Lao Si explained that smoke flower pollen would addict the island’s people and that the plants would poison the farmland, forcing the king to depend on the World Government.
• Vic grew furious at the World Government’s scheme, while Rebecca, Wendy, and the others questioned whether the navy served justice.
• Vic ordered the agents killed, and Ling called Lao Jiu to fight before both transformed into their Zoan forms.
• Lao Si attacked Wendy with a blade hidden in his scabbard, but Wendy dodged his next strike and stabbed him through the heart.
• Ling and Lao Jiu began changing their Human-Beast Forms, swelling and becoming bloated and entirely bestial as their expressions turned vacant.

Vic and Rebecca defeated the four members of the intelligence organization after two Zoan agents awakened and attacked. Vic ordered the survivors to conceal what happened, then arranged treatment as another group approached.

• Vic told Rebecca to finish Lao San while he faced the two dazed Awakened Zoans alone.
• Rebecca condemned Lao San's empty life, and Vic killed the rhino and koala with one sword strike.
• Rebecca killed Lao San, leaving all four intelligence agents dead.
• Vic told the others to hide the truth and claim they had only killed the island's gangsters.
• Vic gave Frodeku the Famous Sword Lunar Eclipse and ordered him to take the injured to the warship for treatment.
• Rebecca sensed a crowd approaching and asked Vic whether they were the agents' underlings sent by the World Government.

Vic and his companions defeated the men poisoning the kingdom with Devil’s Flowers, and the king arrived to thank them. Vic and the king then went into a cabin for a private conversation, where the king asked about Vic’s signal.

• Frodeku carried Konan’s unconscious grandmother to the warship for medical care, and Konan went with him.
• Ain joined Vic as the king arrived with ministers and soldiers, who knelt before Vic and his companions.
• The king praised Vic and his companions for killing the men who had poisoned the people and held children hostage.
• Vic and the king agreed to speak privately in a cabin while Rebecca stayed with Ain and the others.
• The king asked Vic what he had meant by signaling him.

Vic questioned the old king about the World Government’s agents and learned how they had pressured the country into growing addictive fireworks. He proposed a gradual end to cultivation and joining the World Government as an Affiliated Nation to obtain Marine protection, and the king agreed.

• Vic asked the old king whether he had knowingly allowed the country to fall into its current state.
• The old king explained that a masked World Government envoy had demanded Heavenly Tribute thirteen years earlier, and he had refused because the country could not afford it.
• The old king said Ling and the others later arrived, traded grain, and pressured him to grow fireworks; his granddaughter recognized the masked envoy’s scent on them.
• The old king revealed that the fireworks’ pollen had made the people addicted, then crushed the flowers in anger.
• Vic proposed gradually reducing fireworks cultivation, consulting the ship’s doctor about treating the addiction, and making the country an Affiliated Nation so it could request a Marine Base.
• The king agreed to Vic’s plan, and Vic said the king would also have to agree to one more thing.

Vic and the old king agreed on a plan to protect the people and keep the Marine Base from enabling further oppression, while Zephyr supported the arrangement. Zephyr then called Sengoku and warned that Vic’s actions could end the training exercise and send Vic and the others to Enies Lobby for trial.

• Vic asked the old king to provide food for the people, arrange fair trade for useful tobacco leaves, and destroy the harmful flowers, and the king agreed.
• Vic told the king to keep their conversation secret and proposed appointing one of Zephyr’s students as Marine Base commander.
• Vic explained the events and the World Government’s involvement to Zephyr, who admitted he had known about the island and backed Vic’s plan.
• Zephyr called Sengoku, while Garp answered the Den Den Mushi and argued with Sengoku before handing the call back.
• Zephyr told Sengoku that Vic had caused a huge disaster and that Vic and the others might be sent to Enies Lobby for trial, ending the Elite Camp.

Zephyr reported the Elite Camp’s encounter with the Cipher Pol agents and arranged for a Marine Base and medicine to help the Flower Kingdom. Konan chose to stay with her grandmother, while Rebecca hoped they would meet again when Konan could join the Marines.

• Zephyr told Sengoku and Garp that Vic and the others had killed the Cipher Pol agents on the Flower Kingdom, and Sengoku ordered him to leave while the Marines acted as if they knew nothing.
• Zephyr explained that the king wanted to join the World Government and build a Marine Base, and Sengoku agreed to send a base commander chosen by Zephyr.
• Zephyr told the king that the Marines would establish a base, then asked ship's doctor Ethan about treating the islanders’ firework addiction.
• Ethan said medicine could relieve the symptoms but was scarce, so Zephyr planned to bring more and prioritize the elderly.
• Rebecca comforted Konan, who thanked the group for helping her island, then declined to join the Marines immediately because she needed to care for her grandmother.
• Rebecca said she had spoken too soon, and Vic smiled and gently stroked her hair as she looked to him.

After the group discussed how their experiences had changed their view of the world, Vic urged them to grow stronger while thinking carefully before confronting the World Government’s powerful allies. The others found renewed resolve, and Vic ended the gathering by asking Frodeku for the Lunar Eclipse so he could replace its scabbard.

• Vic warned the group that Rebecca’s sense of justice could lead them into conflict with the Celestial Dragons and urged her to consider the consequences before acting.
• Barnett reflected that the group’s survival had depended on their own strength, while Frodeku decided that following Vic was his best course.
• Vic encouraged everyone to recover and turn the day’s ordeal into motivation, and he told Wendy to have the ship’s doctor examine her injuries.
• Rebecca declared that she would become strong enough to do whatever she wanted, and Vic told her she would also need the resolve to endure failure.
• Wendy and Rebecca spoke about their determination to keep improving, and Vic asked Frodeku for the Lunar Eclipse so he could get it a new scabbard.

Vic made a new scabbard for Lunar Eclipse and discussed with Zephyr how someone had secretly arranged their mission to the island. Zephyr feared the plot was meant to expose the Marines’ actions and drive them into conflict with the World Government, while Vic remained unconcerned about the hidden schemer.

• Vic crafted a pitch-black scabbard for Lunar Eclipse from black ironwood and rejected the concealed blade in the old scabbard as an underhanded weapon.
• Vic thanked Zephyr for guiding him and the others, and Zephyr recalled that an unknown person had diverted their warship onto the island’s route.
• Zephyr explained that a messenger claimed a colonel assigned the mission, but the colonel denied giving the order and had been found unconscious.
• Zephyr suggested the schemer had anticipated how Rebecca, Vic, and their united squad would respond to the crisis, while Vic argued the person was not a serious threat.
• Zephyr warned that revealing the truth about the incident could make the World Government wary of the Marines and eventually set them against each other.

Vic and his crew began a new day as Frodeku received the scabbard Vic had made for Lunar Eclipse, and Vic discussed Wendy’s recovery and Haki training with Barnett. The chapter ended with Rebecca playfully putting Vic in a headlock while Ain slapped Rebecca on the butt.

• Vic wondered whether a mysterious figure opposed to the Celestial Dragons was behind recent events, while Zephyr remained deep in thought.
• Rebecca teased Wendy and Konan about their red faces after they shared a room, and Wendy denied doing anything unusual.
• Frodeku praised the black ironwood scabbard Vic had made and named the sword Lunar Eclipse.
• Barnett told Vic that Wendy’s wound had healed and that she had awakened Observation Haki, and Vic encouraged Barnett to prepare to awaken Haki.
• Rebecca accused Vic of talking behind Wendy’s back, jumped onto his back, and threatened him with playful tortures and a beauty trap.
• Ain grew jealous of Rebecca clinging to Vic and slapped Rebecca on the butt.

Wendy collapsed with a dangerously high fever aboard the training ship, while the Five Elders discussed the Flower Kingdom incident and ordered a secret investigation into Vic. The chapter left Wendy awaiting the ship's doctor and the World Government watching Vic as a possible future threat.

• Rebecca accidentally shook off Ain, then scooped her up and comforted her.
• Wendy collapsed on deck, and Vic found that she had a dangerously high fever.
• Vic carried Wendy to the dormitory while Rebecca went to get ice and Barnett fetched the ship's doctor.
• Vic suspected Wendy's injuries or exposure to the fireworks might have caused an unusual reaction, but told Ain to wait for the doctor before using her ability.
• The Five Elders debated the losses in the Flower Kingdom and whether Vic knew the World Government's secrets.
• The Five Elders ordered Cipher Pol to investigate the incident secretly and instructed Kong to keep the training warship from leaving.

Wendy was diagnosed with the Black Death, a terminal disease with no known treatment, and Ethan warned that those who had been near her might be infected. Vic wanted to take her to the Drum Kingdom for treatment, but Zephyr explained that orders and unfinished business meant the warship could not leave.

• Ethan diagnosed Wendy with the Black Death and warned that it could spread through blood, so he drew blood from everyone and took Lunar Eclipse for testing.
• Barnett blamed Lao Si for infecting Wendy, and Vic asked Frodeku to have Lao Si's sword examined for Yersinia.
• Vic told Zephyr that Wendy needed immediate treatment and suggested taking her to the Drum Kingdom.
• Zephyr said the warship could not leave because he had to witness the World Government's arrival, finish business on the island, and meet the Red Hair Pirates at Twin Cape.

Wendy woke after collapsing from the Black Death, and her friends tried to reassure her while planning to take her to doctors in the Drum Kingdom. Zephyr learned the World Government would hold the warship until its people arrived, so he arranged for one person to take Wendy by another boat as the others continued their route.

• Vic urged Zephyr to seek permission before leaving him behind, and Zephyr went to contact headquarters.
• Wendy briefly woke but remained too weak to speak, while Vic and her friends promised she would recover.
• Konan arrived and learned that Wendy's companions considered her their friend.
• Zephyr told them the World Government had barred the warship from leaving until its people arrived, and he said one person could take Wendy toward Drum Island by another boat.
• Rebecca and Barnett considered accompanying Wendy, but Wendy looked toward Vic, leaving Rebecca jealous and Barnett bewildered.

Vic prepared to take Wendy to Drum Island for treatment after the ship's doctor found no Yersinia Bacterium in the group or on Lunar Eclipse. As the boat was readied, Rebecca named her sword Aizen, and Vic set off with Wendy while promising to reunite with the others.

• Vic agreed to take Wendy to Drum Island and asked Zephyr to spare Shanks if he encountered the Red Hair Pirates.
• Vic comforted Rebecca, who was upset about their impending separation, and named her sword Aizen.
• Ethan reported that nobody had Yersinia Bacterium in their blood and that the blade was clean, so Vic suspected Lao Si's scabbard concealed the source.
• Vic and Zephyr prepared a boat with supplies, an Eternal Pose for Drum Island, and Zephyr's Vivre Card.
• Rebecca, Barnett, and Frodeku brought Wendy and her belongings aboard, and Vic urged them to return to the warship while he hurried to Drum Island with Wendy.

Vic and Ain restored Wendy to health temporarily so she could say goodbye to everyone, then Vic set off alone to take her by boat toward Drum Island. After half a day of towing the boat, Ain's ability wore off and Wendy's illness returned, leaving Vic worried about her fever.

• Ain reversed Wendy's condition to how it had been a week earlier, and Wendy said goodbye to Rebecca, Barnett, and the others.
• Vic left Wendy in Zephyr's care, tied the small boat to himself, and pulled it away from the warship toward Drum Island.
• Rebecca and Ain called after Vic as he sped across the sea, while Wendy watched him leave and returned to bed.
• Half a day later, Ain's ability wore off, and Wendy's illness and high fever returned.
• Vic covered Wendy with a blanket, checked her forehead, and worried that her temperature remained dangerously high.

Vic raced toward Drum Island with the feverish Wendy while caring for her. When a wounded sea beast led a pirate ship to his boat, Vic freed it and confronted the pirates, ending with their captain's punch swallowed by a cloud of dust.

• Vic changed Wendy's ice, fed her Sea King bone broth, and hurried toward Drum Island while she grew delirious and fell unconscious.
• A harpooned white sea beast dragged a pirate ship around Vic's boat, and Vic learned it had sought his help.
• The pirate captain and his crew plotted to capture Vic and sell him, so Vic used Geppo to board their ship and Rankyaku to cut the harpoon ropes.
• Vic offered the captain three moves, and the captain charged and punched him as his crew assumed Vic had been defeated.

Vic defeated a pirate captain whose attacks could not hurt him, captured the captain in his extradimensional space, and destroyed the pirate ship. As he continued toward Drum Island, the sea beast he had saved followed his boat, still carrying a harpoon in its fin.

• The tall captain’s first punch failed to hurt Vic, and his underlings convinced themselves that their boss was holding back.
• The captain transformed into a giant black gorilla and struck Vic again, but the blow still had no effect.
• Vic grabbed the gorilla’s arm, punched him with a black-and-red-coated fist, and put the bleeding captain into his extradimensional space.
• Vic used Geppo to return to his boat, split the pirate ship in two with a wind blade, and continued swimming toward Drum Island.
• The sea beast with a harpoon lodged in its dorsal fin followed Vic’s boat and repeatedly disrupted its progress with its leaps.
• Vic warned the sea beast not to push him, and it raised its head and bobbed it in apology.

Vic freed a giant white dolphin from pirate harpoons, and it repaid him by pulling his boat toward Drum Island while he cared for the unconscious Wendy. He stored the defeated pirate captain's Zoan Gorilla Fruit and ended the chapter watching over Wendy as Xiaobai kept to their course.

• Vic removed the harpoons from the giant dolphin, which nodded goodbye before diving underwater.
• The dolphin returned and offered to pull Vic's boat, so Vic harnessed it and directed it toward Drum Island.
• Vic threw the defeated pirate captain into the sea, took his Zoan Gorilla Fruit, and stored it in his extradimensional space.
• Vic named the dolphin Xiaobai, fed it roasted Sea King meat, and resumed preparing soup for Wendy.
• Vic fed Wendy soup, checked her condition, and meditated beside her while periodically making sure Xiaobai stayed on course.

As Rebecca and the others waited for a chance to find Vic, he continued sailing with the unconscious Wendy when a violent storm struck. Vic fought to protect their small boat from enormous raindrops, but the storm clouds remained overhead as the chapter ended.

• Rebecca, Ain, Barnett, and Frodeku discussed when they would leave to find Vic and worried about the dangers ahead.
• Vic meditated and trained beside Wendy, who remained unconscious on the boat.
• Enormous raindrops began crashing down, and Vic secured Wendy while Xiaobai dodged the falling drops and towering waves.
• Vic used his swords to cut apart the drops threatening the boat until the rain stopped.
• Vic kept his swords ready as dark storm clouds, lightning, and thunder remained over the sea.

Vic protected Wendy and their boat from a storm of lightning and hail, then drew every thunderbolt toward the Divine Staff. The staff became the center of an enormous funnel of lightning as the storm continued over the sea.

• Vic split the giant hailstones with Sword Gang while Xiaobai kept the boat afloat beneath him.
• Vic sent Xiaobai into the deep sea and arranged harpoons around the boat to conduct lightning away from Wendy.
• Vic sat at the bow with Blood Wither and Allen, enduring the lightning while the boat remained unharmed.
• Vic took out the Divine Staff, and the thunderbolts converged on it to form a gigantic funnel of electricity.

Vic escaped a series of falling islands by slicing them apart, then suspected Kaido was behind the attacks. The story shifted to Drum Island, where armed pirates were marching a group of bound doctors through the snow.

• Vic put away the Divine Staff, gathered the harpoons, and rushed to free Wendy after Xiaobai warned him of danger.
• Vic cut a falling landmass in two with a Sword Gang, and Xiaobai pulled the boat onward toward Drum Island.
• Vic split a larger falling island with One-Sword Style: Iai and accused Kaido of causing the attacks, but more islands fell without Kaido appearing.
• At Drum Island, a group of armed pirates led by a towering man marched two lines of bound doctors along a snowy path.

Double Axe and his pirates kidnapped a group of doctors and used them as hostages to evade Dalton and the Drum Kingdom guard. As they reached their ship, an old doctor challenged the pirates’ claim that the doctors would be better off working abroad.

• Double Axe ordered his men to keep the bald old man, who claimed he was not a doctor, with the captured doctors.
• A guard reported that Dalton was pursuing the pirates, and Double Axe chose to use the doctors as hostages rather than fight him directly.
• Dalton and his soldiers caught up, but the pirates surrounded the doctors and held Dalton back with threats against their lives.
• At the waterway, Dalton demanded that the pirates release the doctors, while the blade-wielding lackey argued that the doctors’ talents were being wasted in Drum Kingdom.
• An old man with a long white beard and a red-cross hat insisted that the doctors could advance medicine and teach future generations at home.