Recaps

Vic visited Shanks, defeated him in a rematch, and learned of the mysterious tattoo on his back before traveling to Alabasta. There, Rebecca fought Crocodile until Vic intervened, and Vic secured Crocodile’s cooperation as a Shichibukai before preparing to leave.

• Vic arrived at Shanks’s island, rejected Shanks’s refusal of the Shichibukai offer as a reason to fight, then defeated him and asked him to teach Divine Departure.
• Vic memorized the tattoo on Shanks’s back and sailed to Alabasta, where the Five Elders’ decision to keep him from the Fisher Tiger operation drove him to kill underworld figures and slave traders.
• Vic reached King Cobra’s palace while Rebecca searched the desert alone for Crocodile, and he secretly found and memorized the Poneglyph’s Ancient Script.
• Rebecca confronted Crocodile and fought him through a prolonged exchange, relying on instinct until her Armament Haki ran out and Crocodile prepared to finish her.
• Vic stopped Crocodile’s attack, knocked him unconscious, and brought him back to the palace with Rebecca.
• Crocodile agreed to the government’s Shichibukai terms, then accepted Vic’s conditions to protect Alabasta, preserve its balance, and avoid using Haki against a future boy in a straw hat.
• Vic asked Rebecca to help with his training and said they would leave Alabasta the next day.

Vic pursued Kuma’s Shichibukai offer, trained his crew, and secretly helped Fisher Tiger survive while earning a Marine promotion. After the World Government assigned him to protect Vegapunk, Vic arrived at Punk Hazard and met Caesar and Sentomaru.

• Vic left Alabasta, found Kuma in the Sorbet Kingdom, and offered him a Shichibukai position, but Kuma refused after Saturn threatened him.
• Kuma showed Vic his memories of enslavement, and Vic told Dragon he intended to lead the Marines against the Celestial Dragons while offering to help the Revolutionary Army.
• Vic trained at Kuma’s unusual islands, confronted Bekori, and later helped Rebecca and his crew develop their Haki.
• Vic intervened when the Marines fought Fisher Tiger’s crew, staged Tiger’s apparent death, and secretly arranged for him to escape under a new identity.
• The Five Elders approved Vic’s Marine Admiral promotion but planned to test his loyalty, then canceled their initial mission and assigned him to protect Vegapunk.
• Vic met Ban to fund his intelligence network, crossed Fish-Man Island, and visited the hidden Fisher Tiger, where he memorized a Poneglyph and learned about the guards at Mary Geoise.
• Vic reached Punk Hazard, met Borsalino and Vegapunk, then visited Caesar’s laboratory and met Sentomaru.

Vic trained with Vegapunk’s gravity bracelets before a government mission forced him to choose between the Marines and the civilians of Dabo Haisita. After killing Renka and abandoning the Navy, he joined forces with Olvia and the Revolutionary Army, then collapsed as his newly awakened Conqueror’s Haki surged again.

• Vic left Punk Hazard for Raijin Island, where he trained in increasingly dangerous lightning zones and later brought Rebecca and Barnett there to strengthen their Haki.
• Vegapunk developed gravity bracelets for Vic after Vic explained his ideas about particles, mass, and gravity, and Vic took the devices on his next mission.
• At Dabo Haisita, Vic’s crew learned that Renka and the government agents were slaughtering civilians after capturing the island’s criminals.
• Vic awakened Conqueror’s Haki, killed the masked CP0 agent, and told Rebecca, Barnett, Wendy, and Frodeku he was leaving the Navy, and they chose to follow him.
• Vic defeated and killed Renka, then contacted Dragon to arrange shelter for the island’s civilians and warships through the Revolutionary Army.
• Vic learned that the masked woman was Nico Olvia, invited her to join his group, and agreed that the other scholars would go with the Revolutionary Army.
• Vic apologized to Garp for leaving the Marines and killing a Celestial Dragon, and Garp told him to follow his chosen path before leaving to visit his grandson.
• Vic collapsed as his Conqueror’s Haki erupted across the area, while Kuma sent the unconscious agents away and Rebecca worried over him.

Vic awakened after two months unconscious, gathered his crew, and left the Marines behind as he embraced piracy. After healing and equipping his companions, he challenged Kizaru and defeated him before vanishing into the clouds, while the Marines concealed the battle’s outcome.

• Sengoku reported the disaster at Dabo Haisita, and the Five Elders set Vic’s first bounty at one billion Beli as the Donquixote Family secretly added another five hundred million.
• The news of Vic’s defection spread worldwide, drawing grief and disbelief from those who knew him and interest or hostility from figures including Whitebeard, Big Mom, Kaido, and Shanks.
• Rebecca carried the warship above the clouds over the Calm Belt while Vic remained unconscious for two months, and Barnett announced when Vic’s Conqueror’s Haki finally stopped leaking.
• Vic awoke with control over his Conqueror’s Haki, explained his encounter with the original owner’s soul, and gave Ain and Olvia gravity bracelets before resolving to repel the pursuit.
• Vic ordered Ban to gather metal and track the Marines, then healed Olvia’s facial scar and gave her the Table-Table Fruit, which she began testing in a tabletop world.
• Vic visited Gion, who asked him to take her away and have a child with her, but he urged her to remain in the Marines and discovered that her drinking had harmed her egg cells.
• Olvia took the name Via and wore a mask as Vic led his companions along Zephyr’s former route, where Vic killed the bounty hunter Satan after he assaulted two women.
• After reports of Satan’s death brought Kizaru and the Holy Knights after him, Vic fought Kizaru and repelled the Marine fleet with help from Rebecca, Wendy, and Frodeku.
• Vic severely injured Kizaru, warned the Marines not to block his path, and escaped aboard his ship as it rose into the clouds.
• The Marines rescued Kizaru and abandoned the pursuit, while Sengoku ordered the battle kept secret and Kong and Sengoku regretted driving Vic into desertion.