Recaps

Vic and the Elite Camp trainees uncovered how Flower Island’s royal family and gangsters used Devil’s Flowers and addictive food to control the population. After the gang attacked them, Vic and the others began fighting back, while the island’s powerful backing remained unclear.

• Rebecca defeated Kanbo, spared him after hearing how Desukurei had trapped him, and Vic later killed Desukurei and obtained the Table-Table Fruit in his dimensional space.
• Barnett told Vic how pirates had destroyed his village and killed his family, and Vic promised to hunt down the crews responsible.
• The warship reached Flower Island, where Vic noticed signs of hardship and the group admired the island’s flower fields.
• Rebecca, Wendy, and Ain met Konan, whose grandmother was gravely ill, and Ain used her ability to restore the old woman’s health.
• Ain revealed that the royal family forced islanders to grow Devil’s Flowers and used addictive food and ration control to dominate them, so Rebecca asked Vic for help.
• Vic and the others uncovered the gang’s exploitation of civilians and children, while Boss Zero ordered his men to capture or kill the Marines and their companions.
• Lao Si and armed men surrounded Konan’s cabin, but Rebecca attacked Lao Si and Vic deflected the gunmen’s bullets before cutting down several with Rankyaku.
• Vic questioned Lao Si about the attack and the gang’s backing, then ordered Rebecca to take him out as Wendy fought the surviving thugs.

Vic and his companions fought the island’s enforcers while trying to uncover who backed their rule. Rebecca, Wendy, and Barnett gained the upper hand in their fights, and Vic left Ling shocked by stopping his Ryuo with a single palm after Ling badly injured Rebecca.

• Rebecca repeatedly defeated Lao Si in their fight, while Vic’s allies gathered and resolved to help the island’s ordinary people.
• Vic and his companions fought Lao San, Lao Si, Ling, and Lao Jiu, and Vic assigned opponents while telling Ain to keep Konan and her grandmother safe.
• Frodeku learned to send warnings through a mental link, helping Barnett evade Lao San’s Shigan attacks and strike back.
• Wendy endured serious injuries from Lao Si until she awakened Observation Haki, then used him to practice controlling it.
• Vic revealed he had been holding back against Ling, who described a damaged Ancient Script tablet and transformed into his rhinoceros Human-Beast Form.
• Rebecca defeated Lao Jiu after abandoning Observation Haki and fighting on instinct, while Barnett continued to overpower Lao San.
• Vic struck Ling down, but Ling used his momentum to attack Rebecca and drove his Haki-coated punch through her sword, severely injuring her.
• Vic rushed to Rebecca and helped her recover, then stopped Ling’s Ryuo attack with an Armament Haki-coated palm and declared Ling’s Ryuo too weak to break his defense.

Vic uncovered the World Government’s plot in the Flower Kingdom and helped the king arrange reforms, but Wendy fell ill with the Black Death. Vic took her toward Drum Island, where he battled pirates and a violent storm before reaching an island where pirates were holding doctors hostage.

• Vic defeated Ling and the other gang members, then learned from Lao Si that Cipher Pol had poisoned the Flower Kingdom with addictive smoke flowers on the World Government’s orders.
• Vic and the king agreed to end smoke flower cultivation, treat the people’s addiction, and make the country an Affiliated Nation with a Marine Base.
• The World Government investigated the incident and prevented Zephyr’s warship from leaving as Wendy developed a dangerous fever and Ethan diagnosed her with the Black Death.
• Vic took Wendy by boat toward Drum Island, while Ain briefly used her ability to reverse Wendy’s condition before the illness returned.
• Vic defeated a pirate captain who tried to capture him, rescued a harpooned dolphin named Xiaobai, and used it to pull the boat toward Drum Island.
• Vic protected Wendy and the boat through a storm of giant raindrops, hail, lightning, and falling landmasses, suspecting Kaido was behind the attacks.
• On Drum Island, Double Axe and his pirates held doctors hostage to keep Dalton from attacking, while an old doctor insisted the captives could advance medicine and teach future generations.

Vic saved Wendy from the Black Death, helped Chopper, and investigated his own Lineage Factor before leaving to seek the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. At Twin Cape, Zephyr’s Marines and Shanks’s crew began fighting while Vic was away.

• Dalton prepared to sacrifice his hand to free the kidnapped doctors, but Vic arrived, killed Double Axe, and carried Wendy to Dr. Kureha for treatment.
• Dr. Kureha cured Wendy, and Wendy told Vic that Big Mom had chosen her as a bride and threatened her kingdom, so Vic promised to face Big Mom with her.
• Vic found the injured Chopper, fed him the Human-Human Fruit, taught him to speak and read, and built him a furnished treehouse before leaving Drum Island.
• Vic obtained medical equipment from the king and had Dr. Tsukimi test his Lineage Factor, which proved ordinary, then decided to search for the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Vic left Wendy with Kureha and Tsukimi, gave her Zephyr’s Vivre Card, and set out with Xiaobai after obtaining a Log Pose from Dalton.
• Shanks brought the Red Hair Pirates into the Grand Line and met Zephyr’s Marines at Twin Cape, where Rebecca reunited Uta with Crocus and Ain accidentally turned Uta into a baby.
• Rebecca fought Shanks, revealed that Vic had forged her sword Aizen, and deliberately let Shanks knock her into the sea before Laboon rescued her.
• Zephyr and Shanks began their battle, and Shanks’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked out Ain, Uta, and nearly all the recruits, leaving Rebecca and Zephyr standing.