Recaps

Vic completed intense training with Garp, drew worldwide attention after killing Golden Lion, and entered the New World. After encountering Titan Island and reuniting with Gion and Tokikake, he was ordered to lead the fight against Bullet, whose crew he confronted alongside Garp and the others.

• Vic fought Garp with swords, lightning, and Haki, but Garp ended their spar after Vic ran out of Mind Power and praised his progress while warning that his will remained untempered.
• Tom’s Workers read that Vic had killed Golden Lion, while Whitebeard, Big Mom, Kaido, Shanks, and Marine leaders discussed Vic’s growing reputation and potential.
• Vic and Garp sailed toward the New World, crossed the Red Line at Red Port, and left G-1 Branch after Akainu challenged Vic’s title and worthiness of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Vic’s warship encountered Titan Island, where strange magnetic forces, an aurora, and meteorites drew the crew’s attention before Garp ordered them away.
• Vic reunited with injured Gion and Tokikake, demonstrated his bioelectric technique on Gion and Rebecca, and learned that Bullet and his followers had become a threat.
• Garp ordered Vic to lead the attack against Bullet, and Vic trained his Haki while Gion later asked him for another massage.
• Garp, Vic, Bogard, Gion, Tokikake, and their companions landed on the island and faced Bullet, who refused to retreat and welcomed the fight.

Vic defeated Bullet after a fierce battle and rescued the badly injured Gion. As the Marines headed for Paradise, Vic continued treating Gion aboard the warship while keeping his healing ability secret.

• Vic stood between Bullet and Garp, then fought Bullet while the other Marines battled his crew.
• Vic endured Bullet’s Haki Emission, used the Speed-Speed Fruit to slow him, and kept the upper hand until Bullet transformed into a giant.
• Vic struggled against Bullet’s regenerating, Haki-coated giant form until Gion was crushed and Garp rescued her.
• Vic unleashed Blood Wither through the giant’s defenses and brought Bullet down, then carried Gion to the warship for treatment.
• Vic used broth and electrical signals to revive Gion, asked the others to keep his healing ability secret, and received Garp’s orders to escort Bullet to Impel Down before his promotion.
• After the fleet split, Vic explained how he combined Haki, Mind Power Coating, and his Devil Fruit abilities to defeat Bullet, then continued feeding Gion and accelerating her recovery.
• Vic helped Gion through repeated bathroom trips as she regained strength, then returned her to the deck for her final treatment.

Vic captured Bullet, earned the title Dark Dragon, and secretly gave Wendy the More-More Fruit before receiving a mission to assess candidates for the Shichibukai system. He sailed with his crew toward Shanks, intending to recommend pirates who had done less harm to civilians.

• Gion recovered, and Vic arranged for Bullet to release his Conqueror’s Haki aboard the warship while they sailed toward Impel Down.
• Vic secretly killed the attackers and later the investigators threatening an island’s residents, then left a Sea King behind as food for the people.
• Vic delivered Bullet to Impel Down, secretly killed Byrnndi World, and took the More-More Fruit for Wendy.
• Kong and Sengoku promoted Vic, Gion, and Tokikake to vice admirals and gave them the titles Dark Dragon, Momousagi, and Chaton.
• Vic gave Wendy the More-More Fruit and told her to develop its power in private, then received a mission to assess candidates for the Shichibukai plan.
• Vic reviewed the candidates and learned from Allen about a hidden island rich in rare metals, which he planned to visit while traveling.
• Vic sailed with Rebecca, Barnett, and the others, explaining that he would select Shichibukai candidates who had done less harm to civilians.
• Vic gave Barnett the Eternal Pose for Shanks’s island and trained aboard the warship as the crew searched for food and land.

Vic’s crew uncovered Mora’s scheme to abduct an island’s inhabitants, rescued the captives, and handed Mora over to the Marines. Vic then fought the Big Mom Pirates, but a mysterious black-robed man intervened, escaped with Katakuri, and left Vic questioning the name Nika as he resumed his journey.

• Barnett’s group investigated an island whose towns were empty, then Vic discovered that Mora had hidden the inhabitants inside a model ship using the Mirror-Mirror Fruit.
• Mora revealed that a New World backer had ordered him to frame Vic, and Vic defeated him, freed the islanders, and destroyed Mora’s pirate ship.
• Katakuri learned Mora had been captured and arranged to intercept the Marines transporting him, while Vic trained his crew and comprehended the Artistic Conception of Wind.
• Vic answered Barnett’s call for help and arrived as Katakuri’s crew attacked the Marines, but Smoothie killed Mora before Vic could stop her.
• Vic fought Katakuri and Smoothie, pushed their ship away from the Marine warship, and pressured Katakuri until he awakened Future Sight.
• A black-robed figure halted Vic’s finishing attack, protected Katakuri’s departing ship with an invisible force, and restrained Vic before leaving after saying “Nika.”
• Vic returned to the Marines, helped save Smoothie’s drained victims, reported Mora’s death and Katakuri’s escape, and departed without reporting the mysterious figure.