Recaps

Vic settled into his new post on Punk Hazard and asked Vegapunk to develop a wearable gravity bracelet to make his subordinates’ training more demanding. Vegapunk became interested in the project, and Vic left him to investigate it.

• Kizaru showed Vic around the institute, introduced him to its researchers, and warned him to stay out of restricted areas.
• After eating, Kizaru left Punk Hazard with several people and refused Vic’s challenge to fight.
• Vic settled in with Rebecca and the others, set their routines and training, and spent three days considering how to build a gravity chamber.
• Unable to solve the technical problems himself, Vic went to Vegapunk and proposed a compact, adjustable gravity bracelet for training.
• Vegapunk recognized the bracelet’s potential and agreed to investigate whether he could make it, while Vic framed the request as a personal favor.

Vegapunk tested Vic’s views on the Ohara Incident before deciding whether to build his gravity equipment. Vic condemned the World Government’s actions and recognized that Vegapunk was wary of strengthening its forces, while Dragon’s earlier words had given Vic a reason to trust him.

• Vegapunk asked Vic what he thought of the Ohara Incident, and Vic checked for surveillance before answering.
• Vic argued that the World Government had used the threat of Ancient Weapons to hide the truth about the Void Century and justify killing Ohara’s innocent people.
• Vegapunk weighed whether gravity wristbands could shift the balance of power if the World Government or another major force obtained them in large numbers.
• Vic inferred from Vegapunk’s question that he did not blindly support the World Government and gave his honest opinion.
• Vic recalled that Dragon had identified Vegapunk as his good friend in the Marines, which was the real reason Vic trusted him.

Vic left Punk Hazard after speaking with Vegapunk and traveled to Raijin Island to test whether its constant lightning could strengthen his Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers and train Haki. He crossed into increasingly powerful lightning zones, continuing toward the island’s center as the bolts darkened and began to halt his movement.

• Vic kept his connection to Dragon from Vegapunk, then said goodbye to Rebecca and the others and left Punk Hazard with Vegapunk’s Vivre Card and a Log Pose.
• Vic followed the Log Pose to Raijin Island and endured its white lightning with his body and Armament Haki.
• Vic decided the island’s lightning could train Haki and planned to have Rebecca and the others take turns training there.
• Vic advanced nearly five kilometers and found a lightning-free strip separating the white lightning from a zone of pale-blue bolts.
• Vic entered the pale-blue zone and pushed deeper as the lightning grew stronger and changed from pale blue to blue and then dark blue.

Vic explored Raijin Island and discovered that its increasingly powerful lightning storms rapidly strengthened his Armament Haki while also replenishing it unusually quickly. After enduring the purple lightning until his Haki ran out, he crossed the rest of the zone in his elemental form and reached a storm of even more intense red lightning.

• Vic rested in a lightning-free ring, ate Sea King meat, and recovered his nearly depleted Haki while studying the purple storm ahead.
• Vic realized that the island's lightning helped restore and strengthen his Haki, and he entered the purple lightning zone with his body covered in Armament Haki.
• Vic endured the purple storm for more than a hundred meters and thought about bringing Rebecca or Barnett to train there in the future.
• Vic exhausted his Armament Haki, turned into his element, and continued through the purple zone as the lightning avoided him.
• Vic reached the next lightning-free area and saw a dense torrent of red lightning ahead.

Vic crossed Raijin Island’s red lightning zone and discovered a core filled with black lightning that overwhelmed his Haki and struck him unconscious. He ended the chapter severely injured in the red zone.

• Vic recovered his Armament Haki unusually quickly in the safe area between the purple and red lightning zones.
• Vic entered the red zone, used his Logia transformation after exhausting his Haki, and crossed the lightning field.
• Vic emerged at a zone of black lightning whose bolts shot upward from the ground, then recovered his Haki before entering it.
• A black bolt shattered Vic’s Haki defense, and a second struck him directly, knocking him unconscious and hurling him into the red zone.
• Vic lay badly burned and wounded, with his clothes torn and his hair smoking.

After recovering from black lightning on Raijin Island, Vic trained there for half a month and found that the island helped improve his Haki. He returned to Punk Hazard, then set off with Rebecca to test whether the lightning could strengthen her too.

• Vic healed his lightning wounds by accelerating cell division, then decided to postpone exploring the island until he became stronger.
• Vic trained in the crimson lightning zone for half a month and noticed his Haki had improved before leaving Raijin Island.
• Vic returned to Punk Hazard, found Vegapunk too busy to discuss the gravity bracelet, and arranged for a large supply of food.
• Vic took Rebecca by flying boat to Raijin Island, explaining that its lightning might help strengthen Armament Haki.

Vic took Rebecca to Raijin Island to train their Haki in its dangerous lightning zones, then returned with her to Punk Hazard three months later. Rebecca demonstrated how much she had improved, while Vic went to check on Vegapunk’s progress with the gravity wristbands.

• Rebecca and Vic arrived at Raijin Island, where Vic protected their boat with a lightning barrier and landed in a lightning-free zone.
• Vic told Rebecca to train her Armament Haki in the blue lightning zone while he headed deeper into the island to train amid red lightning.
• For three months, Rebecca and Vic repeatedly trained in the thunderstorms and recovered in lightning-free zones.
• Vic and Rebecca returned to Punk Hazard, where Wendy, Barnett, and the others noticed Rebecca’s changed gaze.
• Rebecca challenged Wendy, Barnett, and Frodeku together and defeated them with her improved body, Haki, swordsmanship, and Haki-coated flying swords.
• Vic went to find Vegapunk and check on the gravity wristbands.

Rebecca returned from Raijin Island much stronger and told the others that Barnett would be Vic’s next trainee. Vic visited Vegapunk’s laboratory, where Vegapunk showed him a gravity device capable of reaching fifty times normal gravity, and Vic presented him with a sealed bottle of heavy water.

• Wendy asked Rebecca how she had grown so much stronger, and Rebecca said Vic had taken her to an island where demons lived and forced her to train.
• Barnett eagerly asked to go next, and Rebecca confirmed that Vic would take him while the others stayed behind to guard the institute.
• Vic arrived at Vegapunk’s laboratory, and Vegapunk sent Caesar away before leading Vic into a hidden room.
• Vegapunk showed Vic a cylindrical gravity device that could reach fifty times normal gravity when combined with Vic’s Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability.
• Vic gave Vegapunk a seamless metal bottle containing heavy water and explained that it broke down into ordinary water when removed from its island.

Vic showed Vegapunk a bottle of heavy water and explained that matter was made from three fundamental particles, introducing him to the microscopic basis of the world. Vegapunk was stunned by the discovery and lamented that he lacked the ability to observe that world directly.

• Vic warned Vegapunk that the small bottle contained over twenty tons of heavy water, but Vegapunk insisted on trying to lift it.
• Vegapunk failed to move the bottle after Vic set it on the dented floor, and Vic explained what it contained.
• Vic told Vegapunk that matter was composed of three fundamental particles whose different combinations formed different elements and substances.
• Vic used three metal balls to illustrate the particles and explained how understanding them could help explain Devil Fruit Awakening.
• Vegapunk praised Vic's thirst for knowledge and said the discovery would overturn the world's understanding, but he could not observe the particles himself.

Vic explained his theory of gravitation to Vegapunk and persuaded him that changing the spacing between particles could lead to a gravity device. Vegapunk began planning the research, and Vic set out to retrieve samples from the island where he had found heavy water.

• Vic demonstrated how compressing the distances between particles could increase matter’s weight and asked Vegapunk to develop a way to control those distances.
• Vic connected particle density to gravity and claimed that observations on Titan Island had led him to conclude that all mass produces gravitation.
• Vegapunk accepted Vic’s explanation and promised to develop a better gravity device.
• Vegapunk asked about the heavy water’s origin, and Vic described an island with a lake, unusually hard trees, and ironlike soil.
• Vegapunk suspected the trees or soil might contain a catalyst, so Vic offered to return to the island and bring back samples.

After Vegapunk developed gravity bracelets, Vic trained Rebecca and Frodeku on Raijin Island until Sengoku recalled him for a new mission. Kizaru arrived to replace him on Punk Hazard, and Vic departed with a special ten-thousand-times-gravity bracelet and his companions.

• Vic returned from the South Blue with plant, soil, and heavy-water samples, then left Vegapunk to study them while he trained Barnett and himself.
• After three months, Barnett told Vic that his Replenish-Replenish Fruit could restore a substance that helped Haki recover quickly.
• Vegapunk gave Vic ten gravity bracelets capable of reaching a thousand times normal gravity, and Vic took Rebecca and Frodeku to train on Raijin Island.
• Sengoku recalled Vic from Raijin Island, and Kizaru arrived on Punk Hazard with an Eternal Pose for Vic's new mission.
• Vegapunk gave Vic a special gravity bracelet capable of reaching ten thousand times normal gravity, and Vic said goodbye before leaving with Barnett and the others.

Vic and his crew left the shore on a new Marine mission after Kizaru declined his challenge. As they sailed, Vic had the crew use gravity bracelets to keep training, while Ain asked for one of her own.

• Vic challenged Kizaru to fight, but Kizaru refused, and Vic left aboard his warship with Rebecca and the others.
• Vic explained that their mission was to support government agents capturing dangerous criminals by preventing anyone from escaping.
• Vic and the crew activated their gravity bracelets to continue training during the voyage.
• Ain asked Vic for a gravity bracelet, but he warned that it was too dangerous for a child and promised she could have one when she grew up.
• Vic handed the Eternal Pose to Barnett, went to his cabin, and increased the gravity to train.

Vic led his warship with a World Government fleet across the Calm Belt toward Dabo Haisita, where the mission was targeting criminals in the West Blue. After CP0 agents offended him, Vic withheld his aura and let Sea Kings damage the fleet; the chapter ended with the agents reporting to Renka, a Celestial Dragon and Holy Knight leading the mission.

• Two CP0 agents berated Vic for arriving late, but he threatened them and refused to help them unless they changed their attitude.
• The agents backed down and coordinated the crossing with Barnett, while Vic stayed in his cabin and restrained his aura.
• Sea Kings attacked the fleet during the Calm Belt crossing, sinking two warships and damaging the others while Vic's ship remained unharmed.
• The fleet repaired at the edge of the Calm Belt, then sailed for five days to Dabo Haisita as Vic kept cultivating and left the mission to Barnett.
• A CP0 agent told Barnett to keep the marines from letting anyone escape by sea, then reported to Renka, the green-haired Celestial Dragon and Holy Knight in charge.

Renka ordered the World Government forces to surround the island while waiting for Vic to come ashore, and the island’s civilians were trapped as agents destroyed their boats. The wanted group surrendered to protect the civilians, and a Cipher Pol agent uncovered the masked woman’s scarred face before returning her mask.

• Renka told a CP0 agent to capture the targets and said he would go ashore when Vic did.
• Barnett stopped Vic’s warship near the island as the other ships formed a blockade, and agents destroyed boats belonging to civilians trying to flee.
• The masked woman explained that escape was unlikely and could put the island’s civilians in danger, and the group gave up resisting.
• CP0 agents searched the island, captured the group, and brought them to shore.
• The masked woman asked the Cipher Pol agent to spare innocent people, and he briefly revealed her burn-scarred face before covering it again.

Renka ordered the island’s inhabitants killed to conceal the World Government’s research and planned to draw Vic into a fight. As civilians fled toward the warships, Rebecca and the others resisted the order to shoot them, and Barnett went to wake Vic.

• The masked CP0 agent reported that the criminals had surrendered, and Renka ordered them imprisoned while directing his forces to kill everyone else on the island.
• Renka flew toward the island’s center, while the masked agent sent most of the warships’ men ashore and ordered the others to guard against fleeing civilians.
• Rebecca and the others watched agents shoot civilians trying to escape by sea, and Barnett admitted he did not know why the island was being attacked.
• The masked agent flew to Vic’s warship, killed civilians who surfaced beyond the blockade, and ordered the marines to shoot anyone who tried to flee.
• Rebecca refused the masked agent’s command, and Barnett went to wake Vic as civilians cried out that the island’s people were being slaughtered.

Vic discovered that World Government agents were massacring civilians on Boheista and confronted Renka, who ordered the island’s population killed because survivors of Ohara were believed to be hiding there. The Five Elders watched the mission as a test of whether Vic would put the government’s orders before his own sense of justice.

• Barnett interrupted Vic’s cultivation and warned him about the agents’ killings, and Vic used Observation Haki to see the slaughter across Boheista.
• Vic kicked the masked agent away from the warships, ignored Rebecca and Wendy, and turned into lightning to reach the island.
• Vic blocked Renka from striking a civilian and demanded to know why he was killing people.
• A CP0 agent defended Renka, and Renka revealed his identity as Donquixote Ronka and ordered the agents to leave no one alive.
• The Five Elders discussed how the massacre would test Vic’s obedience to the World Government.

Vic awakened Conqueror's Haki as he witnessed the agents slaughter civilians across the island. He chose to defy the World Government's orders and stop the massacre, while Renka recognized the strength of Vic's newly awakened Haki.

• Saturn and the bespectacled Elder discussed using Renka to test and control Vic, while they also considered choosing a Marine Admiral.
• Renka ordered the agents to massacre the civilians, and the agents began killing people across the island.
• Vic's Mind Power merged with his Observation Haki, letting him sense the suffering and terror of people throughout the island.
• Vic roared in fury and awakened Conqueror's Haki, releasing it across the island and the surrounding warships.
• Vic decided he would stop the massacre even if it cost him his Marine status, and Renka praised his strength after sensing his Haki.

Vic awakened powerful Conqueror's Haki, killed a CP0 agent, and decided to defect from the Navy after witnessing the government agents slaughter civilians. Rebecca, Frodeku, Wendy, and Barnett chose to follow him as he prepared to fight Renka and the Celestial Dragon.

• Vic's newly awakened Conqueror's Haki overwhelmed almost everyone on the island and aboard the warships.
• Vic killed the masked CP0 agent with a swift Ryuo-coated slash, making his defection from the Navy clear to Renka.
• Vic told Rebecca, Barnett, Wendy, and Frodeku that he would leave the Navy and let them choose whether to join him.
• Rebecca, Frodeku, Wendy, and Barnett each chose to fight alongside Vic, while Barnett told the marines aboard his ship to stay put.
• Vic condemned the World Government, the Navy, and the Celestial Dragons, then challenged Renka and the Holy Knights to stop him.

Vic fought Renka, a powerful Celestial Dragon and Holy Knights member, and killed him with a sword strike after using bioelectricity and the Speed-Speed Fruit to briefly stop his body. The battle revealed that elite Celestial Dragons existed, and Vic recognized that he needed to tell Dragon about them.

• Vic clashed with Renka at high speed, and their Haki-powered fight wrecked the surrounding buildings.
• Renka grew alarmed as Vic's strength and Haki reserves overwhelmed him, while Vic held back and watched for a Devil Fruit ability.
• Renka claimed he had no Devil Fruit power and called the fight the most exhilarating of his life.
• Vic used charged particles to disrupt Renka's bioelectric signals and slowed him with the Speed-Speed Fruit, then pierced his heart with Blood Wither.
• Vic declared that Renka was flesh and blood like everyone else, then sheathed his swords as Renka died.

Vic killed a Celestial Dragon and two CP0 agents while protecting civilians on Dabo Haisita, forcing him to leave the Navy. He arranged for Dragon's Revolutionary Army to evacuate the survivors and warships, then told the marines to leave the ship and report the incident only after he had departed.

• Vic killed the injured CP0 agent attacking Rebecca and sent her to help eliminate the remaining government agents.
• Vic contacted Dragon, explained that he had killed a Celestial Dragon and two CP0 agents, and proposed that the Revolutionary Army take the island's civilians and warships.
• Vic warned Dragon that the Celestial Dragon belonged to the Holy Knights, who were far stronger than CP0, and Dragon agreed to send Kuma and a small team to Dabo Haisita.
• Vic decided to stay until the civilians were safe and returned to the warship, where he told the marines they could remain in the Navy if they disembarked and delayed reporting the incident.

Vic left the Marines after the battle and learned that the masked historian who helped drive Saul to defect was Nico Olvia, Nico Robin’s mother. Olvia revealed how she survived the Ohara buster call, while her reunion with Robin remained unresolved.

• Vic handed over his coat of justice, told the Marines to say he had left voluntarily, and sent them ashore after they packed.
• Rebecca and the others brought the captured historians to Vic, who demanded to know who they were and why their capture had caused the Marines’ downfall.
• The masked woman told Vic she had been the one who made Saul betray the Marines, and Vic recognized her as Nico Olvia.
• Olvia removed her face covering, revealing severe burn scars, and Rebecca gently wiped the pus from her face.
• Olvia explained that she survived the Ohara buster call by hiding in a water-filled hollow near the Tree of Knowledge, but flames burned her face when she surfaced for air.

Vic invited Olvia to join his group after rescuing her and the scholars, and she agreed to consider it. With the World Government likely to brand them pirates after Vic killed a Celestial Dragon, Vic reassured Rebecca and the others that they would live freely, then said they needed to find a safe place for Ain.

• Vic realized Olvia had survived Ohara with Saul’s help and had continued researching the Poneglyphs in secret.
• Vic invited Olvia to join his group and offered to protect her from the World Government.
• Olvia said she would think about the invitation and went to the rear deck with the rescued scholars.
• Rebecca asked Vic whether they really had to become pirates, and Vic told her they should embrace their freedom and grow stronger.
• Vic said they needed to find somewhere safe for Ain because enemies would keep pursuing them.

Vic agreed to let Ain stay with his group after she and the others pleaded with him. Meanwhile, Olvia accepted Vic’s invitation, encouraged by her fellow scholars and the chance to keep researching history and reunite with Robin.

• Vic worried that Renka’s death could bring the Holy Knights and the Donquixote Family after his group, and told Ain she should leave for her safety.
• Ain cried and insisted she wanted to stay, while Rebecca and Barnett argued that the group could protect her; Vic agreed to keep her with them.
• Olvia hesitated to join Vic because she feared her identity would endanger the group, but the scholars described Vic’s strength and urged her to accept.
• Olvia agreed to join Vic and said she would ask him to take the other scholars too; they told her they could remain hidden and continue their work from afar.

Vic arranged for the Ohara scholars to join the Revolutionary Army while Olvia joined his crew, then left the island aboard a pirate ship. He called Garp to confess that he had killed a Celestial Dragon and could no longer serve as a Marine.

• Olvia asked Vic to take her fellow scholars aboard, but Vic said the Revolutionary Army could shelter them and that his crew needed to stay small.
• The scholars agreed to go with the Revolutionary Army, and Olvia accepted that she would part from them.
• Vic sensed Kuma and the others arriving, and Olvia said goodbye to her comrades before returning to the ship.
• Vic ordered Barnett to paint the warship's sails black and called Garp to apologize for killing a Celestial Dragon and leaving the Marines.
• Garp answered from Marine Headquarters as Vic explained that he had been unable to endure the Celestial Dragons' actions.

Vic left the Marines after killing the Celestial Dragons, and Garp accepted his choice while grieving their coming separation. Vic then collapsed after unleashing Conqueror’s Haki, leaving Rebecca and the others unsure what to do.

• Garp told Vic to pursue his chosen path and not hold back if they met as enemies, then broke down after ending their call.
• Garp informed Sengoku that he was taking leave to visit his grandson in the East Blue and left to prepare his warship.
• Vic knelt before the Den Den Mushi, put it away, and entered the cabin after questioning Rebecca and himself about the Marines.
• Vic collapsed as his Conqueror’s Haki erupted, knocking out agents and killing sea creatures while leaving his companions and the island’s civilians unaffected.
• Kuma sent the unconscious agents away as Marines discussed Vic’s newly awakened Haki, while Rebecca worried over Vic and asked what they should do.